Since Kang Jianfei took over Phoenix TV, the TV station's ratings have only rebounded slightly, but they are far behind TVB.
Since the two TV series "Sister Tuoqiang" and "Looking for Qin" are relatively popular, not many people outside the world question whether Kang Jianfei has the ability to run the TV station well, but there are many people waiting to see his jokes.
Kang Jianfei is not in a hurry. He is not in a hurry to replace variety shows or other programs with new ones.
All plans have been formulated and need to be implemented step by step. The first step to make Phoenix TV's ratings take off is to produce two classic signature TV series. Then, taking advantage of the momentum of the surge in ratings, reforms will be carried out one after another.
Other programs.
To be honest, because Kang Jianfei has the golden finger of a time traveler, it would be more profitable to make a few more movies than to be a TV station. However, he still deliberately spends money to acquire TV stations, and even spends precious time personally supervising the production of TV series.
Oriental DreamWorks, Phoenix TV and Fengxing Records will form a complementary iron triangle in the future.
In addition to promoting Oriental DreamWorks and Fengxing Records, Phoenix TV is also a talent training base. Actors and behind-the-scenes personnel from the TV station and DreamWorks can completely communicate with each other.
What about Fengxing Records? The film and television works of Phoenix Channel and DreamWorks must have various music contents. Fengxing Records can not only help Phoenix Channel and DreamWorks produce music, but also help them distribute and sell records.
As for Oriental DreamWorks, it can exist as a money-making and star-making machine. Phoenix TV and Pop Records have potential stars. DreamWorks can promote them to another level by making movies.
After the iron triangle is completed, Kang Jianfei's film and television empire in Hong Kong will only have cinema lines.
Regarding cinema lines, Kang Jianfei is not in a hurry, and he is not in a hurry. When the prosperity of Hong Kong films reaches a stage, it will be very simple to establish a cinema chain, but it is hard to say whether the cinema chain will be profitable.
At least now, Shaw Brothers Cinemas is operating at a loss almost every month. In the past two years, it has lost at least more than 50 million. If it weren't for the rich financial resources of Shaw Brothers, others would have been unable to sustain it.
Kang Jianfei also thought about investing in movie theaters in mainland China. The last time he went to the mainland to film "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", he asked about it, but the answer he got made Kang Jianfei very disappointed.
Cinemas are cultural infrastructure and are not allowed to be controlled by foreign capital. No matter how much money is invested, it will be in vain.
If Kang Jianfei's prediction is correct, at least until the CEPA agreement is signed in 2003, Hong Kong capital will not be able to control cinemas in mainland China. At most, joint venture cinemas will give you partial equity, but even if you invest 10 billion to build a cinema chain in mainland China.
It is also impossible to have the right to speak.
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Time entered July, and the old British lady was furious. The Falklands War, which had been fought with Argentina for more than two months, was over.
Falklands and Hong Kong are really far away, and it should be said that they have little to do with Hong Kong people, but the fact is exactly the opposite.
After Britain won the Falklands War, with the prestige of victory in the war, it began to ask China for negotiations on the Hong Kong issue. I heard that the old British lady had a big appetite this time and planned to continue to rule Hong Kong, and was also preparing to discuss this issue in the near future.
Internal visit to China.
Hong Kong newspapers began to make various predictions. Some said that the Beijing authorities would surrender to the British this time, and some said that the People's Liberation Army would take back Hong Kong by force after the negotiations broke down. Anyway, rumors were flying around for a while, making people confused.
Kang Jianfei already knew the result. So he didn't pay attention at all and started to do the final promotion with the creative team of "A Better Tomorrow".
At the same time, Jiahe's "Plan A" also stepped up its publicity campaign, with movie advertisements being placed overwhelmingly in major newspapers.
In a parallel space, "Plan A" was Cheng Long's idea after he starred in "The Five Lucky Stars", but now it was filmed before "The Five Lucky Stars".
In addition to Cheng Long's "Plan A", Golden Harvest's summer schedule this year also has Hong Jinbao's "Fat Dragon Crossing the River". As for "Dragon Ninja" directed by Yuan Kui, it was released in June and won the
It made millions at the box office.
Shaw Brothers Cinemas has three movies planned for release in July, two of which are Liu Jiaban's works. However, compared to the publicity of "A Better Tomorrow" and "Plan A", Shaw Brothers' movies are much calmer
, as usual, place a small advertisement in the newspaper, and then put up a poster at the entrance of the theater, and that's it, as if anyone who wants to take the bait will take the bait.
"Plan A" was released a few days before "A Better Tomorrow", and it earned an extremely high box office of 8.56 million in its first week, making the media exclaim that the real Cheng Long was back.
I heard that when Zou Wenhuai received the box office data, he danced with joy and repeatedly praised Cheng Long as his lucky general.
On July 8, just six days after the release of "Plan A", the premiere of "A Better Tomorrow" was also held as scheduled.
At this time, "Pretty Girl", a dark horse at the box office, had only been released for two days. With Kang Jianfei taking over Phoenix TV, the media's attention to "A Better Tomorrow" has reached a new level.
The films of Kang Jianfei and Cheng Long have competed with each other several times before. Except for the fact that the box office of "The Young Master" was hundreds of dollars higher than that of "Swordsman", Cheng Long seemed to lose every time.
This time, will Cheng Long make a good comeback, or will he continue to be overwhelmed by Kang Jianfei?
On the day of the premiere, film critics from all walks of life entered the premiere theater one after another, wanting to take a sneak peek and predict the box office of "A Better Tomorrow".
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Shu Qi recently almost broke his leg because of contacting the launch of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association. Unfortunately, the result disappointed him. At the same time, it also made him realize the reality that Hong Kong movies are still extremely immature and will not be established in the near future.
Professional groups mean little.
After giving up the idea of forming an entertainers association, Shu Qi turned his energy back to "Movie Biweekly" and next year's Academy Awards. First, he hired someone to design the trophy, then planned the establishment of various awards, and selected next year's Academy Awards.
Famous foreign filmmakers to be invited.
The trophy for the Academy Awards is still being designed, and I received an invitation from Kang Jianfei to premiere his new film. Shu Qi also took the opportunity to come out and watch the film to get some fresh air.
Wu Yusen was sitting not far from Shu Qi. After two consecutive movies, no one was willing to ask him to make a movie anymore. Wu Yusen’s good friend Xu Ke was doing well in Xinyi City. Last week,
Wu Yusen was strongly invited to join New Art City and is preparing for him to make a new film.
Wu Yusen, who suffered continuous setbacks, now lacks self-confidence, and even he himself doubts whether his next movie will make money. Now Kang Jianfei is the most popular director in Hong Kong, and Wu Yusen came to watch "A Better Tomorrow" specifically to learn from it.
After the program interaction on the stage, the movie officially began to show.
Zhou Runfa, wearing a windbreaker and sunglasses, appeared on the screen and started eating street food, chasing the vendors to pay. Then they got into Brother Hao's car and entered the company together.
When they saw the company employees greeting "Brother Hao" and "Brother Xiao Ma", including Wu Yusen, Shu Qi, Yi Shu and others, all the audience thought that Zhou Runfa was playing a company executive.
But soon a scene that stunned the audience appeared. A 100-dollar bill appeared on the computer monitor, and an expert in a white coat operated the mouse and began to manually modify the number on the dollar bill.
Next, the entire page of U.S. dollar bills is toned, and then the machine starts to run. Stacks of U.S. bills are printed like this.
"Damn, these are printing counterfeit banknotes!"
“Brother Ma’s action of lighting cigarettes with US dollars is so cool.”
"It's high-tech. In the past, when printing counterfeit money in movies, electric boards were required. This one is fully automated by computer."
"..."
Wu Yusen was quite surprised that the lead actor was set to be a counterfeit banknote dealer. He initially thought it was a gangster film like "The Godfather". It wasn't until Zhang Guorong, who was admitted to the police academy, appeared that Wu Yusen felt that it was not that simple.
The plot behind is definitely more complicated.
Immediately afterwards, the scene in which Leslie Cheung accompanied Guan Zhilin to take the violin exam made the audience laugh. Before the laughter stopped, Brother Hao, played by Chen Huimin, was arrested in Taiwan.
Brother Xiao Ma appeared on the overpass in Ximending, holding a toothpick in his mouth and reading the newspaper. The headline of the newspaper was the news that Brother Hao was arrested.
"It is my destiny to enter the world.
It's not that you are willing to be a bad guy.
It's better to be brothers,
Dagang (every day) wears gold and silver.
Money can sometimes be tight.
Become a sworn brother and tease Sa Ting (helping you through difficulties)
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As the Taiwanese song "The Ups and Downs of Brothers" played, Zhou Runfa appeared in the aisle of Fenglin Pavilion Restaurant, dancing tango with a restaurant girl.
The dance movements of the two were very graceful, and there was even a close-up of Zhou Runfa's lustful eyes and big hands. But under the cover of this beautiful dance, Zhou Runfa took out a handful of pistols and stuffed them into the bonsai in the aisle, which foreshadowed what was to come.
What little brother Ma wants to do.
Wu Yusen took a breath. He never thought that a gangster movie could be made like this, especially the series of gun battles at the end, which turned violence into an art form.
Other spectators at the scene also held their breaths and stared at the big screen attentively. They did not relax until the gunfight was over. But at this moment, Xiao Ma was crawled out and shot in the leg, and was finally killed.
The enemy dragged a lame leg out.
Brother Hao returned to Hong Kong after serving his sentence, and his brothers turned against each other and became homeless. Brother Hao, who wanted to change his ways, became a taxi driver. When showing the scene of Brother Hao driving passengers, Kang Jianfei did not use the original soundtrack, but instead used a vicious
Interestingly, the song "I haven't been a big brother for many years" was added.
Most people in Hong Kong can still understand Mandarin. The most popular songs and movies in Hong Kong ten years ago were all in Mandarin, so Kang Jianfei was too lazy to change the lyrics to Cantonese.
This song appeared twice in the film, and once when Leslie Cheung pressed his brother against the wall to search him and asked him when he would have a deal, Brother Hao said helplessly: "Sir, I haven't been a big brother for a long time!"
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At this moment, the song "I haven't been a big brother for many years" sounded again, adding a bit of sadness to the movie.
Brother Ma's downfall and Cheng's betrayal aroused strong reactions from the audience. Until the last battle, the audience was hooked.
"boom!"
At this moment, Brother Ma was suddenly shot in the head, and then slowly fell down.
The theater, which had been busy just now, suddenly became quiet. The audience was stunned by the sudden death, followed by a wave of dissatisfaction and curses.
"Is there any mistake? Brother Ma died like this?"
"It's so worthless to die. He didn't die in a gun battle, but died under a cold gun."
"Did the screenwriter have shit in his head? How could he kill the protagonist like this!"
"Director Yan's family is about to get rid of it!"
"..."
Wu Yusen listened to the vents of the audience around him and had to admit the success of director Kang Jianfei. Only after a film has strongly attracted the audience can it enjoy such strong abuse from the audience.
The movie continued, and after the audience cursed a few times, they quickly continued to watch the movie obediently.
When they saw Ah Cheng going out to surrender in a arrogant manner, the audience was afraid that the director would do something random again. Some people couldn't help shouting: "Kill him quickly!"
"Kill this traitor!"
"Out of bullets, beat him to death with your fists!"
"..."
Zhang Guorong walked out from behind the container and put the pistol he picked up into Brother Hao's hand.
After two gunshots were fired, the nervous audience finally breathed a sigh of relief as they watched Ah Cheng, who had been shot, fall, and then they applauded and cheered.
The movie has finished screening, and the applause from the audience is endless. Although the death of Ma Xiaomao made many viewers brood, the whole movie was still very enjoyable for everyone to watch.
Wu Yusen walked out of the cinema in silence, thinking about all the details of the movie in his mind, and admired Kang Jianfei more and more. He found that "A Better Tomorrow" was very much to his taste, and some of the things expressed in the movie were also in line with his
Our ideas coincided with each other, and it felt like we had met a close friend.
The film reviews in the newspapers the next day were almost unanimous in their praise of "A Better Tomorrow", apart from complaining about Kang Jianfei's killing of Xiao Ma.
Shu Qi wrote in "Movie Weekly": "After the release of "A Better Tomorrow", it may set off the future trend of gangster films just like "Mr. Zombie" did for zombie movies."
Yi Shu's film review column said: "Men like Brother Hao are worth having, but for women, Brother Xiao Ma can only be seen from a distance. In a sense, they are all heroes, possessing the characteristics and true qualities of heroes... In fact
, what I admired most about this film was not the fiery gun battle, but the interlude sung by the children in the church. I called Director Kang afterward, and he said the song was called "Tomorrow Will Be Better."
"A Better Tomorrow" has a very high reputation among film critics, and just a week ago, the media also praised Cheng Long's "Plan A".
The same outstanding films, one is a comedy police film and the other is a gangster hero film, are destined to compete in this summer vacation. The media and industry filmmakers are all watching the first-day box office of "A Better Tomorrow"
, and Phoenix TV's "Sister Tuoqiang" has also been officially launched two days before the release of "A Better Tomorrow". (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendation,
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