Chapter 946 Shooting in progress

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Reis Kareem yawned and turned over. Except Sophie Marceau was still sleeping on the bed, the others had already been washing up.

It was only 7 o'clock at this time. If she had to be busy filming, she would have wanted to stay for a while, after all, she was very tired last night.

Brigitte Lin is about to leave after breakfast, and she has been living a very leisurely life in the past few years.In addition to raising children at home, she also learned pottery and painting, occasionally writing a few essays, reading novels and movies to pass the time.

Living like this is exactly the dream of Brigitte Lin’s Girls’ Generation. It would be even more fulfilling if she could have a husband from the Gu family. Although Kang Jianfei was fickle and busy, she still loved her very much. Moreover, she was always thrown away by Kang Jianfei, so she had nothing to be satisfied with.

My daughter Kang Jiale is already 7 years old and will go to elementary school in a few months. Brigitte Lin has been busy choosing schools recently. She has to run a good school condition and is a little remote, so as not to harass the paparazzi all day long.

Today's breakfast was made by Aishwarya and was full of curry flavor.

Brigitte Lin felt that the taste was good, but Michelle Reis was quite disliked. She called her assistant and asked her to go to the Ritz-Carlton hotel to buy breakfast. The price was not expensive, only two or three hundred yuan, but the style was obviously different.

Because I had to go to the crew in a hurry, Kang Jianfei quickly finished his breakfast.Li Jiaxin had to follow and called when she went out: Ashe, just send my breakfast to the crew. Remember not to get cold.

Kang Jianfei said speechlessly: Just be hungry.

Li Jiaxin acted coquettishly and said: Brother Fei, I can’t get used to it.

Kang Jianfei was too lazy to pay attention to this charming bitch, so he asked the driver to drive, and Aishwarya leaned on him to make up for her sleep.

The car soon arrived at its destination, and there was even traffic jam outside the Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City.In such a remote place, because of the prosperity of the film industry, it is extremely congested every morning.

Although the Hong Kong film market has been sluggish, the film and television city is getting better and better.

Although DreamWorks is cutting production, and many small and medium-sized film companies are going bankrupt, in fact, the annual output of Hong Kong films continues to increase.

In 1992, the annual production of Hong Kong films was 376, increased to 426 in 1993, and reached 589 in 1994.

Why does this happen?

Because the average number of days of Hong Kong films is shortening, countless cinemas are short of film sources.Some young directors can easily invest 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, and then attract a few actors and behind the scenes, and they can make a movie in half a month.

These junk movies were never going to be released in theaters before.

But now I don’t care about so many of them, I can only play a movie, but the screening room is empty anyway.

As for the investment, most of it can be recovered. If the box office is not good, you can sell VCDs.

Today's Hong Kong audiences basically encounter bad movies as soon as they enter the theater, which greatly dampens their enthusiasm for watching movies.

However, for Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, the increase in production volume is a good phenomenon.

Every day, there are endless crews renting studios and costume streets, and they also have to rent shooting equipment and costume props, which makes a lot of money.

The so-called lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the overseas box office of Hong Kong films is also very impressive, but it has been declining year by year.

In 1992, 40% of the total box office in Taiwan contributed by Hong Kong films, the proportion of South Korea was 13%. In Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and other places, the market share of Hong Kong films was also around 8%.

By last year, this data had dropped sharply, with 32% remaining in Taiwan and only 9% remaining in South Korea.

However, because Jiahe and Oriental Film actively build theaters in Southeast Asia, the market share of Hong Kong films in these regions has increased, with Malaysia increasing from 78% to 15%, and Indonesia and Singapore also increasing to more than 10%.

This is enough to show the glory of Hong Kong films. It is probably unimaginable in 20 years. In the conservative and xenophobic South Korea, one-tenth of its annual box office sales are sold in Chinese films.

The crew members have arrived one after another in the underground parking lot of the Film and Television City.Especially the makeup artists and zombie extras, they have already laid a foundation, so they can only come to guide and correct their makeup.

Tsui Hark was already sitting there to draw a story version. This guy’s hand-drawn storyboard is awesome, and he can feel like a blockbuster movie in just a few strokes.

Zhao Wenzhuo squatted beside Tsui Hark and asked questions and suggestions from time to time. This young man still loves to study, and Tsui Hark is very optimistic about him.

His cousin Wu Ruiqing divorced two years ago. In order to seize the custody of his son, he paid his ex-wife 2 million yuan in one lump sum, and he would have to pay 6,000 yuan in living expenses every month from now on.

The once weak boy is over thirty years old and has become mature and sophisticated.

When Kang Jian flew to the crew, Wu Ruiqing was criticizing the venue manager: What are you doing? It’s almost turned on. You tell me that there is not enough dry ice?If it is not enough, hurry up and get Ah!

The venue manager said with a bitter face: The logistics dispatch of the film and television city made a mistake and gave our dry ice to other crews.There is not enough spares in the warehouse because our usage is too large.

There is a plot in "Resident Evil", where the ground is filled with white mist, all of which require dry ice to create effects.And it takes more than ten hours to beat, and the dry ice consumption is very large.

Wu Ruiqing said depressedly: Then hurry up and go to the dry ice manufacturing factory to pick up the goods.

The field manager said: The goods have been shipped there, but it may take two hours to ship.You know, it's rush hour and the road is very congested.

How long can the dry ice be used here?Wu Ruiqing asked.

The venue manager said: It will be used up in less than an hour.

Wu Ruiqing immediately ran over to explain the situation to Kang Jianfei. Kang Jianfei smiled and said: It's okay, I can't wait long, so I'll be busy with you.

The crew is a large team, and all kinds of accidents can happen anytime and anywhere.

The problem of dry ice has not been solved yet, and a zombie actor with a heavy scene has gone to the hospital with stomachache.

Kang Jianfei could only take care of the venue and ask the other party to put on makeup quickly, and let the action guide tell him the opera while putting on makeup.

Since we want to make Hong Kong films, we naturally cannot lose the fine tradition of Hong Kong films.

In Kang Jianfei's version of "Resident Evil", martial arts scenes have been added in many places, especially the heroine Alice, who is more sharp and powerful than the original version, which is also the reason why Li Jiaxin is urgently trained.

Of course, the movements designed by martial arts guides tend to be realistic modern fighting.

Kang Jianfei dared not let Tsui Hark intervene in this area, for fear that Old Monster Xu would make "Resident Evil" into an urban martial arts film that can fly to the sky and escape from the earth.

Tsui Hark's mission is more about creating pictures and atmosphere. He is very imaginative about this. He took some scenes of 2D "A Chinese Ghost Story" and some scenes with a 3D effect.

Everything was ready at about 9 a.m., and Ji-xin Reis, Tom Cruise, Aishwarya and others stood in front of the camera, and the recorder called:

"Resident Evil" 8 scenes, 3 shots once, Akesh!

A zombie with half of her face limped towards the leading actors.

Everyone was so scared that they retreated one after another, and someone fired several shots, but the zombies rushed to the front. Li Jiaxin, who was hanging on the wire, kicked the zombie away.

Click, it's too ugly to land, come back!

If you want to make a good movie, a good director and a good actor are essential, but more importantly, money and time.And these two things are exactly what Hong Kong films lack today.

Take last year's "The Fall of Hong Kong" as an example, which tells a story that happened when Japan invaded Hong Kong.

The screenwriter wants to portray the little people in the big era, and the interweaving of family, family and love. If this kind of subject is well filmed, it will be very excellent and may even win awards internationally.

This film is produced by Wang Jing's studio, and Wang Fatty himself serves as the screenwriter and producer.

For this, two porn stars Qiu Yueqing (the other time and space is Qiu Shuzhen) and Ye Yuqing were invited to appear, and a group of powerful actors such as Luo Jiaying and Xu Jinjiang joined.

When the film was released, the promotional slogan was China's Schindler's list, which really attracted a lot of attention.

However, the shooting cost is insufficient and the production time is limited, and the director Qian Wenqi's level is relatively rough. In the end, a good theme was ruined and turned into an inappropriate level 3 film.

The most hateful thing is that it is not qualified as a level 3 film because there are no nude shots, which makes the salty and wet guys excitedly running into the theater curse.

The reason for all is because of the filmmakers’ eagerness for quick success.

The investor urged the film to finish the filming and release it quickly to make a profit. The producer and director both regarded this as a production task. Anyway, just make the film, and it doesn't matter whether the quality is good or not.

Perhaps Wang Jing really wanted to make the movie well. He even brought his father to interview him, telling his personal experience of the fall of Hong Kong, and adding it to the ending of the movie to add a sense of history.

Unfortunately, the investment budget was insufficient and the shooting time was stuck. Wang Jing was also a clever woman, so she could only make a rag to hand in the job.

If the funds of this "The Fall of Hong Kong" are enough, if McDonald McDonald is the director, it will definitely be another excellent Hong Kong film, but there is no if.

Kang Jianfei's biggest convenience in filming is that he has money and has plenty of time. No one dares to say anything if he wants to film for a year.

The production budget of "Resident Evil" is HK$300 million, of which Tom Cruise's pay is US$10 million, and the combined pay of other actors is less than US$5 million. The remaining 180 million Hong Kong dollars are practical for shooting and production.

In such a money-burning movie, except Kang Jianfei, the only one in Hong Kong dares to play like this.

Even the old monster Xu Hark and Xu are not good, because the investors are already cautious and dare not spend money randomly. Jackie Chan's courage to shoot is the confidence brought by overseas box office.

From April to July, three months passed, and Resident Evil was only two-thirds of the progress.

In addition, the preparations have been taking half a year since the beginning of December last year, which is unimaginable in Hong Kong today (King of Sunglasses said that the picture of Tusson was broken).

Jackie Chan's new film was only planned after the Spring Festival, and it was filmed in Japan throughout the entire filming. Now it has been completed later, and we will only wait for early August to log in to the summer season.

In comparison, Kang Jianfei's speed is too slow.

The slower he was, the more he followed Kang Jianfei's colleagues and movie fans, the more he looked forward to it, and everyone knew that he was going to do big news again this time.

As the summer season gets closer, major companies have stepped up their efforts to promote movies.

The most popular one is naturally "Thunder Fire" starring Jackie Chan and Anita Yuen.

The second is Stephen Chow's "The Variety Star Lord". This film is a money-making film produced by Yongsheng Film Company. Before Stephen Chow's "The God of Cookery" was written, Xiang Huaqiang invited him to be the starring actor.

"The Star Lord" is definitely among the top three in the bad movies made by Stephen Chow. The plot is a mess, and the jokes are extremely boring.

The only contribution of this movie is probably to enable the newcomer Gigi Leung to succeed.

This summer, Stephen Chow has another movie "Returning to the Soul" released.

This film is produced by Run Run Shaw's Metropolitan Company. The style is imitated by "This Killer Is Not Cold". The theme is an absurd ghost movie. It is a new bottle of old wine, and the quality is also worrying.

"The Variety Star Lord" and "Returning to the Soul" were both filmed by Stephen Chow within three and a half months.

In less than four months, Stephen Chow had no choice but to make two garbage works without sincerity. He had to make back the money he lost in "A Chinese Odyssey".

These two dramas are invested by others, and he only needs to get a pay, which is a business that is stable and profitable.

There is another movie worth paying attention to during the summer season, which is "The Big Adventurer" directed by Lin Lingdong and starring Andy Lau, Kwan Zhilin and Wu Qianlian.

This movie was also invested by Yongsheng Film Company. Andy Lau is similar to Stephen Chow. The movie he invested in himself has suffered a lot and can only make movies for others everywhere to fill in the gaps.

As for the summer films produced by DreamWorks, one is the art film "Woman Forty" directed by Ann Hui, and the other is "Young and Dangerous" series "One Hand Covering the Sky" which was scolded by the newspaper.

There are also "The Birthday of the Immortal", "The Savior", "I Want to Live", and "The Fairy Music Piaopiao", which are all small-scale fights. Although Tony Leung, Chang Ah Jia, Anita Yuen, Aaron Kwok and others starred, everyone is not optimistic about the box office.

Especially Tony Leung, his current situation is very embarrassing.

He has long stopped filming TV series and has decided to fight to the death of the movie.

He has starred in a series of art films that he won awards everywhere and even made a big name in Europe, but he is a loser in Hong Kong.

The films starring Tony Leung in the past two years are one of the biggest names, but one is one of them failing. He has almost become synonymous with box office poison, and his pay is not even as much as Anita Yuen.

It is worth mentioning that Kelly Chen, the rich girl’s journey is extremely smooth.

As soon as she debuted, she signed a contract with Fengxing Records. Before she officially released a song, she was invited to make a movie. She also acted with Aaron Kwok to be the heroine, which made the second- and third-tier actresses envious.

The funniest thing is that Kelly Chen can also tell reporters openly: I am the actress who is least afraid of being discussed about unspoken rules in Hong Kong.

Because her father is rich, the movie "Xianle Piaopiao" she recently starred in is that her father has invested in it, and it is specifically invested for her!

This world is very unfair, and it is so annoying that people compare themselves.

In addition to the summer movie, the annual beauty pageant that attracts the attention of all Hong Kong citizens is the annual beauty pageant.

Miss Hong Kong and Miss Oriental have just completed the semi-finals, and their respective top 12 beauties have been released. Recently, they have frequently shown their faces on TVB and Feng Huáng.

This year's Hong Kong Miss is really unremarkable, and only one mixed-race boy, Li Jiahui, is more eye-catching, and her overall quality is not even as good as last year.

Miss Oriental is slightly better, especially No. 6 contestant Yang Gongru, who is considered the most beautiful beauty pageant this year.

On August 9, on the fourth day of Jackie Chan's new film "Thunder Fire", Kang Jianfei asked the crew to finish work in the afternoon. He was going to attend this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant final.