Fast forward to 1987, and TVB's new-year drama "Rogue Tycoon" has exploded in ratings. Taking into account the decline of the previous few months, it has steadily suppressed the average ratings of Phoenix TV's "Twins" which averaged over ten points.
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Seeing that Phoenix Channel was about to surpass TVB and establish its superiority in the Hong Kong TV field, but the other party actually relied on a TV series to reverse its decline, Kang Jianfei could only lament that TVB had a profound foundation.
Not only does the actor Huang Rihua have a second youth, the heroine Zheng Yuling also officially replaced Wang Mingquan through this drama and became the well-deserved first sister of TVB.
What attracted the most attention to Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui was Wei Jiahui, the screenwriter and deputy director of "Rogue Tycoon". He became TVB's gold medal screenwriter at the age of only 25 and was promoted to creative director by Fang Yihua.
A 25-year-old creative director, this is unprecedented in TVB, which attaches great importance to seniority. From this, we can see how much Fang Yihua values Wei Jiahui.
Wen Rui'ien has adapted the script of "The Legends" very well, but when it comes to a drama like "Mobile Tycoon", the ratings are still incomparable.
I heard that TVB was going to make persistent efforts and Wei Jiahui would take charge of creating a new drama. Oriental TV Production Company immediately came up with its trump card - announced the start of filming "Sister Tuoqiang 4".
Not to mention the battle between the two TV stations, Christmas is followed by the New Year holiday. After a fight, "Autumn Fairy Tale" directed by Zhang Wanting and starring Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong won the box office championship of the Christmas movie for DreamWorks - 2550
Ten thousand.
On the Golden Harvest side, the comeback film "Detective Chocolate" by the cold-faced comedian Xu Guanwen ranked second, with a box office of 22.48 million.
As for the other movies in the Christmas season, the box office is only about 10 million.
During the entire Christmas season and the New Year season, there was not a single movie in Hong Kong that had a box office of over 30 million. "Ming Pao Weekly" couldn't help but sigh: "Without Kang Jianfei's Christmas season, I always feel like something is missing."
Hong Kong people are not paying much attention to the lack of cinemas. What everyone is paying attention to is the Hong Kong stock market.
More than two years ago, the lowest point of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was 600 points. It began to soar after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997 was confirmed in the autumn. By the end of the year, the Hang Seng Index had risen to 1,200 points.
Two years have passed. The Hang Seng Index doubled again and directly broke the 3,000-point mark after New Year's Day.
Although New Art City is in decline, the owner of New Art City, Mecca, is very proud. He has accumulated millions by stock trading in the past two years.
It was not until after the Spring Festival that the Hang Seng Index actually rose by more than 130 points in one and a half months.
Hong Kong citizens have obviously forgotten the pain of the 1973 stock market crash, and have invested their savings in the stock market one by one as if they were snatching money. Even Kang Jianfei's frugal and stingy cousin quietly bought thousands of shares of "Hutchison Whampoa".
After Kang Jianfei learned about it, he only gave him one piece of advice: "Take another two months to get rid of them all."
Kang Jianfei didn't understand or have any interest in stock trading, but he had watched a drama called "The Great Era". The producer and screenwriter of this TV series was Wei Jiahui, who had just become famous at TVB.
After watching this TV series and understanding its background, Kang Jianfei remembered one word - Black Monday.
On that Monday, the Dow Jones Index in the United States took the lead in plummeting, and the wealth of countless investors evaporated out of thin air. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index plummeted 420 points in one day. The futures index of each month also fell by more than 300 points, and it continued to fall on the road.
It is possible to see bankrupt stockholders jumping off buildings.
Black Monday is not just a stock market crash in Hong Kong, but a major global stock market crash. The most fundamental cause of the stock market crash is the slowdown in the U.S. economy. Then everyone comes together to wipe the butt of the great country of hope.
Kang Jianfei didn't remember what month Black Monday happened. He only vaguely remembered that half a month before the stock market crash, Li Chaoren's group raised over 10 billion. Not only did it calmly escape the stock market crash, but it also took advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.
During the Spring Festival in 1987, Cheng Long truly became the eldest brother. He and Alan Tam went to Europe to film "Brothers of the Dragon and Tiger Brothers", which became a hit and grossed 35.5 million at the box office in Hong Kong.
New Art City did not show any weakness. "The Legend of Wesley" directed by Teddy Robin attracted 18.71 million; while Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company was even more powerful. "Wealthy" directed by Gao Zhisen, surpassed Cheng
The pressure of "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers" actually earned a high box office of 27 million.
Pan Desheng was extremely happy. When he was very satisfied and prepared to enter the film industry with all his strength, because of conflicts with Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, Pan Desheng finally announced his withdrawal from Xinbao Cinemas, and spent money to force Chen out.
, Feng and his wife bought back the shares of Debao Pictures.
In early March, Pan Disheng announced an investment of 100 million Hong Kong dollars to formally establish his own Debao Cinema Line. Hong Kong's cinema chain has finally added the sixth largest cinema chain after Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, Oriental, Xinbao and Silver City.
Debao Cinema Line.
As for Anle Pictures, which only has 4 cinemas, and some other small cinema chains, they are not ranked at all.
The establishment of Debao Cinemas has completely disrupted the Hong Kong film industry. The demand for film sources in theaters has greatly increased, attracting hot money to invest in films, and at the same time further stimulating the increase in the number of Hong Kong films.
By the middle of 1987, the number of registered film companies in Hong Kong suddenly reached 297. Although many of them were shell companies, there were nearly 300 film companies in a palm-sized peninsula, which is enough to illustrate the development of Hong Kong films at this time.
How prosperous it is.
Nowadays even Ah Mao Ah Gou rents a camera and dares to say that he is the director making a movie. In addition, the film company and the director are trying to catch up with the schedule, so the overall quality of Hong Kong films has declined a lot.
Not to mention the first-tier stars, even the quasi-first-tier actors are too busy. All the contracted artists under the Oriental Entertainment Agency are dispatched, and almost everyone has a movie to film. The most popular actors even appear in two or three movies at the same time.
After finishing a scene, I rushed to another crew immediately.
In view of the rapidly changing industry situation, DreamWorks has made adjustments to its filming plan this year, increasing the annual film production from 16 to 20. The most fundamental reason for increasing film production is that there are too many theaters and released films, which leads to competition.
It is intense and thus shortens the screening period of ordinary movies.
In other words, the films currently released by DreamWorks during regular schedules only have an average screening time of 2 weeks.
This is not a good thing. More movies have been made, but the box office sales have not increased much. Taking into account the increased film production costs, the company's overall profits are actually smaller than before.
Small film companies are applauded because of the increase in theaters and the prosperity of Hong Kong films, but big companies such as Golden Harvest, DreamWorks, and New Art City are suffering.
But from another perspective, the profits of Kang Jianfei's celebrity management company are soaring because of the boom in Hong Kong films.
De Bao's "Wealth" was released during the New Year period, and during the Spring Festival, it was taken over by Yongsheng Film Company's "Emerald". The major financier of this film is Taiwan's Longxiang Pictures, and the film's overall
The production cost was more than 9 million yuan, and the Xiang brothers only invested 2 million yuan. Wang Jing led the team to Greece for filming. As for the box office, it can only be said to be barely adequate. Only more than 11 million were sold in Hong Kong. Whether it can make money can only be seen in other places.
Regardless of how well it sold, this film did allow the star Andy Lau to show his face.
Since there is no Kang Jianfei movie to hit the market, DreamWorks won the Christmas box office championship with "Autumn Fairy Tale", and performed quite well in the subsequent New Year and Spring Festival movies. The two films directed by Chen Xunqi and Huang Tailai won respectively.
Box office of 17.8 million and 20.33 million.
After the Lantern Festival, this year's Academy Award nominations were announced by Film Fortnight. "Autumn Fairy Tale" produced by Zhang Wanting and his wife, was nominated for 7 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Actor.
Kang Jianfei's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" filmed last year actually received five nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
However, Debao Film Company's "Underground" is also very powerful. Like "Autumn Fairy Tale", it received 7 nominations. Tony Leung, who is still on TVB, was nominated for Best Actor for the first time with this film.
The most eye-catching thing in New Art City is Zhang Aijia's directorial debut "The Favorite". Although it only received 3 nominations, it was enough to cause a lot of talk. Because with the addition of another female director Zhang Wanting, there were actually two Academy Award winners this year.
Works by female directors have been nominated for multiple awards, and some media even referred to Zhang Wanting and Zhang Aijia as "double photos."
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"Click!"
Kang Jianfei walked up to Liang Jiahui, frowned and thought for a while and said, "You had something wrong with that part just now. After the hammer is finished, put it on your shoulder and relax a little more. You were a little tight just now."
Liang Jiahui thought about Kang Jianfei's words for a while, worked up his emotions, and then nodded and said: "Director, you can start."
Jian Fei signaled to restart filming, and on the opposite side of the glass wall, Sophie Marceau was also silently cooperating with the performance.
Kang Jianfei's version of "Fangfang" had so many changes that he had to redesign about three-fifths of the shots. The remaining shots also had some detailed adjustments, and they were no longer much different from the original.
Anyway, as long as the filming is completed before April, Kang Jianfei, who is making his first literary and romantic film, can be said to have worked hard on it. This film has also become the slowest film he has shot since he entered the industry.
Fortunately, he had Sophie Marceau, a beauty, by his side all day long, and occasionally Kang Jianfei found time to have trysts with other lovers, so his little life was quite pleasant.
"when!"
"Crash!"
The glass mirror wall suddenly shattered, and Sophie Marceau in the mirror opened instantly, and the glass lenses were scattered on the floor. Liang Jiahui's figure appeared in the crack of the mirror, he put the hammer on his shoulder and laughed at Sophie Marceau,
Then he walked through the crack in the smashed glass wall.
The camera rotated and moved along with the rail car, and finally settled on a broken glass lens on the ground, with Sophie Marceau and Liang Jiahui hugging each other in the mirror.
"Click!"
Kang Jianfei stood up, stretched out, and said with a smile: "I announce that "Fang Fang" has been completed." (To be continued...) u
