The news that the movie "Midnight Bell" was popular in Japan was soon passed back to Hong Kong.

When they learned that Summer's new film was so popular in Japan, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers were also envious and jealous.

The Japanese market has always been a place where they dream of entering, but they never get into it.

Unexpectedly, in less than half a year, the situation was already opened in Japan, and it was so warmly welcomed, which really made people surprised.

"Why is this young man so powerful? He will become popular in any movies. It's so deadly!" Mai Jia smacked her lips.

Their New Art City once wanted to enter the Japanese market, and they handed over the most classic "Best Partner" series of New Art City to Toei for release in Japan.

Mai Jia, Zhang Aijia, and Xu Guanjie also went to Japan to promote it, but this movie that was sold well in Hong Kong was coldly treated in Japan and did not achieve any good results.

Because Japanese people are used to watching European and American blockbusters, they are all attracted by those blockbusters. Although "Best Partner" in New Art City is known as the first big-produced film in Hong Kong and invested 8 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot, it is still far behind compared to European and American movies, at most equivalent to the level of B-level films, so it cannot satisfy Japanese movie fans.

In addition, the movie "Best Partner" is a copycat of the "007" series of movies, and there is nothing surprising about the story, so it is inevitable that it cannot win the favor of the Japanese people.

After the release, the box office was bleak. When Toei, Japan, who helped them release the movie, broke off cooperation with Xinyi City and lost interest in helping it release the movie.

But unexpectedly, where I failed, it was the place where I was domineering in summer, which made Mai Jia feel a little emotional, "Is it really that the Yangtze River is pushing the previous waves, and the previous waves die on the beach?! I have only been in the industry for a few years, so I am not behind the scenes, right?"

...

Mai Jia was depressed not only because Xia Tian had achieved the results that he envied at a young age, but also because this year, the performance of Xinyi City did not improve.

After losing the box office champion of Lianzhuang for three years at the beginning of the year, except for "Happy Ghost Summer Holiday" this year, the box office of other movies is around 10 million Hong Kong dollars. Compared with other film companies, such results are considered good, but compared with Tianxia Pictures and Jiahe Pictures, which are also the three major film companies, the results of Xinyi City are too miserable.

I won’t say much about Tianxia Pictures. In summer, that boy was like a rocket and he was so popular that he made money by making movies. He was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he could make money.

Moreover, he was alone and he was able to ascend to heaven! With his support, even Wu Yusen, the outdated director, Zhou Runfa, the box office poison, and Di Long, the yellow flower tomorrow, have achieved amazing results, which is really surprising.

Jiahe also achieved very good results. Cheng Long has starred in six movies this year, "The Good Star", "The Good Star in Summer", "The Detective", "The Police Story", "The Heart of the Dragon", and "The Dragon Brother and the Tiger Brother". Four of the movies have been released and have achieved very good results.

Although the other two movies have not been released yet, they are generally optimistic about the outside world, and the estimated box office is at least 20 million. On the one hand, it is because the movie stars are gathered, Cheng Long, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu, Tan Fenglin, Gao Lihong, Laura Fangna, etc.; on the other hand, both movies are written by Xia Tian.

Over the past year, the box office of the scripts he wrote was rarely below 20 million Hong Kong dollars. The hat of the 20 million screenwriter is like being welded on his head, and it cannot be beaten up no matter how big the wind and waves are. This also forms a good reputation and is known as "the production of summer must be a fine product." Fans have confidence in summer, and summer has never disappointed movie fans, so it has formed a virtuous cycle and made summer's works more and more popular.

In addition to Cheng Long, Jiahe has also achieved very good results. His Baohe company's excellent works have been frequently produced, which has already surpassed Jiahe's territory and made greater contributions than Cheng Long. As a junior brother, Yuan Biao is not willing to fall behind. The several movies he starred in have also had good box office sales.

...

Seeing the meat next door eating, he could only eat vegetarian food, and drooling when smelling the meat, Mai Jia was naturally unhappy. But he was unhappy, and he had no way to solve it.

Before, the New Art City was so popular, which was the result of everyone's efforts. In the struggle room, the New Art City's seven monsters were in one direction and thought about it. Everyone wanted to make good movies, so the movies they made were wonderful and beautiful.

But now, four of the seven monsters in Xinyi City have left, leaving only three founding veterans, Mai Jia, Ishida and Huang Baiming.

Ishida is busy investing in stocks and spending more time on the stock exchange. Huang Baiming is unhappy and takes the least amount of money, so he is already thinking about starting a new business. It is said that he is approaching Taiwanese film dealers recently. Mai Jia himself cannot give up the profits he has and does not want to redistribute the company's shares, so he also decided to leave Ishida and Huang Baiming aside and support newcomers. It is not a matter of success in just supporting newcomers, and it will take some time to achieve results.

"Maggie, go and invite Mr. Yu Yunpeng to come." Maggie immediately notified the secretary by phone.

Yu Yunzhang is the director of "Midnight Bell". He previously helped Xinyicheng film two movies, "Singing and Dance" and "Flying Tigers and Ark" for Xinyicheng. Both Xinyicheng paid for it and asked Yu Yunzhang to take the bag. But the box office was not very good, only 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, and he barely guaranteed the capital.

Mai Jia was not very satisfied with him and didn't want to work with him anymore, but she didn't expect that she would become popular again with the movie "Midnight Bell", which was really beyond her expectations.

Thinking that the contract between New Art City and Yu Yun had two movies, it was not useless, Mai Jia wanted to take advantage of Yu Yun's popularity and ask him to make a horror movie to sell it.

"Oh, before, other companies followed the trend and filmed by our New Art City, but we were despised by our New Art City. Unexpectedly, our New Art City has become a follower now." After making the phone call, Mai Jia sighed.

The loss of talents has greatly reduced the original strength of Xinyi City. For example, Wang Jing is good at picking up girls, it actually originated from Xinyi City's "Brothers and Brothers" and "Chasing Girls". "Happy Ghost" also created the theme of campus comedy, "Family Portrait" and "Congratulations on the Rich" created the theme of family comedy...

But now the trend of Hong Kong films is led by Jiahe and Tianxia, ​​especially Tianxia Film, which are driven by zombie films, women's action films, hero films, etc. From the pioneers of the trend to followers, the decline of New Art City can be seen.

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Jiahe.

After hearing the news that Xia Tian’s new film had achieved great success in Japan, Zou Wenhuai couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly.

He spent so much time and effort to open up the Japanese market back then, and finally achieved his current achievements. In the summer, he only took half a year to gain a foothold in Japan, which makes people sigh that a new generation is better than an old one.

"In my opinion, it won't take long for him to catch up with us." Zou Wenhuai said to He Guanchang.

He Guanchang also nodded, "He has money now, more than 3 billion assets, enough for ten years to shoot; he has stars, Zhou Run found that he is so popular; he has theaters, and he has half the shares of Tongxin theaters, and I heard that he is still buying buildings everywhere and preparing to build his own theaters; he has directors, Wang Jing, Yuan Kui, Wu Yusen, everyone can stand alone; he has a reputation, and the most popular person in Hong Kong is now... It's only a matter of time to rise."

"The Hong Kong film market is so big. If he really rises, what should we do?" Zou Wenhuai said worriedly with a frown.

Hong Kong has a small population, only five or six million people. However, there are many film companies, dozens of which are produced in a year, and the competition pressure is very high.

Before, Jiahe finally managed to destroy Shaw Brothers. He wanted to enjoy the feeling of "invincible is the loneliest", but he didn't expect that Tianxia Film Industry suddenly rose up, developing faster than Xinyi City and stronger than Shaw Brothers, which immediately woke up Zou Wenhuai's dream of being the overlord of the film industry.

Now facing the opponent with a strong momentum and vibrant vitality, Zou Wenhuai also felt a sense of powerlessness for a moment.

"Raymond, I think we should develop Xu Tu, don't engage in malicious competition. He has more money than us, and we can't fight him openly." He Guanchang suggested.

If Tianxia Pictures is a small company, Jiahe can poach the talents under Tianxia Pictures through the "silver bullet offensive".

But the key is that people are richer than Jiahe now, but they have to worry about whether Xia Tian will poach his stars, directors and technical talents.

"That's all. You have to worry about comforting the employees these days and don't let them have any abnormal movements." Zou Wenhuai nodded and said.

"I understand." He Guanchang agreed immediately, "I suggest that if I can, it's better to talk to Xia Tian."

"Yeah." Zou Wenhuai nodded when he heard this.

They wanted to deal with Xia Tian before, but now they are rushing to reconcile, fearing that they will deal with them.

In a few months, the offensive and defensive momentums were swapped, and it was speechless to think about it.

"Oh, there's no way. Who made him grow too fast!" Zou Wenhuai said depressedly.

He and He Guanchang founded Jiahe in 1970s. It has been 15 years since they have achieved their current achievements. This does not include the decades they served Shaw Brothers.

And summer only took one year to exceed their efforts for more than ten years. It is really awesome for young people!!

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Compared to the filmmakers’ worrying about gains and losses, Hong Kong people feel light on their faces when they hear this news.

"It's simply an anti-Japanese hero!"

"Awesome, it has added luster to us Hong Kong people!"
Chapter completed!