That day, Wu Changyun was busy in the office dealing with interviews from various reporters. The tea that Zhao Yazhi poured for him half an hour ago was now completely cold, as was the breakfast that Wu Mengda brought him.
Now both of them are on the set, busy as hell.
It has been nearly half a year since I last served as a director mentor at TVB. Now is the sprint stage when major companies are going all out to compete for the Lunar New Year box office.
Qi Ji Film Company also officially opened at this time. There were no fireworks or ribbon-cuttings, and only internal employees knew about the official opening.
Wu Changyun's company's trump cards include: Zhao Yazhi, Zhou Runfa, Wu Mengda, Du Qifeng, and Huang Zhengli.
There are two others who were brought out from TVB by Du Qifeng at the strong recommendation of Wu Changyun, namely Zeng Jiang and Hui Shiu-hung. Zeng Jiang is a veteran, while Hui Shiu-hung is a student of the first session of the artist training class. In Wu Changyun's eyes, both are gold medal supporting actors.
In order to film "A Better Tomorrow", Wu Changyun specially found Leslie Cheung who had just returned to China. His father was in the hospital, and fortunately he is not seriously injured now.
It took Wu Changyun a lot of effort to invite Zhang Guorong, because the purpose of his return to China was to visit a patient, and his family was not short of money. Zhang Guorong's father was a tailor, but not an ordinary tailor.
Even the godfather of film, Hitchcock, once came to Hong Kong and patronized the tailor shop of Zhang Guorong's father. A director who later enjoyed a high reputation worldwide, crossing the sea to open a tailor shop in Hong Kong, just thinking about it seems like a plot in a novel.
"Xiao Wu, what would you like to eat for lunch?"
"Grandma, just watch over me." Wu Changyun shouted.
"Then have wontons and buy some roast duck."
The person who shouted was Wenjing's grandmother. After the incident, Wenjing disappeared for a long time. After her mother was discharged from the hospital, she took care of her rental business, so she had a place to live.
Considering that the income from renting out the house might not be enough to support the two of them, Wu Changyun brought his grandmother to the company and asked her to help cook in the kitchen.
Wu Changyun felt relieved in this way. He didn't believe that anyone would poison the actors. After all, if the food was not good, the actors might get stomach upset while filming.
Wu Changyun did not go to the filming site today, mainly because he had to deal with media interviews.
It is now 75 years old, and his movies are considered out of date. I don’t know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but he is always involved in various topics. This time it is because of Yuan Aijia.
It has been reported in the news a long time ago that he and Yuan Aijia had a romantic relationship, and their relationship is still very good now. However, Yuan Aijia has been very active recently. She and Great Wall Company have jointly built a cinema near the Pearl River.
It is reported to be the most luxurious cinema in Hong Kong. It has also acquired seven nearby cinemas to form a surrounding cinema chain. There is an advantage to doing this.
That is, Yuan Aijia has the final say on what movies nearby audiences want to watch. It may sound a bit closed-minded, but its fundamental meaning is that this way she has a basis for negotiating with other film companies.
For example, Golden Harvest has 17 cinema chains in the west, but the cinema chains in the east are monopolized by another company. If Golden Harvest wants to take over the market in the east, it needs to release the broadcasting rights of its own films. Similarly, the other party will also release the films in the west.
Hong Kong is not very big. The main reasons for this are inconvenient transportation and insufficient information flow.
If it were the 21st century, every family would have a car, everyone would have access to the Internet, and people living in the east could drive to the west to watch a movie.
It is not enough to look at this matter from the perspective of the 21st century. This is what Wu Changyun has only recently realized. Some seemingly naive issues are indeed the points that the company needs to pay most attention to now.
At present, Wu Changyun still does not have his own cinema chain. If he wants to release his movies online, he still needs to put them in the cinema chains under major film companies. The most friendly of them are Zhengke and Great Wall, which have a closer relationship with him.
As for Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, the price they offered to Wu Changyun was 50% of the box office revenue.
Thinking of this, Wu Changyun sighed. According to the box office performance of his works in Hong Kong, he shouldn't have received 50%. His works are good enough to bring competitiveness to theaters.
But the current situation is that Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers seem to have discussed it beforehand and their statements are very consistent.
Needless to say, Shaw Brothers would not lend out Ti Lung and let Wu Changyun complete the original cast.
For this reason, Wu Changyun went to find Simon Yam, believing that Simon Yam should be able to play the helplessness and sadness of the good brother. However, when all the actors were selected, Wu Changyun discovered a problem.
Leslie Cheung was okay, as he was originally a very young character in the drama.
Zhou Runfa can still use makeup to make up for it, but Simon Yam, who just turned 20 this year, can't hide it at all. Wu Changyun's evaluation of him is: "He looks more than domineering, and his temperament is also suitable, but he is too young."
Among all the actors, Zeng Jiang is the oldest, but the problem is that Zeng Jiang is not decent enough.
"Wu Changyun, I'm coming in." The person outside the door was Zhou Huiting. Wu Changyun had promised before that he would give her a better job, and now Wu Changyun has fulfilled his promise.
"These are the expenses for last week's filming." Zhou Huiting handed a report to Wu Changyun.
When compiling this report, Zhou Huiting once suspected that there was an extra zero in the bills because the numbers on the report were so shocking.
Before filming even started, they had already spent one-fifth of the budget, not including the salaries for the actors and production crew, which would not be settled until filming was completed.
Wu Changyun glanced at the report and calmly put it back on the table. What he was most worried about was getting permission for the filming location. This time, the film was shot at a port, and he needed to apply to the government for permission.
"Wu Changyun, if this continues, our company will be out of money after filming this movie."
Zhou Huiting couldn't help but remind Wu Changyun that she was not worried about losing her newly-minted job, but she was mainly heartbroken.
Watching a very exaggerated number decrease every day, and this money is enough for an ordinary person to live a lifetime.
"Well, I know. If there's no money in the account, I'll keep investing."
Wu Changyun signed the report, indicating that he had no objection to the account statements. The company has not attracted any investors at present and is entirely supported by Wu Changyun's funds.
"Huh?" Zhou Huiting was a little surprised, but she had never asked Wu Changyun how he had developed his current wealth in less than three years.
"Are you sure? Will there be any good results if you keep fighting like this?"
Hearing Zhou Huiting's words, Wu Changyun couldn't help laughing. He didn't expect that Zhou Huiting, who was so brave, would actually ask him such a question.
"That's not like your style."
"Humph, you don't know what's good for you."
Zhou Huiting turned around, slammed the door, and left the office.
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