Dreams of the Fragrant River

For his counterparts in the Hong Kong film industry, Kang Jianfei is definitely a **** of plague, and no one is willing to release his films on the same schedule. Four films starring Hong Jinbao were shown at the same time in the New Year's file. The biggest reason for this situation is actually that the distributor wanted to avoid "Tomb Notes". Two of the four films were originally scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival.

But the Spring Festival is one of the most important periods of the year, and it is impossible for other companies to give up directly. For example, Huang Baiming and Pan Disheng put their bets on the Spring Festival stalls. They used reverse thinking. In order to avoid Kang Jianfei's "Tomb Raiders Notes", the Christmas stalls and New Year stalls were crowded together, and there was a lot more progress. The two big tigers, Long and Hong Jinbao, blocked the way, and the competition was as fierce as the Spring Festival stalls.

As a result, Vientiane Pictures and Debao Company operated in reverse, ranking their main films around the Spring Festival, and were not afraid to compete with Kang Jianfei.

Central, Hong Kong, Queen's Road Central.

A car circled the Queen's Building twice, and finally continued to drive forward helplessly, and finally found a parking space that had just been vacated, and the driver parked the car there.

"It's getting harder and harder to park in Central, so why don't you come here by taxi." Huang Baiming got out of the car and locked the car.

Du Qifeng smiled and said, "Don't look at what season it is, the Chinese New Year is coming soon."

Lin Lingdong looked at his watch and said, "There are still more than 20 minutes, it's still early."

The three of them chatted and walked to the Queen's Building and walked straight to the Queen's Theater. They were in a group today to watch "Notes on Tomb Raiders".

They did not participate in the premiere and screening of "Tomb Notes". Although the box office data for the first day of yesterday has not been announced, the news that the whole line was full has already gone viral. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, Huang Baiming and others have little work in hand, so they formed a group to watch the movie out of curiosity. Their reason was naturally to understand the competitors. The so-called know yourself and know the enemy and win a hundred battles.

Outside the Queen's Theater is a shopping mall. At this time, the citizens were busy shopping for New Year's goods. The shopping mall was also crowded with people, and the three of them managed to squeeze to the entrance of the theater.

Huang Baiming looked at the bustling shopping mall and couldn't help but admire Kang Jianfei's vision. This building was not originally called Queen's Building, it was renamed after Kang Jianfei bought it. Now that the real estate in Central is soaring, the monthly rent of the entire building alone is enough for Kang Jianfei to have nothing to worry about.

When they came to the ticket office of the theater, Huang Baiming and the three were blocked directly at the door. It was already crowded with people, and the queue was almost lined up outside.

"The tickets for "The Tomb Raiders" are sold out before 10:30."

"There's one more ticket at 10:40, sorry two people, there's only one ticket."

"..."

The three Huang Baiming had already bought their tickets, so they didn't have to wait in line, but they were still frightened by the sight in front of them.

It is now during the Spring Festival holiday, and the flow of people in major theaters is very large, and it is normal for the ticket-buying queue to line up at the door.

But the problem is that it's only before 4 pm, and "Notes on Tomb Raiders" has sold out all the tickets before 10:30 pm. How popular is this movie?

Fortunately, it's a holiday now, and most people don't come to watch a certain movie specifically. The tickets for "The Tomb Raiders" are sold out today, so they will choose to watch other movies or change to a theater. There is a Golden Princess nearby, and a large part of the audience overflowing from the Queen's Theater may turn to watch the movies of Vientiane Pictures, which is "good news" for Huang Baiming.

120 minutes later, Huang Baiming, Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong came out of the theater, and the audience around them were excitedly talking about the plot just now.

"It's just money to build special effects, so I don't have to learn." Du Qifeng shook his head and said.

"I would like to see which time Kang Jianfei made a mistake. It's too risky to make such a film." Huang Baiming shook his head and sighed. There are often ghosts or superpowers in his movies, but most of those scenes are directly replaced by animations. He thinks that movies sell plots and lines, and special effects are the details.

Lin Lingdong sighed: "Kang Jianfei's film this time, I'm afraid the box office will break 40 million again."

...

"The first-week box office of "Notes on Tomb Raiders" came out." He Guanchang put a newspaper on Zou Wenhuai's desk.

This is a "Daily Daily". Since it was acquired by Kang Jianfei, many news of DreamWorks have been announced on the entertainment page of "Daily Daily".

"More than 15 million, right?" Zou Wenhuai said, flipping open the newspaper, his eyes widened when he saw the numbers on the paper, and 19.41 million was printed on it.

He Guanchang said with a wry smile: "I was also taken aback when I first watched it. The first week of the Hong Kong film is a new record."

Zou Wenhuai said with emotion: "This young man really has a certain way of making movies."

"Fortunately, I didn't release Aaron's film ahead of schedule, otherwise the two films would crash into a car and die." He Guanchang said happily.

The Spring Festival blockbusters of Vientiane Pictures and Debao Company did not meet expectations at the box office because they could only pick up the audience leaked from "Notes on Tomb Raiders". Fortunately, the number of viewers in the Spring Festival stalls is large enough, and the two films did not hit the streets directly. It is estimated that the box office of this port will recover the cost after the film is finished.

Zou Wenhuai lit the cigar and asked, "I heard that Aaron cooperated with Judeng?"

He Guanchang nodded: "He doesn't have a lot of roles in the film, and Yang Dengkui is reluctant to pay so much to ask him to be the male lead. He just wants to attract the audience under the guise of Aaron."

If it was in the past, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long would definitely not dare to take on the show outside casually, let alone cooperate with competitors. But now he couldn't hold back anyone, and Zou Wenhuai had a headache just thinking about it.

After smoking a cigar, Zou Wenhuai asked, "Achang, what do you think of "Notes on Tomb Raiders"?"

He Guanchang said: "Films of the tomb robbery genre will definitely be popular in at least the next year or two, but the investment in special effects is too risky."

He Guanchang's meaning is very simple, that is to follow the trend to make a tomb robbery movie, but don't make it so mysterious, if you go to the street and cry, you won't be able to cry.

Kang Jianfei's original intention was to use "The Tomb Raiders" to stimulate his Hong Kong counterparts, so that more and more Hong Kong directors dare to use computers and special effects. But the effect may be far from what he expected. Jiahe, who is willing to spend money not to mention other companies, is now thinking of following the trend and making tomb robbery movies. As for the special effects of the movie, go to hell.

"The tomb robbery movie does have a head start," Zou Wenhuai nodded and asked, "I have an idea, how about letting Aaron make the tomb robbery film?"

"Aaron?" He Guanchang was very surprised, because Cheng Long's new film was well planned, which is the companion piece of "Dragon Brothers and Tigers" - "Flying Eagle Project".

"That's what I thought. The computer effects can be used to combine Aaron's funny kung fu style with the theme of tomb raiding." Zou Wenhuai expressed his thoughts.

He Guanchang smiled and said, "It's very interesting."

Zou Wenhuai made a final decision and said, "Then it's settled. After Aaron finishes filming "Flying Eagle Project", he will shoot the tomb robbery film."

I have to say that Hong Kong filmmakers and any type of film can be related to kung fu.

Just as Kang Jianfei didn't expect the hot sale of "Tomb Raiders", it was not the computer special effects boom, but the rush to shoot tomb robbery films, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang also didn't expect how bad the upcoming "Flying Eagle Project" would be. .

The reason why Jiahe chose to shoot "Flying Eagle Project" is because Cheng Long's "Miracle" did not sell well at the box office. Of course, the bad box office is relatively speaking. The main reason is that the cost of "Miracle" is too high at 70 million. The result is that the box office sold is not much different from his previous 20 million investment movie.

Zou Wenhuai felt that "Miracle" did not make much money, so he wanted to be safe and decided to let Cheng Long make a companion piece to "Dragon Brother Tiger Brother". "Dragon Brothers and Tigers" was the box-office champion that year, and the companion film is sure to sell well. The budget of "Flying Eagle Project" is tentatively set at 30 million.

No one could have predicted that this movie, which was only planned to invest 30 million, cost 115 million when it was finally completed. Ninety percent of the crew fell ill due to acclimatization, and even the production manager spent three months in prison in Africa—props and banknotes used for filming were inexplicably circulated locally, and the production manager was arrested on suspicion of producing and distributing counterfeit money.

...

"The Tomb Raiders" was a mess in this Spring Festival, leading the box office all the way, throwing the movies released in the same period out of the street.

The remuneration of the male protagonist Wu Zhenyu has risen sharply again, and he is actually on par with Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam. It can only be said that "Notes on Tomb Raiders" sold too evilly. And the easter egg at the end of the movie made it clear that the film would have to make a sequel, and the actor Wu Zhenyu just got a three-pole paycheck.

The second is Zhang Dan. She basically didn't have the chance to show her acting skills in "Notes on Tomb Raiders". She played the iceberg girl with a cold face from beginning to end.

But "The Tomb Raiders" was only released for a week~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and it was still during the Chinese New Year, the film contract flew to Zhang Dan's house like a snowflake.

Zhang Yan estimated that he was afraid of being "poor" in the past. He didn't read the script very much when he took the film. If it wasn't for her manager Deng Baola's dissuasion, Zhang Dan would still want to take more, and Zheng Yuling would still be able to open the schedule for nine films at the same time?

The mainstream voices in the society praised "The Tomb of the Tomb", especially the magical computer special effects, which have cultivated a group of loyal fans of the blockbuster.

As for the voice of criticism, Kang Jianfei did not see it.

With the arrival of the Chinese New Year, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao brought their children back to Hong Kong together. Kang Jianfei's headache now is that Ye Zipei also came to Hong Kong, and she came here with a big belly. This pretty widow was pregnant and came to Hong Kong to have a baby.

When the three women collided, Kang Jianfei couldn't run on both sides, because they wanted to get together for the Spring Festival.

Festivals always give Kang Jianfei a headache. He really lacks skills. r1152()