Chapter 595 594 "Xiying won't shoot? Let's shoot!"
But after thinking about it carefully, he understood the reason.
Historically, Stephen Chow and West Film Studio cooperated around 1994, but now it is 1992, two years ahead of schedule.
Although Xiying Film Studio has gone downhill now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
In the past two years, the film "Ju Dou" directed by Zhang Yimou won the first Louis Buñuel Special Award at the 43rd Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. The film "War Meridian" directed by Feng Xiaoning won the Special Director Award at the 11th Golden Rooster Award and the Gold Award at the Tokyo International Children's Film Festival in Japan. The film "Walking and Singing" directed by Chen Kaige won the competition film at the Cannes International Film Festival in France.
There are also the movies "Stand Up, Don't Lie Down" directed by Huang Jianxin and "The Ballad of the Yellow River" directed by Teng Wenji, which have achieved good results.
In other words, the current Xiying Film Studio is still very good, so naturally they can't stand this bad script, even though it stars Stephen Chow.
But next year (1993), the country began to introduce the "10 blockbusters" plan, giving mainland audiences the opportunity to enjoy the latest foreign blockbusters. Then came the rise of private investment and the proliferation of numerous pirated DVDs. After the outbreak of the epidemic, major domestic film studios, including Xi Film Studio, faced an unprecedented crisis and had to find their own way out and cooperated with Hong Kong film and television companies.
"Journey to the West" is one of them.
Now that Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei have come to his home, Fang Minghua thought for a while and said: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu, I can try this, but I can't guarantee that it will be done."
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"Thank you so much."
The few chatted for a while, and then Stephen Chow and others said goodbye and left.
In the evening, Song Tangtang first sent her two children to her parents' house - they would go to kindergarten tomorrow, and then drove home.
While the couple was sitting on the sofa in the living room chatting, Fang Minghua explained in detail what happened when Stephen Chow came to visit him today.
Song Tangtang fell into deep thought after hearing this, and then said after a while: "Minghua, I am a little moved."
"Huh?"
"I want to cooperate with Stephen Chow to prepare this movie. Anyway, the filming of "Textile Girl" directed by Wang Quan'an has already started, and the company has nothing important to do now."
At the beginning of this year, after Wang Quan'an obtained the film and television adaptation rights for the novel "Textile Girl" from Fang Minghua, he adapted it into a movie script. With investment from Shengshi Film and Television, filming has started in the Textile City.
That is, it is a small-budget movie with a budget of only 600,000 yuan, and Wang Quan'an was responsible for it himself.
Of course, this is not what Fang Minghua is thinking about.
"Aren't you worried about losing money at the box office while filming "Westward Journey"? I came back from Hong Kong last year and talked about this. Your analysis at the time was very reasonable," he reminded.
“I’m worried, but I’m reluctant to let it go. If it’s made well, it will definitely be an epoch-making movie. Now that Xiying Film has not accepted it, this is equivalent to giving Shengshi Film and Television a chance.” Song Tangtang explained.
"Confused?"
"Yes!"
Song Tangtang nodded and looked at Fang Minghua's sudden coquettish tone.
"Husband. Husband"
"What are you doing?" Fang Minghua subconsciously moved away from Song Tangtang.
He knew that his wife must have something difficult to ask of him when she suddenly made this move.
Sure enough, Song Tangtang's body wrapped around Fang Minghua, and she said sweetly: "Husband, please think of a way, I really want to co-produce this movie, don't let the box office be too ugly, at least don't lose money .”
Fang Minghua couldn’t laugh or cry after hearing this.
"I'm not a god, what can I do?"
"You have it, you must have it!"
Song Tangtang said coquettishly.
Fang Minghua put his arms around his wife's soft waist: "Do you really want to take the photo?"
"Yes!"
"Then let's shoot it. We'll talk about it later. As for losing money or not, don't worry too much." "Why?"
"Isn't the Red Army engaged in real estate and making a lot of money? Even if you lose money here, he can fill this hole," Fang Minghua said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"What if the Red Army also loses money by speculating on land?" Song Tangtang asked rhetorically.
"How could he lose money?" Fang Minghua laughed: "If he really loses money, Shengshi Group is completely ruined. Why do you still care about your investment?"
"Okay then, you contact Stephen Chow tomorrow and we at Shengshi Film and Television will cooperate with him. Of course, we will provide a small portion of the funds and they will provide a large portion!"
"Continue to look for Xiying to buy Dragon Brand?"
"No, this time I went to China Film Co., Ltd. to make "Raise the Red Lantern" instead of buying their dragon label. I think the cooperation was quite pleasant."
"Okay then, you do what you want." Fang Minghua agreed.
"Okay, I'm going to take a shower and then read a book." Song Tangtang stood up after saying that.
My daughter-in-law especially likes to take a bath and washes her almost every day.
Song Tangtang went upstairs, and Fang Minghua sat on the sofa and continued to think about the matter.
Of course he didn’t want the movie to be a box office flop.
Actually, the box office performance of the Westward Journey movie in Hong Kong was not too bad back then, with 45 million yuan barely enough to break even. This was mainly due to the dismal box office performance in the Mainland.
But it was good when it was first released. It is said that it earned 2 million yuan at the box office in Shanghai, but it was not born at the right time.
There were so many blockbusters this year (1995), including Zhang Yimou's "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", and Li Shaohong's "Pink", not to mention those imported from abroad. Blockbusters True Lies, The Lion King, Forrest Gump, The Bridge, Jumanji and Red Zone.
"Westward Journey" was released at almost the same time as these movies, but the results were terrible.
It’s only 1992!
The film will be released in 1993 at the latest. Although the policy of introducing foreign blockbusters was announced at that time, it had not yet officially introduced blockbusters, so the competitiveness was naturally much lower.
Also, "The Legend of Wukong" has been released in advance. Will the audience's acceptance of "Westward Journey" be higher?
Of course, there will be a road show and vigorous promotion before the official release.
It seems like there aren’t many movies doing roadshows in the Mainland, right?
Oh, by the way, when the time comes, we will also introduce three movies adapted from our own novels, "The Bridge", "The Last Night" and "The Twilight Saga" into the country.
It's the 1990s, and the acceptance of mainland audiences is no longer what it was in the 1980s.
Fang Minghua closed his eyes slightly, thinking wildly.
Early the next morning, Fang Minghua called Stephen Chow.
At this time, Stephen Chow had already booked a flight back to Shenzhen. Although Fang Minghua agreed to help, he did not say the specific time. He also knew that this would not happen in a day or two, and he could not afford to delay.
I have just finished filming the second part of "The Dragon Back to School" and am currently busy filming "The Death Judge".
Unexpectedly, Fang Minghua called his eldest brother and told him that he had some clues about the co-production of the "Westward Journey" movie and asked him to come back to his home for a detailed discussion in person.
After hearing this, Stephen Chow was overjoyed and immediately rushed to Fang Minghua's house with Liu Zhenwei.
This time, Fang Minghua was not alone in the family, but also his wife, Song Tangtang.
After the two parties were introduced, Fang Minghua got straight to the point.
"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu, Xi Film Studio is not willing to cooperate with you, but another film and television company is."
"Which one?" Stephen Chow was shocked.
"My daughter-in-law Song Tangtang's company - Shengshi Film and Television" Fang Minghua replied with a smile.
(End of this chapter)