It's almost July when "Tomb Raiders" is launched, and this year's summer movie schedule is about to begin. In DreamWorks' film schedule, the summer movies are "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Xu Ke, and "Codename White Rose" directed by Wang Jing
and "Alang's Story" directed by Ang Lee.
Among them, the male and female protagonists of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" are still Leslie Cheung and Wang Zuxian, but the new roles of Zhang Xueyou and Li Jiaxin have been added; "A Lang's Story" is starred by Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong.
It is worth mentioning that "Codename White Rose" is a movie that Kang Jianfei has never heard of. The script was written by Wang Jing and DreamWorks' new screenwriter Zheng Peilin. The cast of this film is extremely strong, including Zhou Xingchi, Liang Jiahui, and Ng Mong-tat.
, Li Saifeng, Lam Jieying, Mo Shunyun and Wen Bixia, etc., tells a story that happened in Hong Kong in the early 1950s.
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the summer season of the North American film market has already begun. "Terminator 2" directed by James Cameron has been released for a full week.
"Terminator 2" was like a storm blowing across North America. Canadian and American audiences were stunned by the explosive special effects, just like they were when they watched "Star Wars" more than ten years ago.
The opening screen was 2,274, and the first weekend (Friday to weekend) box office was 30.48 million US dollars. The data of "Terminator 2" blinded countless people. Based on this opening result, "Terminator 2" has a box office of 30.48 million US dollars.
The North American box office may exceed 200 million, because the number of theaters and the number of screenings are still increasing.
The copyright of the "Terminator" series of movies belongs to Kang Jianfei's Oriental Film Company in the United States, and it only has a cooperative relationship with Paramount.
After the wild sales of "Terminator 2", not only the film's director and leading actors and actresses were sought after, but even Kang Jianfei, the investor behind the scenes, was highly praised by the Global Times: "Kang is an extremely shrewd film investor.
Mellon has dug a mountain of gold."
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No reporters were invited to the opening ceremony of "Tomb Raiders". Only photographers from Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV were present. They took some clips to promote in the program.
At half past nine, Kang Jianfei took the lead in offering incense and praying four times. After finishing the feudal superstitious activities, the show officially started.
From the beginning, the crew was divided into two. The producer Chen Xunqi made a guest appearance as the second unit director and photographer, and took people to Temple Street for filming.
Because in the revised novel by Kang Jianfei, the male protagonist Wu Xie was brought to Hong Kong by his father when he was a child and grew up. After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, he opened an antique shop in Temple Street.
Chen Xunqi's team only needed to shoot the streets and take a few shots, while Kang Jianfei was responsible for shooting indoor scenes.
"The second scene of "Tomb Raiders", the first shot, Aikesh!"
The shooting location was an office room in an administrative building of Tseung Kwan O Studios. The room was decorated in an antique style, with some bottles and cans placed around as antiques.
Wu Zhenyu sat behind the counter, pretending to read a diary.
Huang Xia, who played the role of Big Golden Tooth, sneaked in and asked, "Do you collect copies here?"
Wu Zhenyu raised his head and glanced at Huang Xia, then lowered his head and continued reading the diary, saying perfunctorily: "I'll accept it, but the price is not high."
"Oh, can you introduce it to me?" Huang Xia said.
Wu Zhenyu continued to read and ignored him at all.
Huang Xia smiled and said: "Then let me ask, are there any rubbings of the Warring States period silk books here? It's the one that was stolen by a native of Changsha 40 years ago and defrauded by the Americans."
Wu Zhenyu suddenly raised his head and looked at the big golden tooth with surprised eyes.
"Click!"
Everyone thought the scene had passed, but Kang Jianfei stopped it at the last minute and said: "Zhenyu, your expression is too exaggerated. Remember, your expression should be restrained, it is the kind of expression that deliberately conceals the surprise in your heart.
The eyes just look out without any restraint."
"Okay, director, let me try it first." Wu Zhenyu nodded.
In the end, Ng Chun-yu's surprised close-up shot had to be shot three times in a row before it was passed. This scene was considered finished.
After all, a movie is a movie. It is impossible to film all the details and content of the novel. The next scene needs to be shot at the airport.
The male protagonist Wu Xie is going to Beijing to visit his third uncle, and the scene Kang Jianfei wants to shoot is that the male protagonist calls his third uncle in a phone booth at the airport. Through two or three sentences of dialogue, the actor tells the audience the purpose of going to Beijing.
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After the phone call, the actor Wu Xie and the heroine Zhang Qiling passed each other, and then the heroine called. From the content of the phone call, the audience can know that Zhang Qiling was going to the mainland to buy something - the one that appeared later.
Black gold blood sword.
The male and female protagonists were sitting on the same flight, but neither of them paid attention to each other.
Kang Jianfei took great pains when writing the script. There are several types of novel script modifications. Take two extreme examples. One is the Qiong Yao drama that "does not change a word" and can directly translate the novel language into the script language;
The other way is to adapt the Gu Long drama. When you adapt the drama and write the script, you can only use your imagination. If you write the script directly according to the original work, it is impossible to film it.
When Kang Jianfei adapted the script, he first built a plot framework, strictly designed the various climaxes of the film, and then filled in the plots and links. He found that if the order of appearance of the characters in "Tomb Raiders" was strictly followed, it would make women
The presence of the protagonist Zhang Qiling has become weaker. Moreover, Zhang Qiling's identity and background have been revised several times, and it was finally designed to appear at the Hong Kong Airport at the same time as the male protagonist.
After finishing filming the airport scene, it was only around 4 p.m. Kang Jianfei asked the photographer to take two shots of the plane taking off, and then took the crew back to the studio in the film and television city.
The scenes in the tomb all needed to be filmed in the props built, and all artificial light was used, so the filming was the same during the day and at night.
After everyone returned to the studio, they immediately received lunch boxes. After eating and resting for 20 minutes, Kang Jianfei continued filming until 11:30 p.m. when he announced the end of work.
The actors all dispersed, and the crew was still packing up the props. Kang Jianfei was obviously not as relaxed as filming before this time, because "Tomb Raiders" is his original work, and he did not have those fully formed shots and scenes in his mind.
When making, you can only do it step by step.
Now everyone can go home and rest, but he has to take notes and continue working, and sort out the shots he took today before going to bed.
Zhang Yan worked continuously for thirteen hours, taking a break during meals. She was extremely tired when she finished work. However, she did not go home directly. Instead, she bought two late-night snacks and sent them to the warehouse for Kang Jianfei and the manager.
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After being ruined by her manager last time, Zhang Yan has been feeling anxious and uneasy, wondering what kind of impression Kang Jianfei had on her.
"Director, let's have something to eat first." Zhang Yan brought the midnight snack to Kang Jianfei.
"Leave it alone, I'll finish it in a while, you go back and rest first," Kang Jianfei said.
Zhang Yan stood beside her for a while. She was already very tired and soon began to yawn non-stop. Finally, she couldn't help but sneaked back to sleep.
After seven or eight days of busy work, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Xu Ke and starring Leslie Cheung, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Xueyou and Li Jiaxin has finally been released.
Summer movies released at the same time include "Secrets to Prosperity" by Gao Zhisen Film Production Company, "Return to Youth" directed by Eric Tsang for Vientiane Pictures, "The Taoist with One Eyebrow" directed by Lin Zhengying for Golden Harvest Pictures, and the film introduced by Anle Pictures.
The Hollywood film "King Kong Fights the Murderer" and several other low-quality films that are not worth watching.
Well, the so-called "King Kong Fights the Murderer" is the Hong Kong translation. It also has another name called "007 Series: License to Kill". This movie sold more than 12 million at the box office in Hong Kong, making the Jiang brothers make another profit.
One stroke.
Judging from the box office of these summer movies, Gao Zhisen, who had a prosperous career last year, is on the block, and Eric Tsang, who was entrusted with a high role by Huang Baiming, is also on the block.
The several films that Gao Zhisen made for Dickson Poon in the past two years had a combined box office of nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong alone. He helped others make so much money, but he didn't get a portion of it. Of course Gao Zhisen was not willing to accept it, so he ran out to open it himself.
As the boss of a company, he never expected that he would be poured cold water on his face. This time, his "Secrets to Prosperity" only had a box office of 8.41 million.
Eric Tsang's "Return to Youth" was similar, with a box office of less than 9 million. This caused a dispute between him and several shareholders of Vientiane Pictures. After dividing the money, he left Vientiane Pictures and joined Golden Harvest.
On the contrary, Lin Zhengying's "One Eyebrow Taoist" withstood the pressure of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" and earned more than 14 million at the box office.
In other words, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" was released at the right time. There were no competitive opponents at the same time, so "The Taoist Man" and "007: License to Kill" were a bit of a threat.
Relying on the good reputation left by the first film, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" performed very strongly, leading the summer box office list, and finally received more than 28 million local box office.
Leslie Cheung and Wang Zuxian are still fascinated by countless boys and girls. Li Jiaxin's poor acting skills in the film were once again criticized by film critics. However, Jacky Cheung is considered to be very talented as an actor.
By the time "Codename White Rose" directed by Wang Jing was released, Kang Jianfei had already completed most of the scenes shot in Hong Kong for "Tomb Raiders". At this time, he had to announce a half-day shutdown because the finals of this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant would be held as scheduled.
Well, Kang Jianfei must attend in person.
The quality of the Miss Hong Kong contestants this year is not very high, but there is one Chen Farong who is very eye-catching. The Miss Oriental contest is about the same, the overall level has dropped by a notch compared to last year. It seems that all the beauty resources were used up last year.
However, in this Miss Oriental beauty pageant, there are still two beauties supporting the scene. One of them is called Wan Qiwen and the other is Weng Hong.r1152