Chapter 2267 The King of Hong Kong Commercial Films
Returning to Li Shaozhi's villa, Xiao Qi found that a guest had arrived.√∟
Li Shaozhi, who can now walk around the house, is putting on his coat, sitting on the sofa and chatting with guests with a smile.
Seeing Xiao Qi coming back, Li Shaozhi stood up and greeted Xiao Qi sweetly, and also introduced a short, fat middle-aged man who stood up opposite the sofa.
"This is Director Wang Jingwang. When I first debuted, his father, Mr. Wang, took very good care of me. In recent years at TVB, Mr. Wang and Director Wang Jing have also taken great care of me." Li Shaozhi introduced to Xiao Qi softly.
, the words also made it clear what she wanted to express.
"Hello, Mr. Qi!" Wang Jing, whose hair was a little thin, smiled so hard that his eyes were bent, and he stretched out his hands to shake Xiao Qi's hand.
"Hello Mr. Jing, I grew up watching your movies, so you don't have to be too polite." Xiao Qi smiled, "It's a pity that all I watched back then were pirated discs, and I didn't have the chance to support the original ones."
"Haha, the movies I make are all shit, and few of them like them. That's really an honor for me!" Wang Jing said politely.
"That can't be said!" Xiao Qi shook his head and said, "Anything that can be liked by the audience is a good movie! Although I can't stand some of your movies, Mr. Jing, there are also many classics that are enough to highlight your talent and status.
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Wang Jing didn't expect Xiao Qi to say that, and he felt refreshed and felt a little more proud.
This is a compliment from the world’s richest man!
It is definitely a rare honor to have the world's richest man, who is not even matched by the top 100 richest people in Hong Kong, to praise himself so highly!
Seeing that they were chatting happily, Li Shaozhi breathed a sigh of relief and said in a playful voice: "Then you guys talk slowly, I'll go back to the room first."
"Okay. Zhizhi, have a good rest." Wang Jing greeted with a smile. He and Li Shaozhi have also made movies, and together with their father's relationship, they are relatively familiar with each other.
Many people think that Wang Jing only makes movies, but that is actually wrong. He often goes to TVB to direct TV series.
For example, the popular "Xiaobao and Kangxi" starring Zhang Weijian as Wei Xiaobao was directed by Wang Jing. "Xinchu Liuxiang" starring Li Shaozhi was also directed by him.
This man is truly a prolific and talented director!
When Li Shaozhi returned to the room, Wang Jing and Xiao Qi sat down on the sofa respectively.
Xiao Qi took a sip of the tea brought by the servant, and then asked with a smile, "Master Jing came here today to see me?"
When it came to talking about business, Wang Jing was a little cautious, "Qi Shao, I'm here today because I want to visit you. If you have time, I also want to talk about my movie."
Xiao Qi smiled, "Okay, I'm a movie lover anyway. But in the past few years, I haven't watched many of your movies, Mr. Jing."
"Why?" Wang Jing asked a rare question.
"Because your movies in the past few years are not interesting at all." Xiao Qi shrugged, "Even if it is about shit and piss, it still has to make people laugh! The jokes are always from a few years ago, more than ten years ago,
Of course you can’t laugh!”
"Qi Shao said that I lack new ideas, right?" Wang Jing nodded, "That's right. I've been making these movies all the time in the past few years, and I'm a little upset myself. But the Hong Kong market likes this. I'm the only one like this.
Movies can barely make money, and if you switch to anything else, you'll only be on the streets, so I don't dare to switch randomly."
Hong Kong's film market has already entered its twilight period.
Except for Hollywood blockbusters that can make all the difference in Hong Kong, there are not many local films in Hong Kong that can make money.
Usually it can exceed 50 million. Even if it is a super hit movie.
In comparison, there are dozens of movies with over 100 million yuan in the mainland, including "If You Are the One" with over 300 million yuan. The development is very rapid, and it is expected that the box office will exceed 500 million or even more in the future.
Hong Kong as the sun sets over the mountains just becomes two completely different contrasts.
Wang Jing was not just complaining, he actually expressed other meanings in his words.
Xiao Qi is no longer the otaku he was in his previous life. As soon as he heard Wang Jing's words and contacted him about his purpose of coming here to establish a relationship today, he immediately understood everything.
"Master Jing, what do you mean, you want to enter the mainland market?" Xiao Qi asked directly.
"Yeah, who doesn't want to have a market with a population of 1.5 billion?" Wang Jing said with a smile, "If I have such a strong backing, I don't have to make so many movies a year. I can just make one movie a year like Feng Buck Ya."
How comfortable would it be to earn two to three hundred million and take a relaxing vacation?"
"As far as I know, the censorship of Hong Kong films has already been opened, right?" Xiao Qi said, "Except for the films that are prohibited by order, can all Hong Kong films be screened?"
"Young Master Qi only know one, but not the other."
Wang Jing didn't think Xiao Qi was teasing him. After all, Xiao Qi was a businessman and not from the film industry. He didn't know that the rules and regulations there were normal.
After thinking about it for a while, he said in detail: "The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television actually has many methods for review. If the film from the mainland has a good relationship, then it can be modified slightly or without any modification.
They can all be released. However, the film censorship in Hong Kong is very strict. As a result, 50% of Hong Kong films cannot be released in the mainland every year, which makes us feel very depressed.
If it's just like this, that's fine. After all, the mainland has its own rules. It's just like when we targeted the Baodao market. If you want to make other people's money, you have to abide by their rules. There's nothing wrong with that. But the problem we encountered is
The trouble doesn't end there. Even if they pass the review, it's still very troublesome for many of our Hong Kong films to be released in the mainland!
Those large and small theater chains either gave us extremely harsh conditions, or they simply ignored us and gave us very few film schedules, so that the films we worked so hard to shoot and edit passed the review, but in the end they were released to the public.
There are not many cinemas showing it in the mainland market, and it has ended up miserable.”
"That's different!" Xiao Qi said, "Cinema chains also want to make money. If it's a good-quality film, such as "Infernal Affairs" a few years ago, then theater chains of all sizes will definitely be able to give a very high schedule! If
It’s a lousy movie that’s made inexplicably, and mainlanders can’t understand it at all, so how can you blame them for not scheduling it?”
After a pause, Xiao Qi continued: "Hong Kong movies don't have any special effects. They used to arouse a lot of repercussions in the mainland. The reason is that the plots are very sophisticated and the various performances are very good, far exceeding the standards of the mainland. ...
But after these twenty years, not only have you not made any progress, you have also retreated a lot. The content, plot, and film arrangement quality are a complete mess! With such an attitude towards film arrangement, it is surprising that Hong Kong films can be boosted!"
Wang Jing was stunned when he heard this.
He didn't expect Xiao Qi to know so much about Hong Kong movies.
When it comes to the rise and fall of Hong Kong movies, Wang Jing is the one who has experienced it. Of course he himself knows why Hong Kong movies have reached the point they are in today.
The most important thing is to make bad movies just to make money. No one is innovative. As soon as a good type of movie comes out, they just rush to make it until it sucks.
Then when a movie like this is crushed by Hollywood's sophisticated blockbusters, how can it survive?
Not only did Hong Kong lose its local market, but also traditional markets such as Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In the end, even such a large emerging market as mainland China was unable to penetrate. This really made Hong Kong's film industry extremely decadent.
"Actually, I admire your screenwriting skills, Mr. Jing." Xiao Qidao, "Huang Baiming is one of the people in Hong Kong who can write a lot of good scripts, and you are one too! As long as you can calm down and write good jokes
Come on, and with a few good actors, are you still afraid that you won't be able to re-enter the mainland market?"
"Can I?" Wang Jing asked thoughtfully.
Xiao Qi smiled. He knew that Wang Jing was pretending to be stupid at this time, but he did not hesitate to remind Wang Jing, "As long as you have a good book and find a few well-known celebrities in the mainland, I can help you run the audit."
, and on behalf of the Kiwi Cinema Line, I promise you that I will definitely give you the best movie schedule! Is that okay?"
Wang Jing's spirit perked up, and the confused and honest look on his face immediately disappeared, replaced by a shrewd look on his face: "Really?"
"Really." Xiao Qi nodded.
"That's just right. I have a wonderful idea here. Can you help me take a look, Mr. Qi?" Wang Jing immediately took out a stack of manuscripts from the bag next to him, obviously he had been prepared for it.
Xiao Qi couldn't help but burst into laughter. He had nothing to do anyway, so reading the script was just for fun.
After taking the script, Xiao Qi looked at it carefully and started laughing after flipping through a few pages.
Isn't this the very popular movie "Macau" starring Chow Yun-fat that was highly promoted before Xiao Qi was reincarnated?
According to some early exposure shots and clips at that time, this is equivalent to the "God of Gamblers" back then - Zhou Runfa is still the gambling king, Xiao Dao has changed from De Hua to Xiao Xie, and the other supporting role has been replaced by a more
Idiot guy.
Some reviews said that if Wang Jing focuses on this kind of nostalgic feelings, coupled with the appeal of Zhou Runfa and Xiao Xie, based on the market situation in 2013, there should be hope that the box office will exceed 500 million in the 2014 Spring Festival.
"I'm going to let Zhou Runfa play the role of the God of Gamblers, and Xiao Xie will play the second role." Wang Jing looked at Xiao Qi and said: "I haven't found an investor for this film yet. I wonder if I can let Dong Qiao and Zhi Qi play the role."
Miss Zhi and Kexin come to jointly invest... I guarantee that this film will definitely make money!"
He is sharing in the profits.
Xiao Qi laughed, "There is no problem with investment, but if you are willing to give up a few roles, I think the chance of success will be greater."
Wang Jing smiled knowingly and said, "No problem, I just have to guarantee Zhou Runfa, and you can decide the rest!"
This guy deserves to be the most speculative commercial film director. He is really willing to spend money in order to achieve good results for "Macau"! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
Chapter completed!