102【Disaster Film Director】2/3
My cousin's aunt Liang Ying took out a pot of braised pig's trotters from the kitchen, looked at the pendulum bell on the wall and said, "A Fei and the others should come here, right?"
"What are you anxious about?" Wu Chenggang smiled and sat on the sofa reading the newspaper with his legs crossed.
Since "Mr. Zombie" was popular, Wu Chenggang has been keen on reading various newspapers, specializing in reports related to "Mr. Zombie" or Kang Jianfei.
In the company, although Wu Chenggang has a low position, his status is transcendent because he is Kang Jianfei's cousin. Now, even when he goes back to Shaw Brothers' set, the guys who used to call him and greet him smile when they see him. There are also former colleagues who have not done well after Jiashi went bankrupt and have visited him, hoping that Wu Chenggang can introduce them to Oriental Dream Factory.
During the Chun Festival, at least one Cheng Long and Kang Jianfei were fighting similarly, but this summer, Kang Jianfei already had the taste of Dugu Qiubai.
The comedy "Money Makes a Strange" directed by Wu Yusen in Jiahe should have won the sixth best box office record in the year. However, due to the influence of "Mr. Zombies", the average attendance rate is less than 40%, resulting in the continuous reduction of screenings. Judging from this, it would be good that the box office of this movie could have half of another time and space.
Shaw Brothers' side is even worse. The Gu Long martial arts film "Heroes Without Tears" directed by the great director Chu Yuan, starring the veteran martial arts young actor Fu Sheng and popular star Zhao Yazhi, has few viewers since it was released. This "all-star" martial arts blockbuster actually fell into the paintings in a hurry after it was released for only one week, and the box office was less than one million.
Logically speaking, the urban comedy "The Monkey King" and the Sword Martial Arts "The Hero Without Tears" are completely different from Kang Jianfei's "Mr. Zombie" and should not be affected so seriously. But the problem is that after watching the super-era jingle production of "Mr. Zombie", the audience went to watch "The Monkey King" and "The Hero Without Tears", no matter how they looked, they felt that the latter two were too boring and gradually lost interest in watching the movie.
Not only "Money is the True" and "Heroes Without Tears" were affected, but all the movies released in Hong Kong at the same time were all bleak because of "Mr. Zombies".
Yi Shu, who has been working as a press officer in the zhèngfu News Office and occasionally wrote some novels and prose, couldn't help but write a movie review in Ming Pao at this time. There is a sentence in her article: "...For other directors, "Mr. Zombie" is not a comedy, but a complete disaster film. This movie has brought the appetite of the audience. After watching "Mr. Zombie", all the movies in the summer season are just as delicious as they are. They would rather watch TV at home than watch other movies..."
Yishu's film review gave Kang Jianfei another new nickname with a full hilarious flavor - the director of a disaster film.
Wu Chenggang felt that he had been in Hong Kong for twenty years, and in the past half month he was the most glorious son. Kang Jianfei's parents came to Hong Kong only after they died. Now he is Kang Jianfei's elder, and it feels like seeing his son have a promising future.
Today is Wu Ruixue's 10-year-old child. The little girl has been staring at the cake box for two hours, looking around and no one pays attention to her. She immediately opened the packaging box, dipped her fingers in her mouth and sucked it. Before she could taste the second bite, her mother Zhou Mingfang came over and slapped Wu Ruixue's head.
Liang Ying brought all the dishes to the table and sat next to Wu Chenggang and asked, "I heard that Ah Fei was going to give 5% of the box office of the movie to the crew behind the crew. How much can you get this time?"
Wu Chenggang corrected: "It is not 5% of the box office, it is 5% of the promotional cost after the company receives box office dividends."
Liang Ying said impatiently: "I care about 5% of him, just tell me how much you can get."
Wu Chenggang calculated: "If it is calculated at a box office of 15 million, then DreamWorks can get nearly 6 million dividends, and then spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the distribution and publicity fee, there is still a little more than 5 million left. 5% of the 5 million is 250,000. In addition to some bonuses sent to administrative staff, as a lighting guide, I should be able to get about 20,000 yuan."
"You can get 20,000 yuan by making a movie. If you shoot a few more movies, we can buy a house directly!" Liang Ying said happily.
Wu Chenggang said speechlessly: "A Fei is driving a company. Do you think he opened a Shantang. Only when a movie sells a lot can you pay dividends like this. If a movie makes a small profit or fails, it means that there is no dividend at all. Who can guarantee that all the movies in his company make a lot of money at the box office?"
Wu Ruiqing looked at the TV and said stinkingly: "When I graduate, I will join my cousin's company as a screenwriter. The script I wrote will ensure that everyone can make money!"
Wu Chenggang glared at his son and scolded: "You can study hard for me and write those messy novels, so I won't break your legs!"
Wu Ruiqing muttered: "The novel is written by hand. Why did you break my legs?"
Wu Chenggang was about to scold his son, but the doorbell suddenly rang. Zhou Mingfang hurriedly opened the door, and Kang Jianfei was following the two girls Li Feng and Wen Bixia.
Since the popularity of "Mr. Zombie", Li Feng has already thrown out Wen Bixia a lot in terms of fame. The two women received a film appointment a few days ago. Li Feng's salary was 150,000 yuan, while Wen Bixia only had 50,000 yuan. Such a big gap made Wen Bixia feel uneasy.
Wu Ruiqing, who was originally confident that he could be a good screenwriter, stopped talking when he saw the two beautiful girls coming in. This boy was very dull, but he didn't have much courage to talk to girls. He was a very herbivorous otakus.
Wu Ruixue likes two beautiful ladies very much, but most of the time he stares at their beautiful clothes, his eyes full of envy.
Kang Jianfei took out the gift he brought, and shook it out and made a beautiful dress, and smiled and said, "Do you want to try it?"
"Is it a gift for me to give me?" Wu Ruixue touched her skirt and said, "It's so beautiful! Thank you cousin."
The little girl was thinking about the cake, but now she had a dress and just forgot the cake aside. She pulled Li Xianfeng and Wen Bixia into the house to try the skirt.
Not long after, Hu Juncai also brought his girlfriend Huang Minyi. Compared to last year, this guy seemed to have completely changed his personality. He used to be as thin as a bamboo pole, but now he is quite strong because of his good practice and eating. Moreover, Hu Juncai is already tall and 1.8 meters tall. Now he feels tall and mighty as soon as he enters the door.
"Hello, cousin, hello!" Hu Juncai greeted repeatedly, and Huang Minyi also greeted him.
Huang Minyi has also developed well on TVB, and has played two supporting roles with many roles in a row. Now she is similar to Tang Zhenye’s fame.
Soon, the young birthday boy Wu Ruixue came out in a skirt, with a paper princess crown, puffed up her cheeks and inhale, and blew out all ten candles with a "exhash".
On the TV show of Li's TV station, Wu Ruixue was eating a cake when she suddenly pointed at the TV and said, "Look, it's my cousin and sister Afeng."
The host of the variety show was actually Zhang Guorong's first love girlfriend Mao Shunjun. She was sweet and literary. No wonder Zhang Guorong couldn't help but propose to her, but unfortunately she was rejected by Mao Shunjun.
When recording the program, except for Lin Zhengying and Yuanhua, they were busy with the finale of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", Huang Xia, Chen You, Pan Yingzi and others all came.
The content of the chat is naturally related to "Mr. Zombie". Mao Shunjun asked: "Director Kang, now everyone calls you 'disaster film director'. How do you feel about this nickname?"
Kang Jianfei lamented: "Miss Yishu is pushing me to the opposite of all Hong Kong directors."
Mao Shunjun asked: "Don't you like this nickname?"
Kang Jianfei said: "It's not just that I don't like it, it's just that I don't like it."
Mao Shunjun was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Director Kang's words are really interesting. Can you tell me how you thought of filming "Mr. Zombie". You should know that Shaw Brothers suffered a lot in filming a zombie film a few years ago. Since then, the Hong Kong film industry has determined that zombie films are dead. Why do you dare to touch this taboo type?"
Lishi and TVB have been fighting each other. As Lishi's host, Mao Shunjun never forgot to make a show.
Kang Jianfei began to show off: "I don't think any type of movie is dead, it depends on how the director shoots it. I read few books, don't have much knowledge, and don't understand what art is. So "Movie Biweekly" said that I am the representative of director Namcháo, which is a ridiculous thing. I made movies purely to make money, but if I want to make money for a long time, I can't fool the audience. You can't mess it up and trick the audience into the cinema, because you can cheat once and twice, but you can't cheat three times. Audiences are not fools, everyone is very smart. Only when you shoot the movies well can you make others willing to pay for tickets. The same is true for zombie films. I put myself in the viewer's perspective and think about what movies I like to watch when I spend money in the cinema, so I combined elements such as zombies, female ghosts, comedy, horror, kung fu, etc., and then showed them to the audience in layers. This is the origin of the creation of "Mr. Zombie".
"Playing" Mao Shunjun took the lead in applauding, "Director Kang's remarks are so good that you can tell that you are a responsible director and are very responsible to the audience and the movies. So are you planning to film the sequel to "Mr. Zombie"? Many viewers expressed their desire to watch the sequel."
Kang Jianfei said: "Of course the sequel will be filmed, but not now. Because I heard that there are many zombie films that follow the trend, I don't want to hang out with them. "Happy Ghost" also needs to film sequels, and everyone will see them after the New Year."
"This is good news for movie fans who like "Happy Ghosts". "Mao Shunjun turned the topic to Li Fengfeng, "Miss Li, I heard that you are Director Kang's apprentice, what kung fu are you learning?"
Li Feng waved his palm and said, "Feihe Fist."
Mao Shunjun asked: "At that day at the premiere, Director Kang shè the apple on your head with a flying knife. Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm afraid of death," Li Saifeng said and smiled at Kang Jianfei, "But I believe in Master."
Chapter completed!