What can be done? Even if he racked his brains, he had to find a way to dispel Xu Ke's idea. Xiao Ran cursed a few words in his mind, which made his face that had always been relaxed become serious: "Old Xu, you are wrong to think like this! I thought you knew
Wu Yusen is very talented, I can’t believe..."
"He is indeed talented, but he is considered to be the kind of person who has never met his talent!" Xu Ke was so stimulated by Xiao Ran, and his tone seemed to be a little loose, especially when he thought that Wu Yusen earned the first pot of gold for New Art City,
He hesitated even more: "However, such a subject matter is indeed not easy to grasp. I'm worried that he will mess it up!"
"Have you ever photographed this subject?" Xiao Ran did not pursue the question. Instead, he started to make insinuations from another aspect: "No, no one knows whether you can do it well. Why not try to let Wu Yusen do it?
Maybe he’s particularly talented in this area?”
Xu Ke was very depressed. He didn't expect that Xiao Ran would not support him in directing the film himself. Staring at Xiao Ran who refused to give in, he sighed and gave in: "Okay, I'll get him back. But, I don't know
Can you convince Boss Lei!"
Boss Lei's full name is Lei Kaitai. Needless to say, his Golden Princess Company is very wealthy. He is also the chairman of the bus union in Hong Kong, which can be said to be famous and profitable. New Art City was invested by Lei Kaitai.
Xiao Ran was impressed by Boss Lei's vision.
"If Zhou Runfa and Wu Yusen really want to make this movie, I think we need to coordinate with Huang Baiming and others!" Xu is a workaholic. As long as he decides on a certain task, he will start it immediately.
Xiao Ran was greatly surprised. In his memory, Xu Ke's film studio was a part of New Art City. Since they were from the same company, why did they need to coordinate? He was deeply confused by this!
When he asked this question, Xu Ke looked at him strangely and asked: "Who told you that the film studio belongs to New Art City? However, if you really want to say that, it is correct, at least in terms of status.
!”
When Xu Ke continued to explain, Xiao Ran was dumbfounded. It turned out that there were huge differences within Xinyi City. The first few years of its establishment were okay, at least everyone was very united. The very famous "Struggle Room" in later generations was
As a perfect example of unity, the Big Seven often held all-night meetings in a small room.
In 1984, Xu Ke left New Art City because of differences between his creative ideas and those of New Art City. However, Lei Kaitai admired Xu Ke very much and immediately invested money in him to establish a film studio.
Although he still belongs to New Art City in terms of title, he has the right to create independently without interference.
Interestingly, when Xu Ke founded the film studio, many people guessed that it was invested by Shaw Brothers and other companies, but no one guessed that it was still Princess Jin who did it. When the truth was revealed, the glasses store business that day
great.
However, in the final analysis, the ultimate reason for the split of New Art City is interests. In terms of profit distribution, Huang Baiming, Mecca and Shi Tian, who originally founded New Art City, are different from each other, which buried the ground among the three giants.
The seeds of division. Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei, as well as Teddy Robin and Shi Nansheng, who joined the company later, received different benefits. In this way, it is a miracle that there is no internal strife.
Apart from regret, Xiao Ran had no other feelings. The talent in Xinyi City was at its peak. Even big stars such as Zhang Manyu, Zhou Xingchi, and Liu Hua had been rejected. It was definitely not inferior to Jiahe in its peak period. If there was no division, the future would be
The future is truly limitless.
New Arts City's new comedies are not only good at the box office, but also lead the entire period. In particular, the emergence of classics such as "A Better Tomorrow" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" even influenced the creation of Hong Kong films in the next ten years or so. This company simply
The company's popularity has reached its peak.
In later generations, New Art City is a myth, a well-deserved myth. While other film companies are still focusing on stars, New Art City has completed the transition from stars to focusing on behind-the-scenes staff. Only in
In Xiao Ran's memory, future Hong Kong movies will repeat the same mistakes again.
Unfortunately, Xiao Ran also knew that Mecca, one of the three giants, had just rebelled last year. As a senior executive of New Art City, he actually rebelled once and created a box office hit for Hong Jinbao, the Lucky Star series, which was very popular.
He fought against his own base camp. The consequences of doing so were obviously very bad, and not only made the other two giants extremely angry.
And in the next few years, Huang Baiming also followed the same pattern and rebelled once. This new art city, which pays the most attention to collective cooperation, finally failed to stop another giant Shi Tian from going his own way due to the "criminal record" problem, but Big Investment made a big investment.
The box-office success of "Uncle Cai's War" came out, but Shi Tian was so disheartened that he quit the film industry and started a business.
Thinking of the future split of Xinyi City, Xiao Ran seemed to vaguely feel the sadness. Both emotionally and rationally, he felt deeply regretful for the split of this company. Several classics seen in later generations were due to this company.
had just come out. However, his reason told him that if he wanted to build his own business in the future, Xinyi City had to get rid of it, otherwise it would definitely be an outstanding opponent.
Back at Xiaoyao's Nest, Xiao Ran began to make plans. If everything hadn't gone awry, "A Better Tomorrow" would still be this year's box office champion and sweep the Academy Awards in March and April next year.
Thinking of the Academy Awards, Xiao Ran remembered one thing. He had to go to the fifth Academy Awards. Of course he had to go. If nothing else, he could appreciate the grand occasion of the Academy Awards in this era.
It's worth a thousand dollars. Moreover, he was also nominated for the Best Screenplay Award with Szeto Zhuohan for "Mr. Zombie".
This fact made Xiao Ran secretly embarrassed to the point where he wanted to buy a piece of tofu and kill him. Originally, there were two screenwriters for this film, one of whom was Huang Bingyao, who was very famous in this era. However, these two original writers were not shortlisted, but Xiao Ran was
Shortlisted.
The other Xiao Ran couldn't remember his name, but it didn't matter. But for this Huang Bingyao, Xiao Ran was really sorry. He had grown up watching this man's films. For example, "Play Back to School" is his work.
And he also made a cameo appearance in the film as the fat, deadly Scissor-Kicks director!
Soon, Xiao Ran realized that Huang Bingyao died of cancer in 1991 or 1992. If he could meet him at the award ceremony this time and remind him of this in time, he might be able to save this extremely amazing person.
Screenwriter, just think of it as Xiao Ran’s compensation for plagiarizing the script.
Xiao Ran put aside the matter of the Academy Awards and continued to think. Although Wang Jing had a wide network of contacts in the film industry, he had always made films for Shaw Brothers. Shaw Brothers had almost completely stopped producing films this year, and Wang Jing had not released any films.
This means that in the short term, he can never rely on Wang Jing to give him much help.
He is just waiting now, waiting for "Police Story" to win the best picture at the Academy Awards, and then he will really leap over the dragon gate. If there is another aura of best screenwriter, it will increase his reputation even more.
After such a period of time, Xiao Ran finally understood that he was just a potential new screenwriter at best, without any special status.
However, even so, Xiao Ran's name is more or less known to people in the circle. Firstly, it is because he has been deliberately making friends with people he can make friends with, and secondly, it is also because of several scripts he has written.
All are on the top ten box office lists.
After some calculation, he knew that the opportunity for him to take charge of the guide tube was very close. He had to make complete preparations. The producer obviously had no problem, and the shooting problem was not big. However, in terms of specific shooting,
, he still needs an experienced assistant director.
To prepare for the day when he would become a director, Xiao Ran had already chosen his goal - "Eight Star Announcement". This was the safest choice. The strongest point of this film lies in the actors' interpretation and the excellence of the script, not in the director's
Skill.
Of course, box office performance is very important, so important that no one dares to ignore it. Xiao Ran doesn't want to be like Wang Jiawei, who failed at the box office and made his investment boss so angry that he vomited blood. This film has a box office of 37 million, which is a record.
The box office record of Chinese and Western movies in this era is definitely a remarkable figure.
Moreover, this film was released in early 1988, which means that from preparation to shooting, it only took about half a year at best. If he plagiarized this script, there would be no copyright issues, and he could make bold and bold copies.
Of course, what Xiao Ran values most is that the film was released in Dreams at just the right time. Even if it appeared a year in advance, the possibility of affecting the future would be minimal. Xiao Ran only thinks that the only impact will be on Cheng Long's "Dragon Brothers and Tigers"
"Brother" has one less chance to break box office records, but who cares?
When it came to the issue of plagiarism, Xiao Ran was initially worried about the danger of causing "twins". However, he soon discovered that Hong Kong movies in this era are very different from those after the decline. In this era, everyone is rushing to start production.
Once a good script is written, it will be immediately sent to the film company for review. Once approved, preparations will be made immediately for filming, and the cycle will never exceed half a year.
It's completely different from after the decline, when no one dared to invest in a script for several years. Even if it is finished, it may not be released immediately. It will have to be delayed for several months to wait for a good schedule, or it may be delayed for two years before being released.
A particularly typical example is Xu Ke's "Black Man 2". This film even had post-production completed, but it still had to wait until two years before it was released.
As for the investment issue, Xiao Ran hopes to use his own money to invest, so that he can get a large share of the profits from the production and distribution companies. In this case, the film "Eight Star Announcement" will be enough at the local box office.
There are 37 million. If you include the proceeds from the sale of Fu in Southeast Asia, I believe the number is more than 80 million.
After accurately calculating his income, Xiao Ran found that he didn't get much. Of course, "Mr. Zombie" got the final issue and dividends, and even "Saving the Chaplain" released in January, "The Police"
"Story" also got it. The box office of these three films all exceeded 20 million, and Xiao Ran got 250,000.
In addition, "Happy Ghost Collision", "Dao Ma Dan", and "A Better Tomorrow" only received the first issue of 100,000. Even if he gets the last part and dividends, the money he can operate will never exceed 500,000. This
It gave him a huge headache. If he didn’t have money, he wouldn’t be able to get the big deal.
According to his understanding, it only costs about 4 million to make a medium-sized film now, and about 7 million or more for a large-scale film. According to his calculations, there are really not a few stars in "Eight Star Announcement".
It's just that Zhou Yunfa's salary is more than 300,000 yuan. If the increase in net worth after "A Better Tomorrow" is included, it will cost at least 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.
Calculating this, the film's actors' remuneration alone would cost at least more than one million. Adding the remuneration of the creators behind the scenes and filming expenses, it would cost about five million! But this gave Xiao Ran a headache. The five million should be taken from
Where to do it? Only the devil knows!
Investment is not impossible. Xiao Ran is convinced that as long as he gives the script of "Eight Star Announcement" to New Art City, he will definitely get funds. The problem is that he hopes to make at least tens of millions from this film, so he has to make a profit
Just get the funds. This is really difficult for him...
(What Xiao Ran wants to do now is to accumulate popularity. Once you are famous in the film industry, you will have everything)