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Chapter 52: Kung Fu also needs viral marketing [ask for monthly votes! ]

Time flies, it's March 3.

Inside a police station in Hong Kong Island, the scene being filmed today is about Xu Guanjie, a former superstar and singer, who was murdered and his body abandoned, causing a sensation in the news.

Young woman Zhang Min brought her seldom-biological daughter Yang Mi to the police station to take a statement and confirm her testimony. Sound engineer Liang Jiahui was also there to confirm the testimony.

Jiang Wen and Ding Haifeng are responsible for the process.

This is Yang Mi's first appearance. She is ranked sixth among the sound engineers, but she is only given a few minutes of screen time in the whole film. Originally, everyone was quite worried about this little girl, fearing that she would be too lame.

When we started filming, the first take was a disaster because Yang Mi was holding us back.

After Li Wenyu called a cut and took a break, he smiled and said, "Not bad, your performance was quite lively. It's normal that you were frightened by Brother Wen's eyes and didn't catch the scene."

"Take a good ten minutes to calm your mind, and then try again."

Yang Mi, who has not started the "nose surgery, tooth extraction and braces" operation, is okay. She does not have the evolved version of sexiness in terms of aesthetics, but she has not yet entered the Beijing Film Academy to study.

After immersing yourself in the preparation for a month and a half, even if you shoot a dozen retakes in a row, it will be enough as long as you can contribute wonderful acting skills.

Yang Mi hurriedly stood up and apologized to Li Wenyu, Liang Jiahui, Jiang Wen, and Zhang Min.

Li Wenyu smiled and gestured to his assistant to bring tea or fruit to everyone. "Don't be nervous. Bingbing was filming The Shallows, there was a scene with a floating buoy tower on the water."

"She practiced over 20 times in the swimming pool and another times in the sea before she finished filming. I have high expectations for you, Yang Mi. If a scene can pass within takes, that's good news."

Having said that, he looked at Liang Jiahui and Jiang Wen with a smile.

The two movie stars were speechless, and Zhang Min was also laughing. No matter whether they filmed it ten times or twenty times, it was torture for them, but they couldn't do anything with a 16-year-old girl.

It's still a girl who hasn't received formal training.

Yang Mi herself was both embarrassed and giggling. She apologized and thanked again, including expressing her gratitude to her good boss and a group of seniors for their tolerance towards her.

Li Wenyu continued, "Whether you think positively or are happy and excited, the goal for the Sound Tuner project is to reach 1.5 million RMB at the box office during the summer."

"Even if this movie doesn't win any awards, it will still have a good reputation among movie fans and has a certain chance of winning an award."

"If you act well, this will be your masterpiece. Go and rest up and prepare for the performance."

Yang Mi apologized to everyone again and ran to prepare for the performance. Zhang Min also walked over to explain the scene to her.

Jiang Wen was about to say something when a low voice was heard outside the police station office not far away, and everyone was calling Stephen Chow.

Li Wenyu and others looked over and saw Zhou Xingchi and two staff members entering the filming area and handing out gifts to the crowd. He greeted them from a distance of more than ten meters and strode over.

"Ayu, the script for my new film Kung Fu is 90% complete and we can start filming anytime. Is Bingbing not so thin anymore?"

"But it doesn't matter. She said she's the female lead and won't have that many scenes. We can wait and focus on filming her scenes."

No wonder they are so excited!
Li Wenyu was amused. "That's easy. Bingbing is naturally gifted at losing weight. She can gain or lose weight as she pleases. She doesn't have to suffer like other women for her figure."

"Shall we go talk outside?"

The original Kung Fu script took a year to write, but the filming period was only over three months.

The rest is a year of post-production, and there are also some suspensions due to Hong Yubao's strike, and then waiting for a good schedule, and it will be released one after another.

Is this the production process for a good movie? Normal.

He first discussed cooperation with Zhou Xingchi in early December last year. More than four months have passed, so it is normal to accelerate the completion of the script.

The two of them arrived at the corridor of the police station building, and there were no outsiders around.

Li Wenyu smiled and said, "I won't say much about the planning of another hit. The summer season will kick off, that is, from this summer to next summer, the movies that can follow the trend will get the most and make the most money." "The closer you follow the trend, the more money you will make."

"If the Kung Fu script is out and filming starts in April, wouldn't it be difficult to release it around the end of the year, around the Spring Festival?"

Zhou Xingchi nodded, "I've talked to Columbia, and they say it'll take a year to get the best special effects, unless they pay more. But a year of production can still guarantee a 2003 summer release."

How long special effects take is not necessarily related to whether or not to pay extra.

The most popular special effects in the 00s, such as 3D IMAX, were not enough equipment and professionals, and there was no place to add extra money.

But for special effects like Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu, you can speed up the process by paying more money.

Li Wenyu thought about it and said, "Then I can only offer a suggestion. You should decide for yourself whether to accelerate or not. Director Zhang's Hero should be released in December, similar to the long theatrical period of The Shallows."

"He can reap the benefits of another hit, and he can also try his hand at kung fu like a big star. The box office potential around the Spring Festival holiday is huge, and that period will definitely accumulate more than next year's summer box office."

"But if we increase the price of special effects too much, we will also lose money. We producers only get more than 30% of the box office."

Zhou Xingchi felt a bit of a headache. "I'll seriously consider it and have the accounting department carefully calculate and weigh it. What about publicity and promotion?"

He was very curious about what new tricks there would be after the mysterious digital viral marketing, Asia's Most Beautiful Face beauty pageant, one more vote and other bizarre and surging promotion and ticket sales methods.

Li Wenyu didn't hide it anymore. Before this, Pang Bing had played the female lead in Kung Fu and had signed a contract that paid her 5% of her salary. He also signed a contract that allowed him to receive 2003% of the box office profits. Of course, he was most interested in the 05 Kung Fu hit and whether Stephen Chow would release Kung Fu II in .

Pang Bing’s salary for the Kung Fu film is 600 million Hong Kong dollars!
Is it high? Zhang Manyu was paid 1500 million for a heroic film, and in 04 she received 200 million US dollars for a Western film.

Gong Li made $05 million for filming Miami Vice in 500, and only earned a small fortune when she took on a movie in mainland China.

Pang Bing's film The Shallows at least made his salary, advertising, and endorsements soar.

Li Wenyu also plans to wait until this year, when Jiang Wen’s ex-girlfriend is imprisoned, and then take Pang Bing to visit her in prison. He must give her a close warning!

He smoked a cigarette and muttered, "Three or four months before the release, arrange for the two parts of A Chinese Odyssey to be re-screened in mainland China. Don't advertise them, just try to get a box office of one or two million."

"Then the whole network gradually spread the news that not only did "A Chinese Odyssey" bring down a company, but the re-release was also a loss-making operation. Someone then took the lead and organized a group of online trolls, saying that all "A Chinese Odyssey" fans owed you a ticket. It was like a self-organized fan group."

"Leave the internet propaganda and promotion to me. Just pay me."

The two-part "A Chinese Odyssey" series became legendary and became classics for countless mainland movie fans, reaching its peak around the turn of the millennium.

If you announce the re-screening like a viral marketing, maybe you can really get the current box office of 10 or 20 million each.

But what everyone lacks is not the 10 or 20 million less than the big names!
It is to awaken the people's nostalgia for the two parts of The Legend of Mir 2 at its peak.

It suffered huge losses back then, and the re-release of "A Chinese Odyssey" is another failure?
This shouldn't be the case. How come I didn't know about the re-screening? The water army took the lead in doing a good job. The feelings, youth and passion of owing Ah Xing a movie ticket will all be given back to Kung Fu.

It is certain to surpass the hero's 2.5 million!

If that happens, the performance of the mainland voting base will also be exposed.

It's ok that there are Hollywood blockbusters that make over 2001 million every year, but from 2003 to , consecutive movies like The Shallows, The Piano Tuner, Hero, and Kung Fu Hustle all had box office revenues of million to million, or to million?

These movies deserve another huge box office hit.

This will be a brand new butterfly effect!
The only one who was excited was the owner of a cinema, who hurried to open a branch.

Capital invested directly to open ten or twenty chain stores, and they would spread like wildfire like Internet cafes. Once they spread like wildfire during the summer vacation of 2003, it is possible that the revenue would exceed 4 million in no time.

(ps: It will be off the new book list soon, please vote for me in the last few days~)

(End of this chapter)