Hong Kong Stubborn - Chapter 127

The gambling king is not so easy to offend, but this time no one has to pretend in front of Luo Junyan.

Huang Jun, the Tiger of East Tsim Sha Tsui in Xin Nghe, was ordered to send someone to teach Luo Junyan a lesson. As a result, several thugs had their throats cut just as soon as they left the house. Huang Jun was so frightened that Huang Jun entrusted his daughter to Xin Ngong An and ran to Thailand to avoid the wind.

Before he got on the ship, he almost confessed his life to the dock. The tiger in the East Tiger was a fart in front of the real killer. This time Xin Yi’an also knew that it was not Huang Jun who was lucky, but that the other party did not kill him, otherwise the dozen or so people sent to protect him would be destined to be unable to get on the ship.

The Xiangjiang underworld finally believed that Luo Junyan had a terrifying killing gesture behind him, and he was convinced that Luo Junyan was about to tear his face and counterattack forcefully. These forces that shot are known as 100,000 horses, which is a bluff to the poor, but it is a pity that Luo Junyan is not a poor person, and can also spend money to buy lives.

Xiang Jia shook hands with Luo Junyan through Mui Yanfang’s charity fundraising dinner. He didn’t say anything clearly, but he meant that he would never participate again. Subsequently, the gambling king also had to ask someone to mediate with Luo Junyan, unless he stayed out of the door of his own house for a lifetime, otherwise he was really overwhelmed, and the older he was, the more he would heed his life.

At the same time, 97 is coming soon, and then using large-scale community forces at this time would be self-defeating. In addition to this once and for all method, how else can we clear out all the hidden forces of Luo Junyan in one fell swoop?

It’s impossible, it can only hurt both sides. Since it’s unclear, it doesn’t make sense to kill Luo Junyan first. Luo Junyan will take his family to several rooms, and their relatives, large and small, will be buried together.

There is no rich man in the world who is a real bachelor who doesn’t care about anything. Call you the king, but don’t really think of yourself as the invincible supreme. Li Ka-shing honestly paid the kidnappers to redeem his son back then. That’s the only way to see the world through. If people dare to take action against people of your status, they have already ignored life and death. At this time, there is no need to pretend that shit. The real character of the hero.

Brother Cheng has shipped all his antiques to the “Qinghuan Island” in the United States. He is worried that a head-on conflict will really break out, and the antiques can’t stand a stick.

And Cheng Ge has also agreed to sell “New Entertainment” and “Spotlight”. Luo Junyan does not want to engage in these low-end competitions. The ecological environment of the Xiangjiang entertainment circle has been completely changed, and the production company no longer needs to rely on its own propaganda position.

Brother Cheng strongly agreed with Luo Junyan’s idea of ​​shrinking his position because he knew that a global financial crisis would break out in 1998. Although I don’t know how miserable Xiangjiang is, it’s definitely not much better. Selling it when the price is high is a perfect arrangement.

“Xingxingmen” ended in this way of making major events smaller and smaller, and the double double gates of “Yuyuan” and “Canglang Pavilion” were closed. Huang Jiadong was worried about his own safety and fled to Singapore to take refuge. Xu Gongzi and his wife began to live apart.

This time, Du Shunlian returned Luo Junyan’s favor, found the three artists in the mainland, and escorted them to Xinjiang to see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

It was easy for Hu Xin to steal the tapes from Huang Jiadong’s home, leaving no tails behind.

Those political and business celebrities have seen their own videotape of a two-person yoga performance in the “Yu Yuan” villa, and they hate Luo Junyan, but they can only temporarily subdue.

What Luo Junyan worries most is this last point. The video tape is a double-edged sword. After using it, he must transfer most of his property as soon as possible. If he doesn’t run away, he will become a fool.

You just swear to ensure that it will be destroyed, and no one will believe it. Then you have to always beware of the hidden black hands of these dignitaries. Even Luo Junyan intends to transfer the theaters out, so as not to be controlled by others, and to let the army sister lay down the burden.

After the employees of Xiangjiang Yuyuan Entertainment Company were dismissed, Huo Wenxi was sent by Luo Junyan to South Korea for a period of time to work with Jinzhehe to train and manage artists. South Korea’s “Royal Garden” is definitely not possible, so it can only be used as the private garden of Luo Junyan and his wife, just like the Xiangjiang “Royal Garden”.

When Xiangjiang Yuyuan Entertainment Company applied for closure, the after-tax fund in the account was 76.2 million Hong Kong dollars. Luo Junyan got 38.1 million, Huo Wenxi got 3.81 million, and Chinese Homes got 34.29 million.

Luo Junyan requested that the public auction of the Snowman Times Building be held at the end of the year. This involves the transfer and relocation of the companies of the Snowman family. At this point, Liu Luanxiong can still afford to wait.

Taking advantage of the hot sales of “New Entertainment” magazine, and “First Entertainment” were temporarily suppressed so that they did not dare to speak up. Lu Huaxue quickly found an interested seller. Luo Junyan’s base price was 120 million Hong Kong dollars, and the requirement was after tax, otherwise the negotiation would be exempted.

In view of the fact that the profits of the two magazines in the first half of the year reached more than 21.4 million Hong Kong dollars, the layout in the Asian market is complete, and the two businesses of star peripheral products and brand advertising cooperation in the local market have stable profit channels and rapid profit growth. In the end, Taiwan’s “Apple Daily” bought the net assets of “New Entertainment” and “Spotlight” from Snowman Times Media for 120 million Hong Kong dollars.

The profit growth of “New Entertainment” and “Spotlight” in the first half of 1995 was mainly due to the no longer paying protection fees to Heshenghe. According to the real situation, the performance is actually declining year by year. The “Apple Daily” is eager to acquire these two magazines in order to consolidate the influence of the HeungKong media market as soon as possible, to gain a firm foothold before the return of 97, and to stand on the battlefield of public opinion.

By mid-July, the office teams of “New Entertainment” and “Spotlight” had moved out of the top floor of the Snowman Times Building. From now on, there will only be “Apple New Entertainment” and “Apple Spotlight” on the market.

The funds in the Snowman Times Media account reached 175 million Hong Kong dollars. Lu Huaxue continued to serve as the company’s president, and planned to enter the technology network media business according to Cheng Ge’s plan. The network business did not have to worry about the threat of Xiangjiang, and moved away.

After all the troubles were temporarily resolved, Luo Junyan’s mood began to fall. Every day, he went to Luo Shaotang’s previous room to sit quietly, not only his smile disappeared, but his words were also much less.

Sister Army had a long talk with Luo Junyan. This time sister army did not accommodate Luo Junyan’s mentality. She resumed her previous strong style, and even asked Luo Junyan to give up everything about Xiangjiang and the family went to the United States to start life again.

At this time, Luo Junyan realized that he had ignored the feelings of sister army during this period of time. Time is a good medicine to heal psychological trauma. Living in the shadows of the past will only bring more misfortune. Luo Junyan finally bid farewell to his father under the great drink of sister army.

Later, Luo Junyan went to Lijun’s cemetery alone to pay homage, but he did not attend the funeral of Teresa Teng. The army sister is also preparing to move to the “Yu Yuan”. The old house in Mong Kok Garden and this luxurious mansion in Yangming Villa have been discussed by the couple to choose an opportunity to sell. Seeing things and thinking about people is nothing but annoying.

At the same time, sister army begged Cheng to write a new script to restore Luo Junyan to work as soon as possible. After Luo Junyan returned to Xiangjiang, Brother Cheng handed him the script of “Sweet Honey” and said to him one more thing: As long as you live in this world, you must dare to face life’s pains and joys, joys and sorrows.

This time Luo Junyan is all about preparing for the shooting, and the heroine is Maggie Cheung. Maggie Cheung felt very guilty for not attending Luo Shaotang’s funeral and accepted the contract with an ultra-low salary of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Since May, the first round of summer films have been drawn one after another. “Peace Hotel” screened at the Golden Princess Cinemas won the box office champion of this period, with a box office score of 24.82 million Hong Kong dollars. Compared with Fa Ge’s appeal, the box office is not very satisfactory.

Subsequently, the Golden Princess Cinemas completely fell apart. All franchised theaters withdrew, and only four self-built theaters continued to operate under the name of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, which is considered to have withdrawn from the disputes over the Xiangjiang Cinema Line.

And the “Forty Women” screened by Golden Harvest Cinemas, the final box office was 14.02 million Hong Kong dollars. “Temple Street Story” screened at Xinbao Cinemas, the final box office was only 7.87 million Hong Kong dollars.

These films are definitely higher than the box office sold by the Oriental Snow Country Cinema, but they can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

In 1995, Zhang Min left Yongsheng and began to shoot his own films. Last year, Luo Junyan persuaded Andy Lau and suggested that he take a step back to broaden the sky, but Luo Junyan and Zhang Min are not friends, and she has the mentality of watching her joining the production company.

On June 17, Zhang Min’s first film “One Thousand and One Nights in a Dream” was screened at Xinbao Cinema. This film, starring Liang Jiahui, had a box office of only 3.11 million Hong Kong dollars. After the subsequent release of “Chasing Girls 3: Beautiful Dreams”, Zhang Min personally went to the battle, and the box office was only 10.31 million Hong Kong dollars.

Two films, Zhang Min, can only recover about 4 million, and the short-lived dream of the film company boss can wake up. This is the epitome of the reality of the Xiangjiang film industry. The era of relying solely on certain stars to pull tickets is gone forever.

Due to full competition, the agency issuance costs of issuing companies are constantly decreasing. After Snow Knight’s issuance company entered the summer vacation, it uniformly reduced the box office share of issuance costs to 6%.

However, the cost of publicity for the film has increased dramatically. If anyone is not willing to promote it, make preparations for the film on the day of its release. Competition in the film market is always all-round, even worse when there are more wolves and less meat.

The ticket price of the Hong Kong Cinema has risen to the level of 40 yuan. It is normal for the annual box office champion film to exceed 50 million Hong Kong dollars, but it does not mean that the overall box office market is maintaining an upward trend.

Take the film released by Oriental Film Distribution Company on the Oriental Snow Country Cinema this year as an example. In addition to the big sales of “Golden Jade Man Tang”, the box office of “Random Knife Splitting Twisted Wood” was 6.64 million and the box office of “Thirteen Taibao of Ciyun Mountain” was 4.78 million. , “The Nightmare Before Wolf Kiss” has a box office of 3.95 million, “The Ghost Slaughterhouse” has a box office of 2.77 million, “Xiang Jiang Hua Yueye” has a box office of 1.12 million, and “The Fake Emperor” has a box office of 960,000.

Huang Baiming is already doing very well. Even so, the basic parts of the released films are guaranteed or at a loss, so the money of the film company is not so easy to make.

On July 20th, “Sweet Honey” officially started shooting.

This is a film about the hardships of Hong Kong’s new immigrants at the end of the 20th century. It shows the historical changes of Hong Kong in the 10 years before Teresa Teng’s death.

The male protagonist played by Luo Junyan immigrated from the mainland to Hong Kong and the female protagonist played by Maggie Cheung met at McDonald’s. They became friends because they also liked Teresa Teng’s songs. Then they decided to break up because of the circumstances of their lives. The male protagonist married his girlfriend from mainland China (played by Wu Qianlian) as his wife, and the female protagonist followed a eldest brother from the society (played by Zhige).

Day by day, the hero and the heroine find that they have been loving each other deeply. Then, the eldest brother of the club was killed in an accident. It was already ten years later, on May 8, 1995.

In front of the window of a store in Chinatown, New York, the two met by chance and watched the news of Teresa Teng’s death together. In the end, the protagonist and the heroine face each other, and from the window comes the “Sweet Honey” that they used to sing together in Xiangjiang.

It can be said that the script copied by Brother Cheng has taken advantage of the popular events of Teresa Teng’s death and the historical background of Xiangjiang’s upcoming return. With the appearance of two big stars, Luo Junyan and Maggie Cheung, at least the box office in the Asian film market is still very secure.

Luo Junyan himself is an immigrant who smuggled to Xiangjiang, and he has a deep affection for Teresa Teng. When shooting this love literary film, he has mastered the emotions, overall atmosphere, and narrative rhythm of the actors to a superb level.

Directing “Sweet Honey” is Luo Junyan’s best performance since he became a director, because he has already sprouted the idea of ​​temporarily retiring from the Xiangjiang entertainment circle.

In the summer file of 1995, the army sister’s letting go of work had a great impact on the theater. During the same period, it was impossible to line up three suitable films. The Oriental Snow Country Cinemas can only rely on a foreign film “Die Hard Die Hard 3” to hold on to the situation, and choose Chang Ying “Die Hard Die Hard 3” until the end of the summer.

After Sister Army resumed her normal work, “Midnight Sing” and “I Want to Live” produced by Oriental Film Company, as well as “Gambling Saint 2 Street Gambling Saint” produced by Wang Xiaopang Company were screened successively. Unfortunately, “The Saint of Gamblers 2” is no longer available, and I can’t afford to star Zhou Xingchi, the protagonist is replaced by Ge Minhui.

Xinbao Cinemas wants to maintain the scale of the cinemas, this time it is really hard to pull the film out. At the beginning of July, in addition to the film produced by Zhang Min, the main push was “Return to the Soul Night” produced by Shaw Brothers and starring Stephen Chow. The subsequent schedule was given to Taiwan Scholars Corporation to release “The Adventurer” starring Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian. After that, it will be screened by Yongsheng, starring Stephen Chow’s “March of the Stars”.

In addition, there is “Die Hardy” produced by Yang Dengkui’s investment, directed by Wang Jing and Lin Weilun, starring Jet Li, Jacky Cheung, Qiu Shuzhen, and Lin Guobin.

The film was selected to be screened together in August in the Oriental Snow Country Cinema Line and Xinbao Cinema Line. The script was written by Huang Zhiqiang, who directed “Crime Squad”. He had a conflict with Long Ge during the filming of “Crime Squad”. With this film, he satirized that Long Ge had no real skills and would only use a substitute.

The Golden Harvest Cinemas was also unwilling to show weakness and screened “The Salvation Stick” starring Tony Leung, Chen Xiaochun, and Karen Mok, and “Thunderbolt Fire” starring Long Ge and Anita Yuan.

During the filming of “Thunderbolt”, Anita Yuen was considered a big deal, and Long Ge did not even bother asking her to make up a recording. A female artist treated a large production of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in this way, and she couldn’t say nowhere. As a result, Long Ge announced in the circle that she would never cooperate. Luo Junyan immediately expressed her full support for Long Ge’s decision.

Thinking that he is a bit famous and dependent on the rich, he is really lost on the road of life. Luo Junyan also hates this kind of artist who is unwilling to work hard.