I didn't want to be an actor

The crew.

Shen Liang chats with Sammo Hung.

Actually, Shen Liang has always wanted to ask about his relationship with Fan Jiuyi...

But he dares not ask.

After all, this thing is also an unknown mystery!

However, when Jiuyi went to Hong Kong to develop, she must have borrowed the power of Sammo Hung, otherwise, it would be impossible for the two to co-star in "Special Police Flying Dragon". But, then again, Sammo Hung at that time was only quite powerful, and there was definitely no way to make Jiuyi popular.

Otherwise, there was no need for him to leave the mainland to film TV series.

After a few months of getting along, Shen Liang probably figured out Sammo Hung's temper...

He is the kind of person who likes to show off his seniority!

There is also a similar person in the mainland entertainment circle, his name is Huang Lei.

Shen Liang doesn't care, after all, this is an era where even Che Paul has become an old actor.

By the way, Sammo Hung studied drama, and in the past theater era, this kind of seniority was useful.

Because the "elder" and "old industry master" in this context can have a certain resource monopoly effect, and if you offend him, you will be banned and punished.

In the old society, there were only a few fixed performance venues for opera troupes. Those who could become famous in a city would probably not dare to leave their hometown.

At this time, as long as the elders said something to ruin your reputation, it would be difficult for you to survive here by inertia.

This is close to the deprivation of power.

When Guo Degang left his hometown to go to BJ, he was also unhappy with his master. He couldn't get along with the crosstalk performers in Tianjin.

The Hong Kong entertainment industry... overall, it is not much different from an opera troupe...

Outside Hong Kong, if you give face, you will be called Brother Hong, and if you don't, you will be called Fatty. You have to bear it.

As for Sammo Hung... he is close to being a half-step superstar...

But to be honest, in the 1980s, Sammo Hung was really awesome. He and Mai Jia founded Garbo and filmed "Tiger Frog" and "The Gun and the Deadly Gun". The two movies were shortlisted for the top ten box office movies in Hong Kong. Then Golden Harvest couldn't sit still, so they asked Sammo Hung to return to Golden Harvest and founded Bo Harvest for him.

Garbo's side was peacefully disbanded.

Then Michael Hui, together with Shek Tin and Wong Pak Ming, founded the Struggle Film Company, which was later acquired by Princess Golden and renamed Cinema City!

Cinema City once suppressed Golden Harvest.

It was Sammo Hung who first pulled Zeng Zhiwei, the director of "The Best Partner", who was a capable person of Cinema City, into his team, thus reducing one of the seven monsters of Cinema City.

On the other hand, while Cinema City was shooting the "The Best Partner" series, Golden Harvest was shooting the "The Lucky Stars" series. Sammo Hung not only supervised the production, but also acted in the film himself, five against two!

Later, Sammo Hung came forward and played the emotional card with Michael Hui, persuading the latter to join forces to shoot "The Lucky Stars" - "The Lucky Stars" and "The Lucky Stars" together, it was a sensation just to think about it.

But "The Lucky Stars" was finally released only in Golden Harvest's theaters, not in the theaters of Princess Golden. The movie was a big hit at the box office, but Cinema City didn't get a penny.

Mai Jia's behavior caused dissatisfaction among other core members of Cinema City, laying the seeds for the disintegration of Cinema City in the future.

In addition to these, Sammo Hung established another film company - D\u0026B, and joined hands with Divan Poon.

By the way, Divan Poon is a second-generation rich man, and he established D\u0026B most likely for Yeung Chi-keung...

Although Yeung Chi-keung was born into a wealthy family, she was determined to be a movie star, and also a fighting star. So Dickson Poon asked Sammo Hung, the most famous martial arts instructor in Hong Kong at the time, to be her personal coach.

Tsk tsk, only a second-generation rich man could use a great man like Sammo Hung as a tutor.

Sammo Hung taught two people at the time, in addition to this Malaysian lady, there was also her best friend, Miss Hong Kong, Gao Lihong.

Later, Yeung Chi-keung became Mrs. Poon, and Gao Lihong became Mrs. Hung...

The first film that D\u0026B produced later was "Royal Sister", which was tailor-made for the newcomer Yeung Chi-keung. Soon after, Shaw Brothers stopped film production and sold all its cinema chains to Dickson Pan. D\u0026B had both the people and cinema chains it needed, becoming the third force that could compete with Golden Harvest and Cinema City.

Then... he returned to Golden Harvest!

To be honest, if he had not returned to Golden Harvest at that time and stayed at D\u0026B, he would have been able to create a new world.

But he was too sentimental...

But later, he still left Golden Harvest.

These are all old stories!

…

“I also watched “Shu Shan”, it was really great…”

“Fortunately, many things were not done well enough.”

“Not enough?”

“The special effects are too gorgeous and not concise enough…” Shen Liang waved his hand: “We will change the next two parts…”

Sammo Hung doesn’t know much about special effects, he changed the subject: “…I heard that the Hong Kong box office also broke 50 million Hong Kong dollars?”

“…Hong Kong was distributed by Silver Metropolis, but I heard that it sold well in Southeast Asia!”

“Well,” Sammo Hung admired: “I heard that the box office in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines all set new records for Chinese-language films!”

“It didn’t break the record…”

The record for Chinese-language films in Southeast Asia is “Kung Fu Yoga”: 20 million US dollars!

In addition, “Chinese Zodiac” box office in six Southeast Asian countries was 19 million US dollars…

Jackie Chan is really awesome, even “Rush Hour 3”, which is considered by many to be mediocre at the box office, is the annual champion of disc rental revenue of all North American movies in 2007 - nearly 72 million US dollars.

"Shushan" is still a little short of release. It has not been widely released overseas. Except for Southeast Asia, the copyrights of other countries and regions are sold separately...

It should be released in August in the European and North American markets...

Southeast Asia is estimated to be around 18 million US dollars.

"Japan, Japan and South Korea haven't entered the list yet. If they do, it will be a matter of time before the record is broken!"

Shen Liang nodded, and then reminded: "Korean movies have collapsed in recent years..."

Sammo Hung was surprised: "Did it collapse? Didn't you just win the Oscar?"

"The market is not big enough," Shen Liang took out his mobile phone, found some information, and then showed it to Sammo Hung: "Take a look!"

The information reads: Korean Film Collapse!

It has indeed collapsed. At its peak, Korean movies produced 373 movies a year, but in 2023, only 9 movies were launched in the first half of the year!

Why the sharp decline?

No more money!

What is the most important thing about making a movie?

First, you have to get to work.

If work can't be resumed, how can we make a movie?

After reading the information, Sammo Hung was surprised: "Has Korean movies already been like this?"

"Well, the local market is too small and the siphon effect from Hollywood..."

"...It's similar to previous Hong Kong movies..."

"Hong Kong movies have reshaped action movies for the world of cinema, while Korean movies have left nothing behind..." After a pause, Shen Liang added: "A hundred years later, when summarizing the history of world movies, Korean movies probably have nothing to say! "

While they were chatting, Cao Dun came over and said, "What are you talking about?"

"Nonsense..." Shen Liang took a sip of water: "Are you going to start filming?"

"It will take a while...they are setting up artillery..."

The meaning of setting up a cannon is to set up a mechanical rocker arm that can seat people. On one end, the person sits on the machine, and on the other end, the person controls the lifting and swinging...

Generally, when shooting big scenes, you must use a gun machine...

"Brother Liang, are you leaving the crew after filming today?"

"Um…"

"Do you want to have a final ceremony?"

"No, I have to leave soon... I also have to promote "Shu Mountain" and "All or Nothing"..."

By the way, "Fengshen" has been compressed and scheduled for the past three days...

The film was basically abandoned by theaters, and the creators stopped promoting the film.

Even actively cutting...

The promoters are not fools, so naturally they don’t dare to stir up trouble at this time!

Of course, all parties are busy protecting themselves and have no money for marketing...

The navy is gone too...

Even in Shen Liang's live broadcast room, few people mentioned the first part of "Fengshen"...

Just a few self-media wanted to attract a wave of traffic, combined with Shen Liangfa's post on Weibo, "The golden monkey rises up, and Yuyu clarifies thousands of miles; today I cheered Sun Dasheng, but the demonic mist returned again." ’, adding a bit of my own fabrication...

But there is no relevant report in the major media!

The Tengxun Department preserved "Fengshen"?

What's the point?

In the face of absolute administrative power, it is useless for anyone to come!