Throw eight million dollars to ask Stephen Chow to sign Donnie Yen
In 1991, Huang Baiming founded the first film company, and the shooting of the first film "Family Happiness" was also mentioned. On the agenda.
However, the casting is worrying Huang Baiming. This film tells the story of three brothers. After careful consideration, Huang Baiming chooses Leslie Cheung to play the third, and the second one, and the eldest brother invites Chow Yun-fat or Lin Zixiang starred.
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Unexpectedly, Chow Yun-fat and Lam Zixiang both did not have the schedule to play the role of the boss. At the same time, Leslie Cheung took the initiative to play the second child, he wanted to challenge this somewhat sissy role.
Therefore, Huang Baiming decided to play the role of the boss by himself without a choice of angles. Then he went to find Master Xing and played the role of "the youngest."
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After Stephen Chow became popular in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, his remuneration once exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars. When Huang Baiming went to find him, he knew that he was going to spend a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, Stephen Chow saw Huang Baiming take the initiative to invite himself to star in a movie, and the price started at 8 million yuan. After hearing his offer, Huang Baiming was also stunned!
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Seeing that the lion spoke so loudly, Huang Baiming wanted to refuse directly.However, he considered that Stephen Chow has a strong box office appeal, and in his own mind, he has long determined that he is the most suitable candidate.
Therefore, Huang Baiming could only bite the bullet and agreed to Xingye's eight million salary request.
Huang Baiming
However, compared with Donnie Yen’s 100 million remuneration, Stephen Chow’s 8 million is nothing short of nothing.
At that time, Donnie Yen's reputation was far inferior to Jackie Chan, Jet Li and other martial arts superstars, so there are not many satisfactory scripts for him to choose.
Donnie Yen
Coincidentally, Huang Baiming was casting a role for the martial arts movie " Ip Man", and his film company could not afford the high pay of martial arts superstars such as Jackie Chan. Look for Donnie Yen to play.
At that time, Donnie Yen could only be said to be a small celebrity, so he did not dare to pay too high a salary. When the two collaborated for the first time, Donnie’s salary was only three million.
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During the collaboration between the two, Donnie Yen showed the professionalism that an actor should have. With a serious and rigorous work attitude, he restored Ye Wen's various martial arts moves, which impressed him. Huang Baiming.
After the movie "Ip Man" hit the box office, Yen Zidan began to really become popular and became a popular martial arts movie star.
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z As a filmmaker keen on the market,Huang Baiming quickly smelled the business opportunity. He felt that "Ip Man" could shoot the second, third, and even the fourth part.
So he took the opportunity to seize the heat, and soon released the second and third parts of "Ip Man". Yen Zidan's remuneration also began to rise, from 3 million to 50 million.
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Huang Baiming believes that only Donnie Yen can interpret the master style of Ip Man, coupled with the appeal of his fame to the box office, so when I filmed " Ip Man 4 " , Huang Baiming still looked for Donnie Yen to play the role of Ye Wen.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Donnie Yen offered a 100 million yuan salary request and also offered a box office dividend.
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After integrating Donnie Yen’s market value, Huang Baiming thought he was worth the price, so he readily agreed. In the end, "Ip Man 4" really exploded again, allowing Huang Baiming and Yen Zidan to make a fortune, enough to see his overall view.
Huang Baiming and Donnie Yen
Milestones in Hong Kong classic films
Looking back at Huang Baiming’s first half of his life, after graduating from high school in 1966, he joined the Green Village Radio Station in Macau under the recommendation of his family. Just engaged in an editorial position.
Three years later, he crossed over to a drama club in Hong Kong, tried to serve as a screenwriter, actor and director, and officially entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Actually, from the young age,Huang Baiming is keen on literature and art work. At that time, he was exposed to a lot of drama performances and appeared in dramas almost all day long.
After accumulating certain experience in the entertainment industry, Huang Baiming established Xinyicheng Film Co., Ltd. through a joint venture.
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Since then, his film company produced "Best Partner" and " Happy Ghost" and other films, which have achieved impressive box office results in Hong Kong film circles and are also in Hong Kong. Many awards have been won in the Golden Image Awards.
Among them, "Happy Ghost" is self-directed and acted by him. Later, this movie was also known as a classic of Hong Kong ghost films.
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Since then, Huang Baiming's new art city has formed a three-point world with Shaw and .
In addition to being good at writing scripts and acting, Huang Baiming is also good at tapping potential actors.
Huang Baiming when he was young
For example, Zhou Yunfa, before he became a big name, was once called "box office poison" by Hong Kong media. But Huang Baiming didn't believe in this evil. He believed that Chow Yun-fat's acting skills were remarkable, so when filming the movie " Heroes ", he invited Zhou Run to act.
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It turns out thatHuang Baiming's vision has never been wrong.
After the movie "The True Colors of a Hero" was released, Chow Yun-fat's " little horse " was enthusiastically praised by the audience. More importantly, the film also became the box office champion of the year, refreshing Hong Kong movies. Box office records.
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"The True Colors of a Hero" not only brought huge box office revenue to Huang Baiming, but also proved Chow Yun-fat's strength.
Huang Baiming not only popularized Chow Yun-fat, but also discovered Huang Jiaju in Beyond.
Huang Baiming and Beyond
In addition to operating film and television business, his film company also has a new Yibao record company.
In Hong Kong in the 1980s, Leslie Cheung was still an artist at the New Yibao Records.
Although Beyond’s songs are now popular in the streets, but at that time, compared with heavyweight singer Leslie Cheung, Xu Guanjie and others, it was just a little-known underground band.
Huang Baiming and Leslie Cheung
later Beyond signed a contract with Xinyibao, Huang Jiaju composed "I really love you" and " earth" and soon established his Cantonese songs. important position.
In order to allow Beyond to diversify,Huang Baiming began to lead them into the film and television industry.
Beyond
After that, members of the Beyond band starred in the New Year film " auspicious star arch photo " and " happy ghost saves happy ghost ", all of which were well received.
It can be seen that every decision Huang Baiming makes is well thought out, and he is not a fool with a lot of money.
Beyond
I will never leave my wife, and be kind and righteous to my friends
Huang Baiming, who has gained both fame and fortune, can hold the bottom line, whether he is a person or a family. Ying Yanyan was confused.
In 1970, he met his current wife Xu Wenjuan, and they married soon after. After marriage, his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter for Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming's family of four
But the family of four who should have lived a happy life suddenly received a heavy blow.
It turned out that his wife Xu Wenjuan was diagnosed with " ovarian cancer " during a physical examination. After Huang Baiming learned about it, he kept hanging on his heart, both anxious and fearful.
Xu Wenjuan and Huang Baiming
After learning about the risk of this cancer, he immediately made a decision. That is to temporarily retreat from the showbiz and shift the focus to the family.
During the period when his wife Xu Wenjuan was sick,Huang Baiming personally fed her food and medicine, and took care of his wife's daily life.
Xu Wenjuan and Huang Baiming
In fact, the reason why he did this was to give his wife a sense of security on the one hand, and to make up for his negligence in the family on the other.
Because Huang Baiming discovered that in the past period of time, he has been busy with the work of the show business, and his family relied on his wife Xu Wenjuan to take care of her, and he did not care enough about her. In addition, ovarian cancer cannot be cured in a short time, so he must spare time.
Huang Baiming and Xu Wenjuan
Perhaps thanks to the irrigation of love, his wife Xu Wenjuan's condition gradually improved. After Huang Baiming's 15 years of careful care, his wife finally succeeded in fighting cancer and was able to live a healthy life.
In order to record this difficult anti-cancer experience, Huang Baiming also wrote the book "Survival from a Desperate Situation".
Huang Baiming's family of three
Many people have been moved by the feelings of Huang Baiming and his wife after reading "Desperate Survival" and praised him as a good husband who will never leave the family.
But everyone who knows Huang Baiming knows that he not only attaches great importance to his family, but is also grateful to the friends who have helped him.
Huang Baiming
Huang Baiming has developed in the Hong Kong film scene for many years and has worked with countless movie stars. The only person who can really admire him is Leslie Cheung.
Huang Baiming’s movie "Singing at Midnight" was about to start shooting, and there was still a lack of an actor,Leslie Cheung recommended Gu Tianle . Unexpectedly, TVB didn't let anyone go, so my brother helped Huang Baiming hire Huang Lei to play, so Huang Baiming was very grateful to him.
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Leslie Cheung also appeared in "Farewell Family". At that time, he thought about Huang Baiming once set himself to shoot "Farewell My Concubine" and said that the remuneration would be paid at a friendly price.
Later, when the sequel of "Family Happiness" was filmed, Huang Baiming didn't want to continue to take advantage of Leslie Cheung, so by controlling all aspects of the cost, he once again invited Zhou Xingchi, who offered the sky-high remuneration.
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And Leslie Cheung didn't know where he heard the news. On the day when the sequel of "Family Happiness" started, he personally called Huang Baiming and said that he would make a free guest appearance in the film.
Huang Baiming felt embarrassed and praised Leslie Cheung for his affection and righteousness.
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It can be seen that Huang Baiming and Leslie Cheung have a tacit understanding of cooperation. Both of them know that each other treats themselves well, and always keeps it in mind, and when the other needs help most , Lend a helping hand at the right time.
Huang Baiming, who is now more than ancient, has been promoted to become a grandfather and grandfather, and has lived a life of a sweetheart and grandson. He is still active on stage and behind the scenes. The TV series "Anti-Corruption Storm 5", which was broadcast this year, was produced by him.
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As a senior producer and artist in Hong Kong,Huang Baiming witnessed the golden age of Hong Kong movies, during which he also contributed a large number of excellent films. His comedies can be said to be a microcosm of Hong Kong movies and are worthy of admiration.
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