Hearing his name being read, Hong Jinbao couldn't help but straighten his back. He looked down on the Academy Awards last year, but this year there were so many judges and guests invited, and the grandeur was not inferior to that of the Golden Horse Awards.
The weight of the image award in Hong Jinbao's eyes has increased sharply.
Just like Cheng Long, it is difficult for a kung fu actor to win awards. Being nominated for Best Actor this time was already unexpected. Hong Jinbao couldn't help but have a lot of expectations for winning.
"The winner of the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor is - Chow Yun-fat in "A Hero's True Colors""
Zhou Runfa won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor last year for "Heroes Are True", and this year he won the Academy Award trophy, which can be regarded as well-deserved. Hong Jinbao sighed, and the smiles on the faces of Lin Zixiang and Makka were a little forced.
Chen Huimin, who was also nominated, hugged Zhou Runfa.
Just as Zhou Runfa was walking towards the podium, Municipal Council Chairman Zhang Youxin continued to read: "The True Character of a Hero by Chen Huimin."
what happened?
Zhou Runfa stood in the middle of the road, looking at the award presenters in confusion. He didn't understand who won the award.
Zhang Youxin explained: "Chen Huimin and Zhou Runfa jointly won the Best Actor for their outstanding performances in "The Hero"!"
Chen Huimin laughed a few times, then caught up and went to the stage with Zhou Runfa to receive the award.
It turned out to be a double-yolked egg, and many people began to secretly question the fairness of the awards.
Chen Huimin was in a good mood, holding the trophy and joking with Zhou Runfa: "Xiao Ma, where is your toothpick?"
"If you have a prize, don't worry about the toothpick." Zhou Run played with the trophy and said with a smile, "Brother Hao, tell me your acceptance speech."
Chen Huimin walked up to the microphone and said: "I have been an actor for more than ten years and I have never thought about winning a prize. Today's trophy is definitely an unexpected surprise for me. The person I am most grateful to is of course Director Kang Jianfei.
Gave me this opportunity to win an award.”
After Chen Huimin finished speaking, Zhou Runfa continued: "Brother Hao has finished everything I want to say. Thank you to the Academy Awards, thank you to Mr. Kang, and thank you to all my colleagues on the crew!"
The two movie stars thanked Kang Jianfei one after another, and with all the previous awards, this is already the sixth time tonight. Seven winners have thanked Kang Jianfei. There is no doubt that the most popular people at the award ceremony are not the winners on the stage.
, but Kang Jianfei who was sitting firmly below.
The camera responsible for the video turned to Kang Jianfei. He was smiling in the camera, with two beauties Lin Fengjiao and Lu Xiuling sitting on his left and right. He looked like a big boss.
This year's Academy Awards, the biggest winners are "A Better Man" and "Beautiful Girl", both of which are produced by DreamWorks. Followed by "Into the Wrath" and "The Best of Us 2",
Golden Harvest only won two technical awards, while Shaw Brothers' film received only a duck egg.
In any case, this year's Academy Awards ceremony has finally come to an end. After Anita Mui's performance of "A Thousand Thousand Ques Songs", the audience present left the venue one after another. Ordinary movie fans on the second and third floors went to whatever they were supposed to do. Those on the first floor
Guests are free to go home, wash and sleep, or go to the Peninsula Hotel to attend the Academy Awards dinner.
Lin Fengjiao followed Kang Jianfei out of the back door and said, "I won't go to the dinner. It has nothing to do with me."
Kang Jianfei said to her and Lu Xiuling: "It doesn't matter whether we go or not, but we can take the opportunity to meet some friends in the Hong Kong film industry."
Lu Xiuling didn't like socializing, so she said, "I don't want to go either."
"It's up to you, I'll call a car to take you back," Kang Jianfei said.
Lin Fengjiao said: "We can just take a taxi ourselves."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "One or two thousand people came out just now. Do you think you can still call a taxi? Come with me to the top."
Kang Jianfei took the two girls to the manager's office of the Taiping Theater, and happened to meet the old man Zhang Moren, the theater manager, and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, the award ceremony tonight was very effective."
Zhang Moren was still wearing the same wrinkled suit. The old man also knew what modesty meant, and said quite complacently: "I followed the master in the theater when I was more than ten years old. This scene is nothing."
Kang Jianfei praised and encouraged him, then borrowed the phone number from the manager's office and called a DreamWorks car to pick up Lin Fengjiao and Lu Xiuling.
The crowd gathered outside the Taiping Theater gradually dispersed, and the car Kang Jianfei called finally arrived. Lin Fengjiao said to him: "We're leaving now. Goodbye."
Lu Xiuling also waved: "Goodbye, Mr. Kang!"
Kang Jianfei helped Lin Fengjiao open the car door. After she got into the car, he did not close the door. Instead, he held Lin Fengjiao's cheek and kissed her very suddenly.
Lu Xiuling's eyes widened and she looked at the two people kissing in surprise. She never expected that Lin Fengjiao and Kang Jianfei would have an affair.
Lin Fengjiao panted and pushed Kang Jianfei away and glared at him complainingly, but didn't know what to say.
Kang Jianfei wiped the saliva from his lips, smiled and waved to the two women, then turned around and drove his Cadillac to the Peninsula Hotel.
When Lin Fengjiao saw Lu Xiuling looking at her in surprise, she suddenly became shy and could only use curses to cover up: "This bastard, if I had known better, I wouldn't have come to Hong Kong."
Lu Xiuling couldn't help but ask: "Sister Lin, you and Mr. Kang?"
"I have nothing to do with him," Lin Fengjiao quickly defended, "We are just ordinary friends, but he likes to joke, so don't think too much about it."
"So that's it." Lu Xiuling pretended to believe Lin Fengjiao's explanation and didn't want to mention the matter again.
The Academy Awards dinner, like the Oscar dinner, is a Western-style cocktail party. There are long tables and round tables. Everyone sits together to drink wine and eat Western food. You can also run around with wine glasses and take the opportunity to find someone to connect with.
There was also a small stage in the banquet hall, with advertising trademarks of various products printed on the stage screen. Some award-winning celebrities appeared on the stage one after another, posing for reporters to take photos.
Only people from DreamWorks occupied three large round tables. Zhong Chuhong, Zhou Runfa and Chen Huimin were originally sitting next to each other. Kang Jianfei walked over and patted Zhou Runfa on the shoulder, who immediately moved aside knowingly.
Kang Jianfei asked the waiter to bring some grilled wings and lobster, then sat down next to Zhong Chuhong and asked her, "Are you unhappy that you didn't win the Best Actress?"
Zhong Chuhong did feel a little regretful, but not to the point of being unhappy. She drank the red wine and said, "How can anyone be sure to win the award?"
Kang Jianfei pointed at Shu Qi in the distance and joked: "If you want to win a prize, I will ask that guy for you. If he dares not to give it, I will tie him up and beat him."
Zhong Chuhong listened to him talking more and more nonsense. Knowing that Kang Jianfei was teasing her, she couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that Brother Min and Brother Fa must have done something, otherwise how could they become the best actor at the same time?"
Chen Huimin waved his hand and said: "Hey, I haven't been a big brother for many years, so don't accuse me of beating people."
Zhou Runfa was eating something and said vaguely: "This steak tastes good."
"Pay attention to your image. After all, you are also an actor." Kang Jianfei held up his wine glass and said with a smile, "You two actor's are sitting here. There are several cameras facing this way."
Only then did Zhou Runfa see the reporter, and he quickly slowed down and became polite and explained: "Mr. Kang, I just ate two fried dough sticks this morning, and I'm almost starving."
Kang Jianfei was about to make fun of him for coming to the Academy Awards banquet hungry to enjoy the autumn breeze. Suddenly, two people came over with wine glasses. One of them raised his glass and smiled at Kang Jianfei: "DreamWorks really had a great harvest tonight. Congratulations, Mr. Kang."
Kang Jianfei turned around and saw who he was in front of him if he wasn't the "Grape Patriarch" Liu Zhenwei? As for the man next to Liu Zhenwei, Kang Jianfei had no memory at all.
Before Kang Jianfei could speak, Liu Zhenwei and the man handed over two films and said: "Liu Zhenwei of Next Century Film Company, this is my colleague, Sina Cinema director Yu Yunhang."
Kang Jianfei looked at the business card and discovered that Liu Zhenwei's position was actually the production manager of Century Pictures. He wanted to ask where Liu Zhenwei's gay friend Wong Kar-wai was, so he stood up and shook hands with the two of them with a smile: "This is a movie from Century Pictures.
There have been many nominations this time.”
Liu Zhenwei laughed and said: "It's just a small fight."
Yu Yunhang is also one of the managers of Century Pictures. He flattered: "Compared with Mr. Kang's DreamWorks, our Century Pictures is far behind."
The three of them gradually chatted to a corner and found two sofas to sit down and talk.
After talking for a long time, Liu Zhenwei got to the point, but he wanted to get Century Pictures' movies to be screened in New Era Cinemas.
Kang Jianfei subconsciously looked towards Jiahe Liu Jinghua and found that Liu Jinghua was chatting happily with several producers and did not pay attention to this side. He asked: "Why do you think of showing movies in the new era? Isn't Jiahe Cinema very supportive?"
Okay?"
Liu Zhenwei sighed: "We at Century Pictures are taking the path of combining art and business. Many films are considered art films by Golden Harvest Cinemas, and the schedules are those left by others."
Kang Jianfei was sweating. In the annual box office list of Hong Kong movies last year, Century Pictures had three films in the top 20. This achievement is enough to stand out among small companies, and they are actually said to be leftovers by picking up others.
Movies released on schedule.
"Why don't you go directly to Jiang Zhiqiang?" Kang Jianfei asked.
"I've looked for it, but the schedule he gave me isn't very good either," Liu Zhenwei said with a smile.
Speaking of the situation of New Era Cinemas, Kang Jianfei also has some headaches.
With the stabilization of film sources, New Era Cinemas has been on the right track, gradually breaking away from the category of temporary cinemas. However, there is one thing that makes all collaborators speechless, that is, the four cinemas owned by Anle are Western film cinemas.
No matter how he arranged it, Jiang Zhiwen always adhered to the Western film route and forced some good schedules to exclude Western films bought from Europe and the United States.
Everyone is naturally happy when they make money, but the box office of Western films is extremely unstable. It may be a big hit, or it may be overpriced, causing other theater owners to collectively boycott Jiang Zhiwen.
Although when the theater chain was formed, everyone agreed to get together and part ways, and there was great freedom. But the actual operation is not that simple. For example, if the theater chain wants to arrange a good film from DreamWorks, Jiang Zhiwen
But he just happened to buy a good Western film. It was easy to coordinate, but Jiang Zhiwen always arranged his own Western films first. Once Anle's four leading theaters were missing, the strength of the New Era Cinemas chain would be greatly reduced.
The situation does not end there. Small theaters that have tasted the sweetness hope that New Era can abolish the temporary theater chain agreement and turn New Era Cinema into a regular army. However, large theaters do not want to let small theaters take advantage of them, and even want to take advantage of those theaters.
The neighborhood theaters were kicked out, and then everyone took out shares to re-establish the theater chain.
Anyway, New Era Cinema, which seems to be thriving, has just started to develop, and there are already many conflicts within it, all caused by their own interests.
Kang Jianfei was also a little dissatisfied with Jiang Zhiwen because he found that New Era Cinemas was gradually losing control and sometimes even co-screened films for Golden Harvest.
Kang Jianfei did not express any dissatisfaction because he was waiting. The emergence of new era theater chains has greatly accelerated the decline of Shaw Brothers. Maybe Shaw Brothers will cease production this year or next year.
Once Shaw Brothers ceases production, the Shaw Brothers theater chain will become a tree without roots, and Shaw Brothers will either sell or rent it out.
Of the 16 theaters owned by Shaw Brothers Cinemas, there are only 4 leading theaters that Shao Yifu is reluctant to give up. The rest will probably be sold. Kang Jianfei is waiting to take over with a lot of money in his hand.
By that time, Kang Jianfei will have three leading theaters, Taiping Theater, Queen's Theater, and Yau Ma Tei Theater, as well as more than ten ordinary movie theaters, and he will be able to form his own theater chain company.
Kang Jianfei was very interested in the "Grape Ancestor", and with the intention of forming a good relationship, he casually agreed to Liu Zhenhua and Yu Yunhang, saying that he was willing to help them match up and get a better schedule.
After dismissing the two heads of Century Pictures, Kang Jianfei was about to return to his seat when he saw a pink girl of twelve or thirteen years old walking over with a plate, looking at Kang Jianfei with big eyes, and said: "
Mr. Kang, I am your fan, can you sign your autograph for me?"
Kang Jianfei did not expect to meet his little movie fan and asked: "Little sister, what is your name? Who did you come with?"
Little Luolin had silky hair, baby fat on her face, and was so cute with her white face and red face. She said, "My name is Fu Mingxian, and I came here with my mother."
Fu Mingxian?
This name sounds so familiar.
Kang Jianfei asked: "Who is your mother?"
Fu Mingxian replied: "My mother's name is Shi Hui, and she just presented the trophy to someone on stage."
"It turns out to be kid Fu Mingxian." Kang Jianfei sweated furiously. He finally remembered who this little girl was. She was Miss Guo Fu in Li Ruotong's version of "The Condor".
Kang Jianfei readily signed the girl's name, but Fu Mingxian rolled his eyes and asked with a smart smile: "Mr. Kang, is your company looking for young actors?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and asked, "How old are you?"
"12, no, 13 years old!" Fu Mingxian said.
Kang Jianfei asked again: "Your mother is the leader of Yindu Organization. Why do you think of becoming an actor in my company?"
Fu Mingxian pouted and said, "My parents don't allow me to film, saying I'm too young to be an actor."
In the parallel space, Fu Mingxian made his debut two years later by secretly hiding it from his family and auditioning for "Happy Ghost 2". But now, it seems that this little girl can't hold it in anymore. (To be continued.