Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Eighty-Two “Strong” Box Office

“Buy yourselves, ready to start!”

“Mr. Zombie, Scene 6, Scene 3, Action!”

This is an English-style western-style building. Two cameras are aimed at Lou Nanguang and Li Saifeng in the center of the living room.

Lou Nanguang had a cheap smile on his face, and there seemed to be a bit of surprise in his expression. Such a complex expression made him show it very naturally. This was his unique and cheap expression.

Lou Nanguang twisted his **** and took off his clothes. Lin Zhengying, who was standing behind the camera, waved his hand violently. Lou Nanguang immediately jumped to the side, knocking over a Taishi chair there.

“Ah!” Li Saifeng screamed, covering her eyes, and slammed aside. The camera controlled by Zhong Zhiwen had already turned its lens to the door, where Qiu Sheng, played by Kang Jianfei, suddenly pulled Xu Guanying away.

“Crack! Prepare for the next set of shots.” Chen Xunqi, who had been looking at the director’s viewfinder, immediately shouted.

Only then did Lou Nanguang get up from the ground. The previous two sets of scenes were important laughs in the film. He and Xu Guanying rehearsed countless times in the hotel last night. Given the high demands of Kang Jianfei and Lin Zhengying for this scene, it is very rare that they have only NG twice.

The next few sets of shots were much simpler, and they were shot in less than an hour.

“It’s time to eat!”

The people in the field management team pushed the carts and waited outside early, and the lunch boxes were already arranged there.

When the crew members heard the meal, they rushed out immediately, but Qi Bo brought the field staff in to clean up the filming site that was used just now.

A few discerning actors brought a boxed lunch over, and Li Saifeng took one and handed it to Kang Jianfei, asking, “Master, am I doing a good job?”

“Well, yes, there has been progress.” Kang Jianfei encouraged with a smile.

Although Li Saifeng is the heroine of this movie, she is still a vase when you look closely, and her role in “Happy Ghost” is completely incomparable. However, the progress of Li Saifeng’s acting skills is obvious to all, and her lines and expressions are not as rigid as her previous acting. Even the rigid Lin Zhengying said she is very spiritual.

It’s only been two days since filming started, and the innocent and lovely Li Saifeng has become the little princess of the crew. No way, the entire crew plus the hair stylist and Pan Yingzi were just the three women. The hair stylist is not good-looking, and Pan Yingzi has no man to provoke him, so Li Saifeng is the most popular among everyone.

Just as Kang Jianfei opened the box, Wu Chenggang brought his lighting engineer assistant over and said, “Call Director Kang!”

The lighting engineer’s assistant looked to be in his early 20s. He was recruited on the spot with a few extras a few days ago under the help of Pan Yingzi. Although this person is young, he has a spirit of ingenuity. After seeing Kang Jianfei, he hurriedly greeted Kang Jianfei: “Hello, Director Kang!”

Wu Chenggang sat next to Kang Jianfei with a boxed lunch and said, “This kid has a good understanding. He used to be an assistant lighting engineer in Huixing Film Company. Ah Fei, I want to take him as an apprentice and bring him to Hong Kong to develop.”

Kang Jianfei looked carefully at the young man who was a few years older than him. The more he looked at him, the more familiar he became. He couldn’t help asking, “What’s your name?”

The young man smiled flatteringly: “Director Kang, my name is Zhang Dongliang.”

Grass, I said so familiar, so it’s you old boy!

Before Lao Tzu crossed over, he still owed me two meals.

Zhang Dongliang, a lighting engineer, later became a director, screenwriter and photographer, but the best photographer is the photographer, who has won many photography awards. He has served as the photographer of Donnie Yen’s single version of “Jin Yiwei”, Zhao Wei’s version of “Mulan”, “Three Kingdoms Seeing the Dragon Unloading” and other films.

This person later signed with Kang Jianfei from the same film and television company. When Kang Jianfei first debuted as a photographer, Zhang Dongliang was the director of photography for several films, and Kang Jianfei was half his apprentice. After the two cooperated in several plays, their personal friendship was quite good. The reason why Kang Jianfei was able to climb so fast was also due to Zhang Dongliang’s help. But later Zhang Dongliang went back to Taiwan when his contract expired, and the two never met again until the time of crossing.

Kang Jianfei and Zhang Dongliang had been friends with each other in the last life, and he was often yelled at by this fellow, but now he finally had a chance to return, he coughed and said, “Well, the young man is not bad, I will work hard with your master in the future, I am optimistic about you! ”

Zhang Dongliang received Kang Jianfei’s encouragement and happily took the box lunch. Wu Cheng said just now: “A Fei, last night’s “Happy Ghost” premiered in Taipei. I went to a cinema with Ah Cai to watch it. The attendance rate was very low, probably only 30%.”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: “30%? Very high, Cheng Long is so famous in Taiwan, and “The Younger Brother” only had 60% of the attendance when it was first released. It seems that Taiwanese filmmakers have done a good job of publicity.”

Wu Chenggang nodded and said, “Yes, I heard that the Taiwan box office market has been sluggish recently. It’s really a headache.”

“I’m not alone in the headache, what am I worried about?” Kang Jianfei laughed heartlessly.

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The box office of “Happy Ghost” in Taiwan was very bad on the first day, with only more than 300,000 Taiwan dollars. If the box office of the previous two years was less than 3 million yuan a week, the money earned would not even be enough to cover the bottom line of the theater.

Of course, due to the current market downturn, the theater side has also bitten the bullet and reduced the bottom-line fee accordingly. The filmmakers, producers and theaters are all having a hard time.

In the second week of its release, the box office situation improved slightly, but compared with Cheng Long’s “Junior Brother”, it was still much inferior. Half a month later, the cumulative Taiwan box office of “Happy Ghost” is only over 5 million, which is a pitiful 1 million in Hong Kong dollars. This data is scattered to the huge Taiwan market, which is really appalling…

However, the box office curve of “Happy Ghost” is quite interesting. Generally, movies are a parabola that rises and then falls, but “Happy Ghost” is almost a horizontal straight line. The increase is not obvious, and the box office decline trend is not seen, but the attendance rate has been very low, which makes it difficult for the two theaters to show “Happy Ghost”.

This kind of situation is just tasteless. It won’t make much money if it continues to be shown, and it’s a pity to drop it directly.

After continuously reducing the release canvas of “Happy Ghost” ~www.readwn.com~ the average attendance rate finally exceeded 50%. Due to the location of the theaters, and most of the theaters in Taiwan are single-room theaters, it is impossible to reduce the canvas, and the audience can only be lost in vain.

In addition, this time is the off-season for movies, and there are few film sources available for screening, so the two theaters simply left “Happy Ghost” there, and it has been shown in secondary theaters to death.

During this period, Kang Jianfei also went to see it in person. There were less than 500 seats in the theater. There were 180 spectators sitting sparsely. Then from time to time, cold laughter broke out. The situation was really tragic.

One month later, “Happy Ghost” is still being shown on 8 screens in Taiwan. It is rare that the attendance rate has not dropped below 30%. The cumulative box office in Taiwan has reached more than 8.2 million, but less than 2 million in Hong Kong dollars.

This is a very honorable achievement, enough to rank in the top ten of Taiwan’s annual box office list in 1980…

In the whole first half of the year, “Junior Brother Going Out” starring Cheng Long and “Blood and Long Sky” starring Lin Qingxia also had more box office in Taiwan than “Happy Ghost”.

Because of this, Kang Jianfei is well-known in the Taiwanese film circle. After all, he proved his strength with his ‘strong” box office.

On the other hand, in Southeast Asia, until all the paintings were completed, the total box office of “Happy Ghost” reached more than 3.1 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 23 million Hong Kong dollars.

The original soundtrack of “Happy Ghost” is also very popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, with a cumulative sales of more than 80,000 copies. Li Saifeng and Wen Bixia have become brand new girl idols among the youth groups in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.