The popularity of Zhang Xueyou and Zhou Huimin has had a very far-reaching impact on the Hong Kong music scene.

In particular, Gu Biao pioneered the publicity mode of spending money to shoot MVs, showing them for free on TV stations, and planning to release a collection of video tapes in the future, which also made more celebrities in the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang who have good looks but slightly worse singing voices see new hope.

Before that, Xiangjiang sang well, and only those who were handsome or had stylish characteristics and slightly poor singing skills had no chance.

So if you know something about the pop singers in the Xiangjiang entertainment circle, you will find that many of the singers who came out of Li Keqin's previous singing competitions were not very handsome - Zhang Xueyou is a special case, so he was able to enter the "Four Heavenly Kings" later.

But once the appearance of the face is an important promotional selling point, the voice is no longer the only decisive thing.

With the popularity of Zhang Xueyou, Andy Lau and others, who were signed by Gu Biao's agency as actors, also began to move, privately applying to the boss, swearing and swearing, hoping to give more cross-circle opportunities for the development of the three lives.

Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui, two brothers, started in the fourth quarter of last year, mainly busy filming "Black Gold" with Wu Yusen, a new job-hopping director signed by Tiankun, and the film has been filmed in the second quarter of this year, including post-production. At the beginning of the summer season, the film was officially released, and the market response was not bad, much better than the box office of "Black Gold" in another time and space.

This is not surprising, as the aesthetic and freshness of each era is different. Just like Stallone's "The Expendables" series, the production and plot are actually better than "First Blood", but the reason why there is no hit is that it is a bit backward in the aesthetics of the times, and the fried cold rice is out of touch.

The action movies with heavy gunfire were only popular in the 80s, and later audiences saw a lot and were aesthetically fatigued, so they didn't feel that explosive aesthetics were scarce.

In the 80s and even the early 90s, whether you are "Crazy Boy" or "Blocking God", this kind of theme will not fight as long as it is not badly made. If you can mention that it will be released earlier than "Shanghai River Beach" or even "The Godfather", then maybe history will be created by you.

Wu Yusen's version of "Black Gold" mentioned that it was released in 85, which naturally satisfied this principle, and frantically sucked a handful of appetites that were originally satisfied by "Crazy Boy" and other films in history.

This is also the first time that Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui, two brothers, have achieved significant success and popularity in commercial films rushing to the box office. (Previously, "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to Politics with the Curtain" were all art films/historical biopics rushing to win awards)

For Ma Zai, who has completely taken refuge in himself, Gu Biao will never be disadvantaged. So after Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui applied, he quickly gave him the opportunity to try.

It's a pity that Liang Jiahui is not a singing material, and after being trained and assessed a little, he gave up, thinking that it was better to concentrate on making movies.

Andy Lau is quite talented in singing, but he seized the opportunity, and after some evaluation, Yang Shoucheng came forward and promised him to release a record before the Christmas season. But first of all, you have to train well.

In this way, Gu Biao's Tiankun Music has gained another general. In the future, he has naturally obtained the second of the four kings of Xiangjiang, and when these two and Zhou Huimin and others in the female singer are completely popular, Tiankun Records' position as the distributor of the Chinese music scene will be completely stable.

Andy Lau thanked the big guy for handing tea and said that he would train hard. In the next six months, he will be very busy, preparing for filming with Director Wu, and practicing with the trainer himself.

As an aside, since Wu Yusen jumped to Gu Biao before "Black Gold" and filmed this "proposition composition", it seems that he has finally found his own way to transition to pure commercialization, and has officially developed the gene of violent aesthetics. So he has now made a few books, which are nothing more than "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Across the Seas".

However, since it is Gu Biao's mainland capital background production company, those producers and actors who have strong interests in the Wanwan market will definitely not be able to use it. Therefore, in this time and space, Wu Yusen's "The True Color of Heroes" must not see the faces of Dillon and Leslie Cheung.

As for Zhou Yanfa, his interests in Wanwan are not big now, and he originally had a relationship with Shaw Brothers around 85 or 86 years ago, and since then he has focused on the big screen. (In the first few years after the filming of "Hujiang Beach", Zhou Yanfa still took on TV series, but recently he began to gradually stop taking it)

Therefore, now looking at Andy Lau, who recommended him to work for him because he gave up the opportunity to go to the mainland, and even Liang Jiahui, who was later referred to the mainland by Andy Lau, the popularity has actually surpassed the trend. Zhou Yunfa finally chose to turn around quickly, and went to Gu Biao to ask Hetoujiu to clarify the misunderstanding, saying that he did not look down on the mainland market in the past few years, but it was true that the schedule could not be scheduled.

Considering that Zhou Yunfa was also the guide who helped introduce Andy Lau at the beginning, he did not explicitly not give Gu Biao face. (Every time, I did arrange the schedule of other films to block the gun, and when I didn't come, I had to introduce my younger brother)

Therefore, Gu Biao is also willing to create an opportunity for the "prodigal son to turn back" and recruit rebellion, which is nothing more than being slightly inferior to Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui in terms of resource tilt in the future.

It is impossible for Gu Biao to be too arrogant and desperate, after all, a few years ago, the vast majority of Xiangjiang artists were only the first to look forward to Wanwan and were afraid of Wanwan's ban. If Gu Biao doesn't even give a chance to a person like Zhou Yanfa who always maintains face on the surface, it will block the way for most people to take refuge.

Gu Biao can only erect a few negative examples, and put Tang Zhenye and others who blatantly do not give face, and who "rely on Gu Biao's opportunity to become popular, and immediately defect to the Wanwan Market as soon as they become popular", to set an example for killing chickens and monkeys.

As for Zhou Yanfa, these are all "monkeys", not "chickens".

Therefore, it is estimated that the brokerage company of Tiankun will be able to launch those heavy-gun grudge films in the Hong Kong film market in the next stage, and they can only replace the old-school resources such as Dillon and Leslie Cheung with Andy Lau, Liang Jiahui, or newcomers who will defect in the future to build a team. Even if the effect may be quite different from the original historical work, there is no way to do it.

All this is a necessary helplessness brought about by the "mainland capital background".

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Gu Biao spent the rest of July in the Xiangjiang entertainment circle, but his spending time and drinking did not have any negative impact on his career.

The business that should be done is done, and the performance is very good.

Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye" sold more than 500,000 copies in the first month, and it is actually becoming more and more popular, which is completely different from the routine of "no outbreak in the first two weeks and basically no drama in the follow-up" in later generations - probably because piracy is not so developed in this era, it is the golden age of the record industry. Although Zhou Huimin did not have 100,000 tickets in the first week, only tens of thousands, it can be regarded as supporting the new category of female singers of "pure jade girl".

"Black Gold", which usurped the scarcity period of other heavy guns and black state films, easily got a box office of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars in more than a month, and it will soon be able to recover its costs. In the end, it is expected that the producer will be able to make a net profit of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars just by sharing the account - but this money is pure small money for Gu Biao at the moment, and he will not take it to heart at all.

In the past few years of Wu Yusen's mixed new art city, he took the money of Boss Lei of Kowloon Jianye, and he just entered the industry and lost money, measured by the mind of Boss Lei, he could easily say "It's okay, I think this movie is good" and it was revealed, and then Wu Yusen worked hard to change the way of drama and shoot "Across the Seas" to return the cost to the boss.

What's more, it's Gu Biao.

A director with a bit of artistic pursuit, making a big-money film that caters to Xiaobai, and then alternately mixing a street film that caters to his inner aesthetics, is the norm in the industry. From Cameron to Spielberg or Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, they are all so able to toss and do.

Gu Biao is used to seeing the world, and he has also seen those Hollywood directors who casually earn tens of millions of dollars in profits for him, how can he care about tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

In this way, until the beginning of August, Gu Biao felt that everything he could be busy in Xiangjiang was over, and if he stayed any longer, as the construction of the Xiangjidian plant was gradually completed, he might be pestered by Zhang Zhongmou to find the lithography machine and other equipment.

In addition, the Xiangjiang in August is really hot, even if you want to pose as a flower and drink every day, you can only arrange some indoor activities, which is not conducive to protecting the kidneys.

Therefore, Gu Biao decided to go back to the mainland to live for a month or two to avoid the limelight.

The first is to take care of the business in the mainland, and the second is to avoid the last sensitive period before the appreciation of the yen in the "Plaza Accord", and when it is reviewed by the enemy's intelligence services in the future, it will appear more harmless to people and animals, and far away from the financial center.

Finally, you can escape the heat.

In later generations, Qiantang is undoubtedly also a furnace city, but that is after the urban heat island effect in the 21st century. In 85 years, Qiantang is still very green, and Gu Biao lives in a scenic spot surrounded by lakes and mountains, so it is even cooler - Qiantang people know that the plots around Kongliaona are all comfortable and refreshing environments in summer without air conditioning.

Therefore, in the week when Zhou Huimin's first CD was released, Han Ting picked a time to secretly send Gu Biao to the airport and send him on the plane back to the mainland.

In the past few months, Han Ting is still very satisfied with Gu Biao's grasp of the scale, and for the beautiful female stars around her, she basically only stays in front of people to take advantage of the scene, and does not deceive the dark room in private.

"When I went back to the mainland, at least I was a little more restrained on the surface, don't be deceived by foreigners, I was treated as a gadfly. Before getting on the plane, Han Ting also explained with concern.

"Don't worry, I'm measured, and the mainland is not as strict as the previous two years this year. Gu Biao explained with a smile, and then drifted away.

Back in Qiantang, Gu Biao did not wait for the welcome of his official girlfriend Xiao Sui. Xiao Sui officially graduated from graduate school last month.

The "Literature Workshop" she attended, after a delay (that is, the one class one level higher than Xiao Sui), finally succeeded in changing its name to Lu Xun Academy of Literature, obtained the qualification to issue a master's degree in literature, and then issued a master's degree certificate to the backlog of two-level graduates at the same time.

However, Xiao Sui did not leave the capital immediately after graduation and went south to accompany Gu Biao. Because she is still making the final sprint for the second Mao Dun Literature Award to be selected this year.

She didn't want to look like she relied on her boyfriend's connections and influence to get the award, so before the award, out of suspicion, she didn't even go back to Qiantang and didn't live with Gu Biao.