In the 1988 Hong Kong film summer file, it was surprising that there were no particularly prominent movies released. The films released by several major film companies should coincide with the festive season of Christmas, and the films released are nothing more than three categories: market comedy, urban comedy and romantic comedy.

Since "My Sassy Girlfriend" became popular, Hong Kong's romantic comedies have no brains to follow suit. Although a blockbuster movie has died, it has made a lot of money, so much so that the Christmas romance films released now are more or less a bit of "My Sassy Girlfriend".

After the Christmas file ended, everyone found that this year's Christmas box office was particularly low, and the box office champion was actually Zeng Zhiwei's market comedy "Money King" after joining Vientiane Pictures.

"King of Money" is a new movie in this time and space, Kang Jianfei has never heard of it before, written by Huang Baiming and directed by Zeng Zhiwei, and both of them serve as the main actors. Although this movie won the Christmas box office champion, the box office is actually 21.56 million, you can imagine how miserable this year's Christmas file is, and several other movies generally only have a box office of more than 10 million.

Although the box office of a single film has declined, the overall box office of this Christmas Hong Kong film is growing, because there are too many films released during the holiday season. And because Kang Jianfei, Wang Jing, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Wu Yusen, Xu Ke, Gao Zhisen and other big directors have no works, the audience is scattered into 10 movies, large and small, so that the box office of a single film is diluted.

On the contrary, the Korean movie "Very Anchor" starring Zhou Yunfa, Choi Zhen, Li Ming, and Kang Hyun Allah set a box office record for Korean movies. After the number of local moviegoers exceeds 2 million, it is still being screened, and it will take at least two or three months to see this situation before the film will be released.

This movie is in another time and space. It is the sixth largest local film in South Korea at the box office, with more than 8.2 million viewers.

The plot of the film given by Kang Jianfei has been slightly changed, and the actor Zhou Yunfa is an outdated middle-aged singer who has moved from the stage to being a radio anchor behind the scenes, and has improved slightly over the years, and has his own exclusive radio program.

One day, Cui Zhen, who was 14 years younger than Zhou Yunfa, suddenly appeared. In other words, it is his biological daughter, and it is the flesh and blood left by Zhou Yanfa in the third grade of junior high school who secretly tasted the forbidden fruit. Not only that, Cui Zhen is also a young unmarried mother. With a son who is a few years old, that is, Zhou Yanfa's own grandson.

Zhou Yunfa didn't know the truth of this matter, and he was afraid that this kind of scandal would damage his reputation, so he was busy working all day with his daughter and grandson.

Li Ming is Kang Jianfei's new role in the film. He is a newspaper reporter. is also Choi's true suitor. The identity of the reporter made Zhou Runfa do everything possible to cover up the fact that he had a daughter, but as a result, Li Ming misunderstood Zhou Runfa and Cui Zhen**, and made many ridiculous accidents.

Kang Jianfei only provided a synopsis of the story, and the details of the script were written by a screenwriter from DreamWorks in collaboration with a screenwriter from South Korea. The director is Kim Yuzhen, who graduated from Chung-Ang University in South Korea, who directed the unique black humor film "Heroic Yange" two years ago, although he is young and not yet 30 years old. But he was still invited by Kang Jianfei to be the director of "Very Anchor" - there are too few directors in South Korea who have spoofs and humor cells, and can make movies well.

The cute little Zhengtai actor in the film is called Jiang Xuanzhen. is the nephew of director Kim Yuzhen, although there are constant troubles during filming, but after all, he was transferred. Taught out

South Korea is now a dumping market for Hong Kong films, and in the off-season, in order to save the cost of film purchases, the theater has introduced a large number of Eastern European films, and Korean local films are a tragedy.

Although the male number one and male number two of "Very Anchor" are Hong Kong stars, the director is Korean, and Koreans also participated in the screenwriting. Two or three months before the release of the movie, the publicity department of Oriental Entertainment (Korea) Group Company began to use the gimmick of "Korean local commercial blockbuster" as a selling point, saying that director Kim Yuzhen also went to Hong Kong to invite two stars, Zhou Yunfa and Li Ming, in order to make this Korean commercial blockbuster.

The gimmick of South Korea's local commercial blockbuster is still very attractive, coupled with the popular Zhou Yunfa as the leading actor, this "Very Anchor" has been highly anticipated as soon as filming started.

Immediately afterwards, during the filming of the movie, the heroine of "Very Anchor" was also "unintentionally" exposed, and people found out that the actor of the female number one actually debuted at the beginning of the year and became an instant hit with a TV role.

The combination of the popular Hong Kong star Zhou Yunfa and the Korean national diva Choi Zhen, coupled with a handsome Li Ming and the cute little Jeongtai Kang Hyun Jin, this movie is enough to attract the attention of any Korean audience. What's more, the light-hearted and humorous spoof plot is even more scarce in Korean local films at this stage, and director Kim Yujin also has his own black humor style, this movie is more interesting than parallel time and space.

After the release of "Very Anchor", Zhou Yanfa's popularity rose again, not to mention, Cui Zhenzhen actually surpassed the three major Korean actresses Lee Mi-sook, Lee Bo-hee and Won Mi-kyung in one fell swoop, becoming the highest-paid actress in South Korea, and also known as "the most fashionable and charming woman in Korea". As for why there is the latter title, it is actually very simple, because the makeup artist in "Very Anchor" was sent from Hong Kong, and Cui Zhen was full of Hong Kong flavor from head to toe on the screen, and her hairstyle and dress were imitated by Korean women.

In addition, Li Ming, who plays the male supporting role, is also thriving, and his handsome and sunny appearance is quite popular with sad female audiences, and the movie has only been released for half a month, and he has received several Korean advertising invitations.

Finally, there is director Kim Yujin, who was named "Korea's No. 1 Commercial Director", "Young Film Genius", and "Leader of the Young Zhuang School of Korean Films".

It can be said that a "Very Anchor" has become popular with a large number of people in South Korea, and even some small supporting roles have begun to attract attention.

However, for Kang Jianfei, how much he earns at the box office is not the point, the point is to rely on this film to gain a firm foothold in South Korea. As for the Korean directors, leading actors, and screenwriters of the film, they naturally signed a collective contract with Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (Korea) Company, and the company continued to hype them up for packaging.

The easiest thing to fry is the director and the heroine, Kim Yujin has been hyped as a leader among young Korean directors, and it is almost said that it is the hope of the rise of Korean films.

The heroine Cui's real tragic childhood experience was also turned out and fried, she was so poor that she couldn't afford to eat, why did she come to Seoul to work to make money for her younger brother to go to school, anyway, how miserable it was.

Compared with Choi's real tragic childhood, it was her encounter after coming to Seoul. first silently worked in the TV station, because of the lack of people when filming a certain episode of the historical drama "500 Years of the Joseon Dynasty", she was thrown by the director to be the heroine of an episode in the crew, and became a big star, and then was selected by director Kim Yuzhen to play the heroine of "Very Anchor", becoming the most valuable female star in South Korea.

This is simply the inspirational story of the ugly duckling turning into a white swan and Cinderella becoming Snow White, just by virtue of her life experience and successful experience, Cui Zhenzhen has attracted a large number of loyal fans.

The box office is not only in South Korea, the Paramount film "Pretty Woman" written by Kang Jianfei was also released in North America during Christmas.

This film, which received nearly $180 million at the North American box office in the original time and space, although the heroine was replaced by Sophie? Marceau, but the market reaction has not weakened. Sophie? Marceau's French-style charm gives this movie a different flavor, which makes North American audiences like it even more.

The entire Christmas file in North America this year is the world of Paramount's "Pretty Woman" and Universal Pictures' "Brother Dragon and Mouse".

However, "Pretty Woman" has always been leading, and when the two movies were released, the North American box office of "Pretty Woman" was more than $172 million, while "Brother and Dragon" only got more than $111 million at the box office.

Previously, Kang Jianfei's "Fang Fang" suffered a box office waterloo in North America. Marceau is not well-known in the United States. And after the hit of "Pretty Woman", Sophie? Marceau jumped directly to the ranks of A-grade actresses.

After evaluating the film, The Hollywood Reporter added: "At the beginning of last year, there was a lot of news about Paramount's decline, on the grounds that the company's second largest shareholder is an Asian, and the company's president is still a woman." "Pretty Woman" delivered a perfect answer at the box office, and Paramount returned to the top of Hollywood with this annual box office champion film......"

On the Taiwan side, the summer release is Kang Jianfei's old film "Love Saint", which was pirated in Taiwan a few years ago, but it still sold more than NT$15 million at the box office, second only to the sequel to "Police Story" with a box office of more than 16 million.

Everyone may be surprised, why can Kang Jianfei's movie sell tens of millions when it was released in Taiwan a few years ago, but now it can only sell more than 10 million?

There is only one reason, and that is that piracy is so rampant. "Love Saint" is an old film from a few years ago, not to mention, Cheng Long's sequel to "Police Story" only premiered in Hong Kong half a year ago, and it is also full of piracy in Taiwan, so that the Taiwan box office of this movie is only more than NT$16 million.

How much impact piracy has on the box office, just look at the box office champion of the movie released in Taiwan this year, the box office of "The Last Emperor" is more than 100 million Taiwan dollars.

The sequel to "Police Story" and "The Last Emperor" are 10 times different at the box office in Taiwan, not because Taiwanese audiences don't like Cheng Long, but because the pirated version of "The Last Emperor" is not good, but the pirated version of the sequel to "Police Story" is very easy to get. The movie has not yet been released, and Hong Kong audiences have already seen pirated copies, so at least eighty percent of the audience will not run to watch the movie again.

But in any case, the films of Kang Jianfei's company, this Christmas can be described as a frequent success, and I have cramps when I count the money. (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday, I went to watch Johnny To's "Single Men and Women 2", and found that what the director and screenwriter wanted to express was: Whether you are rich and handsome or not, being a warm man can only be a spare tire for a lifetime. No matter how scumbag the scumbag is, no matter how many women he sleeps, no matter how deep the goddess is hurt, as long as he plays romance at a critical time, he can still hook the goddess in the end.