The world begins with Hong Kong movies

Chapter 164: Competitors are surprised! (Subscribe)
Before the Spring Festival in 1988, one of the hottest topics in the entire Hong Kong Island was the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" broadcast live on ATV!
As the final is approaching, the popularity is increasing.

Apart from anything else, even ATV's arch-rival TVB had to hold its nose and broadcast the exciting clips of "No Limit Fighting Tournament".

Every time a "No Limits Fighting Tournament" competition day comes, Wireless is almost powerless to fight back during the live broadcast period.

Even the second part of "A Better Tomorrow", which was highly recommended by the Golden Princess Cinemas and improved upon by Wu Feng's request, was overshadowed by the popularity.

The original plot of the second part of "A Better Tomorrow" feels like a child's play.

It’s another counterfeit money gang, and they have even brought out Hao Ge’s former mentor.

A retired boss in the counterfeit money industry was played around by his younger brother.

Damn, if you have such ability, why are you still hanging around in Hong Kong Island? You can do even better anywhere in Southeast Asia. Why bother with the "Royal" police?

Brother Hao has only been in the classroom for further training for three years. How could he not be familiar with the counterfeit money forces in Hong Kong Island?

Under Wu Feng's "guidance", the new plot still revolves around the counterfeit money group, but it is a force on the Taiwan side that wants to rebuild the counterfeit money base on Hong Kong Island.

There is no doubt about it, Taiwan has a very famous name in the underworld: the island of fraud and deception!

The counterfeit money center of Asia is located on Taiwan Island.

Therefore, the counterfeit money group that Brother Hao used to work for can be set as a branch of a counterfeit money group in Taiwan. This description is much more reasonable.

Because of Hao Ge's fame, he was naturally chosen as the head of the counterfeit money group for the reconstruction of Hong Kong Island.

Then there is the story of brothers Hao and Song Zijie joining forces to deal with the Taiwan counterfeit money group.

As for Xiao Ma Ge’s twin brother, he should not appear. It would be fine to replace him with the son of a retired big boss in the counterfeit currency industry.

The plot doesn't need to be so complicated. As long as the main line is clear, fighting and killing all the way will be enough for the rest of the time. Is the plot of the first "A Better Tomorrow" very complicated?

With Bai Ge Wu's current level, he can still make a normal urban gunfight movie very well.

As long as the main tone is passionate and exciting, it's fine. In fact, this is exactly the result that Princess Jin wants.

There's no way around it, arcade games adapted from popular battle or action movies make too much money.

Boss Lei of Golden Princess has been jealous for a long time, and the second part of "A Better Tomorrow" is just an attempt.

The effect is good and the box office is quite hot. It seems that 30 million will be no problem. However, it may be difficult to surpass the box office of the first part, but Princess Jin is already very satisfied.

Wu Feng only paid it a brief attention and handed the task of adapting the game to the newly established Fengmang Game Production Company, and then turned his attention back to "Unlimited Fighting Tournament".

There had been a conflict with VTech before, and it was acquired by Xiao Rizi for 500 million not long after.

He immediately launched a poaching plan and recruited all the targeted people to the newly opened game development company.

But what Wu Feng didn't expect was that the boss of VTech also played a trick to escape.

He took over the company's core researchers and the subsequent revenue from three popular arcade games, gave Xiao Rizi an empty shell, and then opened a game development company.

This trick of getting something for nothing was done so smoothly!
No matter how the people who were taking over my daily life cursed and yelled at me, I started over again in an orderly manner.

Of course, it can't be considered a fresh start. The company had a research and development direction right after it opened, which was the arcade game of the same name "Dragon Brothers" that Cheng Shilon had already released.

Wu Feng watched the excitement and thought to himself that the boss of VTech was not stupid either.

You have a golden chicken that lays golden eggs in your hand, but you are willing to sell it to Xiaozi?

Now I understand, they are doing simple and unpretentious business operations!

In this regard, in addition to lamenting that the business world is indeed full of traps, he has focused more attention on his newly opened Fengmang Game Development Company.

Fengmang Game Development Company was just established and it launched several projects at the same time.

"Swallow Li San", and the second game of the same name of "A Better Tomorrow"!

The most important thing is to develop the first version of the arcade fighting game "Ong-Bak"!

Among them, no matter which game is successfully developed, Fengmang Game Development Company will be able to gain a firm foothold.

The best part is that there is no other competitor in the entire Hong Kong Island except the new game development company opened by the boss of VTech. It’s so cool.

It is said that the game development industry has an amazing potential, but the wealthy people in Hong Kong are really indifferent to it, as if they don’t even notice it.

Wu Feng didn’t know what to say. It turned out that finance and real estate were his true love!

In fact, Cinema City's "Prison on Fire" and "Dragon Tiger" series, Golden Harvest's "Mr. Vampire" series, and D&B's "Thunderbolt" series are all good adaptation materials.

Damn, even if we can’t see the adaptation potential of these movies, aren’t there still Mr. Cha’s martial arts series, Mr. Wen’s “The Four” series, and Mr. Gu’s martial arts series?
There won't be any problems adapting these extremely well-known martial arts novels, right?
I thought to myself, "That's awesome!" and put the matter behind me.

Every time the year comes to an end, people like Wu Feng are particularly busy.

He must personally preside over the year-end summaries of all the major companies and enterprises under his jurisdiction, as well as the most critical bonus distribution. He will not delegate this matter to others.

This year will definitely be the year when Fengrui Film and Television Company will rise completely and explode wildly.

No one expected that Fengrui Film and Television, a company that had only been established for two years, would shoot a total of 16 films in one year, with its output surpassing all other film and television companies in Hong Kong.

Fourteen of them have already been released, and all have achieved impressive box office results. This is the benefit of designing a complete shooting and production process. It can't be called industrialization, but it is much better than the makeshift production team here in Hong Kong.

Movies with excellent box office performance include the first and second parts of "Swallow Li San", both of which earned over 20 million yuan.

It also has impressive box office performance in Southeast Asia and even the Japanese and Korean markets.

There are small-scale screenings in Chinese community movie theaters in the United States, and the reputation and box office are pretty good.

The most important thing is the distribution of videotapes. We already have fixed partners and our coverage is still expanding.

The total revenue of the first and second parts of "Swallow Li San" alone easily exceeded 60 million Hong Kong dollars!

To be honest, the box office revenue was average except for Hong Kong Island, but the video tapes sold very well. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea easily sold 150,000 tapes combined.

The rest of the country, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, has a total of more than 150,000 boxes.

Ahem, a videotape sells for HK$120. After deducting costs and other things, Wu Feng makes a net profit of nearly HK$20 million. In fact, the Asian market still has great potential.

The key is whether the videotape can be laid over there!
Obviously, this is not a difficult task for Wu Feng.

In fact, if he had gone through the community channel specifically, he could have earned more.

However, if he wants to establish normal distribution and release channels, he cannot go too far. Does he really think that local government agencies are all idiots?

The total revenue of the remaining films easily exceeded 100 million, and the annual profit was close to 200 million Hong Kong dollars!

The newspaper company that has a close connection with it has a revenue of around 80 million!
In other words, as long as you take the right approach, it is really profitable to engage in cultural and entertainment linkage during the golden age of Hong Kong novels and movies.

This does not include the key advertising space that Mong Kok News had sold early on.

Both "Mong Kok News" and "Night Color" are free and do not make money.

Relying on "Mong Kok News", as many as twenty high-quality novels were published and released within a year!
The sales of novels in just one year reached an astonishing three million copies!
If the novels published in "Novel Monthly" are included, the total sales volume will definitely exceed six million.

The best part is that although genuine novels in Hong Kong are not expensive, they are definitely not cheap either.

As for pirated booksellers, they have to have the courage to print.

Do you really think that the Hung Hing gang members all over Hong Kong Island are just there to eat and do nothing? Not to mention that Wu Feng also issued a reward for reporting, which is for all the gang members in the entire Hong Kong Island.

The novel is selling so well, how could the sales of the comic book of the same name be low?

There are also exquisite posters and postcards, and the total revenue is definitely not small.

The ones who really make the big money are naturally the clothing factories and sneaker factories under his control, which are spread across Hong Kong Island and the Mainland.

The annual shipment volume is in the billions, and the profit is also in the billions of Hong Kong dollars.

At the beginning, the net income was about 30 million per month.

By the time the second phase of the factory went into production, the monthly revenue had reached a staggering 50 to 60 million.

These are just the factories in the mainland. The factories on Hong Kong Island have taken over almost all the Hung Hing sites, with monthly revenues in the millions, which adds up to an annual income of 30 to 40 million.

Adding to the business of live pig scraps and the arcade business which is a cash cow, the total revenue adds up to over 10 billion a year!

If it gets out, it will definitely shock everyone!

Based on the ratio of profit to net worth of 1 to 10, he can also publicize that his net worth has reached tens of billions, which is not exaggerated.

Why is it that the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of manufacturing?

Even if half of the profits were not made public, he would definitely be considered a wealthy man in Hong Kong Island at this time.

As I said, net worth and cash flow are two different things!

He was busy until the finals of the "Unlimited Fighting Tournament" were about to begin, and then he finished the year-end inventory of his companies and the distribution of bonuses and benefits.

The wages of the companies and factories under his management can only be considered average, whether in Hong Kong Island or the Mainland, but the bonuses and benefits are really good, and everything is on par with state-owned enterprises.

Twenty percent of the apparent profits were directly put into the bonus pool, and the amount of bonuses was assessed according to various requirements and standards, and then benefits equivalent to several months' salary were distributed.

In the mainland, one third of the goods in a wholesale market were sold out!

Several CR Vanguard supermarkets in Hong Kong Island were directly cleared out, it’s so generous!

Anyway, the news spread and reportedly caused a huge uproar in the working community in Hong Kong Island.

Damn, do you have to be so exaggerated?

Not only the working community was shaken, but the wealthy community was also alarmed.

Several wealthy people expressed dissatisfaction with Wu Feng's generosity and magnanimity, believing that doing so could easily disrupt the normal order within the industry and should absolutely not be encouraged.

Wu Feng doesn't bother to care about so many things, he has a lot of things to do.

(End of this chapter)