According to the foreign media "Variety Show", the new drama "The Murderer in the Sauce Garden" (The Murderer) will be officially announced at the Busan Film Festival, with Zhang Ziyi as the starring. This drama is one of five works by the Pan-Asian production company founded by Chen Kexin, providing high-quality drama content to streaming media.
Chen Kexin also plans to cooperate with Donnie Yen "The Lost Man, Hidden Master". Donnie Yen plays an Asian-American martial artist who discovers that the masters of kung fu have been imprinting their memories and skills on strangers.
There are three more films, namely "ONE: High School Heroes" and "Heesu In Class 2" adapted from Korean web comics, and the sequel to the horror IP "Head" developed by Chen Kexin in 2002.
shows that Hong Kong director Chen Kexin encountered obstacles in the mainland market and began to switch to American streaming media. Let’s take a look at Chen Kexin’s film journey over the years!
Chen Kexin was born on November 28, 1962 in a wandering Hong Kong family. Influenced by his father, Chen Kexin has loved movies since he was a child. When he was four or five years old, he helped his father run around various crews with his briefcase.
In 1974, 12-year-old Chen Kexin settled with his family in Bangkok, Thailand. Chen Kexin attended an international school in Thailand, but every holiday, he would run back to Hong Kong to watch movies in a familiar cinema.
In 1983, Chen Kexin, who had not graduated from university, ran back to Hong Kong and worked as a summer worker at Jiahe Film Company. He tried one by one, and eventually gave up his college degree!
1983, John Woo directed the action movie "Heroes Without Tears", which required Thai translation. Chen Kexin, who was only 21 years old at the time, was introduced by someone and was able to participate in the screenwriter and coordination.
Later, he served as the assistant director and assistant producer of Cai Lan and others at Jiahe Film Company. Later, after , Zeng Zhiwei and introduced, he was transferred to a good friend company as a producer and studied producer.
1991, 30-year-old Chen Kexin directed his debut work "Two Cities Story", starring Alan Tam, Eric Tsang and Maggie Cheung. The film was well received and was selected as the best film by the Hong Kong Directors Association. Eric Tsang won the best actress of the Hong Kong Film Awards, which also made Chen Kexin famous.
1994, Chen Kexin supervised and directed the love film " Golden Branch and Jade Leaves ", co-starring Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen, Carina Lau, and Carina Lau. The film has a box office of 30 million, ranking among the top ten top-selling movies of the year in Hong Kong, and was nominated for the best film at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards at .
1996, he produced and filmed the love film "Sweet Honey" starring Leonardo and Maggie Cheung. The film won the Best Picture Award at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 34th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best Drama Award.
Chen Kexin won the Best Director Award at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Sweet Honey", and since then, the directorial career has reached an unprecedented peak.
However, director Chen Kexin is a witness and a person involved in the "Golden Age" of Hong Kong films. He has witnessed the most glorious era and witnessed the rampant piracy. Hong Kong films are unable to work in markets such as Taiwan and South Korea, and are heading for a downturn. He also began to find another way out!
Chen Kexin directed the love movie "Love Letter" for Spielberg's Dream Factory in 1999, but there was no movement.
Then, he started the Southeast Asian film plan, produced "Ghost" by Peng brothers , produced "Late Mother" directed by Lens Nimebida , produced Zhao Liangjun's " Golden Rooster ", and personally directed " Third Update: Going Home ", and made Li Xinjie and Zhong Liti to a great success.
However, the "Hell 2", "Hell 10" and "Golden Rooster 2" produced by Chen Kexin did not have any expected response. In addition, the mainland co-production market is booming, director Chen Kexin simply went to the mainland to make a move.
Chen Kexin first filmed "If Love" in the mainland, starring Zhou Xun , Takeshi Kaneshiro , and Jacky Cheung . After the filming of the film was completed, according to publisher An Xiaofen, Chen Kexin also had to go to the world for distribution, which was very hard.
Chen Kexin has activities all over the world during the day, and at night he catches the plane, sleeps on the plane, and then goes to the next stop to do activities. For two or three months, he has basically never slept in bed, and has spent all of them on the plane. The film allowed Zhou Xun to win the film queen of Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Chen Kexin also won the best director.
At that time, director Chen Kexin said that " If You Love " would not lose to " Wuji ". As a result, he lost more than 100 million yuan in box office. According to his recollection, both theaters and audiences thought that the costume blockbusters like "The Promise" were "commercial blockbusters" and did not recognize songs and dance films like "If Love".
So, Chen Kexin directed the costume action film " voter ", which is co-starred by Jet Li , Andy Lau , Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei , and Guo Xiaodong . It has an investment of 200 million yuan. Its box office in China reached 220 million yuan, and the cumulative box office in Asia reached 40 million US dollars. It won the best film in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Jet Li also won the best movie.
However, the commercial income of "The Voting" did not reach 200 million yuan, and it eventually lost money. Among them, the US's box office record of only 120,000 yuan was the most shocking. You should know that Jet Li's "Hero" has a box office of up to 50 million in North America.
It is said that "The Legend of the Conquest" is too realistic, cruel and depressing, and the characters are all miserable, which runs contrary to the martial arts films that North American audiences want to watch "Hero" and " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon " (like a superhero film), so there is a problem with the form of expression. Even many superstars in the global market have not been able to sell.
Chen Kexin thinks that "The Legend of the Conquest" is dirty. It is the darkness of reality in ancient times. If he wants to sell the title before, he will not choose this theme at all. "Kung Fu Emperor" Jet Li will play martial arts films in a small house, which will be more popular. After
, Chen Kexin supervised the production of " October Siege " directed by Chen Desen . This film is a masterpiece that director Chen Desen has not filmed for ten years. Because Chen Kexin and Bona are in the winter project, they gathered together Nicholas Tse , Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Jacky Cheung, Fan Bingbing , Hu Jun and other big names filmed.
, and during the shooting, director Chen Desen was depressed and had a disagreement with Chen Kexin, so he was directly under the cover. Liu Weiqiang was ordered to be transferred to the filming!
The film has exceeded 300 million yuan in the global box office, won the Academy Awards and best film in . Nicholas Tse also won the Best Supporting Actor, which is a big profit. However, it is said that for commercial interests, Chen Kexin and Yu Dong hired the media to discredit the bad movie "Three Guns" of the same period and suppressed Zhang Yimou .
In order to sell "October Siege", Chen Kexin also criticized Hollywood blockbusters "Transformers" and "2012" are both stupid movies, which shows that this person is not a gentle and elegant literary director, but a profiteer.
After that, Yu Dong, Chen Kexin and Chen Desen began to part ways. There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests!
In 2011, Chen Kexin recruited Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Tang Wei to shoot the martial arts film " Martial Arts ". As a result, this work has invested more than 100 million yuan, but the domestic market is only 170 million yuan. In North America, I got 11,000 yuan, and lost a lot.
Producer Qin Hong once complained that he and Chen Kexin failed in the box office work "Martial Arts", the ending of the villain Wang Yu being struck by lightning inexplicably caused a lot of controversy.
It turns out that this ending was also changed by Chen Kexin later, "The ending in the script is not struck by lightning, but the martial arts skills of Takeshi Kaneshiro, who killed Wang Yu with Donnie Yen and Tang Wei."
After losing money in "Martial Arts", Chen Kexin, who was unbeliever, came again. He produced the costume blockbuster " Blood Drops " directed by Liu Weiqiang. As a result, the bad script and dark scenes once again abandoned the big casts such as Ruan Jingtian , Li Yuchun , Shawn Yue, Huang Xiaoming .
"Blood Drops" fight hard with "Lost in Thailand", "Twelve Zodiacs" and "Big Shanghai", and the box office did not exceed 100 million yuan, and the reputation was also a mess, setting a box office record of 5,200 US dollars in the United States.
After that, Chen Kexin began to learn from his mistakes. The drama " Chinese Partner " directed and produced by him was released. The film was co-starred by Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao , and Tong Dawei . It tells the story of the boss of New Oriental . The film had a box office of 538 million yuan, won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Film, and Huang Xiaoming also won the Best Actor.
Then, Chen Kexin directed " Dear ", starring Zhao Wei, Huang Bo , Tong Dawei, Zhang Yi and Hao Lei. This crime realistic work with anti-trafficking theme has a box office of 300 million yuan in mainland China. Best Actress in the Hong Kong Film Awards!
However, since 2018, the censorship of mainland film and television dramas has been strengthened again. This time, the film is directly used as a "propaganda tool" to define the framework scope.
Chen Kexin began to shoot main theme movies for "proposition composition". From "Chinese Women's Volleyball" to "Win the Championship", and after the epidemic was postponed, a movie about China's " Women's Volleyball Spirit " was born. Although the box office was good and the mainland won awards, it was also full of disasters.
Chen Kexin originally filmed another sports movie "Li Na" later changed its name To " plays alone in ", to this day, "Douban" can no longer find traces of this movie. Only a 7-minute related short film has been included, which shows that the censorship system is too harsh on the main theme.
censorship is only part of what makes Chen Kexin feel helpless. After the outbreak of the epidemic, a movie will be postponed and withdrawn, and cinemas will always be closed, which has made the living space of Chinese movie more narrow and narrow.
In recent years, Korean dramas such as "Li Zhen," "Squid Game", and "Suriname" have been broadcast on American websites, which makes Chen Kexin suddenly see the way to make money!
He said: "Because I really don't think that people in this world only read English, and South Korea has proved it. South Korea now watches the whole world, not only Asia. If you watch Korean dramas, why not watch Chinese dramas? Because they used to watch Hong Kong films, in fact, the market for Korean dramas is the market for Hong Kong films in the past. If Korean dramas take away our Hong Kong film market, why can't we get back to the Korean drama market?"
Chen Kexin once revealed in an interview with the media, "I am about to transform into filming American dramas. This is my future life plan. I should film some Chinese dramas that the whole world watches."
And Zhang Ziyi will star in the new drama "The Case of Murdering a Husband in the Sauce Garden". The prototype of the story is one of the four major strange cases in the Republic of China. The specific story is very bloody and violent, which caused a lot of sensation in Shanghai in the last century. I believe that the drama is still very large in American streaming media.
However, a Hong Kong director who did not want to be named believes that "Although Chen Kexin has ambitions, can he know how to shoot a drama? He is very unpopular!" He decided that he was just imitating the mediocre gimmick dramas like "Suriname", "Zombie Campus", " Hell Minister " and went to American streaming media to make quick money.
After all, Netflix, Amazon , Apple , Disney wants to open up the Asian market, and it is easy to encounter the censorship system for cooperation with the mainland, and it is appropriate to cooperate with Hong Kong and Taiwan directors, but an insider believes that it is still difficult for Chen Kexin to make a popular masterpiece like "The Lights Come" and "The Distance between Us and Evil"!
Are you optimistic about the "Sauce of Killing Husband in the Sauce Garden" cooperating with Chen Kexin and Zhang Ziyi? What do you think about how many disasters and difficulties Chen Kexin has been in the mainland? Welcome to leave a message for discussion!
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