Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Fifty-Four [A Good Show Is About To Start]

After nearly a month of broadcasting, “The Beach”, which caused a frenzy in the ratings, finally ushered in its finale. Countless ordinary families in Hong Kong are sitting in front of the TV, expecting that the love between Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng will eventually blossom.

When the last episode of “On the Beach” aired, TVB’s ratings jumped to 76%, which almost didn’t make the head of the TVB TV drama team’s heart explode.

As we all know, the final ending of “Shanghai Beach” is a tragedy…

“He’s x, which idiot director made it, and actually killed Xu Wenqiang. If I were to meet him, I would cut him into a peach blossom!”

“Brother chicken, the TV plot is made up by the screenwriter.”

“Who is that bad boy screenwriter?”

Who is the screenwriter of “The Beach”?

In the following month, this question appeared with high frequency in the mouths of Hong Kong citizens. Not to mention that Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng didn’t get together in the end, Xu Wenqiang was actually killed at the end of the film, and the TV screenwriter was simply heinous!

When Jin Yong serialized “The Condor Heroes” in the newspaper, because Yin Zhiping was transferred to the Dragon Knight, someone poured gasoline on the door of Jin Yong’s house.

Kang Jianfei’s name was once again a household name. Until the end of “Shanghai Beach”, more and more people discovered that the original screenwriter of “Shanghai Beach” was actually the author of “Looking for Qin Ji”.

Many angry fans of “The Beach” could not find Kang Jianfei, so they simply ran to block the door of the “Oriental Daily” office, and strongly demanded that Kang Jianfei write “The Beach” into a novel, and that Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng should be together.

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Kang Jianfei took a car to the Oriental Newspaper Building. When he got out of the car, he saw a group of students surrounded the gate. Someone painted a few big characters with red paint on the wall: Kang Jianfei can’t die!

Seeing those big blood-red characters, Kang Jianfei couldn’t help shivering, and slandered, “Which idiot wrote it?” Words are uglier than Lao Tzu!

Kang Jianfei didn’t dare to go to the main entrance, so he quietly went to the underground parking lot, and then took the elevator up. Greeting Ma Chengkun’s secretary, he knocked on the door and entered the chairman’s office without informing.

When Ma Chengkun saw Kang Jianfei, he laughed loudly and said, “Brother, you’ve done a lot of damage to your brother this time. Every day someone blocks the door of the newspaper office, saying they want me to hand you over.”

Kang Jianfei asked, “These people come every day? They are persistent enough.”

Ma Chengkun said with a smile: “Who is so busy blocking the door every day? It’s all in exchange. A group of people stay for an hour or two at most and leave. These people are really fed up. After the TV broadcast, they are looking for a screenwriter. What is the use.”

Kang Jianfei winked and said, “Didn’t those people say that they want me to write “Shanghai Beach” as a novel, and then change it to a happy ending? “Oriental Daily” can do this, find a pen for me to be a shooter, and co-sign it and adapt it to Novels, serialization and publishing, let’s make money together.”

Ma Chengkun said in surprise: “Isn’t the copyright of “Shanghai Beach” owned by TVB? You can’t make any money by adapting it into a novel.”

“TVB only has the film and television copyright of “Shanghai Beach”, and the copyright of the novel is still in my hands.” Kang Jianfei laughed.

In fact, after the screenwriter sells the script to the producer, under normal circumstances, all copyrights belong to the producer by default. It’s just that when Kang Jianfei sold the script, he deliberately left the copyright of the novel to himself in the contract.

At this time in Hong Kong, only novels were adapted into TV series and movies. I had never heard of anyone who made money by adapting film and television works into novels, so Wang Tianlin didn’t pay attention to this loophole when he bought the script.

When Ma Chengkun heard that the copyright of the novel was still in Kang Jianfei’s hands, the two hit it off and decided that Ma Chengkun would find someone to ghostwrite Kang Jianfei, add an adaptation of the novel, and serialize it in a new page on “Oriental Daily”.

As for the manuscript fee, Kang Jianfei alone gets 50 yuan per thousand words. As for the ghostwriter, it is estimated that he can only get tens of yuan per thousand words.

Kang Jianfei likes to make money this way. He doesn’t even need to move his fingers, he can earn manuscript fees while sitting, and if he can publish a collection in the future, he can make more money.

The adaptation of “Shanghai Beach” into a novel is just a sideline. Kang Jianfei came to find Ma Chengkun today, mainly to talk about publicity and advertising.

At the beginning, Ma Chengkun had promised Kang Jianfei that he would give him a half-month free publicity advertisement in “Oriental Daily” and “Oriental Fashion”.

As for Kang Jianfei’s filming, Ma Chengkun has always been happy to watch the good show, and even somewhat expects Kang Jianfei to lose all his money, and then come back to write a novel for Oriental Daily with peace of mind.

Ma Chengkun asked with a smile, “You said on the phone that you were sending advertising posters. Could it be that your movie has been released in theaters?”

Kang Jianfei took out several “Happy Ghosts” promotional posters that he had made a long time ago, spread them out on Ma Chengkun’s desk, and said, “Just click on this!”

The poster of “Happy Ghost” is very happy, the main color is bright red, and the center is naturally three beautiful girls. Xu Ke was pitifully grabbed by the ears of Fatty Shen Dianxia.

What surprised Ma Chengkun was not these, but the words on the posters:

“The New Year’s Comedy in 1980 was screened in 18 theaters in the Golden Princess Cinema”

“When the New Year came across “Happy Ghost”, the whole family was happy all year round”

“Fat Shen Tian Xia is willing to be a green leaf, and the new director Xu Ke makes a cameo”

“Kang Jianfei, author of “Looking for Qin” and screenwriter of “Shanghai Beach”, directed and starred in the New Year blockbuster”

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Ma Chengkun looked at Kang Jianfei like he had seen a ghost. He pointed to the poster and asked, “Eighteen theaters are all showing your movie together?”

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, “Do you think I would make fun of this kind of thing?”

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“Mr. Lei, I think you are making fun of us!”

In the conference room of Lisheng Theater, the three shareholders of the theater chain gathered together. The topic of debate was naturally that all 18 theaters jointly screened a small-budget film directed by a newcomer.

All shareholders, including Lei Juekun’s confidant and Li Maowen, the general manager of Lisheng Cinemas, think that Lei Juekun’s brain is broken.

In the entire Lisheng cinema chain, Lei Juekun originally only had four cinemas, Lisheng, Lesheng, Kaisheng and Huasheng, and recently he bought four cinemas including Kinmen and Minle.

That is to say, of the 18 cinemas in the Lisheng Cinema Line, 8 are wholly-owned by Lei Juekun, and the other 10 are franchised or leased. Among them, shareholder Chen Rongmei owns 3 cinemas, and shareholder Feng Bingzhong owns 2 cinemas. In another time and space, these two will break up with Lei Juekun in the future and leave to establish Xinbao Cinemas.

Li Maowen, the general manager of Lisheng Cinemas, advised: “Boss, doing a theater is not like doing any other business. We will do a joint screening of 18 theaters~www.readwn.com~ If that movie is too bad, more than ten theaters will If there are not many viewers, you will not only lose money, but also become the laughing stock of the industry!”

“I have seen the movie “Happy Ghost”, and I think it can afford the combined screening of 18 theaters.” Lei Juekun said firmly. What he values is Kang Jianfei, not the movie “Happy Ghost”. It doesn’t matter if he loses this time, and he will have the opportunity to earn it back in the future.

Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find. Lei Juekun has been across the Xiangjiang River for decades, and his vision is very accurate.

In another time and space, when Boss Lei supported Mecca, Chen Xunqi, Xu Ke, and the others, he never took a single glance.

What’s more, Kang Jianfei and Lei Juekun have made a very complete New Year’s film plan, and Lei Juekun believes that their plan will be a success!

Li Maowen is still insisting: “Boss, why don’t we show eight theaters first, and then see the situation?”

Lei Juekun waved his hand and said: “No need to say any more, I will take care of the problem alone. After half a month, the decoration of each theater will be completed, and a press conference will be held at that time to announce that the Lisheng Theater Line will officially change its name to Jin. The Princess Cinema Line will be launched, and the cinema subsidization system will be cancelled. It will definitely cause a sensation and attract some good movies to be released in our theaters. Next is the Lunar New Year propaganda plan, focusing on the movie “Happy Ghost”. Some other movies are supplemented, and try to make a lot of money. By the way, the selection of movies is very important when arranging movies. This time, comedy and love scenes are prioritized.

Lei Juekun monopolized 8 cinemas, and he rented the other 5 cinemas. The two shareholders, Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, could not veto his decision, but agreed with dissatisfaction.