In 1988, the fourth year after Chen Ping'an returned to Hong Kong, under his "toss", the trend of the Hong Kong entertainment industry deviated from history. There was no phenomenon of gods and demons dancing wildly and foreign capital invading on a large scale, so the film industry continued to develop in the turmoil, although there was no big bang scene of "addiction to death", but it was stable and continued to step into the golden age of Hong Kong films.

As always, film critics summed up the past year. Many film critics pointed out that the Hong Kong film industry in 1987 was a year for Zhou Runfa. Starting from "God of Gamblers" and "Dragon and Tiger", Zhou Yunfa has starred in more than ten movies, each of which is a high-quality product, and the lowest box office has remained around 20 million.

Although the movie starring Zhou Yunfa is not as good as Cheng Long at the box office in other cities, in Hong Kong, he is the god of the box office, a fairy hair.

But since the end of last year, people have been surprised to find that in addition to taking over the filming of "Eight Star Annunciation" produced by Huang Baiming and directed by Du Qifeng, Zhou Yunfa politely declined other film offers, leaving opportunities to juniors and newcomers.

His habit of bringing newcomers is a well-known secret in the circle.

To outsiders, this is normal. Anyone who makes more than a dozen blockbuster movies a year will be tired and need time to rest. However, he has become a guarantee at the box office, and many viewers have enjoyed the films he starred in, so citizens are waiting for his new film to be released.

It's just a few days later, "Dongfeng Daily" suddenly broke the news that Wu Yusen, one of the international ace directors of Dark Horse, decided to start filming the western film "This Killer is Not Too Cold", and the male lead is his golden partner Zhou Runfa!

As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in the film industry.

After Chen Ping'an, Dark Horse International has another big director entering Hollywood! Moreover, it is the golden pair of Wu Yusen and Zhou Yunfa who jointly broke into Hollywood, and the media have placed blessings and high hopes.

In an interview with reporters, Wu Yusen said. After the Spring Festival this year, he will go to the United States with Zhou Runfa to start filming "This Killer Is Not Too Cold".

That's when people woke up. Zhou Yunfa was not too tired from filming, so he decided to take a break for a while. It's about getting into Hollywood with enough spirit!

With Zhou Yunfa targeting the US market, leaving a lot of gaps in the Hong Kong film industry, Hong Kong male stars have more opportunities to show themselves. If he can become the second movie star of Dark Horse International to enter Hollywood after Zhong Chuhong, will the strength of Dark Horse International be affected?

In response to this problem, "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily" launched a heated discussion, and the long-lost war of words was once again displayed in front of readers.

The latter believes that the gap left by Zhou Yunfa is difficult to make up, but the former is confirmed to be a dark horse international and also has male movie stars such as Liang Jiahui, Liu Dehua, and Li Lianjie. is enough to make up for the impact of Zhou Yunfa's entry into Hollywood.

The war of words between the two sides was very happy, and in the end, "Ming Pao" also participated, analyzing it from a fair and objective point of view, bluntly saying that Leung Jiahui, Lau Dehua and Li Lianjie all have this qualification, but the current ability is still lacking, and the influence in the Hong Kong film industry is not as good as Zhou Yunfa.

Chen Ping'an, who was hiding behind the scenes, was very happy to watch this kind of war of words. This was entirely at his behest, and only the addition of "Ming Pao" was beyond his expectations.

Zhou Yanfa's attempt to break into Hollywood does have a certain impact on Dark Horse International in the Hong Kong film industry. In fact, Chen Ping'an still prefers the statement of "Sing Tao Daily" in his heart, Zhou Yanfa's "Western Expedition". Leung Ka-fai, Lau Tak-wah and Li Lianjie are currently difficult to replace the void left by him alone.

Therefore, the three newspapers analyzed the big-name stars under Dark Horse International one by one, and then promoted the artists under Dark Horse International. According to his plan, he will only make two Hong Kong films this year. Then the Hong Kong film industry will present a situation of a hundred flowers blooming!

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Behind the lively war of words, many film companies saw the doorway and secretly sighed Chen Ping'an's shamelessness - do you want one Zhou Runfa to leave, and more Zhou Runfa to stand up? Let no one else live!

The results of 1987 drew a successful end to Zhou Runfa. Although he joined hands with Wu Yusen to "go west" this time, the results of the battle are not yet known, but no one questioned it.

All the war of words is based on the premise that he can gain a foothold in the United States with "This Killer is Not Too Cold". In the eyes of Hong Kong citizens, Shenxian Fa definitely has this strength. What's more, there is a Chen Ping'an behind him who is strongly supporting. I heard that the script was created by Chen Ping'an himself!

Because of Zhou Yanfa, Chen Ping'an was involved. And what really pushed Chen Ping'an to the "cusp". is an article in the Cinema Fortnightly.

This article affirmed Zhou Runfa's achievements last year, and then changed the conversation, proposing that "instead of calling last year 'Zhou Runfa Year', it is better to call it 'Chen Ping'an Year'".

Then the article listed a number of reasons, "God of Gamblers", "Midnight Bell", "Wong Fei Hung", "Prison Storm", and "My Sassy Girlfriend" five films released in Hong Kong, representing five different themes.

Some have saved the near-death genre, while others have created new genres. The five films and five themes are all groundbreaking, creating a precedent for this type of film and providing a new direction for others to make films. Even if it's a follow-up movie, I'm a little dizzy, and I don't know what type of movie to follow.

However, then the "Oriental Daily" published the news about the personnel changes of Dark Horse International, which caused an earthquake in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Zhang Yijia returned from Taiwan and replaced Shi Nansheng as the vice president of Dark Horse International Film Company; Shi Nansheng is the CEO of ATV, and Xu Xiaoming is also the vice president of ATV.

This personnel change marks the completion of the overall takeover of ATV by Dark Horse International, and ATV, which has changed its name and number many times after ups and downs, has since entered the era of Chen Ping'an and entered a new era!

Immediately afterwards, a number of artists on wireless jumped to ATV. Zhou Haimei, Liu Qingyun, Wu Zhenyu, Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda and so on. Although except for Zhou Haimei, most of the others are third- and fourth-tier artists, but Chen Ping'an paid liquidated damages for these people in his personal name, indicating his attitude towards these artists. At the same time, it also shows that the competition between ATV and wireless in Chen Ping'an's era has begun!

For wireless. This is a sudden change. But they don't care, they have been uncles for a long time, and they don't care about this kind of small wind and waves, not to mention that these job-hopping artists do not have a high status in wireless, and the popular students and masters of wireless have not been affected. Even Zhou Haimei is not the master of wireless.

However, this face has been taken lightly, and the anger of the wireless executives can be imagined. In addition to strengthening the restraint and management of internal actors, the top management of wireless unanimously decided that the TV station would sincerely unite to shoot a number of wonderful TV series to suppress ATV.

Taking advantage of the fact that ATV has just changed the sky and has not yet stabilized, it is crazy to suppress in terms of ratings!

Unexpectedly, ATV did not take any other actions except for poaching some little-known artists from wireless. In the face of the momentum of wireless, it put moving on the top of the agenda.

According to the gossip revealed by insiders, ATV will move from the broadcasting channel to the dark horse film and television base in Tseung Kwan O within two months, and the broadcasting road Wutai Mountain will become Sitai Mountain.

Although they did not continue to fight back, the minds of ATV staff and artists gradually stabilized. Wireless wanted to take this opportunity to retaliate by poaching, but it was a gray nose.

The shadow of the name tree of man. Chen Ping'an's aura and its film company have made ATV people feel a flame of hope and are full of expectations for ATV's future development. The quality and quantity of the students enrolled in this year's ATV artist training class have been greatly improved compared with last year.

"Boss, do you have any good ideas for the company?" Sitting in the office, Shi Nansheng asked Chen Ping'an.

As Fang Yihua warned Chen Ping'an, running a TV station is different from running a film company.

The film company is good to say, making a blockbuster movie can keep the company for a long time; And the TV station ...... ATV has not filmed a TV series with high ratings, but in the past two years, it has not been crushed by wireless in terms of overall interest rates?

After Shi Nansheng accepted ATV, with the assistance of Xu Xiaoming, he had already held meetings with the managers of various departments. The booth of the TV station is too big, and it is difficult for an airborne CEO like her to convince the public.

Fortunately, with Xu Xiaoming's assistance, this gentleman's popularity and prestige in ATV are not low, which is enough to ensure that in a short period of time, all departments will not dare to disobey the yin and yang.

But this has a premise, that is, in the short term, ATV will get a significant improvement in the competition with wireless - ratings!

For a TV station, advertising revenue accounts for a large proportion, and this is related to ratings. Just like in the past two years, with the same advertisement at the same time, ATV's charging standard is lower than that of TVB, because TVB's ratings are high.

In terms of TV station management, Shi Nansheng is not a layman. The withdrawal of the Far Eastern Group has vacated many positions, and many department executives close to the Qiu family are worried.

Xu Xiaoming, who is clear to ATV, is a good helper, the two cooperate, as long as there is enough time, she can completely control ATV. But the problem is that she doesn't have much time right now.

"What is there to build Brother Xiao Ming and Brother Jiahao?" Chen Ping'an asked.

At this moment, there are four people sitting in the office, in addition to Chen Ping'an, Shi Nansheng and Xu Xiaoming, there is also Liu Jiahao.

Liu Jiahao was lured by wireless at the beginning, and was ready to jump ship with his apprentice Li Lizhi, but was dissuaded by Chen Ping'an in time, and finally stayed in ATV temporarily, making a lot of contributions to slowing down ATV's brain drain.

Now that Chen Ping'an has moved in, Liu Jiahao has been promoted and reused, just like today's small-scale meeting, he was invited to participate.

Xu Xiaoming had seen Chen Ping'an's methods, and he didn't dare to say more; Liu Jiahao urgently needs to prove his ability in order to integrate into the small circle at the top.

"I think it's imperative to launch a flagship product......" (To be continued) R655