Chapter 658: "Why Have Me" is a hit
Golden Harvest's third axe soon came to light.
Zou Wenhuai announced that he would cooperate with Taiwanese film companies to start filming Golden Harvest's new films in Taiwan, and vigorously promote Taiwanese artists.
This action made the Hong Kong media sigh.
Golden Harvest, which used to dominate the Hong Kong film industry, is now no match for the small brand Yongsheng, and now it is forced to defeat Maicheng, which is really pitiful.
In response to Golden Harvest's third axe, Yongsheng Entertainment also announced an investment of 200 million Hong Kong dollars to build a large-scale film and television city in the mainland. It is initially estimated that it will cover an area of 3,000 acres and will become the largest film and television city in Asia after completion.
As soon as the news was announced, it also attracted the attention of the media.
Now Golden Harvest is obviously inclined to get closer to Taiwan, while Yongsheng is clearly biased towards the mainland.
In view of the fact that the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland is still hostile, the current confrontation between the two companies actually has the meaning of confrontation between the KMT and the CCP.
After Yongsheng Entertainment announced its plan to build a cinema, the movie "Why Have Me" produced by Yongsheng was officially released in the mainland.
When the film was shown in Hong Kong, it caused a sensation. The leading actor Zheng Zeshi won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in it, and the film was also shortlisted for the Best Picture Award, but unfortunately lost to "Police Story" in the end. However, "Why Me" still won the Grand Jury Prize.
This is a film that has touched many Hong Kong people, with a box office of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not easy for a literary film. And the key is that it saw a lot of crying audiences, and there was a news at the time that "the paper towels in the theater are sold out!" β
When it was released in China this time, Ji Fanghua borrowed this stalk and declared that "you can refund the ticket if you don't cry". This advertising slogan was the first time in China in the 80s. Chinese people prefer to be greedy and cheap, just like supermarket egg promotions have aunts queuing up all night.
This time, he even claimed that "you can refund the ticket if you don't cry", and suddenly someone spent money to buy tickets and go to the theater to watch it with the thought of "I just don't cry, it depends on how you are".
As a result, there was not a single person who did not cry, especially the women who were emotional. I was moved by a handful of snot and tears. I was deeply moved by the family affection of the fat cat mother and son.
There was that young man who was originally going to watch the "free play", but at the end, he saw that almost everyone in the audience was crying, and it would be inhumane if he didn't cry anymore, so he squeezed out a few tears.
So when watching the play, there is really no one who doesn't cry. In this way, this "Why Have Me" is famous.
At the beginning, the movie was only screened in Beijing, because of the publicity of "you can refund the ticket if you don't cry", many people went to the theater to watch the play, so the theater was almost full. The box office revenue is very good. Coupled with the continuous fermentation of the advertising effect and the word of mouth of the people, this drama is becoming more and more popular.
At first, it was only tested in the capital, and then gradually spread to Jinmen and Yanzhao, and quickly swept the entire mainland. Everywhere I went, there was a lot of crying, and the people seemed to have finally found a channel to cry, whether it was an old lady or an old man. They all cried in the theater, setting off a frenzy of movie-watching in China.
Various media in the mainland have also reported on it. interpreted this movie, and invisibly promoted "Why Have Me". In particular, "People's Daily" has published articles one after another, giving a very high evaluation to this movie, believing that it praises great maternal love and is a very good educational film. Han Jin knew that it was his aunt who helped him cheer him up.
Because "People's Daily" characterized this movie as an excellent educational film that praises mother's love, many government agencies and units chartered the venue to watch this movie. There are even schools that call on students and parents to watch together.
As a result, the box office of "Why Have Me" is really rising, starting in May, it has been screened in the mainland for six months, and until the end of the year, there are still counties and rural areas in the screening. However, the box office like theirs generally does not collect. Even if this movie is led by the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the Ministry of Culture, etc., it can't be managed below the county seat.
Even so, the final box office of "Why Have Me" was as high as 150 million yuan, which is equivalent to more than 600 million Hong Kong dollars.
In 85 years, the total box office of Hong Kong films was less than 600 million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to the box office of this "Why Have Me" has topped the total box office of more than 100 Hong Kong films last year.
Yongsheng Entertainment, as the producer, got a two-and-a-half box office, with a total of 150 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a big amount of money.
After that, many Hong Kong film companies hope to enter the mainland market, because the drama "Why Have Me" itself is not the pinnacle of Hong Kong films, since this movie can sell so much, then other films will definitely be on sale.
Of course, that's all for later.
Now it is obvious that Yongsheng Entertainment has fallen to the mainland, although he had a bad relationship with Taiwan before, but in fact, he is still neutral in the eyes of the media.
After it completely fell to the mainland, some right-wing media in Hong Kong began to criticize Han Jin and his Yongsheng Entertainment, and the artists under Yongsheng Entertainment.
For example, "Sing Tao Daily," "Oriental Daily," and "Overseas Chinese Business Daily" were all right-wing media that were relatively close to Taiwan's Kuomintang, and it was not until the return to the motherland that they began to change their stance and began to lean toward the mainland.
However, there are only three leftist media in Hong Kong, namely Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, and Cheng Pao, and the gap between their power and that of right-wing newspapers is not half a light.
The three newspapers with the largest sales volume in Hong Kong, "Sing Tao Daily," "Oriental Daily," and "Tian Tian Daily," are all right-wing newspapers, which shows the backward situation of left-wing media in Hong Kong's media circles.
Because of this, when these media began to attack Han Jin and his Insein Entertainment, and the artists under Insein Entertainment, the intensity was so strong that Han Jin was also very surprised for a while.
Originally, Han Jin had a good relationship with newspapers such as "Oriental Daily", "Sing Tao Daily", and "Overseas Chinese Business Daily", and the monthly public relations fee was also hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, just to stop their mouths, so that they could say more good things about themselves, more for Yongsheng Entertainment, and more for Yongsheng's artists and movies.
But now they suddenly turned back, which caught Han Jin off guard for a while.
"Yu Zheng, what's going on with these media?" Han Jin got up early to see the newspaper, and saw that none of these media said anything good about Yongsheng, and both news reports and columns were criticizing Han Jin and Yongsheng Entertainment.
"Han Jin's new album songs were exposed to plagiarism. According to sources, two songs are suspected of plagiarism in the latest album that Han Jin is preparing, and this newspaper is continuing to pay attention to it and will continue to bring you follow-up reports. βHong Kong Times.
"Yongsheng Entertainment's theater chain is suspected of stealing the box office. According to theater insiders told this newspaper, Yongsheng Cinema Line has been suspected of stealing the box office for a long time, and the amount involved may be as high as tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. Many small film companies have suffered heavy losses, and this newspaper calls on the relevant departments to intervene in the investigation as soon as possible and give justice to the public. - "Overseas Chinese Business Daily".
"Yongsheng's artist Liu Dehua, when he participated in the event yesterday, he was taught a lesson by his predecessors because he had no respect for his elders, and he had no one in his eyes as soon as he became popular. It is reported that when Liu Dehua was backstage, he obviously saw his seniors entering the scene, but he ignored them, so he made his seniors feel very disgusted. - The New Newspaper
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Han Jin knew that these reports were all nonsense.
Plagiarism or something is completely out of nowhere. This "Hong Kong Times" is an out-and-out ultra-rightist newspaper, and often fights with "Wen Wei Po", "Ta Kung Pao" and so on, so after seeing Han Jin's complete defection to the mainland, he immediately bit him like a mad dog.
Looking at the article it published, it seems to be conclusive, but in fact, it does lack evidence to support it. It doesn't say at all which "source" revealed the news, which two songs are suspected of plagiarism, and which "two songs" were plagiarized.
Without any evidence at all, it dares to fabricate nonsense and use ambiguous words such as "suspected" and "alleged" to obscure reports and evade responsibility. In the end, even if I knew it was fake news, I couldn't even apologize for it. It's really a villain in the front and back of the car.
As for the report of "Overseas Chinese Business Daily", it is even more outrageous. Let's not talk about whether Yongsheng Cinema Line is worth stealing the box office, let's just say that Hong Kong theaters are no longer theaters in the 50s and 60s. At that time, the management of theaters was relatively chaotic, and it was likely that there would be box office evasion.
But now that the management of cinemas in Hong Kong has become very formal, and the production company can also send people to investigate, there is no such thing as box office evasion, and it is impossible for such a thing to happen.
And its reports are also made up, what "insiders revealed", what "may be as high as tens of millions", what "small film companies have suffered heavy losses"...... As soon as you hear it, it is false, and there is no such person.
The report of the "New Paper" is even more nonsense. Liu Dehua's temper Han Jin knows that he is like a diligent old scalper, he has been an idol all his life, and he has been Liu Tianwang all his life. With such a strict self-demand person, Han Jin has never seen a second one in his life. People like this say that he has no respect for his elders and is arrogant, but Han Jin doesn't believe it anyway.
Besides, who knows what this senior is. Anyone who debuted earlier than Liu Dehua can be called a senior. But "seniors" are worthless in Hong Kong, no matter how senior they are, no matter how senior they are, they are not popular, they are a fart.
Han Jin had seen a lot of "seniors" before, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, smoking, cheating, cheating, stealing, and being proficient in everything. Seniors like that don't kick twice are considered to respect the elderly, and they still want to put their seniors on the shelf, shit! (To be continued......)
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