Struggle leads to destruction, but it also makes the strong.
Just after "The True Colors of Heroes" made history with a box office of 34.65 million, less than a year later, Jiahe snatched the champion of the Hong Kong film history box office list.
The "Digging the Wall Foot Strategy" once again yielded miraculous results.
With the help of Zeng Zhiwei and Tan Yonglin, who had played for the new art city, Jackie Chan's 1987 Lunar New Year blockbuster "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" achieved 35.47 million box office, and Jiahe achieved three consecutive spring festival stalls with absolute advantages.
Tan Yonglin's classic song "Friend" is the theme song of this movie. This song was confronted in the music scene with Zhang Guorong's "Hero's True Colors" theme song "Love of the Year", and Hong Kong Music's Tan Zhang Zhengba entered a state of fierce battle.
With the defeat of "Best Partner 4" the previous year, as well as the further differentiation within the team, New Art City is no longer the main opponent of Jiahe in the Spring Festival slot.
Mai Jia had no intention of fighting again, xu Guanjie and Teddy Robin, starring Dillon, created a science fiction film "Wesley Legend" to compete in the Spring Festival file.
Perhaps influenced by the success of "The True Colors of Heroes", both of the two who used to be good at comedy have completely abandoned the comedy route.
However, in the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, comedy is still very popular. It is also a reference to "Raiders of the Lost Ark", taking an exotic route, and the theme is extremely similar to "Brother Dragon tiger brother", winning is winning in order to make the audience happy and enjoyable.
And Jackie Chan faced the re-emergence of the new art city, and the action scenes were more bold. There was a scene where he jumped directly from the mountain and wanted to borrow a branch to land on the ground, but he did not expect that the branch was accidentally broken during the shooting, he fell directly to the ground, his head landed on the ground, and he almost died.
"The Legend of Wesley", which was robbed of many audiences by Jackie Chan, only got 18.71 million at the box office in the end. It is only more than two million more than the mirage produced by the small company Goodman Entertainment.
If it were in the early '80s, that number would have been the highest. But today, unlike in the past, "The Legend of Wesley" can only rank 16th in the annual Hong Kong film box office list.
Replacing New Art City and Jiahe is Debao Film Company.
Hong Jinbao, one of the founders, as the head brand of Jiahe, can slowly only serve as foreign aid. Although Debao took over the Shaw Cinema Line, the production team is still a bit thin.
I have to suspect that it was Hong Jinbao's idea to pry away Zeng Zhiwei, and Debao used the same way to weaken the power of new art city.
3 years ago, Huang Baiming promoted screenwriter Gao Zhisen to help him direct "Happy Ghost", which was a box office success and another big IP of Xinyi City.
Gao Zhisen naturally became an important assistant for Huang Baiming when fighting in the new art city, but Debao was a fierce hand, and the high salary asked Gao Zhisen to jump ship.
With higher authority and higher salary, Gao Zhisen has no reason not to go.
Many years later, the media "Southern Metropolis Daily" revealed that New Art City had found Huang Xia to persuade Gao Zhisen to stay, and as a result, Huang Xia listened to the conditions given by Debao, but instead encouraged Gao Zhisen to leave.
Fortunately, Huang Baiming's men are full of talents. After losing Gao Zhisen in 1986, Huang Baiming pulled in TVB director Du Qifeng to direct the third part of the series "Happy Ghost Collision", which performed steadily at the box office and ranked 10th in the annual ranking of Hong Kong films.
After testing the waters such as "Crazy Me" in Debao, Gao Zhisen got the opportunity to hang the Spring Festival stall.
He came up with the "Rich and Powerful" that he had been brewing for a long time, but failed to set up a project in new art city.
The story cuts to the plot of many ordinary people's dreams - winning the lottery, the combination of Shen Dianxia and Zeng Zhiwei is excellent. Catering to the festive atmosphere of the New Year and supplementing the market space outside the action movies, "Rich and Powerful" won 27.14 million in a dark horse posture, and Debao laid the three-legged situation with Jiahe and New Art City.
Hong Kong family celebration genre film has been created, how should Huang Baiming, who "walked treasure", get back his own wealth?
Mai Jia did not know.
He has already helped Huang Baiming retain Gao Zhisen, and as an entrepreneurial brother, there is no need to say.
The independence of Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng directly led to the collapse of the collective creation mode of the seven monsters of the new art city, and everyone formed a new model of group producers leading the team and occasionally helping each other. Compared with worrying about Huang Baiming's situation, his own side is more troublesome.
When filming "Best Partner 4", he could only find someone from the rookie pile to direct.
Finding someone who can handle the big picture is not easy.
Looking around, he pulled in Lin Lingdong, who had directed "Yin and Yang Wrong". At that time, because the original directors Yang Dechang, Liang Puzhi and others did not shoot according to the script, according to the rules of the new art city, it was not allowed, and Lin Lingdong took over the plate and finally completed the task of selling.
However, Lin Lingdong is actually not good at comedy style, and Mai Jia can't manage so much, at most, the comedy part is directed by himself.
Lin Lingdong was skilled, and he once again completed the task. "Best Partner 4" has not collapsed at the box office, but lacks the creativity inspired by the joint creation of the seven monsters, and has no advantage over competitors. Unfortunately losing to Hong Jinbao, who is in his peak state, is helpless, and it is not too bad reality.
The impact of "The True Colors of Heroes" on New Art City is far-reaching.
McGaard misread this historic work, and he was reflective. Otherwise, xu Guanjie and Teddy Robin will not let go of a sci-fi genre film that has never had a successful case in the market, abandoning comedy elements, and going out to compete for the Spring Festival file.
"The Legend of Wesley" ended in failure, but the water spilled out could not be recovered.
He also let Lin Lingdong make a movie he wanted to make.
When Lin Lingdong finished the film, sure enough, the story ended with a tragedy, or it was not suitable for children, and the hand-held shooting technique was still a bit avant-garde. A good film is a good film, but whether it is sold or not depends on life.
On the bright side, this kind of tragic film is not without success stories, and "Hitchhiking" is one. "The True Colors of Heroes" is also quite strong, and there is also Zhou Runfa as the protagonist, which should be able to call on a group of die-hard loyalists of "Little Ma Brother" to buy tickets to support.
It must be thanks to Chow Yun Fat's performance, Mai Jia finally saved some decline. The box office of 19.72 million can almost compensate for the loss of the Spring Festival stall.
Lin Lingdong's non-comedy debut, the title of the film rubbed the heat of the previous "Dragon and Tiger Brothers".
It's called Dragon and Tiger Storm.
What has become synonymous with Lin Lingdong is not "dragon and tiger", but "wind and clouds".
If the most precious Makana immediately strongly supported, let Lin Lingdong unscrupulously display his talents, and assured him that he would continue to have Zhou Runfa as the protagonist.
Lin Lingdong did not disappoint Mai Jia, he handed over a "Prison Storm" in November, angrily slashing 31.62 million at the box office. If it is released in the summer file, I am afraid that the record of "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother" will be broken.
The summer of 1987 was incredibly lively.
Mai Dangxiong and Xiang Huasheng joined forces to jointly produce "Jianghu Love", grabbing Zhou Runfa's starring role, accumulating 21.01 million box office to start the first shot.
Wang Jing came to Xiang Huasheng's newly opened Yongsheng Film Company in the same year after Shaw's abandonment of the film, followed by a "Hardcover Chasing Girls", which reached 21.72 million at the box office.
Debao also snatched Zhou Runfa and unexpectedly used a pure romance film "Autumn Fairy Tale" to lay down 25.55 million, easily surpassing Yongsheng's two commercial productions.
Tsui's remake program continued and continued to get the schedule for the summer slot. The release of "Qiannu Ghost" directed by Xiaodong was directly affected by the "Autumn Fairy Tale" just two days ago, coupled with the novel style, the initial box office was not good, and it could only rely on word of mouth to drive the staying power, accumulating 18.83 million.
Years later, both films are regarded as the supreme classics of Hong Kong.
Many people don't know that the box office of "Qiannu Ghost", which created the fantasy route of ancient martial arts, is average, that is because it bumped into Zhou Runfa, who is in the limelight!
Another new opponent Yongsheng, Debao continues to have a good performance, Jiahe is not in danger, continue to use Hong Jinbao Jackie Chan two signboards to cope with changes unchanged.
After losing the new art city in 1985, the pair of Wang Bombers regained their respective leads. Hong Jinbao's "Oriental Condor" 21.6 million unfortunate defeat Wang Jing does not matter, Jackie Chan's "Plan A sequel" after the strike, directly killed the same period of Zeng Zhiwei's return to the new art city of the work "Happy Don't Speak", bombarded 31.46 million, the soldier did not blood blade won the summer championship.
The new force of Yongsheng was full of arrogance, but it was still too young to meet Brother Long, who was reaching the peak.
When Jackie Chan is about to win the annual box office championship and runner-up, the only thing that can stop him is Zhou Runfa, who transforms into "Immortal Hair".
"Prison Storm" creates a new prison theme Hong Kong film, the story is both bloody and moving, in which the actors have played their own characteristics, especially Zhang Yaoyang, Cheng Kui'an, these fierce characters, which greatly intensified the gunpowder flavor of the plot and made the audience addicted.
The Christmas file added another "Hero 2", steadily winning 22.72 million. A total of 11 Hong Kong films exceeded 20 million in the whole year, of which Shen Xian Fa alone accounted for 6.
Although Jackie Chan retained the annual ticket crown, the limelight was obviously slightly inferior.
In the next year's Academy Award competition, Shen Xianfa alone won 3 nominations, and won the emperor for two consecutive years with "Dragon and Tiger Storm", and Lin Lingdong won the best director and jumped to the first-line director.
In this period of the Wind and Cloud Meeting, Lin Lingdong's "Wind and Cloud Series" is like the existence of the uncrowned king.
Relying on the treasure of Lin Lingdong, Mai Jia regained the limelight inside the New Art City.
But the times are rising, and the slightest carelessness will be overwhelmed by a new wave.
The McGarryn Ridge East Group focused on the third part of the "Fengyun Series", "School Storm", and won the summer file of 1988.
Unfortunately, lin Lingdong's topic selection this time is too realistic, he originally intended to explore the problem of campus violence, but it is too violent shots, and the scale of the tragic world has attracted a lot of criticism. It took a lot of effort for Mai Jia to make the deleted film available.
Mai Jia is Chengye Linling East, defeat also Lin Lingdong. A little comforting is that another of his works, "Tiger Out of the Change", has a surprise score of 27.86 million, and with the help of Shen Xianfa, the former Shaw director Liu Jialiang was reborn and broke into the top ten of the annual box office with a non-martial arts film.
Another old jianghu Xu Guanwen is also not old, he can not innovate his comedy style, so he changed the strategy, let others help him direct, himself starring. In 1986, he used "Detective Chocolate" to finally break through the 20 million box office and help Jiahe dominate the Christmas file, thus ending the cooperation with Jiahe.
Two years later, he found two newcomers, Gao Zhisen and Yu Rentai, and collided with a "Chicken and Duck Talk", which reached 29.38 million at the box office.
At the time of the gathering, how can there be no Xu's movies.
Back to New Art City.
After a turning point in 1985, several of the start-up members took turns to work alone.
In 1986 it was Xu Ke;
In 1987 it was McGaard;
In 1988, it was Huang Baiming's turn.
Huang Baiming saw that the apprentice Gao Zhisen had left him and broke into the hall of fame, so he did the same and also made a family celebration film.
With Zhou Runfa again, "Eight Star Annunciation" not only made Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful" take more than one million less than last year, but also suppressed jackie chan and Hong Jinbao's "Flying Dragon Fierce" again, and the box office rushed to 37.09 million.
The historical box office record of the Hong Kong film market has been broken again.
With the summer "Police Story Sequel" stuck at 34.15 million, Huang Baiming helped New Art City regain the annual ticket title after a year.
I don't know if Gao Zhisen will regret leaving.
Because he did not leave, it must be him who directed "Eight Stars annunciation".
As a director, he will be the one who assists Wong Bai Ming in opening up a new era of comedy in Hong Kong cinema.
And it won't be Du Qifeng.
The infighting triggered a new creative peak in New Art City, and it was more artistic than the works in the early days of entrepreneurship.
Otherwise, the strong counterattack of The New Art City in Jiahe will fall rapidly when the aftermath of Debao, Ma Dangxiong, and Yongsheng sweeps in, and it will only be a flash in the pan in the history of film.
But infighting is like a double-edged sword, and New Art City has never been able to minimize the damage to the harmful side.
In 1986, Mai Jia went out to earn extra money, and intentionally or unintentionally helped Jia He shoot "Best Lucky Star", which was like inserting a thorn into the heart of New Art City.
This thorn was not pulled out, but it was also poked in before the Spring Festival in 1989.
The person who started it was Huang Baiming.
"Eight Star Annunciation" won a big victory, and he wanted to hit the iron while it was hot and take another year's Spring Festival schedule.
However, Mai Jia was determined to use "New Best Partner" to reinvigorate her strength, use Liu Jialiang as a director, and recruit Zhang Guorong to join.
He has already given up the Spring Festival stalls of the previous two years, this time it is his turn, or give Shi Tian another chance to turn over, not too much, right?
Huang Baiming didn't know.
He only knew that Mai Jia could go out and earn extra money that year, and he could do the same himself. And the opportunity he got was to cooperate with Xu Guanwen and reminisce with Gao Zhisen, why not?
When "New Best Partner" confirmed the schedule, Huang Baiming's "Family Fun" that helped the team was blocked in front of him.
The members of the Seven Monsters of New Art City have fled, and in turn, they have a tit-for-tat confrontation with New Art City.
Why didn't Huang Baiming show mercy?
How did his battle with Mai Jia, and the final fate of New Art City, end?
Please listen to the next "Legend of New Art City" finale breakdown.