Dreams of the Fragrant River

~: Three hundred and thirty-three [Midnight

Due to Kang Jianfei's big move, DreamWorks, Phoenix TV and Fengxing Records were all in chaos for a while, and the handover and coordination between the various departments was barely smooth. [;First release] Phoenix TV said that it was going to transfer the production department of TV dramas and variety shows to a new company, but it still left a group of people for overuse.

It has already been released in Hong Kong, but it was released on the same day as it, but it is still smashing the box office in Taiwan. When it was screened in Hong Kong, it took seven and a half weeks to complete the picture, and now it has only been screened for four weeks in Taiwan, and the box office has already earned nearly 3,000 Taiwan dollars.

Although it is not scheduled for Christmas in Japan, but with the reputation left by the previous film and the good box office of this film in North America, it is still a good schedule for New Year's Day.

The box office in North America and Hong Kong is much less than the box office, with a drop of 55% and 30% respectively. However, the situation in Japan is different. As soon as it was released, it set off a movie-watching boom. After three weeks, the box office has earned 2.1 billion yen - you must know that the total box office in Japan is only 1.8 billion yen.

At this time, Japan was too rich, and some people in the United States were already clamoring that "the Japanese want to buy the entire United States". The 2.1 billion yen is just for pediatrics. When it is released in Japan in two or three months, the box office will be a terrifying 15 billion yen.

At the end of 1982, the yen was in the stage of a three-year appreciation, with a ratio of 215 to 1 against the US dollar. Coupled with the slight depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar, 2.1 billion yen is equivalent to more than 82 million Hong Kong dollars.

Lin Qingxia's fame in Japan has risen again, and before the film stopped showing, Songzhu Films sent an invitation to Lin Qingxia and Zhen Zidan, hoping that the two of them could go to Japan to shoot an action movie.

After the main release, Japanese fans strongly hoped that Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsuda could work with Lin Qingxia again. Songzhu Pictures immediately saw the business opportunities, and not only sent Lin Qingxia a film invitation. He also invited Zhen Zidan and the newly reorganized Raptors stunt team to join him.

It was not until the release on January 31 that the wonderful performance in Japan finally ended, and the cumulative box office in Japan was equivalent to HK$87.2 million.

This is true in Japan, as well as in Southeast Asia and South Korea.

Because the filming has been completed for half a year, DreamWorks has already coordinated the screening plan with the academies around the world, and the film will be released in half a month around the world one after another.

Not only that, the market operation department in charge of Maqiao has also opened up the channels of Australian and New Zealand academies. Although the population of these two broken places is not large. Fewer people are willing to buy tickets to watch Chinese movies. But after all, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, which is a welcome thing.

At this time, from another perspective, it is also positive about the strength of Hong Kong films in this era.

Among the foreign films imported into Australia in 1982. Already 17% are Hong Kong films, and the import share of foreign films is second only to the United States.

Many people may not believe that 18% of foreign films imported by France last year were Hong Kong films.

Five years ago, 52% of the imported films in Malaysia belonged to Hong Kong films, that is, more than half of the films imported into Malaysia were made in Hong Kong, far exceeding the share of Hollywood films. It is a pity that the Malaysian government reduced the quota of Hong Kong films two years ago, and now Hong Kong films only account for 38% of the imported films in Malaysia.

As for Thailand, let alone. 40% of the external film market share is low. It is normal for Hong Kong films to account for more than half of Thailand's imported films. Not only that, Taiwanese films also account for more than 30% of imported films in Thailand. In addition to Hong Kong films and Taiwanese films, more than 90% of imported films in Thailand are Chinese films, and Hollywood films basically have no place in Thailand.

When Cheng Long, Lin Qingxia, Qin Xianglin and others went to Thailand a few years ago, they were also invited by the Thai royal family. So a large group of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars and reporters poured into the Royal Palace of Thailand...

Underperforming in both Hong Kong and North America, it swept the Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian film markets in late 1982 and early 1983.

In the past, the reputation of Oriental DreamWorks in Nanyang has surpassed that of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers. However, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are not easy to get along with. After giving up the Christmas stall, they all blocked it in the upcoming Spring Festival stall.

Shaw Brothers Shanzhai, which has been promoted more than half a month before its release, claimed to be a super sci-fi masterpiece, which has aroused countless audiences to watch the movie*.

In the original time and space, Jiahe's main film this Spring Festival was Xu Ke's, but now that Xu Ke has joined DreamWorks, it is naturally impossible to help Zou Wenhuai direct this film.

In fact, Zou Wenhuai should thank Kang Jianfei, otherwise he would definitely be miserable.

What Jiahe released this time is Cheng Long's, and it's a movie that doesn't exist at all in a parallel space. It seems that Jiahe and Cheng Long tasted the sweetness last time. In this companion piece, Jiahe also deliberately revealed that there is a scene where Cheng Long fights pirates on a desert island.

As for Xinyicheng, it is a bit sluggish. It only plans to release an urban comedy film starring Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, and the publicity is not very strong. Not only that, Art City entered Taiwan last year and opened a branch of Art City in Taiwan. In the past two months, the branch of Art City has not produced any works.

According to Kang Jianfei's estimation, it is most likely that there is a problem with Xinyi City's funds, and there is not much money to make movies. And the films of Xinyicheng have always been a blockbuster. There is only one reason for the problem of funds, that is, Lei Juekun took the company's money away.

The trouble was so bad that he had to withdraw money from the film company. Presumably Boss Lei suffered heavy losses during the stock market crash in Hong Kong a few months ago.

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It was getting closer and closer to the Spring Festival, Xu Ke finally finished the late stage, and arranged for a midnight screening in the Queen's Theater.

The main function of the midnight show is to allow the audience to test the box office potential of the movie, and the director has to re-edit or even make up scenes based on the feedback from the midnight show.

Kang Jianfei's films are usually premieres, and they won't be screened at midnight at all. But other people dare not do this, especially Xu Ke, Kang Jianfei is very worried about this fellow, and he has to take it to the midnight show to test it.

Zeng Zhiwei is the production manager of DreamWorks. Although Xu Ke's film studio is not under his direct control, he still watched the film after it came out. Hearing Zeng Zhiwei say that this film is not bad, but the pace is a little faster, Kang Jianfei became more and more worried.

Xu Ke's style is fast-paced, which is the exact opposite of Wong Kar-wai's movies that can be watched to fall asleep, sometimes so fast that the audience can't react at all.

I haven't been free some time ago, and now it's about to be screened at midnight. Kang Jianfei just took time to take a look.

"Ding dong, ding dong..."

Kang Jianfei leaned against the wall and rang the doorbell. It took more than two minutes for someone to open the door.

Zhong Chuhong estimated that she had just taken a shower, and her body smelled of shower gel, and her hair was slightly wet. Seeing Kang Jianfei standing outside the door, Zhong Chuhong said in surprise, "A Fei. Why are you here?"

"I'm bored at night, I'll ask you to go out for a drink." Kang Jianfei laughed.

"It's so late, I just took a shower and I'm going to sleep," Zhong Chuhong said, rubbing her hair with a dry towel, "If you want to drink, you can find Miss Lin or Miss Zhao."

Kang Jianfei touched his nose and said with a smile, "Why do I hear you say something so sour?"

Zhong Chuhong let him in and said, "I won't eat someone's dry vinegar."

Kang Jianfei pretended to sigh, "You can deceive me, but you can't deceive yourself."

"Nerve!" Zhong Chuhong was too lazy to care about Kang Jianfei, and ran to the dresser to blow her hair.

"I'll help you." Kang Jianfei followed. Reach for the hair dryer. But he held the hair dryer together with Zhong Chuhong's little hand.

"Be careful, I'll sue you for harassment!" Zhong Chuhong simply pulled out her hand, she had long been accustomed to Kang Jianfei's stalking.

Kang Jianfei adjusted the temperature of the hot air before he scratched Zhong Chuhong's hair and asked, "I think you look better with long hair."

Zhong Chuhong watched Kang Jianfei blow her hair through the dressing mirror, and said casually, "I cut it last time I was filming. It feels much cooler."

Kang Jianfei said: "Your face shape is more suitable for long hair, and short hair will have a lot less flavor."

"What does it taste like?" Zhong Chuhong asked with a smile.

"Sexy and charming." Kang Jianfei's hand slowly moved down from Zhong Chuhong's hair, and gently stroked her neck back and forth. Zhong Chuhong closed her eyes and pretended nothing happened.

Ambiguous feelings rose in the room, and neither of them went to break the atmosphere.

Zhong Chuhong's breathing was slightly rapid, and her skin was shaking slightly, obviously she was very nervous at this time.

Kang Jianfei stroked Zhong Chuhong's collarbone for a while, and when he was about to continue to attack, Zhong Chuhong suddenly stood up, snatched the hair dryer from Kang Jianfei's hand, and said, "I'll blow it myself, and you didn't dry my hair for a long time."

Kang Jianfei smiled and sat back on Zhong Chuhong's bed, saying, "Come and watch the midnight show with me later."

Zhong Chuhong asked, "Why don't you ask Sister Qingxia to accompany you?"

Kang Jianfei was too lazy to lie, and said directly, "I would rather go with you."

"I'm not going." Zhong Chuhong said.

Kang Jianfei didn't answer, lying on Zhong Chuhong's bed and waiting for her to dry her hair, then stood up and said, "Let's go."

Zhong Chuhong rolled his eyes at him and said, "Wait a minute, I'll get a coat."

A few minutes later, Zhong Chuhong, who was wearing a coat, followed Kang Jian and flew downstairs.

It took a lot of time to drive across the sea to Central. Zhong Chuhong asked about Kang Jianfei's affairs in the United States from time to time. After Kang Jianfei told the truth, Zhong Chuhong smiled and said, "I don't believe it, the movie you made in 11 days was sold in the United States. More than 100 million box office."

"Well, to be honest, no one believes it," Kang Jianfei sighed. "It's not the United States, but the North American box office of more than 100 million, including the United States and Canada."

Zhong Chuhong asked, "Then why is there no report from Hong Kong?"

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "I'm not as high-profile as Boss Shao. He just said in front of reporters that he would invest tens of millions of dollars in the United States to make a movie before the filming of a movie."

Zhong Chuhong also smiled and said, "So, Mr. Kang, are you still keeping a low profile?"

Kang Jianfei pouted and said, "I've always kept a low profile."

Zhong Chuhong sneered: "Who believes?"

Kang Jianfei said: "How can I lie to you about such a big thing? It is estimated that there will be reports in Hong Kong in a few days, and the Yankee newspapers have not yet confirmed that it was directed by me."

Zhong Chuhong was surprised: "You really sold more than 100 million box office in the United States?"

"The box office should have reached 170 million US dollars, but the stamina is a bit lacking. It may be all finished in a few days." Kang Jianfei said with regret. The North American box office in the original time and space was nearly 300 million. It was the North American box office champion in 1990. Now it is almost over with less than 180 million.

"You're still not satisfied with the $170 million? Enough for me to earn for several lifetimes." Zhong Chuhong said stunned.

Kang Jianfei said: "I can get a maximum of 70 million US dollars, and those foreign devils earn the rest."

Zhong Chuhong didn't answer this time, but secretly turned to look at Kang Jianfei's profile. A rich man may not be able to attract a woman, but if a rich, talented and handsome young man still cannot attract a woman, then the woman can only be said to be gay.

Zhong Chuhong felt that she could never see Kang Jianfei clearly, and sometimes Hua Xin was disgusting, but she felt very relaxed and interesting when she came into contact with him. Now, in less than half a month, he has quietly made $70 million in the United States, which is unpredictable.

Although Zhong Chuhong has a straightforward personality and doesn't take property seriously, the $70 million still moved her, and she unconsciously gave Kang Jianfei a little extra in her heart.

The car stopped at a place, and Kang Jianfei bought some snacks in the cinema mall~lightnovelpub.net~ before taking Zhong Chuhong's hand and walked into the theater.

Zhong Chuhong didn't shake Kang Jianfei's hand away this time, but just looked around vigilantly, for fear of being recognized.

The two found an inconspicuous place to sit down, each wearing a hat to cover their foreheads. Xu Ke and some film critics sat in front, and many ordinary audience members walked into the screening hall one after another.

The screening started soon after, and Kang Jianfei frowned after only watching it for a few minutes.

Xu Ke's fast-paced style makes many backgrounds unclear. It doesn't matter to the audience with some knowledge of modern history, but the historical blind can't digest it.

However, with the development of the plot, the rhythm finally slowed down, and Kang Jianfei was also relieved.

how to say?

The style of Xu Ke's film is somewhat similar, but the narrative is still relatively clear, and its directing techniques have matured. It is impossible to predict whether it will be a blockbuster or hit the street with Kang Jianfei.