Chapter 564 Destiny

"What old man, if it weren't for you, would I be here?

Running away from home, you are so grown up and still running away from home, he is your biological father, where can you hide?

Bring your sister out too, it's so dangerous outside!"

Wu Mengda performed the scene where Han Ziang teaches Liu Qi a lesson in prison in one go.

Gu Wei doesn't have many lines in this scene, he just gets beaten.

"And you!" After saying this to Liu Qi, Han Ziang turned his attention to Han Duoduo.

However, he couldn't bear to scold his beloved granddaughter.

"Have you learned how to steal?

Steal my card

You just do whatever your brother tells you to do, you idiot! "

"Uncle Da, you look much better than a few days ago." After this shot was finished, the staff were moving things to another location, and several actors were resting nearby.

"After two days of rest, I feel better.

I’m old, in the past, this amount of work would have been nothing.”

Wu Mengda held a portable oxygen cylinder, breathing oxygen while lamenting that time is unforgiving.

"What do you think are the differences between filming our movie and filming in Hong Kong Island?" Gu Wei was also taking a break, and when he had nothing to do, he chatted with Wu Mengda.

"I started filming in my early 20s and have been doing so for over 40 years, watching the Hong Kong film industry go from its heyday to its decline.

Compared to the mainland, Hong Kong Island is still too small-scale. A movie like this, with hundreds of people, large scenes and sets, and all kinds of detailed props, can't be shot in Hong Kong Island."

As he spoke, he picked up the well-made mechanical prop at hand.

"When I was filming TV dramas for TVB, there were dozens of costume dramas, and everyone used the same set, and the costumes and props were all makeshift.

The same is true for movies. A dozen or so people make up a small crew, and sometimes a movie takes more than ten days from start to finish.”

"But Hong Kong also produced a lot of excellent film and television dramas at that time." Zhao Jinmai interrupted as she listened to the two people chatting.

"Haha. Yes, although it was an era of quick success and instant benefits, there were still people making movies with their heart.

However, Hong Kong Island is too small after all, only about one-tenth the size of Qindao Island, and the market is limited. The filmmakers there are used to being small-scale when filming, and it is difficult to shoot any big scenes.

If we give this movie to a Hong Kong director,

Wu Mengda shook his head and didn't say anything further.

However, Gu Wei beside him knew that the shooting style was one aspect. The Hong Kong directors and production teams who came to the mainland to shoot movies were already accustomed to sucking blood from the crew. It was unknown how much of the 400 million investment would actually be used for the movie.

"But the movies directed by Stephen Chow have always been very good. "Kung Fu" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" are very good!" It seems that Zhao Jinmai is a fan of Zhou Xingchi.

"Hahaha

He's a genius, and he works hard, so naturally he succeeds in everything he does!"

Starting from "Kung Fu", Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda parted ways completely. The two had collaborated for more than ten years and brought many classics to the audience, but in the end they became strangers due to differences in filming and conflicts of interests.

However, Wu Mengda never said anything bad about Zhou Xingchi in front of outsiders.

"Grandpa Wu, how did you and Mr. Xing know each other?"

“To be honest, I have no impression of Zhou Xingchi when I first met him.

Because we were all on the same TV station, he did his children's program, and I did Happy Tonight, or did a drama.

When I saw him at that time, I had no idea who he was. I probably just said hello to him.

He might have known me at that time, because after the role of Chor Lau Heung I started to gain a little fame, and at that time Zhou Xingchi had just entered the TVB actor training class."

Wu Mengda resumed normal filming, and Guo Fan split up his scenes to try to reduce his daily filming time to avoid any health problems.

Time quickly came to late July.

"As of yesterday, 'Brother Take Me Away' had been released for 15 days and had grossed 218 million yuan. However, the current single-day box office is less than 5 million yuan. Furthermore, due to the impact of new releases like 'Wukong' and 'Father and Son', film production has also slowed down significantly. It will be difficult for the box office to reach 250 million yuan in the end."

As the release date of "Wolf Warrior 2" is getting closer, Gu Wei asked for leave and returned to Beijing.

On the way, Yang Dan reported to him the performance of Han Jianv's film "Take My Brother Away".

“It’s already pretty good. I didn’t expect to make money, but I didn’t expect there would be a surprise.

I think I should give Sister Han a call and congratulate her on her debut hit.

By the way, wasn’t there a movie called Qinghe Boys High School released a few days ago?

Gu Wei was able to think of this movie because the leading actor of this movie is Jing Tian.

Some time ago, Gu Wei went to Shanghai to attend a fan meeting. Da Tiantian specially sent him a message to invite him to attend the premiere of "Qinghe Boys High School".

Unfortunately, Gu Wei has been too busy recently and has no time at all. He has to go back to the crew to film after finishing his work in Shanghai.

He has a lot of activities scheduled for the next two months and already needs to take leave frequently, so it's impossible for him to run around for other people's affairs.

Even if Guo Fan didn't say anything, Gu Wei would still feel bad about it.

Moreover, when Ni Ni invited him to attend the premiere of "The Monkey King", he refused on the grounds that he was busy filming. Of course, Da Tiantian was no exception.

"Qinghe Boys' High School was released on the same day as The Monkey King: Legend of Wukong.

However, the film performed very poorly at the box office. After more than a week of release, the total box office was less than 20 million RMB.

The producers will probably suffer huge losses!"

Yang Dan paused as he spoke.

"And I've read some online reviews of this movie, and it's received very bad reviews. Its Douban score is less than 4 points."

Gu Wei touched his chin, not surprised.

Isn't it normal for a movie starring Da Tiantian to flop?

"Since the start of this year's summer season, there hasn't been a single hit movie in the domestic film market.

[Take My Brother Away] The box office of just over 200 million is already very good.

The film with the best box office performance this month is "Wukong", which has grossed 520 million yuan in 8 days. However, it is now showing signs of decline, with the daily box office dropping to just over 10 million yuan.

There was also a highly anticipated fantasy comedy called "Meow Star," directed by Benny Chan and starring Louis Koo and Ma Li, but it grossed less than 40 million yuan in its first week and received terrible reviews.

"Haha. I didn't expect the market to be so cold in the first month of this summer season.

But it doesn't matter, it's just the darkness before dawn.

I believe the audience has been looking forward to a movie worth watching."

The release date for Wolf Warrior 2 was chosen by Wu Jing. After Gu Wei found out, he took a quick look at the summer schedule and found that there were no noteworthy films, so he agreed.

But he didn't expect that this year's summer market would be so cold.

Last year, "The Lost Tomb" grossed 1 billion yuan, and Gu Wei's own "Detective Chinatown 2" even set a box office record for Chinese-language films.

This year, it seems like all the blockbuster movies are giving way to the upcoming "Wolf Warrior 2".

Gu Wei knew that this situation was not planned in advance, and no one else knew that several highly anticipated films would perform so poorly.

Perhaps this is the destiny of "Wolf Warrior 2". The right time, place and people are destined to make this movie go down in the history of Chinese cinema.

"One more thing, Wen Muye's filming of 'Dying to Survive' has finished, and he's currently doing post-production at the company."

"Dying to Survive has finally finished filming. I'm really looking forward to what director Wen Muye will come up with."

This version does not have Xu Zheng, and Gu Wei has joined. Although the plot has not changed, the final effect will definitely be different from the original, and Gu Wei is also looking forward to it.

(End of this chapter)