Chapter 208: Lift the clouds and see the moon
When the movie starring Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda, and Wu Jing was to be released simultaneously in the United States and Hong Kong, Qiao Feng turned his attention to the mainland, the north, and the capital.
Not only Qiao Feng, but hundreds of representatives from all walks of life in Hong Kong have personally visited the mainland, the north, and the capital.
And at this time, almost the eyes of the whole world are looking at the capital of China.
After 22 rounds of negotiations that began in earnest last year, an agreement was finally reached in September '84 and a joint statement was initialled.
From last year's Qiao Feng's purchase of property at a low price to September this year, China and Britain went through 16 rounds of negotiations, and from December 83 to April 84, China and Britain held 6 rounds (7th to 12th rounds) of negotiations, the main topics were arrangements after 1997 and related issues related to the transition period. From May to September, the two sides held 10 rounds (13th to 22nd) rounds of negotiations, the main topics of which were to discuss the arrangements for the pre-1997 transition period and the transition of power, and to agree on the content of the final document.
Although the heads of the delegations of the two countries had initialed the joint statement of the two countries in September, and Hong Kong's stock market, property market, and economy had also risen a lot, after all, it was only initialed, even if they knew that there would be no accidents, but a considerable number of investors and citizens in Hong Kong still watched and prayed with apprehension.
Finally, on December 19, 84, the official signing ceremony of the Sino-British Joint Declaration was held in the Great Hall of the People, and a delegation of more than 100 people from all walks of life in Hong Kong was invited to attend.
There are still many people in the film and television industry who attended, such as Wang Mingquan of Wireless attended the signing ceremony as a representative.
Qiao Feng watched a TV news report in the United States, and according to Zhong Chuhong, who later called to say that Hong Kong TVB was broadcasting in real time, she sat at home and watched most of the signing ceremony.
As the heads of government of China and the United Kingdom solemnly signed their names on behalf of their respective governments, they signed their names in the joint statement. The Sino-British Joint Declaration announced to the world that the Chinese Government would resume the exercise of its rights over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, and that Britain would return Hong Kong to China on the same day.
This signing ceremony is a great news for ordinary or irrelevant people, but for many citizens or major companies in Hong Kong who have invested, especially real estate companies.
The formal signing of the joint declaration shows that there will be no major accidents in Hong Kong, and there will be no calls from the mainland or confiscation of real estate, real estate, and various industries.
The same is true for Qiao Feng, because just after the signing ceremony was broadcast wirelessly, Hong Kong's housing prices and stock market almost rose in response, and the increase was huge, soaring directly.
If Qiao Feng's large amount of property is sold at this time, it can almost directly double Qiao Feng's investment last year.
However, Qiao Feng does not plan to sell, firstly, there is no shortage of money, and secondly, Qiao Feng knows that Hong Kong's real estate will be very strong for more than ten years, and after putting these properties for more than ten or twenty years, they will directly increase dozens of times, hundreds of times, what a good investment channel, it would be too stupid to sell it now.
Hong Kong's real estate, the complete recovery of the story, not only has driven other financial industries, industries, and even the film industry has also been affected.
It may be the reason why Hong Kong citizens are in a good mood when they see the property price and the story has risen and they are in a good mood, five days later, on December 24, when the movie starring Zhou Xingchi Wu Mengda and Wu Jing was released, there was a queue outside the Shaw Brothers Cinema after the first screening in the morning.
Then in addition to the fact that there were no good films released in this period of Golden Harvest, the new art city under the Golden Princess also caught up with this bus, but it was released a little early, and it has been in theaters for a week.
Then this starring Mecca, Chen Baiqiang, Li Lizhen, Zhang Guorong, Xu Xiaofeng and others, directed by Gao Zhisen, Merry Christmas was originally released for seven days, and the attendance rate and box office began to fall.
As a result, because of the signing of the joint statement, the downtrend suddenly stopped and then began to rise.
This rise is many days.
The three giants of the new art city heard that they couldn't get along, and Mecca began to get nervous again, talking about Merry Christmas only 70% of the time in an interview with the newspaper, and the remaining 30% of them confidently said that the box office record of more than 38 million box office set by the hero's true colors last year has been held long enough, and it is time to be broken.
Mecca's implication is naturally that Merry Christmas will be the movie that breaks the box office record of the hero's true colors.
If there are no other films with strong competition, maybe Xinyicheng will really be able to break the box office record of the hero's true character by taking advantage of this shareholder style, because Hong Kong people are so happy at this time period.
Pushing aside the dark clouds and seeing the moon is probably such a good mood, it is natural to celebrate, and watching a comedy movie is a very good choice.
It's just that the world is like this, there are not so many ifs.
Just when Mecca was the most nervous and ambitious, on December 24th, movies starring Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda, and Wu Jing were released.
This is a story about a child and a thief fighting wits and courage, and the story takes place on Christmas, which is incomparably consistent with this release time period.
Wu Jing's little protagonist Kevin is a smart and naughty Chinese child, he is the youngest in the huge family he belongs to, and his naughty personality often brings all kinds of trouble to his family and is unanimously rejected by his family. On a night close to Christmas, Kevin and his brother get into an argument and make a mess of the house. Kevin was punished by his mother, and he was aggrieved and made a wish to make his family disappear. Unexpectedly, the next day the family went to France to celebrate Christmas, and made a mistake in their busyness, leaving the naughty Kevin at home.
Kevin thought that his wish to change his family away had come true, and he was so happy with this rare freedom that he was happy at home and did whatever he wanted. But there was also a frightening side to him – he had to face the long dark nights alone and watch the house alone. Just when Kevin was enjoying his unrestrained life, Uncle Da played by Wu Mengda and Xingzi played by Zhou Xingchi, two clumsy and joked thieves, set Kevin's house as a target for theft and broke into his life.
The witty and brave Kevin decided to defend his home with his own strength, and did not hesitate to set all kinds of traps in his home, making a mess of the clumsy thieves and causing all kinds of jokes. But after all, there is a disparity in strength, Kevin was caught by two thieves, but fortunately, the neighbor foreign old man Marley appeared in time and saved Kevin. At this time, the police also arrived, arrested two less clever thieves, and Kevin successfully protected the home.
As soon as this hilarious comedy called Home Alone was released, it exploded directly under the word-of-mouth blessing of Qiao Feng's production and the publicity of Shaw Brothers.
When night came, and men and women came to the street to celebrate Christmas Eve, all the theaters under the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line lined up in a long line, and it was hard to find a ticket to describe the degree of popularity.