At 9 am, Chunhu Kang arrived at Lefu subway station. The straight-line distance from the broadcast channel to Lefu subway station was only about 500 meters. Chunhu Kang walked for half an hour. Before he left, Chunhu Kang used his ears to scan Zhao Yuanzhi's room. Zhao Yuanzhi should have already left. Although Chunhu Kang's ability was not as exaggerated as Daredevil's, he was still much stronger than ordinary people. Of course, it was also possible that Zhao Yuanzhi was not up yet, so Chunhu Kang could not stand at the door and listen to people's breathing in the bedroom.
Chunhu Kang's plan today was to go to Yonghua's film set, which now belonged to Jiahe.
Currently, there were three major film studios in Hong Kong. The largest of them was the Shao's Cinemas in Qingshui Wharf, which was built in 1961. The establishment of Shao's Cinemas made Shao's dominant position in the film industry in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, Shao's films basically spread throughout Asia, and Southeast Asia was known as the backyard of Shao's films.
However, this year was 1980. Shao Daheng was going to become the largest shareholder of TVBTV and become the head of the board of directors. Shao Daheng's main focus was also transferred from the film company to the television station. During the same period, Shao's film business would continue to shrink and reduce the number of films. In 1985, they sold all the cinemas to Pan Disheng's newly established Debao Film Company. In May 1987, Shao's announced that they would stop producing films. During the period from the start of production to the suspension of production, Shao's produced more than 1,000 films. However, this was the history of another time and space. Now that there was Kang Chunhu, would everything still be like this?
After Shao's Studios was Shao's old rival, Jiahe's Yonghua Studio. This studio was originally Guotai's studio. In 1971, Guotai officially closed the production department and transferred Yonghua Studio to Jiahe.
The Yonghua film set was also one of the two thighs that Jiahe could rely on. To be honest, Jiahe's Zou Wenhuai was really lucky. In 1970, Zou Wenhuai left Shao's and founded Jiahe. At that time, Zou Wenhuai took away a large number of people from his old boss. One could imagine how angry Shao Daheng was. At that time, Shao Daheng completely banned Zou Wenhuai.
However, when luck came, there was really nothing you could do. First, you signed Li Xiaolong and filmed " Big Brother Tang Shan." In an instant, you made a name for yourself as Li Xiaolong. Then, you took over the Yonghua film set. Just like that, Jiahe stood firm. The Yonghua film set also became the base camp for Jiahe to fight against Shao's Qingshui Wharf film set.
The last and the smallest was Song City, a tourist city built by Qiu Degen in 1979. It was located in Lai Chi Corner, Hong long, and covered an area of 5.500 square meters. It was based on the painting of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's Along the River during the Qingming Festival. It was built after the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing (now Kaifeng). Moreover, this set could only shoot period dramas. This was also one of the reasons why Zou Degen basically shot all period dramas when he moved to Li in 1982.
Sitting on the subway, Chunhu Kang went through all the major film sets in Hong Kong. If he wanted to build an entertainment empire, he had to have his own film set. Of course, if Chunhu Kang only made movies and only made modern dramas, then it didn't matter if there was a film set or not. But would Chunhu Kang be so ambitious?
Arriving at the Yonghua film set, he bought a ticket and used 50 Hong Kong dollars to ask the staff passing by the door for the location of the target. Kang Chunhu walked towards his target. In fact, most of the film crews on the set were open to the public. This was to facilitate the interaction between the fans and the celebrities. It also allowed the reporters to have news to write about and the celebrities to increase their exposure. Moreover, the fans who came often could even save on the tickets.
At this moment, there was no such thing as a fan.
Kang Chunhu found the crew he was looking for. He didn't rush up to talk to them. Instead, he stood at the side and watched the entire crew shoot silently. Just looking at it didn't mean that he would be able to understand it. Otherwise, why would he need a teacher? However, this also depended on the person. With Kang Chunhu's current ability, it would be difficult to learn the essence just by looking at it. However, it wouldn't be a problem for him to learn the basic operation and imitate it.
After watching it for a while, Chunhu Kang guessed that the crew had just started filming because he had seen the movie before. Moreover, the movie would be released in February this year. With the speed of Hong Kong's film industry, if they were halfway through filming now, they wouldn't have waited so long for the release.
In fact, this crew had just started filming.
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Chunhu Kang watched for the entire morning until a bald man shouted," Cut! That's all for the morning. Let's eat."
Everyone seemed to relax after hearing the big baldy's words. Seeing this, Kang Chunhu also walked towards the baldy.
"Hello, Director Mai!" Chunhu Kang smiled and extended his hand to the bald director.
That's right, Chunhu Kang's target this time was Mecca, or more accurately, Mecca's movie, Crazy Cheater.
"Hello! I'm Mecca, what's the matter?" The current Mecca wasn't a big shot in a few years. There wasn't New Arts City yet. If Mecca met someone like Chunhu Kang in a few years, he probably wouldn't be so polite.
"My name is Kang Chunhu. I just came back from the United States a few days ago. I know that our Hong Kong movies are very good. I watched a lot of them when I was in the United States.”
Chunhu Kang knew that Mai Jia's " Crazy Scammers " was the 13th place box office in Hong Kong in 1980. It had also attracted the attention of the boss of the Golden Princess cinema, Lei Juekun. After the film was also successful, Mai Jia's Struggle Film Company joined the Golden Princess and changed its name to " New Arts City Film Company."
"I wonder what Mr. Kang means?”Mecca didn't understand what Chunhu Kang meant.
"Director Mag, you don't have to be so polite. Just call me Tiger. I heard that your Struggle Film Company is a little tight on funds for this movie!”
After hearing what Chunhu Kang said, Mecca somewhat understood.
"Tiger wants to invest in Struggle Film Company?”Although he, Ishida, and Huang Baiming had founded Struggle Film Company in 1979, they had always been actors for other companies. The current film, Crazy Old Cheater, was made by their start-up, and the filming budget was only 200,000 yuan. It was indeed a little tight, and this was because the main character was Ishida. The salary for insiders was very low.
"I want to invest in your movie. I wonder if Director Mai is interested?”
Chunhu Kang didn't want to invest in Struggle Film Company. If he did, he would only be a small shareholder. That would be far from his ambition.
"Our budget for this movie is 200,000 yuan. How much do you want to invest, Tiger?”Mecca didn't make any false reports to deceive Kang Chunhu, because this was their business. He was very careful!
"Then I'll also invest 200,000 yuan, but I want 30% of the box office earnings of your company. I also want to be the assistant director of this movie.”The three layers referred to the tax and the cinema chain. Kang Chunhu stated his own conditions.
Although Chunhu Kang was at a disadvantage, he only received three percent of the dividends after paying half of the funds. However, he couldn't do that. Chunhu Kang had only invested money and didn't do anything else. Most importantly, he could use his identity as an assistant director to learn the film knowledge he needed the most from the crew. After all, there were no film academies in Hong Kong for him to attend. Moreover, this way, Chunhu Kang could be considered to have entered the entertainment industry and become an insider.
Mecca lowered his head and calculated in his heart. He didn't have any objections to Chunhu Kang taking the title of assistant director. In Mecca's eyes, Chunhu Kang was just a rich kid who had nothing better to do and came here to play. Hong Kong's entertainment industry was neither big nor small. No matter what the news was, it would spread in less than a day. If Chunhu Kang really relied on this assistant director title to fool people, it would really be impossible.
Also, most of the Hong Kong film industry was pursuing " short, fast, and many ". What did that mean? It was just that the filming time had to be short, the release time had to be fast, and the money had to be earned. These all tested the director's ability, so Mecca was not afraid that Kang Chunhu would use his qualifications as an assistant director to fool people. Besides, even if he really fooled people, it had nothing to do with him!
"Alright then! I agree to your request, but I still need to discuss it with Ishida and Huang Baiming. How about this, if you have nothing to do, you can wait here. Ishida is one of the main characters of this movie. Huang Baiming will probably be here soon.”Mecca said to Chunhu Kang after calculating in his heart.
In fact, with the 200,000 yuan from Kang Chunhu, their " Crazy Old Cheater " could be shot more meticulously and brilliantly. Moreover, they did not have to save some money, and the effect of the filming would be better.
Just like that, Chunhu Kang basically joined the crew of " Crazy Cheater ". In fact, Mecca knew that Huang Baiming and Ishida would definitely agree. The reason why Mecca wanted to wait for Huang Baiming and the others was because they were partners after all. It would be inappropriate if he didn't ask for their opinions.
Since he had nothing to do anyway, Mecca called Ishida over to talk about Chunhu Kang. Ishida didn't have any objections and welcomed Chunhu Kang very much. After all, everyone hoped that the budget of the movie they starred in would be as large as possible. At this time, a stage supervisor brought lunch for Mecca and Ishida. Mecca asked the stage supervisor to bring another one for Chunhu Kang. Chunhu Kang originally thought that his meal was limited, so he said that he would go out to eat later. Unexpectedly, Mecca smiled and explained to him,"There are indeed a few, but there are often one or two more than the calculations. After all, there are sometimes some small situations. We can't let people act hungry. Moreover, even if there are more, it's fine. There are always some people who don't have enough, like martial arts and field workers. Anyway, they won't be wasted!”
After hearing what Mecca said, Kang Chunhu didn't stand on ceremony and started eating with Mecca and Ishida.
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