The premiere of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" is scheduled for Sunday evening, the 14th of the lunar month.

At this time, the New Year's movies are still being screened, and it will be the Spring Festival holiday for Hong Kong people in another nine days, and these nine days are also the last and most critical wave of publicity before the release of the movie.

The address of the premiere was naturally chosen at the Taiping Theater, and there were also screenings in five theaters including the Queen's Theater, and the movie tickets for the premiere and screening required the audience to make a lot of effort to buy them.

The special effects blockbuster that cost 130 million Hong Kong dollars is still very interesting to the audience and wants to see where the money is spent.

Kang Jianfei originally said that "Notes on Tomb Robbery" cost more than 100 million yuan and was not capped, and finally spent a little more than 120 million, mainly on special effects. Fortunately, the production of "Terminator 2" has accumulated experience for the development of computer special effects, and "Tomb Robbery Notes" does not need to be slowly explored in the processing of special effects, so it only took one year to shoot, otherwise the production cycle will be longer and the cost will be greater.

James? Why does Cameron often overtime make a movie, and it takes a few years to make a movie, which doubles the cost of making a movie? Because he has been innovating, in order to make a movie, he personally led the team to develop a new type of camera, and later became even more frustrated, in order to make the film projection effect better, he ran to promote the new big screen without doing his job.

Kang Jianfei sighed when he thought about it, why can't there be such an outlier among Chinese directors, but are only satisfied with the small box office?

The premiere officially began at 7:20 p.m., with 40 minutes of live interaction and the film premiere at 8 p.m. Screenings at 5 other theaters. It also starts synchronously at 8 o'clock.

Before 7 o'clock, many audiences had already come to the Taiping Theater, and there were even scalpers selling high-priced premiere tickets on the roadside.

Journalists also arrived early. Standing outside the cinema to interview the celebrity guests - Kang Jianfei's movie premiere, almost all the big-name stars of the Oriental Entertainment Agency, except for those who can't leave the filming, have to come to cheer. The second- and third-tier stars who are not well-known are not eligible to come, because the number of invited guests to the premiere is limited.

Last year's and previous Kang Jianfei's movies did not hold a premiere, and the premiere of "Tomb Robbery Notes" this year has not yet begun. That's enough to make people look sideways.

There was even a red carpet outside the Taiping Theater, where popular movie and TV stars arrived one after another, and the camera shutters of reporters flashed non-stop. This grand scene gives the illusion of attending a large ceremony.

"It's such a grand premiere, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money, right?" Yuan Biao walked beside Hong Jinbao and asked.

Hong Jinbao smiled and waved at the reporter's camera, and said in a low voice: "The premiere venue is Kang Jianfei's, and the reporter came to promote it for free." Celebrity guests and film critics also came for free. Even the host of the awards ceremony is from Phoenix Channel. There are more than 2,000 seats in the Taiping Theater, and more than 1,000 seats in the back are all sold to fans with high-priced tickets. For a premiere of this scale, it will cost us at least two or three hundred thousand yuan, and not only will people not spend money, but they can make a fortune. ”

Yuan Biao laughed self-deprecatingly: "No wonder others can make a fortune, I can only make some hard money by filming." ”

The two were really about to walk into the theater when they suddenly heard a noise behind them, and Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao couldn't help but look back.

"Why is Brother Long here?" Yuan Biao said in surprise.

Hong Jinbao was also stunned for a moment. Then he smiled with relief: "His mind is wild, and it should be Mr. Zou who has a headache." ”

The person who came was none other than Cheng Long. At this time, he was surrounded by reporters, just because his appearance was too surprising. Cheng Long and Kang Jianfei have cooperated before, but they have been in a competitive relationship since then, and meeting is just a courtesy greeting.

Cheng Long came to the premiere of "Tomb Robbery Notes" today, could it be said that he is leaving Golden Harvest and switching to DreamWorks?

The brains of the dry reporters are very big, and when they saw Cheng Long appear, they immediately thought of being 108,000 miles away.

In fact, Cheng Long's appearance is very simple, he just wants to express his goodwill to Kang Jianfei, and if he eases the relationship, he may be able to cooperate in filming one day.

The person who prompted Cheng Long to make this move was Hong Jinbao, and four theaters in the New Year showed four movies starring Hong Jinbao at the same time, which really stimulated Cheng Long. Although Cheng Long's "Miracle" has just sold more than 30 million at the box office, Hong Jinbao runs two film companies at the same time, and last year he produced, starred and directed a total of seven plays, making far more money than Cheng Long.

Seeing Hong Jinbao making a lot of money, will Cheng Long, who is more famous, be psychologically balanced? Now Cheng Long has begun to contact Taiwan's Judeng Company and promised to star in a commercial film produced by Yang Dengkui.

Although Cheng Long is still making films for Golden Harvest, he privately accepted the film contract of Taiwan's Judeng Company, which is no different in nature from the cooperation between Sammo Hung and Xinbao Cinema Line. Because Golden Harvest's Taiwanese partner is Longxiang Pictures, and Yang Dengkui is now cooperating with other theaters, Judeng and Longxiang are in competition in Taiwan.

In other words, Cheng Long chose to cooperate with the competitors of Golden Harvest's partners. Once this news is announced, it will make Zou Wenhuai very faceless, and it will be difficult to explain it to his partner Longxiang Pictures.

Cheng Long is not stunned, he obviously knows this. This time I came to the premiere of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", not only to express goodwill to Kang Jianfei, but also to show Zou Wenhuai's muscles.

If Zou Wenhuai was smart, he would definitely compromise with Cheng Long and no longer prohibit him from cooperating with other companies.

If other actors make this kind of thing, they will definitely be banned by a big company like Golden Harvest, but Cheng Long is full of wings and can't be banned at all. Do you see that after Hong Jinbao cooperated with Xinbao, Golden Harvest still "regardless of the past suspicions" and continued to choose to cooperate with Hong Jinbao?

It was with Hong Jinbao's example as an example that Cheng Long took this step. Cheng Long's mind is actually in one sentence: Why does he earn more than me?

In fact, these are the consequences of Zou Wenhuai's own planting back then, he promoted the independent director system in Hong Kong, broke the inherent large-studio model, made a wonderful contribution to the development of Hong Kong films, and also made Golden Harvest one of the top film companies in Hong Kong.

But Cheng also Xiao He defeated Xiao He, and most of the independent directors and companies cultivated by Zou Wenhuai at the beginning have now left him and become Golden Harvest's competitors.

For no other reason, Golden Harvest and independent directors are originally interested in cooperation. Maybe there was affection and righteousness mixed in at first, but when one day the benevolence and righteousness were exhausted, and Golden Harvest could not satisfy the appetite of these independent directors, people naturally chose to leave.

Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long ate the most in Golden Harvest, but their appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and Golden Harvest is gradually unable to satisfy them.

Kang Jianfei does not have these hidden dangers here, if the original DreamWorks is still a large-scale studio system, then the company's various departments have been spun off and divided into distribution and brokerage companies, and the formation and growth of Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, it has been successfully transformed into a diversified entertainment group with a fine division of labor.

Oriental Culture & Entertainment Group focuses on talent echelon training, scientific management and operation, and mutually beneficial cooperation between various companies, and never puts the treasure on a certain star, nor does it restrict the freedom of its artists too much. Anyway, there will not be a situation where half of the company will collapse as soon as the pillars are gone, which is essentially different from Golden Harvest Pictures.

Gossip was not mentioned, but it was said that Cheng Long looked at him in many surprised eyes, and he sat down according to the number on the invitation card, and happened to sit next to Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao.

"Aaron is here too?" Hong Jinbao pretended to look like he had just discovered Cheng Long.

Cheng Long smiled and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Kang sends me invitations every time he premieres, and I really don't want to come again." ”

"I'm also very warm." Hong Jinbao said with a smile.

Yuan Biao sat next to him, listening to the conversation between the two senior brothers, and felt very awkward in his heart. Hong Jinbao brought him, and Cheng Long also helped him, but now there is an obvious gap between the two, but Yuan Biao doesn't know how to help them resolve it.

There are more and more guests and audiences entering the venue, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi, Zhong Chuhong, Li Jiaxin and other stars are here, and many others who did not come are filming, because the Spring Festival holiday is about to begin, many crews are busy catching up with the show to finish work early. As for Li Lianjie, Wang Guxian and Guan Zhilin, they went home early to reunite and wait for the Spring Festival, and their families were not in Hong Kong.

There are hundreds of media reporters and film critics, hula la take up a large number of seats, and some photojournalists crouch in the aisles to take pictures, their cameras put away when the film starts.

As time passed, the lights in the Taiping Theater suddenly dimmed, and the premiere finally officially began.

The two hosts are Chen Baixiang and Mao Shunyun, and after a burst of opening remarks, the main creative members of the movie were invited to the stage.

Zhang Meng sat down next to Kang Jianfei affectionately, while Kang Jianfei deliberately moved away to keep his distance. There are many old friends sitting in the celebrity guest seats below, Zhong Chuhong, Li Jiaxin, Lan Jieying, Qiu Shuzhen, Li Saifeng, Wen Bixia, Li Lizhen...... There are eight or nine, all of whom may turn into vinegar jars at any time, and he doesn't dare to be overly intimate with Zhang Meng on stage.

Kang Jianfei sat there with a leisurely demeanor and didn't talk much, this status is high, so he naturally has to be a little more restrained, and he can't do his best to attract the audience and create topics like before.

Basically, Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Meng and Zeng Jiang talked about it, and told a lot of interesting things in the shooting, and Kang Jianfei occasionally interjected to enhance the atmosphere.

The interactive session lasted for 40 minutes, and finally entered the whole of tonight, the host and the main creative team withdrew from the stage and prepared to screen "Notes on Tomb Robbery".

More than 20 staff members patrolled the venue, reminding reporters to put away their cameras and not taking pictures, and even stared at the audience to carefully search to prevent anyone from secretly filming movies with small cameras.

Piracy is rampant today, especially with the popularity of home video recorders, the video cassette rental business has become booming, and more than half of the video tapes on the market are pirated goods.

Hong Kong films have a tradition of midnight test screenings, and many films are now screened at midnight, and then re-edited according to the audience's reaction, and there is a time lag of about a week from the midnight test screening to the official release.

After the development of the videotape industry, many people went to the midnight scene to shoot secretly, so that many times the movie was not officially released in theaters, and the pirated videotapes on roadside stalls were listed in advance. (To be continued......)