With the return of Hong Kong in '97, the number of film projects co-produced by Hong Kong and the mainland film industry has gradually increased.
In the past, this kind of project was led by the production team in Hong Kong, and the mainland staff only did some auxiliary work.
For example, helping to find locations, assisting in the production of props and building locations, organizing extras, and so on.
The main departments of the crew are all in charge of the personnel of Xiangjiang.
They feel that film practitioners in the mainland are backward, unprofessional, inefficient, and difficult to cooperate.
Nowadays, the film market in Xiangjiang is sluggish, and it is difficult to feed so many film practitioners by relying on the market in Xiangjiang alone.
It can be seen from the box office data of the movie.
Before 97 years, there were not a few films in Hong Kong that exceeded 50 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, but in 98, the highest box office performance of Hong Kong was only 41 million Hong Kong dollars, and the downward trend was obvious.
Once a movie sells well at the box office, it will be crowned as a rescue work by Xiangjiang Media.
The market has reached the point where it needs to be saved, which shows how depressed it is.
They want to go to Hollywood, but the threshold for Hollywood is too high, and they can't go there if they want to.
The people who can go to Hollywood are mainly people who are proficient in making action movies, and Xiangjiang's martial arts have a certain market in Hollywood.
As a result, many people have set their sights on the mainland, and co-production has become a new way out.
The mainland film market is just emerging, and even Hollywood is gradually paying attention to it, which naturally attracts the attention of Hong Kong filmmakers, who feel that this is a great opportunity to make money.
Hong Kong filmmakers work in the mainland, and their salaries are several times higher than those of mainland staff.
Jiang Zhiqiang and Lin Zixuan made it clear that he had already kept his salary very low.
Moreover, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's funds are tight, and the staff's salary will not be paid until the film is filmed and the money is obtained.
Lin Zixuan understands that this is a normal phenomenon, he can only increase the salary of mainland staff as much as possible, and not to be too far behind the production team of Xiangjiang, otherwise he will not even be able to stand it.
The pay gap between the two places will not be on par anytime soon.
Comparatively speaking, the salaries of the people brought by Li Yu from Hollywood are even more outrageous, and they are several times higher than the salaries of Xiangjiang filmmakers according to Hollywood standards.
In addition to the salary, there is also the issue of actors.
Jiang Zhiqiang explained his difficulties, and many famous actors in Xiangjiang are willing to lower their salaries to play Li Yu's new film.
It's one thing for everyone not to be optimistic about Li Yu's martial arts films, and it's another thing to star or not.
Most of the actors are coming for the name of Li Huan, a Hollywood director, and people don't value whether this film will be successful, but the benefits of cooperating with Li Huan.
Li Yan's film must take the international route and participate in major international film festivals, which is a good opportunity to show his face.
When entering Hollywood and negotiating conditions with Hollywood studios, it was a good bargaining chip to cooperate with Li Yu.
However, even if those big stars drop their salaries, they will not be less than $500,000.
The big stars in Xiangjiang are basically paid millions of dollars, and they can't say that I can just take 100,000 dollars.
"We have talked about this, the main roles are mainly mainland actors, and more money is invested in the production of the film, and mainland actors are not only paid low, but also have a good influence."
Lin Zixuan reiterated.
Chen Daoming has won many awards in China, and he is an absolute powerful actor.
Yu Feihong is the wife of the protagonist in the life and death decision, and is once again well-known to domestic audiences.
Although this character involves corruption, in the end, he knows his mistakes and can change them, and he voluntarily surrenders, gaining a certain degree of understanding from the audience.
Xu Jinglei has become a first-line star in China, and has attracted attention in the European film industry by going home.
Xia Yu is the Venice actor and the Golden Horse Award actor, although he has not made a movie in the past two years, the title of actor is still very valuable.
Zhang Guoli is the actor of the Cairo International Film Festival, who has won numerous awards in China and is a powerful actor.
This kind of all-star lineup is also difficult for the film industry of Xiangjiang to come up with, and the weight of the Xiangjiang Academy Awards and the Venice Golden Lion Awards is different.
Besides, the remuneration of mainland actors is generally not high.
Lin Zixuan offered Chen Daoming a maximum of 180,000 US dollars, equivalent to 1.5 million yuan.
Yu Feihong is 150,000 US dollars, Xu Jinglei and Xia Yu are 80,000 US dollars, and Zhang Guoli is a supporting role, so there are not many scenes, 50,000 US dollars.
This is already a very high salary in the mainland, and all of them add up to only about 500,000 US dollars.
"There are some relationships that I can't push, they're all friends for many years, and I can't help it."
Jiang Zhiqiang was embarrassed, "I promised that they would arrange auditions, and it was up to Li Yu to decide which actor to use in the end, what do you think?"
"Okay, auditions are fine, I want to keep the total salary of the actor under $1 million."
Lin Zixuan agreed.
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Jiang Zhiqiang said so, and it was inconvenient for him to refuse.
Not only Jiang Zhiqiang has this kind of trouble, Lin Zixuan also has similar problems, since the news of the filming of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came out, the entertainment industry in the mainland has also been surging.
Many actors are interested in starring in Li Yu's movies.
Lin Zixuan received a lot of calls and requests from Guan Shuo, they knew that Lin Zixuan had his own plans and would definitely use actors from his own company, but this time the opportunity was rare.
They just want a chance to audition, and maybe they will be taken by the director, which is all uncertain.
Some people will also go to Ge You to intercede with Feng Xiaogang, and even recommend actors directly to Li Yu.
This person is Zhang Yimou, ordinary people may not be able to talk to Li Yimou, but where is Zhang Yimou's fame, it is quite normal to visit Li Yi in the hotel.
The actor he recommended is called Zhang Ziyi, and she is the heroine of his new film.
This incident made Lin Zixuan not very happy.
After all, Good Dream Company is the investor of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and you recommend that actors can go on the right track, so it's really good to put aside Good Dream Company and talk directly to Li Yu The Beijing entertainment industry knows who the actor Lin Zixuan wants to choose, and those who say it only want a role, not necessarily the protagonist.
Zhang Yimou may feel that it is nothing to recommend an actor he likes by the way when chatting with Li Yan, but Lin Zixuan has a feeling of being ignored.
He knew about it afterwards, and Li Yan asked about Zhang Ziyi's situation.
This actor has studied dance and is currently studying at the Beijing Drama Academy, according to Zhang Yimou, he has great potential.
Zhang Ziyi, as the heroine of Zhang Yimou's new film and the new Mou girl, is not famous at the moment.
Before that, she had filmed a TV series with a salary of 4,000 yuan per episode, and the salary for filming Zhang Yimou's movie was 150,000.
This is the price code of second-tier actors in the mainland, and it is also Zhang Ziyi's position in the Beijing entertainment industry. t1706231537: