Among the opening films of this year's summer season, Lee Soo-hyun's "The Predator" failed the most miserably. All the viewers were snatched away by other films, and it only managed to earn more than 2.8 million at the box office after a week.
Mai Jia's "Windfall" is slightly better, with a box office of 5.64 million in the two weeks of release. Unfortunately, in terms of investment and output, this film is even worse than "The Predator". Among the several leading actors, Mai Jia
I won’t mention it myself, but Eric Tsang, Tsui Siu-feng, Zhang Sijia, Liu Jialiang, and Cheng Haonan were all paid a lot of money for the film. There was also a Hong Kong sister named Liang Yunrui who starred, and Xu Guanjie was specially invited to sing the theme song. The production cost of the entire film alone was more than 6 million.
, plus publicity costs, it’s a full 7 million.
Mecca's expectation for the box office of "Wind Fortune 30 Million" is more than 15 million, so that it can make a small profit in Hong Kong. Now, due to the release of "Fang Fang", "Ying Ning" and "Oriental Condor" at the same time, it has taken away
Audiences, the box office has shrunk by half compared to normal, so they can only rely on overseas box office to make profits. This can be regarded as the most failed investment of New Art City in recent years.
What made Huang Baiming most angry was that Mecca didn't take the box office failure seriously and spent more time at the exchange than at the company every day.
You should know that Huang Baiming has basically participated in the best-selling movies at the box office of New Art City in the past two years, while Ma Jia and Shi Tian often slack off from their normal work due to personal matters.
It would be okay if Huang Baiming was the major shareholder of Xinyi City, but the problem is that Mecca holds the most shares among the three. Now Huang Baiming feels that he is thankless for his hard work, but the company's annual profits and dividends make only Gu
A man wearing a stock trading head.
In this case, who would feel better?
…
The large iron door of the villa slowly opened, Huang Baiming drove in and parked in the open space in front of a foreign-style building.
The housekeeper of the Lei family led Huang Baiming in. Lei Juekun was helped out by a servant on crutches. Huang Baiming quickly greeted: "Hello, Mr. Lei."
Lei Juekun's body was much weaker than before, and his voice also changed from loud to old. He sat on the sofa with the help of the servant, and then smiled at Huang Baiming: "Sit wherever you want."
"Thank you." Huang Baiming sat down on the sofa closest to Lei Juekun.
Lei Juekun asked: "I heard that our movie did not sell well this time?"
Huang Baiming said: "The cost should be recovered in overseas markets."
Lei Juekun fell silent. Hong Kong films are now in a prosperous period, and you can make money by making any film. But Huang Baiming said that the cost "should" be recovered. This is really a failure.
"I don't have the energy to take care of the company's affairs now," Lei Juekun asked. "A Ming, do you have any good ideas?"
Huang Baiming finally said his purpose: "Mr. Lei, I want to redistribute the company's shares."
"Oh," Lei Juekun's cloudy old eyes suddenly lit up. He looked at Huang Baiming and asked, "Why do you have such an idea?"
Huang Baiming said: "Shi Tian is better, he can take care of the company while speculating in real estate. Ma Jia didn't pay attention at all when filming "Windfall 30 Million". After filming, he abandoned it and now he is immersed in the stock market every day.
There are bosses like this, but not movies. I really have no interest in continuing to cooperate with them. Either the company's shares are redistributed and I take the majority, or I withdraw my shares and leave to start a new company. The new company's films are still
Screening at Golden Princess.”
Lei Juekun seemed to be saying to himself: "This matter is not easy to handle."
…
Kang Jianfei did not expect that the butterfly effect he brought would cause Xinyi City to disband a few years earlier. His attention is now elsewhere.
While "Fang Fang" was being screened in Hong Kong, the Taiwan authorities officially lifted the decades-long martial law, but the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were still unable to communicate directly. Similarly, the Taiwan Information Bureau did not give up its restrictions on left-wing films. Hong Kong's general freedom
The right-wing film organization still exists.
Kang Jianfei was still restricted by the Taiwan authorities, so he could only send Yu Kanping to negotiate with people from the Taiwan Information Bureau. The other party was relieved, but he was still hesitant, saying that he would wait and see and get approval from the big shots above.
Just fine.
Isn't this big shot just the director of the "Information Bureau"?
Kang Jianfei had no choice but to continue waiting. Taiwan has confirmed that veterans will return to the mainland to visit relatives in December this year, and the mainland is also actively preparing to contact them.
By that time, cross-strait relations should be more harmonious, and the Taiwan Information Bureau's ban on Kang Jianfei should be lifted.
However, while Kang Jianfei was still waiting patiently, Lin Fengjiao volunteered to run back to Taipei and rely on his connections to find someone to help solve the matter.
Things in Taipei are still unclear, but this year the competition between Hong Kong and Eastern sisters has reached full swing.
After being upstaged by Miss Oriental for two consecutive years, Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua finally made a major reform of Miss Hong Kong.
Miss Oriental used to wear one-piece swimsuits with hollow patterns, which were sexy and seductive but also a little playful, but this year's Miss Hong Kong went straight to the three-point style.
Secondly, the number of people in the semi-finals and finals of Miss Hong Kong this year has also been greatly adjusted. The competition in the entire event is more intense and exciting, and the pace of the beauty pageant is also much more compact.
Not only that, the original private verbal agreement between the two parties was to spread the finals of the two beauty pageants half a month apart. Now TVB has directly violated the agreement and set the final of Miss Hong Kong to be one week before the final of Miss East. If it were not for the fact that the final is the best
If it were held on the weekend, Kang Jianfei estimated that Fang Yihua would choose Miss Hong Kong the day before Miss Dong entered the finals.
Due to Kang Jianfei's influence, this year's Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant lineup has also changed beyond recognition. This year's Miss Hong Kong should have two favorites, namely Qiu Shuzhen and Li Yufeng, but now neither of them appears in the Miss Hong Kong competition, replaced by Yang Baoling
and Zhang Fengyi.
After Yang Baoling finished the semi-finals of Miss Hong Kong, TVB invested a lot of money in publicity and praised her as a Hong Kong female representative who valued both beauty and intelligence - a graduate of the University of Manchester.
Although Kang Jianfei thinks that Yang Baoling's face is not good-looking, it does not affect the audience's love for her. If the script of another time and space is followed, Yang Baoling will represent Hong Kong in the Miss World and Miss Universe beauty pageants next year and win the title of Miss World.
The title of "Asian Beauty Queen" and the fifth place in Miss Universe.
As for the third Miss Hong Kong that year, Lin Yingxian and Qiu Shuzhen, who dropped out halfway, came to register for the Miss Oriental beauty pageant.
Because of various changes in Miss Hong Kong this year, the decline of the previous two years was restored after the semi-finals. The favorite to win the title, Yang Baoling, frequently appeared in major newspapers and magazines.
On Miss Dongfang's side, Kang Jianfei no longer personally intervened, and was caught off guard by Miss Hong Kong's sudden effort, so he had to deal with the counterattack by hyping up Qiu Shuzhen.
On the weekend before the Miss Oriental final was held, the highly anticipated Yang Baoling won the Miss Hong Kong crown. But when the audience turned their attention to the upcoming Miss Oriental final, an accident suddenly happened.
In the TVB TV building, Fang Yihua's secretary quickly ran over from downstairs carrying a newspaper, and then kept knocking on the office door.
"Come in," Fang Yihua raised her head and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Manager Fang," the secretary handed over a newspaper and said happily, "This is today's Peninsula Evening News. A friend of mine at the newspaper office sent it in advance."
"What's the content?" Fang Yihua asked directly.
The secretary said: "Miss Oriental, a contestant who was eliminated in the semi-finals, broke the news to the Peninsula Evening News this morning that Qiu Shuzhen had plastic surgery!"
"What?" Fang Yihua stood up excitedly, "Is it Qiu Shuzhen, the favorite from Sister Dong's side, who has had plastic surgery?"
The secretary nodded and said, "That's her."
Fang Yihua sat back down and sighed: "It would have been better if the news was revealed after the game. It's such a pity."
Before the competition, it was revealed that a contestant had plastic surgery, and the worst possible outcome would be to disqualify her from the beauty pageant. And if the news of plastic surgery waits until Qiu Shuzhen wins the championship, then the Miss Oriental beauty pageant will be discredited. This is what Fang Yihua feels regretful about.
However, the favorite to win the championship was disqualified due to plastic surgery, which was a big blow to Miss Oriental. After Fang Yihua thought for a moment, she said to her secretary: "Contact me a few newspapers and let them..." (To be continued...) u
