Cousin Liang Ying took out a pot of braised pig's trotters from the kitchen, looked at the pendulum clock on the wall and said, "Ah Fei, they should come over, right?" ”

"What are you anxious about?" Wu Chenggang said with a smile and sat on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed reading the newspaper.

Since the release of "Mr. Zombie", Wu Chenggang has been keen to read various newspapers, picking out reports related to "Mr. Zombie" or Kang Jianfei.

In the company, although Wu Chenggang's position is not high, his status is transcendent, because he is Kang Jianfei's cousin. Now even when he goes back to the Shaw Brothers set, the guys who used to call him around and drink will greet him with a smile when they see him. There are also former colleagues who have not mixed well after the collapse of Jiashi, and several have come to visit, hoping that Wu Chenggang can introduce them to join Oriental DreamWorks.

During the Spring Festival, at least one Cheng Long fought with Kang Jianfei, but this time in the summer file, Kang Jianfei already had the taste of being alone and seeking defeat.

Golden Harvest's comedy "Money is Strange" directed by Wu Yusen should have won the sixth place at the box office of the year. However, due to the influence of "Mr. Zombie", the average attendance rate is less than 40%, resulting in a continuous reduction in the number of screenings. Looking at this, it would be nice if the box office of this movie could have half of another time and space.

And the Shaw Brothers side is even worse, directed by the great director Chu Yuan, the veteran martial arts student Fu Sheng, and the popular star Zhao Yazhi starred in the Gulong martial arts film "Heroes Without Tears", after the release, there were few moviegoers. This martial arts blockbuster with an "all-star" lineup was hastily drawn after only one week of release, and the box office was less than one million.

It stands to reason that the urban comedy "Money is Strange" and the sword martial arts film "Heroes Without Tears" are completely different from Kang Jianfei's "Mr. Zombie". It shouldn't have been so badly affected. But the problem is that after the audience watched the super era of "Mr. Zombie". When I went to watch "Money is Strange" and "Heroes Without Tears" again, no matter how I looked at it, I felt that the latter two were too boring. Gradually, I lost interest in watching movies.

Not only "Money Makes Trouble" and "Heroes Without Tears" were affected, but all the films released in Hong Kong during the same period were dismal at the box office because of "Mr. Zombie".

Yishu, who was already working as a press officer in the government information department and occasionally wrote novels and essays, couldn't help but write a movie review in "Ming Pao" at this time. There is such a sentence in her article: "...... For other directors, "Mr. Zombie" is not a comedy, but a complete disaster film. This movie has nourished the audience's appetite, and after watching "Mr. Zombie", the author will watch all the movies in the summer file taste the same as chewing wax. I'd rather watch TV at home than watch other movies......"

Yishu's film review gave Kang Jianfei a ridiculous new nickname - disaster film director.

Wu Chenggang felt that he had been in Hong Kong for 20 years, and this half month was the most beautiful day. Kang Jianfei's parents died before he came to Hong Kong, and now he is Kang Jianfei's elder, it feels like seeing his son have a future.

Today is Wu Ruixue's 10th birthday, the little girl has been staring at the cake box for two hours, looking around and no one paying attention to her, she immediately opened the box, dipped her fingers in a little cream and put it in her mouth and sucked it. I haven't had time to taste the second bite yet. Her mother, Zhou Mingfang, came over and slapped Wu Ruixue on the head.

Liang Ying brought all the dishes to the table, sat next to Wu Chenggang and asked, "I heard that Ah Fei wants to use 5% of the box office of the movie to distribute it to the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew, how much can you take this time?" ”

Wu Chenggang corrected: "It's not 5% of the box office. It is 5% of the company's publicity costs after receiving box office dividends. ”

Liang Ying said impatiently: "I don't care what 5% he is, you can tell how much you can get." ”

Wu Chenggang calculated: "If the box office is calculated at 15 million, then DreamWorks can get close to 6 million dividends." If you dig up hundreds of thousands of distribution and publicity expenses, there will be a little more than 5 million left. 5% of 5 million is 250,000. In addition to some bonuses given to administrative staff, I work as a lighting director. You should be able to get about 20,000 yuan. ”

"You can get 20,000 yuan for making a movie, then make a few more films, and we can buy a house directly!" Liang Ying said happily.

Wu Chenggang said speechlessly: "Ah Fei opened a company, do you think he opened a good hall." Only when the film is sold can it be distributed like this, and if the film makes a small profit or hits the street, there is no penny in dividends. Who can guarantee that every movie in their company will make a big profit at the box office? ”

Wu Ruiqing looked at the TV and said: "When I graduate, I will join my cousin's company as a screenwriter." The scripts I write are guaranteed to make money! ”

Wu Chenggang glared at his son and scolded: "You read me well, and then write those messy novels, see that I don't break your legs!" ”

Wu Ruiqing muttered: "The novel is written by hand, why did you break my leg?" ”

Wu Chenggang was about to scold his son a few words, when the doorbell suddenly rang. Zhou Mingfang hurriedly went to open the door, and Kang Jianfei was followed by Li Saifeng and Wen Bixuan.

Since the hit of "Mr. Zombie", Li Saifeng has thrown Wen Bixuan out of fame. The two girls both received film contracts a few days ago, Li Saifeng's salary was 150,000, but Wen Bixuan was only 50,000, such a big gap made Wen Bixuan angry.

Wu Ruiqing, who was originally confident that he could be a good screenwriter, stopped talking after seeing the two beautiful girls come in. This kid is full of sullenness, but he doesn't have much courage to talk to girls, and he is full of herbivore otaku attributes.

Wu Ruixue likes the two beautiful young ladies very much, but more often than not, her eyes are staring at their beautiful clothes, and her eyes are full of envy.

Kang Jianfei took out the birthday gift he brought, shook off a beautiful dress, and said with a smile: "Ah Xue, do you want to try it?" ”

"Is it a birthday present for me?" Wu Ruixue touched her skirt and said, "It's so beautiful!" Xie Lu Xie cousin. ”

The little girl was originally thinking about the cake, but now that she has a dress, she forgot the cake directly, and pulled Li Saifeng and Wen Bixuan into the house to try on the skirt.

It didn't take long for Hu Juncai to also bring his girlfriend Huang Minyi. Compared with last year, this guy seems to have completely changed as a person, and he used to be as thin as a bamboo pole, but because of practicing kung fu and eating well, he is now quite strong. And Hu Juncai is already tall, with a height of 1.8 meters, and now when he enters the door, he actually gives people a feeling of being tall and mighty.

"Hello cousin, hello cousin!" Hu Juncai greeted again and again, and Huang Minyi also greeted.

Huang Minyi has also developed well in TVB, playing two supporting roles with many scenes in a row, and now her fame is similar to Tang Zhenye.

Soon the little birthday star Wu Ruixue came out in a skirt, wearing a princess crown made of paper, puffing out her cheeks and inhaling, and blowing out all ten candles with a "whew".

In the variety show of Li's TV station on the TV, Wu Ruixue was eating cake, and suddenly pointed to the TV and said, "Look, it's my cousin and Sister Ah Feng." ”

The host of the variety show is actually Zhang Guorong's first girlfriend Mao Shunyun, who is sweet and has a literary temperament, no wonder Zhang Guorong couldn't help but propose to her, but unfortunately Mao Shunjun refused.

When the show was recorded, except for Lin Zhengying and Yuan Hua, who were busy with the finale of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", Huang Shrimp, Chen You, Pan Yingzi and others all came.

The content of the conversation is naturally related to "Mr. Zombie", Mao Shunjun asked: "Director Kang, now everyone calls you 'disaster film director', how do you feel about this nickname?" ”

Kang Jianfei lamented: "That Miss Yishu is pushing me to the opposite side of all Hong Kong directors." ”

Mao Shunjun asked, "You don't like this nickname?" ”

Kang Jianfei said: "It's not just that I don't like it, I just don't like it." ”

Mao Shunyun was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Director Kang's speech is really interesting, can you tell me how you came up with the idea of filming "Mr. Zombie" in the first place." You must know that Lu Dao made a zombie film a few years ago and lost miserably, and since then, the Hong Kong film industry has decided that zombie films are dead, how dare you touch this taboo genre? ”

Lishi and TVB have been working against each other, and this Mao Shunyun, as the host of Lishi, has not forgotten to blacken Shao Yifu even when doing shows.

Kang Jianfei began to pretend: "I don't think any type of movie is dead, it depends on how the director shoots." I don't read much, I don't know much, and I don't know what art is, so "Film Fortnightly" said that I was a newcomer. On behalf of the director of the wave, this is a false praise. I make movies purely to make money, but if I want to make money for a long time, I can't fool the audience. You can't be shoddy and trick the audience into the cinema and it's over, because you can fool once and twice, but you can't fool three times. The audience is not stupid, everyone is very smart, and only if you make the movie well, can you make others willingly pay for tickets. It's the same with zombie movies, I put myself in the audience's perspective, thinking about what movies I like to watch when I spend money to go to the cinema, so I combine zombies, female ghosts, comedy, horror, kung fu and other elements, and then show them to the audience in layers, which is the origin of the creation of "Mr. Zombie". ”

"Papapa......" Mao Shunyun took the lead in applauding, "Director Kang's wonderful remarks, you can hear that you are a responsible director, and you are very responsible for the audience and the movie." Are you ready to make a sequel to Mr. Zombie? Many viewers have expressed their desire to see the sequel. ”

Kang Jianfei said: "Of course the sequel will be filmed, but not now." Because I've heard that there are a lot of zombie movies that follow the trend, and I don't want to mess with them. "Happy Ghost" is also going to make a sequel, and everyone can see it after the Chinese New Year. ”

"This is good news for fans who like "Happy Ghost"." Mao Shunjun turned the topic to Li Saifeng, "Miss Li, I heard that you are Director Kang's apprentice, what kind of kung fu are you learning?" ”

Li Saifeng waved his palm and said, "Flying Crane Fist." ”

Mao Shunjun asked: "At the premiere that day, Director Kang shot the apple on your head with a flying knife, aren't you afraid?" ”

"I'm afraid to die," Li Saifeng said and smiled at Kang Jianfei, "But I believe in Master." ”

Everyone was eating birthday cakes and watching TV, but Wen Bixuan secretly slandered: "Sycophant! (To be continued......)