In mid-May 1983, a shocking news came out in the Hong Kong film industry. The two ordinary theaters under the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line had reached the lease period. Shaw Yifu did not sign the lease renewal contract, and the scale of the Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Cinema Chain was reduced.
for 14 cinemas.
At the same time, Shaw Brothers' film output is also shrinking this year, from an average of 2.5 films per month last year to 1.5 new films per month.
While Shaw Brothers Pictures was reducing production, the Shaw Brothers theater chain gradually began to open up to Duli Film Company and directors, and several non-Shaw Brothers films were released one after another.
There are rumors circulating that Shaw Tycoon has the idea of discontinuing Shaw Brothers.
On the contrary, New Art City and DreamWorks successively achieved good box office results in the first half of the year, and even Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Pictures performed well.
Some people even say that the structure of the Hong Kong film industry has completely changed, and Shaw Brothers has only stopped production for a year or two.
Just when Oriental DreamWorks was preparing the publicity plan for "God of Gamblers", a person came to the door and joined the directing team of DreamWorks' film production department.
This person's name is Li Xiuxian. He is a student in the first batch of Shaw Brothers Artist Training Class. He was once one of Chang Cheh's five tiger generals. He turned from an actor to a director two years ago.
In a parallel time and space, after Li Xiuxian made a movie in Shaw Brothers, he got investment to make another movie from outside, and then joined Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Pictures at the end of last year, and this year he wrote and directed "Modern"
"Yamen". Chen Xunqi and Li Xiuxian used to be in Shaw Brothers. They were good friends in private, which is equivalent to the relationship between Hong Jinbao and Makka.
However, due to the butterfly effect brought by Kang Jianfei, Chen Xunqi founded Yongjia Pictures more than half a year late. He had just made a movie to establish himself. The second movie had not been released yet, and the funds had not been withdrawn in time. Where could he find the time to invest?
Is Lee Soo Hyun filming?
Chen Xunqi's financial backer was Lei Juekun. Now that he had insufficient funds, he could not open a film for his old friend, so he suggested that Li Xiuxian take the movie script and go directly to Kang Jianfei.
Since Kang Jianfei promoted newcomer Gao Zhisen as director three years ago and helped him become an instant hit, many arrogant and talented directors in Hong Kong have come to Kang Jianfei with scripts, but most of them were rejected by Zeng Chiwei and Pan Yingzi.
They were stopped, and a few people stayed behind the scenes at DreamWorks.
Li Xiuxian was no exception. He came to the door with the script of "Modern Yamen" without even meeting Kang Jianfei. Moreover, the script was also withheld because DreamWorks' filming schedule for the first half of the year was already full, and Tang Shuxuan planned to
Li Xiuxian was transferred to the directing team and first served as assistant director to McDonald's.
Li Xiuxian felt that he had been slighted, so he got Kang Jianfei's phone number from Chen Xunqi in frustration, and finally got a chance to meet.
""Modern Yamen"? It's another police movie." Kang Jianfei flipped through the script in his hand, but he spent more time observing Li Xiuxian.
Li Xiuxian grew up in the Kowloon Walled City. He had witnessed all kinds of violent and ugly phenomena, and he had determined to be a policeman since he was a child. His first two movies were both police and gangster movies. When Kang Jianfei asked this question, he immediately laughed.
Said: "Police and gangster movies are a very good genre. I really like watching Mr. Kang's "Royal Senior Sister" and "Sister Tuoqiang"."
Kang Jianfei asked: "How much do you think this "Modern Yamen" will earn at the box office?"
Li Xiuxian thought for a while and said: "It should be more than 5 million. My movie "Friends and" last year had nearly 4 million at the box office."
In another time and space, "Friends and Gangsters" was a work that started the trend of police and gangster films in Hong Kong. The box office was close to 6 million. It was considered a small hit at the time and led to a series of police and gangster films. Unfortunately,
Since Kang Jianfei released "The Royal Sister" in advance, and then followed it with the TV series "Sister Tuoqiu", the novelty of police movies for the audience has been greatly reduced. The most direct impact is that the box office of "Friends and Fighters" has been greatly reduced.
With 2 million less, Li Xiuxian is not as recognized by the industry as he was in the original time and space.
By the way, when Lee Hsiu-hyun wrote the script of "Friends and Fighters", he was actually still working at Shaw Brothers. Unfortunately, Shaw Brothers dismissed his script, and Lee Hsiu-hyun worked hard to get the role.
Found Yunying Production Company and attracted investment from Qiu Degen's son Qiu Dacheng, and Li Xiuxian also quit Shaw Brothers.
Kang Jianfei closed the script, knocked on the table and said: "In the film shooting plan of Oriental DreamWorks this year, there will only be one police film, and "The Royal Sisters 3" is already in preparation."
Li Xiuxian thought that Kang Jianfei was rejecting him. Although he was a good-tempered person, he was extremely conceited. He frowned and said, "Since it is not convenient for Mr. Kang to invest, I have to find someone else. Say goodbye!"
"Please wait a moment." Kang Jianfei quickly asked him to stay.
Li Xiuxian turned around and asked, "What else does Mr. Kang have to do?"
Kang Jianfei asked: "Have you seen the news about Lin Guoyun last month?"
"The Rainy Night Butcher Lin Guoyun who was sentenced to death?" Li Xiuxian looked at Kang Jianfei curiously, wondering why he mentioned Lin Guoyun.
"That's him," Kang Jianfei said with a smile, "I'm going to adapt Lin Guoyun's case into a movie, called "Doctor Lamb". I'm worried that I don't have a suitable director. I think Mr. Li, you are just right."
"Let me film a crime?" Li Xiuxian was really speechless. He used to play heroes, but later as a director he has been making police movies, and occasionally guest-starred as police officers. I really don't understand why Kang Jianfei thinks he is suitable for crime movies.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "What I mean is that the scenes should be more bloody and violent. Mr. Li, you are so knowledgeable about police and gangster films. It will definitely not be difficult for you to shoot crime scenes."
Li Xiuxian is still a little confused now, pointing to his script and asking: "What about this "Modern Yamen"..."
Kang Jianfei interrupted him and said: "After filming "Doctor Lamb", I will invest in "Modern Yamen" for you. As for the script of "Doctor Lamb", I will write down the general framework, and you and the screenwriter team will do the rest.
People will complete it together, and the criminal file company will try to obtain it from the police."
Since the last filming of "Sister Tuoqiu", Phoenix TV has had some cooperation with the Hong Kong police. It should not be difficult to obtain a criminal file that has been sentenced.
Nowadays, Hong Kong movies have not yet implemented a classification system, and bloody pornographic films are facing big problems when reviewing and releasing them. However, the censorship of Hong Kong films has been relaxed a lot in the past two years. Two years later, the Sino-British negotiations ended, and the Hong Kong censorship department even
Let Hong Kong films take their own course.
After "Doctor Lamb" is filmed, I believe that given the "friendship" between Kang Jianfei and the head of the medical examination team, there will probably be no problems. Of course, when promoting and releasing it, it must be emphasized that viewing is prohibited for those under 18 years of age.
, on the one hand, it can arouse the curiosity of the audience, and on the other hand, it can avoid being condemned by social moral standards.
Li Xiuxian hesitated for a while and then agreed. He was affected by the butterfly effect and did not become famous (as a director) last year like the original time and space. It is very rare to have the opportunity to direct a movie, not to mention that Kang Jianfei also agreed to help him invest in the film.
"Modern Yamen".
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While Kang Jianfei was describing the general plot of "Doctor Lamb" to Li Xiuxian, the "Phoenix Training Class", which was renamed "Future Star Training Class", was undergoing a re-examination.
A long line of students lined up outside the Oriental Entertainment Company's training room. A man wearing glasses, with a middle-parted hairstyle and a very lewd expression was looking around at the situation.
Suddenly, the wretched man looked straight ahead and saw a girl with super big boobs walking towards him.
Since the obscene man was at the end of the queue, the big girl quickly ran over and lined up behind the obscene man.
After waiting for more than a minute, the big girl felt a little strange and asked the wretched man: "Hello, is this a retest in the training class?"
The wretched man's eyes flickered to the big-bodied girl's chest, and he swallowed his saliva and said, "Yes, hello, miss. My name is Li Lizhi."
"My name is Ye Zimei," Dabo girl smiled kindly and asked, "Then why are there only five people in line here, and more than thirty people in line opposite?"
Li Lizhi explained: "The people queuing up over there are actor students, and the people queuing up here are behind-the-scenes students. Of course there are fewer people."
"Everything here is behind the scenes?" Ye Zimei found out that she was in the wrong queue and ran away immediately, making Li Lizhi feel very bored.
Just when Ye Zimei lined up in the correct queue, the door of the examination room was pushed open, and Wu Tingye walked out of it happily. In fact, he had attended a wireless training class before and was classmates with Liang Chaowei, Wu Zhenyu and others, because he was not affected by TV
** was reused, so he came to Oriental Entertainment Company again to apply for the "Future Star Training Course".
After Wu Tingye came out, another busty beauty pushed in the door, bowed to several teachers in charge of the exam, and said in broken Cantonese: "Hello, teacher, my name is Lizhi."
A female producer from Phoenix TV frowned and asked, "You're from mainland China? Do you have an ID card?"
"Have an ID card." Li Zhi felt very aggrieved when she heard this obviously discriminatory question. She had been fed up with the supercilious looks from Hong Kong people in the few years she had been in Hong Kong.
The female supervisor laughed coldly and said, "I don't know who was in charge of the preliminary examination. With your level of Cantonese, you can still take part in the re-examination."
There are five examiners in total for the re-examination, one of whom is from Phoenix TV, one is from DreamWorks, and the remaining three are all from Oriental Entertainment Company.
Zhang Guozhong is now the vice president of Oriental Entertainment Company, but because Kang Jianfei attaches great importance to the training class, he personally served as the examiner for the re-examination.
Zhang Guozhong took a closer look at Lizhi's appearance and said: "If you can't speak Cantonese well, you can practice it. I think her image still has great potential. So, Miss Lizhi, now you try to act like a pregnant woman who is pregnant with Liujia."
Li Zhixu hugged her belly, pretending to be a pregnant woman with a big belly, walked to her seat carefully, then showed a motherly and loving expression, and gently rubbed her "big belly"...
Since the examiner never shouted to stop, Lizhi had no choice but to continue her performance. After performing for two minutes, Zhang Guozhong sighed and shook his head.
Another examiner asked Lizhi to play the role of a lovelorn woman. After a few minutes, he stopped again. At this time, Zhang Guozhong said: "Okay, your reexamination is over. Go back and wait for the news. If you pass the exam, we will
I will call you within three days to inform you."
Lizhi walked out of the training room disappointed. From the examiner's expression, she guessed that she was probably eliminated.
In a parallel space, Lizhi started learning English after being eliminated in the New Art City audition this year, and then went to study in the United States. It was not until her third year of college that she returned to Hong Kong to participate in the Miss Asia pageant, and won the Miss Asia pageant in one fell swoop.
Contest champion.
Lizhi left the performance room sadly, and Yin Tianzhao, who was waiting behind, immediately pushed the door open and introduced himself confidently.
After all the students had finished the exam, the examiners sorted out the list of qualified students, packed them together with the materials of the unqualified students, and immediately sent them to DreamWorks for Kang Jianfei to review.
This is Kang Jianfei's special request, the purpose is to prevent potential big stars from being missed.
When Li Xiuxian left with the summary of the script of "Doctor Lamb", Kang Jianfei's desk had already placed student information. He just glanced at the compiled qualified students. Yin Tianzhao and Wu Tingye did not make him interested.
He didn't care at all, but when he saw Li Lizhi's name, Kang Jianfei suddenly laughed.
Who is Li Lizhi?
The future celebrity director and the founder of Hong Kong nonsensical films.
After hastily reading the list of qualified students, Kang Jianfei began to look through the information of those eliminated students. He kept reading for half an hour, and finally he picked out two information from them.
Kang Jianfei dialed Zhang Guozhong's phone number and ordered: "Azhong, admit the unqualified student named Ye Zimei, and ask Lizhi to come to Dream Factory to see me tomorrow morning." (To be continued.) rt
