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- This year is the year of the rapid rise of Hong Kong films. Due to the influence of Wang Zijun, star artists such as Cheng Long and Chow Yun-fat left Taiwan. The prosperity of Hong Kong films in the parallel space was delayed. In 1984, the total box office sales of Hong Kong films did not reach the parallel space. Half of it.
At the beginning of this year, Golden Harvest's "Lucky Star" showed its prowess, taking home box office of HK$3,200 in one fell swoop, followed by Tsui Hark's "The New Swordsman of Shushan" which hit theaters in the United States, and Lin Ching-ying's "Mr. Zombie" which won the second The troops also won consecutive battles and victories. In addition to these films, a number of small and medium-sized film companies are also blooming everywhere. In the first half of the year alone, 11 local films with a box office of tens of millions have emerged.
Looking at the box office performance of Hong Kong films in the first half of the year, the total domestic and overseas sales of Hong Kong films this year are likely to double.
This doubling is mainly due to the European and American box office revenue. The 30 million U.S. box office of "New Shushan Swordsman", coupled with its imminent release in Europe, contributed considerable foreign box office data.
At the same time, there is also Golden Harvest's "Lucky Star", which is a film jointly produced by Golden Harvest and Baohe. Not only Sammo Hung directed and starred in it, but also invited Cheng Long, who had a bloody collision in Hollywood last year. The two collaborated to attract huge amounts of money in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, with the box office ranking only behind Wang Zijun's "et".
Zou Wenhuai, who has reached an agreement with Wang Zijun, has already contacted Longhu Film Company and will soon release "Lucky Star" in the United States.
In the first half of 1985, Hong Kong filmmakers saw the signs of a box office explosion for Hong Kong films, and they were gearing up to show off their power in this year's summer season.
? But many movies come together. The fierce competition at the box office during the summer season far exceeded the expectations of film company bosses and directors.
Tsui Hark's "The New Shushan Swordsman" Part 2, Sammo Hung's "Summer Fortune", Xu Guanjie's "The Working Emperor", Cheng Long's "Police Story", as well as "The Royal Sisters 2", "The Happy Ghost's Summer Vacation", "Kapok" Kasaya" and so on. A bunch of good movies came out at the same time, making Hong Kong movie fans happy and sad. Which one should you choose to watch first?
"The biggest headache for Hong Kong directors is that Wang Zijun, a cross-river dragon, came to Hong Kong with "The Three Heroines of the East" to compete for the summer schedule, which made the already miserable schedule. Suddenly it became bloody and bloody, with corpses floating everywhere.
"Three Heroes of the East" was released in early July. As soon as the release date was announced, a lot of Hong Kong films were frightened to postpone their release dates. However, some people who did not believe in evil still had the courage to support it.
On July 3rd, "The Heroine of the East" will be released; on July 8th, "Mr. Zombie 2" will be released; on July 15th, "Police Story" will be released; on July 21st, "Summer Lucky Star" will be released; July 22nd. "Royal Sister 2" is released
The continuous release of these strong films has made it almost impossible for the ordinary films crowded in to have a foothold. Some small companies gritted their teeth and made movies with great hopes, but in the end they could only be scheduled in the daytime and midnight slots.
But this is still not enough. The pioneering pure female perspective and the blockbuster model that combines the East and the West in "Three Heroes of the East" have made Asian movie fans enthusiastic. Due to the popularity, major movie theaters have revised their film schedules. The filming rate of the film in Hong Kong once reached 65%. Those small films without the support of theaters could not even keep daytime screenings and had to make way for "The Three Heroines of the Orient".
In just five days, the box office revenue of "The Three Heroines of the East" in Hong Kong exceeded HK$10 million, and the momentum was even greater than when "ET" was released.
Hong Kong's "Film Fortnightly" said: ""The Three Heroines of the East" is a landmark movie. It will become a classic of Oriental action films, and its influence is even comparable to Bruce Lee's debut "Brother Tangshan" Purely based on movies In terms of art, "The Three Heroines of the East" is far inferior to his previous work "et". However, in the context of the gradual decline of Bruce Lee-style kung fu films, it is a commercial film model that perfectly combines Eastern elements with the Hollywood model. As well as the pioneering use of various commercial action film elements in the film, it can be used as a guiding work for Chinese-language films to enter Europe and the United States"
"Ming Pao Weekly" compared "The Three Heroines of the East" with last year's "Royal Sisters" produced by Debao Film Company. Both films feature female protagonists. Said that "The Royal Sisters" still does not escape the category of Hong Kong police and gangster films and urban comedy films, while Wang Zijun's "The Three Heroines of the East" is more pure. The enemies of the three heroines are all highly skilled and have extremely high IQs, and their opponents are powerful. It will only make the three heroines even more powerful, so powerful that they put men to shame.
Relatively speaking, although the two policewomen in "The Royal Sisters" are also very strong, they face a bunch of supporting actors who pretend to be stupid and constantly make jokes. It seems so ordinary and inferior.
"Ming Pao Weekly"'s evaluation is very accurate. Last year, due to Yang Ziqiong's participation in "The Three Heroines of the East", the heroine of "The Royal Sisters" finally became Ye Yuqing. This was also an exchange between Wang Zijun and Pan Dickson. Ye Yuqing directlyTransfer the movie to Debao Company. As for the other female police officer, she is still the karate world champion Cynthia Rothrock just like in the parallel space.
After the huge success of "The Royal Sisters", Debao Company took advantage of the heat to launch "The Royal Sisters 2" this year, with the heroines Ye Yuqing and Yang Lijing respectively.
Half a month after "The Three Heroines of the East" was released, "The Royal Sisters 2", which is barely of the same genre, was also released. Everything in this world is subject to comparison. After watching "The Heroine of the East", Hong Kong audiences became very fond of the same type of female star films. As a result, "The Royal Sisters 2" had a huge box office in the first half month of its release, but gradually the audience and the media Everyone thought that "The Royal Senior Sisters 2" was much worse than Wang Zijun's "The Three Heroines of the East". After that, the attendance rate of "The Royal Senior Sisters 2" dropped rapidly.
As for "Summer Lucky Star", which was directed and acted by Sammo Hung and starred by Cheng Long and others, due to its staggered release time of more than half a month, the support of Golden Harvest theaters, and the humorous fighting plot, it was not favored by "The Oriental". "Three Heroines" suffered such a heavy press, but the final local box office still reached 26 million Hong Kong dollars, only 2 million less than "Parallel Space".
Not to mention directors and film companies, the most popular movie stars today are undoubtedly Lizzie, Michelle Yeoh and Ira Claudia. Then there is Cheng Long, a desperate guy. This guy seems to have been stimulated by the failure to enter Hollywood last year. In the first half of this year, he filmed a total of five movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were box office hits. His influence in Asia has once again reached a new level. the height of.
Although there have been considerable changes in the films in Hong Kong, at least Wang Zijun can still guess some shadows. The Taiwanese films released this summer in Taiwan are completely different. Wang Zijun has never heard of any of the top ten box office films in Taiwan in the first half of the year: one of his own "The Three Heroines of the East", two action films by Cheng Long, and one from Taiwanese studios and China Film. Several science fiction, action, war and literary films from the company, Superstar Company, First Pictures, and Lianzhong Films.
¡°Compared to the fact that there are only a few artistic films left in the parallel space, Taiwanese films are now in full bloom. Prosperity arose.
Just when the situation was looking good, Zhuge Mao, the general manager of Hong Kong New Art City, sent an unpleasant message to Wang Zijun: Mecca, Shi Tian, ??Huang Baiming and others were making trouble to break up.
In this time and space, several people's shares in Xinyi City are almost equally divided. It is understandable that Mecca is ambitious and wants to go it alone. Logically speaking, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming should not want to leave. They have received a lot of dividends. .
Wang Zijun rushed to Hong Kong overnight. The first thing he found was Teddy Robin. He invited this old friend out for tea. During the chat, Wang Zijun asked about the situation of Mecca and others.
Teddy Robin sighed: "There are a few of them. They are all free and looking for trouble"
After Teddy Robin explained it, Wang Zijun gradually understood the ins and outs.
It turns out that New Arts City was originally supported by Tsui Hark, Shek Tian, ??Makka, Huang Baiming, Teddy Robin, Shi Nansheng and Eric Tsang. Tsui Hark was first dissatisfied with the other people's focus on comedy and dictating everything. His girlfriend Shi Nansheng left and established Tsui Hark Film Studio with funding from Wang Zijun.
Then Wang Zijun began to train a team of special effects personnel in Xinyi City. This greatly reduced the presence of Mecca, who was born in electronic engineering and was fully responsible for the special effects work of New Art City. Coupled with the continuous sales of "The Best Partner", Mecca believed that he took the most credit, but his income was the same as several others and he was dissatisfied.
Huang Baiming¡¯s specialty is screenwriting, but Wang Zijun let Zhuge Mao establish the screenwriting department in Xinyi City to become increasingly mature. The streamlined screenwriting work often contradicted Huang Baiming's ideas, which made him feel that he was a hero and had no use for it, so in the end he simply gave up his job as a screenwriter.
Zeng Zhiwei and Shi Tian had a conflict over the choice of actor roles. Shi Tian, ??one of the shareholders, made unscrupulous remarks and the relationship between the two deteriorated sharply.
Because several people had their own concerns, they didn¡¯t shoot a single movie in the first half of this year. Films such as "Police Story" and "Mr. Zombie 2" produced by New Art City were created by other people in the company, which made them feel even more marginalized.
"You are really so busy!" Wang Zijun couldn't help but smile after hearing this.
Before the smile on his face dissipated, Wang Zijun was suddenly startled, wondering if it was Zhuge Mao, a sinister guy, who was deliberately sowing discord and could suppress a few people in the cold, right?
When Zhuge Mao agreed to Wang Zijun's appointment as the general manager of Xinyi City, he revealed his intention to squeeze out a few people after the company got on the right track. Without Zhuge Mao's instructions. How dare those screenwriters in the screenwriting department go against Huang Baiming?
The more Wang Zijun thought about it, the more it seemed possible. Otherwise, how could Mecca and others go on strike collectively?
Wang Zijun suddenly became confused as to whether it was right to let Zhuge Mao take charge of Xinyi City. No??This thought was fleeting. Although Makka, Shi Tian and others are the best film talents in Hong Kong, their small group creation method is obviously not sustainable and is not conducive to the long-term development of the company. In addition, they often regard themselves as heroes of the company and have arbitrary opinions on the film production process, so appropriate beatings are in order.
"Zhuge Mao is not a fool. If the Mecca people hadn't acted a little too much, he wouldn't have taken advantage of himself like this.
The strike and dispersal of the Mecca people was obviously in response to Zhuge Mao's beating. They were shareholders of the company and were Zhuge Mao's bosses, so they naturally dared to act rogue in front of Zhuge Mao.
Zhuge Mao must have been unable to work with them, so he tactfully told Wang Zijun that the Mecca people wanted to break up. That means telling the people in Mecca that you guys are getting into trouble and quitting. Well, then, I will convey your wishes to the chairman.
After thinking about it, Wang Zijun said to Teddy Robin: "Brother Guan. Please inform them that the temporary board of directors will be held tomorrow."
"Okay." Teddy Robin nodded. He had little power and had always been a cold observer to the struggle between Mecca and others and Zhuge Mao. Anyway, he can't escape those shares in Xinyi City, and it doesn't matter what Wang Zijun does with them.
Farewell to Teddy Robin, Wang Zijun came to Xinyi City and directly asked Zhuge Mao to bring the company¡¯s personnel information.
At first glance, it turns out that this is the case. Zhuge Mao is quite capable. Xinyi City has grown rapidly in recent years, but the people in Mecca have not only earned fame and money. There is actually no decision-making power in Xinyi City. Almost all important departments in Xinyi City are Zhuge Mao's confidants. Apart from shareholders, the positions of the few people in Mecca only have a few fictitious department directors.
Wang Zijun laughed when he saw it. He probably would have been as angry as Mecca and the others and wanted to leave.
After Wang Zijun read the personnel information, he called Zhuge Mao into his office and threw a copy of the information to Zhuge Mao. He laughed and scolded: "Are you being too bullying?"
Zhuge Mao had almost no mood swings and said: "It's just that they can't keep up with the development of the company. After last year's "The Best Partner" was released, a few of them were so complacent that Tsui Hark's movie was a hit, and they actually wanted to do it. The company's annual production plan was changed out of thin air, and the budget that should have been used for other films was transferred to the next "Best Partner". Isn't this child's play? The company's annual plan can be changed at any time. People Mai Mai The director has the worst temper, and he threw coffee in my face in front of more than 20 employees of the company. You said that if he discussed it carefully, I might really increase the budget for him, but he actually did this? "
Wang Zijun glanced at the "Best Partner" planning book on the table and asked with a smile: "So not only did you not increase the budget for them, but you reduced the investment in "Best Partner" at the beginning of the year, and then they collectively gave up the project. ?¡±
Zhuge Mao nodded and said with a smile: "The boss is wise."
"What a wise man! They are also shareholders after all, and their combined shares are more than mine. It's just for my sake that I tolerate you until now, so why can't you just give in a little bit?" Wang Zijun scolded.
Zhuge Maodao: "For the development of the company, we cannot give up on matters of principle. Since the company has formulated a plan, even you, the chairman, cannot change it just because you want it. Even if you want to change it, you must give me a convincing reason."
"Go away!" Wang Zijun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. These words meant that instead of scolding him, he should praise Zhuge Mao.
The next day, several major shareholders of Xinyi City were called into the conference room.
Wang Zijun sat in the chair, with Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian and Teddy Robin sitting on both sides.
"Hello, Mr. Wang!" Although Mecca and others had objections to Zhuge Mao. But when they saw Wang Zijun, they still smiled at each other, and everyone laughed and said hello as if nothing happened.
Wang Zijun waited for everyone to sit down and then said, "Let's talk about it. What do you think?"
"I doubt Zhuge Mao's ability to be the general manager of Xinyi City," Maijia said.
Well, I was ready to impeach Zhuge Mao as soon as I came here and wanted to replace him.
Wang Zijun asked: "Can you tell us specifically what shortcomings the managers have?"
"Of course" Mecca's tone paused. He really couldn't tell what Zhuge Mao did wrong. After all, Zhuge Mao always acted according to the rules. Could it be that Zhuge Mao, the general manager, doesn't give them face as a few shareholders, so he should be fired?
Huang Baiming saw that Mecca couldn't explain the reason, so he took over the words: "I think the managers are dictatorial in the company, and everyone must listen to him. I, the director of the screenwriting department, is just a decoration, and the screenwriters below are not at all Don¡¯t listen to my opinions, only listen to Zhuge Mao¡¯s orders.¡±
¡°??Is there any? "Wang Zijun asked.
Shi Tiandao: "Zhuge Mao is just a villain. He sows dissension in private, which makes me and Eric Tsang look like enemies when we meet now."
"What else?" Wang Zijun asked.
"I think these are enough," McGa said. "There are problems with his work attitude and character."
"Just these trivial things? Haha," Wang Zijun said with a smile: "Otherwise, everyone will step back and I will be the peacemaker. The managers also think about the company. You are all shareholders of the company, and the extra money you make is not yours. ? I asked him to apologize to everyone and respect your opinions in the future. We will continue to cooperate sincerely to make Xinyi City better. How about it? "
¡°I don¡¯t want anything else, I want the decision-making power of the company¡¯s shooting plan,¡± said Mecca.
Huang Baiming said: "I have the final say in the screenwriting department, those small screenwriters don't even understand what script writing is!"
Shi Tian said: "I have to take care of the selection of actors. I can't just accept them just because someone says so."
Wang Zijun looked at Teddy Robin: "What about you?"
Teddy Robin smiled and said, "I'm just a musician, I don't have many requirements."
"Is it that simple?" Wang Zijun looked at everyone, suddenly clapped his hands and said with a smile, "These are all small things, and you are all masters, so it's settled."
The people in Mecca did not expect Wang Zijun to agree so quickly. Before they could be stunned, they heard Wang Zijun say again: "However, I hope you will strictly abide by the company's regulations and make decisions not based on personal preferences. If anyone breaks the rules , that would make it difficult for me to do it!¡±
These words were a bit serious, and the threat and warning contained in them was very strong. Several people were trying to figure out what Wang Zijun said, when they saw that Wang Zijun's expression became happy again, and he laughed and said: "Let's go, let's not get together for a long time. Let¡¯s have a drink together in the evening.¡± (To be continued)
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