Regarding the fact that Zhou Xingxing went to play Ouyang Feng on the set, Zhao Donghuai was speechless, but he would not object openly. Xing's performance would not be worse than the original version.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Donghuai said, "Ah Heng, Jia Ling, your movie is aimed at the European and American markets. If you want to make a lot of money, you must be willing to spend money to promote it. Don't waste money. I don't think you dare to spend 10 million US dollars to promote it."

If you do it, you can get back at least 15 million US dollars."

"If you dare to spend 20 million dollars to announce your fortune, it doesn't mean you can't expect to spend 25 million dollars."

There is really a market for such love movies.

What's more, in addition to love, its story themes are basically linked to music. If you dare to spend 10 million US dollars, even if the protagonist group is basically a newcomer model in Europe and the United States, it will be easier than Cheng Long's Police Story 1 action movie.

been accepted.

Because Jim Carrey is white…

In the global film industry, how many romance films are hits? There are simply too many!

It costs 10 million US dollars to announce the release. Even if it takes 30 million US dollars at the box office in North America and 20 million US dollars in Europe, it adds up to 50 million. Even if it pays 10 million US dollars in taxes, there is still 40 million figures.

It's not difficult to get back $15 million to $20 million, right? After deducting the cost of $10 million, there is still a lot of profit, which is a net profit in the video tape market.

This will definitely boost the popularity of Carina Lau and Jim Carrey.

Liu Jialing looked excited, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, before we started shooting, we had thought about spending a lot of money on publicity, but apart from posters, advertisements, and trailers, other forms of publicity are a bit difficult to choose??"

Ah Xing spoke up and said with a smile, "Jia Ling, you were also born in the thigh era. Your song is popular in Asia and has countless fans. Even if you are married and become Mrs. Xu, you are not suitable for singing and dancing in concerts."

"But it's not too difficult to spend money to invite a few former teammates, hold a few concerts, and invite Brother Ah Rong and Brother Hua to guest stars, right??"

For a movie with the theme of music and love, wouldn’t it be appropriate to hold a concert to promote it?

Liu Jialing's eyes lit up, and Mr. Heng nodded in approval, "We can give it a try. Under normal circumstances, big stars make money by holding concerts. It's also a good thing if we pay to invite some teammates to return and reminisce about our feelings."

Mrs. Xu, Jia Ling, is definitely not suitable to sing and dance as a body on stage, and Mr. Heng is reluctant to part with her. It is probably unrealistic to invite Gao Lihong, Mrs. Hong.

But please invite Lan Jieying, Zhang Manyu, Mei Yanfang, Qi Meizhen and others to gather together and reminisce about the past. It’s not a big problem. By the way, we can chat with Shao Daheng?

The second generation is also full of talents, including Fan Wenfang, Guo Feili, He Yin, Zhong Liti, Ye Fanghua, and Dita Vontis. Doesn’t Shao Sheng want to gain some popularity in Europe and the United States?

Zhao Donghuai also smiled and nodded, "Yes, now we pay high prices to collect songs. For English songs, even if we can't buy very popular songs, as long as the choreography is good and we can sing and dance well in the concert, the response will not be too bad."

"Nobody itself is a small divine song... and no one would expect a concert to be all divine songs."

This kind of publicity method depends on how much Xu Jinheng and Liu Jialing are willing to spend for it. Although he can copy the Divine Comedy to each other at will, Zhao Donghuai did not do that, it is not necessary.

Liu Jialing smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Mr. Zhao, for your advice. It's still early, so we'll try to include a few good English songs, and we'll have time to rehearse the dance."

With Carina Lau's current net worth, mainly as Mrs. Xu, there is no need to play a reverse role of Zhou Botong in the partnership of Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei, but doesn't this give face to Zhou Xingxing and Andy Lau?

In any case, the crew started preparations at the end of last month. It is a major project of 100 Years Pictures jointly controlled by Andy Lau, Sing Tsai, Wang Jing, Chen Baixiang and others.

In contrast, Xu's Pictures, founded by the Xu family, was a grass-roots team before. Even if it becomes a big hit, if Xu's Pictures wants to develop and grow in the entertainment industry in the future, it still needs the friendship of a hundred years of film industry.

After chatting and joking for a while, after Zhao Donghuai saw off the group of visitors, he took the master tape of the movie to the screening room. It was not a bad thing to watch a brand new version of the movie.

After watching both versions of the two games, Zhang Min sighed with emotion, "I didn't expect Ah Xing to have such acting skills in serious dramas and serious love movie roles?"

"After watching the whole movie, I felt so overwhelmed that I felt like crying, and I also had a strange, alternative and inspirational feeling."

Xiaoxian wiped away tears and said, "I know it's fake and just a story, but the picture is still a bit touching."

Everyone is a filmmaker, and we all know that what is shown on the big screen is fake and manufactured, but it is common for filmmakers to be moved by good movies.

Let’s talk about Leung Ka-fai’s movie. The ending scene of the movie made countless people in China burst into tears, including every filmmaker. Mak Yuen-hsiung and Jiahui themselves were moved to follow Wang Sheng’s footsteps and walk most of the way.

A Chinese one.

You said it was adapted from a true story? Actually, it is. It’s just that Zhao Donghuai didn’t point it out...

At most, Wang Wenxia Zhuan and Xin Bu Lao Qing are two different touching fields that collide.

One is about struggle, aid, and sacrificing one's life for the righteousness of the family and country in an epic context; the other is about personal inspiration, love, redemption, and being redeemed.

Zhao Donghuai sighed with emotion, "Just shedding tears at Xiaoxian, who can watch it, is enough to show that the promotion of this movie is more solid, and it will not be difficult for it to become a big hit."

Perhaps in East and Southeast Asia, audiences who were attracted to the theater by the appeal of Star Boy's King of Comedy, because this drama is not unreasonably funny, but rather tragic, will make countless fans complain and abuse, because of the image of the King of Comedy,

Backlash to the film's reputation.

However, as long as the movie co-starred by Carina Lau and Jim Carrey is aimed at European and American audiences and grosses more than 100 million US dollars at the box office? Once the white version becomes a hit, there will naturally be countless banana people to come back and restore Ah Xing's reputation.

When Zhao Donghuai sat in the office again, he received the report. Murdoch arrived. After a while, Murdoch brought a secretary and an assistant. After smiling politely, he said, "Zhao, my blockbuster film shot by 20th Century Fox."

Finally finished."

"I hope you can help me arrange a good schedule at Wanjia? Is this too much to ask?"

Zhao Donghuai was dumbfounded, "It's possible, but at this stage in Hong Kong's bend, blockbusters are squeezed and impacted during good periods. The competition is cruel, so you have to be mentally prepared."

Lao Mo shrugged, "I'm prepared, but I still hope that you can help me get through to the mainland theaters at some time."

When did the original trajectory of Hollywood blockbusters enter the mainland? In 1994, the release of "The Movie" was considered a big success, but for many years, Hollywood movies actually made little money in mainland theaters.

In this dimension, under the influence of Zhao Donghuai's butterfly effect, mainland ticket warehouses exploded in advance, and in many cases were much more important than island country ticket warehouses.

Of course, Hollywood can't let it go... They are lobbying harder than the original track to release it, but they haven't succeeded until now, and they are still talking about it.

In comparison, Hollywood blockbusters are released on Hong Kong Island? In fact, there are no restrictions on North American blockbusters landing on Hong Kong Island. It is just that during the most prosperous period of the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s, few Hong Kong movie fans liked to watch Hollywood blockbusters.

Originally, only Jiang Zhiqiang's Anle Cinemas liked to show Western films. It was considered a specialty of Western films, and its box office performance was often mediocre.

It was not until 1990 that the original track grossed 34 million and 25 million at the box office in Hong Kong, which was the beginning of North American blockbusters breaking through the Hong Kong box office, which means that those blockbusters entered the top ten box office rankings in the Hong Kong Island film industry.

List.

Xingzai's version has a happy family event, many plots involve imitators and ghosts, and Pretty Woman is a landmark event!

Now comes Jurassic Park... blockbusters are becoming more and more powerful.

For example, 1992 was called the Year of the Stars, and 93 or 94 was still the era of double Mondays and Jet Li. Hong Kong movies had not yet come to an end during this period, but most of the time, everyone only counted the top ten annual box office lists of Chinese films.

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For example, when it was released in Hong Kong in 1993, it grossed HK$61.89 million at the box office. That year, Zhou Xingxing's box office was only HK$40.17 million, which already ranked first among Chinese-language films in terms of annual ticket sales.

This plane? Well, Love Between Ghosts and Pretty Woman, including the Jurassic series, are all produced in Chinese. Therefore, until this year, whether it is Lao Mo’s 20th Century Fox or other Hollywood giants, blockbusters are still in Jiangsu

Screened in Zhiqiang's Anle Cinema.

The box office continued to be very sluggish.

Under these words, Zhao Donghuai naturally would not agree casually, "I'm sorry, you have to talk to the mainland. Those are matters for the relevant departments. I can't do anything. I can at most help your movie to win the box office in Hong Kong."

Lao Mo looked depressed, "Zhao, the male protagonist is Johnny Depp. He is a star under your Zhao Films. The movie is a hit, and he is also the one who is praising you."

Zhao Donghuai made a cup of kung fu tea for Lao Mo and complained, "You can pull it off. If it weren't for the bonus, would you ask Johnny to be the male protagonist?"

It is said that Johnny Depp established his position in Hollywood with the help of Edward Scissorhands and was nominated for the Golden Globe Best Actor. Before that, Johnny had always been a Hollywood beauty and was not very eye-catching.

But in this dimension, he is Little Spider. Even after filming Little Spider last year, he is still doing special effects. He has been doing special effects for almost a year. That is the technical difficulty of big special effects movies. Therefore, Lao Mo

When its film and television group started filming, they continued to fall in love with Depp, and they really took off by taking advantage of the east wind.

Murdoch was also suddenly speechless and could only pick up the teacup and drink tea.

Instead, Zhao Donghuai lit a cigar and asked curiously, "Who is the heroine of this movie? I remember that the first heroine you chose was Winona Ryder? Is there something wrong?"

He remembered that when the project was first established, the 20th Century was indeed a group of male and female protagonists recruited from the Hong Kong film industry?

Continue to tease Winona Ryder and Johnny's partnership drama?

But it seems that Winona Ryder didn’t go to Hollywood during that time, right? She came back from filming at the end of last year, after the year? Not only did Winona Ryder have many movies shot in Hong Kong, she was also ranked among the top ten beauties in 1990.

eight...

Murdoch explained, "Initially, the director felt that Winona Ryder was a good fit and gave her a film contract with a salary of $2 million."

"But Winona refused. She has a white female lead version and a white female secondary version."

"We just cast a beautiful actress in Hollywood named Maychen Amick."

Zhao Donghuai suddenly realized, "So that's it."

He just said that the time was a little wrong...

The next moment he looked at Xiaoxian and said in Mandarin, "By the way, when Zhu She Lao Wu and Zhu Yanping asked Winona Ryder to play the white version of the heroine of Xiaolin Boy, how much salary did they give her?"

Wang Zuxian thought for a while and said a little uncertainly, "6 million Hong Kong dollars? No, this old Mo said that Winona would be cast for US$200. That's 15.6 million Hong Kong dollars?!"

"Boss, wait a minute, I'll call and ask."

No wonder Zhao Donghuai would complain. Is there something wrong? One is worth 15.6 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other is only 6 million?

The two communicated in Mandarin, but Lao Mo still smiled and took a sip of tea and exchanged, "It seems that girl Winona said she is indifferent to the kidnapping case that happened on the set last year and is not afraid."

"It actually has an impact."

In July last year, she flew to New York to start filming. At that time, Winona didn't care where she was filming.

Zhao Donghuai nodded, "She is accepting the film at a friendly price now. My crew will also give her some red envelopes later."

Later, Winona Ryder still didn't mind playing the second female lead. She was the second female lead and was only paid HK$500,000.

Even if she can make money by selling goods, the income from selling goods over the years is not small money. For example, Liu Xiaoli's salary was very low when she took the movie, but after one and a half years, she earned 30 to 40 million from selling goods, and that is after tax.
To be continued...