Liang Xiaolong, a martial arts idiot, insisted on competing, but Kang Jianfei could only refuse on the grounds that there was no suitable venue, promising to wait until the martial arts class had a place.
Since Kang Jianfei time traveled, he has habitually practiced the flexibility of his hands whenever he has free time, but he has not exercised his body much. However, one thing makes him strange. The last time he met the robbers, the speed he broke out was even faster than that of time travel. There will be much more to come soon.
This made Kang Jianfei very puzzled, but he was too lazy to speculate on things that he couldn't figure out, and just regarded this anomaly as a time-travel benefit.
Kang Jianfei has always believed that brains are the foundation of a person's life. A person who has martial arts but no brains is just a martial artist.
It's a pity that after Kang Jianfei traveled through time, there was no change in his intelligence or any photographic memory. On the contrary, his body became stronger.
Being built like a cow has no purpose. If someone points a gun at it, it's better to shoot him in the head!
The great director Kang Jianfei was riding the bus home when he suddenly remembered that it was time to get himself a car. The bus congestion in Hong Kong during rush hours was comparable to that of the subway in the modern metropolis in later generations.
Kang Jianfei returned home and found that Li Saifeng and Wen Bixia were not there, probably still practicing singing at Fengxing Records. He turned out the manuscript paper and was about to write the last few hundred thousand words of "Looking for Qin" when suddenly the doorbell rang. non-stop.
"Sister Zhi!" Kang Jianfei shouted in surprise, but Zhao Yazhi was standing there handsomely outside the door. However, he soon saw Wang Tianlin behind Zhao Yazhi and said with a smile, "Uncle Tianlin is here too, please come in quickly. !”
Kang Jianfei and Zhao Yazhi had not seen each other for more than a month, but they often talked on the phone and flirted. At this time, the cost of long-distance calls across the ocean was sky-high. When Kang Jianfei was filming in Taipei, he spent thousands of Taiwan dollars on phone calls. .
Wang Tianlin is a person who can sit but not stand. After entering the room, he sat down on the sofa and said to Kang Jianfei with a smile: "Ah Fei, I didn't go to your celebration party last time, but do you blame me?"
Kang Jianfei took out two bottles of soda from the refrigerator and placed them in front of Zhao Yazhi and Wang Tianlin. He smiled and said, "Uncle Tianlin is joking. I was able to finish filming "Happy Ghost" smoothly. Thank you for your help."
Wang Tianlin sighed: "When I was filming "Chu Liuxiang", I knew you would succeed sooner or later, but I didn't expect you to develop so quickly. That kid A Xiang is far behind you. He said he wanted to make a movie last year. We haven’t even written the script yet.”
Kang Jianfei was wondering why this old guy came to see him. When he heard him mention Wang Jing, he thought to himself that he was asking him to make a movie with his son? Impossible. If Wang Jing wants to make a movie, it can be done at Shaw Brothers, not to mention He brought Zhao Yazhi with him.
Kang Jianfei couldn't figure it out and didn't take the initiative to ask. He just talked to Wang Tianlin and talked about common things.
Perhaps because there was a third person present, Zhao Yazhi didn't say much, only smiled and echoed from time to time.
After wandering around for a long time, Wang Tianlin asked: "A Fei, I heard that you just finished filming "Mr. Zombie"?"
As soon as Kang Jianfei heard the topic, he cheered up and nodded: "Yes."
Wang Tianlin asked: "When will it be released?"
Wang Tianlin's question was a bit unruly, because he is from Shaw Brothers, and the specific release date of Kang Jianfei's new film is a commercial secret.
Kang Jianfei didn't want to tell lies to fool him, but he wouldn't reveal specific information. He just smiled and said: "Princess Jin is arranging movies, and I don't know the specific release time."
Wang Tianlin suddenly asked: "Are you interested in showing "Mr. Zombie" in Shaw Brothers Cinemas?"
Kang Jianfei did not expect that Wang Tianlin would actually come to recruit him. It seems that the aura of "a great director" is indeed very impressive. After leaving Golden Harvest, he came to Shaw Brothers again. He declined with a smile: "Shaw Brothers made more than 30 movies last year.
, nearly 10 films have been filmed in the first half of the year, and Hong Kong ranks first in film production, so I’m afraid there will be no shortage of film sources.”
Shaw Brothers is indeed No. 1 in film production, so what’s the use of having so many movies to make? Shaw Brothers released 9 movies in the first few months of this year, but only 2 of them grossed over 2 million, and even 5 of them failed to make enough at the box office.
800,000, which is worse than last year. Fortunately, Shaw Brothers has very strong distribution capabilities in Nanyang and Taiwan. Otherwise, just this local box office would have killed Shaw Brothers.
In this situation, Wang Tianlin couldn't explain clearly, so he just smiled and said: "The more good movies the better, of course. Ah Fei, you are very good at making movies. As long as you get to Shaw Brothers, Boss Shaw will definitely not treat you badly. What can Princess Jin give you? Shaw Brothers
Hong Kong's overseas distribution capability ranks first in Hong Kong, and Golden Harvest is far behind. As long as you cooperate with Shaw Brothers, Ah Fei, the overseas box office will increase not only tenfold, but double, which is more than enough."
Kang Jianfei saw that Wang Tianlin was still trying to persuade him, so he didn't bother to go around with him anymore, and said bluntly: "Shaw Brothers doesn't support independent films, so what am I going to do? Be a filmmaking machine like Chu Wanwan?"
Wang Tianlin was immediately speechless. Chu Wan was Chu Yuan. He earned the reputation a few years ago after making more than ten films in Taiwan with a box office of over 10 million. But such a director who has made great contributions to Shaw Brothers is now suffering from poor box office.
, and became a filmmaking machine for Shaw Brothers.
Since this year, except for the Spring Festival, Chu Yuan has basically never left the studio. He has been filming movies for Shao Yifu and even slept on the set.
Wang Tianlin did not mention Chu Yuan again, but said: "Rules are always set by people. Boss Shao hopes to join the shareholder DreamWorks, and then Oriental DreamWorks will cooperate with Shaw Brothers in the name of an independent film company."
That was the original idea!
Kang Jianfei refused unceremoniously: "Uncle Tianlin, Oriental DreamWorks is my hard work. Even Lei Juekun's desire to become a shareholder has not been reached. Do you think I will cooperate with Shao Yifu?"
Kang Jianfei even called Shao Yifu by his first name, obviously not wanting to talk anymore. Wang Tianlin turned his attention to Zhao Yazhi and winked at her quietly.
Obviously, Zhao Yazhi was recruited by Wang Tianlin to be a lobbyist.
Zhao Yazhi just drank the soda and pretended not to notice Wang Tianlin's little actions without saying a word.
Wang Tianlin was helpless, knowing that the task assigned to him by Shao Yifu could not be completed, so he chatted for a few more words, then got up and left.
After returning to his home, Wang Tianlin immediately dialed Shao Yifu's phone and said: "Sixth brother, Kang Jianfei refused. Judging from his appearance, it is useless for anyone to talk."
"Forget it then." Shao Yifu's voice came from the phone.
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When Fang Yihua saw Shao Yifu put down the phone, he quickly asked: "He refused?"
Shao Yifu nodded, not too disappointed. He has always opposed independent production. The box office performance of Shaw Brothers movies in the past two years was too bad, so he couldn't help but want to win over Kang Jianfei.
Shao Yifu has always had a good relationship with the Li family. Even when he took over the power of TVB some time ago, he did not fall out with the Li family.
Li Dingchang of Lee Stage was invited to watch "Mr. Zombie" in the morning. In the afternoon, Shao Yifu learned from Li Dingchang that "Mr. Zombie" was very interesting and made Li Dingchang, who is nearly 50 years old, laugh.
It's possible that it will be a box office hit again.
When Shao Yifu heard this, he couldn't sit still. During the Lunar New Year holiday, due to the competition between "Happy Ghost" and "Junior", both of them were box office hits. However, Shaw Brothers' "Modern Countryman" was in trouble, and few moviegoers came forward.
Falling paintings.
Hearing that "Mr. Zombie" was likely to be a box office hit again, Shao Yifu immediately asked Wang Tianlin to be a lobbyist because Wang Tianlin had a relationship with Kang Jianfei. By the way, he also brought along Zhao Yazhi, who had an ambiguous relationship with Kang Jianfei.
Shao Yifu's mood was very contradictory. He hoped that Wang Tianlin's persuasion would succeed, but also hoped that he would fail. Because once Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks cooperated with Shaw Brothers as an independent film company for a long time, it broke the big studio system of Shaw Brothers.
Shao Yifu's film management philosophy does not match.
The big studio system is certainly rigid and has many shortcomings. However, Golden Harvest's independent production system also has many hidden dangers. Shao Yifu sees this clearly, so he does not want to change it.
"Brother Six, since the box office is sluggish and you are now the chairman of the board of directors of TVB, I think it's better to shift your focus to TVB." Fang Yihua had a different idea. She was not keen on movies. Instead, she thought
The television industry has great development prospects.
When Zou Wenhuai left Shaw Brothers, one of the reasons was that Fang Yihua diverted many of Shaw Brothers' resources to television stations, which completely conflicted with Zou Wenhuai's ideas.
Shao Yifu nodded slightly, seemingly convinced by Fang Yihua, but he never let go of the movie in his heart.
The Shaw brothers did not hesitate to sell their family property in order to make movies, and were ridiculed as prodigal sons. Shao Yifu was originally studying in school, but when his brother received a telegram, he immediately dropped out of school and returned to the film company to help.
The Shaw Brothers film company has experienced ups and downs. The current Shaw Brothers Pictures was rebuilt brick by brick by Shao Yifu after it was completely destroyed by the Japanese army. The hard work he put into Shaw Brothers was not Fang Yihua at all.
My concubine can understand.
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While Shao Yifu was recalling his turbulent years, Lei Juekun was looking at the document that Kang Jianfei sent over this afternoon. The title was: Plan for the premiere of "Mr. Zombie".
Lei Juekun pushed the plan to Li Maowen and asked after he read it: "What do you say?"
Li Maowen sneered: "It's just a waste of money. You actually want to ask a TV station to broadcast it. Such a large-scale premiere will cost at least 200,000. Can the TV station be on the show just by asking? Why not just go to the midnight show?"
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Lei Juekun took a puff of his cigar and said, "I think the premiere is a good gimmick. If done well, it will save a lot of publicity expenses."
Li Maowen said: "Since that guy refuses to pay a distribution fee for his movie, let him pay for the promotion himself. Anyway, Princess Jin's brand has already been launched, so there is no need to spend money to attract audiences like during the Chinese New Year."
Lei Juekun nodded and said: "We still have to do the theater promotion that should be done, but let Kang Jianfei do the release promotion of "Mr. Zombie" by himself. Didn't he want to use the Golden Princess Theater for the premiere? That's right.
We will calculate the rent for the theater based on the market price!"
"Yes, brothers have to settle accounts openly, not to mention that our Princess Jin only has a cooperative relationship with him." Li Maowen said with a smile, he knew that Lei Juekun's move was to defeat Kang Jianfei.
Lei Juekun asked: "Are the movies in theaters ready?"
The film source of Princess Golden is now relatively abundant, but it is still not as large as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers. It is still very easy to queue up films.
Li Maowen said: "The first screening of "Mr. Zombie" is scheduled for June 28, but this guy wants to have a premiere, so his premiere will be June 25."
