After visiting the mainland last time, Zhong Jinghui went to the mainland for a month and came back only after seeing the Spring Festival.
"The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" bought by CCTV from Phoenix TV has been approved to delete a few shots after layers of approval, and then in excellent Mandarin dubbing, it has been decided to be broadcast after the Lunar New Year.
Zhong Jinghui's two trips to the mainland were not in vain. In addition to contacting many mainland TV stations, he even had contact with some officials from the Ministry of Culture, which was naturally a match made by the Hong Kong and Macao Office.
As soon as Zhong Jinghui came back, he saw the TV program production staff changing contracts. He immediately ran to find Huang Xizhao and asked: "Old Huang, what's going on in the station now? What's the TV station called without the production department?"
Huang Xizhao said calmly: "At least the news production department is still there."
"It's just a mess!" Zhong Jinghui said angrily, "This Kang Jianfei was fine at the beginning, but he started to mess around when the TV station improved a little. No, I have to go find him. At worst, I can make a fuss with him like I did when I first made an Australian shareholder. Although my TV station belongs to him, it is also big in your hands. You can't watch it ruined by him."
"Ah Hui, you can't make trouble," Huang Xizhao said meaningfully, "It's okay if we follow him and don't make trouble. Once we make trouble, I guess with Kang Jianfei's temper, he will risk quitting most of the employees and let us get out."
Zhong Jinghui was stunned, quickly figured out the reason, and smiled bitterly: "He is too suspicious, right?"
Huang Xizhao shook her head: "We had a too much fuss with Australian shareholders before. If anyone was the boss, they wouldn't be at ease with us. I should have thought of it long ago, but I was still lucky. The tough attitude Kang Jianfei showed when he had a falling out with Lei Juekun, you know that he was a person with a strong desire to control. He could not let me form a small group on the TV station. As long as the TV station stabilizes, he will definitely take action."
Zhong Jinghui was not a fool. Huang Xizhao said casually. He understood everything and could only sit there and sigh.
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As the Spring Festival approaches, the wasteland that Kang Jianfei bought in Tseung Kwan O has also stopped working. Some digging earth is placed there like trenches, and the construction can only be continued after the Spring Festival.
Although Phoenix TV's TV series and variety show production department is to be split into DreamWorks, it has not really moved over. First, the offices in DreamWorks are not enough, and second, the TV station has many studios and studios, which are more convenient for shooting programs.
Of course, although the office location was not moved, all the contracts of these people were transferred to DreamWorks, who were considered employees of the TV production department of DreamWorks Production Department.
These are temporary. After Kang Jianfei’s Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City is completed, Phoenix TV Station and Oriental Dream Factory will be moved there, and even Fengxing Records Company plans to move there.
Kang Jianfei made up his mind to split the TV production department. In addition to separating production and broadcasting, reducing Phoenix TV expenses and enhancing the competitiveness of TV programs, another purpose is to weaken Huang Xizhao's influence on Phoenix TV.
Australian shareholders suffered collective resistance from Huang Xizhao and his team on the TV station, but it sounded a wake-up call for Kang Jianfei. He didn't want to be collectively resisted by the employees in the station one day, or a large number of people were poached with Huang Xizhao.
Huang Xizhao's influence on Phoenix Platform was so great that Kang Jianfei had to be afraid. Even if Huang Xizhao was not rebellious, Kang Jianfei, as the boss, could not give Huang Xizhao the qualification and strength to rebellious.
So after buying the TV station, the first thing Kang Jianfei did was to invite Zhong Jinghui back and use Zhong Jinghui to balance Huang Xizhao. Now Phoenix Station has recovered some energy, and the time to attack Huang Xizhao is ripe. Kang Jianfei immediately split the TV production department. Most of the employees in these departments were promoted by Huang Xizhao. Now, after the contract was transferred to DreamWorks, it will take less than a year or two to minimize the influence of Huang Xizhao on them.
How could Huang Xizhao not know Kang Jianfei’s approach?
However, Kang Jianfei is the boss after all, and he is the boss who makes the TV station good. In addition, the reform of the TV station's production and broadcasting separation has a large number of successful cases in Europe, the United States and Taiwan, so Huang Xizhao really has no reason to object. After Kang Jianfei clearly stated his attitude, Huang Xizhao could only sigh and agree.
When Kang Jianfei just bought the TV station, Huang Xizhao spared no effort to help recall the backbone employees. Now that the TV station is on track, Kang Jianfei will take action against Huang Xizhao's men, which has a little bit of a smell of burning bridges across the river.
But Kang Jianfei had to do this, otherwise he would not be a competent boss. Huang Xizhao is a typical example of a boss who is more powerful than the boss. If he is a slightly tough boss, he would not allow his subordinates to have such a situation.
Therefore, there are so many emperors in history who killed founding heroes. Although Kang Jianfei did not directly attack Huang Xizhao, he split his direct troops and systematically weakened Huang Xizhao's power through production and broadcasting. This can be regarded as learning from Song Taizu to release military power with a cup of wine.
Huang Xizhao is a smart man. Perhaps he wanted to eliminate the distrust between him and Kang Jianfei. Not only did he agree to the reform of separation of production and broadcasting, he also personally called back Xu Xiaoming, who was director at Shaw Brothers.
Xu Xiaoming's ability is no less than that of McDonald Bear. In the parallel space, ATV in the Qiu Degen era was Xu Xiaoming as the program production director and has always achieved ATV's profit.
After Xu Xiaoming ran to Shaw Brothers last year, he was idle after filming only two movies and could only help other directors. He was both regretful and depressed. Now his mentor came to recruit him without grudges, and immediately ran back happily, pretending that nothing had happened and joined the TV production department of DreamWorks.
In North America, "Home Imperial" has officially been released, with a cumulative box office of US$182 million, ranking second in the U.S. box office ranking last year. (The first place is "ET", with a box office of 359 million; the second place is "Mr. Duss", with a box office of 177 million)
The news quickly spread back to Hong Kong, especially after confirming that "Home Imperial" was produced by Kang Jianfei, Hong Kong newspapers collectively rose.
Not only Hong Kong newspapers, but also Nanyang and Japanese and Korean media exclaimed incredible.
However, there were not too many reports in Taiwan's newspapers, and it seemed that the name Kang Jianfei was too dirty, and it would cause their ears to be dirty when they said it. As for the reason, it was naturally because Kang Jianfei's Phoenix Platform helped the Communist Party speak, and there was a serious suspicion of bandits and spies.
Kang Jianfei was not angry either. As long as Taiwan could not help but his movies, he would be thankful. Not only that, he also made the employees of Phoenix Taiwan restrain themselves, tried to do a neutral position and often praised Taiwan's economy and people's livelihood to do a good job, which was a disguised flattery by the Taiwan authorities.
As time goes by, details about "Home Imperial" have also been discovered by Asian media, especially Kang Jianfei's 11-day production of "Home Imperial", which is like telling a legendary story.
South China Morning Post, the largest English newspaper in Hong Kong, analyzed: "... the comedy film produced in 11 days defeated many Hollywood blockbusters and won a super high box office of US$182 million in North America. According to the genre and past practices of "Home Imperial", the subsequent global box office of this film can be sold at least US$80 million. In terms of box office revenue alone, director Kang Jianfei can get at least US$90 million. 20th Century Fox has recently announced that it will buy the copyright of the peripheral and sequels of "Home Imperial" for US$45 million. That is to say, director Kang Jianfei's "Home Imperial" can bring him at least US$130 million in net income, and its overseas box office is conservatively estimated."
The English report of the South China Morning Post was quickly translated and reproduced, and when it comes to Chinese newspapers such as Oriental Daily and Business Daily, it became directly "Mr. Kang Jianfei made a net profit of US$130 million in the United States in 11 days."
The news of these big newspapers is misinterpreted by the tabloids and becomes "Kang Jianfei earns tens of millions of dollars a day in the United States", and he becomes a superman who makes money.
Now Kang Jianfei is even careful when he goes out, otherwise he will know that a reporter will pop up there.
As the end of the year approaches, all work has been arranged, and Kang Jianfei is also happy to be idle. He basically takes turns to compensate Lin Qingxia, Zhao Yazhi, Zhong Chuhong and Pan Yingzi to have fun and relax. Occasionally, he also goes to Wen Bixia to call the four beautiful girls, Wen Bixia, Li Yafeng, Li Yanshan and Xie Ning, and change his style to love.
Wen Bixia's fourth girl brother, the elder brother, and the younger brother, was very dedicated to serving Kang Jianfei. He originally only regarded a few girls as playthings, but now he has developed a little bit of love over time.
Finally, it was the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, and major theaters in Hong Kong launched their own New Year blockbusters.
Shaw Brothers' "Interstellar Blunt", which was roaring half a year ago, was finally released. This science fiction film, which is known as the Hong Kong version of "Star Wars", quickly caused a sensation after its release.
Why is it a sensation?
Because "Interstellar Blunt" was only screened for two days, the attendance rate was too low and he had to lose his paintings, breaking the shortest record of the release time of the Spring Festival movie.
The so-called "Hong Kong version of Star Wars" promoted by Shaw Brothers has become a laughing stock in the industry. Those viewers who are excited to buy tickets to watch science fiction blockbusters are so angry that they curse, and even some theaters have even had a ticket refund storm.
In the original version of "Interstellar Blunt" in time and space, the screenwriter (Wen Jun) and the heroine (Zhong Chuhong) are now in DreamWorks, but director Zhang Guoming has not changed. After Shaw decided to shoot a science fiction film, Zhang Guoming took the money to invite the screenwriter to write the script. Because the elements and selling points of the movie were proposed by Shaw and the director, the scripts written were not much different, and it was still a noisy urban comedy film with science fiction skin.
Those viewers who bought tickets to watch "Interstellar Blunt" were like gay friends who went to a duck shop for fun. When the door was opened, they saw an aunt in her forties and fifties lying on the bed, and her heart was hurt.
Although Kim Yong has a good relationship with Shaw Yifu, this issue of Ming Pao commented very ruthlessly: "Interstellar Blunt" is the worst 'blockbuster' in Hong Kong's film history, no doubt about it."
According to Shaw Brothers, the production fee for "Interstellar Blunt" is 8 million Hong Kong dollars, but the audience after watching the movie doubts whether the cost of this film is 800,000.
Due to the full release of Shaw Brothers theaters and the overwhelming publicity, "Interstellar Blunt" won a box office of 520,000 on the first day, which was a good start. But the second day, because the reputation was so bad, it only sold 80,000 yuan, with an average attendance rate of less than 20%.
(The box office of "Interstellar Blunt" on all the information is 6 million, but it only lasted for 2 days, which is not a fool. If it can sell 6 million in two days, it will definitely be the box office champion of that year if it continues to be released)
After "Interstellar Blunt" fell into outer space, Shaw Brothers Theater urgently released "Shaolin Successor" starring Dillon and Er Dongsheng. "Shaolin Successor" is not very powerful, and it can't hold on to the fallen painting after only 5 days of release.
Shaw Tycoon hopes that "Interstellar Blunt" can turn the world, but this science fiction blockbuster highlights Shaw's declining weather. But his subsequent efforts have boosted the Hong Kong film industry. Shaw Tsai Theater, which has no good films, actually started to screen Hollywood movies, and was the box office champion of North America last year "ET".
In the past, the Anle Theater, the Jiang family, has always been screening western films in Hong Kong. There are only four theaters under Anle Theater. This time, the Shaw Brothers Theater won’t win the movie with more than ten theaters, and lost the money-making movie "ET".
However, industry insiders with discerning eyes have already seen the idea of ​​Shaw Tycoon. In the past, Shaw Tsai Cinemas and Shaw Tsai Cinemas dragged each other down, and Shaw Tsai could not do anything. This time, he wanted to borrow Hollywood films to make up for the shortcomings of Shaw Tsai Cinemas' high-quality film sources. Maybe he would reform Shaw Tsai Cinemas next.
If Shaw Tycoon's plan is successful, Shaw Pictures and Shaw Theater may both be able to revive.
The New Art City comedy film released by Princess Jin didn't last long. It only took a week to screen and then fell into the paintings, with a box office of only more than 3 million. However, the next release of "The Beauty of Love" made Kang Jianfei shook his head and sigh, because the producer of this film was Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Pictures Company.
After the release of "The Beauty of Love" received rave reviews, withstood the competition between "ET" and Xu Ke's "The City of Jue" and won more than 9 million yuan in one fell swoop.
As for Xu Ke's "The City of Jue", the audience's evaluation of this film went to two extremes. Those who liked it thought it was a classic, but those who didn't like it were criticized as a bad movie because they could not get used to Xu Ke's fast pace. "The City of Jue" was only released in the new era theaters for 10 days, and the cumulative box office of Hong Kong was 7.83 million, which is much less than Chen Xunqi's "The Beauty Has a Departure".
Chapter completed!