After the special effects and set team of "Tomb Robbery Notes" settled in, a valley in Danxia Mountain quickly changed. A strange cypress tree was "planted" in the middle of the valley, and the bare cliffs that used to belong to the Danxia landform have become green, and the cliffs are covered with plastic rattan.

This cloth alone (including the cost of materials) consumed more than one million Hong Kong dollars in the film budget. However, compared with the post-production cost of the film, this can only be regarded as a small thing, and Kang Jianfei doesn't know whether the budget of 100 million Hong Kong dollars is enough. "Terminator 2", which is still being screened around the world, has spent more than $5 million on various transformations of liquid metal people.

The action scenes in "Notes on Tomb Robbery" basically need to use special effects lenses, but now there is no motion capture technology, and the special effects of the movie are extremely troublesome.

Seven years ago, "Electronic World Battle" was the first film to use a large number of special effects shots, and although its CG team only had 8 people, there were more than 500 post-production personnel involved before and after, which was simply smashed with money. The same is true for "Tomb Robbery Notes", which is not something that a special effects company can do at all, and in the end, there is still a part of the post-production to be completed by Industrial Light and Magic.

After filming in Danxia Mountain for more than 20 days, the number of crew members increased again, and Luo Lixian also came with his stunt team.

"Big guy, the explosion point has been set according to the predetermined position. OVER！ "There was a murmur of calls over the intercom.

"Roger, OVER!" Luo Lixian put away the walkie-talkie and made an OK gesture to Kang Jianfei, who was more than ten meters away.

Kang Jianfei put the guide tube to his mouth and shouted, "Attention units. It's ready to boot up! ”

The lenses of several cameras have been aimed at the preset breaking point, Xiong Xinxin, who is wearing strange tattered costumes and his face is blurred by makeup. Pulled to the cliff by the safety lock. A hole had been dug in the cliff near the explosion point, and Xiong Xinxin hid behind it, and he had a few stones made of plastic foam in front of him.

The leaders of each group reported that they were ready through the walkie-talkie, and Kang Jianfei stood behind the monitor and said, "It's time to start." ”

The scene reporter immediately put the board in front of the main camera and hit it hard: ""Tomb Robbery Notes" Scene 32, Scene 6, Ikesh! ”

After the clapperboard is removed. Luo Lixian signaled to the top of the cliff.

"Boom!"

The explosion sounded on the cliff, and Xiong Xinxin jumped out of the groove of the cliff with the explosion, and the fake stones made of plastic foam also flew around. It's like Xiong Xinxin flying out of the cliff through the cliff.

"Click!" After Kang Jianfei and others captured that shot from different directions, they immediately arranged for the shooting of the next shot.

Xiong Xinxin, who played the thousand-year-old King Lu zombie, was hung in the air, several kilometers long safety ropes were tied to both ends of the valley, and the steel wire behind Xiong Xinxin's waist was hung on the safety rope.

More than 20 stunt crew members all over the valley. is nervously holding the rope in his hand. When Luo Lixian waved his hand, everyone began to move.

Xiong Xinxin quickly "flew" down from mid-air, and before he could land, Kang Jianfei shouted: "Click, it's crooked, come again!" ”

The body that had not yet landed suddenly stopped, and several stunt team employees on a hill pulled the rope to pull Xiong Xinxin back to its original position in mid-air.

More than 40 minutes later. NG countless times, the shot of this zombie landing from the sky is truly completed. Xiong Xinxin was tossed so that not only was she sore, but her legs were numb, and her legs were wooden—Kang Jianfei asked that her legs not bend and relieve her strength when she landed.

"Are you alright?" Kang Jianfei asked Xiong Xinxin.

"It's fine." Xiong Xinxin smiled a little reluctantly, and he felt that his whole body was about to fall apart. However, he can't say "no" in front of the director, although he is a national martial arts champion, but because he looks too fierce, he is destined to be a stand-in and a villain, and it is more important to be able to endure hardships than to be good.

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "You take a rest first, your role is very heavy today." ”

"Thank you, Director." Xiong Xinxin propped up her numb legs and walked to the side of the rest area and sat down. He is the antagonist in the movie, but it is impossible for the audience to recognize him when it is released, because Xiong Xinxin plays a zombie without a single line, and he will be made extremely scary by makeup and post-production special effects.

When Xiong Xinxin was resting, the drama of several leading actors started again.

After some arrangement, the shooting resumed, Lin Xue knelt on the "jade platform" under the tree, pointed to the direction where Xiong Xinxin landed just now and shouted in horror: "That thing is still alive!" ”

Wu Zhenyu's expression slowly became solemn, and he said, "We don't seem to have nowhere to escape." ”

Zhang Mian, who was dressed in white, suddenly "fell from the sky", her clothes were covered with blood, and her hair was scattered, blocking in front of Wu Zhenyu and Lin Xue.

"Zheng!"

The Ugin blood sword was out of her body, the blower blew her clothes fluttering, she pinched the sword trick in her hand, and rushed towards the zombie with her steps.

"Hey, Iceberg Girl, I'm going to do you!" Wu Zhenyu took out a black donkey's hooves from his backpack as a brick, and jumped off the jade platform to help.

The camera stopped here, Kang Jianfei called Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Meng, Lin Xue and Xiong Xinxin together, and the action director Huang Shrimp and a few stand-ins also came over, and everyone began to discuss and rehearse the next action scenes.

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It was already autumn when the crew left Danxia Mountain, and at the end of the past Hong Kong film summer file, "The Story of Ah Lang", directed by Ang Lee and starring Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong, sold 31.86 million at the local box office and became the box office champion film this summer.

It's a well-known fact that literary films don't sell well in Hong Kong, but basically every once in a while, there will be one or two literary films that sell well in Hong Kong.

This is the case with "The Story of Ah Lang", under Ang Lee's lens language, this movie is more literary than the original. Ang Lee's ability is to make a film that looks literary and artistic so that ordinary audiences can watch it, and this product has been an assistant director with Kang Jianfei for two years, and he has a very good grasp of the audience's viewing needs.

In the film, when Ah Lang fell, blood flowed down the transparent cover of the helmet, and the audience's tears also flowed down. Especially those female audiences, when Zhou Yanfa died, they cried one by one.

That's it. A literary film deceived the audience's tears at the same time, and also deceived the money in the audience's pocket, and by the way, beat all the movies released in the summer. Become the box office champion of the summer file.

Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong were already red and purple, but after starring in "Ah Lang's Story" this time, the film appointment flew like snowflakes.

The salary of Hong Kong actresses is much lower than that of male actors, in the past, Zhong Chuhong's salary was only 1 million at most, while Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung were both more than 1.5 million, and Li Lianjie and Xu Guanjie's salaries were at least 2 million. After the big sale of "The Story of Ah Lang", Zhong Chuhong's salary soared to 1.8 million. Become the only one among all the actresses in Hong Kong.

And after "The Story of Alang" was painted, it was "Terminator 2" from the United States.

Before its release in Hong Kong, "Terminator 2" had already been released in Japan, Europe and the United States. swept the local box office without exception. Today, "Terminator 2" has earned a total of $380 million at the national box office, and this craze continues to spread.

When the Oriental Film Company (OFC) was first founded, it was nothing more than an agency similar to an American office. He is also responsible for Oriental DreamWorks' distribution liaison in the United States.

But to the present. OFC invests in or produces one or two Hollywood movies every year, and has produced "Home Alone 1", "Terminator 1 and 2", and invested in blockbuster films such as "Out of Africa" and "Rain Man", and its profitability has been ranked in the middle of many American film companies.

The success of "Terminator 2" completely made Oriental Film Company famous around the world. Although most viewers don't know the origin of this company, the three English abbreviations of the dragon flying at the beginning of the film and OFC are reflected in the minds of viewers. It's as if many viewers don't know about Paramount and Warner, but they are impressed by the stars surrounding the snow-capped mountains and the WB shield logo at the beginning of the movie, anyway, as long as those logos appear, they feel tall.

Accompanied by the hit screening of "Terminator 2". Director Cameron finally met with his second wife, Annie? Hurd divorced. Annie? Hurd, as a woman who had just divorced, did not show a trace of sadness. She's busy with the next OFC investment. Because Kang Jianfei gave her 18% of the company's shares in the summer, as a token to Annie? Hurd's work in the past few years is also an encouragement for her future work.

It can be said that Kang Jianfei has not managed the Oriental Film Company in the United States much in the past few years, except for a few blockbuster movies he instructed, the other films are Annie? Hurd was in charge.

This woman is very professional and social, and she is very ambitious in her career. With the strong financial support of Kang Jianfei, Anne? Hurd has developed the Oriental Film Company into the largest independent film company in the United States in a few years, which is a very rare achievement.

Kang Jianfei didn't feel sorry for the 18% OFC shares at all, Annie? Hurd, a workaholic strong woman, will double her life after becoming a shareholder of the company.

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Beijing, Liuli Factory.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus and Han lived separately, and the Han people were not allowed to live in the inner city. At that time, the Liulichang was in the west of the outer city, and most of the Han people's guild halls were built here, and the Han scholars who went to Beijing to take the exam also settled here.

After the reform and opening up, the glaze factory has gradually prospered. At first, it only sold the four treasures of the study, books, calligraphy and paintings, and then gradually there were more stamp collectors and antique vendors, and then there were all kinds of counterfeit antique pit tourists.

The last filming location of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" is in Liulichang, because the third uncle in Kang Jianfei's book opened an antique shop, and it was opened on this street in the capital.

It was already mid-afternoon, and Kang Jianfeitong's camera viewfinder observed for a few seconds, pointed to the ground with his toes, and said, "Put the camera here." ”

The two camera assistants hurriedly carried the camera over, Zhang Yimou asked for a viewfinder, looked at the thing like a monocular, shook his head and said, "Compared with the camera position just now, there is no change." ”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "It really hasn't changed much, but it can highlight the main body and make the heroine's image more chic and eye-catching." ”

Zhang Yimou nodded subconsciously, indicating that he had been taught.

Since "Notes on Tomb Robbery" was filmed in Beijing, Zhang Yimou took the initiative to apply to the China Film Co-production Company to join. He is neither an assistant director nor a photographer, but he actually grabbed the job of scene recording, and seems to be preparing to fly back to Hong Kong with Kang Jian to do post-editing.

This product is purely here to steal the teacher, why? It's because the movie he made has just hit the street and his nose is swollen, and he wants to learn how to shoot commercial films from Kang Jianfei, an international director.

Zhang Yimou is a good young man with pursuits, and he doesn't want to make rural literary films for the rest of his life. After "Red Sorghum" was screened and won the award, this guy has been thinking about transforming into a commercial director.

Last year, with the support of a local tyrant, Zhang Yimou began to plan to make urban commercial films. As a result, halfway through the preliminary work, Zhang Yimou didn't want to shoot it, because he didn't feel at all about making urban films.

But the money of the local tyrant's friend has been spent by him for more than 90,000 yuan, and Zhang Yimou can't do the lack of virtue halfway, so he asked a friend for help. got the script of a modern anti-terrorist war film, and it will be filmed on makeover.

The protagonists of this anti-terrorist war film are Gong Li, Ge You, Wang Xueqi and others, and after 20 years, they are definitely a big cast. But Zhang Yimou is really not in the mood to shoot this kind of theme. hastily, he finished filming this anti-terrorism film called "Code Name Jaguar" in 27 days, and after the release, there was a lot of scolding, so scared that Zhang Yimou didn't dare to admit that he made this movie.

I heard that Kang Jian flew to the capital to film. Zhang Yimou, who had nothing to do and was depressed and aggrieved. Just run around to join in the fun.

Wu Zhenyu held the original handiwork of Fan Kuan that he had just picked up, walked back to the store with his third uncle Zeng Jiang, and happened to jump on Zhang Mian who came out of the store.

Zhang Yimou looked at the two cameras in front of him, one using the track to shoot and the other using the rocker arm to raise and shoot down. He couldn't help but shake his head, this is not a special plot, and there is no metaphor in it, it is purely to pretend to be cool. Can the camera be used to shoot so fancy?

When it was almost evening, Kang Jianfei finally announced the end of work. Tomorrow we will shoot two more indoor scenes of the antique shop.

"Director Kang, it's almost time, let's go over together." Zhang Yimou looked at his watch and said.

"Let's go." Kang Jianfei threw the guide tube to the field staff and walked towards the end of the street in Liulichang.

Someone was entertaining in a nearby restaurant, Kang Jianfei was just rubbing over to eat, and Zhang Yimou was the protagonist.

When Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou came to the private room of the hotel, everyone else had already arrived, except for Gong Li, Xu Ke was also sitting in the banquet.

"Mr. Kang, Mr. Zhang, thank you two for your face!" A handsome middle-aged guy about 40 years old stood up and shook hands with Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou with a smile.

"It's all old acquaintances, so you don't have to be polite." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.

This middle-aged handsome guy is named Gan Guoliang, a student of the first phase of the wireless training class, who has already started to do the behind-the-scenes planning work of the TV station before graduation, belongs to the veteran of TVB, and has also been popular Wang Mingquan single-handedly, and later became the program manager of TVB for many years, in charge of TVB's TV and variety shows.

Until Fang Yihua took over TVB, because Gan Guoliang's position in TVB was too heavy, he naturally became a thorn in Fang Yihua's side. Looking for the reason for the failure of several refined dramas, Gan Guoliang's rights in TVB were deprived little by little, and finally left TVB in frustration.

In another time and space, shortly after Gan Guoliang left TVB, he was invited by Li Chaoren to serve as the director of Satellite TV's Chinese Channel, making Satellite TV Chinese Channel the first international Chinese media covering many countries around the world. After expanding the Chinese channel of Satellite TV, Gan Guoliang became the president of the group, and developed the TV business to non-Chinese speaking countries in Asia, and the programs of the Chinese channel of Satellite TV once had high ratings in South Korea. Until the Chinese channel of Satellite TV was renamed Phoenix Satellite TV, Gan Guoliang still served as a management manager.

It can be said that the Phoenix Satellite TV in the original time and space traces its roots to the country laid by Gan Guoliang.

At this time and space, Kang Jianfei founded Macau Satellite TV in advance, and the satellite TV Chinese channel founded by Li Chaoren last year could not compete with Macau Satellite TV at all, and is now in a half-dead state. And Gan Guoliang was recommended to Macau Satellite TV as the director not long after TVB stepped down.

There are three people who recommended Gan Guoliang to Kang Jianfei, one is Yu Zheng, the gold medal host of Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV, one is the ghost director Xu Ke, and the other is Liu Zhenwei, who was still working as a film planner in DreamWorks at that time. These three people are all friends of Gan Guoliang, Liu Zhenwei's sworn friend Wong Kar-wai was born in the first wireless choreographer training class, and Gan Guoliang was the choreographer and director teacher of that training class, it can be said that Wong Kar-wai was taught by Gan Guoliang.

As for meeting in the capital this time, it was because Yu Zheng and Gan Guoliang were in the north. Jinghe opened a film company, and the entrepreneurial work of this film company called Tianyi is "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors". As for the lineup of the production team, it is even more luxurious, Li Bihua's screenwriter, Zhang Yimou's director, Gong Li's heroine, Cheng Xiaodong's martial arts, Xu Ke's producer, Bao Dexi's cinematography, Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui's soundtrack......

This lineup is top in Hong Kong, and being able to get together is purely due to Gan Guoliang's interpersonal relationships.

Xu Ke just came over today, and Wu Zhi Cheng Xiaodong is still busy working in Hong Kong, and it will take a while for the movie to officially start filming.

In another time and space, the director of "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors" is Cheng Xiaodong, and Zhang Yimou is the male protagonist. In fact, according to Gan Guoliang's original plan, Zhang Yimou was asked to be the director, but this product had just made a commercial film that hit the street, and after getting the script, he was stunned, and finally gave up the director's position to Wu Zhi Cheng Xiaodong.

"Lao Xu, your studio made a movie in two years, and you actually had the kung fu to come to the mainland as a producer." Kang Jianfei sat down and joked, and he was not afraid that Gan Guoliang, the producer, would be unhappy when he heard it.

Xu Ke shook his head and sighed: "No way, if you are careless in making friends, you can't push it off." ”

As soon as the two sang and harmonized, Gan Guoliang was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Those who can work hard, I can rest assured that the film is checked by Lao Xu." ”

The relationship between the few people is still good, and Kang Jianfei is still Gan Guoliang's boss, because Gan Guoliang is still serving as the director of Macau Satellite TV. Even "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors", DreamWorks is one of the main investors, because Gan Guoliang and Yu Zheng don't have so much money in their hands, and they can only pull investment everywhere to make movies.

The main purpose of today's dinner is for everyone to sit together and get together, mainly because it happened that Kang Jianfei was filming in the capital, and there was no dispute of interests at the dinner table, so he naturally ate lively and comfortable.

Gong Li had graduated from Chinese opera a few months ago, and at this time she sat next to Kang Jianfei, adding wine to Kang Jianfei from time to time, and everyone could see that the relationship between the two of them was unusual.

"Come to me tonight!" Taking advantage of the gap between Gan Guoliang and Xu Ke going to the bathroom together, Gong Li suddenly whispered in Kang Jianfei's ear. (To be continued......)