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Chapter 291 Tang Monk’s Flesh in the Eyes of the “Fairy”

"Ah! Heroine? What kind of show?" The sudden surprise made Gao Yuanyuan's eyes shine, and she immediately asked curiously.

Seeing Gao Yuanyuan's appearance, Qi Wei instantly understood what she was thinking.

She wants to act in the drama "Shaolin Soccer".

This is understandable. Even if Hong Kong films have declined in the past, there are still actors from the mainland who are succeeding us, let alone now.

With Zhou Xingxing's popularity in China at this time, his movie will definitely be a big investment and attract much attention. If he can participate in it, it will definitely be of great help to the actor's career.

Even if it's just a vase role, it's the same.

Qi Wei couldn't help laughing, and then handed the script in his hand to Gao Yuanyuan.

"This is the show "Kung Fu Football". If you are interested, you can watch it."

Gao Yuanyuan immediately started reading.

Then Qi Wei asked Zhou Xingxing: "Now that this drama has been reviewed, I don't know when Director Zhou plans to start filming."

"I want to start filming at the end of the year, but there is a high probability that it will have to wait until next year. You also know that our film has a lot of special effects, and the investment will not be too low."

Qi Wei immediately understood the meaning of Zhou Xingxing's words. He wanted to attract investment from himself.

The box office failure of "The King of Comedy", coupled with the fact that Boss Xiang showed his favor to Zhou Xingxing through "The King of Kings", Zhou Xingxing took the benefits without giving any face, which made Hong Kong City's investors afraid and unwilling Invest in Zhou Xingxing.

Zhou Xingxing could only turn his attention to the mainland.

In the mainland, only Qi Wei currently has some friendship with him.

What's more, "Kung Fu Football" itself is a script inspired by Qi Wei.

The last time Qi Wei came to Hong Kong, Zhou Xingxing had discussed investment with him.

But Qi Wei didn't show much interest.

Zhou Xingxing did not give up. He took advantage of this time to come to the mainland to promote "The King of Comedy". Once the "Kung Fu Football" script was reviewed, he came to Qi Wei again.

Still want to persuade Qi Wei to invest.

Zhou Xingxing knew very well that Qi Wei was rich. He had already invested in movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Suspect". He also prepared "Hero" with Lao Mouzi. He invested tens of millions of dollars directly without even looking at it. Blinking.

Moreover, Qi Wei had just finished his concert and had made tens of millions in money, so he was very rich in funds.

This is an excellent big water pipe, no, it is an investor.

Zhou Xingxing knew that Qi Wei was a romantic person. He originally wanted to help Qi Wei find some beautiful girls in Hong Kong, but now he saw that Qi Wei looked doting on Gao Yuanyuan, so he immediately invited Gao Yuanyuan to star in this drama. .

I want to blow the pillow wind through Gao Yuanyuan.

Qi Wei naturally knew Zhou Xingxing's thoughts.

After all, in Zhou Xingxing's movie, he is the only protagonist, and the other characters are just foils, even the heroine.

They are all exchangeable resources.

Qi Wei did not answer Zhou Xingxing's words, but looked at Gao Yuanyuan who was reading the script seriously, and asked her with a smile:

"How's it going? Do you like this show?"

"Yeah." Gao Yuanyuan nodded immediately.

In such a short time, it was impossible for Gao Yuanyuan to read the script and understand what the story of the play was, nor what kind of role the heroine was.

She just wanted to do this play.

"The heroine of this drama will have her head shaved from behind."

"Ah?" Gao Yuanyuan exclaimed.

Not everyone is willing to sacrifice for the role of being ugly, especially Gao Yuanyuan who is in the stage of solid favor, and she is even more unwilling to shave this head of hair.

When she first met Qi Wei, she had short hair that reached her neck, but she finally let it grow longer, but she couldn't bear to let it go.

"Can you not shave your hair?" Gao Yuanyuan asked coquettishly, shaking Qi Wei's arm.

"It depends on Director Zhou." Then Qi Wei asked Zhou Xingxing, "Dr. Zhou, Yuanyuan doesn't want to have a bald head, is this okay?"

With Zhou Xingxing's rigorous attitude towards movies, it would have been impossible in the past, but now he is asking for something, and he has no choice but to agree if he doesn't want to.

"If you don't want to shave your head, can you cut your hair shorter? It will be easier to wear a hood then." Zhou Xingxing replied.

The classmate Zhao from Qi Wei in later generations wore a hood.

"What do you think?" Qi Wei asked Gao Yuanyuan.

"It's okay, it's just that I cut my hair short. Don't dislike me."

"When have I ever disliked you? I also like it when you cut your hair short."

"Hehe." Qi Wei's words made Gao Yuanyuan happy.

Looking at the happy Gao Yuanyuan, Qi Wei also showed a satisfied smile, and then said to Zhou Xingxing:

"Yuanyuan is interested in this drama, then I am also interested in this drama, and I can invest in this drama."

Hearing this, Gao Yuanyuan also reacted.

Dare Zhou Xingxing invite you not because you are excellent, but because you want to attract investment from your boyfriend.

"You didn't invest in this drama because of me, right?" Gao Yuanyuan asked Qi Wei confirmingly.

"Of course, I said I want to be good to you. Whichever movie you want to make, I will invest in that movie." Qi Wei replied with a gentle look.

These words reminded Gao Yuanyuan of "17-Year-Old Bicycle". It was also because she wanted to make this movie that Qi Wei invested in it.

Gao Yuanyuan was immediately moved beyond measure.

"Honey, you are so kind to me."

"This is what I should do."

Then Gao Yuanyuan held Qi Wei's head, put her feet on it and kissed it uncontrollably.

The deep kiss lasted for a while before they broke apart reluctantly.

Zhou Xingxing's face twitched due to the sudden taunting, and then he asked Qi Wei: "I wonder how much Mr. Qi is willing to invest in our drama?"

It will be relatively easy to attract investment from Qi Wei and then attract investment from other places. Of course, Zhou Xingxing still wants to attract as much investment as possible from Qi Wei.

After all, "Kung Fu Football" may be Zhou Xingxing's most expensive film so far, requiring an investment of at least 6000 million.

He didn't want to stoop down and beg others.

Qi Wei replied: "Although the investment in this drama is for Yuanyuan, it is not a trivial matter after all. It may involve tens of millions or even tens of millions of funds, so it is better to be cautious."

Zhou Xingxing nodded, "So what do you mean?"

"I am still very optimistic about this drama, but whether I am optimistic or not depends on the market response. If the response is good, I will naturally be willing to invest more." After Qi Wei paused for a while, he continued: "This is not good for Director Jay Your "King of Comedy" has been released in the Mainland. Let's see how this movie is received in the Mainland first. If the box office is satisfactory, I will definitely be willing to invest more in "Kung Fu Football". Anyway, this movie is about to be released. It’s the end of the year, there’s still time”

"No problem, we will discuss the investment in "Kung Fu Football" after "The King of Comedy" is released." Zhou Xingxing immediately agreed, with a confident smile on his face.

There is a reason why Zhou Xingxing looks confident.

In fact, "The King of Comedy" is not the first movie that Zhou Xingxing was introduced to the mainland for discussion. As early as 94, Zhou Xingxing cooperated with Xi Film Studio to shoot "Westward Journey". As a co-production, "A Chinese Journey to the West" "Journey to the West" was also released in the Mainland.

However, "Westward Journey" failed at the box office in Hong Kong. Even Hong Kong audiences who are accustomed to everything going too far cannot accept this work, but mainland audiences may like it.

When it was first introduced to the mainland, participating mainland distributors were not optimistic about "Westward Journey" and thought it was "too noisy and messy." However, after it was released, as they expected, the audience's response was lukewarm, and many people dropped out midway.

Naturally, the mainland box office was also extremely dismal.

This also makes it difficult for Zhou Xingxing to find suitable partners in the mainland.

The Hong Kong film market and the overseas market are gradually being eroded by Hollywood films, and the mainland market is needed to survive. Zhou Xingxing can only find Qi Wei among all the rogues.

Finally, with the help of Qi Wei, "The King of Comedy" was introduced to the mainland.

However, due to the disastrous failure of "Westward Journey" in the Mainland, Zhou Xingxing is still not sure about the prospects of "The King of Comedy" in the Mainland.

But when Zhou Xingxing came to the mainland to promote "The King of Comedy", the enthusiasm of the mainland audience for the drama was completely beyond his expectation.

Especially the group of college students is very crazy.

The reason is actually very simple.

After the movie "Journey to the West" was released that year, copies were transferred to Nortel for documentation. This kind of "alternative" film is more suitable to bloom in the soil of campus. On the Nortel campus, this film caused quite a stir. discuss.

Since it was confirmed that he would cooperate with Zhou Xingxing to introduce "The King of Comedy" to the mainland, Qi Wei was interested in expanding this discussion. After investing a certain amount of publicity resources, it was quickly distributed from Beijing Film Studio to Tsinghua, Peking University and other schools.

Then there were posts on the Internet dedicated to studying this movie, whether it was the itinerant deconstruction, the dialogue, the meaning expressed in the movie, etc., they were all discussed.

Then Qi Wei found Han Sanping and donated another sum of money to CCTV through his relationship, successfully allowing the film to be released on CCTV 6 Princess Channel, allowing more people to see the film.

It quickly spread, and the reputation of "Westward Journey" immediately took an earth-shaking turn.

After that, many people watched Zhou Xingxing's other movies repeatedly through video tapes, and more and more people became Zhou Xingxing's fans.

In addition, Qi Wei's company invested a few million to promote "The King of Comedy", and the audience naturally looked forward to this film.

"The King of Comedy" is relatively in-depth among Zhou Xingxing's movies and is suitable for repeated viewing.

Therefore, many people go to the cinema to watch this movie.

This also caused a movie-watching frenzy in the early days of the release of "The King of Comedy".

But is this sure to achieve satisfactory box office results?

In Qi Wei's view, the answer is no.

The cheap piracy technology of optical discs has made piracy more and more crazy, which has almost caused a devastating blow to this year's movie market, making this summer's box office unsatisfactory.

This is true even for Hollywood blockbusters such as "Star Wars: The Prequels" and "Surprise".

The box office champion so far this year is "See You or Not Part", which was released during the Lunar New Year period with a box office of more than 4000 million.

Not to mention the 3.6 ​​million box office of last year's "Titanic", even compared to the mainland box office champions in previous years, the box office of "See You or Be Parted" of more than 4000 million is still discounted in half.

"The King of Comedy" has already been pirated within two days of its release. This will cause "The King of Comedy" to have a serious lack of stamina. It is expected that the box office will fall off a cliff one week after its release.

Even if it is released for two months, it will not achieve the desired box office.

Because there is another reason. Piracy will reduce the number of moviegoers and reduce the income of movie theaters. In order to survive, they will even more crazily kill the goose and take the eggs.

The situation of box office theft will also become more and more serious.

Under such circumstances, "The King of Comedy" still wants to achieve good box office results?
There is absolutely no such possibility.

As the distributor of "The King of Comedy" introduced to the mainland, "The King of Comedy" will suffer losses at the box office, but this is the result Qi Wei originally wanted.

It is naturally better to be able to influence the investment negotiations of "Kung Fu Soccer" now.

Not surprisingly, Qi Wei will take more initiative.

Qi Wei and Zhou Xingxing discussed the investment in "Kung Fu Football" in public, and many people in the crew heard it.

Then everyone's behavior became strange.

For example, Wu Ershan, the director of the drama "Meteor Garden", has been working on Qi Wei's first solo album, and he is very clear about the status of Yan Danchen, Gao Yuanyuan and others in Qi Wei's heart.

"In other words, if there is a movie project in the future, as long as any one of them is invited to be the heroine, it will be easy to attract investment." Thinking of this, Wu Ershan smiled proudly.

When Yu Feihong saw Qi Wei doting on Gao Yuanyuan so much, although she felt a little bit disgusted, it made her more certain.

Qi Wei's willingness to invest in "Love Has an Afterlife" is really not an empty talk.

But there is a premise, and we must go further.

Even if he can't achieve the same status as Gao Yuanyuan in Qi Wei's heart, it can't be too far away.

Thinking of this, Yu Feihong couldn't help biting his lip, showing a more complicated expression.

"Are you envious of her?" Wang Jinghua suddenly walked up to Fan Xiaopang and asked her.

Although Fan Xiaopang did not answer, her tense expression and clenched fists showed her inner thoughts at the moment.

Wang Jinghua began to say earnestly:

"To be honest, it is difficult for you to replace her position in Qi Wei's heart. After all, they have known each other for so long and have already established a deep relationship. But you have to understand that this does not mean that you will not get enviable resources."

"I don't know Sister Hua, what do you want me to do?" Fan Xiaopang asked through gritted teeth.

Fan Xiaopang did not answer, but looked at Zuo Xiaoqing and said: "Our company has a project called "Looking for a Gun". This movie stars Jiang Wen. The company has recommended Zuo Xiaoqing to audition, and he will get the role as expected. , you can learn from her”

The meaning was made very obvious, and Fan Xiaopang also understood it.

In the crew of "Meteor Garden", older and more mature women like Zuo Xiaoqing will choose to live in peace with Gao Yuanyuan, and will even try to please Gao Yuanyuan and try to gain her friendship.

But for a young girl like Fan Xiaopang, the city is not deep enough, and jealousy and dislike will be written on her face.

This is not what Qi Wei wants, and it is not conducive to his time management.

As Qi Wei's agent, Wang Jinghua needs to put their minds in perspective and help Qi Wei with time management.

So what Wang Jinghua said was not just for Fan Xiaopang.

Huo Siyan behind her showed a smile of deep understanding.

Wang Jinghua also glanced at Qin Xiaolan who was standing next to Fan Xiaopang.

Qin Xiaolan's eyes also flickered.

There seems to be a struggle in my heart
Naturally, Qi Wei became the meat of Tang Monk in the eyes of many "goblins".

(End of this chapter)