When Kang Jianfei brought the crew back to Hong Kong, the 20th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards ceremony had ended successfully.
Because it was the 20th birthday of the Golden Horse Awards, this year's Golden Horse Awards ceremony was particularly grand. Everything was imitating the Oscars, and even a Golden Horse Awards dinner was held for the first time.
However, all this has nothing to do with DreamWorks, because of the intentional dilemma of the Taiwan News Bureau, DreamWorks did not give up any videos this time.
"Boss, Yu Kanping is here." Chen Shuli walked into the recording studio and whispered beside Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei said to Lu Guanting and Li Xiaotian who are making the soundtrack: "You two will keep busy, I'll go out if I have something to do."
Lu Guanting and Li Xiaotian were both popular records at this time, and this time they were responsible for the soundtrack of "Deadly Express".
Here we have to say that although Jiahe has been stabilizing the box office of the movie in recent years, the talent reserves in all aspects have been much worse. Jiahe not only does not have female stars who can make their own moves, but also does not even have some behind-the-scenes talents, such as Cheng Long's "Plan A", which is to invite Li Xiaotian to help with the music.
Kang Jianfei left the recording studio and came to his office at Fengxing Records Company. Yu Kanping, who was waiting there, immediately stood up and said, "Boss, I asked Deputy Director Chen of the News Bureau for dinner yesterday, and he finally spoke to me."
"Oh, what did he say?" Kang Jianfei waved his hand and asked Chen Shuli to go out.
Yu Kanping said: "Deputy Director Chen said that the ban on DreamWorks from giving away Golden Horse Awards this time is mainly because of the Central News Agency's Hong Kong Branch."
Kang Jianfei asked strangely: "I'm making a movie, what's the matter with Guan Zhongshu?"
Yu Kanping explained: "The Hong Kong Branch of the Central News Agency is responsible for collecting news information in Hong Kong. Many news about the mainland in Taiwan are collected by the Central News Agency's Hong Kong Branch of the Central News Agency. This time, Taiwan's dissatisfaction with DreamWorks is because the Central News Agency analyzed that you are a left-wing filmmaker. If the second young master hadn't been covering the Bamboo League, DreamWorks' films would have been banned by the News Bureau."
Kang Jianfei asked: "Why does the Central News Agency think I am a left-wing filmmaker?"
"There are several reasons. First, you have filmed "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" in mainland China, second, you have taken in Anhua, a left-wing filmmaker, third, Phoenix Taiwan helps the mainland to speak good things, fourth, Fengxing Records cooperates with the mainland China Record Corporation to produce records, and fifth, Fengxing Records' singers participated in the mainland Spring Festival Gala," Yu Kanping smiled helplessly, "There are many reasons behind it. Anyway, you have been labeled as left-wing filmmakers and pro-maintainers."
Kang Jianfei laughed and said, "Since Deputy Director Chen dares to have dinner with you, it means that everything is remedy."
Yu Kanping nodded and said, "Yes, I have learned a little about it in the past few months. The most serious confrontation between left-wing filmmakers in Hong Kong was in the mid-to-early 1950s. At that time, as long as the word left is touched, it will definitely be banned by the Taiwan News Bureau. However, with the right-wing Yonghua and Xinhua were replaced by Shaw Brothers and Dianmao, the relationship between left-wing filmmakers has eased a lot."
"How to relieve it?" Kang Jianfei asked. He really knew very little about this.
Yu Kanping explained: "At that time, Shaw Brothers and Dianmao were representatives of right-wing companies. Great Wall, Phoenix, and Xinlian were representatives of left-wing companies. However, Shaw Brothers once spent 120,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy 10 films produced by Great Wall every year, and Dianmao also often bought Phoenix movies. These films produced by left-wing companies were blatantly distributed in Southeast Asia through Shaw Brothers and Dianmao, and were even released in the Taiwan market for public release."
"Is that okay?" Kang Jianfei sounded incredible. He asked, "How come Shaw Brothers was banned from screening "Seventy-Two Tenants" in the left-wing theater when it was only released in the theater?"
Yu Kanping smiled and said, "There are two reasons. One is that "Seventy-Two Tenants" was originally a left-wing movie, and Shaw's version is a remake; the second is the main reason, that is, Shaw's "Seventy-Two Tenants" was too sensational after its release, and Taiwan cannot turn a blind eye."
Kang Jianfei now understood, and he said: "In other words, what Taiwan News really cares about is not the movies that can take care of its own face?"
"That's true," Yu Kanping nodded and added, "In addition, as far as I know, two movies invested by Yindu institutions have been successfully released in Taiwan this year."
"It sounds so funny." Kang Jianfei couldn't help but sigh.
Yindu Institution is a merger of all left-wing film companies, studios and theaters in Hong Kong. This movie invested by the left-wing film base can be successfully released in Taiwan, which is simply unbelievable.
However, after Yu Kanping explained, Kang Jianfei quickly understood.
After the establishment of Yindu Institution, it began to reform according to Jiahe's model. Yindu Institution has money, some people have equipment and channels. On the one hand, it shoots itself, on the other hand, it is co-produced with the mainland, and on the other hand, it forms a satellite company.
Yindu Institution now has two satellite companies, both of which support some new film directors or famous directors founded. For example, the funder behind Li Hanxiang's new Kunlun Film Company is Yindu Institution.
Moreover, these satellite companies have nominal relationship with Yindu Institution, and only use the resources of Yindu Institution to shoot movies and screenings, which bypasses the intervention of the Freedom Association and also gives Taiwan News Bureau a step forward.
In fact, the two movies that were successfully released in Taiwan, like "The Old Summer Palace", were invested by Yindu institutions, and their first screening was at the Yindu Cinema in Hong Kong. However, "The Old Summer Palace" was too famous and box office, so it was so big that the Taiwanese authorities could not pretend to be invisible, so they were "shooted" as a typical example.
Kang Jianfei knocked on the table and said, "When you say that, I finally understand what the Taiwan News Bureau means. They want me to make box office in Taiwan quietly, but they will never allow DreamWorks movies to win the Golden Horse Awards, because the Golden Horse Awards are the facade of the Taiwan film industry and the last bottom line of the News Bureau. This is also the reason why Mr. Jiang Er refused to say it explicitly, because there is no way to explain this kind of thing clearly, and we can only rely on ourselves to understand it."
Yu Kanping nodded and said, "It seems that's true."
"In the news bureau, you can donate 5 million for me." Kang Jianfei said.
Yu Kanping asked: "Taiwan dollars?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Can you give Hong Kong dollars?"
Yu Kanping sighed: "The tribute of 1 million last year was like a wastewater."
"It's always useful." Kang Jianfei said. As for Mr. Jiang, he had to ask the Bamboo League to find some beautiful women and wives to send them there, otherwise, when the "New Shushan Swordsman" is filmed next year, DreamWorks will definitely be directly banned.
Kang Jianfei wanted to please the mainland and not want to lose the Taiwan market, so he had to walk a tightrope on both sides.
In fact, even if the Taiwanese market is abandoned, it is nothing to Kang Jianfei, but this will greatly affect the development of Oriental Entertainment. Once DreamWorks is banned, several other companies under Kang Jianfei will definitely suffer. At least half of the big-name stars signed by Oriental Entertainment will terminate the contract and run away.
Kang Jianfei and Yu Kanping agreed to bribe, and thought about it and said, "Let me do this, I will open another Taiwanese branch of DreamWorks. You will be responsible for producing the branch, specializing in filming that can win the Golden Horse Awards."
Yu Kanping was ecstatic after hearing this. He has been in charge of DreamWorks' Taiwan affairs for the past two years and occasionally returns to Hong Kong to serve as a producer or deputy director. If Kang Jianfei really asked him to be responsible for the production business of the Taiwan branch, then Yu Kanping would be considered a member of DreamWorks'.
The two discussed the matter of the Taiwan branch and decided to preliminarily finalize the plan. In fact, there is nothing to discuss. Kang Jianfei only needs to pay for it, and Yu Kanping will formulate the shooting plan, and then hire Taiwanese actors and behind-the-scenes teams. It is basically the same as the operating model of the Taiwan branch of Xinyi City.
After talking about the main business, Kang Jianfei picked up a form brought by Yu Kanping and asked, "What is this?"
Yu Kanping said: "The list of winners of this year's Golden Horse Awards."
Kang Jianfei opened it and glanced at it, and laughed: "There are not many Hong Kong movies that have won awards this year, most of which are local movies from Taiwan."
Yu Kanping couldn't help but sigh: "Taiwanese films have developed and deformed. This year's total box office revenue in the Taiwanese film market is almost twice that of last year's data. But the top few box office sales are basically American and Japanese films, followed by Hong Kong films. Taiwanese films can no longer be sold. But this year's Taiwanese art films have doubled, all of which are popular but not popular. The artistic and commercial nature of Taiwanese films have been completely separated."
Yu Kanping said a lot, and Kang Jianfei only heard a few words from it: Taiwanese movies are completely dead.
The movie has lost its box office soil, what's the use of winning more awards? No one will think that it's too much money, and they won't use money to play with trophys.
Since the mid-1980s, a very strange situation has occurred in the Taiwanese film industry: the Taiwanese film market is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are more and more Taiwanese bosses investing in movies. But these Taiwanese investors are only willing to spend money in Hong Kong, and after filming Hong Kong films, they will get back to Taiwan to make box office. However, the local directors in Taiwan are pitiful looking for investment everywhere like beggars. After finally getting a budget, they will shoot all the art films that are not popular and won a bunch of awards.
Kang Jianfei jumped and looked at the list of winners, and suddenly stopped in the column of Best Photography.
"The Lakeside of Tonight will be Cold", the name of this movie is interesting." Kang Jianfei suddenly smiled.
Yu Kanping introduced: "This is a ghost film produced by Taiwan's Gundam Film Company. It sold for millions of box office, and the results are quite good."
"Female ghost, haha," Kang Jianfei bounced on the list of awards and said to Yu Kanping: "Help me sign the heroine of this movie."
"Which movie?" Yu Kanping did not keep up with Kang Jianfei's jumping thinking.
"Of course it's "It'll be cold on the lakeside tonight." Kang Jianfei explained with confusion when he saw Yu Kanping, "I've seen the poster of this movie, and the image of the heroine has great potential."
Yu Kanping said in a difficult situation: "But this actress seems to have signed a contract with Gundam Company. If we force it to dig it up, it will cost a lot of money."
Kang Jianfei said with a very affirmative tone: "If you want to sign her if you want to do anything to do."
Yu Kanping was completely speechless. The heroine of "It Will Be Very Cold to the Lakeside Tonight" is just a student from an art school. This is her first drama when she debuted.
This kind of fledgling actress can be easily signed with NT$100,000, and NT$1 million is really a waste of money.
Yu Kanping estimated for a moment and said, "It should be about 500,000 yuan, I will try my best to press down."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "If she refuses to come, tell her that I will tailor a movie for her next year."
"Taiwanized?" Yu Kanping was a little stunned. It seemed that Kang Jianfei not only felt that the actress had potential, but the rhythm of being promoted. He couldn't help but say, "Boss, isn't this too hasty? What if..."
"If there is no case, just do what I said." Kang Jianfei interrupted him and forced his order.
"Okay." Yu Kanping didn't know where Kang Jianfei got such confidence, but inexplicably promoted an actress who had never met before.
For Kang Jianfei, there is no need to worry about this, because the actress is named Wang Shuxian.
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Chapter completed!