Hundreds of celebrities participated in the disaster relief movie "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family", which is undoubtedly a prosperous era in the Hong Kong film industry.There were three other major events that happened at the same time.
First, the Anle Cinema, which Jiang family has operated for 30 years, officially joined the Oriental Cinema of Kang Jianfei; second, Pan Disheng sold Debao Cinema to real estate developer Roger Cheng and renamed it Yonggao Cinema; third, Huang Baiming broke up with Princess Jin Cinema, and instead cooperated with Roger Cheng, and Wanxiang Film was renamed Yonggao Film Company.
For Hong Kong filmmakers, Roger Cheng is completely a newcomer. Just like Pan Disheng, he suddenly made a big move and entered the film industry.
This guy used to be an industrial company and opened factories in the mainland. In recent years, he has made a lot of money by investing in the real estate industry.
Seeing that Hong Kong films were booming, Pan Disheng was selling Debao Cinema again. Roger Cheng, who was not short of money, waved his check and bought Debao Cinema.
However, it is not Ah if there is a theater chain alone without a film source. Today's Hong Kong film industry is no longer the era when theater chains were king 10 years ago.
Due to too many theaters, Hong Kong cinemas with the size of a palm are flooding, and there are only so many movies produced every year, so now theaters are rushing to buy good movies, and independent film companies and top-notch directors have become the targets for theater managers.
So Roger Cheng found his friend Huang Baiming, which happened to be unhappy with Princess Jin, so Yonggao Film Company and Yonggao Cinema.
The disaster relief movie "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family", several other major theaters symbolically took out several screenings, because the share was too low, only Yonggao Cinema was the most active, and the filming of "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family" was the opening film.
Today, the Hong Kong cinema structure is that Oriental Cinema has the largest scale, with 26 cinemas and 82 screening halls; Jiahe Cinema is second, with 21 cinemas and 66 screening halls; Xinbao Cinema is third, with 16 cinemas and 52 screening halls; Yonggao Cinema is fourth, with 15 cinemas and 50 screening halls; Jin Princess Cinema has been shrinking, and now there are only 11 cinemas and 32 screening halls.
In addition to these five large theaters, the left-wing Yindu theater chain and the newly restored Shaw Brothers theater chain do not have more than 10 theaters.
Including those scattered small cinemas in Hong Kong, the number of cinemas has exceeded 160, and the density is so high that it is simply explosive.
The old man used to have theaters, but now they all become grandsons. The boss of the film company who can make good movies is the ancestor.
Of course, Kang Jianfei and Zou Wenhuai will always be old men because they have their own company to provide a rich source of films, and there will be no embarrassing situation of having no films to play.
The real tragedy is Xinbao, Princess Jin, Yonggao and other theaters. Although they also invest in and support film companies, the production volume of those film companies is far from meeting the demand.
This situation has caused these theater companies to reduce the quality requirements for the release of films. When the source of the film is very short, all the nonsense movies made by Amao and Agu can be screened, and there is no deposit or guaranteed base fee.
This has further stimulated many film company bosses and directors. Anyway, they don’t have to worry about the fact that the movie cannot be released. They often complete a movie in one or two weeks, and continue to make shoddy movies after making money after the screening.
There are still many knowledgeable people in the Hong Kong film industry, and they have called for reducing the number of cinemas and improving the overall level of Hong Kong films.
But no one wants to listen to this kind of call. Instead, more and more people are profitable and join the ranks of building cinemas and shooting bad movies.
In another time and space, this trend continued until 1993, when the number of cinemas in Hong Kong peaked.
This situation makes the Hong Kong film market look more prosperous, and even second-tier actors have continuous film contracts and cannot start work, which has led to a rocket-like increase in actor pay.
The increase in actor pay has led to an increase in the cost of films. In order to pass on the cost, producers are more shoddy in production; the other is to continuously increase the cost of film purchases in overseas markets.
This behavior of Hong Kong filmmakers offended two types of people. One is the audience who watch movies. After all, no one is willing to spend money to watch bad movies in the theater; the other is the offending overseas filmmakers, and the high cost of purchasing films makes it difficult for filmmakers to make money.
When Taiwanese filmmakers united to boycott Hong Kong films, demanding that they control costs and lower actor pay ineffectively, Hong Kong films began to have a tragedy.
For big directors like Kang Jianfei, or big stars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat, there is no problem with the movie being sold in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
But for most small film companies, Taiwan is the largest overseas market.
When Taiwanese film companies began to boycott Hong Kong films, countless film companies instantly lost their way out, almost losing one film, because the local box office in Hong Kong could not afford the high production costs, and countless Hong Kong film companies that went bankrupt in those two years.
The chain reaction caused by this is terrifying. As small and medium-sized film companies go bankrupt one after another, a large number of cinemas in Hong Kong have no films to play, and they have to close their businesses.
As a result, in just one year, the 190 cinemas in Hong Kong have dropped sharply to only 106.
Hong Kong films will decline from now on!
This is another time and space event in 1994.
Afterwards, I can't figure out who was wrong, because at that time the entire Hong Kong film industry was caught in a vicious circle: Hong Kong films made money by selling money, so a large amount of hot money poured into the film industry, causing a crazy increase in the number of movies, and the number of cinemas also increased, which led to an increase in demand for film sources, and a large number of bad movies were born, and the skyrocketing actors' pay caused the cost of film production to remain high, overseas film purchases increased year by year, in the end, overseas film companies were unable to buy films, a large number of film companies lost the overseas market. The production volume of Hong Kong films dropped sharply by nearly half. Cinemas closed down and closed, and the funds for film practitioners dropped sharply, Hong Kong films fell sharply.
During this entire process, investors, producers, directors, actors, local theater merchants, and overseas film merchants are just seeking profit. Who doesn’t want to make money?
But it is the combined profit-seeking behavior of everyone that leads to the collapse of the prosperous Hong Kong film market.
The simplest and rough solution is to force the pay of Hong Kong actors not to rise, because when Hong Kong films develop into abnormalities, most of the cost of a movie is the pay of actors. You can imagine how outrageous the artificiality is.
Jackie Chan received a pay of 10 million a few years ago, and now his minimum pay for each movie is 8 million; Stephen Chow and Tony Leung also have about 8 million; Chow Yun-fat, Xu Guanwen, and Jet Li have more than 5 million; Leslie Cheung and Sammo Hung are 4 million, and Andy Lau and Tony Leung are 2 million...
Just two or three years ago, a movie invested 50 million yuan and was a super big production, but now a single actor's pay is several million yuan.
This cannot be blamed for the director for being shoddy and not convinced stars to reduce their pay by themselves. They can only reduce costs by sacrificing the quality of the film.
The most terrifying thing is that the pay of Hong Kong actors is still rising. If this trend continues, the pay of Stephen Chow and Tony Leung may exceed the 10 million mark next year.
In a rental conference room at Peninsula Hotel, the Hong Kong director attending the meeting was discussing the issue of actor pay.
Wu Siyuan said: Many directors are complaining now that the actors’ pay is unbearable.A few years ago, I made a small cost and could only take care of 5 million. Now, 5 million is not enough to pay all actors in a row.
Sammo Hung said: What's the solution?Now that the Hong Kong film market is getting more and more popular, we can’t just ask producers and cinemas to make money. The actors are watching, right?
Huang Baiming said: The problem is that the pay has increased too much. In the past, a movie was made by making a profit by relying on the box office of the local city. Now it has to make money from overseas box office.
At this moment, the Hong Kong Directors Association was held, and all the directors were present.
Jackie Chan sat next to him without saying a word. His identity was very awkward. He was both a film director and the highest paid actor in Hong Kong. He said that he was not a human being inside and outside.
Tsui Hark responded: It is impossible to suppress the actor’s pay, and whoever speaks will offend others.
John Woo said: This matter is meaningless to discuss. The Hong Kong film market is enough to ensure the profitability of the film, which is enough.
Zhang Tongzu questioned: What if one day loses the overseas market?
There was a conflict between Gao Zhisen and Zhang Tongzu, and he sneered: How is that possible?
Zhang Tongzu was too lazy to talk to Gao Zhisen for more, and snorted coldly: Short-sighted!
Zhang Jianting said: The focus of our discussion today is not the issue of actor pay.
Cen Jianxun smiled and said: Yes, today I invite you to come, mainly to talk about raising funds for the directors’ association to build a building.
Lin Lingdong Road: The story has been created by Tsui Hark, Zhang Tongzu and Huang Bingyao. It is a script tailor-made for Jackie Chan, directed by Tsui Hark and I.
Teddy Robin said: The heroine has not been confirmed yet, but the other actors are guest appearances by the directors here.Let’s distribute the script to everyone and discuss choosing their own roles.
Zhang Aijia smiled and said: Why don’t we female directors take over the heroine’s scene?
Zhang Wanting and Ann Hui waved their hands repeatedly, they were not good at acting.
Everyone finished reading the script with jokes. Wu Siyuan asked Kang Jianfei, who hadn't spoken much: Mr. Kang, which character are you interested in?
Kang Jianfei flipped the script and said: I'll play the hotel manager.
Kang Jianfei is now the leading director in Hong Kong, and there is nothing to grab for such cameo appearances.
Wu Siyuan saw that no one here objected and said: Then that's it, Mr. Kang played the hotel manager.
Chen You raised his hand and joked: Then I will play Mr. Kang's subordinate and a hotel staff member.
Liu Jialiang said: I am a doctor who can play Kung Fu, and this is what I said when I wrote the script.
Wang Jing said: I play the role of a master of Qigong.
Both Liu Jialiang and Wang Jing are involved in script creation, and these two characters are tailor-made for themselves.
The directors quickly divided the roles. Kang Jianfei's hotel manager had no more and no less scenes in one role, and there were about four or five scenes, with only a few lines.
There is only one scene for Tsui Hark, Lin Lingdong, and Cen Jianxun. Three people sit together to play poker, just make fun of it.
Kang Jianfei is very busy these days and is about to go to Brunei Island to design the shooting base of "Jurassic Park" with Cameron, and then comes back to attend the Miss Oriental beauty pageant finals, and next he will be the producer of "Grave Robbers 2".
Moreover, Guan Zhilin and Li Yàn Shan are about to give birth, and he still has to spend a lot of time with him. It is not enough to break it into two.
First, the Anle Cinema, which Jiang family has operated for 30 years, officially joined the Oriental Cinema of Kang Jianfei; second, Pan Disheng sold Debao Cinema to real estate developer Roger Cheng and renamed it Yonggao Cinema; third, Huang Baiming broke up with Princess Jin Cinema, and instead cooperated with Roger Cheng, and Wanxiang Film was renamed Yonggao Film Company.
For Hong Kong filmmakers, Roger Cheng is completely a newcomer. Just like Pan Disheng, he suddenly made a big move and entered the film industry.
This guy used to be an industrial company and opened factories in the mainland. In recent years, he has made a lot of money by investing in the real estate industry.
Seeing that Hong Kong films were booming, Pan Disheng was selling Debao Cinema again. Roger Cheng, who was not short of money, waved his check and bought Debao Cinema.
However, it is not Ah if there is a theater chain alone without a film source. Today's Hong Kong film industry is no longer the era when theater chains were king 10 years ago.
Due to too many theaters, Hong Kong cinemas with the size of a palm are flooding, and there are only so many movies produced every year, so now theaters are rushing to buy good movies, and independent film companies and top-notch directors have become the targets for theater managers.
So Roger Cheng found his friend Huang Baiming, which happened to be unhappy with Princess Jin, so Yonggao Film Company and Yonggao Cinema.
The disaster relief movie "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family", several other major theaters symbolically took out several screenings, because the share was too low, only Yonggao Cinema was the most active, and the filming of "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family" was the opening film.
Today, the Hong Kong cinema structure is that Oriental Cinema has the largest scale, with 26 cinemas and 82 screening halls; Jiahe Cinema is second, with 21 cinemas and 66 screening halls; Xinbao Cinema is third, with 16 cinemas and 52 screening halls; Yonggao Cinema is fourth, with 15 cinemas and 50 screening halls; Jin Princess Cinema has been shrinking, and now there are only 11 cinemas and 32 screening halls.
In addition to these five large theaters, the left-wing Yindu theater chain and the newly restored Shaw Brothers theater chain do not have more than 10 theaters.
Including those scattered small cinemas in Hong Kong, the number of cinemas has exceeded 160, and the density is so high that it is simply explosive.
The old man used to have theaters, but now they all become grandsons. The boss of the film company who can make good movies is the ancestor.
Of course, Kang Jianfei and Zou Wenhuai will always be old men because they have their own company to provide a rich source of films, and there will be no embarrassing situation of having no films to play.
The real tragedy is Xinbao, Princess Jin, Yonggao and other theaters. Although they also invest in and support film companies, the production volume of those film companies is far from meeting the demand.
This situation has caused these theater companies to reduce the quality requirements for the release of films. When the source of the film is very short, all the nonsense movies made by Amao and Agu can be screened, and there is no deposit or guaranteed base fee.
This has further stimulated many film company bosses and directors. Anyway, they don’t have to worry about the fact that the movie cannot be released. They often complete a movie in one or two weeks, and continue to make shoddy movies after making money after the screening.
There are still many knowledgeable people in the Hong Kong film industry, and they have called for reducing the number of cinemas and improving the overall level of Hong Kong films.
But no one wants to listen to this kind of call. Instead, more and more people are profitable and join the ranks of building cinemas and shooting bad movies.
In another time and space, this trend continued until 1993, when the number of cinemas in Hong Kong peaked.
This situation makes the Hong Kong film market look more prosperous, and even second-tier actors have continuous film contracts and cannot start work, which has led to a rocket-like increase in actor pay.
The increase in actor pay has led to an increase in the cost of films. In order to pass on the cost, producers are more shoddy in production; the other is to continuously increase the cost of film purchases in overseas markets.
This behavior of Hong Kong filmmakers offended two types of people. One is the audience who watch movies. After all, no one is willing to spend money to watch bad movies in the theater; the other is the offending overseas filmmakers, and the high cost of purchasing films makes it difficult for filmmakers to make money.
When Taiwanese filmmakers united to boycott Hong Kong films, demanding that they control costs and lower actor pay ineffectively, Hong Kong films began to have a tragedy.
For big directors like Kang Jianfei, or big stars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat, there is no problem with the movie being sold in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.
But for most small film companies, Taiwan is the largest overseas market.
When Taiwanese film companies began to boycott Hong Kong films, countless film companies instantly lost their way out, almost losing one film, because the local box office in Hong Kong could not afford the high production costs, and countless Hong Kong film companies that went bankrupt in those two years.
The chain reaction caused by this is terrifying. As small and medium-sized film companies go bankrupt one after another, a large number of cinemas in Hong Kong have no films to play, and they have to close their businesses.
As a result, in just one year, the 190 cinemas in Hong Kong have dropped sharply to only 106.
Hong Kong films will decline from now on!
This is another time and space event in 1994.
Afterwards, I can't figure out who was wrong, because at that time the entire Hong Kong film industry was caught in a vicious circle: Hong Kong films made money by selling money, so a large amount of hot money poured into the film industry, causing a crazy increase in the number of movies, and the number of cinemas also increased, which led to an increase in demand for film sources, and a large number of bad movies were born, and the skyrocketing actors' pay caused the cost of film production to remain high, overseas film purchases increased year by year, in the end, overseas film companies were unable to buy films, a large number of film companies lost the overseas market. The production volume of Hong Kong films dropped sharply by nearly half. Cinemas closed down and closed, and the funds for film practitioners dropped sharply, Hong Kong films fell sharply.
During this entire process, investors, producers, directors, actors, local theater merchants, and overseas film merchants are just seeking profit. Who doesn’t want to make money?
But it is the combined profit-seeking behavior of everyone that leads to the collapse of the prosperous Hong Kong film market.
The simplest and rough solution is to force the pay of Hong Kong actors not to rise, because when Hong Kong films develop into abnormalities, most of the cost of a movie is the pay of actors. You can imagine how outrageous the artificiality is.
Jackie Chan received a pay of 10 million a few years ago, and now his minimum pay for each movie is 8 million; Stephen Chow and Tony Leung also have about 8 million; Chow Yun-fat, Xu Guanwen, and Jet Li have more than 5 million; Leslie Cheung and Sammo Hung are 4 million, and Andy Lau and Tony Leung are 2 million...
Just two or three years ago, a movie invested 50 million yuan and was a super big production, but now a single actor's pay is several million yuan.
This cannot be blamed for the director for being shoddy and not convinced stars to reduce their pay by themselves. They can only reduce costs by sacrificing the quality of the film.
The most terrifying thing is that the pay of Hong Kong actors is still rising. If this trend continues, the pay of Stephen Chow and Tony Leung may exceed the 10 million mark next year.
In a rental conference room at Peninsula Hotel, the Hong Kong director attending the meeting was discussing the issue of actor pay.
Wu Siyuan said: Many directors are complaining now that the actors’ pay is unbearable.A few years ago, I made a small cost and could only take care of 5 million. Now, 5 million is not enough to pay all actors in a row.
Sammo Hung said: What's the solution?Now that the Hong Kong film market is getting more and more popular, we can’t just ask producers and cinemas to make money. The actors are watching, right?
Huang Baiming said: The problem is that the pay has increased too much. In the past, a movie was made by making a profit by relying on the box office of the local city. Now it has to make money from overseas box office.
At this moment, the Hong Kong Directors Association was held, and all the directors were present.
Jackie Chan sat next to him without saying a word. His identity was very awkward. He was both a film director and the highest paid actor in Hong Kong. He said that he was not a human being inside and outside.
Tsui Hark responded: It is impossible to suppress the actor’s pay, and whoever speaks will offend others.
John Woo said: This matter is meaningless to discuss. The Hong Kong film market is enough to ensure the profitability of the film, which is enough.
Zhang Tongzu questioned: What if one day loses the overseas market?
There was a conflict between Gao Zhisen and Zhang Tongzu, and he sneered: How is that possible?
Zhang Tongzu was too lazy to talk to Gao Zhisen for more, and snorted coldly: Short-sighted!
Zhang Jianting said: The focus of our discussion today is not the issue of actor pay.
Cen Jianxun smiled and said: Yes, today I invite you to come, mainly to talk about raising funds for the directors’ association to build a building.
Lin Lingdong Road: The story has been created by Tsui Hark, Zhang Tongzu and Huang Bingyao. It is a script tailor-made for Jackie Chan, directed by Tsui Hark and I.
Teddy Robin said: The heroine has not been confirmed yet, but the other actors are guest appearances by the directors here.Let’s distribute the script to everyone and discuss choosing their own roles.
Zhang Aijia smiled and said: Why don’t we female directors take over the heroine’s scene?
Zhang Wanting and Ann Hui waved their hands repeatedly, they were not good at acting.
Everyone finished reading the script with jokes. Wu Siyuan asked Kang Jianfei, who hadn't spoken much: Mr. Kang, which character are you interested in?
Kang Jianfei flipped the script and said: I'll play the hotel manager.
Kang Jianfei is now the leading director in Hong Kong, and there is nothing to grab for such cameo appearances.
Wu Siyuan saw that no one here objected and said: Then that's it, Mr. Kang played the hotel manager.
Chen You raised his hand and joked: Then I will play Mr. Kang's subordinate and a hotel staff member.
Liu Jialiang said: I am a doctor who can play Kung Fu, and this is what I said when I wrote the script.
Wang Jing said: I play the role of a master of Qigong.
Both Liu Jialiang and Wang Jing are involved in script creation, and these two characters are tailor-made for themselves.
The directors quickly divided the roles. Kang Jianfei's hotel manager had no more and no less scenes in one role, and there were about four or five scenes, with only a few lines.
There is only one scene for Tsui Hark, Lin Lingdong, and Cen Jianxun. Three people sit together to play poker, just make fun of it.
Kang Jianfei is very busy these days and is about to go to Brunei Island to design the shooting base of "Jurassic Park" with Cameron, and then comes back to attend the Miss Oriental beauty pageant finals, and next he will be the producer of "Grave Robbers 2".
Moreover, Guan Zhilin and Li Yàn Shan are about to give birth, and he still has to spend a lot of time with him. It is not enough to break it into two.
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