For colleagues in the Hong Kong film industry, Kang Jianfei is definitely a plague, and no one wants to be released at the same time as his movie. In the New Year's Eve, four movies starring Hong Jinbao were released at the same time. The biggest reason for this situation is actually the distribution
In order to avoid "Tomb Raiders", two of the four movies were originally scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival.
But the Spring Festival is one of the most important periods of the year, and it is impossible for other companies to give up directly. For example, Huang Baiming and Pan Disheng put their bets on the Spring Festival. They used reverse thinking - major companies want to
Avoiding Kang Jianfei's "Tomb Raiders", there are so many good movies in the Christmas and New Year movies. There are also two big tigers, Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao, blocking the way. The competition is no less fierce than in the Spring Festival movie.
As a result, Vientiane Pictures and Debao Company did the opposite and arranged their main films around the Spring Festival, not afraid to compete with Kang Jianfei.
Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong.
A car circled the Queen's Building twice, and finally continued to drive forward helplessly. Finally, it found a parking space that had just been vacated, and the driver took advantage of every opportunity to park the car there.
"It's getting more and more difficult to park in Central. It's better to take a taxi." Huang Baiming got off the car and locked the car with a click.
Du Qifeng smiled and said: "Don't look at what time of year it is, the Chinese New Year is coming soon."
Lin Lingdong looked at his watch and said: "There are still more than 20 minutes, it's still early."
The three of them chatted and walked towards the Queen's Building and straight to the Queen's Theatre. They had formed a group to watch "Tomb Raiders" today.
They did not attend the premiere or screening of "Tomb Raiders". Although yesterday's first-day box office data has not been announced yet, the news that all theaters were sold out has already gone viral. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is about to come, Huang Baiming and others have nothing.
They were working, so out of curiosity they formed a group to watch the movie. Their reason was naturally to understand their competitors. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be victorious in any battle.
Outside the Queen's Theater is a shopping mall. At this time, citizens were busy buying New Year's goods. The shopping mall was also crowded. It was difficult for the three of them to squeeze in to the entrance of the cinema.
Huang Baiming looked at the bustling shopping mall and couldn't help but admire Kang Jianfei's vision. This building was not originally called Queen's Building. It was renamed after Kang Jianfei bought it. Nowadays, the real estate in Central has soared, and the monthly rent of the entire building alone
, enough for Kang Jianfei to have enough food and clothing.
When they arrived at the theater's ticket hall, Huang Baiming and the other three were immediately blocked at the door. It was already packed with people, and the queue was almost outside.
"Tickets for "Tomb Raiders" before 10:30 have been sold out."
"There is one more ticket for 10:40. Sorry you two, there is only one ticket."
"..."
Huang Baiming and the others had bought their tickets long ago, so they didn't have to wait in line, but they were still frightened by the sight in front of them.
It's the Spring Festival holiday now, and the flow of people in major theaters is very large. It's normal for ticket buying lines to line up at the door.
But the problem is that it's only 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and "Tomb Raiders" has actually sold out all the tickets before 10:30 pm. How popular is this movie?
Fortunately, today is a holiday, and most people are not specifically going to watch a certain movie. The tickets for "Tomb Raider" are sold out today, so they will choose to watch other movies or change to a theater. There is a Golden Princess nearby, from the Queen's Theater
A large part of the overflow audience may turn to watch movies from Vientiane Pictures, which is considered "good news" for Huang Baiming.
120 minutes later, Huang Baiming, Johnnie To and Lin Lingdong came out of the screening room. The audience around them was excitedly talking about the plot just now.
"You just rely on money to pile up special effects, you don't have to learn anything." Johnnie To shook his head and said.
"I would like to see if Kang Jianfei makes a mistake. It's too risky to make a movie like this." Huang Baiming shook his head and sighed. His movies often feature ghosts or superpowers, but most of those scenes are directly replaced with animation.
He feels that what sells a movie is the plot and lines, while special effects and the like are minor details.
Lin Lingdong sighed: "Kang Jianfei's film this time, I'm afraid the box office will exceed 40 million."
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"The first week's box office of "Tomb Raiders" is out." He Guanchang placed a newspaper on Zou Wenhuai's desk.
This is a "Tian Tian Daily". Since its acquisition by Kang Jianfei, many news about DreamWorks have been published in the entertainment section of "Tian Tian Daily".
"More than 15 million, right?" Zou Wenhuai said, opening the newspaper, and his eyes widened when he saw the number on the paper, which was printed with 19.41 million.
Ho Guan-chang said with a wry smile: "I was shocked when I first watched it. It set a new box office record for Hong Kong films in the first week."
Zou Wenhuai said with emotion: "This young boy really has a way of making movies."
"Fortunately, I didn't release Aaron's film ahead of schedule, otherwise the two films would have crashed into each other." He Guanchang said happily.
The Spring Festival blockbusters of Vientiane Pictures and Debao Company did not meet expectations at the box office because they could only pick up the audience that "Tomb Raiders" missed. However, fortunately, there were enough people watching the Spring Festival movies that the two movies did not directly attack
Street, it is estimated that after the painting is completed, the local box office alone will be able to recover the cost.
Zou Wenhuai lit his cigar and asked, "I heard that Aaron has cooperated with Judeng?"
He Guanchang nodded: "He doesn't have many roles in the film, and Yang Dengkui is reluctant to spend so much money to hire him as the leading actor. He just wants to attract the audience under the guise of Aaron."
If it were in the past, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long would definitely not dare to accept scenes outside casually, let alone cooperate with competitors. But now he can't suppress anyone, and Zou Wenhuai gets a headache just thinking about it.
After taking a puff of his cigar, Zou Wenhuai asked: "Achang, what do you think of "Tomb Raiders Notes"?"
He Guanchang said: "Tomb-robbery movies will definitely be popular in at least the next one or two years, but the investment in special effects is too risky."
What He Guanchang means is very simple, that is, following the trend of making tomb robbery movies will be a great success, but don't make the special effects so mysterious, otherwise you won't be able to cry if you burst into tears on the street.
Kang Jianfei's original intention was to use "Tomb Raiders" to stimulate his Hong Kong colleagues, so that more and more Hong Kong directors would dare and even be keen to use computers for special effects. But the effect may be far from what he expected, let alone other companies.
, Jiahe, who is willing to spend money, now wants to follow the trend and make tomb robbery movies. As for the special effects of the movie, to hell with it.
"The tomb-robbing movie is indeed promising," Zou Wenhuai nodded and asked, "I have an idea. What do you think about letting Aaron make a tomb-robbing movie?"
"Aaron?" He Guanchang was very surprised, because Cheng Long's new film has been planned, and it is a companion piece to "Brothers of the Dragon and Tigers" - "Eagle Project".
"I think so, computer special effects can be used to combine Aaron's funny kung fu style with the tomb robbing theme." Zou Wenhuai expressed his thoughts.
He Guanchang smiled and said: "It's very exciting."
Zou Wenhuai said, "That's it, we'll make a tomb robbing movie after Aaron finishes filming "Eagle Project."
I have to say that Hong Kong filmmakers can relate to kung fu in any type of movie.
Just like Kang Jianfei didn't expect that the popularity of "Tomb Robbers" would set off not a craze for computer special effects, but a rush to make tomb robbing movies, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang also didn't expect how deceptive the upcoming "Eagle Project" would be.
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The reason why Golden Harvest decided to invest in "Eagle Project" was because Cheng Long's "Miracle" did not sell well at the box office. Of course, poor box office is a relative term. The main reason is that the cost of "Miracle" at 70 million was too high.
The box office is not much different from the previous movies he invested 20 million yuan in.
Zou Wenhuai felt that "Miracle" didn't make much money, so he wanted to be on the safe side and decided to let Cheng Long film a companion film to "Brothers of the Dragon and Tiger Brothers". "Brothers of the Dragon and Tiger Brothers" was the box office champion of the year, and the companion film would definitely be a hit.
, the budget of "Eagle Project" is tentatively set at 30 million.
No one could have expected that this movie, which was planned to invest only 30 million, ended up costing 115 million when it was completed. Ninety percent of the crew fell ill due to acclimatization, and even the production manager spent three months in jail in Africa.
——Props and banknotes used in filming were mysteriously circulating in the local area, and the production manager was arrested on suspicion of producing and issuing counterfeit currency.
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"Tomb Raiders" became extremely popular during this Spring Festival, leading the box office and outperforming other movies released during the same period.
Actor Ng Chun-yu's salary has increased sharply again, and is actually the same as Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam. It can only be said that "Tomb Raiders" sold too much. And the Easter egg at the end of the movie makes it clear that this film will have a sequel. Only then will the actor Ng Chun-yu
Let's do a three-pole jump.
Next is Zhang Yan. She basically had no chance to show off her acting skills in "Tomb Raiders". She played the iceberg girl with a cold face from the beginning to the end. Even in the fight scenes, she mostly used body doubles. She was just a vase.
But "Tomb Raiders" had only been released for a week, and it was still during the Chinese New Year, so movie dates flew to Zhang Yan's home like snowflakes.
Zhang Yan was probably afraid of being "poor" in the past, so she didn't even read the scripts when accepting films. She just looked at the ones with high pay, and she was in three movies in a row. If her agent Deng Baola hadn't dissuaded her, Zhang Yan would still want to do it again.
If you are taking on more projects, Cheng Yuling can take on nine films at the same time and still have enough time to open up the schedule?
For "Tomb Raiders", the mainstream voices in the society praised it, especially the magical computer special effects, which cultivated a group of loyal fans of the blockbuster.
As for the criticism, Kang Jianfei pretended not to notice it.
With the arrival of the Lunar New Year, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao returned to Hong Kong with their children. What troubles Kang Jianfei now is that Ye Zipei also came to Hong Kong, and she came with a pregnant belly. This pretty widow came to Hong Kong to have a baby with pregnancy, and she left
In mainland China, many people are afraid of being criticized.
Three women bumped into each other. Kang Jianfei couldn't run away because they wanted to get together to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Festivals always give Kang Jianfei a headache. He really doesn’t have the time to do anything. r1152