946 [Opening Talk in 1995]
The reason for the sluggish box office of Hong Kong films is extremely complicated, and it cannot be solved even after the vicious cycle. Please search and read the most complete novel!
If we don’t talk about external factors such as Taiwanese capital and the Taiwan market, the proliferation of piracy is also a very important reason. Now it has become popular, and the production cost of pirated movies is so low that it is not only flooding the streets and alleys of Hong Kong, but also spreading along the mainland coast.
Apart from big directors, big stars, big productions, and ordinary small movies, Hong Kong citizens are no longer interested in entering the cinema.
Reducing production is the strategy of Oriental DreamWorks.
In 1992, the company produced an astonishing 31 films. In 1996, DreamWorks only planned to produce 16 movies, with no more than 2 movies in the upper and lower limits.
Kang Jianfei gave the death order and had to strictly control the creative process. Everything should focus on the quality of the film. Shrunk films would never have the chance to be on the big screen.
At the same time, Oriental Cinemas are also reducing its scale, with only 12 cinemas left, all in relatively prime locations. As for the areas around the corner, they will be directly thrown to other cinemas for release, or split the accounts or sold them. Anyway, they will consider it as appropriate.
In contrast to Oriental DreamWorks' production cut plan, Jiahe, which has just been successfully launched, is rapidly expanding its production volume.
In another time and space, Jiahe only produced 28 movies in 1994. In 1995, after its launch, it participated in investment or produced as many as 66 films, and the production volume has more than doubled.
This situation is related to Jiahe's development strategy. Only by constantly shooting films and creating momentum can investors have confidence in Jiahe, which will facilitate Jiahe to make money in the stock market and then use the money to invest in real estate and other industries.
Jiahe in 1995 has changed its flavor. It is no longer a pure film company. It is first and foremost a listed company with a glorious reputation.
In Kang Jianfei's opinion, Zou Wenhuai and others were already crazy. Like theirs, when the Hong Kong film market shrank, it was definitely a suicide act that was life-threatening.
But is Zou Wenhuai really stupid?
not necessarily!
First of all, he can make money by relying on the stock market and then use this money to invest in other industries.
As for the darker speculation, these people probably have despaired about Hong Kong films. They intend to make a big favour before Hong Kong films die completely and before Hong Kong returns to the embrace of the motherland!
After 1997, Jiahe will become a debt-ridden company, but its shareholders are definitely rich people because they are all full.
Alas, the world has changed.
If Hong Kong filmmakers do not have the 97 doomsday mentality of giving up on themselves, if the Hong Kong and British governments can set up film bureaus to regulate the market, Hong Kong films will definitely not be able to end up so quickly.
To completely push the blame to the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters and Taiwan, the shrinking of Southeast Asian market is all a sign of self-deception. You have to be strong on your own. Are you messing around yourself and still blame others for not giving face?
Kang Jianfei was too lazy to care about other people's troubles, he just wanted to manage Oriental Entertainment Group well.
Who said that Hong Kong films will die completely in 1995? Will the Galaxy Image, which insists on conscience, still be very glorious after 2000? Because the films they shoot can be watched, they are not just random things.
The Hong Kong film market is where imported Hollywood movies can be sold well, why are local movies not available?
However, Oriental DreamWorks can only take the high-quality route in the future, and it is certain that a large number of layoffs are laid off, because they cannot afford to support so many people. The overall film production environment is definitely harsh, and reserve film talents will surely wither. The only thing Kang Jianfei can do is retain the seeds and avoid the embarrassing situation of film talents not being able to meet.
At the beginning of 1995, Cheng Long was the most glorious person in the Hong Kong film industry, and Jiahe’s shareholders also made a fortune and held a celebration banquet for "Red Fan District" at Fulinmen Restaurant.
These are all superficial scenery, just like Hong Kong's economy.
The British are about to say goodbye to Hong Kong. They harvested a wave in the stock market last year, causing countless Hong Kong stock investors to go bankrupt. This year, they will continue to play tricks. The Hong Kong stock market rose repeatedly in the first half of the year, attracting a wave of investors to enter the market and harvest immediately. Then they fell and rose again, completely ruining the Hong Kong stock market in countless cycles. By the second half of the year, there are no fools who invest in stocks again.
So much so that by 1996, the Hong Kong stock market was still sluggish. Seeing that it recovered slightly in 1997, international giants such as Soros came to make trouble again, which was really a scene of a chaotic world where demons danced.
1995 was obviously a turbulent time.
Shortly after New Year's Day, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in Japanese benzene, and the local people were in dire straits.
Zhang Ziqiang, who was jailed for robbing an armored car, will be released this year and received 8 million Hong Kong dollars in compensation from the police, becoming a household name in Hong Kong.
Cheng Long's "Red Fan District" just dropped, and a 327 treasury bond incident broke out in the mainland. February 23, 1995 was called the darkest day in Chinese securities history. There was a futures trader named Chen Wanning who was just 20 years old. His trading seat lost more than 70 million on that day, and his own 3 million assets were gone.
Ten years later, the trader wrote the script "Wulin Wai Chuan" and completed his career transformation gorgeously.
Let’s stop talking, let’s go back to Hong Kong.
When Cheng Long was holding a celebration banquet, Kang Jianfei disappeared. He personally led the team to India to inspect the shooting location with Xu Ke, and at the same time established a good relationship with the local government and the local tyrants.
The paparazzi can't take pictures of Kang Jianfei's gossip news, just go and shoot his women. Recently, Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin are fighting again. The reason seems to be that Guan Zhilin's diamond ring is bigger. After being reported by the media, Li Jiaxin was very upset and specially found a foreign jewelry company to customize one.
These reports are not surprising, and Hong Kong citizens are numb. The more explosive news is that the reporter photographed the queen of the music industry, Anita Mui, who went out with mainland boy Zhao Wen-yu. The two looked intimate and seemed to be a couple.
Although Zhao Wen-yu has starred in several dramas in the past two years and is considered a newly emerging kung fu actor, it is still very different from Anita Mui. After hearing the news that the two were dating, Hong Kong citizens thought it was a fantasy and didn't believe it even if they beat him to death.
Anita Mui and Zhao Wen-yu expressed silence on this, and the agency quickly held a press conference to clarify that they were just ordinary friends.
The storm stopped here, and it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.
It was not until more than ten years later that Anita Mui had passed away for a long time, and Zhao Wen-wen told the media about this past. They did have been in a relationship for a whole year, but unfortunately they broke up in the end.
By the time Kang Jianfei returned to Hong Kong again, the Spring Festival had already passed, the nomination list for the Academy Awards was successfully released, and the Chunming of the Hong Kong Directors Association was also held as scheduled. Kang Jianfei successfully resigned as president, and the new president was Er Dongsheng.
At the same time, the mainland film "The Sound of the Wind" was quietly released in Hong Kong, and Kang Jianfei also announced his new film plan.
Chapter completed!