Compared with the glory achieved by Hong Kong films in 1992, 1993 showed signs of prosperity and decline from the beginning.
Until the summer season of the movie came, this decline became more and more obvious, and the box office of the movie in June was collectively sluggish.
The average ticket price in 1992 was HK$33 per ticket, and it had risen to 35.5 yuan in 1993, but the overall box office of the films that opened during the summer season fell by nearly one-third.
Even the box office of "The Crime Squad" starring Jackie Chan barely exceeded 10 million in the first week, and the box office fell sharply in the second week. Based on the box office trend, Jackie Chan's new film may have a box office of more than 20 million in the local area, which is basically back to the level ten years ago.
It’s not that “Serious Crime Team” is not good, but that it has been a bad movie for a long time, which has greatly dampened the audience’s enthusiasm for buying tickets to watch movies. Coupled with the popularity of home video recorders and the rampant piracy, even fewer audiences choose to enter the cinema.
Relatively speaking, the sales of movie video tapes have increased compared to before.
If we look at it from the perspective of God, the most frequent moviegoers in Hong Kong were in 1988, and the number of moviegoers remained at an extremely high value in the following years.
But in 1993, it suddenly dropped sharply, and the number of viewers dropped back to the 1983 data, which was a super dive.
For the vast majority of Hong Kong film production companies, Hong Kong and Taiwan are the main box office markets, and there are problems in these two places, and these companies will face a fatal blow.
At the end of June, the Hong Kong film industry was full of grief, especially many Taiwanese businessmen cut off their investments, and Hong Kong production companies that lack funds went bankrupt or cut production.
The decline in film sources and the decline in box office have triggered an extremely bad chain reaction. The cinema can't hold on anymore.
Due to the popularity of Hong Kong film box office last year, theater merchants invested heavily in the construction of cinemas at the beginning of this year. The total number of cinemas in Hong Kong has reached the highest in history, with nearly 200.
Hong Kong has a total population of more than 5 million, but it has nearly 200 cinemas. It is easy to imagine how dense it is and how fierce the competition is.
When the film market is in a downturn and the film source is in short supply, the small courtyard merchants who do not have stable film supply channels are the first to end. Many cinemas close their doors and close their businesses as soon as they are built.
If someone said that the Hong Kong films were facing a serious crisis a few months ago, they would definitely be scoffed and laughed at him for being worried.
But in the summer season, filmmakers who have a little knowledge of it all know that there is something wrong with Hong Kong films, and it is a big problem related to their life and death.
In early July, the Hong Kong Film Practitioners Association, the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association, the Hong Kong Directors Association, the Hong Kong Screenwriters Association, and the Hong Kong Photographers Association jointly submitted a letter to the Hong Kong government, requiring the Hong Kong and British government to set up a film bureau to regulate the development of Hong Kong films through administrative interference.
The Hong Kong government said that I am very busy and I don’t have time to play house with you moviegoers.
What is the Hong Kong government doing?
The Governor of Hong Kong is seeking support when he is visiting the United States. He has come up with a political reform plan and wants to cheat the Chinese government before returning. Some so-called freelancers in Hong Kong have also made excuses, and now it is in a mess.
Kang Jianfei had long anticipated this situation. He regarded this as an opportunity for the Hong Kong film industry to reshuffle and a manifestation of self-regulation of the film market.
The most important thing now is to ensure the quality of movies produced by DreamWorks and not suppress costs because of the reduction in box office revenue, as it will die faster.
While ensuring the quality of the movie, you must have one or two films that are promising and have box office appeal to stimulate the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies.
"Face Change" filmed by John Woo in the United States is one of them. In addition, Kang Jianfei is also preparing to make a pure Hong Kong film, which will be released in the Christmas and Spring Festival respectively six months later.
The waves wash away the sand, and the rest of the end is gold.The more you are at this time, the more you need to gain the reputation of Oriental DreamWorks.
Xingzi, get in the car!Cadillac's car window rolled down, and Kang Jian waved towards Stephen Chow.
Stephen Chow ran a few steps, got in the car and asked: Boss, are you looking for me?
Kang Jianfei asked the driver to drive and asked Stephen Chow: Do you have a movie appointment in the second half of the year?
Already picked up one.Stephen Chow replied.
Kang Jianfei said very directly and rudely: Push it.
Stephen Chow said: Boss is the drama of Yongsheng Company and is difficult to promote.
I will explain to Xiang Huaqiang, Kang Jianfei took out a script and threw it to Stephen Chow, look at this.
"effort"?Stephen Chow's eyes lit up when he saw the name of the movie. He has been a die-hard fan of Bruce Lee since he was a child and has always wanted to make a real kung fu movie.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: It's not a pure kung fu movie, it's a kung fu comedy movie.
Stephen Chow did not read the script, but asked expectantly: Boss, you directed it yourself?
Kang Jianfei said: Yes, the Hong Kong film market is a bit sluggish now, and I hope this is a work that saves the market.
I will definitely act well.Stephen Chow quickly expressed his opinion that he was very eager to cooperate with Kang Jianfei again.
In this extremely low box office environment, Stephen Chow is the only one. His new summer film has a box office of 16 million in the first week, and it has become the dragon's "Serious Crime Squad".
The reason why Kang Jianfei chose Stephen Chow was because he was attracted by his box office appeal.
Kang Jianfei warned: Go back and study the script carefully. This film will start filming in September, and it is still very early.
Then will I still go to the Miss Oriental beauty pageant final?Stephen Chow asked, "He was the judge of this beauty pageant final."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: Go, why not?
The annual beauty pageant in Hong Kong kicks off again.
The Miss Hong Kong on TVB was earlier, and Mo Kexin finally stood out in the final and became the Miss Hong Kong champion this year.
However, except for the media who have a good relationship with TVB, other newspapers and magazines have sang hymns about this Miss Hong Kong event.
The Miss Hong Kong held the Miss Hong Kong in the past few years with extremely successful holdings, including popular Miss Hong Kong such as Farong Chan, Anita Yuen, and Ada Choi, especially Anita Yuen. Her development in the film and television industry can only be described as luck.
But since last year, there have been no more beautiful girls in Hong Kong, and this is the case again this year.
So much so that the Oriental Daily and One Weekly, which were slandering, were sarcastic and said that the beauty pageant of the Hong Kong Miss is a village girl competition.
Miss Oriental’s beauty pageant is just the opposite. Although the championship was inferior last year, this year due to the participation of the Indian beauty Aishwarya, the Miss Oriental beauty pageant has aroused strong attention and controversy since the semi-finals.
Aishwarya's amazing beauty has been praised and amazed by many Hong Kong media, but some media have also expressed their doubts: Should Indians be allowed to participate in the beauty pageant in Hong Kong?
The official answer from the Miss Oriental Beauty Organizing Committee is: As the name suggests, any woman in the East can register and participate. India also belongs to the East in the traditional sense, and Aishwarya fully meets the registration standards of Miss Oriental.
"One Weekly" naturally would not miss this opportunity to discredit Miss Oriental, and sarcastically said: Although there are no restrictions on the registration rules for the Miss Oriental beauty pageant, contestants must at least understand Cantonese, right?I wonder how good this Indian beautiful can speak?
Aishwarya's Cantonese level is not as good as a three-year-old child in Hong Kong. When she was interviewed by reporters, she replied in curry-flavored English: I like Hong Kong very much, I will study Hong Kong dialect hard, and I hope this city and people here can accept me.
Beauty is always tolerant. Aishwarya said that she likes Hong Kong and so on, which immediately attracted the attention of countless men in Hong Kong after being reported.
As for whether she speaks Cantonese, is that important?
In mid-July, the Miss Oriental beauty pageant final was held as scheduled, and the limelight of the beauties was blocked by Aishwarya.
However, there is another contestant who is very popular, that is Mai Jiaqi, who is only seventeen years old. She signed up as a middle school student and accumulated a lot of student fans after the preliminary round was broadcast.
Until the summer season of the movie came, this decline became more and more obvious, and the box office of the movie in June was collectively sluggish.
The average ticket price in 1992 was HK$33 per ticket, and it had risen to 35.5 yuan in 1993, but the overall box office of the films that opened during the summer season fell by nearly one-third.
Even the box office of "The Crime Squad" starring Jackie Chan barely exceeded 10 million in the first week, and the box office fell sharply in the second week. Based on the box office trend, Jackie Chan's new film may have a box office of more than 20 million in the local area, which is basically back to the level ten years ago.
It’s not that “Serious Crime Team” is not good, but that it has been a bad movie for a long time, which has greatly dampened the audience’s enthusiasm for buying tickets to watch movies. Coupled with the popularity of home video recorders and the rampant piracy, even fewer audiences choose to enter the cinema.
Relatively speaking, the sales of movie video tapes have increased compared to before.
If we look at it from the perspective of God, the most frequent moviegoers in Hong Kong were in 1988, and the number of moviegoers remained at an extremely high value in the following years.
But in 1993, it suddenly dropped sharply, and the number of viewers dropped back to the 1983 data, which was a super dive.
For the vast majority of Hong Kong film production companies, Hong Kong and Taiwan are the main box office markets, and there are problems in these two places, and these companies will face a fatal blow.
At the end of June, the Hong Kong film industry was full of grief, especially many Taiwanese businessmen cut off their investments, and Hong Kong production companies that lack funds went bankrupt or cut production.
The decline in film sources and the decline in box office have triggered an extremely bad chain reaction. The cinema can't hold on anymore.
Due to the popularity of Hong Kong film box office last year, theater merchants invested heavily in the construction of cinemas at the beginning of this year. The total number of cinemas in Hong Kong has reached the highest in history, with nearly 200.
Hong Kong has a total population of more than 5 million, but it has nearly 200 cinemas. It is easy to imagine how dense it is and how fierce the competition is.
When the film market is in a downturn and the film source is in short supply, the small courtyard merchants who do not have stable film supply channels are the first to end. Many cinemas close their doors and close their businesses as soon as they are built.
If someone said that the Hong Kong films were facing a serious crisis a few months ago, they would definitely be scoffed and laughed at him for being worried.
But in the summer season, filmmakers who have a little knowledge of it all know that there is something wrong with Hong Kong films, and it is a big problem related to their life and death.
In early July, the Hong Kong Film Practitioners Association, the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association, the Hong Kong Directors Association, the Hong Kong Screenwriters Association, and the Hong Kong Photographers Association jointly submitted a letter to the Hong Kong government, requiring the Hong Kong and British government to set up a film bureau to regulate the development of Hong Kong films through administrative interference.
The Hong Kong government said that I am very busy and I don’t have time to play house with you moviegoers.
What is the Hong Kong government doing?
The Governor of Hong Kong is seeking support when he is visiting the United States. He has come up with a political reform plan and wants to cheat the Chinese government before returning. Some so-called freelancers in Hong Kong have also made excuses, and now it is in a mess.
Kang Jianfei had long anticipated this situation. He regarded this as an opportunity for the Hong Kong film industry to reshuffle and a manifestation of self-regulation of the film market.
The most important thing now is to ensure the quality of movies produced by DreamWorks and not suppress costs because of the reduction in box office revenue, as it will die faster.
While ensuring the quality of the movie, you must have one or two films that are promising and have box office appeal to stimulate the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies.
"Face Change" filmed by John Woo in the United States is one of them. In addition, Kang Jianfei is also preparing to make a pure Hong Kong film, which will be released in the Christmas and Spring Festival respectively six months later.
The waves wash away the sand, and the rest of the end is gold.The more you are at this time, the more you need to gain the reputation of Oriental DreamWorks.
Xingzi, get in the car!Cadillac's car window rolled down, and Kang Jian waved towards Stephen Chow.
Stephen Chow ran a few steps, got in the car and asked: Boss, are you looking for me?
Kang Jianfei asked the driver to drive and asked Stephen Chow: Do you have a movie appointment in the second half of the year?
Already picked up one.Stephen Chow replied.
Kang Jianfei said very directly and rudely: Push it.
Stephen Chow said: Boss is the drama of Yongsheng Company and is difficult to promote.
I will explain to Xiang Huaqiang, Kang Jianfei took out a script and threw it to Stephen Chow, look at this.
"effort"?Stephen Chow's eyes lit up when he saw the name of the movie. He has been a die-hard fan of Bruce Lee since he was a child and has always wanted to make a real kung fu movie.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: It's not a pure kung fu movie, it's a kung fu comedy movie.
Stephen Chow did not read the script, but asked expectantly: Boss, you directed it yourself?
Kang Jianfei said: Yes, the Hong Kong film market is a bit sluggish now, and I hope this is a work that saves the market.
I will definitely act well.Stephen Chow quickly expressed his opinion that he was very eager to cooperate with Kang Jianfei again.
In this extremely low box office environment, Stephen Chow is the only one. His new summer film has a box office of 16 million in the first week, and it has become the dragon's "Serious Crime Squad".
The reason why Kang Jianfei chose Stephen Chow was because he was attracted by his box office appeal.
Kang Jianfei warned: Go back and study the script carefully. This film will start filming in September, and it is still very early.
Then will I still go to the Miss Oriental beauty pageant final?Stephen Chow asked, "He was the judge of this beauty pageant final."
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: Go, why not?
The annual beauty pageant in Hong Kong kicks off again.
The Miss Hong Kong on TVB was earlier, and Mo Kexin finally stood out in the final and became the Miss Hong Kong champion this year.
However, except for the media who have a good relationship with TVB, other newspapers and magazines have sang hymns about this Miss Hong Kong event.
The Miss Hong Kong held the Miss Hong Kong in the past few years with extremely successful holdings, including popular Miss Hong Kong such as Farong Chan, Anita Yuen, and Ada Choi, especially Anita Yuen. Her development in the film and television industry can only be described as luck.
But since last year, there have been no more beautiful girls in Hong Kong, and this is the case again this year.
So much so that the Oriental Daily and One Weekly, which were slandering, were sarcastic and said that the beauty pageant of the Hong Kong Miss is a village girl competition.
Miss Oriental’s beauty pageant is just the opposite. Although the championship was inferior last year, this year due to the participation of the Indian beauty Aishwarya, the Miss Oriental beauty pageant has aroused strong attention and controversy since the semi-finals.
Aishwarya's amazing beauty has been praised and amazed by many Hong Kong media, but some media have also expressed their doubts: Should Indians be allowed to participate in the beauty pageant in Hong Kong?
The official answer from the Miss Oriental Beauty Organizing Committee is: As the name suggests, any woman in the East can register and participate. India also belongs to the East in the traditional sense, and Aishwarya fully meets the registration standards of Miss Oriental.
"One Weekly" naturally would not miss this opportunity to discredit Miss Oriental, and sarcastically said: Although there are no restrictions on the registration rules for the Miss Oriental beauty pageant, contestants must at least understand Cantonese, right?I wonder how good this Indian beautiful can speak?
Aishwarya's Cantonese level is not as good as a three-year-old child in Hong Kong. When she was interviewed by reporters, she replied in curry-flavored English: I like Hong Kong very much, I will study Hong Kong dialect hard, and I hope this city and people here can accept me.
Beauty is always tolerant. Aishwarya said that she likes Hong Kong and so on, which immediately attracted the attention of countless men in Hong Kong after being reported.
As for whether she speaks Cantonese, is that important?
In mid-July, the Miss Oriental beauty pageant final was held as scheduled, and the limelight of the beauties was blocked by Aishwarya.
However, there is another contestant who is very popular, that is Mai Jiaqi, who is only seventeen years old. She signed up as a middle school student and accumulated a lot of student fans after the preliminary round was broadcast.
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