Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 383 The Universe Pill Comes to Submit
In fact, Wu Zhuo knows many of the artists in Hong Kong.

It's just a matter of how much social interaction there is.

Simon Yam and Ng Cheuk have met on more than one occasion.

"I still want to apologize to everyone, since it was because of me that everyone was delayed."

Wu Zhuo still tried his best to keep a low profile.

His behavior is actually quite likely to cause controversy.

If this were in the modern internet age, he might have been exposed for being arrogant long ago.

"We've only been on set for a few days."

Wu Zhuo is, after all, an international singer, and his popularity speaks for itself.

While this industry values ​​seniority and status, popularity is also an indispensable factor.

Therefore, most people in the industry are actually quite willing to be friends with Wu Zhuo.

Simon Yam was like that; he walked over with a smile and shook hands with Ng Cheuk.

“We’ve met a few times before, and I’ve always wanted to find an opportunity to get to know you, but I haven’t been able to. This time, I finally have the chance to get to know you.”

"Brother Hua is joking."

After shaking hands with him, Wu Zhuo quickly called out to the door, and Xiao An immediately came in with a group of people carrying a bunch of things.

"These are the vinyl records of my new album. I had the record company make a batch of them, each with a unique serial number, to give to everyone as a gift."

For an artist whose main profession is singing, there is no better gift than a record.

And to be fair, his records are still quite valuable for collectors.

Especially vinyl records.

After the turn of the century, vinyl records were gradually phased out by the market, and CDs replaced vinyl records.

Currently, most record companies do not consider producing vinyl records when releasing albums for their artists.

It's only because Wu Zhuo is popular and his records have good collectible value that the record company produced a batch.

And this number is still not large.

Only one thousand were produced in total.
Things are rare.

A quantity of one thousand copies would be of very high value to some avid collectors.

Especially those listed at the beginning of the sequence.

Take Wu Zhuo's last record on vinyl, for example.

A total of five hundred sheets were produced.

Last year, a record numbered ninth was sold in the collectors' circle.

Its value is as high as 2.2 RMB.

"Thank you. I was just about to ask you for a record; my daughter really likes yours."

Thank you, Abel.

"Haha, and it even has an autograph. I'll take it home; my daughter will be overjoyed."

In fact, Wu Zhuo is quite popular in Hong Kong.

Having released Cantonese songs, his popularity here is no less than, and perhaps even surpasses, that in mainland China.

This is mainly thanks to Wu Zhuo's foreign language songs.

These songs may not be well-received in mainland China, but they are very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Plus, he's handsome.

This has resulted in him having a large number of loyal fans in Hong Kong.

Many of the celebrities' children are his loyal fans.

After giving everyone a gift, Wu Zhuo found a seat and began to participate in the script reading.

The so-called script reading session is not actually that high-class.

Basically, it involves actors who have scenes together going over their lines, explaining how to act in certain parts, and deciding whether or not the lines need to be changed.

The film "Ip Man" itself does not place much emphasis on dramatic scenes.

Therefore, its script reading will be simpler.

Everyone read the script and chatted at the same time.

During the conversation, Wu Zhuo also chatted with Lynn Hung for a few minutes.

During their first meeting, he didn't notice any flaws in the other person's personality; at most, he just didn't like reading scripts.

While everyone else was discussing the script, she would always be in the corner talking to her female assistant about which handbag looked good.

Around 5 PM, Wu Zhuo said goodbye to the crew and rushed to a restaurant that Aaron Kwok had booked. Sure enough, Aaron Kwok's purpose in contacting him was similar to what Wilson Yip had said.

Aaron Kwok asked Wu Zhuo to be more tolerant of Lynn Hung's capriciousness while they were on set.

Seeing that Aaron Kwok had personally put in a good word for him, Wu Zhuo was naturally willing to give him face.

……

September 1th, Saturday.

Oriental Film Company held a grand opening ceremony in Hong Kong.

Yes, with Wu Zhuo around, even a small scene becomes a big scene.

There's no way around it, he's just been incredibly popular lately.

Yesterday, more good news came from Europe and America: the album "I, Abel" has sold over 1200 million copies, becoming the second best-selling album worldwide in 2008.

Meanwhile, Wu Zhuo became the singer with the highest cumulative sales in 2008.

Note that this refers not to China, but to the entire world.

His total album sales last year reached 2000 million copies, surpassing a host of big names in Europe and America to take the top spot.

After the two achievements were disclosed by the media, they immediately attracted a flurry of reports from domestic media outlets.

"Wu Zhuo tops the global singer charts, and is hailed as the Asian whirlwind in Europe and America."

"The president of Universal Pictures personally extended an invitation to Wu Zhuo, and Universal is willing to tailor-make a blockbuster for Wu Zhuo."

"The King of Thailand has extended an invitation to Wu Zhuo for the third time, asking him to hold a concert in Thailand, and Thailand will meet all the conditions."

Numerous reports, while covering Wu Zhuo, also continued to follow and report on him.

Upon learning that the film "Ip Man," in which he was involved, was holding its launch press conference, more than 30 media outlets from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong sent representatives to the event.

Let's not even talk about the media.

Even celebrities wanted to join in the fun.

Originally, Oriental Film Company only invited some artists who had worked with them to participate in the opening ceremony.

As a result, many artists who were not invited later also came.

What surprised Wu Zhuo the most was that Donnie Yen also came over.

Donnie Yen originally had many collaborations with Oriental Film Company.

However, since Wu Zhuo became his enemy and Wu Zhuo became an important partner of Oriental Film Company, Raymond Wong temporarily distanced himself from Donnie Yen.

Well, it just means that Donnie Yen won't be filming any movies for their company for the time being.

This is actually just a common tactic used by capital.

If an artist becomes popular and collaborates with a certain company.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of cooperation, the company will subconsciously avoid those with whom it has a grudge.

The same applies to Oriental Film Company.

In order to avoid affecting the "Ip Man" project.

Oriental Films has temporarily suspended all collaborations with Ip Man.

This was originally just a profit-seeking and discreet action.

But this had a huge impact on Donnie Yen.

Since the beginning of the new century, almost all of Donnie Yen's films have been produced by Oriental Film Company.

To put it bluntly, Oriental Film Company is the one that promotes Donnie Yen.

Now that Oriental Film Company has suddenly stopped operating, this will naturally have a huge impact on Donnie Yen.

He hasn't received any acting offers for over half a year.

If this continues, it won't be long before he's eliminated from the entertainment industry.

Faced with this situation, Donnie Yen ultimately made a choice.

To back down.

He should apologize to Wu Zhuo.

He is well aware of Wu Zhuo's current influence in the Chinese-speaking world.

Many companies, in order to establish connections with Wu Zhuo, would avoid him even if there were suitable roles available, once they learned of his feud with Wu Zhuo. This was to prevent offending Wu Zhuo and affecting future collaborations.

This situation was something he couldn't stop at all.

All he could do was try to appease Wu Zhuo and hope that he would relent so that those companies would stop ostracizing him.

(End of this chapter)