"The identity spell has finally come true, and Ye Yuqing missed the title of Sister Dong!"

On the second day of the Miss Oriental finals, most of the entertainment headlines of Hong Kong newspapers were reports on the beauty pageant finals, and the main body of the report was not the champion, but the runner-up of this year's Miss Oriental and the most photogenic Miss Ye Yuqing.

At this time, Kang Jianfei was holding a "Oriental Daily", and the headline of the entertainment section was a photo of the champion when he was crowned. After filming "The Saint of Gambling", Li Zhi, the champion of the last East Sister, continued to study in the United States, and this time she made a special trip back from there to present the award to this year's champion.

In the photo, Pan Xianyi, the champion of this year's East Sister, bowed her head slightly, and asked Lizhi to put on her the crown of beauty pageant queen with a smile on her face. Not far behind Pan Xianyi, Ye Yuqing was also smiling and applauding, but her smile was clearly bitter.

"This photo is well taken, Lao Ma has some talents." Kang Jianfei pointed to the photo in the newspaper and laughed.

Ye Zhiming sighed and said, "Aqing, what did you say when you signed up for the competition?" It doesn't matter if you can get the ranking or not, why didn't you win the championship, and you laughed worse than you cried? ”

Ye Yuqing sat next to the two of them, and was so angry that he slapped Ye Zhiming's shoulder with his pink fist: "Brother! People are embarrassed to death now, and even you are here to make fun of me! It's not because you're the general manager of Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company that those judges don't dare to let me win the beauty pageant championship. ”

In order to avoid suspicion, the judges deliberately lowered Ye Yuqing's competition score, and finally let her miss the laurel of the beauty queen - this is a saying shared by most newspapers.

In Kang Jianfei's opinion, in addition to being proud of her breasts, Ye Yuqing is indeed inferior to Pan Xianyi in appearance, and there is no situation where she is deliberately pressed.

Of course, everyone's aesthetic orientation is different, Ye Yuqing's beauty is more Western, tough and sexy. And the beauty of champion Pan Xianyi belongs to the oriental style, and her charming and lovely appearance is somewhat Zhao Yazhi's flavor.

But no matter who is more beautiful, the topic has been heated up after all, and now although it is the mainstream who is aggrieved by Ye Yuqing, there are also many fans of the champion Pan Xianyi. The two gangs of people quarreled back and forth, coupled with the media joining in the excitement for sales, and the hype news that Phoenix TV paid someone to write, Pan Xianyi and Ye Yuqing will definitely be the topic of conversation in the next month or two.

What DreamWorks and Phoenix Channel want to do is to create TV series and TV shows for the two before the news topic is expired. Stabilize this temporary fame.

"Is it set up in Venice?" Kang Jianfei didn't mention the Miss Oriental beauty pageant again.

Ye Zhiming said: "It's almost arranged, and more than 30 film distributors around the world have agreed to come to the Venice premiere of "Shushan". However, whether it can be successful or not depends on whether "Shushan" can be recognized by Western audiences, otherwise those publishers will not buy it. ”

"I know this, let's talk about it after the premiere." Kang Jianfei is really not sure whether "Shushan" can be liked by European and American audiences.

At present, this one has an investment of more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars. "Shushan", which Xu Ke spent more than a year carefully building, is completely different from the one in the original time and space.

The novel "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" by the owner of Huanzhu Mansion. It's quite a bit of a Qingming mountain and river map. The characters are full and eloquent, and gradually outline the complete world of swordsmen.

But this rhythm can't be used to make movies, and when making commercial movies, remember that the protagonist is not prominent, and personal heroism is the king of commercial films, and the box office of the "Spider-Man" series is much higher than that of the "X-Men" series, which is the best proof.

Under the supervision of Kang Jianfei, Xu Ke and the screenwriters of DreamWorks collectively created "Shu Mountain". is an out-and-out Hollywood commercial film model, focusing on outlining Li Yingqiong played by Li Saifeng and Yu Yingnan played by He Jiajin. After that, several important supporting roles were added, including the female number two played by Zhao Yazhi, who worked hard to help the hero and heroine overcome the hardships. This can make the scene grand and the plot full, "The Lord of the Rings" does this, and the "Shushan" invested by Kang Jianfei is the narrative rhythm of "The Lord of the Rings".

There is individual heroism, many friends working together, and beautiful love, friendship and enmity, which are all the elements of "Shushan". Xu Ke's "Shushan" failed miserably at the box office, in addition to the fast pace that the audience couldn't keep up, there was also the fact that the feelings in it were too pale and cold, a little less earthly popularity, and the sense of substitution for the audience was very poor, which Kang Jianfei also asked to focus on correcting.

In the end, Xu Ke's "Shushan" is actually a fantasy movie with a Hollywood structure and Oriental ideas to upgrade and fight monsters and villains.

Kang Jianfei can be sure that audiences in the East Asian Confucian cultural circle will definitely like this movie, but there is no guarantee that Western audiences will understand it, and this cultural gap is really a bit big.

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In September, students in Hong Kong began to return to school one after another, and this year's film summer season has also come to an end.

In the summer of 1985, "Once Upon a Time: Lingyun Ambition" topped the box office list of Hong Kong summer movies with a total of 36.81 million Hong Kong dollars; ranked second is Cheng Long's "Police Story", with a box office of 25.77 million in Hong Kong; "Summer Lucky Star" starring Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long was hit the hardest by "Huang Feihong", and the box office of this film was close to 29 million in the original time and space, but now it has been squeezed to only 23.59 million, and it has suddenly reached the third place in the summer file.

I have to say that Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long are box office guarantees, and in the top three of the box office list this summer, Golden Harvest's movies occupy two seats.

However, in terms of box office numbers alone, DreamWorks actually earns more, because the fourth-ranked "Gambler" has a box office of 22.98 million, plus the box office of "Once Upon a Time" of more than 36 million, far more than the sum of "Summer Lucky Star" and "Police Story".

It is worth mentioning that "Happy Adventure", with a box office of 20.83 million Hong Kong dollars, is also the second film of Debao Film Company to break 20 million at the box office, which is extremely dazzling among independent film companies.

The most important thing is that Debao Film Company has reached a cooperative relationship with Xinbao Cinema Line.

Debao Film Company originally cooperated with Golden Harvest Cinemas, but now it is going to Xinbao for release, which has essentially formed a competitive relationship with Golden Harvest. In addition, Hong Jinbao ran out to shoot "Rich Train" with Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca, which made Zou Wenhuai so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but Zou Wenhuai had to forcibly swallow this evil breath, and found Hong Jinbao to have a long talk, and then Hong Jinbao found Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca to discuss.

No one knows what they talked about, but the outcome of the conversation was very clear: Hong Jinbao withdrew his shares from Debao Film Company, and Golden Harvest acquiesced to Hong Jinbao to finish the filming of "Rich Train", but Golden Harvest must also participate in an investment and obtain the distribution rights of "Rich Train", of course, this distribution right is not exclusive. At the same time, in the next film of Sammo Hung and Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest will increase the box office share of Baohe Film Company.

And Pan Disheng's Debao also made a big move, Pan Gongzi paid to buy back the shares given by Hong Jinbao, and sold these shares to Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong. At the same time, Pan Disheng, who was ignited by the hot sale of "Happy Adventure", also spent 50 million yuan to build and acquire the theater, and joined the Xinbao Cinema Line founded by Chen and Feng.

This means that Debao Film Company and Xinbao Cinema Line have become strong allies, and several bosses have shares in each other's companies, properly tied into a community of interests.

On the other hand, the new art city began to decline a few years earlier than the original time and space, and small-scale layoffs began before the summer vacation ended. Affected by this, the Golden Princess Cinemas announced an increase in box office revenue to attract the film source of Hong Kong independent film companies, and launched a vicious competition with the defected Xinbao Cinema Line.

Ordinary movie fans may not notice anything, but feel that in the next period of time, the number of movies released in major theaters has suddenly increased a lot. However, people in the Hong Kong film industry can feel the undercurrent surging all the time, and the Hong Kong film industry is changing again this summer.

The initiator of this change is Kang Jianfei, without him flapping his butterfly wings, there would be no early decline of Xinyi City, and Chen Rongmei's Xinbao Cinema Line would not have opened so quickly.

In addition to Kang Jianfei, the biggest influence is Cai Songlin's-stirring stick. Cai Songlin represents not an individual, but all Nanyang and Taiwanese investors who want to squeeze into the Hong Kong film industry and get a piece of the pie. Cai Songlin just made a small hole in the embankment, and countless local tyrants in Nanyang and Taiwan used money to form a rapids to flush out a big gap in the embankment in an instant.

In September alone, seven Nanyang and Taiwanese-invested Hong Kong films were launched, and these films will be released in Xinbao and Golden Princess, and may even be released in Oriental Cinemas and Yindu Cinemas.

Stimulated by the market, the abundance of film sources also promoted the development of cinemas, and some wealthy people in Hong Kong began to spend money to build cinemas. These theaters are all retail theaters, or they have been absorbed and co-opted by New Arts City, or they have formed temporary theaters with other retail investors, anyway, they have digested a lot of films that mainstream theaters can't release.

By December 1985, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong had swelled to 156, and it would not take long for it to reach its peak of 180.

The new art city kept laying off employees, and Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company began to recruit people on a large scale, obviously because of the hot sale of "Happy Adventure" and the alliance with Xinbao Cinema Line, which gave him great confidence, and he was ready to quickly expand the scale to compete with Golden Harvest and DreamWorks for the film market.

It was in this situation that the second Miss Oriental final was still scattering, the champion Pan Xianyi and the runner-up Ye Yuqing were busy filming TV series, and Tang Shuxuan took Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and others to Venice.

Whether "Shushan" can impress the white ghosts can only wait and see.