Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 221: Attending the premiere of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves"

It was three days after the filming of "The Man from Nowhere" was completed, and Zhou Ziheng hadn't yet recovered from the busy filming.

That day, Liu Zhiwen from Pacific Records called personally.

Mandarin records are nothing more than Mandarin records.

Zhou Ziheng also has a Mandarin record contract with Pacific Records.

As I said before, several domestic record companies have not had an easy time in the past two years.

The rise of piracy and the entry of international record companies into the mainland have given audiences an increasing number of records to choose from, which has led to the decline of several old mainland record companies.

The same is true for Pacific Records. According to Liu Zhiwen, Pacific Records has suffered a huge loss this year and urgently needs a blockbuster album to save the company from danger.

And in the whole of China, obviously no one's records are more suitable than Zhou Ziheng's.

"I'm still in Hong Kong now. I just finished filming a movie. I need some time to rest."

Zhou Ziheng said.

It's not that he wants to breach the contract, but he really needs to rest for a few days. He has hardly had a good rest this year. And coincidentally, UFC Films has a movie coming out recently and invited him to attend, so he wants to take a few days off.

"So when exactly can you produce the record?"

Liu Zhiwen seemed very anxious.

"It will be produced within this year, don't worry about that."

Zhou Ziheng replied.

Perhaps the situation of Pacific Records was indeed very difficult, Liu Zhiwen began to play the emotional card and took the initiative to bring up old things.

Although Zhou Ziheng didn't like this, he had to admit that Pacific Ocean had made a great contribution to his current situation.

In the end, we can only say that the album will be released in December at the latest.

On August 2, UFC Films held a premiere for its film "Stories of Legends ".

The movie was shown in the Oriental Cinemas, the same cinema chain founded by Wong Jing.

Oriental Films is undoubtedly the film company with the fastest growth momentum in recent years.

Since "All's Well, Ends Well" in 92, many high-grossing movies in the major schedules in recent years have included Oriental films.

The same is true for "Stormy Girl 2".

In 94, UFC Films and Oriental Films jointly collaborated on "Stormy Girls", and Zhou Ziheng was invited to star in the film.

Zhou Ziheng was unable to perform due to record reasons, so Chen Kexin invited Leslie Cheung, who was also a singer, to play the leading role.

Ultimately, the film was a huge success.

This film was similar to Derek Yee's Love Without End, but its style was quite different. It used a warm filming technique to depict a romantic adult fairy tale, and became the big winner in the Hong Kong film industry that year.

The film has a well-matched cast and beautiful packaging, making it a masterpiece that has the best of both worlds.

After the release of "Stormy Girls", it continued to run for two months without losing its momentum, with a box office of nearly 1994 million, and won the summer box office championship, ranking among the top ten best-selling movies in Hong Kong that year.

While being a box office hit, "Stormy Girl" also received rave reviews. Anita Yuen won the Best Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this film, and Leslie Cheung was nominated for the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The movie's theme song "Chasing" sung by him became a hit, and was nominated for the Best Original Song award at the Golden Horse Awards and the Best Original Song award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

There has always been a habit in Hong Kong, that is, if a movie is successful, there will definitely be a sequel.

"Stormy Girl" is no exception. After a year and a half, the second part of this movie is finally released.

Because of the excellent performance of the first film, both UFC and Oriental Films attached great importance to this film and invited a large number of colleagues to attend the premiere.

Zhou Ziheng has worked with UFC. Although the relationship between the two sides is not particularly good, it is not bad.

Therefore, the other party sent an invitation to Zhou Ziheng.

At 11am, Zhou Ziheng and Huo Wenxi arrived at the premiere. There were a lot of people, including many celebrities in the circle.

This is mainly due to the good relationship between UFC Films and several major theater companies.

UFC is a neutral company that neither offends nor flatters anyone.

Unfortunately, the film's bosses Eric Tsang and Peter Chan both have good connections in Hong Kong and are capable.

This allows UFC to maintain its relative independence and cooperate with whomever it wants.

Although UFC's two films, "Stormy Girls" and "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", were both co-produced with Oriental Films, in fact, UFC also has a very close collaboration with another company, Golden Harvest.

"Comrades: Almost a Love Story", which received a lot of acclaim after its release this year and is a joint collaboration between UFC and Golden Harvest, is Zhou Ziheng's good brother Leon Lai's movie.

Both major cinema chains in Hong Kong have good relations with UFC, so naturally there are many people trying to establish a relationship with it.

In addition, Leslie Cheung is a well-known good person in the industry with many friends. When his movies are released, they also require the support of his big-name friends.

Therefore, today's premiere has a strong star lineup.

In addition to the film's leading actors Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anita Yuen, Jordan Chan and others, Andy Lau and Leon Lai were also present, as well as other familiar stars such as Maggie Cheung.

When Zhou Ziheng arrived, Liming had already arrived and was chatting with Maggie Cheung.

After seeing Zhou Ziheng, he immediately said something to Maggie Cheung and walked towards him.

"I really didn't expect to see you in this kind of occasion!"

Dawn looked teasing.

Zhou Ziheng has a bad relationship with many people in Hong Kong, so he rarely attends such events.

"I have cooperated with UFC before, and the cooperation was pretty good. Chen Kexin called me personally. Even if I don't want to go out, I still have to give them this little face."

Zhou Ziheng shrugged.

Then, he smiled and said, “Congratulations to you, Almost a Love Story will probably win some awards next year.

If you are lucky enough to win the Best Actor award, you will be the first of the Four Heavenly Kings to win the Best Actor title."

Among the Four Heavenly Kings, Jacky Cheung is actually the best in acting.

However, due to his appearance, he mostly played supporting roles, which made his acting skills underestimated.

But in fact, he had already won the Best Supporting Actor award for "As Tears Go By" a few years ago.

However, as for the Best Actor award, none of the Four Heavenly Kings has won it yet.

Although Andy Lau has been nominated several times, most of them were consolation nominations.

Zhou Ziheng remembered that in his previous life, Leon Lai seemed to have won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for this movie.

He became the first of the Four Heavenly Kings to win the Best Actor award.

"Thank you for your good words!" Liming was a little happy.

"Sweet Honey" really helped him a lot. After the movie was released, it received rave reviews and overturned the embarrassing situation that he was not as good at singing as Jacky Cheung, not as good at dancing as Aaron Kwok, and not as good as Andy Lau in overall performance.

Recently, people often say that he has the best acting skills among the Four Heavenly Kings, which makes him very happy.

"By the way, how's the filming of your new movie going? When will it be released?"

"It's already been filmed, so it might be too early to release it. I plan to release it during the Spring Festival."

"So confident?"

"Of course. When have you ever seen me fail?"

(End of this chapter)