Chapter 1563 It’s Getting Lively!

The new year is here, and there are bound to be some new changes.

In the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, the most specific thing is that the number of film companies around us has suddenly increased a lot.

In the past, the film companies in Hong Kong were usually capable of producing on their own, namely Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Qilin, New Art City and Yongsheng.

The remaining thirty-odd film companies either just grab a handful and leave, or they are not very strong and need to be affiliated with these big guys in order to make movies.

But things were different after the Spring Festival in 1984. People in the entertainment industry suddenly discovered that there were more than a dozen film companies in Xiangjiang, and looking at their names and backgrounds, they were not insiders in Xiangjiang.

After further inquiry, it turns out that they are all film companies with capital injection from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and even Thailand and Malaysia.

Specifically speaking, foreigners pay to hire these well-known filmmakers in Hong Kong to make movies and make money.

When Shaw Brothers was officially closed last year, at least half of the staff were not recruited by film companies in Hong Kong. Now, at a glance, they all appear in more than a dozen film companies.

A very famous one is Du Qifeng. He accepted capital from South Korea and established a company called "Peak Pictures" that Yin Jun had never heard of. His first movie was already released during the Spring Festival.

Du Qifeng's style now has some flavor, or he was inspired by McDonald's and made a club movie. It still tells the glorious side of the club, but the plot inside is quite interesting.

Therefore, even with the right time, place and right people, Jet Li's movie "Letter to Dad" and Du Qifeng's first movie "Red Man" still had a box office of 16 million in two weeks, ranking third.

Well, the first place is "Letter to Dad", and the second place is "Good Boys 3", which is a regular during the Spring Festival.

Although "Good Boys 3" has been released during the Spring Festival for three consecutive years, people pay attention to it as a fun and cute comedy, and watch it as a family comedy, so every Spring Festival, a large number of parents bring their children to watch it.

A family only has 3 movie tickets, which is one more than a couple going to the movies.

How could you say that the "Good Boys" series didn't do well at the box office?

This is also thanks to Wang Jing's well-executed plot, and also thanks to Yin Jun who repeatedly taught him not to make poop and piss jokes, but to communicate seriously with the writing team and make some normal movies.

Wang Jing himself felt aggrieved, thinking: How do I know which movies are "shit and piss"? Why do you have to warn me like this every time I make a movie?

I, Fatty Wang, shoot in a very stylish way, okay?

At this time, he has definitely forgotten the experience of last year, when he went out to earn extra money and made three movies, all of which were completed in one month, and then rushed to release them to make money.

This is not to say that Wang Jing’s movies have failed badly. In fact, the box office of each of Wang Jing’s movies has exceeded 10 million, but the cost is only about 4 million. Even without relying on other places, they have made a fortune.

But the content of Wang Jing's movie seems too shameless.

In the past few years, he has reshaped Yin Jun's previous movie scripts, such as "The King of Flowers", "Speed ​​of Life and Death", and "Dragon Tiger Boys", and treated them as his own movies. Make money.

In order not to be exactly like Yin Jun, Wang Jing naturally had to revise many of his jokes. Once he revised them, he would habitually add those vulgar meat-selling plots and proudly use them as selling points to attract the audience.

This is where Yin Jun scolded him.

Fatty Wang also understood in his heart, but he was a member of Qilin Film Company and had a good relationship with Yin Jun. Seeing that Yin Jun did not punish him, he was naturally happy to pretend to be stupid.

Yin Jun really didn't take Wang Jing's matter to heart.

Because movie plagiarism is not uncommon even 40 years later, so there is nothing surprising at all.

McDonald's, Wu Siyuan, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long...aren't the bosses of these medium-sized companies also plagiarizing?

What Fatty Wang is plagiarizing and making now is at least not the bad movies he made 30 years later, and it still retains a lot of integrity.

Besides, Wang Jing is from the mainland, so what's the big deal if you take care of him?

Do we have to let those guys who eat everything in and throw away their chopsticks and scold their mothers to make money in order to be happy?

A new film company was established, but the three major film giants in Hong Kong - Qilin, Jiahe and Xinyicheng - had nothing to worry about.

Needless to say, Qilin Film Company has Yin Jun in charge. Even if the top seven in Hollywood come to Xiangjiang together, there is nothing they can do about it. This has been proven in Hollywood. Yin Jun has even gone to their home base. But the six companies joining together failed to prevent the rise of Kirin Group?

In addition, Yin Jun's script can be exported to the outside world, so no matter what company, it will only please Qilin Film and it is absolutely impossible to offend them.

Jiahe Film also has a big tree and deep roots.

Established since the 1960s, they own the second largest theater chain in Hong Kong and control the distribution rights.

In terms of movies, Li Xiaolong first set up the stage, and then the cold-faced comedian Xu Guanwen brothers opened up the situation, winning the box office championship four times in five years.

Then Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long came out of the blue, and they also had Wu Siyuan in their hands. They really didn't have to worry about anything. As long as they did their own thing steadily and supported the stars in their hands, that was enough.

Xinyi City, ranked third, does not look good on the surface.

Now Xu Ke and Shi Lansheng have left, and Zeng Zhiwei also left New Art City at the beginning of this year and went to be the chairman of the film company built for him by Singapore Capital. There are only four of the seven weirdos of New Art City left.

In the external environment, Qilin Films is a giant that they have never been able to challenge. Golden Harvest has also been on top of them from time to time. Even the fourth episode of the signature "Best Partner" series cannot compete with last year's "Mr. Zombie 3" and "Hot Detective", overall, are at a disadvantage.

But instead it inspired their fighting spirit.

The four of them, Micah, Shi Tian, ​​Huang Baiming, and Teddy Robin, abandoned all the previous disharmony and united together, each using their own strengths. From last year to this year, excluding "The Best Partner", they made a total of 9 movies The cumulative local box office of the movie reached 300 million Hong Kong dollars, but the cost was only 60 million.

Coupled with the income from other places, they earned more than 500 million.

This year, "Better Days 4" has had a good start, and they have prepared 10 movies to start shooting, which can be said to be the most ambitious one.

And with the support of Golden Princess Cinemas, which is also ranked among the top three in Xiangjiang, no matter how good Xinyi City is, the foundation is still there and it won't be too bad.

After talking about the big three giants, next are the medium-sized production companies.

Among them, of course, Baohe Film Company, which is famous for launching the "Mr. Zombie" series, is famous.

But speaking of matters, Hung Kam-po is a bit unlucky this year. Lin Zhengying's annual "Mr. Zombie" will not be released until the summer. It is still being shot and produced very seriously and laboriously, and it cannot make it in time for the Spring Festival.

So Kam-po Hung personally went into battle and made a police film based on the style of his junior brother Cheng Long's "Police Story".

But here, Hung Kam-bao is funny enough, but the scenes are not exciting and exciting enough, and the style is too similar to "Police Story", so the box office can barely exceed 20 million in three weeks, and he can get another 1,000 in the future. A box office of 10,000 is pretty good.

Hong Jinbao was very disappointed and felt very anxious about this.

Why?

Think about it!

Baohe Company belongs to him, Hong Jinbao. Although he also gave some shares to Lin Zhengying, it is Hong Jinbao who holds the majority.

Nowadays, the company boss's own drama is not half as profitable as the minority shareholder Lin Zhengying's drama. This is obviously the main weakness and the secondary strength!

If this continues for a long time, there will definitely be problems.

Even though the copyright of "Mr. Zombie" belongs to Kam-po Hung, wouldn't Lin Zhengying, who already has rich experience and qualifications, change his style and produce a new zombie movie?

Last year's "Mr. Zombie 3" earned Baohe Company 400 million Hong Kong dollars in one go, which made Hung Kam-bao both happy and worried.

What makes me happy is that I made four billionaires from just one movie. It is simply unbelievable and a pleasant surprise!

Of course, the worry is that with such good results, will Lin Zhengying be satisfied with only receiving a dividend of HK$30 million, as well as a few company shares and share dividends?

For this reason, during the Spring Festival, when Lin Zhengying started preparing for "Mr. Zombie 4", Hong Jinbao gritted his teeth and directly gave him the shares of Baohe Company, which increased Lin Zhengying's shares to 35%, and Hong Jinbao Only 65% ​​remains.

Even after getting the shares, Lin Zhengying did not express any particular loyalty. He just said that he would definitely make "Mr. Zombie 4" well, and with the unprecedented success of "Mr. Zombie 3", it is possible that "Mr. Zombie 4" "There will be a big decline in the box office, so Sammo Hung must be mentally prepared.

Hearing this, Hong Jinbao breathed a sigh of relief.

As for the box office of "Mr. Zombie 4", he really doesn't want to see it reach a new high - if he earns another 600 million this time, Lin Zhengying will definitely leave! This is true no matter how much money you give!

Because Lin Zhengying can no longer get any promotion from Hong Jinbao, he needs to find a broader platform to display his strength and realize his movie dream.

Although Hong Jinbao loves money, the more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars he earned last year is enough for him to squander for a lifetime. If he increases it too much again, he will be a little overwhelmed, and he is afraid that he will not be able to keep these assets.

But even so, Hong Jinbao still took his wife and son to Yin Jun's manor in Shixundao two days after the New Year to wish Yin Jun a good old age.

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