Chapter 342: The First Shot of July

Jiang Ran is very satisfied with Du Qifeng's attitude, talented but not arrogant, for such a person who has both ability and proportion, Jiang Ran has no way to be dissatisfied.

"Then I wish us a happy cooperation in the future!" Jiang Ran stretched out his hand and formally invited Du Qifeng.

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang! In the future, I will definitely cooperate well with your work and do a good job in the new project. Du Qifeng forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and replied with a smile.

Jiang Ran nodded, turned his head and instructed Shi Nansheng: "Sister Shi, after you go down, you will sign a contract with Director Du as soon as possible, and let him join the group as soon as possible, our time is relatively tight now." ”

"Director Du, there's no problem on your side, right?" Jiang Ran said, turning his head to look at Du Qifeng.

"There's no problem on my side! Du Qifeng replied immediately.

Jiang Ran nodded, and then said, "Director Du, there is one more thing, I hope you can sign another economic contract with our group." You can consult Director Wang for this question. ”

Hearing this, Du Qifeng turned his head and glanced at Wang Jing, and when he saw him nodding, he immediately stopped hesitating, and readily agreed: "I have no problem, I can sign a contract at any time." ”

Jiang Ran had a satisfied smile on his face when he heard this, and said, "That's good! This matter has been decided. ”

After talking about Du Qifeng, Jiang Ran looked at Wang Jing again and said, "Director Wang, how are you doing over there?" I heard that "Happy Ghost 2" is about to be released. ”

Wang Jing joined Ranfeng Group after the Chinese New Year this year, and then because Lin Jiawen wanted to remake "Break Dance", he handed over the production of "Happy Ghost 2" to Wang Jing, who joined the company.

And Wang Jing did not lose his reputation as a fast gunner, after the movie started, it only took less than a month to complete the shooting task, and this was the result of deliberately suppressing the shooting speed under Jiang Ran's reminder.

It is precisely because of this that the film successfully completed all the production tasks in mid-June, leaving enough time for publicity and distribution to prepare.

"Happy Ghost 2", as the pioneer of Ranfeng Group's summer file this year, has been promoting a large area in Hong Kong since early July, preparing for the official release of the film in mid-July.

Therefore, after Jiang Ran saw Wang Jing, he couldn't help but ask in passing.

Now that the management system of Ranfeng Group has been gradually improved, Jiang Ran no longer needs to worry about everything as he used to do, so he does not have a deep understanding of the specific publicity and distribution work of "Happy Ghost 2".

"Very good!" Wang Jing said with great interest, "The group is planning on the distribution company's side in terms of publicity and distribution, and their arrangements are very professional and meticulous, and our crew only needs to cooperate according to their plan." I think it's a lot easier than when I was at Shaw Brothers, and our publicity is even better. ”

Wang Jing didn't mean to tout, this is his true opinion. When he was at Shaw Brothers, after the film was finished, he didn't worry about the distribution channel.

However, in terms of publicity and stalls, Shaw's relatively rigid system has greatly affected the efficiency of publicity and distribution.

At that time, although Wang Jing's movie box office was good, in the promotion of the film, in order to get the full support of the company, Wang Jing had to spend a lot of effort to communicate with the company.

After all, a company's resources are limited, and Shaw Brothers shoots a very large amount of films every year, so although a junior like Xiang Wang Jing has good results, he can't get much care in the company.

Even, to a certain extent, it will be deliberately suppressed by some veteran directors and producers. Therefore, when Jiang Ran asked this question, Wang Jing praised the distribution company and Ranfeng Group without any words.

Jiang Ran smiled when he heard this, and encouraged: "That's good! Your "Happy Ghost 2" is the first movie released by our group this summer, and it is very important. You must work hard and cooperate with the distribution company to do a good job in the promotion and distribution of the film, and give the company and yourself a good start. ”

In recent years, with the increasing prosperity of the Hong Kong film market, major cinema companies have begun to exert their best resources since July every year, and fired the first shot of competition in the summer file.

This year is the same, just entered July, Golden Princess and New Art City took the lead in starting to exert force, and on July 4, the movie "Four Eyes" was filmed in the Golden Princess Cinema, which fired the first shot of New Art City this summer.

And on July 11, Golden Harvest Company also began to enter the scene, and "Weilong Detective" starring Jackie Chan began to be released in Golden Harvest's theaters, and with Jackie Chan's appeal, it made a good start of more than one million Hong Kong dollars on the same day.

The first film released by Ranfeng Group this summer, "Happy Ghost 2" directed by Wang Jing, was scheduled to be released on the 12th.

As a sequel movie, with the popularity and audience base accumulated in the previous episode, it showed a very good box office momentum at the beginning of its release.

In the first three days of the opening, "Happy Ghost 2", which was filmed on more than 20 screens, achieved a total of 5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in the first weekend, becoming the best performance among the several films released in July.

As for Jiang Ran, he doesn't pay too much attention to the turbulent film market now, and he has now begun to devote himself to the production and shooting of his new film.

After Jiang Ran's new film was put in place by executive director To Qifeng, the formation of the entire crew entered the fast lane, and the formation of the crew and other preliminary preparations were completed in just one week.

On July 18th, the film officially began to hold a huge ceremony to worship God in Hong Kong.

As Jiang Ran's new movie after "Zombie Out of the Cage", this movie has attracted the attention of Hong Kong insiders and the media at the beginning of the project, and therefore, on the day of the film's start, the entire crew can be described as a media gathering.

Du Qifeng hurriedly looked at the media reporters gathered outside the crew, and asked Wu Mengda beside him in great surprise, "Brother Da, are Mr. Jiang's movies so popular?"

Du Qifeng and Wu Mengda were both born in the wireless training class, and they were originally mixed with wireless TV stations, so they are very familiar with each other.

Wu Mengda, as a senior brother, became famous early, but because he was addicted to gambling and drinking, he was not respected by Du Qifeng, and even once thought that Wu Mengda was a mud that could not support the wall.

Therefore, although the two are familiar, they don't have much friendship.

Now that Wu Mengda has changed his ways and successfully signed a contract with Ranfeng Group, his career is on the right track again, Du Qifeng, as a director of a newly signed company, naturally hopes to improve the original cold relationship with Wu Mengda, the senior brother.

Wu Mengda looked at To Qifeng, who originally looked at himself without a straight face, and did not refuse the other party's closeness, and explained with an indifferent smile: "Mr. Jiang is the best film director in Hong Kong now, and the only director who can continue to succeed in the North American market, and the global box office of the last "Zombie Out" is nearly 200 million US dollars. ”

Wu Mengda said, looking at Jiang Ran, who was talking to Zhong Chuhong not far away, with some admiration, "Do you think about the total box office of the whole Hong Kong last year?"

"The box office performance of one of Mr. Kong's films is almost three times that of Hong Kong's annual film box office. When Wu Mengda said this, he looked at Du Qifeng with a smile, "Do you still think today's scene is very big?"

With Mr. Jiang's achievements, he really deserves such courtesy and attention. Du Qifeng sighed with some envy.

Wu Mengda patted Du Qifeng's shoulder kiss and said, "Ah Feng, don't sigh and envy." As soon as you came this time, you served as an executive director under Mr. Jiang, and I don't know how many people are jealous of you. You know, this is a movie that has the potential to be released in the global market. ”

"Hehe!" Du Qifeng laughed a little smugly when he heard this, "This makes sense." I heard Wang Jing say that it seems that this time the executive director, some of the official directors in the group are a little moved, but it seems that Mr. Jiang did not agree. That's what gave me a chance. ”

"It's good that you know!" Wu Mengda glanced at Du Qifeng with some envy, this kid did have shit luck, otherwise how could such an opportunity fall on him.

"Du Qifeng, come here. As the two were talking, Jiang Ran was already shouting on the side, "It's almost time." Hurry up and organize everyone to start worshipping God. ”

"Okay! Mr. Jiang. Du Qifeng listened to Jiang Ran's words, immediately left Wu Mengda, trotted all the way over, and began to organize the crew members to prepare to start the machine and worship God.