Zeng Zhiwei, general manager of Jiayi Film Company, made a brief speech at the screening ceremony and gave a brief introduction to the film.
This time, in addition to Miao Qiaowei, the leading male lead is Japanese actor Yasuaki Aota, the female lead is played by Brigitte Lin, and the second female lead is played by American actress Catherine Bach.
The character actors in it are also quite gorgeous, Andy Lau, Wang Jie, Ip Sin Wen, and Chung Chu Hong are all included in it, and Jing Daiyin, Chen Miner, Tang Zhenye, and Liu Rensong also make guest appearances.
It is only because of Jiayi Group's deep financial resources and its large number of artists that it is possible for a movie to feature so many elites.
Especially Jing Daiyin and others, in the past two years, they have become well-known stars in Hong Kong.
The reason why Yasuaki Aota and Catherine Bach played the second male and female roles in the film was mainly for the Japanese market and the American market. With these two actors in the film, they will be more popular in the markets of these two markets than an all-Chinese cast.
As the lights of the Ritz Theater went out, the movie officially started. As the name suggests, although the movie cannot be said to fly, the speed is far faster than that of ordinary experienced drivers.
The main plot of this movie is similar to that of the movie in the previous life. Li Jianhui watched it because of the game, but in the previous life it was called Need for Speed. In this movie, it was changed to highlight the speed.
Although this movie is far from comparable to Fast and Furious, it is not twenty or thirty years later that Fast and Furious has not yet been released. There is a high probability that a movie like this will not hit the streets.
After all, the current audience has not seen many movies with similar plots, and investment as big as Li Jianhui's is rare. The scene is enough to attract a lot of viewers.
Especially since it happens to be the summer vacation for the student party, I believe these people will give Jiayi a huge surprise.
Because the main plot was given by Li Jianhui and he had seen it in his previous life, this movie did not have much appeal to him.
A 100-minute movie is a bit long for Li Jianhui and Guan Jiahui, after all, their minds are not on the movie.
But for most people, time passes too fast and it is over before they know it.
The biggest feeling the movie gave them was the roar of the car engine and the almost extreme speed.
The plot has been well-executed by Jiayi's screenwriter team. Judging from the faces of those present, Li Jianhui felt that this movie would most likely become Jiayi Film Company's first film to enter the European and American markets.
The total box office may also break through the highest record in the history of Hong Kong movies, and will significantly increase this record.
Lei Juekun on the side sighed: "Jianhui, it seems that the box office champion in Hong Kong this year is none other than Jiayi Film Company. Although Xinyi City also spent nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars on a movie, it also
You can only go around the Asian market.”
After watching this movie, Lei Juekun knew that Li Jianhui was aiming for the European and American markets. This can be seen from the subject matter of the movie. Compared with the current era of Kung Fu movies and comedies in Hong Kong, this is definitely an outlier.
Moreover, this type of movies are also more acceptable to the European and American markets, and are easier to break into the European and American markets than kung fu movies and Hong Kong-style comedies.
Li Jianhui said with a smile: "The results are hard to say at the moment. Whether it will be recognized by audiences everywhere is still unknown.
Moreover, there are rumors from Jiahe that Jackie Chan will be the protagonist and they will invest in a movie suitable for the American market. It will not be easy to win the box office championship of Hong Kong movies."
Although he was confident about the movie, he did not let his confidence go to his head. After all, Jiahe had the trump card of Jackie Chan, who was definitely the best Chinese movie star in Hollywood in his previous life.
If Jiahe is willing to spend a lot of money to create a movie suitable for him, it is really possible to suppress Jiayi's Need for Speed.
"The era of kung fu dramas in Xiangjiang has passed, and the next Bruce Lee will not appear in Xiangjiang. It is just wishful thinking of Zou Wenhuai to try to create another Bruce Lee.
Nowadays, there are many film companies in Hong Kong and their capital is quite strong. If we want to take the lead, I think we should learn from your Jiayi Film Company, increase the cost investment, carry out large-scale productions, and at the same time study the preferences of local markets so that the film can go out of Hong Kong.
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Because of Li Jianhui, the prosperity of the Xiangjiang film industry has arrived early, and because several major consortiums have intervened in it, its strength has become stronger.
This has also led to a very high production volume of Hong Kong movies, with nearly twenty movies being released in just over a month, which is quite terrifying.
You must know that during the Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers competition in the 1970s, only about five movies were released a month.
In the past, the entire theater run of a Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest movie usually lasted more than 20 days, and sometimes it lasted more than 30 days.
Nowadays, the competition pressure is quite high, and many movies may start to reduce the number of screenings after five days of release.
The current film industry in Hong Kong is similar to that of retail supermarkets in the past. The top films are supported by consortiums and families, and they don't care about losses at all.
But this is a hardship for those small and medium-sized film companies in the past. Facing Jiayi, New Art City, Yongsheng, Shaw Brothers, Jiahe, Xinhui, Sanhe, Asia, Yongxin, Far East, Kowloon, etc., they simply did not have the capital to compete with them.
compete.
Behind these are either consortiums or associations, which need money and people. The theater chains belong to several major consortiums, and the external distribution channels are also in the hands of several major leading companies.
It is impossible for small and medium-sized film companies like them to make money from overseas markets. Their films basically have no chance of being released overseas.
As time goes by, they either choose to leave the industry or become affiliated with these leading film companies.
Nowadays, Xiangjiang movie fans have developed an appetite for movies produced by major film and television companies, and they are not willing to watch some small-scale movies without much innovation.
In order to cope with this change, Jiayi Group established a new special effects company, while also reducing the number of products produced and working hard on quality.
However, the competition among major film and television companies is competition, and they are relatively restrained in terms of star box office. Although it has increased a bit this year, the increase is not very large.
When everyone increases production costs, they mainly use the funds to improve the quality of the film, rather than piling up stars and using special effects for 50 cents.
All parties have reached a consensus in this regard, and no one is willing to dig holes for others and bury themselves at the same time.
This also leads to the fact that the artists of major groups mainly train themselves, and generally do not poach each other with high salaries.
Of course, this is the tacit understanding between the leading companies. These companies are not polite at all to the small and medium-sized film companies. From directors to behind-the-scenes producers, as long as they have good capabilities, they will be poached by all parties.
While increasing its own strength, it also attacked these small and medium-sized film companies and forced them to withdraw from the industry, thereby achieving the goal of the leading companies monopolizing the Hong Kong film market.