Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 111 Looking for a Director to Take Photos
Zhou Ziheng participated in three variety shows in Taiwan.

"Let's Go Crazy Tonight" on CTS, "Chain of Bubbles" on CTS, and "Dragon and Tiger Brothers" on TTV.

Three TV stations, three programs, so it can be said that everyone benefits equally.

After recording the three variety shows, Zhou Ziheng's schedule in Taiwan is almost coming to an end.

It may be because EMi expressed to the Taiwan side that Zhou Ziheng did not want to be followed all the time.

Or maybe other factors.

As Zhou Ziheng stayed in Wanwan for a little longer, the Taiwanese side evacuated those following him, and Zhou Ziheng was completely free.

Now that no one was following him around, Zhou Ziheng felt much more at ease.

He began to tour Taiwan under the guidance of Zhou Meilin.

I went to see several performances of "Pili Puppet Show".

To be honest, he was quite curious about this thing.

He remembered watching puppet shows on TV series when he was a child.

Although the characters in it are not animation and the real people are not real people, I have to say that the martial arts plot in it is really good.

His favorite role is Emperor Qi Tian.

awesomeness.

While visiting Taipei, Zhou Ziheng also visited several Taiwanese artists he knew.

Tong Ange, and Zhang Yusheng.

Zhou Ziheng also visited their home.

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The time came to January.

After a month of hot sales, the total sales of "Fairy Tale" reached 1.2 million in Chinese-speaking regions such as Southeast Asia, in addition to the mainland.

If orders from the mainland are included, the sales figures directly reach 2.5 million copies.

There is no doubt that this result is very shocking.

Some media predict that the total sales of this album in the Chinese-speaking regions will definitely exceed that of "Sad Pacific".

If we only talk about sales, based on the data of "Pacific Rim" and "Fairy Tale", Zhou Ziheng is worthy of being called the second Wang Jie.

In fact, he even surpassed him to a certain extent.

Wang Jie’s second album wasn’t that popular back then.

Except for records.

As for the movies, "The New Hard Times" will be released on December 29th.

The film was released for a total of eighteen days and the total box office reached twenty-six hundred and forty-seven million.

It ranked eighth on this year's Hong Kong Era box office list.

Ahead of him is Jackie Chan's "Crime Squad", which ranked seventh with 27.43 million.

Following it is Stephen Chow's "Fight Back to School III: Year of the Rooster", which lags slightly behind with 25.7 million.

The first movie he starred in achieved a good result of eighth place in the annual box office list.

This obviously made the Hong Kong film industry re-examine Zhou Ziheng.

Before Zhou Ziheng left Taiwan, he received invitations to act in movies from several film and television companies.

There is Yongsheng.

Even though Yongsheng’s background is often criticized, they are really willing to give money.

Yongsheng offered Zhou Ziheng 12 million chips for five plays.

Except Yongsheng.

Golden Harvest also invited Zhou Ziheng to act in the film.

Their price was higher, a total of 30 million, but the contract was longer, and they hoped to sign Zhou Ziheng for ten films.

Even if Zhou Ziheng worked as tirelessly as Andy Lau, it would take at least three years to finish filming ten movies.

So, without any hesitation, Zhou Ziheng directly refused.

Not only did he refuse Jiahe, he also refused Yongsheng.

Zhou Ziheng was not afraid that they would come to mess with him.

Anyway, he will be going back to the mainland soon. If you have the guts, come to the mainland to deal with me.

Of course, Zhou Ziheng is not that kind of idiot.

When he refused, he refused in a tactful way.

The reason is that the new year is about to begin and he has concert plans this year and has no time to film.

His reason is not really an excuse.

He has already made plans. After the Chinese New Year, around the end of February, he will start his first round of concerts.

This year should be regarded as the year when mainland singers collectively began to hold concerts on a large scale.

In addition to Zhou Ziheng who has already started planning a tour, Yang Yuying, Mao Amin, and even Liu Huan, as well as the rock stars Cui Jian, Black Panther, and Magic Rock have all decided to have concert plans this year.

It's just that it's different from others.

The scale of Zhou Ziheng's concert this time is a bit large.

A total of eight events have been planned in the Mainland.

There are eight cities, namely Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an, Chengdu and Chongqing, with one performance in each city.

Then there are Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries.

One in Macau, one in Hong Kong, two in Taiwan, one in Singapore, one in Malaysia, one in Thailand, and one each in Canada and the United States.

That adds up to seventeen games in total.

In fact, according to EMi’s idea, both Japan and South Korea should open it.

There are still quite a few Chinese people in these two places.

However, Zhou Ziheng temporarily postponed the two games in Japan and South Korea for the sake of safety.

He would rather have fewer shows and have them all sold out than see a huge stadium filled with only a few people scattered around.

Regarding the concert venue, Zhou Ziheng will be responsible for the mainland side, and he can ask someone to help contact the venue.

As for other regions, they were handed over to EMi.

If EMi hadn't stepped in and let Zhou Ziheng negotiate on his own, these things would definitely have been settled, but there would have been many twists and turns.

For example, in Hong Kong, the Hung Hom Stadium is not that easy to apply for.

There are a lot of events held here every year.

If you are not that person, ordinary people really cannot apply for it.

On January 2nd, Zhou Ziheng set out on his journey home.

Without any notification or farewell to the media, he returned to the mainland quietly.

As soon as he came back, Zhou Ziheng arranged for Wang Ziqi to contact the concert venue to discuss the issue.

Then we formed a photo shooting team.

He always remembered that his photos were selling very well in Taiwan.

That's all money!

If the sales are good, it will make more money than records.

What makes him even more excited is that taking photos is not as tiring as making an album.

Photo, the name is very grand.

Actually, it’s just taking pictures.

Women take a lot of beautiful photos, and if they are willing to show some skin, they can show a little.

For men, there are not so many requirements, just look the best.

Zhou Ziheng is still very confident about his appearance.

Not to mention surpassing Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok.

At least it's of the same level.

However, the director of a photo album needs to consider it carefully.

It doesn’t mean that just knowing how to use a camera is enough.

It has to be shot well.

People who know how to take photos know that photos taken by skilled photographers can really make a difference.

If you don’t know how to take pictures, then it’s not a portrait, but a photo.

Therefore, when choosing a director, Zhou Ziheng chose to find a veteran.

What is a veteran? It is a director who has taken photos of other actors and achieved good sales.

Zhou Ziheng looked around for friends in Hong Kong.

Finally, director Yang Fan was chosen.

In 1992, he photographed Leslie Cheung for the photo album "Beautiful Legend".

Zhou Ziheng knew about this set of photos.

He remembered that in later generations, one of the photos in this photo album was sold at a high price of 2016 yuan at an auction in 16.

Although it contains the meaning of commemorating Leslie Cheung.

But the photo album "Beautiful Legend" was also very popular in 1992 and is one of Leslie Cheung's most classic photo albums.

(End of this chapter)