Dreams of the Fragrant River

The reasons for the slump in the box office of Hong Kong films are extremely complicated, and the vicious circle cannot be solved.

Let's not talk about external factors such as Taiwanese capital and the Taiwanese market. The proliferation of piracy is also a very important reason. Nowadays, vcd has long been popularized, and the production cost of pirated movies is extremely low, not only filling the streets and alleys of Hong Kong, but also spreading along the coast of the mainland.

Except for big directors, big stars, big productions, and ordinary small films, Hong Kong people have not much interest in going to the cinema.

Reducing production is the strategy of Oriental DreamWorks.

In 1992, the company produced an astonishing 31 films. In 1996, DreamWorks only planned to make 16 movies, with no more than two errors.

Kang Jianfei gave a death order, and must strictly control the creative process. Everything is based on the quality of the film, and shoddy films will never have the chance to be on the big screen.

At the same time, the Oriental Cinema Company is also reducing its scale. There are only 12 cinemas under its umbrella, all of which are in relatively prime locations. As for the corners and corners of the area, throw it directly to other theaters for screening, or split the account, or sell it, anyway, consider it as appropriate.

Contrary to the production reduction plan of Oriental DreamWorks, Golden Harvest, which has just been successfully listed, is expanding its production volume in a hurry.

In another time and space, Golden Harvest only produced 28 movies in 1994. In 1995, after its listing, it invested in or produced as many as 66 films, more than doubling the output.

This situation is related to Golden Harvest's development strategy. Only by continuously filming and screening films can investors have confidence in Golden Harvest, which is convenient for Golden Harvest to make money in the stock market, and then use the money to invest in real estate and other industries.

In 1995, Golden Harvest has changed its taste. It is no longer a pure film company. It is first and foremost a listed company.

From Kang Jianfei's point of view, Zou Wenhuai and others have gone crazy. The way they do it, when the Hong Kong film market is shrinking, produces 66 films a year, which is definitely a lifeless suicide.

But is Zou Wenhuai really stupid?

Not necessarily!

First, he can use the stock market to make money, and then use the money to invest in other industries.

As for the darker speculation, these people are probably desperate for Hong Kong films. I plan to win a lot of votes before Hong Kong films die completely and before Hong Kong returns to the embrace of the motherland!

After 1997, Golden Harvest will become a rotten company full of debts, but its shareholders are definitely rich people, because they are already full.

Alas, the world has changed.

If Hong Kong filmmakers did not have the doomsday mentality of giving up on themselves, and if the British Hong Kong government could set up a film bureau to regulate the market, Hong Kong films would never have declined so quickly.

Putting the blame entirely on the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters and the shrinking markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia is all self-deception. You are messing around yourself, and you blame others for not giving face?

Kang Jianfei was too lazy to care about other people's troubles, he just wanted to run the Oriental Entertainment Group well.

Who said that Hong Kong films would die out after 1995? Isn't the image of the Milky Way produced by insisting on conscience still very beautiful after 2000? Because people can watch the films they make, they are not fooling around.

Hong Kong's movie market is there, and imported Hollywood movies can sell well, so why can't local movies?

However, in the future, Oriental DreamWorks will only be able to take the boutique route, and a large number of layoffs are certain, because it cannot support so many people. The overall film production environment is definitely bad, and the reserve film talents will also wither. The only thing Kang Jianfei can do is to keep the seeds and avoid the embarrassing situation of the shortage of film talents.

At the beginning of 1995, Cheng Long was the most beautiful person in the Hong Kong film industry. The shareholders of Golden Harvest also made a lot of money and held a celebration banquet for "Hongfan District" at Fulinmen Restaurant.

These are all superficial things, just like Hong Kong's economy.

The British guys are about to say goodbye to Hong Kong. Last year, they reaped a wave in the stock market, causing countless Hong Kong investors to go bankrupt. This year, we will continue to play tricks. In the first half of the year, the Hong Kong stock market has repeatedly risen, attracting a wave of investors to harvest immediately after entering the market. Then it fell and rose again, and the Hong Kong stock market was completely ruined in countless reincarnations. By the second half of the year, there will be no fools to invest in stocks again.

So much so that by 1996, the Hong Kong stock market was still sluggish. Seeing that in 1997, a little bit of recovery, Soros and other international predators came to make trouble again, it was really a scene of chaos and chaos.

1995 was clearly an eventful year.

Shortly after New Year's Day, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 occurred in Riben, and the local people were in dire straits.

Zhang Ziqiang, who was imprisoned for robbing a cash truck, will also be released this year, and he has also received 8 million Hong Kong dollars in compensation from the police, making him a well-known villain in Hong Kong.

Just after Cheng Long's "Red Zone" was released, the 327 national debt incident broke out on the mainland side. February 23, 1995 was called the darkest day in the history of Chinese securities. There is a futures trader named Chen Wanning, who just turned 20 years old. His trading seat lost more than 70 million that day, and his own assets of 3 million disappeared.

10 years later, the trader wrote the script "Wulin Gaiden" and completed his career transformation magnificently.

Gossip aside, let's go back to Hong Kong.

While Cheng Long was throwing a celebration banquet, Kang Jianfei disappeared. He personally led the team to India, and inspected the filming location with Xu Ke, and by the way had a good relationship with the local government and local tyrants~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The paparazzi can't take pictures of Kang Jianfei's gossip news, they only need to take pictures of his women. Recently, Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin are fighting again. The reason seems to be that Guan Zhilin's diamond ring is bigger. After being reported by the media, Li Jiaxin was very upset and specially ordered one from a foreign jewelry company.

These reports are not surprising, Hong Kong citizens are numb. The more exciting news is that the reporter photographed the singer Anita Mui, who was traveling together with the mainland boy Zhao Wenyu. The two seemed to be close to each other.

Although Zhao Wenyu has also starred in several plays in the past two years, he is regarded as a new rising kung fu niche, but compared with Anita Mui, there is still a big gap. When they first heard the news that the two were dating, Hong Kong citizens thought it was a fantasy, and they didn't believe it if they were killed.

Anita Mui and Zhao Wenyu were silent about this, and the brokerage company hurriedly held a press conference to clarify, saying that the two of them were just ordinary friends.

The storm stopped, it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.

It was not until more than ten years later, when Anita Mui had passed away for a long time, that Zhao Wenyu told the media about this past. They did date for a whole year, but unfortunately ended up breaking up.

When Kang Jianfei returned to Hong Kong again, the Spring Festival had already passed, the nominations for the Academy Awards were released smoothly, and the Hong Kong Directors Guild's Spring Tea was also held as scheduled. Kang Jianfei resigned as president smoothly, and the new president was Er Dongsheng.

At the same time, the mainland film "The Wind" was quietly released in Hong Kong, and Kang Jianfei also announced his new film plan.

(To be continued.)