For movie enthusiasts, 1994 is definitely a memorable year, and in this year, a large number of classic movies were born.±

In the West, this year there are films such as "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Novel", "This Killer Not Too Cold", "Life and Death", "The Lion King", "Xiao Shengke's Redemption", "Ed Wood", "The Years of Love", "The Disguised", "The True Lie", "Joan of Arc", "Red", etc. Chinese films are also excellent, such as "Living", "Sunny Days", "Food Men and Women", "A Chinese Odyssey", "Chongqing Forest", "Brother and Jade Leaves", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "New Love", "Domestic Lingling Paint" and other films are the memories of a generation.

Due to the butterfly effect brought by Kang Jianfei, some movies in this time and space will not appear again. For example, in "The True Lies", Cameron originally wanted to film "Titanic", but because of insufficient special effects technology and funding preparations, he settled for the second best movie. Since Kang Jianfei captured Cameron to film "Jurassic Park", Cameron has been doing the preparations for "Titanic", so "The True Lies" will naturally not be filmed. Even if it is to be filmed, it is definitely not Cameron as the director.

But more movies were not affected much, only a few minor changes. For example, in "The Disguised Strange", this movie was arranged by Kang Jianfei to be the heroine, and the second female lead in "Sunny Days" was also replaced by Li Bingbing.

In Hong Kong, the "New Era of Cohabitation" kicked off by Zhang Aijia in 1994, and the box office of more than 20 million indicates a recovery in the Hong Kong film market.

What followed was the Spring Festival New Year holiday. Although it was the same as the Christmas holiday two months ago, only five Hong Kong movies were released, but the value of these five movies was very high.

The film released on Yonggao Cinema is "The Legend of the Dragon Gambling Flag" jointly invested by Yonggao, Zetung and Taiwanese scholars. Although the title is vulgar, the cast is not bad. Starring Tony Leung, Leung Choi, Ekin Cheng, Ng Jung Ru, Tsang Chi-wei, Cheng Yuling and Mai Jiaqi, it can definitely be regarded as a big cast.

This drama should be the closure of Yonggao Film Company. Roger Cheng entered the film industry because of the popularity of Hong Kong films. Now that the film market has shrunk, he is not good at film production, so it is inevitable that the company will stop production.

In addition, Huang Baiming's New City Film Company also came back. "The Rich House" continues the New Year comedy style of "Happy Events in Flower Fields" and "Happy Events in Family". Not only did Gao Zhisen be the director, but it also brought together many stars such as Zhang Guorong, Tony Leung, Mao Shunjun, Liu Qingyun, Huang Baiming, etc.

It is worth mentioning that the production company of this drama in another time and space is Meiya Laser. However, because Kang Jianfei established the Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company early, he grabbed a large share of the film and video tape market, and the development of Meiya Entertainment Company was not smooth. It is still just an ordinary video tape production and distribution company and has not entered the field of film production.

In addition to these two movies, it is "Drunk Fist 2" and "Kung Fu". As for the remaining "Bodhisattva Master", we can ignore it, the only one of the failed kung fu films filmed by Yuan Jiaban.

At this time, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong has dropped from 190 at the peak of last year to only 142 left, and all living are tycoons with strong vitality.

Five New Year's films represent the five major theaters, namely: "Drunk Fist 2" - Jiahe Cinema. "Kung Fu" - Oriental Cinema, "Shenlong Gambling Saint" - Yonggao Cinema, "The Great Rich House" - Xincheng Cinema. "Bodhistor" - Xinbao Cinema.

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As the New Year was about to be celebrated, Chen Rongmei didn't feel any festive atmosphere.

"The Master of Bodhidharma" filmed by Yuan Jiaban was too low. The second day of its release, it was cut to only three theaters for screenings, and the cumulative box office in five days has not exceeded 1 million.

This kind of film is a lot of screenings in the three theaters, and the number of scenes was directly eliminated by the three theaters.

"The movie is not easy to make!" Chen Rongmei looked at the empty theater. This could no longer be described as attendance. During the Spring Festival, there were only seven or eight viewers in each theater. Just a year ago, his cinema was still making money every day, so how could he expect that he was so embarrassed that he had no movies to play.

Xinbao Cinema is the theater company that relies most on Taiwanese-funded Hong Kong film supply among several major theaters in Hong Kong. Now Taiwanese film companies have reduced their investment, so Xinbao cannot even produce a good movie during the Spring Festival, which is quite a bit like a sunset.

Chen Rongmei smoked a cigar dullly, called the theater general manager and ordered: "Go and contact Jiahe, Xincheng, Yonggao and Dream Factory to see if they intend to rent a cinema."

The theater manager can be helpless. The low attendance rate of theaters is only a matter of war for him. In the past, most of the movies released by Xinbao theaters were works by independent film companies such as Sammo Hung and McDonald, and all of them were invested by Taiwanese investors. Now Taiwan investors are no longer investing money, Sammo Hung and others have no films to shoot. When Xinbao theaters schedule films, they can only choose bad movies to make up the numbers.

During the Spring Festival holiday in 1994, the good money-making period was very good, Xinbao could only watch others make money. Cinemas with good locations rented to other companies to show blockbusters, while cinemas with poor locations were used to release expired old movies.

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Jiahe Film Company.

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were drinking tea and quietly waiting for the first week of box office data of "Drunk Fist".

Soon, a middle-aged man in a suit knocked in the door and put a form on his desk, reporting: "Mr. Zou, Manager He, "Drunk Boxing 2" 13.64 million in the first week!"

"Huh!" Zou Wenhuai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not low."

He Guanchang asked: "Is there any data on "Kung Fu"?"

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and sighed: "There is no need to know. Our current enemy is not DreamWorks, but the shrinking Hong Kong and overseas box office markets."

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Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, Chairman's Office.

"Boss, the box office statistics for "Kung Fu" were released in the first week." Li Meifeng handed over the form and said, "16.28 million."

Kang Jianfeiyun said calmly: "I understand, go and make a cup of tea for Manager Jiang."

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "This time it's our victory again."

"It's not interesting to be in a nest," Kang Jianfei threw the other two forms to Jiang Zhiqiang and said, "Look at the Christmas screenings in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. The top one was from 1992 and the next one was from 1993."

Jiang Zhiqiang took the form and read it carefully, and frowned after reading it for a while.

Kang Jianfei continued: "In 1992, the Christmas films in these three places, both in box office and in the number of films, were occupied by Hong Kong films. But in just one year, Hollywood films caught up. If this continues, the box office of Hong Kong films in these three places will be surpassed by Hollywood films this year."

Jiang Zhiqiang asked, "What does Mr. Kang mean?"

Kang Jianfei said: "It's because of this thing that people who are doing the New Year are bothering Brother Jiang. Now the overall quality of Hong Kong films has declined rapidly, and there are many bad movies that are similar to the trend, which has led to aesthetic fatigue among overseas audiences. The Nanyang generation, Cathay and Shaw Brothers are the largest theater chains, and they are only responsible for filming but not for production. Now Hong Kong films are not pleasing to them, and in order to make money, they release large quantities of Hollywood films. In the long run, the film markets of various countries in Southeast Asia will be captured by Hollywood. Even if there are good movies in Hong Kong, they will not compete for Hollywood blockbusters in filming. I think, invest in the construction of Nanyang theater chains!"

"It should have been like this long ago!" Jiang Zhiqiang slapped his thigh and said that he advocated the rapid expansion of Oriental Cinemas.

Kang Jianfei asked indisputably: "Before this summer, I would like to see a total of 15 modern multi-hall theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Are there any problems?"

"As long as the funds are sufficient, there is no problem at all." Jiang Zhiqiang said confidently.

"Then I'll trouble Brother Jiang." Kang Jianfei smiled.

Investing in Nanyang Cinemas cannot fundamentally save Hong Kong films from a fundamental way. It is necessary to be strong on its own. Only when the quality of Hong Kong films improves can those markets not be occupied by Hong Kong films.

In 1993, Hong Kong films in 1994 were still in decline, and Hong Kong films were on the verge of death after 1995. In 1995, the Taiwan authorities lifted the copy restrictions on European and American films, which directly led to the loss of the most important Taiwanese market in Hong Kong films. Under the vicious cycle, the Nanyang market was quickly captured.

Can Kang Jianfei stop these from happening?

Perhaps, at least Taiwanese filmmakers did not break up with Hong Kong filmmakers like the original time and space. This was all due to Kang Jianfei's mediation last year. Without Taiwanese filmmakers clamoring to lift the copy restrictions on Hollywood films, Hong Kong films would not die so quickly.

Hollywood conquered the whole world by relying on high-tech computer special effects, while DreamWorks has already released many special effects blockbusters, which has already made a reputation, not losing to its Hollywood counterparts.

After Jiang Zhiqiang left, Kang Jianfei called Li Meifeng: "Call Mr. Zhang from Heima Animation Company and ask him to come to my office."

Kang Jianfei has really many things to do. He doesn’t need to worry about the daily operation and management of each company, but he must be at the helm of the company’s development direction.

At least, if Kang Jianfei didn't take the initiative to propose it, Dark Horse Animation Company would not think about developing digital 3D animation. Disney's digital 3D animation has been released for several months, but the animation talents in Hong Kong don't have much idea about this technology.

Kang Jianfei’s request is very simple, which is to spend money to the Black Horse Animation Company, let them steal, poach people, copycat, and spend a few years to create "Kung Fu Panda". At least after 2000, the Black Horse Animation Company must have the ability to independently produce 3D animated movies.

The road ahead is still long. At least in the next few years, Hong Kong film companies will die, and the rest will be hard to support or prosper. As long as DreamWorks can survive until 2003, the huge mainland market will gradually open up in full swing, and at that time, it will encounter another opportunity to take off.

It's too far, let's talk about the release of "Kung Fu". (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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