In the 1988 Hong Kong movie summer season, surprisingly, there were no particularly outstanding films released. The films released by several major film companies, in conjunction with the festive holiday of Christmas, were nothing more than three categories: urban comedies, urban comedies and romantic comedies.
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Ever since "My Sassy Girl" became popular, Hong Kong's romantic comedies have followed the trend without thinking. Although a large number of follow-up movies have died, they have also made a lot of money, so much so that the Christmas romance movies released now are more or less
They all have a bit of "My Sassy Girl" in them.
After the Christmas season ended, everyone discovered that this year's Christmas box office was particularly low, and the box office champion was actually "The Money King", a market comedy produced by Zeng Zhiwei after joining Vientiane Pictures.
"The King of Money" is another new movie in this time and space. Kang Jianfei has never heard of it before. It is written by Huang Baiming and directed by Zeng Zhiwei, and both of them are the main actors. Although this movie won the Christmas box office champion, in fact
The box office was only 21.56 million. You can imagine how miserable this year's Christmas season was. Several other movies generally only had a box office of just over 10 million.
Although the box office of a single movie has declined, the overall box office of Hong Kong movies this Christmas is on the rise because there are too many movies released during the holiday. And because Kang Jianfei, Wang Jing, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Wu Yusen
, Xu Ke, Gao Zhisen and other big directors have no works released, so the audience is divided into 10 large and small movies, resulting in the box office of a single movie being diluted.
On the contrary, the Korean movie "The Anchor" starring Zhou Runfa, Choi Jin-jin, Li Ming, and Jiang Hyun-jin set a box office record for Korean movies. After more than 2 million local moviegoers, it is still in theaters. To see this momentum, it must be screened at least
The film will be released in two to three months.
This movie is in another time and space. It is the sixth highest-grossing film in Korea over the years, with more than 8.2 million viewers.
The plot of the film given by Kang Jianfei has been slightly changed. The male protagonist Zhou Runfa is a has-been middle-aged singer, who has moved from the stage to behind the scenes as a radio anchor. In the past few years, there has been some improvement, and he has his own exclusive radio program.
One day, it was discovered that Zhou Runfa was his biological daughter, the flesh and blood left behind by Zhou Runfa who tasted the forbidden fruit in the third grade of junior high school. Not only that, Cui Zhenzhen was also a young unwed mother. She was accompanied by a several-year-old son, who was Zhou Runfa's biological daughter.
grandson.
Zhou Runfa was not sure whether this incident was true or not, and he was afraid that this kind of scandal would spread and damage his reputation, so he juggled his busy work with his daughter and grandson all day long.
Li Ming is Kang Jianfei's new character in the film. His identity is a newspaper reporter and Cui Zhenchen's pursuer. As a reporter, Zhou Runfa tried every means to cover up the fact that he had a daughter. As a result, Li Ming misunderstood Zhou Runfa.
The affair with Cui Zhenlin led to ridiculous accidents one after another.
Kang Jianfei only provided an outline of the story. The details of the script were completed by a screenwriter from DreamWorks and a screenwriter from South Korea. The director is Kim Yujin, who graduated from the film major at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He directed a unique black humor movie two years ago.
"Heroic Song", although he is still young and under 30 years old, he was still invited by Kang Jianfei to be the director of "Very Anchor" - there are too few directors in South Korea who have spoofs and humor, and can also make good movies.
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The actor who plays the cute young lady in the film is named Kang Hyun-jin. He is the nephew of director Kim Yoo-jin. Although there were constant troubles during the filming, he was eventually trained.
South Korea is now a dumping market for Hong Kong films. During the off-season, in order to save film purchase costs, theaters introduced a large number of Eastern European films. Korean local films are a tragedy.
Although the first and second male leads in "The Anchorman" are both Hong Kong stars, the director is Korean, and Koreans also participated in the screenplay. Two or three months before the movie was released, the publicity department of Oriental Entertainment (Korea) Group Company
, began to use the gimmick of "Korean local commercial blockbuster" as a selling point, saying that in order to make this Korean commercial blockbuster, director Kim Yu-jin went to Hong Kong to invite two stars, Zhou Yunfa and Li Ming.
The gimmick of a local Korean commercial blockbuster is still very attractive. Coupled with the hugely popular Zhou Runfa as the leading actor, this "Extraordinary Anchor" has been highly anticipated since the filming started.
Then, during the filming of the movie, the heroine of "The Anchorman" was also "accidentally" exposed. People discovered that the heroine had just debuted at the beginning of the year and became an instant hit with a TV role.
"National Queen" Choi Jin-sil.
The combination of the popular Hong Kong star Chow Yun-fat and Korean national queen Choi Jin-jin, coupled with the handsome Li Ming and the cute young lady Jiang Hyun-jin, this movie is enough to attract the attention of any Korean audience. Not to mention the light-hearted and humorous spoof plot, more
It is something that is scarce in Korean local films at this stage. Director Kim Yoo Jin also has his own black humor style. This film is more interesting than parallel time and space.
After the release of "The Anchorman", Zhou Yunfa's popularity surged again. Choi Jin-sil actually surpassed the three major Korean actresses Lee Mi-sook, Lee Bo-hee and Won Mi-kyung to become the highest-paid actress in South Korea. She was also known as "the most fashionable actress in South Korea"
"Charming woman". As for why there was a ban on the latter account, it is actually very simple, because the makeup artist in "The Very Anchor" was sent from Hong Kong. Choi Jin-sil looks Hong Kong style from head to toe on the screen. Her hairstyle
And the clothes are imitated by Korean women.
In addition, Li Ming, who plays the male supporting role, is also very popular. His handsome and sunny appearance is very popular among female audiences. The movie has only been released for half a month, and he has received several invitations for Korean advertising.
Finally, there is director Kim Yoo-jin, who has been dubbed "Korea's No. 1 Commercial Director", "Young Film Genius", and "Leader of Young Boys in Korean Films". Although many traditional directors sneer at his films, it is undeniable that this guy is the most popular in South Korea.
The film industry is indeed very prosperous.
It can be said that "Extraordinary Anchor" has become popular among a large number of people in South Korea, and even some minor supporting roles have begun to receive attention.
However, for Kang Jianfei, how much money he makes at the box office is not the important thing. The important thing is to rely on this film to gain a firm foothold in South Korea. As for the Korean director, starring and screenwriters of the film, they naturally signed a collective contract with Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (South Korea) Company.
And the company then continued to promote and promote them through packaging.
The easiest people to hype are the director and the heroine. Kim Yu-jin has been hyped as a leader among young Korean directors, but he is almost not said to be the hope for the rise of Korean movies.
The tragic childhood experience of the heroine Choi Jin-sil was also revealed and speculated. She was so poor that she couldn't afford anything, and she came to work in Seoul just to make money for her younger brother to go to school. Anyway, it was so miserable.
Comparing Choi Jin-sil's tragic childhood, there are her experiences after coming to Seoul. First, she quietly worked as a part-time job at a TV station. Because there was a shortage of people to film a certain episode of the historical drama series "500 Years of the Joseon Dynasty", she was cast aside by the director after being spotted by the crew.
She played the heroine in one episode and became a big star instantly. Then she was selected by director Kim Yoo Jin to play the heroine of "The Anchor" and became the most valuable female star in South Korea.
This is simply an inspirational story of an ugly duckling turning into a white swan, and Cinderella turning into Snow White. Just based on her life experiences and successful experiences, Cui Zhenzhen has attracted a large number of loyal fans.
It's not just South Korea that's a box office hit. Paramount's "Pretty Woman," written by Kang Jianfei, was also released in North America during the Christmas period.
This film, which received nearly 180 million US dollars in North American box office in its original time and space, although the heroine was changed to Sophie Marceau, the market response has not weakened. Sophie Marceau's French charm,
It gives this movie a different flavor and makes North American audiences like it even more.
This year's entire Christmas season in North America is dominated by Paramount's "Pretty Woman" and Universal Pictures' "The Mouse and Dragon."
However, "Pretty Woman" has always been in the lead. When the two movies were released, "Pretty Woman" had a North American box office of more than 172 million US dollars, while "Brothers and Dragons" only received 100 million US dollars.
Grossed more than $11 million at the box office.
The previous "Fang Fang" directed by Kang Jianfei suffered a box office failure in North America. Sophie Marceau was not well-known in the United States. After the hit release of "Pretty Woman", Sophie Marceau directly jumped into the ranks of A-class actresses.
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After reviewing the film, "The Hollywood Reporter" added: "At the beginning of last year, there were endless news about Paramount's decline. The reason was that the company's second largest shareholder was an Asian, and
The president of the company is still a woman. The box office performance of "Pretty Woman" was perfect, and Paramount once again returned to the top of Hollywood with this annual box office champion movie..."
In Taiwan, Kang Jianfei's old film "The Lover" was released in the summer. This film was pirated in Taiwan a few years ago, but it still sold more than NT$15 million at the box office, second only to the box office.
More than 16 million "Police Story" sequel.
You may be surprised, why did Kang Jianfei's movie sell tens of millions when it was released in Taiwan a few years ago, but now it only sells more than 10 million?
There is only one reason, and that is that piracy is too rampant. Not to mention that "The Lover" is an old film from a few years ago, the sequel to Cheng Long's "Police Story" premiered in Hong Kong only half a year ago, and it is also the same in Taiwan.
Piracy was widespread, so much so that the Taiwan box office of this movie was only over NT$16 million.
Just look at the box office champion of the movie released in Taiwan this year. The box office of "The Last Emperor" was more than NT$100 million.
There is a 10-fold difference in the box office between the "Police Story" sequel and "The Last Emperor" in Taiwan. This is not because Taiwanese audiences don't like Cheng Long, but because piracy of "The Last Emperor" is difficult, while piracy of the "Police Story" sequel is very easy.
Get it. The movie hasn't even been released yet, and Hong Kong audiences have already seen the pirated version, so at least 80% of the audience won't go to the movie to watch it again.
But no matter what, the films produced by Kang Jianfei’s company have been full of good news this Christmas, and my hands are cramping even if I count the money. (To be continued...)
ps: Yesterday I went to see Johnnie To's "Singles 2" and found that what the director and screenwriter wanted to express was: no matter whether you are rich, handsome or not, being a warm man can only be a spare tire for a lifetime. No matter how scumbag the man is, he will sleep with more women.
, no matter how deeply you hurt the goddess, as long as you play with romance at the critical moment, you can still seduce the goddess in the end. u