After the news that Run Run Shaw announced that Shaw's production was suspended, Hong Kong newspapers, both left and right, made a lot of nostalgic reports on this.
When it comes to Hong Kong films, Shaw Pictures is a topic that can never be avoided. It once represented a glorious era of Hong Kong films and has the reputation of Oriental Hollywood.Now Sir Run Run Shaw has ended Shaw Pictures' 24-year film production business, which is the end of a film era. The name Shaw will remain in the memory of movie fans forever...
This is the high evaluation of Shaw Brothers by Sing Tao Daily, and it is also the general view of Shaw Brothers by many eulogies.
With the publication of these eulogies, Ye Zhiming, a business genius, found Run Run Shaw, selected dozens of classic Shaw's old movies to make videotapes, and also printed out of print collections on the cover, selling more than 800,000 boxes of horrible sales in the next three months.
In addition to regret and nostalgia, newspapers also analyzed the reasons for Shaw's decline. For example, the Oriental Daily interviewed an old Shaw employee.
The old employee was once a middle-level manager of Shaw Brothers. Now Shaw Brothers has stopped production and plans to retire. He is not polite at all and directly calls Fang Yihua the sinner of Shaw Brothers' bankruptcy:
What is a movie?Movies are a product for fun.
No one will buy a bad record, no one will want to watch a bad show.
Movies are like records and dramas. If you want to sell your own movies, you must make the movie well so that the audience will buy your account.
I joined Shaw Brothers in 1962. At that time, Shaw Brothers made excellence in films.
Why did "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" become popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nanyang? It was because Shaw Brothers was willing to spend money at that time, and it took 70,000 to 80,000 to build a library for Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai to study.
The 70,000 to 80,000 yuan at that time is only tens of millions now. Do you think such a sincere work is not good-looking?
In contrast, in the past decade, Shaw Brothers movies have not been found for a few films that have invested more than one million yuan. Don’t talk about huge investments to play the scenes, even the actors’ costumes can be saved.
When did this phenomenon begin?
Starting from Fang Yihua taking over the power of Shaw Brothers.
When Mr. Zou Wenhuai was in charge of Shaw Brothers production, Shaw Brothers had no idea of a movie budget. Although the salary to the staff was low, he was willing to spend money on film production.
After Ms. Fang Yihua took control of Shaw Brothers, the first thing she did was to set up a budget mechanism.
The director said that a street scene requires 200 extras, but Ms. Fang said that it is not possible, and the budget is only enough to hire 100.
The director said that the play requires designing costumes. Ms. Fang said no, Shaw Brothers has many costume rooms, so you can choose a few of them casually.
Some important costumes require two to three sets of important costumes, one set to wear for actors, one set to wear for stand-in, and one set to be spared when sweating or dirtying.
The time I remember most clearly was that because Ms. Fang gave her a budget too low, the actor and the stunt had to share a costume, and the final result was terrible.
Of course, Shaw Brothers was the most profitable at that time because the movies sold well at the box office and the cost was very low.
But the audience is not fools. When companies such as Jiahe, DreamWorks, and New Art City emerge, all the movies are better shot, who will watch inferior Shaw Brothers movies?
I have worked at Shaw Brothers for more than 20 years. It can be said that I have watched Shaw Brothers grow and decline step by step. With my conscience, I dare to say that Ms. Fang has an unshirkable responsibility for Shaw Brothers’ suspension of production!
Bastard!Fang Yihua threw the newspaper aside, and his old face turned green.
OK, there is no need to be angry about a report, and you can develop a wireless station with peace of mind in the future.Run Run Shaw bent down and picked up the newspaper on the ground.
How could Fang Yihua not be angry? After this report came out, many old Shaw employees scolded her secretly and said that she was the culprit of Shaw's bankruptcy.
Run Run Shaw slowly put the newspaper back on, and then asked: I heard that the ratings of "There is a beautiful wife in the family" were greatly overwhelmed by "The Grand Son 3"?
"Home Wife" is a fashion drama starring Tony Leung, Lan Jieying, Lei Liangwei and Cheng Yuling. The main purpose is to continue to praise Tony Leung in the past "The Deer and the Cauldron" craze, and then use veteran stars such as Lei Liangwei and Cheng Yuling to make newcomer Lan Jieying famous.
When this TV series was just aired, the audience reported it very well, and Lan Jieying even won the title of "The Best Wutai Mountain".
But less than a week after "Have a Beautiful Wife" was launched, Feng Huáng's station suddenly used the killer weapon "Sister Ghost 3", which instantly reduced the ratings of "Have a Beautiful Wife" to more than 20 points.
The "Senior Sister Tuo Gun" series is Feng Huáng's treasure of the Taiwan-superior Taiwan. It is not like the original time and space to produce a sequel, and the plot collapses and cannot be watched.
Feng Huáng TV has planned to produce sequels at a rate of one movie a year, and during the production process, the screenwriter of DreamWorks spent half a year writing the script. The second and third parts of "Senior Sister Tuo Gun" are much better than the original time and space.
Fang Yihua nodded and said that "The Wife in the Family" was indeed crushed very badly. She said: "The Senior Sister of the Tuo Gun" is so famous that the third part snatched the audience away as soon as it started.Now TVB is useless to shoot anything, so I can only give in temporarily and plan the next drama.
It's great that you can think like this, Run Run Shaw praised, Ahua, you have a strong ability, but sometimes you have too much temper and are too little tolerant to it. You must change this aspect.
I try to pay attention.
Fang Yihua didn't feel relieved of Run Run Shaw's words. She was considering what scene to shoot to fight back.
Some time ago, I finally made a movie called "The Deer and the Cauldron", which suppressed the ratings of Feng Huáng TV series without any resistance. Unexpectedly, the other party was asked back to the scene in just over a month.
Run Run Shaw glanced at Fang Yihua and walked slowly outside with a cane.
Run Run Shaw never regrets what he has done, but this time he can't help but wonder: Is it really selling the wrong thing to sell Shaw Cinema to Kang Jianfei?
Just yesterday's "Oriental Daily", the entertainment page headline was published with the title "Kang Jianfei's Entertainment Kingdom".
Mr. Run Run Shaw's film kingdom has fallen, and a new era in the Hong Kong film industry has long arrived, and who is the one who bears the banner of the new era?
There is no doubt that the current Hong Kong film industry is Jiahe, DreamWorks and New Art City. Judging from the box office situation of this summer, DreamWorks' box office revenue is equivalent to the sum of Jiahe and New Art City.
Looking at the box office of DreamWorks in recent years, the worst movies are over 2.5 million, and more than ten movies have box offices of over 10 million. This is really amazing data and far exceeds the data of other film companies.
And Kang Jianfei obviously wants more than that.
Just next week, several companies under Kang Jianfei will move into Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, which will greatly facilitate close cooperation between Oriental Dream Factory, Oriental Entertainment, Fengxing Records and Feng Huáng TV Station.
Movies, TV, records, and Oriental Entertainment, which holds a large number of celebrity resources, seem to have formed an independent entertainment kingdom in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City.
No one knows how far this entertainment kingdom will develop in the future, but it is undeniable that Kang Jianfei has mastered the entertainment trends and trends in Hong Kong...
……
Yongjia Film Company.
Compared with Xinyi City and DreamWorks, Yongjia Film’s office is really small, including the general manager’s office, there are only two office rooms.
Chen Xunqi walked in with his pocket in one hand, letting the script throw it on the table, and then he fell on the chair.
Brother Qi, the script has not been passed again?Wong Kar-wai came over and asked.
Chen Xunqi smiled bitterly: The company's recent films of "I Want a Bold Son-in-law" and "Goodbye to the Yellow Man" have lower box office than the other. Boss Lei doesn't believe me anymore. In the past, he used to pay for movies without saying a word.
Brother Qi, I'm sorry, it's because my script is not good.Wong Kar-wai said with a lot of blame, because "I Want a Bold Son-in-law" and "Goodbye to the Immortal" are both scripts written by him.
Wong Kar-wai is 26 years old. When he was in college, he worked as a part-time editor of "Movie Biweekly". Later, he signed up for the screenwriter training class of Wireless Channel.
After participating in creating a TV drama script, Wong Kar-wai first joined Xinyi City as a screenwriter (that is, he turned Wong's ideas into words), and later he was valued by Chen Xunqi and brought to Yongjia Film.
Wong Kar-wai always regarded Chen Xunqi as his mentor. At this time, he was very anxious about him when he saw that Chen Xunqi's movie could not get any funds.
It's not your business, Chen Xunqi comforted with a smile, your script is well written, and it was a problem when I was directing it.The company may not be able to make a movie this year. Boss Lei is short of funds and he really has no spare money to invest in me.If I don’t film, I don’t have much money to pay you a salary. You should go outside to take on more private jobs.
Chen Xunqi said that he is the boss of a film company, but he only has four people in the entire company, which is similar to the film studios of Tsui Hark and McDonald.
In the first year, Chen Xunqi made many movies, and naturally he was very proud. Unfortunately, most of the profits went into Lei Juekun's pocket.
Now the box office of two consecutive movies has dropped sharply. Although it can still make some money, the company's finances have begun to be stretched because Yongjia Pictures has only made one movie this year.
I wouldn't have left DreamWorks if I had known it. Now I have to manage the company and find money to make movies. I have a headache all day long.
This is an idea that Chen Xunqi occasionally has, but he is a person who wants to save face, and he really can't erase his face when he goes back to DreamWorks.
Wong Kar-wai was still counting on being with Chen Xunqi. Seeing that the company was not going well, he was even more anxious than Chen Xunqi and couldn't help but say: Brother Qi, I heard that you have a good relationship with Mr. Kang?
Normal.Chen Xunqi really didn't want to mention Kang Jianfei's name.
Wong Kar-wai encouraged him: You might as well close Yongjia Pictures, just like McDonald and Tsui Hark, to open a movie studio at DreamWorks.
Chen Xunqi's expression was a little unnatural, and he coughed and said: I'll find Boss Lei to invest in a few days.
Wong Kar-wai picked up the Oriental Daily on his desk and pointed to the report "Kang Jianfei's Entertainment Kingdom" and said: Brother Qi, Mr. Kang will be another "Film Run Run Shaw" in the future. Now you will be fine when you go back to work with him. At least you don't have to worry about not having money to make a movie Ah!
When it comes to Hong Kong films, Shaw Pictures is a topic that can never be avoided. It once represented a glorious era of Hong Kong films and has the reputation of Oriental Hollywood.Now Sir Run Run Shaw has ended Shaw Pictures' 24-year film production business, which is the end of a film era. The name Shaw will remain in the memory of movie fans forever...
This is the high evaluation of Shaw Brothers by Sing Tao Daily, and it is also the general view of Shaw Brothers by many eulogies.
With the publication of these eulogies, Ye Zhiming, a business genius, found Run Run Shaw, selected dozens of classic Shaw's old movies to make videotapes, and also printed out of print collections on the cover, selling more than 800,000 boxes of horrible sales in the next three months.
In addition to regret and nostalgia, newspapers also analyzed the reasons for Shaw's decline. For example, the Oriental Daily interviewed an old Shaw employee.
The old employee was once a middle-level manager of Shaw Brothers. Now Shaw Brothers has stopped production and plans to retire. He is not polite at all and directly calls Fang Yihua the sinner of Shaw Brothers' bankruptcy:
What is a movie?Movies are a product for fun.
No one will buy a bad record, no one will want to watch a bad show.
Movies are like records and dramas. If you want to sell your own movies, you must make the movie well so that the audience will buy your account.
I joined Shaw Brothers in 1962. At that time, Shaw Brothers made excellence in films.
Why did "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" become popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nanyang? It was because Shaw Brothers was willing to spend money at that time, and it took 70,000 to 80,000 to build a library for Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai to study.
The 70,000 to 80,000 yuan at that time is only tens of millions now. Do you think such a sincere work is not good-looking?
In contrast, in the past decade, Shaw Brothers movies have not been found for a few films that have invested more than one million yuan. Don’t talk about huge investments to play the scenes, even the actors’ costumes can be saved.
When did this phenomenon begin?
Starting from Fang Yihua taking over the power of Shaw Brothers.
When Mr. Zou Wenhuai was in charge of Shaw Brothers production, Shaw Brothers had no idea of a movie budget. Although the salary to the staff was low, he was willing to spend money on film production.
After Ms. Fang Yihua took control of Shaw Brothers, the first thing she did was to set up a budget mechanism.
The director said that a street scene requires 200 extras, but Ms. Fang said that it is not possible, and the budget is only enough to hire 100.
The director said that the play requires designing costumes. Ms. Fang said no, Shaw Brothers has many costume rooms, so you can choose a few of them casually.
Some important costumes require two to three sets of important costumes, one set to wear for actors, one set to wear for stand-in, and one set to be spared when sweating or dirtying.
The time I remember most clearly was that because Ms. Fang gave her a budget too low, the actor and the stunt had to share a costume, and the final result was terrible.
Of course, Shaw Brothers was the most profitable at that time because the movies sold well at the box office and the cost was very low.
But the audience is not fools. When companies such as Jiahe, DreamWorks, and New Art City emerge, all the movies are better shot, who will watch inferior Shaw Brothers movies?
I have worked at Shaw Brothers for more than 20 years. It can be said that I have watched Shaw Brothers grow and decline step by step. With my conscience, I dare to say that Ms. Fang has an unshirkable responsibility for Shaw Brothers’ suspension of production!
Bastard!Fang Yihua threw the newspaper aside, and his old face turned green.
OK, there is no need to be angry about a report, and you can develop a wireless station with peace of mind in the future.Run Run Shaw bent down and picked up the newspaper on the ground.
How could Fang Yihua not be angry? After this report came out, many old Shaw employees scolded her secretly and said that she was the culprit of Shaw's bankruptcy.
Run Run Shaw slowly put the newspaper back on, and then asked: I heard that the ratings of "There is a beautiful wife in the family" were greatly overwhelmed by "The Grand Son 3"?
"Home Wife" is a fashion drama starring Tony Leung, Lan Jieying, Lei Liangwei and Cheng Yuling. The main purpose is to continue to praise Tony Leung in the past "The Deer and the Cauldron" craze, and then use veteran stars such as Lei Liangwei and Cheng Yuling to make newcomer Lan Jieying famous.
When this TV series was just aired, the audience reported it very well, and Lan Jieying even won the title of "The Best Wutai Mountain".
But less than a week after "Have a Beautiful Wife" was launched, Feng Huáng's station suddenly used the killer weapon "Sister Ghost 3", which instantly reduced the ratings of "Have a Beautiful Wife" to more than 20 points.
The "Senior Sister Tuo Gun" series is Feng Huáng's treasure of the Taiwan-superior Taiwan. It is not like the original time and space to produce a sequel, and the plot collapses and cannot be watched.
Feng Huáng TV has planned to produce sequels at a rate of one movie a year, and during the production process, the screenwriter of DreamWorks spent half a year writing the script. The second and third parts of "Senior Sister Tuo Gun" are much better than the original time and space.
Fang Yihua nodded and said that "The Wife in the Family" was indeed crushed very badly. She said: "The Senior Sister of the Tuo Gun" is so famous that the third part snatched the audience away as soon as it started.Now TVB is useless to shoot anything, so I can only give in temporarily and plan the next drama.
It's great that you can think like this, Run Run Shaw praised, Ahua, you have a strong ability, but sometimes you have too much temper and are too little tolerant to it. You must change this aspect.
I try to pay attention.
Fang Yihua didn't feel relieved of Run Run Shaw's words. She was considering what scene to shoot to fight back.
Some time ago, I finally made a movie called "The Deer and the Cauldron", which suppressed the ratings of Feng Huáng TV series without any resistance. Unexpectedly, the other party was asked back to the scene in just over a month.
Run Run Shaw glanced at Fang Yihua and walked slowly outside with a cane.
Run Run Shaw never regrets what he has done, but this time he can't help but wonder: Is it really selling the wrong thing to sell Shaw Cinema to Kang Jianfei?
Just yesterday's "Oriental Daily", the entertainment page headline was published with the title "Kang Jianfei's Entertainment Kingdom".
Mr. Run Run Shaw's film kingdom has fallen, and a new era in the Hong Kong film industry has long arrived, and who is the one who bears the banner of the new era?
There is no doubt that the current Hong Kong film industry is Jiahe, DreamWorks and New Art City. Judging from the box office situation of this summer, DreamWorks' box office revenue is equivalent to the sum of Jiahe and New Art City.
Looking at the box office of DreamWorks in recent years, the worst movies are over 2.5 million, and more than ten movies have box offices of over 10 million. This is really amazing data and far exceeds the data of other film companies.
And Kang Jianfei obviously wants more than that.
Just next week, several companies under Kang Jianfei will move into Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, which will greatly facilitate close cooperation between Oriental Dream Factory, Oriental Entertainment, Fengxing Records and Feng Huáng TV Station.
Movies, TV, records, and Oriental Entertainment, which holds a large number of celebrity resources, seem to have formed an independent entertainment kingdom in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City.
No one knows how far this entertainment kingdom will develop in the future, but it is undeniable that Kang Jianfei has mastered the entertainment trends and trends in Hong Kong...
……
Yongjia Film Company.
Compared with Xinyi City and DreamWorks, Yongjia Film’s office is really small, including the general manager’s office, there are only two office rooms.
Chen Xunqi walked in with his pocket in one hand, letting the script throw it on the table, and then he fell on the chair.
Brother Qi, the script has not been passed again?Wong Kar-wai came over and asked.
Chen Xunqi smiled bitterly: The company's recent films of "I Want a Bold Son-in-law" and "Goodbye to the Yellow Man" have lower box office than the other. Boss Lei doesn't believe me anymore. In the past, he used to pay for movies without saying a word.
Brother Qi, I'm sorry, it's because my script is not good.Wong Kar-wai said with a lot of blame, because "I Want a Bold Son-in-law" and "Goodbye to the Immortal" are both scripts written by him.
Wong Kar-wai is 26 years old. When he was in college, he worked as a part-time editor of "Movie Biweekly". Later, he signed up for the screenwriter training class of Wireless Channel.
After participating in creating a TV drama script, Wong Kar-wai first joined Xinyi City as a screenwriter (that is, he turned Wong's ideas into words), and later he was valued by Chen Xunqi and brought to Yongjia Film.
Wong Kar-wai always regarded Chen Xunqi as his mentor. At this time, he was very anxious about him when he saw that Chen Xunqi's movie could not get any funds.
It's not your business, Chen Xunqi comforted with a smile, your script is well written, and it was a problem when I was directing it.The company may not be able to make a movie this year. Boss Lei is short of funds and he really has no spare money to invest in me.If I don’t film, I don’t have much money to pay you a salary. You should go outside to take on more private jobs.
Chen Xunqi said that he is the boss of a film company, but he only has four people in the entire company, which is similar to the film studios of Tsui Hark and McDonald.
In the first year, Chen Xunqi made many movies, and naturally he was very proud. Unfortunately, most of the profits went into Lei Juekun's pocket.
Now the box office of two consecutive movies has dropped sharply. Although it can still make some money, the company's finances have begun to be stretched because Yongjia Pictures has only made one movie this year.
I wouldn't have left DreamWorks if I had known it. Now I have to manage the company and find money to make movies. I have a headache all day long.
This is an idea that Chen Xunqi occasionally has, but he is a person who wants to save face, and he really can't erase his face when he goes back to DreamWorks.
Wong Kar-wai was still counting on being with Chen Xunqi. Seeing that the company was not going well, he was even more anxious than Chen Xunqi and couldn't help but say: Brother Qi, I heard that you have a good relationship with Mr. Kang?
Normal.Chen Xunqi really didn't want to mention Kang Jianfei's name.
Wong Kar-wai encouraged him: You might as well close Yongjia Pictures, just like McDonald and Tsui Hark, to open a movie studio at DreamWorks.
Chen Xunqi's expression was a little unnatural, and he coughed and said: I'll find Boss Lei to invest in a few days.
Wong Kar-wai picked up the Oriental Daily on his desk and pointed to the report "Kang Jianfei's Entertainment Kingdom" and said: Brother Qi, Mr. Kang will be another "Film Run Run Shaw" in the future. Now you will be fine when you go back to work with him. At least you don't have to worry about not having money to make a movie Ah!
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