At the beginning of the new year, Ranfeng Group first released a comedy film directed by Lin Jiawen, and as soon as the film was released, it became the most powerful competitor in the Hong Kong film market, box office and audience.

At the time of the release of this movie, Princess Jin's "Yin and Yang Wrong" had already been painted and received 14 million Hong Kong dollars, while the results of the successor "Hindsight" were unsatisfactory and showed no signs of being a big hit.

In addition, Golden Harvest's "Plan A" has been in theaters for half a month at this time, and although it has successfully achieved a box office result of more than 16 million Hong Kong dollars, its potential has been almost consumed, and it cannot pose a threat to "The Coke Family".

Therefore, after the release of Ranfeng Group's "Coke Family", it can be said that no movie can pose a threat to it in the Hong Kong film market.

Don't talk about Shaw Brothers movies, since January of the New Year, in the Hong Kong film market, Shaw Brothers' films have basically disappeared, and when the overall box office of Hong Kong's film company films has risen sharply, the box office of Shaw Brothers' movies has to remain below the level of 5 million. Of course, they are still among the best in Hong Kong film companies in terms of production volume.

On January 11, "Plan A", which was released in Golden Harvest for nearly 20 days, was released in Hong Kong, perhaps because of the influence of Ran Feng's "Coke Family", he only achieved a box office of less than 2 million Hong Kong dollars in the last six days, and the final result was 18.2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Jiang Ran didn't know what Golden Harvest thought, after "Plan A", the movie they took over was actually a ghost movie "People Scare Ghosts", although it was mostly a comedy, but in the New Year, is such a movie really good?

No matter how other film companies arrange it, anyway, the box office of Ran Feng Group's "Coke Family" is very bright, and it successfully reported 9 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week of release, which is the best start among the films directed by Lin Jiawen.

Time passes slowly, the Lunar New Year is getting closer and closer, and the three major film companies in Hong Kong have done their best in the film market.

In early and mid-January, Ranfeng Group was in an advantageous position in the competition with Golden Princess and Golden Harvest until January 26, when three heavyweight films were released at the same time in Hong Kong.

These three movies are "Teppanyaki" released by Golden Harvest Company and produced by Xu Guanwen, don't look at Xu Guanwen's growing momentum in the past two years, but as the hottest filmmaker in Hong Kong in the past few years, no one can underestimate the movies he released during the Spring Festival.

In addition to Golden Harvest, the most successful series of Golden Princesses, the must-have movies for the Spring Festival in the last year or two, "The Best Partner Empress's Secret Order" was also released on this day.

And another blockbuster movie, which is not a Shaw Brothers movie - they are still not moving, Liao Yiyuan of Yindu joined hands with Jet Li to fight Shaolin again after the success of "Shaolin Temple".

Although the number of theaters controlled by Yindu is small, it has the success and foundation of the previous "Shaolin Temple", and now this "Shaolin Kid" has attracted attention at the beginning of its release.

When these three movies were released on the same day, Ranfeng Group's "Coke Family" had been released for 20 days, with a total box office performance of more than 19 million Hong Kong dollars, and it was inevitable that it would finally cross the 20 million mark.

"Director Lin, congratulations! "The Coke Family" has exceeded 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and you are now the first 20 million box office director in our company besides Mr. Jiang. Lin Jiawen walked into the company, and his colleague said with envy.

"Yes, I heard that Miss Zhong is preparing a new contract for Director Lin. In the future, Director Lin will be eligible to participate in the box office division of the movie. Another colleague sighed with deep sympathy.

Lin Jiawen naturally has a bottom in his heart about what these colleagues said, the company has already decided to change the contract for him this time, and it starts from the movie that is being released now, and the purpose of his coming to the company today is to re-sign the contract.

Lin Jiawen's original contract did not have the box office share qualification, only a certain gradient of additional benefit rewards, and now with the hot sales of three movies in a row, and the momentum of "Coke Family" is about to exceed 20 million Hong Kong dollars, he has finally obtained the box office share qualification.

Lin Jiawen was naturally happy about this result, but he did not get carried away, because as far as he knew, in Ranfeng Group, the contract he was about to sign was not the top contract, and above that, there were two levels of contracts, one for the Asian box office and the first for the global box office.

Lin Jiawen knows very well that if he wants to get these shares, he must at least have considerable box office appeal and results in Asia or the Americas, and even the world.

And these things, in Hong Kong now, except for Ranfeng Group, Lin Jiawen can't think of any other film company with such determination and ability.

There is no doubt about the importance of directors in the film production and distribution system, but if directors want to become famous, or test the waters of a new film market, they must rely on the support of film companies.

In the eyes of Lin Jiawen, Ranfeng Group is the film company that he can rely on when he goes out of Hong Kong, Asia, and the world. So he won't be as eager as John Woo, he pays more attention to long-term interests.

After Lin Jiawen saw the achievements of Jiang Ran's "Chainsaw" this summer, he knew that his vision could no longer be limited to the small waterhole of Hong Kong, and he should have a bigger goal.

In the compliment and envy of his colleagues in the company, Lin Jiawen slowly came to Zhong Chuhong's office, dressed up, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door gently.

"Please come in!" a crisp voice came from inside the room.

After Lin Jiawen pushed in, he saw Zhong Chuhong looking up at him, and immediately greeted with a smile: "Miss Zhong, you are looking for me!"

When Zhong Chuhong saw Lin Jiawen, a warm smile appeared on his face, and he stood up and said, "Director Lin, you are here! You know everything I told you on the phone, right? If you have no opinion, we will find a lawyer to come over and sign a new contract." ”

"I have no opinion! Thank you Miss Zhong for your love!" Although the new contract means that the contract period has increased again, the treatment and resources enjoyed are not the same.

"That's good!" Zhong Chuhong smiled and handed Lin Jiawen a contract, "You take a look first, I'll call Mr. Liu and the lawyer over." ”

Lin Jiawen is not the only person in the Ranfeng Group to change the contract this time, with the movie "Coke Family", Dai Yue'e, a Hong Kong sister, is also worth doubled.

Although she still has a lot of shortcomings in acting, after all, she has had several tens of millions of movies, and now she has entered the 20 million box office club, and it has become a matter of course to change to a better contract.

The inertia of history is not particularly strong at this moment, whether it is Lin Jiawen, who should be unknown in history, or Sister Hong Kong, who has the least acting skills in history, their fates began to change completely different when they met Jiang Ran.

When the people in the Ranfeng Group were still envious of Lin Jiawen and Dai Yue'e, the Ranfeng Group quietly reduced the number of screens screened in "The Coke Family", and freed up enough screens for the release of the new movie on the 27th.

One day after the Golden Princess and Golden Harvest, Ranfeng Group also once again sacrificed the company's killer movie - "The True Color of Heroes 2", this movie was the foundation of the town at the beginning of the opening of the Ranfeng Group cinema during the Spring Festival last year.

Almost at the same time, several major cinema companies in the Hong Kong film market, except for Shaw Brothers, released four heavyweight films at the same time, which is of course a happy thing for fans and audiences, and for the media, it is also a time to celebrate.

"The Hong Kong film market has entered a golden stage, and at the beginning of the new year, three films with a box office of more than 10 million yuan have been released in succession, demonstrating the prosperity of the Hong Kong film market. ”

"The Hong Kong film industry has been in full swing in recent years, and this year's Spring Festival is a grand event for audiences and fans. ”

When Jiang Ran saw these reports in the newspaper, he shook his head slightly, "This is indeed a carnival feast for fans, but our film company ......"

This year, the Hong Kong film market is indeed more prosperous than it seemed before, but this is only based on the box office results, but if you convert the box office into the number of moviegoers, you will find that in fact, the overall number of moviegoers in the Hong Kong film market is not as good as the box office performance - there is a huge increase, after all, the total number of people in Hong Kong is only that much.

So, don't look at the fierceness shouted in the media, but for some sane Hong Kong film companies and filmmakers, such a scene seems extremely suffocating.