Hong Kong Entertainment's Life Simulator

Chapter 55

When it came to Hong Kong Island movies in the 80s, the local box office really couldn't support so many people, nor could it support so many companies.

All that makes money is from other places and overseas.

Among the tycoon-level groups, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest have strong distribution capabilities. At least in Wanwan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places, Shaw Brothers is not inferior to Golden Harvest, but in the big ticket warehouse of the island country, Golden Harvest is the best.

Princess Jin is also okay, but she was also beaten by Jiahe in the island country.

Later, Disun Entertainment didn't mention it.

As for rushing to Hollywood and Europe, Golden Harvest is the only one left, whether it is Chow Wenhuai repeatedly investing in Cheng Long to support his development in Hollywood, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the Hollywood company in the late 80s.

They are all international vision and boldness that ordinary film tycoons do not possess.

And Golden Harvest was able to cast a golden body in the island country, relying on Bruce Lee and Cheng Long.

After the era of Bruce Lee, there was only one Cheng Long left, and he became famous on Mondays in the 90s, even after 20 years, this term is also familiar to countless movie fans in the mainland.

But in fact, Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingxing can catch up with Cheng Long in Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, Xingmatai and other places. In Island Country, Hollywood and other places, Fortnight is actually a step or two behind Cheng Long.

To give a simple example, why did the five lucky stars of this year's summer vacation have to pull Cheng Long, who seemed to be Cheng Long as a cameo, but still smashed a large row of more than [-] cars? Money is much more expensive than the main line of the Five Lucky Stars' counterfeit banknote group.

Because when the crew was preparing, Hong Yubao and others felt that without Cheng Long, they would not be able to sell in the island country.

Only by bringing in Cheng Long as a cameo can he make money in the island country.

Exaggerated?No... The box office of the Five Lucky Stars is 15 billion yen, the box office of the lucky stars is 13 billion yen, and the summer lucky stars are 5 billion yen. Cheng Long and Yuan Biao are guest stars in the first three films.

The fourth part is Best Lucky Star, which is produced by Golden Harvest. The best lucky star has a box office of 2310 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong Island. It is definitely not bad. Meta mark.

So even if the best lucky star sells well in the local area, can you believe that it has not been shown in large-scale theaters in the island country? ?Without Cheng Long and Yuan Biao, many big theaters will not show you.

This is still a big series, the first three are all sold well in the island country, and the fourth one should not be too bad no matter how you think about it, but you can’t get into the theaters.

No matter how popular Hong Lingbao is in Hong Kong Island in this era, what status he has established with the five lucky stars, leaving Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, Xingmatai and other places, and arriving in the island country, he is all the way.

In the 80s, Hong Kong Island singer Tan Zhang competed for hegemony, and Alan Tam's status in the music scene was at the height of the sky, but when he went to the island country to release a song, the waves would not splash, but Cheng Long?Many people may not believe it.

Cheng Long released several albums and held concerts in the island country in the 80s.

It's still hot!
Numerous Hong Kong island musicians cover island songs, Cheng Long is the biggest lyricist and composer there to write songs for him, and top singers sing singles with him.

Tan Yonglin has repeatedly fought and failed in the island country's music scene. In 86, he cooperated with Cheng Long. The principal released the soundtrack album of the movie. Obviously he sang it alone, and Cheng Long's portrait accounted for half of the album cover.

Then the album sold well, and President Tan took advantage of the trend to become popular in the island music scene.

In the 90s, there were many male singers in the Hong Kong music scene, and their reputation and status in the island country's music scene were far inferior to Cheng Long, an action superstar who went to play as a guest.

He is good at singing and dancing over there, which means he is literally all-round in singing, dancing and acting.

Such as Dragon's Heart, Police Story, etc., all have extended versions in the island country, and the dragon brother and the tiger brother were first released in the island country for half a year before being released in Hong Kong Island.

Among the box office rankings of Hong Kong films in the 90s in Taiwan, more than 30 of the top [-] films were starring or guest-starred by Cheng Long.

Cheng Long's blockbuster films on Hong Kong Island, such as Fist Master, Dragon Fist, and Snake-Crane Babu, can firmly occupy the box office of Chinese-language films in the island country.

The blockbuster films of Afa, Xingzai, Andy Lau and others on Hong Kong Island rarely compare with the box office data of films like Shangquan Jing in island countries.

Just talking about the Asian island market, Cheng Long is a bug among Hong Kong male stars after the era of Bruce Lee!

Golden Harvest has seized this car, and often sells movies in island countries, just package them, and the distribution company there wants to distribute Chenglong's movies, so you have to package one or two other Hong Kong movies.

So in Golden Harvest, Cheng Long is the biggest signboard, and his treatment status is far inferior to that of Hong Lingbao, let alone the money.

Hong Lingbao will leave Golden Harvest in a year or two...not to mention leaving completely, Hong Lingbao has started several companies, this company helps Golden Harvest to make films, and that company helps Debao Cinemas established by Pan Disheng to make films.

But as the filming continued, there were fewer and fewer films in which Cheng Long participated in the co-starring role of Lao Hong, and Hong Jinbao fell all the way, gradually becoming unnamed and a little bit. There is a big reason for Lao Hong himself.

Ke Chenglong's influence is also very important.

When Zhao Donghuai recalled this, he knew that he admired Zou Wenhuai's international vision and ambition, but if he cooperated with Golden Harvest in the future, he would definitely be abandoned by Golden Harvest in case of conflict.

This is selectable with your toes.

It's not that he and Cheng Long have any personal conflicts, but conflicts such as movie release schedules, publicity, investment and so on.

If there is any conflict in producing and selling the film, Golden Harvest will only support Cheng Long with the greatest strength and will not care about him.

Hong Lingbao, who followed Golden Harvest in the 70s and has been practicing the Five Lucky Star series since the trough period, all because of the big difference in treatment from Cheng Long, went to play with Pan Disheng in a year or two, or they had both sides.

What else do you need to say?

As a colleague and competitor, he admired Zou Wenhuai, after all, he was not a time traveler.

If you want to join Golden Harvest or become the other party's satellite subsidiary, then you don't want it.

But if the film he produced wants to go out of Hong Kong Island and cooperate with Golden Harvest, he is quite happy.

After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai said with a smile, "Thank you Zou Sheng and He Sheng for being considerate. If we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, I really hope that you can help me more."

The cooperation he mentioned must have a different purpose and nature from He Guanchang's.

He Guanchang just couldn't guess so much, he laughed out loud when he heard this, "Okay, I hope there will be such a day!"

This time he came here just as usual, to say hello and make a good impression. He never thought that he could directly poach someone, and he was already satisfied with such superficial politeness.

After all, in April 1985, Daheng Shao's Hong Kong Island theaters began to be rented and sold to Dickson Poon, which meant that the tycoon stopped playing... Focus on TV stations, now October 4, not too far away.

Shao Daheng, who has worked in the film industry for most of his life, is more than 70 years old, do you think he is willing to do this?Or have you never had a similar idea before, and decided to sell it after more than a year?

Of course not, this is the last resort and helpless move of the Shaw Brothers, which is hard to get back and collapses a little bit, unable to resist.

Years of disadvantages have gradually collapsed, and Golden Harvest has naturally been seen by some people, who cannot accurately judge and cannot be sure when Shaw Brothers will end, but the general trend can be seen clearly.

As for the golden princess?As Guan Chang said, internal and external difficulties.

Internally, it’s because of the unequal distribution of money among the big bosses in New Art City, or some people’s hearts are no longer interested in movies. Externally, it’s distribution and sales of films in other places, and their ability is far inferior to that of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest.

The fire was cooking oil, and due to the combination of internal and external factors, Jiahe did not regard Princess Jin as an enemy too much.The ingenious plan and the five lucky stars were indeed prepared by Hong Lingbao in order to be the best partner in New Art City.

But what Guanchang said, with Cheng Long's ability to sell horror films, Hong Kong Island lost one or two chips, including many other places, especially the island country's box office market, New Arts City is not enough.

(End of this chapter)