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Text 992 [Differences and Persistence]

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    For Hong Kong people who pay attention to movies, this Spring Festival is very lively.  "The God of Cookery", "Ouchi Secret Agent", "Big Three", "Police Story 4" and "King of Fire" are fighting on the same stage, leaving no room for those low-budget movies to survive.  In the end, Cheng Long was the better one, beating out Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. The Hong Kong box office of "Police Story 4" was 57.5 million.  However, Zhou Xingchi wins with quantity. His "God of Cookery" and "Ouchi Secret Agent" were released at the same time and took 40.8 million and 36 million box office respectively. They changed the sluggish performance of Zhou's comedies last year and once again proved their strong box office  Appeal.  For those in the industry, they are more concerned about the news about the Hong Kong International Film and Television Exhibition.  Especially for those small and medium-sized companies that want to sell their films overseas, they must either turn to agents from large companies (which are often cheated), or travel around the world with copies themselves.  In the past, Taiwanese film studios would buy films featuring popular stars, but this is no longer the case in the past two years.  Once the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival is held, even if you don¡¯t get a ticket to the exhibition, you may be lucky enough to set up a stall outside the venue, just in case it is spotted by an international film company!  For large companies such as DreamWorks and Golden Harvest, what they value more is the strategic development significance brought by the growing influence of Hong Kong films after the International Film and Television Exhibition.  Even Jiahe, who is crazy about making money by making movies, is extremely positive about this, because the markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are shrinking, and they hope that their films can be accepted by international film producers (especially Europe and the United States).  ??Shao Yifu is much calmer. His Shaw Brothers and Metropolis have long ceased production, and he only occasionally makes one or two movies to increase his presence.  He also wants to increase the influence of Hong Kong TV series through international film and television exhibitions and sell the series to more regions.  After preliminary discussions, Kang Jianfei made a compromise.  In the future, the broadcasting rights of the Hong Kong International Film and Television Awards Ceremony will be obtained by Taiwan and Phoenix TV in turn, and the broadcasting rights of the first session were given to .  The Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival is initially scheduled to be held in March every year, after the Hong Kong Film Awards.  The two do not conflict, but can promote each other. One is based on Hong Kong films, and the other is open to the world.  Especially those films that win the Academy Awards can also sell for a better price when selling films at film festivals.  These are easy to say. What makes Kang Jianfei most depressed is that many colleagues in Hong Kong are too short-sighted.  Including Chow Wen-huai, when most Hong Kong filmmakers planned the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival, they believed that the exhibition works should be mainly Hong Kong films, with at most some Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese films added, and European and American films excluded.  This is because you are afraid that European and American films will take over the spotlight. But the problem is, you have excluded others, will others still pay attention to this film and television exhibition?  Only by providing benefits can European and American filmmakers be attracted to participate.  Many people understand this truth, but they just selectively ignore it. They only want to seize short-term benefits.  You say that in ten years¡¯ time, the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival will be built into the world¡¯s premier film and television event?  Haha, I still don¡¯t know what Hong Kong will look like in ten years, I won¡¯t think about it.  This kind of mentality is actually normal. Capital is chasing profits. How can ordinary filmmakers and investors consider such long-term considerations? This should be what the government should do.  But the problem is that there is no Film Development Council in Hong Kong today, so no one can make long-term plans for Hong Kong films!  Kang Jianfei believes that he should stand up. He hopes to build the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival into the most influential film festival in Asia.  Instead of 20 years later, when everyone talks about film festivals in Asia, they can only think of the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan and the Busan Film Festival in South Korea, and completely forget about the existence of the Hong Kong Film Festival.  After repeatedly expressing his stance to no avail, Kang Jianfei finally slapped the table.  He said firmly that if everyone still insists on their own opinions and only cares about immediate interests, then DreamWorks will withdraw from the film festival, and stars under the Oriental Entertainment Agency will not be allowed to attend the exhibition.  As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned.  Without the participation of DreamWorks and the participation of popular stars, it would be a crappy Hong Kong Film and Television Exhibition.  Not to mention that European and American film producers won't pay attention to it, even Hong Kong local movie fans are dismissive of it.  There is no other way. We can only sit down and discuss again to expand the number of non-Chinese-language films participating in the exhibition.  Moreover, Kang Jianfei has also set up a fund to support young directors around the world. Although the money is not much, it can attract countless filmmakers who have never seen their talents.  Film company bosses and investors are naturally disdainful of Kang Jianfei's approach.  However, the vast majority of conscientious, far-sighted, and ambitious colleagues hold a supportive and positive attitude. Kang Jianfei's prestige in the industry has risen to an absurd level.     how to say?  They have regarded Kang Jianfei as a well-deserved leader in the Hong Kong film industry.     thisFor a while, Kang Jianfei's phone kept ringing every day. Many directors, including Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Er Dongsheng, Xu Anhua, Xu Ke, Johnnie To, and Lam Lingdong, all expressed their support for Kang Jianfei.  The Hong Kong Film Awards Organizing Committee, the Hong Kong Directors Guild, the Hong Kong Film Critics Association, Film Fortnight and many other organizations have also joined in to discuss various details of the film and television exhibition.  The most mainstream opinion is to imitate the three major European film festivals and set up various competition and non-competition units to take into account the commercial and artistic aspects of films, among which the artistic aspect is more important.  Film company bosses, headed by Chow Wenhuai, have completely opposite opinions. They believe that the Hong Kong Film Festival should be mainly commercial, and the non-competition sections should be whatever you want, but the competition sections must leave space for commercial blockbusters.  The two sides were quarreling so much that they could not reach a consensus at all. This could only drag on for time.  If Kang Jianfei had not participated, the film company bosses would definitely have won the dispute. After all, capital is the most powerful.  The whole month of March passed in a quarrel, and even the attention of this year¡¯s Academy Awards has dropped a lot.  Kang Jianfei's "Resident Evil" has gained a lot, winning four technical awards for Best Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Music.  The real big winner is Ann Hui. "Woman 40" not only took home a Silver Bear trophy from Berlin, but also won the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best  The six awards for supporting actor almost swept this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.  By the way, this film "Women at 40" was also produced by DreamWorks. Not only did it have a great reputation, but it also did very well at the box office. It can be said that it has gained both fame and fortune.  In addition to the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Hong Kong Film Festival, what is also worthy of attention in the Hong Kong film industry during this period is the joint establishment of "Galaxy Image" by Johnnie To and Wei Jiahui.  In the original time and space, this company flourished in the ten years after the decline of Hong Kong films, with excellent films emerging one after another.
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