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The four shareholders, Huang Baiming, Johnnie To, Teddy Robin and Lin Lingdong, sat together regardless of priority. Huang Baiming's opening words shocked the other three: "Xinyi City may be disbanded.
It will last until the end of the year at most.”
"Why did it disintegrate? The summer release of New Art City's "Diary of a Man" sold well." Lin Lingdong asked puzzledly.
Huang Baiming said with some gloating: "Building a studio, opening a record company, opening a brokerage company, and opening a film branch in Taiwan are too big. It's okay to say that New Art City has maintained high profits, but it's been more than two years.
It did not perform very well during the prime period. Before I left, New Arts City was in a state of loss. In the past few months, it had spun off and sold off all its subsidiaries. Although it turned a profit after reducing expenses, it was difficult to restore the decline. Mai
The two bosses Jia and Shi Tian are no longer interested in movies, so it will be a matter of time before Xinyi City is disbanded."
Teddy Robin asked: "Has Boss Lei told you about this?"
Huang Baiming nodded: "He hopes that I can take over some of New Art City's resources after it is disbanded."
Du Qifeng said happily: "This is an opportunity for our development."
Huang Baiming said: "I think so too, but the most important thing is the director and behind the scenes, not the other things."
Teddy Robin said: "The four of us are both capable of writing and directing. No matter how many directors there are, it is a burden. The technical staff behind the scenes are the most important."
Huang Baiming smiled and said: "There are never too many good directors. Once New Art City is disbanded, who else can compete with us for the Golden Princess schedule?"
As one of the major cinema chains in the past, Golden Princess Cinema has declined somewhat in the past two years. The main reason is the poor performance of Xinyi City.
Throughout this year's summer season, Princess Jin's film "Diary of a Man" had the best box office. Fortunately, in addition to Huang Baiming's Vientiane Pictures, Lei Juekun also brought Liu Jialiang over, and Liu Jiaban was listed in Xinyi
The movie "Tiger is Out" filmed in the city also made a muscular man Li Yuanba famous.
After the collapse of New Art City, the person with the most complicated emotions was Huang Baiming. New Art City was once the pinnacle of Huang Baiming's career, and now that it is about to disintegrate, he still feels uncomfortable, but the biggest beneficiary of New Art City's closure is Huang Baiming
.
Because as long as New Art City exists, Huang Baiming's new company Wanxiang Pictures will never be able to grab a good schedule. For example, this year's summer release. Wanxiang Pictures' work is "School Storm" directed by Lin Lingdong. It was not easy
It was scheduled to be released in the summer season at Golden Princess Cinema, but it was scheduled to be released at the same time as Cheng Long's "Police Story Sequel". In addition, at the same time, Wang Jing's "Hardcover Girls" series was also competing for the audience. The "Police Story Sequel" originally had great potential.
"School Storm", the box office was not satisfactory, only just over 10 million.
As long as New Art City is finished, Wanxiang Pictures will definitely grab Princess Jin's best schedule in the future. This benefit is even greater than the resources left by taking over New Art City.
Teddy Robin suddenly said: "Gao Zhisen has done well this year. How about trying to poach him back?"
"It can't be dug." Huang Baiming shook his head with an unnatural expression. Even if he could dig, he wouldn't dig.
If we want to talk about the directors who have done the best in Hong Kong in the past year, Gao Zhisen is definitely one of them. At the end of last year, he directed "The Rich and the Rich", which grossed 27 million at the box office. A few months later, Gao Zhisen rushed to
I filmed a film called "Rich and Rich", which grossed 25.8 million yuan at the box office. In the summer season that just passed, "Chicken and Duck Talk" directed by Gao Zhisen, the box office reached 29 million yuan.
With the release of three consecutive films with a box office of over 25 million, Ko Chi-sen suddenly became the top director in Hong Kong. He can already be compared with Wang Jing.
Gao Zhisen used to be Huang Baiming's apprentice, and he was also appreciated and promoted by Kang Jianfei. But now he is a great director under Pan Dickson. How could Huang Baiming be so warm to someone else's cold ass?
Du Qifeng suddenly said: "Zeng Zhiwei can pull him over."
Huang Baiming's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands and said, "This is a good idea."
After Zeng Zhiwei resigned as the production manager of DreamWorks, the Good Friends Film Company he founded was quite prosperous in the first year or so, but now it is half dead. Zeng Zhiwei can't say that he regrets leaving DreamWorks, after all, he formed his own company
The few movies I made made a lot of money.
It's just that Zeng Zhiwei's current situation is very embarrassing. He can only make a small amount of money by continuing to make movies on his own. He can't save face by begging Kang Jianfei to return to DreamWorks. If Huang Baiming can send an invitation to Zeng Zhiwei at this time, he will probably be able to bring Zeng Zhiwei and Zeng Zhiwei together.
His good friend's company brought in Vientiane Pictures, so that Vientiane Pictures could have a stronger foundation.
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Kang Jianfei's polyamorous relationship with Guan Zhilin, Wang Zuxian, and Li Jiaxin finally slowly decreased in popularity after two months of continuous speculation.
The big news instead was that Zeng Zhiwei and his good friend's film company merged into Huang Baiming's Vientiane Pictures. Many of New Art City's behind-the-scenes talents also transferred to Vientiane Pictures. For a time, New Art City
Rumors of imminent disintegration spread like wildfire.
"New Art City is going to disintegrate? It's too soon!" Kang Jianfei was surprised when he heard the news. Because in his memory, New Art City disintegrated in 1990, and the last movie produced by New Art City was in
Released in 1991.
Kang Jianfei didn't even think about how many talents and films New Art City had lost because of his appearance. It was considered strong enough that New Art City could hold on until now before there was news of its impending disintegration.
Once New Art City is disbanded, Vientiane Pictures, which has taken over New Art City's resources and acquired Good Friends' company, will surely become another big company that can challenge DreamWorks as long as it can produce a few tenable high-box office films.
company.
By that time, the Hong Kong film industry will be a four-nation war between DreamWorks, Golden Harvest, Debao and Vientiane, and not to mention the other messy ** film companies.
The Yongsheng Film Company of the Xiang brothers is still making a living by making follow-up films. It tried to imitate others in playing big casts twice, but the results were not very satisfactory. It only managed to make some money through overseas box office.
Moreover, Xiang Huaqiang's current thoughts are not on making movies, because last year's club fight was so outrageous that it finally annoyed the British Hong Kong authorities. Xiang Huayan, the leader of Xin Ngee Ann, was arrested by the police for investigation. The court has just
Xiang Huayan was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Nowadays, Xin Ngee Ann is internally unstable. Xiang Huaqiang was appointed as the leader of the society when he was in danger. While resisting the pressure from other societies, he also used various means to appease the society. How could he bother to make a movie?
In addition to the changes in New Art City and Vientiane Pictures, another major event in the Hong Kong film industry is that a draft of the film censorship system has been issued to solicit opinions from all Hong Kong citizens. Major producers and directors have been invited to discuss and negotiate.
The revision of Hong Kong's film censorship system has been called for since last year, mainly due to a foreign report. After some well-intentioned people made such speculation in Hong Kong, it immediately aroused public attention and discussion.
What makes Hong Kong filmmakers feel most embarrassed is that Hong Kong films have been developing for decades, but Hong Kong’s film censorship system has no legal basis. In the past, film censorship by the Hong Kong Censorship Office was an administrative order.
The new film censorship will be determined in a legal form, and the film rating system will also become inevitable.
This is not a trivial matter. If the film classification system is established, the censorship of films by the Censorship Office will inevitably be relaxed. Nowadays, many films that cannot be made can be made. Directors and screenwriters will have more freedom in their creations, and
After the film is classified, it can also allow all kinds of films to develop more benignly.
It can be said that the real prosperity period of Hong Kong movies actually came after the Hong Kong film classification system was established.
"Brother Fei. The 7th is the first meeting of the Directors Association. Mr. Wu Siyuan invites you to attend. The 11th is an invitation from the Legislative Council to participate in the discussion of the film censorship system. The 16th is the award ceremony for Hong Kong's top ten outstanding young people. You
I also need to attend..." Li Meifeng informed Kang Jianfei of her schedule, and Kang Jianfei was quite upset by these frequent meetings and ceremonies.
Kang Jianfei said: "I understand, please help me make arrangements. Let Zeng Bolin know when the schedule is ready."
Li Meifeng added: "In addition, there is news from Japan that the "King of Fighters" game has been completed and is being tested. It will probably be released by the end of the year."
"It was done quite quickly." Kang Jianfei smiled and said to Li Meifeng, "Please help me go back there and tell them that part of the comic book "The King of Fighters" has been created and let their publicity department contact Kadokawa Shoten."
"Okay." Li Meifeng wrote it down on her notepad.
Kang Jianfei went downstairs and ran to Dark Horse Comics. He flipped through the comics about "The King of Fighters" and found that the plot they came up with was slightly different from what he remembered, but it was not a big deal. Just wait for "The King of Fighters"
"When the game comes out, it can be promoted together.
Animation companies are also developing quite well here. The current works include "Crayon Shin-chan" and "Elf Mouse", which are mainly broadcast on Phoenix Channel and Macau Satellite TV, and are also sold to Japan, Taiwan, Nanyang and mainland China. Among them, "Crayon Shin-chan"
"New" is adapted from a comic, while "Elf Mouse" is the company's original cartoon. After the broadcast, the children's response was pretty good.
When Kang Jianfei came over this time, what he wanted to watch more was the animated movie "Mulan".
The plot of this animation was provided by Kang Jianfei, and it is actually a Disney animation from another time and space.
There is no precedent for animated movies to be a big hit in Hong Kong. The main reason is that people are influenced by fixed ideas and believe that cartoons are for children.
Kang Jianfei plans to take "Mulan" to test the waters in North America first. If it can win a few awards, then it will be released in Hong Kong, at least it will not be a disaster. After all, a Hong Kong cartoon is well-known overseas
However, it is still very easy to promote this, and it is enough to attract parents to bring their children to the cinema.
Now two-thirds of the animation company's employees are from mainland China. When Kang Jianfei looked at some of the finished films of "Mulan", he suddenly didn't know what to say.
The Disney version of "Mulan" is immediately recognizable as an animation produced in the United States, but what Kang Jianfei is seeing now is full of the Chinese style of "Havoc in Heaven" and "Nezha Hao Hai".
As for which one is good and which is bad, Kang Jianfei couldn't tell for the time being, but his concerns about this are certain. The main reason is that Kang Jianfei regards North America as the main box office market for "Mulan" and is afraid that it will be too Chinese-style and will be unacceptable to North American audiences.
However, a group of mainland Chinese painters who have never seen American cartoons are doing the original paintings. Kang Jianfei is not that demanding and insists on painting in a Disney style, so he just makes do with it. Maybe the North American audience will like it more because of the novelty.
After leaving the animation company, Kang Jianfei saw that it was almost time, and drove to pick up Zhong Chuhong who was filming the location. Today's scene of Hong Gu was about to be completed, so Kang Jianfei had to rush over to accompany her to coax her. His main work in the past two months, in addition to filming,
Outside of the movie, I just coax the angry lovers one by one. (To be continued...) u
