For Hong Kong people who pay attention to movies, this Spring Festival is very lively.
"The God of Cookery", "Ouchi Secret Agent", "Big Three", "Police Story 4" and "King of Fire" are five blockbuster movies on the same stage, leaving no room for those low-budget movies to survive.
In the end, Cheng Long was the better, beating out Chow Sing-chi, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. The Hong Kong box office of "Police Story 4" was 57.5 million.
However, Zhou Xingchi wins with quantity. His "God of Cookery" and "Ouchi Secret Agent" were released at the same time and took 40.8 million and 6 million box office respectively. They changed the sluggish performance of Zhou's comedies last year and once again proved their strong box office
Appeal.
For those in the industry, they are more concerned about the news of the Hong Kong International Film and Television Fair. Especially those small and medium-sized companies that want to sell their films overseas, they must either turn to the agents of large companies (often cheated), or they themselves
Traveling around the world with copies. In the past, Taiwanese film dealers would buy films featuring popular stars, but this is no longer the case in the past two years.
Once the Hong Kong International Film and Television Exhibition is held, even if you don't get a ticket to the exhibition, you may be lucky enough to set up a stall outside the venue, just in case it is spotted by an international film company!
For big companies such as DreamWorks and Golden Harvest, what matters more is the strategic development significance brought about by the increased influence of Hong Kong films after the International Film and Television Exhibition. Even Golden Harvest, who is crazy about making movies to make money, is extremely positive about this.
Because the markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are shrinking, they hope that their films will be accepted by international film producers (especially Europe and the United States).
Shao Yifu is much calmer. His Shaw Brothers franchise has long since ceased production, and he only occasionally shoots one or two movies to make his presence felt. He also wants to increase the influence of Hong Kong TV series through international film and television exhibitions and bring TVB
The play has been sold to more regions.
After preliminary discussions, Kang Jianfei made a compromise. From now on, the broadcasting rights of the Hong Kong International Film and Television Awards Ceremony will be obtained by TVB and Phoenix Channel in turns, and the broadcasting rights of the first session were given to TVB.
The Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival is initially scheduled to be held in January every year, that is, after the Hong Kong Film Awards. The two do not conflict, but can promote each other. One is based on Hong Kong films, and the other is for the world. Especially those who
Films that win the Academy Awards can also sell for a better price when selling films at film festivals.
All of this is easy to say. What depresses Kang Jianfei the most is that many of his colleagues in Hong Kong are too short-sighted.
Including Chow Wen-huai, when planning the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival, most Hong Kong filmmakers believed that the exhibition works should be based on Hong Kong films, with at most some Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese films added, and European and American films excluded.
This is because you are afraid that European and American movies will dominate the show. But the problem is, you have excluded others, will others still pay attention to this film and television exhibition?
Only by providing benefits can European and American filmmakers be attracted to participate. Many people understand this truth, but they just selectively ignore it. They only want to seize short-term benefits.
You said you would build the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival into the world's premier film and television event in ten years? Haha, I still don't know what Hong Kong will look like in ten years, I won't think about it.
This kind of mentality is actually normal. Capital is chasing profits. How can ordinary filmmakers and investors think about such long-term considerations? This should be what the government should do.
But the problem is that there is no Film Development Council in Hong Kong today, so no one can make long-term plans for Hong Kong films!
Kang Jianfei believes that he should stand up. He hopes to build the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival into the most influential film festival in Asia. Instead of 20 years later, when everyone mentions film festivals in Asia, they can only think of the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan and Busan in South Korea.
film festival, completely forgetting the existence of the Hong Kong Film Festival.
After repeatedly expressing his stance to no avail, Kang Jianfei finally slammed the table. He said with a strong attitude that if everyone still insists on their opinions and only cares about immediate interests, then DreamWorks will withdraw from the film festival, and stars under the Oriental Entertainment Agency will not be allowed to
Attend this exhibition.
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned.
Without the participation of DreamWorks and the participation of popular stars, it would be a crappy Hong Kong Film and Television Exhibition. Not to mention that European and American film companies would not pay attention to it, even local movie fans in Hong Kong would dismiss it.
There is no other way. Everyone can only sit down and discuss again to expand the number of non-Chinese films to be exhibited. Kang Jianfei has also set up a fund to support young directors around the world. Although the money is not much, it can attract countless unappreciated talents.
of filmmakers.
Film company bosses and investors are naturally very disdainful of Kang Jianfei's approach. However, the vast majority of conscientious, far-sighted, and ambitious colleagues are supportive of Kang Jianfei's approach. Kang Jianfei's prestige in the industry has risen to an absurd level.
situation.
how to say?
They have regarded Kang Jianfei as a well-deserved leader in the Hong Kong film industry.
During this period, Kang Jianfei's phone kept ringing every day. Many directors, including Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Er Dongsheng, Xu Anhua, Xu Ke, Johnnie To, and Lam Lingdong, all expressed their support for Kang Jianfei.
The Hong Kong Film Awards Organizing Committee, Hong Kong Directors Guild, Hong Kong Film Critics Association, Film Fortnight and many other organizations have also participated one after another to discuss various details of the film and television exhibition.
The most mainstream opinion is to imitate the three major European film festivals and set up various competition and non-competition units to take into account the commercial and artistic aspects of films, among which the artistic aspect is more important.
The film company bosses, headed by Chow Wenhuai, have completely opposite opinions. They believe that the Hong Kong Film Festival should be mainly commercial, and the non-competition sections should be whatever you want, but the competition sections must leave space for commercial blockbusters.
The two sides were quarreling so much that they could not reach a consensus at all, and this could only drag on for time.
If Kang Jianfei were not involved, the film company bosses would definitely win the dispute, after all, capital is the most powerful.
The entire month of March passed in the midst of quarrels, and even the attention paid to this year's Academy Awards dropped a lot.
Kang Jianfei's "Resident Evil" has gained a lot, winning four technical awards: Best Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Music.
The real big winner is Ann Hui. "Woman 40" not only took home a Silver Bear trophy from Berlin, but also won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Film in one fell swoop.
The six awards for supporting actor almost swept this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.
By the way, "Women at 40" was also produced by DreamWorks. Not only did it get a great reputation, but it also did very well at the box office. It can be said that it brought both fame and fortune.
In addition to the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Hong Kong Film Festival, what is also worthy of attention in the Hong Kong film industry during this period is Johnnie To and Wei Jiahui co-founded "Galaxy Image". In the original time and space, this company flourished in the ten years after the decline of Hong Kong films, producing excellent films.