Dreams of the Fragrant River

On the Taiwan side, because of the death of Xiao Jiang's "President", it has been messed up for a month, and the successor Li who has been appointed long ago has stabilized the situation. At this time, the first batch of Taiwanese veterans who returned to the mainland had also departed to Hong Kong to fly to the mainland, opening an open civil exchange between the two sides of the strait.

In order to win the support of more people, Taiwan's "new president" Li Xun chose to further open up politically. The ban on Kang Jianfei by Taiwan's "Information Bureau" was finally loosened in essence. The day before the Golden Globe Awards were awarded in the United States, Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia flew to Taipei.

"Rain Man" won four Golden Globe nominations in total, and finally won two awards for best actor and best picture, and then won eight Oscar nominations.

In order to win an Oscar, it is impossible to wait, you have to get the judges to have a good impression of your film in advance. In the 1980s, to get a movie to win the favor of the Oscar judges, and eventually get a nomination or even an award, it took at least a few million dollars to hire a lobbying company to lobby the judges.

Kang Jianfei has spent $5 million in lobbying fees to make "Rain Man" hit the Oscars, but it seems that the effect is remarkable so far. The eight nominations are already worth it. Even if "Rain Man" fails to win the award, the popularity of its eight Oscar nominations has still increased the global box office by at least 10 to 20 million US dollars, and the sales of audio tapes and original sound records have increased. At least in terms of input and output, it is not a loss. If you can get a jackpot or two, that's a lot of money.

When Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia landed at Taipei Airport, the North American screening of "Rain Man" had ended. The North American box office totaled more than 172 million US dollars, becoming the annual box office champion of North American films in 1987 (ranked second It is a comedy film "Three Dads and One Baby" produced by a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, which has a box office of 167 million US dollars).

"Rain Man" producer Anne? Hurd, director Barry? Levinson and protagonists Dustin? Hoffman, Tom? Cruise, so the film and fame soared. Tom Cruise also successfully lost the hat of the stinky star and became a powerful actor accepted by the public.

As for Kang Jianfei, the behind-the-scenes investor, because of Paramount's deliberate publicity, it is also known to many people. At least after "Rain Man" won the annual box office championship. Its investors entered Paramount. Immediately send Paramount's stock up a little.

James Cameron immediately announced that he was planning to make "Terminator 2" (the production was still from Oriental Film Company), and sought help from Industrial Light and Magic for computer effects. Paramount is also planning to produce "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost Love".

Of these three films, "Pretty Woman" may be released this Christmas if the filming goes well, while the other two will not be released until at least next summer.

"Rain Man" was a huge success at the box office. It has attracted the attention of filmmakers around the world, but Kang Jianfei will not negotiate prices with those filmmakers until after the Oscars are over.

On the Hong Kong side, it may be affected by the aftermath of the stock market crash, or it may be because "My Sassy Girl" is not liked by older audiences. The box office of this phenomenal film in Hong Kong is only 32.88 million, which is more than Kang Jianfei's last film. "Fang Fang" lost 9 million at the box office.

even so. The box office of 31.88 million still makes "My Sassy Girl" the champion film of the Christmas season.

DreamWorks immediately released "Shushan 2" carefully created by Xu Ke in the new year. This sequel still starred He Jiajin and Li Saifeng. The high box office of 34.76 million basically achieved the expected goal. You must know that the first film of "Shushan" in Hong Kong had a box office of more than 38 million.

The only unexpected gain of "Shushan 2" is that Xu Jinjiang, the villain, became famous, and some fans of Xu Jinjiang appeared.

Whether it is Christmas or New Year, the Hong Kong film market is dominated by DreamWorks films. However, when it came to the Spring Festival that followed, the competition became fierce. The three films of Golden Harvest Pictures' "Flying Dragon", Vientiane Pictures' "Eight Star Annunciation", and DreamWorks' "Once Upon a Time 2" were released at the same time. Dark and dark.

By the time of the Spring Festival, Hong Kong citizens have recovered from the stock market crash and are ready to celebrate the New Year happily. Watching movies is naturally one of the traditional celebration items.

"Flying Dragon" is directed by Hong Jinbao, starring Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and Ye Dexian. Just by the names of their three brothers, they can attract countless kung fu fans; "The Eight Stars Announcement" was written by Huang Baiming himself. To Qifeng directed the tube, with Zhou Runfa, Alan Tam, Huang Baiming, Jacky Cheung, Zhong Chuhong, Wen Bixia, Feng Baobao and Zheng Yuling starring in the lead roles. Just looking at the cast can scare people to death. It is a big cast in the absolute sense.

Although the script of "Once Upon a Time 2 Men Be Self-improvement" was written by Kang Jianfei, after being filmed by Wang Jing as director, the overall style has the taste of Wang's comedy, but the tone of this film has not changed. Li Lianjie, Guan Zhilin, Mo Shaocong and Liang Xiaolong all performed well in the film. The action design of Huang Shrimp has been influenced by Kang Jianfei over the years, and has had its own merits with another Daniel Yuan Heping.

How should I put it, the "Once Upon a Time 2" produced by Wang Jing is a little less serious in the original film and a little more playful and humorous, but it is finally chivalrous and upright, and the fighting scenes are also the same as the original film. made a big difference.

The three films played against each other during the Spring Festival. What was unexpected and reasonable is that Huang Baiming's new company, Vientiane Pictures' desperate work "Eight Star Announcement", actually successfully killed "Flying Dragon" and "Huang Feihong" 2", which has been leading the box office since its release.

After the Lantern Festival, the three films were released one after another. "The Eight Stars Announcement" topped the box office with a box office of more than 36.85 million, "Flying Dragon" and "Once Upon a Time 2" received a box office of 30.87 million and 30.2 million respectively.

In the same period, there were actually three films that exceeded 30 million at the box office at the same time. This result has made many investors outside the circle jealous. It also shows that the Hong Kong film market is further prosperous and has not been affected by the stock market crash a few months ago.

Of course, another impact of the three films breaking 30 million at the box office is that other films released at the same time as these three films—all hit the street!

Pan Gongzi, who is ambitious to become a giant in the Hong Kong film industry, his well-crafted romantic comedy was not only crushed by "My Sassy Girlfriend" at Christmas, but also another comedy film by Debao that was released in the Spring Festival. The audience was snatched away by three slasher films, but it only sold more than 4 million box office.

During the Spring Festival, a movie sold more than 4 million yuan, which means that the entire theater chain basically has few audiences. Pan Disheng is not only the movie hit the street, his Debao theater chain also suffered serious losses during the Spring Festival, and he was so depressed. To vomit blood.

Also depressed are Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong from Xinbao Cinema, and Zeng Zhiwei from Good Friend Films. They also want to get a piece of the pie in the Spring Festival stall, and the results can be imagined.

On the contrary, Mecca and Shi Tian in Xinyicheng were lucky. Due to unexpected reasons, the film that Xinyicheng was planning to release during the Spring Festival changed the schedule with "The Eight Stars Announcement" which was originally released in the New Year's period, just to avoid and a few. The risk of fighting a fierce movie is worthy of reaping more than 16 million box office.

"Ming Pao Weekly" selected Kang Jianfei and Huang Baiming as the cover characters this time, saying that Huang Baiming was reborn from ashes, while Kang Jianfei was soaring.

Huang Baiming played really well this time. He quit Xinyicheng to start Vientiane Pictures, and almost no one was optimistic about him, but he made Huang Baiming a champion movie of the Spring Festival.

Kang Jianfei's DreamWorks is even more terrifying. The box office of all three films in three consecutive schedules exceeds 30 million. It is undoubtedly the most profitable film company in Hong Kong.

As for Kang Jianfei becoming the second largest shareholder of Paramount Pictures, it has already jumped out of the small quagmire of Hong Kong and ran to grab food with the giants in Hollywood.

Even the Hong Kong Federation of the International Youth Chamber of Commerce, which has a right-wing political leaning, couldn't sit still this time, and began to discuss internally whether to send this year's top ten outstanding young people in Hong Kong to Kang Jianfei.

At this moment, Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia had come to Taipei, and the people who picked up the plane were Lin Fengjiao and Yu Kanping.

Since Lin Fengjiao followed Kang Jianfei, she felt tired from filming and retired very simply. Anyway, she doesn't have to worry about her future life.

Yu Kanping was already the general manager of Oriental DreamWorks Taiwan branch. After being banned by the Taiwan authorities, he became Taiwan's top director. Under the covert investment of Kang Jianfei, Yu Kanping has also made several literary films in Taiwan over the years. The box office is good and bad, but it is still a small loss in the total.

In order to lift the ban, Yu Kanping and Lin Fengjiao have been busy running around during this time. Unfortunately, the chaotic political situation in Taiwan is destined that no one will pay attention to them during this time.

Taiwan's current "Director of the Information Bureau" Shao Yuming was a scholar and professor before. This person is very cautious. After he became the news bureau last year, he has been busy with propaganda affairs on the island~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is impossible to lift Kang Jianfei's ban. If Kang Jianfei was a young actor, it would be okay to say that few people would pay attention to whether he was banned or not, but now that Kang Jianfei has a huge international influence, Shao Yuming would not dare to make any mistakes at a special time.

"Director Shao didn't show up, he seems to have some scruples. He is too cautious as an official," Yu Kanping said as soon as he saw Kang Jianfei, "Deputy Director Zhang of the Information Bureau promised to have a meal together the night after tomorrow, and the matter was basically the same. It's resolved. Now that President Lee is calling for political openness, it will be a matter of time before Mr. Kang's ban is lifted."

"Lao Yu, you've worked hard for this. You have been running for more than half a year." Kang Jianfei thanked him.

Yu Kanping said with a smile, "I don't have to work hard. I just contact people occasionally. Miss Lin has also helped a lot."

Lin Fengjiao, who used to film in China Film Company, knew more official figures than Lin Qingxia, who was filming everywhere. She helped Yu Kanping to do more with less.

Kang Jianfei smiled and said to Lin Fengjiao, "Fengjiao, you've worked hard too."

Lin Fengjiao smiled indifferently and said, "I'm just making a few phone calls. Let's get in the car first." ()