065 [Celebration Banquet]
Perhaps it was to completely disgust Zou Wenhuai, the celebration banquet in "Happy Ghost" was actually set up in Liyuan, and it was even on the same floor as the celebration banquet in "The Junior Brother Comes Out" that day.
Kang Jianfei came over with two little girls and Li’s father. He happened to see Hu Juncai and Li Shan, who played the third female lead, get off the car. He asked curiously: "Where is Huang Minyi? Why didn’t you come with you?"
Hu Juncai explained: "I heard that you made Shao Yifu very angry this time. Amin has signed a five-year long appointment with Wireless. If he openly came to the celebration banquet of "Happy Ghost", he would probably be hidden."
"Oh." Kang Jianfei expressed his understanding.
Hu Juncai said mysteriously again: "Also, I heard from Chen Bingkun that TVB's chairman Li Xiaohe died of heart disease just now. From now on, TVB will be the head of Shao Yifu!"
Kang Jianfei is in another time and space. He has watched TVB dramas a lot, but he hasn't cared about TVB's history. He said strangely: "Hasn't the chairman of TVB always been Shao Yifu?"
"No," Hu Juncai said, "Li Xiaohe is the founder and chairman of TVB. When he founded the TVB station, he was afraid that he would not have enough influence in the film and television industry, so he attracted his good friend Shao Yifu to invest. However, in recent years, Shao Yifu has been the general manager of TVB and has essentially mastered various powers of TVB. This time, when Li Xiaohe died, Shao Yifu will be completely determined by TVB."
Kang Jianfei said curiously: "Where do you know so much about it?"
"Chen Bingkun told me." Hu Juncai said, "That kid asked if your company is short of people, saying that he wanted to join the company to do things."
Kang Jianfei said with a chill: "If he had entered the company, what we would do in the future will be known in Hong Kong within three days."
Several people entered Liyuan Restaurant and just got out of the elevator upstairs. They immediately attracted a flash, which made them unable to open their eyes.
More than a dozen reporters squeezed over, and one of them asked: "Director Kangda, the box office of "Happy Ghost" exceeded 10 million this time. Have you expected it in advance?"
Kang Jianfei didn't know what modesty was. He walked to the dining room and smiled: "Princess Jin was connected in full, plus the movie ticket price increased. If the box office did not exceed 10 million, wouldn't it be shameful?"
Another reporter said: "The box office of "Happy Ghost" is not worthy of over 10 million yuan. So "Modern Ghost" is a bad movie in Mr. Kang's opinion?"
"Modern Grove" was released in 13 Shaw Brothers theaters, but because of "Happy Ghost" and "The Junior Brother" snatched the audience away. This movie, which should have won the fifth place in Hong Kong's annual box office, was released in advance after only 10 days of screening, and the box office was less than 2 million.
Kang Jianfei said to the reporter: "My friend, your thinking is really active. When did I say "Modern Mu" is a bad movie? Be careful I will sue you for slander."
Before the reporter could speak, another reporter rushed to ask: "Mr. Kang, your movie was a big hit at the box office this time. Do you have any new shooting plans for DreamWorks recently?"
Kang Jianfei was thinking of making free advertising and took out a stack of his business cards and said, "Recently, my company has moved into a new office building and needs to recruit some employees. Interested friends can apply for the job. This business card contains a new address of our company. Please help me with the promotion."
The reporters looked at each other with their business cards, thinking: Kang Jianfei is too shameless. Before "Happy Ghost" was released, the full-page promotional advertisement was not worried about money for half a month. Now the box office has exceeded 10 million, and they are actually saving money for those recruitment advertisements.
When the reporters saw that Kang Jianfei could not ask anything, they immediately turned the question to the other person.
"Miss Wen, do you have a boyfriend now?"
Wen Bixia looked like a good girl and said, "I am only 13 years old. Now I learn acting with my brother every day. I don't plan to have a boyfriend until I was 18 years old."
Kang Jianfei held Wen Bixia's shoulders and said, "I like Axia very much, so I recognized her as my fucking sister. She is still young now, and falling in love too early is not a good thing. My brother, I, must take on the responsibility of educating and protecting her."
The reporters found that Li Saifeng and Kang Jianfei were also very close and asked, "Is Miss Li also the god sister recognized by Mr. Kang?"
When Li's father saw his daughter, he immediately ran out and showed his face and said, "Afeng just took Mr. Kang as his teacher today and wanted to learn kung fu with Mr. Kang."
The reporter asked Li's father in confusion: "Who are you?"
Li’s father spread his business card and started advertising: “I, Li Mingke, is Afeng’s father. In the future, if you want to decorate the newspaper, just call me. The decoration materials I sell are safe and durable, and I can also introduce you to a first-class decoration team…”
When the reporters saw that Li's father was a chatterbox, they immediately shifted the offensive target to him and began to ask about various things about Li Saifeng. Kang Jianfei took the opportunity to pull the two girls into the restaurant.
Li Saifeng only now knew about becoming a disciple, so she reluctantly said to Kang Jianfei: "In the future, Axia calls you brother, but I want to call you master. Isn't that shorter than her generation?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and comforted, "It's not that you want to worship tea and become a disciple, but that's just to teach you how to practice. If you don't like it, then call me my master brother."
Wen Bixia said with a funny look: "How can you call this? You are both the master and the brother."
Li Saifeng argued: "I think it's very good. From now on, I will call my master brother."
The two girls were quarreling, and Lei Juekun had already come over there and said with a smile: "A Fei, I did a pretty job this time, keep working hard!"
"Where is it all the support of Mr. Lei." Kang Jianfei smiled.
Lei Juekun shook hands with Hu Juncai again and said, "This is Mr. Happy Ghost. We met last time."
Hu Juncai held Lei Juekun's hand in both hands and bent down and said, "Hello Mr. Lei."
After shook hands with the three little girls, Lei Juekun took Kang Jianfei and others to the table.
Today's celebration banquet has invited many people, such as Xu Ke, who played a supporting role in "Happy Ghost", came with his girlfriend. Now he is having a good chat with Wu Chenggang. Both of them used to be employees of Jiashi, and they had some contact when filming "Happy Ghost", and they already had a good personal relationship.
Kang Jianfei glanced at the eyes and suddenly found that Hong Jinbao was sitting in a corner. He asked Lei Juekun in surprise: "Isn't Hong Jinbao from Jiahe? Why did he come too?"
Lei Juekun smiled and said, "He is just filming in Jiahe Theater. Baoxiang Film Company is his sole proprietorship, so he naturally leaves as soon as he says."
Kang Jianfei suddenly felt under great pressure. He remembered that Sammo Hung would set up a Baohe Company with the support of Zou Wenhuai in the past two years. Now that Baohe Company has not been established, Sammo Hung actually defected to Princess Jin.
In other words, the direction of Hong Kong movies has begun to differ from another time and space since the moment "Happy Ghost" was released.
The reason why Hong Jinbao left Jiahe and turned to Princess Jin was mostly because of Kang Jianfei. With the full support of Lei Juekun, "Happy Ghost" exceeded 10 million yuan in box office, which stimulated Hong Jinbao, who he thought was capable and powerful. In addition, Jiahe tilted all kinds of resources to Cheng Long, so it was normal for Hong Jinbao to make the decision to join Princess Jin after weighing the pros and cons.
As soon as Hong Jinbao arrived, he naturally brought his own troops. In addition to the brothers of the Yuan family, Lin Zhengying and others also followed him and now they also appeared at the celebration banquet.
There were also some film dealers in Nanyang and Taiwan at the banquet, but Lei Juekun deliberately refused to introduce him to Kang Jianfei. He probably didn't want Kang Jianfei to bypass Princess Jin and contact overseas distribution by himself.
In fact, Kang Jianfei is not qualified to distribute movies to Taiwan. Because of the ideological disputes over the past 20 years, any company that distributes movies to Taiwan and Taiwan must join the "Freedom Association" - that is, admitting that he is a right-wing film company. If Kang Jianfei wants to sell movies to Taiwan, he must find a "Freedom Association" company to distribute them on his behalf. It would be better to let Princess Jin be responsible for the distribution and save trouble.
"The Happy Ghost" became the first movie in Hong Kong to have a box office of over 10 million yuan, and Director Kang Jianfei made an indelible contribution. Today, I will be here to treat Director Kang to a glass," Lei Juekun raised his wine glass and said, "At the same time, I wish the Happy Ghost a big sale in the overseas market!"
The guests stood up one after another and raised their glasses to wish the "Happy Ghost" a big hit in the foreign market. The restaurant was very lively for a while. The reporters outside were deliberately put in by Lei Juekun, and at this time they were also taking photos of important figures at the banquet.
As the director of the movie, Kang Jianfei asked him to toast from time to time, and he could only drink one cup at a time.
Not long after, Sammo Hung also brought his Yuan family class, and there was also Yuen Biao in it. You should know that Yuen Biao is the second male lead in "The Junior Brother Comes Out". Now he is also famous and has a bright future. He is willing to give up his future in Jiahe and follow Sammo Hung to join Princess Jin!
"Mr. Kang, congratulations!" Hong Jingong raised his glass and smiled.
Kang Jianfei said with an "excited" expression: "Oh, it turns out to be Mr. Hong, I am your fan. Come on, drink three cups in one go, and we will work together in the future!"
Chapter completed!