The struggles of a failed college entrance exam candidate in Hong Kong entertainment

Chapter 89 Isn't Brother Nan a well-known honest man?

The sudden incident on Hong Kong Island provided the (hacker) crew with plenty of topics to discuss and various feelings to share.

Nicolas Cage flew back to the United States to experience life after spending three days in Shanghai.

The entire project is operating smoothly, and the production team is becoming more and more integrated with each other.

In particular, many mainland practitioners in the (hacker) industry have gradually shifted from their initial state of 100% hard work and dedication.

Everyone was eager to dedicate themselves to the film crew with 120% or 150% of their energy.

This mainly involves Rosamund Kwan and Tony Leung Ka-fai accepting a one-year endorsement deal for the liquor brand GG for 1500 million RMB.

Then, after news spread that Joey Wong had spent 300 million RMB to become the spokesperson for Liushen Floral Water for a year.

It has brought a whole new stimulus to a huge number of practitioners.

Countless people have just left behind the era of earning only two or three hundred yuan a month in certain factories or companies? Have they just started their own businesses?

So many money-making geniuses have suddenly appeared on the set of the (hacker) movie?!

Those who were fortunate enough to join (hackers) as supporting actors or extras have almost all become kings and generals.

The ambition to replace him was growing, and ambition is the driving force.

Ultimately, Chen Hong represents the most orthodox graduates of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and is already a GG endorsement worth hundreds of thousands to millions of RMB.

Ah Hong is also the female lead in (hacker) with a total investment of several hundred million!

After the movie "The Hacker" was released, it became a huge hit. Wouldn't that push Chen Hong to surpass Rosamund Kwan's endorsement fee?

This trend first emerged among actors such as You Yong, Li Youbin, and Ning Li, who played teammates of Liang Jiahui and Chen Hong.

Then it gradually spread to all the teams that played minor roles in front of the camera.

Actors like Gao Shuguang, Xu Zheng, and Wang Lin, who had previously appeared in Kung Fu Hustle, also had some minor roles.

After those working in front of the camera were infected and the virus spread rapidly, the behind-the-scenes teams also gradually succumbed.

Is it impossible to earn such a high income behind the scenes? Mainly because the upward mobility channels behind the scenes are also very obvious.

Zhang Li, the cinematographer in (Kung Fu Hustle), has already been confirmed to be the assistant director in (The Matrix 1). Will he be able to become the assistant director in (The Matrix 2)?

This is a project with an investment of several hundred million.

With this resume, you have more than just representative works. Zhang Li was promoted to assistant director, so naturally, assistant cinematographer will be promoted to cinematographer.

They don't earn as much as those working on the front lines, but the paths to promotion and salary increases are clear and obvious.

The crew of (The Hacker) film crew includes photographers, makeup artists, prop masters, production assistants, and so on.

Whether they are employees from the mainland or Hong Kong Island, the monthly salary is the same and there is no huge income difference.

All these factors combined resulted in filming starting just over ten days before the Lunar New Year, and then resuming for another month and a half after the holiday.

The production of (Hacker 1) is becoming more and more efficient.

At noon on March 29, 1993, Beijing time, which would later become Hollywood time on the evening of the 29th, the Oscars would be presented with various awards.

After leading the filming of another scene on set, Su Nan couldn't help but sigh, "At the current pace, we can announce the wrap-up of filming in Shanghai by early April at the latest."

"We'll go back to Hong Kong and film about 20 more urban scenes in the skyscraper cluster, including the urban backgrounds that will be transplanted using CGI."

"The (hacking) routine production is coming to an end."

Ah Hong, who had just finished performing a fight scene suspended by wires, ran over and excitedly said upon hearing this, "Post-production took a year?"

This takes longer than pregnancy and childbirth.

Su Nan almost stumbled and strained his back; that's a brilliant analogy.

Ah Hong laughed as she wiped her sweat with a towel, "I feel like it would be a waste to take on other films in the year before (The Matrix) is released."

"I won't take on any ordinary commercial films except for those that could win the Best Actress award."

Rosamund Kwan laughed and said, "You're right. This film has been shooting for over 70 days. After we finish filming in Shanghai, how about we go on a trip to relax before returning to Hong Kong to continue production?"

Sister Guan came to Shanghai after the Lunar New Year to film "GG" and spent nearly two months on set.

She didn't take on any ordinary, bad films like "The Legend of the Prince" and "The Days of Love and Debauchery," which were originally part of the original trajectory.

Currently, it's the period of reflection of the (Dynasty Warriors) long videotape effect, and more and more companies are asking her to film GG scenes, and they're offering more.

Su Nan shook her head, "We'll see when the time comes."

In a few days, filming will wrap up in Shanghai, and in about half a month, filming will wrap up in Hong Kong. Then he will fly to Hollywood on a business trip.

Promote the production of CGI special effects that Hollywood can currently handle and implement.

Those hardware and software components that cannot perfectly implement CGI rendering at this stage.

He will take smart drugs himself for about six months to conduct research and development and drive progress.

This time, the special effects won't actually cost forty or fifty million US dollars; he was taking 100 smart pills in Hollywood.

That was 100 days of hard work. In their spare time, they used the stock market for short-term buying and selling to raise development funds for Skyworth Special Effects Studio.

Skyworth's special effects, in its initial stage, are far from matching the overall strength of Industrial Light & Magic.

However, it also has its own SGI workstations and can undertake some special effects production.

By collaborating with Industrial Light & Magic on manufacturing, the overall cost will decrease.

Rosamund Kwan laughed and said, "If you go to the US to check on things after you finish filming, by the time you come back, Brother Sanmao's (The Outlaws) will already be showing in theaters."

"It's perfectly normal for them to start filming in half a month, wrap up in April, and release the film in May."

Nan Ge first consulted with Hong Zhenbao about (Outlaw City) on January 15th, and more than 70 days have passed since then.

Hackers take their time to create meticulous work, and slow work can lead to great miracles.

(The Outlaws)? This is Hong Baoxian's physique after two months of training, making his arms more visually distinctive, thick and strong.

Zhou Jie and Richie Jen also practiced the action routines for two months before filming began on March 15.

Such a long preparation time is also unusual for Hong Kong action films.

Su Nan established the One-Punch Man-style fighting routine and demonstrated it to Hong Bao in real life, while other cameras filmed it.

In the end, Lao Hong went to observe and learn as a director.

Then he and the Sammo Hung Stunt Team can make the ordinary action routines even more exciting.

Zhou Jie's acting is solid, and he has also mastered the action sequences, demonstrating the expressiveness of Zhang Qiandan from the first film. He portrays the ruthless and powerful villain well.

If it's released in May, there's a good chance it will be a huge success.

In this version, Zhou Jie's name isn't Zhang Qian, but Chuan Bao, which corresponds to Jiang Bao in (Kung Fu).

Yuen Wah plays Hung Po's police superior, who is also a policeman who goes on a business trip with One-Punch Man in the second movie and isn't very good at fighting.

Wan Ziliang plays a nightclub boss who has a good relationship with the male lead, a policeman named Hong Bao.

The story begins with him treating One-Punch Man to drinks and entertainment, and then he gets chased down by Zhou Jie on the street.

As for the female characters in (Criminal 1)? At the beginning, Wan Ziliang's nightclub features many madams and prostitutes, including Mao Mei.

The only character here is the madam, who is similar to a second female lead.

The female lead is the restaurant owner who caused trouble during "Chuanbao's" incident. On the surface, she is the girlfriend of "Chuanbao's" henchman.

However, she was exposed by Zhou Jie for cheating on her underlings. This female boss character has the most appearances among all the female characters.

Strictly speaking, this movie doesn't have a female lead, but Lao Hong still invited Gong Li to play the role.

Wan Ziliang and Gong Li are aiming to penetrate the South Korean market.

Gong Li won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her role in "Wan You (Invincible)".

To put it another way, if you cast Brigitte Lin and Cherie Chung as female bosses, they could easily sell their products in Taiwan after filming.

What if we want to sell it in Europe? It might go unnoticed, or we might find a distributor who likes Chinese kung fu films and slowly negotiate.

But if you use Gong Li, with her record as the Best Actress at Venice last year, you'll attract more than ten film companies to negotiate prices with you right from the start.

Similarly, despite winning the Venice Film Festival Best Actress award, Gong Li's appeal in the Taiwanese market is not yet strong.

But when negotiating with film distributors in island nations and the United States to sell their films, they are worth even more than Brigitte Lin!

This is one of the main reasons why Win's Entertainment spent 100 million yuan to hire Gong Li.

Old Hong shared the same idea, wanting to give Gong Li a starting fee of 30 yuan, considering that her role only had a few minutes of screen time.

Then Gong Li learned that Skyworth had invested 8%, so she directly reduced the investment to HK$3.

All things considered, this film cannot follow the island nation box office revenue sharing model; it needs to sell at least $100 million overseas.

This time, Chuen-Bak won't be going to the moon; he'll leave his legend in Hong Kong films with a brand new image.

The only question is whether Zhou Jie would still be interested in playing Er Kang if Qiong Yao were to produce another version of "Princess Pearl" in the future.

On the evening of March 29, at a film set in Hong Kong Island (The Outlaws).

Today's filming content is about Zhou Jie, Richie Jen, and Jiang Wu, a trio who come to Hong Kong to collect loan sharks and kill a local gangster and a debtor.

He used his ruthlessness and humanity to intimidate and subdue Zhang Xueyou, a gangster's underling.

Then they went to eat at the restaurant owned by Gong Li, the girlfriend of the character played by Zhang Xueyou, and then Xueyou stood outside the corridor shivering, while Zhou Jie transformed into a hat-giving hero.

This includes the boyfriend character later played by Zhang Xueyou, who committed domestic violence against Gong Li.

This leads to a series of more plot developments involving Gong Li.

Her character only appears for a few minutes, but if she's in the right frame of mind, she can film it all in one day.

As the film crew was busy with their rehearsal, Zhou Jie was in the shooting area rehearsing with Gong Li when he awkwardly smiled, put his hands together, and bowed in apology, "Sister Li, this is how the character is set up."

"Please forgive me if I offend anyone later."

His character is someone who eats and drinks, and tries to force himself on a woman in a restaurant after just meeting her.

Zhou Jie knew this was acting, but the fact that his first big-budget film after signing with Skyworth was this exciting still made him a little flustered.

Gong Li waved her hand with a smile, "We're all professionals, no need for such formalities. Xiao Jie, you've signed with Skyworth, so you and Director Zhang are practically in the same company."

"There will be more opportunities for cooperation in the future."

Zhou Jie became even more excited and nervous after hearing this. No doubt about it, Zhang Yimou had filmed at all three major international film festivals in Europe.

Among the many directors in mainland China, he stands at the forefront.

After exchanging a few more polite words, the two began rehearsing their blocking, with Richie Jen, Jiang Wu, and Zhang Xueyou also making appearances.

Filming has been underway for half a month, regardless of how well they perform when shooting other scenes and storylines.

With Gong Li, who has already been crowned the Venice Film Festival Best Actress winner, joining the cast, everyone was actually a little nervous, fearing that their acting skills would be completely overshadowed.

At the same time, outside the filming area, Hong Bao was smiling at Li Ruotong, who was playing the madam of Wan Ziliang's men, and said, "Ah Tong, you have an excellent image."

"Now that we're leaving the airline industry, we really want to get into the real business world."

"Study hard, and it won't be difficult to make a small fortune in the future. You have many siblings, so supporting the family will be a lot of pressure."

Li Ruotong nodded, "Brother Sanmao, should I officially sign with which company?"

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Ah Tong, who is 27 years old this year, debuted in 90 and made a cameo appearance in "Romantic Killer" starring Joey Wong.

However, she hadn't planned to make this her main job before.

After filming the movie, she and her boyfriend went back to work as flight attendants for the airline, including her role in "Wicked City" in 92.

It wasn't until the end of 93 and the beginning of 94 that the production of "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" was signed to Johnnie To.

Hong Bao invited her to (Outlaw City) because he was attracted by Li Ruotong's beautiful urban woman image in (Demon Beast).

Old Hong chuckled, "No rush, after we finish filming (the crime), I'll see how things go and recommend you to Skyworth."

"If other companies want to sign you before you make this offer, just decline them."

In Sanmao's eyes, Ah Tong at the peak of her beauty was no less attractive than Hong Xin, and she even had a slightly mixed-race look.

Of course, when Lao Hong thought of recommending her to Skyworth, he also checked her situation and found that she was also a love-struck fool.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had this idea. Everyone knows that there are plenty of people in the industry who want to join Skyworth.

Since this is the first time that new talents have been signed in southern Jiangsu, Jiao Enjun and Hong Xin are examples of this situation.

Afterwards, Nan Ge privately commented and complained to Lao Hong, saying that compared with all sorts of weirdo people, those with a love-struck mind are the easiest to manage.

That's why Lao Hong has the mindset he has now, and he doesn't mind Gao Lihong personally guiding Li Ruotong in her studies when she visits the set.

This isn't exactly a good word, but it somehow comes across as superior when contrasted with a lot of other strange things.

Li Ruotong nodded again, then couldn't resist her curiosity, "Brother Sanmao, what kind of person is Brother Nan?"

"He's like Brother Long, representing all Chinese people as they conquer the world. He's amazing."

Sanmao paused for a few seconds, speechless, and said, "Brother Nan is different from us; there's a fundamental difference between us."

"He is a tycoon like Mr. Zou and Mr. Shao, a leading figure in the Chinese film and television industry."

"That guy is leading the Su family to become a new wealthy family, while Ah Long is just getting paid to film projects and risking his life."

"If he's willing to take you in, you're in luck. Skyworth is currently the group that treats actors and celebrities the best in the industry."

Because he has a good relationship with Rosamund Kwan.

Hong Bao and Gao Lihong both knew that even though Su Nan had only been running his business for three years, he couldn't be considered extremely wealthy.

He's only accumulated a little over 100 million US dollars in assets? That's about 1 billion Hong Kong dollars!

Li Ruotong sighed again, "Yes, yes, I've heard many people say that Brother Nan is the best boss among actors and celebrities in the industry."

"Not only did he make a global impact and break into Hollywood with his talent, but he's also down-to-earth, easy-going, and a really good person."

"I just don't understand why those people who hang out outside often spread rumors and gossip about him."

"Isn't this just routine bullying of good and honest people?"

Hong Zhenbao,

Old Hong scrutinized Li Ruotong from head to toe, but for a moment he couldn't find any trace of her acting.

If it's not acting, then what is it?

No matter how friendly and approachable Brother Nan is to people in the industry, the eight lives lost in (Kung Fu) must have made it into the news and various hot topics, right?

He's a good person, an honest person? Why don't you take a trip to Moscow?

Ask Nan Ge how many bloody storms he had to brave when he first debuted in 90?

Back then, he just wanted to do business openly and transparently, but he ended up with a lot of trouble.

Do you know that (the crime) was started? Old Hong wanted to pay protection money, but after asking around, no one was willing to accept it.

Some people even cursed him, calling Sanmao shameless.

Are you paying tens of thousands now, hoping to get double back when filming wraps? You're so low as to make money like this?

Oh well, it's already March 29th, and a new month is just around the corner.

He needs to expedite the production of (The Outlaws) to ensure quality and quantity; this is the most important thing.

This is his most significant comeback work after several years of flopping as a leading man in movies.

If Jackie Chan hadn't been working so hard to lose weight for "Cast Away," he would have wanted to get Jackie Chan to make a cameo appearance.

After some time, filming officially began for (The Outlaws), and Hong Bao became serious.

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