The Spring Festival in 1992 was a big battle, which made the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry more distinct.

Shao Yifu originally planned to make a comeback while the Hong Kong film industry was booming, but he was old and lacked energy, and his henchmen led by Fang Yihua did not support the matter, which made Shao Yifu's idea of relying on wireless station resources to develop Shaw Brothers in vain.

After the reopening of Shaw Brothers, only two small-budget films were made, and they died down again, and they did not even participate in this Spring Festival war. Shao Yifu, who was disheartened, had the idea of selling the Shaw Brothers Cinema in his hand. It's a pity that there is a surplus of cinemas in the Hong Kong film industry now, and there are no local tyrants willing to take over, so they can only rely on showing films from other companies to maintain their business.

Last year, Zou Wenhuai's daughter Zou Chongyan came back from studying in the United States and was arranged by Boss Zou to work in the company. Although Zou Chongyan has not really taken power, she blows wind in Zou Wenhuai's ears from time to time, which greatly affects Golden Harvest's business strategy.

As soon as Zou Chongyan came back, he instigated his father to increase investment in overseas cinemas, and cooperated with overseas consortiums to create momentum, with the purpose of making Golden Harvest listed to make money. In her opinion, now that a large number of overseas funds have been introduced into the Hong Kong film industry, there are too many Hong Kong films, and the competition is too fierce.

In a sense, Zou Chongyan's idea is right. Ten years later, Hong Kong films have declined to the extreme, and the once brilliant Hong Kong film companies have collapsed, but the overseas cinema chain invested by Golden Harvest has been very strong.

But from another point of view, Golden Harvest's move is undoubtedly weakening its own ability to control the country. This can be seen from this year's Spring Festival stalls, the box office share of films produced by Golden Harvest continues to decline, and it has decayed to the point of losing to Yongsheng Film Company.

The most outstanding of this year's Spring Festival schedule is Yonggao, the 48 million box office of "Happy Family" is unstoppable, and there seems to be a sign of reproducing the glory of the new art city back then.

But as one of Yonggao's bosses, Huang Baiming didn't have much joy. He has only been working with Roger for half a year, but the contradiction between the two has intensified to a certain point.

Yonggao Cinema Line Luo Jiecheng is the majority shareholder of absolute control, while Yonggao Film Company is the major shareholder Huang Baiming, although they participate in each other's shares in the two companies, their interests are different. What Luo Jiecheng cares about most is whether Yonggao Cinemas can make money, but Huang Baiming values the interests of Yonggao Film Company more.

Since everyone cooperates to open a company, a little conflict of interests can be completely sat down and discussed. But Roger admitted that he was rigid and arbitrary in business, and Huang Baiming insisted on his own opinions, so that the contradictions between the two became deeper and deeper.

In addition to the best-selling "Happy Family", several other films invested by Huang Baiming were forced to be released in advance by Luo Jiecheng without exception. Roger admitted's reason was that the attendance of those films was insufficient, but Huang Baiming disagreed with this statement, because those films were not released enough, and in a legal sense, Roger admitted that he was suspected of breaking the contract.

Referring to his experience in the film industry for many years, Huang Baiming once again realized that if he didn't master the theater chain himself, he would always be controlled by others. A "Happy Family" broke the Hong Kong box office record, but Yonggao's two big bosses were already on the verge of a rupture, and Huang Baiming secretly contacted those scattered theaters built in the past two years and decided to set up a new cinema company that he could call the shots.

In the face of an unprecedentedly prosperous film market, Hong Kong's film companies have made a lot of profits in the past year, and almost none have made loss-making deals. However, Golden Harvest reduced production investment, Yonggao internal discord, Yongsheng only knew how to follow the trend, and other independent film companies, large and small, were more like contract processing companies, just waiting for investors to throw money in, and then summoning people to quickly produce commercial films to make profits.

In such a thriving Oriental Hollywood, the overall film creation ability is far inferior to that of the 80s. In this noisy and lively Hong Kong film industry, Kang Jianfei's Oriental DreamWorks shows its hegemony, even if the Spring Festival box office loses to "Happy Family", no one cares about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

What's more, the Oriental Entertainment Agency includes more than sixty percent of Hong Kong's popular stars, so that most Hong Kong film companies dare not offend Kang Jianfei.

Let's look at the entire Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, Oriental DreamWorks, Oriental Entertainment Agency, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company, Oriental Cinema Company, Phoenix TV, Oriental Television Production Company, Fengxing Records, Oriental Media Group, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, Dark Horse Animation Company...... With all of them, it's like a huge entertainment empire.

Jin Yong and He Chaoqiong had a casual chat over tea, and neither of them directly mentioned the matter of buying and selling "Ming Pao", but only talked about the management and business philosophy of the newspaper industry.

Back home, Jin Yong looked through the relevant information of the Eastern Group, which he had only found someone to get a year later.

I don't know if I don't look at it, the more I look at it, the more shocked Jin Yong's heart becomes, he didn't expect Kang Jianfei's Eastern Group to become such a giant.

From several contacts, Jin Yong's impression of He Chaoqiong is not bad, and He Chaoqiong also appreciates the reform of "Tiantian Daily", but he has never been able to see through Kang Jianfei. Jin Yong still had a lot of doubts about whether to hand over "Ming Pao" to He Chaoqiong, but he decided to give it a try before finding a more suitable successor.

At least in the hands of He Chaoqiong, the reform of "Tiantian Daily" was unprecedentedly successful, and many newspapers and magazines under Oriental Media were elegant and vulgar, and they all insisted on their own styles of running magazines, which Jin Yong appreciated very much.

In April 1992, Jin Yong announced the sale of his 10 shares in Ming Pao to Oriental Media Group, and appointed He Chaoqiong as a director of the board of directors of Ming Pao Group.

As soon as the news came out, the island was in an uproar, Jin Yong was going to sell "Ming Pao" to Kang Jianfei's rhythm!

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When Kang Jianfei went to the United States to make a film, not only did He Chaoqiong buy 10 of Ming Pao's shares, but Yang Dengkui also successfully obtained the approval of the Taiwan authorities to build 26 large and small cinemas in central and southern Taiwan.

At the same time, "The King of Fighters 1992" came out, and Japan's Sega Games Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Oriental DreamWorks and Dark Horse Animation Co., Ltd. jointly held the first World "King of Fighters" E-sports Championship.

After years of development and promotion, "The King of Fighters" arcade game has a huge fan base all over the world, and can be called the No.1 fighting game. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all independent divisions, while Singapore is incorporated into the Malaysia-Singapore division because of its small population, and Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are collectively referred to as the China Division.

Each region has a budget competition, a semi-final, and a final, with three winners (some countries with small populations have only two), and the three winners qualify for the World Finals, the first of which will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

The top three winners in each region will receive $5,000, $2,000, $1,000, and the top prize in the Grand Final is $100,000. At the same time, the overall champion of the World Championship will also have the opportunity to participate in the filming of the "King of Fighters" series of movies, as well as become a character in the side story of the "King of Fighters" series of comics.

As we all know, it is very difficult to hold a world competition, and it is extremely troublesome in all aspects such as publicity, sponsorship, selection, supervision, and competition. After Kang Jianfeiti founded the "King of Fighters" World Championship, Sega Company has been preparing for three years, and it has not been officially held until now.

As for the movie "The King of Fighters", several films have been made over the years, but they are not very influential and are only popular among certain fan groups.

Kang Jianfei also thought about this problem, and finally figured out that if you want to expand the influence of the "King of Fighters" series of movies, then you must popularize the story of "The King of Fighters".

What is popularization?

can refer to those superheroes in the United States, in order to cater to universal values, when comics were made into movies, superheroes became the saviors of Wei Guangzheng one by one.

If you want "The King of Fighters" to be recognized by the public, then you must let the protagonists have a righteous heart, and the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Kang Jianfei finally decided to wait two more years for the development of computer special effects to invest in a trial production of a Spider-Man version of "The King of Fighters". Of course, the protagonist is not Spider-Man, but like Spider-Man, he has changed from a mortal to a hero, pretending to be a slap in the face, acting chivalrous, and defeating the villain!

Cliché means a wide audience, which means that the box office base is large.

Taipei County, a game hall.

A thin teenager walked in with a schoolbag on his back, and the disgust that pervaded it made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he still frowned and endured it.

Several King of Fighters arcade machines were already full of people standing around, and when they saw the thin boy coming, everyone made a way out of the way.

A yellow-haired gangster beckoned to him: "Ah Quan, come here, I practiced another trick yesterday." The thug re-inserted the coin, and said, "The old rule, three wins in five games, you are not allowed to press the heavy punch button." ”

"Okay." The thin boy put down his bag and smiled brightly. His family is not wealthy, and his pocket money is not enough for him to enter the game hall every day, and he usually plays other people's games.

The battle began, and people in the game hall came to watch the battle.

The result was obvious, the thin teenager who was restrained with heavy punches and feet easily killed the yellow-haired bastard, and the game hall resounded with a sigh of admiration.

At this moment, the owner of the arcade suddenly came over and pasted a promotional poster on the wall next to the arcade machine.

Someone read: "The first World "King of Fighters" e-sports championship is hotly opened, and participants can register at the local registration point with their ID cards...... The top 8 players from Taiwan will qualify for the finals of the China Division, go to Hong Kong to participate in the finals, and reimburse the air and accommodation round-trip for the round-trip flight, food and accommodation, and the winner of the competition will receive a prize of 5,000 US dollars...... The top three in the China Division qualified for the World Finals......"

"Wow, the finals are held in Tokyo, Japan, and the winner is awarded $100,000."

"$100,000, isn't that millions of dollars?"

"Ah Quan is so powerful, go sign up."

The thin young man's eyes lit up when he looked at the registration poster, turned his head and asked the boss, "Uncle, where to sign up?" ”R1152