Hong Kong Comic Master

"Wow, the box office has exceeded 1 billion yen? How much does it cost in Hong Kong dollars?"

"It should be about 50 million!"

"I never thought that anime could make so much money. I'm old!"

When the Japanese box office of "Bleach: Call of You" was reported back to Hong Kong Island, it broke the 1 billion mark in less than a month, which immediately caused an uproar.

Before this, it's not that there were no Hong Kong Island movies that were successful in Japan, such as "Fist of Fury", "Enter the Dragon", "Drunken Master", "Half a Catty, Eight Taels", etc.

It can be seen that the movie genre is either a double dragon action movie or a deadpan comedy, which also represents the hottest and best movie genre in the Hong Kong Island movie market.

As for other genres, although there are also, such as romance films, feature films, thrillers, etc., one is that the box office is not good, and the other is that they cannot go to the overseas market, so they are not valued by most film companies.

But now, a new movie genre is making money, and making a lot of money!

The key is that for this type of movie, Neon should be more outstanding!

This is like showing off one's sword in front of Guan Gong, and actually winning!

Such a dreamlike result surprised everyone!

Generally, when encountering such a situation, Hong Kong's film companies will start copying!

But this time they encountered a problem, they would not do this type of movie!

Except for DreamWorks and Shenlong Animation, it seems that no one else in Hong Kong's film companies can make this type of movie!

Uncle Shao Liu put down the newspaper in his hand, and he didn't know how many times he felt about the young man Li Wannian.

Every amazing move was enough to cause an uproar in Hong Kong.

"We also have an animation department at TVB, do you want to try it too?" Fang Yihua came over with tea.

Although the current Hong Kong film market is still dominated by Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, the unexpected rise of Cinema City has broken this pattern.

In February this year, the movie "Happy Fairy Nest" released by Xinyicheng achieved a box office of 5.11 million, ranking among the top five in Hong Kong Island. In addition, their film company will also launch many films such as "Ghosts and Wisdom" and "Chasing Girls" this year. It's coming in full force!

The financial backer behind Xinyicheng is Li Wanshan's Qilin Entertainment, and behind Qilin Entertainment are the Li brothers.

Looking at his own Shaw Brothers, although it seems to be still strong in the eyes of outsiders, Uncle Shaw himself knows very well that Shaw Brothers is already on the decline, and no one knows how many years it can last!

"Forget it, the animation department of TVB, I'm afraid no one will watch the movies it makes!"

After a little thought, Uncle Shaw rejected Fang Yihua's suggestion.

Family members know their own business. The animation department of their own TV station produces animations that are not popular with Hong Kong Island children at all.

Uncle Shaw has long stopped investing money in that animation department. Now all the animations of TVB are bought from Neon.

Of course, even Neon's animation is no match for Phoenix TV Animation City.

But no matter what, the animation department is now half dead, how can it have the spare energy to produce an animated film that can sell?

Hearing this answer, Fang Yihua, who was pouring tea, showed a subtle smile on her face.

Last year, the chairman of the board of directors of TVB, Li Xiaohe, died of a heart attack, and Shaw Sixth Uncle became the largest shareholder of TVB and served as the chairman of the board of directors.

Therefore, Fang Yihua's power in TVB has greatly increased, and now he has become the general manager, which can be said to be the second to none in the station!

At the same time, the business of Shaw Brothers Film Company began to shrink and the production of films continued to decrease, but even so, Fang Yihua still felt it was not enough.

In her opinion, the film company is currently a money-losing product, and the TV station is the hope for the future.

At present, the competition among TV stations is the most intense moment, and limited funds must be used on TV stations. If you take care of both sides, you will end up with nothing. It is better to abandon the film company and focus on the TV station.

It has to be said that Fang Yihua's idea is very good, but in fact it was forced.

Shaw Brothers was forced to retreat step by step by Xinyicheng, and so was the TV station!

Just when the movie version of "Bleach" was killing it in Hong Kong Island and Japan, "Chinese Little Chef" was officially broadcast on Phoenix TV.

To be honest, although many people in Qilin Entertainment were optimistic about this TV series, only Li Wannian was not optimistic, otherwise it would not have been delayed for so long to allow production.

After all, in his previous life, there were not many TV series adapted from this animation, and there were no fine works. There was a reason for this!

Comic adaptations are not easy to make, and the scale and rhythm are not easy to adapt, and the audience group is relatively narrow, so comic adaptations are generally niche TV series.

However, after the broadcast of this TV series, it received extremely high ratings in Hong Kong Island.

The passionate plot, gorgeous food, and exciting competitions all made the audience in Hong Kong Island extremely novel.

More importantly, both the director and Zhou Xingxing's performance are very anime-like, and they can perfectly restore the essence of anime in the TV series.

Anime-like feeling is a very mysterious thing, and it is difficult to explain in detail, but when some people do such actions and performances, you don't feel disobedient, and when some people do it, you will feel artificial!

In short, such a TV series, once it was broadcast, immediately became the TV series with the highest ratings in Hong Kong Island, crushing the TVB TV series "Wushuangpu".

And this is just the first TV series of Phoenix TV. It is said that Phoenix TV will launch several TV series this year.

Therefore, wireless TV is facing a formidable enemy.

In this situation, Fang Yihua hopes that Shao Liushu will close the film company and transfer the funds to wireless TV to stabilize his position.

"What are you going to do about the recent ratings of the station?"

"I will advance the schedule of "The Thief" and "The Phoenix" and use these two TV series to block it!"

"The Thief" has many stars, including Di Bola, Liu Xuehua, Ren Dahua, etc., and although there are not many stars in "The Phoenix", there is one Zhou Runfa.

He has appeared in "Shanghai Beach" and is now very popular, which can be regarded as a guarantee of ratings.

Hearing Fang Yihua's answer, Shao Liushu nodded. He did not hear any problems from Fang Yihua's measures, which were considered to be quite standard.

"I heard that Phoenix TV is doing something big recently, what's going on?"

"It seems like they have formed a boy band called 'F4'?"

"Something like Moonlight Girl?"

"It should be, but it is said to be adapted from a comic book!"

"Another comic book?"

Shao Liushu now feels like he is about to suffer from comic book PTSD. Whenever he hears anything related to comic books, his head hurts for no reason!