In this way, foreigners and Long Ge fans like to watch "Master Long", and locals like to watch "Shushan". Although "Master Dragon" has been a little off the street, it still managed to hold on during the New Year's Eve. Finally, "Master Long"

"When" was released, it had a box office of 11 million Hong Kong dollars. It was sniped by the special effects blockbuster "Shu Mountain". It is not easy to still get this kind of box office.

As for the aging Shaw Brothers Christmas film "The Legend of the Sparrow Heroes", it was only released for ten days and grossed more than 3 million at the box office. After that, Shaw Brothers released several old-fashioned martial arts films (which can be considered new martial arts films in the 1960s).

, all of which were hastily canceled due to poor box office performance within a few days of release.

New Art City's horror film "The Reborn Man" had a similar fate. It was released after New Year's Day and grossed more than 3 million at the box office. Then "The Best Partner", which New Art City had high hopes for, was released after "Master Dragon" and "Shushan".

》, it received 13.6 million box office. Far lower than the historical results.

Local audiences who watch computer-generated special effects blockbusters have been enthusiastically supporting "Shushan" and the show has been extended. Because theaters can make money, they will not drop the movie. Until February 3, the attendance rate of "Shushan"

It has been less than one-third for three consecutive days. The Yindu Cinema Chain just closed Shushan and ended the first round of screenings - remote areas and rural areas in Xiangjiang are still waiting for the second and third rounds of screenings.

At this time, "Shushan", which was released for 49 days, took home the highest box office performance in Hong Kong's history with a total of HK$43.52 million. Another phenomenal movie appeared.

On February 4th, "Peace Hotel" starring Fa Ge and Hong Gu was released in Yindu Cinema.

Also on February 4th, Wang Jing, as the director, received the copyright dividend from the local box office of "Shushan". It was supposed to be 435,200 Hong Kong dollars. With a stroke of his pen, Zhang Cheng gave Wang Jing 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to make up the money.

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The main actors of the creative team, such as the future Four Heavenly Kings, also received more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars in copyright income.

For other non-main creative team members, Zhang Cheng also gave each person a red envelope worth 10,000 yuan at the celebration banquet of "Shu Mountain".

Anyway, everyone is happy.

Filmmaking is never a one-person thing.

Xu Ke figured this out after the box office failure of "New Shushan".

Before "New Shushan" was released, Xu Ke could be said to be a popular star in the director circles in Hong Kong. The number of people who came to ask him to collaborate was almost over the threshold. However, after "New Shushan" was released for a few days, both the film reviews and the box office were lost.

, Shi Nansheng has prepared a fishing net at home and is preparing to catch sparrows at the door.

Although the failure of a big-invested movie at the box office is a bit hurtful, Xu Ke is still very tolerant and said to his wife Shi Nansheng in a self-righteous manner: "No problem. Look, the director's fee for "New Shushan" and your producer

We have made money from the expenses. Mr. Zou

We are also planning to sell "New Shushan" to Hollywood. Maybe foreigners like this tone. Recently I heard that foreigners like to watch the old kung fu movie "Master Long" but not "Shushan". It can be seen that our aesthetic point of view is exactly the same as that of foreigners.

It’s the opposite.”

Shi Nansheng really doesn’t think foreigners can understand a movie with a sparse plot like "New Shushan". However, at best, it’s just that he can’t get the red envelope from Boss Zou. After all, Xu Ke is already a director who has repeatedly broken the Hong Kong box office record. This failure,

It's because the special effects, plot, costumes and makeup props are inferior to others. I have nothing to say about losing.

The movie industry has always been a winner-take-all game.

Of course, Jiahe lost the most in "New Shushan". Shi Nansheng and Xu Ke each earned hundreds of thousands. This is the income of first-line directors and first-line producers.

As for the question of whether to return to Dongfangsheng Pictures, the two of them have not decided yet. There are still outside investors who want to make movies with Xu Ke and his wife, but they are all small-scale productions.

This is also the characteristic of Xiangjiang's film and television companies, which are good at making big gains with small things. It doesn't hurt to lose money on small productions, but it will be very painful if big productions lose money. Later, Wang Jiawei spent two years creating "Ashes of Time"

spent tens of millions, but it failed miserably at the box office and made boss Deng Guangrong so angry that he was hospitalized.

Wang Jiawei is a talented generation among screenwriters in Hong Kong. It’s not that he can’t direct a movie that is a hit at the box office, but he’s unwilling to do it. Because the only one who makes money in that way is the boss, and he produced a well-received but not well-received piece of literature like "Ashes of Time"

He has won numerous awards at home and abroad. Spending his boss’s money to achieve his own fame is such a good thing!

And after he became famous, even if Deng Guangrong went bankrupt or was directly angered to death, there would still be more enemies who would come to him with money and ask for his cooperation.

This is the benefit of the directing industry.

Wang Jing is known as the quick shooter and the king of bad movies in the industry, but these people don't know that the movies directed by Wang Jing have never lost money. This alone can make Wang Jing a god in the entire industry.

This can be regarded as a director's professional ethics, which is at least worthy of investors' funds - of course, many of the investors in Wang Jing's films are Yongsheng Pictures, and Yongsheng's boss is the Long Wu brothers from Xin Ngee Ann.

When a movie invested by Yongsheng loses money, the hundreds of thousands of brothers in Xin Nghe An have something to say to Wang Jing.

After the celebration party for "Shu Mountain", Dongfang Sheng Pictures' "Happy Ghosts Have Summer Vacation" officially started shooting. This time, the director and screenwriter are Gao Zhisen, and the producer is Pan Yingzi, the frozen age goddess nicknamed Baby. Pan Yingzi

There will also be a cameo appearance as a female student in the film. Pan Yingzi, who is in her early thirties, has the face of a female student, otherwise she would not be nicknamed "Doll". You know, there is never a wrong nickname in the world.

In order to save costs, this time "Happy Ghosts Are on Summer Vacation" is auditioning new actors. The entire drama has a budget of three million, and a summer drama is already available.

Another project, "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", which was planned earlier, also welcomed Gong Huang, who was recruited from the mainland from a high school sophomore in Quancheng No. 2 Middle School, after Happy Ghost's summer vacation, and helped him apply for a work visa.

Gong Huang, who was still preparing for the college entrance examination next year, heard that Director Zhang, the great director who invested in the filming of "Shaolin Temple", wanted to cast him as the heroine in the film. He was so excited that he almost became speechless.

Gong Huang, who had been in the school art team, had an urgent desire to become famous and become a national artist, but he didn't expect this day to come so suddenly.

Big director, big production, heroine. Everything happened too suddenly. Gong Huang, who originally wanted to go to art school, immediately gave up and dropped out, packed his luggage and set off to Xiangjiang with pancakes and green onions.

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Zhang Cheng saw Gong Huang for the first time and felt that Gong Huang's foundation was indeed extraordinary. Otherwise, China Drama would not have specially recruited Gong Huang to join the school after he failed. However, the dress in the 1980s was really too popular.

.Even if the other party is still wearing a white dress.

Zhang Cheng motioned to Zhao Yazhi to take Gong Huang to go shopping for beauty treatments and get used to the environment in Xiangjiang first.

As far as Gong Huang's background is concerned, making vases is top-notch, and there is no need for acting skills at all. Besides, the sixteen-year-old Gong Huang has the bonus of being invincible with youth. And if a woman wants acting skills, how can she shine like a movie star?

The sixteen-year-old Gong Huang soon had her own room and cloakroom in Zhang Cheng's house, and rows of new clothes, shoes and bags. She also transformed from a local girl to a fashionable woman. And she soon became a real woman.

I quickly adapted to this big family.

Emperor Gong doesn't care much about this. Emperor Gong has already figured it out. If a man refuses to touch you, how can he praise you?

Besides, can I leave these houses, clothes, servants, shoes, and bags now? Of course it's impossible.

Before the filming of "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" started, Mr. Wang from Yindu Cinema Line brought good news.

""Shushan" has also been decided to be released in the mainland. It will be May Day this year. And the overseas rights are not only sold to Southeast Asia and Nanyang, Europe and Beijing have also come to discuss the rights for Shushan to be released in Europe."

"Shaolin Temple" sold well in Ouchou and other places. This "Shu Mountain" even captured the wonderland in Zhangjiajie, Jiuzhaigou, Lijiang and other places beautifully. Not to mention the computer special effects technology in it, which foreigners have no idea about.

I've seen it before. According to reports from Hollywood executives, it will probably take several years of production using China's most advanced supercomputers to achieve such special effects.

Just a few years of renting a supercomputer can bankrupt any film and television company in Hollywood.

Only by constantly absorbing talents and advanced experience from the film and television industries in other countries and regions did Hollywood become what it is today.

Faced with such a special effects blockbuster, Hollywood cannot turn a blind eye to it. It is the proper way for Hollywood to do it first, then analyze how others did it, and then slowly imitate it in the future.

After the decline of Xiangjiang Pictures in the mid-1990s, many people lost their jobs. Some of the filmmakers in Xiangjiang Film and Television went to the mainland, while others defected to Hollywood. This is how "The Matrix" and other movies were made that blended the technical characteristics of Xiangjiang's martial arts.

Hollywood blockbusters and the prosperity of the mainland film and television industry.

How much money you make is the second most important thing. Entering the European and American market is the most important thing. From now on, we will have the European and American market.

The reason why Brother Long, the only one in Xiangjiang, can get the super high salary and box office share of The Housewife is because it has the world's second largest market in Japan.

"Very good. If we don't occupy this cultural position, the enemy will occupy it." Zhang Cheng was relatively relieved and handed over the overseas copyright to Mr. Wang for negotiation. The cooperation between the two parties has been pleasant in the past two years. Full content

For Mr. Wang, making money is secondary. Yindu Cinema and its Great Wall Pictures, Zhongyuan Pictures, etc. are all state-owned enterprises, and everyone receives wages within the system. Otherwise, after more than ten years of losses, in Xiangjiang

It’s long past time to close down—film and television companies all over Xiangjiang can register for thousands of dollars. It’s not uncommon to be established today and go bankrupt tomorrow. However, state-owned enterprises will never go bankrupt as long as they have support from above.

Expanding the influence of Yindu Cinemas is the ultimate goal of Mr. Wang’s work. As long as Yindu Cinemas can ensure continuous good films, overseas film buyers will naturally give priority to cooperation with Yindu Cinemas.

Of course, it is impossible for movies such as "Bloody Heroes", "A Better Tomorrow" and "Happy Ghost" to be released from the mainland. However, it is also good for Yindu Cinema to make money in Hong Kong and overseas. And left-wing cinemas

Making money can also slap a handful of people in the face. This is more satisfying to Mr. Wang than making money.

Not long after "Tang Bo Hu Spots the Fragrance of Autumn" was launched, the Hong Kong film industry ushered in a big event. The Film Weekly held an Academy Award in 1982 to select outstanding local films in Hong Kong and overseas films screened in Hong Kong.

The first Academy Awards were somewhat crude, and only selected the ten best Hong Kong films and ten foreign language films. Among them, "Once Upon a Time in the Sky" and "Shu Mountain" released by Dongfang Sheng Pictures in 1981 both won

won the title of the top ten local films.

The best director selected is Xu Ke of "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun". Although "Shushan" has a higher box office, its artistic quality is not as high as that of Three or Four Floors. Film critics believe that commercial films can just make money, and there is no need to make too many adjustments.

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The best movie was also given to "Once Upon a Time in the Sky", but Chang Cheng and Kwan Jiahui missed out on the best actor and best actress.

At a film festival, there are always rows to watch. You can’t let one movie steal the spotlight.

The best plot went to "Father and Son". Zhang Cheng has never seen this "Father and Son". Let alone Zhang Cheng, most people who participated in the first Academy Awards have not seen it, so they know that it is a literary film.

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The organizer, Film Fortnight, just likes literary films. What can you do? There is nothing you can do.

However, "Father and Son" is produced by Phoenix Pictures, a left-wing film company. Even if Zhang Chengcheng is unhappy, he can't disrupt it.

The winner of the Best Actress award and the first Best Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards was Wai Ying-hong from Shaw Brothers' "The Elders".

Hui Yinghong and Zhang Cheng really know that this is a Xiangjiang beat girl who is as famous as Li Saifeng and Yang Ziqiong. I heard that Hui Yinghong's family was too poor when she was a child and she was sold to a theater troupe. Anyone who has watched "Farewell My Concubine" knows that there is only one way to teach opera in a theater troupe.

If you sing wrongly, you will be beaten to avoid making mistakes next time. If you sing correctly, you will be beaten so as not to forget. This is called the painful memory method.

The movie that won the Best Actor was Golden Harvest Pictures' "Modern Bodyguard", and Xu Guanwen also became the first Best Actor at the Academy Awards.

The best screenplay went to New Art City's "Reborn Man".

No one can be offended by the biweekly movie, and everyone in the four major cinemas in Hong Kong has a share.

Probably because they were afraid that at the first Academy Awards, someone would not get a share of pork, and if they refused to come next time, no one would be able to claim the award. This would be such an embarrassment for the organizers of the Academy Awards.
To be continued...