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823 [Classic Grip]

July is coming in a blink of an eye. Although Cameron is responsible for the later stage of "Jurassic Park", Kang Jianfei, as the director, cannot ignore it. He flew to the United States from time to time to pay attention to the progress, and the final editing rights of the movie are also in his hands.

In comparison, Kang Jianfei met Sophie Marceau in the United States more times than Cameron. The two even secretly ran to Hawaii for a few days.

"Jurassic Park" will be completed at least at the end of July. It will definitely be too late to catch up with the summer season in the United States, because there is no time to schedule films, so it can only be screened at the end of this year.

During this period, Kang Jianfei was not just interested in playing. He first went to attend the finals of the King of Fighters World Championship, then went to Taipei to support Zhou Huimin's concert, and then returned to Hong Kong to attend the Miss Oriental finals.

The responses to the Miss Hong Kong and Miss Oriental beauty pageants this year were not very good. The main reason was that the quality of the beauty pageants was not high. Miss Hong Kong champion Lu Shuyi and Sister Ya champion Feng Meiying were quite different from the previous champions. Beautiful is beautiful, but it did not make people shine.

After participating in the Miss Oriental beauty pageant, Kang Jianfei went north to Beijing without stopping, and Hong Kong filmmakers such as Zou Wenhuai were also with him.

Due to the southern tour of the head of the year at the beginning of the year, the political trend of the mainland was finally settled, and relatively sensitive content in the past two years was re-discussed, including the proposal to introduce Hong Kong films.

After a full week of meeting, a document called "The Introduction Plan for Ten Excellent Hong Kong Films" was finally approved, that is, 10 Hong Kong films are allowed to be released in the mainland in the form of a share of accounts each year.

These 10 movies must be reviewed by relevant mainland departments, and the accounting rules are very strict. Hong Kong producers can only get 16% of the box office, and the rest belongs to all units in the mainland.

There are still some things in the document that are not stated. Is that the limit of the 10 Hong Kong movies per year? DreamWorks produce at least 5 movies. This is something that originally belonged to DreamWorks. It is a reward for Kang Jianfei's support for the mainland, but it was interrupted in the past two years due to wind direction issues.

The remaining 5 movies are limited to the limit of other Hong Kong film companies, among which Jiahe will account for at least 3 movies, and the quota is really small.

For many Hong Kong film companies, although the mainland's Hong Kong film introduction plan is useless, it is finally a good start. In terms of the current box office, the mainland is a large box office store far exceeding the Taiwanese film market. Once it is completely opened up one day, it is tantamount to another box office paradise waving to Hong Kong filmmakers.

At this moment, no one knows that the box office market in the mainland has shrunk sharply in the next ten years. Both Zou Wenhuai and Wu Siyuan have unlimited expectations for entering the mainland.

...

Just as Kang Jianfei, Zou Wenhuai and others returned from the capital, two major events happened in the Hong Kong film industry.

First, Huang Baiming and Luo Jiecheng officially broke up and separated. Huang Baiming joined forces with more than 20 cinemas to form a new city theater company, and there was another large theater chain in Hong Kong. (In another time and space, the theater chain formed by Huang Baiming at this time was called Oriental Cinema, and his film company was also renamed Oriental Film Company)

Nowadays, there are too many theaters in Hong Kong. The new theaters led by Huang Baiming have undoubtedly made the Hong Kong film industry even more chaotic. Apart from Hong Kong, there is probably no place in the world that will gather in nearly 200 cinemas and six or seven large theaters with such high density.

Second, Shaw Yifu is an old horse in the stable. Bypassing Shaw Brothers Pictures, he spent money to invite Johnnie To as director in the name of Metropolitan Film Company. He invited Wang Jing to be the producer, and invited the popular stars such as Chow Xingchi, Anita Mui, and Wu Mengda to film "The Deadly Officer".

According to Shao Yifu's original plan, he wanted to use the directors, stars and other resources of the TVB station to make Shaw Pictures make a comeback. However, Fang Yihua, who controls the TVB station, did not cooperate with him at all. Shao Yifu, who was unwilling to accept, simply bypassed Fang Yihua and TVB station and directly spent money to invite outsiders to film.

"The Dead Official" ignited the box office as soon as it was released. It took more than two months to release the film, and it won 49.88 million yuan in box office, directly breaking the Hong Kong box office record set by "Happy Events in Family" during the Spring Festival.

Where did this Metropolitan Film Company come up?

When people found out the composition of the Metropolitan shares, they were surprised to find that the boss behind it was Shao Yifu, and Uncle Shao, who once dominated the Hong Kong film industry, was back!

Shaw Yifu is 85 years old this year. Does he still want to make a comeback in the film industry and recreate the glory of Shaw's that year?

Major newspapers praised Shao Yifu for not having aged his sword, but Shao Yifu himself was very low-key and never showed up in public from beginning to end.

Peninsula Tea Restaurant.

Shao Yifu drank a sip of tea and sighed: "Tianlin, thanks to you running around this time, otherwise "The Death Officer" would not be filmed at all."

"Uncle Six, you are polite. I just talk." Wang Tianlin smiled.

The producer of "The Deadly Dead" is Wang Tianlin's son and the director is Wang Tianlin's apprentice. He really put in a lot of effort in it. It can be said that the framework of the crew was built by Wang Tianlin.

Shao Yifu talked to Wang Tianlin about some old things and said with emotion: "When we were filming, the box office was amazing after the box office exceeded 1 million. How could we imagine that a movie can now earn 50 million box office, it is a golden age of movies."

Wang Tianlin ate the pineapple bread with a feast and said, "After all, it's the world of young people, we are all old."

"Yes, it's the world of young people after all." Shao Yifu murmured in a low voice.

Although "The Dead" broke the Hong Kong box office record, Shaw Yifu didn't have much joy. Because this movie was not produced by Shaw Brothers, Shaw Yifu was considered a film investor at most. He didn't even sign the producer column, and directly wrote Fang Yihua's name on it (the Metropolis is a company jointly established by Shaw Brothers and Wireless Taiwan).

The film industry has no successor, and even if the record is broken, it is just a flash in the pan. At his age, he doesn't have so much energy to do it. This is the biggest regret in Shao Yifu's heart.

"I heard that Kang Jianfei's movie with an investment of 400 million yuan is about to be released?" Shao Yifu asked.

Wang Tianlin said: "This month is coming soon."

Shao Yifu suddenly smiled and said, "I want to see what a 400 million-dollar movie can be made."

...

"What? Daheng Shao is coming to attend the premiere of "Jurassic Park"?" Kang Jianfei looked at Wang Jing in surprise.

Fatty Wang nodded and said, "What I said, after "The Dead Dead", Sir Shao should not invest in movies again."

Sometimes when people get old, they see through everything. Ten years ago, it was absolutely impossible for Shaw Yifu to come and praise Kang Jian to fly. This time, "The Dead" broke the Hong Kong box office record. Shaw Yifu regards it as a perfect ending of his film career and goes to the premiere of "Jurassic Park". It is not a disguised handover ceremony, a spiritual encouragement to young Hong Kong filmmakers, and a good wish for the future of Hong Kong films.

Friday, August 14.

The second week after the end of the screening of "The Dead" was held at Taiping Cinema as scheduled.

This movie, which cost 400 million Hong Kong dollars, has attracted attention from all parties before it was filmed, and several waves of publicity have been highly anticipated.

There were crowds of people outside Taiping Cinema, and stars appeared one after another, murdering countless films of reporters.

This time, Kang Jianfei stood at the entrance of the theater and warmly greeted every guest. Until a car with No. 6 plate arrived, he suddenly stepped forward to greet him.

"I read it right? It's actually No. 6."

"It's not Sir Shao."

"How could it be Tycoon Shao?"

"The car stopped and see who got off."

"It's Wang Tianlin, Wang Jing's father."

"There are people, it's really Tycoon Shao!"

"Tycoon Shao is here to attend Kang Jianfei's movie premiere!"

“…”

The reporters sniffed their heads and pushed forward. When they saw Shao Yifu get out of the car, they all let out a burst of screams.

Kang Jianfei walked over with a smile, stretched out his hand and said, "Welcome Sir Shao and Uncle Tianlin to come."

Shao Yifu leaned on a crutch in one hand and said with a smile: "I'll see Mr. Kang's masterpiece."

When the two of them held their hands together, the agile reporters immediately pressed the camera shutter and recorded this rare scene. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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