Chapter 899 The Road to the Future

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In Hong Kong, the "New Era of Cohabitation" kicked off by Sylvia Chang in 1994, with a box office of more than 20 million heralding a recovery in the Hong Kong film market.

What followed was the Spring Festival New Year holiday. Although just like the Christmas holiday two months ago, only five Hong Kong movies were released, the value of these five movies is very high.

The film released on Yonggao Cinema is "The Flag of the God of God" jointly invested by Yonggao, Zetung and Taiwanese scholars.

Although the title of this film is vulgar, the cast is not bad. It is starring Tony Leung, Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng, Ng Jung, Eric Tsang, Yu-ling Cheng and Ma Jiaqi, and it can definitely be regarded as a big cast.

This drama should be closed by Yonggao Film Company.

Roger Cheng first entered the film industry because of the popularity of Hong Kong films. Now that the film market has shrunk, he is not good at film production, so it is inevitable that the company will stop production.

In addition, Wong Pai Ming’s New City Pictures also came back.

"The Rich House" continues the New Year comedy style of "Happy Events in Flower Field" and "Happy Events in Family". Not only is Gao Zhisen the director, but it also brings together many stars such as Leslie Cheung, Tony Leslie Cheung, Mok Shunjun, Liu Qingyun, and Wong Bai-ming.

In addition to these two movies, it is "Drunk Fist 2" and "Kung Fu".As for the remaining "Bodhisattva Master", we can ignore it, just a floppy kung fu film filmed by Yuan Jiaban.

At this time, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong has dropped from 190 at the peak of last year to only 142 left, and all living are tycoons with tenacious vitality.

Five New Year's films represent the five major theaters, namely: "Drunk Boxing 2" Jiahe Cinema, "Kung Fu" Oriental Cinema, "Dragon Gambling Saint" Yonggao Cinema, "The Great Rich House" Xincheng Cinema, and "Bodhistor Master" Xinbao Cinema.

As the New Year was about to be celebrated, Chen Rongmei didn't feel any festive atmosphere.

Because of the low attendance rate of "The Master of Bodhidharma", filmed by Yuan Jiaban, was cut to only three theaters on the second day of its release, and the cumulative box office of the five-day period has not exceeded 1 million.

This kind of film was shown in the three theaters, and the number of scenes was directly eliminated by the three theaters.

The movie is not easy to make Ah!

Chen Rongmei looked at the empty theater. She couldn't describe it as attendance. During the Spring Festival, there were only seven or eight viewers in each screening hall.

Just a year ago, his cinema was still making money every day, so how could he expect that he was so embarrassed that he had no movie to play.

Xinbao Cinema is the theater company that relies most on Taiwanese-funded Hong Kong film supply sources among the major theater chains in Hong Kong.

Now Taiwanese film companies have reduced their investment, so that Xinbao cannot even produce a good movie during the Spring Festival, which is quite a bit like a sunset.

Chen Rongmei was smoking a cigar dullly, and asked the general manager of the theater, saying: Go and contact Jiahe, Xincheng, Yonggao and Dream Factory to see if they intend to rent a cinema.

The theater manager can be helpless, and the low attendance rate of theaters is only a matter of war for him.

In the past, most of the movies released by Xinbao theaters were works by independent film companies such as Sammo Hung and McDonald, and were all invested by Taiwanese investors.

Now Taiwanese funders are no longer investing money, Sammo Hung and others have no films to shoot, and when Xinbao Cinemas scheduled films, they can only choose bad films to make up the numbers.

During the Spring Festival in 1994, the good money-making period was very good, Xinbao could only watch others make money. Cinemas with good locations rented to other companies to show blockbusters, while cinemas with poor locations were used to release expired old movies.

Jiahe Film Company.

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were drinking tea, quietly waiting for the first week of box office data of "Drunk Boxing".

Soon, a middle-aged man in a suit knocked in the door and put a form on his desk. Reported: Mr. Zou, Manager He, "Drunk Boxing 2" 13.64 million in the first week!

call!Zou Wenhuai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not low."

He Guanchang asked: Are there any data on "Kung Fu"?

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and sighed: There is no need to know.Our enemy is not DreamWorks, but the shrinking Hong Kong and overseas box office markets.

Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, Chairman's Office.

Boss, the first week of "Kung Fu" box office statistics have been released.Li Meifeng handed over the form and said, 16.28 million.

Kang Jianfei said calmly: I understand, go and make a cup of tea for Manager Jiang.

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled and said: This time it is our victory again.

It’s not interesting to have a nest. Kang Jianfei threw the other two forms to Jiang Zhiqiang and said, “Look at the Christmas screenings in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. The first one was from 1992 and the next one was from 1993.”

Jiang Zhiqiang took the form and read it carefully, and frowned after reading it for a while.

Kang Jianfei continued: The Christmas films in these three places in 1992, both in box office and in the number of films, were occupied by Hong Kong films.But in just one year, Hollywood movies caught up. If this continues, the box office of Hong Kong films in these three places this year will be surpassed by Hollywood movies.

Jiang Zhiqiang asked: What does Mr. Kang mean?

Kang Jianfei said: I still bother Brother Jiang during the New Year because of this.The overall quality of Hong Kong films is now declining rapidly, and there are many bad films similar to the trend, resulting in aesthetic fatigue among overseas audiences.Nanyang Generation, Cathay and Shaw Brothers are the largest theaters, and they are only responsible for filming but not production.Hong Kong films are not pleasing to you now, and in order to make money, they release a large number of Hollywood films.In the long run, the film markets of various countries in Southeast Asia will be captured by Hollywood. Even if there are good movies in Hong Kong, they will not be able to compete with Hollywood blockbusters in filming.I think, invest in the construction of Nanyang Cinemas!

It should have been like this long ago!Jiang Zhiqiang slapped his thigh and said that he advocated the rapid expansion of Oriental Cinemas.

Kang Jianfei asked without any doubt: Before this summer, I would like to see a total of 15 modern multi-hall theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Are there any problems?

As long as there is sufficient funds, there is no problem at all.Jiang Zhiqiang said confidently.

Then I'll trouble Brother Jiang.Kang Jianfei smiled.

After Jiang Zhiqiang left, Kang Jianfei called Li Meifeng: Call Mr. Zhang from Heima Animation Company and ask him to come to my office.

Kang Jianfei has a lot of things. He doesn’t need to worry about the daily operation and management of each company, but he must be at the helm of the company’s development direction.

At least, if Kang Jianfei didn't take the initiative to propose it, Dark Horse Animation Company would not think about developing digital 3D animation.

Disney's digital 3D animation has been released for several months, but the animation talents in Hong Kong don't have much idea about this technology.

Kang Jianfei’s request is very simple, which is to spend money to the Black Horse Animation Company, so that they can steal, poach people, and copy the village, and spend a few years to create "Kung Fu Panda".

At least 2000 years later, dark horse animation companies must have the ability to independently produce 3D animated movies.

The road ahead is still long. At least in the next few years, Hong Kong film companies will die, and the rest may be hard to support or prosper.

As long as DreamWorks can survive until 2003, the huge mainland market will gradually open up in full swing, and at that time, it will encounter another opportunity to take off.

It's a long way to go, let's talk about the release of "Kung Fu".