Chapter 458 Shaw Brothers discontinued production

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...This summer movies are quite exciting, with good movies from major film companies appearing one after another, bringing a movie feast to the majority of movie fans...

"Fast Food Truck" created by Jiahe has been released a few days ago, with a cumulative box office of 21.46 million yuan in Hong Kong. Only "The Best Bad Friend" directed by Wang Jing is still being released during the summer season.

In terms of box office, Oriental DreamWorks is the biggest winner of this summer. The total box office of the three films "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldier", "Happy Ghost 5" and "Love Saint" totaled 56.27 million yuan. Together with "Best Bad Friend", which has a box office of nearly 20 million yuan, the total box office of the summer is expected to reach as much as 78 million yuan.

In comparison, New Art City and Jiahe are much inferior. Apart from the two movies "Family Portrait" and "Fast Food Test", other films in the summer season have no outstanding performance.The box office data of DreamWorks this summer is equivalent to the sum of the two companies, Xinyi City and Jiahe, becoming a well-deserved film giant in Hong Kong.

Due to the popularity of "The Deadly Express" last year, Jiahe has great expectations for "Fast Food Truck". Not only has three kung fu stars, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, but also went to Spain to shoot with a total investment of about HK$25 million.However, after the release of "Fast Food Truck", its box office situation was very unexpected, and it was not as good as Jackie Chan's "Plan A" and Sammo Hung's "Five Blessings Stars".

Zou Wenhuai frowned and flipped through the newspaper, and threw it aside after reading half of it.

The box office of "Fast Food Truck" in Hong Kong surprised Zou Wenhuai, and they haven't figured out why this happened yet.

Is the box office of 21.46 million considered a good result?

Of course, this data can already rank among the top five in Hong Kong's annual box office list.

But it is really not proportional to the investment cost of "Fast Food Truck", and is too far from the box office that the movie itself should have created.

After rubbing his face and awakening his mind, the assistant quickly sent a box office analysis report, which was a data analysis sent by Jiahe Cinema.

Zou Wenhuai read it word by word, and finally couldn't help but sigh.

Judging from the box office curve and other related data of "Fast Food Truck", the box office potential of this film has not been fully inspired.

When it was first released, we had to compete for box office between "Love Saint" and "Family Portrait". Although we defeated the "Family Portrait" at the end of our strength, we did not suppress the "Love Saint" that had been released for half a month.

After the attendance rate of "Love Saint" dropped to a certain level, Oriental Cinema decisively replaced "Love Saint" with "Best Bad Friend" with the same nonsensical style, which just met the audience's requirement of watching nonsensical comedy.

"Best Bad Friend" brings together a group of stars such as Rosamund Kwan, Li Meifeng, Ng Junru, Leslie Cheung, and Eric Tsang, which is quite attractive to the audience. In addition, Kang Jianfei deliberately asked Wang Jing to shoot according to the feeling of "He comes from the Jianghu". Although it was filmed with Wang Jing's style of shit, pee, fart, and fake comedy, it was enough to make the screening room laugh endlessly.

In other words, after its release, "Fast Food Truck" was surrounded by three high-box movies.

The box office of 21.46 million is already high enough, and he only lost more than 1 million in "Family Portrait". Even with the appeal of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, he really can't get more box offices.

Zou Wenhuai carefully read the box office analysis report of "Fast Food Truck" and could only admit that he was unlucky and lamented that "Fast Food Truck" was born at the wrong time.

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong...

A rapid knock on the door sounded.

Zou Wenhuai said without raising his head: Come in!

Liu Lianghua walked over anxiously and started to say after just two steps: Wen Huai, something big is wrong.

When Zou Wenhua saw Liu Lianghua's panic, he already had a bad premonition in his heart and asked: What happened again?

Liu Lianghua said with a serious expression: Just received the news that Run Run Shaw is about to announce that Shaw Pictures will stop production and will also package Shaw Theater Line to Kang Jianfei!

What?Zou Wenhuai stood up directly after hearing this. Will Shao Laoliu sell the theater chain to Kang Jianfei?The two of them have such a big grudge, and it is impossible to sell it to Kang Jianfei Ah!

Liu Lianghua couldn't help but smile bitterly: Jiahe hasn't worked with Shaw Brothers in the past two years, and the hatred between you and Run Run Shaw is much greater than Kang Jianfei.

That's different. Zou Wenhuai was so anxious that he walked around the office and said, "Cooperation is cooperation, that's purely commercial interest."But Run Run Shaw regards the theater as his lifeblood, how could he sell it to his competitors?

Maybe it’s because I can’t find a buyer. Liu Lianghua speculated that Shaw Brothers Cinemas has been losing money since the previous year, and several theaters have withdrawn one after another.If Run Run Shaw keeps holding the theater chain in his hands, he will lose more and more. It is the best choice to sell it in packages.

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said: With my understanding of him, he will never sell out the theater.Do you know the specific transaction details?

This is not clear.

Liu Lianghua said.

She used to be a star of Shaw Brothers and had many old friends at Shaw Brothers, so she could soon receive news about Shaw Brothers, but the specific details were difficult to find out.

……

Zou Wenhuai's doubts did not last long, and the Oriental Daily and Ming Pao published big news.

Sir Run Run Shaw officially announced that Shaw (Brothers) Film Company will be suspended indefinitely on September 10, ending its 24-year film production business...

Mr. Kang Jianfei and Mr. Run Run Shaw recently reached an agreement to purchase 6 theaters on Shaw's theaters for 43 million yuan, and to obtain the 8-year right of the four leading theaters in Shaw's theaters for 70 million Hong Kong dollars...

Oriental Cinemas has become the largest theater in Hong Kong, with 24 theaters, and the second-ranked Golden Princess Cinemas has only 22 theaters...

The Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, which Mr. Kang Jianfei independently founded, has been officially completed a few days ago. Oriental Dream Factory, Oriental Entertainment Company, Fengxing Record Company, and Feng Huáng TV Station will be moved to Tseung Kwan O...

News came out one after another, and for ordinary citizens, it was just a fun view, but for practitioners in the entertainment industry, it was undoubtedly a major earthquake in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Shaw Pictures, a film industry giant that has influenced a generation, finally died and ended its production business, which also announced the complete end of a film era.

Although the Shaw Brothers film kingdom collapsed, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. The legacy it left behind is a huge film resource, and the Shaw Brothers theater is the most important part of this legacy.

Countless visionary film company owners are heartbroken. If they can inherit the Shaw Brothers theaters' legacy, they might be the second Jiahe.

But this is just a thought. They don’t have the spare money to spend more than 100 million to buy Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

In addition to the expensive theaters, the set of Clear Water Bay was bought by Wireless TVB at a low price, and some Shaw employees also transferred to join Wireless TV.

However, the TVB can't eat the entire Shaw Brothers. There are so many filming equipment for Shaw Brothers alone. A large part of them were auctioned off by the TVB, which made many small and medium-sized film companies cheaper.

The most important thing is the old Shaw family employees. Even though they have been absorbed by TVB, there are still more than 1,000 people who have not been able to work.

After being recruited by Wireless and many film companies, only a bunch of temporary shows and handymen who were making a living on the set of Qingshui Bay were left. These people rushed to Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City in Kang Jianfei, which was considered to solve the problem of insufficient labor resources for the film and television city.

In the end, there is a relatively special group left, namely the well-known directors and actors of Shaw Brothers, such as Zhang Cheung, Chu Yuan, and Di Long.

Traditional martial arts films have long been outdated, and it is impossible for Zhang Che, Di Long and others to join TVB because there is no suitable position there, but no other company will make martial arts films. They will face the dilemma of having no film to direct and acting.

Zhang Che's home.

Di Long was restless on the sofa and finally couldn't help asking: Master, do you have any plans?

Zhang Che shook his head and said: I am old and I am ready to take a break.

Di Long still has his wife and children to raise, but he can't retire like Zhang Che. He asked: Master, do you think I should stay in Hong Kong or go to Taiwan to develop?

Taiwanese movies are dead, what are you doing in Taiwan?Zhang Che asked back angrily.

But Shaw Brothers fell, and no one in Hong Kong has made martial arts films.

Di Long's words are actually not accurate. There are still martial arts films in Hong Kong now, but they are all small costs and they can't afford to hire a martial arts star like him.

Zhang Che smiled and said: Apart from martial arts movies, you won’t act in other movies?

I was unsure of acting in other types of movies. Di Long sighed, Besides, martial arts films have become more and more declining in recent years. Who else would value me, a martial arts star?

Zhang Che was silent when he heard Di Long say this.

With the decline of martial arts films, those of them who have become famous by making martial arts films seem to have a bright future.

Hua Shan, the young martial arts director of Shaw Brothers, went to TVB to be behind the scenes after Shaw Brothers stopped production.

Chu Yuan, the big director who is as famous as Zhang Che, just entered Jiahe with his previous friendship, but it is also a way to help others. It is almost impossible to redirect the cylinder within one or two years.

Even these two top directors have been doing so miserably. The remaining second- and third-rate martial arts directors are really desperate and have all gone to work as handymen in other companies.

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Che reminded: Don’t treat yourself as a big star, go to other companies to be supporting roles, and get up step by step.

Dillon's fist clenched and loosened, and finally made up his mind and asked: Jiahe, Xinyi City and DreamWorks, which one would I go to?

Not good, none of the three companies have your place.Xinyi City focuses on urban comedy, and its resources are tilting towards comedy movies, which is what you are not good at; Jiahe has too many male stars and tends to kung fu movies, no matter how you make it, you can't surpass Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. Zhang Cheol stared at the newspaper title on the coffee table and said, "There are too many actors in DreamWorks and is quite competitive." Fortunately, this company has filmed all kinds of movies, so you can try it as a kind of exercise."If you take a step back, you can't make any more money and you can still shoot martial arts films for Feng Huáng.

Following Zhang Che's eyes, Di Long saw a huge title in the newspaper: Kang Jianfei's Entertainment Kingdom.