Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 247 The Wronged Superstar

Another important reason for the plight of Hong Kong films is that the market is too small. After all, Hong Kong currently has a population of only 600 million and cannot afford a prosperous entertainment industry.

The export blockage is definitely a fatal blow to the Hong Kong film and television industry, which can produce 200 works every year!

Wang Zhuxian has already released five films in the first half of this year, including "New Meteor Butterfly Sword", "City Hunter", "Invincible East 5: The Rise of the Storm", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: East is Red, West is West", and "Water Margin: A Better Tomorrow".
If she hadn't gone to Hollywood to film "Rumble in the Bronx" in the second half of the year, she would have had other projects. This is the busy life of Hong Kong stars at the moment.

In the morning, on the bed in the hotel bedroom, Aaron lay on top of Wang Zhuxian. "Has that wealthy man from Hong Kong bothered you anymore?"

Wang Zhuxian smiled and scratched the man's back with her fingers a few times, "It's gone, just ignore it;"

"Besides, it doesn't really matter to me now whether I'm filming or not!"

After the filming of Rumble in the Bronx ended, Wang Zhuxian followed Aaron's advice and invested in some real estate in Hong Kong.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have refused to take any scripts after returning from the United States!
"If there are scripts I like, I can still continue to act, but there is no need to shoot so many works in a year."

Aaron stroked the girl's body and said, "But I think Hong Kong films will go downhill from now on!"

We still need to see whether the mainland market can develop. Otherwise, the future of Hong Kong films will only become smaller and smaller.
Under the current circumstances, it is difficult for Hong Kong films to compete with Hollywood's special effects blockbusters and large-scale action movies.

"Well, it has already started. This year's market conditions are much worse than last year's," Wang Zhuxian was originally from the film industry, so of course he knew this.

Aaron smiled and then rolled over. "We can hold on for a while. After all, Hong Kong films have a lot of foundation!"

"Aren't you going to get up yet? It's getting late," Wang Zhuxian lay in Aaron's arms and kissed the man on the face affectionately.

"Are you hungry?" Aaron hugged the girl to himself!

Compared to Tokyo, Hong Kong's climate is much warmer;

When Raymond Chow of Golden Harvest Film Company learned that Aaron was coming to Hong Kong, he also came to visit him.

The other party talked about "The Last Target", a Hong Kong director John Woo's action film that was released this year. This Chinese director's action film was a commercial success.
Universal invested nearly 2000 million US dollars in the budget of John Woo's "The Hard Target", which earned 3200 million US dollars in North America and a total of 7400 million US dollars in the global box office!

"Commercially, it's pretty good. John Woo has taken the first step in Hollywood," Raymond Chow smiled.

Aaron nodded as well. "This is John Woo's first film in Hollywood, and it showcases his violent aesthetic style very well."

"Jean-Claude Van Damme's fighting scenes are also quite attractive!"

However, compared with his works such as "A Better Tomorrow", although the action is more extensive, the means are more advanced, and the scenes are more beautiful, the characters are also darker; "The Last Target" only pursues visual impact, but ignores the shock of the soul. Coupled with the simple plot and the lack of highlights in the characters, the reputation is very average.

Perhaps this was because it was John Woo's first time directing a Hollywood movie, and he was working with Hollywood action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, so he did not have much power on the set;
Jean-Claude Van Damme's dominance makes John Woo's control over "The Hard Target" quite weak!

"When 'Rumble in the Bronx' is released in North America, do you have confidence in Suguang?"

What Zou Wenhuai was most concerned about must be "Rumble in the Bronx", a film produced in collaboration between Golden Harvest and Shuguang. He really hoped that Jack Cheng could make a breakthrough in Hollywood.

Aaron smiled and said, "Don't worry, this Rumble in the Bronx is pretty good. With Jack Cheng's fame in Asia, it's not a big problem."

"When it's released in North America next year, we will distribute it as a commercial film and give it the necessary publicity and promotion!"

After hearing this, Zou Wenhuai finally put his worries aside. After all, the scale of Chinese-language films released in North America is generally not very large, and they are mainly concentrated in Chinese community theaters.

"Then, I wish Rumble in the Bronx a huge box office success!"

Zou Wenhuai smiled and raised his glass, clinking it with Aaron's.

While Aaron was spending Christmas in Hong Kong, far away in Hollywood, the situation was getting worse and worse because of the accusations of child molestation against Michael Jackson!
After Jordan Chandler made the formal accusation in the fall, the Los Angeles police launched a criminal investigation into Michael Jackson's child molestation, including a search of Neverland Ranch;

Jordan Chandler's father, Evan Chandler, demanded $2000 million from Michael Jackson to settle the matter privately, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement.

After the Los Angeles police searched Michael Jackson's residence, they did not get any valuable clues. The police even conducted a naked inspection on Michael Jackson, but still found nothing.
However, one of Jackson's family members, his second sister who ran away from home, suddenly issued a statement saying that his brother Michael Jackson was a pedophile, and made many attacking remarks against Michael Jackson in the statement.

Michael Jackson, who suffered both physical and mental injuries, also canceled the Australian and American tours of the Dangerous Tour!

On the evening before Christmas, Michael Jackson held a personal statement press conference at his Neverland Ranch via satellite TV live broadcast: "As you all know by now, after my tour ended I spent a long time abroad to treat the side effects of my addiction to painkillers;"

“There have been a lot of unsavory statements recently made about me regarding alleged misconduct, which are completely false;

"I have to say that I'm incredibly distraught and overwhelmed by all this maddening stuff, this horrible media hype, and the media trying to exploit this allegation to further their own agenda.

"I have been forced to undergo a completely inhumane and humiliating examination. This is arguably the most humiliating and terrifying thing I have ever encountered in my life. But I endured this examination because I could use it to prove my innocence. I am completely innocent!"

Although there are many people who support Michael Jackson's innocence, such as Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's daughter who fell in love with him, Elizabeth Taylor, a former Hollywood star, and Elton John, a famous British singer;
But at this time, Michael Jackson's physical and mental condition were already very bad!
(End of this chapter)