The audience scolded him, but their evaluation of "Cannot Stop Love" was surprisingly good.
In Hong Kong, where comedy and kung fu films are rampant, there is a rare good film that is realistic and literary, and this film also contains entertainment and commercial elements, which naturally has an extra attraction to the audience.
On the first day of opening the Oriental Cinema, the average attendance rate was only 52%, but in just two days, the attendance rate increased to more than 60%.
This attendance rate is particularly prominent in the off-season of the movie, with a cumulative box office of 2.89 million in three days, successfully defeating the same period "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The God of Common Man" (Shaw Brothers) and "Yellow Peril" (Produced by Darong and released by Princess Jin).
The popularity of "Cannot Stop Love" has not only caused the popularity of starring Leslie Cheung, Wen Bixia and Li Lizhen to rise, but director McDonald Jet has also been paid attention to again.
To be honest, McDonald, as the fastest-leaning famous director in DreamWorks, actually has a lot of moisture in it.
For example, the first movie he directed, "The Beautiful Girl", was taken care of by McDonald's first hand from planning to shooting, and McDonald's role was like an executive director.
This time, the creative script of "Can't Stop Love" is provided by Kang Jianfei and perfected by Wen Jun. Even the storyboard is participated by McDonald's Episode. McDonald's director is extremely incompetent.
Some young directors at DreamWorks are quite jealous of McDonald, but they have to admit that McDonald's directorial strength is still very good, because he has also directed two campus comedies with a box office of over 10 million for DreamWorks.
The first movie I started selling was a hit. Oriental Theater successfully took root, but Kang Jianfei was really worried.
After the show ended that night, Kang Jianfei slipped away as early as possible, otherwise several women would come together and he would not know who to accompany him.
That night, Kang Jianfei spent the night with Zhao Yazhi, and the next day he went to the company to arrange the preliminary preparation salary for "Love Saint". Guan Zhilin, the little fairy, ran over and pestered her, and flew around Kang Jian like a follower.
It's the fourth day now, and she will follow Kang Jianfei wherever she goes, making the bitch Fei unable to make an appointment with Chung Chuhong.
For example, now, Kang Jianfei is creating a storyboard in his office, while Guan Zhilin is sitting on the side reading a fashion magazine, waiting for lunch with Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei threw down his pen and scratched his head, saying to Guan Zhilin: Jiahui, don’t you feel bored if you have nothing to do all day?Why not make a movie.
Guan Zhilin had been pestering Kang Jianfei for several days, and she felt a little tired of it. It was okay for the two of them to go shopping and eat, but it would be very uncomfortable to ask her to sit for a long time with Kang Jianfei to work.
Lin Guan closed the magazine and lay on Kang Jianfei's desk and said: Good Ah, but I want to be the heroine.
Kang Jianfei remembered that Wang Jing was going to come to DreamWorks, which happened to allow him to shoot "Best Bad Friend" in advance, so the heroine let Lin Guan and Li Meifeng play it.
Guan Zhilin walked behind Kang Jianfei, massaged his shoulders for a while, and then pressed her chin on Kang Jianfei's shoulders and said coquettishly: Brother Fei, why not play the heroine, would you be the director?
Kang Jianfei patted Guan Zhilin's back of her hand and comforted her: Be good, I have a movie on hand now. How about asking Wang Jing to be the director?
Is it the little fat guy who is very vulgar with glasses?Rosamund Kwan still has some impression of Wang Jing.
Yes, it's that slutty fat man.Kang Jianfei said and called Zeng Bolin in, Alin, please contact Wang Jing and ask him to come to the company.
Zeng Bolin asked: When?
Kang Jianfei said: It’s OK tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Zeng Bolin left the office, and Guan Zhilin stayed bored for a while. Looking at Kang Jianfei in the grid drawing the script, she recommended herself: Brother Fei, I'll help you.
Do you know?Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
Lin Guan said: Just drawing a grid, what can I do?
Kang Jianfei asked Guan Zhilin to sit on his lap, hugged Guan Meiren's thin waist, sniffed her hair and said: There are five vertical grids, namely the camera, time, picture, subtitles, and narration. The column of the picture should be left wider.
If Guan Zhilin was asked to do these trivial things seriously, she would definitely be annoyed if she painted for a while. However, now she hugged Kang Jianfei and drew a grid, Guan Zhilin felt that she was enjoying it, just like playing games.
After finishing drawing a page of A4 paper, Guan Zhilin couldn't help but say: Brother Fei, why don't you print this form first? You'll waste your time drawing it yourself every time.
I used to write and play on white paper, but I got used to drawing plaids by myself.Kang Jianfei explained perfunctorily.
After drawing two more pages of grids, Guan Zhilin threw the pen aside, picked up the storyboard written by Kang Jianfei and read it.
As an actor, she used to read text scripts, but now she only feels boring and boring when reading the director's original works.
Within a few minutes, Guan Zhilin put down the script and picked up the comic-like storyboard design drawings next to her.
Now she finally became interested and teased while watching: Brother Fei, your painter is so ugly, and your head is bigger than your body.
You don't understand, this is called anime style.Kang Jianfei laughed.
Dingling...
The phone on the desk suddenly rang.
Lin Guan rushed to answer the phone. If it was called by another woman, she could block Kang Jianfei.
Yesterday she hung up Brigitte Lin’s phone number, which made Kang Jianfei quietly call Brigitte Lin to apologize and explain for a long time.
It was indeed a woman on the phone, but it was the voice of secretary Chen Shuli: Boss, Tsui Hark and Shi Nan are born.
Guan Zhilin covered her phone, leaned into Kang Jianfei's ear and said: It was Tsui Hark and Shi Nan who were born.
Kang Jianfei said: Let them come in.
Only then did Guan Zhilin clear her throat, picked up the phone number and issued an order and said: Let them come in.
Kang Jianfei slapped Guan Zhilin's buttocks and smiled: I can't get up!
Guan Zhilin curled up in Kang Jianfei's words and said coquettishly: No, you kiss me first.
Kang Jianfei lowered his head and pecked her face, then Rosamund Kwan got up from his leg and quickly tidied up his clothes.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
Please come in!
Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng walked in one after another, and Lin Guan played the role of the little secretary, took the cup from Chen Shuli, and helped Xu and Shi make coffee.
After Tsui Hark sat down with his wife, Kang Jianfei asked with a smile: Are you having fun in the mainland?
Hmm, it's quite eye-opening.
Tsui Hark replied awkwardly, because Kang Jianfei gave him tens of millions of dollars to invest in filming, he only had to overturn the shooting plan and start over again after filming for half a month. No matter how thick-skinned people are, they will be ashamed.
If Kang Jianfei was angry, he would have been pissed to death. He said lightly: Let’s talk, what are you thinking now.
Thank you, Tsui Hark thanked Lin Guan, who brought the instant coffee, before taking a notebook handed over by Shi Nansheng, opened it and put it in front of Kang Jianfei and said: Mr. Kang, this time I went to the mainland. The beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland are really shocking. When filming, new ideas popped out of my mind every day.I re-examined the plot and added some new characters and forces, but the plot structure is too large and I can't finish a movie.
After making coffee, Lin Guan stood behind Kang Jianfei, like a caring little maid.
Kang Jianfei picked up the purple clay pot and took a sip of tea, and asked: Are you going to make a series of films?
Mr. Kang, please read. Tsui Hark opened the book he brought. I was going to make "Shushan" into a trilogy, using the original God-Slayer and Emei Sword-Between... As for the shooting location, I was going to shoot in Qingcheng Mountain, Emei Mountain, Jiuzhaigou, Shunan Bamboo Sea, Zhangjiazhai, Changbai Mountain, Qiandao Lake, Huangshan, Huashan, Lijiang River, Dunhuang and Dongting Lake.
Kang Jianfei only heard what Tsui Hark said, and he knew that this guy was going to have a big fight, which was very different from the original version of "Shushan" in his memory.
Kang Jianfei didn't go to see the new script sent by Tsui Hark, and asked straight to the point: I'm afraid the budget is quite large, right?
Tsui Hark pursed his lips, as if it was a bit difficult to speak of. Shi Nansheng continued: I have made some initial budget. If I want to make the film well, the budget for one movie will be at least 50 million.
Are you really treating me as a stupid person and having a lot of money?
Kang Jianfei was both angry and funny and said: If he finished filming the "Shushan" trilogy, wouldn't it cost 150 million?
Tsui Hark also felt embarrassed, because 150 million yuan is an unimaginable astronomical figure for Hong Kong films with an average production fee of only two or three million yuan.
I think if it can operate well, 150 million yuan can still make a lot of box office. Shi Nansheng tried to convince Kang Jianfei that the single filming cost was only 50 million yuan, and the cost was not as expensive as Jiahe and DreamWorks cooperated with "The Deadly Express".
Kang Jianfei shook his head and said: The problem is that movies with fairy tale themes are difficult to sell at box office in Europe and the United States, so it is really difficult to recover the cost.
Shi Nansheng said: I don’t think so. Who could have expected that Kung Fu movies would be accepted by the European and American markets before?What we are going to shoot now is a fairy tale blockbuster made with real scenes and special effects. Even if Westerners cannot understand the connotation of fairy tale, relying solely on the picture is enough to shock people.
Kang Jianfei remembered Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and felt a little moved. He glanced at the script brought by Tsui Hark and said: You go back first and wait for the news. I'll check the script before talking about it.
Well, I won’t bother Mr. Kang.Tsui Hark finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Kang Jianfei would refuse to invest directly.
After the two left, Guan Zhilin stared at the script in Kang Jianfei and asked: Do you really plan to invest more than 100 million to make a movie for Tsui Hark?
Not decided yet.Kang Jianfei opened the script and the beginning of the story was actually about the great catastrophe of gods five hundred years ago.
Lin Guan wanted to advise Kang Jianfei not to invest. 150 million is enough for her to spend her whole life. It would be a pity if the box office was lost after the filming was lost.
In Hong Kong, where comedy and kung fu films are rampant, there is a rare good film that is realistic and literary, and this film also contains entertainment and commercial elements, which naturally has an extra attraction to the audience.
On the first day of opening the Oriental Cinema, the average attendance rate was only 52%, but in just two days, the attendance rate increased to more than 60%.
This attendance rate is particularly prominent in the off-season of the movie, with a cumulative box office of 2.89 million in three days, successfully defeating the same period "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The God of Common Man" (Shaw Brothers) and "Yellow Peril" (Produced by Darong and released by Princess Jin).
The popularity of "Cannot Stop Love" has not only caused the popularity of starring Leslie Cheung, Wen Bixia and Li Lizhen to rise, but director McDonald Jet has also been paid attention to again.
To be honest, McDonald, as the fastest-leaning famous director in DreamWorks, actually has a lot of moisture in it.
For example, the first movie he directed, "The Beautiful Girl", was taken care of by McDonald's first hand from planning to shooting, and McDonald's role was like an executive director.
This time, the creative script of "Can't Stop Love" is provided by Kang Jianfei and perfected by Wen Jun. Even the storyboard is participated by McDonald's Episode. McDonald's director is extremely incompetent.
Some young directors at DreamWorks are quite jealous of McDonald, but they have to admit that McDonald's directorial strength is still very good, because he has also directed two campus comedies with a box office of over 10 million for DreamWorks.
The first movie I started selling was a hit. Oriental Theater successfully took root, but Kang Jianfei was really worried.
After the show ended that night, Kang Jianfei slipped away as early as possible, otherwise several women would come together and he would not know who to accompany him.
That night, Kang Jianfei spent the night with Zhao Yazhi, and the next day he went to the company to arrange the preliminary preparation salary for "Love Saint". Guan Zhilin, the little fairy, ran over and pestered her, and flew around Kang Jian like a follower.
It's the fourth day now, and she will follow Kang Jianfei wherever she goes, making the bitch Fei unable to make an appointment with Chung Chuhong.
For example, now, Kang Jianfei is creating a storyboard in his office, while Guan Zhilin is sitting on the side reading a fashion magazine, waiting for lunch with Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei threw down his pen and scratched his head, saying to Guan Zhilin: Jiahui, don’t you feel bored if you have nothing to do all day?Why not make a movie.
Guan Zhilin had been pestering Kang Jianfei for several days, and she felt a little tired of it. It was okay for the two of them to go shopping and eat, but it would be very uncomfortable to ask her to sit for a long time with Kang Jianfei to work.
Lin Guan closed the magazine and lay on Kang Jianfei's desk and said: Good Ah, but I want to be the heroine.
Kang Jianfei remembered that Wang Jing was going to come to DreamWorks, which happened to allow him to shoot "Best Bad Friend" in advance, so the heroine let Lin Guan and Li Meifeng play it.
Guan Zhilin walked behind Kang Jianfei, massaged his shoulders for a while, and then pressed her chin on Kang Jianfei's shoulders and said coquettishly: Brother Fei, why not play the heroine, would you be the director?
Kang Jianfei patted Guan Zhilin's back of her hand and comforted her: Be good, I have a movie on hand now. How about asking Wang Jing to be the director?
Is it the little fat guy who is very vulgar with glasses?Rosamund Kwan still has some impression of Wang Jing.
Yes, it's that slutty fat man.Kang Jianfei said and called Zeng Bolin in, Alin, please contact Wang Jing and ask him to come to the company.
Zeng Bolin asked: When?
Kang Jianfei said: It’s OK tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Zeng Bolin left the office, and Guan Zhilin stayed bored for a while. Looking at Kang Jianfei in the grid drawing the script, she recommended herself: Brother Fei, I'll help you.
Do you know?Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
Lin Guan said: Just drawing a grid, what can I do?
Kang Jianfei asked Guan Zhilin to sit on his lap, hugged Guan Meiren's thin waist, sniffed her hair and said: There are five vertical grids, namely the camera, time, picture, subtitles, and narration. The column of the picture should be left wider.
If Guan Zhilin was asked to do these trivial things seriously, she would definitely be annoyed if she painted for a while. However, now she hugged Kang Jianfei and drew a grid, Guan Zhilin felt that she was enjoying it, just like playing games.
After finishing drawing a page of A4 paper, Guan Zhilin couldn't help but say: Brother Fei, why don't you print this form first? You'll waste your time drawing it yourself every time.
I used to write and play on white paper, but I got used to drawing plaids by myself.Kang Jianfei explained perfunctorily.
After drawing two more pages of grids, Guan Zhilin threw the pen aside, picked up the storyboard written by Kang Jianfei and read it.
As an actor, she used to read text scripts, but now she only feels boring and boring when reading the director's original works.
Within a few minutes, Guan Zhilin put down the script and picked up the comic-like storyboard design drawings next to her.
Now she finally became interested and teased while watching: Brother Fei, your painter is so ugly, and your head is bigger than your body.
You don't understand, this is called anime style.Kang Jianfei laughed.
Dingling...
The phone on the desk suddenly rang.
Lin Guan rushed to answer the phone. If it was called by another woman, she could block Kang Jianfei.
Yesterday she hung up Brigitte Lin’s phone number, which made Kang Jianfei quietly call Brigitte Lin to apologize and explain for a long time.
It was indeed a woman on the phone, but it was the voice of secretary Chen Shuli: Boss, Tsui Hark and Shi Nan are born.
Guan Zhilin covered her phone, leaned into Kang Jianfei's ear and said: It was Tsui Hark and Shi Nan who were born.
Kang Jianfei said: Let them come in.
Only then did Guan Zhilin clear her throat, picked up the phone number and issued an order and said: Let them come in.
Kang Jianfei slapped Guan Zhilin's buttocks and smiled: I can't get up!
Guan Zhilin curled up in Kang Jianfei's words and said coquettishly: No, you kiss me first.
Kang Jianfei lowered his head and pecked her face, then Rosamund Kwan got up from his leg and quickly tidied up his clothes.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
Please come in!
Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng walked in one after another, and Lin Guan played the role of the little secretary, took the cup from Chen Shuli, and helped Xu and Shi make coffee.
After Tsui Hark sat down with his wife, Kang Jianfei asked with a smile: Are you having fun in the mainland?
Hmm, it's quite eye-opening.
Tsui Hark replied awkwardly, because Kang Jianfei gave him tens of millions of dollars to invest in filming, he only had to overturn the shooting plan and start over again after filming for half a month. No matter how thick-skinned people are, they will be ashamed.
If Kang Jianfei was angry, he would have been pissed to death. He said lightly: Let’s talk, what are you thinking now.
Thank you, Tsui Hark thanked Lin Guan, who brought the instant coffee, before taking a notebook handed over by Shi Nansheng, opened it and put it in front of Kang Jianfei and said: Mr. Kang, this time I went to the mainland. The beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland are really shocking. When filming, new ideas popped out of my mind every day.I re-examined the plot and added some new characters and forces, but the plot structure is too large and I can't finish a movie.
After making coffee, Lin Guan stood behind Kang Jianfei, like a caring little maid.
Kang Jianfei picked up the purple clay pot and took a sip of tea, and asked: Are you going to make a series of films?
Mr. Kang, please read. Tsui Hark opened the book he brought. I was going to make "Shushan" into a trilogy, using the original God-Slayer and Emei Sword-Between... As for the shooting location, I was going to shoot in Qingcheng Mountain, Emei Mountain, Jiuzhaigou, Shunan Bamboo Sea, Zhangjiazhai, Changbai Mountain, Qiandao Lake, Huangshan, Huashan, Lijiang River, Dunhuang and Dongting Lake.
Kang Jianfei only heard what Tsui Hark said, and he knew that this guy was going to have a big fight, which was very different from the original version of "Shushan" in his memory.
Kang Jianfei didn't go to see the new script sent by Tsui Hark, and asked straight to the point: I'm afraid the budget is quite large, right?
Tsui Hark pursed his lips, as if it was a bit difficult to speak of. Shi Nansheng continued: I have made some initial budget. If I want to make the film well, the budget for one movie will be at least 50 million.
Are you really treating me as a stupid person and having a lot of money?
Kang Jianfei was both angry and funny and said: If he finished filming the "Shushan" trilogy, wouldn't it cost 150 million?
Tsui Hark also felt embarrassed, because 150 million yuan is an unimaginable astronomical figure for Hong Kong films with an average production fee of only two or three million yuan.
I think if it can operate well, 150 million yuan can still make a lot of box office. Shi Nansheng tried to convince Kang Jianfei that the single filming cost was only 50 million yuan, and the cost was not as expensive as Jiahe and DreamWorks cooperated with "The Deadly Express".
Kang Jianfei shook his head and said: The problem is that movies with fairy tale themes are difficult to sell at box office in Europe and the United States, so it is really difficult to recover the cost.
Shi Nansheng said: I don’t think so. Who could have expected that Kung Fu movies would be accepted by the European and American markets before?What we are going to shoot now is a fairy tale blockbuster made with real scenes and special effects. Even if Westerners cannot understand the connotation of fairy tale, relying solely on the picture is enough to shock people.
Kang Jianfei remembered Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and felt a little moved. He glanced at the script brought by Tsui Hark and said: You go back first and wait for the news. I'll check the script before talking about it.
Well, I won’t bother Mr. Kang.Tsui Hark finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Kang Jianfei would refuse to invest directly.
After the two left, Guan Zhilin stared at the script in Kang Jianfei and asked: Do you really plan to invest more than 100 million to make a movie for Tsui Hark?
Not decided yet.Kang Jianfei opened the script and the beginning of the story was actually about the great catastrophe of gods five hundred years ago.
Lin Guan wanted to advise Kang Jianfei not to invest. 150 million is enough for her to spend her whole life. It would be a pity if the box office was lost after the filming was lost.