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Huang Baiming, Johnnie To, Teddy Robin and Lin Lingdong, the four shareholders, sat together regardless of primary or secondary. Huang Baiming's opening sentence shocked the other three: "New Art City may be disintegrated, and it will last until the end of the year at most."
"How could it be disintegrated? The "Diary of the Real Man" from Xinyi City during the summer season sold well." Lin Lingdong asked in confusion.
Huang Baiming said with some gloating pleasure: "Build a studio, opened a record company, opened an agency, and opened a film branch in Taiwan. The stall is too big. It's okay that Xinyi City has maintained high profits, but unfortunately it has not performed well in the golden period for more than two years. Before I left, Xinyi City was in a loss state and sold all its subsidiaries a few months ago. Although it turned losses into profits after reducing expenses, it was difficult to recover the decline. The two bosses, Mecca and Shi Tian, ​​are no longer in the movies, so it will be a matter of time before the disintegration of Xinyi City."
Teddy Robin asked: "Have Boss Lei talked to you about this?"
Huang Baiming nodded: "He hopes that I can receive some resources from Xinyi City after the disintegration of Xinyi City."
Johnnie To said happily: "This is an opportunity for us to develop."
Huang Baiming said: "I think so too, but the most important thing is the director and behind the scenes, and it's better not to have anything else."
Teddy Robin said: "All four of us can write and direct, and no matter how many directors there are, it is a burden. The technical staff behind the scenes are the most important."
Huang Baiming smiled and said, "There are no good directors. Once the New Art City disintegrates, who else can compete with us for the Golden Princess schedule in the future?"
As one of the largest theaters in the past, the Golden Princess Cinema has declined in the past two years, and the main reason is that the performance of Xinyi City is not very good.
During the entire summer season this year, Princess Jin released the best box office. Fortunately, in addition to the other group of Vientiane Films, Huang Baiming, Lei Juekun also brought Liu Jialiang over, and the film "Tiger Out" filmed by Liu Jiaban in Xinyi City also made a muscular man named Li Yuanba famous.
After the end of New Art City, the most complicated person is Huang Baiming. New Art City was once the peak of Huang Baiming's career, but now it's almost disintegrating, but the biggest beneficiary of the closure of New Art City is Huang Baiming.
Because as long as the New Art City exists, Huang Baiming's new company, Vientiane Film, will never be able to get a good schedule. For example, this year's summer season. Vientiane Film's work is "School Storm" directed by Lin Lingdong. After finally being ranked in the summer season at Princess Jin, it was arranged to be released at the same time as Cheng Long's "Sequel to Police Story". In addition, Wang Jing's "Hardcover Chasing Girls" series also grabbed audiences. The originally potential "School Storm" was unsatisfactory, with only a little over 10 million yuan in box office.
As long as Xinyi City is finished, Vientiane Film will surely grab the best schedule for Princess Jin in the future. This benefit is even greater than the resources left by Xinyi City.
Teddy Robin suddenly said: "Gao Zhisen is doing well this year. How about trying to dig him back?"
"I can't dig." Huang Baiming shook his head unnaturally with an expression. Even if he can dig, he will not dig.
To talk about the best directors in Hong Kong in the past year, Gao Zhisen is definitely one of them. At the end of last year, his film "The Rich and the Rich" won a box office of 27 million. A few months later, Gao Zhisen rushed to film another film "The Rich and the Rich and the Rich" with a box office of 25.8 million. In the past summer, Gao Zhisen's "The Rich and the Duck" hit 29 million.
Three consecutive movies with a box office of more than 25 million yuan have made Gao Zhisen become a top director in Hong Kong. It can be compared with Wang Jing.
Gao Zhisen was once Huang Baiming's apprentice and was once appreciated and promoted by Kang Jianfei. But he is now a great director under Pan Disheng. How could Huang Baiming stick to someone's cold butt with a hot face?
Johnnie To suddenly said: "Zeng Zhiwei can bring him over."
Huang Baiming's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands, "This is a good idea."
After Zeng Zhiwei resigned from his position as the production manager of DreamWorks, the good friend Film Company he created was quite popular for more than a year, but now he is half dead. Zeng Zhiwei has no regrets about leaving DreamWorks, after all, he has made a lot of movies he made in his own company.
However, Zeng Zhiwei's current situation is very embarrassing. Continuing to make movies by himself can only make some money. He pleaded with Kang Jianfei to return to DreamWorks and he couldn't hide his face for a while. If Huang Baiming could invite Zeng Zhiwei at this time, he would probably be able to bring Zeng Zhiwei and his good friend's company to Vientiane, so that Vientiane's foundation would be stronger.
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The polygonal relationship between Kang Jianfei and Guan Zhilin, Wang Shuxian and Li Jiaxin finally gradually decreased after two consecutive months of hot hype.
The big news that was replaced was that Zeng Zhiwei and his good friend Film Company were merged into Huang Baiming's Vientiane Film Company as a whole. Many behind-the-scenes talents from Xinyi City also moved to Xinyi Film Company, and rumors that Xinyi City was about to collapse spread wildly.
"Is New Art City going to disintegrate? It's too fast!" Kang Jianfei was surprised when he heard the news. Because in his memory, the New Art City disintegration was in 1990, and the last movie produced by New Art City was released in 1991.
Kang Jianfei didn't think about how many talents and videos it had lost because of his appearance. It was enough to be reported that the New Art City was about to collapse.
Once the Xinyi City disintegrates, it receives Xinyi City resources and takes over Vientiane Film, which has good friend's company, as long as it can make a few tenable high-box movies, it will inevitably become another big company that can challenge DreamWorks.
By that time, the Hong Kong film industry will be the four-country war between DreamWorks, Jiahe, Debao and Vientiane. As for other messy independent film companies, there is no need to mention it.
The Xiang brothers' Yongsheng Film Company is still living by filming followers. Two times I wanted to learn how to play big casts, but the result was not very ideal. I barely made some money by relying on overseas box offices.
Moreover, Xiang Huaqiang's current intention is not to make movies, because the clubs were in a terrible turmoil last year. It finally annoyed the British Hong Kong authorities. Xiang Huayan, the leader of New Yian, was arrested by the police for investigation. The court had just sentenced Xiang Huayan to seven years in prison.
Nowadays, Xin Yian is unstable. Xiang Huaqiang was "ordered" to become a club leader. While resisting pressure from other clubs, he used various means to appease the club. How could he still have time to make movies?
In addition to the changes in New Art City and Vientiane Film, there is another major event in the Hong Kong film industry, that is, the film censorship system has been drawn up to solicit opinions from all Hong Kong citizens. Major producers and directors are invited to discuss and negotiate.
The revision of Hong Kong's film censorship system started last year, mainly due to a foreign report. After some people were speculated in Hong Kong, it immediately attracted public attention and discussion.
What makes Hong Kong filmmakers feel the most embarrassing is that Hong Kong films have been developing for decades, but the Hong Kong film censorship system has no legal basis. In the past, the film censorship of the Hong Kong Electric Inspection Office was an administrative order.
The new film censorship will be determined in legal form, and the film rating system has become inevitable.
This is not a trivial matter. If the film rating system is established, the inspection department will inevitably relax the censorship of movies. Nowadays, many films that cannot be filmed can be filmed, and the creation of directors and screenwriters will have more free space, and the film rating can also allow the development of various movies to be more healthy.
It can be said that the real prosperity of Hong Kong films was actually after the establishment of the Hong Kong film rating system.
"Fei Brother. No. 7 is the first meeting of the Directors Association. Mr. Wu Siyuan invites you to attend. No. 11 is the invitation of the Legislative Yuan to participate in the discussion of the film censorship system. No. 16 is the award ceremony for the top ten outstanding young people in Hong Kong, and you also need to attend..." Li Meifeng reported the agenda to Kang Jianfei. These frequent meetings and ceremonies made Kang Jianfei quite upset.
Kang Jianfei said: "I understand, please help me make arrangements. I will notify Zeng Bolin when the schedule is completed."
Li Meifeng also said: "In addition, news comes from Japan that the game "King of Fighters" has been completed and is under test and will be released at the end of the year."
"It's done very quickly." Kang Jianfei smiled and said to Li Meifeng, "Help me go back there and say that the comics of "The King of Fighters" have been created, so that their publicity department can contact Kadokawa Bookstore."
"Okay." Li Meifeng wrote it down in her notepad.
Kang Jianfei went downstairs to the Black Horse Comics Company and searched through the comics about "The King of Fighters", and found that the plot they created was slightly different from that in their memory, but it was not too big. Just wait for the game "The King of Fighters" to come out, and they can cooperate with the promotion.
The animation company has also developed quite well. The current works include "Crayon Shin-shirt" and "Elf Rat", which are mainly broadcast on Phoenix TV and Macau TV, and are also sold to Japan, Taiwan, Nanyang and mainland China. Among them, "Crayon Shin-shirt" is adapted from the comics, while "Elf Rat" is an original cartoon of the company. After the broadcast, the children's reaction was pretty good.
Kang Jianfei came here this time and wanted to watch the animated movie "Mulan".
The plot of this animation is provided by Kang Jianfei, which is actually a Disney animation in another time and space.
There is no precedent for animated movies to sell well in Hong Kong. It is mainly because people are influenced by fixed ideas and believe that cartoons are for children to watch.
Kang Jianfei is preparing to take "Mulan" to North America to test the waters first. If he can win a few awards, then he will be released in Hong Kong, at least he will not be miserable. After all, a Hong Kong cartoon has been praised overseas, so it is still easy to promote it, which is enough to attract parents to bring their children to the cinema.
Now two-thirds of the employees of the animation company are from the mainland. Kang Jianfei found some of the films of "Mulan" and suddenly he didn't know what to say.
The Disney version of "Mulan" can be seen as an American-made animation, and now in front of Kang Jianfei is full of the Chinese style of "Making a Fight in the Heavenly Palace" and "Nezha Fights in the Sea".
As for which is better and worse, Kang Jianfei couldn't explain clearly, but he was worried about it. The main reason was that Kang Jianfei regarded North America as the main box office market of "Mulan", and was afraid that it would be difficult for North American audiences to accept it if it was too Chinese.
However, a group of mainland painters who have never seen American cartoons are doing original paintings. Kang Jianfei is not that harsh yet, so he has to draw Disney style, so he can just make do with it. Maybe North American audiences prefer it when they see the novelty.
Chapter completed!