Chapter 594 Propaganda

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Debao Film Company, small screening room.

The male protagonist Leslie Cheung, dressed as a scholar, was caught by the ghost mother.

The heroine Yingning turned into a ray of light and flew to the sky. She turned into a fox under the moonlight, and then spit out her inner elixir and died together and attacked the ghost mother.

An injured monk on the ground turned over and sat up. When the fox's inner elixir attacked the ghost mother, he recited scriptures and pinched the magic seal in his hand. He suddenly brushed his sleeve and drove the demon-subduing pestle inserted beside him.

boom!!

Under the double attack from the fox inner pill and the demon-subduing pestle, the ghost mother screamed and instantly disappeared.

Slap sex...

Pan Disheng, who was sitting in the third row, stood up and took the lead in applauding the film. Then he said to director Hu Jinquan: Mr. Hu, this film is so good, it is not inferior to DreamWorks' "A Chinese Ghost Story".

It was over-rewarded, thanks to Mr. Pan's trust.Hu Jinquan smiled and looked extremely happy.

Since "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" became popular at the beginning of last year, many Hong Kong film companies have followed suit and shot similar films.

However, because he was reluctant to invest too much budget, the shooting effect was not very good, and he did not have the chance to be released in the prime time of several major theaters.

This time, Debao Film Company's ghost fox movie "Yingning" invested more than 14 million yuan, and went to Taiwan to invite Hu Jinquan to direct it in order to show its strength in this summer.

Hu Jinquan’s best-in-class martial arts movies, and he made a ghost and fox movie with a flavor of the world, and it did not affect the quality of the movie at all.

"Yingning" started filming in the first half of last year. It has been more than a year since its completion. During this period, Hu Jinquan completely followed his own ideas and made a movie with a budget of 6 million to 14 million.

This is also the most exciting thing about Hu Jinquan. Since the decline of traditional martial arts films, no one has been willing to spend money and let him do anything.

Only a wealthy boss like Pan Disheng is willing to spend money to make him perfectly filmed and more than double the production cycle.

Only in the casting and script of the movie did Hu Jinquan and Pan Disheng have some differences, and the final result was that the two compromised each other.

At the beginning, Pan Disheng positioned "Ying Ning" as a follow-up work in "A Chinese Ghost Story", hoping to invite the popular Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong to be the male and female protagonists, and let Wen Jun write the plot into a heart-stirring love story.

After Hu Jinquan got the script, he spent a month to modify Wen Jun's script, and the changes reached two-thirds, and the whole story became completely unrecognizable.

Then Hu Jinquan refused to let Joey Wong play the heroine, because Ying Ning had a quirky personality, which was completely inconsistent with Joey Wong's freshness and coldness.

Hu Jinquan spent another half a month selecting the heroine. He first chose a second-tier Taiwanese actress, but was rejected by Pan Disheng.

The reason has nothing to do with the actress' acting skills and appearance, it is purely because the actress is too famous.

An independent film company like Debao will not work hard to cultivate unless it is a newcomer with great potential, which will directly make the starring of popular movie stars more attractive to the box office.

Hu Jinquan searched for him and chose TVB actress Jing Daiyin, who is Tang Zhenye's ex-girlfriend, who played Princess Jianning in Tony Leung's version of "The Deer and the Cauldron".

As for the reason why Hu Jinquan liked her, it was because Jing Daiyin was very lively and loved to laugh, and her ancient costume was quite unconventional, which was in line with the description of Yingning in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".

Pan Disheng once again denied Hu Jinquan's proposal, with the reason being the same as before. Jing Daiyin is only famous in Hong Kong and has no box office appeal in Taiwan and Nanyang.

Hu Jinquan and Pan Disheng had a big fight and said that Joey Wong was not famous in Nanyang before "A Chinese Ghost Story", but now he still has become a well-known actress.

Unfortunately, Pan Disheng was unwilling to take risks, so he finally picked and picked him. Hu Jinquan finally proposed a candidate for Zhao Yazhi, who was meaningless to both.

Zhao Yazhi has only occasionally filmed TV series in the past two years, but she is still a household name in Nanyang and Taiwan, and she is still very young and competent.

Hu Jinquan invited Zhao Yazhi to audition, but Zhao Yazhi's performance surprised him. He played Yingning's charm vividly with just a few moves and smiles.

Although Zhao Yazhi has been acting in TV series for many years and has too much strength during performance, these can be corrected during filming.

From changing the script to casting, it took Hu Jinquan 14 months to get Yingning done.

In order to improve the quality of the film, Hu Jinquan also specially invited Kang Jianfei's Qimeng Special Effects Company to help, and also invited Kang's class to be a martial arts finger. It can be said that the action and special effects team is the original team of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

After seeing off Hu Jinquan, Pan Disheng asked Cen Jianxun: Is the screening plan for major theaters this summer?

Cen Jianxun is now the general manager of Debao Cinema. Since Pan Disheng spent 100 million Hong Kong dollars at the beginning of the year, Debao Cinema has quickly expanded its scale to 9 cinemas on its original basis. In the good schedule, it will be enough to compete with several other major cinema companies.

In this summer, Jiahe mainly features Sammo Hung's "Oriental Condor" and Jackie Chan's "A Plan 3", as well as Zhang Tongzu's "Jianghu's Dragon and Tiger Fight"; Princess Jin's "Happy Fortune 30 Million", Lin Lingdong's "Dragon and Tiger Storm" and Zhang Jianting's "Laughter and Marriage"; Xinbao Cinemas are Lee Xiuxian's "Iron Blooded Mounted Police", Zeng Zhiwei's "Happy Don't Speech" and Qian Yuesheng's "High and Growing Ghost Case"; Oriental Cinemas are Kang Jianfei's "Fangfang", Wang Jing's "Best Bad Friends 3" and Huang Tailai's "Jianghu Love".

Cen Jianxun said with a close eye that although he could not get the screening schedule of other theaters, it is easy to tell which movies will be released during the summer season based on the promotion and other actions of other companies.

It’s okay for other competitors to say that Pan Disheng felt a headache when he heard the names Kang Jianfei, Wang Jing, Mai Jia, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. He said: The competition is very fierce.

Cen Jianxun smiled confidently and said: Don’t worry too much. Hu Jinquan made "Yingning" extremely high-quality, which surpassed most Hong Kong films in terms of quality.

That's true.Pandison smiled relaxedly.

It is not only "Yingning" that gives Pan Disheng confidence, but also two other movies "The Thieves" and "Love-First" that will be released in the summer.

The starring roles in the previous film include Lam Zixiang, Cheng Zeshi, Michelle Yeung and Ke Shouliang. The male and female protagonists in the latter film are Andy Lau and Cherie Chung. They are both valuable movies with a good performance lineup.

The two discussed the post-promotion work of "Yingning", and Pan Disheng drove to his jewelry company.

He is not only the boss of a film and theater company, but also the founder of a famous jewelry company, but the latter is Pandison's main business.

"Yingning" was only produced yesterday, so today Pan Disheng went to watch the movie early in the morning, and now it's half a morning and hasn't done anything else.

After arriving at the company, Pandison handled the daily affairs of the jewelry company and was idle to start reading newspapers and magazines.

As the owner of a jewelry company, Pandison reads newspapers and magazines not to have fun, but to look for useful information between the lines.

After reading the social and financial version of Ming Pao, Pandison turned to the entertainment version again, which showed the news that "Fang Fang" won the award in Cannes, France.

Not to mention the Cannes Film Festival, the Hong Kong media did not pay much attention to the Oscars at this time. Only when there were Hong Kong films or Chinese people involved would they join in the fun and follow and report.

The cost of interviews in Europe is not low, and it is impossible to determine whether this news can increase newspaper sales. Therefore, even if Kang Jianfei's film was shortlisted for the Cannes main competition unit, only a few Hong Kong newspapers sent reporters to Cannes, and Ming Pao is one of them.

A few days ago, several newspapers such as Ming Pao and Oriental Daily reported that Fang Fang was very popular among foreigners, and made this romance film that had not yet been released very hot.

However, Pan Disheng didn't care much. Before Kang Jianfei's "Fang Fang", six Chinese-language films had been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, but only three and a half of them sold well in "The Heroes" by Hu Jinquan were half. After three years of filming, it was only after winning the award that it won a little box office.

Kang Jianfei is already famous enough in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong audience base is there. Even if "Fang Fang" won the award in Cannes, it would not have a big increase effect. It would not be too great that the box office exceeded 40 million, right?

At least two-fifths of Hong Kong citizens (including the elderly and children) must enter the cinema.

The most popular movie award at the Cannes Film Festival, Pandison looked at the small words in the newspaper and was confused. What is this award?

There is another report later, but the director of "The Last Emperor" Bernardo and Tony Tony Leung talked at the banquet, and the news that the two are likely to collaborate on a new film soon.

At the end of the report, the reporter also dug out the old stories of Tony Leung, Benardo and Li Hanxiang to increase their attractiveness to readers.

Pan Disheng didn't pay attention to whom Tony Leung starred in. The promotional offensive of "Fang Fang" in the following days was the biggest headache for him and the bosses of several other major film companies.

Kang Jianfei even shamelessly recorded the grand occasion of "Fang Fang" when it was released in Cannes, and edited it into a short film for broadcast on Feng Huáng.

Watching the ghosts on TV pushing and queuing up to watch "Fang Fang", Hong Kong citizens feel a little proud. After all, "Fang Fang" is a Hong Kong film, and as Hong Kong people, there is reason to be proud.

At the same time, movie fans are also looking forward to "Fangfang" more and want to know what the movie is so popular among foreigners.