July is approaching when "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is launched, and this year's summer film schedule is about to begin. In DreamWorks' film schedule, the summer films are "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" directed by Xu Ke, "Code Name White Rose" directed by Wang Jing and "A Lang's Story" directed by Ang Lee.

Among them, the male and female protagonists of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" are still Leslie Cheung and Wang Shuxian, but the roles of Zhang Xueyou and Li Jiaxin have been newly added; "A Lang's Story" is led by Zhou Runfa and Chung Chuhong.

It is worth mentioning that "Code-named White Rose", a movie that Kang Jianfei has never heard of. The script was completed by Wang Jing and the new screenwriter Zheng Peilin of Dream Factory. The cast of this film is extremely powerful, including Zhou Xingchi, Tony Leung, Wu Mengda, Li Saifeng, Lan Jieying, Mao Shunjun and Wen Bixia, and tells a story that took place in the early 1950s in Hong Kong.

Far from the other end of the Pacific, the summer season for the North American film market has already begun. "Terminator 2" directed by James Cameron has been released for a full week.

"Terminator 2" is like a storm storm blowing across North America, and Canadian and American audiences were stunned by the blasting special effects, just like they did when they watched "Star Wars" more than ten years ago.

The opening screen was 2,274 yuan, and the box office of the first weekend (Friday to Weekend) was $30.48 million. The data of "Terminator 2" blinded countless people. Based on this opening performance, the box office of "Terminator 2" in North America may exceed 200 million, because the number of theaters and the number of scenes of its release is still increasing.

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

After the Terminator 2 sold wildly, not only the director and male and female protagonists of the film were sought after, but even Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes investor, was highly praised by the Global Times: "Kang is an extremely smart film investor. He dug up a mountain of gold in Cameron."

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The opening ceremony of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was not invited to reporters, only photographers from Phoenix Channel and Macau TV were present. After taking some clips, they would do promotion in the program.

At 9:30, Kang Jianfei took the lead in raising incense and worshipping the four times, and the feudal superstition activity officially started.

At the beginning, the crew was divided into two parts. Chen Xunqi, the producer, played a guest appearance in a group of directors and photographers. He took people to the temple street to film the scene.

Because in the novel after Kang Jianfei changed his mind, the male protagonist Wu Xie was brought to Hong Kong by his father when he was young, and after graduating from the Civil Engineering Department of Hong Kong University, he opened an antique shop on Temple Street.

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

"The second scene of the Grave Robbers' Chronicles, the first shot. Akesh!"

The shooting location was in the office room of an administrative building in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. The room was decorated in antiques, and there were bottles and jars everywhere as antiques.

Wu Zhenyu sat behind the counter and looked at a diary in a pretentious manner.

Huang Shrimp, who played the guest star in Big Gold Tooth, sneaked in and asked, "Are you rubbing the rubbings here?"

Wu Zhenyu looked up at Huang Xia, looked down and continued to read the diary, and said perfunctorily: "Care, but the price is not high."

"Oh, then can you introduce it to me?" Huang Xia said.

Wu Zhenyu continued to read and ignored him at all.

Huang Xia smiled and said, "Then let me ask if there are any rubbings of the Warring States silk book here? It is the one that was stolen by the Tushima of Changsha 40 years ago and was deceived by the Americans."

Wu Zhenyu suddenly looked up and looked at Big Gold Teeth with a surprised look.

"Click!"

Everyone thought this shot had passed, 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, it is the kind of expression that deliberately conceals the surprise inside, and the eyes are unrestrained."

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

Finally, the close-up of Wu Zhenyu's surprise shot took three consecutive times to pass the test, and the scene was finished.

Movies are movies after all, and it is impossible to shoot all the details and content of the novel. The next scene needs to be filmed at the airport.

The scene Kang Jianfei is about to take is that the male protagonist calls Uncle San in the telephone booth at the airport and passes two or three conversations.

After making the phone call, the male protagonist Wu Xie passed by the female protagonist Zhang Qiling, and then the female protagonist called. Through the phone content, the audience can learn that Zhang Qiling is going to buy something in the mainland - the black gold blood sword that appeared later.

The male and female protagonists sat on the same flight, but neither of them paid attention to each other.

Kang Jianfei took great pains to write the script, and there are several types of novel revisions. Take two extreme examples as an example. One is the Qiong Yao drama "no word" and directly translates the novel language into the script language; the other is the Gulong drama. When adapting the script, the adapter can only open his mind and write the script directly according to the original work, and it is impossible to film it.

When Kang Jianfei adapted the script, he first built a plot framework and then filled it with bridges to link it. He found that if the characters appear in "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", the heroine Zhang Qiling's sense of existence will weaken. Moreover, Zhang Qiling's identity and background were also changed several times, and was finally designed to appear at the Hong Kong Airport with the hero.

After finishing the scene at the airport, it was only around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Kang Jianfei asked the photographer to take two planes off and 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 built, and all the use of artificial light is used, so the shooting is the same day and night.

After returning to the Film and Television City, everyone immediately received a lunch box. After dinner, they rested for twenty minutes. Kang Jianfei began to continue shooting until the end of work was announced at 11:30 in the evening.

The actors all dispersed, and the crew's venue was still packing props. Kang Jianfei was obviously not as easy as before in filming this time, because "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" belonged to him, and he did not have those completely formed shots and scenes in his mind, so he could only do it step by step when shooting and production.

Now everyone can go home to rest, but he has to drink and keep it on and continue working, and organize the footage of today before he can go to bed.

Zhang Xie worked for thirteen hours in a row, and had a break when he was eating. He was so tired that he finished work. However, she did not go home directly, but bought two late-night snacks and sent them to the warehouse for Kang Jianfei and the restaurant.

After being ruined by her agent last time, Zhang Jie was always worried and didn't understand what Kang Jianfei had for her.

"Director, let's have something to eat first." Zhang Jie sent the midnight snack to Kang Jianfei.

"Let's go, I'll finish it in a while. You go back and rest first." Kang Jianfei said.

Zhang Xie stood beside her for a while. She was exhausted and soon started yawning constantly. Finally, she couldn't help but finally slipped back to sleep.

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

The summer films released at the same time include "The Secrets of Development" by Gao Zhisen Film Production Company, "Rejuvenation" by Eric Tsang for Vientiane Film, "One-Brow Taoist" by Lin Zhengying for Jiahe Film, and the Hollywood film "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" introduced by Anle Film, and several other inferior films that are not very good.

Well, the so-called "Iron King Kong Wars Against the Murderer" is a Hong Kong translation name. It also has a name called "007 Series: Murder License". This movie sold for more than 12 million yuan in Hong Kong, making the Jiang brothers make another profit.

Judging from the box office of these summer movies, Gao Zhisen, who was doing well last year, failed, and Zeng Zhiwei, who was entrusted by Huang Baiming, also failed.

The box office of several movies Gao Zhisen made for Panditsen in the past two years was nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars. He helped others make so much money, but he didn't get a few. Of course, Gao Zhisen was unwilling to give up, so he ran out to start a company and became a boss. Unexpectedly, he was poured into cold water on the head. His box office of "The Secret of Developing" this time was only 8.41 million.

Zeng Zhiwei's "Rejuvenation" was similar, with a box office of less than 9 million yuan, which caused a conflict between him and several shareholders of Vientiane Film. After dividing the money, he left Vientiane Film and switched to Jiahe.

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

In other words, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is released just the right time, and there are no competitive opponents at the same time, which is a bit threatening to "Yimei Taoist" and "007 Series: Murder License".

With the good reputation left by the first part, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" performed very strongly, leading the summer box office list with the highest standards and finally won more than 28 million yuan in local box office.

Leslie Cheung and Wang Shuxian still fascinated countless boys and girls. Li Jiaxin's poor acting skills in the film were once again criticized by film critics. However, Zhang Xueyou is considered to be very talented in being an actor.

When Wang Jing's "Code-name White Rose" was released, Kang Jianfei had already completed most of the shots of "Grave Robbers" filming in Hong Kong. At this time, he had to announce a suspension of work for a long time, because the finals of this year's Miss Oriental beauty pageant were held as scheduled, and Kang Jianfei must attend in person.

This year, the quality of the beauties on Miss Hong Kong is not very high, but there is a Chan Farong who is extremely eye-catching; and Miss Oriental is also similar, and the overall level has dropped by a level compared to last year. It seems that all the beauty resources were used up last year.
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