Hong Kong Entertainment: Kung Fu Superstar 1981

Chapter 200 Actor Expansion
Perhaps because he has done so much, Zhou Xingxing's efficiency in poaching Zhang Yang has become faster and faster.

At noon the next day, Zhang Yang successfully met Du Qifeng in a cafe in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Compared with Wu Zhenyu who was still struggling in the actor training class and immediately agreed when he heard the opportunity, Du Qifeng today, although his reputation is not too obvious, has already become the star of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" As an executive director, he has a certain status within TVB.

If you want him to change jobs and leave, it's not just his status as a director that can impress people.

Fortunately, since he wanted to recruit Du Qifeng, Zhang Yang was not unprepared.

Facing this increasingly mature director, Zhang Yang directly made two extremely generous offers.

The first is money.

Unlike other film companies that offered 10% of the investment amount as director's remuneration, Zhang Yang directly offered a basic salary of 50 per film plus 20% of the total investment in the film as director's remuneration.

In other words, even for a film like "Gunfire" with an original investment of just over 200 million, Zhang Yang had to spend 90 as a salary for directing Du Qifeng. This kind of treatment is definitely second to none in the industry. s level.

In addition to the generous salary, Zhang Yang also offered that before Du Qifeng took over the filming, he could read the script and have the right to refuse the script and refuse the filming. In other words, as long as the script was not satisfactory, Du Qifeng could not shoot.

Whether it was in terms of remuneration or respect, Zhang Yang gave Du Qifeng enough face.

Of course Run Run Shaw couldn't afford such a favorable condition, but to Zhang Yang, was it considered a loss?

Of course not!

This is Du Qifeng!
Let alone 90 yuan to hire him to make a movie, even 100 million is totally worth it to Zhang Yang!

Du Qifeng, who had no reason to refuse, sensed Zhang Yang's sincerity, and signed a contract with Zhang Yang without any hesitation. Once signed, it was a three-year long-term contract, and Zhang Yang also had a limited right to renew the contract.

After settling Du Qifeng's side, Zhang Yang returned to Yingyang Pictures and started a second interview without stopping. This time, the interviewer he was interviewing came from a modeling agency, and he still had some green spots on his face. The ignorant villain, Zhang Yaoyang.

In 86, Zhang Yaoyang, who was still working as a model, was discovered by Lin Lingdong, thus starting his career as a villain.

And now Zhang Yang has directly advanced this node by a year and directly signed a five-year long-term contract with this active model, ensuring that Jianghuren Pictures will directly control Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Yaoyang, Big B, and Ji in the future. Brother, these are the four trump cards.

With this basic cast, plus Lu Liangwei, Wan Ziliang, and Li Zixiong, Zhang Yang is convinced that no matter what kind of Jianghu movie it is, at least he doesn't have to worry about the villain role.

In addition to the two of them and Du Qifeng, Zhang Yang also took advantage of the situation and signed Lin Hedou, who was still playing a supporting role, to Yingyang Entertainment. This all-purpose golden supporting actor can be used in Jianghuren Pictures' Jianghu films or Yingyang Entertainment's follow-up films. He will always have a place in any action movie that is released. It is a type where you earn money just by signing in. Naturally, he will not miss it.

...After completing this wave of major expansion of the cast, Jianghu Ren Pictures' "Gunfire" officially started filming.

However, since it was a branch project, and a mature director like Du Qifeng was personally in charge, Zhang Yang did not participate too much. He just filmed the cast of Liu Zhenyu, Zhang Yaoyang, Lin Xue, Simon Yam, and Wan Ziliang. Start planning the next film to be released by Yingyang Entertainment.

Nowadays, "The Raid" is gaining momentum. Logically speaking, it would be a good choice to speed up and launch a second sequel. However, after thinking about it for a while, Zhang Yang still felt that he couldn't just put all his eggs in one basket. .

What's more, if you want to expand the influence of overseas box office and mixed martial arts in the future, "The Raid" cannot fully take into account both. Compared with the "Raid" series, there is another series of films that is more in line with Zhang Yang's goals and is also the same for Zhang Yang. I feel good about it.

That's the "Ultimate Fighter" series!
This series lasted for four films, but Zhang Yang did not plan to shoot all four films.

Because in his eyes, only the last three parts of the entire "Ultimate Fighter" series can be regarded as commendable masterpieces, especially the second and third parts. In the film, Boyka went from being a villain to becoming the protagonist of the three parts. The Redemption can definitely be called a classic among classics.

Since it is going to be filmed, it is natural to start filming from the second part.

Now that Yingyang Entertainment has become independent from Jiahe Company, in addition to promoting itself, it is also time to cultivate a second superstar with appeal for Yingyang, and using the role of Boyka is to shape this second superstar. The best time, and with this film as a foreshadowing, Zhang Yang felt that there seemed to be another film that could also be integrated into this series.

After making a decision in his mind, Zhang Yang immediately began to concentrate on writing the script.

Although the overall framework of "The Ultimate Fighter" is good, since it is a foreign film, Zhang Yang must make overall modifications for this film like the film "The Raid" and leave enough space for another film in the future. , this modification time is obviously not short.

And while Zhang Yang was concentrating on revising the script, "The Raid" was finally released after a month of release.

In the end, this new film, which has been questioned by the media since leaving Golden Harvest, successfully swept the whole of Hong Kong with a total box office of 2000 to 40 million, severely slapping the media who questioned the gold content of Shuang's film.

Although the film can achieve such results, although there are also factors that promote star power, what is more important is the rhythm of the film, which is refreshing enough, fast enough, and enough to satisfy the audience's pursuit of violent action scenes.

At this point, this is precisely the market positioning that Jiahe, who is good at playing comedy kung fu, lacks.

Zhang Yang has found an audience group that Jiahe cannot cover. So can Zhang Yang’s Deyang Cinema cover Jiahe’s audience group?
The answer is yes, and it is undoubtedly yes.

The reason why we can answer so affirmatively is because, in addition to publicity, today's Deyang Cinema actually has a superstar who plays a leading role in the dark, and this person is also a superstar of Jiahe who is good at action comedy...

Hong Jinbao!
The day after "The Raid" was released, "The Owl and Dumbo", a new film produced by Debao Pictures and directed by Hong Jinbao, also officially had its premiere in Golden Harvest, and in just one week, it was It has achieved a box office result of more than 500 million yuan, and the expected box office has reached 1700 million. Just like Zhang Yang's "The Raid", it has firmly locked in the top ten box office of the year.

At this point, DeYoung Cinema has been open for two months, and the two new films have the potential to be among the top ten of the year. They seem to be taking over the position of Shaw Brothers and competing with Golden Harvest and New Art City!
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