Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

"Young and Dangerous" is really popular, especially now when pirated discs are prevalent.

Not long after the movie was released in Hong Kong, pirated discs appeared and began to spread to various regions at a very fast speed.

In his previous life, Zhou Ziheng didn’t actually know much about how popular this drama was.

Now, he finally knew.

It is said that "Young and Dangerous" has corrupted children.

In fact it is.

In just over a month, some schools in Guangdong have begun to see the emergence of names such as the Hung Hing Gang and Chen Haonan from a certain school in Dongguan.

This is only the case when pirated copies are circulated in Guangdong. If we wait another year or two and wait for the CDs to be rolled out throughout the mainland, Zhou Ziheng can hardly imagine the impact it will have.

However, this actually has no effect on Zhou Ziheng himself.

The only thing that had some impact on him was that despite the huge sales of Young and Dangerous, the box office of The Dark Knight Rises still suffered a certain impact.

The period from late January to early February is traditionally the off-season for movies, and popular movies will not be released at this time for the sake of box office.

In previous years, one month before the Spring Festival, the highest box office of a movie in Hong Kong would not exceed 20 million.

This year, this situation was broken.

After the release of "Young and Dangerous", the box office exceeded 10 million in two weeks, and the total box office is expected to exceed 20 million.

It was originally a low season, but the huge sales of "Young and Dangerous" have more or less impacted movies in other theaters.

Although "The Trouble with Trouble 2" is a horror film, the subsequent box office plummeted because everyone went to watch "Young and Dangerous".

According to the company's statisticians' survey statistics, the final box office of "The Untold Story 2" may not go up after exceeding million.

The reason for this is not only due to the influence of "Young and Dangerous", but also due to the impact on the film scheduling.

On the 13th, "The Conjuring" will be released.

This drama is Hengyu's big drama this year. Even if "The Untold Story 2" still has box office potential, it has to give way to it in terms of screening schedule.

In fact, it’s not just “Twinkle and Dagger 2”, “Young and Dangerous” is the same.

Even though the box office potential of this movie has already been revealed, by the 10th of February, the screenings of this movie also began to decrease.

"Young and Dangerous" was invested by Golden Harvest, so the movie was released in Golden Harvest's cinema chain.

But it is obviously impossible for Golden Harvest to allocate all its screenings to "Young and Dangerous".

After all, on February 10th, Golden Harvest's flagship film of the year, "Police Story: Simple Task", will be released.

This is Jackie Chan's movie.

As the son of Golden Harvest, all the film schedules of Golden Harvest Cinemas have to give way to him.

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On February 10th, "Police Story: Simple Task" was released, which was the first to kick off the box office battle during this year's Spring Festival.

As the fourth film in Jackie Chan's Police Story series, the appeal of this movie can be imagined.

On the day of its release, the film grossed 2.7 million, ranking first on the single-day box office list.

The next day, the box office increased again, continuing to be the single-day champion with 2.9 million.

It was worth it that on the third day, which was Sunday the 13th, Hengyu’s "Murderous Ambition" was released.

In terms of cast, the two films are completely incomparable.

The protagonists of "Police Story: Simple Task" are Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh.

The protagonist of "The Conspirator" is Zhang Fengyi. As for the second male lead, Wu Zhenyu, both of them are not famous in Hong Kong.

The only big star in "The Conjuring" is probably Gong Li.

Having won awards at international film festivals for many consecutive years, he is well-known in Hong Kong.

She has previously starred in Stephen Chow's "God of Gamblers" and "Flirting Scholar", and these films have earned her considerable popularity in Hong Kong.

However, Gong Li doesn’t actually have many scenes.

In total, she only had less than three or four minutes of screen time.

It can be said to be a cameo.

In this situation, it is obviously impossible to expect her to carry the box office.

Therefore, the confrontation between the two plays is actually like an egg hitting a stone in the eyes of outsiders.

This is true.

The box office of "Murderous Affair" on the first day was only two million, which was why Zhou Ziheng helped shout slogans.

Otherwise, the box office would be even lower.

In comparison, "Police Story: Simple Task" earned 2.4 million.

It earned eight million at the box office in three days, and directly topped the box office charts of the week with just three days of release.

The runner-up was Young and Dangerous. Although the film had a drastic reduction in screenings, it still grossed six million at the box office this week.

Following closely behind is "The Untamed 2", with a box office of million.

Then came "The Conjuring".

Judging from the first day box office, the performance of "The Conjuring" was not that good.

However, the film has a rare and good reputation.

Originally, Zhou Ziheng thought that this drama would receive the same treatment as "Tazza" and be attacked by the Hong Kong circle.

Unexpectedly, the Hong Kong circle did not seem to care too much about this movie, and many film critics even gave it positive reviews.

"Putting aside other factors, I admire Zhou Ziheng very much, he is indeed an all-rounder.

He is an actor, director and screenwriter, and he gives people the feeling that he is an egomaniac who wants to do everything.

But in fact, he did a really good job.

Without mentioning anything else, just this "The Conjuring", in my opinion, is definitely a rare good movie in recent years.

Director Zhang Yimou’s directing skills remain as good as ever..."

"The plot of the movie is full of ups and downs, the rhythm is tight and not messy, and the violent scenes are bloody. It is said that Zhang Yimou used 13 cameras to shoot the "chase + rollover" scene from multiple angles, making the scene very hot. I strongly recommend this movie."

"The film has a strong realistic connotation and even a distinct documentary style. Behind those violent images is the director's reflection on the grassroots people. The film's strong realistic style and direct questioning of life are impressive."

"It's another award-winning film. The actors' interactions are so exciting to watch! I particularly like the actor Francis Ng. His interpretation of the role of Lao Mian is simply at the level of an award-winning actor. This actor will definitely have a very good future."

……

Several consecutive reviews from well-known film critics have once again increased the attention on the film.

In the next two days, the movie's box office continued to remain stable, earning 1.9 million and 2.1 million respectively.

On the 15th, "The Conjuring" defeated "Police Stories: Simple Mission" for the first time and won the single-day box office championship.

By the middle of the month, most of the popular Spring Festival movies have been released.

On the 15th, Oriental Cinemas released "The Big Three" starring Leslie Cheung.

On the 16th, Xinbao Cinema Line released Stephen Chow's "Forbidden City Cop"

Together with "Police Stories" and "The Conjuring", the four movies make up the four great films of this year's Spring Festival.

Starting from the 16th, the four films began to compete with each other in the box office in the Hong Kong market.

We have to admit that these past two years have indeed been another peak period for Jackie Chan.

In the box office battle among the four films, "Police Stories" occupied the most single-day box office champion positions with absolute advantage.

Then came "Forbidden City Cop", and Stephen Chow's appeal was still strong.

Even though "The Conjuring" has a very good reputation and even attracted many Taiwanese filmmakers to speak out in support, its box office still cannot compare to it.

However, the stamina of "The Big Three" is a bit lacking, while "The Conjuring" is much stronger than it.

Actually, this is not surprising.

What can I say about the actor Leslie Cheung? You say he has no box office appeal, which is undoubtedly wrong.

Since the 1990s, he has been in the top ten of Hong Kong box office charts every year.

He is the highest-grossing actor in Hong Kong after Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li.

But you said he has strong box office appeal.

This guy's acting is the kind that is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

The previous film might have a box office of 20 or 30 million, but the next one might only have 7 or 8 million.

His box office data is very unstable, similar to Andy Lau.

In Zhou Ziheng's opinion, his disadvantage is that the film lacks personal style.

Looking up, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Jet Li, and even Chow Yun-fat, their movies all have a certain personal style of their own.

And Leslie Cheung.

Maybe it’s because his acting is so good, you can’t see any personal style in his plays at all.

This puts his play at a great disadvantage.

It must be said that actors with strong personal styles may not be favored by awards, but audiences often like their plays.

Especially like Stephen Chow, Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

The three of them have very strong personal styles, and with such strong styles, they naturally attracted a large number of fans to become their loyal fans.

No matter what the quality of their movies is, movie fans will go to the theaters just for their names.

And obviously, Leslie Cheung did not reach this level.

Therefore, no one, including Zhou Ziheng, was surprised that his movie "Big Three" did not have enough box office stamina.

The four most powerful movies of the Spring Festival period fought hard in the market, which to a certain extent directly drove the rise of the overall market.

On the 17th, the total box office of the four movies has exceeded 100 million, in the Hong Kong market alone.

You know, the total box office in Hong Kong last year was less than 10 billion.

The year has just begun and four movies have grossed over 100 million, which is almost one-tenth of Hong Kong’s total box office data last year.

Because the box office performance of the four films was very strong, the media collectively shouted, "The cold winter of Hong Kong movies is over!"

Indeed, last year’s Hong Kong films were far from ideal.

Not only were the number of films more than thirty fewer than in 1994, the total box office was also more than 1993 million less, even less than in .

The unsatisfactory performance of the overall market has caused practitioners throughout Hong Kong to cry out that the winter of the film and television industry has arrived.

And now, the new year has just begun, and there are several movies with box office of over 2 million, such as "Police Stories", "The Conman", "Forbidden City Cop", "The Big Three", "Young and Dangerous", "The Road to Mir ", etc., which is great news for the whole of Hong Kong.

Therefore, it is not surprising that everyone is shouting that the cold winter of film and television is over.

……

Zhou Ziheng was unaware of the excitement of the film and television crew in Hong Kong.

On February 18th, the Spring Festival is approaching, and every household hangs red lanterns and posts couplets.

Zhou Ziheng went to Beijing to participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

This year's party is different from last year's, as three venues have been set up.

The main venue is Beijing, with branch venues in Shanghai and Xi'an. The director is Zhang Xiaohai.

The main venue was hosted by Zhao Zhongxiang and Ni Ping.

The Shanghai branch was hosted by Cheng Qian and Yuan Ming.

The Xi'an branch was hosted by Zhou Tao and Zhang Xiao.

The evening party adopts the form of live broadcast among three places, which allows the Spring Festival Gala to go beyond Beijing and let the audience outside Beijing feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival Gala.

There are still many outstanding programs in this year's program.

The musical sketch "Crossing the River" performed by Pan Changjiang and Yan Shuping is the song "There is a winding river in front of the brother, and the sister is singing a sweet song opposite."

Then Gao Feng and Liu Xiaona sang "Great China" together.

The song "Kangding Love Song" sung by Zena Zhuoma and Dorje Tsering also aroused warm cheers from the audience.

Sun Jing sang a cover of the Wanwan folk song "The Girl from Alishan", which also caused quite a stir.

There is also Zhou Ziheng's "Wine on September 9th" covered by Gao Song, Yi Yang, An Wei, Hunt and others.

Although it is a cover, this song has been overshadowed because Zhou Ziheng has so many popular songs now.

This cover made the song popular again.

The best is the original song "Chinese" sung by Zhou Ziheng himself.

Not only did this song become popular all over the country immediately after it was sung, it also won Zhou Ziheng one of the top ten programs of this year's Spring Festival Gala, and also won the first prize in the singing category this year.

There are very few people from Hong Kong and Taiwan in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Only one person, Sally Yeh, was invited.

However, her singing of "My Love Tells You" was average and did not cause a sensation like the Hong Kong and Taiwan singers in previous years.

After the Spring Festival Gala ended, Zhou Ziheng went to his godsister's house for dinner as usual.

My sister also participated in this year's Spring Festival Gala and performed two programs.

Originally, Zhou Ziheng wanted to write a song with his sister, and he had this idea a long time ago.

But my sister didn’t want it.

According to her, she doesn't rely on this to make a living, so it would be a waste to give her such a good song.

……

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Ziheng rushed back to Guangdong and went back to Dongguan to celebrate the New Year.

It’s embarrassing to say.

In recent years, because he has participated in the Spring Festival Gala every year, Zhou Ziheng has not had a good New Year's Eve.

They are basically all in Beijing and only come back on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Moreover, every time he came back, he didn't stay for long. He would leave on the second day of the Chinese New Year, or at the latest on the third or fourth day.

He passed away early every year, which meant that many relatives and friends who wanted to find him never had the chance to run into him.

So, this year, it seemed as if those relatives and friends had made an appointment, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, many people came to visit him to wish him a happy new year.

Among them is Liang Yaohui, whose business has been growing bigger and bigger in recent years.

Zhou Ziheng heard that he is the leader in Dongguan's current service industry.

The Prince Hotel he founded is extremely famous.

I've heard that Zhou Ziheng doesn't come back often.

Liang Yaohui's visit this time was not just to wish each other a happy new year.

He also has a purpose.

He wanted to invite Zhou Ziheng to sing at his Prince Hotel.

Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment and agreed.

No matter what the other party does in the future, this is just a normal business transaction.

It is very normal for the other party to pay and invite him to sing, and there is no need to worry about anything.

After agreeing to sing a few songs for him in March, Liang Yaohui left.

After greeting his relatives and friends, Zhou Ziheng left Dongguan on the third day of the Lunar New Year and returned to Guangzhou to continue preparing for his record work.

(End of this chapter)