The battle of the Spring Festival New Year holiday in 1992 made the Hong Kong film circle more distinct.

Shao Yifu originally planned to make a comeback while Hong Kong films were booming, but he was old and lacked energy. The confidant led by Fang Yihua did not support this matter, which made Shao Yifu's idea of ​​developing Shaw Brothers based on wireless Taiwan resources was wasted.

After Shaw Brothers reopened, he only made two small-cost films, and then he stopped again. He did not even participate in this Spring Festival battle. The disheartened Shaw Yifu had the idea of ​​selling the Shaw Brothers theaters in his hands. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong film industry is too surplus, and no rich man is willing to take over. He can only rely on filming of other companies to maintain his operations.

Jiahe also had a lot of changes. Last year, Zou Wenhuai's daughter Zou Chongyan returned from studying in the United States and was arranged by Boss Zou to work in the company. Although Zou Chongyan has not really taken power, she occasionally blew in Zou Wenhuai's ears, which greatly affected Jiahe's business strategy.

As soon as Zou Chongyan came back, he encouraged his father to increase investment in overseas theaters and cooperated with overseas consortiums to create momentum, with the purpose of bringing Jiahe to the listing to make money. In her opinion, overseas funds are now introduced into the Hong Kong film industry, and the number of Hong Kong films is too large, and the competition is too fierce. Instead of spending money on filming and fighting with his peers, Jiahe might as well give full play to its overseas distribution advantages and become a downstream publisher of many Hong Kong film companies.

In a sense, Zou Chongyan's idea was right. Ten years later, Hong Kong films declined to the extreme, and Hong Kong film companies that were once glorious went bankrupt one after another, but the overseas theaters invested by Jiahe have always been very strong.

But from another perspective, Jiahe's move is undoubtedly weakening its production capabilities. This can be seen from this year's Spring Festival New Year holiday that the box office share of the movies produced by Jiahe continues to decline. It has declined to the point of losing to Yongsheng Film Company.

The best performance in the Spring Festival this year is Yonggao. The box office of "Happy Events in Family" is unstoppable. It seems that there are signs of reappearing the glory of New Art City that year.

But as one of Yonggao's bosses, Huang Baiming was not much happy. He had only been working with Roger Cheng for half a year. However, the conflict between the two had intensified to a certain extent.

Yonggao Cinema Line Luo Jiecheng is the major shareholder with absolute control, while Yonggao Film Company's major shareholder is Huang Baiming. Although they have shares in the two companies, their interests are different. What Roger Cheng cares most about whether Yonggao Cinema Line can make money, while Huang Baiming values ​​the interests of Yonggao Film Company more.

Since everyone is working together to open a company, you can sit down and discuss any conflicts of interest. However, Roger Cheng is stubborn in business, and Huang Baiming is self-disciplined, so that the conflict between the two is getting deeper and deeper.

In addition to the popular "Happy Events in Family", several other movies invested by Huang Baiming were forced to be removed from the market in advance by Roger Cheng. Roger Cheng's reason was that the attendance rate of those films was insufficient, but Huang Baiming disagreed with this statement because those movies were not released for a sufficient period. In a legal sense, Roger Cheng was suspected of breaking the contract.

In connection with his years of experience in filming, Huang Baiming once again realized that if he didn't master the theater chain, he would always be controlled by others. A movie "Happy Events in Family" broke the Hong Kong box office record, but Yonggao's two big bosses have already reached the verge of breaking. Huang Baiming secretly contacted the scattered theaters built in the past two years and decided to set up a new theater chain company that he could make the decision.

Faced with the unprecedentedly prosperous film market, Hong Kong film companies have made great profits in the past year, and there are almost no one doing losing money. However, Jiahe reduced production investment, Yonggao's internal discord, Yongsheng only knew how to follow the trend, and other large and small film companies were more like incoming material processing companies. They just waited for investors to throw money in, and then gathered people to quickly create commercial films to earn profits.

In such a prosperous Oriental Hollywood, its overall film creation ability is far inferior to that of the 1980s. In this noisy and lively Hong Kong film industry, Kang Jianfei's Oriental Dream Factory shows his dominant position. Even if the box office of the Spring Festival period was lost to "Happy Events in Family". No one cared about the gains and losses of a city and a place.

What's more, the existence of Oriental Entertainment brokerage companies includes more than 60% of the popular stars in Hong Kong. So much so that most Hong Kong film companies dare not offend Kang Jianfei.

Let’s look at the entire Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, Oriental Dream Factory, Oriental Entertainment Brokerage Company, Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company, Oriental Cinema Company, Phoenix TV Station, Oriental TV Production Company, Fengxing Record Company, Oriental Media Group, Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, Dark Horse Animation Company... There are many, and it is like a huge entertainment empire.

Jin Yong and He Chaoqiong had a chat. Neither of them mentioned the business of Ming Pao directly, but only talked about some newspaper management and business philosophy.

When he returned home, Jin Yong looked through the relevant information from Oriental Group. He only found someone to get these information after the New Year.

He didn't know if he didn't look at it. The more he continued to look at it, the more shocked Jin Yong was. He didn't expect that Kang Jianfei's Oriental Group had become such a giant.

From several contacts, Jin Yong had a good impression of He Chaoqiong, and He Chaoqiong also praised the reform of Tiantian Daily, but he could not see through Kang Jianfei. Jin Yong still had many doubts about whether to hand over Ming Pao to He Chaoqiong, but before he found a more suitable successor, he decided to give it a try.

At least in He Chaoqiong's hands, the reform of Tiantian Daily was unprecedentedly successful, and many newspapers and magazines under Oriental Media were elegant and vulgar, and they insisted on their own style of publishing remained unchanged. All of these were very appreciated by Jin Yong.

In April 1992, Jin Yong announced that he would sell 10% of Mingpao shares in his hands to Oriental Media Group and appointed He Chaoqiong as the director of the Mingpao Group.

As soon as the news came out, the island was in an uproar. Jin Yong was going to sell the Ming Pao to Kang Jianfei!

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When Kang Jianfei went to the United States to shoot a film, not only He Chaoqiong bought 10% of Mingpao shares, but Yang Dengkui also successfully obtained approval from the Taiwan authorities to build 26 cinemas of all sizes in central and southern Taiwan.

At the same time, "King of Fighters 1992" was released, and Japan's Sega Game Company, Hong Kong Oriental Dream Factory, and Dark Horse Animation Company jointly held the first World "King of Fighters" e-sports competition.

After years of development and promotion, the arcade game "King of Fighters" has a huge fan base around the world. This competition mainly consists of countries as the competition units. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all competition areas. Singapore is incorporated into the Malaysia-Singapore competition area, and Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan are collectively called the China competition area.

Each competition area has budget competitions, semi-finals and finals, and finally three places to win (some countries with small populations only have two places). Only the winners are eligible to participate in the World Finals. The first finals are held in Tokyo, Japan.

The top three winners in each competition will receive a prize ranging from $5,000,2,000,1,000, and the highest prize in the finals is as high as $100,000. At the same time, the World Championship champion will also have the opportunity to participate in the filming of the "King of Fighters" series of movies and become the actor who will appear in the extra chapter of the "King of Fighters" series of comics.

As we all know, it is very difficult to hold a world competition, and it is extremely troublesome from publicity, sponsorship, selection, supervision, competition and other aspects. After Kang Jianfei proposed to establish the World Championship of "King of Fighters", Sega Company prepared for three years and was finally officially held until now.

As for the movie "The King of Fighters", I have also made several movies over the years, but they have little influence and are only popular among specific fan groups.

Kang Jianfei also considered this issue and finally figured it out that if he wanted to expand the influence of the "King of Fighters" series of movies, he had to popularize the story of "King of Fighters".

What is popularization?

You can refer to those American superheroes. In order to cater to universal values, when the comics were made into movies, the superheroes became glorious saviors.

If "The King of Fighters" is recognized by the public, it is necessary to give the protagonists a righteous heart, and the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Kang Jianfei finally decided to wait for the development of computer special effects in another two years and invest in a trial film of Spider-Man version of "The King of Fighters". Of course, the protagonist is not Spider-Man, but like Spider-Man, he turns from a mortal into a hero, pretends to be slaps in the face, acts as a hero, and defeats the villain!

Clever means a wide audience, which means a large box office base.

Taipei County, a game hall.

A thin boy walked in with his schoolbag on his back. The disgust inside made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he still frowned and endured it.

Several King of Fighters arcades were already full of people. Seeing the thin boy coming, everyone gave in.

A yellow-haired gangster waved to him and said, "A Quan, come here quickly. I learned another move yesterday." The gangster re-submitted coins and said, "Old rule, you won three games in five games, you are not allowed to press the heavy punches and heavy foot buttons."

"Okay." The thin boy put down his schoolbag and showed a bright smile on his face. His family is not wealthy, and his pocket money is not enough. He enters the game hall every day, and usually uses other people's games to play.

As the battle began, people in the game hall came to watch the battle.

The result was obvious. The thin boy who was restricted from punching and kicking easily killed the yellow-haired gangster, and a whistle sounded in the game hall.

At this moment, the game hall owner suddenly came over and posted a promotional poster on the wall next to the arcade.

Someone read: "The first World King of Fighters' E-sports Championship is in full swing. Participants can sign up at the local registration point with their ID cards... The top 8 Taiwanese players will be qualified for the finals of the China Division and go to Hong Kong to participate in the finals to reimburse air tickets, food and accommodation, and the prize of the championship in the region is US$5,000... The top three players in the China Division will be qualified for the World Division..."

"Wow, the finals are held in Tokyo, Japan, and the championship reward is $100,000."

"North of $100,000, that's millions of Taiwan dollars?"

"A Quan is so awesome, go and register quickly."

The thin boy looked at the registration poster and his eyes lit up. He turned to ask the boss: "Uncle, where to sign up?" (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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