Kang Jianfei had two previous films, which were directly planned to premiere worldwide on the same day.
When it comes to the world, it actually refers to East Asia and Southeast Asia. Because Kang Jianfei's movies are so popular in these places, local theater operators are happy to come up with the gimmick of having global premieres on the same day to attract audiences in their respective regions.
However, as Hong Kong films become more and more powerful and competition becomes more and more fierce, even with Kang Jianfei's current reputation, it will be difficult for new films to be released in various Asian countries on the same day.
DreamWorks' cooperative theater operator in Taiwan is China Film Corporation, and Taiwan's four major "state-owned" theater chains, including China Film Group, have reserved their best schedules for American blockbusters due to pressure from the Lee government.
In the past, when DreamWorks cooperated with Scholars and Long Xiang, new films were always released during the New Year and summer seasons. Now, they can only squeeze into the schedule gaps left by Hollywood films.
Who said Kang Jianfei was famously pro-communist?
When Di Lizi just came to power and his position was not yet stable, he lifted the ban on Kang Jianfei because he didn't want to cause trouble. Now that he has the power, he was generous enough not to directly order a ban on DreamWorks' films.
In the past ten years, Kang Jianfei has invested in and built 9 cinemas in Taiwan, and now they are all franchised and under the Sino-British Cinema Line. China Film Company's attitude of favoring American blockbusters has made Kang Jianfei more and more disgusted. He has already been in
Consider whether to build our own cinema chain in Taiwan based on the original nine cinemas.
The reason why the idea has not been implemented for a long time is mainly because Taiwan is too complicated. Taiwan's existing major cinema chains have already defined the territory of the Taiwan film market, and behind each cinema chain there are black and white controls.
Kang Jianfei's plan to set up his own cinema chain in Taiwan is tantamount to grabbing food from a tiger's mouth. After the establishment of the cinema chain company, something will definitely happen every three days, either by gangsters and causing trouble, or the relevant departments will come to inspect taxes and health, which is an excuse for insufficient fire protection measures.
, it will keep your cinema closed for half a month.
It is for this reason that Kang Jianfei's nine Taiwanese movie theaters are under the umbrella of China Film Corporation. With the background of the Taiwan authorities, they can avoid trouble.
After "The Truman Show" was released in Hong Kong this time, because it did not get the Spring Festival schedule in other parts of Asia as soon as possible, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company has been negotiating with theaters, hoping to get summer movie schedules from various places. Therefore, "The Truman Show" was released in Hong Kong.
After "The Truman Show" was released in Hong Kong, there has been no news about its overseas box office. Instead, across the ocean in North America, "The Truman Show" has once again entered the spring schedule.
At this time last year, "Tomb Raiders" was a big hit in the North American market, and finally ranked 9th on the North American annual box office list in 1990 with a box office of 108 million US dollars. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which Golden Harvest participated in the investment and filming, ranked 9th in the North American box office list in 1990.
With a box office of 127 million, it ranked fifth on the box office list.
It’s spring time again, and Kang Jianfei’s movies are making a comeback, jointly distributed by Oriental Pictures and Paramount. Thanks to last year’s good results, this year’s American movie theaters are no longer stingy, and directly gave "The Truman"
"The World" had 1,958 premiere canvases, which is a treatment only reserved for famous directors and big productions. For example, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which Golden Harvest participated in the investment last year, had 2,006 premiere canvases on the first day.
The premiere canvas was an insane 2,507 pieces.
Generally speaking, the box office of spring movies is too high. The top ten movies in the North American annual box office list basically come from the summer and year-end movies. But last year was an exception. Among the top ten box office movies, spring movies actually
That’s 3 units.
Unlike last year, when many good films competed fiercely, this year's spring schedule has finally returned to normal. Among the films released at the same time as "The Truman Show", there were no blockbuster films.
But what’s even more strange is that February, the off-season for the box office, actually saw the release of two dark horses in succession. The horror thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" starring the big-mouthed beauty Julia Roberts, and another low-key film "Silence"
"The Silence of the Lambs", these two niche films that were not favored by theater distributors, actually exceeded 100 million in box office during the off-season. "Silence of the Lambs" even sold a terrifying box office of 130 million US dollars.
When "The Silence of the Lambs" begins to be released one after another across North America, the spring schedule will finally arrive, and "The Truman Show" will finally meet North American audiences.
The movie promotion this time is obviously better. There are two lines of large characters written in an eye-catching place on the movie poster: "Thetruma", the new film by the Oscar-nominated director for Best Foreign Language Film.
In this spring season when good films are scarce, new films by directors who have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film are still quite attractive. Last year's "Tomb Raiders" made many young people remember Kang Jianfei.
Queenie is one of them. He is a Hispanic American who works as a salesman in an insurance company.
Spring break is coming, and countless young Americans are thinking about how to have fun, drink and have fun, travel together, or go to a movie as a couple.
But for insurance salesmen, this is no rest time.
When he returned from signing an insurance policy, Queenie didn't have much excitement or sense of accomplishment. When he first started doing this job, successfully selling an insurance policy was enough to make him happy for a whole day, but now he was only numb and tired.
The sky had darkened, and the colorful lights on the streets were on. But Queenie, who was hungry, didn't want to go home, because what awaited him at home was his wife's chattering and the willful mischief of his children.
After having a quick meal, Queenie wandered aimlessly on the street. When passing by a movie theater, he suddenly saw a poster at the door: Liang Jiahui riding a small sailboat. He stretched out his hand and touched the front, with his face
His expression was broken and despairing.
"Kang's new movie?" Queenie looked at the blurb on the poster and suddenly decided that he wanted to go in and take a look. Last year's "Tomb Raiders" gave him a lot of fun.
After buying the ticket and waiting for a while, Queenie entered a screening room. After a quick glance, he found that nearly 50% of the audience was occupied. This attendance rate was already very good for the spring season.
"It's not like this is an adventure action movie."
"The poster says it's a science fiction drama."
"I still prefer Kang's Oriental adventure films, they are so cool."
"Yes, the action movies made by the Chinese are all great, but unfortunately the plot has always been a weak point. This time Kang actually abandoned his strengths and played with plot, which really makes people worry about the quality of the film."
"There are not many movies to watch during this period. I hope this "The Truman Show" will not disappoint."
"..."
Two young men beside Queenie were talking in a low voice. Judging from the content of their conversation, they could only be regarded as fans of Kang Jianfei's movies. They had not even watched "Fang Fang" and only knew Kang Jianfei's "Tomb Robbers".
notes".
Queenie found it a bit funny. As a movie lover, he became interested in Kang Jianfei, a Chinese director, after watching "Tomb Raiders" last year. He bought many videos of Kang Jianfei's previous movies and watched them. He knew that Kang Jianfei was a director of Parallel Film Co., Ltd.
Meng's second largest shareholder also knows that the first film in the "Home Alone" series of movies that has been a hit in recent years was produced by Kang Jianfei.
Kang can't play with the plot? His "Fang Fang" won a unique special award at the Cannes Film Festival: the Most Popular Film Award.
The film started, and Truman, played by Tony Leung Ka Fai, appeared in the mirror.
In the first few minutes, there were faint sounds of conversation in the screening room, but as the plot of the movie progressed, the suspense deliberately set up by the director made the audience have to pay attention.
The screening room fell silent, and the occasional funny scenes caused bursts of laughter, but the audience soon stopped laughing.
Queenie is a very serious person. When the TV show The Truman Show was revealed, he thought in his mind: Kang's movie this time has big loopholes. How could someone be locked up on an island for their entire life?
The movie continued to play, and the male protagonist used his strategy to paralyze everyone and disappeared into thin air under the surveillance of countless cameras. This plot suddenly released the audience's previously suppressed emotions, and Queenie could even hear the relaxed exhale.
Voice.
"Wow!"
Exclamations suddenly erupted in the screening room, but the huge moon in the sky suddenly turned and disappeared. The entire sky was like a huge piece of wallpaper being torn off, and the red sun quickly rose from the sea level.
"So that's it! Not only the island, but also the sea and the sky outside, are the studios of this show. The previous ones were not plot holes!" Queenie suddenly realized, and also understood why this movie was classified as science fiction.
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After the laughter and depression were over, "The Truman Show" finally reached the point of tears, as the male protagonist drove a sailboat to the other shore in the wind and waves.
"rush out!"
"Don't give up, hold on."
"Oh, mygod!"
"Stupid director, turn off the wind and waves!"
"..."
The movie "The Truman Show" is very interesting. It is a movie within a movie. Truman is the protagonist of a TV show within a movie.
At this moment, not only the movie theater audience was watching Truman Breaking Through the Wind and Waves, but the TV audience in the movie were also watching, and everyone was cheering for Truman.
The shouts from the audience on the screen further aroused the emotions of the audience in the screening room, so that many people shouted excitedly.
When Truman defeated the wind and waves, climbed out of the water, sat on the boat and smiled at the camera, Queenie, a grown man, had tears in his eyes.
The sense of substitution is the biggest success of "The Truman Show". Many viewers unconsciously regard Truman as their own image, and their emotions change with Truman's depression and joy.
"I love that smile so much."
"Who is this Chinese actor? His smile is contagious."
"..."
Queenie thought to herself: I know who he is, the leading actor in "Fang Fang", but what is his name?
"Oh, no!"
When Queenie was still thinking about Tony Leung's name, there was a sudden moment of silence in the screening room, and then some audience members couldn't help shouting: The actor who tried to break out of the constraints and sail to the other side hit a wall at the last moment!
Fortunately, this wall was only short-lived, and a happy ending ushered in a moment later. However, the huge emotional changes from sadness to happiness, then from happiness to sadness, and finally to happiness again in a short period of time caused some emotional viewers to lose control of their emotions.
He actually covered his mouth while laughing and crying.
Queenie slowly exhaled the turbid breath in his chest. He felt a lot about this movie. He had the same apparent occupation as the male protagonist in the movie, an insurance salesman. Boss, friend, wife... He felt that everything in the movie was the same.
The characters have deep metaphors in reality. The more I think about it, the more I find this movie to be endlessly memorable. r1152
