Dreams of the Fragrant River

Because it has to be released in time for the Spring Festival, and the Cantonese dubbing has to be re-dubbed later, there is not much time left for Kang Jianfei. [;Starting]

The crew members took the train to Lijiang first, and Kang Jianfei took Wen Bixia to fly to Kun/Ming after two or three days of delay in Dengfeng.

The Shaolin Temple Tourism Development Company is still going through the formalities, and the various departments in Dengfeng are very efficient, but it will take a few days for the Zhengzhou Tourism Bureau. Architectural design experts invited by the province have also arrived in Dengfeng one after another, and will soon go to Songshan for research and measurement.

Kang Jianfei originally planned to give Hu Juncai 10% of the shares of Shaolin Temple Tourism Development Company. After all, Shaolin Temple will not want to make money within a few years, and Hu Juncai must stay in Dengfeng for a long time after accepting the mess, which can be regarded as some compensation for the entrepreneurial veterans. .

Hu Juncai's building in Bao'an's hometown has been repaired. He feels that he can make a fortune thanks to Kang Jianfei's support, and the two are good friends, so this time he was really embarrassed to ask for more shares, and finally took 5% reluctantly. This 5% is the shares of the Shaolin Temple Development Tourism Company, while the Shaolin Temple Wushu School is exclusively owned by Kang Jianfei, not even the monks in the temple.

The development of Shaolin Temple is a long-term task. Given the current political and economic environment in China, it cannot be accomplished overnight. If Shaolin Temple really wants to enter a period of rapid development, it is at least something after the 1990s. That is to say, within ten years, the rich and powerful should not be eyeing this place, and when the profit is realized in five or six years at most, the local government will be jealous and stretch its claws. At that time, Kang Jianfei had more or less blood, and as long as the other party didn't bite too hard, Kang Jianfei was going to take it easy.

Once the Shaolin Temple has entered a state of rapid development, the drive to the local economy is very abnormal. To put it figuratively, if the Shaolin Temple's ticket revenue is 1 yuan, then the income brought to the local finance is 10 yuan, and the indirect income of the private sector is more than 1,000 yuan.

In this way, although the income of Shaolin Temple is large, it is not too outrageous. not to mention. Kang Jianfei's investment in Shaolin Temple is not just to collect tickets, it is also related to his future film and television layout and political layout in the mainland.

Not only the Shaolin Temple, Kang Jian flew a huge sum of 50,000 yuan to renovate some ancient buildings in Lijiang. It was not his kindness, but he reached a film and television cooperation agreement with the local government in advance.

Lijiang is an autonomous county of ethnic minorities. There are not many tourists at this time. Compared with Dengfeng County, it is poorer and more remote.

Kang Jianfei invested 50,000 yuan in it, and at most 20,000 yuan could be used to renovate ancient buildings, and the rest of the money was naturally used for financial emergency. within the next fifteen years. Kang Jianfei's DreamWorks will receive strong local support for filming in Lijiang.

Although Kang Jianfei can not fly these tens of thousands of dollars. The local government will certainly give some help. But obviously not too enthusiastic.

Not to mention Kang Jianfei, a Hong Kong director, even mainland directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Laomou, when they went out to film in the 1980s and 1990s, they encountered various difficulties and unexpected situations at the local level.

It is impossible for Kang Jianfei to seek people from Hong Kong and Macau every time something goes wrong. It's better to take care of things in advance, and the local department will be responsible for solving the problem, which is far more useful than the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.

If it weren't for building a film and television city in the mainland now, it would definitely lose money. Kang Jianfei would have gone to Hengdian to buy the land and got the film and television city out first.

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"This place is so beautiful!"

Before entering Lijiang County, Wen Bixia had already sighed at the blue sky in the wild.

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Next time I will take you to Jiuzhaigou, which is as beautiful as a fairyland."

Chen Mo has been familiar with Kang Jianfei these days, and sometimes he can make a few jokes. He asked, "Where is Jiuzhaigou?"

Kang Jianfei was not too surprised. After all, tourism is not popular in the mainland right now. He replied casually, "In Sichuan."

Chen Mo said strangely: "You don't seem to have been to Sichuan, how do you know the scenery there is beautiful?"

Kang Jianfei and Hu Zou said: "I heard from an old gentleman in Hong Kong that he used to be from Sichuan."

"Oh." Chen Mo didn't ask any further. His eyes turned out of the car window. In fact, Chen Mo came to Lijiang for the first time. He was still a little emotional when he first received the **** assignment, but now he thinks it would be good to travel with the crew. It would be more perfect if he could bring his wife and children with him.

When the car drove into Lijiang County, Kang Jianfei found that compared with 30 years later, it looked a bit old and dilapidated. However, compared with the hustle and bustle of later generations, as well as a large number of restored modern antique buildings, Lijiang at this time is more natural and simple, but it is a good place to relax.

After reuniting with the crew members, Kang Jianfei immediately prepared to start shooting.

At this time, the benefits of taking care of the local government in advance came. Before the shooting began, the local public security helped to clear the scene to maintain order, and the extra actors and the county troupe were asked to help. Kang Jianfei only needed to take care of the meals, and he didn't even have to pay the salary.

"The twenty-eighth scene, the first shot, Akesh!"

In this scene, Zhang Sanfeng (played by Li Lianjie) and Dong Tianbao (played by Hui Tianci) join forces to fight the local ruffian, and the goddess thief played by Wen Bixia is also in the scuffle.

Except for the local ruffian head, the other rogues were played by local troupe actors. After a brief reminder and explanation, these troupe personnel quickly got started.

Li Lianjie also had a tacit understanding with the crew, and the shooting speed was more than double that of He Nan.

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When Kang Jianfei was filming in Lijiang, Yu Rentai's filming was finally completed, but there was something wrong with the schedule of the film.

Because it's almost Christmas time, DreamWorks is currently showing, next is Art City, and then the Spring Festival season scheduled for Kang Jianfei's new film.

After dawdling for a long time, Princess Jin finally arranged 8 theaters for the week before Christmas. If the box office response is good, additional screenings will be added.

The results were very depressing. The box office on the first day was well over 400,000, but the single-day box office on the second day dropped to 360,000. A week later, when Christmas came, due to the low attendance rate, it was reduced to only three small theaters, and soon after that it was released ahead of schedule.

According to the final box office statistics, there are only a pitiful 2.98 million, and the cost of this film is more than 1.6 million. The local box office alone cannot recover the cost, and can only hope in overseas markets.

The "failure" of the box office has aroused great interest in the media. Although this kind of box office has been regarded as a moderate result in the films made by Shaw Brothers in the past two years, it is completely different when it appears in DreamWorks.

Since the beginning of the venture, the films produced by Oriental DreamWorks, whether directed by Kang Jianfei himself or directed by others, have all been big hits. Even Xu Anhua's just-made literary film can make hundreds of thousands of dollars at the box office in its hometown. However, with Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong appearing, there is a "failure" at the box office, which is very dazzling.

For a time, director Yu Rentai became a box office poison, because his last movie was a big hit, and investors lost a lot of money.

Who would dare to invite a director who lost money for two consecutive films?

Many media are reporting the "failure" of Kang Jianfei's investment. Everyone is looking forward to Kang Jianfei, who has only made a profit and never loses, misses once. Under the repeated reports of the media, readers who did not know the truth really thought that DreamWorks had lost a lot of money by investing in movies.

Under the pressure of such public opinion, Yu Rentai felt shameless to stay any longer, and finally took the initiative to hand over his resignation letter to Zhou Mingfang.

Zhou Mingfang felt inexplicable, returned Yu Rentai's resignation letter to him and said, "Why did you resign?"

Yu Rentai sighed: "I have failed Mr. Kang's trust, and I have no face to continue working at DreamWorks."

Zhou Mingfang would not agree to his resignation, because Yu Rentai was recruited into the company by Kang Jianfei himself, and he had to go through Kang Jianfei to nod his head. She said, "President Kang will be back in a few days. If you want to resign, go to him in person. Bar."

Yu Rentai had no choice but to put away his resignation letter and said, "Vice President Zhou, then I'll go out first."

"Go." Zhou Minfang nodded.

Eu Rentae walked out of the office with his head down. If his movie made 2.98 million at the box office last year, it would be acceptable. However, this year's labor and ticket prices have risen a lot. Judging from the production cost of more than 1.6 million, the box office of 2.98 million can already be included in the category of rushing.

Not every film can be sold in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Hong Kong films today are not as good as those in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As long as it is a Hong Kong film, overseas filmmakers are rushing for it. At this time, except for Shaw Brothers, which has its own theater chain in Nanyang, which can be released in Nanyang at will, the films of other production companies must be selected before they can enter the Nanyang and Taiwan markets.

Basically, 4 of the 10 films released in Hong Kong can be sold to other cities. A movie like this in Hong Kong ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has very little chance of selling, unless it is a Shaw Brothers film.

After leaving Zhou Mingfang's office, Yu Rentai ran into Zeng Zhiwei who was whistling before he walked very far. Compared with Yu Rentai's depression, Zeng Zhiwei is complacent and happy.

Since becoming the production manager of DreamWorks, Zeng Zhiwei can be said to have everything going smoothly. He directed the series of big hits, and now he has entered the ranks of top-grossing directors.

Yu Rentai greeted Zeng Zhiwei with a reluctant smile: "Manager Zeng is in the morning."

When Zeng Zhiwei saw his face, he knew that Yu Rentai was uncomfortable, and comforted: "Don't listen to those newspaper scribbles, there's no way to make a movie without losing money. I'm still the producer, and half of the responsibility is for me if the movie fails. Kang I'm going to explain to him when Mr.

Yu Rentai sighed and didn't mention anything, but changed the subject and asked, "Filming finished?"

As soon as he mentioned it, Zeng Zhiwei sighed: "It's been over a week since the filming. Among the directors I know, except for Mr. Kang, this Fatty Wang is the fastest filmmaker."