The rise of heroes begins with Hong Kong movies

A few days later, Jiahe headquarters. office.

Zou Wenhuai was in a bad mood because"The Killer", which was released on the same day as"Fight Back to School", was a smash hit.

In recent years, Longwei has been on a rapid rise.

Last year alone, he had two action movies starring in the top ten of Hong Kong Island's annual box office list. One was"The Dragon" with a box office of 24 million, and the other was"Train" with a box office of 22 million.

Since the death of Bruce Lee, Long Wei has been regarded as the most popular martial arts star in Hong Kong Island.

Zou Wenhuai intended to make him the second Bruce Lee.

As a result, an international major production"The Killer's Trench" was released.

Jiahe had great ambitions. They hired international stars and filmed in Hollywood. Not only did they want to conquer the local area, but they also wanted to use this international production to make Longwei famous internationally. However, they did not expect that European and American countries would not follow this approach at all.

It failed miserably at the box office!

After the failure of Europe and the United States, the only hope was Asia. It was released on Hong Kong Island first, and the box office was high enough. Then it was sold to Sangguo, Goguryeo, and Nanyang countries at a high price, but it never thought that this city would also encounter Waterloo.

《The publicity for"Fighting Back to School" was terrible, as was Golden Harvest's"The Killer" and Shaw Brothers'"Modern Times."

Three major productions,"Play Back to School"》、《"The Killer's Trench" is a hard-hitting film, released on the same day.

Shao Liushu played a trick and planned to let Huo Wenyao and Zou Wenhuai be beaten to death first. After the popularity of the two movies has passed, the harvest will be harvested by Shaw Brothers' movies.

《"Modern Times" was released a week later.

That is yesterday.

In the past, Zou Wenhuai would definitely care about this old rival, but now he is really not in the mood.

First day of release.

All 24 movie theaters in the Golden Princess Cinema chain screened"The Dragon Back to School" with a single-day box office of 950,000.

All 22 cinemas in the Golden Harvest Cinema chain screened"The Killer", with a single-day box office of 920,000.

They seem to be about the same, but in fact Golden Harvest is slightly better, because Golden Princess has 2 more cinemas than Golden Harvest. If you really want to talk about it, Golden Harvest still has the advantage.

But on the second day, things took a turn for the worse

《"The Killer's Trench" was criticized and its reputation completely collapsed.

Because Long Wei didn't adapt to Hollywood's rigid business model at all, he was restricted in everything. The other party also asked Long Wei to become"Bruce Lee's second", and the moves he designed were also based on Bruce Lee's template.

As a result, Long Wei not only did not exclude Bruce Lee's fierce martial arts effects, but also lost its original humorous and funny style, and the action scenes were long, boring and nondescript.

Various movie newspapers and periodicals sprayed"The Trench" into shit!

The final result was that Golden Harvest's attendance rate dropped sharply, and"The Killer's Trench" only received a mere 600,000 box office on the second day. This was a disaster.

A week later, the total box office of"The Killer Trench" only exceeded 4 million, and the single-day box office was only 400,000!

According to this box office decline, if it is released for another two weeks, it is estimated that it will only get 3 million. The final box office of"The Killer Trench" will only be 7 million!

In real history, the box office of"The Trench" was only around 5 million, but that was in 1980.

It is now 1985, and ticket prices have increased by one-third compared to five years ago!

An absolute fiasco!

In the past few days, Zou Wenhuai's head has been hurting.

What's even more distressing is that"The Killer's Trench" had a terrible reputation, while"The Dragon" was praised to the sky. It made Zou Wenhuai wonder if he couldn't keep up with the times, and he didn't think that movie was that good..

The audience voted with their feet, and the box office success of"Fight Back to School" told him that this movie is really that good!

Boom, boom, boom! knock on the door

"Come in. Zou Wenhuai said in a dull voice.

A middle-aged man with half a century of hair walked in with a stack of documents.

His name was He Guanchang.

Jiahe has two founders, one is Zou Wenhuai and the other is He Guanchang.

Both of them are from Shaw. He was originally a general under Shao Liushu, but later he couldn't stand Shao Liushu's pickpocketing. He felt that the money given by Shao Liushu was not worthy of his contribution, so he set up his own business, founded Jiahe, and competed with Shaw Brothers.

He Guanchang looked ugly, and the first sentence he spoke was:"Wen Huai, I think we all got it wrong! Zou

Wenhuai was in a irritable mood and said in a low voice:"Sit down and talk." He

Guanchang sat down opposite Zou Wenhuai and said,"I have obtained the detailed box office information for this week's"Play Back to School". Let’s talk about our company first. The local box office of"The Killer Trench" on the first day was 820,000, and the attendance rate was 96%……"

Zou Wenhuai interrupted He Guanchang and said:"The box office of"The Killer's Trench" in its first week was 4.12 million. I already knew this. Needless to say."

"I just want to know about"Play Back to School"! He

Guanchang nodded, opened another page of information, and said:"The box office of"The Dragon Back to School" on the first day was 950,000, with an average attendance rate of 60%; on the second day, the box office was 1.26 million, with an average attendance rate of 80%.%……The seventh day was the scariest, with an average attendance rate of over 90% and a revenue of 1.42 million!"

"《The first week box office of"Truy to School" was……"

He Guanchang glanced at the extremely eye-catching number marked in red on the information and couldn't help but pause.

Take a small breath.

He just said slowly:"The first week's box office of"The Dragon Back to School" was 8.5 million!"

8.5 million!!

It’s really an eye-catching number.

Zou Wenhuai's pupils widened in vain, and he looked at He Guanchang in a daze. He didn't say anything for a while. He couldn't help but shake his head, let out a long sigh, and said:"8.5 million, ha, this is really extremely hot."

"In the next three weeks, 7 million will be calculated every week, which is 21 million. Adding these 8.5 million, it will be nearly 30 million."

"Last year, Jiahe won the annual box office championship of"Lucky Star", with a box office of only 30.5 million. This is also the annual box office record of Hong Kong Island in history. It is not only a source of money, but also a great honor."

"But this honor will soon be lost."

"The Golden Princess Theater is owned by him, Huo Wenyao. As long as the box office of"Fighting Back to School" approaches 30 million, Huo Wenyao will not let"Fighting Back to School" to be released even if it is screened at a loss. He

Guanchang nodded and said with a wry smile:"Let alone Huo Wenyao, if it were us, we would probably do the same thing.""

"This is a great opportunity to break the box office record of Hong Kong Island. Who is willing to miss it?"

"Huo Wenyao is really a rare genius. I always wonder if he has the Midas touch to make gold. He ventured into the film and television industry, and the first movie he made set a new box office record in this city."

"Genius, really a genius."

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said:"Forget it, a dark horse at the box office is a dark horse at the box office. If you lose, you have to admit it."

"Who told us that there was a problem with our strategy? The movie"Trench" should not have been made. We were too superstitious about Hollywood and thought that we could produce big productions by cooperating with them. Who knew that this was not the case at all?"

"Ah Wei told me several times that the Hollywood shooting method made him very uncomfortable, but I didn't take it to heart. I thought it was just acclimatization and that it would be fine once he got used to it."

"I never thought that this was not acclimatization at all, but a different creative concept. He

Guanchang also nodded slightly and said:"We are indeed too impatient. The time for Ah Wei to rush out of Asia and become a world superstar has not yet come.""

"Don't talk about this."

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and asked:"We have lost so miserably. I don't believe that Shao Laoliu can change his destiny. Do you know how much the box office of"Modern Times" was released yesterday?"

"I don't know, Shao Laoliu covered himself very tightly."

He Guanchang shook his head, with a smile on his face, and said:"But I am sure that the box office of"Modern Times" must be terrible, because the attendance rate at seven o'clock and nine o'clock at night did not reach 80%！"

"Hahaha!"

Zou Wenhuai couldn't help laughing.

There has been bad news these days, and finally there is good news. How could he be unhappy?

After laughing, Zou Wenhuai gloated:"Then I guess the box office of"Modern Times" didn't even reach 3 million."

"I have long said that the old-fashioned way of Shao Laoliu is outdated. Lin Zhixiang and Ye Qianwen are both TVB superstars. But if today's young people don't follow that way, how can the box office do well?"

"He thought he could get a bargain after Huo Wenyao and I spent a week shopping? Huh, what a beautiful thought!"

"Also"

"Not only did we miss out on the dark horse of"Fight Back to School", but Shao Laoliu also missed out. Even if he wanted to argue with me about this, he wouldn't have a chance. Shao Laoliu is really going to quit filmmaking completely this time."

"Ha ha! Happy, this is the most happy thing!"

He Guanchang chuckled and nodded.