Debao Film Company, small screening indoor.

On the screen, the male protagonist Zhang Guorong dressed as a scholar was caught by the ghost mother. The heroine Yingning turned into a ray of light and flew into a high altitude, turned into a fox under the moonlight, and then spit out the inner elixir and died together and attacked the ghost mother.

An injured monk on the ground turned over and sat up. When the fox's inner elixir attacked the ghost mother, he recited scriptures, pinched the magic seal with his hand, and suddenly brushed his sleeve and drove the demon-subduing pestle inserted beside him.

"boom!!"

Under the double attack of the fox inner pill and the demon-subduing pestle, the ghost mother screamed and instantly disappeared.

"Smack it..."

Pan Disheng, who was sitting in the third row, stood up and took the lead in applauding the film. Then he said to director Hu Jinquan: "Old Hu, you are so good at filming, and you are not inferior to DreamWorks' "A Chinese Ghost Story" at all."

"I'm too much, thanks to Mr. Pan's trust." Hu Jinquan smiled and looked extremely happy.

Since "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" became popular at the beginning of last year, many Hong Kong film companies have followed suit and shot similar films. However, because they are reluctant to invest too much budget, the shooting results are not very good, and they have no chance to be released in the prime time of several major theaters.

This time, Debao Film Company's ghost-fox movie "Yingning" invested more than 14 million yuan, and even went to Taiwan to invite Hu Jinquan to direct it in order to show its strength in this summer.

Hu Jinquan’s best-in-class martial arts films, and he made a ghost and fox movie with a taste of the world, and it did not affect the quality of the movie at all.

"Yingning" started filming in the first half of last year, and it has been more than a year since its completion. During this period, Hu Jinquan completely followed his own ideas and made a movie with a budget of 6 million to 14 million.

This is also the most exciting thing about Hu Jinquan. Since the decline of traditional martial arts films, no one has been willing to spend money and let him do anything. Only a wealthy boss like Pan Disheng is willing to spend money to make the movie perfect and extend the production cycle more than double.

Only in the casting and script of the movie did Hu Jinquan and Pan Disheng have some differences, and the final result was that the two compromised each other.

At the beginning, Pan Disheng positioned "Yingning" as a follow-up work in "A Chinese Ghost Story", hoping to invite the popular Zhang Guorong and Wang Shuxian to be the male and female protagonists, and let Wen Jun write the plot into a heart-stirring love story.

After Hu Jinquan got the script, he spent a month to modify Wen Jun's script, and the changes reached two-thirds, and the whole story became completely unrecognizable. Then Hu Jinquan refused to let Wang Shuxian play the heroine, because Yingning had a weird personality and was completely inconsistent with Wang Shuxian's freshness and coldness.

Hu Jinquan spent another half a month to select the heroine. He first chose a second-tier Taiwanese actress, but was rejected by Pan Disheng. The reason has nothing to do with the actress's acting skills and appearance. It is purely because the actress's reputation is too low. An independent film company like Debao will not work hard to train unless it is a newcomer with great potential, which will directly make the star of popular movie stars more attractive to the box office.

Hu Jinquan looked around and picked up TVB actress Jing Daiyin, who is Tang Zhenye's ex-girlfriend. He played Princess Jianning in Liang Chaowei's version of "The Deer and the Cauldron". As for the reason Hu Jinquan liked her, it was because Jing Daiyin was very lively and laughing, and her ancient costume was quite unconventional, which was in line with the description of Yingning in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".

Pan Disheng once again denied Hu Jinquan's proposal, with the same reason as before. Jing Daiyin is only famous in Hong Kong and has no box office appeal in Taiwan or Nanyang.

Hu Jinquan and Pan Disheng had a big fight. They also said that Wang Shuxian was not famous in Nanyang before "A Chinese Ghost Story", and now he still became a well-known actress.

Unfortunately, Pan Disheng was unwilling to take risks, so he finally picked and picked him. Hu Jinquan finally proposed a candidate who was meaningless to both of them - Zhao Yazhi.

Zhao Yazhi has only occasionally filmed TV series in the past two years, but she is still a household name in Nanyang and Taiwan. The only thing that is worrying is that she seems to be a little too old.

Hu Jinquan invited Zhao Yazhi to audition, but Zhao Yazhi's performance surprised him. He played Yingning's charm vividly with just a few moves and smiles. Although Zhao Yazhi has been acting in TV series for many years and has too much strength during performance, these can be corrected during filming.

From changing the script to casting, Hu Jinquan took 14 months to get Yingning done. In order to improve the quality of the film, Hu Jinquan also specially invited Kang Jianfei's Qimeng Special Effects Company to help, and also invited Kang's class to be a martial arts finger. It can be said that the action and special effects team is the original cast of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

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After seeing off Hu Jinquan, Pan Disheng asked Cen Jianxun: "Have the screening plan for major theaters this summer has come out?"

Cen Jianxun is now the general manager of Debao Cinema. Since Pan Disheng spent 100 million Hong Kong dollars at the beginning of the year, Debao Cinema has quickly expanded its scale to 9 cinemas on its original basis. When the period is good, it will be enough to compete with several other major cinema companies.

"Today's summer season, Jiahe mainly features Sammo Hung's "Oriental Condor" and Cheng Long's "A Plan 3", as well as Zhang Tongzu's "Jianghu Dragon and Tiger Fight"; Princess Jin is Mecca's "30 million in Hengcai", Lin Lingdong's "Dragon and Tiger Storm" and Zhang Jianting's "Laughing Marriage"; Xinbao Cinema is Lee Xiuxian's "Iron Blooded Mounted Police", Zeng Zhiwei's "Happy Don't Speech" and Qian Yuesheng's "High and Growing Ghost Case"; Oriental Cinema is Kang Jianfei's "Fangfang", Wang Jing's "Best Friends 3" and Huang Tailai's "Jianghu Love". "Cen Jianxun said with a lot of knowledge. Although he could not get the screening schedule of other theaters, it is easy to judge which movies will be released in the summer season from the publicity and other actions of other companies.

It’s okay for other competitors to say that when Pan Disheng heard the names Kang Jianfei, Wang Jing, Mecca, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long, he felt a headache. He said, “The competition is very fierce.”

Cen Jianxun smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry too much. Hu Jinquan made "Yingning" extremely high-quality, which surpassed most Hong Kong films in terms of quality."

"That's true." Pan Disheng smiled relaxedly.

It is not only "Ying Ning" that gives Pan Disheng confidence, but also two other movies that will be released in the summer season of Debao Theater - "The Thieves" and "Love Nothing". The leading actors of the previous film include Lin Zixiang, Zheng Zeshi, Yang Ziqiong and Ke Shouliang, and the male and female protagonists of the latter film are Liu Dehua and Zhong Chuhong, both of which are good-selling movies.

The two discussed the post-promotion work of "Yingning", and Pan Disheng drove to his jewelry company. He is not only the boss of a movie and theater company, but also the founder of a famous jewelry company, but also the latter is Pan Disheng's main business.

"Yingning" was only produced yesterday, so today Pan Disheng went to watch the movie early in the morning, and now it's half a morning and hasn't done anything else. After arriving at the company, Pan Disheng handled the daily affairs of the jewelry company and then went to freely start reading newspapers and magazines.

As the owner of a jewelry company, Pan Disheng reads newspapers and magazines not to have fun, but to look for useful information between the lines.

After reading the social and financial version of Ming Pao, Pan Disheng turned to the entertainment version again, which showed the news that "Fang Fang" won the award in Cannes, France.

Not to mention the Cannes Film Festival, the Hong Kong media did not pay much attention to Oscars at this time. Only when there are Hong Kong films or Chinese people involved will they join in the fun and follow and report.

The cost of interviews in Europe is not low, and it is impossible to determine whether this news can increase newspaper sales. Therefore, even if Kang Jianfei's film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes, only a few Hong Kong newspapers sent reporters to Cannes, and Ming Pao was one of them.

A few days ago, several newspapers such as Ming Pao and Oriental Daily reported the news that Fangfang was very popular among foreigners, and made this romance film that had not yet been released very hot.

However, Pan Disheng didn't care much. Before Kang Jianfei's "Fang Fang", six Chinese-language films had been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, but only three and a half of them sold well - Hu Jinquan's "The Heroes" was half. After three years of filming, he only got a little box office because of the award.

Kang Jianfei is already famous enough in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong audience base is there. Even if "Fang Fang" won the award in Cannes, it will not play a big role in increasing the amount - it is impossible to exceed 40 million in the box office, right? At least two-fifths of Hong Kong citizens (including the elderly and children) must enter the cinema.

"The most popular movie award at the Cannes Film Festival," Pan Disheng looked at the small words in the newspaper and was confused, "What is this award?"

However, when Pan Disheng continued to read, he became more and more surprised. Below was there a photo of Kang Jianfei, Sophie Marceau, and Liang Jiahui with the French Prime Minister.

Chirac took photos with many directors and celebrities that night. This news was not eye-catching in France, but it would be different if it was taken back to Hong Kong. The two thousand years of official position left behind instantly raised Kang Jianfei and Liang Jiahui to a higher level.

Not to mention anything else, just this handshake and photo will bring Leung Ka-hui back to Hong Kong to increase his salary a lot.

There is another report later, but the director of "The Last Emperor" Bernardo and Liang Jiahui had a secret talk at the banquet, and the two were likely to collaborate on a new film. At the end of the report, the reporter also dug out the old stories of Liang Jiahui, Bernardo and Li Hanxiang to increase their attractiveness to readers.

Pan Disheng didn't pay attention to who Liang Jiahui starred in. The promotional offensive of "Fang Fang" in the following days was the biggest headache for him and the bosses of several other major film companies.

Kang Jianfei even shamelessly made people record the grand occasion of "Fang Fang" when it was released in Cannes, and edited it into a short film for broadcast on Phoenix Channel.

Watching the ghosts on TV pushing and queuing up to watch "Fang Fang", Hong Kong citizens feel a little proud. After all, "Fang Fang" is a Hong Kong film, and as Hong Kong people, there is reason to be proud.

At the same time, movie fans are also looking forward to "Fangfang" more and want to know what the content of such a movie that is popular among foreigners is.
Chapter completed!