Dreams of the Fragrant River

Since April, Kang Jianfei has plunged into the production of "Once Upon a Time" and seldom asked Pan Yingzi and the child in her stomach, mainly because Kang Jianfei didn't know how to deal with it. {starter}

"The Gambler" has also ended its screening in Singapore and South Korea. The box office revenue in Singapore alone is as high as 940,000 US dollars, which is an excellent box office result. The starring Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda also entered the attention of Nanyang audiences again after "Love Saint" and became well-known local stars.

As for Lizhi, the heroine of the vase, she also showed her face a lot. Unfortunately, Lizhi was arranged by Kang Jianfei to go back to the United States to study at university, and she was not prepared to continue to be an actress.

Xiongfei Records released "Water Village in a Dream" for Li Ningyu, and the album sales have exceeded 3 million. Although the growth rate has been slow since March, department stores across the country are still selling sporadically every day, and pirated tapes on the roadside have also begun to flood.

"Out of Africa", invested by Kang Jianfei's American Oriental Film Company, has been filming for more than half a year, but the filming progress is only over two-thirds, and it will not be completed until at least summer.

In addition to not being able to sell the film to Taiwan, Kang Jianfei's career can be said to be smooth sailing. Now the property market in Hong Kong is picking up. Kang Jianfei bought land and real estate because of the large amount of land prices before, and his net worth is growing rapidly every day.

Although DreamWorks movies can no longer enter Taiwan through formal channels, Zhou Xingchi's fame has spread rapidly in Taiwan. The two nonsensical comedies "The Lover" and "The Gambler" have turned the Taiwan audience upside down.

At this time, Taiwan was known as the kingdom of pirates, and various pirated products could be seen everywhere, and pirated videotapes of "The Lover" and "The Gambler" also appeared in rental houses in Taiwan.

What spreads faster than pirated video tapes are those illegal underground TV stations in Taiwan. This type of TV station is spread all over Taiwan, especially in the southern region. Due to the control of the Information Bureau at this time, many Taiwanese viewers cannot watch overseas programs, so this kind of underground TV station that often broadcasts fresh programs is very popular.

Because there are only three legal TV stations in Taiwan at present, those underground TV stations with hundreds of large and small are vividly called Taiwan's "fourth channel". For Hong Kong film companies. "Channel 4" is the most shameless and evilest trash station, because these TV stations always broadcast movies that are still being released, and the more popular the movie "Channel 4" broadcasts, the more fun it is.

After Kang Jianfei's company was banned, DreamWorks and Phoenix TV's films and TV series became the darlings of the "Fourth Channel". Because these film and television works are very good-looking and not genuine, they are very popular among Taiwanese audiences. Among them, the version of "Bao Qingtian" by Jin Chaoqun of Phoenix TV is the most popular. Although China Television has made a remake with Jin Chaoqun as the starring role, the most popular version of the audience is still the version of Phoenix TV.

"Love Saint" and "Gambler" that flowed into Taiwan were dubbed by Singapore, and even the subtitles were in simplified Chinese characters (the Chinese character table in Singapore is the same as that of the mainland), and they were smuggled into the Taiwan market through video tapes.

Not just underground illegal TV stations. There are countless messy magazines in Taiwan. There are even those who openly promote rebellion. Moreover, the thinking logic of the rebels in Taiwan at this time is very strange. Anyone who opposes the government is a democratic free person. Even Liu Huanrong, the cold-blooded killer of the Zhulian Gang who has committed many massacres, is regarded as a hero by some democrats in Taiwan.

Kang Jianfei, a capitalist who was ruthlessly blocked by the Taiwan authorities, also inexplicably became a "democratic hero". After many DreamWorks movies such as "Love Saint" and "Gambler" were sought after by Taiwanese audiences, Kang Jianfei's name often appeared in illegal magazines.

Because there are so many people who like to watch "The Holy Gambler" and "Bao Qingtian", and even many civil servants secretly install and watch illegal TV stations, plus Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia are rumored couples, Kang Jianfei's fame in Taiwan has actually increased. Loud, not at all affected by being blocked by the authorities.

After entering April, the Taiwan Information Bureau, in conjunction with local police stations, banned more than 20 underground TV stations and more than 10 illegal magazines within a week.

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"Boss, you have made a big splash in Taiwan." Zeng Bolin came over with a piece of "Sing Tao Daily". Seeing that Kang Jianfei was in a good mood, he also made a joke.

Kang Jianfei took a look at it, and then threw it aside, but it was news about Taiwan's restrictions on Hong Kong's film admission quota. This move is naturally a protective measure taken by the authorities to support local films because Hong Kong films have made too much money in Taiwan in recent years.

besides. There are also some political reasons.

One of the reasons behind the establishment of the Golden Horse Awards was to attract filmmakers from Hong Kong to Taiwan. The Taiwan authorities have also set up many preferential policies to strengthen film exchanges between Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Taiwan market is almost completely open to Hong Kong films, only involving politics. Positions and ethical issues will be banned.

Now that Hong Kong has decided to return to Hong Kong in 1997, the Taiwan authorities naturally do not need to deliberately curry favor with the Hong Kong film industry. Not only has the number of Hong Kong films admitted every year decreased, but also the invisible satellite companies of Yindu Agency were identified, and the films of those companies were prohibited from being sold to Taiwan.

These measures have little impact on Hong Kong films, but have only slightly raised the entry threshold for the Taiwan market. They are not harmful to large companies such as Art City and Golden Harvest, but have intensified the competitiveness of large companies in the Taiwan market.

But these have nothing to do with Kang Jianfei, because he was banned by the Taiwan authorities long ago.

Related to Kang Jianfei is the following piece of tofu news. The Taiwan authorities' actions to eliminate piracy and purify the market have achieved results. 60% of the confiscated audio and video products belong to DreamWorks, Phoenix TV and Popular Records. More than 700,000 copies were confiscated from the pirated albums of Happy Girls, Zhang Guorong, Ye Qianwen and others alone.

Kang Jianfei didn't care about any new policies introduced by Taiwan. He was most helpless to the Raptors stunt team. After being banned by the Taiwan authorities, the Raptors stunt team could only change its name when it took over the work of other companies. After insisting for a few months, Ke Shouliang left with his group of Taiwanese brothers and established Xiaohei with the support of Jiahe. stunt team.

Now there are only 9 official members of the Raptors' stunt team, and they are completely supported by Luo Lixian. Kang Jianfei is going to change the stunt team to the Raptors special effects studio, which is affiliated to DreamWorks. The revenue method is similar to that of the film studio, and he will give Luo Lixian 49% of the studio shares, and he can receive a generous year-end like other middle-level companies in the company. bonus.

Nowadays, the treatment of stuntmen in Hong Kong is extremely poor. Kang Jianfei treats Luo Lixian's old hero very preferentially, and he will not leave even if he is chased in the future.

In the studio, the main actors had finished their makeup. Kang Jianfei was talking to Li Lianjie and Guan Zhilin. Chen Xunqi came over and said, "Director, everything is ready over there."

"Ok, pay attention to all units, prepare to turn on the microphone!" Kang Jianfei nodded to Guan Zhilin, picked up the guide tube and shouted.

When he was buried, Chen Xunqi ran to crouch behind the camera. This guy is the executive director and photographer of the "Once Upon a Time" crew. He used to only be able to score, act and direct. After running his own film company for two years, he has become a good director of photography and action.

"Once Upon a Time, Scene 4, Scene 6, Aikesh!"

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The prosperity of more than a dozen movies released in Hong Kong in January this year has really given some people hope of making money. Even the unfavorable policies introduced by Taiwan have not extinguished the ambitions and desires of these people.

Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company has already started filming a campus comedy directed by Gao Zhisen, and is preparing to use the Golden Harvest Cinemas for this year's summer season.

The former student lover, Deng Guangrong, founded the Darong Film Company, which also sharpened its knife and invited Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao and Xia Wenxi to star in fashion comedy films.

There are also large and small film companies, and they have also launched new films one after another. According to later statistics, there were 16 new film companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of this year, most of which were invested by businessmen from Taiwan and Nanyang, and established in cooperation with local filmmakers in Hong Kong.

As the video tape market has gradually matured in the past year, some film companies do not even worry about not being released in theaters, and directly shoot ultra-low-cost movies and sell video tapes.

Huang Yulang's Yulang Film Company is also preparing to open a new film, but unfortunately, a good script could not be found for a while.

In the conference room of Yulang International, Huang Yulang is admonishing the company's executives: "Our future goal is to go public, comics, newspapers, magazines, and movies must go hand in hand, not only to carry out government public relations, but also to create benefits that are beneficial to us. public opinion..."

After the two-hour meeting, Huang Yulang returned to his office with confidence. His assistant suddenly ran in quickly, put down a comic daily, and said, "Boss, look at this!"

"The King of Paintings?" Huang Yulang saw at a glance that this was a doll newspaper~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and then took a closer look at the editor-in-chief's name below the eyebrows, and suddenly asked in surprise, "When will Shangguan Xiaobao be published? new paper?"

The assistant said, "Today is the first issue."

Although Huang Yulang is about to become the CEO of a listed company, and Shangguan Xiaobao is still just a hapless cartoonist, Huang Yulang did not dare to ignore his old rival at all, and quickly picked up the pictorial and looked at it carefully.

The front page introduction of "Painting King" is printed with several key characters - "Kang Jianfei", "Boom Man", "Missionary Journey" and so on.

"Could it be that Kang Jianfei and Shangguan Xiaobao did this "Painting King" together?" Huang Yulang suddenly remembered what Kang Jianfei said at the awards ceremony that day, and felt extremely threatened. Not to be underestimated at all.

Huang Yulang first saw Kang Jianfei's violent comics, and was immediately attracted by the brand-new exaggerated comic style. He saw a line of words written below: "Anyone is a comic artist, pick up your pen and use Boomman records the interesting things around you, and I look forward to your contributions!"