The Hong Kong film market performed very well at the end of 1995 and the beginning of 1996, but after the Spring Festival holiday, the film off-season situation in March, April and May made practitioners very worried.
Except for Ang Lee's "Horse Race" which broke out in June, the Hong Kong films in the past few months are pretty good such as "Tiger Door" and "The King of Adventures". As for other normal films, none of them even had a box office of over 8 million. It's not normal.
One of his movies has sold more than 8 million yuan, and that is the top-notch film "Futon" produced by Wang Jing and directed by Qian Wenqi.
Well, Shu Qi finally made her official debut, and she became so popular that she released a full set of photos.
I heard that Ni Jiam likes it very much. Not only did he buy a complete set of photos of Shu Qi, but he also collected the movie video tape, VCD, and DVD of "Futon". This is the rhythm of a die-hard fan.
In the summer season, "big productions" with star-studded productions seem to be unable to impress the audience.
"Golden Leaves" starring Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Yuen Wing-yee, Carina Lau, Stephen Chow, Cheung Daming, Chen Xiaochun, Eric Tsang, Li Qihong and other stars was heavily promoted, but the box office was only 0.91 million.
The producer of this film is UFO. Although it topped the box office for two weeks in a row during the summer season, it unfortunately had too many stars and too much investment to recoup the production costs, so it could only rely on overseas box office.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to see results at the overseas box office in the short term. UFO, which was famous two years ago, suffered serious losses for three consecutive films, and investors also lost confidence in it. As the bosses, Eric Tsang, Peter Chan and Zhong Zhen, the group was prosperous back then.
The creative soul of UFO began to gradually extinguish. Although UFO has not officially announced its disbandment, it is no longer possible to continue making films in the short term.
Eric Tsang and Peter Chan want to return to Oriental DreamWorks, but unfortunately, Hong Kong is in short supply of film professionals. The competition within DreamWorks is so fierce that there is no place for them, so they can only make a living by taking on small-budget films here and there.
In the end, they came up with an idea to use Teresa Teng's death last year as a selling point and wrote a script called "Sweet Honey", which finally attracted investment from Jiahe. However, although the production team of this film came from UFO, the film
The copyright can only belong to Golden Harvest, and Eric Tsang and Peter Chan are completely reduced to wage earners.
Also suffering from bad luck is Wong Pak-ming, a once influential figure in Hong Kong films. In recent years, he has been doing nothing, and the company has continued to suffer losses. The Metro Cinemas he co-founded, after the summer movie was released on the street,
It finally announced its dissolution (several of its major cinemas were merged into Xinbao Cinemas), and Huang Baiming's Metropolis Films also announced its bankruptcy.
Movie boss Huang Baiming has died, leaving only screenwriter Huang Baiming and actor Huang Baiming.
At the same time, the disbandment of Metro Cinemas marked the entry of a cold winter for the Hong Kong cinema industry, and then the New Generation Cinemas (formerly Wing Ko Cinemas) also disappeared silently.
As a result, there are only four theater chains in Hong Kong, namely Golden Harvest, Sun Treasure, Golden Sing and Oriental. Among them, Golden Harvest Cinema is owned by Chow Wenhuai, Oriental Cinema is owned by Kang Jianfei, and Xinbao and Golden Sing Cinema are both controlled by Chen Rongmei.
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After the summer vacation, because the theater business was really not doing well, Chen Rongmei had to make adjustments. He merged Jinsheng into Xinbao and eliminated redundant small theaters to reverse the loss-making business situation.
Now the three pillars have finally emerged, and the only three cinema chain companies in Hong Kong are Golden Harvest, Xinbao and Oriental.
The bleak situation in the theater industry has made Hong Kong filmmakers very pessimistic. This is a return to its original rhythm, and the Hong Kong film industry has basically regressed back to 15 years ago.
Hong Kong will return to China next year, and the Xiang brothers are starting to look for a way out.
This year's summer release, Yongsheng and DreamWorks jointly invested in a movie "New Shanghai Beach", starring in addition to Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau, the newly popular mainland actor Ning Jing was also specially invited.
Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng planned to gradually move closer to the central government, and even deliberately weakened Yongsheng Film Company and focused on the "China Star Group".
Chinese star, Chinese heart...the meaning is self-evident, and it has been publicly expressed.
China Star Group was listed in the summer of this year, becoming the second Hong Kong film group to go public after Golden Harvest. It owns the copyright of all the works of Yongsheng Company.
It has to be said that the Xiang brothers made a good move. When Hong Kong returns next year, the stock prices of many companies, including Jiahe, plummeted, but China Star's stock soared, rising from 8 yuan to 06 yuan in one month, an increase of 151.85 yuan.
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This is the advantage of pretending to be a grandson.
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Just as the Hong Kong film industry is about to enter a cold winter, real estate prodigy Luo Siu-fai is also facing a career cold winter.
Dongfanghong Group is holding an extraordinary board meeting.
Since this group is called Dongfanghong, it must be pro-mainland.
Because it has no choice but to be close, Dongfanghong’s main business is Chinese medicinal materials, including Chinese patent medicines and Chinese herbal medicines, which require large quantities of purchases from the mainland every year.
Luo Zhaohui made his fortune through real estate speculation. Under Liu's guidance, he entered the stock market and became a billionaire. He also knew that opportunism was not a long-term solution, so he maliciously acquired the Dongfanghong Group two years ago and became the helmsman of the group.
Started to develop into the industrial field.
Nowadays, more than half of Luo Zhaohui's property is invested in Dongfanghong Group, which has become the foundation of his career.
Dongfanghong has been in trouble recently. Two consecutive batches of medicinal materials were detained when leaving customs in the mainland. It was said that some prohibited items were found.
"What do the people below do for a living! Is a trivial matter worth convening a board meeting?" Luo Zhaohui had reason to be angry. He had just made a small profit in the stock market and was celebrating on a yacht with his new celebrity girlfriend Sun Jiajun.
There were three other female stars who went to sea on the yacht together. Luo Zhaohui was playing a crazy 5P battle at sea. He swallowed two blue pills in a row and couldn't let it out for five or six hours.
But at this moment, the secretary made more than ten calls in a row, asking him to return to the company to attend the extraordinary board meeting. Until Luo Zhaohui came to the conference room, his lower body was still so hard that it ached.
A shareholder said: "I went to the mainland a few days ago and found out clearly. The group's medicinal materials were detained this time because a certain shareholder offended someone, and poison was maliciously hidden in the medicinal materials."
"Who has offended someone? Go and solve it for me as soon as possible!" Luo Zhaohui said, patting the table.
The other shareholders and director representatives seemed to have been relieved in advance. At this moment, they all looked at Luo Zhaohui with a sneer. Although no one spoke, the situation was self-evident.
"Have I offended someone?" Luo Zhaohui said amusedly.
The previous shareholder said: "When I invited my mainland friend to dinner, he only revealed one word."
"What word?" Luo Zhaohui asked.
"Kang." said the shareholder.
"Kang Jianfei?" Luo Zhaohui understood instantly and became angry, "I didn't succeed in grabbing his mother, so why should I be so cruel?"
Under the pressure of other board members, Luo Zhaohui called Weng Hong several times, saying that he wanted to treat Mr. Kang Jianfei to dinner, but the other party always told him in a good manner: Sorry, Mr. Kang is not available!
The next morning, the Hong Kong Financial Daily published a headline: Dongfanghong Group was suspected of drug trafficking, and two batches of medicinal materials had been detained indefinitely.
When the news came out, the share price of Dongfanghong Group plummeted, and Luo Zhaohui's net worth shrank by one-eighth in two hours. (To be continued)
