366 [Knife sawing a big tree]
In late May 1983, Zhang Jianting's "Seven Days of Mistakes" was officially released.
In another time and space, this movie is the stepping stone for Shaw Pictures to switch from martial arts films to urban comedy, and it makes a big box office profit at low cost. It is a rare highlight of Shaw’s two years before the closure of its business.
Unfortunately, Kang Jianfei invested in "Seven Days of Fraud" very "wisely", and this movie has nothing to do with Shaw Brothers since then.
In terms of main actors, the male lead is still played by Kenny Chung, but the female lead is replaced by Ye Tong to Chung Chuhong, which greatly increases the appeal to the audience. As for Zhang Guorong and Li Yafeng, they are just guest appearances and do not have many scenes.
On the first day of the release of "Seven Days of Mistakes", the box office was only considered pretty good, but the attendance rate rose sharply in the following days. In the new era, 22 theaters were released at the same time, with an average attendance rate of 80%. Even if it is in a good schedule, it is difficult to achieve such results.
In less than a week, the box office of "Seven Days of Mistake" has exceeded 5 million, causing the Hong Kong media and film industry to shatter all the glasses.
The release of "The Seven Days of Mistake" includes Shaw Brothers' "Fengshen Jie" and Siyuan Film's "Retired Detective" and so on. Among them, "The Seven Days of Mistake" fell into the picture after five days of its release, and "The Seven Days of Mistake" was released for two weeks. The performance of "The Seven Days of Mistake" was so unremarkable that half a month later, and it was still full of momentum. The box office soared and broke through the 10 million mark, and it was still making money.
This is not a good time for summer, Christmas, etc., and the box office of "Seven Days of Mistake" has become so good.
Some professionals predict that "Seven Days of Mistake" will receive at least 15 million yuan in local box office, and it is certain that it ranks among the top ten in Hong Kong this year.
Chen Bosen wrote a film review for "Seven Days of Fraud" in "Movie Biweekly": "The heroine's husband owes a lot of debts and runs away, and the government magistrate sent a guard to monitor the woman for 24 hours. The poor guard lives in the same room with the bankrupt abandoned wife, the man and the widow. He gradually turns from fighting enemies to dewy couples...
This is really a cliché story. No matter the characters or plots, there is no breakthrough at all, and the ending lacks a sense of pride. It is simply too dull. However, Zhang Jianting, the screenwriter and director, can grasp the details and perfectly play it, and play extraordinary effects in the ordinary, making the original ordinary story richer... "
The report of the "Business Daily" changed its perspective: "Last year, Chen Xunqi and Gao Zhisen defected to Princess Jin, which had a great impact on DreamWorks. Gao Zhisen continued Kang Jianfei's famous work "Happy Ghost" series, and is the leading campus comedy director in Hong Kong, and Chen Xunqi is Kang Jianfei's capable arm. At that time, some people predicted that the departure of these two generals of DreamWorks would greatly hurt DreamWorks. But this situation did not happen. McDonald successfully took over "Happy Ghosts". Yu In-tae also performed well this year. Now Zhang Jianting's appearance has enriched the DreamWorks' director lineup..."
In any case, Zhang Jianting became a hit. With the movie "Seven Days of Mistakes", he directly ranked among the top commercial directors in Hong Kong.
Kang Jianfei was in a particularly refreshing mood. He didn't know that "Seven Days of Mistake" was the fifth place in the annual box office this year in the original time and space. He only knew that this movie should be very popular. But the box office was so high that it still surprised Kang Jianfei, which was a rare surprise.
When the test film of "Seven Days of Mistake", the theater managers of the New Era theater chain were not optimistic about the movie. Basically, they only arranged seven days of release. However, the box office reaction later forced the theater merchants to modify the schedule and some small company movies scheduled to be released later, all of which made the way for "Seven Days of Mistake".
Judging from the current attendance rate, it is completely fine to stay on the screen for a month.
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Zhao Yazhi was wearing a white dress, leaning against the sofa and peeling grapes, her graceful figure curve was fully revealed. She said while watching TV: "A Fei, my contract on TVB is expired in less than half a year."
Kang Jianfei wrapped himself in a bathrobe, stretched his waist and walked over and said, "After the expiration date, please transfer the film and television contracts and the agency contracts. I am not as stingy as the wireless station."
"I didn't think about money. I just felt it was awkward to stay on TVB." Zhao Yazhi gave up a piece of the sofa and let Kang Jianfei sit down, while he rested his head on Kang Jianfei's thigh and ate grapes.
Zhao Yazhi continued to stay on TVB, and since "Chu Liuxiang" was broadcast in Taiwan two years ago, Zhao Yazhi and Zheng Shaoqiu both became famous in Taiwan. How popular is "Chu Liuxiang" in Taiwan? At that time, even the funerals and funerals were Chu Liuxiang's theme song. Zheng Shaoqiu's trip to Taipei also caused traffic jams.
Two years ago, Zhao Yazhi's film pay for only about 100,000 yuan in Hong Kong, but Taiwan's film company offered a pay of 250,000 Hong Kong dollars to ask her to make a movie. Unfortunately, TVB refused to let anyone go, so Zhao Yazhi only went to Taiwan to shoot a movie and was locked in Hong Kong. For an actor, this is really a very depressing thing.
Zheng Shaoqiu is similar. Because he became popular in Taiwan, he has more film appointments than Zhao Yazhi. However, without filming two movies in Taiwan, Zheng Shaoqiu was called back to Hong Kong by TVB to save the scene, which made the film companies in Taiwan very dissatisfied.
Kang Jianfei pushed away a trace of hair from Zhao Yazhi's face, threw a grape into her mouth, and said, "As long as you come to DreamWorks, I promise to play a big show for you."
Zhao Yazhi turned over and said, "You separate the TV production business from DreamWorks, and it seems that the ratings of the recent are not very good."
"Everything is done has ups and downs. It is impossible for the ratings to keep tvb's ratings." Kang Jianfei smiled indifferently. After he separated Phoenix TV's TV series and variety show production business, the TV station's cost expenditure was directly reduced by half. However, everything has its pros and cons, which also made Phoenix TV's reactions when producing TV series, and the ratings were gradually suppressed.
Moreover, after the production and broadcasting separation, since the supplier and the purchaser are one-on-one, the TV series producers have a slack mentality - they don’t have to worry about not being able to sell anyway, and the TV series produced tends to decline in quality.
Huang Xizhao has responded to Kang Jianfei many times, and even said that if this continues, the TV station will go directly to Taiwan to buy films, and will no longer buy films from DreamWorks TV Production Department.
Kang Jianfei had no choice but to call Xu Xiaoming and scold him, and then set rules that the salary of the employees of the DreamWorks TV production department is directly linked to the ratings of the TV series and variety shows he produced. Each program sets the basic ratings. Once the ratings of any program are lower than the basic points, the corresponding score will be deducted. During the assessment at the end of the year, the bonus will be given according to the score. After the points are deducted, the bonus will be ruined. If the program he has made is lower than the basic ratings for several consecutive periods and there is no special situation that can be forgiven, then the person in charge of the program will either be demoted or get out.
Of course, there are penalties and rewards. If the good programs produced are sold overseas, all relevant personnel will pay generous bonuses at the end of the year.
After these rules were set, the employees of the TV production department immediately became motivated, and the ratings of the program have increased a lot since June.
Zhao Yazhi suddenly remembered something and reminded: "A Fei. I heard that TVB is preparing to create stars and wants to promote a few newcomers."
"Haha, what you are talking about is not Liang Chaowei, Liu Dehua, Tang Zhenye, and others?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.
Zhao Yazhi nodded and said, "It seems that they are just the ones who are already doing promotional planning plans. I think TVB will make a big move this time."
What big moves can be made?
It's just to create the "Five Wireless Tiger Generals". Among the old TV male stars of TVB, Zheng Shaoqiu is now staying in Taiwan more than in Hong Kong. Zhou Runfa resigned to DreamWorks again, Xie Xian and others are too old, so Fang Yihua has to promote newcomers to the top.
Kang Jianfei hugged Zhao Yazhi tightly, sniffed the fragrance on her body and said, "TVB has a big move, I have no plans, just wait and see the show."
Over the past year, the ratings between Phoenix and Wireless have been a win or a loss, but as Phoenix TV's variety show gradually becomes richer, TVB's dominant position in "Happy Tonight" is slowly disappearing.
The average viewership rate of "Happy Tonight" in the past few years has remained above 60%, which is really a terrifying data. After the unremitting efforts of Phoenix Channel, the average viewership rate of "Happy Tonight" in the last quarter is only about 50%. Although it is still far higher than many variety shows on Phoenix Channel, the overall trend is declining, just because its loyal audience is slowly diverted to Phoenix Channel.
As for TV series, Phoenix TV has been slightly inferior to TVB in the past month. What Kang Jianfei mentioned is naturally a fine TV series that is being secretly planned.
The Jin Chaoqun that Kang Jianfei was looking for finally appeared. When Yu Kanping found him, Jin Chaoqun had just been promoted from a villain actor to the show host on China Television.
I heard that DreamWorks asked him to shoot TV series, and Bao Qingtian was also full of righteousness. Jin Chaoqun immediately quit the hosting job of the bad show and ran to Hong Kong happily. He is a stage drama actor and has also studied some dramas. He has been in Taiwan for more than ten years but can only play villains. He doesn't have to say how uncomfortable he feels. How could he miss this good opportunity?
Two days ago, Kang Jianfei met Jin Chaoqun. The only thing that made Kang Jianfei dissatisfied was that Bao Qingtian’s belly was not big enough and there was not enough flesh on his face. So before the filming of the scene started, Kang Jianfei assigned a task to Jin Chaoqun, asking him to gain at least 10 kilograms of weight within a month.
Nowadays, DreamWorks' props department is already producing costumes and props for "Bao Qingtian". Regarding its influence in the global Chinese, "Bao Qingtian" even surpasses "The Legend of the New White Snake", so Kang Jianfei is very confident in the ratings of "Bao Qingtian".
"Ah!" Zhao Yazhi was leaning comfortably in Kang Jianfei's arms, and suddenly the man was picked up by the waist. After she exclaimed, she hooked Kang Jianfei's neck with her arms, and was carried into the bedroom by her sweetheart and pressed onto the bed.
His breasts were being ruthlessly ravaged by a man. Zhao Yazhi's face gradually turned red. He stared at Kang Jianfei charmingly and said, "Big Bad guy, it's only nine o'clock, you're just thinking about doing that kind of thing."
"Who told Sister Zhi that you are so tempting?" Kang Jianfei pulled the hem of her dress at night and found that Zhao Yazhi's private parts were already wet, so he pushed her underwear away and couldn't wait to step in.
"Be gentle, um..." Zhao Yazhi felt that his body was filled with it. His little hands were stroking Kang Jianfei's waist and back, and finally hugged the man tightly, making a happy moan in his mouth.
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As July approaches, the concert of the Happy Girls' Red Hall has ended successfully. The main movies that will be released in the summer season of major theaters have also begun to promote before the release.
"Seven Days of Mistake" was finally released in Hong Kong, with a cumulative box office of HK$16.3 million. The cost of this movie is only 1.6 million, of which the pay of Zhong Zhentao and Zhong Chuhong account for a large proportion.
Such a terrifying cost and box office ratio is almost the same as Kang Jianfei's "Happy Ghost" back then, and Zhang Jianting has also become the most eye-catching new director this year.
After July, major companies have strengthened their publicity efforts. DreamWorks' "God of Gambling", Shaw's "Shaolin and Wudang", Baohe's "Five Blessings Stars", and New Art City's "Yin and Yang Clash" represent four theaters, and the Hong Kong film industry is suddenly in full swing. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. Read.)
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