Chapter 300: If you don't know Uncle Lin Jiu, it's in vain to see all the spiritual illusions
""Zombie Supreme", a movie with a different style, children are also happy to watch haha. ”
"Uncle Nine is back strongly, where can the zombies go!"
"An awesome fantasy movie that hasn't been seen in years!"
"You can skip the meal, but Uncle Nine's psychedelic film must not be watched. ”
One day after the release of "Zombie Supreme", many newspapers in Hong Kong praised "Zombie Supreme", although they were still very restrained, but these reports undoubtedly made the Hong Kong people have a sense of expectation for "Zombie Supreme".
Under the influence of entertainment reports, many loyal fans of Uncle Nine accumulated before the former Uncle Nine's masterpiece "Mr. Zombie" learned that Uncle Nine jumped from Golden Harvest to Oriental Film Company, and went out to shoot "Zombie Supreme" again, and they came to call friends and go to the cinema to cheer.
On the third day of the release of "Zombie Supreme", the fifteen theaters dominated by Oriental Cinemas were still full, and it was unfortunate that the movie "Favorite", which is also owned by Oriental Cinema, began to be greatly affected at the box office on the third day, and the box office performance was not good.
Other theaters in Hong Kong released at the same time, there is no shortage of New Arts City's "Best Partner Saves the Poor Woman", fortunately, this movie was released earlier, otherwise this episode of New Arts City may capsize and lose money.
Such a grand occasion has shocked the entire Hong Kong film industry, and in the eyes of professionals in Hong Kong's film industry, it is also strange that fantasy films can be so popular.
There are not many people in Hong Kong who like fantasy movies, but judging from the popularity of the release, they are more popular than comedy blockbusters.
The reason why "Zombie Supreme" caused a movie-watching frenzy is very simple, and it is nothing more than the following reasons:
First of all, the role of Wang Xiaofeng's female ghost in "Zombie Supreme" has amazed how many Hong Kong otaku, no man will not be willing to bow down under such a beautiful woman's skirt and be a minister under the skirt.
Second, the Oriental Film Company is the best Hong Kong film company by default to the Hong Kong masses, and there is no one. Whether it is the "God of Gamblers" series or the "Prison Storm" series, every movie is deeply loved by Hong Kong audiences, and in the eyes of the audience, it must be a boutique produced by the East.
Third, there are no other good movies during this time, Golden Harvest's new works are still being filmed, and the small films released are all subsidiaries, and Xinyicheng's "Best Partner Saves the Poor Woman for a Thousand Miles" has been released for a month, and there is no more heat, not to mention that it has no impact on psychedelic films, on the contrary, it is fortunate that it has not been affected by psychedelic films.
The last point is that "Zombie Supreme" itself is of excellent quality, whether it is in terms of shooting techniques, genres, scripts, etc., this movie belongs to this era, the top of the fantasy film series.
Although Lin Zhengying's fame has been greatly reduced before, this "Zombie Supreme" is the follow-up to "Mr. Zombie", and the rest are follow-up films, which cannot be classified as a series of Uncle Nine's fantasy films, which means that Uncle Nine's golden sign has been recreated.
Fifteen theaters were released at the same time, and each theater was full, such a perverted result directly stunned the other filmmakers who got the news.
Even Xu Ziming, who was still a guest in Taiwan, was frightened, and some didn't believe the full scene described by the company staff on the phone.
Outside the ticket window of the Oriental Cinema, the people queuing up to buy tickets lined up more than 100 meters away, blocking a store next to it, causing the owner of the store to complain at the cinema.
The queue is mostly filled by students, but a large percentage is also made up of adults. The front ones are fine, but the ones in the back of the platoon have long been impatient.
"Hey, cut in line, there's someone in front of you!"
"Whoever cuts in line, the acquaintance will come out quickly. ”
"No wonder I didn't move forward after waiting for a long time, it turned out that someone cut in line
。 ”
"Pull that guy out and teach him a lesson!"
"I'm going to cut in line, what do you want to do? Kind of come and hit me. ”
"You're the one who hit you!"
“......”
The queue for buying tickets suddenly became a mess, some people took advantage of the chaos to cut in line, some people took the opportunity to rub oil, and the noisy shouting and scolding sounded.
Chen Baixiang, the manager of Oriental Cinemas, didn't know that the cigar in his hand was lit by the boss, and he didn't extinguish the cigar until there was chaos in front of him, and said to the employees who came over: "Tomorrow will add more performances to "Zombie Supreme". ”
After the employees left, Chen Baixiang sighed with emotion: "Lin Zhengying, this guy, will be the famous ninth uncle in Hong Kong from now on, according to this momentum, the five kings of oriental movies can't suppress his fame." ”
Chen Baixiang also wants to make movies, but this theater manager is also comfortable, because at least he is better than Cen Jianxun.
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Cen Jianxun has been very irritable in the past two days, and due to the strong release of "Zombie Supreme", the audience has been directly sucked away, resulting in less than eighty percent of the movies released in the theaters he is responsible for.
The cinema lines under the Oriental Film Company are called East Cinema Line and West Cinema Line.
This East Cinema Line is the Oriental Cinema Line, and the West Cinema Line is the Shaw Brothers Cinema leased by Debao at the beginning.
In fact, "The Favorite" and "Zombie Supreme" are both oriental film works, and the schedules of the two movies are very close, so fifteen theaters will release "Zombie Supreme", and the other thirteen theaters will be rented to screen "The Favorite".
Adhering to the company's concept of justice, some senior leaders of the company released two films respectively in order not to favor one over the other, but one good one fell into disarray, and the other literary film was really quite sluggish at the box office.
"Knock knock!" there was a knock on the door.
Cen Jianxun put down the pen in his hand and said, "Come in!"
It was Cen Jianxun's assistant who came in, and he walked in quickly and said, "Mr. Cen, I just got the news that the cumulative box office of "Zombie Supreme" in the past two days has added up to five million, and the box office on the second day is a little more than that on the first day, and it is still hot today. ”
"It's hot again?" Cen Jianxun looked at his assistant in surprise, he thought his ears had misheard.
Hell, fantasy films used to eat to death, and they all had a box office of five or six million a week, and more than five million in the past two days, and the momentum was even faster. "Zombie Supreme" is a hit, which is completely fantastical.
The assistant worried: "This is true, Mr. Cen, "Zombie Supreme" is very popular, and many viewers reacted strongly and asked to expand the number of theaters to be released. ”
Cen Jianxun was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and said after a long time: "Don't be too anxious about this matter, "Favorite" is also a work of the company, and it has only been released for a few days. ”
Shum Jianxun waved his hand and asked the assistant to go out first.
Although they are both employees of Oriental Films, there is also competition between the two theater chains, and Cen Jianxun has to think about his own performance.
Before the latter closed the door, Zhang Aijia walked in, pulled up a chair and sat down, and said worriedly: "Mr. Cen, I heard that there is news within the company that it is going to paint "Favorite" as soon as possible. ”
Cen Jianxun leaned back on the leather chair and said unabashedly: "Yes, "Zombie Supreme" is outrageous, and the box office of "Favorite" is not good, but I don't advocate the painting of "Favorite". ”
Since the breakdown of the film production department, the creative popularity of directors of different styles has increased significantly, and each director cares not only about the box office, but also about the quality.
Zhang Aijia asked suddenly
"Is Mr. Xu thinking the same way?"
Cen Jianxun shook his head, what did Xu Ziming think, how did he know, the key is that Xu Ziming should be on the plane back to Hong Kong at the moment, for these things, their theater manager can just act when he sees the opportunity.
Zhang Aijia said: "That is to say, Xu Ziming has no idea at all. ”
"It should be!" Cen Jianxun said ambiguously, "Don't worry, as long as "Favorite" doesn't have only 20% attendance, I will put it down with a thick head." ”
Zhang Aijia was silent, she could only wait now. As soon as the limelight of "Zombie Supreme" passes, the literary film will slowly turn around.
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"Uncle Nine!"
"Hello Uncle Nine. ”
"Uncle Nine, I heard that a ghost guy came to the company today to talk about things, and "Zombie Supreme" seems to be about to enter the American market. ”
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, I saw a few foreigners in the office today talking to Mr. Xu about the distribution. ”
“......”
Today is the fifth day of the release of "Zombie Supreme", and Xu Ziming has already returned. Lin Zhengying has something to go to the company, and everywhere Lin Zhengying goes, everyone greets.
The representative of the United States came to talk about the issuance a few days ago, and Lin Zhengying took advantage of this matter, and his reputation was even greater, and there are still people in Hong Kong who don't know Uncle Nine?
I can make a joke to you without hesitation, Hong Kong people don't necessarily know who the governor is, but they definitely know who Uncle Nine is.
In just a few days, several film companies have privately asked Lin Zhengying to film, and all of them are leading actors.
In the past, Lin Zhengying never dreamed that he would be so beautiful, but even now, he has a feeling like he is in a dream.
How popular is Zombie Supreme?
Even TV hosts and magazine columnists inadvertently talk about "Zombie Supreme".
In order to increase the ratings of variety shows, Asia TV specially invited the protagonist and director of "Zombie Supreme" to be guests. At first, the director of the variety show department called Lin Zhengying, but Lin Zhengying didn't like this kind of variety show, so he refused, but when the other party saw Lin Zhengying's score, Asia Television was in a hurry, and Huang Xizhao, the general manager of the TV station, actually called to invite him personally.
Only then did Lin Zhengying feel that it was not good to shirk again, and she was embarrassed to go on a variety show with Liu Guanwei, the director.
Because of the huge success of "Zombie Supreme", psychedelic films have become completely popular again, and it is not surprising that there are also many follow-up films.
However, what is much better than in the past is that there are only two in the Nine Uncle series so far, one is the pioneering work "Mr. Zombie", and the other is "Zombie Supreme", the audience only recognizes these two, as for the recent more popular works, what is called the eighth uncle, the god fucking uncle of the seventh uncle, the audience will not pay for it.
As for the fact that it has only been released for less than a week, there are three zombie films that follow the trend and start filming at the same time, and it is conceivable that there will be more follow-up works in the second half of the year.
Li Bihua, who became famous with "Father and Son Love" a few years ago, has now changed his habit of rarely writing comments and began to write in his column: "Xu Ziming is a mysterious character, his many skills are of unknown origin, but what he does is always unexpected. ”
He advocated the filming of "God of Gamblers", and countless people followed the trend of comedy and gambling films; he advocated the filming of "Prison Storm", and countless people followed the trend of filming prison-themed movies, and now he has made "Zombie Supreme", and there are many more popular zombie films. It seems that every thing he does can cause a trend, and I am looking forward to which field Oriental Film Company is ready to enter next under his management......"