Rosamund Kwan has a very lazy temperament, which is not only reflected in her inability to film well. She can't even get up in the morning. She sleeps until midnight every time before getting up to eat in a daze.
Li Jiaxin is completely different. Although she also wants to enjoy herself, she works very seriously and hard.
After struggling until midnight last night, Li Jiaxin still woke up very early in the morning. She opened her eyes drowsily and saw a doggy man and woman entangled on the bed, and immediately recalled the absurdity of last night.
"Are you awake so early?" Kang Jianfei took Switch Zhilin's arm and sat up and asked.
"Well, I can't sleep when I wake up." Li Jiaxin replied while getting dressed.
Kang Jianfei put on a sports T-shirt and shorts and ran to the open space downstairs to practice boxing. Li Jiaxin put on her clothes and looked back at Guan Zhilin, who was sleeping like a dead pig, and suddenly felt a sense of emptiness and confusion.
To be honest, Li Jiaxin did have a good impression of Kang Jianfei. This good impression turned into liking after the two broke through the relationship between men and women, but it was still far from the word "love". Staying with Kang Jianfei as his lover was completely out of character.
For money, this kind of relationship once made Li Jiaxin feel sad - no woman is inferior in heaven.
Now she not only became Kang Jianfei's mistress, but also served him with another woman. Li Jiaxin felt that her last shred of dignity had been torn to pieces.
After Kang Jianfei finished boxing, he went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he returned to the living room, Li Jiaxin had already asked the Filipino maid to prepare breakfast, and they had breakfast together like a normal couple.
When Kang Jianfei went out, Li Jiaxin didn't come back until he put him in the car. She was sitting in the empty living room doing nothing, not knowing what she should do.
Li Jiaxin suddenly missed her old days. She was either studying and doing housework, or filming commercials to earn money to support her family. Occasionally she had time to hang out with a few friends, and she felt very happy. Although she has money now, she has a lot of time to think every day.
I do whatever I want, but I feel even more empty and miserable than before.
Of course, if Li Jiaxin were to go back to live the poor life she had before, she would not do it even to death.
"Why haven't you left yet?" Rosamund Kwan came over wearing this nightgown with her hair disheveled.
Li Jiaxin argued: "This is Brother Fei's house, why should I leave?"
Guan Zhilin stretched and said, "I'm too lazy to argue with you. Is there still breakfast?"
"There seems to be one more thing, go to the kitchen and see for yourself." Li Jiaxin was not in the mood to quarrel with Guan Zhilin. What did the two mistresses have to argue about?
Li Jiaxin flipped through fashion magazines boredly. After finishing a magazine, Guan Zhilin had already packed it up and appeared in front of her in a glamorous outfit.
Seeing Guan Zhilin holding this bag, Li Jiaxin asked out of nowhere: "Where are you going?"
"Shopping." Guan Zhilin said.
Li Jiaxin put down the magazine and said, "Let's go together."
"Let's go." Guan Zhilin smiled, called her female bodyguard and went out.
Li Jiaxin looked at Guan Zhilin's female bodyguard and couldn't help but feel a sense of comparison. She thought to herself: Let Brother Fei hire one for me next time.
In the past, the most prosperous shopping mall in Hong Kong was in Central. However, in the past ten years, the rent of houses in Central has been too high. Commercial centers on Hong Kong Island have begun to spread to Sheung Wan, Wan Chai and other places. Causeway Bay has become the most prosperous and lively shopping place.
The two sports cars drove to Causeway Bay one after another and stopped in the parking lot near Sogo Department Store.
Guan Zhilin walked in front wearing sunglasses and said: "There is a good spa on the fifth floor of Sogo. I will take you to try it later."
Li Jiaxin said: "I usually do nursing work at George Street in Keli."
Guan Zhilin smiled and said: "It's already outdated over there."
After all, Li Jiaxin had lived the life of a rich person for less than a year. She was so familiar with spending money to waste her family, and she immediately had the idea of humbly learning from her predecessors.
The two walked into the department store together and immediately attracted the attention of everyone around them.
"Aunt Thirteen!"
"Why do Rosamund Kwan and Li Jiaxin go shopping together?"
"Yes, they are love rivals."
"..."
Hong Kong is such a big place that it is normal to meet a star. Unless it is a celebrity like Chow Yun-fat, Anita Mui, or Alan Tam, most people will not be too excited when meeting a small star.
Although Guan Zhilin is very famous, her celebrity aura is still insufficient. Unless she meets a die-hard fan, she will basically not be surrounded by passers-by asking for autographs.
But this time it was different. The two love rivals actually appeared in the department store talking and laughing, as if the sun was rising in the west.
I don’t know who informed the reporter. The next day, photos of them shopping together appeared in the entertainment pages of several newspapers, and their behavior was analyzed. The final conclusion was that after Kang Jianfei and He Chaoqiong got married,
Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin were both eliminated in this battle for love, and finally turned enemies into friends after sharing the same fate.
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When Kang Jianfei went to the mainland to select filming locations, Dark Horse Animation's animated film "Mulan" finally began to be screened in North America in the spring.
The spring season starts with spring break. Although it is not as important as the summer season and the year-end season (Thanksgiving and Christmas), the movies that can be released at this time are also very popular with theaters and distributors.
No one can guarantee the box office of "Mulan" in North America, because it is not only a Chinese movie, but also an animated movie. However, the previous screening results were very good, so when it was officially released, "Mulan" got
625 screens.
Disney's original version of "Mulan" in 1998 had a global box office of more than 300 million U.S. dollars. Kang Jianfei felt that he would be satisfied if the global box office of his movie exceeded 100 million. After all, the original version was backed by Disney's name. During the holidays, many American
Parents will bring their children into movies because of the name Disney. However, Kang Jianfei's Dark Horse Animation Company is unknown, so it will be very difficult to promote it.
Compared with the Disney version, the current version of "Mulan" only has some minor changes in plot details, but the soundtrack is completely different. All the songs in it were composed by Hu Weili.
The Disney version of "Mulan" draws on the spontaneity and freehand style of Chinese painting in character modeling. A few strokes of outline express the character's expression, mood and inner personality. The film uses a large number of freehand ink paintings as the background, landscapes, flowers and plants.
, courtyards, and fields, with a strong Chinese style. The colors are not the usual heavy colors of Disney, but completely imitate the lightness of Chinese ink paintings.
However, it is worth noting that the ink background does not have the feeling of moist rice paper. Instead, it incorporates Disney's consistent sense of solidity on the basis of freehand brushwork. Although the background is spacious and atmospheric, and the foreground is clear-cut, the foreground and background are consistently highlighted.
It has lost its rich color, a little less chic, and a little more discipline.
This style is a breakthrough for Disney. It won’t be difficult for Americans to accept it, but it will definitely feel awkward to Chinese people.
More than half of the animators at Dark Horse Animation Company are from the mainland. These people are either famous teachers or famous teachers and apprentices, and their level is definitely world-class.
Kang Jianfei originally wanted to follow Disney's example and incorporate the toughness of American comics into the ink painting style to cater to the aesthetics of American audiences. But after trying it, the animators in the company gave up their ideas one by one, saying that the result would be too different, and they beat them to death.
Don't do either.
Kang Jianfei couldn't make trouble with the professionals, so in the end he simply gave in to their wishes and used this cartoon to test the waters in North America.
The final style is very similar to "Havoc in Heaven". As for whether the American people like to watch it, we will only know after it is released.
A lot of promotion money was spent on it. Fortunately, during the same period, there were no blockbusters to compete for the box office, and there were no Disney animations to compete for the audience. As the only animated film in the spring, "Mulan" became a movie to watch with children.
Parents' first choice.
With a box office of US$8.61 million in its first weekend, "Mulan" ranked second in the North American spring weekend box office, which is an excellent result. Moreover, "Mulan" has great stamina, with a decline of only
It was 21.4, and continued to rank second in the weekly box office list. In the third week, it dropped to 28.6, and the weekly box office surpassed the original number one. However, the weekly box office champion was snatched away by another newly released movie, and it still ranked first.
Ranked second on the weekly box office list.
It has been ranked second in the box office list for three consecutive weeks, but the box office data of this perennial number two is extremely impressive. By the end of the fourth week of screening, the cumulative box office in North America had reached 24.48 million US dollars.
This result definitely cannot be ranked in the top ten of this year's North American box office list, and it is not even in the top twenty. But as a Chinese animated film, it can get more than 20 million US dollars in box office in North America. The gang from Dark Horse Comics
The animators were all crazy with joy.
Excluding publicity expenses, as well as dividends from distributors and theaters, "Mulan" can earn more than 3 million US dollars in North America, and the production cost of this film is less than 200,000 US dollars.
Who says animated movies can't make money?
After the news came back to Hong Kong, those who made animations in Hong Kong were dumbfounded. They were so poor that they could only make animation clips for advertisements and movies. Who had ever seen anyone making millions of dollars at a time doing animation?
After "Mulan" received good results in North America, it immediately took advantage of this momentum and started showing it in Hong Kong. r1152