502 [The King of Paintings]
Since April, Kang Jianfei has plunged into the crew of "Huang Feihong", and rarely asks Pan Yingzi and the child in her belly, mainly because Kang Jianfei doesn't know how to face it.
"The Saint of Gambling" has also ended its screening in Singapore and South Korea, and the box office revenue in Singapore alone is as high as 940,000 US dollars, which is an excellent box office result. And Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, who are the leading actors, also entered the attention of Nanyang audiences again after "Love Saint" and became local household names.
As for the vase heroine Li Zhi, she also showed her face a lot, but unfortunately Li Zhi was arranged by Kang Jianfei to go back to the United States to study in college, and she did not continue to prepare to be an actor.
Xiongfei Records released "Dream Water Town" for Li Ningyu, and the record sales have exceeded 3 million. Although the rate of growth has been slow since March, department stores across the country are still selling sporadically every day, and pirated tapes on the roadside are beginning to proliferate.
"Out of Africa", which was invested by Kang Jianfei's Oriental Film Company, has been filmed for more than half a year, but the filming progress is only two-thirds of the way, and it will not be completed until at least summer.
In addition to not being able to sell the film to Taiwan, Kang Jianfei's career can be described as smooth sailing, and now Hong Kong's property market is picking up, Kang Jianfei has bought land and real estate because of the previous large amount of land prices, and his net worth is growing rapidly every day.
Although DreamWorks' films can no longer enter Taiwan through guò formal channels, Chow Xingchi's fame has also spread rapidly in Taiwan, and the two nonsensical comedies "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" have turned Taiwanese audiences upside down.
At this time, Taiwan was known as the kingdom of pirates, and all kinds of pirated products could be seen everywhere, and pirated videotapes of "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" also appeared in rental houses in Taiwan.
It is Taiwan's illegal underground television stations that spread faster than pirated videotapes. This kind of TV station is spread all over Taiwan, especially in the southern region, due to the control of the Information Bureau at this time, many overseas programs cannot be watched by Taiwanese audiences, so this kind of underground TV station that often broadcasts fresh programs is very popular.
Because there are currently only three legal television stations in Taiwan, those underground television stations, large and small, with hundreds of them, are vividly called Taiwan's "fourth station." For Hong Kong's film companies, "Channel 4" is the most shameless and evil garbage station, because these TV stations always broadcast movies that are still being released, and the more popular the movie "Channel 4", the more hilarious it is.
After Kang Jianfei's company was banned, the movies and TV series of DreamWorks and Phoenix Channel became the darlings of "Radio 4", because these film and television works are very good-looking and have no genuine version to watch, so they are very popular with the majority of Taiwanese audiences. Among them, especially the Phoenix TV Jin Chaoqun version of "Bao Qingtian" is the most, although China Television found Jin Chaoqun as the starring role in a remake, but the most popular with the audience is still the Phoenix TV version.
The "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" that flowed into Taiwan are dubbed in Singapore, and even the subtitles are still in simplified Chinese characters (Singapore's Chinese character list is the same as that in the mainland), and the guò video is taken away from the Taiwanese market.
Not only underground illegal TV stations, but also countless chaotic magazines in Taiwan, and even those that openly promote rebellion. Moreover, the logic of the thinking of the rebels in Taiwan at this time is very strange, and anyone who works against the government is a free person, and even Liu Huanrong, the cold-blooded killer of the Bamboo Union Gang who has caused many massacres of extermination, is regarded as a hero by some people in Taiwan.
Kang Jianfei, a capitalist ruthlessly banned by the Taiwan authorities, has also inexplicably become a "cooking hero", and after many DreamWorks movies such as "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" were sought after by Taiwanese audiences, Kang Jianfei's name often appeared in illegal magazines.
Because there are too many people who like to watch "The Saint of Gambling" and "Bao Qingtian", and even many civil servants secretly install and watch illegal TV stations, plus Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia are a scandalous couple, Kang Jianfei's fame in Taiwan is getting louder and louder, and he is not affected by the ban by the authorities at all.
In April, Taiwan's Information Bureau, together with local police stations, banned more than 20 underground television stations and more than 10 illegal magazines within a week.
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"Boss, you're in the limelight in Taiwan." Zeng Bolin came over with a copy of "Sing Tao Daily", and when he saw that Kang Jianfei was in a good mood, he also made a joke.
Kang Jianfei took it and looked at it, and then threw it aside, but it was news about Taiwan's restriction on Hong Kong films. This trick is naturally due to the fact that Hong Kong films have made too much money in Taiwan in recent years, and the authorities have taken protective measures to support local films.
In addition to this, there are some political reasons in it.
One of the original reasons for the establishment of the Golden Horse Awards was to attract Hong Kong filmmakers to Taiwan, and the Taiwan authorities have also set up many preferential policies to strengthen film exchanges between Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Now that Hong Kong has confirmed its return to the motherland in 97, the Taiwan authorities naturally do not need to deliberately curry favor with the Hong Kong film industry. Not only does the number of Hong Kong films allowed to be admitted every year decrease, but it also finds out the stealth satellite companies of the Yindu Organization and prohibits the films of those companies from being sold into Taiwan.
These measures have little impact on Hong Kong films, but only slightly raise the entry threshold for the Taiwan market, which is not harmful to large companies such as New Arts City and Golden Harvest, but has intensified the competitiveness of large companies in the Taiwan market.
However, none of this has anything to do with Kang Jianfei, because he has long been banned by the Taiwan authorities.
Related to Kang Jianfei is the following tofu block news, the Taiwan authorities' action to eliminate piracy and clean up the market has achieved results, and 60 percent of the seized audio and video products belong to DreamWorks, Phoenix Channel, and Fengxing Records. Only the pirated records of Happy Girl Group, Zhang Guorong, Ye Qianwen and others have confiscated more than 700,000 copies.
Kang Jianfei didn't care about what new policies Taiwan had introduced, and he was most helpless about the Raptors stunt group. After being banned by the Taiwan authorities, the Raptors stunt team could only change its name when it took over the work of other companies, and after persisting for a few months, Ke Shouliang still took his group of Taiwanese brothers to run away and set up the Xiaohei stunt team with the funding of Golden Harvest.
Now there are only 9 official members left in the Raptors stunt team, which is completely supported by Luo Lixian. Kang Jianfei is going to change the stunt team to a Raptors special effects studio, which is owned by DreamWorks, with a revenue method similar to that of a film studio, and gives Luo Lixian 49 studio shares, and can receive a generous year-end bonus like other middle managers in the company.
Now that Hong Kong's stuntmen are treated very poorly, Kang Jianfei treats Luo Lixian very favorably, and he will not leave even if he is driven in the future.
The leading actors in the studio have finished their makeup, Kang Jianfei is talking to Li Lianjie and Guan Zhilin, Chen Xunqi came over and said, "Director, it's all ready over there." ”
"Okay, pay attention, all units, it's time to open the mic!" Kang Jianfei nodded at Guan Zhilin, picked up the guide tube and shouted.
When he was buried, Chen Xunqi ran to squat behind the camera, this guy is the executive director and photographer of the crew of "Huang Feihong". In the past, he could only score music, act and direct, but after two years of running his own film company, he has become a good cinematography and action director.
"Once Upon a Time Scene 4, Scene 6, Axh!"
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The prosperity of more than a dozen movies released in Hong Kong in January this year really made some people see the hope of making money, even if Taiwan introduced unfavorable policies, it could not extinguish the ambitions and ** of these people.
Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company has started filming a campus comedy directed by Gao Zhisen, and is ready to use Golden Harvest Cinemas to compete in this year's summer file.
Deng Guangrong, a former student lover, also sharpened his knives at the Darong Film Company he founded, and invited Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao and Xia Wenxi to appear in fashion comedies.
There are also large and small film companies that have also launched new films. According to later statistics, there were 16 new film companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of this year, more than half of which were invested by businessmen from Taiwan and Nanyang and established in cooperation with Hong Kong filmmakers.
Due to the gradual maturity of the videotape market in the past year, some film companies are not even worried about not being released in theaters, and directly make ultra-low-budget movies and sell videotapes.
Huang Yulang's Yulang Film Company is also preparing to open a new film, but unfortunately it can't find a good script for a while.
In the conference room of Yulang International, Huang Yulang was admonishing the company's executives: "Our future goal is to go public as a group, and comics, newspapers, magazines, and movies must go hand in hand, not only to carry out government public relations, but also to create public opinion ...... favorable to us."
After the two-hour meeting, Huang Yulang returned to his office with confidence, and his assistant suddenly ran in, put down a comic daily newspaper and said, "Boss, look at this!" ”
"The King of Paintings?" Huang Yulang could see at a glance that this was a doll newspaper, and then took a closer look at the name of the editor-in-chief under the headbrow, and immediately asked in surprise, "When will Shangguan Xiaobao publish a new newspaper?" ”
The assistant said, "Today is the first issue. ”
Although Huang Yulang is about to be the CEO of a listed company, and Shangguan Xiaobao is still just an unlucky cartoonist, Huang Yulang didn't dare to ignore his old rival at all, and hurriedly picked up the pictorial and looked at it carefully.
The guide on the front page of "The King of Paintings" is impressively printed with several key big characters - "Kang Jianfei", "Violent Man", "Ethereal Journey" and so on.
"Could it be that this "Painting King" was done by Kang Jianfei and Shangguan Xiaobao together?" Huang Yulang suddenly remembered what Kang Jianfei said at the award ceremony that day, and suddenly felt extremely threatened, Kang Jianfei's money and the cartoons of his old rival Guan Xiaobao should not be underestimated at all.
The first thing Huang Yulang saw was Kang Jianfei's violent comics, and he was immediately attracted by the new exaggerated comic style, only to see a line written below: "Anyone is a cartoonist, pick up the pen in your hand, use the comic to record the interesting things around you, look forward to your submission!" (To be continued.) )RU