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Volume One Chapter 588

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    The experience of later generations has long told Lin Xiaozhi that whether a good movie is released during the two prime times of the Chinese New Year and the Spring Festival will have an impact, but it is not as big as imagined.  This has been completely confirmed in mainland China. Although mainland film companies relied on personal connections to monopolize high-quality resources during the two prime time periods of summer and Spring Festival in mainland China for a long time, they once squeezed out imported American blockbusters regardless of the screening.  , release date and screening screen are far inferior to those made locally.  However, American blockbusters are still at their worst disadvantage, relying on one excellent film after another to continuously defeat the monopoly and constraints of mainland filmmakers, causing more and more theaters to alienate local film production companies, even if both parties are mostly national brands.  However, driven by profit, mainland theaters eventually turned to American imported blockbusters and proactively provided them with more high-quality shows and schedules.  It is evident that many American films have missed the prime time slots in mainland China and were released in the so-called off-season due to issues such as import review. However, they still frequently create record-breaking box office myths one after another in later generations.  The concept of prime time was brewed in Hong Kong in the 1970s, and it was not until the mid-1980s that it finally took shape. Whether it is the time before and after the Spring Festival or the shows during the summer, it has become a must-have period for many film companies in Hong Kong since 1987.  In the past few years, Lin Xiaozhi also paid more attention to these two major schedules. However, as his popularity and Media Asia's strength increased, his Debao Cinemas chain has firmly established itself as the largest cinema chain in Hong Kong.  Later, although he now arranges for the company to produce additional films every year to cope with the two prime time periods, most of the films he shoots deliberately avoid these two periods and are mostly scheduled to be released before the end of the year.  On the one hand, you can avoid competing with many film companies, avoiding box office declines, or meaningless cannibalism.  Secondly, except for himself, few film companies in Hong Kong have discovered the gap before the end of the year. Even if they did, it would be difficult to produce a good film like he and Media Asia did. They could almost dominate Hong Kong during the same period.  Most of the local box office.  Undoubtedly, several years of experiments have made Lin Xiaozhi more confident.  Since "League of Assassins" was released in October this year, the box office has been soaring. Although the theaters are not sold out, they have continued to be popular.  Other film companies are somewhat unprepared. Yongsheng has not yet recovered from the previous anti-gang storm. Apart from the two-part film "The Deer and the Cauldron" that started shooting at the beginning of this year, Yongsheng has only a few short films shot by Wang Jing and other Yongsheng directors.  cost.  Not to mention Princess Jin. After it went on the market some time ago, Lei Qizheng made a lot of money backhand. The eldest son of the Lei family was not a movie star to begin with, and now he is focused on contacting his next family to sell it.  The high-level turmoil in the hands of Golden Princess shares made New Art City, which should have been able to relax a bit due to its listing, very helpless. Although it has launched 11 movies this year, only two have invested more than 20 million.  It¡¯s just a small part, all at a low cost.  Speaking of Hong Kong, the only one that makes Lin Xiaozhi and Media Asia a little afraid is the Jiahe family.  However, Cheng Long's "Police Story 3", which Golden Harvest originally supported, was not satisfactory at the box office when it was released in the summer. It was almost beaten by Yong Sheng's "The Deer and the Cauldron", and the box office was exceeded by a large margin.  This year's Golden Harvest once again suffered from the jealousy of Hollywood filmmakers. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" co-produced by the two companies once again failed to reach an agreement between labor and management and the film's dividends. The film has been stuck in the late stage and has been filming for eight months.  It was not finished yet, forcing Zou Wenhuai to travel to the United States three times in half a year. After he came back, he was ruthless in recruiting people. It seemed that he had suffered enough from being constrained by American filmmakers and was ready to follow Media Asia's example and not plan to fight with the ghosts in Hollywood again.  Filmmakers collaborated.  Speaking of Golden Harvest's big productions this year, in addition to "Police Story 3" co-produced with Cheng Long, there is actually a movie called "The Great and Powerful" that Lin Xiaozhi is paying more attention to.  The script of this movie is written by Ni Zhen, the "Little Talent from Xiangjiang". The name may seem vulgar, but the content is a high imitation of a popular American movie from a few years ago - "The White-Headed Detective", which was made by Cheng Long.  A very good comedy police drama route.  Ni Zhen has been very prosperous in the Hong Kong film industry in the past two years. Although his character is a bit poor, his real materials and market vision are very good.  After being beaten up by Lin Xiaozhi a few years ago and almost unable to survive in Hong Kong, I was really pressured by my family not to offend Lin Xiaozhi at first. However, for a person like him who is so arrogant and petty, once he sees it,  If you go against anyone, you will hold a grudge for a lifetime.  Therefore, after seeing Lin Xiaozhi's amazing career in just a few years after starting from movies, he did not continue on the path of writing and publishing that he was good at. Instead, he still turned his head into the film industry.  If you want to make Lin Xiaozhi look good, Ni Zhen will naturally not do things without thinking.  Before he entered the industry, he had actually worked at TVB and Golden Harvest. He is very familiar with TV series and movies.?You know how much to shoot.  Originally, if he wanted to, he could have asked his father, Ni Kuang, for a script, and after more than ten years of steady work, he might have become a character after surviving his senior's death.  But Ni Zhen couldn't wait and was unwilling to take this safe path. He first carefully studied the market situation in the industry and found that in recent years, shoddy production has led to a sharp decline in Hong Kong people's enthusiasm for movies.  Combined with Lin Xiaozhi's various actions since his debut, Ni Zhen's extremely clever head quickly learned the old tricks of literati and copied other people's successful works.  If you want to copy, of course you have to choose the best one. Ni Zhen once studied in the United States, so he naturally knows that the most popular and best American blockbusters in the world are currently the most popular.  At this time, American films were still competing with Hong Kong films in Asia. Although every now and then, there would be several American film companies desperate to sell their films in, but most of them were rejected by locals because of differences in values ??and culture.  It has repeatedly failed due to the resistance of the forces, but that does not mean that its movies are really bad.  Over the past two years, without relying on his father or asking for help from his parents, he copied three or four American movies and adapted them into a Hong Kong version that was more in line with local audiences. Although his own film company was too weak to make a major film,  production, but it also earned tens of millions of dollars.  Up to now, he has not only kicked out his partners who had cooperated with him in the past few years to take over the film company and changed its name to 'Ni's Pictures', but he is also more ambitious and has begun to try to cooperate with other giant film companies to develop himself.  Faster.  "The Great and Powerful" appeared under such circumstances. At the beginning of the year, Ni Zhen contacted Jiahe with this script. Sammo Hung could tell at a glance that this script was very consistent with Cheng Long's style. With his promotion  Jiahe, Weihe and Ni's Pictures collaborated. Jiahe spent 50 million as a base, and Cheng Long and Ni Zhen each spent 10 million, so this movie was born.  Lin Xiaozhi once asked someone to find out that because the movie Jiahe did not have many special effects, it was actually completed half a month earlier than his "Guest League".  He originally thought that this movie, which was said to be very satisfying to everyone in Jiahe, would be paired with his own "League of Assassins". Unexpectedly, after learning about his release schedule, Jiahe actually took the initiative to adjust the release time to ten o'clock.  February came, obviously to avoid his limelight and not to engage in a fight between dragon and tiger.  Without the constraints of these three companies, most of the other film companies in Hong Kong will be ineffective.  "League of Assassins" was naturally a hit once it was released, almost destroying other movies released in Hong Kong and Macao at the same time. This made non-Depot theater operators feel miserable and could only watch the hot sales of Depot.  The ticketing team, as well as the rising box office of "League of Assassins".  Slightly later than the first batch of releases, "Assassin's League" soon landed in South Korea.  In the early 1990s, Korean local films had not yet emerged. Although there were some outstanding filmmakers, they were better at making films with political themes. In terms of commerciality, they were inferior to Hong Kong films in more than one street.  What's more, Media Asia has been working hard in recent years, and every year many high-quality movies are continuously arranged to be released in South Korea. Today, Hong Kong movies are still the most popular movies in South Korea, even higher than American blockbusters.  As soon as "League of Assassins", which is full of highlights and innovations throughout the movie, was released, with its cool elements and Media Asia's massive promotion, it set an astonishing record of 4.17 million moviegoers in just five days, making the whole country of South Korea fascinated.  shock.  Kim Ho-tae, the editor-in-chief of the film weekly "Voice of Cinema" that has not yet closed down at this time, even choked: "In Asia, there is a magical place called Hong Kong. It has far less land and talent than the Republic of Korea, but it has created  The film industry is more brilliant than that in half of Asia. The "Police Story" series and "Once Upon a Time" series produced by directors such as Mr. Tang Jili and Mr. Xu Ke have made our people even more amazed.  There are great commercial film directors like Mr. Hayashi who are famous in Asia and even the world. Every year, they can create and shoot some classics that are shocking to professional filmmakers and are regarded as textbooks. What is the difference?  If the 'movie censorship system' is not removed, the films of the Republic of Korea will not be able to rise in one day!" Korean veteran Lim Kwon-taek also expressed emotion: "American-style quality and creativity, Asian-style exciting action scenes, together with friends!  After watching Mr. Lim Hyo-ji's new film "Assassins", I have to admit that we can't make such a wonderful movie. Korean movies are still far behind the world" Suddenly, all the media in South Korea were talking about it.  News and reports related to it.
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