After the hot screening on the first day, coupled with the publicity in the early stage, there were long queues in front of all the theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line.

And early that morning, various newspapers also published the news on large pages.

Chen Bosheng, editor of "Film Fortnightly", who is not as famous as other newspapers, commented: "God of Gamblers" tells the story of a person who has suffered repeated setbacks but still struggles with perseverance, and the director has gathered extremely rich dramatic elements such as family, love, brotherhood, gunfights, action, deified gambling skills, and personality splitting caused by amnesia, with a complete plot structure, distinct characters, outstanding personalities, and even details such as eating chocolate are vivid and interesting. The biggest surprise in the film is that Zhou Yunfa, who plays Gao Jin, gives full play to his acting skills, and he makes us see the shock, surprise and joy of ascending from a god to a man again. ”

"Oriental Daily" commented: ""God of Gamblers" will definitely set off a boom in Hong Kong gambling films, and it will also inevitably be the pinnacle of Hong Kong gambling films. "God of Gamblers" has a strong subversive significance, few commercial films dare to let the actor play an idiot most of the time, more than half of the scenes played by Zhou Yunfa are playing fools, but as long as Gao Jin returns to the gambling table, he can still be powerful after eating a few pieces of chocolate, such a perfect acting skill is also the reason for the success of "God of Gamblers". ”

Of course, there are good and bad reviews, such as "Sun Daily" said: "This is a cliché story, and only Zhou Yanfa's acting skills add a little brightness to it."

There are also some other tabloids that although there are two big beauties, Chen Yulian and Guan Zhilin, they are limited to the role and acting skills, they can only be regarded as lackluster vases, and Liu Dehua, who plays the knife boy, can only gag, and is only worthy of being a little brother in front of Zhou Yanfa.

But none of these can stop the explosion of the God of Gamblers, and the Shaw Brothers Cinemas has counted the box office of the God of Gamblers yesterday, which is 1.3 million.

As soon as this number came out, it shocked everyone's eyes, and it is said that Shao Daheng almost fell.

"Best Partner", which was also released yesterday, also reached 1.1 million at the box office on the first day with its good reputation, but it was taken to the top position by "God of Gamblers". Golden Harvest's "Young Master Dragon" is naturally under the influence of these two great films, and it is not even 800,000.

On the first day of release, it is naturally clear who is superior and who is inferior.

"Mr. Huang, you can explain to me the contents of this newspaper. Lei Juekun threw a newspaper with Huang Baiming's picture directly at Huang Baiming, very angry, and was about to take out the cigar he smoked, but the fire was still on the ground before it was in the store.

The big cast of Xinyicheng failed to surpass "God of Gamblers" on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lei Juekun was not particularly discouraged, on the contrary, Huang Baiming was absent yesterday and did not go to the premiere of Xinyicheng, and actually went to Shaw Brothers to watch the premiere of "God of Gamblers". If it weren't for Lei Juekun's habit of ordering newspapers every day, he wouldn't have known that there was such a thing.

Huang Baiming didn't pick up the newspaper, and he didn't have to guess what it was. Mecca and Shi Tian looked at Huang Baiming strangely, and found that Huang Baiming's eyes did not have the slightest dodge, and their hearts were full of curiosity.

Huang Baiming didn't hide it at all, and said with a smile: "Boss Lei, "God of Gamblers" is also co-produced by our New Art City and Shaw Brothers, if I don't attend the premiere, it seems that our New Art City doesn't pay attention to it." ”

None of the people sitting here knew what Huang Baiming was talking about, Zeng Zhiwei hadn't spoken for a long time, but at this time, he had confidence in his heart, and asked in confusion: "Mr. Huang, "God of Gamblers" is a joint venture between Xu Ziming and Shaw Brothers, and it has nothing to do with our new art city. ”

Lei Juekun nodded, this is a fact, Mecca, Shi Tian, Xu Ke, Shi Nanshengsheng, and Teddy Luo Bing also think so, only Lin Jianming, who just joined in not long ago, didn't know anything, and his face was at a loss.

A group of people obviously didn't know what Xu Ziming had done, and even if they knew, it was estimated that they would have to wait a few days, Xu Ziming was a little surprised to do this, but it was shocking to everyone.

Huang Baiming explained: "I met Mr. Xu yesterday, and he said that the movie "God of Gamblers" is his curtain call in Xinyi City, and it should be a souvenir. He paid for the production out of his own pocket, and he still paid dividends according to the original shares of Shaw Brothers' box office sharing. In other words, "God of Gamblers" is a joint venture film between our New Arts City and Shaw Brothers. ”

Huang Baiming's words were concise and to the point. Even an idiot can understand what it means, which means that Xu Zi understands the cheapness given to Xinyicheng.

Lei Juekun originally wanted to blame Huang Baiming, but he didn't expect Huang Baiming to do something like that, Xu Ziming still named "God of Gamblers" under the name of Xinyicheng, which was not only unexpected by everyone, but Lei Juekun also had mixed feelings in his heart.

Xu Ziming originally proposed to co-establish a new art city, and many of his ideas are remarkable, but he is too young to be arrogant. Lei Juekun is sometimes arrogant, after all, he is also old, plus the family industry Kowloon Bus, some people wantonly buy shares, and Lin Jianming adds oil and vinegar on the side, so he would say such cold words at that time.

Although after speaking, he intended to compromise again, but Xu Ziming was already determined to leave, and he couldn't reunite after breaking the mirror, and how could the shareholders who had been seriously estranged be able to talk and laugh together.

Xu Ke said enviously: "It's still Mr. Xu's generosity and magnanimity." Shi Nansheng glanced at him, meaning to tell him to pay attention to his speech, Lin Jianming, who was present, put on a face and ignored Xu Ziming's approach, after all, "God of Gamblers" has nothing to do with him, and the only advantage is that the company's filming funds will be much more all of a sudden.

No one in the audience knew what Xu Ziming talked to him about Huang Baiming yesterday, only Huang Baiming clearly knew what to talk about.

In Xu Ziming's mansion, Wang Jin, Guan Du and even Sun Wugao, Zhang Bing and others came, and the reason why they called these people over was because he had a plan.

Wang Jin had never seen these strangers, and he was very curious about what Xu Ziming was planning to do?

"Ah Ming, do you really plan to start your own film company?" Wang Jin looked at Xu Ziming with joy, he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Xu Ziming nodded affirmatively, and called everyone over today In addition to planning to set up a film company of his own, he also gathered other small theaters in Hong Kong to form his own set of cinema problems.

Kwan Du did not take the shares of Wu Tianlin in the Kowloon Bus Company, but was cut off by Pan Disheng, who came later, and won 15% of the shares of the Kowloon Bus Corporation. Pan Desheng looked at the Kowloon Bus incident, and Xu Ziming was really a little surprised.

Xu Ziming didn't care about this matter, he himself also sold the tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars that he had invested in Disheng Jewelry to Pan Disheng, Xu Ziming wanted to collect the funds now, which was to prepare the double and one of the company's cinemas.

Hui Ziming planned to merge the security company and the soon-to-be-founded film company, as well as the cinema chain that would be accepted later, into a group called Ming Huang Film Group.

However, these positioning still need to be proposed after the establishment of the company and the theater chain, and even if it is proposed now, Xu Ziming is just constructing a more ideal blueprint framework in front of everyone.

"Ah Bing, the building of the security company is a little dilapidated and needs to be renovated, and if you want to train, you don't need to use that special training site. Hui Ziming thought that the Kowloon Bus routes of the security company in the Sai Kung area had been increased again, and for the sake of money, it was very expensive to set up a film company in Tseung Kwan O, Broadcasting Road, or other lively places in Hong Kong. He Xu Ziming has to plan the cinema chain again, and the natural company and the security company are put together, which can not only form a natural protection, but also allow him to free up a lot of money to acquire the independent cinema chain.

As for HSBC's money, Xu Ziming didn't dare to move, his agreement with his second uncle was still valid, although his second uncle transferred some shares to his own name, but he also clearly told himself that if the three-year agreement was not reached, he had to go back.

The stock market turmoil of '82 is coming soon, and Xu Ziming will definitely hit it with one blow.

Sun Wugao guessed Xu Ziming's plan, "Mr. Xu plans to use the empty building of the security company as the address of the film and television company." ”

Wang Jin didn't know what a few people were talking about, but when he heard the location of the film and television company, he still had some eyebrows.

"Well, Ah Gao, you and Ah Bing try to renovate the old building of the security company and decorate it as much as possible, and at the same time, you two need to make some adjustments to the arrangement of the security company's personnel. ”

Xu Ziming also had something to say to Wang Jin, but the content of his words was not biased or oblique, that is, let Wang Jin be responsible for arranging the film company.

Xu Ziming added: "I plan to give you 10% of the shares, I don't need you to pay a penny, and you can help me ask Fa Ge if he is interested in the film company." ”

Wang Jin was pleasantly surprised: "Okay, I will definitely handle the affairs of the film company, and Ah Fa will definitely agree." Wang Jin sighed a little that it only made sense to follow Xu Ziming, which tossed for nearly two years, and Xu Ziming was willing to spend a lot of money to set up his own film and television company. There is another point that touched Wang Jin very much, Xu Ziming did not forget his favor for Zhou Runfa, and actually wanted Zhou Runfa to be a shareholder.

"If you want a film company, you still have to choose a name. Wang Jinqian asked.

Xu Ziming nodded affirmatively, there is no doubt that he will definitely choose his own name for the film and television company.

Xu Ziming finally left Guan Du, and the others let them go first.

"What are the plans for the money from Superstar Pictures?" Yesterday's discount of Superstar Pictures was mainly about the person who Xu Ziming borrowed NT$20 million to Superstar Pictures.

Qin Xianglin, a contracted artist of Superstar Pictures, is going to come to Hong Kong next week or so to participate in Hung Jinbao's "Five Lucky Stars", and some personnel of Superstar Pictures will also come to Hong Kong, and Sheng Zuru will also come as a representative of Superstar Pictures, and will also discuss with Xu Ziming in detail.

In the 80s, especially in the 82 years, Taiwan's literary films were bleak, and Ms. Qiong Yao, the owner of Superstar Pictures, was mainly shooting literary films.

In 81 years, many literary films were filmed, not only lost all their money, but even less than half of the NT$20 million that Xu Ziming lent at the beginning, so Guan Du understood yesterday, the answer should be very clear.