Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire - Chapter 643

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Mid-October 1988.

Under the suggestion of Wan Qiwen and Li Ruotong, Xu Cun took the girls to Phuket in Thailand for more than ten days. On the way, Xu Cun went to Thailand to take a look at the DreamWorks Cinema Line (Thailand Cinema Line) – last year, When Xu Cun invested part of the funds in Bangkok, he asked He Chaoqiong and Jiang Zhiqiang to build a DreamWorks Cinema Line (Thailand Cinema Line), the largest cinema chain in Thailand, consisting of 19 multiplex cinemas. At the same time, Xu Cun also asked He Chaoqiong and Jiang Zhiqiang to build many multiplex cinemas in other countries in Nanyang, joining Shaw Brothers (Nanyang) and Cathay Pacific respectively. In other words, DreamWorks Cinemas has begun to land in the countries of Nanyang.

end of October.

The Hong Kong Film Directors Association was established.

In order to participate in the ceremony of the establishment of the director’s association, Xu Cun brought his daughters back to Xiangjiang from Phuket on October 28.

The director’s meeting is in the initial stage, and Xu Cun is already the best choice for the chairman.

After pushing it several times and failing to push it down, Xu Cuncai agreed to serve as the first president of the director’s association (the specific work is in charge of the vice president Wu Siyuan, Xu Cun is actually a nominal) – no wonder Wu Si Yuan et al. insisted that Xu Cun be the chairman of the director’s association. It is because Xu Cun’s reputation and status are too high. If Xu Cun is the chairman of the director’s association, the director’s association will cooperate with the film industry association. As soon as it was born, it can attract countless directors to join.

In fact, this is also the case. Because Xu Cun is the chairman of the director’s association, almost all directors of Xiangjiang have joined the director’s association. These directors are not only film directors, but also TV directors, commercial directors, and stage play directors. Director wait…

As the first president of the director’s association, Xu Cun had to do something for the director’s association.

After thinking about it again and again, Xu Cun decided to donate 100 million Hong Kong dollars to the Directors Association to set up a “New Director Support Fund” to support new directors.

The specific operations are as follows:

First, rookie directors (those who have not independently directed released films) find their own scripts, and then take them to the director’s council for review.

If the script brought by the rookie director can be approved by the director’s council, the director’s council will allocate a certain production fee to the rookie director-if the rookie director needs it, the director’s council will also send a consultant to direct the rookie director to direct the film.

After the film is produced, the copyright belongs to the Directors’ Association, and the Directors’ Association finds theaters for the film – at present, DreamWorks Cinemas (the Hong Kong branch) mainly provides theaters for the Directors’ Association at market prices.

The income earned by the film, after deducting production costs and publicity costs, will be distributed to new directors and directors according to 19%, and 90% of the income earned by the director’s association will be returned to the “New Director Support Fund” to continue to support new directors.

The ‘Supporting New Directors Fund’ established by Xu Cun is a great act of kindness for those new directors who have not even had the opportunity to direct, and even for the entire Hong Kong film industry, and it will also be a hope that Hong Kong Film will not decline— – In the last life, since the golden period of Heung Kong films in the early and mid 1990s, the directors of Heung Kong have been in a state of incompetence. It can even be said that there are almost no decent new directors born in Heung Kong. This is also one of the reasons for the decline of Heung Kong films. .

Since Xu Cun established the “Fostering New Directors Fund”, Xu Cun’s reputation in the film industry has reached a new high.

What happened next pushed Xu Cun’s prestige in the film industry to a higher level – this is the Hong Kong Film Classification System promoted by the Hong Kong Film Industry Association, which is also chaired by Xu Cun. officially implemented.

According to the “Film Censorship Ordinance”, Chapter 392 of the Laws of Hong Kong, films intended to be screened or distributed in Hong Kong on video tapes or laser discs must be submitted to the Hong Kong Film and Television and Entertainment Licensing Office (hereinafter referred to as the Hong Kong Film and Television Office) for grading and approved by the Hong Kong Film and Television Office. In addition to the approval of the Director, movie trailers, educational films and cultural films are also subject to inspection, but no classification is required.

The movie classification is mainly divided into three poles: I, II, and III according to the age limit of the audience:

Classes I and II are advisory in nature and have no statutory age limit;

For IIA or IIB films, the film and television department encourages parents to accompany and guide their children to watch;

Class III is the most restrictive. Tickets cannot be sold to people aged 18 or under to enter the cinema. The law allows ticket inspectors to check the ID cards of the entrants.

(People outside the Hong Kong area may misunderstand that a “grade III movie” is a pornographic film. In fact, films with scenes of **** violence, horror, and descriptions of controversial moral values ​​in society will also be rated as third grade movies. At the same time, **** may appear in non-grade III films. However, when the classification system started, only pornographic films that were banned in the past were submitted for inspection, so the public would have such an illusion. The Wolf’s Case was submitted for inspection as the first film to be rated as Level III for excessive violence.)

The packaging of Class III video tapes or discs, as well as the promotional materials of Class III films, must be submitted to the Film Censorship Authority for approval before distribution or public display.

All rated films, whether they are screened in cinemas or distributed in media such as laser discs, must display a copy of the “Certificate of Approval of the Film Censorship Ordinance” (referred to as “Electronic Inspection Paper”) issued by the Film and Television Department.

The grading system can be said to be a double-edged sword – the emergence of the grading system means that the standards of the electric inspection system in Hong Kong have begun to loosen, which has led to a flood of films that exaggerate violence and color blue. However, on the other hand, Hong Kong filmmakers have also gained more freedom of creation, and then they can produce excellent works that break through the taboos of the subject matter. 995 became the most prosperous period in the history of Hong Kong film industry.

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In view of the fact that the last generation of Hong Kong Films went astray because of the color blue, which led to the decline of Hong Kong Films to a certain extent, and there was a beacon of Japanese films to guide the way, on the second day after the implementation of the Hong Kong Film Rating System, Xu Cun Let Phoenix TV, TVB and DreamWorks News publicly pass on a solemn statement of their own – DreamWorks will never produce and distribute Class III movies, and strictly control the distribution of Class IIB movies.

This statement by Xu Cun is to clearly tell the filmmakers of Hong Kong: I, Xu, do not support filmmakers in making films that exaggerate violence and cyan!

As soon as Xu Cun’s statement came out, many filmmakers who wanted to use violence and **** as a gimmick to make a lot of money, while scolding Xu Cun for “hypocrisy”, also began to hesitate whether to make a third-level movie!

The day after Xu Cun issued the statement, Zou Chongjin, on behalf of Jiahe and Huang Baiming, also issued a statement on behalf of Xinyicheng: All the staff of Jiahe and Xinyicheng support Mr. Xu~www.mtlnovel.com~ Jiahe and Xinyicheng will never produce The distribution of Class III films and Class IIB films is also strictly controlled.

Under the attitude of Xu Cun, the emperor of the Hong Kong film world, the vast majority of filmmakers have withdrawn from the production of third-level films, which has led to the fact that Hong Kong has no longer been flooded with violence and **** like the previous life. Movie.

mid-November.

Xu Cun began to personally arrange the development direction of the companies under his name in the coming year…

End of January 1989.

Xu Cun went to Musha Island for vacation with his family, his more than 1,000 bodyguards and more than 500 maids.

Before leaving, Xu Cun solemnly paid He Chaoqiong, Mei Aifang, Li Zhi, Hu Huizhong, Meng Guangmei, Weng Hong, Li Ke, Zheng Haiquan, Yuan Tianfan, Lin Fannan and Wu Zimei who were the housekeepers in his place: “In the next six months, Except for you and Deng Gong, I don’t see anyone, and I don’t answer anyone’s phone!”

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