550 [The film festival is over, planning the North American market]
With the success of the first award, the subsequent film awards were also presented one by one in an atmosphere of laughter and joy.
The winner of the Best Actor was Xu Guanwen, who became the "actor" of the first Golden Bauhinia Award with his superior acting skills in "Half a Pound and Eight Taels"!
Of course, no one has proposed the name actor at this time, but when the special edition of "Film Fortnightly" is released tomorrow, I think this title will be known to more readers and the public, and the actor will also become a must-win award for all Hong Kong film actors!
After all, this is the highest award for an actor's personal acting skills, and as long as an actor still has a little professional ethics in his heart, he will never give up this award.
And in the same way, the winner of the Best Actress "Hu Yinmeng" will also be called the "Actress"!
The actor is Xu Guanwen, and the actress is Hu Yinmeng, although these two people nominally belong to two companies, but the bosses behind the scenes have Huo Yaowen's figure, so the mystery naturally doesn't need to be said directly.
Originally, according to Huo Yaowen's idea, he praised his student Xu Anhua, and praised Qin Han and Hu Yinmeng as the actor and actress respectively, but Qin Han's Huo Yaowen didn't like it, and he didn't sign a contract with Huanyu, so he gave the actor to Xu Guanwen.
On the one hand, Huo Yaowen has an investment in the film made by Xu Guanwen, and people have made money for themselves, so it is not too much to give him an award backhanded, and Jiahe is Xu Guanwen's direct boss, so he has sold Zou Wenhuai's face.
So Xu Anhua finally won a Best New Director Award and Hu Yinmeng's Best Actress Award.
The rest of the awards, in addition to a few awards for foreign films participating in the exhibition, are also divided into other film companies and filmmakers on Hong Kong Island.
Shaw Brothers' "Yingtai Weeping Blood" about the Six Gentlemen of the late Qing Dynasty won an award for Best Soundtrack and Best Costume for Costume Awards.
Golden Harvest's "Flowers Fly in the City in Spring" won the Best Action Direction Award, and the winner was Hung Jinbao.
Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won the award for Best Foreign Language Film......
Anyway, everyone sits in a row and shares the spoils.
As for the final award, the Best Film Award, it was given to "The Mother Under the Lion Rock" co-produced by Phoenix Channel and Huanyu, this movie is starring Zhou Runfa, the box office is not very high, only more than one million, no loss of money but no money, but the meaning of this film is better, that is, maternal love!
Compared with the love and love, life and death in Hong Kong movies now, this film is still very educational, and there is nothing wrong with giving this film, as for not giving a blockbuster like "Jurassic" for Mao, Huo Yaowen actually thinks about it, but after all, it is not a pure local film, and the best film award was awarded to a foreign film in the first session.
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In this way, time passed little by little, and the Golden Bauhinia Film Award gradually came to an end.
What will be presented is the last film award, the Lifetime Achievement Award.
This award is basically a defending award for the older generation of filmmakers, all of whom have been achieved for life, and the winners must be in their old age.
To say that there are still many filmmakers of the older generation in Hong Kong, such as Kwan Dexing, who has played Wong Feihong all his life, Inspector Cao Dahua, comedy king Deng Jichen, Cantonese opera singer Xin Ma Shizeng and others, there are too many people who can win this lifetime achievement award.
If this is not the first one, it is actually the same to choose any one, the big deal is to give a double yolk egg, or just choose one by one every year in the future.
But now this is the first film award, and whoever is the first to win this lifetime achievement award will inevitably be recorded in the history of Hong Kong films, so the organizing committee discussed very fiercely at the beginning.
The older generation loves noodles, and it is not suitable to choose anyone, and in the end, Chu Yuan put forward an opinion, saying that this award will be awarded to Lai Man-wai, who has the title of the father of Hong Kong films.
As the owner of Hong Kong's first Chinese film company, Lai Man-wai not only made Hong Kong's first local film, but also the first Hong Kong film to be screened overseas, and it is a matter of course to give this Lifetime Achievement Award.
It's just that Li Minwei died of illness in 1950, and it was still very tangled whether to give it or not.
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Background at the moment.
Qingxia squatted down, looked at the cute little girl in front of her, who was only six or seven years old, and couldn't help pinching her fleshy little face and asked, "Little girl, what's your name?" ”
"I..."
The little girl glanced at her mother beside her.
The mother smiled and said, "It's okay Azi, tell this big sister your name." ”
"My name is Lai Zi. The little girl plucked up her courage and said.
"Li Zi, what a nice name. ”
Qingxia looked at the little girl's timid little appearance, and couldn't help pinching her little face
At this time, the front suddenly said: "Let us applaud and welcome Mr. Fok Yiu-man, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Film Awards, and Mr. Shao Liushu, Honorary Chairman of the Hong Kong Film Society, to announce the next Lifetime Achievement Award!"
When Li Zi's father heard this, he hurriedly asked his wife to take care of his daughter, and he walked towards the front desk.
Soon, after a generation of film tycoon Shao Liushu finished telling about Lai's contributions to Hong Kong and Chinese films, Lai's father Li Zhu also walked on the stage excitedly.
"Thank you to the organizing committee, thank you, I have always heard the elders in my family mention my grandfather......"
Li Zhu began to shed tears as he spoke, speaking of which, the Li family was also one of the richest families in Hong Kong a few decades ago, and those who could play movies and open film companies in that era were basically rich people, after all, a camera cost hundreds of thousands, which is enough to buy several suites.
However, with the death of Li Minwei, the eldest son of the Li family died young, and Li Zhu suffered from a serious ear disease, the family soon fell into the middle, and the family was not very happy.
This time I came to the awards ceremony, in addition to getting this lifelong achievement award for my grandfather, there was also Huo Yaowen's promise that he would give Li Zhu's sister and himself to join Phoenix TV as an actor.
As a film family, in addition to Li Minwei making movies and opening a company, the Li family has several juniors who are also engaged in this industry, but most of them are very ordinary, so Li Zhu values this opportunity very much, after all, Phoenix TV can be said to be a very powerful TV station among the three major TV stations in Hong Kong, and now their family is not happy, and it is also very good to join as an actor to make money to support their family.
After the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded, the first Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Film Awards and the Hong Kong International Film Festival also officially came to an end.
In general, the film festival and the Golden Bauhinia Awards ceremony were both held okay, and the wireless station and Phoenix station also received high ratings, and during this period, they almost crushed Li's TV station.
The more than 50 films exhibited in the exhibition have also sold the copyrights of many regions and countries, and more than a dozen of them were bought by Huo Yaowen out of his own pocket and at a low price of 10,000 US dollars or 20,000 US dollars, which can be regarded as a good omen for this international film festival.
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A few days later, Universal Films.
Huo Yaowen came over early, ready to arrange to promote the release of "Jurassic Park" on the first of next month.
He asked, "Is the dinosaur model in Victoria Harbour arranged?"
Wen Yingguang said: "It's all arranged, and in a few days, when the tent of the film festival is removed, the dinosaurs will be put on the table, and we have asked the toy factory to make a lot of toys and some dinosaur coats that can be worn." ”
"Well, don't let up in the propaganda of newspapers, radio and television. ”
Huo Yaowen is not worried about the box office of this movie, but the necessary publicity means still need to be done, so as to attract some people who don't often watch movies to the theater to watch the movie.
"Yes, you can rest assured that the newspaper arrangement is clear. Wen Yingguang patted his chest, he can be said to be full of confidence in the publicity plan of "Jurassic".
"The best. ”
After talking about publicity, Huo Yaowen lowered his head and looked at the company's recent films to be released and the next filming plan, after all, he has come here, and he still has to care about the company's development.
Suddenly, Wen Yingguang asked: "By the way, boss, do you want to arrange the release of those films you bought?"
"Well, when the screening of "Jurassic" is over, then find a random theater to show it for a few days, see how the box office is, if it is good, it will be released on a large scale, if it doesn't work, it will be thrown into the warehouse. ”
For those bad movies, Huo Yaowen didn't think about making money, but he bought them all, he couldn't really be ashes, he still had to see the audience's reactions, maybe someone liked this kind of mysterious film that he couldn't understand and couldn't understand?
"Knock Knock ......"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the office, and Huo Yaowen shouted without raising his head: "Come in." ”
Outside the door came in Wen Yingguang's secretary, and when he saw that the boss was also there, he hurriedly shouted: "Hello boss." ”
After all, this is Wen Yingguang's office, Huo Yaowen just nodded, and he didn't want to answer, seeing this, Wen Yingguang asked, "Xiao Liu, what's the matter?"
Secretary Liu said: "Manager, the actor named Zunlong from the American branch said that he was looking for you. ”
"Venerable Dragon?"
When Wen Yingguang heard this name, he glanced at his boss, if he remembered correctly, Zunlong was transferred back from the American branch by the boss.
Huo Yaowen glanced at Wen Yingguang and saw the confusion in the other party's eyes, he couldn't have said that he had almost forgotten about Zunlong because of the film festival.
So Huo Yaowen had no choice but to say: "Well, since you're here, it's just right, and I'm left to look for him in a few days, so let him in." ”
"Yes. Secretary Liu turned around and walked out the door.
"General manager, how do you arrange him?" Wen Yingguang asked curiously, he had been very depressed that the boss wanted to sign this young actor in the United States for Mao and bring him to Hong Kong.
Is it possible to achieve it because he is handsome? Want to make him popular? But there are a lot of handsome guys in Hong Kong, isn't it easier to find a few to be popular?
Huo Yaowen asked rhetorically: "Have you read the book "Antarctic Love"?"
"I know it was written by you, the general manager, and I heard that it sold well, but I didn't have time to read it. Wen Yingguang was a little embarrassed for a while.
"It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, it's good to know. ”
Huo Yaowen shrugged and said: "I am going to make this film into a movie, as the first independent film of our American branch, in addition to using Zun Long as an actor, I will also invite a well-known Hollywood actress to co-shoot this film!"
"Independent producers, is the actor Zunlong, why him?"
Wen Yingguang doesn't understand why Liu Songren doesn't use it anyway, but uses Zunlong, you must know that Liu Songren still has a little bit of fame in the United States by relying on the first part of "1999" and the second part of "1999" that is about to be produced.
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