The spring of 1985 is the spring of Xinyicheng and the spring of Jiahe.

The "Five Lucky Stars" series of movies is a signature dish in the kung fu comedy cooperated by Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao, which has been continued and continued, and the box office reputation has been the best, and it has been tried and tested. "Lucky Stars" is a Chinese New Year film that will be released across the year. Although several important actors in this play are there, they are playing a different group of people, and the plot has nothing to do with the first part. However, these masters, as in the past, will make jokes as soon as they come out, and there are many ugly things and tricks, and Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao's roles in "Lucky Stars" have increased a lot compared with the first part. The heroine was also replaced by the equally beautiful female superintendent Overlord Hua Hu Huizhong, and the five of them were very attentive to the overlord flower, wanting to win the favor of the beauties and each had their own strange tricks. The film has endless jokes and a lot of tricks.

In such a festive period as the Chinese New Year, kung fu comedies and slapsticks are indeed very popular. The box office of "Lucky Stars" exceeded 10 million within a week of its release, and it achieved 30 million when it was painted, making it the highest-grossing film in Golden Harvest's history.

As the king of Hong Kong's music scene, Tam Yilin's record sales are like a bamboo, and the songs have been sung for a while, and they are in the limelight. However, as an actor, although he won the leading actor at the 18th Golden Horse Awards with "If I'm Real", it is not easy to count his masterpieces. Because most of Tan Yilin's comedy and funny routes are taken, most of the audience stopped laughing. But in terms of box office revenue, it always performed well, and the final box office results of "Little Life Afraid" and "Young Master Weiwei" were good. Now this "Wishing you prosperity" directed by Shi Tian is even more vigorous.

"Wishing you prosperity" and "Fuxing Gaozhao" take a route, the New Year drama, naturally it is extremely funny, joyful, laughing and laughing. The Fortune Immortal (Alan Tam) was degraded to the mortal world by the God of Wealth, met the owner of the evil death tea restaurant (Shi Tian), taught him the way to make money with harmony, unexpectedly moved the mortal heart, fell in love with his sister (Bai Annie), the rich shop king (Lin Zixiang) learned that the gods went down to earth, and the wealth was obsessed, and even NASA scientists were airborne in Hong Kong, and they all wanted to capture the fallen immortals alive. Borrowing from "Ghostbusters" (1984), the electric gun vs. fairy spells, the speeding car shootout scenes, and the fantasy rhapsody scene are typical of the Chinese New Year films of the 80s. Especially in the film, Tan Chenlin's song "Wishing you prosperity" was joyful and cheerful, and it was sung for a while.

"Wishing you prosperity" followed the New Year's schedule and swept into the box office of 18 million.

At the time when Golden Harvest and New Art City were infinitely beautiful, Shaw Brothers was bitter. During this period, Shaw Brothers released a total of six films, except for last year's "Ghost Horse and Flying Man" directed by Wang Jing, which passed the 10 million mark, the remaining five together only had a box office of 6 million, including Dillon's "Teaching Hair Might".

Even because Debao Film Company, which has just established and has no works, has also produced a "Three Treasures of Wisdom and Bravery" directed by Wu Ma, which was released in Golden Harvest Cinemas through Hong Jinbao's operation and got a box office of 17 million.

Faced with such a situation, Shao Yifu was sad and helpless, but also secretly relieved, and completely gave up on the movie.

The box office of "Wishing you prosperity" of 18 million, of course, cannot satisfy Xinyi City, but they use this drama as the main work of this year, as a replacement for the previous "Best Partner" series of movies, hoping to compete with Jiahe. However, Golden Harvest launched a sequel to the traditional "Five Lucky Stars" series, "Lucky Stars", which won a box office of 30 million, beating the new art city to the ground and crushing the army.

Shi Tian hung his head in frustration, touched the mustache on his chin, and said silently. He really didn't have much to say, it was he who tried his best to launch "Wishing you prosperity" to replace the "Best Partner" series, but he didn't make less money himself, but the company was hit hard.

"I have also watched the play "Fuxing Gaozhao", and to be honest, it is not much better than our "Wishing you prosperity". But now Hong Kong movie audiences buy Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long's accounts, as long as there are films starring the two of them, the box office will not be bad, not to mention the classic "Five Lucky Stars" series? Tan Qilin has a great reputation in the music world, but he has no skills, he is just blindly funny, and the audience always seems to feel a little worse. Huang Baiming said softly

Point out the weaknesses of the play "Wishing you prosperity", and try not to embarrass Shi Tian, so he said it very slowly. If you think carefully about the words, you are afraid that once you say the wrong thing, you will cause contradictions. With the relationship between several key figures in the new art city now, I am afraid that it will not be far from falling apart if there is another contradiction. At this critical moment of the Hong Kong Film Festival, if you can't concentrate on uniting as one, no one will end well.

Mecca nodded in agreement with Huang Baiming's point of view: "So I think we are still remaking the "Best Partner" series, and in terms of comedy, only Xu Guanjie has the strength to be as short as "Lucky Stars", and he also has enough box office appeal. ”

"Why do you have to make comedies? Why can't we change the way we do it, change the subject matter? Xu Ke finally couldn't help it and said what he had been holding back for a long time.

The reason why Golden Harvest is invincible, and almost none of the films are box office hits, is that people pay attention to balance. There are both comedies that audiences love to watch, as well as action-packed action movies. There are so many people in Xinyicheng, and each of them can be qualified as a director and producer, why do you always dare not change your thinking? Even if you are making a comedy at the same time, it is okay to open one or two films with other themes, even if it fails, what is it?

Mecca's bald head glittered in the light, but her expression was particularly depressed: "You think I don't want to?" It was Mr. Ray who didn't want to. Mr. Lei said that now is a critical period to compete with Golden Harvest for the box office, and there must be no mistakes. ”

"Hehe," Xu Ke sneered twice: "It used to be Mr. Lei like this, Mr. Lei was like that, and now it's like this, can you not always push Mr. Lei out?" Mr. Lei is a great god, but he can't stop everything, right? If you have an idea in your heart, you will say it, and if you have a problem, you will discuss and solve it, and it will always be so vague, and it will be delayed until what day? Ok, I'm impatient, I take my leave. Xu Ke stood up, turned around and left.

Huang Baiming was startled, quickly grabbed Xu Ke's hand, and persuaded: "Don't be so impulsive, sit down and talk about something." Shi Tian didn't expect Xu Ke to react so much, and he was stunned for a while.

Mecca's face was flushed and she yelled angrily, "Don't come back if you go!" ”

Xu Kechong spread his hands at Huang Baiming: "Did you see it?" I'll see how long you can sit there. Shake off Huang Baiming's hand and leave without looking back.

Mecca was so angry that she kicked over the chair.

How could he not hear the meaning of Xu Kehua's words? Behind the new art city is the Golden Princess Cinema, when the golden princess invests in the filming, the film has to be released by the golden princess, and the golden princess is the financial owner and big boss of the new art city. Lei Juekun of the Golden Princess feels that at this time, he should not change the best advantages of Xinyi City and venture to make other types of movies, but the most important reason for this is Mecca. He was afraid that if Xu Ke, Huang Baiming, and Zeng Zhiwei got good results by changing the theme, they would directly enter Lei Juekun's eyes, which would be a problem with his control of the new art city, and there would even be a danger of time and space. You must know that Xu Ke Huang Baiming's talent is obvious to all, who knows what kind of film they can make when they play **?

Therefore, he resolutely did not allow these people to change the subject matter and get the opportunity to play. But he didn't expect Xu Ke to rush like this, so he turned his face directly.

For a while, several people in the conference room were silent.

After a long time, Huang Baiming sighed lightly: "I think it's better to put the preparation of the "Best Partner" series on the stage, we can't watch the box office champion that has been maintained for several years change hands, you must know that at the end of the year, Golden Harvest still has a big production, Cheng Long's "Police Story". After a pause, he suddenly remembered: "By the way, there is also the "True Colors of Heroes" painted by Red Star, and I don't know how it was filmed. ”

Mecca relented, and replaced her face with sorrow: "With an investment of more than 10 million, it is also beautiful to pile up money." Besides, with Yang Lin's skills shown in "The Assembly", it must be no worse. You say this Yang Lin is too arrogant, right? "The Assembly" was invested 10 million as soon as it was released, and now it will reach 15 million when it comes out with a "True Colors of Heroes", and the next drama will directly reach 20 million? If he goes on like this, he is not afraid that he will lose money? ”

"People have a theater, what's there to be afraid of?" Shi Tian said sullenly: "You don't need to give the theater a share, the Hong Kong box office will return to its original cost, and then sell some foreign cities or shares, no matter how you make it, you can make money." ”

This is the importance of the cinema chain, as long as there is a cinema chain, you can basically be invincible. Of course, it's not impossible to get mixed up to the level of Shaw Brothers.

And the lifeline of Xinyi City is also here, no matter how you jump, the lifeline is in the hands of Princess Jin.

In the end, the three discussed, led by Xu Guanjie and directed by Lin Lingdong, the sequel to the "Best Partner" series "A Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman". Well, this play currently only has this name, and it was decided by the three of them temporarily, and the script has not yet been filmed. Originally, it was planned that Xu Guanjie's "Working Emperor" and Gao Zhisen's "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation" will be released together in the summer file, sniping Red Star Pictures' possible release of "The True Color of Heroes" and Golden Harvest's "Weilong Detective". And Mai Dangjie's "Happy Paradise" and "A Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman" are left for the Chinese New Year schedule to face off against Cheng Long's "Police Story".

There is no way, if you don't attack separately, although your chances of winning in the competition will be greatly increased, it is impossible for Lei Juekun, the big boss of the Golden Princess, to agree. You told me to hit my right hand with my left hand? I'll take the money to make a film for you, how to shoot it well is your business, but the theater chain is mine, and if you put these films all together and release them together, kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800, how much loss will you have?

At present, Xinyicheng's "Working Emperor" and "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation", Golden Harvest's "Xia Yue Fuxing", "Weilong Detective", and Red Star Pictures' "The True Color of Heroes" will be released in the summer in July and August. When the heroes are smiling and proud, what kind of dragon and tiger battle will be staged? (To be continued.) )