Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 307 Qiang Qiang Threesome

Meeting with Johnnie To?

Zhang Chen still has some expectations.

Lao Du was his favorite director in his previous life. Being able to meet him in person in this life was a dream come true.

Moreover, in terms of film techniques alone, Lao Du is quite capable, and Zhang Chen highly respects him.

No matter what this guy shoots, the angles are always weird.

The killers he filmed are different from other killers, and the thieves he filmed are also different from other thieves. He also likes to play with fatalism, making people feel that he is unfathomable.

Seeing that Zhang Chen had no objection, Boss Yang agreed to arrange a meeting for them.

Starting from the next day, Zhang Chen followed Liang Jiahui and began to travel between various cinemas in Hong Kong to promote "Taken".

Hong Kong people are fans, but they are not particularly fanatical.

After all, the place is too small and we bump into them often.

You can meet them while shopping, while eating, and even while going to the vegetable market.

So in Hong Kong, these people are called artistes, not stars.

It's simply a profession.

Bai Gu has been popular for a long time, but even when he was at his most popular, the box office of his movies was only over 2000 million.

It is unrealistic to expect Liang Jiahui to attract many people into the cinema. His acting skills are good and he is also a movie emperor, but his appeal is just that.

The one who can really boost the box office is Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen’s previous films have performed very well at the box office in Hong Kong and he has accumulated a number of fans.

All of Hong Kong's big directors have made bad movies, but Zhang Chen has not yet.

Every one of his works is a conscientious work, so movie fans trust him very much.

Hong Kong has a total of seven cinema chains and 306 screens, but now is not the worst time. By 2024, there will be less than 60 cinemas left and the number of screens will drop sharply to 282.

Therefore, it is doomed that the box office in Hong Kong will not be high. It is completely incomparable with the domestic box office which easily breaks 300 million or even tens of billions or even hundreds of billions. After all, the entire city has only million people in total.

For "Taken", we have already negotiated with all seven cinema chains.

This means that "Taken" will be shown in every cinema in Hong Kong.

Even the Broadway theaters, which had a bad relationship with them, were not spared.

Broadway Cinemas is an industry of Enlightenment Films. Enlightenment Films and Star Entertainment do not get along well, but this does not affect the screening of their rival films.

If you don't release such a popular movie and other theaters release it, then the audience will not choose your theater. In the long run, the theater cannot afford the loss.

In Hong Kong, cinema owners are basically the producers. If the producer is not the cinema owner, it is easy to be blocked when the film is released.

Emperor Entertainment Group has its own cinema chain, and Golden Harvest also has its own cinema chain.

This is similar to the mainland.

The mainland is also following this process. Huayi Brothers is a producer involved in cinema chains, while Wanda is setting up production and distribution for cinema chains.

Even Zhang Chen himself had this idea, otherwise why would he instigate those coal bosses his father knew to open cinemas? When he got the cinema chain license, those cinemas would join him, and his cinema chain would be able to gain momentum immediately.

The two of them visited all six Golden Harvest cinema chains in one day. Golden Harvest cinema chain is considered to be one of the largest in Hong Kong.

"Are you tired?" Florence Hui accompanied him throughout the past two days.

"It's OK. By the way, Ms. Huo, it's more convenient to buy things in Hong Kong. I want to buy some gifts for my family and bring them back..."

"Oh, that's easy. Let's go to Wan Chai. There are many shopping malls there. You can buy whatever you want. It's time for dinner too, so let's go there for dinner."

Florence Hui drove and the three of them arrived in Causeway Bay.

"This is Causeway Bay. Do you think we should eat first or go shopping?"

"Causeway Bay?" Zhang Chen heard this familiar name.

There is basically no boy of his age in the mainland who doesn’t know Causeway Bay, Chen Haonan’s territory.

Chen Haonan is known as the boss of Causeway Bay, which sounds impressive, but he has always been curious about what Causeway Bay is like.

"Well, let's go shopping first. We can try some delicious food..."

"Okay, if you want to try traditional Hong Kong food, there's a Xinji Cart Noodles restaurant not far away. It's an authentic old brand..."

In Hong Kong, "Ji" generally represents family inheritance. Xin Ji Cart Noodles is probably the noodle shop passed down by a family with the surname Xin.

Zhang Chen was interested in food and other things as well, and he pulled the two of them to ask questions.

Is this place prosperous?

Of course it is prosperous.

But it is different from the mainland. Hong Kong is small, land is precious, and the area here is calculated by feet.

This has resulted in the shops in Hong Kong being small, yet densely packed yet well-organized.

Especially neon lights and signs, which don’t pay attention to aesthetics at all, the main purpose is to make people see them.

They are all colorful, especially at night, competing with each other in beauty. Although it is messy, it creates a beauty unique to Hong Kong.

Hearing that Zhang Chen wanted to take a walk in Causeway Bay, the two parked the car and accompanied him for a walk.

Strictly speaking, this was Zhang Chen's second time here. The first time was when he was promoting "The Shallows". He and Fan Xiaopang passed by in a car, but it was daytime and they did not stop.

Now that I am standing here on solid ground, I feel a little excited.

There can only be one Ho Nam in Causeway Bay, and that is me, Situ Ho Nam.

Hahaha~
If he shouted this line out loud at this time, he would definitely be regarded as a fool by the people around him.

But that's youth, isn't it?

But it didn't take long for Zhang Chen to be disappointed.

After taking a look around, he realized that the entire Causeway Bay was only about one square kilometer. This disappointed Zhang Chen greatly. It turned out that the territory controlled by Chen Haonan was about the size of a small community in the mainland.

This……

The gap between reality and ideal was too big for Zhang Chen to accept for a while.

It is said that the Bowl Lane controlled by Thirteenth Sister is even smaller. Suddenly, Zhang Chen felt that Hongxing was quite low.

……

The next day, Zhang Chen came to Phoenix TV.

I agreed to record an episode of "锵锵三人行" with Dou Wentao, which can also be regarded as a promotion for "Taken" at the same time.

It was still the familiar small round table, and still the familiar people. Zhang Chen greeted the two of them happily.

Dou Wentao and Liang Wendao were still dressed like elites. The three of them sat around three chairs at a small round table and chatted over tea.

It's still the same as before, there are no fixed topics or scripts, everyone just talks about whatever they think of.

This Zhang Chen is familiar.

In Taiyuan, the locals call this "撇B 坎蛋".

This time, "Three's Journey" is still a recorded broadcast, but the cycle is very short. It will be recorded today and broadcast tomorrow. This is why Zhang Chen agreed to come once. Otherwise, if you broadcast it a week later, "Taken" would have lost its popularity long ago.

Liang Wendao: "Are you here specifically to promote the movie this time?"

Zhang Chen: "Not really. Our company's new film "Kowloon Walled City" is going to be filmed in Hong Kong, so I just came along."

"Oh, I know "Kowloon Walled City". The one you used to slap Hong Jinbao in the face?"

"Haha, that's right."

"Can you tell me about the feud between you and Hong Jinbao?" The selling point of a show like "Threesome" is all kinds of gossip, so they dare to talk about anything.

Zhang Chen shrugged nonchalantly. “It’s nothing serious, actually. It’s just that during the filming of Taken, we had some disagreements over the action style. Hong Jinbao thought I was disobedient, so he withdrew with his people…”

"and after?"

"Later, I found another expert. As a result, everyone knows that Taken is considered a work that redefined action movies. In addition to the gunfights, the action scenes also played an important role..."

"Master? Very good?"

Zhang Chen nodded.

"How powerful?"

Zhang Chen thought for a moment, as if organizing his words: "Probably at the level of Billy Chow. It may not be accurate, but he is very strong in actual combat~"

Ruyan is a martial artist who studies the traditional martial art of Pencak Silat. He does not participate in the competition because he is a coach and referee, which does not allow him to participate in the competition.

As for actual combat, he has served in the Indonesian Marine Corps Military Police and joined the Secret Service to protect the president. He is considered an expert in Indonesia's internal affairs.

Having served in the Marine Corps and being a master in the Imperial Palace, it is impossible for him not to have strong combat capabilities.

"So you're clamoring to compete with SPL?"

"That's not just shouting. Isn't it that Hong Jinbao wanted to compete with me by making 'SPL'? I know that they originally scheduled it to be released in October. I don't know why they moved the release date."

What Zhang Chen said was true. The release date of "SPL" has really been changed.

Wong Pak-ko is not stupid. The popularity of "Taken" is at its peak, and there is no need for "SPL" to compete head-on with him.

Although hyping up the feud between Hong Jinbao and Zhang Chen can bring a wave of traffic to the movie, the greater possibility is that it will be completely defeated.

Therefore, Wong Pak-ko wisely withdrew the film from the schedule and immediately moved it to February next year, which is exactly the date when "Kowloon Walled City" is scheduled to be released.

(End of this chapter)