Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Cheng Yutong looked strange, "You want to mess with them in the mainland?"

"If they can exclude me in Hong Kong, I can naturally exclude them in the mainland," said Zhou Ziheng.

Cheng Yutong smiled and didn't say anything else.

Maybe he felt that Zhou Ziheng was unlikely to achieve this goal.

Zhou Ziheng didn't say anything else.

Now, no one thinks that the mainland market will one day surpass the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.

However, in fact, within a few years, the mainland market will surpass Hong Kong and Taiwan and become the largest film market in the Chinese-speaking region.

At that time, Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers will flock north to look for opportunities.

In fact, it won’t even take a few years. Starting next year, a large number of Hong Kong filmmakers will begin to move north.

Just like Zhou Ziheng said.

In Hong Kong, this is your home ground, you have more people, and you are awesome.

But wait until you go north and I'll show you how I'll deal with you.

Who doesn't know how to form cliques?
Market is king, wait until the mainland market becomes the leader.

No matter how much you Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers recall your past glory, it cannot stop us in the mainland from not using you.

Just as you excluded us in the past, we will treat you the same way now.

However, to be honest, Hong Kong and Taiwan will still have some time to enjoy their heyday.

In the past, around two thousand years ago, the mainland market had actually surpassed Hong Kong and Taiwan.

However, the status of Hong Kong and Taiwan artists in the mainland is still quite high.

For a long time, Hong Kong and Taiwan have suppressed mainland artists in the mainland.

In the major drama crews at that time, the protagonists were mostly artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

There is no way, Hong Kong and Taiwan artists can sell tickets.

This situation would continue until 10 years later, when the situation would be reversed, mainland artists would begin to exert their strength, and a large number of mainland film companies would start to produce their own films.

By that time, artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan began to fall behind completely.

It was also at that time that mainland artists began to exclude the Hong Kong and Taiwan artists who had once excluded them on a large scale.

In fact, around the year 2000, mainland artists were still living in a miserable situation.

At that time, Hong Kong and Taiwan companies and artists were very exclusive to mainland artists, and it could almost be said that they suppressed them.

Among male actors, although there are several talented young actors from the mainland, they cannot break into the film industry at all. Even if they enter the film industry, they can only play supporting roles for Hong Kong and Taiwan artists.

This is the reason for being excluded and suppressed.

Artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan are still very far-sighted, they only use their own people.

Although the policy was issued at that time that a co-production film must have a protagonist who is from the mainland.

But Hong Kong and Taiwan also have countermeasures. They never give the male lead role to a mainlander, but choose to give up the female lead.

It is under such circumstances that a few female stars such as Li Bingbing can rise rapidly.

As for male stars, they can forget about being the protagonist unless it is a movie produced by a mainland film company.

What Zhou Ziheng needs to do now is to change this situation so that companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan will not use them.

OK! He Hengyu uses it.

In his Hengyu's movies, artistes from Hong Kong and Taiwan will no longer be able to play the leading roles. He will only use people from the mainland as the leading roles.

He just didn't believe that with so many good ideas in his mind, he couldn't produce a few first-tier stars.

……

After the release of "Tazza", Zhou Ziheng spent a lot of money on publicity.

Despite the exclusion from the Hong Kong circle, this movie still attracted considerable attention in Hong Kong.

Recently, his grievances with the Hong Kong circle could almost fill a novel.

The origin of these grudges was "Tazza".

Ordinary people are full of curiosity about this movie.

Even though Jackie Chan and other big names in the Hong Kong entertainment industry have been strongly urging people not to contribute to the box office of "Tazza".

It also can't stop everyone from being curious about this movie.

Besides, the protagonist of this movie is Zhou Ziheng.

Although he has never officially released a Cantonese album, Zhou Ziheng has a large number of fans in Hong Kong.

His fan base in Hong Kong is no less than that of the Four Heavenly Kings. With these fans alone, his movies will not lack box office revenue in the early stages.

Plus other ordinary movie fans.

After the movie was released, it immediately achieved very impressive box office results.

The first day's profit was 2.1 million.

After one week of release, it grossed a total of 11 million yuan at the box office, directly surpassing "Firestorm" and "The King of Comedy" which was released three days less.

As for movies like "Back at Night" and "Brave Heart".

It's already the end of the release period.

"Brave Heart", a movie introduced by Zhou Ziheng from Hollywood, was released on the 23rd.

The total box office was 27.2 million.

Overall it is still considerable. Hengyu Cinemas and Fox have a profit-sharing contract for distribution.

The profits were split 50-50, and Hengyu made a total profit of more than 18 million from this film.

Excluding publicity and other factors, the profit amount is around 13 million.

It must be said that the box office of this movie is not top-notch.

But the profit margin is very high, which makes other cinema chains jealous.

It also made companies like Golden Harvest extremely jealous.

It can be imagined that after "Brave Heart", Hong Kong's theater companies began to be attracted to Hollywood films.

Although no theaters have yet introduced Hollywood movies on a large scale.

But it won't be long before this situation is broken.

By then, the addition of a large number of Hollywood movies will only make the audience's tastes become more and more picky.

If this trend continues, those crude and shoddy Hong Kong films will be completely eliminated.

Let’s get back to the play “The Tazza”.

This movie is definitely a huge box office hit.

If this trend continues, it may even compete for the annual box office title.

However, the Hong Kong community obviously does not want to see this happen.

After seeing the box office success of "Tazza", companies including Golden Harvest and Yongsheng could no longer sit still.

They started to exert their strength.

In the following week, a large number of negative reviews about "The Tazza" began to appear in major newspapers.

“This movie is actually pretty average, and the reason it achieved this box office success is purely due to Zhou Ziheng’s popularity.

Without his fans, the movie would have tanked at the box office.”

"If it were me, I would never have the nerve to take the director's position for a movie that was shot by someone else."

"I am very familiar with Wai Ka Fai's style. This movie was actually shot by Wai Ka Fai, no matter how you edit it, it is still the same."

People didn't complain about the movie following the trend of gambling movies, but mainly focused on the fact that the movie was shot by a proxy.

Hong Kong directors are too embarrassed to complain about following trends.

As we all know, many Hong Kong movies are just copycats.

Whatever type of movie is popular, there will be a lot of people following suit.

In the 1980s, Cinema City's urban dramas became popular, and Golden Harvest followed suit, as did Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

Later, zombie movies became popular, and a lot of zombie movies followed suit.

This is true for gambling movies, gangster movies, etc.

Which Hong Kong director dares to stand up and say that he has never followed the trend?

So, there was no mention of following the trend.

Everyone is questioning whether the movie was shot by Zhou Ziheng.

Instead, they believe that the movie was actually shot by Wai Ka Fai.

Taking photos on behalf of others is something that is very despised in the circle.

They label Zhou Ziheng like this in the hope of discrediting him and making ordinary movie fans hate this movie.

(End of this chapter)