July is approaching when "The Grave Robbers" starts, and this year's summer movie is about to begin.
In DreamWorks' film schedule, the summer movies are "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Tsui Hark, "Code-named White Rose" directed by Wang Jing, and "A Lang's Story" directed by Ang Lee.
Among them, the male and female protagonists of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" are still Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong, but the new roles of Jacky Cheung and Michelle Reis are added; "A Lang's Story" is led by Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung.
It is worth mentioning that "Code-named White Rose", a movie that Kang Jianfei has never heard of. The script was completed by Wang Jing and the new screenwriter Zheng Peilin of DreamWorks.
The cast of this film is extremely powerful, including Stephen Chow, Tony Leung, Ng Man-tat, Lee Sai-feng, Lan Jieying, Ma Shun-jun and Wen Bixia, and tells a story that took place in the early 1950s in Hong Kong.
Far from the other end of the Pacific, the summer season for the North American film market has already begun. "Terminator 2" directed by James Cameron has been released for a full week.
"Terminator 2" is like a storm blowing across North America, and Canadian and American audiences were stunned by the blasting special effects, just like they did when they watched "Star Wars" more than ten years ago.
The screen was opened at 2,274 yuan, and the box office of the first weekend (Friday to Weekend) was $30.48 million. The data of "Terminator 2" blinded countless people.
Based on this opening performance, the box office of "Terminator 2" in North America may exceed 200 million, because the number of theaters and episodes of it are still increasing.
The copyright of the "Terminator" series of movies belongs to Kang Jianfei's Oriental Film Company in the United States, and it is only a cooperative relationship with Paramount.
After the Terminator 2 was sold wildly, not only the director and male and female protagonists of the film were sought after, but even Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes investor, was highly praised by the Global Times: Kang is an extremely smart film investor, and he dug up a mountain of gold in Cameron.
The opening ceremony of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was not invited to reporters, only photographers from Feng Huáng and Macau TV were present. After taking some clips, they would do promotion in the program.
At 9:30, Kang Jianfei took the lead in raising incense and bowing four times, and the feudal superstition activity officially started.
At the beginning, the crew was divided into two parts. Chen Xunqi, the producer, played a guest appearance in a group of directors and photographers, and took people to the temple street to film.
Because in the novel after Kang Jianfei changed, the male protagonist Wu Xie was brought to Hong Kong by his father when he was young. After graduating from the Civil Engineering Department of Hong Kong University, he opened an antique shop on Temple Street.
Chen Xunqi's group only needs to shoot the streets and take a few shots, while Kang Jianfei is responsible for filming indoor scenes.
The second scene of "Grave Robbers" is, the first shot, Akesh!
The shooting location was in the office room of an administrative building in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. The room was decorated in antiques, and there were bottles and jars everywhere as antiques.
Wu Zhenyu sat behind the counter and looked at a diary in a pretentious manner.
Huang Shrimp, who played the guest star in Big Gold Tooth, walked in sneakily and asked: Are you rubbing the rubbings here?
Wu Zhenyu looked up at Huang Xia, looked down and continued to read the diary, and said perfunctorily: It's charged, but the price is not high.
Oh, then can you introduce it to me.Huang Shrimp said.
Wu Zhenyu continued to read the book and ignored him at all.
Huang Xia smiled and said: Then let me ask if there are any rubbings of the Warring States silk book here?It is the article stole by the Tushima of Changsha 40 years ago and was deceived by the Americans.
Wu Zhenyu suddenly looked up and looked at Big Gold Teeth with a surprised look.
Click!
Everyone thought this shot had passed, but they didn't expect Kang Jianfei to stop at the last moment. He said: Zhenyu, your expression is too exaggerated.Remember, your expression should be restrained, which is the expression that deliberately conceals the surprise inside, and the eyes are to be unrestrained.
OK, director, I'll try it first.Wu Zhenyu nodded.
Finally, Wu Zhenyu's surprise close-up shot was played three times in a row before passing the test. This scene was finished.
Movies are movies after all, and it is impossible to shoot all the details and content of the novel. The next scene needs to be filmed at the airport.
The male protagonist Wu Xie is going to visit Uncle San, and the scene Kang Jianfei is going to take is that the male protagonist calls Uncle San in the phone booth at the airport, and through two or three conversations, he tells the audience the purpose of the male protagonist going to Beijing.
After making the phone call, the male protagonist Wu Xie passed by the female protagonist Zhang Qiling, and then the female protagonist made a phone call.
Through the phone content, the audience can learn that Zhang Qiling is going to the mainland to buy something, which is the black gold blood sword that appeared later.
The male and female protagonists were sitting on the same flight, but neither of them paid attention to each other.
Kang Jianfei took great pains to write the script, and there are several types of scripts to modify the novel.
Take two extreme examples as an example. One is the Qiong Yao drama, who does not move a word and can directly translate the novel language into the script language; the other is to modify the Gulong drama, where the adapter can only open his mind when writing the script, and write the script directly according to the original text and cannot be filmed at all.
When Kang Jianfei adapted the script, he first built a plot framework, strictly designed the climax points of the big and small film, and then filled it with the bridge and link it.
He found that if the characters appear in "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" are strictly followed, the heroine Zhang Qiling's sense of existence will be weakened.
Moreover, Zhang Qiling's identity background has been changed several times, and was finally designed to appear at the Hong Kong Airport with the male protagonist.
After finishing the scene at the airport, it was only around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Kang Jianfei asked the photographer to take two planes off and took the crew back to the studio in the Film and Television City.
The scenes in the tomb need to be filmed in the built props, and all the use of artificial light is used, so the shooting is the same day and night.
After returning to the Film and Television City, everyone immediately received a lunch box. After dinner, they rested for twenty minutes. Kang Jianfei began to continue shooting until the end of work was announced at 11:30 in the evening.
The actors all dispersed, and the crew's venue was still packing up props.
Kang Jianfei is obviously not as easy as before in filming, because "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is his original work, and he does not have those completely formed shots and scenes in his mind, so he can only do it step by step when shooting and production.
Now everyone can go home to rest, but he has to stay with the scene to continue working and organize the footage of today before he can go to bed.
Zhang Min worked for thirteen hours in a row, and had a break when she was eating, so she was so tired early at work.
However, she did not go home directly, but went to buy two late-night snacks and sent them to the warehouse for Kang Jianfei and the venue.
After being ruined by her agent last time, Zhang Min was worried and didn't understand what Kang Jianfei had for her.
Director, let’s have something to eat first.Zhang Min sent the midnight snack to Kang Jianfei.
Let it go, I will sort it out in a while, you go back and rest first.Kang Jianfei said.
Zhang Min stood beside her for a while. She was exhausted and soon started yawning constantly. Finally, she couldn't help but finally slipped back to sleep.
"A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Tsui Hark and starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung and Reis, has finally been released.
The summer films released at the same time include "The Secrets of Development" by Gao Zhisen Film Production Company, "Rejuvenation" by Zeng Zhiwei for Vientiane Film, "One-Brow Taoist" by Lin Zhengying for Jiahe Film, and the Hollywood film "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" introduced by Anle Film, and several other inferior films that are not very good.
Well, the so-called "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" is a Hong Kong translation, and it also has a name called "007 Series: Murder License". This movie sold for more than 12 million yuan in Hong Kong, making the Jiang brothers make another profit.
Judging from the box office of these summer movies, Gao Zhisen, who was doing well last year, failed, and Zeng Zhiwei, who was entrusted by Wong Pai-ming, also failed.
The number of movies Gao Zhisen made for Panditsen in the past two years, the total number of local box offices in Hong Kong alone is nearly HK$00 million.
Gao Zhisen was certainly unwilling to give up on helping others to make so much money, so he ran out to start a company and become a boss. Unexpectedly, he was poured into cold water on his head. His box office of "The Secrets of Developed" this time was only 8.41 million.
Zeng Zhiwei's "Rejuvenation" was similar, with a box office of less than 9 million yuan, which caused a conflict between him and several shareholders of Vientiane Film. After dividing the money, he left Vientiane Film and switched to Jiahe.
On the contrary, Lin Zhengying's "One-Brow Taoist" won more than 14 million box office under the pressure of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2".
In other words, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is released just the right time, and there are no competitive opponents at the same time, which is a bit threatening only "Yimei Taoist" and "007 Series: Murder License".
With the good reputation left by the first part, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" performed very strongly, leading the summer box office list with the highest standards and finally won more than 28 million yuan in local box office.
Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong still fascinated countless boys and girls. However, the poor acting skills shown by Reis in the film were once again criticized by film critics. Jacky Cheung is considered to be very talented in being an actor.
By the time Wang Jing's "Code-name White Rose" was released, Kang Jianfei had completed most of the shots of "The Tomb Robbers" filming in Hong Kong.
At this time, he had to announce a suspension of work for a long time, because the finals of this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant were held as scheduled, and Kang Jianfei must attend in person.
The quality of the beauties on Miss Hong Kong this year is not very high, but there is a Chan Farong who is extremely eye-catching; and Miss Oriental is also similar, and the overall level has dropped by a level compared to last year. It seems that all the beauty resources were used up last year.
However, in this Miss Oriental beauty pageant, there were still two beauties supporting the scene, one of whom was named Wan Qiwen and the other was named Weng Hong.
In DreamWorks' film schedule, the summer movies are "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Tsui Hark, "Code-named White Rose" directed by Wang Jing, and "A Lang's Story" directed by Ang Lee.
Among them, the male and female protagonists of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" are still Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong, but the new roles of Jacky Cheung and Michelle Reis are added; "A Lang's Story" is led by Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung.
It is worth mentioning that "Code-named White Rose", a movie that Kang Jianfei has never heard of. The script was completed by Wang Jing and the new screenwriter Zheng Peilin of DreamWorks.
The cast of this film is extremely powerful, including Stephen Chow, Tony Leung, Ng Man-tat, Lee Sai-feng, Lan Jieying, Ma Shun-jun and Wen Bixia, and tells a story that took place in the early 1950s in Hong Kong.
Far from the other end of the Pacific, the summer season for the North American film market has already begun. "Terminator 2" directed by James Cameron has been released for a full week.
"Terminator 2" is like a storm blowing across North America, and Canadian and American audiences were stunned by the blasting special effects, just like they did when they watched "Star Wars" more than ten years ago.
The screen was opened at 2,274 yuan, and the box office of the first weekend (Friday to Weekend) was $30.48 million. The data of "Terminator 2" blinded countless people.
Based on this opening performance, the box office of "Terminator 2" in North America may exceed 200 million, because the number of theaters and episodes of it are still increasing.
The copyright of the "Terminator" series of movies belongs to Kang Jianfei's Oriental Film Company in the United States, and it is only a cooperative relationship with Paramount.
After the Terminator 2 was sold wildly, not only the director and male and female protagonists of the film were sought after, but even Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes investor, was highly praised by the Global Times: Kang is an extremely smart film investor, and he dug up a mountain of gold in Cameron.
The opening ceremony of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was not invited to reporters, only photographers from Feng Huáng and Macau TV were present. After taking some clips, they would do promotion in the program.
At 9:30, Kang Jianfei took the lead in raising incense and bowing four times, and the feudal superstition activity officially started.
At the beginning, the crew was divided into two parts. Chen Xunqi, the producer, played a guest appearance in a group of directors and photographers, and took people to the temple street to film.
Because in the novel after Kang Jianfei changed, the male protagonist Wu Xie was brought to Hong Kong by his father when he was young. After graduating from the Civil Engineering Department of Hong Kong University, he opened an antique shop on Temple Street.
Chen Xunqi's group only needs to shoot the streets and take a few shots, while Kang Jianfei is responsible for filming indoor scenes.
The second scene of "Grave Robbers" is, the first shot, Akesh!
The shooting location was in the office room of an administrative building in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. The room was decorated in antiques, and there were bottles and jars everywhere as antiques.
Wu Zhenyu sat behind the counter and looked at a diary in a pretentious manner.
Huang Shrimp, who played the guest star in Big Gold Tooth, walked in sneakily and asked: Are you rubbing the rubbings here?
Wu Zhenyu looked up at Huang Xia, looked down and continued to read the diary, and said perfunctorily: It's charged, but the price is not high.
Oh, then can you introduce it to me.Huang Shrimp said.
Wu Zhenyu continued to read the book and ignored him at all.
Huang Xia smiled and said: Then let me ask if there are any rubbings of the Warring States silk book here?It is the article stole by the Tushima of Changsha 40 years ago and was deceived by the Americans.
Wu Zhenyu suddenly looked up and looked at Big Gold Teeth with a surprised look.
Click!
Everyone thought this shot had passed, but they didn't expect Kang Jianfei to stop at the last moment. He said: Zhenyu, your expression is too exaggerated.Remember, your expression should be restrained, which is the expression that deliberately conceals the surprise inside, and the eyes are to be unrestrained.
OK, director, I'll try it first.Wu Zhenyu nodded.
Finally, Wu Zhenyu's surprise close-up shot was played three times in a row before passing the test. This scene was finished.
Movies are movies after all, and it is impossible to shoot all the details and content of the novel. The next scene needs to be filmed at the airport.
The male protagonist Wu Xie is going to visit Uncle San, and the scene Kang Jianfei is going to take is that the male protagonist calls Uncle San in the phone booth at the airport, and through two or three conversations, he tells the audience the purpose of the male protagonist going to Beijing.
After making the phone call, the male protagonist Wu Xie passed by the female protagonist Zhang Qiling, and then the female protagonist made a phone call.
Through the phone content, the audience can learn that Zhang Qiling is going to the mainland to buy something, which is the black gold blood sword that appeared later.
The male and female protagonists were sitting on the same flight, but neither of them paid attention to each other.
Kang Jianfei took great pains to write the script, and there are several types of scripts to modify the novel.
Take two extreme examples as an example. One is the Qiong Yao drama, who does not move a word and can directly translate the novel language into the script language; the other is to modify the Gulong drama, where the adapter can only open his mind when writing the script, and write the script directly according to the original text and cannot be filmed at all.
When Kang Jianfei adapted the script, he first built a plot framework, strictly designed the climax points of the big and small film, and then filled it with the bridge and link it.
He found that if the characters appear in "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" are strictly followed, the heroine Zhang Qiling's sense of existence will be weakened.
Moreover, Zhang Qiling's identity background has been changed several times, and was finally designed to appear at the Hong Kong Airport with the male protagonist.
After finishing the scene at the airport, it was only around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Kang Jianfei asked the photographer to take two planes off and took the crew back to the studio in the Film and Television City.
The scenes in the tomb need to be filmed in the built props, and all the use of artificial light is used, so the shooting is the same day and night.
After returning to the Film and Television City, everyone immediately received a lunch box. After dinner, they rested for twenty minutes. Kang Jianfei began to continue shooting until the end of work was announced at 11:30 in the evening.
The actors all dispersed, and the crew's venue was still packing up props.
Kang Jianfei is obviously not as easy as before in filming, because "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is his original work, and he does not have those completely formed shots and scenes in his mind, so he can only do it step by step when shooting and production.
Now everyone can go home to rest, but he has to stay with the scene to continue working and organize the footage of today before he can go to bed.
Zhang Min worked for thirteen hours in a row, and had a break when she was eating, so she was so tired early at work.
However, she did not go home directly, but went to buy two late-night snacks and sent them to the warehouse for Kang Jianfei and the venue.
After being ruined by her agent last time, Zhang Min was worried and didn't understand what Kang Jianfei had for her.
Director, let’s have something to eat first.Zhang Min sent the midnight snack to Kang Jianfei.
Let it go, I will sort it out in a while, you go back and rest first.Kang Jianfei said.
Zhang Min stood beside her for a while. She was exhausted and soon started yawning constantly. Finally, she couldn't help but finally slipped back to sleep.
"A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Tsui Hark and starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung and Reis, has finally been released.
The summer films released at the same time include "The Secrets of Development" by Gao Zhisen Film Production Company, "Rejuvenation" by Zeng Zhiwei for Vientiane Film, "One-Brow Taoist" by Lin Zhengying for Jiahe Film, and the Hollywood film "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" introduced by Anle Film, and several other inferior films that are not very good.
Well, the so-called "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" is a Hong Kong translation, and it also has a name called "007 Series: Murder License". This movie sold for more than 12 million yuan in Hong Kong, making the Jiang brothers make another profit.
Judging from the box office of these summer movies, Gao Zhisen, who was doing well last year, failed, and Zeng Zhiwei, who was entrusted by Wong Pai-ming, also failed.
The number of movies Gao Zhisen made for Panditsen in the past two years, the total number of local box offices in Hong Kong alone is nearly HK$00 million.
Gao Zhisen was certainly unwilling to give up on helping others to make so much money, so he ran out to start a company and become a boss. Unexpectedly, he was poured into cold water on his head. His box office of "The Secrets of Developed" this time was only 8.41 million.
Zeng Zhiwei's "Rejuvenation" was similar, with a box office of less than 9 million yuan, which caused a conflict between him and several shareholders of Vientiane Film. After dividing the money, he left Vientiane Film and switched to Jiahe.
On the contrary, Lin Zhengying's "One-Brow Taoist" won more than 14 million box office under the pressure of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2".
In other words, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is released just the right time, and there are no competitive opponents at the same time, which is a bit threatening only "Yimei Taoist" and "007 Series: Murder License".
With the good reputation left by the first part, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" performed very strongly, leading the summer box office list with the highest standards and finally won more than 28 million yuan in local box office.
Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong still fascinated countless boys and girls. However, the poor acting skills shown by Reis in the film were once again criticized by film critics. Jacky Cheung is considered to be very talented in being an actor.
By the time Wang Jing's "Code-name White Rose" was released, Kang Jianfei had completed most of the shots of "The Tomb Robbers" filming in Hong Kong.
At this time, he had to announce a suspension of work for a long time, because the finals of this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant were held as scheduled, and Kang Jianfei must attend in person.
The quality of the beauties on Miss Hong Kong this year is not very high, but there is a Chan Farong who is extremely eye-catching; and Miss Oriental is also similar, and the overall level has dropped by a level compared to last year. It seems that all the beauty resources were used up last year.
However, in this Miss Oriental beauty pageant, there were still two beauties supporting the scene, one of whom was named Wan Qiwen and the other was named Weng Hong.