"The identity curse was finally fulfilled, and Ye Yuqing missed the title of Sister Dong!"
On the second day of the Miss Oriental final, most of the entertainment page headlines in Hong Kong newspapers were reports of beauty pageant finals, and the main body of the report was not the champion, but the runner-up of this year's Miss Oriental, the most photogenic Miss Ye Yuqing.
At this time, Kang Jianfei was carrying a "Oriental Daily" and the headlines of the entertainment page published a photo of the champion when he was crowned. After filming "The Saint of Gambling", Li Zhi, the champion of the previous Dongjie, continued to study in the United States, and this time he made a special trip back from there to present awards to the champion.
In the photo, this year's Dongjie champion Pan Xianyi lowered her head slightly and asked Lizhi to put the crown of beauty pageant queen with a smile on her face. Not far behind Pan Xianyi, Ye Yuqing was also smiling and applauding, but her smile clearly had a bitter taste.
"This photo is taken well. Lao Ma has some talented people." Kang Jianfei pointed to the photo in the newspaper and laughed.
Ye Zhiming sighed, "Aqing, what did you say when you signed up for the competition? It doesn't matter whether you can get a ranking. Why didn't you win the championship and laugh so badly that you cry?"
Ye Yuqing sat next to the two of them, and was so angry that she beat Ye Zhiming's shoulder with her pink fist: "Brother! They are so embarrassed now, even you are here to make fun of me! It's not because you are the general manager of Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company that those judges dare not let me win the beauty pageant championship."
In order to avoid suspicion, the judges deliberately lowered Ye Yuqing's competition scores, and eventually let her pass by the beauty pageant queen's crown - this is a common saying among most newspapers.
In Kang Jianfei's opinion, in addition to being proud of breast enhancement, Ye Yuqing is indeed inferior to Pan Xianyi in appearance, and there is no case of being deliberately suppressed.
Of course, everyone has different aesthetic orientations. Ye Yuqing's beauty is more Western and more tough and sexy. The beauty of champion Pan Xianyi is in the Eastern style, and her charming and charming look is somewhat of a Zhao Yazhi.
But no matter who is more beautiful, the topic has been hyped after all. Although the mainstream criticism for Ye Yuqing now, champion Pan Xianyi also has many fans. The two gangs quarreled, and the media joined in the fun for sales and the hype news that Phoenix Channel paid for people to write, Pan Xianyi and Ye Yuqing will definitely be topical figures in the next one or two months.
What DreamWorks and Phoenix Channel need to do is to create TV series and TV programs for the two before the news topic has expired, and stabilize this temporary fame.
"Has the Venice been arranged?" Kang Jianfei did not mention the beauty pageant of Miss Oriental again.
Ye Zhiming said: "The arrangement has been almost done. More than 30 film publishers around the world have agreed to participate in the Venetian premiere of "Shushan". However, whether it can be successful depends on whether "Shushan" can be recognized by Western audiences, otherwise those publishers will not buy it."
"I know this, let's talk about it after the premiere." Kang Jianfei was really unsure whether "Shushan" could be liked by European and American audiences.
Currently, this movie has invested more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars. "Shushan" carefully created by Xu Ke for more than a year is completely different from the movie in the original time and space.
The novel "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan" by the owner of Huanzhu Lou is quite a bit like a Qingming mountain map. The characters are full of images and are told in a leisurely manner, gradually outlining the complete world of swordsman.
But such a rhythm cannot be used to make movies. Remember that the protagonist is not outstanding when doing commercial movies. Personal heroism is the king of commercial movies. The box office of the "Spider-Man" series is far higher than that of the "X-Men" series, which is the best proof.
Under Kang Jianfei's supervision, Xu Ke and the screenwriters of DreamWorks collectively created "Shushan" is a complete Hollywood commercial film model, focusing on outlining Lee Young-qiong played by Lee Sai-feng and Yu Ying-nan played by He Jiajin. Then several important supporting roles were added, including Zhao Yazhi's second female lead, and worked hard to help the male and female protagonists survive the difficult angle. This can make the scene grand and the plot full. This is how "Lord of the Rings" is done. The "Shushan" invested by Kang Jianfei is the narrative rhythm of "Lord of the Rings".
There is personal heroism, many friends working together, and beautiful love, friendship and grudges. This is the entire element of "Shushan". The box office of Xu Ke in "Shushan" was defeated by Xu Ke in the original time and space. In addition to the fast pace that the audience could not keep up, the feelings inside were too pale and cold, and they lacked some earthly popularity, which gave the audience a very poor sense of substitution. This was also what Kang Jianfei asked to make the key corrections.
In the end, the movie "Shushan" produced by Xu Ke is actually a fantasy movie that upgrades monsters and villains with Hollywood structure and Eastern style ideas.
What Kang Jianfei can be sure is that audiences in the East Asian Confucian cultural circle will definitely like this movie, but it cannot guarantee whether Western audiences can understand it. This cultural barrier is really a bit big.
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As September begins, Hong Kong students begin to return to school one after another, and this year's summer movie season is coming to an end.
In the summer of 1985, "Wang Feihong: The Great Ambition" ranked first in the box office of Hong Kong summer movies with a data of HK$36.81 million; the second place was Cheng Long's "Police Story", with a box office of 25.77 million in Hong Kong; "Summer Lucky Star" starring Sammo Hung and Cheng Long was the most impacted by "Wang Feihong". In the original time and space, the film was close to 29 million box office, but now it has been run to only 23.59 million, and it has been shot to the third place in the summer.
I have to say that Hong Jinbao is the box office guarantee. In the top three box office list this summer, Jiahe's movies occupy two places.
However, in terms of box office data alone, DreamWorks actually made more money because the fourth-ranked "Gambling Man" has a box office of 22.98 million, and the box office of "Wong Feihong" has a box office of more than 36 million, which is far more than the sum of "Summer Lucky Star" and "Police Story".
It is worth mentioning that "Happy Adventure" has a box office of 20.83 million Hong Kong dollars. This is also the second movie with a box office of over 20 million yuan in Debao Film Company, which is extremely dazzling among all independent film companies.
Most importantly, Debao Film Company has reached a cooperative relationship with Xinbao Cinemas.
Debao Film Company was originally working with Jiahe Theater, but now it has gone to Xinbao to be released, and it has actually formed a competitive relationship with Jiahe. In addition, Sammo Hung came out to shoot "The Rich Train" with Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca, which made Zou Wenhuai so angry that he vomited blood. However, Zou Wenhuai had to forcefully swallow this anger and asked Sammo Hung to have a long talk. Then Sammo Hung came to Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca to discuss it.
No one knows what they talked about, but the result of the conversation is very clear: Sammo Hung withdraws shares from Debao Film Company, and Jiahe acquiescensors Sammo Hung completes the filming of "The Rich Train", but Jiahe also must participate in an investment and obtain the distribution rights of "The Rich Train". Of course, this distribution rights are not exclusive. At the same time, in the next movie that Sammo Hung and Jiahe cooperate with Jiahe, Jiahe will increase the box office share of Baohe Film Company.
Pan Disheng's Debao also made a big move. Mr. Pan spent money to buy back the shares given by Hong Jinbao and sold them to Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong. At the same time, Pan Disheng, who was hotly sold by "Happy Adventure", also spent 50 million yuan to build, acquire the theater, and join the Xinbao Cinema founded by Chen and Feng.
This means that Debao Film Company and Xinbao Cinema have become solid allies, and several bosses have shares in each other's companies and are bound to form a community of interests.
On the other hand, Xinyi City began to decline several years earlier than the original time and space, and small layoffs began before the summer season ended. Affected by this, Jin Princess Theater announced that it would increase its box office share to attract the source of Hong Kong independent film companies and engage in vicious competition with the betrayed Xinbao Theater.
Ordinary movie fans may not be able to detect anything, but only feel that the number of movies released by major theaters suddenly increased a lot in the next period of time. However, people in the Hong Kong film industry can always feel the surging undercurrents, and the Xiangjiang film industry has changed again this summer.
The initiator of all these changes was Kang Jianfei. Without him flapping his butterfly wings, there would be no early decline of Xinyi City, and Chen Rongmei's Xinbao Cinema would not have opened so quickly.
In addition to Kang Jianfei, the biggest influence is Cai Songlin, the messenger. Cai Songlin represents not an individual, but all investors who want to squeeze into the Hong Kong film industry and get a share. Cai Songlin just made a small hole in the embankment, while countless local tyrants in Nanyang and Taiwan used money to form a rapid flow to push the embankment into a big gap in an instant.
In September alone, seven Hong Kong films invested by Nanyang and Taiwanese businessmen will be launched. These films will be released in Xinbao and Princess Jin, and may even be released in Oriental Cinemas and Yindu Cinemas.
Stimulated by the market and the abundant film sources, it has in turn promoted the development of cinemas. Some wealthy people in Hong Kong have begun to spend money to build cinemas. These cinemas are retail cinemas, either absorbed and won over by Xinyi City, or formed temporary cinemas with other retail investors. Anyway, they have digested many films that cannot be released by mainstream cinemas.
As of December 1985, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong soared to 156, and it won’t take long to reach its peak of 180.
With the continuous layoffs in Xinyi City, Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company began to recruit people. It was obviously the hot sale of "Happy Adventure" and the alliance with Xinbao Cinemas that made him feel much more confident and he was preparing to quickly expand the scale to compete with Jiahe and DreamWorks for the film market.
It was under such circumstances that the second Miss Oriental final was still scattering, with champion Pan Xianyi and runner-up Ye Yuqing busy filming TV series, while Tang Shuxuan took Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and others to expedition to Venice.
Chapter completed!