Chapter 80 "Best Partner" is a hit
On April 15, 1983, "Best Partner: The Bald Detective" was first released in DreamWorks Theaters, and the film was released a year later than the original time and space, but in terms of plot and sophistication, it was much higher than the original version, and the result was that the threshold of the theater was almost broken by the audience in Xiangjiang.
The original idea for the original "Best Partner" came from Mak Jia, who had worked on the "007" series of films in the United States, and had a soft spot for spy adventures, intending to make a modern Hong Kong-style detective comedy. At first, it was determined that the leading actor was Mai Jia and Zhou Yanfa, but Fa Ge couldn't take over the filming because of schedule problems, so Xinyicheng found Xu Guanjie again. At that time, Hui Guanjie was a rising figure in the Hong Kong art scene, not only a master of Cantopop music and a singer who swept the music scene, but also the natural protagonist of Hui Guanwen's comedy films, and the guarantee of box office sales. This time, Xinyicheng made a lot of money, and invited Xu Guanjie to come out with a record-breaking salary of 2 million yuan and a bonus for selling ports, which became a sensation in the market! And Xu Guanjie did not disgrace his mission, and his performance was worth it, not only performed the role brilliantly, but also created a number of theme songs for the "Best Partner" series, which was almost popular, and was nominated for Best Movie Song at the Academy Awards.
In this time and space, due to Wang Jie's big wings, Xinyicheng has been stillborn. At the beginning of the year, because Lei Juekun's Kowloon Construction Industry was affected by the decline of the real estate industry in Xiangjiang, he wanted to start other businesses, like the original time and space, Lei Juekun found Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian, and wanted to form a film company together, but unfortunately the DreamWorks Group's business was booming, and with the back of Wang Jie, the super big financier, the three of them decisively refused. In fact, there is another reason for this, that is, at this time, Lei Juekun did not have a Lisheng Cinema Line, and whoever owned the cinema in the Xiangjiang film industry in the 80s had the right to speak, but Lei Juekun had already sold the cinema chain to Wang Jie at a high price, and seeing that the Xiangjiang film industry was booming, Lei Juekun's intestines were repentant.
In fact, without the new art city, it is a good thing for Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian.
If the 60s were the era of Shaw Brothers and the 70s were the era of Golden Harvest, then the 80s were the era of New Art City.
"New Art City" is a legend of Xiangjiang Films, from 1980 to 1990, it was popular for ten years, and the old oligarchs Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest who had been forced to fight against New Art City in their heyday. Back then, Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei and Teddy Robin were called the "Group of Seven" (also known as the "Seven Monsters of New Art City"). The classics in the early stage of New Art City are the result of the collective efforts of a seven-person team. The members of the seven-member group have their own strengths. Mecca majored in electrical engineering in college, and later worked as an engineer before studying filmmaking at New York University, where he worked as an assistant director on three shootout films. In the "Best Buddies" series, he used his strengths in electronic engineering to skillfully incorporate special effects such as high-altitude flying cars and electronic weapons into his film creation. Shi Tian is a comedian and likes to review scripts from the perspective of an actor. Huang Baiming used to be an enthusiast of drama, has a lot of experience in drama, is good at screenwriting, and many scripts in Xinyicheng are written by him. Xu Ke is a general who combines directing, writing, acting and other abilities, and is good at grasping a movie as a whole. Tsang Chi-wai likes to play and is well-informed, and he knows the aesthetic taste of the grassroots in Hong Kong and Bay Island. Teddy Robin comes from the music industry and is a good conductor and actor. In the 10 years of the 80s, the films independently produced and co-produced by New Arts City won the annual box office championship a total of four times, which can be described as a leader.
Our ancestors told us, "There is no feast in the world that will never be dispersed. According to Zeng Zhiwei's recollection, these seven leaders soon had disputes due to the problem of more money and less money, and he himself quit the seven-person group and went to Taiwan to film, and was later recruited back by Hong Jinbao to help him engage in "Baohe". Therefore, the first two episodes of "Best Partner" were directed by Zeng Zhiwei, and in the third episode, the director was changed to Xu Ke. After filming "The Queen's Secret Order", Xu Ke also began to be dissatisfied with the creative idea of the Big Three insisting on only making comedies, and originally had the idea of retiring, but was warmly retained by the "Golden Princess" and helped him set up a "film studio". After the filming of the third episode of "Best Partner", Shi Tian asked to shoot a new drama, starring himself, to occupy the Spring Festival slot. Although Huang Baiming thought that it was safer to continue to make a sequel to "Best Partner", he ultimately failed to prevent Shi Tian from filming "Wishing you prosperity", and as a result, the film lost to Jiahe's "Summer Lucky Star" for the first time in the Lunar New Year battle, and the box office revenue was only ranked sixth that year, giving up the box office champion of "Best Partner" for three consecutive years. Xinyicheng learned this lesson and decided to shoot the fourth episode of "Best Shot", but at that time, the seven-member creative team had already existed in name only, so Mecca decided to dig up newcomers and find Lin Lingdong to shoot the fourth episode of "A Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman". The film was carried out by Mecca with his own team, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming basically did not participate, and the box office also achieved good results. In the late 80s, the three giants of New Art City fought separately, and Mai Jia used Lin Lingdong to shoot the "Fengyun" series, and the big sales of violent realistic films made Mecca smile. Huang Baiming's family New Year comedy is also very popular. Only Shi Tian set up a creative team by himself, and filmed films such as "Eight Treasures" and suffered a fiasco, so he had the idea of retreating, and in the early 90s, the "New Art City" finally disintegrated......
The three of them in this time and space completely made Wang Jie reverse his personality. First of all, when DreamWorks Pictures was first established, Mecca, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, and Cheng Long shared 10% of the shares equally; second, as soon as DreamWorks Pictures was established, Wang Jie set the terms of reference of the four of them, not to interfere with each other, and to support each other; finally, they had a lot of dividends and benefits, and Wang Jie also made their eyes no longer limited to Xiangjiang, making them more ambitious and more ambitious.
The box office of "Best Partner: Bald Detective" reached 9.2 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week of its premiere, and the box office in the second week directly exceeded 100 million, and after 40 days of release, the final box office of "Best Partner: Bald Detective" was 32 million Hong Kong dollars, more than 6 million more than the original time and space. As for the area outside Xiangjiang, there is even more good news, with Bay Island achieving a box office of NT$42 million, the island nation of RIBEN also selling a miracle of 4 billion yen, and South Korea also has 1.1 million moviegoers. "Best Partner" has also been favored by European and American distributors, who have come to buy broadcast rights.
In addition, because of the popularity of "Best Partner: Bald Detective", Wang Jie's eldest apprentice Li Lianjie has also become completely popular all over Asia. Due to the absence of Xu Guanjie's participation, all the songs in the play were replaced by Zhang Guorong's singing, which also caused a large number of Zhang Guorong's fans to buy tickets to watch the movie.