"Brother Fei, I heard that you are going to play the second male lead in "Tomb Raiders" and become a big star in the future. Don't forget us brothers."
"Easy to say, easy to say."
"What did I mean? Fatty's acting skills, you can tell he will become famous sooner or later."
"Thanks to Mr. Kang for your support."
"Brother Fei, why don't you give Mr. Kang a few words of praise and let me play a role too, with just one or two lines?"
"This kind of thing is under the control of the assistant casting director. I will try my best to help you, but I can't guarantee whether you will be selected."
"Fat boy, to celebrate your becoming the second male lead, why don't you go to a food stall to celebrate tonight?"
"Well, let's wait until the film is finished before celebrating. I need to familiarize myself with the script in the past few days."
"Fat brother..."
As the saying goes, when you are poor in the downtown area, no one cares about you, but when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives. When Lin Xue was playing a small role, everyone looked down on him. Now, because he plays the second male lead in Kang Jianfei's new movie, he goes downstairs to buy food.
Being surrounded by people.
The situation at Zhang Yan's side was similar. After the newspaper came out the next day, her phone number was buzzed by a bunch of classmates. In addition to congratulations, those students who talked the most hoped that Zhang Yan could introduce some of them.
a role.
How could Zhang Yan dare to agree to such a thing? After all, Lin Xue had been working in DreamWorks for a few years, and he knew some of the young directors, but Zhang Yan was a complete newcomer.
After being rejected by Zhang Yu, the reasonable person was just a little disappointed, and self-righteously began to speak ill of her behind her back. At first, she just complained that Zhang Yu had become rich and forgot about her old classmates. Later, she didn't know if it was because of jealousy. She started to spread the word about Zhang.
Yan had an unruly private life and had several boyfriends at the same time. This time she became the heroine by seducing Kang Jianfei.
I don’t know who started spreading these bad words. They eventually spread to the tabloids. Even before the filming of the movie started, Zhang Yan’s reputation was stained, and he couldn’t get rid of it from now on.
…
"The budget is 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and there is no upper limit. This Kang Jianfei is really generous!" Zou Wenhuai put down the newspaper and sighed.
Zou Wenhuai has just returned from visiting his daughter in the United States, and he also invested in adapting "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" into a movie. The budget of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is 13.5 million US dollars. When converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is 105.3 million, which is more than the 100 million of "Tomb Raiders"
5.3 million more.
But the problem is. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was jointly invested by five companies, and Golden Harvest only invested US$4.5 million in it. Investing more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars at once was still a bit difficult for Golden Harvest, not just because of financial constraints.
. More of a fear of investment failure.
So when I heard that Kang Jianfei directly spent 100 million to make "Tomb Robbers", Zou Wenhuai was still very emotional. He admired Kang Jianfei's courage to take action. Even if it were Zou Wenhuai, he would have to attract several companies to cooperate and invest before he dared to start the project.
It's such a big drama, even if it goes to the street, you won't lose everything.
He Guanchang put a folder on Zou Wenhuai's desk and said: "Aaron's new film budget has been made. The investment is too big and I can't make the decision. I need your signature."
"70 million?" Zou Wenhuai opened the file and took a look. He, who had been sighing at Kang Jianfei's boldness just now, was stunned. "What kind of Kung Fu movie in the early Republic of China requires an investment of 70 million? Aaron, he must be crazy!"
"He wants to do something big this time." He Guanchang said and suddenly laughed, "Besides, DreamWorks' "Tomb Raiders" has made a lot of noise, and we just happened to use Aaron's 70 million budget kung fu movie to promote it.
, otherwise all the limelight will be covered by DreamWorks."
Zou Wenhuai's first job when he joined Shaw Brothers was as the publicity manager of Shaw Brothers. He was an expert at building publicity. He nodded and said: "You are right, we must not only promote Aaron's "Miracle", but also promote us."
Investing in Ninja Turtles in the United States.”
He Guanchang smiled and said: "Let's just say that we invested in "Ninja Turtles" with a budget of 105.3 million in Hollywood."
This is just playing a word game. Golden Harvest did invest in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and the budget for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was indeed HK$153 million. Golden Harvest just ignored the fact that there were four other investors in its promotion.
When the news was announced, the audience was given the illusion that Golden Harvest had simultaneously invested in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with a budget of more than 100 million, and "Miracle" with a budget of 70 million. The money spent was much more chic than DreamWorks.
On the third day after Kang Jianfei held a press conference for his new film, Golden Harvest also held a press conference to announce two blockbusters invested by Golden Harvest.
The next day's entertainment headlines reported it one after another, and it actually suppressed the publicity campaign of "Tomb Raiders" for a while.
DreamWorks just spent an unlimited amount of 100 million to make "Tomb Raiders", and Golden Harvest invested nearly 180 million to make two movies at the same time. The media ignored the fact that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is an American film and exclaimed:
Hong Kong movies have entered the blockbuster era.
Mr. Pan from Debao Film Company was the first to refuse to accept the money-spending behavior of the two major companies, and immediately announced the filming of "The King of Fighters" with a budget of 70 million. The film will have Zhen Zidan as the leading actor and will also invite boxing champions.
Ali makes a cameo appearance, and it tells the story of the grievances of a Chinese boxing champion. Two real boxing champions, Billy Chou and Chen Huimin, will also appear. Japan's Shinichi Chiba and the rising American fighting star Jean-Claude Van Damme will also be invited.
As soon as the news came out, not only did other people shout crazy, but even Kang Jianfei was dumbfounded. What the hell is going on? He had just announced that he would make a blockbuster movie, so why were so many people following him throwing money at it?
But when he thought about it carefully, Kang Jianfei laughed. He was not an honest person.
The 70 million that Jiahe gave to Cheng Long was real money, but "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was purely a gimmick; and the 70 million "King of Fighters" offered by Debao Company was even more of a cover. Muhammad Ali was just a guest appearance, and maybe he would show up.
It's just a lens. Jean-Claude Van Damme has just emerged at this time. The salary for the film is no more than 1 million US dollars at most. It doesn't cost much to hire Shinichi Chiba, Billy Chow and Chen Huimin. The cost of shooting this film will not exceed the sky.
30 million, 70 million big productions are all just hype.
Wong Kar-Wai is currently filming "Days of Wild" with a cost of 40 million for the film. Fortunately, the investment in this film is like squeezing out toothpaste. Otherwise, Deng Guangrong would probably come to join in the fun and say, don't look at our company.
Even though it’s small, it’s still a huge project with an investment of 40 million.
"You're all fucking crazy!" Huang Baiming looked at the blockbuster news one after another, and ten thousand grass-mud horses ran through his heart. Although he received many inheritances from Xinyi City, the funds in his hands were stretched thin, and he had no money at all.
Fahe DreamWorks and Golden Harvest have more money than money, so they can only honestly make small-budget comedies in order to develop.
Several major companies successively broke the news about large investments, which attracted the attention of countless citizens for a while, and they were looking forward to the blockbusters released in the next year. Film critics also followed suit, saying that this is an inevitable phenomenon for Hong Kong films to develop to a certain stage.
.
Kang Jianfei didn't say a word about this. In fact, he was secretly happy that the newspapers finally stopped reporting on his scandal and successfully diverted everyone's attention.
Of course, Mr. Kang is still the darling of those gossip tabloids, and all kinds of tidbits are endless. The most popular ones are the three new favorites, He Chaoqiong, Zhou Huimin and Zhang Yan, because everyone is tired of seeing the stories of Wang Zuxian, Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin, so they do gossip news
You also need to be dedicated, right? You need to compile more fresh tidbits to sell it.
In Tseung Kwan O Studios, a huge studio is being built into a tomb.
The entire main body of the building is made of plastic foam and wood, and is finally painted with paint. The interior becomes various tomb passages and chambers that look just like the real thing.
Kang Jianfei was standing in the studio supervising the work. Chen Xunqi, who was personally supervising him this time, came over and said, "Mr. Kang, should we find a mainlander as a costume consultant? This film was shot in mainland China, and the local people wear
What kind of clothes, no one knows very well."
"If you don't tell me, I forgot. I'll leave this matter to you," Kang Jianfei said.
Chen Xunqi added: "The other arrangements for finding filming locations have also been made. Currently, there are three alternative locations, namely in Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong. The contact arrangements have been arranged for the next one.
We can leave in a week."
Kang Jianfei nodded: "Go to Guangdong first."
"Okay, I've made arrangements and let you know." Chen Xunqi said.
Not long after Chen Xunqi left, Zeng Bolin came over with a mobile phone: "Boss, Miss Li Jiaxin is looking for you."
"Just say I'm very busy." Kang Jianfei has been bothered by Li Jiaxin these days.
"Uh...ok." Zeng Bolin walked away with the phone in hand.
After a while, Zeng Bolin called over again and said, "This time it's Miss Guan."
After the marriage between Kang Jianfei and He Chaoqiong came out, Zhong Chuhong, Lan Jieying and other women were clamoring to break up with him. Wen Bixia, Li Lizhen and others were all jealous, but Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin were clamoring to accompany him all day long.
It seemed that he wanted to take Kang Jianfei away from He Chaoqiong.
Kang Jianfei was annoyed by them for several days, and this time he finally got tired of it and said, "Call them and ask them to meet at Villa No. 4 in Repulse Bay at eight o'clock in the evening."
Zeng Bolin thought he heard wrongly and asked: "We are all meeting at No. 4, Repulse Bay?"
Kang Jianfei repeated: "Du Yue."
Zeng Bolin asked again: "Tonight?"
"Tonight!" Kang Jianfei glared at him, as if he thought he talked too much.
"Okay, I'll call right away." Zeng Bolin quickly picked up the phone and went to the corner to dial the number, but in his heart he was sighing at the boss's awesomeness. It's so bold for a skilled artist to make an appointment with two big jealous people at the same time.
Location, and I am not afraid that if the vinegar tank breaks, he will die of acid and drown.
What Kang Jianfei was thinking was that he had to teach those two a lesson tonight about what they might say in front of reporters. The series of scandals that happened this time were all caused by their nonsense. (To be continued.
