"Notes on Tomb Robbery" was close to July when it was launched, and this year's movie summer schedule is about to begin. In DreamWorks' film scheduling plan, the summer movies are "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Xu Ke, "Codename White Rose" directed by Wang Jing and "The Story of Ah Lang" directed by Ang Lee.

Among them, the heroes and heroines of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" are still Leslie Cheung and Wang Guxian, but the roles of Zhang Xueyou and Li Jiaxin have been newly added; "The Story of Ah Lang" is starring Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong.

It is worth mentioning "Code Name White Rose", which is a movie that Kang Jianfei has never heard of, and the script was completed by Wang Jing and Zheng Peilin, a cutting-edge screenwriter at DreamWorks. The cast of this film is extremely strong, including Chow Xingchi, Leung Ka-fai, Wu Mengda, Li Saifeng, Lan Jieying, Mao Shunjun and Wen Bixia, etc., and tells a story that takes place in Hong Kong in the early 50s.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the summer season of the North American film market has already begun, James? Cameron's "Terminator 2" has been in theaters for a full week.

"Terminator 2" was like a storm blowing through North America, and Canadian and American audiences were stunned by the special effects, just as they did when they watched "Star Wars" more than a decade ago.

With 2,274 screens and a box office of $30.48 million in the first weekend (Friday to weekend), the number of "Terminator 2" has blinded countless people. Based on this opening result, the North American box office of "Terminator 2" may exceed 200 million, because the number of theaters and the number of screenings are still increasing.

The copyright of the "Terminator" series of movies belongs to Kang Jianfei's Oriental Film Company in the United States. It's just a partnership with Paramount.

After the sale of "Terminator 2", not only the director and hero and heroine of the film were sought after, but even Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes investor. were highly praised by the Global Times: "Kang is an extremely shrewd film investor, and he has dug a mountain of gold in Cameron." ”

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No reporters were invited to the launching ceremony of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", only the photographers of Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV were present to take some clips so that they could be promoted in the program.

At half past nine, Kang Jianfei took the lead in offering incense and worshipping four times, and officially started the feudal superstition activities.

At the beginning, the crew was divided into two, and Chen Xunqi, the producer, made a cameo appearance as the director and photographer of the second group. Take people to Temple Street to take pictures.

Because in Kang Jianfei's revised novel, the male protagonist Wu Xie was brought to Hong Kong by his father when he was a child and grew up, after graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering of Hong Kong University. He opened an antique shop on Temple Street.

Chen Xunqi's group only needs to shoot the street and take a few shots, while Kang Jianfei is responsible for filming indoor scenes.

"Notes on Tomb Robbery" scene 2, the first shot. Eksh! ”

The filming location was in the office of an administrative building in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. The room is decorated in an antique style, and there are bottles and cans around to act as antiques.

Wu Zhenyu sat behind the counter, pretending to look at a diary.

The yellow shrimp with the big gold tooth sneaky walked in and asked, "Do you have a copy here?" ”

Wu Zhenyu glanced up at the yellow shrimp, lowered his head and continued to look at the diary, and said perfunctorily: "Accept it, but the price is not high." ”

"Oh, can you introduce me to that?" Yellow shrimp said.

Wu Zhenyu continued to read. I didn't bother with him at all.

Huang Shrimp smiled: "Then let me inquire, is there a rubbing of the Warring States Silk Book here?" It was stolen by Changsha Tufuzi 40 years ago. The one that was deceived by the Americans again. ”

Wu Zhenyu raised his head sharply and looked at the big gold tooth with surprised eyes.

"Click!"

Everyone thought that this scene was over, but they didn't expect Kang Jianfei to stop at the last moment, he said: "Zhenyu, your expression is too exaggerated." Remember, your expression should be restrained, the kind of expression that deliberately hides the surprise in your heart, and your eyes are unrestrained. ”

"OK, director, I'll try it first." Wu Zhenyu nodded.

In the end, Wu Zhenyu's surprised close-up shot took three consecutive NG times to pass the test, and this scene was finished.

A movie is a movie after all, and it is impossible to shoot all the details and content of the novel, and the next scene needs to be filmed at the airport.

The actor Wu Xie is going to the north. Jing visits the third uncle, and the scene Kang Jianfei wants to shoot is that the actor calls the third uncle in the phone booth at the airport, and has two or three sentences of dialogue, and the actor goes to the north. Kyome's sue sù audience.

After making the call, the male protagonist Wu Xie and the female protagonist Zhang Qiling passed by, followed by the heroine calling. Through the content of the phone call, the audience can know that Zhang Qiling is going to the mainland to buy something - the Ugin blood sword that appeared later.

The hero and heroine are on the same flight, but they don't notice each other.

When writing the script, Kang Jianfei took great pains, and there were several kinds of novels to change the script. Take two extreme examples, one is the "no word" of Qiong Yao drama, which can directly translate the language of the novel into the language of the script; The other is to change the ancient dragon drama, when adapting the drama and writing the script, you can only open your brains, and you can't shoot it directly according to the original script.

When Kang Jianfei adapted the script, he first built the plot framework and strictly designed the size of the film. tide point, and then fill it with bridge segments to link up. He found that if the order of character appearance in "Tomb Robbery Notes" is strictly followed, it will make the heroine Zhang Qiling's sense of existence weaker. Moreover, Zhang Qiling's identity background also changed several times, and he was finally designed to appear at the same time as the actor at Hong Kong Airport.

After filming the scene at the airport, it was only four o'clock in the afternoon, Kang Jianfei asked the photographer to take two shots of the planes taking off, and then took the crew back to the studio in the film and television city.

The scenes in the tomb need to be filmed in the props that are built, and all the artificial light used is used, so it is the same day and night.

After everyone returned to the film and television city, they immediately received a boxed lunch, and after eating and resting for 20 minutes, Kang Jianfei began to continue filming until half past eleven in the evening and announced the end of work.

The actors all dispersed, and the crew was still packing up the props. Kang Jianfei is obviously not as easy as he used to make films this time, because "Notes on Tomb Robbery" belongs to his original, and he doesn't have those fully formed shots and scenes in his head, so he can only come step by step when filming Zuò.

Now that everyone can go home and rest, he has to drink the scene notes and stay to continue his work, and put the footage of today's shooting in order before he can sleep.

Zhang Meng worked for thirteen hours in a row, with a break during meals, and he was too tired to finish work early. However, she didn't go home directly, but went to buy two suppers and sent them to the warehouse for Kang Jianfei and Chang Ji.

After being ruined by her agent last time, Zhang Meng has been worried in her heart, and she doesn't understand what kind of impression Kang Jianfei has of her.

"Director, let's eat something first." Zhang Meng sent the supper to Kang Jianfei.

"Leave it alone, I'll tidy it up in a while, you go back and rest first." Kang Jianfei said.

Zhang Meng stood next to her for a moment, she was already tired enough, and soon began to yawn incessantly, and finally couldn't help but finally sneak back to sleep.

After living for seven or eight days, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", directed by Xu Ke and starring Leslie Cheung, Wang Guxian, Zhang Xueyou, and Li Jiaxin, was finally released.

The summer movies released at the same time also include "The Secret of Development" by Gao Zhisen Film Company, "Rejuvenation" directed by Zeng Zhiwei for Vientiane Pictures, "One Eyebrow Daoren" directed by Lin Zhengying for Golden Harvest Pictures, and the Hollywood film "Iron King Kong Bravely Fights the Murderous Maniac" introduced by Anle Pictures, and several inferior films that are not interesting.

Well, the so-called "Iron King Kong Brave Murder Maniac" is a Hong Kong translation, and it also has a name called "007 Series: Murder License", this movie sold more than 12 million box office in Hong Kong, making the Jiang brothers make another profit.

Judging from the box office of these summer movies, Gao Zhisen, who was very popular last year, hit the streets, and Zeng Zhiwei, who was entrusted by Huang Baiming to be reused, also hit the streets.

Gao Zhisen's several films for Pan Disheng in the first two years added up to nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars at the local box office in Hong Kong. Helping others make so much money, but he didn't get a few, of course Gao Zhisen was unwilling, so he ran out to open his own company as the boss, who thought of being poured a basin of cold water on his head, and his "Secrets of Development" box office was only 8.41 million.

Zeng Zhiwei's "Rejuvenation" is similar, with a box office of less than 9 million, which makes him have a discord with several shareholders of Vientiane Pictures, and after dividing the money, he left Vientiane Pictures and switched to Golden Harvest.

On the contrary, Lin Zhengying's "One Eyebrow Taoist", under the pressure of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", won more than 14 million box office.

In other words, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" was released at the right time, and there were no competitive opponents in the same period, which was a bit of a threat to "One Eyebrow Daoren" and "007 Series of Murder License".

With the good reputation left by the first part, the table of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is very strong, leading the summer box office list unabatedly, and finally won the local box office of more than 28 million.

Leslie Cheung and Wang Guxian are still fascinated by countless boys and girls, Li Jiaxin's clumsy acting skills in the film were complained about by film critics again, but Zhang Xueyou is considered to be very talented as an actor.

By the time director Wang Jing's "Codename White Rose" was released, Kang Jianfei had already completed most of the shots of "Tomb Robbery Notes" in Hong Kong. At this time, he had to announce a half-day shutdown, because the finals of this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant were held as scheduled, and Kang Jianfei had to attend in person.

The quality of the beauties on Miss Hong Kong this year is not very high, but there is a Chen Farong who is very eye-catching; And Miss Dongfang is about the same, the overall level has dropped a notch compared with last year, and it seems that the beauty resources were used up last year.

However, in this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant, there are still two beauties supporting the scene, one of them is called Wan Qiwen and the other is called Weng Hong. (To be continued......)