In 1986, Chow Yun-fat won the first Hong Kong Film Award with "The True Colors of Heroes" of New Art City, and threw off the hat of box office poison in one fell swoop. In the next three years, he won two consecutive Academy Awards for "Dragon and Tiger" and "The Story of Ah Lang", and has since become the most important superstar in the Hong Kong film industry. Zhou Runfa's four years and three film emperors are all produced by New Art City, which can be said to be the achievement of Zhou Runfa in New Art City, and Zhou Runfa also returned to New Art City very well at the box office. From 1986 to 1990, Zhou Runfa made more than a dozen blockbuster movies for New Art City, of which "Hero's True Colors" and "Eight-Star Annunciation" were box office champions, and "Heroes' True Colors 2", "Prison Storm", "Tiger Out", "A Lang's Story" and so on were ranked in the top ten of the year.
Building on the film's success, in 1985 New Art City partnered with PolyGram to create New Art Company Records. The operating strategy of New Art City is that if any star who signs a contract with New Art City film can also make a record, then the record contract is bound to New Art City; similarly, New Art City's singers have the opportunity to appear in New Art City's movies. This kind of integrated marketing method of synchronous packaging of movie stars and singers soon became popular in Hong Kong and became the norm in the industry, because the strength of New Art City in the film market made many stars willing to cooperate. In 1988, BEYOND signed a contract with New Art City, and since then it has also begun to shoot new art city films; in 1990, BEYOND cooperated with New Art City's first brother Zhou Runfa to star in the first New Year film "Auspicious Star Arch".
"Ji Xing GongZhao" is directed by Du Qifeng, starring Zhou Runfa and Zhang Aijia, and co-starring Li Zhi, Zheng Danrui, Huang Kunxuan, BEYOND, Xia Yu and so on. The story tells the story of Hong Kong Super Kuo Shaolin Baosheng who ran away from home because he was dissatisfied with the marriage of his elders and his cousin Li Zhi, accidentally went to Zhang Aijia's fast food restaurant to work, and finally gave up his family property to come together with his lover Zhang Aijia. The film was released on January 18, 1990, 10 days after the Spring Festival of that year, and is a standard New Year's eve film. In the end, the Hong Kong box office ranked 8th in 2029. [That year, Zhou Xingchi turned out to be the box office champion with "Gamble Saint"]
In 1989, Chow Yun-fat starred in a number of blockbuster films for New Art City, the best box office was Du Qifeng's "The Story of Ah Lang". "A Lang's Story" is a love tragedy, but it has received 30.91 million at the box office, ranking 4th in the year, only more than 5 million less than Zhou Runfa's masterpiece "God of Gamblers" for Yongsheng, which makes New Art City very happy. Therefore, in this year, New Art City used the team of "A Lang's Story", plus the newly signed BEYOND and Li Zhi, etc., to make this New Year comedy "Jixing Arch", the only regret is that there is no Wu Mengda. In "The Story of Ah Lang", Zhou Runfa died in a car crash; in "Jixing Arch", Zhou Runfa can finally come together with Zhang Aijia, and the lover will eventually become a family. Such a happy ending can not only entertain the public, but also make a lot of money, and everyone is happy. In "The Story of Ah Lang", Zhou Runfa Zhang Aijia and child star Huang Kunxuan are a family of three, and "Ji xing arch photo" uses photos of the three of them together, and it is simply a movie without text. [3 months after the release of "Ji Xing Gongzhao", Zhou Runfa won the third Academy Award for Film Emperor with "The Story of Ah Lang", and everything was too complete]
Since its inception in 1983, BEYOND has developed mediocrely, having only opened 3 concerts and produced an album and several EPs before signing with New Yibao. After arriving at New Yibao, the opportunities for albums and concerts slowly increased, and it was also during this period that the classic four-person duo of Huang Jiaju, Huang Guanzhong, Huang Jiaqiang, and Ye Shirong was determined, and began to appear in some movies of New Art City, "Ji Xing Gongzhao" was BEYOND's first New Year film.
BEYOND's hair used to be very long, and it was only cut short after the new art treasure, and then with the promotion of the new art city movie, BEYOND's healthy and positive image was loved by more young men and women. In "Ji Xing Gong Zhao", BEYOND's fourth son Huang Jiaju Huang Guanzhong Huang Jia Qiang Ye Shirong plays the guy of Zhang Aijia's fast food restaurant, named You Travel East to South to West to North, listening to the name you know that it is four brothers. Chow Yun-fat was the most popular movie star in Hong Kong at that time, and he was also the signature of New Art City, so he also occupied the scenery in movies. However, New Art City is also working hard to praise BEYOND, and in the movie, they are the same from work clothes to pajamas, making them more visually eye-catching. In the plot of the movie, they were specially arranged to be themselves, participate in the "Hong Kong Rookie Singer Competition" as singers, and sing their original song "Midnight Complaint". Finally, at the end of the film, when Zhou Runfa introduced the character ending in a fixed frame, the four brothers who traveled to the southeast, south, and northwest, sang famously, and finally became a famous band in Hong Kong, and also named a French named BEYOND, and the Teochew dialect was called Bean.
In "Auspicious Arch", Chow Yun Fat is still charming, he comes from a rich family in Hong Kong, but he is also the only male in the family, there is a grandmother in the family; grandma's sister is also a rich man, and there is only one granddaughter in the family, Li Zhi. Therefore, the second elder designated the two to marry, you can jointly inherit the property of the two families, if Zhou Runfa is not willing to marry or Li Zhi is not willing to marry, the property of the two families will automatically belong to the other family. Zhou Runfa was reluctant, and when he went out to shop, he met Zhang Aijia and stopped by to work in her brother's fast food restaurant. Later, it is mainly the process of Zhou Runfa working in a fast food restaurant and pursuing Zhang Aijia, during which Zhou Runfa's housekeeper appears from time to time to show his family's wealth. In the end, Zhou Runfa gave up the inheritance property for Zhang Aijia; while Li Zhi tracked Zhou Runfa all the way, he accidentally got together with Zheng Danrui, who pursued Zhang Aijia, and finally became a couple. In this way, neither of them got the property, and the film also arranged for Zhou Runfa to play a Teochew-speaking driver at the same time, and finally the driver recognized the two old ladies as dry mothers, and the property of the two families eventually reached the hands of Zhou Runfa, which is really a god screenwriter. [A Zhou Runfa is a grandson, a Zhou Runfa is a dry son, this generation is a bit chaotic ah]
How dashing Zhou Runfa was at that time, how cute BEYOND was at that time, and how good the Hong Kong movies were at that time!