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In early August, before the Miss Oriental beauty pageant finals were held, "Swordsman: The Undefeated of the East" starring Lin Qingxia was just released.

Produced by Xu Ke and directed by Hu Jinquan, the first film of "Swordsman" has a good reputation, but the box office revenue is not ranked in the best-selling category. The box office of more than 10 million can only be regarded as the second-tier top.

And when Xu Ke personally directed and starred in Lin Qingxia's comeback, "The Invincible Swordsman in the East" was released, but it exploded the box office at once, and it can almost be said to sweep the summer season.

Before "Swordsman: The Unbeaten East" was released, the most watched movie in Hong Kong was the disaster relief film "The Banquet of the Rich and the Rich", which earned a box office of over 20 million yuan. After all, the film only took a few days to shoot.

In addition, the most popular is the "Lame Man" that McDonald's helped Jiahe film. Because the film is based on a real character, and the protagonist Wu Xihao has just passed away, coupled with the wonderful artistic creations of the director and actors, "Lame Hao" won the box office champion at the end of June and early July as a third-level film.

The success of "The Lame Man" has sparked an upsurge in adapting real black gang films, but this type of film is too sensitive, because the influence of the prototype protagonist is still there, and few people really dare to make it.

The reason why MacDangxiong dared to help Jiahe in the filming of "The Lame Man" is because Lai Hao himself is dead, and the gang Yiqun that Lame Hao was in has gone from a big club that can compete with Xinyi An and 14k to only one left. A small gang of thousands of people.

The Xiang brothers didn't care so much. After seeing the money for "The Lame Man", Xiang Huaqiang directly asked Liu Dehua to shoot "Five Million Detective Lei Luo". The prototype of the character, Lu Leke, was alive and well, and he followed Xiang's family. Brothers or relatives.

After "Lime Hao" is the opening movie of the summer season, the sequel of "Cousin, Hello," produced by Jiahe, "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" produced by DreamWorks, and the last film of Vientiane Pictures' reorganization of Yonggao Company, "Prison Situation" 2" was released successively. In the middle there is also a "Night Banquet of a Wealthy Family".

The final box office results are: "Cousin, Hello 嘢2" ranked first with 25.09 million, and "Prison 2" ranked second with 24.36 million. "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" ranked third with 15.01 million, and DreamWorks was the first to lose.

And the release of "Swordsman: The Undefeated of the East". It just happened to find a place for DreamWorks, and all other films released in the same period were cut off.

Lin Qingxia has been out of the film circle for many years. When the news of her comeback just spread, many people thought she was outdated, but her performance in "The Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East" shocked countless eyeballs.

"Film Biweekly" praised Lin Qingxia's role as Dongfang Invincible "reversing males and females and charming all beings", and also called "Swordsman 2 Oriental Invincibility" a masterpiece in the history of martial arts movies. The review of "New News" also praised Lin Qingxia's "unparalleled beauty", completely subverting the audience's inherent impression of the undefeated East.

In various newspapers and magazines, stills of Lin Qingxia's Eastern Invincibility appeared one after another. Kang Jianfei's "Daily Daily" directly flattered, saying that Lin Qingxia's comeback was "the return of the king".

However, some publications represented by "Next Weekly" completely contradicted the tune, saying that Xu Ke was sensationalizing, using the undefeated men and women of the East to create stunts, and even satirized Lin Qingxia's old aunt who came out to pretend to be tender.

"Swordsman 2 The Undefeated in the East" has added countless new fans to Lin Qingxia. "One Weekly"'s rude remarks offended these fans, and even the door of the magazine was thrown with feces.

At this moment, Jin Yong, the original author of the novel, suddenly accepted an interview, saying that Xu Ke's adaptation was difficult for him to accept, and Lin Qingxia's Dongfang Invincible ruined his three views.

"Next Magazine" seems to have received spiritual support. Constantly citing Jin Yong's interviews to criticize "The Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East" because the filming is bad, because even the original author can't stand it anymore.

Other media that praised "The Invincible 2 Swordsman" criticized the fallacy of "Next Weekly" one after another. It is said that Xu Ke's "Swordsman" and Dongfang Invincible have new ideas.

The media coverage further increased the popularity of "Swordsman 2". In just half a month, the film's box office exceeded 25 million.

Speaking of which, this year's Hong Kong films have been unprecedentedly prosperous. Not only are overseas markets selling hot, but even the local box office is staggeringly high. Only half of the summer season has passed. This year, there have been 4 Hong Kong films with a box office of over 30 million, and 7 Hong Kong films with a box office of over 20 million, which has more than doubled directly from last year.

And "Swordsman 2" is not the trump card that DreamWorks played in the summer. The real trump card is "Fighting Dragon", starring Zhou Xingchi and Zhang Dan. The director is Chen Jiashang, who joined DreamWorks three years ago.

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Just when "The Swordsman 2" was released, a 16-member exchange group of mainland writers came to Hong Kong. Led by the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency and hosted by Oriental Publishing House, the "Two Places Writers and Writers Exchange Meeting" was officially held.

The mainland writers group did not stay in a hotel after arriving in Hong Kong, and was directly transferred to the dormitory building of Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. Perhaps because of communication issues, none of the members of the Ministry of Culture came to Hong Kong for exchange this time, but none of the older gentlemen came, but all of them were young writers, such as Jia Pingwa, Zhang Kangkang, Liang Xiaosheng, Wang Xiaobo, Mo Yan, Tie Ning , Wang Anyi, Shi Tiesheng, etc.

After seven o'clock in the morning, the young writers got up one after another and prepared to go downstairs to get some air after washing up.

But before they walked out of the door of the apartment building, the team leader sent by the Ministry of Culture shouted: "Don't walk around, the exchange meeting at 9 o'clock in the morning, I can't find someone if I get lost."

When a leader greets you, everyone can only follow the arrangement and gather at the gate on the first floor to chat.

From time to time, working actors walked past the door, looked at the group of people curiously, and hurried past.

"Hong Kong people are so fast-paced that they seem to be racing against time when they walk," said Shi Tiesheng, who was in a wheelchair.

Tie Ning said: "I went to Shenzhen and Shenzhen last month, and the rhythm there is similar. Time is money."

Wang Anyi has lived in Shanghai for the past few years, and prefers foreign film and television music works. She pointed to the back of a woman who was gradually receding and said, "Is that woman Guan Yonghe just now?"

Zhang Kang resisted and asked, "Who is Guan Yonghe? Your friend in Hong Kong?"

Wang Anyi said: "Guan Yonghe is an actress from Hong Kong, and the TV series "The Great Wealth and Greatness" that she acted was broadcast on Shanghai."

"I haven't heard of it." Zhang Kangkang, who has lived in the Northeast for many years, has absolutely no idea what Wang Anyi is talking about.

Wang Xiaobo took out a bag, and the male comrade went to most of the bag alone. He crouched on the steps and said to the leader of the team: "Lao Miao, why don't we go to the conference room and sit. It's like a beggar from the countryside going to the city. ."

After thinking about it, Lao Miao said to the young writers, "Wait a minute. I'll ask if the door of the conference room is open. If it's not open, I'll just wait there."

Shi Tiesheng asked, "Xiaobo, which writers do you think will come from Hong Kong today?"

Wang Xiaobo shook his head and said, "I don't know. I know Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and Ni Kuang as Hong Kong writers."

Liang Xiaosheng said, "It would be great if Mr. Jin Yong could come. For a while, I was fascinated by his martial arts novels."

Jia Pingwa smoked in his trouser pocket with one hand, then turned to ask Mo Yan beside him: "Old man, I heard that you know Mr. Kang from Hong Kong?"

"I've seen him from a distance. In "Red Sorghum", he has an investment." Mo said little, then lowered his head and smoked a suffocating cigarette.

Jia Pingwa said, "I've seen his 'Looking for Qin Ji'. Huang is ok, and if he is put in the mainland, he can go to jail."

Mo Yan pointed to Wang Xiaobo: "His is also yellow. Didn't he go to jail?"

Wang Xiaobo said with a smile: "'Looking for Qin Ji' looks boring, Mr. Kang's 'Tomb Raiders Is Better Than You' is very good."

A group of writers chatted nonsense, and soon the leader of the team, Lao Miao, returned and led the team to the conference room of the writers exchange meeting.

When walking downstairs of the No. 2 administrative building, Wang Anyi suddenly shouted, "Look, Zhou Runfa!"

Everyone turned their heads to look, and sure enough, they saw Zhou Runfa coming out of the building. You may not know a young actor like Guan Yonghe, but "Shanghai/Beach" is so famous in the mainland that it's hard for these writers to know.

Tie Ning asked curiously, "There are so many stars here?"

The leader, Lao Miao, had already done his homework and explained, "This is the largest film and television base in Hong Kong. Zhou Runfa is also an actor in Mr. Kang's company."

Jia Pingwa sighed: "I heard that Mr. Kang also started writing books. It is really amazing that he can write books to this extent."

A group of writers came to the conference room for more than ten minutes before waiting for the arrival of the first Hong Kong writer.

Wen Ruian is the editorial director of Dongshi Production Company. The conference room for the writers' exchange meeting was one floor away from where he usually works, and there were two attendants behind him when he arrived.

The two attendants were holding a large bundle of books in their arms, and they unpacked all of Wen Ruian's "Wenzhou Qixia".

"Hello, hello, I'm Wen Ruian." Wen Ruian walked in and shook hands with mainland writers one by one, and handed out a copy of his masterpiece "The Legend of China".

Although "Shenzhou Qixia" is a martial arts novel, it is not lacking in literature and ideology. It is the strange book with the highest artistic value among Wen Ruian's works.

It was still early for the meeting anyway, so the few mainland writers who got the book just seemed to pass the time on the spot. The result was immediately fascinated. He heard that Wen Ruian is a screenwriter of a TV company, and several mainland writers who are also screenwriters chatted with him about the screenwriting business in Hong Kong. Wen Ruian also taught his screenwriting experience privately.

Wen Ruian is a Malaysian and has lived in Taiwan for a few years. Mandarin is his native language, and there is no communication barrier when chatting with mainland writers.

Lao Miao, the team leader of the Ministry of Culture, was overjoyed. Before the meeting, everyone was already chatting, and there was no need to worry about communication issues.

Afterwards, Hong Kong writers such as Xixi, Ye Si, Ye Hui, Li Bihua, Zhang Xiaoxian, and Huang Yi came to the scene one after another. Although Jin Yong did not come, Dong Qiao, the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao and a famous writer, did.

Kang Jianfei didn't spend much experience on the writer exchange meeting between the two places, but Dongfang Publishing House spent a lot of thought. Like Xixi and Ye Si, the representatives of Hong Kong's literary circles in the 1960s, Dong Qiao is also very famous in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and it is not easy to invite them to a meeting.

Kang Jianfei estimated that he showed up more than ten minutes earlier, and also handed out a copy of "Notes on Tomb Raiders". The serialization of "Notes on Tomb Raiders" ended in newspapers only two months ago, and Dongfang Publishing House immediately sorted and published it. Now it has sold more than 500,000 copies.

As for the exchange meeting, after half an hour of serious discussion, everyone started chatting casually. All of them are well-known writers, and a few words about exchanging writing experience can make it clear, and understanding is the biggest gain.

After the meeting, it was all about eating, drinking, and having fun. Kang Jianfei specially sent people to take mainland writers to go shopping around Hong Kong, trying to make them have fun. These people are the most influential writers in mainland China in the next ten years. If they have a good impression of Kang Jianfei and the Dongfang Group, they will definitely show it in their works. This is a good opportunity to improve the reputation of the group.

Originally, Wang Shuo was also on the list of this exchange meeting, but the fellow felt that the exchange meeting was so boring, and directly refused the invitation of the Ministry of Culture.

While mainland writers were eating, drinking and having fun in Hong Kong, Oriental Publishing House was not idle at all, and organized people to study all the works of these writers. The final conclusion was that the literary works of Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng were the most popular in the Hong Kong market. have operational value.

As for Wang Anyi, who is known as the successor of Shanghai-style writers, her main works are scar literature and root-seeking literature.

Under the envious eyes of others, before leaving, Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng signed a contract with Dongfang Publishing House to package and sell the paper copyrights of all their previous works (Hong Kong area only) to Dongfang Publishing House, while Dongfang Publishing House Responsible for packaging and promoting them.

Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng came to Hong Kong for a trip, and when they went back, their net worth had risen by 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, which was a huge sum of money in the mainland in the early 1990s.

On the first day of the departure of the mainland writers group, it was the day when the Miss Oriental beauty pageant was held. Under the warm invitation of Kang Jianfei, more than a dozen mainland writers and officials from the Ministry of Culture came to the pageant to watch the grand event.

The mainland studied Hong Kong to hold a beauty contest a few years ago, and it caused a sensation at the time, but because of public opinion and market reasons, the beauty pageant industry has never been established.

The Taiping Theater, with more than 2,000 people, was full, and the beauty pageants on the stage were changing like a revolving lantern.

Until the swimsuit session, writers from mainland China, both men and women, stared intently at the stage, which is rarely seen in mainland China.

"Foreign countries are open. Wearing such revealing swimsuits and walking around on stage, you won't be scolded to death if you put them in the mainland." A certain female writer whispered.

"Cough!" The leading official Lao Miao coughed, and then focused on the beauty pageant, but could not hear the writers' complaints.

As the general manager of Oriental Entertainment's brokerage company, Zhang Guozhong will be present in person in the annual beauty pageant finals. At this moment, he whispered to Kang Jianfei: "That Deng Peixian is not bad, her face is very photogenic."

Kang Jianfei nodded: "That's right~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The contestant with the best face this year belongs to her."

Zhang Guozhong listened to Kang Jianfei's tone indifferently, as if he was not very satisfied with this Deng Peixian, he asked, "Which one is Mr. Kang most optimistic about?"

Kang Jianfei said, "What do you think of Carina Chow?"

Zhang Guozhong looked at Zhou Jialing carefully for a while, and commented: "She has a good appearance and temperament, and she is highly educated, and her words and deeds are decent. It's just that, although she is **** and moving, there are some problems with her face."

"What's the problem?" Kang Jianfei asked.

Zhang Guozhong said: "Her face is too demonic, not suitable for positive roles, but more suitable for negative roles such as killers and prostitutes. If you support her, at most, she can become a gold medal supporting actress or **** star, and there is little hope of becoming popular. big star."

Contacting Zhou Jialing's acting experience in another time and space, Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "Ah Zhong, your eyes have become fiery!" (To be continued)

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