The trend caused by Kang Jianfei is not just Tao Wu. When "Mr. Zombie" was popular, sales of ink dots and glutinous rice in Hong Kong increased significantly, and the business of those Feng Shui masters also improved a lot.
Others don’t know what Kang Jianfei thinks, but Hong Kong Feng Shui masters still respect Director Kang very much.
Throughout the summer of 1980, the Hong Kong film industry was the world of "Mr. Zombies".
This film made several people famous, the first one was Lam Zhengying.For ordinary audiences, Lin Zhengying's reputation is not even lower than Kang Jianfei, because he is the leading actor in this movie.
The second was Li Saifeng. Several crews rushed to invite her to film. In the end, Kang Jianfei picked two not too bad scripts for her, each of which was paid 150,000 yuan.
Zhao Yazhi's pay has only increased to 250,000 recently. Li Saifeng's pay is already the price of a quasi-first-line actress.
Next is Lou Nanguang and Xu Guanying. Xu Guanying is used to acting in comedy and is quite famous. This time it is the icing on the cake.
However, Lou Nanguang is purely a newcomer and suddenly becomes a well-known supporting actor. The pay for the drama he just received has reached 30,000.
Finally, there is Chen You, a former member of the Winner band who has few scenes in "Mr. Zombies", but he successfully opened up his acting career and was invited to film monsters, magical and kung fu comedy.
"Mr. Zombie" is not only a gold-sucking monster, but also a star-making machine that is alive.
It has been half a month since the attendance rate of "Mr. Zombies" has dropped significantly, and the theaters have gradually reduced the number of screenings.
At this moment, in "Mr. Zombie" in Dugu Qiubai, Hong Kong, he suddenly encountered an unexpected opponent.
Jiang Zhiqiang of Anle Films was called the behind-the-scenes driver of Chinese-language films after the new century.
At this time, the helmsman of Anle Films was Jiang Zhiqiang's brother Jiang Zhiwen. Since Anle Theater only screened Western films, the two brothers followed their father to Europe and the United States to buy Western films in their teens, and were very familiar with the film markets in Europe and the United States.
Just last year, Jiang Zhiwen took over Anle Film Company.
He bought some World War II documentaries and war videos in the United States. After taking them back to Hong Kong, he then accompanied them with some anti-Japanese war images bought from Taiwan, plus some old movie clips, and edited them into a war documentary, named "The Tribulation of War".
At this time, Hong Kong did not have online Ah, and war films were even more shoddy. As soon as "The Tribulation of War" was released, the super realistic and cruel content and pictures immediately caused a sensation.
The audience, who had originally gained a taste for "Mr. Zombie", disdained to watch other movies, and returned to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie" over and over again, resulting in a high attendance rate.
Until the release of "The Tribulation of War", this pieced-in-one war film immediately attracted the audience of the movie, and after it was released, it was full of scenes.
Unfortunately, there are too few theaters in Anle Cinema. Seeing that "The Tribulation of War" is so popular, Jiang Zhiwen immediately contacted other independent theaters and even borrowed several theaters from Jiahe and Shaw to show them.
"Mr. Zombie" was released on June 28, and it was not fully released until August 11. The total box office in Hong Kong was 21.75 million, making it the first movie in Hong Kong to exceed 20 million box office.
At this time, the total population of Hong Kong was only 5.1 million. Based on the average movie ticket price of 8 yuan, it is equivalent to one out of every two Hong Kong people, more than one person went to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie".
If children under the age of 12 and elderly people over 60 will be excluded, the proportion of this data will be even higher!
The report of the Oriental Daily was amazed at this and said: Half a year ago, "Happy Ghost" became the first movie in Hong Kong to have a box office of over 10 million yuan, and Kang Jianfei was therefore called the "Million-Million-Director".At that time, some newspapers believed that the box office record of "Happy Ghost" would remain for at least two years.But just half a year later, director Kang Jianfei once again set a box office record with "Mr. Zombies", and added the box office value by more than 20 million yuan in one fell swoop.This is simply a miracle, and director Kang Jianfei is the one who creates miracles. He should be called the "miracle director"...
Because of the sales champion, Ming Pao has been incompatible with Oriental Daily since last year.
Kang Jianfei is the one who wrote novels to help Oriental Daily regain sales throne, so Ming Pao has never been very active in reporting Kang Jianfei, nor has he criticized or praised him, as if he wanted to deal with him coldly.
But this time, Ming Pao actually expressed its opinion, saying that Kang Jianfei broke box office records twice in a row, creating a miracle that other directors could not reach, and deserved to be the name of a movie genius.
While "Mr. Zombie" created a miracle, it also caused other movies released at the same time to fail collectively.
The impact of this move is that as long as Kang Jianfei's movie is released in the future, except for Jackie Chan and other directors with confidence, other directors will reschedule to avoid them, so as not to collide with Kang Jianfei, a disaster film director.
Of course, Jiang Zhiwen and his Anle Film Company were also taking advantage.
After watching "Mr. Zombie", the audience did not like to watch other low-quality movies, but rushed to watch "The Tribulation of War".
As a result, this war documentary that fought hard on the east and west won 10.34 million yuan in one fell swoop, hundreds of thousands more than the box office of the original time and space, and suddenly ranked fourth in the annual box office.
Kang Jianfei's box office of "Mr. Zombie" exceeded 20 million, which has left countless film companies and directors speechless. "The Tribulation of War" exceeded 10 million, which once again shocked them.
I worked hard to make a movie, but it was not as good as a documentary made by others who bought various war information. What kind of world is this!
Sammo Hung was speechless. His "Ghost Fighting Ghost" was released at the end of July, and at this time, the movie viewing craze for "Mr. Zombies" had passed.
But because of the jade from "Mr. Zombie" in front and the audience "The Tribulation of War" next to it, the box office of "Ghost Fighting Ghost" is only more than 3 million.
Lei Juekun, who had great expectations for Sammo Hung, could only sigh secretly after seeing the box office results.
……
Kang Jianfei is very busy, very busy!
After "Mr. Zombie" was hit, filmmakers came to work every day, wanting to join Oriental DreamWorks.
However, it is not possible to blindly expand the scale now. Kang Jianfei asked Pan Yingzi and Ma Qiao to check, and only recruited a few technicians to join the production department. In addition, he recruited two administrative employees to throw them to Ma Qiao and Pan Yingzi as assistants.
Next was recording "The Original Scenery of Hometown". When recording the song, Kang Jianfei carried forward the spirit of not being able to leave the empty space and plagiarized all the other songs from Sojiro's album "Midao".
Thinking back to the beginning, Sojiro was the idol Ah worshipped by Kam Kenfei. When he grew up, he learned all the songs created by Sojiro one by one.
As for idols, Kang Jianfei felt that his spare no effort to plagiarize Sojiro's works was the best support for them.
With Sojiro's talent, I believe he will create other wonderful songs after he plagiarized it, which has made a new contribution to world music!
Whenever he thinks about it, Kang Jianfei feels that his actions are too selfless and great!
When he came to the recording studio of Fengxing Records, Kang Jianfei slapped the music score he brought to the table, and directly shocked the producer named Li Fanyu of Fengxing Records.
After reading the music score, Li Fanyu asked: Mr. Kang, are these songs written by you?
Kang Jianfei nodded with a smile, exuding a temperament that is unique to a master.
Li Fanyu indeed said something admiration and admiration. Then he looked at the Tao Wu in Kang Jianfei's hand, scratched his ears and foreheads, and said: That, why not, Mr. Kang, you should blow it first, and I will think about how to arrange the song for you.After all, I have never made such a pure music record before, and I am not very familiar with Tao Wu's voice.
All right.
Kang Jianfei was also very helpless about arrangement.
He is half-baked in playing music. In addition to Tao Yen playing great, playing guitar can only be considered a good match, and harmonica can fool ordinary people.
As for piano, violin and other things, I’m very sorry. It would be good if Kang Jianfei didn’t listen to the sound of the violin as an erhu.
When making pure music records, you also need to arrange them, such as equiping Tao Wu with piano, violin and other instruments, otherwise it will sound monotonous.
Kang Jianfei blew Tao Wu for more than half an hour, and Li Fanyu shook his head when he heard it. He first translated Kang Jianfei's simplified score into five-line score, and then while listening to Kang Jianfei blowing the silhouette, he used his pen to draw various marks on the score.
The arrangement can't be done in a short while. Kang Jianfei took advantage of Li Fanyu's busy work and went around at Fengxing Records.
Fengxing Records' office space is large, but due to the large reduction in employees, two office rooms have reinstalled block walls and rented them to other companies for services.
After walking around, Kang Jianfei saw that there were several employees in the company, and perhaps some were doing business outside.
Deng Yiming walked out of his office and looked quite bad, as if he had encountered something unpleasant.
After seeing Kang Jianfei, he forced a smile on his face and said: How is Mr. Kang recording?
Li Fanyu was still arranging the song. Kang Jianfei saw that his face was inappropriate and asked, "What trouble are you in?"
A little thing.Deng Yiming concealed.
At this moment, a woman came over and said in pain: Boss Deng, it’s been half a month since the record has only been sold for more than 2,000 copies. I think I’d better go back to Taipei.
Kang Jianfei recognized this woman as Su Qi at a glance. There was no way, she was too famous!
But how could Su Qi be at Fengxing Records?
Deng Yiming seemed to have not said anything because Kang Jianfei was beside him, but comforted him: It's okay, I'll think of another way and strengthen the publicity...
boom!
Before Deng Yiming finished speaking, the company's door was kicked open, and several people obviously walked in with a fierce look.
The leader deliberately exposed the tattoo on his arm, blew his nose at a desk and said: Boss Deng, are your money ready?If I don’t have money, my brother will have to move your company’s things to pay off the debt!
Kang Jianfei looked at Deng Yiming in confusion, but Deng Yiming had a pale face and could not speak.
Others don’t know what Kang Jianfei thinks, but Hong Kong Feng Shui masters still respect Director Kang very much.
Throughout the summer of 1980, the Hong Kong film industry was the world of "Mr. Zombies".
This film made several people famous, the first one was Lam Zhengying.For ordinary audiences, Lin Zhengying's reputation is not even lower than Kang Jianfei, because he is the leading actor in this movie.
The second was Li Saifeng. Several crews rushed to invite her to film. In the end, Kang Jianfei picked two not too bad scripts for her, each of which was paid 150,000 yuan.
Zhao Yazhi's pay has only increased to 250,000 recently. Li Saifeng's pay is already the price of a quasi-first-line actress.
Next is Lou Nanguang and Xu Guanying. Xu Guanying is used to acting in comedy and is quite famous. This time it is the icing on the cake.
However, Lou Nanguang is purely a newcomer and suddenly becomes a well-known supporting actor. The pay for the drama he just received has reached 30,000.
Finally, there is Chen You, a former member of the Winner band who has few scenes in "Mr. Zombies", but he successfully opened up his acting career and was invited to film monsters, magical and kung fu comedy.
"Mr. Zombie" is not only a gold-sucking monster, but also a star-making machine that is alive.
It has been half a month since the attendance rate of "Mr. Zombies" has dropped significantly, and the theaters have gradually reduced the number of screenings.
At this moment, in "Mr. Zombie" in Dugu Qiubai, Hong Kong, he suddenly encountered an unexpected opponent.
Jiang Zhiqiang of Anle Films was called the behind-the-scenes driver of Chinese-language films after the new century.
At this time, the helmsman of Anle Films was Jiang Zhiqiang's brother Jiang Zhiwen. Since Anle Theater only screened Western films, the two brothers followed their father to Europe and the United States to buy Western films in their teens, and were very familiar with the film markets in Europe and the United States.
Just last year, Jiang Zhiwen took over Anle Film Company.
He bought some World War II documentaries and war videos in the United States. After taking them back to Hong Kong, he then accompanied them with some anti-Japanese war images bought from Taiwan, plus some old movie clips, and edited them into a war documentary, named "The Tribulation of War".
At this time, Hong Kong did not have online Ah, and war films were even more shoddy. As soon as "The Tribulation of War" was released, the super realistic and cruel content and pictures immediately caused a sensation.
The audience, who had originally gained a taste for "Mr. Zombie", disdained to watch other movies, and returned to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie" over and over again, resulting in a high attendance rate.
Until the release of "The Tribulation of War", this pieced-in-one war film immediately attracted the audience of the movie, and after it was released, it was full of scenes.
Unfortunately, there are too few theaters in Anle Cinema. Seeing that "The Tribulation of War" is so popular, Jiang Zhiwen immediately contacted other independent theaters and even borrowed several theaters from Jiahe and Shaw to show them.
"Mr. Zombie" was released on June 28, and it was not fully released until August 11. The total box office in Hong Kong was 21.75 million, making it the first movie in Hong Kong to exceed 20 million box office.
At this time, the total population of Hong Kong was only 5.1 million. Based on the average movie ticket price of 8 yuan, it is equivalent to one out of every two Hong Kong people, more than one person went to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie".
If children under the age of 12 and elderly people over 60 will be excluded, the proportion of this data will be even higher!
The report of the Oriental Daily was amazed at this and said: Half a year ago, "Happy Ghost" became the first movie in Hong Kong to have a box office of over 10 million yuan, and Kang Jianfei was therefore called the "Million-Million-Director".At that time, some newspapers believed that the box office record of "Happy Ghost" would remain for at least two years.But just half a year later, director Kang Jianfei once again set a box office record with "Mr. Zombies", and added the box office value by more than 20 million yuan in one fell swoop.This is simply a miracle, and director Kang Jianfei is the one who creates miracles. He should be called the "miracle director"...
Because of the sales champion, Ming Pao has been incompatible with Oriental Daily since last year.
Kang Jianfei is the one who wrote novels to help Oriental Daily regain sales throne, so Ming Pao has never been very active in reporting Kang Jianfei, nor has he criticized or praised him, as if he wanted to deal with him coldly.
But this time, Ming Pao actually expressed its opinion, saying that Kang Jianfei broke box office records twice in a row, creating a miracle that other directors could not reach, and deserved to be the name of a movie genius.
While "Mr. Zombie" created a miracle, it also caused other movies released at the same time to fail collectively.
The impact of this move is that as long as Kang Jianfei's movie is released in the future, except for Jackie Chan and other directors with confidence, other directors will reschedule to avoid them, so as not to collide with Kang Jianfei, a disaster film director.
Of course, Jiang Zhiwen and his Anle Film Company were also taking advantage.
After watching "Mr. Zombie", the audience did not like to watch other low-quality movies, but rushed to watch "The Tribulation of War".
As a result, this war documentary that fought hard on the east and west won 10.34 million yuan in one fell swoop, hundreds of thousands more than the box office of the original time and space, and suddenly ranked fourth in the annual box office.
Kang Jianfei's box office of "Mr. Zombie" exceeded 20 million, which has left countless film companies and directors speechless. "The Tribulation of War" exceeded 10 million, which once again shocked them.
I worked hard to make a movie, but it was not as good as a documentary made by others who bought various war information. What kind of world is this!
Sammo Hung was speechless. His "Ghost Fighting Ghost" was released at the end of July, and at this time, the movie viewing craze for "Mr. Zombies" had passed.
But because of the jade from "Mr. Zombie" in front and the audience "The Tribulation of War" next to it, the box office of "Ghost Fighting Ghost" is only more than 3 million.
Lei Juekun, who had great expectations for Sammo Hung, could only sigh secretly after seeing the box office results.
……
Kang Jianfei is very busy, very busy!
After "Mr. Zombie" was hit, filmmakers came to work every day, wanting to join Oriental DreamWorks.
However, it is not possible to blindly expand the scale now. Kang Jianfei asked Pan Yingzi and Ma Qiao to check, and only recruited a few technicians to join the production department. In addition, he recruited two administrative employees to throw them to Ma Qiao and Pan Yingzi as assistants.
Next was recording "The Original Scenery of Hometown". When recording the song, Kang Jianfei carried forward the spirit of not being able to leave the empty space and plagiarized all the other songs from Sojiro's album "Midao".
Thinking back to the beginning, Sojiro was the idol Ah worshipped by Kam Kenfei. When he grew up, he learned all the songs created by Sojiro one by one.
As for idols, Kang Jianfei felt that his spare no effort to plagiarize Sojiro's works was the best support for them.
With Sojiro's talent, I believe he will create other wonderful songs after he plagiarized it, which has made a new contribution to world music!
Whenever he thinks about it, Kang Jianfei feels that his actions are too selfless and great!
When he came to the recording studio of Fengxing Records, Kang Jianfei slapped the music score he brought to the table, and directly shocked the producer named Li Fanyu of Fengxing Records.
After reading the music score, Li Fanyu asked: Mr. Kang, are these songs written by you?
Kang Jianfei nodded with a smile, exuding a temperament that is unique to a master.
Li Fanyu indeed said something admiration and admiration. Then he looked at the Tao Wu in Kang Jianfei's hand, scratched his ears and foreheads, and said: That, why not, Mr. Kang, you should blow it first, and I will think about how to arrange the song for you.After all, I have never made such a pure music record before, and I am not very familiar with Tao Wu's voice.
All right.
Kang Jianfei was also very helpless about arrangement.
He is half-baked in playing music. In addition to Tao Yen playing great, playing guitar can only be considered a good match, and harmonica can fool ordinary people.
As for piano, violin and other things, I’m very sorry. It would be good if Kang Jianfei didn’t listen to the sound of the violin as an erhu.
When making pure music records, you also need to arrange them, such as equiping Tao Wu with piano, violin and other instruments, otherwise it will sound monotonous.
Kang Jianfei blew Tao Wu for more than half an hour, and Li Fanyu shook his head when he heard it. He first translated Kang Jianfei's simplified score into five-line score, and then while listening to Kang Jianfei blowing the silhouette, he used his pen to draw various marks on the score.
The arrangement can't be done in a short while. Kang Jianfei took advantage of Li Fanyu's busy work and went around at Fengxing Records.
Fengxing Records' office space is large, but due to the large reduction in employees, two office rooms have reinstalled block walls and rented them to other companies for services.
After walking around, Kang Jianfei saw that there were several employees in the company, and perhaps some were doing business outside.
Deng Yiming walked out of his office and looked quite bad, as if he had encountered something unpleasant.
After seeing Kang Jianfei, he forced a smile on his face and said: How is Mr. Kang recording?
Li Fanyu was still arranging the song. Kang Jianfei saw that his face was inappropriate and asked, "What trouble are you in?"
A little thing.Deng Yiming concealed.
At this moment, a woman came over and said in pain: Boss Deng, it’s been half a month since the record has only been sold for more than 2,000 copies. I think I’d better go back to Taipei.
Kang Jianfei recognized this woman as Su Qi at a glance. There was no way, she was too famous!
But how could Su Qi be at Fengxing Records?
Deng Yiming seemed to have not said anything because Kang Jianfei was beside him, but comforted him: It's okay, I'll think of another way and strengthen the publicity...
boom!
Before Deng Yiming finished speaking, the company's door was kicked open, and several people obviously walked in with a fierce look.
The leader deliberately exposed the tattoo on his arm, blew his nose at a desk and said: Boss Deng, are your money ready?If I don’t have money, my brother will have to move your company’s things to pay off the debt!
Kang Jianfei looked at Deng Yiming in confusion, but Deng Yiming had a pale face and could not speak.