Outside the Shaw Brothers Cinema, the largest theater in Yau Ma Tei, at the box office at the gate, dozens of fans standing in line to buy tickets are standing densely, all of them are here for a movie.

Today is the day of the release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and in order to promote this Hollywood blockbuster, Uncle Shao of Shaw Brothers not only spent a lot of money on advertising in major newspapers and weeklies, but also broadcast the tidbits of this film on the radio station for half a month, in order to attract fans to watch this movie in the theater.

Uncle Shao Liu, who was standing on the second floor of the theater, kept looking at the customers queuing up to buy tickets below, he was very worried at the moment, he smashed more than 8 million US dollars into this film, I dare not say that it was hollowing out his old bottom, but at least Shaw Brothers has an obvious shortage of cash flow.

"Sixth brother, Mr. Huo is here. Wang Tianlin knocked on the door and walked in.

"Coming!

"Downstairs. ”

"Let's go, let's go down together. ”

Uncle Shao immediately got up and walked out of the door, and went downstairs to pick up Huo Yaowen.

After a while, when Uncle Shao arrived at the theater hall on the first floor, he saw Huo Yaowen walking over with Wen Yingguang, general manager of Huanyu Film, and actors Lin Zhengying, Yuan Biao and others. Seeing this, he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Haha, Yaowen finally waited for you to come, I thought you had no time to come." ”

Facing Uncle Shao's enthusiasm, Huo Yaowen shook hands with him with a smile and said, "How can you be Sixth Uncle, you always invite me, you must come over in person." Besides, I also invested a lot of money in this film, so naturally I wanted to watch it for myself. ”

"Haha, not bad, yes. Uncle Shao Liu smiled, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, he remembered Wang Tianlin beside him, and introduced: "Yaowen, this is Wang Tianlin, the director of our wireless." ”

"Hello Mr. Huo. Wang Tianlin took the initiative to stretch out his hand.

"Hello Director Wang. ”

Huo Yaowen took a closer look, and it was a little different from the one in his impression, he didn't seem to be so fat.

"Yaowen, let's go in and watch the film. ”

"Okay. ”

Although Uncle Shao Liushu had seen the negatives before, he also felt that this movie should be a big hit, but before it was really tested by the market, no one knew whether the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" could achieve a high box office.

Soon, the group entered a small screening hall, where many Shaw Brothers actors, producers and directors were seated at the moment, and I think it was Uncle Shao who arranged for them to come and watch.

As soon as they entered the hall, a group of actors and directors of the Shaw Brothers got up and shouted "Sixth Uncle" and "Mr. Huo".

Huo Yaowen was about to sit down, but he noticed Li Hanxiang in the crowd.

Li Hanxiang also seemed to see Huo Yaowen looking at him, first raised his eyebrows, and then showed a smile.

"Yaowen, sit down. Sixth Uncle Shao suddenly saw that Huo Yaowen was still standing, and stretched out his hand to pull him down.

"Good. Huo Yaowen nodded, first smiled at Li Hanxiang, and then sat down to watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

The movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is still a little different from the plot of the original time and space, in order to match the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series and movies, the storyline did not take place during World War II at the beginning, but told a legend about the United States.

The legend tells of a mysterious underground palace among the Indian tribes, which is still about thousands of years old, and contains countless jewels, gold, silver, and valuables.

At this time, Jones, as an archaeologist, has been trying to find this underground palace that has been circulated in the United States, and it took several years to finally find a thousand-year-old parchment scroll in an antique shop, and the words and symbols on it are different from those of any country today.

When Jones was trying to decipher these words and symbols, he was entrusted by the U.S. military to go to Egypt to find the "Ark of the Covenant". During the expedition to capture the treasure, Jones battled wits with the minions of **.

At this time, a classic picture of ghosts and animals often appeared in later generations, and the actor pulled out his gun and instantly killed the strong man wielding a big knife.

This scene made everyone in the screening hall laugh, they thought that this Jones would have a fight with the strong man, but they didn't expect to draw a gun and shoot the other party directly.

As the plot passed, when Jones and his party found the "Ark of the Covenant" and were about to return, Jones found a bronze vessel engraved with mysterious runes in the Ark of the Covenant, and after a short period of research, he was surprised to find that the words on this bronze vessel were very similar to the words on the previous parchment scroll.

At this time, the picture dimmed, and the subtitles began to be shown, but the lights in the screening hall did not turn on, and soon after the subtitles ended, another easter egg appeared.

The easter egg was first darkened, and after half a year of writing, then a dimly lit room appeared, in which Jones was still studying the words on the parchment scrolls and bronzes, but Jones racked his brains for a long time to translate the meaning of the words.

Until someone knocked on the door outside the house, Jones went out and opened it, and saw that it was his good friend Marry, and when he was about to say something, Marley shouted directly: "I found Jones, I know what these words are!"

"You know!?tell me what it means!" Jones shouted excitedly.

Marley shook his head and said, "I don't know what it means, but I know that these words come from the East. ”

"Oriental?"

Jones was stunned for a moment, not mentioning whether the parchment scroll was from the East, at least the holy object of the "Ark of the Covenant" could not have appeared in the East, but the words on the bronze inside were from the East!

"That's right, I've booked my plane ticket, and we'll leave tomorrow. ”

At this point, the film was finally screened, and the lights in the hall were bright.

Uncle Shao Liushu and Huo Yaowen took the lead in applauding, and Wang Tianlin, Wen Yingguang, Lin Zhengying and others on the side saw that the boss applauded, and they applauded.

"Yaowen, this is your first time watching this movie, right? How do you feel? Will it be a big hit at the box office?" asked Uncle Shao in a low voice.

"It's pretty good, I don't think the box office will be low. ”

For this film, Huo Yaowen is not sure if it can be sold abroad, after all, before this, there has been no adventure and treasure hunting movie abroad, and the original historical "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was only filmed a few years later. Whether it will be a big seller or not, no one knows.

However, Huo Yaowen himself feels very good when he watches this movie, although the plot seems a bit old-fashioned to him, but on the whole it is quite fresh, at least some of the dangerous pictures in it, and the caves built at a huge cost, look very realistic.

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In fact, Huo Yaowen's worries are a bit unnecessary, since the original book of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was published abroad, it has been very popular with some mysterious readers, especially the description of Jones's great power in the process of raiding the Lost Ark, which has deeply attracted the Yankees who have always liked to engage in personal heroism.

So when Paramount promoted "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the United States, that poster with a distinctly western cowboy style immediately aroused the curiosity of American fans.

Within seven days of its release in the United States, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" exceeded $8 million at the box office, topping the box office for a week. Paramount was ecstatic, and immediately invested money to increase publicity, and the effect was very obvious, and the box office broke 10 million in the second week, reaching an astonishing 15 million!

The almost doubling increase has given the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" a huge exposure, which was initially just a few book lovers and adventure lovers to see the film, but with the box office hit, more and more fans who are not book fans are entering the theaters.

After more than a month of screening, the North American box office successfully broke 100 million, and the overseas box office also came to 50 million US dollars.

The box office of 150 million US dollars, excluding various expenses and shares, is enough to more than double the eight million dollars invested by Uncle Shao, not to mention the month-long movie screening period!

So after Uncle Shao Liushu got the good news, he didn't sleep well all night, and when he wanted to call to thank Huo Yaowen the next morning, he was told that the other party went to the mainland by boat yesterday.