On March 28, Ye Qianwen's new record "Falling in Love with a Man Who Doesn't Go Home" was released, and the title songs "Falling in Love with a Person Who Doesn't Go Home" and "Lover's Confidant" were all directed by Kang Jianfei himself.

Ye Qianwen, who could only barely sell platinum sales, caused a sensation as soon as this new record was released, and the two title songs became frequent guests on radio and television, and sold double platinum in just over half a month.

Since it can no longer be sold into the Taiwan market, the market focus of Fengxing Records has shifted, basically no Chinese records, only Cantonese songs are sold in the Nanyang area and Hong Kong.

After the advent of "Falling in Love with a Guy Who Doesn't Go Home", Ye Qianwen also jumped from a quasi-first-line singer to a top singer in Hong Kong, and her status in popular records is second only to Anita Mui and Zhang Guorong.

On April 30, the nostalgic style record "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" produced by popular records was released, and the title song "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" was sung by Ren Jianhui, Bai Xuexian, Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui, and the rest of the album was rearranged by traditional Cantonese opera. is such a record of fried cold rice, it was actually fried hot, and it sold better than Ye Qianwen's new record, and the cumulative number of sales later counted was 270,000 copies.

Not only that, after Fengxing Records transferred the copyright of "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" to Xiongfei Records, this Cantonese record also set off a boom in the Liangguang region, and the song was transmitted to almost every household. Even if you are too poor to afford a radio, you can hear the song on other people's televisions.

Coupled with the birth of "The King of Paintings", which sold more than 60,000 copies in less than a week, Hong Kong seems to see Kang Jianfei's shadow everywhere.

The pro-communist newspaper "Hong Kong Commercial Daily", which has a policy of "talking about business, Hong Kong people's newspapers, loving the country and Hong Kong, and being fair and fair", specially went to the crew of "Wong Fei Hung" and took advantage of Kang Jianfei's rest time to come for an exclusive interview.

Since its inception several decades ago, Hong Kong Commercial Daily has been a left-leaning and neutral newspaper, and its relations with the mainland have always been very good.

If Sing Tao Daily is the only Hong Kong newspaper that can be sold in Taiwan, then Hong Kong Commercial Daily is the only newspaper that has been specially approved to sell in the mainland, but it is currently only distributed in the Pearl River Delta, and the sales volume in the mainland is very small.

"Hong Kong Commercial Daily" has a great influence in Hong Kong's business circles, and the red capitalist Fok Ying-tung must read "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" every day, and Jin Yong's "Blue Blood Sword", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and many martial arts novels by Liang Yusheng were first published in the "Hong Kong Daily" that year.

Whether it was to save face for the Celestial Empire government or to have a good relationship with the "Hong Kong Commercial Daily", Kang Jianfei would not refuse the other party's invitation, and gladly accepted an exclusive interview with the "Hong Kong Commercial Daily".

There is a small wooden pier on the waterfront in Tseung Kwan O, which was originally used by Tiu Keng Leng residents to take boats to Hong Kong Island, and is now used by the crew of "Wong Fei Hung" as one of the filming locations after being renovated and reinforced.

"Once Upon a Time" begins with a wonderful lion dance scene, and now the most powerful lion dance master in Hong Kong is in the Kang family class, that is, Yu Yuanwen, nicknamed the fairy.

Some time ago, Yu Yuanwen was injured, so the lion dance scene at the beginning of the movie has been delayed until now.

Yu Yuanwen and the martial artists of the Kang family class were still rehearsing, and Kang Jianfei was invited aside by the reporter of "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" and started an exclusive interview with the crew.

The reporter who interviewed Kang Jianfei was a middle-aged man in his 40s, and after discussing the interview outline, the reporter smiled and said, "Should I call you Boss Kang or Director Kang?" ”

"You can call it whatever you want, it's just a name." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.

"Everybody knows that you have many identities. Is it the boss of a film and television group, a novelist with many book fans, an internationally renowned director, or a lyricist and composer who has created many classic songs, why did you suddenly remember to draw comics recently? ”

"I opened a new pictorial, and I was very interested in drawing, so I drew a few casually."

"Just a few pictures? Nowadays, it is very popular, especially young people, and many teachers have responded that students draw violent comics in class. ”

"It seems that there must be teachers and parents who hate me."

"I can't talk about hate, it's just that some people don't like your comic style."

"My comics aren't dollars, and I don't want everyone to like them."

"Mr. Kang has always spoken with humor?"

"The crew doesn't think so."

"Yes, I've heard people say that you are a tyrant of the crew, and you often get angry and scold people."

"I used to scold people a lot, but now I don't scold anymore."

"Is it a change in the way you work?"

"No, I was very young when I first debuted, and almost everyone in the crew was older than me, so it's hard to control the scene if you don't be fierce."

"And now?"

"It's different now, the dual identity of the company's boss and director, they panic as soon as I frown, and I don't need to explode anymore."

"It seems that Director Kang's prestige in the crew is very high."

"It's okay, it's very difficult for the director to shoot without prestige."

"Now filming this "Wong Fei Hung", can Mr. Kang predict its Hong Kong box office."

"More than 25 million, I'm not sure if it can go up to 30 million."

"Since your "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", there have also been a number of movies called New New Martial Arts in Hong Kong, but they are all short-lived and annihilated. Some people say that costume kung fu and martial arts movies have declined now, Mr. Kang, why do you want to make a martial arts movie? ”

"Because with the current technology, it costs a lot of money to make a good new martial arts film, so it is difficult for small companies to do it well, and large companies don't want to take risks to shoot, so the new new martial arts will be short-lived. As for why I chose to make "Once Upon a Time", it was because I wanted to praise Li Lianjie and Guan Zhilin, who have the potential to become top movie stars, but have not been able to reach the top for various reasons in recent years, so my movie is actually specially planned for them. ”

"DreamWorks now has four pillars: Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi, Lin Qingxia, and Zhong Chuhong, and Zhang Guorong is also very talented in acting, why not continue to make nonsensical comedies to praise Stephen Chow, or make hero films to praise Zhou Runfa?"

"This is about the company's artist promotion plan. I also can't help but say that DreamWorks' plan is to create eight superstars of four men and four women, that is, the 'Four Heavenly Kings' and 'Four Heavenly Queens' plan. ”

"It seems that DreamWorks' strategic plan is very clear, can you reveal a little more, for example, in addition to Zhou Xingchi, Zhou Runfa, and Zhou Xingchi, who is now ready to be promoted, who is there in the end? Dillon also signed a film and television contract with DreamWorks for several years last year, is he one of the four future kings? ”

"In terms of Dillon's acting skills and fame, he is enough to be a king, but he is a little older, so the four kings have someone else."

"Can you reveal who it is?"

"Secrecy for now."

"It seems that the last of the four divas is also a secret."

"That's true, we can change the subject. You are a reporter from the "Hong Kong Commercial Daily", and then asking these entertainment topics will become an entertainment tabloid. ”

"Then ask about business, Mr. Kang, you made a "Home Alone" in Hollywood and invested in a "Terminator", both of which have a global box office of hundreds of millions of dollars. From this point of view, Mr. Kang, your business vision in Hollywood is already so accurate, why don't you continue to enter Hollywood? ”

"First of all, I want to say that Hollywood is not so easy to break through, except for Bruce Lee, European and American audiences have little impression of Asian directors and actors. What about Japan's Akira Kurosawa winning an Oscar? His films only sold two or three million dollars at the box office in the United States. Shaw Brothers' entry into Hollywood has long been declared a failure, and after Bruce Lee's death, Golden Harvest won and lost half in Hollywood, I have no other advantages as a person, and I still have self-knowledge, so every time I invest in a movie in Hollywood, I have carefully considered. Moreover, Hong Kong and the Asian market are the base of DreamWorks, so how can we talk about expansion if the foundation is not stable? ”

"What does Mr. Kang mean is that the main development strategy of DreamWorks in the future is to stabilize the Asian market?"

"Yes, consolidate the Asian market, and then look to Europe and the United States."

"Then you won't invest in Hollywood anymore?"

"Of course, it's impossible not to participate completely, and there is a film that I am involved in investing in is being filmed, and it is expected to be released in North America this Christmas."

"Can you tell us a little bit more?"

"The budget for this film was $31 million, and I invested 11 million in it."

"It seems to be a big cast, are you sure to recoup your investment?"

"I'm confident in my vision."

"I think all Hong Kong people are very curious, why Mr. Kang, every business you make money, I think you have never lost money. All thanks to your business vision? ”

"Probably."

"Then can you ask, where does your business vision come from, and what do you use to judge whether an investment is only profitable or losing?"

"Use your brains."

"For example......"

"For example, when the Sino-British negotiations reached an impasse, many people lost confidence in Hong Kong's future, causing great fluctuations in Hong Kong's economy. As a matter of fact, judging from the international situation and the mainland's policy of reform and opening up, we know that such worries are completely unnecessary. Neither the mainland nor the Hong Kong government can ignore the long-term economic downturn in Hong Kong, which means that both sides of the negotiation will control the time, and the result will be as short as three years or as long as five years, and the negotiation will inevitably be won by China. ”

"So when others are selling, you take the opportunity to buy land and buy a house?"

"Yes, I'm just repeating what Li Ka-shing did back then. And many people can understand the situation, but unfortunately the assets have been caught in the property market, the stock market turmoil, and even the capital chain is broken and bankrupt. ”

"What about movies? Why DreamWorks makes money from every movie. ”

"DreamWorks' creative purpose is to never make shoddy products for the sake of making money, we carefully make the film, and leave the rest to the market and the audience."

"DreamWorks movies are really good."

"Now that Hong Kong films are booming, a lot of investors from Nanyang and Taiwan are pouring in, I feel that some people are just trying to make money, and the things they shoot are difficult to see, and if they continue like this, sooner or later, a rat poop will spoil a pot of soup."

"That's true, but it's hard to ensure that the movie doesn't hit the streets."

"Then I have to mention another aspect, I have always encouraged DreamWorks directors not to stick to the old ways, but to innovate more while taking into account the tastes of the audience, so as to give the audience freshness and surprise. For example, Li Xiuxian's "Doctor Lamb", McDonald's "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", etc., such a breakthrough movie, it is estimated that other companies will not be able to get the budget. ”

"It seems that Mr. Kang's biggest advantage in doing business is that he dares to dare to fight."

"This is what all businessmen should have, winning is a successful person, in fact, there are more losses, but no one will pay attention."

"What about the current Dark Horse Comics Company? Do you think the comic book industry is promising? ”

"Of course, there is a future in making comics, Hong Kong comics were originally very profitable, but more than 10 years of anti-Chinese trends in Southeast Asia have made Hong Kong comics lose the Nanyang market. Now that the anti-Chinese storm in Nanyang has long passed, it is time to regain the lost territory, and if you don't take action, the Nanyang comic market will be ruled by Japanese comics. ”

(Note: Before the 70s, Hong Kong comics and literature were very popular in Nanyang, but after the Chinese exclusion wave in Southeast Asia destroyed the market, Hong Kong's comics and literature declined rapidly.) Especially in Hong Kong literature, in addition to martial arts novels, orthodox literature is on the verge of death, and writers and poets have changed their careers to become screenwriters and lyricists)

"I'm afraid it's more than that, Mr. Kang seems to have merged Dark Horse Comics into Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, does he have greater commercial intentions?"

"Sorry, this is a corporate secret." (To be continued.) )RU