Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 275 Lunar New Year

In fact, Wu Zhuo had thought about finding a professional manager to buy the property himself.

That's what he thought before.

But since Calvin Chen dared to ask his teammates to invest with him, it means that he either found someone familiar or understood the area.

Or he set up his own company.

Wu Zhuo thought it should be the latter.

After making money in the past two years, Calvin Chen has established many different companies.

The same is true here in the mainland.

Therefore, Wu Zhuo felt that it was not impossible to leave it to him.

Anyway, for him, it doesn’t matter who buys it, so he might as well give it to Calvin Chen.

Besides, Calvin Chen doesn’t know nothing.

He has a deep understanding of real estate and can definitely handle it.

As for where to buy a house.

Wu Zhuo himself actually doesn’t know this.

He lived in Beijing for a while in his previous life, but he was extremely poor and had no idea where houses were expensive.

Anyway, his request to Calvin Chen was to try to buy a house in a more prosperous area.

……

Since Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" in 1997, the term "New Year's Eve" has been used in mainland films for ten years.

After going through the trial period and the hot period, New Year films have now entered a stable bidding period. They have long since gotten rid of the simple festivity and enthusiasm at the beginning and transformed into a film with many factions and distinct characteristics.

This year's Lunar New Year box office started on New Year's Day.

With the successive release of Lunar New Year films such as "The Warlords", this year's Lunar New Year period has become a period filled with big names.

First is "Assembly" VS "The Warlords".

One is Feng Xiaogang, the originator of mainland Chinese New Year films.

One is Hong Kong’s box office tycoon Peter Chan.

One is a tear-jerker that describes the tragic fate of small people in wartime, and the other is a blockbuster that features many big-name stars such as Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Xu Jinglei.

The confrontation between the two sides completely kicked off the smokeless battle for the Lunar New Year box office.

Then it’s “CJ7” vs. “Slam Dunk”.

Everyone is familiar with Stephen Chow’s classic lines, and he has almost become a symbol and synonym of a comedy era.

But now, the Stephen Chow who behaved in an exaggerated and bizarre manner just to make people laugh on camera has disappeared.

He has more and more things to say and more emotions to express in front of the camera.

This time, Stephen Chow played with science fiction. The movie "CJ7", which took him three years to make, is Stephen Chow's tribute to Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "ET".

On the surface, this is a science fiction film, but in fact, what Stephen Chow wants to express most is the theme of family and friendship.

In the film, Stephen Chow is a poor grassroots character who makes a living as a laborer, but is repeatedly bullied by the mean foreman Lam Chi Chung.

Although he insisted on sending his son to a prestigious school, his son was bullied and looked down upon at school.

Until one day, Stephen Chow accidentally encountered an alien UFO in a garbage dump, "CJ7", and the fate of the father and son changed from then on.

The movie that competes against it is "Slam Dunk", in which Wu Chao also plays the leading role.

In 2005, Zhu Yanping's low-budget Lunar New Year film "Kill Two Birds with One Stone" was very funny and achieved very good results.

He is full of confidence and is led by some of the largest domestic companies such as Changhong, Shanghai Film Group, and Emperor Entertainment Group.

Jay Chou was invited to play the leading role and 1 million was invested in the production of "Slam Dunk".

Except for the music superstar Jay Chou.

The film also gathers a number of big-name stars such as Charlene Choi, Eric Tsang, Ng Man-tat, Huang Bo, Yan Ni, and Jacky Wu, making the lineup truly amazing.

The film is a concentration of Kung Fu + Basketball. The young Shijie (Jay Chou) grew up in a Kung Fu school. He has mastered Kung Fu and possesses an extraordinary touch. He accidentally shows his magical skill of mid-range shooting and is spotted by Uncle Li (Eric Tsang), who makes a living on the streets and has many clever ideas. Under the pretext of helping Shijie find his relatives, he invites him to play basketball at First University, but in fact he wants to use Shijie to make money.

After joining the team, Shijie didn't expect that the captain Ding Wei's (played by Chen Bolin) sister Lili (played by Cai Zhuoyan) was his long-time crush. From then on, Shijie was eager to attract her attention...

The outside world is still very optimistic about Jay Chou's "Slam Dunk". At the premiere that day, more than 20 reporters from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao came.

The camera flashes kept clicking.

The premiere was held in a theater, and except for a small number of fans who got the chance to enter through lotteries, etc.

Others are mostly industry insiders, including journalists, film critics, fellow directors, actors...

However, most fans were not allowed to enter.

But it did not stop the audience who wanted to see the stars from crowding on both sides of the theater entrance.

It must be said that the arrival of these fans and audiences is really necessary.

Every time a main creator or guest came on stage, they would cheer enthusiastically.

"Oh my god! It seems to be Wu Zhuo?"

At 10:40, a black car drove slowly over, and all the spectators and reporters immediately looked over there to see who had arrived.

As soon as Wu Zhuo got out of the car, the scene suddenly exploded.

First, the fans on both sides screamed loudly.

"Ahh...Wu Zhuo!"

"It's Wu Zhuo..."

Following closely behind were the journalists and media who came to attend the premiere.

The reporters who were originally surrounding the crew's creator Chen Bolin who had just arrived, were shocked when they saw Wu Chao.

They all immediately left Chen Bolin behind and rushed towards Wu Zhuo.

"I am honored..."

Chen Bolin was planning to talk about his feelings about joining the crew.

When I looked up, I found that all the reporters in front of me had run away.

The person disappeared in the middle of the conversation.

This made him a little embarrassed.

"You just have to get used to this kind of thing, the media always likes to chase after big stars.

Hey! That’s the big star!”

Jay Chou's mentor Wu Zongxian, who has not yet fallen out with him, smiled and patted Chen Bolin on the shoulder.

Chen Bolin nodded dejectedly.

Turned to look at Wu Zhuo.

It doesn't matter if you don't watch.

This sight gave him a fright.

Fans and reporters from both sides rushed towards Wu Chao.

The scene looked like a flood, with the water flowing downstream.

“I’ve been in the industry for so many years, and I’ve only seen two artists who became famous as quickly as Wu Zhuo.

One is Aaron Kwok and the other is Jimmy Lin.

In fact, to a certain extent, Wu Chao surpassed them.

After their first album was released, the quality of subsequent albums was not as good as the first one, so the growth rate of popularity slowed down after a period of time.

Wu Zhuo is different. His two consecutive albums have been big hits.

And it has achieved great success internationally.

As a result of the counter-killing, he became a well-known and popular figure among almost everyone. "

Wu Zongxian was chattering non-stop beside him.

Chen Bolin glanced at him, wanting to ask why Jay Chou was not there.

But when he thought about the recent relationship between the two, he shut up again.

(End of this chapter)