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    The Hong Kong film market performed very well at the end of 1995 and the beginning of 1996. However, after the Spring Festival holiday, the off-season situation in March, April and May made practitioners very worried.  ??Except for the explosion of Ang Lee¡¯s "Horse Race" in June, the Hong Kong films in the past few months have been pretty good with "Tiger Door" and "The King of Adventures".  As for other normal films, none even have a box office of over 8 million.  There was an unusual one that sold more than 8 million, but it was the Category 3 film "X Futon" produced by Wang Jing and directed by Qian Wenqi.  Well, Shu Qi finally made her official debut, and she became so popular that she released a full set of photos.  I heard that Ni Jiam likes it very much. Not only did he buy a complete set of photos of Shu Qi, but he also collected the movie video tape, VCD, and DVD of "X Futon". This is the rhythm of a die-hard fan.  In the summer season, it seems that "big productions" with star-studded productions cannot impress the audience.  "Golden Leaves 2", which was joined by Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Yuen Wing-yee, Lau Kar-ling, Stephen Chow, Cheung Tat-ming, Chen Xiaochun, Eric Tsang, Li Qihong and other stars, was heavily promoted, but the box office was only 20.91 million.  Although this film topped the box office for two consecutive weeks during the summer season, it unfortunately had too many stars and too much investment to recoup its production costs, so it could only rely on overseas box offices.  "It's a pity that it is difficult to see results in the short term at the overseas box office. UFO, which had great success two years ago, suffered serious losses for three consecutive films, and investors also lost confidence in it.  As the bosses, Eric Tsang, Peter Chan and Zhong Zhen, the vigorous creative soul of the company began to gradually extinguish. Although UFO has not officially announced its dissolution, it is no longer possible to continue making films in the short term.  Eric Tsang and Peter Chan want to return to Oriental DreamWorks, but unfortunately the biggest shortage in Hong Kong today is people working in movies.  The competition within DreamWorks is fierce, and there is no place for them at all. They can only make a living by accepting small-budget films here and there.  In the end, they came up with an idea to use the death of Teresa Teng last year as a selling point, and wrote a script called "Sweet Honey", and finally attracted investment from Jiahe.  However, although the production team of this film comes from UFO, the film copyright can only belong to Golden Harvest, and Eric Tsang and Peter Chan are completely reduced to wage earners.  "Similarly unlucky is Huang Baiming, a once influential figure in Hong Kong movies. In recent years, he has been doing nothing, and the company has continued to suffer losses.  The Metro Cinema Line, which he co-founded, finally announced its disbandment (several of its major cinemas were merged into the Xinbao Cinema Line) after the films released in the summer season were sold out. At the same time, Huang Baiming's Metro Cinema also announced its bankruptcy.  The movie boss Huang Baiming has died, leaving only screenwriter Huang Baiming and actor Huang Baiming.  At the same time, the disbandment of Metro Theaters marked the entry of a cold winter for the Hong Kong theater industry, and then the new generation of theaters (formerly known as Wing Ko Cinemas) also disappeared silently.  As a result, there are only four theater chains in Hong Kong, namely Golden Harvest, Sun Po, Golden Sound and Oriental.  Among them, Jiahe Cinema is owned by Zou Wenhuai, Oriental Cinema is owned by Kang Jianfei, and Xinbao and Jinsheng Cinemas are both controlled by Chen Rongmei.  After the summer vacation, because the theater business was really difficult to do, Chen Rongmei had to make adjustments.  He merged Jinsheng into Xinbao and eliminated redundant small theaters to reverse the loss-making business situation.  Now the three pillars have finally emerged, and there are only three cinema chain companies in Hong Kong: Golden Harvest, Xinbao and Oriental.  The bleak situation in the theater industry has made Hong Kong filmmakers very pessimistic. This is a return to its original rhythm, and the Hong Kong film industry has basically regressed back to 15 years ago.  Hong Kong will return next year, and the Xiang brothers are also beginning to find a way out.  This year¡¯s summer release, Yongsheng and DreamWorks jointly invested in a film called "New Shanghai Beach", starring in addition to Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau, the newly popular mainland actor Ning Jing was also specially invited.  Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng planned to gradually move closer to the central government, and even deliberately weakened Yongsheng Film Company and focused on the "China Star Group".  "Chinese star, Chinese heartthe meaning is self-evident, and it has been publicly expressed."  China Star Group was listed in the summer of this year, becoming the second Hong Kong film group to be listed after Golden Harvest. It owns the copyright of all the works of Yongsheng Company.  I have to say that the Xiang brothers made a good move.  When Hong Kong returned to China next year, the stock prices of many companies, including Golden Harvest, plummeted, but China Star's stock soared, rising from 82 yuan to 206 yuan in one month, an increase of 15,185%.  This is the advantage of pretending to surrender.  ¡­ Just as the Hong Kong film industry is about to enter a cold winter, real estate prodigy Luo Siu-fai is also facing a cold winter in his career.  Dongfanghong Group is holding an extraordinary board meeting.  Since this group is called Dongfanghong, it must be pro-mainland.  Because it has no choice but to kiss, Dongfanghong¡¯s main business is Chinese medicinal materials, including Chinese patent medicines and Chinese herbal medicines.Every year, we need to purchase a large amount of goods from the mainland.  Luo Zhaohui made his fortune through real estate speculation. Under the guidance of Da Liu, he entered the stock market and became a billionaire.  He also knew that opportunism was not a long-term solution, so he made a hostile acquisition of Dongfanghong Group two years ago, became the helmsman of the group, and began to develop into the industrial field.  Now, more than half of Luo Zhaohui's property is invested in Dongfanghong Group, which has become the foundation of his career.  Dongfanghong has been in trouble recently. Two batches of medicinal materials were detained when leaving customs in the mainland. It was said that some prohibited items were found.  "What do the people below do for a living! Is a trivial matter worthy of a board meeting?" Luo Zhaohui had reason to be angry. He had just made a small profit in the stock market and was celebrating on a yacht with his new celebrity girlfriend Sun Jiajun.  There were three other female celebrities taking the yacht out to sea together.  Luo Zhaohui was playing a crazy 5p battle at sea. He swallowed two blue pills in a row and couldn't let it out for five or six hours.  But at this moment, the secretary made more than ten calls in a row, asking him to return to the company to attend the extraordinary board meeting.  Until Luo Zhaohui came to the conference room, his lower body was still so hard that it ached.  A shareholder said: "I went to the mainland a few days ago and found out clearly. The group's medicinal materials were detained this time because a shareholder offended someone, and someone maliciously concealed poison in the medicinal materials." "Who was offended?  Are you here? Go and deal with it yourself!" Luo Zhaohui said, patting the table.  The other shareholders and director representatives seemed to have passed their anger in advance. At this moment, they all looked at Luo Zhaohui with a sneer. Although no one spoke, the situation was self-evident.  "Am I offending someone?" Luo Zhaohui said funny.  The previous shareholder said: "When I invited my mainland friend to dinner, he only revealed one word." "What word?" Luo Zhaohui asked.  "Good." said the shareholder.  "Kang Jianfei?" Luo Zhaohui understood instantly and became angry, "I didn't succeed in grabbing his mother, so do I need to be so cruel?" Under the pressure of other board members, Luo Zhaohui made several phone calls to Weng Hong.  She said she wanted to treat Mr. Kang Jianfei to a meal, but every time he told her in a good manner: Sorry, Mr. Kang is not available!  The next morning, the Hong Kong Financial Daily published a headline: Dongfanghong Group was suspected of drug trafficking, and two batches of medicinal materials had been detained indefinitely.  When the news came out, the share price of Dongfanghong Group plummeted, and Luo Zhaohui¡¯s net worth shrank by one-fifth in two hours.  (To be continued.)
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