When the sales of "Tiantian Daily" increased sharply, "Truant Dragon" starring Zhou Xingchi and Zhang Meng began to be released, and its box office growth rate was even more terrifying than the previous "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East", and the box office directly broke 15 million in the first week.

As far away as Taiwan, "Truman's World" has also been painted across the board, with a cumulative box office of NT$43.88 million, temporarily ranking fourth in Taiwan's annual box office list.

At this time, Yu Huanping of the Taiwan branch came with news that the Taiwan authorities had issued a new law on the protection of local films.

The new law is mainly aimed at Hollywood films that are making a lot of money in Taiwan, and stipulates that only a maximum of eight copies of an American film can be imported into Taiwan. In other words, each Hollywood film can only be shown in a maximum of eight theaters in Taiwan.

Although there are a lot of Hong Kong films released in Taiwan, the top few at the box office are all Hollywood blockbusters. Cheng Long's movies sold a box office of NT$30 million in Taiwan, but Hollywood movies like "Terminator 2" and "Holy War" often exceeded 100 million yuan at the box office in Taiwan.

The top three on the box office list every year are Hollywood blockbusters, and these three movies alone can take away at least NT$200 million from Taiwan's box office, and it is easy to understand that the Taiwan authorities restrict the release of Hollywood films.

The promulgation of this decree by the Taiwan authorities ostensibly means that they want to protect Taiwan's film market from the dumping of Hollywood films, but in fact it is more out of interests. As soon as this decree was issued, large theater companies could monopolize the screening rights of Hollywood blockbusters, while Taiwanese filmmakers who participated in the investment and production of Hong Kong films were even happier, and after the competitive pressure of Hollywood films was gone, the Hong Kong films they invested in could sell more at the box office.

Kang Jianfei originally said that Paramount would build a theater in Taiwan in advance, but a new decree from the Taiwan authorities was introduced. directly made his idea difficult to implement.

In fact, this law did not play much role in boycotting Hollywood films, and there were many cases of self-theft and private engraving. Regulators are also turning a blind eye. Not to mention anything else, two years later, "Jurassic Park" sold more than 200 million at the box office in Taiwan. Even the box office of Cheng Long's "City Hunter" is only a fraction of it, which is still a boycott!

Many of Taiwan's film and television laws are extremely strange, such as Taiwan's martial arts dramas at this time, the authorities stipulate that a fight can be fought for a maximum of 8 seconds - I don't know which uncle came up with it with a pat on the head.

After the promulgation of this law, Hong Kong film companies and directors were the most happy, because Taiwan had banned Japanese films, allowed a small number of Korean films to be screened, and now stipulated the number of copies of American films, so in the end it was Hong Kong films that benefited the most.

There has already been countless Taiwanese hot money pouring into the Hong Kong film industry, and this decree by the Taiwan authorities is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire. Now even many of Golden Harvest's films have investment from Taiwanese studios. Among the newly filmed Hong Kong films, more than eighty percent of the funds come from Taiwan.

Of course, for the sake of good face, when many Hong Kong films are released in Taiwan, they have turned into Taiwanese local films - although they are Hong Kong people from the actors to the scenes.

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Thanks to the blessing of the new law, the Taiwanese Chinese cinema line, which had some disagreements with Kang Jianfei before, took the initiative to repair the relationship with DreamWorks, and the fire line organized people to dub Chinese, wanting to release "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" at the end of the summer file.

This schedule was originally reserved for a Hollywood blockbuster. But now that it is stipulated that only 8 copies of each Hollywood film can be introduced, the Chinese cinema line can't let the remaining screening halls be empty, right? It just so happened that at this time, "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2" was sold in Hong Kong, and the people of China Film begged Kang Jianfei to give the film with a shy face.

Although Kang Jianfei holds a grudge, he is not ignorant of current affairs. Since the Chinese cinema line lowered his profile to buy films from DreamWorks, it is naturally impossible for him not to give the other party.

Not only to give face, but also to give enough face. The protagonists of "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2" Lin Qingxia and Li Lianjie both came to Taipei to participate in the Taipei premiere of the film.

Taiwan's film market is growing too fast. The total box office every year is rolling up, so much so that Kang Jianfei can't help but pay attention to it.

Taiwan's stock market has collapsed this year. But it has no impact on the film market.

In the past, most of Taiwan's film box office revenue came from the north, but in recent years, with the development of infrastructure in the southern region, a large number of farmers have become rich overnight by relying on land requisition compensation, which has doubled Taiwan's movie audience base.

An example may be more intuitive: during the Spring Festival one year, a farmer pulled an ox cart and brought a family of 16 into the cinema, but the theater was already full. The farmer said, "No, it took me three hours just to go out, and I must watch a Hong Kong movie." So the cinema had to add seats.

At this time, Taiwanese cinemas, especially those in the southern region, may only have 1,000 rated seats in the screening hall, but there are often 2,000 people watching movies at the same time, and the theater aisles are filled with audiences.

This time, not only Lin Qingxia and Li Lianjie came to Taipei, but Kang Jianfei himself also came, and the purpose of his visit was to cooperate with Yang Dengkui to invest in the construction of cinemas in southern Taiwan.

The southern Taiwan film market has emerged, but the construction of basic cinemas has not kept up, and many times the audience has to crowd into the cinema aisles to watch movies. Yang Dengkui can eat both black and white in the south, while Kang Jianfei has a high-quality Hong Kong film source, and the cooperation between the two is a mutually beneficial thing.

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The plane landed at Taoyuan Airport.

Kang Jianfei walked in front and got off the plane first, Lin Qingxia walked side by side with him, Li Lianjie followed, and then more than a dozen bodyguards, assistants and other entourage.

Before he got out of the pick-up port, Kang Jianfei knew that the whereabouts of his people had been leaked, and it was very likely that the Chinese cinema line deliberately leaked it, in order to promote the upcoming "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East".

Outside there were piles of reporters and at least hundreds of fans who had rushed to the scene, and the noise was so chaotic that the airport had to send security personnel to maintain order.

"It's all waiting for you." Kang Jianfei took Lin Qingxia's hand and smiled.

Lin Qingxia hasn't been back to Taipei for several years, and now she is still a little excited to return to her hometown, she smiled: "You also have a lot of fans in Taiwan, and maybe there are all your fans outside." ”

Li Lianjie came to Taiwan for the first time, and looking at the crowd outside, the first feeling was that Taiwanese fans were too enthusiastic.

Several bodyguards walked on thin ice, cautiously stepping forward to protect Kang Jianfei and others, for fear that there were dangerous elements hidden among those people outside, or that fans were too enthusiastic and caused accidents.

With the release of the "Once Upon a Time" series of movies, Li Lianjie's fame in Taiwan is still very great, but it depends on who he compares to.

I saw reporters and fans rushing up and surrounding Kang Jianfei and his party, and the focus of the interview and attention was Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia.

"Qingxia, have you ever considered going back to Taiwan to make a movie?"

"It is rumored that you and Mr. Kang have a son, is it true?"

"Mr. Kang, have you ever considered when to marry Miss Lin?"

“……”

Well, the reporter's question was related to the movie at first, but it soon turned to the scandal between the two, and the most asked was about the illegitimate child of the two.

Although these reporters asked very politely, Lin Qingxia still looked angry, and after answering two sentences, she was silent.

With the help of the bodyguards, Kang Jianfei escorted Lin Qingxia and squeezed out vigorously, while talking nonsense to the reporters with a smile on his face, and he didn't touch the point after saying a lot of nonsense.

At the same time, a large number of fans also squeezed inside, and from time to time someone handed pens and paper to ask for autographs.

After a lot of effort, Kang Jianfei and they were crowded into the car outside, he saw that Lin Qingxia was sullen, held her hand and comforted: "Don't think about it, let those people talk about it." ”

Lin Qingxia glanced at him complainingly: "It's not because of you, I don't have the face to go back to Taiwan." ”

Kang Jianfei was at a loss for words, so he could only be silent.

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The next day, Lin Qingxia and Li Lianjie went to the TV station to record a program for publicity, while Kang Jianfei went to inspect the Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group (Taiwan) Company.

The Taiwanese company has been developing for several years since the lifting of the ban, and has produced a total of 9 Taiwanese local films, with more than 10 Taiwanese actors such as Sun Yue, Shao Xin, Su Mingming, Tuo Zonghua, and Ge Weiru.

"Lao Yu, I've worked hard for you in the past few years!" Kang Jianfei held Yu Jianping's hand and said.

Yu Jianping is not only in charge of the Taiwan branch, but he is also in charge of the Taiwan distribution affairs of Oriental DreamWorks. Taiwanese films are already struggling to survive, but thanks to Yu's efforts, the Taiwanese branch has been able to maintain a meager profit every year, and has won two trophies at the Panama and Venice Film Festivals, which is enough to confirm his work.

Yu Huping smiled bitterly: "Mr. Kang, don't bury me, the company's net profit last year was only more than 6 million Taiwan dollars, and I am embarrassed to show such a performance." ”

"The environment is like this, don't blame yourself." Kang Jian Feidao.

Yu Huping asked: "Mr. Kang came to Taiwan this time, is he preparing to build a cinema line in the south?" ”

Kang Jianfei said: "I have already made an appointment with Yang Dengkui for an interview the day after tomorrow. ”

Yu Jiping nodded and said: "It is indeed necessary to cooperate with the head snake, Yang Dengkui still has the means." He has made a lot of money investing in Hong Kong films in the past two years, and is known as Taiwan's No. 1 producer. It's ridiculous to say that Taiwanese films have fallen to such a point, and the so-called first producer is actually a gang member who has killed people and squatted in prison. ”

"It doesn't matter what his background is, as long as he can cooperate." Kang Jianfei said.

Yu Huanping reminded: "Mr. Kang, I heard that Yang Dengkui seems to be bold, but he actually likes to eat alone, you should be careful when talking about business with him, this person will definitely open his mouth." ”

"I'll take notice." Kang Jian Feidao.

"It's also possible that I'm too worried," Yu Huanping said with a smile, leading Kang Jian to fly inside, "I didn't expect you to arrive a day early, Mr. Kang, most of the company's artists are not there, and I have already notified them to rush back." ”

Kang Jianfei said: "I don't need to work hard to move the crowd, I just take a look and leave, and I have to go to the UFO record company in the afternoon." (To be continued......)