Dreams of the Fragrant River

When Kang Jianfei returned to Hong Kong, it had already passed the Stove Sacrificial Festival, and many companies in Hong Kong took annual leave. Celebrities who are usually too busy to sleep for a few hours a day, except for those who receive the Spring Festival commercial performance, all return home to enjoy a rare leisure time.

However, Kang Jianfei couldn't rest. He stayed in Taipei and Tokyo for more than two months, and when he came back, he had a lot of business waiting for him. He doesn't need to ask about the specific affairs of the company, but he has to master and understand the general direction. After that, he will hold the annual meeting and participate in the Taiqing of Phoenix TV.

After a few days, it's already New Year's Eve.

There are a total of nine films released during the Spring Festival. Among them, the best performers are "City Hunter" starring Cheng Long, Qiu Shuzhen, Wang Zuixian, Li Ming and Kumiko Goto; and director Gao Zhisen, Xu Guanjie, Zhang Guorong, "Happy Events in the Flower Field" starring Guan Zhilin, Mao Shunyun, Wu Junru and Huang Zhan.

"Happy Events in the Flower Fields" is obviously a follow-up to "Happy Events at Home", which was popular in the Lunar New Year stall last year, but Gao Zhisen followed the trend with new ideas. Not only did the storyline not have any suspicion of plagiarism, but the film's background was also set in the Tang Dynasty.

"Hanatian Wedding" was released 4 days later than "City Hunter", but the box office surpassed "City Hunter" in the second week. Gao Zhisen, who has been on the street for more than a year, once again proved his strength as a blockbuster comedy director.

It is worth mentioning that Gao Zhisen returned to his master Huang Baiming. This "Happy Events in the Flower Field" is his first work after joining Xincheng Film Company, and it is also the first New Year's film after Huang Baiming's Xincheng Cinema Line opened. .

The Chinese New Year film of Oriental DreamWorks this time is directed by Huang Tailai and starring Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong. The production cost of this film is 32 million yuan, and it also recruited stars such as Li Lianjie and Zhou Billi to make cameos. The supporting cast of Dong Wei, Cheng Kui'an, Lin Xue, Yang Liqing, Li Zi, and Oshima Yukali is also quite strong.

It's a pity that perhaps the audience is tired of watching this kind of **** river and lake film. The box office results of "All-powerful" did not meet expectations, and the audience was robbed by "A Happy Event in the Flower Field" and "City Hunter" released at the same period.

This is DreamWorks' biggest defeat in the Lunar New Year gear in the past ten years. Even if it didn't win the Lunar New Year title before, it was at least second, and never ranked third.

Just after the new year, director Huang Tailai used the name of New Year's greetings to find Kang Jianfei's house to come up to apologize.

Huang Tailai is also an old director who has been in charge of filming for more than ten years. At this time, in front of Kang Jianfei, he was embarrassed and said, "Boss, this time I missed the market..."

"Who knows what the box office is," Kang Jianfei interrupted him before he could finish his sentence, "Okay, just be more careful in the future. Isn't the box office of 'All the Power' still ranks third in the Lunar New Year category?"

Kang Jianfei said it easily, but Huang Tailai was always uneasy. The box office this time is really bad. The big star and big cast that cost more than 30 million to shoot, judging from the current attendance rate, the box office can finally have a little over 20 million. The most important thing is that "Breakthrough" broke the DreamWorks tradition of keeping two and one in the New Year's Eve, and only won the third place. This crime is a bit big.

Huang Tailai is not a direct line director trained by Kang Jianfei. He was originally a supervisor of Li's TV station, and later became a director of the Oriental TV production company, and finally transferred to DreamWorks as a director. This time the box office failed, although the film planning department of DreamWorks had to take the blame, but his responsibility was not small. Huang Tailai was most afraid of being sent to sit on the bench by Kang Jianfei.

(Pharaoh has mixed up Huang Tailai and Huang Yuetai several times before. Huang Tailai is the director and Huang Yuetai is the gold medal photographer. At present, the three major photographers of DreamWorks are Zhong Zhiwen, Huang Yuetai and Du Kefeng)

When Kang Jianfei finally calmed Huang Tailai back, Zhou Runfa came to him again.

Kang Jianfei joked: "Why, Brother Fa, are you here to take the blame?"

Zhong Chuhong came over with coffee, and gave Kang Jianfei a sullen look: "What kind of guilt is it? The movie box office is not good, and it has nothing to do with the actors. I am the heroine of "All-powerful", should I also blame you for it? already?"

Before Zhong Chuhong pleaded guilty, Kang Jianfei hurriedly apologized to her with a smile: "Don't, I'll plead with you, okay? Aunt Hong, you have a lot of adults, so don't let me kneel on the washboard at night."

Zhong Chuhong said angrily and funny: "I'm talking nonsense again. This time I went to Japan to deceive a girl. I haven't asked you to settle the account yet."

The two flirted in front of him, which made Zhou Runfa feel very embarrassed. After drinking a sip of coffee, he coughed and said, "Boss, I want to leave Xianggang and go to Hollywood to see."

"What?" Kang Jianfei, who was joking just now, looked at Zhou Runfa in surprise. He didn't ask him why he left Xianggang, but asked, "You want to go to Hollywood, do you understand English?"

Zhou Runfa nodded and said, "After filming last year, I went to English training classes to study, and there is no problem with daily communication."

"Can I ask why you want to leave?" Kang Jianfei couldn't help asking.

In another time and space, Zhou Runfa would also leave Hollywood, but that would be two years later. And there were all kinds of rumors at that time, the most eye-catching one said that Zhou Runfa had a conflict with the Xiang brothers and had to hide in the United States to seek refuge.

But Kang Jianfei felt that it was unreliable, and when he contacted Zhou Runfa, Hong Kong films were already in decline. Zhou Runfa mostly went to Hollywood for his own development. But now Hong Kong films are at their most prosperous time, why does Zhou Runfa still want to leave?

In the face of Kang Jianfei's question, Zhou Runfa hesitated for a while, and then said what was in his heart: "Boss, thank you very much for taking care of you over the years. The TV drama "Shanghai Beach" that I really became famous for was the one you recommended to Director Wang Tianlin to do. After that, "God of Gamblers" made me a movie star. It can be said that without your support, I might be just a TV actor now..."

"Don't talk so much, talk about the main point." Kang Jianfei interrupted him.

Zhou Runfa sorted out the wording and said: "In the past two years, Zhou Xingchi has become so popular that Li Lianjie has also become a star of the same name as Cheng Long through the "Once Upon a Time" series, and Liang Jiahui has starred in "The Truman Story" and "The Story of Truman". "Jurassic Park" became famous. Among the so-called Four Heavenly Kings of DreamWorks, I am the most embarrassed. In the past three years, few movies I starred in have had a box office of more than 30 million, but my salary is not It is the standard of top stars. So I am not as attractive to investors as those new stars, because they are cheaper than me, and their box office appeal is not much lower than me. I feel that my development has reached a bottleneck period, continue If you stay in the gang, it will be difficult to break through, so I want to go to Hollywood and try."

Zhou Runfa's remarks made Kang Jianfei ponder, Zhou Runfa was the first to become popular among the Four Heavenly Kings he appointed back then, but although it cannot be said that he is the worst, his situation is indeed quite embarrassing.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to persuade him, but said, "Do you know that Hollywood is very xenophobic, and the xenophobia I'm talking about is the exclusion of Asians. If you go to Hollywood now, you can only play supporting roles, or even play tricks. Xiang Gang The four kings of the film industry, the best actor of the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, are you willing to go to Hollywood to play tricks?"

Zhou Runfa hesitated for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "Always try."

Zhong Chuhong suddenly interjected: "A Fei, aren't you a shareholder of Paramount? Since Brother Fa is going to Hollywood, you should ask the directors of Paramount to give him a few more roles to try."

Zhou Runfa also looked at Kang Jianfei with expectant eyes. The reason why he ran to the door and said this was to gain Kang Jianfei's support.

Unexpectedly, Kang Jianfei shook his head and said, "It's useless. If I do this, Fazai can at most become a relatively well-known Asian supporting actor."

Just when Zhou Runfa was disappointed, Kang Jianfei suddenly said, "Unless Fazai can directly play the leading role."

Zhou Runfa was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm going to be the lead actor, can the American audience accept me?"

"This requires a good script and director, and also has native American actors as partners, which is more conducive to American audiences to accept Asian faces." Kang Jianfei thought of Cheng Long's "Rush Hour", which was a big hit for the series. Cheng, in addition to Cheng Long's unique humorous husband, his interaction with black actors is also a highlight.

The audience is unfamiliar with Asian faces, and even many white people look like Asians, and having a native white or black actor in the show will make it easier for the audience to accept.

"A good script, a good director, and a good partner?" Zhou Runfa didn't understand Kang Jianfei's true thoughts, but he knew that it was difficult to put these three elements together.

Kang Jianfei didn't explain to Zhou Runfa, but picked up the phone and called Li Meifeng, saying, "Meifeng, help me contact Wu Yusen, I'll invite him out for afternoon tea."

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"What, Mr. Kang asked me to have tea? Oh, if you are free... Tomorrow afternoon... OK, OK, I have time! Well, please Miss Li, goodbye!"

Hanging up the phone, Wu Yusen suppressed his surprise and said to Zhang Jiazhen, "Azhen, Mr. Kang invites me to have tea tomorrow afternoon."

"He asked you out? Did he invite you to join DreamWorks?" Zhang Jiazhen also asked in surprise.

With Kang Jianfei's current influence in the Hong Kong film industry, just a phone call from his secretary is enough to make Wu Yusen and Zhang Jiazhen go crazy.

Wu Yusen said, "If Mr. Kang really invites me to join DreamWorks in person, do you think I should refuse or agree?"

"This... I can't say~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Zhang Jiazhen said.

Zhang Jiazhen initially followed McDonald's, and later joined DreamWorks with McDonald's. By chance, Zhang Jiazhen and Wu Yusen became best friends, and were invited to join Wu Yusen's film company.

Due to the butterfly effect, Wu Yusen did not make the classic film "Across the Four Seas", but he also made a lot of shootout films for Princess Jin.

For example, last year's "Hot Detective", although this film was not so good at the box office, due to Zhang Jiazhen's successful operation, "Hot Detective" received a good response and also won the favor of Hollywood filmmakers.

Because of this, Wu Yusen and Zhang Jiazhen decided to go to the United States to open a film company and work hard in Hollywood by pulling investment and filming. Before the Spring Festival was over, the two gathered at Wu Yusen's house to discuss the matter of going to the United States. Who would have guessed that they would receive an invitation from Kang Jianfei at this time.

After thinking about it, Wu Yusen said, "Mr. Kang also has an industry in Hollywood. It's not bad to have a good relationship with him. Let's go and see what he wants to do with me first."

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