Before Christmas in 1990 came, a movie was in the off-season, with 20.99 million box offices in 38 consecutive days. This box office data has surpassed many popular movies in the summer season, and it is simply a dark horse falling from the sky.
This off-season high-box movie is called "The Love of the War between the Warriors of Qin in Ancient and Modern Times". DreamWorks is the largest investor and the theater chain is also Oriental theater chain.
In the original time and space, after Gan Guoliang and Yu Zheng jointly opened a film company, due to insufficient funds, they invested in Jiahe. "The Terracotta Warriors" was eventually directed by Cheng Xiaodong, starring Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Yu Guangrong, and Xu Ke was only responsible for special effects work.
Now, Xu Ke's film studio has become one of the producers of this film "The Troupe of Qin". He is also the producer of the film himself.
Anyone who knows Xu Ke knows that this guy likes to point fingers on the set. The original director Zhang Yimou is also a director with a strong style. When the two collided together, it was like mixing cold water into a oil pan, and they were immediately furious. There was no need to wait until the filming started. The film could not continue during the preparation stage.
There is no way, Xu Ke and Zhang Yimou's film ideas are too different, so they can't pee in the same pot at all. At the beginning, they both refused to give in, but in the end they got upset, and both of them quit.
Gan Guoliang was stunned and finally had to find his friend Cheng Xiaodong to save the scene. Zhang Yimou, who quit the director, failed to become the male lead because the candidate for the male lead had long been confirmed as Zhang Fengyi.
In fact, when Zhang Yimou first got the script, he felt a little scared because he was not sure about making such a commercial film. At first, Zhang Yimou wanted to listen to Xu Ke's opinions, but when he really cooperated, he realized that he could not communicate at all, and in the end he had to give up his position as director.
The popularity of "The War between the War between the Qin Terracotta Warriors of Ancient and Modern Times" in Hong Kong is both surprising and reasonable. What is surprising is that the male and female protagonists of this film are both mainland actors. Even if Gong Li has been a "Flying Girl", she still has no box office appeal in Hong Kong; what is reasonable is that the rhythm and style of this film are pure Hong Kong flavor, and Hong Kong audiences are not under pressure to accept it, not to mention that the plot, special effects, action, art design, etc. are all excellent.
Gong Li has truly made her famous in Hong Kong. However, Zhang Fengyi and Yu Guangrong, the two male first and second male, still have a low presence. The so-called drama is popular but not popular. Although "The Love of the War between the Qin Terracotta Warriors" is selling well, it is not enough to make Zhang Fengyi famous in Hong Kong.
On the side of Jiahe, it was almost December that Cheng Long came back with the crew of "Flying Eagle Project". This movie, which was originally planned to be filmed with 30 million yuan, took seven or eight months to finish it. It took more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars to finish it. Now the producer is still squatting in a cell in Morocco.
"Christmas is definitely not available, and it's too late to go." Zou Wenhuai said after watching the pornographic film of "The Flying Eagle Plan".
Generally speaking, Zou Wenhuai has to watch every movie in Jiahe before it is released. However, it was only after the movie was completed later. This time, Zou Wenhuai seemed a little anxious. Before the soundtrack of "Flying Eagle Project" was completed, Boss Zou was anxious to see the cut films.
There is no way, there are too many variables during the filming of the "Flying Eagle Plan". More than 100 million yuan of Jiahe's funds have been invested. Boss Zou must listen to the news.
He Guanchang said: "Putting the "Flying Eagle Plan" during the Spring Festival is just right to avoid Kang Jianfei's film."
Zou Wenhuai suddenly smiled and said, "Shi Chang, do you think Kang Jianfei's new film is not very popular?"
"The promotional momentum of this "Trumen's World" is not as big as "Grave Robbers' Chronicles". "He Guanchang knew the elegant meaning when he heard the strings, and said understandably, "You mean, Kang Jianfei himself is not so optimistic about the box office of "Trumen's World"?"
Zou Wenhuai nodded and said, "I heard that "The World of Truman" is an art film."
He Guanchang said in surprise: "Isn't it a comedy that has been promoted all the time?"
"If it's a pure comedy, isn't it good to find Zhou Xingchi as the male lead? Why do you need Tony Leung to act?" Zou Wenhuai guessed, "I'm sure Kang Jianfei is playing art again this time, and I don't know what he will shoot."
He Guanchang smiled and said, "If it is really an art film, it will make people look forward to it. I heard that the budget for that drama is 65 million. Tsk, Kang Jianfei is really brave enough to invest tens of millions of dollars in a art film."
He Guanchang pondered: "With Kang Jianfei's box office appeal, what he made was not to mention a literary film, even a piece of shit could still make a profit. If the film was filmed too badly, it would at most affect his reputation and he would still make money."
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The four words "wealthy" are not suitable for Kang Jianfei, because with this guy's personality, he is still willful when he has no money.
"The World of Truman" is indeed not as well promoted before "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles", but compared with other films at the same time, it is still very aggressive. Even if Kang Jianfei doesn't spend money to promote it, the reporters will automatically come to interview and report when they hear that director Kang Da's new drama is about to be released.
The premiere of the new drama is about to be held, but Kang Jianfei is still leisurely writing serial novels at home, and by the way he writes songs for the zodiac signs. At this time, he was flipping through the newspaper randomly and sighing to Zhao Yazhi, who was sitting not far away reading magazines: "Oh, why don't you report any scandals about me? I was photographed by a reporter when I went out with Jiahui yesterday, but today I actually gave half a page for a gossip magazine, which is not taking me seriously."
Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but smile and said, "You are so embarrassed to say that you have been having scandals every few years. The audience has not gotten tired of watching it, and those newspaper editors are tired of reviewing the manuscripts."
"Yes, reporting my scandals will not increase sales a few times, unless there is a new scandal heroine," Kang Jianfei looked at the photos of Cheng Long and Cheng Yuling in the newspaper and said to himself, "Azhi, do you think they are really dating?"
"Who knows," Zhao Yazhi asked curiously, "Why do you suddenly care about gossip news?"
"I'm so idle that I have nothing to do, just look at the newspaper and sigh." Kang Jianfei explained casually. In fact, when he saw this news, he suddenly remembered Lin Fengjiao. Because Kang Jianfei stole someone else's wife, Cheng Long is still unmarried.
Although the "Flying Eagle Plan" will not be released until the Spring Festival, the publicity has begun. The first one to be released was the scandal between Cheng Long and Cheng Yuling.
However, anyone who knows them knows that Cheng Long and Cheng Yuling are absolutely impossible to be together. Their personalities are too different, and the scandals in the newspaper are definitely hype.
Cheng Yuling's evaluation in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is very polarized. People who admire her think she is self-reliant and upholds principles. People who hate her think she is very fond of her and is greedy for money.
And when the entire crew could not get a pay, her agent was threatened and there was no background behind her, she was finally asked by Cheng Yuling. That time, she got the pay alone in the entire crew.
Judging from this incident, Cheng Yuling is a brave woman, but she has another side. For example, in another time and space, a director with a good relationship with Cheng Yuling needs to add two scenes after the filming, which can be done in half a day. If it were other actors, they would definitely not charge money. After all, everyone will have to cooperate in the future, but Cheng Yuling just charged others 100,000 yuan in a long time, offending the director and the producer.
Another thing is that Cheng Yuling never lends money to others. No matter how good her friend is, she doesn’t lend a penny. When she has money, she stores it all in the bank, does not speculate in real estate or do business. She is one of the most conservative financial management concepts among Hong Kong artists.
Cheng Long is a very generous person to his friends. He and Cheng Yuling can be good friends at most. How can he become lovers?
But throughout Christmas, Cheng Long and Cheng Yuling's relationship was still hyped up, and the "Flying Eagle Plan" starring them was gradually hyped up, and it had already been more than half of it before it was released.
The Spring Festival period in February next year is destined to belong to Cheng Long.
However, for Christmas, everyone is recognized as Kang Jianfei's world. Except for Wong Kar-wai's "The Legend of Ah Fei" that is more anticipated, there is no movie that can be a rival throughout Christmas.
As for the sinkhole in "The Legend of Ah Fei"... Well, no one knows that it is a trap now. Only knows that Deng Guangrong invested 40 million yuan. Wong Kar-wai asked Leslie Cheung, Zhang Manyu, Liu Jialing, Liu Dehua, and Zhang Xueyou to star (the original starring role was Liang Chaowei, and later changed to a guest appearance). It took more than a year to have an explosion and gunfight, another speed chase, and even used a helicopter during filming. Now the movie is finally ready.
Now the audience is looking forward to going to the cinema to watch the gunfight scene between Leslie Cheung and Liu Dehua, and to see the hot helicopter explosion scene.
Unlike the premiere of "The World of Truman", "The Legend of Ah Fei" chose the traditional midnight premiere.
Some movie fans excitedly bought tickets to take a look. After watching it for an entire hour and a half, some were bored and left halfway, and some were sleepy and fell asleep. Until the end of the movie subtitles appeared, the audience who persisted until the end of the audience finally realized that they had been fooled by the director.
What about the hot gun battle that was agreed upon?
What about the helicopter that promised?
What about the agreed speed camera?
Damn, what's the matter in this broken movie?
“Refund the ticket!”
"The director dies!"
“Watching this movie is more uncomfortable than eating shit.”
"A waste of my youth!"
“…”
When the King of Sunglasses saw something was wrong, he quietly slipped away. Investor Deng Guangrong looked ashen. With the last bit of luck, he called the editor overnight to ask the editor to edit the film again.
A big investment of 40 million yuan, and all the money I have earned over the years has been invested. If it fails, Deng Guangrong can't imagine it. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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