＂love city＂ exposed the literature and art behind the scenes, taking photos of the stars to interpret Wong Kar-wai Fan.

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Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Karen Mok and Leslie Cheung under the lens of Xia Yongkang.

　　Love city, a love New Year film jointly produced by Huayi Brothers, 20th Century Fox and Star Media, was released for three weeks, and the box office in the mainland exceeded 110 million. Wang Zhonglei, president of Huayi Brothers, revealed that the investment in love city is around 18 million yuan, and it is estimated that the box office in mainland China can exceed 120 million yuan, with a considerable return on investment. The two directors of this film, Xia Yongkang and Chen Guohui, said that they will continue to co-produce new films, and besides romantic comedies, they may also shoot martial arts films. In order to celebrate the best selling of the film, the two directors also made excellent behind-the-scenes tidbits, and the other sides of the stars such as Maggie Cheung, Bidai Syulan and Duan Long were exposed in front of the camera.

"Love" has a high return on investment.

　　Wang Zhonglei said that many of the stars in "love city" are friends of the director, so they have a good control over the cost of film. The total investment is only 18 million, but the box office has exceeded 110 million, and it is expected to reach 120 million. In addition, there are less than 400 film copies of "love city", instead of copying thousands like other blockbusters. Instead, it chose to focus on the screening in cities with more income, targeting urban white-collar workers as the main audience. In addition, the digital copy output of love city is very high, accounting for about 45% of the total box office.

　　After the box office failures of Diary of Rabe and Chasing the Shadow, the box office of Wind and love city produced by Huayi exceeded 100 million. Wang Zhonglei said that Huayi’s cooperation with Chen Guohui and Xia Yongkang was very successful, and love city achieved good results in positioning, production and marketing. Huayi got a lot of capital after listing, so the professionalism and seriousness of the project have been strengthened. Because it costs investors’ money, it needs professional support. Wang Zhonglei believes that the talented directors who cooperate with Huayi will get market feedback in direct proportion to their actual ability. Some directors are talented, but it will be difficult to play in a bad mechanism.

The director’s popularity promotes the movie outlet.

　　Love city is the first feature film directed independently by two directors, Xia Yongkang and Chen Guohui, and the box office has successfully exceeded 100 million, which makes them very excited. Xia Yongkang admitted that he didn’t cater to the market at first, just wanted to "play once" by himself, but he didn’t think the mainland audience would buy it. Chen Guohui told Sina Entertainment that he didn’t get a chance to meet with investors at first. "In the 20th century, FOSS came to Hong Kong to meet many famous directors, but one person canceled the appointment temporarily. We learned the news half an hour ago. The middleman asked us if we would like to go, so we told them the story of love city and the actors we wanted to invite. They said that if you could invite all these actors, we would start shooting."

　　Chen Guohui said that he and Xia Yongkang knew many actor friends, and when they learned that they could have the opportunity to start filming, they immediately invited the stars separately. "I’ll go to Daniel Wu first, and Xia Yongkang will go to Nicholas Tse, and they quickly agreed. Followed by Jacky Cheung, Big S, Rene Liu and Bidai Syulan, they quickly agreed after reading the script. "

I’m sorry I didn’t shoot Duan Long well.

　　Some viewers think that the story between Duan Long and Fu Xinbo is rather blunt, which seems to add up. Chen Guohui said it was his responsibility. "Duan Long’s story script is more complete and funny, but the effect of cutting it out is not very good. His story is not about love, and it feels different from other stories. It happens that we filmed them the first time. At that time, the crew had not yet entered the state. In fact, it should be like Rene Liu and Jacky Cheung, with more comedies. "

　　Chen Guohui also revealed that the scene of Nicholas Tse hugging the big S from behind was originally filmed, but it was forced to be deleted because of too much procrastination. According to the director, Big S was supposed to tell his father’s story in the movie, and the bicycle that Big S rode was left by his dead father. But then, considering that a father-son relationship had been described in Nicholas Tse’s story, I had to give up what I wanted.

The new film will continue the "double director" system.

　　Xia Yongkang said that the next film will continue to cooperate with Chen Guohui. Chen Guohui told Sina Entertainment that there are several plans at hand. One is to tell the story of Chinese coming home abroad. "I grew up in a foreign country, and I don’t think foreign countries are necessarily better than China. In fact, there are China people in every place, and there are Chinatown in new york and L.A., so I was thinking that it should be fun to shoot the stories of these strangers going home. " In addition, they are also planning to shoot martial arts films. "Every director in China wants to shoot his own Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and we are no exception. In terms of actor selection, we will adopt the strategy of mixing newcomers and big names. There is also a love comedy. "

　　Love city’s box office was not good in Hongkong. Chen Guohui said that the main reason was that there were not enough films in the theater, and it didn’t win a good screening opportunity. Xia Yongkang said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do about these things. I will study the ideas of mainland audiences and strive for a better next film."

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