Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

Most of the main creatives of the crew have been settled. Zhao Donghuai will distribute the rough script today. He will also continue to break down the script with the two assistant directors and art director Zhang Shuping and formulate a detailed shooting plan.

The plan is prepared, and the assistant director goes out to scout the location. After finishing everything, we start the filming and worship God.

The location scouting on Hong Kong Island was easy to talk about, but Wanwan's location scouting... was useless. He said that Hu Huizhong volunteered to contact an acquaintance for help.

She just came to Hong Kong Island from the comfort zone of Wanwan literary and artistic films to work hard. No matter how famous she was in the Wanwan literary and artistic circles before, she came to Hong Kong Island in the atmosphere of most new wave and commercial films.

Still relatively unknown.

Otherwise, the movies at the beginning of the year would not be so popular.

She was too miserable to be the main heroine and could not support the commercial box office at all. Her current salary is only 50,000 yuan.

And what about Zhao Donghuai? The first film broke the box office of Hong Kong Island's local area of ​​23 million, whether it was the strong support of Shaw Brothers Cinemas or the long running time.

If Hung Sing-po's first film, The Five Lucky Stars, had been released in Golden Harvest theaters for a while longer, it would have definitely accumulated more box office, breaking the box office of Best Partner.

But since Jiahe didn’t do it.

Director Zhao was the top-grossing director in 1983!

Also, in the past such a long time, the second-generation movie who is not short of money has also arranged for New World to be released in Wanwan. Although the release time is short and there is no total data, but based on the current trend, it will earn 60 to 70 million by the time it is released. The box office hopes are high, which is equivalent to more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

This is also a big hit in Wanwan.

Zhou Runfa and even Hong Qianbao can also catch up with Cheng Long in Wanwan's appeal, which is not as buggy as an island country.

The fledgling director Nian Guan has been very popular all the way. She can participate in an important role in the second film, which is also a great opportunity for Hu Huizhong.

This is the case.

When the big office was busy with various discussions, and He Qing and Guan Jiahui, as contracted artists, took on some tasks of serving tea and water, another person came.

Zhao Donghuai laughed as soon as he saw the person, "Ah Rong, I have reserved a good role in my new film for you. You are finally here."

This is Zhang Guorong.

Arong rolled his eyes at Zhao Donghuai's words, "What a good character?"

In the New World, he played a guest role as Ding Qing's secretary and lawyer. He was hacked to death with a knife and was leveled by the dragon. If Director Zhao had notified him early, I believe Zhang Guorong would have played a good role.

But, right, there’s a whole room full of people here?

Will there be any good characters after coming so late? Really? He doesn't believe it!

Zhao Donghuai took out a printed script and handed it over, "You read it first, and then you can guess which character is you."

Zhang Guorong...

I watched it very quickly. Hurricane Rescue mainly focuses on action and gunfights. The main storyline is that the daughter insists on committing suicide, refuses to accept the company of her elders and runs out to travel to other places. When she is kidnapped and killed, the old father kills the villain team to save her life.

The whole script is too simple and straightforward.

It relies on genre-defining action scenes and gun battles, adrenaline rush, visual effects, and the tenderness of the early filming to foreshadow the father-daughter relationship.

After reading it, Zhang Guorong rubbed his hands, "The script seems good, the action scenes... but with such a deep father-daughter relationship, the action is the highlight after it's filmed."

"Am I the last villain? The rich man who auctioned off the heroine? Or the last villain who is a master of beating the boy??"

Zhao Donghuai took a picture of Zhang Guorong and said, "You are a handsome young man from Wanwan Airport who deceived the heroine and her best friend's addresses and tricked them into selling themselves. You are similar to a professional young man in a Hong Kong society."

Zhang Guorong rolled his eyes wildly, "I knew it was up to no good! I won't act! Even if you kill me, I won't act!"

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "Unless?"

Zhang Guorong smiled, "Unless you are giving me a good song, I don't want any copyright. I can just sing the theme song."

Zhao Donghuai also decisively released a new song, "I Want It That Way", which is a smash hit.

This song is a single from the album released by the Backstreet Boys in 1999, and is also the title song. It debuted on the Niubu Singles Chart in the first week it topped the charts, and later successively won the sales top spot on the song charts in 25 countries.

The album sold 1.13 million copies in the first week, and eventually sold 13 million copies on Amei. Since 1999, it has sold more than 34 million copies worldwide.

A record in Hong Kong sells 25,000 copies, earning a gold record.

Fifty thousand is platinum.

More than 34 million, that’s 680 times more than a platinum record!

An album title song that would later accumulate sales of 34 million copies... But this time, he did not let the song be used as the theme song of the movie, but supported Zhang Guorong to record and sell it before filming.

A title song and some side dishes were put together to make up the album. The album became a big hit and helped his fame in the music industry skyrocket.

When the fame of the music industry increases, it will be possible to promote Zhang Guorong as one of the leading actors.

If Ah Wing can become famous in Europe and A-Mei's home with this song, and become a red star in the music industry, then movies with him as the "starring" may not be able to sell well at the box office in those places.

He did not expect Hurricane Rescue to sell well at the box office in the island country. In this era, it would be unrealistic without Cheng Long starring or making a cameo, but if it could sell at the box office in Europa and Amei, it would still be a big profit.

The production cost of Hurricane itself was 25 million U.S. dollars, and it sold more than 200 million U.S. dollars worldwide, nearly 10 times the profit chain of sales. This still means that the Bourne series pioneered the new style of post-millennium action movies, and Hurricane is a latecomer. imitate.

He would choose Zhang Guorong. Since contacting him, Ah Wing has always felt good to him and he is a good friend worth making. He has a good experience of studying abroad. In his early days in the music industry, he sang English songs and was not accepted by Hong Kong fans. , it was said that Zhang Guorong would have to endure it for 8 years.

When it comes to singing skills, English proficiency, and the ability to produce English albums, Zhang Guorong was definitely one of the forefront of the Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s.

Anyway, it is much better than Zhao Donghuai's KTV level. Even if he has played through the simulator many times to improve his abilities, he has never failed to improve his singing skills.

Even if there is a gap between Zhang Guorong and the Backstreet Boys in 1999, such as the popularity base, Ah Wing is still far behind in comparison now. Ah Wing is Chinese and Backstreet Boys are white, but after the release, the sales are one-tenth? That's 3.4 million album sales.

This is still data that is enough to beat the current male stars in the Hong Kong music scene.

What if Ah Wing can sell more than one-tenth of it? Last time Ah Wing asked fans to contribute to the box office, the result was far inferior to that of Tan Yonglin. That may not be the case next time.

Of course, this time, Arong is asked to release an album and singles to gain fame first, which is different from the theme song of the last Infernal Affairs movie... Zhao Donghuai's song copyright, lyrics and music copyright share, and how to share the sales, that is, the company sent professionals to negotiate with According to China Star Records, this has nothing to do with Zhang Guorong.

He will only share the money earned by Hua Xing Records. If Hua Xing doesn't agree...then replace him. Ah Rong is the first choice but not a must.

Zhang Guorong looked at the music score and lyrics. He was very serious at first. He had already picked up good songs from Director Zhao twice. He looked at them more and more seriously and became more and more excited, until finally he found an instrument to play live. Start singing.

After singing it several times, he finally sang out his emotions and looked at everyone excitedly.

Lin Zhengying and others applauded.

"Yes, it sounds pretty good."

"Well, it's not bad."

"Come on Ah Rong, you are really good at singing."

…………

Everyone's reaction is that it's okay, not too big.

Zhang Guorong stared in disbelief, "It's just okay? Not bad??"

Now it was Lan Jieying, He Qing and others' turn to look at each other, what else? They don't know much English, and they are not foreigners. Of course, they can't relate too much to Omi white songs.

Just like African big brothers, they won’t be too sad and sad about how many people died in Indians.

It's also like the Chinese people can't be too sad for the death of an islander.

Unless you are undercover!

Or get paid to perform errands.

Ah Wing is different. He studied abroad at a young age and has been singing English songs for several years since he returned to Hong Kong.