Wang Xiaohu himself admitted: He only appeared to completely disrupt the original trajectory of Hong Kong films, especially the withdrawal of Golden Harvest Company, which balances the Shaw Brothers, from the stage of history, and the scene of the Concord family dominating the Hong Kong film industry. [Full text reading]

Fortunately, Wang Xiaohu realized the seriousness of this problem, and disassembled and reorganized the five major satellite companies a few years ago, allowing them to freely combine and develop, even so, Hong Kong films have been going around for several years before they reluctantly returned to their original orbit, but there have been great changes when they recovered.

Among them, the most affected is the field of kung fu films and martial arts films, the establishment of the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union, a large number of martial arts instructors and action actors began to frequently land in major film companies and TV groups, although they are not famous compared to Qi Xiaofu, Liu Jialiang, Xu Xiaoming, Cheng Xiaodong and others, but they also fully demonstrate their commercial and artistic value.

In the past few years, the action series of Hong Kong movies that have appeared in Hong Kong movies are essentially much more exciting and richer than the time and space in Wang Xiaohu's memory, especially in terms of action design, which makes action movies colorful.

These changes have been carried out quietly, and no one except Wang Xiaohu knows that Hong Kong cinema has changed.

is like the current Tsui Hark, if he hadn't met Wang Xiaohu, "Xinshu Mountain" might only be regarded as a third-rate film, but after Wang Xiaohu's guidance, the quality of the film has risen to a big level, and Tsui Hark himself has also noticed the leadership role of Concord in Hong Kong film companies.

For example, Concord has the largest film and television base in Asia, which can accept ancient costumes and modern major types of films, because of the beautiful and realistic scenery, most film and television works are filmed, at least the current picture on the screen is much better than a few years ago, and the real exterior is far more eye-catching than the set.

For example, Concord has the world's most advanced special effects studio, a special effects editing studio with reading power, and the most mature recording and dubbing equipment in Hong Kong, all of which are deeply attracted to Tsui Hark.

"Hey, isn't this Tsui Hark?"

When Tsui Hark came out of the Concord screening room, he greeted him with a bald head.

"Hmm, Director Mai Jia, are you also coming to Brother Tiger to watch a sample film?" are all mixed in the circle, looking up and not looking down, Tsui Hark naturally knows that the bald head in front of him is Mai Jia from New Art City.

"yes, are you too?" Mai Jia shook the film box in his hand and said, "This is the third time I've reviewed the film, and if I don't do it, the master will beat me flat." ”

"What film?" Tsui Hark asked curiously.

Mai Jia grinned and said: ""Chasing Girls", a comedy, it's not as chic as you, and you made a big production that Master is interested in." ”

Tsui Hark smiled embarrassedly, sometimes he himself felt very strange, why Brother Tiger would be so harsh on his apprentices, for example, a while ago, there was a rumor that Stephen Chow soaked in the river for six hours and almost collapsed.

Stephen Chow is like this, Mai Jia and others are like this, especially remember that "Best Partner" was the script of Brother Tiger's third review, and it was not easy to teach Mai Jia, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming a lesson.

Tsui Hark suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked, "By the way, Mai Jia, I heard that you guys are doing a group?" ”

Mai Jia nodded and said: "Sammo Hung and Yuan Biao have been very busy recently, and they have been making "Beware of Little Hands" and making other movies, the team we reorganized two years ago has been disintegrated, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming and I are considering doing a new group, and this matter has been approved by the master." ”

"Who are the members?"

"The three of us, as well as Zeng Zhiwei and Teddy Robin, there are only five of us at the moment, Tsui Hark, are you interested in doing it together?"

Tsui Hark was overjoyed when he heard this, but he still said very tactfully: "I still have a one-month contract with Siyuan Company, you give time to think about it." ”

"Okay, wait for your good news, I'll go to Master to review the film."

After Mai Jia finished speaking, he walked to the screening room, Tsui Hark left Concord with a lot of concern, standing at the door of the Concord Office Building, he turned his head to look at this not very tall building, he knew that maybe this was a rare opportunity, he decided to go back and discuss it with Shi Nansheng.

In the screening room, Mai Jia told Wang Xiaohu the news of his invitation to Tsui Hark, and the corners of the latter's mouth curled up to reveal a smile that Mai Jia felt incomprehensible, and Mai Jia probably didn't know why the master was smiling like this at this time.

Only Wang Xiaohu understands that once Tsui Hark enters the New Arts City, once the Seven Old Monsters Group of the New Arts City is established, the Hong Kong New Wave Film Movement will also come to an end. Instead, Hong Kong films have entered a golden age of more commercialization and fierce market competition.

Wang Xiaohu only knew that Tsui Hark's switch to the New Arts City was an objective factor, and he knew that when 1982 arrived, he knew the main factor that prompted the end of the New Wave film movement.

At the beginning of the new year, a series of major changes have taken place in the Southeast Asian film market, on which Hong Kong Reading Productions depends: Singapore began to invest mainly in Hong Kong TV series, Thailand struggled with Hong Kong films due to the impact of the world economic crisis and restrictions on import quotas, and Vietnam lost its market due to political reasons.

These changes may not have much impact on the development of Hong Kong, but they have caused Hong Kong's reading power production to fall into a trough in an instant, and the films with strong artistic and ideological surnames and weak commercial surnames have lost the soil for survival, and the first to affect the major directors of the new wave.

Siyuan Company, which survived by attracting new wave directors, was suddenly in chaos, so the newly rising Siyuan Company was still in the future and accumulated momentum, and it was greatly hurt by the vitality of the general environmental factors.

Fortunately, at this time, "The Legend of the Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain" saved Siyuan Company, Wang Xiaohu really did what he said, not only cooperated with the theater chain of the Shaw Brothers to be screened in Hong Kong, but also with the strong help of the Shaw Brothers Taiwan Branch and the Taiwan Branch of Xinyi City, "Xinshu Mountain" was pushed to the peak of the Spring Festival file.

A film directed by Tsui Hark, many movie stars joined forces, and the special effects team of Concord Special Effects team, and "Xinshu Mountain", which was adapted from the main work of Huanzhulou, thus started the first war in the golden age of Hong Kong films.

On February 11, 1982, "Xinshu Mountain" was released in Hong Kong for two weeks, with a box office of 8.9 million, although the market in Taiwan, Macao and other regions was sluggish, it also handed over a general result of 6.78 million Hong Kong dollars, and there was still a gap of 5 million Hong Kong dollars from the 20 million Hong Kong dollars invested by Siyuan.

Because Tsui Hark contributed the most to this film, Wu Siyuan gave Tsui Hark a red envelope of 1.2 million, and after Tsui Hark got the red envelope, he completely relieved his heart, and handed over the "resignation letter" in Wu Siyuan's peach blossom-like smile, and then took Shi Nansheng's hand and swaggered away from Siyuan's company!

Siyuan's pillar Tsui Hark left, Wu Siyuan was stunned on the spot, and he didn't even have time to ask Tsui Hark which company to go to.

But soon, Wu Siyuan heard the news that Tsui Hark joined the new art city, Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Teddy Robin, Zeng Zhiwei invited friends in the industry to welcome Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng in a grand and grand way. ”

As a result, the seven old monsters of Xinyicheng are in place, and the era of Xinyicheng, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and others has finally begun.

The advent of a new era means that some people laugh and some people break their hearts. Wu Siyuan, Chen Ziqiang and others are undoubtedly the saddest, the Southeast Asian market on which they depend for survival has undergone major changes, which made Wu Siyuan sad, and before the Spring Festival arrived, he secretly took advantage of the help to visit Wang Xiaohu's home.

"Mr. Wang, you can save Siyuan Company no matter what, the Southeast Asian market has fallen, and Siyuan Company is about to end."

Wu Siyuan burst into tears, and cried with Wang Xiaohu as soon as they met, which made Wang Xiaohu very embarrassed.

"Siyuan, don't be sad, don't be sad."

To be honest, Wang Xiaohu didn't know how to comfort Wu Siyuan at this time, if there was no appearance of his own, Wu Siyuan would probably be like Zhongtian now, not to mention anything else, in his previous life, Jackie Chan relied on his fame for "Serpentine Trickster" and "Drunken Fist" were produced by Wu Siyuan, these two films made Jackie Chan popular at the same time, but also made Wu Siyuan valued by Golden Harvest Company.

But Wang Xiaohu shot these two films a few years in advance, and the disintegration of Golden Harvest was acquired, which led to Wu Siyuan's two main factors, although he later formed Siyuan Company, followed Wang Xiaohu's ass to fry cold rice, supervised the production of "Integrity Storm", "Seven Million Robbery", "Hong Kong Strange News" and other films with good box office, and also attracted the major directors of the new wave, for a time for two or three years, but at present, in the face of the weakening of the Southeast Asian market, Siyuan Company has indeed fallen into a crisis.

Mai Jia poached the pillar of the people's platform, Tsui Hark, which was tantamount to making Siyuan worse.

"In this way, I don't know if Tsui Hark told you about the mainland release of "Xinshu Mountain"?"

Wang Xiaohu thought about it for a long time, but he had very little memory of Wu Siyuan, who made him an unpopular figure, he was not a famous action actor, action director or other public stars in his previous life, Wang Xiaohu could only comfort him through other methods.

As soon as Wu Siyuan heard about the release in the mainland, his eyes immediately lit up, with the box office results of "Xinshu Mountain" breaking 10 million in two weeks after its release, if it is released in the mainland market, the profits will definitely go to the sea. He stopped Ai Ai's complaint at the moment and said: "Tsui Hark once mentioned this, but I have done something sorry for you before, and I have never had the face to ask Ah Hu for your help." ”

Wang Xiaohu rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that you came to me today, isn't it for this?

"What do you do with the past?" Wang Xiaohu waved his hand, if he was a person with a small belly, when Wu Siyuan was messing around and even smearing him in the media and newspapers, he would have taken the opportunity to counterattack.

"That's right, if you want to release "Xinshu Mountain" through me in the mainland, there are a few things you have to figure out."

Wu Siyuan nodded hurriedly and said, "Ah Hu, you say." ”

"You should know what happened to Liu Jialiang in the mainland a few years ago, right?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

Wu Siyuan nodded again and said: "I know this very well, I heard that the mainland has a lot of opinions on our Hong Kong film and television industry, and even Ah Hu's "Mulan" was forced to shut down." ”

"Yes, after this incident, the mainland has become strict with our censorship system, and not just any film can be released in the mainland." Wang Xiaohu said that he was deliberately stunned, he saw that Wu Siyuan was pricking up his ears to listen to the following, and said with a smile: "However, Concord Company still has some special concessions in this regard, and our company has ten audit places every year." ”

Ten? In fact, there are more than ten, and Wang Xiaohu is just fooling Wu Siyuan when he says this, because Hong Kong does not know the delicate relationship between him and the mainland.

"If "Xinshu Mountain" wants to be released in the mainland and wants to get these preferential policies, there are a few precautions." Wang Xiaohu groaned and said: "First of all, the film must be crowned with the logo of Concord Company, and the producer must write my name or Azhi's name, because as long as the mainland sees the above two points, it will appropriately relax the policy." ”

"Well, I get that." Wu Siyuan nodded vigorously, he understood what Wang Xiaohu said, such a phenomenon is more common in Hong Kong, and what he is most concerned about now is what Wang Xiaohu is going to say next, because it is directly related to box office dividends.

"In terms of box office dividends, the mainland currently leaves us with only 25% of the standard, so I want to withdraw 5% of it as agency fees, you have no opinion on this, right?"

After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he looked at Wu Siyuan fixedly, in fact, as long as the name of Concord is hung, the box office dividend between him and the mainland is fifty-fifty, there are not many people who know the inside story, and every transfer is done by the Ministry of Culture himself, not to mention that the confidentiality measures on the mainland are very in place, and there is no way for Hong Kong to know.

Wu Siyuan is even more impossible to know these insiders, when he first heard the 25% dividend, he also thought that Wang Xiaohu wanted to mention 10% of the profit, how do you know that it is only 5%, if "Xinshu Mountain" has 10 million income in the mainland, Wang Xiaohu extracts 5%, Siyuan still has an income of 2 million, and from the rumors of "Shaolin Temple", the film has a proud result of 14 million yuan in half a year after its release, and "Xinshu Mountain" has the same wonderful features as "Myth" in terms of picture and action, At least there must be a box office of 10 million yuan, right?

One more way, one more line of livelihood, mosquito thighs are not meat at all, who let Liu Jialiang and them make such a fuss, otherwise the mainland's money is not all earned by Hong Kong filmmakers?

Wu Siyuan complained about Liu Jialiang in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Ah Hu, you don't have to worry, I believe in your character, and this matter is completely up to you!" ”

"Hey, everyone is a peer, and it is appropriate to help each other." Wang Xiaohu also said politely, in fact, his heart has long been happy, peers, I don't pit you, who pits you!

(To be continued)