Dreams of the Fragrant River

The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month is a full week before the release of "Fu Xing Gao Zhao". {starter}

Seeing that it will be New Year's Eve in two days, the movie theater in the Peninsula Hotel is very lively. Many celebrities come here to have afternoon tea with friends and friends, and then find a place to play mahjong.

During such a big holiday, if there is no reservation, there is no seat at the Peninsula Cafe.

Zou Wenhuai drank tea and glanced into the distance, where Shao Yifu was drinking tea and chatting with his old friend Qiu Degen, and Fang Yihua, the actual controller of TVB, was also accompanying him, interjecting from time to time to create atmosphere.

"The box office of "The Gambler" broke 15 million, right?" Zou Wenhuai looked back and asked himself He Guanchang at this table.

He Guanchang nodded: "It seems that it broke 15 million the day before yesterday. According to this momentum, the box office of "God of Gamblers" must have exceeded 30 million."

Liu Lianghua said unhappily, "Breaking 30 million yuan again, this Kang Jianfei can't be beaten to death. He is still alive and kicking after being banned by Taiwan."

After entering the 1980s, the standard for Hong Kong blockbusters is that the box office exceeds 10 million, and at least 20 million or more can be called a box office blockbuster. As for the magic films with a box office of more than 30 million, it has not exceeded 5 in a few years, and Kang Jianfei has directed half of them.

"The Gambler" was released on the 19th Friday of the twelfth lunar month, while Golden Harvest's "Fu Xing Gaozhao" was two days later because it was released on the 21st of the twelfth lunar month due to the rescheduled schedule. As for Xinyicheng's "Gong Xi Fa Cai", it was placed in the middle of the two films, that is, it premiered on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month.

After the nonsensical craze of "Love Saint" in the summer, many film companies, including Jiahe, followed suit, but the audience seemed to identify with Zhou Xingchi, and did not like other nonsensical comedy films.

Kang Jianfei then asked Zhou Xingchi to film "The Gambler", which can be said to comply with the eager request of the vast Hong Kong audience. This film, which broke the Hong Kong box office record in another time and space, collected 2.47 million at the box office on its first day of release, and reached as much as 14 million in a week.

Now "The Gambler" has been released on the tenth day. Although the box office statistics of the last two days have not been released, the box office has at least 17 million.

And Jiahe's "Fu Xing Gao Zhao" starring Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao has just been released for a week. The box office revenue was 12.76 million, nearly 2 million less than the box office of "The Gambler" in the first week.

As for Xinyicheng's "Gong Xi Fa Cai", this film is seriously boring in terms of plot sounds and laughs, but fortunately, some of the bridges are well designed, and fans and movie fans of Alan Tam and Lin Zixiang bought it, plus Shi Tian The comedy appeal of the film also sold 7.32 million at the box office within eight days of its release.

Whether in the last time and space, or now, "Gong Xi Fa Cai" is a watershed in Xinyi City's rise and fall.

The core creative team of Art City, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng have long since left. Cooperated with DreamWorks to set up a film studio; then Zhang Aijia left and returned to Taiwan. Some time ago, he helped Jiahe in the filming; Teddy Robin also had conflicts with Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming recently. Teddy Robin did not participate in the production of this "Gong Xi Fa Cai", and it is estimated that he will leave Xinyi City soon.

The former core creative team now has only three bosses, Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming. The three of them were not monolithic, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming felt that Mecca had too many shares. Multiple requests to redistribute the company's equity were ruthlessly rejected by Mecca. If it wasn't for the common interests between them, I'm afraid Xinyi City would have been separated.

Moreover, the mentality of the three bosses of Xinyicheng has already changed. When they first started their business, they were ambitious and passionate, and they often worked all night to discuss the plot.

But what about now?

There is a computer in Mecca's office, and his daily energy is not used to create movies, but to study the Hong Kong stock market. Since last September, the Hong Kong stock market has been rising, and all of Mecca has continued to be invested in the stock market. Now that he makes far more money buying stocks than he makes movies, why would he still focus on film creation?

Shi Tian was in a similar situation to Mecca, but he was not speculating in stocks but buildings. Last year, the news that Kang Jianfei made hundreds of millions by speculating in real estate was exposed. Shi Tian's eyes were red with envy. Even when he was filming "Gong Xi Fa Cai", he kept a pile of real estate books at all times.

Huang Baiming is not as vulgar as the previous two. However, this eldest brother doesn't want to be so tired after he has money. He has been traveling abroad some time ago. It is estimated that he will come back to continue filming after spending almost all the money.

"Gong Xi Fa Cai" was filmed under this circumstance. There was not much thought from Hua Shitian at all. It was able to get a box office of more than 7 million in 8 days, which was purely supported by a few star actors.

"Art City is not worth mentioning, DreamWorks is the most powerful opponent." He Guanchang sighed.

Zou Wenhuai nodded and said, "It would be good if Xinyicheng can last another three years without breaking up. At that time, the landscape of Hong Kong's film industry will change drastically."

He Guanchang and Zou Wenhuai are not immortals. The reason why they dare to conclude that Xinyicheng cannot last for a long time is very simple. The people behind the scenes of Xinyicheng's recent movies will know it.

In the past, the best-selling films of Xinyicheng basically participated in Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​Huang Baiming, Teddy Robin, Zhang Aijia, Xu Ke, etc., but now each film can only appear one or two, basically Above is each do their own thing.

In another time and space, Xinyicheng after 1985 has no good films. Fortunately, directors such as Gao Zhisen, Yu Rentai, and McDonald's joined and supported it, and it continued to close in the 1990s.

As for good films such as "The True Color of Heroes", "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Knife Horse", although they are marked as produced by Xinyicheng, they are all works of Xu Ke Film Studio, but the film studio belongs to Xinyicheng That's it.

Now Yu Rentai and McDonnell are both in DreamWorks, Gao Zhisen's famous work "Happy Ghost" has long been filmed by Kang Jianfei, and even Xu Ke's studio is under the name of DreamWorks, Mecca, Shi Tian, ​​Huang Baiming Without the passion and ambition of starting a business, it is really hard to say whether Xinyi City can last for three years.

Seeing Zou Wenhuai sighing there, Liu Lianghua comforted: "Our "Fu Xing Gao Zhao" is not bad, and the box office in the first week is about 1 million lower than "The Gambler"."

"That's not what I'm worried about," Zou Wenhuai's turbid eyes showed a wise light, he looked at Shao Yifu who was leaving the checkout in the distance, and said, "Now some people call Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingchi 'double weeks' together. ."

He Guanchang's face also became serious, because he already understood what Zou Wenhuai was worried about.

At the beginning, Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and Liang Feng separated from Shaw Brothers to form Golden Harvest. In fact, it was not smooth at the beginning. It was only with the appearance of Bruce Lee that Golden Harvest developed smoothly. Without Bruce Lee. It is very likely that Golden Harvest went bankrupt in the early 1970s. It can be said that one Bruce Lee supported the entire Golden Harvest, and the independent account sharing model that Golden Harvest relied on to grow and is still in practice was originally designed for Bruce Lee.

After Bruce Lee died, Golden Harvest signed the Xu brothers, and now Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao. Anyway, in each period, Jiahe has its own pillar stars. These stars are the main source of the box office of Jiahe, and they are also the fundamental reason why Jiahe can grow step by step.

Although there are Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong in DreamWorks, female stars are not the mainstream of Hong Kong movies after all, and the real signature stars still need male stars.

There was only one Zhou Runfa before DreamWorks. Now it has been supported by Kang Jianfei's two films. Zhou Xingchi has lifted off like a rocket. In the future, DreamWorks will definitely focus on "biweekly" for film creation.

"Zhou Runfa can't dig it, is it possible to dig Zhou Xingchi?" He Guanchang asked suddenly.

Liu Lianghua shook her head and said, "Zhou Xingchi's ten years will expire in about nine years, and the liquidated damages plus the money given to Zhou Xingchi, at least 15 million must be prepared."

He Guanchang smiled and said: "With the potential of Zhou Xingchi. If it can be dug up, 15 million is also worth it."

Six years ago, Golden Harvest paid Cheng Long 5 million. At that time, the average ticket price of a Hong Kong movie was only 7 yuan. Today, the ticket price has become 17 yuan, and the average box office of the movie has more than tripled. According to this standard, 15 million yuan to mine Zhou Xingchi is actually similar to the price of Chenglong that was dug back then.

Please note that He Guanchang said "with Zhou Xingchi's potential", not "with Zhou Xingchi's current fame". Jiahe was desperate to excavate Cheng Long. It was because at that time that kung fu films began to decline, and Cheng Long's humorous kung fu films were unique.

The same is true of Zhou Xingchi now. Hong Kong audiences only recognize Zhou Xingchi's nonsensical comedy. If this style of comedy can continue to sell well, then Zhou Xingchi's value will not lose at all to Cheng Long.

This is the viciousness of Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang's eyes. Other investors and directors only saw Zhou Xingchi's fame, while Zou and He looked at their potential for cultivation and development.

"Let Yongchang talk, he has a good eloquence." Zou Wenhuai thought for a while and said.

Cheng Long was dug up by Cai Yongchang, and Zou Wenhuai wanted to repeat the old trick on Zhou Xingchi.

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While Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were discussing poaching, Pan Disheng and Cen Jianxun were also discussing the same thing.

Pan Disheng just sent Yang Ziqiong to the airport, and when he came back, he invited Cen Jianxun to his house to discuss the company's development plan. Pan Disheng originally founded Debao Film Company, and the main purpose was to promote his jewelry brand, but the big sale of his entrepreneurial work "The Owl and Dumbo" at the Christmas stall gave Pan Disheng his first taste of making movies The sweetness, there is a feeling that one can't take it.

"Ah Xun, Hong Jinbao is busy with his own Baohe, and has been unable to spare time to make a film for Debao~www.wuxiaspot.com~ What do you think we should do now?" Pan Disheng is still a film amateur. , everything has to be decided by Cen Jianxun, he is only responsible for paying the money.

In fact, before "The Owl and Dumbo" was released, Cen Jianxun asked director Liang Puzhi, and invited Zhou Runfa, Ye Tong, and Wan Ziyi to star in the film, preparing to make a realistic movie "Waiting for Dawn".

As a result, "Waiting for Dawn" had just been filmed for a week when the Taiwan authorities suddenly announced that Kang Jianfei and his company would be banned. Among the three protagonists, Zhou Runfa and Wan Ziyi were affected by Chiyu, and "Waiting for Dawn" had to be put on hold indefinitely. Pan Disheng didn't want to be labeled as a leftist because of a movie.

Cen Jianxun did not answer what he should do next, but instead asked: "Mr. Pan, do you want to make a movie and get a few tickets and leave, or do you plan to do movies as a career?"

Pan Disheng asked in surprise, "Is there a difference?"

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I went out again today, but Wugeng promises that it will not change. Seeing how much Pharaoh's cramping hand can code, it will be passed on in the middle of the night.