502 [The King of Paintings Appears]
Since April, Kang Jianfei has plunged into the crew of "Huang Feihong" and rarely asks about Pan Yingzi and the children in her belly, mainly because Kang Jianfei doesn't know how to deal with it.
"The Gambling Saint" has also ended its screening in Singapore and South Korea. The box office revenue in Singapore alone is as high as US$940,000, which is an excellent box office result. As the starring actors, Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda have also entered the sight of Nanyang audiences again after "The Love Saint", and have become household names in the local area.
As for the heroine Lizhi, she also showed her face a lot. Unfortunately, Lizhi was arranged by Kang Jianfei to go back to the United States to study in college and did not prepare to continue as an actor.
Xiongfei Records Company's "Water Town in Dreams" for Li Ningyu has sold more than 3 million records. Although the increase has been slow after March, department stores across the country are still selling sporadically every day, and pirated tapes on the roadside are also beginning to spread.
"Out of Africa", invested by Kang Jianfei's American Oriental Film Company, has been filmed for more than half a year, but the shooting progress has only been two-thirds, and it will take at least summer to finish the filming.
In addition to not being able to sell the videos to Taiwan, Kang Jianfei's career is smooth sailing. Now the property market in Hong Kong has been recovering. Kang Jianfei's net worth is growing rapidly every day because of the large amount of land prices that previously purchased land and real estate.
Although DreamWorks movies can no longer enter Taiwan through formal channels, Zhou Xingchi's fame has quickly spread in Taiwan. The two nonsensical comedies "The Saint of Love" and "The Saint of Gambling" made Taiwanese audiences so much fun.
At this time, Taiwan was called the Pirate Kingdom, and various pirated products were everywhere. Pirated videos of "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" also appeared in rental houses in Taiwan in a panic.
The illegal underground TV stations in Taiwan are spread faster than pirated video tapes. These TV stations are spread all over Taiwan and are particularly rampant in the southern region. Due to the control of the News Bureau at this time, many overseas programs of Taiwanese audiences cannot be watched, so this underground TV station that often broadcasts fresh programs is very popular.
Because Taiwan currently has only three legal TV stations, those underground TV stations of hundreds of large and small are vividly called Taiwan's "No. 4". For Hong Kong film companies, "No. 4" is the most shameless and evil garbage station, because these TV stations always broadcast movies that are still being released, and the hotter movie "No. 4" is more exciting.
After Kang Jianfei's company was banned, the movies and TV series of DreamWorks, Phoenix TV became the darling of the "Fourth Channel". Because these films and TV works are very good and have no genuine versions to watch, they are very popular among Taiwanese audiences. Among them, the version of "Bao Qingtian" by Phoenix Taiwan is the best. Although China Television asked Jin Chaoqun to be a starring remake, the most popular among the audience is still the Phoenix Taiwan version.
"Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" that flow into Taiwan are dubbed in Singapore, and even the subtitles of dialogue are simplified Chinese characters (Singapore Chinese character tables are the same as those in the mainland), and are smuggled into the Taiwan market through video tape.
Not only are there illegal underground TV stations, but there are countless messy magazines in Taiwan, and there are even publicly promoting rebellious sentiments. Moreover, Taiwan’s rebels’ thinking logic is very strange. Anyone who is against the government is the free agent. Even Liu Huanrong, the cold-blooded killer of the Bamboo League who has produced too many family tragedies, is regarded as a hero by some Taiwanese people.
Kang Jianfei, a capitalist who was ruthlessly banned by the Taiwan authorities, has inexplicably become a "dish-boiling hero". After many Dreamworks films such as "Love Saint" and "Gambling Saint" were sought after by Taiwanese audiences, Kang Jianfei's name often appeared in illegal magazines.
Because there are so many people who like to watch "The Gambler" and "Bao Qingtian", many civil servants even secretly install illegal TV stations. In addition, Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia are rumored couples, Kang Jianfei's reputation in Taiwan is becoming more and more famous, and he is not affected by the ban by the authorities at all.
After April, the Taiwan News Bureau, in conjunction with local police stations, banned more than 20 underground TV stations and more than 10 illegal magazines within a week.
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"Boss, you are in a big show in Taiwan." Zeng Bolin came over with a "Sing Tao Daily". Seeing Kang Jianfei in a good mood, he also joked.
Kang Jianfei took it over and took a look, and then threw it aside. It was news about Taiwan's restriction on the access limit of Hong Kong films. This trick was naturally due to the fact that Hong Kong films have made too much money in Taiwan in recent years, and the authorities have taken protective measures to support local films.
In addition, there are some political reasons.
One of the reasons for the original intention of establishing the Golden Horse Awards was to win over Hong Kong filmmakers to Taiwan. The Taiwan authorities also established many preferential policies to strengthen film exchanges between Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Taiwan market is almost completely open to Hong Kong films, and only those involving political stances and moral issues will be banned.
Now that Hong Kong has confirmed its return in 1997, the Taiwan authorities naturally do not need to deliberately please the Hong Kong film industry. Not only does the number of Hong Kong films decrease every year, but the invisible satellite company of the Yindu agency is also exposed and banned the films of those companies from being sold to Taiwan.
These measures have little impact on Hong Kong films, but have slightly raised the entry threshold for the Taiwan market, and are no harm to large companies like Xinyi City and Jiahe, but instead intensified the competitiveness of large companies in the Taiwan market.
However, these have nothing to do with Kang Jianfei, because he had been banned by the Taiwan authorities long ago.
What is related to Kang Jianfei is the following tofu cube news. The Taiwan authorities' actions to eliminate piracy and purify the market have achieved results. 60% of the seized audio-visual products belong to the products of DreamWorks, Phoenix TV and Fengxing Records. The pirated records of the Happy Girls Group, Zhang Guorong, Ye Qianwen and others were confiscated more than 700,000 copies.
Kang Jianfei didn't care about the new policy that Taiwan introduced. He was most helpless in the Raptors' stunt team. After being banned by the Taiwan authorities, the Raptors' stunt team could only change their name when taking on jobs from other companies. After persisting for a few months, Ke Shouliang still took his group of Taiwanese brothers away and established a Xiaohe stunt team with the support of Jiahe.
Now there are only 9 official members of the Raptors stunt team, completely supported by Luo Lixian. Kang Jianfei is preparing to change the stunt team to the Raptors Special Effects Studio, which is affiliated with DreamWorks. The revenue method is similar to that of the movie studio, and he gives Luo Lixian 49's studio shares, and can receive generous year-end bonuses like other middle-level companies.
Nowadays, Hong Kong stunts are treated very poorly. Kang Jianfei treats Luo Lixian very favorably, and he will not leave even if he is driven away in the future.
The leading actors in the studio have finished putting on makeup, Kang Jianfei is talking to Li Lianjie and Guan Zhilin, and Chen Xunqi comes over and says, "Director, you're ready over there."
"OK, all units are paying attention and ready to start the mic!" Kang Jianfei nodded at Guan Zhilin, picked up the guide and shouted.
When he was buried, Chen Xunqi ran to squat behind the camera. This guy was the executive director and photographer of the crew of "Huang Feihong". He used to be only good at music, acting and director. After he opened a film company for two years, he has become a good photographer and action director.
"The fourth scene 6th mirror of "Huang Feihong", Aikesh!"
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The prosperity of more than a dozen movies released in Hong Kong in January this year has really made some people see hope of making money. Even if Taiwan introduces unfavorable policies, it can no longer destroy these people's ambitions and desires.
Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company has started filming a campus comedy directed by Gao Zhisen, and is preparing to use Jiahe Theater to compete for this year's summer season.
The former student lover Deng Guangrong, the Darong Film Company founded by him, also sharpened his sword and invited Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao and Xia Wenxi to star in fashion comedy films.
There are also film companies of all sizes, and they have launched new films. According to later statistics, there were 16 new film companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of this year, most of which were invested by businessmen from Taiwan and Nanyang, and established in cooperation with local filmmakers in Hong Kong.
As the video tape market has gradually matured in the past year, some film companies are not even worried about not being released in theaters, and directly shoot ultra-small movies and sell video tapes.
Huang Yulang's Yulang's Yulang Film Company is also preparing to open a new film, but unfortunately it can't find a good script for a while.
In the conference room of Yulang International, Huang Yulang was admonishing the company's executives: "Our future goal is to go public in the group, comics, newspapers, magazines, and movies to go hand in hand, not only to conduct government public relations, but also to create public opinion that is beneficial to us..."
After the two-hour meeting started, Huang Yulang returned to his office with confidence. His assistant suddenly ran in quickly, put down a comic daily and said, "Boss, please take a look at this!"
"The King of Paintings?" Huang Yulang could see at a glance that this was a doll newspaper. He then looked carefully at the editor-in-chief's name below the newspaper's eyebrows and asked in surprise, "When will Shangguan Xiaobao release the new newspaper?"
"Today is the first issue," the assistant said.
Although Huang Yulang is about to be the CEO of a listed company, Shangguan Xiaobao is still just an unlucky cartoonist, Huang Yulang did not dare to ignore his old rival at all, and quickly picked up the pictorial and looked carefully.
The front page introduction of "The King of Painting" is printed with several key words - "Kang Jianfei", "Rampant Mood", "Ethereal Journey", etc.
"Is this "The King of Paintings" organized by Kang Jianfei and Shangguan Xiaobao?" Huang Yulang suddenly remembered what Kang Jianfei said at the award ceremony that day, and immediately felt extremely threatened. Kang Jianfei's money and the comics of his old rival Shangguan Xiaobao should not be underestimated at all.
The first thing Huang Yulang saw was Kang Jianfei's violent comics, and he was immediately attracted by the brand new and exaggerated comic style. He saw a line of words written below: "Anyone is a cartoonist. Pick up the pen in your hand and use violent comics to record interesting things around you. Looking forward to your manuscript!" (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
Chapter completed!