Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 846: Mr. Huang's Applause
Although it was Hideki Hanyu who treated them, because they were not familiar with the area, the place was finally chosen by Wong Jing, a Cantonese restaurant that looked quite old.

However, since he had just had dinner with Kamiya Eiichi before, the main purpose of his visit here was not to have a meal, so the restaurant was not important.

The Beyond band and Happy Girls group that were brought here were not separated on purpose, but sat in the box together with Hideki Hanyu, Wong Jing and Gao Zhisen.

While the dishes were still being served, Hanyu Hideki casually asked Wong Ka Kui who was sitting on the right, "It's been a long time since we last met. I wanted to talk to you about your recent situation, but I found out that you guys are here to make a movie. Do you want to change your career?"

"It's not that we want to change our careers, it's just... Hey!"

Huang Jiaju was halfway through his words when he suddenly sighed, and his whole body exuded an emotion of helplessness and inability to control himself.

When Hanyu Hideki saw this, he immediately guessed what was going on.

Most likely it has something to do with their agent Chen Jiantian.

He smiled and patted Huang Jiaju on the shoulder, "It's okay, let's eat first, we can talk slowly when we have time."

Wong Ka Kui knew about their affairs and it was not appropriate to talk about them in the current situation, so he nodded and did not mention his affairs anymore.

However, seeing Hanyu Hideki's attitude, Wong Ka Kui felt a little hope in his heart, thinking that Hanyu Hideki would definitely be able to help him solve his current troubles.

Although Hideki Hanyu is his boss, in Wong Ka Kui's opinion, Hideki Hanyu is not a traditional businessman and does not have the money-mindedness and cunningness of other bosses.

The fact that Yunshang Entertainment entered the Hong Kong music scene and began to implement a profit-sharing system has almost single-handedly changed the ecology of the Hong Kong music scene, helping a large number of behind-the-scenes creators to significantly increase their income.

This is enough to prove that although this company also wants to make money, it is not profit-driven.

Through the humanistic care in Yunshang Entertainment's business philosophy, the respect for contracted artists and creators, and the fact that there is rarely any mess from top to bottom, it is not difficult to see the style of the boss Hideki Hanyu.

In the eyes of Wong Ka Kui, Hideki Hanyu is not so much a businessman as he is more of a "rational" idealist with cultural literacy, personal stance and self-persistence, and a bottom line.

Hideki Hanyu naturally didn’t know that he would be so “tall” in Wong Ka Kui’s heart.

At this time, Hideki Hanyu turned around and was chatting with Wong Jing intently.

The main topic of their discussion was basically still around the film industry.

However, the topic of Hong Kong movies did not last too long, as Wong Jing tried to ask Hanyu Hideki about some things in Hollywood.

As a senior practitioner in Hong Kong film industry, Wong Jing is an actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and company owner, so he has some understanding of the overseas film industry.

How to say it...

What many young movie fans saw in the future was the declining and rotten Hong Kong film industry, and the monster-like Hong Kong filmmakers, which were actually just the state of "old age".

During its heyday, the Hong Kong film industry was not lacking in the courage to explore and innovate. Many companies and filmmakers also tried to step out of the small circle of Hong Kong and bravely venture out into the world.

It is a pity that the limitations of inherent conditions and other objective reasons ultimately led to the decline of Hong Kong films.

Of course, the bigger reason is that the Hong Kong film industry has exhausted all its resources, lost its way and brought about its own destruction. There is no need to elaborate on this here.

Wong Jing knew the relationship between Hollywood Cloud Pictures and Cloud Entertainment, and he also knew about the success Cloud Pictures achieved in Hollywood last year.

In terms of box office figures, Yunshang Pictures is not even inferior to the six major Hollywood studios.

In addition to Yunshang Pictures, Yunshang Entertainment is actually even more powerful in the overseas film market. Relying on the expansion of Crescent Cinemas, it has gradually become one of the world's leading distribution companies.

For Wong Jing, the collapse of Cinema City did dampen his morale.

But after starting over and starting his own business, his ambition for career began to rekindle.

Of course, this is also inseparable from Hideki Hanyu.

In his previous life, Wong Jing was unable to concentrate on the production company because he got involved in the establishment of Yonggao and Oriental Cinemas, and his thoughts on movies were no longer pure.

But at this time and place, thanks to Hideki Hanyu, Asia Cinemas almost monopolizes the entire cinema industry in Hong Kong.

Faced with the capital pressure from Asia Cinemas and Cloud Entertainment behind Asia Cinemas, even if someone in Hong Kong wants to join the cinema industry, they will only find that there is no chance and they are powerless.

So without being distracted, Wong Jing started to think that if he could hook up with the big boss Hideki Hanyu, then he would have someone to support him when he wants to develop overseas in the future.

Therefore, when he was talking to Hanyu Hideki, he basically said whatever he could to show his support.

At the beginning, I asked, "I heard that the movie produced by Yunshang Pictures, which you invested in America, last year had a total box office of more than 600 million US dollars in North America alone?"

As soon as Wong Jing said this, everyone else present showed shock on their faces.

US$600 million, calculated based on the current exchange rate, is approximately HK$4.6 billion.

Just saying this number may not make you feel anything.

However, according to the market report released by the Hong Kong Film Industry Association last year, the total box office of the Hong Kong film market in 1989 reached a new high.

As for what is this new high?

According to statistics from the Hong Kong Film Industry Association and other authoritative media, Hong Kong's total box office figures for 1989, including local productions and overseas films, were approximately between HK$ billion and HK$ billion.

Among them, the top ten Hong Kong local films accounted for HK$450 million in box office revenue.

It seems that Hong Kong's local films are very brilliant, but in comparison, they highlight how exaggerated the achievements of Yunshang Pictures are.

Of course, a direct comparison is not fair because of the difference in market size.

But the box office figures of a subsidiary company are equivalent to the trial production of four Hong Kong films. The shocking feeling is still too strong.

Especially when the person who created that data is sitting right in front of them.

If before, everyone only knew that Hideki Hanyu was a great figure because of various "rumors".

At this moment, when the huge and intuitive monetary figure was placed in front of everyone, Hideki Hanyu's strength was instantly visualized in everyone's mind.

To put it simply, Hideki Hanyu earns more money with just one subsidiary of America than the entire Hong Kong film industry combined.

In the past, many practitioners in the Hong Kong entertainment industry always wondered why Asian cinemas were so powerful but had never been involved in the film production business.

After all, according to the habits of Hong Kong cinema operators in the past, after dominating the cinema chain, they would definitely monopolize distribution and then interfere in the production business.

However, not only do Asian cinema chains not participate in film investment, they even have fair competition in film distribution. Even if they are not selected, it will not affect the screening schedule.

Now everyone present finally understood that it might not be that Asian cinemas did not want to do it, but that Hideki Hanyu simply looked down on the Hong Kong film production industry, which made little money and was troublesome.

Facing Wong Jing's support, Hanyu Hideki knew very well why Wong Jing knew all this and deliberately said it out here.

Of course, it was to make him happy.

So he also showed his pride and pretended to be modest, saying, "The numbers are a little different, but the market there is bigger, so it's normal that the box office is high."

In fact, he is really modest. According to Hollywood's statistical habits, the box office revenue of "Driving Miss Daisy", which was released in December last year, should also be counted in the 1989 data after entering this year.

By this calculation, Cloud Pictures' total North American box office revenue last year would have exceeded US$650 million.

The most important thing is that this box office number is not the end.

Because compared to the box office, "Driving Miss Daisy" performed even better during the awards season.

At the Golden Globe Awards in January, "Driving Miss Daisy" won three awards: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress.

In the Oscar nomination list announced earlier this month, "Driving Miss Daisy" was nominated for nine major awards.

If the results of this award ceremony are the same as in another time and space, "Driving Miss Daisy" will eventually win four out of nine nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Makeup and other awards.

With the support of the awards, the box office of "Driving Miss Daisy" will definitely go even further.

Looking at the achievements of this movie now, Hideki Hanyu recalled that he had spent three million US dollars to compete with Warner for the rights to adapt the original work, and felt that it was too cost-effective.

As soon as Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, Wong Jing immediately took over.

"The North American box office is so high. If we include overseas box office, it must be over 1 billion US dollars. After all, Yunshang Entertainment's overseas distribution capabilities are not inferior to those of major American studios."

At the table, the others were so shocked that they became numb when they heard the figure of one billion dollars.

In other words, the Beyong band, who regard music as their pursuit, behaved a little more normally. After all, they are not interested in the film industry.

But directors like Gao Zhisen, although they have a pursuit of film art in their hearts, they also desire to produce a super-selling commercial film.

This is also the reason why many Hong Kong film directors yearn for Hollywood.

So what if the movie sells for 30 or 40 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong?

The huge North American market is enough to crush its Hong Kong counterparts with just a little effort.

However, the members of the Happy Girls Group who were sitting next to Gao Zhisen were basically thinking, since the movie sold so much money, how much money should the actors in the movie get?

After all, who among those who are willing to enter this circle is not doing it for fame and fortune? In fact, for most people, fortune is far more important than fame.

In the past, they had heard that Hollywood actors made money, but it was basically hearsay and speculation.

But now that Hideki Hanyu, the boss of a Hollywood film company, is here, the curiosity in the hearts of several people can no longer be suppressed.

Among them, Li Lizhen, who had had a relationship with Hanyu Hideki and felt that she had some "affection" for him, tried to ask.

"Mr. Hanyu, how much do you usually pay actors at your Hollywood film company?"

As soon as Li Lizhen said this, she immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

After all, the gossipy mentality of inquiring about other people's income is engraved in everyone's mind.

Faced with everyone's curiosity, Hanyu Hideki did not refuse to answer, but pretended to think for a while before speaking.

"This actually depends on the film. If it is a low-cost art film, the film cost is actually very low. Famous actors are willing to reduce their salaries to appear in the film in order to win awards. Basically, it depends on the production cost, and there is no specific number.

But if it is a Hollywood commercial film, the pay will be based on the actor's status and the performance of previous films.

In the past two years, the overall salary in Hollywood has been rising. The main actors usually make between three and five million dollars, while the actresses make slightly less.”

Li Lizhen asked with a puzzled look on her face, "But I saw in the news that Stallone and Schwarzenegger's pay for their films was said to be tens of millions of dollars."

Hanyu Hideki explained, “The two you mentioned can no longer be called actors in Hollywood, but should be called superstars, or action superstars.

Their pay cannot be calculated according to the market rules of ordinary actors, because in the field of action movies, they themselves have great box office appeal.

Of course, once they leave the scope of action movies, their pay also needs to be calculated separately.

As for the tens of millions of dollars you mentioned, it is true. These two people could have received a basic salary of 12 million dollars in 1985. "In fact, speaking of this, Hanyu Hideki wanted to talk about one more person, that is, the heroine of "Pretty Woman" which will be released next month, Julia Roberts.

The huge success of this movie made Zhu Dazui's salary surpass that of her predecessor Barbra Streisand, becoming the first Hollywood female star with a salary of 7 million US dollars.

Even though Hideki Hanyu didn't say it, everyone was still shocked by the exaggerated pay in Hollywood.

Li Lizhen couldn't wait to ask, "What if... I mean if, we have the opportunity to film in Hollywood, how much can we get paid?"

Hanyu Hideki thought for a moment and replied, “Cloud Pictures has actually worked with overseas artists before. Considering the local box office influence of overseas artists, the pay for famous artists is generally between 300,000 and 500,000 US dollars.

Of course there are exceptions. For example, action stars like Jackie Chan can get between $800,000 and $1 million for each film.

As for you..."

Having said that, Hanyu Hideki looked at the four happy girls who were full of expectation, hesitated for a moment and said with embarrassment.

"Considering your popularity in Hong Kong, if Cloud Pictures takes the initiative to invite you, one hundred thousand dollars should be no problem."

Hideki Hanyu seemed to have said a very low number.

But when these words fell into the ears of the Happy Girls Group, the four girls showed expressions of surprise that they could not hide.

It's not too low.

But it is higher than you can imagine!

In today's Hong Kong film industry, although the pay of people like Sam Hui, Sam Hui, Jacky Cheung and Chow Yun-fat is exaggerated, it is actually not of reference value, just like Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and they do not belong to the ranks of ordinary actors.

Let’s just talk about the normal actors’ pay.

For example, in the past two years, the actress with the highest pay among Hong Kong film crews is Anita Mui, except for Wang Zuxian, who was forced by a scumbag to give birth in Canada, and Anita Mui.

How much was Anita Mui’s pay for a movie?

Between 120 million and 150 million.

As for male actors, the popular Andy Lau is the most expensive, but his salary will not exceed 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

(Hong Kong Artists Income List 1990·Figure)
The four members of the Happy Girls Group recalled the income of these Hong Kong stars, and then thought about the pay that Hideki Hanyu said Yunshang Pictures could offer them.

One hundred thousand US dollars, nearly eight hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.

It is enough to surpass 99% of the stars in Hong Kong and be on par with the superstars.

How much money can they get from "Happy Ghost Saves Happy Ghost"?

Others may not know, but Li Lizhen herself only has a mere 50,000.

In other words, making a movie in Hollywood is equivalent to making dozens of movies in Hong Kong.

Thinking of this, Li Lizhen felt extremely regretful.

At the beginning, she had a one-night stand with Hideki Hanyu. Although she was attracted by Hanyu Hideki's appearance, Hanyu Hideki still took her shopping and spent hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars afterwards.

If she had known earlier, she would not have asked for those material benefits, but would have asked Hanyu Hideki to introduce her to Hollywood to make a movie.

Maybe by now, her salary has exceeded $100,000.

As this regret arose, Li Lizhen's gaze towards Hanyu Hideki became increasingly hot.

Naturally, Hanyu Hideki noticed the look in this woman's eyes.

But he pretended not to see it.

In his previous life, he had read many reports about Li Lizhen's extravagant love history.

Many movie fans say that Li Lizhen completed the transformation from a virgin to a lustful woman after filming "Sex and the City".

But if you learn a little more about it, you will find that this girl from an ordinary family has never been a law-abiding person since she entered the entertainment industry for money at the age of fourteen.

When she was a minor, it was rumored that she was kept by Mak Dang-hsung's younger brother.

Afterwards, she was willing to give up her career and fall in love with Xie Tingfeng's uncle Patrick Tse.

As a result, this seemingly passionate relationship ended at a faster speed than its prime, and then Li Lizhen seamlessly joined TVB actor Lam Li.

But the problem is that during her relationship with Lin Li, Li Lizhen cheated on her and got back together with Patrick.

After that, Li Lizhen did not have any results with these two people, but turned into a butterfly, wandering among many rumored boyfriends.

She was rumored to have an affair with Leslie Cheung and intervened in the relationship of lyricist Pan Yuanliang, which led to his divorce from his wife.

Then there were rumors of scandals with cartoonist Qi Wenjie, musician Lei Youhui, TVB's Chin Kar Lok and others.

And this is just the "temporary" relationship that Li Lizhen has experienced so far.

As for the future, after becoming famous for shooting erotic films, he retired from the entertainment industry and married the musician Xuyuan and had a daughter. However, he was suspected of cheating on his wife, which led to divorce and he made a comeback.

Then there are the musician Huang Shangwei, Liao Chongxing's prince Liao Yaocheng, film company owner Wu Jianxiong, dance teacher Lin Qingfeng, male best friend Ma Guican, old lover Pan Yuanliang and a host of other true or false relationships.

In particular, the scandal with her male best friend Ma Guican was exposed by Ma Guican's wife, who said that Li Lizhen had a "threesome" with her and her husband at home, which completely brought Li Lizhen's reputation to the bottom.

Look at this rich emotional experience, even Seiko Matsuda would express admiration after seeing it.

So for Li Lizhen, Hanyu Hideki originally took advantage of her youth and beauty to play a friendly match with her with the idea of ​​fulfilling his wish from his previous life.

After all, when watching the movies starring the other party, the young scumbag couldn't help but fantasize about her at night.

And once his fantasy was fulfilled, he no longer had any interest.

So compared to Li Lizhen, the scumbag was actually more interested in Fennie Yuen who was sitting next to Li Lizhen.

Twenty years old is the prime of youth and beauty.

Although the other party also filmed restricted movies in the future, she was abandoned by Aaron Kwok and embarked on the path of a "canary" who hung out with rich men, and ultimately remained unmarried for the rest of her life.

On the surface, it seems to be my own choice, but when you look deeper, it is a tragedy.

Because the next year, the person who forced Fennie Yuen to sign the contract and shoot that restricted movie was named Cai Ziming.

This person's relationship with Taoism is basically known to everyone in later generations.

If Cai Ziming had not died tragically on the street not long after signing the contract, Fennie Yuen would probably have filmed more than one restricted-level movie.

Of course, the way the girl looked at him at this moment was also very unusual.

But the scumbag is not in a hurry and continues to pretend to be cool by relying on Wong Jing's flattery.

Anyway, after the meal, Hideki Hanyu was quite satisfied with this veteran in the Hong Kong film industry.

And Wong Jing also got what he wanted.

At the restaurant entrance, Hideki Hanyu handed a business card to Wong Jing and gave him instructions.

"Boss Huang, this is my personal contact information. I hope you can keep it confidential."

"Of course." Wong Jing quickly assured.

"I had a lot of fun today. Next I plan to go to the place where Beyond practices singing. I'll say goodbye to Mr. Huang first."

After saying goodbye to Wong Jing, Hanyu Hideki turned around and invited the four members of the Happy Girls Group, "Would you ladies like to come and play together? Singing with the equipment over there is better than karaoke."

After hearing what Hanyu Hideki said, Li Lizhen quickly expressed her agreement, and Fennie Yuen and Chen Jialing also echoed it one after another.

Only Luo Meiwei looked at the street not far away and said embarrassedly, "Mr. Hanyu, it's too late. My boyfriend is here to pick me up."

"Your boyfriend?"

Hanyu Hideki followed the other person's line of sight and found that there was a young man wearing a hat looking over here on the side of the street.

Who else could it be but Jacky Cheung?

Seeing that Hanyu Hideki had spotted him, Jacky Cheung could only walk up to him and say hello, "Mr. Hanyu, good evening."

Although Jacky Cheung is not familiar with Hideki Hanyu, he still has a good impression of this boss.

After all, he was poached from PolyGram by Cloud Music when his career was at a low point.

After joining Cloud Music, Cloud Music not only attached great importance to him, but also gave him due respect and slowly helped him out of the trough of his career.

Because he loves someone, he also loves his dog, so he has a good impression of Hanyu Hideki.

As for Hideki Hanyu, he was also very satisfied when he saw Jacky Cheung, who has now become the mainstay of the Cloud Music Station.

In the original time and space, when PolyGram was at its peak in Hong Kong, it had Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, and Leon Lai among the Four Heavenly Kings.

But now, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung have signed contracts with Cloud Music.

As for Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai, both of them were signed to TVB's Huaxing Records at this time. In Hanyu Hideki's view, they were also in the bag for Cloud Music.

Why do you want to ask?
Not to mention that Yunshang Group has been cooperating closely with TVB, Yunshang Group is also one of TVB's major shareholders. If Hanyu Hideki wants someone, it only takes a word for him to get him.

In fact, as Mr. Shao and Fang Yihua continued to shift their career focus to TVB's television business, film production, cinema and other businesses were abandoned one after another, and it was only a matter of time before the Huaxing record company was abandoned.

Originally, Huaxing Records was acquired by South China Morning Post (SCMP Group) in the mid-1990s.

Today, Cloud Music has already begun to promote this matter.

So let alone the two artists, even Huaxing Records itself is already in the hands of Yunshang Music.

Even Hideki Hanyu was already planning that once he got Huaxing Records, he would start arranging for Masashi Kobayashi to promote the "Four Heavenly Kings" plan.

With the media resources of the Yunshang system, the influence of the "Four Heavenly Kings" will certainly be higher than that of another time and space.

At this time, Jacky Cheung greeted him, and Hanyu Hideki took the opportunity to invite him.

"You came just in time. We were planning to go to the place where Beyond was practicing singing, but Miss Luo didn't dare to go alone. You're here just in time to accompany her."

I was too tired and overslept. I only wrote 6,300 words. I really can’t type enough for four more chapters, so I’ll just post them all at once and not save them. I’ll write more tomorrow.

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