Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Forty-Six [Poor Accident]

In a small screening room on the Shaw Brothers Clearwater Studios, when the theme song “Happy Ghost” sounded, everyone in the crew gave warm applause in unison.

There were no outsiders in the screening room, only Kang Jianfei, Zhao Yazhi, Hu Juncai, Wu Chenggang, Zhong Zhiwen, Qibo, Zhong Yuan, and Wen Bixia who became Kang Jianfei’s little tail.

“How do you feel after watching it?” Kang Jianfei asked. Although he was confident that the film would sell well, he still couldn’t help but want to gain the approval of the crew. After all, this was the first film he directed in his two lifetimes.

Wu Chenggang said half encouragingly and half affirmatively: “The audience should like it, this kind of comedy ghost film is rarely made.”

Zhong Yuan’s mouth stinks and pours cold water: “I don’t think this movie is in a good situation. In terms of comedy, it is not as funny and humorous as others, and in terms of ghost movies, it is not as scary as other ghost movies. Where is its selling point? Sell it if it doesn’t sell. If it doesn’t make a good box office, it will be thrown into the street!”

“Don’t say a few words.” Seventh Uncle quietly poked Zhong Yuan.

Zhong Zhiwen was also unsure, commenting: “The footage of “Happy Ghost” is great, as for the rest, I can’t say.”

Speaking of which, everyone actually doesn’t think much of this film in their hearts.

Why?

An inexperienced new director and an unknown new actor made another weird movie that doesn’t look like a comedy or a ghost movie. Except for Kang Jianfei himself, no one else can have confidence in it.

That’s how movies are. Before the actual release, even a discerning veteran in the industry can’t prepare to predict a movie’s box office.

In another time and space, the shooting cost of “Happy Ghost” was 2 million. Since the big guys in Xinyicheng were not optimistic about this film, they refused to promote it. And “Happy Ghost” was released at the same time as “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers”. “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers” had the strongest behind-the-scenes combination in Hong Kong at that time: Hong Jinbao, McDonald’s Xiong, Cen Jianxun, and they were crowded with people.

The result was astonishing. The two films were released at the same time, and there were long queues at the ticket windows of the theaters. The audience of “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers” only bought one or two tickets each, while the audience of “Happy Ghost” bought six or seven tickets, and some even drew a line.

When the painting was finally finished, the new director, new actor, and small production “Happy Ghost” received more than 17 million at the box office, while the big production and big publicity “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldier” only had a box office of 10 million.

Such a result made everyone in the Hong Kong film industry look away, including the director of “Happy Ghost” Gao Zhisen himself.

Kang Jianfei couldn’t help comforting himself. It’s also “Happy Ghost”, even if it can’t sell like Gao Zhisen’s crazy box office, at least it can’t hit the street!

However, Kang Jianfei really can’t guarantee the ticket. There are many factors that affect the box office of the movie, such as the quality of the movie, schedule, publicity, stars, movie theaters, other movies in the same period, etc. Any change at any point can make a movie that should be a big hit to die!

Kang Jianfei let out a sigh of relief and smiled at the crowd: “Everyone, wait for my news.”

Zhao Yazhi comforted: “A Fei, I think “Happy Ghost” is very good-looking, and it will definitely sell well at the box office.”

Wen Bixia also said, “Yes, yes, I think it’s great and interesting, and everyone will definitely like to watch it.”

Kang Jianfei said to them, “Thank you, I won’t let everyone down.”

After Zhong Zhiwen, Qibo and the others all left, Wu Cheng said just now, “A Fei, are you planning to release it in Lisheng Cinemas?”

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, “Yes, what’s wrong?”

Wu Chenggang said, “I’ll go with you, maybe I’ll get to know a few acquaintances.”

Kang Jianfei also refused, and took Wu Chenggang and Hu Juncai to Lisheng Cinema, which is a subsidiary of Lisheng Cinemas, where the headquarters of Lisheng Cinemas is located.

When he was outside the Lisheng Theater, Kang Jianfei was dumbfounded.

The door of Lisheng Theater was closed, and a notice was posted on the door – “This theater has undergone major renovations and is temporarily closed.” There were also clanging sounds from the theater.

Kang Jianfei and Wu Chenggang looked at each other, then walked around the construction office to the general manager’s office. Hu Juncai followed closely with the sample of “Happy Ghost”.

Maybe it was because of the closure of the business for rectification, and there were no figures inside. Kang Jianfei knocked on the door for a long time before a middle-aged man came over and asked, “Who are you looking for?”

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, “Hello, I’m the owner of an independent film company. I just shot a movie and I’m looking for Mr. Li Maowen, the general manager of Lisheng Cinemas.”

The middle-aged man said, “All the cinemas under Lisheng Cinemas are being renovated uniformly. Come back after the New Year.”

“What?” Kang Jianfei was stunned on the spot as if struck by lightning. Before the filming of his movie started, he did a lot of calculations, but he didn’t expect that such an unexpected situation would occur, and he actually encountered the unified decoration of the Lisheng Cinema Line.

Isn’t this a joke!

Christmas is just around the corner, and New Year’s Day and Spring Festival are coming next. It happens to be the most prosperous time for movie box office. How could Lisheng Cinemas choose to decorate at this time?

Do you think you don’t want to earn too much money?

Wu Chenggang asked, “Sir, is it really true that all the cinemas of the Lisheng Cinema Line have been renovated?”

The middle-aged man sighed and said, “Yeah, there’s no attendance anyway, so I just took advantage of this time to make a unified decoration.”

When Kang Jianfei heard the man’s words, he quickly forced himself to calm down and asked, “Why is there no attendance? This theater has a good location.”

The middle-aged man glanced at Kang Jianfei, Kang Jianfei suddenly stepped forward, grabbed a handful of Hong Kong dollars and quietly stuffed it into his hand. The man looked at Qian’s face and said, “Hey, let’s be honest with you, in the past month or so, Shaw Brothers and Jiahe have issued a ban on Lisheng Cinemas, scaring those film companies and directors to the point where they don’t dare. I took the film to Lisheng to show it. Lisheng put a few bad films from a small company back and forth, and the audience refused to come, so the general manager decided to take advantage of this time to renovate all the theaters uniformly. ”

This person doesn’t say much, but the information revealed is very rich.

Kang Jianfei quickly figured out the whole thing. Facing the suppression of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe, more than a dozen independent movie theaters who have just joined Lisheng Cinemas, I am afraid that at this time, many of them are already clamoring to break up. And Lei Juekun, the owner of Lisheng Cinema, chose to delay the decision under the situation of domestic and foreign difficulties.

Procrastination is not the same as burying your head and being an ostrich, but accumulating strength.

First, the Xin Lisheng Cinema Line has just been established, and many of its cinemas are very dilapidated. After the unified decoration, the hardware equipment can be upgraded for the old cinemas.

Second, to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down inside. Lei Juekun can take advantage of the time when the decoration is closed to straighten out the internal contradictions in the theater line.

Third, Lei Juekun must be looking for a capable film company at this time. He plans to pick up one or several film companies by himself, and use Lisheng Cinemas as the base to compete with Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest in the box office battlefield. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Wu Chenggang was a little panicked and asked Kang Jianfei, “What should we do? Ah Fei, why don’t we go to Shaw Brothers and Jiahe’s theaters and try it out, maybe we can get some theaters to show it.”

“No need.” Kang Jianfei shook his head. At this time, he had completely lost the panic just now, and his expression was calm and confident.

Although the uncle Wu Chenggang acted steadily, his vision was really not wide. He could only hear the dilemma in the words of the middle-aged man, but Kang Jianfei saw a rare opportunity.

In another time and space, how did Xinyicheng arise? It’s not that Lei Juekun is fully supporting behind his back.

The predicament Lei Juekun is facing at this time is probably more anxious than the fact that his movie cannot be released. Bringing the movie to the door and planning for Lei Juekun, Oriental DreamWorks will definitely be fully supported by Lisheng Cinemas in the future.

This harvest is the strategic growth of Oriental DreamWorks, which is more rare than a movie that sells.

Kang Jianfei made friends with the middle-aged man and asked, “I wonder if Li Sheng’s general manager, Mr. Li, is free now?”

The middle-aged man laughed and said, “I’m just a supervisor watching the construction site. How can I know about Manager Li.”

Kang Jianfei asked, “Then do you know where Manager Li’s home is? I have something important to discuss with Manager Li.”

“I don’t know.” The middle-aged man said.

“Let’s go back first.” Kang Jianfei said to his cousin and Hu Juncai. He was going to go back and ask Wang Tianlin to see if he could get Li Maowen’s contact information, or simply go directly to Lei Juekun, the big boss behind Lisheng Cinemas.