Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

On June 23rd, Liu Yifei and her daughter's documents were completed.

It just so happened that Chen Musheng had already assembled the crew in Hong Kong, and the assistant director called Zhou Ziheng.

On the 25th, Zhou Ziheng, his team, and Liu Yifei and her daughter rushed to Hong Kong.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about Zhou Ziheng’s new movie.

He just released his album "My Love" which sold well all over the world and he is always attracting attention wherever he goes.

As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he was surrounded by a large number of Hong Kong media.

"Hengzi, there are rumors that your new movie is an action movie. Are you planning to become an action star?"

"There are rumors that you and Jacky Cheung have reached a settlement privately. Is this true?"

"What kind of success do you think the new movie will achieve? Can it surpass the previous movie you starred in, Tazza?"

A large number of reporters surrounded the bus station, blocking all entrances and exits.

Liu Yifei had never seen such a scene before and was so frightened that she tightly grasped Zhou Ziheng's hand.

She has been spending a lot of time with Zhou Ziheng recently. Gradually, after getting to know Zhou Ziheng, she likes to stick to him.

Compared with Zhou Ziheng, she is not very close to her mother.

In her words, her mother controls everything for her.

"Everyone, we will hold a film press conference about the new movie later, and we will reveal more information to you at that time."

"Regarding Jacky Cheung and I, we have never had any peaceful talks.

I still say the same thing, I don’t like him, but it is undeniable that his works in the past two years are indeed good.

Everyone knows that I always speak the truth. I don’t like Jacky Cheung, and I never hide it. At the same time, I think his works are good, and I won’t deliberately belittle them. "

Squeezing out from the crowded crowd of reporters, the scene outside was even more frightening.

A large number of fans who knew Zhou Ziheng's itinerary in advance gathered here.

They held up their cheering signs and shouted in unison:
"Zhou Ziheng, we love you!"

"You guys did this?"

Looking at the fans wearing uniform, Zhou Ziheng looked at Florence Hui with a strange expression.

No matter how you look at it, this looks like the fan culture of the future.

Indeed, the fan circleization did start in the late 1990s.

During this period, a large number of singers set up various fan clubs in order to facilitate the management of their fans.

Zhou Ziheng is no exception.

It has always been Florence Hui who is in charge of connecting with his fans.

"How is it? Isn't it beautiful? In addition to Hong Kong, we have also set up fan clubs for you in Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and other places.

We have prepared uniform clothing for these fan clubs.

In future large-scale events, your fans can be perfectly distinguished from others.”

Florence Hui explained with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhou Ziheng was not happy at all, but frowned instead.

"Which company provides the clothing? How much do you sell it for?"

Providing it for free, Zhou Ziheng thought this question was impossible.

So, these clothes are 100% provided in cooperation with other clothing companies.

"I was just about to tell you about this issue. Converse wants to cooperate with us and authorize them to produce these clothes. At that time, the profits will be split 50-50."

"What about the price? Converse's prices are pretty high, right?"

"It's not cheap, twenty-three dollars for a T-shirt."

"Notify Converse to lower the price, at least by half, or even lower if possible."

Zhou Ziheng held Liu Yifei's hand and gave her instructions as they walked.

Selling fan T-shirts and other peripheral products has always been a long-lasting industry.

This business can be said to be extremely profitable.

Many entertainment companies in later generations got started in this way.

But, the way this money is earned is a bit dishonest.

A T-shirt that costs less than a few dollars can be sold for several times the price just because it is printed with a poster of a singer or celebrity.

This is a total money-making exercise.

Zhou Ziheng doesn't think he is the person who loves fans the most in the entertainment industry. He also releases compilation albums to earn money from fans. In the past few years, he has released three or four such albums.

But this kind of compilation is a kind of golden song collection record, and fans like it.

T-shirts are different. A torn T-shirt will be sold at an outrageous price because it is sold by a fan club.

This is already considered mowing the lawn.

Zhou Ziheng didn't like this approach very much.

Even if we want to standardize the clothing for fans, the price cannot be so high.

Twenty-three dollars was already a considerable expense in the 1990s.

The fans didn't have much money to begin with, so they had to scrimp and save to buy records, and only saved a little by living frugally.

As a result, not only were we required to wear uniform clothing to attend events, but the prices of these clothing were ridiculously high.

This is simply cutting one crop after another.

Before getting in the car, Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment and continued:
"Don't force fans to buy clothes. My concerts and events should not have a rule that only those wearing the same clothes can enter."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Let's talk to Converse and see if we can buy these T-shirts from them at cost price.

After you get them, you can arrange for people to ship them to different places and sell them at a profit of 50 cents per piece!"

Zhou Ziheng originally wanted to give it away for free.

But after thinking about it, I forgot about it.

If he really gave it away for free, he would definitely go bankrupt.

He himself doesn't even know how many fans he has now.

Anyway, according to conservative estimates, there are at least tens of millions of loyal fans throughout Asia.

If it were all given away for free, it would be a huge amount of money.

It would be better to sell it at cost price and make a few cents on shipping. This way, fans can afford the price and you don’t have to worry about losing too much.

"Do we need to organize some activities during the holidays? Give away free peripheral products to fans!"

The good thing about Florence Hui is that she listens to advice and learns from it.

“Yes, I usually hold some raffles for fans. The prizes can be my peripheral products, concert tickets, or signed records.

Of course, other valuable things are also acceptable, such as mobile phones, VCDs, etc.

Don’t worry about losses. This kind of lottery event won’t lose much, and it can also strengthen the cohesion of fans.”

……

The crew of "The Man from Nowhere" rented a few rooms in Yau Ma Tei for filming.

When Zhou Ziheng arrived, Chen Musheng and most of the crew members were already there.

Gao Jie who plays the gang boss.

This person is an actor from Taiwan. He is well-known in Taiwan and is considered a professional villain. He was previously invited to play in "The Conjuring".

This time, the role of the gangster boss in "The Man from Nowhere" was very suitable for him, so they asked him to play it.

Actually, Zhou Ziheng originally wanted Wu Zhenyu to play the role.

But considering that Wu Zhenyu's previous roles as Liang Kun in Wong Jing's "Young and Dangerous" and Lao Mian in "The Conjuring" both brought him huge popularity.

It is not suitable for him to play such a villain supporting role at this time.

After all, we can’t always let people play villains and not give the protagonist any chance!

So the role was given to Gao Jie.

Then the role of the gangster boss's younger brother was given to a senior student from the Central Academy of Film.

And then the most important role is the gangster's ace thug.

Because this character will have a lot of fighting scenes with Zhou Ziheng, an actor who knows kung fu is needed.

Zhou Ziheng handed it over to Wu Jing, who came to Hong Kong from the mainland this year to develop his career.

Wu Jing was discovered by Yuan Heping last year and filmed "Kung Fu Kid".

Because of this movie, this guy who would occupy an important position in the Chinese-language film industry in the future packed his luggage and followed Jet Li's example to come to Hong Kong to develop his career.

He was lucky in this life. After arriving, he directly found Hengyu Film, which has a very good reputation in the mainland.

He was signed by the company and became a young player of the company.

Because he knows Kung Fu and is a martial arts champion like Jet Li.

In "The Man from Nowhere", this gangster ace fighter, who had a lot of fighting scenes with the protagonist, was given to him. (End of this chapter)