MTL - Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire-v2 Chapter 845 The Savior of Hong Kong Films (Part 1)

Whether it was the last life or this life, 1992 was the pinnacle of Hong Kong films. fastest update

In the last life, in 1992, a total of three Hong Kong films exceeded 40 million at the local box office (two Hong Kong films were nearly 50 million at the local box office), and twelve Hong Kong films exceeded 3,000 at the local box office. Wan, moreover, the newly established Heung Kong include, Liu Dehua's "Sky Curtain", Li Lianjie and Cui Baozhu's "Zhengdong", Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei's "Zedong", Er Dongsheng and Chen Wanghua's "Infinite Pictures", Chen Kexin, Zeng Zhiwei, Zhong Zhen's "ufo", Zhou Xingchi's "Xing Cai" and many other film companies.

In 1992, Hong Kong films not only "Spider-Man 2", "Blade Runner 2", "Double Dragon Club" and the disaster relief movie, the box office exceeded 50 million in Hong Kong's local box office ("Spider-Man 2") " and the disaster relief movie's local box office is even close to 60 million), driven by such a general trend, even Shao Yifu and Zhou Xingchi's "The Dead Judge" and Xinyicheng's "A Happy Family" have passed the 5,000 mark. The Wanda line, so there are six Hong Kong films with more than 50 million at the local box office. In addition, the overseas box office of these six Hong Kong films are all in the hundreds of millions. The box office of "Spider-Man 2" and "Blade Warrior 2" is hundreds of millions. In dollar terms, Hong Kong films have reached unprecedented brilliance!

However

Just when everyone was eagerly looking forward to how high Hong Kong films would reach, a scene that made all filmmakers dumbfounded appeared.

New Year's Eve in early 1993.

"Happy Events in the Flower Field", which brought together big names such as Zhang Guorong, Xu Guanjie, Guan Zhilin, Wu Mengda, Huang Baiwu, etc., actually only received 35 million Hong Kong dollars at the local box office.

Infinite Pictures' "New Love", Cheng Long's "City Hunter", and Li Lianjie's "Fang Shiyu" barely crossed the 30 million mark.

After that, it was bleak. Even Li Lianjie's "Once Upon a Time in 3 Lion Kings" and Zhou Xingchi's "Fighting Dragon 3 Year of the Rooster", as well as Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Liu Jialing, Zhong Zhentao, Zhang Xueyou , Wang Zuixian, Liang Jiahui, Zhang Manyu and many other big names, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is only worth over 20 million.

The most pitiful thing is that Liang Chaowei, Yang Ziqiong, Zhen Zidan, and Wang Zuixian cost 30 million "New Meteor Butterfly Sword", but it only got more than 9 million at the local box office, and it was not the same as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". The original cast of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Evil of the East and the Poison of the West" by the original cast took more than half a year to film, costing more than 30 million yuan, but only the beginning was filmed, and the release is far away!

In addition, in 1992, more than 200 Hong Kong films were released into Taiwan, setting a record high. What makes Taiwanese businessmen even more angry is that the star salary of Heungkong has risen again and again, and it is almost limitless, and a total of more than 250 Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films from various film companies in Heungkong have not been delivered as scheduled.

Based on this, Taiwan can rest assured that if the remuneration of Hong Kong stars is not suppressed, and the unfinished Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films are not delivered as soon as possible, Taiwan will no longer introduce Hong Kong films.

Furthermore, the British Hong Kong government has set a policy of "completely abolishing entertainment tax", which will soon be implemented. In other words, the British Hong Kong government has cleared the final road for Hollywood blockbusters to enter Hong Kong.

In the last life, that is, from this time on, Hollywood blockbusters began to invade.

Relying on millions of large-scale advertising and special effects, Hollywood movies have successfully reversed the dislike attitude of Hong Kong people towards Hollywood movies in a very short period of time.

Wait until a series of Hollywood blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" achieved sensational success in Hong Kong, which completely defeated the last stubborn resistance of Hong Kong's local films, and also made the audience fully aware of Hong Kong films and Hollywood blockbusters. In the end, the Hollywood blockbuster successfully kicked the Hong Kong film, which has been fighting against itself for half a century in Asia, into the dustbin of history, and there is no room for it to turn over.

To paraphrase a passage from the famous screenwriter Wen Xiu (Shu Qi's godfather) summarizing the decline of Hong Kong movies:

"...In those few years, when the return came, the immigrants left a group of people with real materials, leaving behind a lot of short-sighted ones, and whatever type of movie was popular. Later, the capital chain suddenly broke again, and the I have to face the competition of foreign films and the combined price reduction of Taiwanese people. I have tossed myself and then tossed by others, tossing and tossing, all the tossing in the foreign markets, and in the end, even the Taiwan market, which was barely breaking the bank, was lost. He was also attacked by Hollywood movies. In the end, even local theaters were reluctant to release Hong Kong movies and scrambled to show Hollywood movies. It became more and more difficult to make money making movies, and everyone felt that it was a fool to continue to lose money. So the rest of them all rushed to old age and quit, and the few who entered the mainland are still good. When Hong Kong films are allowed to go north, those who have no money for a few years want to come back and continue to make movies to make money. However, at this time, they not only have to face the threshold, but also face the competition from their mainland counterparts and foreign films, and then everyone finds that they will not be able to make films after a few years of drought, and the Hong Kong Films is over..."

In this life, Xu Cun also used his own way to shoot "Jurassic Park" and the Marvel Universe series of movies, and started the 3D era one step before Hollywood, and then Hollywood movies wanted to enter Hong Kong and occupy Hong Kong movies market, it is impossible.

However

However, these cannot cover up some serious problems currently facing the Hong Kong film market.

At present ~www.novelbuddy.com~ the salaries of the stars of Xiangjiang are indeed very high, and they are still rising. , Liu Dehua and other quasi-grade male stars are paid about 8 million, and once again, Zhang Guorong, Hong Jinbao, Liang Jiahui and other male stars are paid about 5 million...

Hire one or two of these stars at random, and the production cost of the movie will be frighteningly high.

In order to reduce some production costs, the producer can only choose shoddy production.

In this way, a subsexual cycle is formed.

If things go on like this, those non-DreamWorks Hong Kong films will probably be driven out of the Taiwanese film market by Hollywood films like the previous life, and then lose the passion for making films because they don’t make money, and then quit working in retirement. It will be difficult to develop if it declines like the previous life. After all, talents are the basis for the development of films.

Therefore, if you don’t want to lose a lot of film talents in Hong Kong, someone has to stand up and become the savior of Hong Kong films at this time.

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