In the blink of an eye, in 1987, TVB's New Year's drama "Rogue Tycoon" exploded in ratings, all of which were declining in the previous months, and steadily suppressed the average ratings of "The Peerless Twins" on Phoenix Channel's side by more than ten points.

Seeing that Phoenix TV was about to surpass TVB and establish its advantage in the field of Hong Kong TV, the other party actually relied on a TV series to reverse the decline, Kang Jianfei could only sigh that TVB has a deep heritage.

Not to mention the actor Huang Rihua's second spring, the heroine Zheng Yuling also relied on this drama to officially replace Wang Mingquan and become a well-deserved sister of TVB.

What caught Huang Xizhao and Zhong Jinghui the most was Wei Jiahui, the screenwriter and assistant director of "Hooligan Tycoon", who became TVB's gold medal screenwriter at the age of 25, and was exceptionally promoted to creative director by Fang Yihua.

The 25-year-old creative director, this is like an unprecedented situation in TVB, which attaches great importance to seniority, which shows Fang Yihua's importance to Wei Jiahui.

Wen Ruian has adapted the script of "The Peerless Twins" very well, but when it comes to a divine drama like "Rogue Tycoon", the ratings are still incomparable.

I heard that TVB will make persistent efforts to create a new drama by Wei Jiahui, and Oriental Television Production Company immediately made a killer feature - announcing the start of filming "Sister Tuogun 4".

Not to mention the fight between the two TV stations, Christmas is followed by New Year's holidays. After a fight, director Zhang Wanting, Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong starred in "Autumn Fairy Tale", which won the box office champion of Christmas movies for DreamWorks - 25.5 million.

On the side of Golden Harvest Pictures, the comeback work of cold-faced smiling craftsman Xu Guanwen "Detective Chocolate" ranked second. The box office was 22.48 million.

As for the rest of the movies in the Christmas file, the box office is only around 10 million.

In the entire Christmas file and the New Year's file, there is no movie in Hong Kong that has broken the box office of 30 million. "Ming Pao Weekly" couldn't help but sigh: "Without Kang Jianfei's Christmas file, I always feel that there is something missing." ”

Hong Kong people don't pay much attention to what movie theaters are missing, and everyone pays attention to Hong Kong's stock market.

More than two years ago, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was at its lowest point of 600 points, and it began to soar after the 97 Hong Kong handover was determined in the autumn, and by the end of the year, the Hang Seng Index had risen by 1,200 points.

Two years have passed. The Hang Seng Index doubled again, breaking the 3,000-point mark directly after New Year's Day.

Although the new art city is going downhill, the owner of the new art city, Mecca, is proud. In the past two years, he has accumulated a net worth of millions by trading stocks.

It wasn't until after the Spring Festival that the Hang Seng Index rose by more than 130 points in a month and a half.

Hong Kong citizens obviously forgot the pain of the 73-year stock market crash, and invested their savings in the stock market like grabbing money one by one, even Kang Jianfei's frugal and stingy cousin. He also quietly bought thousands of shares of "Hutchison Whampoa".

After Kang Jianfei learned about it. Only one piece of advice was given: "Pinch it for another two months, and shoot it all." ”

Kang Jianfei doesn't understand and is not interested in stock trading, but he has watched a divine drama called "The Great Era", and the producer and screenwriter of this TV series is Wei Jiahui, who has just made a big splash in TVB.

After watching this TV series and understanding its background, Kang Jianfei remembered one word - Black Monday.

On that Monday, the Dow Jones index in the United States led the plunge, and the net worth of countless investors evaporated out of thin air. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index plummeted 420 points in one day. The monthly futures index also fell by more than 300 points, and it is possible to see bankrupt shareholders jumping off the building while walking on the road.

Black Monday. It's not just a stock market crash in Hong Kong, but a global stock market crash, and the most fundamental cause of the stock market crash is the slowdown in the U.S. economy.

Kang Jianfei doesn't remember the month when Black Monday happened, but vaguely remembers that half a month before the stock market crash, Li Chaoren's group raised more than 10 billion yuan, not only calmly avoided this stock market crash, but also took the opportunity to make a lot of money.

In the Spring Festival stalls at the beginning of 1987, Cheng Long really became the eldest brother, and he and Alan Tam went to Europe to shoot "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", which made a big splash and won 35.5 million box office in Hong Kong.

Xinyicheng did not show weakness either, and "The Legend of Wesley" directed by Teddy Robin attracted 18.71 million yuan; And Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company is even more powerful, "Rich and Powerful" directed by Gao Zhisen, under the pressure of Cheng Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", actually won a high box office of 27 million.

Pan Disheng was very happy, when he was complacent and ready to go all out to enter the film industry, and because of conflicts with Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, Pan Disheng finally announced his withdrawal from Xinbao Cinema, and spent money to forcibly buy back the shares of Debao Pictures in the hands of Chen and Feng.

At the beginning of March, Pan Disheng announced that he would invest 100 million Hong Kong dollars to officially establish his own Debao cinema line. Hong Kong's cinema chain has finally added the sixth largest Debao cinema chain after Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, Oriental, Xinbao and Yindu.

As for Anle Pictures, which only has 4 movie theaters, and some other small theaters, they can't be ranked at all.

The establishment of Debao Cinemas is tantamount to completely muddying the Hong Kong film industry, and the demand for film sources in theaters has greatly increased, attracting hot money to invest in films, and at the same time further stimulating the increase in the number of Hong Kong films.

By the middle of 1987, the number of registered film companies in Hong Kong had reached 297. Although many of them are shell companies, a palm-sized peninsula with nearly 300 film companies is enough to show how prosperous Hong Kong films have developed at this time.

Now that even a cat and a dog rent a camera, they dare to say that they are directors to make movies, and in order to catch up with the schedule, the overall quality of Hong Kong films has declined a lot.

Not to mention the first-line stars, even the quasi-first-line actors are busy and dizzy, and all the signed artists under the Oriental Entertainment Agency are dispatched, and almost everyone has a scene in their hands. The sought-after actor even starred in two or three plays at the same time, and immediately rushed to another crew after filming a scene.

In view of the drastic changes in the industry, DreamWorks has adjusted its filming schedule this year, increasing the number of films from 16 to 20 films per year. The most fundamental reason for increasing the number of films produced is that there are too many cinemas and released films, which leads to fierce competition among directors, which in turn shortens the screening cycle of ordinary films.

That is to say, the films released by DreamWorks in the regular schedule now have an average of only 2 weeks of screening time.

This is not a good thing, more movies have been made, but the box office has not increased much, and counting the increased cost of film production, the company's overall profit is less than before.

Small film companies applauded because of the increase in theaters and the prosperity of Hong Kong films, but large companies such as Golden Harvest, DreamWorks, and New Arts City couldn't say what they were suffering from.

However, from another point of view, Kang Jianfei's star brokerage company's profits are rolling up because of the prosperity of Hong Kong films.

Debao's "Rich and Powerful" was released in the New Year, and during the Spring Festival, it was taken over by Yongsheng Film Company's "Magic Jade". The big financier of this drama is Taiwan's Longxiang Pictures, the total production cost of the film is more than 9 million, and the Xiang brothers only invested 2 million, and Wang Jing led a team to Greece for filming. As for the box office, it can only be said that it is reluctant, it only sold more than 11 million in Hong Kong, and whether it can make money can only depend on how well it sells in other cities, but this film made the starring Liu Dehua show his face.

Due to the lack of Kang Jianfei's films, after DreamWorks won the Christmas box office championship with "Autumn Fairy Tale", the two films directed by Chen Xunqi and Huang Tailai won 17.8 million and 20.33 million box office respectively.

After the Lantern Festival, the list of nominees for this year's Academy Awards was announced by "Film Fortnightly", and Zhang Wanting's "Autumn Fairy Tale" was nominated for 7 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Actress. And Kang Jianfei's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" filmed last year actually won 5 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

However, Debao Film Company's "Underground Love" is also very powerful, and it has received 7 nominations like "Autumn Fairy Tale", and Liang Chaowei, who is still in TVB, was nominated for Best Actor for the first time with this film.

The most eye-catching thing in Xinyicheng is Zhang Aijia's directorial debut "Favorite", although it only received 3 nominations, it is enough to cause a topic. Because of the addition of another female director, Zhang Wanting, this year's Academy Awards actually has two female directors' works nominated for multiple awards, and some media even use "double sheets" to call Zhang Wanting and Zhang Aijia.

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"Click!"

Kang Jianfei walked up to Liang Jiahui, frowned and thought for a while and said, "There was a bit of a problem with the section you just had, after the hammer was beaten, put it on your shoulder, and put some more, you were a little tight just now." ”

Liang Jiahui pondered Kang Jianfei's words for a while, brewed his feelings for a while, and then nodded and said, "Director, you can start." ”

“OK。” Kang Jianfei signaled to restart filming, and on the opposite side of the glass wall, Sophie? Marceau was also silently cooperating with the performance.

Kang Jianfei's version of "Fangfang", due to the changes are too big, about three-fifths of the shots need to be redesigned by him, and the rest of the shots also have some detail adjustments, which are not much different from the original.

Anyway, as long as it is finished before April, Kang Jianfei, who made a literary romance film for the first time, can be described as meticulously crafted, and this movie has become the slowest film he has shot since he entered the industry.

Good thing there is Sophie? Marceau, a beautiful woman, accompanies her all day long, and occasionally Kang Jianfei also finds time to have a tryst with other lovers, and the small life is still full of comfort.

"Dang!"

"Whoa!"

The glass mirror wall suddenly shattered, and Sophie in the mirror? Marceau opened in an instant, and the glass lenses were scattered all over the ground. The figure of Leung Ka-fai appeared in the crack of the mirror, and he carried the hammer on his shoulder and pointed at Sophie? Marceau laughed, and walked over the crack in the smashed glass wall.

The camera rotates with the railcar and finally freezes on a broken glass lens on the ground. Marceau and Leung Ka-fai hugged each other.

"Click!"

Kang Jianfei stood up and stretched, and said with a smile: "I announce that "Fangfang" is finished. (To be continued......)