Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 220 Huang Baiming's helplessness
When Wu Chao was holding a press conference, Donnie Yen was also watching TV.

When Donnie Yen heard that Wu Zhuo directly called out to Wong Jing and wanted to play "Ip Man", he was almost furious.

"That bastard! Who does he think he is!"

Oriental Films has already started planning for the film Ip Man. Although filming may not begin until next year, they have already started looking for the actor to play the main role of Ip Man.

Donnie Yen is currently negotiating with Wong Jing for this role.

And he really couldn't stand the fact that Wu Zhuo was now so blatantly snatching roles.

But he had no choice.

Because he was the one who targeted Wu Zhuo first.

It is only natural for Wu Zhuo to fight back against him now.

"Do you think that Oriental Films will really choose him?"

After his anger, Donnie Yen looked at Cecilia Wang with some lack of confidence.

Although he now hates Wu Zhuo after having a conflict with him, he wishes he could never see Wu Zhuo again in this circle.

But even as an enemy, Donnie Yen has to admit that this bastard Wu Chao is really popular.

Let’s not talk about other places, just Hong Kong.

As soon as he went out, he could see Wu Zhuo's billboard.

His singing voice can be heard in the streets at any time.

Considering Wu Chao's even greater popularity in mainland China and Taiwan as well as the Japanese and Korean markets, if investors really had to make a choice, I'm afraid many people would choose Wu Chao.

For him, his only advantage is that he has collaborated with Oriental films several times.

The director of "Ip Man" chosen by Oriental Films was Ye Weixin, with whom he had previously worked in "SPL" and "Fist of Fury".

The relationship between the two is very good.

The previous choice for the director of the drama "Painted Skin" was Wilson Yip.

That’s why Donnie Yen was confirmed to star in the film right away.

At that time, Wilson Yip also promised to let Donnie Yen play the leading role.

As a result, who would have thought that Ye Weixin would be replaced.

He was replaced by Gordon Chan, whom he was not very familiar with.

"I can't say for sure."

Cecilia Wang was not sure what choice Wong Jing would make.

After all, Wu Zhuo is too popular.

High popularity will naturally be more beneficial to the box office.

Capital is profit-seeking.

Wong Jing does get along well with Donnie Yen, and they had very good chats in the previous few times.

But when it comes to interests, Wong Jing may not necessarily hold on to Donnie Yen.

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"Mr. Huang, this is today's newspaper!"

Oriental Films, after Wong Jing arrived at the company, his assistant brought him today's newspaper.

"Put it on the table!"

Wong Jing was frowning as he flipped through the project plan for "Ip Man".

At the beginning of the century, the mainland film market began to explode.

A large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan film companies have set their sights here, hoping to get a piece of the pie.

The same is true for Wong Jing.

So, in 2005, he invited Tsui Hark to shoot "Seven Swords" and began to test the waters in the mainland.

Unexpectedly, this attempt actually earned 8000 million at the box office! This is 10 times the box office in Hong Kong!
This made him overjoyed and he planned to fully enter the mainland market!

Thus, after more than a year of preparation, the script of "Ip Man" was born.

However, when it comes to movies, in addition to a good script, the choice of the protagonist is also of paramount importance.

Speaking of Kung Fu movies, Wong Jing naturally would not miss the famous Kung Fu Emperor Jet Li.

Jet Li's "The Warlords" was a huge hit across the country, and his salary alone reached 1500 million US dollars, or 1 million RMB!
Wong Jing naturally knew Jet Li's worth, but he still went to find him with a fluke mentality.

Finally, Jet Li said, "I'm fine with the role, the pay is 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

Wong Jing said he couldn't afford it.

So he thought of Jackie Chan again.

After all, the investment in this movie is only hundreds of millions. How can Jet Li shoot it if he wants 1 million alone?
Soon, Wong Jing thought of Jackie Chan and found him.

Unexpectedly, Jackie Chan also wanted 8000 million yuan plus dividends. Huang Baiming also said that he was powerless to do anything about this.

It was not until he could no longer invite the two most popular big-name movie stars that Wong Jing shifted his focus to the next level.

Then the focus was on Donnie Yen, with whom he had previously collaborated in "Fist of Fury" and "SPL".

After the contact, it turned out that the salary Donnie Yen asked for was indeed not much, only three million.

But...

Although this low pay has advantages, it also has disadvantages.

Low pay basically means no appeal.

Donnie Yen's three million salary just hits the mark of having some appeal, but not much.

Wong Jing is now very hesitant as to whether he should use Donnie Yen.

He had sent people to investigate in mainland China before.

I found that Donnie Yen is already very famous in Hong Kong.

But in mainland China, many people don’t even know him.

He was really worried that the final box office would not be satisfactory if he let an actor who was unknown to the audience take the leading role.

The previous Seven Swords had a pretty big lineup.

Leon Lai was invited at that time. At that time, the influence of the Four Heavenly Kings was still there and his appeal was very impressive.

And Donnie Yen.

Although he also starred in Seven Swords, it has also had good box office results in Hong Kong in recent years.

But they failed to achieve good box office in mainland China.

And the public awareness is much worse. Even worse than some TV actors
This is actually a common situation at present.

Although the status of TV actors is not as high as that of movie actors.

But one advantage of TV series is that it is easier to gain popularity.

A TV series with high ratings is enough to make people all over the country remember you.

But movies can't do that.

No matter how high the box office is, the number of viewers is not as much as that of a TV series.

Of course, the prevalence of DVD piracy in recent years has, to a certain extent, accelerated the growth rate of movie actors’ fame.

But it's still not as good as the TV series.

Now, this is the situation that Wong Jing is facing.

Donnie Yen’s salary is low and he really wants to use him, but he is worried about the other party’s appeal.

He has been planning the "Ip Man" project for more than two years and it will start filming next year with an investment budget of up to 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

It is an absolutely large project.

If Donnie Yen can't hold on, he might even lose his pants.

"Alas, it seems that we can only take one step at a time!"

Putting down the plan, Wong Jing opened the newspaper next to him and planned to read the latest current affairs.

He heard that Donnie Yen was in trouble these days.

It could turn into a scandal.

He needs to understand the situation so that he can judge his reputation.

If Donnie Yen's reputation is ruined, he may choose to replace him and choose other actors.

"Wu Chao called out to Wong Jing from afar, saying he wanted to play the role of Ip Man!" - New Era Entertainment.

"Wu Chao sued Donnie Yen, and Donnie Yen got into big trouble." - Min Bao.

Of the two reports, the first one attracted Wong Jing.

"Wu Zhuo wants to play Ip Man?"

Wong Jing's eyes lit up.

Although Wong Jing has never met Wu Chao.

But I've heard a lot about him in the past two years.

Especially recently.

I heard that he has successfully entered the Japanese and Korean markets and has a large number of fans in both countries.

His record sales in the country are also catching up with Jay Chou.

In fact, Jay Chou is not as good as him in some aspects.

(End of this chapter)