The audience scolded and scolded, but the evaluation of "Can't Stop Love" was surprisingly good. In Hong Kong, where comedies and kung fu films are rampant, it is rare to have a good film that is more realistic and artistic, and this movie also contains entertainment and commercial elements, which naturally has a special attraction to the audience.

On the first day of the opening of the Oriental Cinema Line, the average attendance rate was only 52%, but it only took two days for the attendance rate to increase to more than 60%. This attendance rate is particularly prominent in the film's off-season, with a cumulative box office of 2.89 million in three days, successfully beating "The Brave Double Cannon" (Golden Harvest), "The Appearance of the Cloth Clothes" (Shaw Brothers) and "The Yellow Peril" (produced by Da Rong and distributed by Golden Princess) released at the same time.

The popularity of "Can't Stop Love" has made the leading actors Zhang Guorong, Wen Bixuan and Li Lizhen rise in popularity, not to mention, director Mai Dangjie has also been concerned again.

To be honest, McDonald, as the fastest famous director in DreamWorks, actually has a lot of water in it. For example, the first movie he directed, "Pretty Girl", from planning to shooting, McDonald's bear was single-handed, and McDonald's role was similar to that of an executive director. And this time for "Can't Stop Love", the creative script was provided by Kang Jianfei and perfected by Wen Jun, and even the storyboard script also had McDonald's Bear involved, and McDonald's Jie was extremely incompetent as a director.

Some of DreamWorks' young directors are quite jealous of McDonald's, but they have to admit that McDonald's directing strength is still very strong, because he has also directed two campus comedies for DreamWorks that have grossed more than 10 million.

The first movie was a hot seller, and the Oriental Cinema Line successfully took root, but Kang Jianfei was really troubled.

After the end of that night, Kang Jianfei slipped away early, otherwise a few women would come over together, and he wouldn't know who Lu Dao would accompany at all.

Kang Jianfei spent the night at Zhao Yazhi's place that night, and went to the company the next day to arrange the preliminary preparation salary of "Love Saint". Guan Zhilin, the little goblin, ran around and pestered, flying around Kang Jian like a fart.

Now it's the fourth day, and she follows Kang Jianfei wherever she goes, so that the slut can't make an appointment with Zhong Chuhong.

For example, now, Kang Jianfei is creating storyboards in his office, while Guan Zhilin is sitting on the side reading fashion magazines, just waiting for noon to go to dinner with Kang Jianfei.

Kang Jianfei threw down the pen and scratched his head, and said to Guan Zhilin: "Jiahui, don't you feel bored if you don't do anything all day long?" Why don't you go make a movie? ”

Guan Zhilin pestered Kang Jianfei for several days, and she also felt a little tired. It's okay for the two to go shopping and eat, but it's really uncomfortable for her to sit for a long time to accompany Kang Jianfei to work.

Guan Zhilin closed the magazine, lay on Kang Jianfei's desk and said, "Okay, but I want to be the heroine." ”

Kang Jianfei remembered that Wang Jing, a fat man, was coming to DreamWorks, just so that he could shoot "The Best Friend" in advance. The heroine let Guan Zhilin and Li Yuanfeng play it.

Guan Zhilin walked behind Kang Jianfei, and the jade hand helped him massage his shoulder for a while. Then his chin pressed on Kang Jianfei's shoulder and said coquettishly: "Brother Fei." Why don't I play the heroine, can you be the director? ”

Kang Jianfei patted the back of Guan Zhilin's hand and said comfortingly: "Good, I have a film on hand now, how about letting Wang Jing be the director?" ”

"Is it that little fat man who wears glasses and is very obscene?" Guan Zhilin still has some impression of Wang Jing.

"Yes, it's that lewd fat man." Kang Jianfei said and called Zeng Bolin in. "Ah Lin, you contact Wang Jing and ask him to come to the company."

Zeng Bolin asked, "When?" ”

Kang Jianfei said: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are fine." ”

Zeng Bolin left the office, and Guan Zhilin stayed for a while and felt bored. Looking at Kang Jianfei drawing the grid of the script, she recommended herself: "Brother Fei, let me help you." ”

"Will you?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile.

Guan Zhilin said: "It's just a matter of drawing a grid, what will you do." ”

Kang Jianfei asked Guan Zhilin to sit on his lap, hugged Guan Meiren's thin waist, sniffed her hair and said: "There are five vertical grids, which are the lens, time, picture, subtitles, and narration, and the column of the picture should be wider." ”

If Guan Zhilin was allowed to do these trivial things seriously, she would definitely be bored after a while, but now that she is hugging Kang Jianfei and drawing grids, Guan Zhilin feels that she is tired of it, as if she is playing a game.

After finishing drawing a page of A4 paper, Guan Zhilin couldn't help but say: "Brother Fei, why don't you print this kind of form first, you waste time by drawing it yourself every time." ”

"I used to write and play on a blank piece of paper, but I'm used to drawing grids by myself." Kang Jianfei explained perfunctorily.

After drawing two more pages, Guan Zhilin threw the pen aside, picked up Kang Jianfei's finished storyboard and read it. As an actor, she used to read scripts, but now when she reads the director's script, she only feels bored and boring.

Within a few minutes, Guan Zhilin put down the script and picked up the comic-like storyboard designs next to her. Now she finally became interested, and teased while watching: "Brother Fei, your painting is so ugly, your head is bigger than your body." ”

"You don't understand, it's called a comic style." Kang Jianfei laughed.

"Jingle Bell ......"

The phone on the desk rang suddenly.

Guan Zhilin hurriedly picked up the phone, if it was another woman calling, she could hang up for Kang Jianfei. Yesterday, she hung up Lin Qingxia's phone, causing Kang Jianfei to quietly call Lin Qingxia to apologize and explain for a long time.

It was really a woman on the phone, but it was the voice of the secretary Chen Shuli: "Boss, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng are here." ”

Guan Zhilin covered the phone, leaned into Kang Jianfei's ear and said, "It's Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng who are here." ”

Kang Jianfei said: "Let them in." ”

Guan Zhilin cleared her throat at this time, picked up the phone and gave an order: "Let them in." ”

Kang Jianfei patted Guan Zhilin's buttocks and said with a smile: "Don't get up yet!" ”

Guan Zhilin curled up in Kang Jianfei's words and said coquettishly: "No, you kiss me first." ”

Kang Jianfei lowered his head and pecked her face, and Guan Zhilin got up from his lap and quickly sorted out his clothes.

"Knock knock!"

"Please come in!"

Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng walked in one after the other, Guan Zhilin played a cameo role as a little secretary, took the cup in Chen Shuli's hand, and helped Xu and Shi make coffee.

After Tsui Hark sat down with his wife, Kang Jianfei asked with a smile: "The two of you are still having fun in the mainland, right?" ”

"Ahem, it's an eye-opener." Xu Ke replied with some embarrassment, just because Kang Jianfei gave him tens of millions of investment to make a movie, but he only filmed for half a month and had to overturn the filming plan and start over, no matter how thick-skinned people are, they have to be ashamed.

If Kang Jianfei was angry, he would have been angry to death, and he said lightly: "Let's talk about it, what do you think now." ”

"Thank you," Xu Ke thanked Guan Zhilin, who brought instant coffee, before taking a notebook handed over by Shi Nansheng, opening it and putting it in front of Kang Jianfei and saying: "Mr. Kang, this time I went to the mainland, the great rivers and mountains of the motherland are really shocking, and new ideas pop out of my head every day during filming." I reworked the plot and added some new characters and forces, but the plot structure was too big for a movie to finish. ”

Guan Zhilin stood behind Kang Jianfei after brewing coffee, like a caring little maid.

Kang Jianfei took a sip of tea from the purple clay pot and asked, "Are you going to make a series?" ”

"Mr. Kang, please take a look," Xu Ke opened the book he brought, "I am going to make "Shu Mountain" into a trilogy, using the original Immortal Tribulation and Emei Sword Contest as clues...... As for the filming locations, I was going to shoot in Qingcheng Mountain, Emei Mountain, Jiuzhaigou, Shunan Zhuhai, Zhangjiazhai, Changbai Mountain, Qiandao Lake, Huangshan, Huashan, Li River, Dunhuang and Dongting Lake. ”

Kang Jianfei only listened to the plot that Xu Ke said, and knew that Lu Dao was ready to do a big job, which was very different from the original "Shushan" in his memory.

Kang Jianfei didn't read the new script sent by Xu Ke, and asked straight to the point: "I'm afraid the budget is a lot, right?" ”

Xu Ke pursed his lips, it seemed a little difficult to speak, Shi Nansheng answered: "I have made a preliminary budget, if you want to shoot the film well, the budget for one film is at least 50 million." ”

Do you really regard Lao Tzu as a stupid person with a lot of money?

Kang Jianfei was angry and funny, and said: "If the "Shushan" trilogy is filmed, won't it cost 150 million? ”

Xu Ke also felt embarrassed, because 150 million is an unimaginable astronomical amount for a Hong Kong film with an average production cost of only two or three million.

"I think that if it can work well, 150 million will still be able to earn a lot of box office," Shi Nansheng tried to persuade Kang Jianfei, "The shooting cost of a single film is only 50 million, and it is not as expensive as Golden Harvest's "Deadly Express" cooperated with DreamWorks. ”

Kang Jianfei shook his head and said: "The problem is that it is difficult for Xianxia-themed movies to sell at the box office in Europe and the United States, so it is really difficult to recover the cost." ”

Shi Nansheng said: "I don't think so, who could have predicted that kung fu films would be accepted by the European and American markets before? Now we are going to shoot a Xianxia blockbuster made with real scenes and special effects, even if Westerners can't understand the connotation of Xianxia, but the picture alone is enough to shock. ”

Kang Jianfei thought of Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and he didn't feel a little moved in his heart, he glanced at the script brought by Xu Ke, and said, "You guys go back and wait for the news first, I'll look at the script and then talk." ”

"Okay, let's not bother Mr. Kang." Xu Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Kang Jianfei would directly refuse to invest.

After the two left, Guan Zhilin stared at the script in Kang Jianfei's hand and asked, "Do you really plan to invest more than 100 million to make a movie for Xu Ke?" ”

"It's not decided yet." Kang Jianfei opened the script, and the beginning was actually about the immortal catastrophe five hundred years ago.

Guan Zhilin wanted to persuade Kang Jianfei not to invest, 150 million is enough for her to spend a lifetime, and it would be a pity if it was filmed and hit the street at the box office. (To be continued......)