Dreams of the Fragrant River

Liu Lianghua was wearing a professional skirt and walking forward with a folder in hand. [;Starting] This confidante of Boss Zou, although he is almost 50 years old, the amorous feelings released by twisting his waist and swinging his hips are still enough to make the young man blush.

Pushing the door into Zou Wenhuai's office, they saw that Zou Wenhuai was discussing something with He Guanchang. When the two saw Liu Lianghua come in, they immediately stopped the discussion.

Liu Lianghua nodded at He Guanchang, pulled over a stool and sat down and said, "Brother Huai, it has been confirmed that Taiping Cinema and Queen Cinema are both properties of Kang Jianfei. In addition, he has two more theaters in Kowloon under renovation."

He Guanchang said with a smile: "Actually, it's not hard to guess. The Lu Haitong Building was changed to the Oriental Building, and the Queen's Theatre in it just joined the new era cinema chain. It can be seen from this that 90% of the Queen's Theatre may be the property of Kang Jianfei. But that What happened to the Taiping Theater?"

The two most famous luxury cinemas in Hong Kong are Lee Stage and Tai Ping Cinema. Lee Stage has been nominally part of the Shaw Brothers cinema chain for more than ten years before the closure of Tai Ping Cinema. Before the closure of Tai Ping Cinema, most of the time the Golden Harvest Cinema, such as Tai Ping Cinema, was closed. The last movie released before was produced by Jiahe and starred by the Xu brothers.

After the Taiping Theater closed, Zou Wenhuai was also working on the idea of ​​this theater at the beginning, but he was unable to get the theater owner Yuan Bifu to speak.

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang couldn't figure out how Kang Jianfei bought the Taiping Theater.

Liu Lianghua explained: "I invited Yuan Bifu out for dinner at noon. She said that the reason for selling the Taiping Theatre to Kang Jianfei was because Kang Jianfei promised to build a Hong Kong Opera Film Exhibition Hall in the future."

Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It turns out that my niece is thinking this way, no wonder she refused to sell it in the first place."

Zou Wenhuai and Yuan Bifu's father are old friends, so Yuan Bifu can be regarded as a child and nephew in front of Zou Wenhuai.

Liu Lianghua asked, "Will we go to the Academy Awards ceremony tomorrow?"

"Go, why don't you go? Let's join in the grand event." Zou Wenhuai said with a smile.

Liu Lianghua said: "But this year's Golden Image Awards was hosted by Phoenix TV, and the venue was also set up at the Taiping Theater. At a glance, I knew that Kang Jianfei was in charge."

He Guanchang shook his head and said, "The selection of the Golden Image Awards should be considered fair. Kang Jianfei can't control the more than 200 journalists and judges from several countries. Moreover, some Mr. Pan supervises, and his character is still trustworthy."

Zou Wenhuai agreed: "Yes, if you don't go, you will be timid. But you can't make Kang Jianfei too proud. Tomorrow, Ah Hua, you can attend for me, and I will not go with Chang Chang."

Liu Lianghua nodded and said, "Okay, but I'm afraid ours won't win the grand prize. Many of those journalists and judges are film critics, and they should be more inclined to the artistry of the film."

"The influence of the Academy Awards is not great, and it doesn't matter if you win or not," said Zou Wenhuai, who did not take the Hong Kong Film Awards seriously. Instead, he asked He Guanchang, "Did the Lovina tribe paint it?"

. It was a super bad movie that Luo Wei saw and re-edited the useless clips of Cheng Long, and then took it to the Golden Princess Cinemas for release.

I have to say that Cheng Long's box office appeal is still very strong. He was promoted in the name of Cheng Long starring, and the box office almost broke 1 million on the first day.

However, the audience scolded after watching it. Because the plot of this movie is wrong, especially the last fight scene, which is exactly the same as that of the year.

But even so, the film was released on the Golden Princess Cinemas for 6 days, and it actually sold 2.73 million at the box office.

He Guanchang smiled and said, "That movie was drawn yesterday, and Luo Wei has completely ruined the fame he had built up before."

Luo Wei is Liu Lianghua's ex-husband and a general under Zou Wenhuai's command. When Boss Zou got the employee's wife, it was a shameful past.

However, this matter is not too taboo within Jiahe. Mainly because Luo Wei has such a bad reputation. Not only his wife Liu Lianghua gave him a green hat, but even his son Luo Dawei worked under Zou Wenhuai. Being abandoned by his wife and son at the same time, one can imagine how bad this person's popularity is.

Speaking of her ex-husband, Liu Lianghua was not at all embarrassed, and sneered: "He still has a reputation to lose? But this time, he even used the tricks of refurbishing old films. It seems that his savings have been squandered, and he only cares about cheating money to survive. "

"Luo Wei is not worth mentioning, but Kang Jianfei's **** is really a masterpiece." Zou Wenhuai smiled, "I asked Mr. Ryder from 20th Century Fox, and what the newspaper said was actually true. A film that took 11 days to produce and invested less than $3 million sold 180 million at the box office in North America alone, and sold tens of millions of copyrights, and Kang Jianfei earned at least over $100 million."

Not to mention the strength of the family, just in terms of personal wealth, over 100 million US dollars can already rank among the top 30 richest people in Hong Kong. Although Zou Wenhuai is a movie tycoon, but he focuses on making movies, and his personal net worth at this time is only more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Liu Lianghua stunned and said, "No wonder he bought a house, land and theaters with great fanfare. It seems that he has no shortage of funds at all."

He Guanchang analyzed: "Now the entire Hong Kong film industry, Shaw Brothers is declining and dying, and maybe it will stop production one day; Xinyi City is more than enterprising, but its foundation is insufficient, as long as there is internal chaos; There is a big move, starting to integrate the talent resources of TV stations, film companies and record companies, and there is another theater chain to back it up, and it will be full of wings in a year or two at most, and it will definitely become the leader of the Hong Kong film and television industry."

The smile on Zou Wenhuai's face also disappeared. He was also paying attention to the major changes in Kang Jianfei's industries during this time, and realized that Kang Jianfei was simultaneously pursuing the separation of production and broadcasting and the reform of the entertainment brokerage system. Once Kang Jianfei's reform is successful, the energy formed by several companies is enough to look down on Xiangjiang, but he, Zou Wenhuai, can only watch.

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Zou Wenhuai can still sit on Diaoyutai to watch the play, but the situation of Shao Yifu's film company and theater company is getting worse.

In the parallel space, when Hong Kong movies were at their most prosperous, there were five large cinema chains in Hong Kong. However, the more theater chains, the better, because the Hong Kong market is too narrow, and the more theater chains there are, the more film sources are needed to support them. Under the influence of supply and demand, there will be a large number of bad films that are rushed out to meet the film source demand of several theaters. Only then did Zheng Yuling take on nine plays at the same time. The story of "Zheng Jiu Group" running back and forth between the nine crews.

And once a bad movie becomes a disaster, and you can make money by shooting just one movie, the creative atmosphere of the film industry will change. Blindly following the trend and indiscriminate production consumes a large amount of film and television resources, seriously destroying the creative enthusiasm of film workers, plus various overseas investments, many people have the mentality of making bad films and just grabbing a handful of them, which in turn makes Hong Kong films as a whole. The quality is seriously degraded.

There were two super boom periods for Hong Kong films. The first period of prosperity was in the 1960s. At that time, Taiwanese films had not yet risen, and the mainland was still in the midst of a blockade. Hong Kong films became the well-deserved overlord of the entire East Asia. But then the Cold War intensified. Nanyang has become the hardest hit area for cultural anti-communism, and Indonesia's exclusion of Chinese is only the most intense manifestation. Even Malaysia and Singapore are rejecting Chinese culture.

Hong Kong films are also Chinese-language films. Under the impact, countless film companies went bankrupt within a few years, and the number of cinemas in Hong Kong dropped by half rapidly, and was then surpassed by Taiwanese films.

The second boom period for Hong Kong films was the 1980s, commonly known as the "Golden Decade" in the industry. The Hong Kong films in this decade are commercial, entertaining, and artistic. It is not lost to Hollywood movies, and in this decade, the creative enthusiasm of filmmakers is also the highest.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, it took an average of 40 days to make a comedy, which was absolutely meticulous. In the shoddy 1990s, a Hong Kong comedy could be made in 10 days.

When five cinema chains appeared in Hong Kong, many insightful people were calling for fewer cinema chains and more emphasis on film quality. Who cares about these under the pursuit of profit?

(The emergence of five cinema chains in Hong Kong was the result of the market’s pursuit of profit, which later led to the decline of Hong Kong films. The major cinema chains lost money and closed down, which is also a full manifestation of the principle of market leverage.)

The increase in the number of theaters will not only lead to a decline in the overall quality of Hong Kong films, but also a more direct consequence of diluting the number of moviegoers in each theater, which will greatly reduce the average income of each theater.

At the beginning of the "Golden Decade" of Hong Kong films, Kang Jianfei created a new era theater chain, which made Hong Kong's four theater chains, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Golden Princess and New Era, stand side by side—the leftist Yindu Cinemas Please ignore it automatically.

The New Era Cinemas had little impact when it was first established, but it has been half a year since its establishment. Especially after several of the movies it released were popular, the evil consequences of the simultaneous existence of four large cinemas were immediately apparent.

After the Spring Festival, the number of viewers in Shaw's cinemas, which lacked the attractiveness of the film, plummeted due to the fact that the audience was separated by several cinema chains, and the losses were unbearable.

Under the circumstance that the release of the film is not strong, Shao Yifu's remedy is useless.

High hopes were only released for two days before the film was released. UU reading www.uukanshu.com, coupled with the serious loss of Shaw's theater chain, made Shao Yifu finally have the idea of ​​​​stopping Shaw's production. The birth of this idea is more than the original time and space A full two years ahead of schedule.

Unlike Shao Yifu, who is struggling, Hong Kong's film industry is booming like a blowout. A new film company opens almost every few days, and various films of good and bad are produced like an industrial assembly line.

Not to mention the quality of these films, just in terms of the number of films produced, Hong Kong films at this time are at least comparable to the original time and space in 1986. The reason is that, first, the major theater chains have successively cancelled the sub-subscription system, reducing the risk of independent film production companies; The demand for film sources brought by the cinema has stimulated the surge in Hong Kong film production from the market supply and demand relationship.

No one is worried about this. All Hong Kong filmmakers only regard this as a sign of the rise of Hong Kong films. The media even cheered, saying that Hong Kong has become a veritable Hollywood of the East.

When Kang Jianfei returned to Hong Kong, he was surprised to see the number of films released in major theaters in early March. Even as a traveler, Kang Jianfei couldn't judge whether this change was good or bad.