"Yesterday, the 42nd Venice Film Festival came to an end at the Palace of Lido Island. The French film "The Descendant of the World" won the Golden Lion Award, and the Hong Kong film "Shushan" followed closely and won the Silver Lion Award at this Venice Film Festival, which attracted the attention of the world film industry.
It is reported that "Shushan" is adapted from the famous swordsman novel "The Legend of Swordsman" and costs 80 million Hong Kong dollars (for promotional data). It was jointly planned and written by Kang Jianfei and Xu Ke. It took 21 months to complete. It is a big cast special effect movie created by Oriental Dream Factory for many years.
The film premiered at the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, which caused a sensation in the entire main venue. After the film was screened, the applause lasted for five minutes. Mr. Lorenzo, the art director of this year's Venice Film Festival, said that "Shushan" is a very unique and good movie. It can bring people a refreshing feeling. It can be called "Star Wars" in the Eastern style..."
The day after the Venice Awards Ceremony ended, several newspapers in Hong Kong received news and put them on the front page to report. Others later reacted and reprinted the news, which lasted until October. The news that "Shushan" won the Silver Lion Award was still hotly hyped and followed in Hong Kong.
Although DreamWorks' publicity department plays a role, it can cause hype from the Hong Kong media, but more importantly, the news itself is rare.
In the past, Hong Kong films won awards at international film festivals and film festivals, but basically they won awards at Asian film festivals, or some kind of film festivals like Panama Film Festival, which few people know about.
As for Tang Shuxuan's "Mrs. Dong", Hu Jinquan's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, not to mention that he did not win a major award. Even if he won the award, these two movies represent Taiwanese films and have little to do with Hong Kong films.
It can be said that "Shushan" is the first Hong Kong-made film to be shortlisted for a large international film festival and won a grand prize in one fell swoop.
All the entertainment newspapers and magazines are almost crazy, as happy as the New Year. Phoenix TV even broadcasts this good news on the street, which makes even the beggars begging for food know that "Shushan" won the award.
"Movie Biweekly" made a trip to Venice. Shu Qi and Chen Bosen came back to create the "Venice Special" and immediately released a supplement. This issue not only included film reviews, but also the grand occasion at the Venice Film Festival, as well as the unlimited glory of "Shushan" in the film festival.
With such pictures and truth, the news of "Shushan" winning the award has become even more sensational. A lot of celebrities looked at Li Saifeng, He Jiajin, Zhao Yazhi, Wu Zhixiong and others on the red carpet, and were envious and jealous. When did Hong Kong stars have such a glorious appearance at European film festivals?
Not only that, Xu Ke was suddenly pushed to the position of the number one Chinese director. As for the famous classmate Kang Jianfei, he was collectively ignored by everyone. Who said that his movies have not won the grand prize in international competitions?
Before Xu Ke came back from Venice, many tycoons from Taiwan and Southeast Asia were already starting to inquire about Xu Ke’s whereabouts and were preparing to waving a check to ask Xu Ke to direct the movie.
With Xu Ke's fame and appeal to win the Silver Lion Award, even if the director's remuneration increases ten times, these rich people will make sure to make a profit. They don't have to shoot movies, and they can recover their investment by selling trailers on the camera.
Unfortunately, before "Shushan" recovered the cost, Xu Ke would not help companies or individuals outside DreamWorks make movies for at least one year. The reason for such a choice was that he did not want to be ungrateful. Second, he was annoyed Kang Jianfei and he could not get any reward for director "Shushan". Because Xu made a promise at the beginning.
Before the limelight of "Shushan" won the Silver Lion Award, news came out that the Tokyo International Film Festival invited "Shushan" to participate in the exhibition. The Tokyo International Film Festival was just founded this year, and its reputation was not as good as the Golden Horse Award in Hong Kong. But this is the time when Japan's economy is most prosperous. Japan wants to create the Tokyo International Film Festival, and its reputation is still enough to make Hong Kong people pay attention to it.
DreamWorks' publicity department began to spend money to bombard it again. By the end of October, more than two months before the release of "Shushan" was released, and its publicity expenses in Hong Kong cost nearly 2 million, which is equivalent to the budget for some small-cost movies.
Newspapers are also predicting that the topic of discussion is how many awards "Shushan" can win in Tokyo. For a time, everything about "Shushan" was incredibly glorious. At the same time, DreamWorks also began to make related stickers, toys, calendars, clothes and other products around "Shushan", which will be released before and after the official release of "Shushan".
Nowadays, we cannot sell online copyrights, and we don’t even have DVDs. We can only sell video tapes and other related products. The surrounding income is far inferior to 20 years later, but how much can we earn? No one thinks that too much money is too hot.
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Some people say that Xu Ke is the best director in Hong Kong, while Kang Jianfei can only make money by shooting commercial films.
Although most directors in Hong Kong look at money, the more this happens, the more a director who can win awards abroad will become more and more proud of him.
Kang Jianfei has no time to defend so much. Anyway, "Shushan" was invested by himself. The higher the popularity of Xu Kehe "Shushan", the better the box office, the more Kang Jianfei earns.
Kang Jianfei focused a small part of his energy on each woman, and most of his energy was preparing and filming "A Chinese Ghost Story".
The special effects of "Shushan" were produced by the Industrial Light and Magic team. DreamWorks has drawn some talented photographers, landscape engineers, makeup artists, artists, etc. to follow the whole process. They also invited some professionals who know machinery, electronics and computers to steal the Industrial Light and Magic from beginning to end.
After the special effects production of "Shushan" was completed, all of these people who learned some special effects technology from Industrial Light and Magic were included in the "Qi Meng Film and Television Special Effects Special Effects Company".
The so-called Qimeng Film and Television Special Effects Special Company, a new company specially established by Kang Jianfei, is also affiliated to Oriental Entertainment Culture Group.
The company is divided into three parts: one is the Kang family class led by Huang Xia, responsible for the action and martial arts effects; the second is the Raptors stunt team led by Luo Lixian, responsible for the shooting of special stunts such as cars, explosions, and fires; the third is the movie special effects team.
All the special effects and action designs in "A Chinese Ghost Story" were handed over to Qimeng Film and Television Special Effects and Stunts Company. At the same time, special effects engineers from Winston Studio were invited to assist and guide.
Winston Studio is the company responsible for the special effects of "Terminator". It has been acquired by Kang Jianfei for several years. It is basically spending money on free-range conditions. However, with the popularity of "Terminator", Winston Studio has quickly become popular and is more profitable than Industrial Light and Magic, which has always been committed to high-end special effects.
Of course, this metaphor is that a homeless man is beggar, whether it is Winston Studio or Industrial Light and Magic, they are actually money-losing goods. Kang Jianfei has already spent more than 1 million US dollars in, and he has not seen a penny of profit.
"A Feng. Have you done your tree spirit model?" Kang Jianfei asked in front of a man about 30 years old.
This person is named Zhang Yunfeng. He studied mechanical major abroad. After returning to Hong Kong, he did not have a stage for him to play. He could only work in a sales company in a frustrated manner. When Xu Ke was filming "Shushan", he posted a recruitment advertisement in the newspaper to recruit mechanical special effects teachers. Zhang Yunfeng came to sign up when he was in a hot mind. Now he is responsible for the technical work of the entire special effects team.
"Okay. This is too simple compared to the special effects of "Shushan"." Zhang Yunfeng walked to a "big locust tree" and asked his assistant to plug in the power supply. After he pressed the button in the tree hole, the branches and leaves of the locust tree immediately moved flexibly.
"No," Kang Jianfei nodded and praised. "If you ask your subordinates to pick more materials on the tree spirit's tongue, don't let people know that it is fake at first glance."
Zhang Yunfeng said with deeds: "Okay, I'll ask them to find more materials to test them and try to find the most suitable one."
Although the special effects in the original work of "A Chinese Ghost Story" were good in that year, Kang Jianfei still wanted to strive for excellence. Because in his plan, "Shushan" is used to be screened in the Christmas and New Year periods, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is screened in the Spring Festival period. The difference is only a few months away. If the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story" are too bad, it will probably disappoint the audience who have just watched "Shushan".
After giving a few more instructions, Kang Jianfei saw a car outside stopping, and he immediately threw down the special effects team and walked out.
"Why did you come so early?" Kang Jianfei opened the car door and said to Zhong Chuhong with a smile.
Zhong Chuhong gave him a blank look and joked: "I thought I was too late to get in the way?"
Kang Jianfei laughed and coaxed Zhong Chuhong and said, "How could it be? I wish I could be with Ah Hong every day."
More than a dozen women, Kang Jianfei, as long as he has time, he will basically have dinner and date with them for ten days and a half months, and occasionally call them to say love words if they cannot be taken care of.
Kang Jianfei asked the staff to open a table and sat down with Zhong Chuhong and said, "It's a bit messy here, just let's just go."
"I just participated in a ribbon cutting, which is nearby, so I'll come and have a look," Zhong Chuhong said, looking at the busy people in the room, "It's quite fun to do special effects."
Zhong Chuhong is a signature actress at DreamWorks. In addition, she is not easy to take private jobs, so her commercial activities are so valuable that she is so valuable. She said that she had just participated in the ribbon cutting, and it was very likely that her friend opened a company and could not be pushed away, so she went to support her.
When Kang Jianfei saw Zhong Chuhong very interested in special effects work, he could only sigh: "In three to five years, I don't expect these people to make money for me. How many Hong Kong producers are willing to do special effects? They all go to make money for comedy."
Zhong Chuhong smiled and said, "That's not necessarily the case. This time "Shushan" has been in full swing. Jiahe, Xinyi City will definitely not be able to withstand loneliness."
Kang Jianfei looked at his watch and said, "Let's go, find a place to eat."
Zhong Chuhong asked, "You are not working anymore?"
"Why do you have to do with me?" Kang Jianfei smiled and took Zhong Chuhong's hand and walked out.
After the two went out to get in the car, they couldn't help but hug each other and kiss each other before the car door was closed. The two hadn't seen each other for more than half a month. Zhong Chuhong had long missed her for a long time and had no time to find a place to have dinner. After some intimacy, Kang Jianfei took her directly to a nearby villa.
All kinds of scandals about Kang Jianfei have spread. The more women there are, the less credibility becomes, or everyone is numb and inexperienced. So much so that if those gossip tabloids don’t take photos of Kang Jianfei and the actress, they are too lazy to create gossip news about him.
On the soft big bed, after a lot of lingering, Zhong Chuhong lay on Kang Jianfei with a jealousy, saying, "How do you choose that Wang Tuxian as the heroine this time? Are you making any bad ideas?"
"How is it possible? With you, I don't even look down on other women." Kang Jianfei was shameless and said lies without changing his face.
Zhong Chuhong didn't believe Kang Jianfei's nonsense, but she really had no choice but to do so. Especially the news of Pan Yingzi's pregnancy has spread within the company, and Zhong Chuhong felt even more uncomfortable.
"No, I want to be the heroine, too," Zhong Chuhong said in a rare manner, adding, "You must direct it yourself!"
"Okay, okay, after filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", I will shoot your movie." Kang Jianfei was afraid that she would say something more outrageous, so he turned over and pressed Zhong Chuhong down, and his two naked bodies were entangled together again.
Chapter completed!