On April 1st, taking advantage of the music festival that increased Wang Jie's popularity, Wang Jie's third album and second Cantonese album went on sale. Its title song is the Cantonese version of "Tears of Heroes, Block My Life."
Due to its extremely high popularity and Xin Jian Department's strong sales network, Xiangjiang sold more than 35,000 copies on just the first day of sale.
Relying on this data, not only the management of Jiayi Music Company, but also the entire Jiayi Group executives were pleasantly surprised.
If nothing unexpected happens, Wang Jie will create the myth of becoming platinum in two days, which will also break his own record of becoming platinum in the shortest time last year.
On this day, "Block My Life" also topped the Hong Kong Music Chart in April, and its number of song requests was twice that of the second-ranked song "Who Ming Luang Zi Xin".
Jiayi Group's actions obviously don't stop there. Jiashi's administrative department announced that Jiashi's summer drama will be adapted from the fairy tale, starring Wang Jie as the protagonist Zhang Xiaofan, Brigitte Lin as Lu Xueqi, and Li Saifeng as Baguio.
There are also famous people such as Hua Tsai, Chen Songren, Zhong Chuhong, Zhou Xiaoyan, Ye Qianwen and so on.
This is because Jiashi has a lot of money, so it uses so many stars in one TV series. For other TV stations, considering the cost and its artists, generally a TV series only uses relatively well-known stars for the male and female protagonists, and relatively well-known stars for the main supporting roles.
Green Leaves is pretty good, and some TV dramas even directly use passers-by in order to reduce costs.
In the past, Xiangjiang was like the Heavenly Sword, and no one dared to compete with it when a martial arts drama came out.
But now times have begun to change, especially when Jiayi Group is causing trouble, and Zhu Xian has led to Xian Xia.
After everyone has watched Xianxia, when they look back at martial arts, they no longer feel that martial arts is so amazing, especially the Piaomiao Journey currently serialized in Jiayi Daily, The Road to Immortality serialized in Oriental Daily, and The Disciples of the Three Purities serialized in Sing Tao Daily
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There are various magic weapons in it, monks can move mountains and reclaim seas, and even ascend to the upper world, which makes these book fans mesmerized.
On the other hand, when I look at the martial arts serials in Ming Pao, I always feel that they are not interesting. Compared with the movements in Xianxia, which can cause mountains to collapse and the earth to fall apart, the power of the martial arts moves in martial arts is really too small.
Of course, there are also a group of hardcore martial arts fans who fiercely criticize these Xianxia films.
As the promoter of all this, Li Jianhui obviously does not care about the verbal attacks from a small number of book fans.
Because he had troubles with many martial arts masters at the beginning of his development, Jiashi has been suppressed by TVB and even ATV in TV dramas.
In order to change this situation, he specially brought Zhu Xian out, in order to break the status of martial arts in Hong Kong. So far, the effect is pretty good.
The previous Zhu Xian caused a sensation in the world, allowing all walks of life to initially understand what Xianxia is. Although this is just a romance disguised as a Xianxia, it also breaks away from the category of martial arts.
Coupled with the ongoing serialization of Miao Miao Journey, the classification of Xianxia has been initially determined.
Whether it is Oriental Daily or Sing Tao Daily, it is a good start, indicating that some authors have begun to enter this category to create, and as time goes by, a large number of excellent Xianxia will inevitably emerge.
That is to say, the computer penetration rate is still very low and the Internet speed is not very good. Otherwise, Li Jianhui would have asked Jiayi Group to build the website.
At present, this can only be a small effort, because it is a newspaper serialization, and the number of words in a work should not be too long, and it is impossible to spread a large number of works.
In this era, except for famous people, if you can't report it, it's basically a waste.
There are only so many newspapers in Xiangjiang, such as Jiayi, Oriental, Sing Tao and other major newspapers, they will only serialize one, and the other pages will be reserved for current affairs news and advertisers.
Jiayi Group, which is ready to stir up trouble, is not done yet. In addition to announcing the TV series adaptation of Zhu Xian, it also announced that the summer blockbuster will be written and directed by the director A Better Tomorrow. The film is titled Bloody Heroes, starring Wang Jie and Hua Zai, with the female lead.
Served by Ye Qianwen.
The signal revealed by Jiayi is very obvious, that is, they are going to push these people to the top and develop film, television and music. These three will be the banner of Jiayi Group in the next five or even ten years.
Even Brigitte Lin, who is quite famous in Baodao and Southeast Asia, and even Zhong Chuhong, the first Asian sister champion, cannot match the resources of the three of them.
Those two can only become actresses at best. In the music industry, without the talents of Ye Qianwen, Kuang Meiyun, Tsai Chin and others, they cannot achieve three-dimensional development.
Jiayi needs superstars who can cross over into film, television and singing to support the scene, and even to suppress ATV's Zhang Guorong and Far East's Mei Yanfang, so some resources will be tilted towards these three.
Fortunately, Jiayi has many channels and Jiayi Pictures shoots relatively many movies every year. Moreover, Jiayi Group is not the owner of the money. In addition, these three are currently focusing on the music industry, so Jiayi has enough resources for Brigitte Lin.
Jiayi announced that it didn't matter, but some film companies preparing to release it in July were panicked. They had seen the cruelty of the hero last year.
This year it is still written and directed by John Woo, and it is a movie similar to A Better Tomorrow. In addition, with the high popularity of Wang Jie, Hua Tsai, and Ye Qianwen, it will be difficult for anyone to pretend to be in this movie.
Even Jiahe, which competes with Jiayi, is considering whether to change gears, although Zou Wenhuai is confident about the box office of movies starring Jackie Chan.
But it also depends on who you meet. Wang Jie's reputation in the entertainment industry is now at its peak. The album "Block My Life" has been platinum for two days and double platinum for five days. Plus last year's hero's true nature bonus, and the blessing of the TV series "Zhu Xian", even if it is
Even a bad movie will do well at the box office.
And since Jiayi announced it in advance with great fanfare, it means that Jiayi's senior management highly approves of the script of the movie. Coupled with John Woo's directing ability, the chance of a bad movie is very slim.
In the office of Jiahe's general manager, Zou Wenhuai, who had been thinking for a long time, called the general manager of Chimelong Cinemas, hoping to help him coordinate so that Jiahe's movie would be the main screening in August.
The business is placed in July.
Unfortunately, communication is not ideal. The largest shareholder of Chimelong Cinemas is Hang Lung Group, Cheung Kong is second, Shaw Brothers is third, and Golden Harvest is only fourth.
This summer, June will feature films from Shaw Brothers and Jardine Pictures, July will feature films from Golden Harvest and Shun Tak Films, and August will feature films from Asia Pictures and Cheung Kong Films.
All parties are preparing to get a good box office in the summer. How could they go out of their way to bump into the competition in July knowing that their opponents will be fierce?
Not to mention the cooperating film companies of Chimelong Cinema and Kowloon Cinema, even here at Golden Princess Cinema, Ye Han, general manager of Haojiang Film Company, also complained that he was unlucky because he didn't draw the lottery well and was released in the same month as Jiayi.
To say that the quality of the summer movie prepared by Haojiang Film Company is not low, it is written and directed by Wang Jing. It is a gambling film and has the support of Haojiang Tourism Company. It requires scenes, scenes, and technology.
Probably Li Jianhui also understands the plot. Although this plot is completely different from the famous plot of God of Gamblers in his previous life, it is definitely an excellent work.
It's just that there are many film companies in Hong Kong now. Even within the Tung Wah Association, there are as many as ten film companies, so collisions are inevitable.
Nowadays, the main screenings of Golden Princess Cinema every month are bound to be blockbusters, and each one is carefully produced.
Even though Jiayi Pictures has a large production volume, it only gets two main release dates a year, one in the summer and one in the normal months. The Christmas and Spring Festival movies are not available to Jiayi.
It must be said that this era is the craziest era for the film industry in Hong Kong. With a population of less than 6 million, Hong Kong has 136 theaters/theaters and hundreds of film companies.
These theaters are mainly controlled by Golden Princess, Chimelong and Kowloon, which also leads to a very tight release period.
Fortunately, most theaters now adopt a multi-hall model. If, like in the 1970s, one theater only had one screen, countless movies would not be released in Hong Kong.