Chapter 122 Chinatown Detective
"Chinatown Detective" is adapted from "Chinatown Detective" directed by Chen.
He plans to let Zhou Xingxing play Tang Ren, He Jiajin play Qin Feng, and Lan Jieying play A Xiang. If you add in the veteran actors like Xiangjiang, the filming will definitely have a different scenery.
It is impossible to achieve the same level as the original version. After all, the special effects technology gap is too big. However, these can be completely compensated for by shooting technology.
And this can be turned into a series in the future, shot exclusively in Chinatowns in Southeast Asian countries. Director Chen was very ambitious and wanted to create a Tang Detective universe, but the pace was too fast. It was fine during Tang Detective II, but by the time of Tang Detective III, the reputation collapsed.
Liu Hongmin feels that the company will shoot a sequel every year from now on until Zhou Xingxing leaves. He doesn't know how to learn from Xu Dao, and the Jon Tu duo still filmed after changing people. Just like no one can replace Bao Qiang, no one can replace Zhou Xingxing in Xiangjiang.
As Zhou Xingxing’s acting skills get better and better, Tomorrow Film Company must use Zhou Xingxing to take the lead. Bi-weekly discounts are definitely not just talk in Xiangjiang.
After Zhou Xingxing became more and more famous, Liu Hongmin also wanted to rope in some local forces, such as the Xiang family, to help him deal with the forces that coveted Zhou Xingxing.
The only thing he can't guarantee now is whether Zhou Xingxing can suppress his ambition and still want to start his own company.
In the first few days, the box office of "New Oolong Yuan" was always over 2 million, and on the fourth day, it had already exceeded 10 million. Zhou Xingxing, who played the funny villain in it, was loved by many people and suddenly became famous.
After the script of "Chinatown" Detective came out, Liu Hongmin called Xu Xiaoming, He Jiajin, Zhou Xingxing and others over and showed them the script.
When Zhou Xingxing saw that the leading actor Tang Ren was actually played by himself, his eyes filled with enthusiasm. He is dull and doesn't like to talk. In addition, Lan Jieying, who he liked before, actually followed Liu Hongmin, making him become more introverted. He thought he was destined to be a supporting actor, but he didn't expect that Liu Hongmin would let him play the leading role.
"Mr. Liu, you are so kind to me."
Liu Hongmin smiled and said, "You and Ajin have been following me since we were young. I will not treat you badly. Yours. Ah Xing, you have already achieved some success in your acting skills. I am very optimistic about your talent in comedy. The role of Tang Ren is a comedy character. If you can play him well, you may even steal the spotlight. You can grab it. So, you have to work hard."
Zhou Xingxing nodded vigorously, "I will."
He Jiajin said jokingly: "Axing, you want it so much. Overwhelm me?"
Zhou Xingxing immediately smiled, "Brother Jin, thanks to you for taking me, how can I be ungrateful?"
"I'm joking with you!" Zhengse said: "We have all received favors from Mr. Liu, and we must show good acting skills to repay Mr. Liu. It doesn't matter if you steal my limelight, as long as the movie is a hit, I will be a supporting role for you."
"Thank you, Brother Jin."
Liu Hongmin: "Brother Xiaoming, you should be almost busy with the fourth part of "Bao Qingtian", right?"
"It's already in post-production." Xu Xiaoming said, "Do you want to start shooting right away?"
"We'll wait until Weige contacts the theater chain in Thailand. If conditions permit, the sooner the better. The better. The monkeys often have convulsions. It’s best to finish filming before the monkeys attack.” After that, read more about the script. Especially you, Xing, if you don’t make people annoying when you act stupid, this movie will be more than half successful.”
Zhou Xing suddenly felt a lot of pressure, "I will definitely work hard."
"A Jin, do more beauty treatments during this time to make yourself look younger. In addition, Qin Feng stutters, you have to do more Observe how people who stutter speak."
He Jiajin nodded to express his understanding.
Liu Hongmin changed Qin Feng to university graduate, while He Jiajin was only 23 years old. In fact, there is not much difference. The main reason is that he has been filming all year round and is exposed to the weather and looks much more mature. And Qin Feng just came out of campus, not only immature, but also stupid, so he looks very young.
After encouraging the three of them, Liu Hongmin went to the editing room for a walk.
Wang Yaowei has recruited two editors who are expanding "The Little Monk of Destiny".
The drama "The True Little Monk" mainly tells the story of the little prince Kaixin who was sent to the Shaolin Temple because his fate conflicted with that of the emperor. As a result, when the emperor died, there was an error in his posthumous photo, and the tenth prince was written as the eleventh prince. So, Kaixin became the emperor. In order to avoid fighting with his younger brothers, the tenth prince who was supposed to inherit the throne secretly entered the Jianghu to learn martial arts. He happened to meet Kaixin, and the two joined forces to deal with the enemies who were plotting rebellion.
Because Wu Jing is relatively small, he once again got the role of the protagonist Happy. Fan Shaohuang was helpless. He also wanted to play the leading role, but who made him stronger?
Fortunately, this time he can finally show off his kung fu. Otherwise, he would be too shameless to mention that he is one of the Kung Fu Twins.
The two screenwriters are not novices, and their script development speed is pretty good.
From this point of view, Tomorrow Film Company has surpassed 90% of the film and television companies in Hong Kong. You must know that with the development of modern movies, some movies do not even have scripts. The editor has to write down the plot the night before and send it to the crew for shooting early the next morning.
"Flying Paper Boy" gradually became popular because the entertainment industry in Hong Kong was booming, and you could make money by just snapping pictures. At this point, who else cares about the screenwriter? Just find someone, write a script and start filming. If Xiangjiang's post-production personnel were not really powerful, Xiangjiang's film and television industry would probably be ruined by themselves before the 1990s.
Two projects began to enter the preparatory stage, and the entire company became busy.
Zou Shifang also took the accounting staff to calculate the budget according to the list brought by the crew.
The budget for "The Little Monk" will be smaller because it will be shot in the Mainland. At that time, a lot of funds can be directly used in the Beijing office.
"Chinatown Detective" is different, it is going to Thailand. Therefore, Zou Shifang asked Wang Yaowei to find him someone who was familiar with prices in Thailand. Otherwise, he might need to take his accounting personnel with him to Thailand.
Since Liu Hongmin entrusted the finances to him, he had to ensure that there would be no problems.
No matter what era, procurement is a life full of oil and water. What Zou Shifang has to do is to ensure that this oil and water is suppressed to a certain extent. Don't spend 6,000 yuan on a straw hat. The company's money is all clean, and there is no need to do those fancy things.
In addition to paying attention to the box office of "New Oolong Court" every day, Liu Hongmin is also writing "White Night Journey".
"The Devotion of Suspect Otherwise, when "Lies" is known to the Japanese, he may be banned.
(End of this chapter)