Zhang Xueyou, a contracted artist under Youlian, played the role of the supporting actor "Crowfly" in "Carmen Mongkok" just like in his previous life.
With his outstanding performance in this film, Cheung Suet-you won the Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards held at the beginning of this year.
This is also the first time he has won a film award as an actor. As a singer, his status has been recognized by the public and is on the front line, second only to Tan, Zhang and Xu, the super kings of the Hong Kong music scene.
Influenced by "Autumn Fairy Tale" in 1987, a large number of literary and drama films emerged in Hong Kong last year. Although they were filled with a large number of shoddy follow-up films, there were also some excellent ones, such as "Rouge Button" and "Seven Little Fortunes"
and "Carmen in Mong Kok".
Therefore, at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards held this year, for the first time, the award-winning professional actor was not nominated for Best Actor.
Although "God of Gamblers" won the annual box office championship, Fa Ge's acting skills were also fully demonstrated in this film. Unfortunately, the subject matter of this movie should not be overexaggerated, especially there are many classic literary films in this year, so Fa Ge
It is also reasonable for him to lose the election.
Leslie Cheung was nominated for Best Actor for his outstanding performance in the movie "Rouge", but unfortunately he lost to Sammo Hung's "Seven Little Fortunes".
It is a pity for Yam Kuei. The copyright of "The Last Emperor" is not in the hands of Youlian. Therefore, although this film has the capital of Xiangjiang, it is not a film produced by Xiangjiang. Therefore, Yam Kuei is not qualified to be shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
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Otherwise, as the winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, even if he does not win the Academy Award for Best Actor, he will definitely not be able to get at least one nomination for Best Actor.
Throughout 1988, You Lian participated in not many projects. Although it gained a lot at the box office and word of mouth, in the selection of the Academy Awards, only Cheung Suet-you won. (Leslie Cheung participated in "Rouge Button" in his personal capacity.
, not considered a Youlian project.)
However, this rather embarrassing situation will be improved this year.
Not long after the winter vacation, "A Lang's Story" co-starring Fa Ge and Hong Gu was released in Hong Kong.
This movie aroused unanimous praise from moviegoers when it organized a test screening. Many viewers and film critics walked out of the theater with tears in their eyes.
The songs "The Way You Look", "Alang's Love Song" and "Love Song 1990" still appear in the film, and Luo Dayou serves as the film's soundtrack.
He now also has another identity, that is, the deputy music director of the "Xiaoluohao" music studio in the Star Gas Station project. The director is naturally Uncle Zhan.
Luo Dayou received the invitation from Uncle Zhan last year and came to Xiangjiang from Wanwan. He signed a formal contract with the "Xiaoluohao" music studio.
According to history, he should have come to Xiangjiang in 1990 and opened a music studio "Music Factory" with his friends. However, now that he has been recruited by "Xiaoluohao" in advance, he does not know what impact it will have on him in the future.
The "Xiaoluohao" music studio was upgraded from a standard recording studio after discussions between Uncle Zhan, Gu Jiahui, Leslie Cheung and others.
The total investment has doubled from the original planned five million US dollars to 10 million US dollars. This investment does not include venue costs. The space required for the studio is provided free of charge by the Star Gas Station Project.
The position of manager of the studio is held by Feng Lina, one of the investors in this project. Her US$2 million entrepreneurial fund received 20% of the studio's shares, plus 5% of the position dividend rights.
Leslie Cheung also invested US$1 million and received 10% of the shares. Gu Jiahui, as a good friend of Uncle Zhan, had been helping Uncle Zhan with the preparatory work in the early stage. He was relatively optimistic about this project and also invested US$500,000 and received 5% of the shares.
Uncle Zhan is not financially well-off now, so he did not participate in the investment. However, Sun Dahai certainly would not treat him badly and directly offered him an annual salary of 800,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus business commissions. He also paid out of his own pocket and gave him an additional 5% of the shares. , and 5% job bonus.
The treatment given to Luo Dayou by the studio is also good, with an annual salary of HK$500,000, business commission, and 3% job bonus.
This kind of salary should be considered extremely high, but Sun Dahai doesn't know how long "Xiaoluohao" Music Studio can keep Luo Dayou.
People who engage in art will have their own pursuits. To outsiders, they may even seem a little paranoid and irrational, but without these, they would not be able to create so many masterpieces. To treat them, we can only let nature take its course.
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"Alang's Story" is a feature film, so Youlian did not choose a release date among several major schedules, and chose to release it in March.
However, at this time when the film market was deserted and the box office was bleak, "A Lang's Story" became a blockbuster, raking in 41 million Hong Kong dollars in box office during its 45-day release period.
This box office result even surpassed last year's "God of Gamblers" and was only HK$200,000 behind "A Better Tomorrow", ranking second on the Hong Kong movie box office list.
The film also broke the local box office record of HK$35 million for a Hong Kong literary film set by "Autumn Fairy Tale".
As a result, there are currently three films in the Hong Kong film industry with a box office of over HK$40 million, all produced by Youlian, and all of which have Fa Ge as the leading actor.
In fact, Hong Gu also appeared in these three movies. But the role she played in "A Better Tomorrow" cannot really be regarded as a heroine.
However, although "Alang's Story" is very popular in Asia, it has received a mediocre response in the European and North American markets. It is difficult for European and American audiences to understand the fetters of family ties between the characters in the film.
Therefore, the overseas sales performance of "Alang's Story" can only be regarded as acceptable, but it lags behind "Autumn Fairy Tale".
However, this film has been recommended by China Film Co-Production Company and has been designated as one of the outstanding foreign films introduced to the mainland this year. It will be released in the mainland in August this year.
In accordance with national regulations, Huaxia Film Company bought out the screening rights and spent 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to introduce "Alang's Story" to the mainland.
Sun Dahai was not embarrassed to ask for this money, so he took another 300,000 Hong Kong dollars out of his own pocket, for a total of 600,000, and borrowed the name of Youlian to apply to the three major domestic film and television universities, Zhongxi Drama, Nortel and Shanghai Drama. Sponsored.
After the sample film of "Alang's Story" was produced, Sun Dahai arranged for someone to send it to the capital and invited Ying Lao to watch it in advance.
Ying Lao liked this movie very much, so he directly recommended it to the relevant departments. This can be regarded as Ying Lao's gratitude to Youlian.
Because the film "Qin Terracotta Warriors" co-produced by the two places has been renamed "The Love of the Qin Terracotta Warriors in Ancient and Modern Times". After more than half a year of post-production, it will be released today, May 1, 1989, in mainland China and Hong Kong.