Chapter 266: The Direction of Film Development
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It was developed and established by HKR International Group in 1970, the original design was to build a holiday housing village in the local area, but it was very inconvenient to travel with the city, only a means of transportation such as a flying boat, and the rent was high, and the economic crisis was raging, the Hong Kong Island elite have emigrated, the project was forced to stop, the developer put the rest of the holiday homes for sale at a low price, Wang Zifan bought most of the site at almost the price of cabbage, and planned to build a golf course on the original basis.
On October 1st, for DreamWorks, today is a special day, the company's total profit since its inception exceeded the 500 million mark, in order to reward a group of high-level executives, Wang Zifan used a yacht to carry most of the high-level executives of DreamWorks here for vacation, but these people did not understand his intentions, the yacht is about to dock, everyone still got together to talk, inseparable from the topic of movies.
Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca have a good relationship, and they got together and whispered to discuss a big production.
Xu Ke was absent-mindedly drawing something, Shi Nansheng and Xiao Ruoyuan ended the topic of overseas distribution of the film, and hesitated.
Teddy Robin is short, but the loudest is the loudest, giggling and not serious, occasionally improvising a few words to guide the atmosphere in a cheerful direction.
"In the past two years, Hong Kong films have developed rapidly, and our DreamWorks has occupied most of the market share! I have compiled a list of information, everyone will take a look!" Huang Baiming saw Wang Zifan coming over, as if he had made a show of merit, and distributed the information.
Wang Zifan originally wanted everyone to log in and play, but seeing that Huang Baiming was so attentive, he couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm, and asked curiously: "What information?"
Huang Baiming smiled: "I counted the Hong Kong box office!"
After a quick look, Huang Baiming's statistics are very detailed, and the clear table is clear at a glance, followed by analysis, the annual box office growth share, and the change in the number of moviegoers.
In 1980, Hong Kong-made films officially entered a period of rapid growth, ranking 184303469 total box office revenue of Hong Kong dollars, and it is worth mentioning that the ticket price for the back seat was only 8 Hong Kong dollars, and the total number of moviegoers was 23 million.
Analyzing the data in the front row, Wang Zifan has a clear understanding, no wonder Hong Kong can support such a huge film market, the rise of Golden Harvest, and the industrial production of the Shan family, 23 million people, for a population of 5 million, it is simply crazy, on average everyone has to enter the cinema 4 to 5 times a year, if the major cities in the mainland have such results, the market will definitely surpass the United States.
It's a pity that when the mainland market matures, it is already after 2010, and he can't wait so long.
In 1979, Hong Kong films can be said to be in full bloom, the literary and artistic style of the 70s is coming to an end, followed by a bunch of monster films and kung fu films without a specific direction, most of the box office is around the millions, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest can be said to be on par, the top 20 movies at the box office, Golden Harvest and Golden Harvest have similar shares, at this time, the Shaw Brothers have not declined, and Shaw's ambitions are still the same.
In 1980, the total box office revenue of Hong Kong films was 241911574 Hong Kong dollars, an increase of more than 57 million over 1980, because the ticket price increased by 2 yuan to 10 Hong Kong dollars, the most noteworthy idea of this year is that DreamWorks quickly raised its head, with its own efforts to revitalize the Golden Princess, laying the foundation for the next few years, in the top 20 box office in 1980, the Golden Princess accounted for as many as 9 films, four of which belonged to DreamWorks, and Shaw Brothers only 6, and Golden Harvest was even more attacked by Golden Princess and some new film companies, only 3 of the top 20 were produced by Golden Harvest, it is worth noting that movie comedies also began to rise, for example, the originators of chasing girls "chasing girls" and "ghost horses and wisdom stars" are among the bestsellers.
Seeing this, Wang Zifan subconsciously glanced at Wang Jing and thought of Wang Jing, to say that the Chasing Girls series is this Jun's masterpiece, Fang Yihua admired Wang Jing very much at the beginning, the directors of the Wei brothers are all salary system, whether the movie sells well or not, they get a dead salary, and the salary level is set according to the box office, the salary of tens of millions of directors is by no means the same as the salary of millions of directors, among the hundreds of directors, only Wang Jing is an exception, and the Wei brothers, who have always been stingy, actually allowed Wang Jing to share dividends, although there was only 2% of the dividends, but at that time the Wei brothers were still the only one.
In 1981, the total annual box office revenue of Hong Kong films was 484116470 Hong Kong dollars, an increase of 2 times compared with 1980, and it is worth noting that the ticket price of the back seat increased by 2 Hong Kong dollars to 12 Hong Kong dollars, this year is a year worth celebrating for Hong Kong films, the total box office of the year has increased by one-third compared with 1980, and there are 12 films with a box office of more than 10 million, but the most brilliant is "Best Partner" produced by DreamWorks The film not only exceeded 25 million at the box office, but also became the film with the highest number of admissions since the opening of Hong Kong, with a backseat ticket price of 12 Hong Kong dollars, and more than 2 million people have attended the movie, while the population of Hong Kong at that time was only 5 million, which is absolutely unprecedented.
Zeng Zhiwei quietly glanced at Mecca and whispered: "This information is more detailed than your original statistics. ”
Mecca's expression was complicated, Huang Baiming came to this hand as soon as he came to the stage, obviously wanting to do a big job, but unfortunately he was caught in it and was very uncomfortable.
Zeng Zhiwei said meaningfully: "I think Lao Huang came prepared, you have been from the United States for so long, you should also find a sense of existence." ”
Mecca's face changed, Zeng Zhiwei's words made him feel a sense of crisis, since the new art city returned to the DreamWorks brand, he really hasn't done anything 'earth-shattering', no wonder Wang Zifan and others think he has complaints, and he will be dismissed from the position of president of the new art city, and after a moment of silence, a sense of urgency suddenly appeared in his heart, and he couldn't wait to make a blockbuster film to prove himself.
Wang Zifan ignored Mecca and Zeng Zhiwei whispered, he didn't care about the previous data, and the most important thing was that after he came to Hong Kong, 1980 was the first year he came to Hong Kong, and he established DreamWorks, and his little butterfly has caused a lot of changes.
In 1982, up to now, the total annual box office revenue of Hong Kong films was 521229507 Hong Kong dollars, seeing this data, Wang Zifan began to doubt his eyes, and watched it two or three times before confirming that it was indeed 520 million, an increase of more than 30 million box office over last year, and the average backseat ticket price was 13.5 Hong Kong dollars, an increase of 1.5 Hong Kong dollars over last year, but now it is October 1, two months before the end of 1982.
These data all show that Hong Kong films have entered a golden age, film production is no longer the patent of large companies, as long as there is creativity and good actors, some low-cost productions will also be popular, as if Chen Xun's series of comedies accounted for three of the top 20, although there is also the credit of DreamWorks Prince Cinemas, but the flaws are not hidden, the big company Golden Harvest also washed away the past grievances, and made persistent efforts, accounting for as many as five of the top 20, and the film company began to decline, plus Wang Jing jumped to DreamWorks, a group of old directors dragged their feet, and almost all of them were wiped out。
Wang Zifan's heart moved, this is probably the reason why Uncle Liu made up his mind to transfer the theater chain, if you don't look at the information, it is hard to imagine that the huge Clear Water Bay Studio will fall to such a point, the former Hong Kong film overlord, there is not a single film in the top 20 at the box office!
This year is a bumper year for Wang Zifan, Prince Cinema was established, and several movies such as "Best Partner", "Mr. Zombie", "Hu Yue's Story", "Seven Days of Wrong Love", "If the Wine Sells Nothing" and other movies have won nearly hundreds of millions of profits in just seven or eight months.
Seeing this batch of data, Wang Zifan felt a lot of emotion, when he first arrived in Hong Kong, he was reluctant to eat a good meal, if it wasn't for Zhong Yihong to help him, I'm afraid he would have to sleep on the streets.
"It's weird!"
Mecca was surprised and smiled at Zeng Zhiwei: "The total box office has increased so fast in the past two years, it is as much as 200 million, which is amazing, in 1980, the total box office was only about 200 million Hong Kong dollars." ”
Shi Nansheng said: "It's the credit of DreamWorks!"
Huang Baiming said with a smile: "Yes, the local market has changed a lot, I am now collecting information on the overseas market of Hong Kong films, and there will be results after a while, which can better explain the development trend of Hong Kong films, which is very overflowing for our future decision-making!"
Wang Zifan praised: "It's a good job, now everyone outside is panicking, and the economy is hit hard, but it has not affected our film industry at all, but it is thriving, and when the economic crisis passes, Hong Kong films are bound to have a big explosion, and we should seize this opportunity." ”
Teddy Robin smirked: "If you want me to say that there is an economic crisis, everyone has no job, idle at home, nothing to come out to watch a movie, then we will be rich." ”
"What you said makes so much sense, I was by the senior brother for a while, I had nothing to do, and I ran to the cinema to watch movies all day long!" Zeng Zhiwei smiled very specially, his eyes were almost gone, and he and Teddy Robin were very compatible.
Wang Zifan couldn't cry or laugh, if the Hong Kong citizens heard this, they would have to beat the two of them, but this year was indeed the year when DreamWorks reached its peak, blowing the horn of Hong Kong film prosperity alone, shaking Southeast Asia, large and small film companies gathered in Hong Kong to compete for the film market, and hundreds of film companies were established alone, almost all of which were leather bag companies.
Wang Zifan frowned, celebrity salaries are fried by these companies, if left unchecked, it is easy to get out of control, DreamWorks has recruited most of the movie stars, once the salary rises wildly, it will definitely be a disaster for the company!
Huang Baiming saw Wang Zifan frowning, and said tentatively: "Is there anything else wrong or missing?"
Wang Zifan shook his head and smiled: "It's not, okay, let's not talk about business today, the boat is almost going to dock, everyone prepare, there is no transportation on the island, only bicycles, if there is anything, go to the Fengjingyuan villa on the island to find me, remember to ring the doorbell." ”