Liu Lianghua was wearing a professional skirt and walked forward with a folder in her hand. This confidante of Boss Zou, although he is almost 50 years old, the style released between twisting his waist and swinging his hips is still enough to make the young man blush and heartbeat.

pushed the door and walked into Zou Wenhuai's office, but saw that Zou Wenhuai was discussing something with He Guanchang, and the two saw Liu Lianghua coming in, and immediately stopped the discussion.

Liu Lianghua nodded at He Guanchang, pulled over a stool and sat down and said, "Brother Huai, it has been confirmed that the Taiping Theater and the Queen's Theater are Kang Jianfei's properties, and he has two other theaters in Kowloon that are being renovated. ”

He Guanchang said with a smile: "Actually, it's not difficult to guess, Lu Haitong Building was changed to Oriental Building, and the Queen's Theater inside happened to join the New Era Cinema Line, from which it can be seen that ninety percent of the Queen's Theater may be Kang Jianfei's industry." But what's going on with the Taiping Theater? ”

Hong Kong's two most famous luxury cinemas are Lee Theatre and Taiping Theatre, which had been nominally part of the Shaw Brothers Cinemas for more than a decade; Before the Taiping Theater closed, most of the time Golden Harvest Cinema was screened, such as the last movie released before the Taiping Theater closed, which was "Modern Bodyguard" produced by Golden Harvest and starring the Xu brothers.

After the Taiping Theater closed down, Zou Wenhuai was also fighting the idea of this theater, but he was never able to get the owner of the theater, Yuan Bifu, to speak.

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang couldn't figure out how Kang Jianfei bought the Taiping Theater by what means.

Liu Lianghua explained: "I invited Yuan Bifu out for a meal at noon, and she said that the reason for selling the Taiping Theater to Kang Jianfei was that Kang Jianfei promised to build a Hong Kong opera film exhibition hall in the future. ”

Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It turns out that my niece has this in mind, no wonder she refused to sell it in the first place." ”

Zou Wenhuai is an old friend of Yuan Bifu's father, so Yuan Bifu can be regarded as a nephew in front of Zou Wenhuai.

Liu Lianghua asked: "Then tomorrow's Academy Awards ceremony, will we go or not?" ”

"Go, why not? Let's take part in the grand event. Zou Wenhuai said with a smile.

Liu Lianghua said: "But this year's Academy Awards is hosted by Phoenix TV, and the venue is also located in the Taiping Theater. ”

He Guanchang shook his head and said: "The selection of the Academy Awards should be considered fair, and Kang Jianfei can't control the more than 200 reporters and judges from several countries. Moreover, with Mr. Pan of "Ming Pao" as the supervisor, his character is still trustworthy. ”

Zou Wenhuai agreed: "Yes, if you don't go, you will be timid." But I can't let Kang Jianfei be too proud, tomorrow Ahua, you will attend on my behalf, and I won't go with Xichang. ”

Liu Lianghua nodded and said: "Okay, but I'm afraid our "A Scheme" won't win the award, and many of those reporters and judges are film critics, so they should be more inclined to the art of film." ”

"The influence of the Academy Awards is not great, it doesn't matter if you win the award or not," Zou Wenhuai didn't take the Hong Kong Film Awards seriously, but asked He Guanchangdao, "Luo Wei's "Dragon and Tiger Leap" was painted, right?" ”

"Dragon Teng Tiger Leap", also known as "Laughing Fist Monster Moves 2", is a super bad movie in which Luo Wei saw Cheng Long's "Water Jǐng Eagle" sell well in the chūn festival file, and re-edited the useless clips of "Laughing Fist Monster Moves" before, and then took it to the Golden Princess Theater to be released.

I have to say that Cheng Long's box office appeal is still very strong, and "Dragon and Tiger Leap" is promoted in the name of starring Cheng Long, and the box office almost broke 1 million.

However, after watching it, the audience scolded loudly, because the plot of this movie is not right, especially the last fight scene, which is exactly the same as "Laughing Boxing Monster Moves" back then.

But even so, the movie was released in Golden Princess Theaters for 6 days before it was painted, and it actually sold 2.73 million at the box office.

He Guanchang said with a smile: "That movie was painted yesterday, and Luo Wei can be regarded as ruining the reputation he had saved before." ”

Luo Wei is Liu Lianghua's ex-husband, and he is also a general under Zou Wenhuai.

However, there is not much taboo about this matter within Jiahe, mainly because Luo Wei's reputation is too stinky. Not only did his wife Liu Lianghua cuckold him, but even his son Luo Dawei worked under Zou Wenhuai and was abandoned by his wife and son at the same time, so you can imagine how bad this person's popularity is.

When it comes to her ex-husband, Liu Lianghua is not embarrassed at all, and sneered: "He still has a reputation to lose?" But this time, he even used the trick of renovating the old film, thinking that his savings had been squandered, and he only cared about cheating money. ”

"Luo Wei is not worth mentioning, but Kang Jianfei's Ah Zai, a "Home Alone" is really a stroke of genius." Zou Wenhuai said with a smile, "I asked Mr. Ryder of 20th Century Fox about it, and what the newspaper said was actually true. A movie that took 11 days to produce and invested less than $3 million sold 180 million at the box office in North America alone, and tens of millions of copyrights were sold, and Kang Jianfei earned at least more than 100 million US dollars. ”

Not to mention the strength of the family, only in terms of personal net worth, more than 100 million US dollars can already rank among the top 30 richest people in Hong Kong. Although Zou Wenhuai is a tycoon in the film industry, he focuses on making movies, and his personal net worth at this time is only more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

Liu Lianghua was speechless: "No wonder he buys a house, land, and a theater with great fanfare, and it seems that there is no shortage of funds at all." ”

He Guanchang analyzed: "Now in the entire Hong Kong film industry, Shaw Brothers is Bo Xishan and is about to die, and maybe it will be discontinued one day; The new art city is more than enterprising, the foundation is insufficient, as long as the internal chaos will collapse immediately; Only Kang Jianfei is the most powerful, he made a big move a year ago, began to integrate the artist resources of TV stations, film companies and record companies, and has a cinema chain as the backing, at most it will be a year or two to be full-fledged, and he will inevitably become the leading boss of the Hong Kong film and television industry at that time. ”

The smile on Zou Wenhuai's face also disappeared, he was also paying attention to the major changes in Kang Jianfei's industry during this time, and realized that Kang Jianfei was engaged in the separation of production and broadcasting and the reform of the entertainment brokerage system at the same time. Once Kang Jianfei's reform is successful, the energy formed by several companies is enough to be proud of Xiangjiang, but he Zou Wenhuai can only watch dryly.

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Zou Wenhuai can still sit firmly in Diaoyutai to watch the play, but Shao Yifu's film company and theater company are getting worse and worse.

In the parallel space, when Hong Kong films were at their most prosperous, there were a total of five large-scale cinema chains in Hong Kong. However, the more cinemas the better, because the Hong Kong market is too narrow, and the more cinemas there are, more film sources are needed to support it. Under the influence of supply and demand, there will be a large number of bad movies that are rushed out in a hurry to meet the demand for film sources in several theaters. This is the good story of Zheng Yuling's "Zheng Jiu Group" who took on nine dramas at the same time and ran back and forth between the nine crews.

And once a bad movie becomes a disaster, and you can make money by making a random movie, the creative atmosphere in the film industry will change. Blindly following the trend and indiscriminate production have consumed a large number of film and television resources, seriously destroying the creative enthusiasm of film workers, coupled with various overseas investments, many people have the mentality of making bad movies and leaving after making a handful, which has seriously reduced the overall quality of Hong Kong films.

There were two super boom periods for Hong Kong films, the first boom period was in the 60s, when Taiwanese films had not yet risen, and the mainland was in isolation, and Hong Kong films became the well-deserved hegemon of the whole East Asia. However, as the Cold War intensified, Nanyang became the hardest hit area of cultural anti-CCP, and Indonesia's Chinese exclusion was only the most fierce manifestation, and even Malaysia and Singapore were rejecting Chinese culture.

Hong Kong films are also Chinese-language films, and within a few years, countless film companies went bankrupt, and the number of theaters in Hong Kong fell by half rapidly, and then they were overtaken by Taiwanese films.

The second boom period of Hong Kong films is the 80s, which is commonly known as the "Golden Decade" in the industry. In the past ten years, Hong Kong films have not lost to Hollywood films in terms of commercial, entertainment, and art, and in this decade, filmmakers' creative enthusiasm is also the highest.

In the mid-to-late 80s, it took an average of 40 days to produce a comedy, which was definitely made by jīng, but in the shoddy 90s, a Hong Kong comedy could be made in 10 days.

When there were five cinema chains in Hong Kong, many people of insight were calling for reducing cinema chains and paying attention to the quality of films.

(The emergence of five cinema chains in Hong Kong is the result of the market's pursuit of profits, which later led to the decline of Hong Kong films, and the major cinema chains have closed down one after another, which can be regarded as a full embodiment of the principle of market leverage.) ）

After the increase in theaters, it will not only lead to a decline in the overall quality of Hong Kong films, but also the more direct consequence is to dilute the number of moviegoers in each theater, which will greatly reduce the average income of each theater.

And Kang Jianfei came up with a new era cinema line at the beginning of the "golden decade" of Hong Kong films, making Hong Kong suddenly have four cinema lines of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, and New Era - the leftist Yindu cinema line will automatically ignore it.

When the New Era Cinema was first established, the impact was not great, but it has been half a year since its establishment, especially after the hot sales of several movies released by it, the evil consequences of the simultaneous existence of four large cinema chains were immediately apparent.

After the Chūn festival, the number of moviegoers in the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, which was not attractive enough for the film, plummeted due to the audience being divided by several theater chains, and the loss was unbearable.

In the case of the release of the film, Shao Yifu can not remedy it.

The highly anticipated "Interstellar Blunt Tire" was released only two days ago, coupled with the serious losses of the Shaw Brothers Cinema now, so that Shao Yifu finally had the idea of discontinuing Shaw Brothers, and the birth of this idea was two years earlier than in the original time and space.

Unlike Shaw, who struggled, Hong Kong's film industry boomed like a blowout, with a new film company opening almost every few days, and all kinds of films being produced like an industrial assembly line.

Not to mention the quality of these films, judging from the number of films produced, Hong Kong films at this time are at least comparable to the original time and space in 1986. The reasons are, first, the major cinema chains have successively canceled the bottom system, which has reduced the risk of dúlì production companies' films; The second is that the four major cinema lines stand side by side, plus a soy sauce Yindu cinema line, and the demand for film sources brought by several cinema lines has stimulated the surge in Hong Kong film production from the market supply and demand relationship.

No one is worried about this, and all Hong Kong filmmakers only regard this as a sign of the great rise of Hong Kong films. The media cheered, saying that Hong Kong has become a veritable Hollywood of the East.

When Kang Jianfei returned to Hong Kong, he was also surprised to see the number of films released in major theaters in early March. Even as a traverser, Kang Jianfei couldn't judge whether this change was good or bad.