Dreams of the Fragrant River

Taiping Theatre, "Once Upon a Time" premiere. (starter)

After the interactive session, Kang Jianfei leaned on his seat and said nothing. When the lights in the theater dimmed, Guan Zhilin quietly held his hand and asked, "Brother Fei, are you unhappy today?"

"It's about work." Kang Jianfei said casually.

He Chaoqiong has been placed under house arrest by the He family because he revealed that he wanted to abort the child. He Hongsen has to say that He Hongsen is an old feudal and a devout Catholic, and believes that abortion is an outrageous act.

Kang Jianfei only came back from Macau this morning and bought a 21% stake in Macau TV Station at a price of 18 million Hong Kong dollars. At the same time, the TV station is already planning to become a star.

In addition to talking about business, Kang Jianfei was also invited by He Hongsen to have a meal, which was about the matter between him and He Chaoqiong.

The meaning of the He family was that they hoped that they would marry their sons. Kang Jianfei said that he was perfunctory for a long time, explaining that he and He Chaoqiong were just drunk, and they didn't have much affection for each other.

After He Hongsen's proposal was politely rejected by Kang Jianfei, his face was so dark that he could drop the ink. Fortunately, He Chaoqiong ran downstairs and resolutely disagreed with Kang Jianfei's marriage, thus attracting most of the firepower.

But it's not a solution to keep dragging it on. Kang Jianfei is so annoyed by this now that he doesn't even bother to attend the premiere of the movie.

"Pride in the face of ten thousand waves

Hot blood like the red sun

Courage is like iron and bone is like steel

The mind is a hundred thousand feet long

I work hard to be a good man

Be a good man, be self-improvement every day

Hot blooded man. brighter than the sun

 …”

The hot-blooded theme song sounded, and the audience in the theater unconsciously sat upright.

Liu Zhenwei was sitting with Chen Xunqi and Wang Jiawei at this time. This guy went to the Philippines to do business after Wuzhou Century Pictures closed down. As a result, he lost all his savings from making movies for many years, and now he has joined Chen Xunqi's film studio as the assistant director of "The Wounded City".

"The title of the film is "Once Upon a Time in the Clouds". Could it be that Kang Jianfei wants to make a "Once Upon a Time" series?" Liu Zhenwei couldn't help but have this idea after reading the title.

Hong Kong movies in recent years. Cinema City's "Best Partner" series is very popular. On the other hand, DreamWorks continued to make series of movies. The "Happy Ghost" series didn't stop until the fifth film. The "Royal Sister" series also made three films, and the "Hero's True Color" series made two films. The "Mr. Zombie" series has made two films, and it is definitely making money and making money.

When it comes to the commercial operation of movies, no one dares to say that DreamWorks ranks second, and Liu Zhenwei has been the general manager of Century Films for several years, which is quite admirable.

The film "Once Upon a Time" begins. It is a traditional lion dance scene. But the props and costumes are refreshing. The film art is more than one level better than traditional kung fu films such as "Drunken Fist".

Later, the long shot of "Across the River During Qingming Festival" in the teahouse made Liu Zhenwei clapp his hands and applaud. The realistic style of the shot seems to have set back time by more than 100 years.

"Hahaha……"

The audience burst into laughter. The ordinary audience in the back didn't think about Liu Zhenwei so much, as long as they watched it well. Laugh out loud when you see a funny scene.

And Guan Zhilin's appearance in a foreign dress is also quite amazing. The beauty of the combination of Chinese and Western has captured the hearts of countless male audiences.

"Fight well, kill these foreign devils!"

Listening to the shouts in the theater, Shu Qi sighed: "Who said that kung fu movies have declined, this "Once Upon a Time" will probably not be low at the box office."

"Not the same." Chen Bosen shook his head.

Shu Qi said: "Yeah, the camera, the soundtrack and the art have all gone up a notch."

Chen Bosen said: "It's not just that. Cheng Long's "Drunken Boxing" and "Smiling Boxing Strange Tricks" are just the same routine. The protagonist bears hatred, meets a master, and finally defeats the villain to punish the evil and eliminate evil. "Once Upon a Time" raised the grievances and grievances of the rivers and lakes to the level of the rise and fall of the country, and the style of the film is completely different."

Shu Qi thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Not bad."

Compared with ordinary kung fu films, "Once Upon a Time" is indeed different in style. It is not only the grievances and grievances of the rivers and lakes, but also a kind of family and country hatred in it. And the characters in it are also very rich, foreigners are not necessarily bad, there are also good priests who help Huang Feihong to block the gun, Chinese people are also infighting, numb, and all kinds of characters are portrayed very vividly on the screen.

Ordinary audiences naturally don't analyze it like this. They just think it looks good, which is better than traditional monotonous kung fu films. Especially in the fight between Huang Feihong and Yan Zhendong in the warehouse, the martial arts movements were unrestrained and elegant, showing Li Lianjie's national martial arts champion incisively and vividly.

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With the release of "Once Upon a Time in the Clouds", this issue of "Film Biweekly" also published a film review: "This film spreads out the story with Huang Feihong as the center, confused and fought in the troubled times of internal and external troubles. , Persistence and Innovation. From point to point, from Baozhilin to Foshan and even the whole of China, to bring out the social conditions at that time, forming a social section, Yamen, Liu Yongfu and the Black Flag Army, British, Americans, Shahe Gangs, militia groups, missionaries, compradors, local and foreign martial artists, etc., all the forces are intertwined and intertwined, depicting the picture of modern Chinese history in Xu Kekang Jianfei's heart... Different from the grievances and grievances of traditional kung fu films, "Once Upon a Time in Top Gun" " quite a bit of a hero, the meaning of the country and the people.

Kang Jiaban is in charge of all the fight scenes in the film. It is worth mentioning that Ren Shiguan, the actor who plays Yan Zhendong in the film, was originally a veteran martial artist of Yuan Jiaban. Just to make "Once Upon a Time", Kang Jianfei personally visited the house and invited Ren Shiguan to join the Kang family class. The bamboo ladder battle between Ren Shiguan and Li Lianjie in the warehouse is a classic in kung fu action dramas..."

The box office is the best proof.

"Once Upon a Time in the Clouds" was screened in the Oriental Cinema, and it also rented several cinemas in the Yindu Cinema. As soon as it was released, there were 27 cinemas, and the box office was close to 3 million on the first day of the film. Weekly box office as high as 13.58 million.

Cheng Long's Quanwei Film Company has also been changed to Weihe Film Company this year. "Police Story" is his entrepreneurial work, but the heroine has changed from Lin Qingxia to Hu Huizhong - Hu Huizhong was invited to play the role in order to earn box office in Taiwan .

In order to avoid Kang Jianfei's film, Zou Wenhuai and Cheng Long discussed and decided to stagger the release times of "Police Story" and "Once Upon a Time" by more than half a month.

The hard collision with "Once Upon a Time" is "Summer Lucky Star". This movie starring Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and Cen Jianxun wants to continue the high box office of "Five Lucky Stars".

The release date of "Summer Lucky Star" was a week earlier than that of "Once Upon a Time". The box office in the first week was as high as 12.52 million. In the second week, due to the collision of "Once Upon a Time" to grab the audience, the box office fell to 7.45 million in a single week. The situation can be described as appalling.

The Xinyicheng side is even more funny. This summer, the first line of the arrangement is Yu Yunhang's "Flying Tiger". Under the attack of "Summer Fortune" and "Once Upon a Time", the box office in the first week was only a pitiful 2.18 million. , it can be said that the street has reached the extreme.

On the other hand, the Hollywood film "First Blood 2" was on the rise, and was screened in more than ten theaters led by the Anle Cinema Line, and received a high box office of 8.43 million in the first week.

Xinyicheng's "Flying Tigers" has not invested much this time, so it didn't lose much, but the Golden Princess Cinema that screened "Flying Tigers" suffered a big loss. The average attendance rate was less than 30%, and it was very angry. Jue Kun almost vomited blood.

After only a week of release, "Flying Tigers" was urgently removed from the film and replaced with Wen Jun's directorial debut "Reverse Fighting Love". The reputation of this play is not bad, but unfortunately under the attack of "Summer Fortune", "Once Upon a Time" and "First Blood 2", the box office is not much better than "Flying Tigers", and it has to be screened for 9 days. The movie was dropped due to low attendance.

"Art City suffers from Waterloo, and summer films suffer from setbacks one after another." - "Daily Express".

"Art City suffered serious losses in the first half of the year, and the company is planning to lay off staff." - "Hong Kong Economic Weekly"

"It is difficult to maintain the Golden Princess theater chain, and Lei Juekun plans to sell some theaters." - "Sing Tao Daily".

The summer season has just begun, and major newspapers have begun to report negative news about Princess Jin and Xinyicheng.

The main reason is Kang Jianfei. Although the performance of Xinyicheng in the original time and space is not good this year, at least it is supported by Licensing Studio and Gao Zhisen's "Happy Ghost 2". But now Xu Ke's studio is affiliated to DreamWorks, "Happy Ghost" was already filmed by Kang Jianfei, Gao Zhisen was also poached by Pan Disheng, and Xinyicheng can only rely on a few bad films to compete in the summer season.

"Summer Lucky Star" was released three weeks after its release. This film, which was supposed to have a box office of more than 28 million, was run on by "Once Upon a Time" and only got a box office of more than 23 million.

In fact, "Summer Lucky Star" still has box office potential~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, in order to make room for Cheng Long's "Police Story", it can only be finished a few days earlier.

Unfortunately, the box office performance of "Police Story" is not as good as that of "Summer Fortune". At this time, "Once Upon a Time" and "First Blood 2" have been released for half a month. "Police Story" grossed just 9.18 million in its first week.

However, the reputation of "Police Story" is much better than that of "Summer Fortune". The audience who watched this film was praised by almost everyone. Cheng Long's transformation from a kung fu film to a modern action film was also announced by this film. A complete success.

"Once Upon a Time in the Clouds" won the weekly box office champion for two consecutive weeks. Several fights in the film are classics. Some people say that Kang Jianfei's "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" in his early years was just an experiment, while this "Once Upon a Time" is a new school of kung fu film. Mature work.

Several class leaders of Yuanjiaban highly praised the action design of this film, but Liu Jialiang criticized it as useless in an interview with reporters: "Huang Feihong is a master of Nanquan, how can he fight and fly like in the film? I don't know kung fu at all when making kung fu movies, this Kang Jianfei is a layman at all..."