"The curse of identity is finally fulfilled, and Ye Yuqing misses out on the title of Sister Dong!"

On the second day of the Miss Oriental finals, most of the headlines in the entertainment pages of Hong Kong newspapers were about the beauty pageant finals, and the main body of the reports was not the champion, but Ye Yuqing, the runner-up and most photogenic Miss Oriental this year. 【First Release】

At this time, Kang Jianfei was holding a piece of "Oriental Daily", and the headline of the entertainment page published a photo of the champion's coronation. After the filming of "The Gambling Saint", the last East Sister champion Lizhi continued to study in the United States. This time, she made a special trip back from there to present the award to this champion.

In the photo, Pan Xianyi, the winner of this year's East Sister, bowed her head slightly and asked Lizhi to put on her the crown of the beauty queen with a smile on her face. Not far behind Pan Xianyi, Ye Yuqing was smiling and applauding, but her smile was clearly bitter.

"This photo is well taken. The old horse has some talents." Kang Jianfei laughed, pointing to the photo in the newspaper.

Ye Zhiming sighed: "Ah Qing, what did you say when you signed up for the competition? It doesn't matter if you can get a place or not. Why is it worse than crying when you don't win the championship?"

Ye Yuqing sat next to the two of them, madly hitting Ye Zhiming's shoulder with a pink fist: "Brother! People are embarrassed now, even you are making fun of me! It's not because you are the general manager of Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company, those The judges dared not let me win the beauty pageant."

In order to avoid suspicion, the judges deliberately lowered Ye Yuqing's score in the competition, and finally let her pass the crown of the beauty queen - this is a common saying in most newspapers.

From Kang Jianfei's point of view, in addition to being proud of her breasts, Ye Yuqing is indeed inferior to Pan Xianyi in appearance, and there is no such thing as being deliberately suppressed.

Of course, everyone's aesthetic orientation is different. Ye Yuqing's beauty is more Western, tough and sexy, while the beauty of champion Pan Xianyi belongs to the East, and her charming and pleasant appearance is somewhat of Zhao Yazhi's taste.

But no matter who is more beautiful, the topic is heated up after all. Although it is the mainstream who complains about Ye Yuqing now, there are also many fans of champion Pan Xianyi. The two groups of people quarreled, and the media joined in the fun for sales, and the hype news that Phoenix Channel paid for someone to write. Pan Xianyi and Ye Yuqing will definitely be hot topics in the next month or two.

What DreamWorks and Phoenix want to do is to create TV series and TV programs for the two before the news topic expires, so as to stabilize this temporary fame.

"Is it ready in Venice?" Kang Jianfei didn't mention Miss Dongfang's beauty pageant.

Ye Zhiming said: "The arrangement is almost complete. More than 30 film distributors around the world have agreed to participate in the Venice premiere of "Shushan". But whether it can be successful or not depends on whether "Shushan" can be recognized by Western audiences, otherwise Those publishers won't buy it."

"I know this, let's talk about it after the premiere." Kang Jianfei is really not sure whether "Shushan" will be liked by European and American audiences.

At present, this "Shushan", which has invested more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars and was carefully crafted by Xu Ke for more than a year, is completely different from the one in the original time and space.

The novel "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" by the owner of Huanzhu. There is a feeling of Qingming Mountains and Rivers, each character is full and eloquent, and gradually outlines the complete world of swordsmen.

But this kind of rhythm cannot be used to make movies. When making commercial movies, remember that the protagonist is not prominent, and personal heroism is the king of commercial movies. The fact that the "Spider-Man" series is far higher than the "X-Men" series is the best proof.

Under the supervision of Kang Jianfei, Xu Ke and DreamWorks screenwriters collectively created "Shushan", which is a Hollywood commercial film model through and through, focusing on Li Yingqiong played by Li Saifeng and Yu Yingnan played by He Jiajin. After that, several important supporting roles were added, including the second female lead played by Zhao Yazhi, who worked hard to help the male and female protagonists overcome difficulties and dangers, which made the scene grand and full of plots. This is what "The Lord of the Rings" does. The "Shushan" invested by Kang Jianfei is the narrative rhythm of "The Lord of the Rings".

There is personal heroism, there are many small partners working together, and there is good love, friendship and enmity, this is all the elements of "Shushan". The original time and space Xu Ke's "Shushan" failed miserably at the box office, except that the rhythm was so fast that the audience couldn't keep up. In addition, the emotions in it are too pale and cold, lacking a bit of earthly popularity, and giving the audience a poor sense of substitution. This is also what Kang Jianfei asked to focus on correcting.

In the end, Xu Ke filmed this "Shushan". In fact, it is a fantasy movie with a Hollywood framework and oriental thinking.

What Kang Jianfei can be sure of is that audiences in the East Asian Confucian cultural circle will definitely like this movie, but there is no guarantee that Western audiences will understand it. This cultural gap is really a bit big.

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Entering September, students in Hong Kong began to return to school one after another, and this year's film summer program also came to an end.

In the summer of 1985, "Once Upon a Time in the Sky" topped the Hong Kong summer movie box office with 36.81 million Hong Kong dollars; the second was Cheng Long's "Police Story" with 25.77 million in Hong Kong; Hong Jinbao, "Summer Lucky Star" starring Cheng Long was hit the hardest by "Once Upon a Time". In the original time and space, this film had a box office of nearly 29 million, and now it has been run down to only 23.59 million, and it suddenly took the third place in the summer season. .

It has to be said that Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long are the box office guarantees. In the top three of the box office charts this summer, Jiahe's films occupied two seats.

However, only in terms of box office data, DreamWorks actually made more money, because the fourth-ranked "Gambler" had a box office of 22.98 million, and "Once Upon a Time" had a box office of more than 36 million, far more than "Summer Fortune" and "Summer Fortune". The sum total of Police Stories.

It is worth mentioning that "Happy Adventure", with a box office of 20.83 million Hong Kong dollars, is also the second film of Debao Films with a box office of 20 million, which is extremely dazzling among the independent film companies.

The most important thing is that Debao Films has reached a cooperative relationship with Xinbao Cinemas.

Debao Film Company originally cooperated with the Golden Harvest Cinemas, but now it has gone to the new film release, which has essentially formed a competitive relationship with Golden Harvest. In addition, Hong Jinbao ran out to film "Rich Train" with Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca, which made Zou Wenhuai vomit blood, but Zou Wenhuai had to swallow the bad breath forcibly. They called Zeng Zhiwei and Mecca to discuss.

No one knows what they talked about, but the result of the conversation is very clear: Hong Jinbao withdrew his shares from Debao Film Company, and Jiahe acquiesced to Hong Jinbao to finish the filming of "Rich Train", but Jiahe must also participate in an investment and obtain The distribution right of "Rich Train", of course, this distribution right is not exclusive. At the same time, in the next film between Hong Jinbao and Jiahe, Jiahe will increase the box office share of Baohe Film Company.

And Pan Disheng's Debao also made a big move. Pan Gongzi paid for the shares that Hong Jinbao gave up, and sold these shares to Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong. At the same time, Pan Disheng, whose ambition was ignited by the hot sale of "Happy Adventure", also spent 50 million yuan to build and acquire a theater, and joined the Xinbao Cinema Line founded by Chen and Feng.

This means that Debao Films and Xinbao Cinemas have become strong allies. Several bosses have shares in each other's companies, and they are properly tied into a community of interests.

On the other hand, Xinyicheng began to decline several years earlier than the original time and space, and small-scale layoffs began before the summer vacation period ended. Affected by this, the Golden Princess Cinema announced that it would increase its box-office share to attract film sources from Hong Kong independent film companies, and launched a vicious competition with the betrayed Xinbao Cinema.

Ordinary movie fans may not notice anything, but feel that the number of movies released in major theaters has suddenly increased a lot in the next period of time. However, people in the Hong Kong film industry can always feel the surging tide, and the Hong Kong film industry is changing again this summer.

The initiator of all these changes is Kang Jianfei. Without him flapping his butterfly wings, there would be no early decline of Xinyi City, and Chen Rongmei's Xinbao Cinema would not have opened so fast.

In addition to Kang Jianfei, the most influential one is Cai Songlin's **** stirrer. Cai Songlin does not represent an individual, but all investors from Nanyang and Taiwan who want to squeeze into the Hong Kong film industry. Cai Songlin only made a small hole in the dam, but countless local tyrants in Nanyang and Taiwan used money to make a rapid current to rush out a big gap in the dam.

In September alone, there will be 7 Hong Kong films invested by Nanyang and Taiwanese companies started~lightnovelpub.net~ These films will be released in Xinbao and Jin Princess, and may even be released in the Oriental Cinema and Yindu Cinema. .

Stimulated by the market, the abundance of film sources has in turn promoted the development of cinemas, and some wealthy people in Hong Kong have begun to spend money to build cinemas. These theaters are all retail theaters, or they were attracted by Xinyi City, or formed a temporary theater chain with other retail investors. Anyway, they digested many movies that cannot be released by mainstream theaters.

By December 1985, the number of cinemas in Hong Kong had surged to 156, and it would not be long before they reached their peak of 180.

There are continuous layoffs at Xinyicheng, and Pan Disheng's Debao Film Company has begun to recruit people. Obviously, the popularity of "Happy Adventure" and the alliance with Xinbao Cinemas have greatly increased his confidence and prepared him quickly. Expand the scale and compete with Golden Harvest and DreamWorks for the film market.

Under such circumstances, the 2nd Miss Oriental final was still lingering, the champion Pan Xianyi and the runner-up Ye Yuqing were busy filming TV series, while Tang Shuxuan took Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and others on an expedition to Venice.

Whether "Shushan" can impress the white ghosts, we can only wait and see.