By the time Zhao Donghuai and his family returned to Hong Kong Island from Anshi, it was already mid-December 1998, and it was not far from the time when he would pay Bingbing the change fee.

The Christmas and New Year's Day blockbuster (Godzilla 1998), which has been waiting for a year, has also begun its promotion in full swing.

This version of Godzilla follows the original trajectory. France was experimenting with mushroom explosions on a certain island in the Pacific, and was accidentally mutated by radiation. Then, first, a freighter traveling in high waves in the Pacific was destroyed, and then it left a huge hole in a village on the edge of the island country.

Footprints.

Then fight all the way to Hong Kong Island.

The Chinese male protagonist, Xie Junhao, who has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Hong Kong, was invited by his brother, a soldier from Hong Kong, to be a consultant. His ex-girlfriend, Li Zi, works part-time in a television station.

This can be regarded as a dream comeback (Full House). The Full House filmed in 1990 was the male and female roles of Lao Xie and Li Zi.

This version even invited the French star Jean Reno to appear, just like his character in the original track.

Li Zi's character also has two television colleagues and lovers? They are Bruce Willis and Nicole Kidman. The main creative lineup is like this. Even if there are no singers joining, Bruce Willis, Nicole and others are still there.

If you run a road show in a mainland city.

Just road shows can also gain a lot of popularity.

At the ATV office, when Zhao Donghuai, Xiao Gao, and Bingbing arrived on the ninth floor, they said, "Bingbing, you are also opening a large office on the ninth floor, including recruiting a serious director team."

"After the New Year, you can prepare for the next movie. It won't be a big project, just an idea to show youth and a girl group. Just find five beautiful girls and a male protagonist."

"The school film will be filmed at the University of Hong Kong."

He was talking about the movie that was originally released in 2004 and grossed 86 million U.S. dollars at the box office in North America and 129 million U.S. dollars worldwide (Bad Girls) or (Mean Girls), with different translations.

It was produced with a low budget and has won a number of Teen Choice Awards, People's Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, etc. It is a youth comedy about young people and beautiful girls and handsome guys.

The original work was an article published by someone in the New York Times in 2002, which was adapted into a script by a Hollywood screenwriter.

Just change it to the University of Hong Kong. It's a youth campus drama for college students. The heroine grew up in a poor area in the Mainland. She lived in a poor environment when she was a child, and developed a strong and brave character. She understood the principle of survival of the fittest early on.

After I came to the University of Hong Kong to study, I fell in love with the first-year male student in my second year.

Then the first boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend is the school beauty, fashion queen, and the boss of the bad girl organization. She has mastered the school’s fashion trends and definitions with a few girls. She is jealous of the heroine and opposes her at every turn.

The war between beautiful college girls...that's it.

It’s not a big project, it’s just a group of pretty girls showing off a variety of fashionable makeup and styles, and promoting various brands, such as Oriental, 5000 Years, Winona, etc., being added to the movie and highly recommended.

It is also Bingbing’s further practice as a director.

Bingbing smiled and nodded, "Okay, five actresses? Then I'll choose slowly. Boss, when it's New Year's Day, the correction fee you give me must not be less, at least it cannot be worse than Sister Yuanyuan, right?"

"I'm going to start choosing an office now. It must be more grand and beautiful than Yuanyuan's office."

The 10th to 12th floors are Zhao Donghuai's long-term home. The 12th floor handles external offices. Xiao Gao's large office on the 9th floor is only about 30 square meters. It is useless and wasteful for her to make her office too big.

As for the ATV headquarters, the eight buildings are all single-story buildings with a construction area of ​​1,500 square meters.

Bingbing can be screened, and there are many areas for decoration and renovation.

Gao Yuanyuan, "..."

She directly reached out and twisted Bingbing's slim waist.

After twisting it for a few times, Xiao Gaocai said with a sinister face, "Boss, you can give her two renminbi for correction at a time, so that this girl knows what severe dehydration is."

Zhao Donghuai, "..."

Director Zhao did not comment on this. He was considering that in this dimension, there is no such thing as Marvel selling the film and television rights of the (X-Men) series, and there is no Fox Pictures taking advantage of Mo Mo. It turns out that

According to the track, filming will start next year in 1999 (X-Men 1).

It’s a simple movie for Bing Bing Chua to practice his skills.

If the (X-Men) series starts filming next year, where are the actors?

Just like the (Spider-Man) series, because of the foundation of the original comics, it is not suitable for Chinese actors to be adapted to play Spider-Man, and the same goes for the X-Men.

Moreover, important characters in the series of big movies like "Storm" were originally portrayed as black in the comics.

Forget about finding white actors and actresses to play a series of X-Men characters. It's just money. If he doesn't produce it, Hollywood will make fun of it. It's better to earn the money yourself.

But when it comes to him, there is no reason to praise black people anymore.

Before time travel, Snow White and the Mermaid could both be Xiao Hei, the tough Black kind. Why not give the role of Storm to a Chinese actress??

But even if one of the roles is given to a Chinese actress, it must have an audience base in Europe and the United States... For example, Li Zhi, Li Zhi relied on teaming up with Cameron Diaz to promote three movies (Spider-Man),

The first Spider-Man film grossed more than 300 million U.S. dollars worldwide, and the second and third installments also grossed over 200 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

After one series, she also gained a large audience base and movie fans in Europe and the United States.

Although Li Zhi is 37 years old, he got the high-end version of Baicao Health Pills early, and even pretended to be Guan Jiahui's little sister and opened hundreds of high-end beauty chain stores.

She is much better maintained than the original track. Even in 1999, her appearance is similar to the condition in the 1992 version of Double Dragon Club.

Forget it, let’s talk about it next time.

Zhao Donghuai pulled Xiao Gao towards the office and said, "I'll give you another script (Train to Busan). We'll start filming after the Spring Festival. Then we'll go to South Korea for a tour."

Starring Yin Sabel Adjani (Resident Evil 1) is going to take the world by storm during this year's Lunar New Year season. Even with the R-rated factor, it can hit the global box office of US$100 million at most.

No, he almost forgot about the market... The mainland in this dimension is a big ticket warehouse, and with the combination of Resident Evil and the mainland market, it will definitely be much better than the original track.

For example, in 2010, (Resident Evil 4) was released globally, with a box office of 60 million U.S. dollars in North America, and the mainland also contributed more than 20 million U.S. dollars in box office. Together with the total box office in other places, it created a global figure of 296 million U.S. dollars.

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According to the original track of the mainland box office in 2010, there were not many blockbusters with over 100 million yuan. One reason is that the total number of big screens in theaters is there, and there has not yet been a big explosion. The other reason is that pirated films are released super fast on the Internet.

There are also cases of stealing ticket sales and concealing reports.

For example, in 2009, Ning Haocai successfully entered the billion-dollar director club with the help of "Crazy Racing". A year later, Resident Evil 4 earned more than 20 million U.S. dollars, which is very strong.

The mainland box office of this dimension is booming, and the first part (Resident Evil) will definitely make more than $100 million worldwide.

Similar Resident Evil and zombie movies can also be launched, and among them (Train to Busan) is one of the unavoidable signatures in South Korean movies.

The original version (Train to Busan) not only won more than 11 million moviegoers in South Korea and earned more than 90 billion South Korean dollars, but also won more than a dozen awards at various global film festivals.

After the 1997 financial crisis started last year, Zhao Donghuai flew to South Korea in November to sit in charge for some time. This was really a long time for the South Korean consortium to suffer...

In 1996, Zhao Donghuai took his girlfriends to visit Seoul to film (Introduction to Architecture), and Xiao Gao was also filming a feature film (The Tuner) in Hong Kong Island, but she never went there.

I can just make up for it next year.

When Xiao Gao happily followed him into the house, Bingbing's eyes widened, "Hey, you'd better really talk about movies..."

She followed her the next moment, "Isn't it a bit wasteful to have one office per person? Otherwise, I can choose a larger one, such as one with an area of ​​80 square meters, and decorate it properly. Then Sister Yuanyuan and I will share it."

The large office where Zhao Donghuai works daily on the 12th floor is a 100-square-meter area, a wine cabinet, a conference room, a trophy cabinet, a simple indoor golf course, etc. One person can work with two, three or four girlfriends and secretaries, and there are full-time staff outside.

Secretary room.

……………………

In mid-December of 1998, the Chinese New Year was not far away.

In Shek Kip Mei Garden Phase 3, when Wu Yusen knocked on the door of a certain resident with drinks and delicious food, it took a few minutes for someone to open the door. It was Ah Wei.

The bleary-eyed Ah Wei smelled of alcohol, and when he saw what Director Wu was saying, he said, "Director Wu, thank you, you still have the heart to see me."

Again, since before and after the return of 1997, I have participated in helping some ghost bosses defraud funds from higher-level units, and I have actually defrauded some of them.

Wu Yusen has been "inactive" for a long time, and Ah Wei has also been inactive. They are afraid of being retaliated for jumping too high and wildly, but old Wu Xiying is fine. He has made several million profits several times, because (Evolutionary Crisis

) also defrauded US$180 million of investment from Procter & Gamble.

Zhao Donghuai also sent him millions of red envelopes.

Lao Wu, who is worth a lot, has bought a house a long time ago, and has several million Hong Kong dollars in his account. He has no shortage of money to spend. If he goes one step further... he can make money by writing a good script under a pseudonym and sending it to contacts.

Ah Wei is so miserable, he has no savings.

The 36-year-old man has nothing. At this stage, he can hardly afford the rent in the third phase of Huayuan. Wu Yusen bought Director Wu's third apartment here, and he only rents it.

Can’t afford to rent here and go elsewhere? How can other places be as safe as Huayuan Phase 3?

As there are more and more celebrity residents, the security guards and other capabilities here are also improving. They are not as good as Huayuan Phase 1, and much larger than the other Huayuan phases.

Ah Wei has been a bit of an alcoholic lately, but he just can't afford to drink, so he drinks a bottle of strong beer a day to get over his addiction.

Wu Yusen nodded, "You won't invite me in? I came here to have a drink with you. Zhao Sheng came up with an idea, an outline, and the screenwriting team filled it in, asking me to shoot a new story."

"I think this story is very exciting and exciting. I also plan to ask you to act in it. This time I want you to be the leading actor."

Ah Wei was confused and then shocked, "Really? Can I make my debut as an actor and star again?"

The next moment, he hurriedly bent over and apologized, "Director Wu, come in quickly, this is really great."

Taking Lao Wu into the house and sitting down in the living room, Ah Wei excitedly ran to bring tea and water. Lao Wu waved his hand directly, "Come and have a drink, drink up. The name of the new script is (Green Gloves), and your character is a big star."

, Rich Man, and a couple that is very fixed in the audience’s impression, not only a couple on screen but also a couple in real life.”

"But you were more carefree and raised a mistress. When the heroine objected, you came up with a trick to hide the truth and let someone else, the newly popular second male lead, be your green glove to help you raise your son..."

Ah Wei, who was switching from pouring tea to opening wine bottles and pouring red wine, was shocked again, "Green... green gloves??"

What the hell is this weird name? And when I think about the plot of the story that Lao Wu briefly told, it’s really explosive!
To be continued...