Hong Kong ghost director Wang Jing once said: “The quality of my movie is based on the box office. I think the movie that the audience is willing to pay for the ticket is a good movie. To me, the so-called professional filmmakers are nothing more than self-deception."
Some people agree with Wang Jing's view, but many people oppose it. Each of the following four films is regarded as a rare classic, but they were also brutally defeated by Waterloo when they were released, and even directly lost the film company to bankruptcy.
1. In 1994, Stephen Chow worked at and Yongsheng Film Company for several years and finally got free. At this time, the spirited Stephen Chow also hurriedly started his entrepreneurial journey. Together with Yang Guohui and several others, he formed Hong Kong Playmate Film Company. " Westward Journey " is the pioneering work of Master Xing.
Although Stephen Chow has been a director before, there are many films that have directorship even if they are not well-known, but after all, the investor is not himself, and in many cases he is not solely dominated by him. This time, as an investor himself, he will definitely "do a big fight."
Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei, whose thoughts are completely no longer bound, vent their wild imaginations at the same time on the body of "A Westward Journey". Because of the increasing number of ideas, the last one is not two. It is directly made into two parts without rest. Therefore, the production cost has more than doubled, including Zhou Xingchi's film remuneration, and the total investment is close to 60 million.
When the two films were released, the combined box office was less than 55 million, so the newly established Playmates Film Company had to open its doors. But for Zhou Xingchi, the loss is actually not big, he actually has very little investment, and he has a salary.
2, Wong Kar Wai helped his boss and Bole Deng Guangrong in his debut work " Mong Kok Carmen ".In " A Fei True Story ", this time the owner Deng Guangrong decided to take out all his savings and generously gave Wang Jiawei 40 million, and told him to shoot whatever he wanted, and do it without worry.
In the end Wong Kar-wai's "The True Story of A Fei" is indeed full of praise, but it is a pity that many viewers are praising Wong Kar-wai but secretly enter the cinema to buy Wang Jing's movie tickets, because at this time director Wang Jing's " bet" "Span 2span" and "A Fei Zheng Chuan" were released at the same time. In the end, "The Gambler" had a box office of 40 million. At this time, the owner of "A Fei Zheng Chuan" Deng Guangrong lay in the hospital because of a heart attack. The box office of Biography only received 9.7 million in box office.
At the Academy Awards ceremony, "A Fei's Story" won all the awards except for the best actress. Deng Guangrong, who took the podium because of the best picture, won the audience. People stood up and applauded. At this moment, he is not only a film investor, but also Jing Ke, who is "the wind is cold and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone and never returned." , the Yingzhijie film company founded by him, is also Say goodbye to the audience.
3. " black gold" The producer, chief planner, and screenwriter of this film is the famous Hong Kong "movie tycoon" McDonald passed by. Years of sharpening the big production, the total investment is up to 60 million, the investment company is McDonald's McDonald's production company and Xianghuaqiang's Yongsheng film.
Before the film was released, McDonald claimed that the quality of the film could compete with Hollywood films. As a result, when the film was released, it did collide with the Hollywood blockbuster " Titanic". In the end, "Black Gold" has a Hong Kong box office of 10 million,The Hong Kong box office of " Titanic" is more than 115 million. In front of this big Hollywood ship, "Black Gold" is not even the tip of the iceberg.
After this painful lesson, McDonald immediately packaged his own studio and vowed never to touch a movie. McDonald then faded out of film production and went to the mainland to operate agricultural products and real estate businesses in the mainland.
4. Perhaps young audiences are relatively unfamiliar with the name Luo Wei. He has two very strong names in the Hong Kong film industry in the past, one is "Superstar Bole", and the other It is "follow the trend".
Jackie Chan is Rowe's adopted son. Without Rowe, Jackie Chan might still be cooking in Australia. Bruce Lee also has a lot of credit for his success. Jet Li was also attracted by him, but unfortunately, when he was preparing to sign with Jet Li, he was cut off by his son, David Luo, .
Jet Li’s "Once Upon a Time" series has brought the whole Hong Kong-style martial arts film to the spotlight. Even Stephen Chow has to follow suit, and as the "follow the trend" Luo Wei, how can he miss this opportunity? So he handed over 15 million coffins to Sammo Hung and asked him to make a " ".
This time, Rowe really wanted to "I laughed to the sky from my side, to save the two Kunluns", the movie finally only got a box office of 900,000 yuan, and Rowe's film company, which Rowe had been operating for many years, had to die. . Seeing Luo Wei’s misery in his later years, Sammo Hung, who had always been righteous, was really sorry.Later, he and his Hong Jiabao made plans to make the outdated "Mr. New Zombie" and "Five Lucky Stars" two movies to let Luo Wei'an spend his twilight years.
.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-