Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 245 Manga Adaptation
"Hey, the box office has exceeded one billion yen? How much does this cost in Hong Kong dollars?"

"It must be more than 5000 million!"

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

When the neon box office of "Death: Calling Your Name" was reported back to Hong Kong Island, in less than a month, the movie's box office exceeded the one billion mark, which immediately caused an uproar.

Before this, some Hong Kong films had achieved success in Neon, such as "Brother Tangshan", "Enter the Dragon", "Drunken Master", "Half a Category" and so on.

It can be seen that the movie type is either an action movie by Double Dragon or a comedy by a cold-faced comedian, and this also represents the hottest and best movie type in the Hong Kong film market.

As for other genres, although there are them, such as romance films, feature films, thrillers, etc., they do not have a good box office and cannot reach overseas markets, so they are not taken seriously by most film companies.

But now, a new movie genre is making money, and making it big!

The key is that in this type of movie, neon is usually better!
This is equivalent to playing a big sword in front of Guan Gong, but he actually won!
Such fantastic results surprised everyone!
Usually when this happens, the film companies on Hong Kong Island will start plagiarizing!
But this time we encountered a problem. They don't know how to do this type of movie!
Except for DreamWorks and Shenlong Animation, it seems that no one on Hong Kong Island can film it!
Uncle Shao Liu put down the newspaper in his hand, feeling sorry for this young man Li Wannian for the first time.

Every shocking move he makes is enough to cause an uproar on Hong Kong Island.

"Our wireless station also has an animation department, do you want to try it too?" Fang Yihua came over with tea.

Although Hong Kong Island's film market is still dominated by two companies, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, the unexpected rise of New Arts City has broken this pattern.

In February this year, the movie "Happy Fairy Nest" released in New Art City achieved a box office of 2 million, ranking among the top five in Hong Kong Island. In addition, their film company will also release "Ghost Horses and Stars" and "Chasing Girls" this year. Waiting for many more movies, coming in a big way!

The financial backer behind New Art City is Li Wanshan’s Qilin Entertainment, and behind Qilin Entertainment are the Li brothers.

Looking back at his own Shaw Brothers Pictures, although it may still be great in the eyes of outsiders, Shao Liushu himself knows very well that Shaw Brothers Pictures is already in decline, and no one knows how many years it can last!

"Forget it, no one will watch the movies produced by the TVB animation department!"

Regarding Fang Yihua's suggestion, Shao Liushu thought briefly and then rejected it.

My family knows my own business, and the animation department of my TV station is not popular with the children of Hong Kong Island at all.

Uncle Shao Liu stopped investing in the animation department a long time ago. Nowadays, all animations for wireless stations are purchased from Neon.

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

But no matter what, the animation department is already half-dead now. How can it still have the energy to produce animated movies that can sell for money?

Hearing this answer, Fang Yihua, who was pouring tea, showed a traceless smile.

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

Therefore, Fang Yihua's power in the wireless station has greatly increased, and now he has become the general manager. It can be said that there is one person under the station and more than ten thousand people!

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

In her view, film companies are currently losing money, while TV stations are the hope for the future.

The competition among TV stations is at its fiercest at the moment. Limited funds must be spent on TV stations. If both parties care about it, they will end up with nothing. It would be better to abandon the film company and focus on the TV station.I have to say that Fang Yihua's idea is very good, but it was actually forced.

Shaw Brothers Pictures was forced to retreat step by step by New Art City, and so were the TV stations!

Just when the theatrical version of "Death" was killing everyone in Hong Kong Island and neon, "The Chinese Master Chef" was also officially broadcast on Phoenix TV.

To be honest, although many people at Kirin Entertainment are optimistic about this TV series, Li Wannian is not the only one who is not optimistic about it, otherwise he would not have delayed so long before allowing production.

After all, in my previous life, not only were there not many TV series adapted from this animation, but there were also few high-quality ones. There is a reason for this!

It is not easy to make a comic-book drama in itself. In addition, the scale and rhythm are not easy to adapt, and the audience is relatively narrow. Therefore, generally comic-book dramas are niche TV dramas.

However, after this TV series was aired, it received extremely high ratings in Hong Kong Island.

The passionate plot, gorgeous food, and exciting competitions all made Hong Kong audiences extremely novel.

More importantly, the performance of both the director and Zhou Xingxing is very anime-like, and can perfectly restore the essence of animation in the TV series.

The sense of animation is a very mysterious thing, and it is difficult to explain in detail. However, if some people do such actions and performances, you will not feel it is inconsistent, but if some people do it, you will feel it is artificial!
In short, once such a TV series was aired, it immediately became the highest-rated TV series in Hong Kong Island, crushing TVB's TV series "Wu Shuang Pu".

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

Therefore, wireless stations are facing a formidable enemy.

Under this situation, Fang Yihua wished that Uncle Shao Liu would shut down the film company and transfer the funds to the wireless station to stabilize his position.

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

"I've moved up the schedule of "The Good Thief" and "Phoenix", and used two TV series to block it!"

"The Thief" has many stars, including Di Bo La, Liu Xuehua, Simon Yam, etc., while "Fire Phoenix" has not many stars, but there is Zhou Yunfa.

He has starred in "Shanghai Beach" and is now very popular, which can be said to be a guarantee of ratings.

Hearing Fang Yihua's answer, Uncle Shao nodded. He didn't hear any problems from Fang Yihua's measures, which were considered satisfactory.

"I heard that Phoenix Channel is making some big moves recently. What's going on?"

"It seems that they have formed a boy band, what is it called 'F4'?"

"Similar to Moonlight Girl?"

"It should be, but it is said that it is adapted from some comic book!"

"Is it a comic again?"

Today, Uncle Shao Liu feels like he is about to suffer from comics PTSD. Now whenever he hears something related to comics, his head hurts inexplicably!
(End of this chapter)