Chapter 485 Spending One Million Hong Kong Dollars to Film "Journey to the West" In China!
Tu Yingxiong came over. He didn't expect to see Huang Xizhao and Liang Shuyi here.
Tu Yingxiong first reported the matter of Asia Film Company to the boss.
Because Asia Film was established, in addition to a large amount of financial support, it also shared actors with Asia Television, and Asia Television had its own directors.
Directors like Tsui Hark immediately prepared new film projects and started shooting after the establishment of Asia Film Company.
In the era of Hong Kong movies.
The speed of filming in Hong Kong is very fast. The fastest is one week, from getting the script, to project establishment, to filming, to going to the cinema, the speed is very fast.
Tsui Hark and others have been itching for a long time. When they learned that Asia Film Company was established, they had the opportunity to make a movie again, and immediately found Tu Yingxiong. Tu Yingxiong knew the ability of Tsui Hark and others, so he naturally did not object.
However, the funds for investing in a movie now are very low.
In addition to the directors and actors of Asia Television shooting movies.
Tu Yingxiong also found a group of suitable actors according to the mysterious list given by the boss.
Lin Zhengying, Bruce Lee's former martial arts instructor, grew up quickly after Bruce Lee passed away. After the establishment of the Hong Family Class, Lin Zhengying joined the Hong Family Class because he had no movies to shoot and became one of them.
When Tu Yingxiong found Lin Zhengying and hoped that he would join Asia Film Company and focus on training him, Lin Zhengying was still a little embarrassed at first.
After all, he joined the Hong Family Class and had not really worked for the Hong Family Class, but now the general manager of the newly established Asia Film Company came to him.
Tu Yingxiong is very well-known in the Hong Kong film and television industry, in addition to being one of the three giants of Asia Television.
Today, Asia Television has been acquired by the Empire Group and its strength is already above TVB. It is impossible to say that Lin Zhengying does not want to be valued and does not want to join Asia Television.
In addition to Lin Zhengying, other actors including the Hong Family Class are very interested.
Although the Hong Family Class has developed well, it is of course much worse than the wealthy Asia Film Company.
In the end, Hong Jinbao could only watch Lin Zhengying, and even when Yuan Biao and others left, it was almost dispersed.
In the era of capital, it is difficult to fight against individual strength.
Especially since the current Hong Family Class has only been developed for a short time, it is not like the future.
These new actors have joined, and they have indeed become the focus of training. Basically, every Asian movie has their roles.
Even Asia Film Company has begun to tailor new movies for Lin Zhengying and others.
It is the zombie movie that Yang Ming mentioned to Tu Yingxiong intentionally or unintentionally.
Hong Kong has had zombie movies for a long time.
Before that, it has always been less well-known.
Historically, it was because Lin Zhengying started as the main actor in zombie movies that zombie movies were completely popular.
Tu Yingxiong felt that since the boss thought Lin Zhengying was suitable for zombie movies, he immediately asked the screenwriter to write the script.
In the past two months, Asia Film Company has produced more than ten movies that have been released, and there may be more than a dozen movies being produced.
The emergence and speed of Asia Film Company scared Jiaqi and other film companies.
Tu Yingxiong reported to the boss in detail.
Judging from what Tu Yingxiong said, Tu Yingxiong is indeed very capable.
"Boss, among these movies, ten have been released, three of which are profitable, four are neither profitable nor loss-making, and the remaining three are loss-making. However, the copyrights of these movies have not yet been sold to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. If they are sold, they should still be able to make a lot of profit."
It is already 1980.
Yang Ming knows that Hong Kong's movies will soon enter a period of rapid development. Even without his participation, Hong Kong's movies will still develop rapidly.
It's just that now because of Yang Ming's participation, Hong Kong's movies will develop faster.
"Tu Yingxiong, you've done a good job."
"Thank you for the recommendation of General Manager Huang and the trust of the boss."
Tu Yingxiong knows that if it weren't for Huang Xizhao's recommendation, he certainly wouldn't have had a chance.
If it weren't for Sir Yang's trust, how could he have achieved this step.
Now there are many talents from all walks of life in Hong Kong, especially a large number of talents from the mainland. These people have also brought great differences in film screenwriting and scripts, and further promoted the development of Hong Kong's movies.
"I don't care about the film company's affairs. This time I called you here to discuss the Spring Festival Gala. For this Spring Festival Gala, the three of you should discuss the programs to be participated in, the actors to be participated in, etc. If this Spring Festival Gala is done well, it will be held every year in the future, and strive to become the program with the highest ratings in Hong Kong."
"Yes, boss."
Tu Yingxiong already knew about the Spring Festival Gala.
It is mainly about Asia Television, involving singers and actors from three companies, so the three companies need to cooperate together.
"Don't spread this matter for the time being, otherwise, TVB will definitely follow suit. After this great success, TVB will definitely follow suit. From then on, it will be difficult for TVB to surpass Asia Television."
"Yes, boss."
The three of them admired the boss's ideas more and more.
How did the boss come up with it?
They didn't know.
When the three thought that the boss had finished talking to them, Yang Ming asked Huang Xizhao to stay.
Liang Shuyi and Tu Yingxiong left first.
"Boss, is there anything else?"
"Do you know about the four great classics?"
"Boss, are you talking about "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Dream of Red Mansions" or others?"
At this time, the four great classics in China have not been really determined.
These four are indeed the most famous among ancient novels.
"Yes. I plan to let Asia Television spend 1 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot "Journey to the West" among the four great classics."
1 million Hong Kong dollars?
This is definitely a lot of money.
In this era, this money can make many movies.
He didn't expect that the boss actually wanted to use 1 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot a Journey to the West.
"Boss, I will ask someone to set up the project when I go back, and ask someone to select good actors."
Yang Ming shook his head.
"This time I hope to select actors in China."
Select in China?
Not only select actors in China, but even directors are selected in China.
Huang Xizhao is still a little strange.
Aren't there many directors and actors in Hong Kong?
Why does the boss want to select from China?
Yang Ming was deeply impressed by the 1982 version of Journey to the West that he watched in his previous life. In addition, this version of Journey to the West not only had very high ratings in China, but also in Asia, including the East and Southeast Asian countries.
In addition to this version of Journey to the West, the effects and ratings of the later versions were much worse.
Historically, many directors in Hong Kong have filmed Journey to the West, but the ratings were not high. In addition to the people in Hong Kong, Yang Ming later remembered searching online and found that Sun Wukong actually fell in love with monsters. Yang Ming knew that the Journey to the West filmed in Hong Kong might be eye-catching.
This time, Yang Ming plans to let the mainland select directors and actors for the filming, not only because of the high ratings, but also to prepare for future cooperation with the mainland.
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