When Xu Ke and his girlfriend Shi Nansheng walked into the Golden Princess Cinema, many people came to the cinema. Last time they went to the cinema to watch "Happy Ghost", they bought their own tickets, but this time Kang Jianfei invited them directly by sending an invitation.
In addition to Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng, Kang Jianfei also invited more than ten new wave directors such as Xu Anhua, Tan Jiaming, Yan Hao, Fang Yuping, Zhang Guoming, Yu Yunhang, etc.
The so-called new wave movement in Hong Kong films is a sudden trend in Hong Kong films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A group of young directors who returned from Europe and the United States, after several years of working on local TV stations in Hong Kong,
, suddenly broke out collectively, integrating the advanced film experience they learned from abroad with Hong Kong's local culture, and shooting a large number of new films that are different from the old Hong Kong films.
This film wave directly affected the development and evolution of Hong Kong films in the next 20 years.
These people, including Xu Ke, are very popular now, and they are praised a lot in the industry. However, most of the movies they made have a common feature, that is, they are well-received but not box office hits, so few bosses are willing to give them
Invest in making movies.
The reporters soon discovered that there was a small stretch of seats in the theater, all occupied by new wave directors, and they started taking photos of them.
"Old Xu, I heard that you are very familiar with Kang Jianfei. Why did this guy invite all of us here?" Fang Yuping asked Xu Kedao, who was sitting next to him. This guy used to be a photographer at Jiashi, and he just asked Shaw Brothers to invest in a shoot.
"The Famous Sword" also had Zheng Shaoqiu as the male lead, and the box office was barely acceptable.
Xu Ke was speechless and said: "Why do you all think that I know Kang Jianfei very well? I just made a guest appearance in a movie for him, okay?"
Yan Hao smiled and said: "You must be more familiar with him than us."
Yu Yunhang said: "Actually, his film "Happy Ghost" also has a bit of a new wave flavor, which is very different from the shooting techniques of old Hong Kong films."
Zhang Guoming said: "I am very interested in Kang Jianfei's growth experience. A young man who traveled from the mainland, I heard that he was not yet 20 years old, was writing novels and making movies, and actually opened his own film company.
It’s like he was born with so many things.”
Xu Anhua smiled and said: "There is something called talent."
Shi Nansheng suddenly interrupted: "I want to see his real kung fu performance later."
Yu Yunhang said disdainfully: "Where does this real kung fu come from? It's just some fighting boxing skills. It was praised by newspapers as if it can kill people from a distance."
Shi Nansheng smiled and said: "I don't know about killing people in the air, but it is true that Kang Jianfei used Kung Fu to kill two robbers in the street."
Yu Yunhang curled her lips and did not answer any more words.
More than a thousand viewers who bought high-priced tickets entered the venue one after another. The reporters were surprised to find that all premiere tickets, with a maximum price of 50 yuan and a minimum price of 30 yuan, were sold out, and the auditorium was packed.
After such a premiere, the income from ticket sales alone is 50,000 yuan! And the cost of the premiere is not at least 200,000 yuan as Li Maowen guessed. Because of more than 200 media, Kang Jianfei almost
They were all invited for free, and no other stars were hired for the performances before the movie was released. They were all performed by employees of Oriental DreamWorks themselves.
The biggest expense for the premiere is the venue fee of more than 3,000 yuan for renting the theater...
Hong Jinbao took Lin Zhengying and others to sit down. Seeing the more than two hundred media reporters in front of him, his heart suddenly became hot and he said to Yuan Biao: "We will also have a premiere of "Ghost Fighting"!"
Yuan Biao nodded quickly. He had never thought that more than two hundred reporters would gather to attend the release of a movie. If nothing else, such a spectacular scene would be reported in the newspapers tomorrow. As long as "Mr. Zombie"
》The filming is not too bad, and there will definitely be a lot of people who get wind of it and watch the movie.
The shooting of "Ghost Fighting" was very slow. Because this is a fantasy kung fu film, it is somewhat different from the kung fu films made by Hong Jinbao before. Moreover, the plot has been carefully thought out and conceived, and with the addition of Lin Zhengying and Yuan Hua, they have a good relationship with each other.
Based on Kang Jianfei's experience in filming "Mr. Zombie", Hong Jinbao's "Ghost Fighter" is far more sophisticated than in Parallel Time and Space, and the shooting time is also greatly increased.
Judging from the current progress, the production of "Ghost Fighting" will be completed at least in late July, but it can still catch up with the end of the summer season.
When the time for the premiere came, the lights below suddenly dimmed, and a beam of light led a beautiful woman with a bulging figure to the stage. It was Pan Yingzi wearing a high-slit cheongsam.
In order to save money, Kang Jianfei didn't even bother to invite the master of ceremonies, and directly asked Pan Yingzi to go into battle.
After Pan Yingzi came on stage, she bowed down, took the microphone and said: "Dear friends at the emotional scene, please take the time out of your busy schedule to attend the premiere of "Mr. Zombie"... I would like to invite the number one lion dancer in Hong Kong.
, Yu Yuanwen, the god of Kangjia class, brings you a wonderful lion dance performance!"
Pan Yingzi disappeared with the lights, while "The Immortal" came on stage dancing the lion with her partner Ye Tao amidst the sound of gongs and drums.
I have to admit that Yu Yuanwen's lion dance skills are truly outstanding. Liu Jialiang's Liu family class is already good at lion dance, and almost everyone can dance a few moves. But in the parallel space, Liu Jialiang is hiding Yu Yuanwen in the snow.
Years later, due to the need for lion dancers for filming movies, Yu Yuanwen had to be re-used, which shows how superb his lion dancing skills are.
Under the control of Yu Yuanwen, a lion seemed to come to life. It could not only run and jump like other lion dances, but also had vivid expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, which attracted cheers and applause from the audience below.
After the lion dance, there was suddenly another martial arts performance.
However, this performance was extraordinary. One of the Dragon and Tiger martial arts masters from the Kang family class suddenly flew down from the air, and the other jumped more than ten feet high. The two of them actually fought with swords in the air, and they had a great time fighting!
The martial arts masters of Kang's class had just mastered the Wia skills, which aroused the audience's admiration.
Hong Jinbao, who was watching the show below, was speechless and said to Yuan Biao in a low voice: "Kang Jianfei is so unprofitable that he can't afford to be early. He is holding a movie premiere and is actually advertising his Kang Family Class!"
Yuan Biao was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Hong Jinbao meant.
Martial arts classes are not free of charge. In addition to making movies, they have to go out to take jobs in their spare time in order to survive. The better the skills of the martial arts masters, the more crews will hire them to make movies, and the more prosperous the martial arts class will be.
The Kang Family Class has just been founded, and its reputation is naturally not as good as the well-established Fen Family Class, Liu Family Class, Hong Family Class, Yuan Family Class, or even the Married Family Class that was just founded last year.
How to become famous? Firstly, the movies produced by Kang Jiaban are very popular, and secondly, they need to do publicity.
Kang Jianfei asked the martial arts masters from the Kang family class to perform at the premiere. Firstly, he saved a lot of expenses for hiring other stars. Secondly, he did an on-site promotion for the Kang family class in front of more than 200 media and many directors. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
Presumably after tonight, when some independent directors and small companies make action films, Kang Jiaban will also become an important choice for them.
Hong Jinbao's voice was very low, but Lin Zhengying next to him could hear it clearly, and her skin felt a little feverish at the moment. Because Kang Jianfei's Kang family class was established by Huang Xia, who recommended it to Kang Jianfei. Lin Zhengying felt that her move was a bit unreasonable.
After the performances of the martial arts masters were completed, Pan Yingzi's guest host called all the creative staff to come on stage, and Lin Zhengying and Yuan Hua also had to get up and go on stage.
In the audience, Li Saifeng and Wen Bixia sat next to Zhao Yazhi. When Pan Yingzi invited the creative staff to come on stage, Li Saifeng immediately ran up happily, leaving Wen Bixia sitting there with jealousy and envy.
Zhao Yazhi touched Wen Bixia's head and comforted her like a little sister: "Next time, let your brother A Fei make a movie specifically for you, and then arrange a more intense premiere for you."
"That's so difficult." Wen Bixia sighed. She felt that she was not as beautiful as Li Saifeng, and she couldn't even sing or act. Not to mention that Li Saifeng was still learning kung fu from Kang Jianfei. In order not to be thrown too far, she Wen Bixia has been working very hard to learn singing these days, but unfortunately her progress is still slower than that of Li Saifeng. It's so irritating that people are more popular than others!
Sitting not far away from Zhao Yazhi was Zhong Chuhong. She was feeling bored sitting there alone. When she saw Li Saifeng coming on stage, she quickly changed seats and sat down next to Zhao Yazhi.
Zhong Chuhong has a very cheerful and generous personality. She doesn't care about people she doesn't like at all. She will take the initiative to say hello to people she finds pleasing. Zhong Chuhong especially likes Zhao Yazhi's performance in "Shanghai Beach". When she sat over, she greeted him in a familiar manner: "Zhao Yazhi" Hello, miss, my name is Zhong Chuhong!"
Zhao Yazhi immediately recognized Zhong Chuhong and said with a smile: "I know you, you were the fourth Miss Hong Kong last year, and I was also the fourth Miss Hong Kong."
When the two Hong Kong ladies communicated for the first time, Pan Yingzi had already chatted with the creative staff on stage and revealed many interesting things during the filming, which added a lot of information to the reporters present for tomorrow's report.
After the chat, Pan Yingzi suddenly said to Kang Jianfei: "Director, I remember you promised to perform your real kung fu at the premiere." After saying that, Pan Yingzi suddenly asked the audience, "What do you want? I don’t want to see Director Kang’s real skills!”
Many of the spectators who bought tickets came for Kang Jianfei's real skills, and immediately burst into boos and shouts.
Kang Jianfei stood up from the chair and said very pretentiously: "I have said in the newspaper that once my Kung Fu is used, I will definitely die or be injured, and there will be no discussion or performance." As he said that, Kang Jianfei changed his tone. , "But, I can show you my tricks. Ah Feng, stand over here!"
"Yes, Master!" Li Saifeng heard this and stood five meters away.
Pan Yingzi introduced in the narration: "Little sister Li Saifeng is learning Kung Fu from Director Kang and is his first apprentice."
Before the audience had time to guess what Kang Jianfei was going to perform, they saw Chen You put an apple on Li Saifeng's head and then ran away quickly.
Kang Jianfei pulled out a fruit knife without making any fancy moves. The shadow of the knife flashed and the fruit knife was inserted into the apple above Li Saifeng's head five meters away. The apple simply fell to the ground.
"Wow!"
The whole place was shocked and in an uproar, and countless people stood up in surprise.
The reporters were all inexplicably excited, feeling that their trip would be worthwhile if only Kang Jianfei could throw a knife.
