"Hmph, a fantasy kung fu movie! What the hell is this kid doing again?" Zou Wenhuai snorted coldly and threw a copy of "Sing Tao Daily" on the table.
There were also father and son He Guanchang and Cheng Long in the office. Cheng Long didn't say anything when he saw Zou Wenhuai getting angry, but just looked down at the newspaper headlines.
To be honest, Cheng Long is very curious about Kang Jianfei. Having been in the film industry for more than ten years, he knows very well what it means for "Happy Ghost" to exceed 10 million at the box office. As a new director, Kang Jianfei can achieve such results in his first film
, can simply be described as a miracle.
However, Cheng Long did not regard Kang Jianfei as his opponent, because the two of them were not on the same level at all - even though Kang Jianfei won the Hong Kong box office.
He Guanchang is very clear about Zou Wenhuai's thoughts. Although "Happy Ghost" beat "Junior" at the local box office, the different genres of a funny ghost movie and a funny kung fu movie do not have much impact. Moreover, Jiahe's distribution ability is not comparable to that of Princess Jin.
Yes, Golden Harvest can not only sell "Junior Brother" to Japan, Korea, Macau, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, but also has certain distribution capabilities in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. The overseas box office will definitely hit the "Happy Ghost".
But now Kang Jianfei suddenly announced that his new movie is a fantasy Kung Fu movie, which made Zou Wenhuai wary, because Cheng Long is also a main actor in Kung Fu movies. If Kang Jianfei's fantasy Kung Fu movie succeeds, it will definitely have a huge impact on Cheng Long's humorous Kung Fu movies.
, this impact far exceeds the popularity of "Happy Ghost".
Nine years ago, Bruce Lee's Kung Fu film came out, announcing the death of traditional martial arts films; two years ago, Cheng Long's humorous Kung Fu film was born, once again changing the pattern of Hong Kong action films.
Zou Wenhuai is now afraid that those "spiritual kung fu movies" will set off another trend of kung fu movies.
He Guanchang advised: "Wen Huai, don't worry too much. Jiahe's goal is to face the international market. Why bother fighting with Princess Jin in this small pond in Hong Kong? The United States is already ready. Aaron will fly over tomorrow. "The Killer"
"Trench" is our top priority."
What He Guanchang was talking about was Golden Harvest's plan to enter the Western market. In October last year, Zou Wenhuai announced with a high profile in Hollywood that he would invest 60 million US dollars to shoot six big-budget films. At that time, Golden Harvest had just signed Cheng Long, and Zou Wenhuai's move was for Cheng Long.
Entering the US market to build momentum, trying to make Cheng Long the second Bruce Lee.
Because before Cheng Long signed with Golden Harvest, he already had very stable box office appeal in Asian countries. What he lacked was popularity in Europe and the United States.
Hearing the two bosses talking about him, Cheng Long immediately straightened up his back, dreaming in his heart that he would go to the United States and kill everyone, just like Bruce Lee, making the ghosts scream and go crazy for him.
"Trench" is a co-production between Golden Harvest and Hollywood giant Warner Bros. The film has invited many big-name European and American movie stars to join the cast, and several of the main actors were paid more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars. Cheng Long's salary in this film was also higher than that of Hollywood stars.
On par, it has reached a million dollars that is difficult for Chinese movie stars to achieve at this time.
The U.S. dollar is still very valuable today, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Hong Kong dollar is close to 1:8. This means that Guang Chenglong’s salary for this movie is more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, which is more than Kang Jianfei’s local box office dividend for "Happy Ghost"
.
Regardless of whether "Trench" is successful or not, Cheng Long has reached a new level as a Hong Kong and Taiwan movie star. Because at the same time, the brothers Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie were only paid 2 million Hong Kong dollars. Other movie stars are even less, and the famous Hong Kong
Jin Bao's salary is only more than 1 million; Zheng Shaoqiu is so popular in TV series, but his movie salary does not exceed 300,000.
Zou Wenhuai gave Cheng Long some instructions about filming in the United States, and then asked him to go back and make preparations in a friendly manner.
After Cheng Long left, Zou Wenhuai suddenly asked: "Guanchang, do you think it is possible to dig out that Kang Jianfei?"
He Guanchang said in surprise: "Why did you think of poaching him? Lei Juekun praised him so much last time. There must be some agreement between the two of them. Even if we succeed in poaching him, I'm afraid the liquidated damages we pay will not be lower than when poaching Aaron."
Zou Wenhuai said: "Now that Aaron is going to enter Hollywood, I don't want there to be a fire in the backyard at this time. Kang Jianfei has always been an unstable factor, and Princess Jin is a big trouble. "Happy Ghost" is now doing well in Southeast Asia, and it is estimated that the box office in Taiwan will not be the same.
It will be low, poach Kang Jianfei to earn Asian box office, and then let Aaron develop the market in the United States, so that we can move forward and retreat freely."
He Guanchang is an old partner who has worked with Zou Wenhuai for decades, and he is very clear about Zou Wenhuai's character. Zou Wenhuai wanted to poach Kang Jianfei not only for commercial reasons, but also had the idea of revenge on Princess Jin for poaching Hong Jinbao.
This time Lei Juekun poached Hong Jinbao, which caused Jiahe a lot of losses, because when Hong Jinbao left, he packed up and took away the entire team, including Yuan Biao, who Jiahe was ready to give a small compliment to.
Zou Wenhuai continued: "Kang Jianfei seems to be very ambitious, and it is best to dig out such ambitious people. Princess Jin can give him Jiahe, but Princess Jin cannot help him distribute the film to Europe and the United States like Jiahe.
If he is a smart man, he will definitely agree."
He Guanchang could only sigh: "Okay, I'll give it a try."
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Since Oriental DreamWorks opened, it has never been as lively as it is today.
Dozens of media reporters poured in early in the morning, making Ma Qiao a little at a loss. Although he was a top student at Harvard Business School, he had little experience in dealing with the media. Fortunately, Kang Jianfei called him in advance, otherwise he would not have known what to do.
What to do.
Facing the noisy reporters crowded at the entrance of the company, Ma Qiao moved to a bench and stood up and shouted: "Everyone! Dear reporter friends, please be quiet. I am Ma Qiao, the operations director of Oriental DreamWorks. If you have anything to interview, please tell me.
We’ll talk about it later when we come into the company!”
With an office area of less than 200 square meters, dozens of reporters rushed in at once, and the company suddenly looked shabby. The most basic chairs and stools were far from enough, and these reporters could only stand.
"Director Ma, when will Mr. Kang arrive at the company?" a reporter asked impatiently.
Ma Qiao said as agreed with Kang Jianfei on the phone: "Mr. Kang has other important matters today and will not come to the company."
A tabloid reporter asked: "Master Ma Guan, Mr. Kang showed off his skills yesterday and killed two robbers on the spot. I wonder if he made any mistakes in the company?"
Ma Qiao shook his head and said, "I had no idea that Mr. Kang knew Kung Fu. He is very kind to his subordinates in the company, and he doesn't seem to know Kung Fu."
Zhang Xu, a company typist mixed in with the reporters, suddenly asked: "Can you talk about the psychedelic kung fu movie that Mr. Kang mentioned?"
Finally getting to the point, Ma Qiao said with a smile: "Psychic kung fu movies, as the name suggests, combine fantasy-themed movies with kung fu movies. This is a brand new movie genre created by Mr. Kang. I believe it will give everyone a surprise."
I am not in a position to disclose the specific plot of the movie, but the title can let everyone know in advance, the name of this movie is "Mr. Zombie"."
"Isn't that just a zombie movie? Whoever shoots a zombie movie will pay for it," a reporter said.
Six years ago, Shaw Brothers made a zombie movie, which ended up on the moon. Since then, no director in Hong Kong has dared to make a zombie movie. It is also a common view in the industry that zombie movies are dead.
Kang Jianfei suddenly wanted to make a zombie movie, which immediately caused a burst of exclamations and comments from reporters.
Ma Qiao said: "Mr. Kang will give a completely new interpretation to zombie movies in this movie. Everyone will know when the time comes. Moreover, we will go to Taipei to shoot this movie. This is a big movie with a budget of 4 million.
Production is no longer a small undertaking with a cost of only 500,000 yuan."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Ma Qiao's last two sentences made the reporters burst into laughter. He actually said 4 million for a big production. This amount of money was not enough for Miles Long's salary for "The Trench".
Ma Qiao heard the laughter and said sternly: "For Oriental DreamWorks, 4 million is a big production, because it is all the company's funds. All our colleagues at DreamWorks take it as our duty to make good films, and we all strive to make good films."
It is our lifelong pursuit to make movies that the audience likes. We are still a small company, but we dare to spend everything we have to make good movies. The cost of our movies is the hard work and sweat of all employees of the company, which cannot be measured by money, so
Every movie produced by our DreamWorks is a big production!"
"Okay, well said!" Zhang Xu, a typist who was working as a sitter among the reporters, suddenly clapped his hands and shouted, "Good!" The other reporters also clapped because they were coping with the situation.
Next, Ma Qiao talked about how the company was founded, the employees worked hard, Mr. Kang stayed up late to write the script, etc.
The more the reporters heard, the more something was wrong. They gradually realized that Kang Jianfei was using this incident to promote his company and movies, and they were immediately disappointed.
Just when they were about to leave, a beautiful woman suddenly came into the company - Pan Yingzi came!
Pan Yingzi came here on purpose. She had been away from acting for several years and her reputation had been greatly reduced. She and Kang Jianfei had the same idea and wanted to use this matter to promote themselves.
Pan Yingzi was really frightened yesterday. She went home and tossed and turned in bed unable to sleep, thinking about the bloody scene at that time. Later, for some reason, her thoughts shifted to Kang Jianfei who had killed the gangster. She was worried about her future.
The boss became more and more curious. Especially when Kang Jianfei rescued her from the gangsters and hugged her all the way to the police station, giving Pan Yingzi a very strong sense of security.
Pan Yingzi finally fell asleep amid her random thoughts. When she woke up, she felt much better. What happened yesterday had little impact on her mood. When she saw today's newspaper headlines, she immediately felt that this was an opportunity to become famous again.
So I hurried to the company.
"It's Miss Pan!"
"Is Miss Pan here to see Mr. Kang?"
"Ms. Pan, did you divorce Mr. Chen Honglie last week?"
"Ms. Pan, someone saw you and Mr. Kang having Western food at the Peninsula Hotel last night and holding hands like a couple. How do you explain this?"
"..."
Although Pan Yingzi came to gain fame, she did not answer the reporter's questions. Instead, she squeezed directly into the company and said only one sentence: "Sorry, I don't want to explain what happened yesterday. I came to the company today.
It’s because I have accepted Mr. Kang’s offer to serve as the Artist Department Manager of Oriental DreamWorks!”
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