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Chapter 105 Zhou Xingxing

Zhang Bozhi saw that Qi Wei didn't have any celebrity airs, so he immediately showed his "diplomatic" talent, chattering like a chatterbox.

"I really feel so lucky to be able to participate in your MV. I feel like I got what I wanted. I really, really like your songs. I have bought every record of yours. I listen to it every day. Listen to it, never get tired of it, if you don't believe it, watch it..."

While speaking, Zhang Bozhi had found the CD player from his bag, and opened it to reveal the CD inside.

Sure enough, it was Qi Wei's record.

She obviously came prepared.

Qi Wei smiled and said, "I'm glad you like my songs, and I hope my new album won't disappoint you."

"Of course not. Your song "Break Up With Kind Hearts" is really good. I have also heard the song "Meeting 98" that you sang with the princess. I also like it very much. I am sure that other songs in your new album The songs are not bad, I am very confident in you, I will buy your new album as soon as possible, and I will also let my relatives and friends buy your new album...."

After all, Zhang Bozhi is the heroine of the "Break Up With Kindness" MV, and she has already heard the chorus version by Qi Wei and Zhou Huimin.

"Thank you, there is no need to do this, don't force others to make things difficult."

"It's necessary, I don't force others, my relatives and friends are also your fans, they all like your songs, um... can you sign me?"

"no problem."

Qi Wei took out the signature pen he carried with him, and asked with a smile, "Where is the signature?"

"Actually, I want you to sign here..." Zhang Bozhi stood up and pointed to his waist, blushing with embarrassment, and stretched out his arms again, "Let's sign on my arm, sign Well I'm going to get a tattoo and I'm going to keep it on me forever."

"Uh……"

This wave of operations really acted like a crazy fan, Qi Wei froze for a moment, he didn't really support this kind of behavior in his heart.

But the young girl in front of her is really youthful and beautiful, very much in Qi Wei's aesthetics.

Qi Wei suddenly felt that this request was not excessive at all, and it was quite good.

Zhang Bozhi was also determined to go her own way, and finally, under her strong request, Qi Weicai "reluctantly" signed her name on her white and tender arm.

Touching her skin, it was indeed smooth and delicate.

After Qi Wei finished signing, she looked at her arm with satisfaction, and she put down the sleeve after the ink was dry.
The happy siblings danced like a child, holding Qi Wei's arm and happily chatting about other interesting things.

Gradually, the two became close like friends for many years.

After chatting for about half an hour, while Qi Wei was chatting and laughing with her, the director of the MV saw that it was almost time, so he came over to say hello in person, saying that everything had been arranged and ready to shoot at any time.

The MV director PolyGram found for Qi Wei in Hong Kong was Yuan Jianwei.

He specializes in shooting MVs and commercials. He looks younger in his 30s, but he has shot MVs for singers such as Zhang Xueyou, Peng Ling and Zhou Huimin many times, and he has very rich experience.

It can be regarded as Polygram's queen MV director.

Qi Wei also filmed the MV of "Thousands of Miles Away" before.

Qi Wei is a very important guest of PolyGram. The MV shooting site was supervised by PolyGram, and they also greeted him in advance, so even though Qi Wei is a mainland singer, the director was very polite and respectful.

Today is already April 4th, and Qi Wei has to finish filming the MV before the 13th, and there are only two or three days left, so he is still in a hurry.

So as soon as the director came to say hello, Qi Wei ended his chat with Zhang Bozhi with a smile, and immediately threw himself into the MV shooting.

In Qi Wei's opinion, although the MV script of "Break Up With Kind Hearts" is simple, it still has a bit of a story, and it still takes a little time to shoot.

The task is heavy and the time is tight, so it cannot be delayed casually.

But Qi Wei overlooked one point, this is not in the Mainland, but in Hong Kong City, and the MV was filmed by a very professional crew from Hong Kong City.

Hong Kong City is a fast-paced city. A movie can be shot in a few days, and some of them are of surprisingly high quality. How long can it take to shoot a MV for a few minutes?

They have a detailed division of labor and rich experience, and their fast-paced shooting is indeed unmatched by their mainland counterparts for the time being.

Some things are still worth learning.

With enough remuneration, he can satisfy you with any requirements, as long as you don't delay the rhythm.

Filming an MV doesn't require much acting skills. Qi Wei was born in an academic class and has already filmed several film and television dramas. Although his acting skills are not particularly outstanding, he has made significant progress and has gradually developed his own filming habits and rhythm.

It may be more difficult to shoot those literary films or scenes with big directors, but shooting a MV can still be easily managed.

As for Zhang Bozhi, she is still very talented in acting. After all, the MV of "Break Up With Kindness" refers to the experience of the later brother Wang.

Just act in your true colors.

In less than two days, the MV was filmed on the afternoon of the 14th.

The filming of the MV for "Break Up With Kindness" is over, and Qi Wei Xinzhuan only has a little post-production work left to complete the production.

The rest of the work has been properly arranged, and PolyGram will have a dedicated person in charge.

Qi Wei's work has temporarily come to an end.

Before proceeding to the next stage of work, at least this afternoon on the 14th, Qi Wei is "doing nothing".

You can enjoy free activities.

And there is indeed a good goal in front of him.

"It's finally over. You don't know. I've been in Hong Kong for so long. I'm either busy with work or work. I haven't really appreciated this city. Today I finally have an afternoon. I want to have a good time. I don't know if you would like Would you like to be my guide?"

The meaning of Qi Wei's invitation to Zhang Bozhi is actually very obvious.

During the two days of filming the MV, Zhang Bozhi showed his obsession with Qi Wei, constantly flattering and flattering Qi Wei, which made Qi Wei very useful.

As long as it is Qi Wei's love song MV, there will be no shortage of passionate drama, let alone the MV of the song "Break Up With Kindness". To show the "shepherd" taming the "sheep", naturally love-hate entanglement is indispensable. There are more passionate scenes.

Hugs and kisses are a must.

Almost every inch of her skin, Qi Wei has already felt it personally.

The desire of hand and mouth is completely satisfied.

Who takes advantage of whom is somewhat uncertain.

After all, apart from the initial discomfort during filming, after she got used to it, she turned passive into active.

Of course, for record sales, the MV is suitable for all ages, and most of the passionate scenes will be cut out and will not be shown to the audience.

Zhang Bozhi is not a "good man and a faithful woman". She has long been out of the society, and she is no longer a simple little girl.

She understood the meaning of Qi Wei's words, and immediately showed a shy expression.

Not surprisingly, she would agree.

But nothing unexpected happened.

"I am very familiar with Hong Kong City. I am willing to be your guide. It's just that I have a very important audition today. I don't know when it will end. I'm sorry."

Zhang Bozhi made a very distressed look.

"Very important audition?"

Qi Wei showed a puzzled expression on his face, but soon guessed something, and asked, "Which movie audition?"

"Master Xing is preparing for the new movie "The King of Comedy." She replied honestly.

The guess is right, it really is this movie.

Zhang Bozhi only returned to Hong Kong in 98.

It has been a few months since I returned to Hong Kong. Apart from filming Qi Wei's MV, I only filmed a commercial for lemon tea.

She is in an embarrassing period in her acting career, and her resources are actually not as good as imagined.

Qi Wei nodded and said: "Zhou Xingxing's movie, that's really important, why don't I send you to audition first, let's talk about it after your audition is over."

"I don't know when the audition will end. Will it take up a lot of your time? It's rare that you are free, so you can't waste it on my audition."

"It doesn't matter, your business is more important in my opinion."

Qi Wei smiled and said: "The important thing is not the process, but the result, as long as the result is satisfactory, you should understand what I mean."

Qi Wei himself invited her to be a guide to take him to play for the purpose of picking up girls. As long as the goal of picking up girls is achieved, it doesn't matter what happened before.

"I understand, that's too much trouble for you." As he spoke, Zhang Bozhi kissed Qi Wei on the cheek.

Holding Qi Wei's hand, he got into Qi Wei's car with a smile and left.

In Qi Wei's car, the two played a small game. While playing and laughing, more than ten minutes passed quietly, and soon arrived at the audition scene of "The King of Comedy".

Qi Wei finally understood that the cause of her hoarseness was not only due to drinking and smoking.

The two straightened their clothes a little and got out of the car.

I have already gone through several rounds of auditions, and many people have been eliminated. There are not many people at the audition scene.

Zhang Bozhi had gone through a round of auditions before, and this time he found the director of the film with ease.

"Hello, Director Li. I'm Zhang Bozhi. I don't know if you have any impression of me. I auditioned for the heroine of this play, Liu Piaopiao."

Director Li Lichi has directed many of Zhou Xingxing's films, and is also a golden supporting role in Zhou Xingxing's films.

For example, he played the iron leg floating on the water in "Domestic Lingling Paint".

After Zhang Bozhi greeted him, he saw that Qi Wei was obviously taken aback, and soon smiled.

Smiling to Zhang Bozhi: "Of course I have an impression of you. Beautiful girls like you are rare. Wait a minute, it should be your turn to audition soon."

He quietly whispered in Zhang Bozhi's ear: "I didn't expect you to bring him here, it's very good."

After speaking, he nodded slightly to Qi Wei, and then left in a hurry

Not long after, when Qi Wei was looking around curiously, Zhou Xingxing appeared in front of the two of them.

"Hello Star."

Zhang Bozhi saw that Zhou Xingxing became a little cautious, but at the same time greeted him enthusiastically.

Zhou Xingxing just nodded slightly to him, then looked at Qi Wei.

"You are Qi Wei, right? I know you. I've heard your song before. It's very good."

Zhou Xingxing took the initiative to shake hands with Qi Wei.

Qi Wei immediately stretched out his hand and replied politely: "It's my honor to get your approval, I'm very glad to meet you here, I like every movie of yours very much, I'm your fan .”

"Oh? It's good. We should have a lot of topics to talk about. How about we talk alone?" Zhou Xingxing asked with a smile and narrowed his eyes.

"No problem at all."

Then Qi Wei and Zhou Xingxing walked into the house, Zhang Bozhi tactfully did not follow.

We chatted a little about music, and more about movies. After we got to know each other a little better, Zhou Xingxing asked Qi Wei straight to the point:

"The movie "The King of Comedy" that I am preparing currently still has an investment share. I wonder if you are interested in investing?"

In the past few years, when Hong Kong films became popular, some filmmakers in Hong Kong City began to lose their lives, and frantically harvested investors by selling film clips, which caused many Hong Kong film investors to lose their money.

It's like when you eat meat, you don't even give a share of the soup, but you also cut other people's meat. In this case, who will play with you?
The reputation of Hong Kong films has been rapidly tarnished, which has also led to less and less investment in Hong Kong films.

Coupled with the invasion of Hollywood movies, the market for Hong Kong movies is gradually being eroded.

The market is getting smaller, which also makes the investment riskier.

Under the continuous vicious circle, it is becoming more and more difficult for Hong Kong films to attract investment.

Although Zhou Xingxing's film is a golden sign, and his film has a certain market guarantee, but even so, it is not easy for his film to attract investment.

There are many reasons, the most important are two points.

One of them is Zhou Xingxing's former boss. Because of the contract he signed, he was severely squeezed in the past, and the dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart caused him to choose to part ways with his former boss as soon as the contract ended.

Then set up his own film company.

But how could his former boss be willing to let his cash cow just run away?
Although he is still trying to keep Zhou Xingxing and wants to cooperate, and the conflict has not been fully disclosed, but with his strength in the Hong Kong circle, few people in the circle dare to touch him.

So that not many people dare to invest in Zhou Xingxing's movies now.

But Qi Wei is different. Qi Wei is from the mainland, and his business center is not in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong city has returned, and Zhou Xingxing's former boss has just landed. This is the time for him to keep his own place.

If Qi Wei invested in Zhou Xingxing's movie at this time, there would be no big problem.

This is not a problem, but there is another problem.

That is, can investing in Zhou Xingxing's movie really make money?

It is true that Zhou Xingxing’s former version made a lot of money from Zhou Xingxing’s movies, but that’s because due to contract reasons, Zhou Xingxing’s remuneration was very low after being squeezed out. Compared with his market value, Zhou Xingxing’s remuneration of 70 yuan is completely insignificant. The price of cabbage.

Breaking away from the original contract, Zhou Xingxing's salary for making movies is about 1000 million to 2000 million.

With such a high salary, coupled with Zhou Xingxing's attitude towards film excellence, the investment for one of his films must be at least 2500 million.

Based on the three times the return on the box office, his film needs at least 7000 million at the box office to return the cost.

Nowadays, the film market in Hong Kong City is not good, and the box office champion of Hong Kong films will not exceed 5000 million.

And Zhou Xingxing's box office appeal in Outer Hong Kong is far inferior to that of his big brother Long.

Zhou Xingxing's box office in the outer Hong Kong is actually very average, and it is actually difficult to make back the money.

In fact, after the contract expired, Zhou Xingxing also made many movies.

Movies like "A Chinese Journey to the West" and "Jigong" all caused investors to lose their pants.

Only a handful made money, and not much.

It belongs to high risk and low return, Zhou Xingxing's movie is actually not very cost-effective for investment.

The movie "The King of Comedy" is a project of Zhou Xingxing's own company. Not counting Zhou Xingxing's salary, the production cost of the movie will not exceed 1000 million.

Even if Zhou Xingxing's own company invested in the movie, and the box office in Hong Kong exceeded 3000 million, this movie must have made some money.

At most, it is just a loss on the books.

With a box office of 3000 million in Hong Kong, it is not difficult for Zhou Xingxing's movie.

If you can't attract investment, you can only earn less if you invest by yourself. If you can get investment and earn more, that would be great.

But if Qi Wei invests, Zhou Xingxing's remuneration will be included, and the profits on the book will be divided.

Then it will be difficult to recover the cost.

Let's look at the box office of this movie in future generations.

Investing in this movie is a sure-fire business.

Then Qi Wei would definitely not do it.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm busy with my new album right now, and I don't want to be distracted by other things for the time being, so I'm sorry." Qi Wei euphemistically refused with a random reason.

Zhou Xingxing didn't care about being rejected, nodded and said: "Movie investment is indeed a matter that needs to be carefully considered. I can understand it. I might as well tell you my thoughts. I don't lack investment in this movie. I invite you to Because I need your investment, even if you just want to invest a little bit, I can give you the full power to share the mainland accounts of this movie, and I don’t need the proceeds..."

Hearing this, Qi Wei instantly understood that Zhou Xingxing wanted to use this movie to open up the mainland market!

Now "Titanic" is being screened in mainland China. In less than two weeks, it has already achieved more than 1.5 million box office, breaking the 93 million box office record created by "True Lies" after the 1.06 film reform.

Far away, and started a hurricane road.

Such jaw-dropping box office results shocked a lot of people's jaws, and more people are also eyeing the fat meat of the mainland market, and they all want to enter the market to get a share.

The same is true for Zhou Xingxing.

The mainland film market is indeed a good choice when the Hong Kong and Taiwan film markets are weak.

Of course, he has a deeper purpose.

It was also because of the deterrence of his old version in the Hong Kong circle that it was not easy for him in the circle.

Zhou Xingxing wants to get rid of him completely, the best way is to take the line of the mainland.

After all, no matter how hard his former boss was, he would not dare to fight the mainland.

But not everyone is qualified to be able to connect with the mainland, Zhou Xingxing needs someone to help connect the bridge.

Zhou Xingxing had inquired about Qi Wei's situation a long time ago, and it seemed that Qi Wei was the "horse boy" that Han Sanping focused on training.

Although Qi Wei is not the best candidate for a bridge, it is indeed a choice in the case of urgent medical treatment.

He wanted to get on the line of Han Sanping through Qi Wei.

　I'm a bit busy at work, the update is a bit late, please forgive me, today is still 1200 words short plus the previous word count, let's make up for it on weekends

　　
　
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