A few days later, New World's box office gradually accumulated more than 23 million, surpassing The Five Lucky Stars and The Best Partner to become the current annual champion.
This has something to do with Shao Daheng's long-term full-screen series and the fact that it was not released too soon.
But strictly speaking, New World's release time is not too long, only four weeks in total...it was released after it won the annual title.
The local box office is more than 23 million, deducting more than 10% of the entertainment tax. It is announced that the money paid by Zhao Donghuai will not be deducted by the theater chain, and then the Shaw Theater chain will share 60%. The final payment to Zhao Donghuai will be close to 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
He owed Shao Daheng 3 million, and if he paid it off at once with interest, he could also get nearly 5 million more, as well as get back the IOU from Shao Yifu for the Yuedong Paper Mill.
In addition, Zhao Donghuai still has nearly 2 million remaining from the second waste paper business. This refers to the figure after deducting the 1 million red envelopes given to the entire crew, including the actors, at the celebration banquet.
Buyout from other places for 15 million.
One after another, by the time all was received, he gradually accumulated 20 million funds in his hand.
Of course, if you include the 4 million advertising fees that Lin Baixin invested in New World 2 and Hurricane, it will be even more generous.
Director Zhao received another call from Li Factory in eastern Guangdong in Mainland China while the crew was in the process of formal preparations. The content was very simple. Li Factory contacted paper mills in several provinces such as Northern Hubei and Henan Province that could pay in Hong Kong dollars.
Those provinces were able to spend a total of more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars to buy waste paper, which would make a net profit of more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars.
Although it is said that making a blockbuster movie is as profitable as buying and selling scrap paper, if you go to A Mei's house, one or two million can turn into more than eight hundred.
Zhao Donghuai happily handed over the crew preparations to Cheng Xiaodong and Lin Zhengying, and took Aguang, Ahe and Zhao Qiang to Amei's house to buy waste paper.
The crew members all need time to practice Israeli Krav Maga or CQB and Mozambique shooting. They are not like Wu Jing who entered the army and trained for more than a year just to film Wolf Warriors.
But if you give them an extra ten and a half days to get familiar with each other, the time is already too little.
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More than a week later, Zhao Donghuai returned to Hong Kong Island with Zhao Qiang again, bringing back not only the negotiated waste paper business, but also a batch of industrial air purifiers.
It was a bankrupt small factory owner who vomited blood and sold it.
The ex-factory price of one unit is less than 2,000 U.S. dollars. With offshore tariffs and ultra-low-priced shipping, etc., the cost of shipping back to Hong Kong is 2,600 U.S. dollars.
He had already inquired about Li Factory, a paper mill in eastern Guangdong, on the phone. They used to buy these, which were basically bent goods, priced at 12,000 dollars each, and domestic products, priced at 15,000 dollars each.
Let's put it this way, everything is flourishing in the Mainland. From the production of televisions, refrigerators, bicycles, motorcycles to paper making, all kinds of production workshops need industrial air purifiers, which are placed in the production workshops to protect workers.
In twenty or thirty years time, China will be able to export purifiers, but now it can only import them.
Zhao Donghuai is a little bit in love with this damn money-making feeling. It costs 2,600 dollars per unit to be shipped to Hong Kong Island. Even if it sells for 10,000 dollars per unit, this profit...even if you include taxes and the like, he got it from Li Guoxing.
15 million Hong Kong dollars can be turned into more than 40 million by changing hands.
It's just like selling waste paper, just wait a month or two.
In the 1970s, A-Mei’s family relied on the United States to obtain oil. By printing money, they could compete for hegemony on two levels. Gradually, A-Mei began to de-industrialize light and medium industries, and transferred various light and medium industries to island countries, South Korea, Xingjiapo, etc.
The island country was able to clamor to buy the whole world in the 1980s.
With the rise of the Four Asian Tigers, South Korea, Hong Kong Island, Wanwan Province and Xingjiapo.
In this era, Amei is full of small factory owners who have gone bankrupt due to the general situation, and industrial products that cannot be sold due to the squeeze on Japanese and German products. Even large car groups like Ford and General Motors are not uncommon, and large-scale layoffs are common. All of them are German
, island car extrusion.
Fan Liu made his first fortune by producing fans in Hong Kong and selling them to North America to become a billionaire. He also relied on this trend. Who dares to say that Amei is not capable of producing electric fans? That’s because of the high cost of workers, including other costs.
All gone to Asia and Europe.
To make money, you need to find factory owners who are on the verge of bankruptcy and are being squeezed to death by island countries and German goods, bargain with them, and if they are willing to sell them back, they can trade them.
After all, Hong Kong Island is a free port.
Except for products such as cars, cigarettes, and drinks, there is basically no additional tax on goods entering Hong Kong Island!
Another day later.
When Zhao Donghuai arrived at Zhao's International Trade Office in Kowloon Tong, he saw Cheng Xiaodong, Lin Zhengying, Guan Jiahui, Lan Jieying, He Qing, Cheng Kui'an, He Jiaju, Xu Jinjiang and others already busy inside.
This shell company of his last invited Cheng Xiaodong and Lin Zhengying to shoot samples, and had already given the keys to Sir Cheng.
He is not afraid that Sir Cheng will steal machinery and equipment and sell them for money.
In addition to a group of familiar people who he had already appointed, Director Zhao also unexpectedly discovered a beautiful figure who was both familiar and unfamiliar.
When his eyes fell on the other party, Lin Zhengying stood up quickly and said, "Director, this is Miss Hu Huizhong. Miss Hu is in Wanwan and Hu Yinmeng. Hu Guanzhen is known as the Sanhu. Sanhu and Shuanglin are also big stars who are about to be as famous as each other."
"I have already been nominated for two Golden Horse Best Actress nominations. If I ask Miss Hu to play the heroine's mother, there won't be a big problem if she looks older."
"It's also cheap, fifty thousand yuan."
The preparations for hurricane rescue are now complete. Originally, there was still a vacancy for the heroine's mother, who was originally planned to be played by Kwan Jia Hui. Before he left, he asked Cheng Xiaodong and Lin Zhengying to find it.
Unexpectedly, a "big star" was found?
In this era, Lin Qingxia's heroine only has RMB 200,000, while Hu Huizhong...is second only to Lin Qingxia, and is known as the successor of Aunt Qingxia.
He started acting in 1978 and was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress in his first film.
Fifty thousand yuan?? Really cheap!
But there’s nothing wrong with it. Currently, Wanwan’s local films are almost dead.
Movie queens also have to find a way to find a job. In the original trajectory, Hu Huizhong came to Hong Kong to develop, joined Golden Harvest and transformed into a female movie star, becoming the heroine of the second part of the Five Lucky Stars series.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sister Hu is only 25 years old, only four or five years older than Guan Jiahui.
He had previously considered going to Wanwan to film a movie. If he wanted to hit the market, he wanted to use Aunt Qingxia as a female singer supporting role. Because Jiahui had given all the cheap cooperation to Jiahui, he did not expect that Aying would find a young Qingxia.
Hu Huizhong was still looking at Director Zhao with some restraint, and Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "That's right, Miss Hu, do you mind playing the mother role?"
Like A Ying, he also spoke Mandarin. Hu Huizhong nodded quickly, "Of course I don't mind, as long as I can act in it."
At the beginning of 1983, she also participated in an unknown film made by an unknown director from Hong Kong, playing the role of a prostitute in it. She left the comfort zone of Wanwan literary films and was in the beginning stage.
It wasn't until the end of 1984 that she was appreciated by Hong Qinbao and became the heroine of the second part of Lucky Star.
As a two-time Golden Horse Best Actress nominee, there is no need to worry about her acting skills. The whole hurricane rescue was performed by Lin Zhengying alone, and several female characters were supplemented by supporting roles.
But now I look at it, my dear, it’s really a flower vase! Can we consider letting a four-girl group debut and try to cultivate fans of the girl group?
He signed He Qing, but he still didn't let He Qing play the daughter of the heroine, because He Qing's acting skills are not good yet. Miss He had never acted in a TV series or movie before, and she couldn't speak Cantonese well and had to rely on post-dubbing.
On the contrary, when a Mandarin version of Wanwan is released in the future, He Qing can change the accent just a little bit to get the original sound.
Lan Jieying, after all, she has been training in the Shaw Brothers Wireless Training Class for a year, and now her acting skills are even better than Kwan Jiahui!
(PS: The first pot of gold for the protagonist during the primitive accumulation period was raised by enthusiastic people in the market. It is so clean, so the financial resources outside the movie are the way to maintain a clean accumulation, so I will not write more.)