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Two big names in the Hong Kong film industry had big news on the same day.
One is Zhou Xingchi, the 61-year-old king of Hong Kong film comedy.
He announced his foray into the field of skits on his social account.
One is a 68-year-old Hong Kong film defender, Johnnie to.
He appeared at the Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan, showing four of his films and revealed that his new film would be launched as early as the Spring Festival.
These are two big news and two good news. After years of silence, two heavyweight figures who made important contributions to the golden age of Hong Kong films have finally made a new move.
For fans who like them, it is a happy event, and they have become old people, can they still save the declining Hong Kong films?
When it comes to Stephen Chow and Johnnie to, these are the deified characters in the hearts of many Hong Kong film fans, and the two of them once sympathized with each other in their early years.
Stephen Chow and Johnnie to, together with Chow Yun-fat, the three people in this photo have propped up half of the golden age of Hong Kong films.
Johnnie to was also involved at the peak of Stephen Chow's film, directing the film "the trial of the Dead Officer" in 1992. The film broke the box office record of Hong Kong films with 49.88 million yuan at the box office that year, becoming the top box office winner of the year and one of the top 10 box office films of the year.
Now Stephen Chow, in his sixties, suddenly announced that he would shoot a short play. Is it good news or bad news?
Objectively speaking, Stephen Chow has gradually disheartened fans over the years.
His film Mermaid 2 has been difficult to give birth for many years, and there has been no news of the new film, and he is busy opening a social account, and the news released has almost nothing to do with the new film.
For a moment, Xing Yeh said that he wanted to create a meta-universe and recruit people; and then he posted pictures of him with Jay Chou, Mayday, Lin Junjie and others, and even with the Internet celebrity Brother Yang, which made people confused.
There was finally news of a new film last year, but it was half-fried Chen rice, filming "Shaolin Women's Football", saying that it was going to be a global selection of actors, but there has been no follow-up.
This time, the latest news is that Xing Yeh wrote the words "9527 Theatre" on the whiteboard and announced the brand of short drama comedy he was about to set up. According to media reports, Stephen Chow's first mini-drama "Golden Pig Yuye" is expected to be released in May this year.
As for his foray into the field of short drama, Zhou Xingchi said: short drama is a rapidly developing field of scientific and technological innovation and media innovation in recent years. I hope this short drama can bring more joy to the audience.
He said he wanted to enter the meta-universe, but now he is shooting a short play. Not long ago, he was also involved in cartoons, but there was no new film that everyone was looking forward to.
To be honest, I'm a little disappointed.
Now Stephen Chow is no longer the comedian we knew before, "if you don't have a dream, what's the difference between being a man and salted fish?"
Now Stephen Chow has compromised to capital.
He became a businessman, an investor, and began to take out a whiteboard to write a mind map. That classic Zhou Xingchi nonsense comedy may really be history.
Can short plays save Hong Kong films? I have no idea.
But Johnnie To is holding on, his galactic image is holding on.
In the latest news, du Sir revealed that he is going to start a new movie journey. The new film is already in preparation and will be launched before the Spring Festival, but, as before, there is no clear script yet.
It is worth mentioning that "murder" produced by Galaxy Image won the best picture in the 30th Hong Kong Film critics Association Awards just awarded in January this year.
Johnnie to is one of the producers and supervisors of this film. Although Sir du has not made a new film in recent years, his Galaxy image is still maintaining the dignity of Hong Kong films.
This time, Du Qifeng announced that he would make a new film, four years after the release of the last film he co-produced with six other Hong Kong directors, The Seven (2020).
Sadly, Lin Lingdong, one of the seven directors, died suddenly before the film was released, and became the last song of the film cooperation of Johnnie to, Tsui Hark and Lin Lingdong, the three "iron triangle" friends. The film was finally released. It is also the insistence of du Qifeng, one of the supervisors.
When it comes to Johnnie to's films, fans must be familiar with them, from his famous films "A Lang's Story" and "Love in Heaven" to 1996, when du sir and Wei Jiahui's Galaxy Image was established, writing a brilliant page in the history of Hong Kong films.
In the middle and late 1990s, when Hong Kong films were gradually depressed and shrinking, Johnnie to's films such as "Dark Flower", "gunfire", "the birth of a prefix" and "very sudden" injected a new force into Hong Kong films again.
Especially the most famous one, Gunfire.
The whole play is simple, smooth and crisp, with the most classic scenes, the shootout in the mall, the kicking paper group of the company and the drawing of the last five brothers, full of artistic beauty, while skillfully integrated into the psychological and character portrayal of the characters.
The classic group play took only 19 days to shoot and cost only 2.5 million.
From 2006 to 2008, Johnnie to became world famous, the film "banished" was shortlisted for the competition unit of the Venice Film Festival, the Finch was shortlisted for the competition unit of the 58th Berlin Film Festival, and Johnnie to became a judge of the Venice Film Festival.
His 2012 film "War on drugs" was also remade into "believers" by South Korea in 2018.
The film won the top spot at the South Korean box office for three days, beating a number of hit films including Deadpool 2, Avatar 3 and Ranger Solo: star Wars.
Johnnie To, the cigar-smoking director, has moved to the center of the world cinema.
At the same time, we found that in the hands of Johnnie to, many actors have become very good at acting.
For example, Louis Koo.
He looks like a different person in Accident.
In 2016, a film produced by Johnnie to and Galaxy Images swept the Academy Awards, turning Lin Jiadong into an Academy Award actor.
Now, Lin Jiadong has also become the backbone of Hong Kong films, especially in recent years, Lin Jiadong has been found in many award-winning Hong Kong films.
Lin Jiadong is the leading actor in the homicide, which is produced by Galaxy Image and has just won the best picture.
Can Hong Kong movies be saved?
It seems that this question has been asked every year recently, but as long as someone insists on it, the question will not end. Doing is always better than saying.
Whether it's Stephen Chow or Johnnie to, everyone is waiting for their new film.
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