1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 124 Film appointments continue, Yang Guo and Linghu Chong!
There is a saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the movie "Dead Grass" is made in a vulgar and heavy taste, it still wins the fans' praise because of Zhou Xingchi's famous brand.

In the first week of its release, "Dead Grass" earned more than 200 million box office every day, and "God of Gamblers 3" also maintained a single-day box office of more than 200 million.

Entering the second week, the single-day box office of "God of Gamblers 3" and "Deadly Grass" both dropped significantly, falling below 200 million for two or three days. The competition between these two films can be said to be evenly matched. Win or lose.

On the 10th day of its release, the total box office of "God of Gamblers 3" exceeded 1520 million, and the total box office of "Dead Grass" was 1630 million, making them one of the top ten films of the year.

At this time, Xiangjiang movies have passed the golden period, and they are in a year when the box office is declining rapidly. Basically, if a movie can get 1500 million box office, it can be locked in the top ten of the year.

Therefore, the box office of the movie "God of Gamblers 3" is already very good in terms of the Xiangjiang film industry at this time.

Seeing that "God of Gamblers 3" was selling so well, Wang Jing, who is a film maker and director, once again invited Jiang Xiaofeng to cooperate.

Wang Jing was also very generous, and directly offered Jiang Xiaofeng a salary contract of 2 million yuan for two films, with an average of 600 million yuan for one film.

The salary of 300 million yuan for a film, in today's Xiangjiang film industry, is second only to the [-]% on Mondays, and Li Lianjie is about the same as Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau.

Jiang Xiaofeng was not overwhelmed by the 300 million yuan salary for a film, but told Wang Jing very bluntly: "Director, I personally respect your director level."

"But you also know that when I accept a movie, besides the director, I have to read the script before I can decide whether to accept it or not. I hope you can understand."

Wang Jing also knew that Jiang Xiaofeng was not short of money, and he didn't want to be consumed by bad movies, so he said, "Okay, then I'll talk to you about cooperation when I have a good script."

Jiang Xiaofeng nodded with a smile: "Good director, as long as your script is ok and I have another schedule, then I will definitely accept it."

Obviously, for Jiang Xiaofeng nowadays, it takes at least a month to make a movie. If it's a bad movie, it's better not to make a movie, let alone 300 million a movie, it's 500 million a movie, he It doesn't matter, and I don't feel distressed.

The reason is very simple, if Jiang Xiaofeng wants to make a lot of money, he doesn't need to film at all, just like Zhang Xueyou, he just needs to hold a concert tour every year.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaofeng's current concert fee is between 200 million and 300 million. After splitting it with manager Chen Jiaying, a concert can earn at least 140 million.

500?That is, the remuneration for two or three concerts, two or three nights. Jiang Xiaofeng is not making movies for money. He really wants to make movies that he likes and that the audience likes.

In other words, Jiang Xiaofeng doesn't want to make bad movies, but wants to make movies above the pass line, preferably high-quality movies that are popular and well-received.

Just like Jiang Xiaofeng's copying of songs, all of them are high-quality and aesthetic online hits, and basically seldom copy vulgar and low-quality saliva songs.

Even if Jiang Xiaofeng knew it would be popular, Jiang Xiaofeng would not copy such vulgar and vulgar songs as "Mice Love Rice", "1 Reasons", and "Two Butterflies", because they are too low.

Therefore, the most important thing for Jiang Xiaofeng to accept a movie now is to read the script. If the script is too bad, nothing will work.

For example, Zhou Xingchi's "Dead Grass" is rotten because of the plot. After all, the script is not good, so no matter how good the actors are, they can't save the show.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the starring role of Zhou Xingchi, many viewers would not have watched it.

The plot of this movie is also really boring. In the process of vindicating grievances, there is no suspense or climax. Compared with "Nine Pins of Sesame Official", it has no appeal to the audience at all.

Besides the characters in the film, the characters played by Qiu Shuzhen have no characteristics, and the performance looks very awkward. This role is really not suitable for her. The audience still prefers to play in "The Deer and Ding Tale", "Tricky Expert" and "God of Gamblers 2". In the movie, she has both sexy charm and lovely liveliness.

Of course, as a loyal fan of Qiu Shuzhen, Jiang Xiaofeng still prefers her performances in "The Secret Life of Empress Dowager Cixi" and "The Strange Case of Xiangjiang...".

September 7, evening.

Under the leadership of director Wang Jing, Jiang Xiaofeng, Gigi Leung, Chen Xiaochun and other actors arrived in Ximending, Taibei to promote the movie "God of Gamblers 3: The Young God of Gamblers".

In fact, for a long time, apart from Xiangjiang mainland and some Southeast Asian countries, the largest ticket warehouse for Xiangjiang movies has been Taiwan Province.

In 1992, the movie theater market in Taiwan ushered in the peak year for Hong Kong movies. For the first time and only time in history, it monopolized the top six box office in Taiwan.

In the end, Chenglong's "Super Cop" beat the crowd with thunderous momentum, broke the record again and won the championship of Taiwan;
In the duel between Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie, he took the lead by half a position and kept No.2. It is a pity that Li Lianjie's classic movie "Invincible in the East" can only be ranked third. It is worth mentioning that Brigitte Lin also has three films in the top ten. , very powerful.

However, after 1993, the Hollywood special effects blockbuster "Jurassic Park" broke Taipei's record with a box office of 2.2 million, announcing that the Taibei market had entered the era of Hollywood blockbusters from the era of Hong Kong films.

So far, Xiangjiang Films, known as the Hollywood of the East, has completely lost the Asian market established in the past 50 years in only 5 years, which is really regrettable.

Although Jackie Chan's "City Hunter" beat Zhou Xingchi, Ford, Stallone, Li Lianjie and other superstars to win No.2, the box office was less than half of "Jurassic Park", which was unprecedented.

Zhou Xingchi's "Su Qier" once again beat Li Lianjie's "Fang Shiyu" and kept No.4. However, Li Lianjie has the advantage in quantity. The box office of the four films has exceeded 6000 million, and the cumulative amount has reached 2.8 million Taiwan dollars. The momentum is very strong. The former Taipei former Ten's regulars Andy Lau and Chow Yun Fat have disappeared.

However, after 1993 and 1994, the box office of Hong Kong-produced films in Taiwan basically failed, and Hollywood films were suppressed every year.

Even if it is the top ten of Hong Kong films, it is basically outside the bottom ten of all box office, and Chenglong can still squeeze into the top ten of Taiwan's box office list with difficulty.

And Wang Jing led Jiang Xiaofeng and others to Taiwan Province to promote the film this time, and he didn't have much ambition. He just thought about the movie "God of Gamblers 3: The Young God of Gamblers", since it was released in Taiwan Province, let's promote it , How much more can be fished.

Fortunately, the movie "God of Gamblers 3: Young God of Gamblers" did well at the box office in Taiwan. It took in 3000 million Taiwan dollars in just ten days of its release, or 700 million in Hong Kong dollars.

Jiang Xiaofeng's popularity in Taiwan did not disappoint the director Wang Jing, because no matter where Jiang Xiaofeng went to promote, he could see a group of loyal fans shouting "Feng Zi" at the event site, and there was nothing wrong with it. Shy and cover up.

The visits to Taiwan by Jiang Xiaofeng, Gigi Leung, Chen Xiaochun, Liang Yongyi and others also stimulated the box office of the movie "God of Gamblers 3: Young God of Gamblers" in Taiwan to a certain extent.

During the two or three days in Taibei, several TV stations and film and television companies wanted to talk to Jiang Xiaofeng about cooperation, some for making movies and some for making TV series.

TV dramas are mainly martial arts dramas, such as "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "Swordsman" and other dramas.

As a fan of Jin Yong's martial arts, Jiang Xiaofeng definitely wants to act in Jin Yong's martial arts dramas, but when I heard that the little dragon girl in this version of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" was played by Wu Qianlian, the little dragon girl in black clothes appeared in my mind, without even thinking about it , I found an excuse to decline.

For this version of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", what impressed Jiang Xiaofeng the most was not the little dragon girl played by Wu Qianlian, but Li Mochou played by Chen Hong.

As the heroine candidate for the drama "Swordsman", Taiwan's Huaguo TV Company took a fancy to Yuan Anita in the movie "God of Gamblers 3: The Young God of Gamblers".

They all felt that the collaboration between Jiang Xiaofeng and Yuan Anita in the movie "God of Gamblers 3: The Young God of Gamblers" was very CP-like, and they wanted Jiang Xiaofeng to play Linghu Chong and Yuan Anita to play Ren Yingying...

Jiang Xiaofeng was not interested in this at all, so he politely declined the other party's play appointment.

As for film invitations, there was basically no reliable one, not even a script, and these film companies came to him on their own initiative, purely because of his popularity and popularity in Taiwan Province.

Fortunately, Jiang Xiaofeng also has a backer in Taiwan Province, that is, Qiu Likuan, known as "Sister Kuan", because of the instructions of his manager Chen Jiaying, basically every time Jiang Xiaofeng comes to Taiwan Province, Jiang Xiaofeng will bring gifts and visit each other in person.

Not only Jiang Xiaofeng was like this, Wang Fei and Na Ying also had a very good relationship with "Sister Kuan" Qiu Likuan. The two of them and Jiang Xiaofeng were able to get along well in Taiwan Province mainly because of her escort.

The insiders in Taiwan Province knew that Jiang Xiaofeng was under the cover of "Sister Kuan", so naturally they wouldn't make things difficult for Jiang Xiaofeng.

After finishing the promotional work of "God of Gamblers 3: The Young God of Gamblers" in Taiwan, Jiang Xiaofeng returned to Xiangjiang, had dinner with her manager Chen Jiaying, said goodbye to her, and chatted about the work arrangements for the second half of the year.

After two or three years of development, Chen Jiaying felt that the time was ripe and planned to hold a world tour concert for Jiang Xiaofeng.

Chen Jiaying has always felt that Jiang Xiaofeng, as the king of singers, should hold at least one round of world tour concerts just like the "God of Songs" Zhang Xueyou, so as not to be trapped in a disadvantage.

Jiang Xiaofeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Sister Katie, my Cantonese album for this year hasn't been released yet, where is the time to hold a tour, or a world tour..."

Chen Jiaying replied with a smile: "Don't worry about this, I will definitely give you time to create, I want to ask you now, do you want to hold a world tour concert?"

"What do you say now, you are also the king of singers in the eyes of the media and fans. If you haven't even held a world tour concert, won't you be insulting this name?"

"Zhang Xueyou, who is at the same level as you, has held two world tour concerts, and you haven't even had one. Are you really willing to be overwhelmed forever?"

Jiang Xiaofeng has never been very interested in holding a world tour concert, mainly because he feels that the form is greater than the meaning.

It is said to be a world tour concert, but in fact it is not much different from a national tour or an Asian tour, because the people who listen to his songs are all Chinese and Chinese.

However, after Chen Jiaying talked with him this time, Jiang Xiaofeng was also hesitating whether he really wanted to hold a world tour.

(End of this chapter)