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107【Sufficient Funds】

Kang Jianfei wants to invest in "Get the Wrong Car", which is another big movie in which New Art City entered the Taiwan box office market in another time and space.

Because Princess Jin's overseas distribution ability was still very weak at that time, the screening of this drama in Taiwan was very bad, and it was often interrupted in a theater screening for more than half a month. But in this unfavorable situation, due to the enthusiastic viewing of Taiwanese audiences, "Going the Wrong Car" was re-released in Taiwan in five months, winning a box office of more than NT$40 million in one fell swoop.

This may be an unbreakable record in the history of world cinema - not about the release date of "The Wrong Car", but about the number of times it re-released in a short period of time.

Kang Jianfei is not going to direct the drama himself. What he wants to do is a big film company boss like Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, rather than a big actor and small boss who personally acts like Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao. He can draw the storyboard scripts of the movie in advance. As long as the director's level is not too bad, he will basically not be out of shape.

Who should be directed?

Zeng Zhiwei first ruled out that it is okay to shoot commercial comedy movies, but it would be too difficult for him to shoot emotional songs and dance movies.

Then there is only Chen Xunqi. This guy is a musician, so it should be more suitable for making musical films. However, Chen Xunqi's current director ability is obviously insufficient, so he must be equipped with a strong executive director. Moreover, this executive director must be a Taiwanese, and he must have a very good understanding of Taiwan's society, folk customs, etc.

Yu Kanping, the director of the original "The Wrong Car", is a Taiwanese. This guy first became a director of New Art City, and later took the initiative to propose the idea of ​​"The Wrong Car", and then planned and discussed it with Huang Baiming. In the end, Huang Baiming spent two days to complete the script creation, while Yu Kanping returned to Taipei to summon troops to prepare for filming.

The people who Yu Kanping convened were not simple. The songs written for "Hooking the Wrong Car" included the most famous figures in the Taiwan music scene today - Luo Dayou, Hou Dejian, Chen Zhiyuan, Li Shouquan and others.

Well, of course, Kang Jianfei wants to invest in filming "The Wrong Car", so naturally he doesn't have to bother Luo Dayou and the others anymore. Because the talented man can also "create" songs. Adhering to the principle that those who are capable work harder, the interludes in "The Wrong Car" are so popular, Kang Jianfei naturally takes over them all.

As for the original soundtrack of "The Wrong Car", Su Rui is of course singing it. As long as the record is released, she will be successful.

Kang Jianfei is preparing to let Chen Xunqi be the director of "The Wrong Car", and then let Yu Kanping be the executive director for him. However, Yu Kanping seems to have not come to Hong Kong to develop now because he is still in Taipei.

Pan Yingzi was helping Kang Jianfei find information about Lin Qingxia, but now she doesn't know where she has gone.

Kang Jianfei thought about it and suddenly remembered himself. He found the phone number of Ma Yunsheng, general manager of China Film Culture City, and dialed it: "Hey, hello, Manager Ma, I am Kang Jianfei from Hong Kong."

"It's Mr. Kang, are you going to come to Taipei to make a movie again?" Ma Yunsheng's tone was much more enthusiastic than last time. After all, the box office of "Happy Ghost" in Taiwan exceeded 10 million. In Taiwan, where the box office of the movie is now sluggish, Kang Jianfei is quite famous. Moreover, most Taiwanese industry insiders have received the news that "Mr. Zombie" has a big box office in Hong Kong.

Kang Jianfei said: "Yes. I want to ask Manager Ma for personal information. Do you know a director named Yu Kanping?"

Although Ma Yunsheng was a fool, he knew a lot of people. After thinking for a while, he said, "Oh, you are talking about the little director of Lufu Company, I remember it. What did you ask him for?"

Kang Jianfei made up, "I heard that he has a good directorial skills and wants to recruit him as an assistant director."

Ma Yunsheng said disdainfully: "He is just a small director of a small company and has a big stature. If Mr. Kang is short of people, I will recommend a few to you, and I will ensure that it is better than Yu Kanping!"

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Haha, no need for now. I'll ask if this person named Yu. Does Manager Ma have his contact information?"

Ma Yunsheng said awesomely: "I often contact the big directors, so where would I leave Yu Kanping's phone number? I have the phone number from Lufu Company here, do you want it?"

Kang Jianfei said happily: "Thank you!"

After asking about the phone number of the general manager of Lufu Film Company, Kang Jianfei immediately dialed it over, and a female voice with some impatient sound came from over there and said, "Hey, Lufu Film, who are you?"

Kang Jianfei said: "Is it Manager Liu?"

The woman on the phone said, "I am his secretary. If you have anything, please tell me. I will leave this afternoon and stop doing it."

Kang Jianfeiqi said: "Why don't you do it?"

The woman said, "Ruo Fu Pictures is about to close, and the boss is still hiding debts in the Philippines. What am I still staying in the company for?"

Kang Jianfei asked: "I asked you about someone, is Yu Kanping there?"

The woman said funny: "What are you looking for Kanping to do? He left the company last month. Speaking of which, Liufu Pictures went bankrupt, and he also made a contribution. He made a movie "Sanmao Wandering" more than 4 million yuan, but the box office was only 860,000 yuan."

Kang Jianfei was sweating wildly and went around with the female secretary for a long time before he got to Yu Kanping's phone number and address.

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"Mr. Kang, do you have anything to tell me?" Chen Xunqi walked into Kang Jianfei's office.

"Please sit down," Kang Jianfei asked, "How is "Three Minutes Hero" doing?"

Chen Xunqi replied: "I'm doing the post-production soundtrack."

Kang Jianfei pushed over the script he had just written in the company for four hours and said, "Don't you want to be a director? I happen to have a script here."

""Wrong Car"?" Chen Xunqi looked curiously.

Kang Jianfei said: "There is only the story summary and the first half. I haven't written the second half yet. You can prepare after reading the script."

After turning a few pages, Chen Xunqi said in surprise: "The song and dance film that happened in Taiwan! This, I'm afraid it will fail after shooting."

Song and dance films are synonymous with frustration, not to mention that they still happen in Taiwan. The film market in Taiwan is not very prosperous now.

Kang Jianfei said: "You don't have to worry about other things, you just need to make this movie well. Since you may not know the social customs of Taiwan, I plan to give you a Taiwan executive director. This is his contact information. After you finish the soundtrack of "Three Minutes Heroes", you can leave to Taipei to find him. In addition, there is no need to hurry this movie. I will only be screened in Taiwan during the Chinese New Year, and you have plenty of time."

"That's good." Chen Xunqi heard that he had plenty of time and the pressure suddenly decreased a lot, and he felt excited that he was about to be a director for the first time.

"Oh, by the way," Kang Jianfei added, "I may have to make a movie recently, so you can't take the crew of the company. You have to go to Taipei for temporary establishment of the crew of "The Wrong Car", where there is a Luk Fu Film Company that is about to go bankrupt, so you can take the opportunity to recruit some people."

Chen Xunqi was stunned when he heard this. He used to be just a musician and an actor. Although he had been on the set since he was fifteen, he only worked as an assistant director in the just-filmed "Three Minutes Hero". Now Kang Jianfei actually asked him to kill him to Taipei alone, and the crew members had to summon them themselves. Isn't this a scam?

Seeing Chen Xunqi's face was embarrassed, Kang Jianfei smiled in his heart: Old man, have you been a cannon friend with your daughter for a few days, and he dares to beat me like that. In this life, I will return it twice as much as possible, and squeeze out all your abilities to help me make money. If you don't believe it, you won't be able to kill you!

"Brother Qi, I believe in your ability!" Kang Jianfei said solemnly.

When Chen Xunqi heard this, he felt excited and thought to himself: The boss trusts me so much, why am I still caring about it? If it were Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, they would never give themselves such a chance. Mr. Kang is such a good person. He will not doubt the destiny of a general. I must make the movie well and live up to Mr. Kang's expectations!

Chen Xunqi nodded excitedly and said, "Mr. Kang, please rest assured, I will do my best."

Kang Jianfei smiled with satisfaction and said, "Very good, you can go and do the music of "Three Minutes Heroes" first. After doing it, come to me to get the rest of the script for "The Wrong Car"."

"Mr. Kang, then I'll leave first." Chen Xunqi stood up and walked out of the office with great enthusiasm.

After Chen Xunqi left, Kang Jianfei asked his cousin's aunt to come to the company's accounts and checked it.

The company originally had more than 7.5 million yuan in its account, but because of filming "Three Minutes Heroes", they formed a martial arts class, spent money to buy Zhong Chuhong's artist contract, distributed cars to the company and himself, paid administrative expenses such as employee salaries, and did the distribution and promotion of "Mr. Zombies", etc., plus the overspending of "Three Minutes Heroes" budget, there was still more than 4.6 million yuan left.

At this time, there are still a few days before the final painting of "Mr. Zombie" was finally released, but the box office dividends for the first round of screening have arrived, with a total of more than 5.1 million yuan.

In addition, the "Happy Ghost" that failed South Korea has received unexpected surprises in the ri version.

"Happy Ghost" was released in two small theaters in Riben. Because it was a summer season, it attracted countless students from Riben to watch the movies, and even lined up to buy tickets. One month after the release, "Happy Ghost" won a gratifying box office of 630 million yuan in Riben. If the number of theaters released in theaters was too small, this data would have been better.

Cheng Long's box office in Riben's "Junior Brother Comes" was 1.14 billion ribs. Although "Happy Ghost" only had 60% of the box office, Kang Jianfei was already very satisfied. After all, Cheng Long had a box office appeal in Riben, and Kang Jianfei's "Happy Ghost" was all newcomers.

630 million ri, equivalent to Hong Kong dollars, that is 20 million!

"Happy Ghost" has a box office of only HK$500,000 in South Korea, and only HK$2 million in Taiwan. The total box office in many Southeast Asian countries is only more than 20 million. The box office in Riben is actually 20 million!

No wonder it is said that at this time, Riben is the second largest movie box office market in the world after the North American market.

Oriental DreamWorks had little cash, but when the dividends at the box office arrived, they immediately filled up, reaching as much as 16.8 million.

16.8 million Hong Kong dollars is a lot, and many large companies cannot immediately take out such cash!

When the final dividend of "Mr. Zombie" is received, Oriental DreamWorks' cash will be close to 20 million.

But, Fengxing Records needs to spend money.
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