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"God of Food", "Ouchi Secret Agent Zero Shot", "Big Sanyuan", "Police Story 4" and "King Kong" are five films fighting on the same stage, completely not giving those small-budget movies room to survive.

In the end, Cheng Long was more powerful, beating Zhou Xingchi, Zhang Guorong and Zhou Yunfa, and the Hong Kong box office of "Police Story 4" got 57.5 million.

However, Zhou Xingchi won by quantity, and his "God of Food" and "Ouchi Secret Detective Zero Hair" were released at the same time, winning 40.8 million and 36 million box office respectively, changing the sluggish results of Zhou's comedy last year and re-proving his strong box office appeal.

For industry insiders, they are more concerned about the news of the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market. Especially those small and medium-sized companies that want to sell their films overseas, either turn to large company agents (often cheated), or run around the world with copies themselves. In the past, Taiwanese filmmakers would buy films with popular stars, but in the past two years, they have not been able to do so.

Once the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market is held, even if you don't get the ticket to the exhibition, you may be lucky if you set up a stall outside the venue, in case you are favored by international film companies!

For large companies such as DreamWorks and Golden Harvest, what is more important is the strategic development significance brought about by the growth of Hong Kong film influence after the international film and television exhibition is held. Even Golden Harvest, which is crazy about making money in the film industry, is extremely positive about this, because the markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are shrinking, and they hope that their films can be accepted by international film companies (especially Europe and the United States).

Shao Yifu is much calmer, his Shaw Brothers and Metropolis have long been discontinued, and only occasionally come out to shoot one or two films to brush up on their presence. 1. Reading a book?? ? ?· １?Ｋ?Ａ Ｎ?Ｓ Ｈ?Ｕ?· COM He also wants to enhance the influence of Hong Kong-made TV dramas through international film and television exhibitions and sell TVB dramas to more regions.

After preliminary negotiations, Kang Jianfei made a compromise and concession. In the future, the broadcast rights of the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival Awards Ceremony were obtained by TVB and Phoenix Channel in turn, and the first broadcast rights were ceded to TVB.

The Hong Kong International Film & TV Market is tentatively scheduled to be held in March every year, after the end of the Hong Kong Film Awards. The two are not in conflict, but can promote each other, one is based on Hong Kong films, and the other is facing the world. In particular, those films that win Academy Awards can also sell at a better price when they are sold at film festivals.

It's okay to say that Kang Jianfei is most depressed that many of his Hong Kong counterparts are too short-sighted.

When planning the Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival, most Hong Kong filmmakers, including Zou Wenhuai, believed that the exhibition works should be based on Hong Kong films, and at most some Japanese, Korean and Taiwan films should be added, excluding European and American films.

This is because of the fear that European and American movies will dominate, but the question is, if you exclude others, will others still pay attention to this film and television exhibition?

Only by giving benefits can European and American filmmakers be attracted to participate. Many people understand this truth, but it is selective neglect, they only want to seize short-term benefits.

Do you say that ten years later, the Hong Kong International Film and TV Festival will become the world's premier film and television event? Hehe, I don't know what Hong Kong will look like in ten years, so I won't think about it.

This kind of mentality is actually very normal, capital is profit-seeking, where will ordinary filmmakers and investors think about the long-term, this should be what the government should do.

But the problem is that there is no Film Development Council in Hong Kong today, and no one can make long-term plans for Hong Kong films!

Kang Jianfei believes that he should stand up, and he hopes to make the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market the most influential film festival in Asia. Instead of 20 years later, when everyone mentions Asian film festivals, they can only think of the Tokyo Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, completely forgetting the existence of the Hong Kong Film Festival.

After many fruitless statements, Kang Jianfei finally slapped the table. He said with a tough attitude that if everyone still insists on their own opinions and only cares about their immediate interests, then DreamWorks will withdraw from the film festival, and the stars of Oriental Entertainment Agency will not be allowed to attend the exhibition.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was confused.

Without the participation of DreamWorks and the participation of popular stars, it would be a fart Hong Kong Film and TV Festival. Not to mention that European and American film companies will not pay attention, even Hong Kong fans are disdainful.

There was no choice but to sit down again and discuss and expand the number of non-Chinese films to be exhibited. And Kang Jianfei also set up a special fund to support young directors around the world, although the money is not much, but it can attract countless talented filmmakers.

For Kang Jianfei's approach, the film company boss and investors are naturally very disdainful. However, the vast majority of conscientious, far-sighted, and ambitious peers have a supportive and positive attitude, and Kang Jianfei's prestige in the industry has risen to a very outrageous level.

How so?

They have regarded Kang Jianfei as a well-deserved leader in the Hong Kong film industry.

During this time, Kang Jianfei's phone rang non-stop every day, including Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Er Dongsheng, Xu Anhua, Xu Ke, To Qifeng, Lin Lingdong and many other directors, all expressed their support for Kang Jianfei.

The Organizing Committee of the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Directors Guild of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Film Critics Association, the Film Fortnight and many other organizations also participated in the event one after another to discuss various details of the film and television exhibition.

The most mainstream opinion is to imitate the three major European film festivals, set up various competition and non-competition units, and take into account the commercial and artistic nature of the film, of which artistry is more important.

The owners of the film company headed by Zou Wenhuai have completely opposite opinions, believing that the Hong Kong Film Festival should be mainly commercial, and the non-competition unit should be done whatever it wants, but the competition unit must leave a place for commercial blockbusters.

The two sides quarreled so much that they could not reach a consensus at all, which could only drag on for time.

If Kang Jianfei was not involved, the dispute would definitely be won by the bosses of the film company, after all, capital is the most powerful.

The whole month of March passed in the midst of squabbles, and even the attention of this year's Academy Awards dropped a lot.

Kang Jianfei's "Resident Evil" has gained a lot, winning four technical awards: Best Modeling Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Music.

The real big winner is Ann Hui, "Woman Forty" not only won a silver bear trophy from Berlin, but also won six awards in one fell swoop: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor, almost sweeping this year's Hong Kong Film Awards.

By the way, this "Woman Forty" is also produced by DreamWorks, which not only has a great reputation, but also has a strong box office, which can be described as fame and fortune.

In addition to the Academy Awards and the Hong Kong Film Festival, the Hong Kong film industry is also worth paying attention to during this time, which is the co-founding of "Galaxy Images" by Johnny To and Wei Jiahui. In the original time and space, this company has flourished in the decade after the decline of Hong Kong films, and good films have emerged in an endless stream.

(To be continued.) )