I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 835 No one cares
Crew.

Shen Liang chats with Sammo Hung.

In fact, Shen Liang has always wanted to ask about his relationship with Fan Jiuyi...

But dare not ask.

After all, this thing is still an unknown mystery!
However, when Jiu Yi Jie went to Hong Kong to develop her career, she must have relied on Sammo Hung's help, otherwise, the two of them would not have been able to co-star in "S.W.A.T.". But then again, Sammo Hung at that time was only considered to be quite powerful, and he definitely could not have made Jiu Yi Jie famous.

Otherwise, there would be no need for him to leave the mainland to film TV series.

After spending a few months together, Shen Liang had probably figured out Hong Jinbao's temper...

The kind of person who likes to show off his seniority!
There is also a similar person in the mainland entertainment circle, his name is Huang Lei.

Shen Liang didn't care. After all, this was an era where even Che Paul had become an old actor.

By the way, Sammo Hung studied drama, and in the old theater era, this kind of seniority was useful.

Because the "elders" and "old masters" in this context can have a certain resource monopoly effect, and if you offend them you will be banned and punished.

In the old society, there were only a few fixed performance venues for opera troupes, and those who became famous in a city would most likely not dare to leave their hometown.

Then at this time, as long as the elders speak up and ruin your reputation, it will be difficult for you to survive here due to inertia.

This is close to power deprivation.

When Guo Degang left his hometown and went to BJ, he had some unpleasantness with his master and couldn't fit in among the group of crosstalk performers in Tianjin.

Hong Kong's entertainment industry... overall, it's not much different from a theatre company...

Once you leave Hong Kong, if you give me respect, you will be called Brother Hong; if you don’t, you will be called Fatty, and you will have to bear it anyway.

As for Sammo Hung… he is close to being a half-step superstar…

But to be honest, Sammo Hung was really awesome in the 80s. He and Michael Hui founded Garbo Group back then and filmed "Tiger Frog" and "The Deadly Sniper". Both films were shortlisted for the top ten hits in Hong Kong. Then Golden Harvest couldn't sit still and let Sammo Hung return to Golden Harvest and established Boya Harvest for him.

Garbo's group disbanded peacefully.

Then Mai Jia founded the Struggle Film Company with Shek Tin and Wong Jing. Later, Struggle was acquired by Golden Princess and renamed Cinema City!

Cinema City once suppressed Golden Harvest so much that it could not even raise its head.

It was Sammo Hung who stepped in and first pulled in Zeng Zhiwei, a capable man of Cinema City and the director of "Best Partner", into his team, thus killing one of the Seven Monsters of Cinema City.

On the other hand, while Cinema City was filming the "Best Partner" series, Golden Harvest was filming the "Lucky Five Stars" series. Sammo Hung not only served as the producer, but also starred in it himself, five against two!
Later, Sammo Hung came forward and played the emotional card with Michael Hui, convincing the latter to join forces to film "The Lucky Stars" - putting "Best Partner" and "Five Lucky Stars" together, it's a sensation just to think about it.

But The Lucky Stars was only released in Golden Harvest’s cinema chain, not in the Golden Princess’ cinema chain. The movie was a big hit at the box office, but Cinema City didn’t make a penny.

Mai Jia's behavior caused dissatisfaction among other core members of Cinema City, and laid the seeds for the disintegration of Cinema City in the future.

In addition to these, Sammo Hung established another film company - D&B, and teamed up with Divin Pan.

By the way, Pan Diwen is a second-generation rich man. He founded Debao most likely for Yang Ziqiong...

Although Yeung Chi-king came from a wealthy family, she was determined to become a movie star and an action star. So Dickson Poon asked Sammo Hung, the most famous martial arts instructor in Hong Kong at the time, to be her personal trainer.

Tsk tsk, only the second generation of rich people can employ a great man like Sammo Hung as a tutor.

There were two people that Sammo Hung was teaching at the time, in addition to this Miss Malaysia, there was also her best friend, Miss Hong Kong Gao Lihong.

Later, Yang Ziqiong became Mrs. Pan, and Gao Lihong became Mrs. Hong...

The first film D&B produced was "Royal Sister", which was tailor-made for newcomer Yang Ziqiong. Soon after, Shaw Brothers stopped film production and sold all its cinema chains to Dickson Pan. D&B had both the people and the cinema chains, becoming the third force that could compete with Golden Harvest and Cinema City.

Then...he returned to Golden Harvest!
To be honest, if he had not returned to Golden Harvest at that time and had stayed in Debao, he might have been able to create a new empire.

But he is too sentimental...

But later, he left Golden Harvest.

These are already ancient history!
……

"I also watched "Shushan", it's really amazing..."

“Fortunately, many things are not done enough.”

"Not enough?" "The special effects are too gorgeous, not concise enough..." Shen Liang waved his hand: "We will change the next two parts..."

Sammo Hung doesn't know much about special effects, so he changed the subject: "...I heard the Hong Kong box office also broke 5000 million Hong Kong dollars?"

“…It’s issued by Silver Capital in Hong Kong, but I heard it’s selling well in Southeast Asia!”

"Yeah," Sammo Hung said with admiration, "I heard that the box office in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines have all set new records for Chinese-language films!"

“No record was broken…”

The record for Chinese-language films in Southeast Asia is "Kung Fu Yoga": 2000 million US dollars!
In addition, the box office of "Zodiac" in six Southeast Asian countries reached 1900 million US dollars...

Jackie Chan is really awesome. Even though "Rush Hour 3", which was considered by many to be a mediocre box office success, it still topped the disc rental revenue of all North American movies in 2007 - nearly 7200 million US dollars.

"Shushan" is still a little bit behind. It has not been widely distributed overseas. Except for Southeast Asia, the copyrights of other countries and regions are sold separately...

The European and North American markets will probably release it in August...

It is estimated that Southeast Asia can generate around 1800 million US dollars.

"Japan and South Korea haven't joined yet. If they do, it's only a matter of time before the record is broken!"

Shen Liang nodded, and then reminded: "Korean movies have collapsed in recent years..."

Sammo Hung was surprised: "Did it collapse? Didn't he just win an Oscar?"

"The market is not big enough," Shen Liang took out his phone, found some information, and gave it to Sammo Hung: "Take a look!"

The information says: Korean films collapse!

It has indeed collapsed. During the peak period of Korean films, 373 films were produced a year, but in 2023, only 9 films started shooting in the first half of the year!
Why the sharp decline?

It’s not making money anymore!
What is the most important thing in making a movie?
First, you have to start working.

How can we make a movie when we can’t even start work?
After reading the information, Sammo Hung was surprised: "Korean movies have become like this?"

"Well, the local market is too small and Hollywood's siphon effect..."

“…similar to old Hong Kong movies…”

"Hong Kong films reshaped the action film industry, but Korean films left nothing behind..." After a pause, Shen Liang added, "A hundred years from now, when we summarize the history of world cinema, Korean films probably won't have much to say!"

While they were chatting, Cao Dun came over and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Nonsense..." Shen Liang took a sip of water: "Are you going to shoot?"

"We have to wait a moment... they are setting up the artillery..."

The meaning of gun mounting is to set up a mechanical rocker arm that can accommodate people, with people sitting on one end to set up the machine and people controlling the lifting and swinging on the other end...

Generally speaking, you must use a cannon machine to shoot large scenes...

"Brother Liang, are you leaving the crew after filming today?"

"Um…"

"Want to have a wrap-up ceremony?"

"No, I have to leave right away... I still have to promote "Shushan" and "All or Nothing"..."

By the way, the screening schedule of “Investiture of the Gods” has been shortened for the past three days…

This movie has been basically abandoned by theaters, and the creators no longer promote the movie.

Even active cutting...

The publicity team is not stupid, so they naturally don’t dare to cause trouble at this time!
Of course, all parties are busy protecting themselves and have no money for marketing...

The navy is gone...

Even in Shen Liang’s live broadcast room, few people mentioned the first part of “Investiture of the Gods”…

Only a few self-media wanted to take advantage of the traffic, and combined it with Shen Liang's Weibo post "The golden monkey raised his thousand-pound stick, and the jade sky cleared the dust; today we cheer for Sun Wukong, only because the evil fog has returned.", and added some of their own fabrications...

But there was no related report in major media!
Did the Tencent system save "Fengshen"?
has no meaning?
In the face of absolute administrative power, no one can do anything!
(End of this chapter)