Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, a small screening room.

Kang Jianfei found a place to sit down with a big sword, and smiled and said, "I didn't expect the later stage of "Shushan" to be completed so soon. I thought it would be delayed until at least October."

"Is this fast? I did it for more than two months in the later stage alone, okay?" Xu Ke shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Before this, I never thought that I would make a movie myself for more than a year."

In addition to Kang Jianfei, there are also the male and female protagonists of "Shushan" He Jiajin and Li Saifeng, Mrs. Xu Shi Nansheng, and the gold medal editor Mai Zishan of DreamWorks.

Regarding the candidate for the male lead in "Shushan", Kang Jianfei initially liked Zheng Shaoqiu, but unfortunately Zheng Shaoqiu withdrew halfway. Then Kang Jianfei wanted Zhang Guorong to play Yu Yingnan, but the cycle of filming in mainland China was too long. Zhang Guorong wanted to stay in Hong Kong to make records and make movies, but he could not make any extra periods.

In the end, Kang Jianfei simply ignored it and asked Xu Ke to choose the male lead by himself. At this time, Jin Chaoqun ran back to Taiwan, and the third part of "Bao Qingtian" could not be filmed for the time being. He Jiajin, a professional Zhan Zhao official, got free for a while and was spotted by Xu Ke, who was looking for actors everywhere. He unexpectedly won the prize and became the male lead in "Shushan".

Now, "Shushan" played in the screening room has just been edited for the third time, and the opening of DreamWorks has not been cut yet.

At the beginning of the movie, there were white clouds in the mountains. The camera looked down at the earth from a high altitude. Suddenly, a monk in the robe stepped on his feet to fly his sword and came out of the clouds. In a blink of an eye, he landed on a Taoist temple on the top of the mountains.

This shot, which only lasted more than ten seconds, cost more than 1.2 million Hong Kong dollars to rent a professional aerial camera from the United States, then applied to the mainland helicopter through the Chinese film co-production company to shoot in real scenes in Qingcheng Mountain and Zhangjiajie, and then returned to the studio to take pictures. Finally, it was synthesized through traditional special effects and the current simple computer special effects later. Even the Taoist temple on Qingcheng Mountain was renovated by Xu Ke contacted someone.

From Kang Jianfei's perspective twenty years later, the special effects of this section of "Shushan" are very rough, but they are very shocking for others.

Although He Jiajin and Li Saifeng are the male and female protagonists of the movie, this is the first time they saw the later scenes today, and they were stunned by the magnificent and beautiful scenes, just like the American people first saw "Star Wars".

Kang Jianfei was not picky either and nodded, "No, no flowers have gone out for tens of millions."

Shi Nansheng flattered at the right time: "In the whole of Hong Kong, only Mr. Kang dared to spend tens of millions to shoot a special-effect big cast."

According to Kang Jianfei's original idea, the shooting cost of the first part of "Shushan" was set at about HK$40 million. As a result, the budget was increased three times in a row, and the final shooting cost was more than 63 million.

Last time Kang Jianfei and Jiahe collaborated on filming "The Deadly Express" and spent more than 50 million yuan on budget, but the director and starring paid a large part of the film. Moreover, the logistics expenditure for filming in Italy was very expensive, so there was a super production of more than 50 million yuan.

But "Shushan" is different. Director Xu Ke took the initiative to give up the director's pay and promised Kang Jianfei that he would only get the box office share after he recovered his entire budget, and he would not get a penny if he didn't make money. The entire crew had the highest pay. Although He Jiajin was very famous for filming TV series, the pay for the movie was extremely low, and Zhao Yazhi, as a supporting role, did not get much salary.

Moreover, most of the members of the crew are mainland filmmakers, who take less money and do more work, and eat, drink, defecation and urination are not much money. Even calling military helicopters only symbolically gave 100,000 yuan.

"Shushan" spent more than 63 million yuan on budget. Most of it was spent on special effects production, and of course, the money spent on film also cost a lot.

After the entire video was played, a burst of applause rang out in the screening room.

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "The overall effect is still good, but unfortunately the plot is a bit weak."

Xu Ke explained: "There is no way. As we planned, the length of the film is at least three hours. In order to highlight the shockingness of the special effects picture and the compactness of the plot, I selectively deleted some not very important plots, which reduced the length of the film to two hours."

"That's it. "Shushan" is scheduled for Christmas. Contact the publicity department and start publicity and hype around October." Kang Jianfei ordered. Although later blockbusters began to be promoted one or two years earlier, the large-scale publicity was still a while before the release.

Shi Nansheng suddenly interrupted and suggested: "Mr. Kang, do you think you should take it to a foreign film festival before the screening in Hong Kong?"

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "This one can be found. Which movies do you think are good to go to for exhibition?"

"The Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals have passed, but the Montreal Film Festival and Venice Film Festival in Canada are about to be held."

Kang Jianfei recalled the two film festivals and said, "It seems too late to go in time."

"The Montreal Film Festival will be held next week, and it will definitely be too late, but the Venice Film Festival will be more than half a month left," said Shi Nansheng. "After the first rough edit of "Shushan", I sent the trailer to the Venice Film Festival, and I have agreed to participate in the exhibition of "Shushan".

"Old Xu, you have found a smart housekeeper," Kang Jianfei joked at Xu Ke, "Shushan shows Eastern aesthetics and philosophy. I don't look forward to the European and American markets. I only plan to take it to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan in October, so I asked you to make the film before October. Since Miss Shi has contacted the Venice Film Festival, you might as well try it out."

Shi Nansheng said: "It turns out that Mr. Kang had a long plan, and I was troublesome. If "Shushan" is not popular at the Venice Film Festival, it may be detrimental to its future release in Asia."

Kang Jianfei said: "This is not the case, at most it is not to the appetite of the European and American public. Such excellent special effects production may not have a high rating for commercial films, but the critics should still give them a certain affirmation."

After talking about "Shushan", Xu Ke suddenly said: "Mr. Kang, I went to the food stall with John yesterday and asked me to say sorry to you on his behalf."

Kang Jianfei asked in confusion: "Who is john?"

"Of course it's that bastard Wu Yusen." Shi Nansheng said with an unhappy look on his face.

When Wu Yusen was in trouble, Kang Jianfei pulled him into DreamWorks and served as the deputy director of two movies for Kang Jianfei. Then he was assigned by Kang Jianfei to direct "The True Color of Heroes 2", which gave the opportunity to turn the tables.

At that time, Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and his wife had a good relationship with Wu Yusen. From the beginning, they recommended Wu Yusen to Kang Jianfei. Now, after Wu Yusen made a comeback with "The True Heroes 2", he actually rebelled from DreamWorks and cooperated with Taiwanese scholars to form a new Mileage Film Company. How can this not make Shi Nansheng angry?

"Don't take such small things to heart. Be prepared to go to Venice to participate in the exhibition." Kang Jianfei looked like he was smiling and indifferent, and seemed not to take such small things to heart.

In fact, the establishment of Xinbao Cinema and the possible large-scale entry of Taiwanese capital in the future have little impact on DreamWorks. Today, DreamWorks has a fixed production volume of more than 16 films per year, basically all the annual schedules of Oriental Cinemas. Even if it is freed for one or two months, you can just put some movies from small companies in to deal with it.

There are also many directors at DreamWorks, not without Zeng Zhiwei, Wu Yusen and Li Xiuxian, Wang Jing, McDonald, McDonald, Chen Xunqi, Xu Ke, Huang Tailai, Yu In-tai, Zhong Zhiwen, Xu Anhua, Yu Kanping. There are also Li Lichi, Liu Zhenwei and others who have not started to shine, as well as Kang Jianfei himself, and Xu Xiaoming, who can change careers in making movies at any time in the TV production department. DreamWorks' director reserves are very sufficient.

After Cai Songlin, the messenger, muddled the waters of the Hong Kong film industry, the biggest affected were the New Art City and Princess Jin. If New Art City did not release a few good movies quickly, Princess Jin would have to spare the golden period in order to make a profit and wave to more independent film companies.

The second is Jiahe, which strongly supports the independent director system. Since Jiahe did not sign contracts with those independent companies. Cheng Long and Sammo Hung's movies have dominated Jiahe's good schedules for many years, so many satellite companies that have cooperated with before will go to Xinbao and Princess Jin. In this way, although Jiahe still sells well in box office during good schedules, the income from ordinary schedules will be unsustainable, and the normal operation of Jiahe theaters will be affected to a certain extent.

Of course, after at least one year and a half years of transformation and running-in, the Hong Kong film industry will become more active, and independent film companies can freely choose to cooperate with major theaters. Instead, due to the increase in production volume and freedom of screening, the box office competition between films will become more intense in the future.

Kang Jianfei was not worried about this at all. After being banned by the Taiwan authorities for more than half a year, the Taiwan News Bureau and the Electricity Inspection Office began to turn a blind eye again. Films starring actors from Oriental Entertainment Agency, unless the movie clearly has the word Dreamworks printed, ordinary films will not be troubled when they enter Taiwan.

Therefore, major Hong Kong companies began to invite actors from Oriental Entertainment agencies to make films. For example, Debao Film Company's "Happy Adventure" invited Li Lizhen, Wen Bixia and Ng Junru, while Sammo Hung, Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca were preparing for "The Rich Train", also invited three actors from Oriental Entertainment agencies, namely Guan Zhilin, Zheng Wenya and Dadao Yugali.

Kang Jianfei holds high-quality actor resources and countless classic scripts in his hand, so he is not afraid of competition at all.

However, Kang Jianfei is tired of copying Chinese films, and is about to finish filming "A Chinese Ghost Story" next, and then change to several classic foreign films into Chinese films to play with.

After coming out of the screening room, Li Saifeng kept a certain distance from Kang Jianfei, but as soon as she got in the car, she couldn't wait to step on Kang Jianfei's body, bit Kang Jianfei's lips and kissed passionately.

Li Saifeng is petite, but her chest is absolutely materialistic. Due to her long-term training suit, her waist and legs are flexible and powerful, which is enough to bring Kang Jianfei a different enjoyment.

The car slowly drove away from the administrative building. Although Li Saifeng was careful, Kang Jianfei was more dazzling than the stars in the star-studded Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. Many people saw her getting into Kang Jianfei's car.

This inevitably caused all kinds of discussion, but more women were filled with a sense of sourness. No matter which country's entertainment industry, the most common one was a one-time power and sex transaction. For those guys who were random and unspoken rules, Kang Jianfei was already very picky and would raise the woman after going to bed. This was simply a responsible "good man" for many women.

Weng Meiling sat in her second-hand car and said to Wang Shuxian in the passenger seat: "Xiaoxian, you are well-developed, but I forgot about me."

"I'm going to be developed long ago, so I have to wait until now?" Wang Shuxian said while chewing cookies. She was in a very happy mood recently. The popularity of "The Gambler" has made Wang Shuxian, who is the heroine in it, so famous, although she is just a vase role in the film.

"You don't know yet?" Weng Meiling asked.

Wang Shuxian asked blankly: "What do you know?"

Weng Meiling said speechlessly: "Now everyone in the company is rumoring that you are the heroine of Mr. Kang's next movie."

"No way." Wang Shuxian's heart thumped when he spoke, and remembered Kang Jianfei's promise when he first came to Hong Kong, saying that he would make a movie for her to practice her acting skills for one or two years.

"So you need to be developed," Weng Meiling pointed to the direction of the gate, "Look at Li Saifeng, she just finished filming a big cast of tens of millions, and she will definitely be very popular after it is released."

Wang Chuxian whispered: "I heard that Mr. Kang and Li Saifeng are very close, very close."

Weng Meiling smiled ambiguously and said, "So you have to work harder and take this opportunity to get to know Mr. Kang well. I heard that Ye Zimei made a movie with Mr. Kang. Now she lives in a high-end leapfrog apartment in Mong Kok. She drives a luxury car worth more than 300,000 yuan when she goes out. It's so good that she's not sure where she goes."

"Go to the side, I'm not that kind of woman!" Wang Shuxian began to scratch Weng Meiling's itch in anger, and the two girls finally calmed down after having sex.

Weng Meiling finally started the car and said, "By the way, is that Mr. Liu still chasing you? It seems that I haven't seen anyone recently."

Wang Chuxian took a bite of the biscuit hard: "Hmph, that stupid thread, I thought I could soak the horses in a sports car."

Weng Meiling said: "I think Mr. Liu is very good. I have been chasing him for several months. It is rare for someone else's rich young master to be so infatuated."

"I was a little moved at first, so I agreed to go out for dinner with him. As a result, what happened?" Wang Shuxian couldn't help laughing when he spoke.

Weng Meiling asked, "What happened?"

Wang Shuxian laughed and said, "He invited me to a luxury French restaurant, but when he paid the bill, he didn't have enough money to pay, and it was still the meal I paid."

Weng Meiling asked in surprise: "Their family heard that there are billions, how could they have no money to pay the bill?"
Chapter completed!