Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 192: Golden Horse Awards Approaching, "Tazza" Global Box Office Data (K)
(In 95, I auditioned for Heng Yu's classic movie "The Untold Story". Thanks to the acting skills I had honed at TVB, I successfully got the role of Lao Mian.

After the crew was formed, Mr. Zhou invited the crew to a meal as an investor.

Mr. Zhou didn't stay for long at that time. He left after a few minutes. When he left, he called me.

I still remember that his first words were "Join our Hengyu!"

I was very surprised by this. While I was excited that my efforts were finally valued, I was also hesitant.

At that time, Hengyu had a very bad relationship with the Hong Kong film industry, and many Hong Kong filmmakers were excluding Hengyu.

There was even news that any Hong Kong actor who starred in Hengyu's movies would be banned by the entire Hong Kong film industry.

I wanted to join Hengyu at that time, but I was afraid that I would be banned by the Hong Kong film industry, so I did not agree immediately.

Afterwards, I called a good friend of mine.

It was his words that made me decide to join Hengyu.

It can be said that if it weren’t for what that friend said, I might not have joined Hengyu.

To be honest, if I hadn’t joined Hengyu, I don’t know if I would still be in this industry now.

Maybe I have already left the acting industry." - Excerpted from Wu Zhenyu's 2014 autobiography "My Drama Life".

……

Wu Zhenyu's joining is good news for Hengyu.

This represents that in the Hong Kong film industry, apart from a small number of people, there are actually a large number of actors and directors who are not averse to Hengyu.

In addition, for now, Wu Zhenyu's joining can alleviate Hengyu's shortage of actors to a certain extent.

At least that's the case when it comes to strength.

Zhou Ziheng observed the crew of "The Conjuring" for two days. After seeing that the crew was on the right track, he left the crew and continued to promote "Too Soft-Hearted".

"Heart Too Soft" was released on November 1st, and in just one month, total sales have reached 4.7 million copies.

This is another popular album. The media listed it along with "Sad Pacific" and "Fairy Tale" as Zhou Ziheng's Mandarin trilogy.

Because the album was so popular, distributors from all over the country held a large number of signing events.

Zhou Ziheng has almost no free time. Every day he is either signing autographs for fans or on a plane flying to various places.

“‘Once Upon a Time’ has already started to chart and has achieved very impressive results on all major radio stations.

December 10th is the official release date, Xu Wei asked if you are free to come and support him! "

In December, when "Heart Too Soft" continued to be popular, another singer Xu Wei under Hengdong Records officially began promoting his new album "You Once".

The quality of the song "You Once" is very good. With Hengdong's vigorous promotion, the song has achieved good results on various charts.

Xu Wei had already become a little famous in China last year with the song "Persistence", and this song "You in the Past" made him completely famous in China.

He and Zheng Jun of Red Star Records are known as the Xu Wei of the South and Zheng Jun of the North in the folk music world.

The reason for this arrangement is that Hengdong Records is located in Guangzhou, which is in the south, while Zheng Jun's Red Star Records is in Beijing, which is in the north...

"Once Upon a Time" was released on December 10th, and during this period, Zhou Ziheng was definitely not in the mainland.

It’s not because of the promotion of "Too Soft-Hearted", but because the Wanwan Golden Horse Awards will be held on December 12th.

"Tazza" directed by Zhou Ziheng has been nominated for many awards and is a hot favorite this year. He must bring the crew to Wanwan to participate in the awards.

Zhou Ziheng couldn't afford to ignore it.

If this movie doesn't even win the Golden Horse Awards, then it is possible that this movie will really win nothing in terms of awards.

There is no way. First of all, the Golden Rooster Awards in the mainland lack influence. Secondly, "Tazza" is a gambling film, and it is impossible for such films to obtain screening rights in the mainland now.

Without the screening rights, you naturally cannot apply for awards.

And the Hong Kong Film Awards.

There is no need to talk about the Academy Awards. Even if "Tazza" is a classic that is rarely seen in a century, it is impossible for it to win the award.

This award is the preserve of the Hong Kong circle. Even if Zhou Ziheng had no conflicts with the Hong Kong circle, he would not have won the award. After all, not even half of the crew of "Tazza" are from Hong Kong, not to mention the requirement that two-thirds of the entries must be from Hong Kong.

In addition, Zhou Ziheng and the Hong Kong entertainment industry are at loggerheads. When the movie was released, he was severely criticized by the Hong Kong entertainment industry, so it was even more impossible for him to be nominated.

Therefore, the Golden Horse Award is the only award won by "Tazza":

Awards are something that play a very important role.

First of all, the winning works will have very good disc sales after winning the award.

Secondly, and most importantly for Hengyu, if he wins the award, the copyright of the play "Tazza" will be sold at a higher price.

Many people may not know that for awards like the Golden Horse Awards, they actually invite quite a few foreign film producers every year.

After winning the awards, the winning works will, to a certain extent, be valued by foreign film producers and introduced to Europe, the United States and other countries.

Of course, works that did not win awards will also be introduced, but the price of winning works is completely different from that of non-winning works.

There are various other benefits.

With the help of various factors, the award has many hidden benefits.

As time draws closer, Zhou Ziheng, who is currently holding a book signing event in Singapore, also begins to prepare to go to Wanwan.

Florence Hui also rushed over because she had to attend the awards ceremony.

Because she has been busy with the movie recently, Zhou Ziheng's agency work has been done by the newly recruited assistant Xiao Huang.

As soon as she arrived she started nagging.

"How on earth did this little yellow become a helper? What a mess the clothes in your room are in!"

"Damn it, could you please stop throwing your panties around."

She was really like a housekeeper. As soon as she arrived at the hotel, she started to clean up Zhou Ziheng's messy hotel room.

Zhou Ziheng ignored her. He was used to her housekeeping personality.

To be honest, sometimes I really can't get used to her not being around.

When she was around, Zhou Ziheng never had to worry about whether his room was messy or not. Every morning after getting up, she would come to help him clean up.

Recently, because her work focus has shifted to the film company, and the new assistant is a silly guy, Zhou Ziheng needs to do a lot of things by himself.

"This is the suit Anima sent. I see they seem very interested in you. I'm afraid they want to sign you!"

Florence Hui took out a new suit, which was sent to Zhou Ziheng by Anima.

Zhou Ziheng did not cooperate with Anima, but from the looks of it, the other party seemed to be very interested in him.

"You can contact them and see what kind of endorsement offer they can give."

Zhou Ziheng is surfing the Internet.

The Internet has advanced rapidly in the past two years, and some websites have emerged.

He was browsing a forum-like website at the moment.

There are already quite a few netizens posting there.

The posts at this time are much more interesting than those in later times.

There are all kinds of posts, including ghost stories, business sharing, and movie recommendations.

At this moment, he was browsing a movie recommendation post.

What made Zhou Ziheng happy was that after a number of classic movies such as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Forrest Gump", he actually saw "Tazza".

"Hong Kong film critics have belittled Tazza and it is, to be honest, a complete understatement. In fact, Tazza is definitely an underrated film. Although this is Zhou Ziheng's first time as a director, I really like his control of the camera.

It can be seen that it is a bit immature, but there is no doubt that it is this immaturity that makes this movie very meaningful.

The film tells the story of..."

It can be seen that the poster likes "Tazza" very much. He used adjectives such as "classic" and "unprecedented" to describe "Tazza".

Zhou Ziheng was inspired and replied to the post:

“Brother, you have a good eye, I also think this film is underrated.

Actually it’s not an underestimation. I really like what you said about being suppressed.

This is the fact. As far as I know, a circle has been formed in the Hong Kong film industry, and this circle only accepts Hong Kong directors and actors.

They exclude dissidents, and any foreign filmmaker who wants to succeed in Hong Kong must depend on them, or even curry favor with them.

As for Zhou Ziheng, he looked like a man who was not afraid of power and would never succumb to it.

Therefore, his relationship with the Hong Kong circle is very strained.

Everyone must have seen the reports from Hong Kong not long ago. Many actors and directors in Hong Kong were targeting Zhou Ziheng.

Obviously, Zhou Ziheng had touched their interests.

......"

Zhou Ziheng wrote a lot of things.

Anyway, this is on the Internet and no one knows who he is, so he used all the compliments he knew on himself, portraying himself as a loyal fan of Zhou Ziheng.

After writing this reply, Zhou Ziheng looked through some other posts.

I cursed a few people under several posts cursing him, saying that the other party didn't understand Zhou Ziheng.

Then I turned off the computer.

It's time, he has to catch a plane to go to Wanwan.

On the afternoon of December 8th, Zhou Ziheng and his group landed in Wanwan.

The company had already contacted the reporter and informed him of his visit to Wanwan today.

Therefore, after getting off the plane, Zhou Ziheng was immediately warmly welcomed by a large number of fans.

Compared to his visit to Taiwan last year, this time, there were obviously more fans coming to pick him up at the airport.

All this is thanks to the English album "Zhou Ziheng" and "The Swindler" which was just released on Wanwan TV not long ago.

"Tazza" was released on Taiwan in late August and was shown for a month and a half, earning a total of NT$86 million at the box office on Taiwan.

There is no doubt that this box office data is very impressive. Although it is not as good as "Rumble in the Bronx", it is also among the top in the ranks of Taiwanese Mandarin films this year.

In addition, "Heart Too Soft" is currently being released and is still at the top of the Taiwan Dragon and Tiger Golden Melody Chart.

This made Zhou Ziheng's influence in Wanwan reach its extreme level at this time.

I started working in Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1993, and it has been more than two years this year.

This year, Zhou Ziheng's popularity in Taiwan and other places has reached a peak.

The 1995 Wanwan Top Ten Idols Selection ended in November.

Zhou Ziheng moved up two places compared to last year, defeating Andy Lau's years-long championship reign for the first time and ranking first, becoming the top ten idols in 1995.

This is the help from movies and international influence.

The reason why Andy Lau has always been ranked first among the top ten idols is definitely because of his movies.

This year, Zhou Ziheng finally had a popular movie "Tazza", which naturally made him very popular.

Speaking of "Tazza".

This movie did not just achieve good box office success in Taiwan.

The film has very good box office data in Japan and South Korea.

In South Korea, after the movie was released, it received a total of 610,000 viewers.

The reason why it is the number of people is because the movie ticket prices in South Korea at that time were unified, with a uniform price of US$5.3 per movie ticket.

Therefore, when South Korea calculates movie box office statistics, it generally only counts the number of moviegoers.

Six hundred and ten thousand people, multiplied by 5.3 dollars, is the box office data, which is roughly 323 million US dollars.

Converted into RMB, it is about 22 million.

It may seem low, but for a small country like South Korea, this result is undoubtedly outstanding.

Then came Japan. Due to the popularity of the album "Zhou Ziheng" in Japan, "Tazza" also became a huge box office hit in Japan.

The box office data of "Tazza" in Japan even exceeded Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx", reaching a staggering 6.6 million, which is more than 690 million yen higher than "Rumble in the Bronx", which is equivalent to about 4830 million US dollars, or million RMB.

In fact, it is obvious from this data why Jackie Chan is the boss of the Chinese-language film industry. It is because his overseas markets are too strong.

Not to mention "Rumble in the Bronx", this movie has not been released in many regions yet.

Take last year’s “Drunken Master 2” for example.

Its box office in Hong Kong was 4097 million Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to 525 million US dollars.

Japan, 7.26 million yen, equivalent to 711 million US dollars.

In South Korea, there were 378715 passengers in Seoul and about 114 million passengers across South Korea. The average ticket price in South Korea that year was US$5.17, equivalent to US$589 million.

North America, $1156 million.

Taiwan, Greater Taipei, Taiwan ...

Malaysia, RM430 million, equivalent to US$194 million.

Singapore, 190 million+ SGD, equivalent to 128 million USD. Total 4210 million USD.

While everyone was still calculating box office data in Hong Kong dollars, this guy was already calculating it in US dollars.

In comparison, "Tazza" is actually weaker.

At the very least, "Tazza" was not released in mainland China, North America, or Europe.

Moreover, even if the film was released, Zhou Ziheng felt that it would not be able to get such a good box office.

But there is one thing to say.

Although compared with Jackie Chan, the data of "Tazza" is average.

But in the entire Chinese film industry, this data is already very impressive.

The current box office revenue of this film added together is not inferior to Jet Li's overseas box office revenue.

It is also because of these huge box office revenues in other places.

Thanks to this movie, Zhou Ziheng's popularity soared again, even surpassing Andy Lau.

But there is a saying that goes, it is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to keep it.

After all, there are too few movies in which Zhou Ziheng himself stars.

If he doesn't have any good movies to follow up, the advantage he has built up now may not last long.

Those who fell in love with him because of movies will probably stop being his fans soon if his subsequent movies are of poor quality.

(End of this chapter)