At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 677 It's just the process of history
In the early years, Hong Kong actors did have overseas box office.

Selling film flowers is the best proof!

Selling film flowers is the biggest feature of Hong Kong film financing in the 90s.

The producer doesn't even have a script, just relying on the names of Zhou Xingchi, Andy Lau, Zhou Runfa, Jackie Chan, or a simple promotional poster for the cast, he can easily get an advance of tens of millions of port fees.

Hong Kong-style film sales are more about selling casts, so as to recover costs in advance and ensure stable profits without losses.

But this approach is also "exploiting" Hong Kong films themselves, so that after a few years, except for those "not old" Hong Kong stars, everything else in Hong Kong films "hides into the dust and smoke".

To make matters worse, many gangsters are also involved!
Compete for star...

To a certain extent, it has accelerated the style of Hong Kong films to follow suit and shoddy!

More importantly, the proportion of stars and protagonists' remuneration is getting higher and higher, and the rest of the production team will inevitably feel aggrieved.

This is also an important reason why almost all bands will disband once they become popular.

After 93, Hollywood aggressively attacked the Asian market, and Hong Kong movies were not as easy to sell as before, and the film bonuses were naturally not very valuable!
But... at this stage, Hong Kong movies still have many overseas fans.

Most of the Hong Kong movies are released simultaneously in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia!

Later, why can mainland actors be the protagonists?

Because the mainland market has risen, they can give full play to their home star advantage.

Only when there is a market can there be stars, and now there is a market in the mainland, so the mainland stars will blow out.

Go back 20 years, 30 years, Jiang Wen, Ge You have the strength, they can't make Hong Kong commercial films, no one hires Hong Kong companies, because their backgrounds don't match and they don't have overseas markets!
Jiang Wen played a supporting role in "The Song Dynasty".

Just to add a word, at the beginning of "The Song Dynasty", Jiang Wen refused to accept it, saying "I never play a supporting role", but Wu Siyuan coaxed him, saying that Charlie Song was the father of the three sisters of the Song family, "the protagonist of the protagonist", and finally Jiang Wencai agreed to act and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but he didn't come to accept the award...

Yuan Shikong, at this stage, except for Feng Xiaogang, no one uses a mainland actor as the leading role in a movie with an investment of over [-] million yuan!
However, Shen Xudong was different.

"Old Thousand", "Life Events", "Embroidered Spring Knife", "Tuner", the male lead is all Deng Chao;

"Painted Skin" male number one, Chen Kun;

"Exquisite Ancient City", the leading male Liu Ye;
"The Wind" found Yu Hewei's partner Huang Xiaoming...

Oh, "The Wind" is not produced by Golden Harvest...

But this time "Zhao Zilong 2", produced by Golden Harvest, starring Nie Yuan, the director is also a mainland director!
It directly changed the so-called pattern of directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan + actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan + mainland actresses.

The key is that it is also sold overseas.

Now, investors can't be fooled by the view that 'enabling mainland male actors means giving up overseas markets'!

It's not over yet, at the Golden Harvest Film Planning Conference at noon on the 11th, a bunch of mainland actors came, Deng Chao, Chen Xiao, Wang Kai, Yu Hewei, Hu Ge appeared successively.

In addition, Chen Daoming, Wang Xueqi, Ge You, Zhang Guoli, Jiang Wen, Jiang Wu, Hu Jun and others helped out.

The Hong Kong star group also came Jackie Chan, Lai Ming, Zhang Xueyou, Donnie Yen, Gu Tianlei, Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui, etc...

Yang Shoucheng, Jiang Zhiqiang, and Huang Baiming also came.

The director team is Chen Musheng, Chen Desen, Chen Jiashang, Yip Weixin, Zheng Baorui, Liang Lemin, Lu Jianqing...

Chung Lifang was in high spirits, and announced more than [-] film shooting plans in one go.

包括《赵子龙2》之后的六部三国系列，而且每一部都公开了准确的上映时间：《定军山》2009年1月27号、《关云长》、《张翼德》、《赵子龙3》、《诸葛亮》还有《汉昭烈帝——刘备》…

The last one was released in 2010 for the Lunar New Year, and the others are basically Spring Festival, summer and even April...

Shen Xudong said with some regret: "Actually, for the Three Kingdoms series, we initially planned to shoot 2 films in three stages to form a Three Kingdoms film universe, but everyone knows what happened. After the success of the first film , the actors and directors have all left...Then we had to change the plan...Fortunately, "Cao Cao" and "Zhao Zilong [-]" received good box office and word of mouth, which gave us enough confidence to continue making series..."

Well, continue hammering "Seeing the Dragon Unloading Armor"...

Of course, this is Hong Kong, and there must be a lot of media who are provoking trouble.

Ask him directly if he is suppressing Hong Kong actors.

"Are you kidding me? I'm about to confess them. You have to know that the total salary of the actors in "Zhao Zilong 2" has not reached 300 million Hong Kong dollars, and the salary of Andy Lau in the first part of "Zhao Zilong" is 1200 million Hong Kong dollars! "

"Also, are you blind? We're going to collaborate with Jackie Chan, Lai Ming, and Donnie Yen in three movies each... Aren't they Hong Kong actors?"

……

"They treated me well, and they didn't take ugly photos, let alone criticize me..."

At the reception in the evening, Huang Baiming comforted Shen Xudong, telling him not to care about the Hong Kong media, Shen Xudong is very free and easy...

It is also true that the Hong Kong media's hostility towards Zhang Ziyi and Zhao Yanzi can be described as a 'thorn in the side', all kinds of messy reports, such as Zhang Ziyi's love for Jackie Chan and his son, Zhao Yanzi's ugly chewing gum...

In contrast, his attitude towards Shen Xudong was really good.

In the beginning, he was introduced as 'inland talent', but now he is 'Golden Harvest's new helm'...

"Then you can't hold grudges, and it's not easy for them..."

"There's nothing to hold grudges about. You see, Hong Kong is integrating with the mainland. There are frictions in the process of integration. It's a normal thing...but I don't think friction is a bad thing. It's like sawing wood. Sometimes it goes to the left, sometimes it goes to the left. It will go to the right, but it will all go down in the end! Wait another 20 years, and when you look back at these things, they are just small dust in the course of history."

Hearing this, Huang Baiming couldn't help being surprised and said: "Tsk tsk, as expected of a writer, your thinking is really good!"

"...No more." Shen Xudong suddenly remembered something: "Where did Uncle Huang plan to take me to eat tonight?"

"Dabanlou, I've already thought about what to bring you to eat. I didn't expect there will be a party today."

"It's okay, I have time tomorrow..."

Taipan Building, Shen Xudong has long heard of it, Asia's 50 best restaurants, the Hong Kong restaurant that best represents Cantonese cuisine...

Shen Xudong really didn't want to miss it.

Huang Baiming smiled wryly: "But I don't have time tomorrow, I have to fly to Singapore..."

Shen Xudong felt a little regretful, thought for a while and said: "Then...you give me the contact information of the Daban Building, and I will go by myself!"

Huang Baiming glanced at him, pondered for a while, and then suggested: "...how about this, I'll introduce a friend to take you with me!"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "Forget it, I'm not used to eating with men I don't know well..."

Huang Baiming raised his eyebrows: "It just so happens that the girl I introduced is a little girl who yearns for the film industry!"

"I... I'm not that kind of person... What do I look like? How old are you?"

"... Hong Kong's number one nen model, what do you think?"

When Shen Xudong heard this, he lost interest: "Fu Ying?"

"…no…"

Huang Baiming was about to introduce in detail when Zhong Lifang, Donnie Yen and Chen Desen came over, Shen Xudong said goodbye to Huang Baiming politely, tapped his mobile phone, motioned him to contact him, and then walked away...

After all, the full name of the reception at night is Golden Harvest Movie Night, not a private exchange between Shen Xudong and Huang Baiming!
(End of this chapter)