Chapter 450: Comic Overlord
Back in Hong Kong, Cheng Xiaodong started the post-production stage non-stop, and Qiao Feng contacted Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui, two Hui and Huang Ersheng, who have worked together for more than 20 years, to arrange the theme song and soundtrack of the ancient and modern wars of the Qin Warriors.
"If you sing this song, you can still win a Golden Melody Gold Award this year." Qiao Feng said to Ye Qianwen, so Ye Qianwen only lingered with Qiao Feng for a day before he threw himself into a nervous recording.
"The Flying Dragon Warrior got 35.6 million at the box office, the Eight Star Annunciation got 39 million at the box office, and the Gambling Saint broke the local box office record set by the Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother last year with a box office score of 47 million." On this day, Qiao Feng went to the theater to take a look at the recent film schedule, and Li Zhi sorted out the box office sales of the next Spring Festival file by the way, and made a detailed report.
Li Zhi has reported these box office situations, but they are all reported separately, although Qiao Feng generally remembers them clearly, but Li Zhi's summary report still made Qiao Feng more intuitive to understand the box office situation of the Spring Festival stalls, Qiao Feng is very satisfied with the work ability and attitude of Li Zhi, the assistant and theater manager.
"What's been the main release lately?" Qiao Feng asked after listening to the report.
"There are two husbands and wives produced by Golden Harvest and starring Miss Zhong, Overlord Flower jointly produced by Golden Harvest and Cheng Long's Weihe, and Tiger produced by New Art City, these three are the three movies with the highest film schedule in our theater recently." Li Zhi answered directly without thinking about it, and these have long been remembered in his mind.
"Oh." Qiao Feng nodded, except for Qiao Feng, a wife and two husbands, who have not seen these three films, the other two Qiao Feng have seen them, and I know that these two films are very good, especially the tiger is out, and the box office results should be very good.
"Is there any new progress on Huang Yulang's side?" Qiao Feng asked again.
"No, Zheng Jinghan and Hu Xian of Sing Tao Group were rejected by him, and so were ours." Li Zhi shook his head and said.
"Well, it looks like this guy is really going to hold on." Qiao Feng shook his head noncommittally and chuckled.
Zheng Jinghan is the owner of Paramount Group, and also took the lead in introducing the Chinese version of Playboy, making Playboy a high-end taste magazine in the Chinese publishing industry, and also founded "New Modern Pictorial", which is the earliest comprehensive fashion magazine in China, and the first "Made in China" high-end magazine to enter China's international airports and five-star hotels.
Not to mention Sing Tao Daily, one of the three newspapers with the largest circulation in Hong Kong, the owner Hu Xian is even called the "Queen of the Newspaper Industry", which shows its status.
Zheng Jinghan, Hu Xian, counting Qiao Feng's side, the three of them bid together to acquire Huang Yulang's listed company Yulang International, the three compete with each other, and the price will definitely not lose Huang Yulang, but Huang Yulang is still unwilling to sell, it can be seen that this person is bent on guarding his comics.
It's a good thing to have persistence, but to persevere, it's a bit of a brain disease.
Qiao Feng knew that Huang Yulang was such a person.
Huang Yulang's life can be said to be a legend, he went to Hong Kong at the age of 7, dropped out of school at the age of 13, helped people draw comics, and published a comic called "Superman's Son" under the pseudonym "Huang Yulang", which initially showed his talent, with a monthly salary of 140 to 200 Hong Kong dollars, but the good times did not last long, and soon he lost his job due to the depression of the comic industry.
In 1964, when Qiao Feng was just two years old and a little child, Huang Yulang had already started his own business for the first time after being unemployed. He paints, edits, and prints himself, collaborating with his older brother. There was no publisher willing to publish it, so he and his brother pedaled their bicycles and walked the streets and alleys to deliver "World of Jokes" to newspaper sales points. However, the release of "Joke World" did not improve, and after only 5 issues, it failed, and even the money borrowed to start a business was lost.
The first time the business failed, Huang Yulang was not discouraged. On the contrary, Huang Yulang believes that "the biggest gain from doing "Joke World" is that I am very familiar with the streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, because I have to deliver the goods myself. "It seems that it will be beneficial for him, a year later. He was eager to try it again, and co-founded the "Entertainment Comics Daily", which was prepared for three months, but unfortunately the life of this newspaper was only three months. Due to sluggish sales, the publication was discontinued after three months.
Huang Yulang's second venture failed again, and because his savings were exhausted, he had to work for others. At that time, Cui Wei in the Hong Kong comic industry was eager to recruit comic talents, so he went to take the exam. In the Cui Wei Group, he creates 40 to 50 stories a month, with 210 paintings per story, and his salary plus manuscript fees is good. But Huang Yulang was not satisfied with the status quo, and only settled down for more than a year, and cooperated with the painter He Ke to publish a comic daily newspaper by himself. Started the third venture.
This time he succeeded, but the success was very short-lived, because of the lack of shoddy manuscript sources and political reasons, Hong Kong people were in turmoil, consumption power was reduced, and it caught up with the start of TVB, people's attention was focused on TV, which had a great impact on comic books and newspapers, and Huang Yulang failed again.
In 1969, when Hong Kong's economy began to take off, the consumption power of citizens increased, and the comic market also showed vitality.
At the end of 1971, an elderly friend who engaged in a bookstore took a fancy to Huang Yulang's dedication to the comic business and his perseverance, and cooperated to establish Yulang Book Company, specializing in publishing various comic publications.
On June 27, 1979, Yulang International Co., Ltd. was formally established, and began to recruit troops and horses, wanting to break the entire Hong Kong comic market.
Throughout the 80s, basically Hong Kong's comic industry was Huang Yulang's world, and almost all good comic authors were co-opted by him, and Huang Yulang was the overlord of Hong Kong's comic industry.