When Tsui Hark and his girlfriend Shi Nansheng walked into Princess Jin's Theater, many people came to the cinema.
The last time they went to the cinema to watch "Happy Ghost", they bought the tickets themselves, but this time Kang Jianfei sent an invitation directly.
In addition to Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng, Kang Jianfei also invited more than a dozen New Wave directors including Xu Anhua, Tan Jiaming, Yan Hao, Fang Yuping, Zhang Guoming, and Yu Yunhang.
The so-called Hong Kong film new wave movement is a trend that suddenly set off in Hong Kong films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A group of young directors who returned from Europe and the United States suddenly broke out after several years of running-in at local TV stations in Hong Kong, integrating the advanced film experience they learned from abroad with the local culture of Hong Kong, and making a large number of new movies that are different from old Hong Kong films.
This wave of films directly affected the development and evolution of Hong Kong films in the next 20 years.
These people, including Tsui Hark, are very popular now and there are many praises from the circle.
However, most of the movies they make have a common feature, that is, they are not popular, so few bosses are willing to invest in making movies for them.
The reporters soon discovered that there were actually a short continuous seat in the theater, all of which were New Wave directors, taking photos of them one after another.
Old Xu, I heard that you are very familiar with Kang Jianfei. What did this guy invite all of us to do?
Fang Yuping asked Tsui Hark next to him.
This guy used to be a photographer at Jiashi. He just asked Shaw Brothers to invest in filming "Famous Sword" and invited Adam Cheng to play the male lead. The box office was barely worthwhile.
Tsui Hark said speechlessly: Why do you all think that I am very familiar with Kang Jianfei?I made a guest appearance in a movie for him.
Yan Hao smiled and said: You are more familiar than us.
After Yun Haidao: In fact, his "Happy Ghost" also has a bit of a new wave, which is very different from the shooting techniques of old Hong Kong films.
Zhang Guoming said: I am very interested in Kang Jianfei's growth experience.A young man who swam from the mainland, I heard that he was under 20 years old, wrote novels and made movies, and even opened a film company by himself. He seemed to be born with so many things.
Xu Anhua smiled and said: There is something called talent.
Shi Nansheng suddenly interrupted: I want to see his real kung fu performing later.
Yu Yunhang said disdainfully: Where did you get the real kung fu?It's just some fighting boxing skills, which are praised by the newspapers as if they can kill people from a distance.
Shi Nansheng smiled and said: I don’t know how to kill people from afar, but Kang Jianfei used his kung fu to kill two robbers in the street, but it was true.
Yu Yunhang curled his lips and did not answer any more.
More than a thousand viewers who bought high-priced tickets entered the venue one after another. The reporters were surprised to find that all the premiere tickets, which were up to 50 yuan and as low as 30 yuan, were sold out, and the audience was full of seats.
After such a premiere, the income from selling tickets alone would be 50,000 yuan!
The cost of the premiere does not require at least 200,000 as Li Maowen guessed.
Because Kang Jianfei was invited for free because of more than 200 media outlets, he did not invite any other stars in his performance before the movie was released. He was all from the employees of Oriental Dream Factory.
The biggest expense of the premiere is the venue fee of more than 3,000 yuan for renting the theater...
Sammo Hung took Lin Zhengying and others to sit down. Seeing the more than 200 media reporters ahead, his heart suddenly became hot and said to Yuan Biao: Our "Ghost Fights" has also made a premiere!
Yuan Biao nodded quickly. He never thought that a movie would be released and more than 200 reporters would be able to gather for participation.
Not to mention anything else, such a spectacular scene will definitely be widely reported by the newspaper tomorrow. As long as "Mr. Zombie" is not too bad, there will definitely be many people who will watch the movie after hearing the news.
"Ghost Fighting Ghost" was filmed very slowly because it was a spiritual fantasy kung fu film, which was a bit different from the kung fu films Sammo Hung had filmed before.
Moreover, the plot has been carefully conceived. In addition, Lin Zhengying and Yuanhua have the experience of filming "Mr. Zombie" with Kang Jianfei, Sammo Hung's "Ghost Fights" is much more well-produced than in parallel time and space, and the shooting time has also increased significantly.
Judging from the current progress, it will take at least late July to complete the production of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", but it can still catch up with the end of the summer season.
When the premiere time came, the light below suddenly dimmed, and a beam of light led a beautiful woman with a prominent figure to the stage, but Pan Yingzi was wearing a high-slit cheongsam.
In order to save money, Kang Jianfei was too lazy to invite the emcee, so he directly asked Pan Yingzi to join the battle.
After Pan Yingzi came on stage, she bowed down and said with a microphone: Thank you to all the friends at the scene, who took the time to attend the premiere of "Mr. Zombie"... Now, please invite the first lion dancer in Hong Kong, Yu Yuanwen, the god of Kang family, to bring you a wonderful lion dance performance!
Pan Yingzi disappeared with the lights, while the gods danced with their partner Ye Tao on the stage with their lions amid the sound of gongs and drums.
I have to admit that Yu Yuanwen's lion dance skills are really unique.
Liu Jialiang's Liu family class originally used lion dance as a masterpiece, and almost everyone could dance a few tricks.
But in the parallel space, after hiding Yu Yuanwen for a year, Liu Jialiang had to re-activate Yu Yuanwen because he needed a lion dancer to shoot movies, which shows how high his lion dance level is.
Under Yu Yuanwen's control, a lion seemed to come alive. Not only could it run and jump like other lion dances, but it even had vivid expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, which attracted a burst of cheers from the audience below.
After the lion dance program was over, it was suddenly a martial arts performance again.
However, this performance was extraordinary. One of the Dragon and Tiger martial artists from the Kang family suddenly flew down from the air, and the other jumped more than ten feet high. The two of them actually played swords in the air, fighting happily!
The martial artists in the Kang family class just mastered the Wiya technology, which attracted the audience's surprise.
Sammo Hung, who was watching the show below, looked speechless and said to Yuan Biao in a low voice: Kang Jianfei, this kid, is really profitable and cannot get up early. He has a movie premiere and is actually advertising his Kang family class!
Yuan Biao was stunned and then understood what Sammo Hung said.
The martial arts class is not in vain. Apart from making movies by yourself, you have to go out to take on work in your spare time to survive.
The better the martial arts masters are, the more crews they invite them to make movies, and the more popular this martial arts master class will be.
The Kang family class has just been established, and its reputation is naturally not as good as the old fan family class, Liu family class, Hong family class, and Yuan family class, and it is not even as good as the Xing family class just founded last year.
How to make a name for yourself?One is that the movies made by Kang’s family are selling well, and the other is to promote them.
Kang Jianfei asked the martial artists of the Kang family to perform at the premiere, which saved a lot of money to invite other stars, and the other was to promote the Kang family in front of more than 200 media and many directors, which was a killing two birds with one stone.
I believe that after tonight, when some independent directors and small companies make action movies, the Kang family class will also become an important target for their choice.
Sammo Hung's voice was very low, but Lin Zhengying next to him could hear it clearly, and he had a fever when his skin was under him.
Because Kang Jianfei, the Kang family class, was formed by Huang Xia, who was responsible for recruiting people, and Huang Xia was recommended to Kang Jianfei by him, Lin Zhengying felt that his move was a bit unauthorized.
After the performance of the martial artists was finished, the host of Pan Yingzi cameo called all the main creators of the crew to the stage, and Lin Zhengying and Yuanhua had to get up.
In the audience seat below, Li Saifeng and Wen Bixia sat next to Zhao Yazhi. When he heard Pan Yingzi invite the main creative staff to the stage, Li Saifeng immediately ran up happily, leaving Wen Bixia sitting there jealously and enviously.
Zhao Yazhi touched Wen Bixia's head and comforted her like coaxing her little sister: Next time, I will ask you Brother A Fei to make a movie for you, and then arrange a stronger premiere for you.
That's so difficult.
Wen Bixia sighed, she felt that she was not as beautiful as Li Saifeng, and she could not even compare to singing or acting, let alone Li Saifeng was learning kung fu with Kang Jianfei.
In order not to be thrown too far, Wen Bixia has been learning to sing hard these days, but unfortunately she is still making progress slower than Li Saifeng.
It's really amazing to be more popular!
But then I thought about it and she was my brother's first woman, and she was not as good as that.
Not far from Zhao Yazhi was sitting there. She was so bored sitting there alone. Seeing Li Saifeng on stage, she quickly changed seats and sat down next to Zhao Yazhi.
Chung Chuhong has a very cheerful and generous personality. She disdains the people she doesn't like, and she will take the initiative to say hello to the people she likes.
Chung Chuhong especially likes Zhao Yazhi's performance in "Shanghai Bund". She sat down and greeted him happily: Hello Miss Zhao, my name is Chung Chuhong!
Zhao Yazhi immediately recognized Chu Hong Chung and said with a smile: I know you, you were the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong last year, and I am also the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong.
When the two Hong Kong ladies first exchanged, Pan Yingzi on the stage had already started chatting with the main creators, and revealed many interesting stories about the shooting, adding a lot of information to the reporters present's report tomorrow.
After the chat, Pan Yingzi suddenly said to Kang Jianfei: Director, I remember you seem to have promised to perform your real kung fu at the premiere.
As he said that, Pan Yingzi suddenly asked the audience below, do you want to see Director Kang’s real kung fu!
Many of the ticket-buying audiences at the scene came from Kang Jianfei's real kung fu, and immediately burst into cheers and shouts.
Kang Jianfei stood up from the chair and said very pretentiously: I said in the newspaper that once my kung fu takes action, I will definitely be either dead or injured, and there is no way to talk about the competition or performance.
As he said that, Kang Jianfei changed his tone, but he could show everyone some tricks.A Feng, stand by!
Yes, Master!Li Saifeng stood five meters away after hearing this.
Pan Yingzi's narration introduced: Li Saifeng's little sister is learning kung fu with Director Kang and is his first apprentice.
Before the audience could guess what Kang Jianfei was going to perform, they saw Chen You take an apple and put it on Li Saifeng's head, and then ran away quickly.
Kang Jianfei pulled out a fruit knife and did not do any fancy moves. The shadow of the knife flashed. The fruit knife had already penetrated into the apple on Li Saifeng's head five meters away, and the apple fell to the ground.
Wow!
The audience was shocked and uproared, and countless people stood up in exclamation.
The reporters were all excited and felt that Kang Jianfei's flying knife would be worth the trip.
The last time they went to the cinema to watch "Happy Ghost", they bought the tickets themselves, but this time Kang Jianfei sent an invitation directly.
In addition to Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng, Kang Jianfei also invited more than a dozen New Wave directors including Xu Anhua, Tan Jiaming, Yan Hao, Fang Yuping, Zhang Guoming, and Yu Yunhang.
The so-called Hong Kong film new wave movement is a trend that suddenly set off in Hong Kong films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A group of young directors who returned from Europe and the United States suddenly broke out after several years of running-in at local TV stations in Hong Kong, integrating the advanced film experience they learned from abroad with the local culture of Hong Kong, and making a large number of new movies that are different from old Hong Kong films.
This wave of films directly affected the development and evolution of Hong Kong films in the next 20 years.
These people, including Tsui Hark, are very popular now and there are many praises from the circle.
However, most of the movies they make have a common feature, that is, they are not popular, so few bosses are willing to invest in making movies for them.
The reporters soon discovered that there were actually a short continuous seat in the theater, all of which were New Wave directors, taking photos of them one after another.
Old Xu, I heard that you are very familiar with Kang Jianfei. What did this guy invite all of us to do?
Fang Yuping asked Tsui Hark next to him.
This guy used to be a photographer at Jiashi. He just asked Shaw Brothers to invest in filming "Famous Sword" and invited Adam Cheng to play the male lead. The box office was barely worthwhile.
Tsui Hark said speechlessly: Why do you all think that I am very familiar with Kang Jianfei?I made a guest appearance in a movie for him.
Yan Hao smiled and said: You are more familiar than us.
After Yun Haidao: In fact, his "Happy Ghost" also has a bit of a new wave, which is very different from the shooting techniques of old Hong Kong films.
Zhang Guoming said: I am very interested in Kang Jianfei's growth experience.A young man who swam from the mainland, I heard that he was under 20 years old, wrote novels and made movies, and even opened a film company by himself. He seemed to be born with so many things.
Xu Anhua smiled and said: There is something called talent.
Shi Nansheng suddenly interrupted: I want to see his real kung fu performing later.
Yu Yunhang said disdainfully: Where did you get the real kung fu?It's just some fighting boxing skills, which are praised by the newspapers as if they can kill people from a distance.
Shi Nansheng smiled and said: I don’t know how to kill people from afar, but Kang Jianfei used his kung fu to kill two robbers in the street, but it was true.
Yu Yunhang curled his lips and did not answer any more.
More than a thousand viewers who bought high-priced tickets entered the venue one after another. The reporters were surprised to find that all the premiere tickets, which were up to 50 yuan and as low as 30 yuan, were sold out, and the audience was full of seats.
After such a premiere, the income from selling tickets alone would be 50,000 yuan!
The cost of the premiere does not require at least 200,000 as Li Maowen guessed.
Because Kang Jianfei was invited for free because of more than 200 media outlets, he did not invite any other stars in his performance before the movie was released. He was all from the employees of Oriental Dream Factory.
The biggest expense of the premiere is the venue fee of more than 3,000 yuan for renting the theater...
Sammo Hung took Lin Zhengying and others to sit down. Seeing the more than 200 media reporters ahead, his heart suddenly became hot and said to Yuan Biao: Our "Ghost Fights" has also made a premiere!
Yuan Biao nodded quickly. He never thought that a movie would be released and more than 200 reporters would be able to gather for participation.
Not to mention anything else, such a spectacular scene will definitely be widely reported by the newspaper tomorrow. As long as "Mr. Zombie" is not too bad, there will definitely be many people who will watch the movie after hearing the news.
"Ghost Fighting Ghost" was filmed very slowly because it was a spiritual fantasy kung fu film, which was a bit different from the kung fu films Sammo Hung had filmed before.
Moreover, the plot has been carefully conceived. In addition, Lin Zhengying and Yuanhua have the experience of filming "Mr. Zombie" with Kang Jianfei, Sammo Hung's "Ghost Fights" is much more well-produced than in parallel time and space, and the shooting time has also increased significantly.
Judging from the current progress, it will take at least late July to complete the production of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", but it can still catch up with the end of the summer season.
When the premiere time came, the light below suddenly dimmed, and a beam of light led a beautiful woman with a prominent figure to the stage, but Pan Yingzi was wearing a high-slit cheongsam.
In order to save money, Kang Jianfei was too lazy to invite the emcee, so he directly asked Pan Yingzi to join the battle.
After Pan Yingzi came on stage, she bowed down and said with a microphone: Thank you to all the friends at the scene, who took the time to attend the premiere of "Mr. Zombie"... Now, please invite the first lion dancer in Hong Kong, Yu Yuanwen, the god of Kang family, to bring you a wonderful lion dance performance!
Pan Yingzi disappeared with the lights, while the gods danced with their partner Ye Tao on the stage with their lions amid the sound of gongs and drums.
I have to admit that Yu Yuanwen's lion dance skills are really unique.
Liu Jialiang's Liu family class originally used lion dance as a masterpiece, and almost everyone could dance a few tricks.
But in the parallel space, after hiding Yu Yuanwen for a year, Liu Jialiang had to re-activate Yu Yuanwen because he needed a lion dancer to shoot movies, which shows how high his lion dance level is.
Under Yu Yuanwen's control, a lion seemed to come alive. Not only could it run and jump like other lion dances, but it even had vivid expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, which attracted a burst of cheers from the audience below.
After the lion dance program was over, it was suddenly a martial arts performance again.
However, this performance was extraordinary. One of the Dragon and Tiger martial artists from the Kang family suddenly flew down from the air, and the other jumped more than ten feet high. The two of them actually played swords in the air, fighting happily!
The martial artists in the Kang family class just mastered the Wiya technology, which attracted the audience's surprise.
Sammo Hung, who was watching the show below, looked speechless and said to Yuan Biao in a low voice: Kang Jianfei, this kid, is really profitable and cannot get up early. He has a movie premiere and is actually advertising his Kang family class!
Yuan Biao was stunned and then understood what Sammo Hung said.
The martial arts class is not in vain. Apart from making movies by yourself, you have to go out to take on work in your spare time to survive.
The better the martial arts masters are, the more crews they invite them to make movies, and the more popular this martial arts master class will be.
The Kang family class has just been established, and its reputation is naturally not as good as the old fan family class, Liu family class, Hong family class, and Yuan family class, and it is not even as good as the Xing family class just founded last year.
How to make a name for yourself?One is that the movies made by Kang’s family are selling well, and the other is to promote them.
Kang Jianfei asked the martial artists of the Kang family to perform at the premiere, which saved a lot of money to invite other stars, and the other was to promote the Kang family in front of more than 200 media and many directors, which was a killing two birds with one stone.
I believe that after tonight, when some independent directors and small companies make action movies, the Kang family class will also become an important target for their choice.
Sammo Hung's voice was very low, but Lin Zhengying next to him could hear it clearly, and he had a fever when his skin was under him.
Because Kang Jianfei, the Kang family class, was formed by Huang Xia, who was responsible for recruiting people, and Huang Xia was recommended to Kang Jianfei by him, Lin Zhengying felt that his move was a bit unauthorized.
After the performance of the martial artists was finished, the host of Pan Yingzi cameo called all the main creators of the crew to the stage, and Lin Zhengying and Yuanhua had to get up.
In the audience seat below, Li Saifeng and Wen Bixia sat next to Zhao Yazhi. When he heard Pan Yingzi invite the main creative staff to the stage, Li Saifeng immediately ran up happily, leaving Wen Bixia sitting there jealously and enviously.
Zhao Yazhi touched Wen Bixia's head and comforted her like coaxing her little sister: Next time, I will ask you Brother A Fei to make a movie for you, and then arrange a stronger premiere for you.
That's so difficult.
Wen Bixia sighed, she felt that she was not as beautiful as Li Saifeng, and she could not even compare to singing or acting, let alone Li Saifeng was learning kung fu with Kang Jianfei.
In order not to be thrown too far, Wen Bixia has been learning to sing hard these days, but unfortunately she is still making progress slower than Li Saifeng.
It's really amazing to be more popular!
But then I thought about it and she was my brother's first woman, and she was not as good as that.
Not far from Zhao Yazhi was sitting there. She was so bored sitting there alone. Seeing Li Saifeng on stage, she quickly changed seats and sat down next to Zhao Yazhi.
Chung Chuhong has a very cheerful and generous personality. She disdains the people she doesn't like, and she will take the initiative to say hello to the people she likes.
Chung Chuhong especially likes Zhao Yazhi's performance in "Shanghai Bund". She sat down and greeted him happily: Hello Miss Zhao, my name is Chung Chuhong!
Zhao Yazhi immediately recognized Chu Hong Chung and said with a smile: I know you, you were the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong last year, and I am also the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong.
When the two Hong Kong ladies first exchanged, Pan Yingzi on the stage had already started chatting with the main creators, and revealed many interesting stories about the shooting, adding a lot of information to the reporters present's report tomorrow.
After the chat, Pan Yingzi suddenly said to Kang Jianfei: Director, I remember you seem to have promised to perform your real kung fu at the premiere.
As he said that, Pan Yingzi suddenly asked the audience below, do you want to see Director Kang’s real kung fu!
Many of the ticket-buying audiences at the scene came from Kang Jianfei's real kung fu, and immediately burst into cheers and shouts.
Kang Jianfei stood up from the chair and said very pretentiously: I said in the newspaper that once my kung fu takes action, I will definitely be either dead or injured, and there is no way to talk about the competition or performance.
As he said that, Kang Jianfei changed his tone, but he could show everyone some tricks.A Feng, stand by!
Yes, Master!Li Saifeng stood five meters away after hearing this.
Pan Yingzi's narration introduced: Li Saifeng's little sister is learning kung fu with Director Kang and is his first apprentice.
Before the audience could guess what Kang Jianfei was going to perform, they saw Chen You take an apple and put it on Li Saifeng's head, and then ran away quickly.
Kang Jianfei pulled out a fruit knife and did not do any fancy moves. The shadow of the knife flashed. The fruit knife had already penetrated into the apple on Li Saifeng's head five meters away, and the apple fell to the ground.
Wow!
The audience was shocked and uproared, and countless people stood up in exclamation.
The reporters were all excited and felt that Kang Jianfei's flying knife would be worth the trip.