Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Seventy-Seven [Taking The Opportunity To Hype]

“Hmph, fantasy kung fu movie! What the **** is this kid doing?” Zou Wenhuai snorted coldly and threw a copy of “Sing Tao Daily” on the table.

He Guanchang and Cheng Long, the adopted father and son, were also in the office. Cheng Long saw that Zou Wenhuai was angry and didn’t say a word, but just looked down at the newspaper headlines.

To be honest, Cheng Long is very curious about Kang Jianfei. He has been in the film industry for more than ten years, and he knows very well what it means for “Happy Ghost” to break 10 million at the box office. As a new director, Kang Jianfei can achieve this kind of achievement in his first film, which can be described as a miracle.

Bu Chenglong did not regard Kang Jianfei as an opponent, because the two of them are not on the same level at all – even if Kang Jianfei won the Hong Kong box office.

He Guanchang is very aware of Zou Wenhuai’s thoughts. Although “Happy Ghost” has won the box office of “Junior Brother”, it is a funny ghost movie and a funny kung fu movie. Different types have little influence. Moreover, Jiahe’s distribution ability is not comparable to that of Princess Jin. Jiahe can not only sell “Junior Brother Out of the Horse” to Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but also has certain distribution ability in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. ghost”.

But now Kang Jianfei suddenly announced that the new film is a fantasy kung fu film, which makes Zou Wenhuai alert, because Cheng Long is also the main kung fu film. If Kang Jianfei’s fantasy kung fu film succeeds, it will definitely have a huge impact on Cheng Long’s witty kung fu film, which far exceeds the fire of “Happy Ghost”.

Nine years ago, Bruce Lee’s kung fu film came out, proclaiming the death penalty for traditional martial arts films; two years ago, Cheng Long’s witty kung fu film was born, changing the pattern of Hong Kong action films once again.

Zou Wenhuai is now afraid that the ‘spiritual kung fu film” will set off another trend of kung fu films.

He Guanchang advised: “Wenhuai, don’t worry about it, Jiahe’s goal is to face the international market, why fight with Princess Jin in this small pond in Hong Kong. The United States is ready, Aaron will fly over tomorrow, “The Killer” Trench is our top priority.”

He Guanchang was talking about Golden Harvest’s plan to enter the Western market. In October last year, Zou Wenhuai announced in Hollywood that he would invest 60 million US dollars to shoot six major production films. At that time, Golden Harvest had just signed Cheng Long, and Zou Wenhuai’s move was to build momentum for Cheng Long to enter the American market, trying to make Cheng Long second to Bruce Lee.

Because before Cheng Long signed into Golden Harvest, he already had a very stable box office appeal in Asian countries, and what he lacked was his popularity in Europe and the United States.

Hearing the two bosses talking about him, Cheng Long immediately erected his back, dreaming that he would go to the United States to kill the Quartet, like Bruce Lee, and let the ghosts scream and go crazy for him.

“Killer Trench” is a co-production between Golden Harvest and Hollywood giant Warner Bros. The film has invited many big-name movie stars from Europe and the United States to join, and several main actors have been paid more than 1.5 million US dollars. And Cheng Long’s remuneration in this film is also on par with Hollywood stars, reaching a million dollars that is difficult for Chinese movie stars at this time.

The US dollar is still very valuable now. The exchange rate between the US dollar and the Hong Kong dollar is close to 1:8, which means that the remuneration of the film Guang Chenglong is more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, which is more than the box office dividends of “Happy Ghost” that Kang Jianfei received. .

Regardless of whether “Killer Trench” is successful or not, Cheng Long has reached a new height of Hong Kong and Taiwan movie stars. Because the brothers Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie in the same period were only paid 2 million Hong Kong dollars. There are even fewer other movie stars. The well-known Hong Jinbao’s salary is only more than 1 million yuan; Zheng Shaoqiu’s TV drama is so popular, but his movie salary will not exceed 300,000.

Zou Wenhuai instructed Cheng Long about going to the United States to make a film, so he kindly asked him to go back to make preparations.

After Cheng Long left, Zou Wenhuai suddenly asked, “Guanchang, do you think it is possible to dig up that Kang Jianfei?”

He Guanchang was surprised: “Why do you think of poaching him? Lei Juekun was so supportive of him last time, there must be some agreement between the two of them. Even if we succeed in poaching someone, I’m afraid the liquidated damages we will pay will not be lower than poaching Aaron.”

Zou Wenhuai said: “Now that Aaron is going to enter Hollywood, I don’t want a fire in the backyard at this time. Kang Jianfei is always a destabilizing factor, and Princess Jin is a big trouble. “Happy Ghost” is currently showing in Southeast Asia. It will be low, poach Kang Jianfei to earn the Asian box office, and then let Aaron develop the market in the United States, so that we can also advance and retreat freely.”

He Guanchang is an old partner who has worked with Zou Wenhuai for decades, and he knows very well Zou Wenhuai’s character. Zou Wenhuai wanted to dig Kang Jianfei, not only for commercial reasons, but also for the idea of revenge on Princess Jin for digging up Hong Jinbao.

This time, Lei Juekun’s digging of Hong Jinbao caused a lot of losses to Jiahe, because when Hong Jinbao left, he packed up and took away a whole team, and even Yuan Biao, who was going to give Jiahe a small hug, followed him.

Zou Wenhuai continued: “That Kang Jianfei also seems to be very ambitious, and this kind of ambitious person is best to dig. The Golden Harvest can give him what Princess Jin can give him, but Princess Jin can’t help him distribute the film to Europe and the United States like Golden Harvest. If he were a wise man, he would have agreed.”

He Guanchang could only sigh lightly: “Okay, I’ll try it out.”

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Since the opening of Oriental DreamWorks, it has never been as lively as it is today.

The influx of dozens of media reporters in the early morning left Ma Qiao at a loss. Although he is a top student at Harvard Business School, he has no experience in dealing with the media. Fortunately, Kang Jianfei called him in advance, otherwise he would not know what to do.

Facing the noisy reporters crowded at the door of the company, Ma Qiao moved to the bench and stood up and shouted, “Everyone! All journalists, please be quiet. I’m Ma Qiao, the operation director of Oriental DreamWorks. If you have any questions, please contact me. Enter the company in order to discuss!”

With an office area of less than 200 square meters, dozens of reporters rushed in all of a sudden, and the company suddenly looked shabby. The most basic chairs and stools are far from enough, and these reporters can only stand.

“Director Ma, when will Mr. Kang arrive at the company?” a reporter asked impatiently.

Ma Qiao said after discussing with Kang Jianfei on the phone, “Mr. Kang has other important things today and will not come to the company.”

A tabloid reporter asked: “Ma Zhuguan, Mr. Kang showed his skills yesterday and killed two robbers on the spot. I wonder if he has missed two robbers in the company?”

Ma Qiao shook his head and said, “I didn’t know Mr. Kang knew kung fu at all. He was very kind to his subordinates in the company, and he didn’t look like he knew kung fu.”

Zhang Xu, a company typist who was among the reporters, suddenly asked, “Can you talk about the fantasy kung fu movie that Mr. Kang mentioned?”

Finally getting to the point, Ma Qiao smiled and said, “Spiritual kung fu films, as the name suggests, is a combination of ghost-themed films and kung fu films. This is a brand-new type of film created by Mr. Kang, and I believe it will give you a surprise at that time. I can’t disclose the specific movie plot, but the title of the movie can let everyone know in advance, the name of this movie is “Mr. Zombie”.”

“Isn’t that a zombie movie? Whoever shoots a zombie movie will pay for it,” a reporter said.

Six years ago, Shaw Brothers made a zombie movie, and it landed on the moon. Since then, no director in Hong Kong has dared to touch zombie films, and it is also a common view in the industry that zombie films are dead.

Kang Jianfei suddenly came to shoot a zombie film, which immediately caused a burst of exclamations and discussions from the reporters.

Ma Qiao said: “Mr. Kang will give a new interpretation of zombie films in this film, and everyone will know about it. Moreover, we will go to Taipei to shoot this film. This is a large-scale movie with a budget of 4 million. Production is no longer just a small game with a cost of only 500,000.”

“Ha ha ha ha……”

Ma Qiao’s last two sentences drew laughter from the reporters. He actually said that 4 million yuan for a major production is not enough for “Killer Trench” Miles Long alone.

Ma Qiao heard the laughter and said sternly: “For Oriental DreamWorks, 4 million is a big production, because this is already all the company’s funds. All our colleagues in DreamWorks are committed to making good films, and they are all committed to making good films. Selling movies that audiences like is a lifelong pursuit. We are still a small company, but we dare to give everything to make good movies. The cost of our movies is the hard work and sweat of all employees of the company, not money. Therefore, Every movie in our DreamWorks is a big production!”

“Okay, well said!” Zhang Xu, a typist who was a nurse among the reporters, clapped and applauded. The other reporters also applauded as they dealt with the scene.

Next, Ma Qiao was talking about the company’s creation, employees working hard, Mr. Kang staying up late to write scripts, etc.

The more the reporters listened, the more wrong they became. They gradually realized that Kang Jianfei was trying to use this to promote his company and movie~www.readwn.com~ and were suddenly disappointed.

Just when they were about to leave, a beautiful woman suddenly came in from the company – here comes Pan Yingzi!

Pan Yingzi came here on purpose. She had lost her fame after a few years of cessation. She had the same idea as Kang Jianfei, and wanted to use this to hype herself.

Yesterday, Pan Yingzi was really frightened. She tossed and turned on the bed when she went home and couldn’t fall asleep, thinking about the **** scene at that time. Later, for some reason, he turned his thoughts to Kang Jianfei who killed the gangster, and became more and more curious about his future boss. Especially Kang Jianfei rescued her from the gangsters, hugged her and escorted her to the police station all the way, giving Pan Yingzi a very strong sense of security.

Pan Yingzi finally fell asleep amid her wild thoughts. When she woke up, she felt much better, and yesterday’s events didn’t affect her mood much. When she saw today’s newspaper headlines, she immediately felt that this was a chance to become famous again, so she hurried to the company.

“It’s Miss Pan!”

“Is Miss Pan here to find Mr. Kang?”

“Miss Pan, did you divorce Mr. Chen Honglie last week?”

“Miss Pan, someone saw you and Mr. Kang having Western food at the Peninsula Hotel last night and holding hands like a couple. What’s your explanation for this?”

“…”

Although Pan Yingzi was here to make a name for herself, she did not answer the reporter’s question. Instead, she squeezed into the company and said only one sentence: “Sorry, I don’t want to explain too much about what happened yesterday. Today I come to the company, It’s because I’ve accepted Mr. Kang’s offer to be the talent manager of Oriental DreamWorks!”