Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2308 Salary Proportion
Taking advantage of the time before get off work, the three of Wen Jun returned to Xinyi City to talk to Huang Baiming about the script of "Chasing Girls in Hardcover".

When Huang Baiming learned that Lin Daoqiu had given them a script, he had nothing but envy in his eyes.

In Xiangjiang, Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui can always get Lin Daoqiu to write scripts for them. If it were someone else, it would be great to get Lin Daoqiu a script.

The scripts in New Art City are basically created by them in this way. After the group of seven was disbanded, everyone went to their own ways, and basically they rarely get together.

Now Mai Jia is almost in a semi-retired state, and the actual person in charge of New Art City has become Huang Baiming.

"Since Mr. Lin has given the outline, we can set the details according to the outline given by Mr. Lin."

Huang Baiming has done this before, so he has long been accustomed to Lin Daoqiu's habit of being a hands-off shopkeeper.

After writing down the outline dictated by Wen Jun, Huang Baiming marked out the selling points and conflict points of the play.

"If the male protagonist wants to invite Ah Fa, who are you considering for the female protagonist?"

Huang Baiming was a little curious about this, if he wanted to play Chow Yun-fat, he would at least have to hire a somewhat famous female star.

As for those really big-name actresses, several of them had to consult Lin Daoqiu if they wanted to invite them. If Lin Daoqiu didn't get Lin Daoqiu's consent and sent invitations rashly to the other party, there was a high probability that they would be rejected.

"Ah Fa's film salary has risen to 300 million after filming "God of Gamblers" and "The True Colors of Heroes", and this is still a friendly price."

Wen Jun and New Art City have been cooperating with Chow Yun-fat for a long time, so everyone knows how much his salary is.

But a movie with a budget of 500 million will cost 300 million on Chow Yun-fat, which will naturally lower the salaries of other actors.

"Did Mr. Lin say what is the budget for "Chasing Girls in Hardcover"?"

Now Huang Baiming has to figure out what the budget for the movie "Chasing Girls in Hardcover" is, and then he can look at the dishes.

"It's between five and seven million. After all, it's just a comedy. If it's too much, then we'll be under too much pressure."

If the production cost is 700 million, at least 700 million at the box office will be able to pay back. If you add the port, you can naturally make some money.

It's just because New Oriental has lost the market in Baodao now, so they have more pressure to consider the box office revenue than before, and naturally they need to be more cautious.

"If it's 600 million, minus Ah Fa's 300 million salary, we can use 150 million to hire actors, and the remaining 150 million will be used to make this movie."

Only 600% of the [-] million yuan was used for filming, and the rest was used to hire actors. I have to say that as Xiangjiang movies become more and more popular, the actors' remuneration has also continued to increase. This is also thanks to New Oriental. .

However, unlike the previous life, although actors' remuneration has risen sharply in the past ten years, it has not reached a very scary situation.

Xu Guanjie, who was hired by New Arts City at a high price to shoot "Best Partner", his salary is still the same until now, and has never changed.

If it weren't for New Oriental to control the price, the remuneration of Xiangjiang actors would have already exceeded the [-] million mark.

Even if some people can get more than [-] million yuan in salary, they all get it in Hollywood, and basically the top salary in Xiangjiang is only a few million yuan.

If this is not the case, I am afraid that the production cost of many Xiangjiang films will increase several times at once, but the problem is that the currency value and population of Xiangjiang cannot support this speed of salary increase.

If the film you make wants to make money by selling it in ports, not everyone can make a box office overseas, it depends on the person.

At this time, there are only a few Hong Kong stars who have the most guaranteed box office in overseas sales, namely Brigitte Lin, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao.

As for other people, they can only mix in the Chinese-speaking circle. Once they leave the Chinese-speaking circle, it will be difficult to guarantee a good box office.

"Basically that's it. Anyway, the current movies are made like this. The question is who should we find to play the heroine?"

Regarding this question, Wen Jun really had a hard time making a choice. It wasn't that he couldn't think of a candidate, but that none of the people he thought of was suitable.

Because they don't know how to portray Dong Dong in this play, whether it is a silly girl or a smart girl.

Before the character's personality has been fully determined, they really can't rush to find the heroine.

After talking about his thoughts with the people present again, everyone also felt that Wen Jun's thoughts were correct.

"I see it this way, let's make this Dong Dong a kind-hearted girl who is a little bit smart. She just wants to help her family live a better life, so she wants to marry a rich man and get rid of poverty. What do you think? "

Huang Baiming thought for a while, and then directly expressed his thoughts.

After listening to Huang Baiming's words, everyone felt that his proposal was very good, and the heroine designed according to his ideas was quite malleable.

"There happens to be an actress here in New Art City who is suitable for this role."

"Who?"

The three of Wen Jun looked at Huang Baiming almost at the same time and asked.

"Maggie Cheung..."

Hearing Huang Baiming's words, Wen Jun and the other three all had embarrassed expressions on their faces.

It stands to reason that Maggie Cheung is absolutely impeccable in appearance, basically it is absolutely no problem for her to play the heroine.

But the problem is that she still seems to have a lot of shortcomings in acting.

"Zhou Zuo is just a comedy film, and most of the plots in this drama focus on the bad guys. As long as the heroine finds a beautiful woman to play, I think it should be fine."

Huang Baiming didn't care about Wen Jun's worries at all. In his opinion, although Maggie Cheung's acting skills were not very good, she would have no problem playing the leading role in "Chasing Girls in Hardcover".

"If this is the case, let her try it out, but if she really can't act well, then we will have to replace her."

Wen Jun thought for a while and decided to agree to Huang Baiming's proposal, but if Maggie Cheung failed to meet their requirements, then Wen Jun would not let her continue acting.

"Don't worry, will I still hurt you?"

Huang Baiming smiled and shook his head. In his opinion, Wen Jun and the others had nothing to worry about. Although Maggie Cheung's acting skills were indeed poor in the past, she has improved somewhat in the past few years.

(End of this chapter)