"Everyone is in position and ready to start the machine!"
""Mr. Zombie" Scene 6, Shot 3, action!"
This is a British-style foreign-style building, and two cameras are focused on Lou Nanguang and Li Saifeng in the center of the living room.
A bitchy smile appeared on Lou Nanguang's face, and his expression seemed to be a little surprised. Such a complicated expression allowed him to show it very naturally. This was his unique bitch expression.
Lou Nanguang twisted his hips and took off his clothes. Lin Zhengying, who was standing behind the camera, waved her hand fiercely. Lou Nanguang immediately jumped to the side and knocked over a Taishi chair there.
"Ah!" Li Saifeng screamed, covering her eyes, and ducked aside. The camera controlled by Zhong Zhiwen had already turned its lens to the door, where Qiu Sheng, played by Kang Jianfei, suddenly pulled Xu Guanying away.
"Ka! Prepare the next set of shots." Chen Xunqi, who had been looking at the director's viewfinder, immediately shouted.
Only then did Lou Nanguang get up from the ground. The previous two sets of shots were important laugh points in the film. He and Xu Guanying had rehearsed countless times in the hotel last night. Given Kang Jianfei and Lin Zhengying's high requirements for this scene , it only passed twice, which is really rare.
The next few sets of shots were much simpler and were shot in less than an hour.
"It's time to put food on!"
The people from the field team were waiting outside with their carts, and boxes of lunch boxes had been placed there.
As soon as the crew members heard that dinner was ready, they immediately rushed out in a swarm, but Qi Bo came in with the set staff to clean up the filming set that had just been used.
Several discerning actors brought lunch boxes to them. Li Saifeng took one and handed it to Kang Jianfei first, asking: "Master, am I doing a good job?"
"Well, not bad, there has been some progress." Kang Jianfei encouraged with a smile.
Although Li Saifeng is the heroine of this movie, she is still a flower vase if you look closely, and her role is completely incomparable to her in "Happy Ghost". However, the improvement of Li Saifeng's acting skills is obvious to all, and her lines and expressions are no longer as stiff as her previous acting. , even the rigid Lin Zhengying said she was very spiritual.
It had only been two days since filming started, and the innocent and lovely Li Saifeng had become the little princess of the crew. As long as she was free, people would always be around her. There was no way, the entire crew, including the hairstylist and Pan Yingzi, were just the three of them. .The hairstylist is not good-looking, and no man dares to mess with Pan Yingzi, so Li Saifeng is the most popular.
As soon as Kang Jianfei opened the lunch box, Wu Chenggang came over with his lighting engineer assistant and said to him: "Call Director Kang quickly!"
The lighting engineer's assistant looked to be in his early 20s. He was recruited on the spot with a few extras a few days ago under the influence of Pan Yingzi. Although this person was young, he had a clever spirit. When he saw Kang Jianfei Then he greeted politely: "Hello, Director Kang!"
Wu Chenggang sat down next to Kang Jianfei with a lunch box and said: "This kid has a good understanding. He used to work as a lighting engineer assistant at Huixing Film Company. Ah Fei, I want to take him as an apprentice and take him to Hong Kong to develop."
Kang Jianfei looked carefully at the young man in front of him, who was several years older than him. The more he looked at his mother, the more familiar he looked. He couldn't help but ask: "What's your name?"
The young man smiled flatteringly and said, "Director Kang, my name is Zhang Dongliang."
Damn it, I said you look so familiar, it turns out it’s you, an old boy!
Before I traveled through time, you still owed me money for two meals.
Zhang Dongliang, who was born as a lighting engineer, later became a director, screenwriter and photographer, but the best thing he did was still the photographer, and he won many photography awards. He once served as the single version of Donnie Yen's "Jinyiwei", Zhao Wei's version of "Flowers"
Photographer of films such as "Mulan" and "Three Kingdoms: Seeing the Dragon Disarm".
This person later signed a contract with the same film and television company as Kang Jianfei. When Kang Jianfei first started working as a photographer, Zhang Dongliang was the director of photography for several films, and Kang Jianfei was still his half-disciple. After the two collaborated on several movies, they became a good personal relationship.
, the reason why Kang Jianfei was able to climb so fast was also the result of Zhang Dongliang's help. However, Zhang Dongliang later returned to Taiwan when his contract expired, and the two never met again until before the time travel.
Kang Jianfei had been friends with Zhang Dongliang for a long time in his last life, and he was often shouted at by this guy. Now he finally got the chance to come back, coughed and said: "Well, the young man is not bad, I will work hard with your master in the future, I am optimistic about you!"
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Zhang Dongliang received Kang Jianfei's encouragement and happily went to receive the box lunch. Wu Cheng just said: "Ah Fei, last night "Happy Ghost" premiered in Taipei. Ah Cai and I went to a cinema to watch it. The attendance rate was so low, probably only
It’s like 30%.”
Kang Jianfei laughed and said: "30%? That's very high. Cheng Long is so famous in Taiwan, and "Junior" only had an attendance rate of 60% when it was first released. It seems that Taiwan's film producers have done a good job in promoting it."
Wu Chenggang nodded and said: "Yes, I heard that Taiwan's box office market has been in a slump recently, which is really a headache."
"I'm not the only one who has a headache, what should I worry about?" Kang Jianfei smiled heartlessly.
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The box office of "Happy Ghost" on the first day in Taiwan was very poor, only over NT$300,000. If the box office in the past two years was less than NT$3 million in a week, the money earned would not even be enough to pay the theater's base fee.
Of course, due to the current sluggish market, theaters have also gritted their teeth and reduced their base fees accordingly. Film studios, producers and theaters are all having a difficult time.
In the second week of its release, the box office situation improved slightly, but compared with Cheng Long's "Junior Brother", it is still much inferior. Half a month later, the cumulative box office of "Happy Ghost" in Taiwan is only just over 5 million, equivalent to Hong Kong dollars
It’s just a pitiful 1 million. If this data is spread over the huge Taiwan market, it’s really terrible...
However, the box office curve of "Happy Ghost" is very interesting. Most movies are a parabola that rises and then falls, but "Happy Ghost" is almost a straight line. The rise is not obvious, and there is no downward trend in box office.
The attendance rate has been very low, which makes it very difficult for the two theater lines showing "Happy Ghost".
This situation is useless. You can't make much money by continuing to release it. It would be a pity to just cancel it.
After continuously reducing the screening canvas of "Happy Ghost", the average attendance rate finally exceeded 50%. Due to the location of the theater, and most theaters in Taiwan are now single-hall cinemas, it is no longer possible to reduce the canvas.
You can only lose viewers in vain.
In addition, this period was the off-season for movies, and there were few film sources available for screening. The two theater chains simply left "Happy Ghost" there and continued to show it in secondary theaters until death.
During this period, Kang Jianfei also went to see it in person. In a theater with less than 500 seats, a hundred and eighty people were sitting sparsely, and then they burst into silent laughter from time to time. The situation was really miserable.
One month later, there are still 8 screens in Taiwan showing "Happy Ghost". What is rare is that the attendance rate has never dropped below 30%. The cumulative box office in Taiwan has reached more than 8.2 million, which is less than 2 million Hong Kong dollars.
This is a very honorable achievement, enough to rank among the top ten in Taiwan's annual box office list in 1980...
In the entire first half of the year, "Junior" starring Cheng Long and "Blood" starring Lin Qingxia had more box office in Taiwan than "Happy Ghost".
Because of this, Kang Jianfei is somewhat famous in the Taiwanese film circle. After all, he has proven his strength with "strong" box office sales.
Looking at Southeast Asia, by the time all the pictures were dropped, the total box office of "Happy Ghost" had reached more than 3.1 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 23 million Hong Kong dollars.
The original soundtrack of "Happy Ghost" is also very popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, with a cumulative sales of more than 80,000 copies. Li Saifeng and Irene Wan have become brand new girl idols among the youth groups in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
