After the special effects and scenery team of "Tomb Robbers" settled in, a certain valley in Danxia Mountain quickly changed its appearance. A strange cypress tree was "planted" in the center of the valley, and the bare cliffs that originally belonged to the Danxia landform became
It became lush green, and the cliffs were covered with plastic canes.
This production alone (including material costs) consumed over one million Hong Kong dollars of the film's budget. However, this is nothing compared to the film's post-production costs. Kang Jianfei didn't even know if the budget of 100 million Hong Kong dollars was enough.
. "Terminator 2", which is still in theaters around the world, spent more than 5 million US dollars on the various transformations of the liquid metal man.
The action scenes in "Tomb Raiders" basically require the use of special effects lenses. Nowadays, there is no motion capture technology, so it is extremely troublesome to make special effects for the movie.
"Tron" seven years ago was the first movie to use a large number of special effects lenses. Although its CG team only had 8 people, more than 500 post-production personnel were involved. It was basically made with money.
The same is true for "Tomb Raiders". It couldn't be completed by a special effects company at all. In the end, some of the post-production still had to be assisted by Industrial Light and Magic.
After filming in Danxia Mountain for more than 20 days, the number of crew members increased again, and Luo Lixian came with his stunt team.
"Boss, the explosion point has been set according to the predetermined position.over!" A voice with noise came from the intercom.
"Roger, over!" Luo Lixian put away the walkie-talkie and gave an OK gesture to Kang Jianfei, who was more than ten meters away.
Kang Jianfei put the guide tube to his mouth and shouted: "Attention all units. Get ready to start up!"
The lenses of several cameras have been focused on the preset explosion point. Xiong Xinxin, who was wearing strange and tattered ancient clothes, with her face stained with makeup and bloody flesh, was pulled to the cliff by a safety lock. A hole was dug in the cliff near the explosion point in advance.
, Xiong Xinxin was hiding behind that, and he also got a few rocks made of plastic foam in front of him.
The heads of each group reported through the intercom that they were ready. Kang Jianfei stood behind the monitor and said, "It's time to start."
The scene recorder immediately put the board in front of the main camera and typed hard: ""Tomb Raiders" Scene 32, Shot 6, Aikesh!"
After the clapperboard was taken away, Luo Lixian gave a signal toward the top of the cliff.
"boom!"
An explosion sounded on the cliff, and Xiong Xinxin jumped down from the hole in the cliff following the explosion. The fake rocks made of plastic foam also flew around. It was as if Xiong Xinxin punched through the cliff and flew out from inside.
"Click!" After Kang Jianfei waited for each camera to capture the shot from different directions, he immediately arranged to shoot the next shot.
Xiong Xinxin, who plays the role of King Lu Zombie in Millennium, was hung in the air. Several kilometers of safety ropes were tied to both ends of the valley. The steel wire behind Xiong Xinxin's waist was hung on the safety ropes.
More than 20 stunt team members from all over the valley were nervously controlling the ropes in their hands. When Luo Lixian waved his hand, everyone started to move.
Xiong Xinxin "flyed" down from mid-air quickly. Before landing, Kang Jianfei shouted: "Click, it's crooked, try again!"
The body that had not yet landed suddenly stopped. Several stunt crew members on a hilltop pulled the rope and pulled Xiong Xinxin back to her original position in mid-air.
After more than 40 minutes and countless shots, the shot of the zombie landing from the air was finally completed. Xiong Xinxin was so tortured that not only her whole body was sore and numb, but her legs were numb - Kang Jianfei required that her legs not bend when landing on the ground to release the force.
"Are you okay?" Kang Jianfei asked Xiong Xinxin.
"It's okay." Xiong Xinxin smiled a little reluctantly. He felt that his whole body was about to fall apart. But he couldn't say "no" in front of the director. Although he was a national martial arts champion, he was destined to be a stand-in and substitute because he looked too fierce.
When being a villain, being able to endure hardship is more important than being good at it.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "You should take a rest first. You have a heavy role today."
"Thank you, director." Xiong Xinxin walked to the rest area with her numb legs and sat down. He was the villain in the movie's fight scene, but it was impossible for the audience to recognize him when it was released because Xiong Xinxin played a zombie.
There is not a single line of dialogue, and the make-up and post-production special effects make it extremely scary.
While Xiong Xinxin was resting, the drama of several leading actors started again.
After some arrangements, filming resumed. Lin Xue knelt on the "jade platform" under the tree, pointed in the direction where Xiong Xinxin landed just now, and shouted in horror: "That thing is still alive!"
Wu Zhenyu's expression gradually became serious and he said: "It seems that we have no place to escape."
Zhang Yan, dressed in white, suddenly "fell from the sky". Her clothes were covered with blood and her hair was scattered, blocking the way in front of Wu Zhenyu and Lin Xue.
"Zheng!"
The Wujin Blood Sword came out of her body, and the blower blew Zhang Yan's clothes and sleeves fluttering. She held the sword secret in her hand and rushed towards the zombies.
"Hey, Iceberg Girl, I'm here to help you!" Wu Zhenyu took out a black donkey's hoof as a brick from his backpack and jumped off the jade platform to help.
The camera stopped here. Kang Jianfei called Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Yan, Lin Xue and Xiong Xinxin together. Action director Huang Xi and several stuntmen also came over. Everyone began to discuss and rehearse the next action scenes.
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It was already autumn when the crew left Danxia Mountain. At the end of the past Hong Kong movie summer season, "A Lang's Story" directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat and Chung Chuhong, sold a total of 31.86 million at the local box office, becoming the top box office film of the summer.
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It is well known that literary and artistic films do not sell well in Hong Kong, but basically every once in a while, one or two literary and artistic films will sell well in Hong Kong.
This is the case with "The Story of A Lang". Under Ang Lee's lens language, this film is more literary and artistic than the original version. Ang Lee's skill is to make a film that looks very artistic and make it accessible to ordinary audiences. This
Huo worked as an assistant director with Kang Jianfei for two years, and he has a very good grasp of the audience's viewing needs.
When A Lang fell in the film, blood flowed down the transparent cover of the helmet, and the audience's tears also flowed down. Especially the female audience, when Zhou Runfa died, they all burst into tears.
Just like that, a literary film not only deceived the audience into tears, but also defrauded the audience's money. At the same time, it defeated all the movies released in the summer and became the summer box office champion.
Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong were already very popular. After starring in "A Lang's Story" this time, film appointments came like snowflakes.
The salary of Hong Kong actresses is much lower than that of male actors. In the past, Zhong Chuhong's salary was only 1 million at most, while Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung both had more than 1.5 million. Li Lianjie and Xu Guanjie's salary was at least 2 million. In "A Lang's"
After the hit "Story", Chung Chu-hong's salary soared to 1.8 million, becoming the only one among Hong Kong actresses.
After "Alang's Story" was completed, it was succeeded by "Terminator 2" from the United States.
Before being released in Hong Kong, "Terminator 2" had already been released in Japan, Europe and the United States. Without exception, it swept the local box office. Now, "Terminator 2" has received a total of 380 million US dollars in box office nationwide, and this hit movie
The craze continues to spread.
When Oriental Film Corporation (OFC) was first established, it was just an organization similar to a U.S. office. It was also responsible for Oriental DreamWorks' distribution liaison in the United States.
But now, OFC invests in or produces one or two Hollywood movies every year. It has produced "Home Alone 1", "Terminator 1, 2", and invested in blockbuster movies such as "Out of Africa" and "Rain Man".
Its profitability can already be ranked in the middle of many American film companies.
The success of "Terminator 2" completely made Oriental Film Company famous around the world. Although most viewers do not know the origin of this company, the flying dragon and the three English abbreviations ofc in the title of the film are reflected in the minds of the audience.
Just like many viewers don't know about Paramount and Warner, but they are deeply impressed by the stars surrounding the snowy mountains and the WB shield logo in the film's opening credits. Anyway, as long as those logos appear, they feel high-end.
With the popularity of "Terminator 2", director Cameron finally divorced his second wife Anne Hurd. As a newly divorced woman, Anne Hurd did not show a trace of sadness. She was busy
What about ofc's next investment? Because Kang Jianfei gave her 18% of the company's shares in the summer, as an affirmation of Anne Hurd's work in the past few years, and at the same time, it is also an incentive for her future work.
It can be said that Kang Jianfei has not had much control over the Oriental Film Company in the United States in the past few years. Except for a few blockbuster films under his guidance, Anne Hurd was responsible for all other films.
This woman is very powerful in both professional and social skills, and she is very ambitious in her career. With Kang Jianfei's strong financial support, Anne Hurd developed Oriental Film Company into one of the top companies in the United States in a few years.
**Film company, this is a very rare achievement.
Kang Jianfei doesn't feel sorry for the 18% of ofc shares at all. A workaholic woman like Anne Hurd will work even harder after becoming a shareholder of the company.
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Beijing, Liulichang.
During the Qing Dynasty, Manchus and Han people lived separately, and Han people were not allowed to live in the inner city. Liulichang was in the west of the outer city at that time. Most of the Han guild halls were built here. Han Chinese scholars who came to Beijing to take exams also settled here. There were shops everywhere.
The storefronts of pens, inks, calligraphy and paintings have developed a strong cultural atmosphere over time.
After the reform and opening up, Liulichang has gradually prospered. At first, it only sold the four treasures of the study, books, calligraphy and paintings. Later, there were gradually more stamp collecting and antique vendors, and then there were various fake antiques to attract tourists.
The last filming location of "Tomb Robbers Notes" was in Liulichang, because the third uncle in Kang Jianfei's book opened an antique shop on this street in the capital.
It was already mid-afternoon. Kang Jianfei looked through the viewfinder of the camera for a few seconds, then tapped the ground with his toes and said, "Place the camera here."
Two photography assistants quickly brought the machine over. Zhang Yimou asked for a viewfinder. He looked at it with the telescope-like thing, shook his head and said, "Compared to the previous camera position, there is no change."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "It's true that there isn't much change, but it can highlight the main body and make the heroine's image more chic and eye-catching."
Zhang Yimou nodded subconsciously, indicating that he had learned the lesson.
Ever since "Tomb Raiders" went to Beijing for filming, Zhang Yimou took the initiative to apply to the China Film Co-production Company to join. He did not serve as an assistant director or cinematographer, but he actually took the job of recorder and seemed to be planning to return to Hong Kong with Kang Jianfei to do post-production editing.
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This guy is just here to steal from me. The reason is that the movie he made just hit the streets and was bruised and bruised. He wants to learn how to shoot commercial movies from Kang Jianfei, an international director.
Zhang Yimou is a good young man with great ambitions. He doesn’t want to spend his life making sloppy rural art films. After “Red Sorghum” became a hit and won awards, he has been thinking about transitioning into a commercial director.
Last year, with the support of a local tycoon, Zhang Yimou started planning to make an urban commercial film. But halfway through the preliminary work, Zhang Yimou didn't want to make the film because he had no interest in making urban films.
But he had already spent more than 90,000 yuan of his rich friend's money, and Zhang Yimou still couldn't do the immoral thing of choosing someone halfway, so he asked his friends for help. He got a script for a modern anti-terrorism war movie and made do with it.
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The protagonists of this anti-terrorism war film include Gong Li, Ge You, Wang Xueqi and others. It will definitely be regarded as a big cast after 20 years. However, Zhang Yimou is really not in the mood to make such a subject. He hastily called this film ""
The anti-terrorism film "Code Named Jaguar" was completed, and after it was released, there was so much abuse that Zhang Yimou was so frightened that he did not dare to admit that he had made the film.
I heard that Kang Jianfei had come to Beijing to film a movie. Zhang Yimou, who had nothing to do and felt depressed, came running over to join in the fun.
Wu Zhenyu, holding the newly acquired Fan Kuan's original work in his hand, walked back to the store with his third uncle Zeng Jiang, and happened to jump on Zhang Yan who was coming out of the store.
Zhang Yimou looked at the two cameras in front of him. One was shooting on a track, and the other was raising and shooting with a crane. He couldn't help but shook his head. This was not a special plot, and there was no metaphor in it.
It’s just for showing off and looking cool. Does the camera need to be so fancy?
When the filming was approaching evening, Kang Jianfei finally announced that the work was over. Tomorrow, two more indoor scenes in an antique store would be completed.
"Director Kang, it's almost time, let's go together." Zhang Yimou looked at his watch and said.
"Let's go." Kang Jianfei threw the guide tube to the field staff and walked towards the end of the street in Liulichang.
Someone was treating someone to a nearby restaurant. Kang Jianfei just went there to have a meal, and Zhang Yimou was the protagonist.
When Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou arrived at the hotel private room, everyone else had already arrived. Except for Gong Li, Xu Ke was also sitting in the dining room.
"Mr. Kang, Mr. Zhang, thank you both for your compliments!" A handsome middle-aged man in his 40s stood up and shook hands with Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou with a smile.
"We are all old acquaintances. There is no need to be polite, Mr. Gan." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.
This middle-aged handsome guy's name is Gan Guoliang. He was a student in the first phase of the wireless training class. He had already started working as a behind-the-scenes planner for a TV station before he graduated. He was one of the veterans of TVB. He also made Wang Mingquan famous and later worked as a TVB boss for many years.
Program manager, in charge of television and variety shows of TVB.
Until Fang Yihua took over TVB, because Gan Guoliang had too much power in TVB, he naturally became a thorn in Fang Yihua's side. Looking for reasons for the failure of several well-produced dramas in the ratings, Gan Guoliang's rights in TVB were deprived bit by bit.
, and finally left TVB in frustration.
In another time and space, shortly after Gan Guoliang left TVB, he was invited by Li Chaoren to serve as the director of the Chinese channel of Satellite TV, building the Chinese channel of Satellite TV into the first international Chinese media covering many countries around the world. The Chinese channel of Satellite TV
After it became bigger, Gan Guoliang became the president of the group and developed the TV business to non-Chinese-speaking countries in Asia. The programs of Satellite TV Chinese Channel once had high ratings in South Korea. Until Satellite TV Chinese Channel was renamed Phoenix Satellite TV, Gan Guoliang was still there.
Which is responsible for management work.
It can be said that Phoenix TV in the original time and space traces its origins to the legacy of Gan Guoliang.
In this time and space, Kang Jianfei founded Macau Satellite TV ahead of schedule. The Chinese channel of Satellite TV founded by Li Chaoru last year could not compete with Macau Satellite TV and is now in a state of limbo. Gan Guoliang was recommended to TVB not long after he resigned.
Macau Satellite TV serves as the station director.
There were three people who recommended Gan Guoliang to Kang Jianfei. One was Yu Zheng, the gold medal host of Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV, one was the genius director Xu Ke, and the other was Liu Zhenwei, who was still working as a film planner at DreamWorks at the time. These three people were Gan Guoliang
A friend of Liu Zhenwei's best friend, Wong Kar-wai, came from TVB's first director training class, and Kam Kwok-liang was the director of that training class himself. It can be said that Wong Kar-wai was taught by Gam Guoliang step by step.
As for the meeting in Beijing this time, it was because Yu Zheng and Gan Guoliang co-founded a film company in Beijing, and the film company called Tianyi started working on "The Love of the Qin Terracotta Warriors in Ancient and Modern Times". As for the production
The team's lineup is even more luxurious, with Li Bihua's screenwriter, Zhang Yimou's director, Gong Li's heroine, Cheng Xiaodong's Wu Zhi, Xu Ke's producer, Bao Dexi's photography, Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui's soundtrack...
This lineup is top-notch in Hong Kong, and they can be brought together purely because of Gan Guoliang's interpersonal relationships.
Xu Ke just came here today, and Wu Zhi Cheng Xiaodong is still busy working in Hong Kong. It will take some time before the filming of the movie can officially start.
In another time and space, the director of "Ancient and Modern Battle of Qin Terracotta Warriors" was Cheng Xiaodong, and Zhang Yimou was the male protagonist. In fact, according to Gan Guoliang's original plan, Zhang Yimou was the director, but this guy just made a commercial film that hit the street.
After receiving the script, I felt apprehensive and finally gave up the director's seat to director Cheng Xiaodong.
"Old Xu, your studio made a movie in two years, and you actually found the time to come to the mainland to be a producer." Kang Jianfei sat down and joked, not afraid that the producer Gan Guoliang would be unhappy after hearing this.
Xu Ke shook his head and sighed: "There is no way. If you make friends carelessly, you won't be able to push them away."
The two sang and harmonized, and Gan Guoliang was not angry at all. He smiled and said: "Those who are capable work hard. I can rest assured that Lao Xu will be in charge of the film."
The relationship between the few of them is quite good, and Kang Jianfei is considered Gan Guoliang’s boss, because Gan Guoliang now also serves as the director of Macau Satellite TV. Even in "Ancient and Modern War between Qin Terracotta Warriors", DreamWorks is one of the main investors, because
Gan Guoliang and Yu Zheng didn't have that much money, so they had to seek investment from everywhere to make movies.
The main purpose of today's meal was for everyone to sit together and gather together. This was mainly because Kang Jianfei happened to be filming in the capital, so there were no conflicts of interest at the dinner table, so the meal was naturally lively and comfortable.
Gong Li had graduated from Chinese drama a few months ago, and now she was sitting next to Kang Jianfei, serving food and wine to Kang Jianfei from time to time. Everyone could tell that the relationship between the two of them was unusual.
"Come to my place tonight!" Gong Li suddenly whispered in Kang Jianfei's ear while Gan Guoliang and Xu Ke were going to the bathroom together. (To be continued...) u