A movie lost 65.438+0.5 billion yuan, and it never recovered after Jiahe. Should Jackie Chan, the hero, take the blame?
A series of classic films, such as Jingwumen, Never admit defeat, Ghost Horse and Double Star, were accompanied by four golden bricks before the film started, which accompanied generations through their youth.
In the most glorious era, Golden Harvest is also the hottest stage for Hong Kong films, winning the popularity of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and other famous movie stars, and also creating a number of "first" achievements in the film industry.
Even director Tang Jili lamented that Jiahe is the birthplace of many filmmakers, and many famous movie stars have worked odd jobs in Jiahe.
However, in the 2 1 century, a generation of movie empires declined day by day, and no film was started after Superman.
According to many media analysis, it is speculated that the movie that hurts the vitality of Jiahe Film is Jackie Chan's Unexpected Spy.
Despite his popularity, martial arts superstar Jackie Chan is facing losses.
After Jackie Chan quarreled with his old club Luo Wei, his future became the focus of attention during that time. When Shaw and Jiahe threw olive branches at him one after another, Jackie Chan chose Jiahe with an offer of 4.2 million.
Allow him to set up a subsidiary, give him the right of independent production, and the relatively more relaxed system allows Jackie Chan to throw himself into the arms of Jiahe.
The 25-year-old Jackie Chan directed and starred in a film "Little Brother Comes Out" for the first time, in which the lively and smart classic role was the first film with Jiahe, and finally broke the box office record of Hong Kong films with the score of 10.02 million.
In the same year, Jackie Chan also set off for Hollywood to study film shooting mode. In order to promote to the international market, Jiahe also made a movie "Killer" specially for him.
It was also directed by a famous Hollywood director. Although the box office was impressive after it was released in the United States, the word-of-mouth did not reach the expected level.
Most American audiences want to see Bruce Lee's brave and tough movie style, but they don't buy Jackie Chan's humorous and naughty tone.
The following year, Jackie Chan decided to return to Hong Kong for development. Later, Master Long, Five Lucky Stars, Never Give up, etc. They are all integrated into Jackie Chan's unique humorous style, and the selection of materials is undoubtedly a "safety card" that the audience buys.
But for the current movie environment, compared with other movies, the shooting cost of Jackie Chan's works is much higher.
Compared with Stephen Chow's films, Stephen Chow's films have low cost, and once they are sold, the returns are high. Jackie Chan's martial arts films need a lot of money in props, personnel and shooting.
Although it finally got a high box office, it eventually settled down with extremely low profits or even losses.
In fact, Jackie Chan has several famous movies, and none of them have escaped the box office reality of losing money. Flying Eagle Project, Shuanglong Club, Thunderbolt and other films have all won a lot of box office.
But all of them have one thing, that is, the investment exceeds the budget too much, it is difficult to recover the cost, and finally they lose money.
The loss was as high as10.5 billion, and Jackie Chan said that he had done his best.
Especially under the high production cost of Unexpected Spy, the loss of this film is as high as 65.438+0.5 billion, which undoubtedly indirectly affects the development planning of Jiahe Film.
This film has also been regarded as the key point of Jiahe by many film critics, and it has gone from glory to decline.
The Unexpected Spy is an action comedy starring Jackie Chan and directed by Chen Desen, 200 1. Due to the theme, the whole movie is full of articles with the word "Fan".
The plot description is multi-layered and the clues are complicated. Normal viewers need to spend some brains, which also lays a big thunder for the subsequent losses.
For Jiahe, in order to be true, the entire film crew has crossed China, South Korea, Turkey and other parts of the world, and the original high-cost films have been overspent all the way.
Fortunately, after the film was released, it won box office titles in many countries, with a total box office score of 65.438+0.6 billion.
For Jiahe, the cost of this film has overspent to 200 million, and it only earned 50 million after splitting the account.
This means that a movie made Jiahe lose as much as 65.438+0.5 billion. Soon Jackie Chan told the media that he had tried his best, and he was sorry to see such an ending.
During the filming, Jackie Chan stood on the roof with Turkish characteristics and jumped off alone with a sun umbrella. Still on the 300-foot-high overpass, holding a rope net on the roof of the car at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, fighting the bad guys was extremely thrilling.
There are many such dangerous scenes. Jackie Chan, 47, always retakes them many times in order to achieve better results. Jackie Chan of body double, who hardly used posture, was seriously injured several times.
After gaining considerable profits, Jackie Chan quickly left Jiahe. Therefore, Jiahe film industry is declining, but the decline of a generation of film empire can not be entirely attributed to becoming a leader.
Just entering the 2 1 century, the decline of Hong Kong film market is a fact, and Golden Harvest itself is experiencing some turbulence.
Lin Jianyue, a rich man, wanted to buy Jiahe, but he was interrupted by a man with the same strength. In order to make a common profit, Jiahe and two other technology companies co-founded an Internet company.
In order to promote Internet companies, "Unexpected Spy" has set up a separate part of the story, which was circulated on the Internet before the feature film was released.
That means that the audience who went to the cinema saw an incomplete plot, and the complex relationship created by the whole movie for the word "Fan" was not explained clearly.
Although the film was very popular at first, with the decline of word of mouth, a series of bad reviews appeared.
Part of the reason is the deletion of the film. Several highlights starring Jackie Chan in the film were deleted because they were too bloody.
The story is vague and the lens is intermittent, but seemingly small problems eventually accumulate and become the fuse of Jiahe's decline.
In Jackie Chan's view, such a conscientious work ended up with huge losses, and he was also very uncomfortable, hastily ending his 22-year cooperation career with Jiahe.
Since then, Jiahe has never recovered. In the next two years, he made five films, and the glory of the past is gone forever.
Coupled with unfavorable real estate investment, listed companies were accused of violating regulations and a series of blows, and Jiahe suffered losses one after another.
Finally, it was acquired by orange sky entertainment in 2008 and renamed as "Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment".
When many media blamed Yu Chenglong for the decline of Golden Harvest, some fans stood up and supported Jackie Chan, who had done his starring role.
Jackie Chan risked his life to shoot several times for the truth of the camera. No matter the actor or the producer, the loss of the film is the result that no one wants to see.
Under the special environment and Jiahe's own reasons, accidental spies are just a button that triggers the rapid decline of Jiahe.
After the acquisition of Jiahe, the classic film remake plan was also launched. Finally, only one film "Star Talk Love Again" was mentioned, which seems to have been shelved.
The achievements in the following years were even more terrible, and many films made did not cause much sensation. After adjusting the strategy, Jiahe made preparations for the construction of high-end cinemas, the opening of bookstores, art galleries and other projects.
No matter what sector Jiahe develops, the glorious moment can only be memories, dusty in the memories of the older generation.
Do you think there is anything to comment on whether Jackie Chan, the leading actor, should take responsibility for this?