Dreams of the Fragrant River

In 1992, the Spring Festival New Year's Eve file battle, which made the Hong Kong film circle more distinct. △￠Fiction,

Shao Yifu originally planned to make a comeback while Hong Kong films were prosperous, but he was too old and lacked energy, and Fang Yihua's confidant did not support this matter, which made Shao Yifu's idea of ​​relying on wireless station resources to develop Shaw Brothers. drift.

After Shaw Brothers reopened, it only made two small-budget films, and then died again, and did not even participate in the Spring Festival stalls this time. The disheartened Shao Yifu gave birth to the idea of ​​selling the Shaw Brothers cinema chain in his hand. It is a pity that there is a surplus of cinemas in Hong Kong now, and no local tyrants are willing to take over. They can only maintain their operations by showing films from other companies.

Jiahe's side has also changed a lot. Last year, Zou Wenhuai's daughter Zou Chongyan came back from studying in the United States and was arranged by Zou's boss to work in the company. Although Zou Chongyan hasn't really taken power yet, she has been blowing in Zou Wenhuai's ears from time to time, which has greatly influenced Jiahe's business strategy.

As soon as Zou Chongyan came back, he encouraged his father to increase investment in overseas theater chains, and cooperated with overseas consortiums to create momentum. The purpose was to make money by listing Jiahe. In her opinion, nowadays a large number of overseas funds have been introduced into the Hong Kong film industry, and the competition of Hong Kong films is too fierce. Instead of spending money to make films and beating their peers, Jiahe might as well use its overseas distribution advantages to become one of the many films in Hong Kong. The company's downstream publishers.

In a sense, Zou Chongyan's idea is right. Ten years later, Hong Kong films have declined to the extreme. The once brilliant Hong Kong film companies have closed down one after another, but the overseas theater chain invested by Golden Harvest has remained strong.

But from another point of view, Jiahe’s move is undoubtedly weakening its production capacity. This can be seen from this year's Spring Festival Lunar New Year file, the box office share of Jiahe's films continues to decline. It has decayed to the point of losing to Yongsheng Film Company.

The most outstanding performance of this year's Spring Festival is Yonggao, and the box office of "A Happy Family" of 48 million is unstoppable. It seems that there is a sign of the glory of the new Art City reappearing in the past.

But as one of Yonggao's bosses, Huang Baiming was not very happy. He has only been working with Roger Cheng for half a year. But the conflict between the two has intensified to a certain point.

Luo Jiecheng of Yonggao Cinema Line is the major shareholder with absolute control, while the major shareholder of Yonggao Film Company is Huang Baiming. Although they hold shares in each other in the two companies, their interests are different. What Luo Jiecheng cares about most is whether Yonggao Cinema can make money, but Huang Baiming values ​​the interests of Yonggao Film Company more.

Since everyone cooperates to start a company, a little conflict of interests can be sat down and discussed. However, Luo Jie Cheng was domineering in business, and Huang Baiming insisted on his own opinions, so that the contradiction between the two became deeper and deeper.

In addition to the best-selling "Happy Events at Home", several other films invested by Huang Baiming. Without exception, Roger Cheng was forced to shift down ahead of schedule. Luo Jie's reason was that the attendance of those films was insufficient, but Huang Baiming did not agree with this statement, because those films did not have enough time to release, from a legal sense, Roger was suspected of breaking the contract.

Contacting his years of experience in filmmaking, Huang Baiming realized once again that if he did not control the cinema chain himself, he would always be controlled by others. A "Happy Family" broke the Hong Kong box office record, but the two big bosses of Yonggao were already on the verge of breaking up. Huang Baiming secretly contacted those scattered theaters built in the past two years. Decided to set up a new cinema company that can be the master.

In the face of the unprecedentedly prosperous film market, Hong Kong film companies have made a lot of profits in the past year, and almost no business at a loss. However, Jiahe reduced production investment, Yonggao had internal discord, and Yongsheng only followed suit. Other large and small film companies were more like processing enterprises. Just wait for investors to throw money in, and then call in people to quickly make commercial films to earn profits.

In such a prosperous Eastern Hollywood, the overall film creation ability is far inferior to that of the 1980s. In this noisy and lively Hong Kong movie scene. Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks is full of hegemony, even if it lost to "A Happy Family" at the box office during the Spring Festival. Then no one took the gains and losses of one city and one place to heart.

What's more, the existence of Oriental Entertainment's brokerage company includes more than 60% of Hong Kong's popular stars. So much so that most Hong Kong film companies dare not offend Kang Jianfei.

Look at the entire Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, Oriental DreamWorks, Oriental Entertainment Brokerage Company, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company, Oriental Cinema Company, Phoenix TV, Oriental TV Production Company, Popular Records, Oriental Media Group, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, Dark Horse Animation Company ...There are so many, it seems to be a huge entertainment empire.

Jin Yong chatted with He Chaoqiong over tea. Neither of them directly mentioned the matter of buying and selling Ming Pao, but only talked about some management concepts of the newspaper industry.

When he got home, Jin Yong flipped through the relevant documents of the Dongfang Group, which he had obtained from someone years later.

I don't know if I don't see it. The more I read it, the more shocked Jin Yong's heart is. He didn't expect Kang Jianfei's Dongfang Group to have become such a giant.

From several contacts, Jin Yong's impression of He Chaoqiong is not bad, and He Chaoqiong also appreciates the reform of "Daily Daily", but he can't see through Kang Jianfei. Kim Yong still had many doubts about whether to hand over Ming Pao to He Chaoqiong, but before finding a more suitable successor, he decided to give it a try.

At least in He Chaoqiong's hands, the reform of "Daily Daily" has been unprecedentedly successful, and many newspapers and magazines under the Oriental Media are elegant and vulgar, all insisting on their own style of running the magazines, which Jin Yong appreciates very much.

In April 1992, Jin Yong announced that he would sell 10% of Ming Pao shares in his hands to Oriental Media Group, and appointed He Chaoqiong as a director of Ming Pao Group's board of directors.

As soon as the news came out, Judao was in an uproar, Jin Yong was the rhythm of selling Ming Pao to Kang Jianfei!

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When Kang Jianfei went to the United States to make a film, not only did He Chaoqiong buy a 10% stake in Ming Pao, but Yang Dengkui also successfully obtained approval from the Taiwan authorities to build 26 cinemas in central and southern Taiwan.

At the same time, "The King of Fighters 1992" came out, and Japan's Sega Games, Hong Kong Oriental DreamWorks, and Dark Horse Animation Co., Ltd. jointly held the first world "King of Fighters" e-sports competition.

After years of development and promotion, the arcade game "The King of Fighters" has a huge fan base all over the world, and it can be called a fighting game. This competition is mainly based on countries. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all competition areas, while Singapore is merged into the Malaysia-Singapore competition area because of its small population. Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan are collectively referred to as the China competition area.

There are budget competitions, semi-finals and finals in each division, and finally three winners are obtained (some countries with small populations have only two places), and the three winners are eligible to participate in the world finals. The first finals will be held at Tokyo, Japan.

The top three winners in each division will receive prizes ranging from $5,000, 2,000, and $1,000, and the top prize in the finals is as high as $100,000. At the same time, the champion of the World Championship will also get the opportunity to participate in the filming of the "King of Fighters" series of movies, and become a character in the "King of Fighters" series of comics.

As we all know, it is very difficult to hold a worldwide competition, and it is extremely troublesome in all aspects such as publicity, sponsorship, selection, supervision, and competition. After Kang Jianfei proposed the establishment of the "King of Fighters" World Championship, Sega has been preparing for three years, and it has finally been officially held until now.

As for the "King of Fighters" movies, several films have been made over the years, but they are not very influential and are only popular among specific fan groups.

Kang Jianfei also considered this issue, and finally figured out that if you want to expand the influence of the "King of Fighters" series of films, then you must popularize the story of "The King of Fighters".

What is popularization?

You can refer to those superheroes in the United States. In order to cater to universal values, when the comics were made into movies, the superheroes became the saviors of greatness one by one.

If you want "The King of Fighters" to be recognized by the public, then you must let the protagonists have a righteous heart, and behaviors with greater ability and greater responsibility.

Kang Jianfei finally decided to invest in a trial production of a Spider-Man version of "The King of Fighters" after two more years of computer effects developed. Of course, the protagonist is not Spider-Man, but just like Spider-Man from a mortal to a hero, pretending to slap the face, acting as a hero, and defeating the villain!

Conventional means that the audience is wide, which means that the box office base is large.

Taipei County, a game hall.

A thin teenager walked in with a schoolbag on his back, the disgust that filled him made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he still frowned and endured it.

There were already people standing around several King of Fighters arcade machines, and when they saw the thin boy coming over, everyone gave way.

A yellow-haired gangster waved at him and said, "Aquan, come here, I practiced another trick yesterday." The gangster flipped the coin again, and said, "Old rule, three wins in five rounds, you are not allowed to take the weight. Punch and kick."

"Okay." The skinny boy put down his schoolbag with a bright smile on his face. His family is not wealthy, and his pocket money is not enough for him to enter the game hall every day, and he usually plays other people's games.

When the battle started, people in the game hall came to watch the battle.

The result is obvious, the thin boy who was restricted from punching and kicking ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ easily killed the yellow-haired bastard, and there was a sound of admiration in the game hall.

At this moment, the owner of the game hall suddenly came over and posted a promotional poster on the wall next to the arcade.

Someone read: "The 1st World King of Fighters E-Sports Hegemony Tournament is in full swing, and participants can register at the local registration point with their ID cards... The top 8 Taiwanese players will qualify for the finals in the Chinese division and go to Hong Kong to participate in the finals, back and forth. Reimbursement of airfare, room and board, $5,000 bonus for the champion of the division... The top three in the China division will qualify for the world finals..."

"Wow, the finals are held in Tokyo, Japan, and the championship prize is $100,000."

"100,000 US dollars, isn't that several million Taiwan dollars?"

"Aquan is so powerful, hurry up and sign up."

The thin young man looked at the registration poster with bright eyes, turned to ask the boss, "Uncle, where to sign up?" (To be continued..)u

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