During the Spring Festival in 1992, a great war broke out, making the structure of the Hong Kong film industry more distinct. △￠Novel,
Shao Yifu originally planned to take advantage of the boom in Hong Kong films to make a comeback, but he was old and lacked energy, and his confidants headed by Fang Yihua did not support the matter. This put a damper on Shao Yifu's idea of relying on the resources of wireless stations to develop Shaw Brothers. drift.
After Shaw Brothers reopened, they only produced two low-budget films and then ceased operations again. They did not even participate in the Spring Festival war. The frustrated Shaw Brothers decided to sell the Shaw Brothers theater chain. Thoughts. Unfortunately, Hong Kong’s film industry now has a surplus of theaters, and no local tycoon is willing to take over. They can only maintain operations by showing films from other companies.
There are also big changes in Jiahe. Last year, Zou Wenhuai’s daughter Zou Zhongyan came back from studying in the United States and was arranged by Boss Zou to work in the company. Although Zou Chongyan has not really taken power, she often blows wind in Zou Wenhuai’s ears, which greatly affects Jiahe’s business strategy. .
As soon as Zou Chongyan came back, she encouraged her father to increase investment in overseas cinemas and cooperate with overseas consortiums to build momentum, with the purpose of listing Jiahe to make money. In her opinion, a large amount of overseas funds are now introduced into the Hong Kong film industry, and the number of Hong Kong films is too high. The competition is too fierce. Instead of spending money to make films and compete with its peers, Golden Harvest might as well take advantage of its overseas distribution advantages and become a downstream distributor for many film companies in Hong Kong.
In a sense, Zou Chongyan's idea was right. Ten years later, Hong Kong films have declined to the extreme. Hong Kong film companies that were once glorious have closed down. However, the overseas theater chains invested by Golden Harvest have always been strong.
But from another perspective, Jiahe's move is undoubtedly weakening its own production capabilities. This can be seen from this year's Spring Festival holiday, the box office share of movies produced by Jiahe continues to decline. It has weakened to the point where it has lost to The situation of Yongsheng Film Company.
The most outstanding performer in this year's Spring Festival is Yong Gao. The 48 million box office of "Family Happiness" is unstoppable. It seems that there are signs of regaining the glory of New Art City in the past.
But as one of Yonggao's bosses, Huang Baiming is not very happy. He has only been working with Luo Jie for half a year, but the conflict between the two has already intensified to a certain extent.
Luojie Cheng of Yonggao Cinemas is the absolute majority shareholder, while the major shareholder of Yonggao Film Company is Huang Baiming. Although they hold shares in each other in the two companies, their interests are different. What Luojie Cheng cares about most is Whether Yonggao Cinema Chain can make money, Huang Baiming pays more attention to the interests of Yonggao Film Company.
Since we are cooperating to open a company, we can sit down and discuss any conflicts of interest. However, Luo Jiecheng was stubborn and arbitrary in doing business, while Huang Baiming insisted on his own opinions, so that the contradiction between the two became more and more serious.
In addition to the best-selling "Happy Events at Home", several other films invested by Huang Baiming were all forced to be canceled early by Luojie Cheng. Luojie Cheng's reason was that the attendance of those films was insufficient, but Huang Baiming did not. I agree with this statement, because those movies did not have enough release date, from a legal sense, Roger is suspected of breaking the contract.
Based on his many years of experience in filmmaking, Huang Baiming once again realized that if he did not control the theater chain, he would always be controlled by others. A "Family Affair" broke the Hong Kong box office record, but the two big bosses of Yonggao were already on the verge of breaking up. Huang Baiming secretly contacted the scattered theaters built in the past two years and decided to establish a new theater chain company that he could make decisions on his own.
Facing the unprecedentedly prosperous film market, all Hong Kong film companies have made huge profits in the past year, and almost no one has made a loss. However, Golden Harvest has reduced investment in production, and Yonggao has internal discord. Yongsheng can only follow the trend, and other large and small companies can only follow suit.
Small ** film companies are more like processing companies. They just wait for investors to throw money in, and then recruit people to quickly produce commercial films to earn profits.
In such a prosperous Eastern Hollywood, the overall film creation ability is far inferior to that of the 1980s. In this noisy and lively Hong Kong film world, Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks has fully demonstrated its dominance, even though it lost to "Family Happiness" at the box office during the Spring Festival.
Then no one cares about the gains and losses of a city or a place.
What's more, the existence of Oriental Entertainment Agency includes more than 60% of Hong Kong's popular stars. So much so that most Hong Kong film companies dare not offend Kang Jianfei.
Let’s look at the entire Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, Oriental DreamWorks, Oriental Entertainment Agency, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company, Oriental Cinema Company, Phoenix TV, Oriental TV Production Company, Popular Records, Oriental Media Group, Tseung Kwan O Studios, and Dark Horse Animation Company
...There are all kinds of things, it is like a huge entertainment empire.
Jin Yong and He Chaoqiong had a casual chat over tea. Neither of them directly mentioned the purchase or sale of Ming Pao. They only talked about some management concepts of the newspaper industry.
Back home, Jin Yong looked through the information related to the Eastern Group, which he found only after years later.
You don't know if you look at it. The more he looks at it, the more shocked Jin Yong is. He didn't expect Kang Jianfei's Eastern Group to have become such a giant.
From several contacts, Jin Yong had a good impression of He Chaoqiong, and He Chaoqiong also admired the reforms of "Tian Tian Daily", but he could never see through Kang Jianfei. He had no idea whether to hand over "Ming Pao" to He Chaoqiong.
, Jin Yong still had a lot of doubts, but before he found a more suitable successor, he decided to give it a try.
At least in the hands of He Chaoqiong, the reform of "Tian Tian Daily" was an unprecedented success, and many newspapers and magazines under Oriental Media were elegant and popular, and they all insisted on their own publishing styles. Jin Yong admired these very much.
In April 1992, Jin Yong announced that he would sell 10% of his Ming Pao shares to Oriental Media Group and appointed He Chaoqiong as a director of the Ming Pao Group's board of directors.
As soon as the news came out, the whole island was in an uproar. Jin Yong was planning to sell Ming Pao to Kang Jianfei!
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When Kang Jianfei went to the United States to film, not only did He Chaoqiong buy 10% of Ming Pao's shares, but Yang Dengkui also successfully obtained approval from the Taiwan authorities to build 26 cinemas in central and southern Taiwan.
At the same time, "The King of Fighters 1992" came out, and Japan's Sega Game Company, Hong Kong's Oriental DreamWorks, and Dark Horse Animation Company jointly organized the first world "The King of Fighters" e-sports competition.
After years of development and promotion, the arcade game "The King of Fighters" has a huge fan base all over the world, and it can be called the No. 1 fighting game. This competition mainly uses countries as the division unit, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
, Japan and other countries are all ** competition areas, and Singapore was merged into the Malaysia-Singapore competition area because of its small population. Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan are collectively called the Chinese competition area.
Each competition area has a budget competition, semi-finals and finals, and three winning places are finally determined (some countries with small populations only have two places). The three winners are eligible to participate in the world finals. The first finals will be held in
Tokyo, Japan.
The top three winners in each division will receive bonuses ranging from US$5,000, US$2,000, and US$1,000, and the highest bonus in the finals is as high as US$100,000. At the same time, the overall champion of the World Championship will also receive the opportunity to participate in "The King of Fighters"
"The opportunity to film a series of movies, and become a character in the extra chapter of the "King of Fighters" comic series.
As we all know, it is very difficult to hold a world competition. Every link from publicity, sponsorship, selection, supervision, competition, etc. is extremely troublesome. After Kang Jianfei proposed the establishment of the "King of Fighters" World Championship, Sega prepared for three years, until
Now it is finally officially held.
As for the "King of Fighters" movies, several have been made in recent years, but they have not been very influential and are only popular among specific fan groups.
Kang Jianfei also considered this issue, and finally figured out that if he wanted to expand the influence of the "King of Fighters" series of movies, then he must popularize the story of "The King of Fighters".
What is popularization?
You can refer to the superheroes in the United States. In order to cater to universal values, when the comics were made into movies, the superheroes all became great saviors.
If "The King of Fighters" is to be recognized by the public, then the protagonists must have a righteous heart and behave in a way that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
Kang Jianfei finally decided to wait another two years for the development of computer special effects before investing in a trial shooting of a Spider-Man version of "The King of Fighters". Of course, the protagonist is not Spider-Man, but like Spider-Man, who transforms from a mortal to a hero, pretending to be awesome, and slapped in the face.
Act chivalrously and defeat the villains!
Being cliché means a wide audience, which means a large box office base.
Taipei County, a game arcade.
A thin young man walked in with a schoolbag on his back. The disgust filled inside made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he still frowned and endured it.
There were already people standing around the King of Fighters arcade machines. When they saw the thin boy approaching, everyone made way for them.
A yellow-haired gangster waved to him and said: "Ah Quan, come here quickly, I practiced another move yesterday." The gangster re-inserted the coin and said, "Old rule, win three out of five games, you are not allowed to press heavy
Fists and kicks."
"Okay." The thin boy put down his schoolbag with a bright smile on his face. His family was not wealthy, and his pocket money was not enough for him to enter the game arcade every day, and he usually played other people's games.
When the battle started, people in the game hall came over to watch the battle.
The result was obvious. The thin young man, who was restricted from punching and kicking, easily killed the yellow-haired gangster, and there were gasps of admiration in the game room.
At this moment, the arcade owner suddenly came over and posted a promotional poster on the wall next to the arcade machine.
Someone read: "The first world "King of Fighters" e-sports competition is about to start. Participants can register at the local registration point with their ID cards...Taiwan's top eight players will be qualified for the China Division finals and go to Hong Kong to participate in the finals.
Air tickets, food and accommodation will be reimbursed, and the division champion will receive a bonus of US$5,000... The top three in the Chinese division will qualify for the World Finals..."
"Wow, the finals are held in Tokyo, Japan, and the championship reward is US$100,000."
"100,000 US dollars, isn't that several million Taiwan dollars?"
"Ah Quan is so awesome, hurry up and sign up."
The thin boy's eyes lit up when he looked at the registration poster. He turned around and asked the boss: "Uncle, where can I sign up?" (To be continued...) u