If you want to make a good movie, a good director and good actors are essential, but more importantly, money and time. These two things are exactly what Hong Kong movies currently lack.
Take last year's "The Fall of Hong Kong" as an example. It tells a story about what happened when Japan invaded Hong Kong. The screenwriter wanted to portray the intertwining of small people in the big era, family and country hatred, family ties, and love. If this kind of subject matter is filmed well,
It will be very good, and maybe even win an award internationally.
This film was produced by Wang Jing's studio, with Fatty Wang personally serving as the screenwriter and producer. For this purpose, two porn stars, Qiu Yueqing (Qiu Shuzhen in another time and space) and Ye Yuqing, were invited to appear, and many powerful actors such as Luo Jiaying and Xu Jinjiang joined the cast.
When the film was released, the promotional slogan was "China's Schindler's List", which really attracted a lot of people's attention.
However, the shooting cost was insufficient, the production time was limited, and the director Qian Wenqi's skills were relatively rough. In the end, a great subject matter was ruined and turned into a nondescript.
It was unqualified because there were no nudity scenes, which made the salty guys who rushed into the theater yell at it.
All the reasons are due to the filmmakers' eagerness for quick success and quick profit. The investors are urging them to finish filming and release the film quickly to make a profit. The producers and directors regard this as a production task. Anyway, just make the film. It doesn't matter whether the quality is good or not.
Perhaps Wang Jing really wanted to make a good movie. He even asked his father to do an interview to tell his personal experience of the fall of Hong Kong, and added it to the end of the film to add a sense of history to the movie. Unfortunately, the investment budget was insufficient and the shooting time was blocked.
Unfortunately, Wang Jing is also a clever woman who cannot make a living without rice, so she can only come up with a shabby thing to do business.
If this "Hong Kong Has Fallen" had sufficient funds and if McDonald's was allowed to direct it, it would definitely be another excellent Hong Kong film, but there is no if.
Kang Jianfei's biggest convenience in filming is that he has money and plenty of time. He wants to film for a year and no one dares to say anything.
The production budget of "Resident Evil" is 100 million Hong Kong dollars, of which Tom Cruise's salary is 10 million US dollars. The total salary of other actors is less than 5 million US dollars. The remaining 180 million Hong Kong dollars were actually used in filming.
On production.
For such a money-burning movie, Cheng Long is the only one in Hong Kong besides Kang Jianfei who dares to do it. Not even the old weirdo Xu Kexu, because the investors are already cautious and don't dare to spend money randomly. Cheng Long dares to make it because of the overseas box office.
confidence.
From April to July, three months have passed, and only two-thirds of the progress of "Resident Evil" has been completed. In addition, preparations began in early January last year, and it has already taken a full half a year.
Today's Hong Kong is also unimaginable (the king of sunglasses said that the pattern is too bad).
Cheng Long's new film was only planned to be shot after the Spring Festival, and it was shot entirely in Japan. It is now in post-production and is only waiting for the summer release in early August.
In comparison, Kang Jianfei's speed is too slow.
The more slowly he acted like this, the more his colleagues and fans who paid attention to Kang Jianfei were looking forward to it. Everyone knew that he was going to make big news this time.
As the summer season is getting closer, major companies have stepped up their efforts to promote movies. Naturally, the one that gets the most attention is "Thunderbolt" starring Cheng Long and Yuan Yongyi. The second is Zhou Xingchi's "Avatar", which
The film was a money-making film produced by Yongsheng Film Company. Before the script of Zhou Xingchi's "The God of Cookery" was written, Xiang Huaqiang was invited to star.
"The Album" is definitely in the top three bad movies made by Stephen Chow. The plot is a mess and the jokes are mechanical and boring. The only contribution of this movie is probably the success of newcomer Wing-kee Leung.
This summer, Stephen Chow has another film "The Night of the Soul" released. This film is produced by Shao Yifu's Metropolis Company. The style is imitated in "This Killer Is Not So Cold". The theme is an absurd ghost film, which is old wine in a new bottle.
Yes, the quality is also worrying.
"Various Star King" and "Return to the Soul Night" were both filmed by Zhou Xingchi in three and a half months. In less than four months, Zhou Xingchi filmed two insincere garbage works. There was nothing that Zhou Xingchi could do. He had to
He made back the money he lost on "Westward Journey". Both of these movies were invested by others, and he only needed to get paid. They were businesses that were guaranteed to make money without losing money.
There is another movie worth paying attention to in the summer, and that is "The Adventurer" directed by Lam Ling-tung and starring Andy Lau, Kwan Chi-lin, and Wu Qianlian. This movie was also invested by Yongsheng Film Company. Andy Lau is in a similar situation to Stephen Chow. He invested it himself
The movie suffered a huge loss and had to make films for others to make up for the loss.
As for the summer movies produced by DreamWorks, there are two movies, one is the literary film "Women at 40" directed by Ann Hui, and the other is "Hand Covering the Sky" from the "Young and Dangerous" series that was criticized by newspapers.
In addition, there are also "Blessings to the Dumb Man", "The God of Savior", "I Want to Live", and "Piao Piaopiao", they are all small-scale dramas, although there are Tony Leung Chiu-wei, Zhang Sijia, Yuan Yongyi, Aaron Kwok and others starring,
But everyone is not very optimistic about the box office.
Especially Liang Chaowei, the current situation is very embarrassing. He has stopped filming TV series for a long time, and has decided to pursue the path of movies. A series of literary films he starred in have won awards everywhere, and he has even become famous in Europe.
But in Hong Kong he is just a street kid.
The films starring Tony Leung Chiu-wei in the past two years are more famous than the last, but each one is a hit on the street. He has almost become synonymous with box office poison, and his salary is not even as much as Yuan Yongyi.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Huilin, this fair and beautiful stardom has been extremely smooth. She signed a contract with Pop Records as soon as she debuted. She was invited to film a movie before she officially released a song. She also starred with Aaron Kwok as the heroine, which made those second- and third-tier actresses stand out.
The actress was so jealous.
The funniest thing is that Chen Huilin can also openly tell reporters: "The actress in Hong Kong who is least afraid of being discussed about unspoken rules is me."
Because her father is rich. In the movie "Xian Le Piao Piao" she recently starred in, her father invested in it, and he invested specifically for her!
This world is very unfair. Comparing people to each other makes people angry.
In addition to the summer movie schedule, what attracts the attention of all Hong Kong citizens is the annual beauty pageant.
Miss Hong Kong and Miss Asia have just completed the semi-finals, and their respective top 1 beauties have been released. Recently, they have frequently appeared on TVB and Phoenix Channel.
This year's Miss Hong Kong is really lackluster. Only the mixed-race Li Jiahui is more eye-catching. The overall quality is not as good as last year. The Asian sisters are slightly better, especially the No. 6 contestant Yang Christine, who is considered to be the most beautiful beauty contestant this year.
On August 9, the fourth day after the release of Cheng Long's new film "Thunderbolt", Kang Jianfei told the crew to call it a day in the middle of the afternoon. He was going to attend the finals of this year's Miss Asia beauty pageant. (To be continued)
