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The intensification of publicity and promotion and the continuous rise of word-of-mouth have brought the attention of some citizens on Hong Kong Island.

Subway station.

Luo Zhiliang held his briefcase, biting a hot dog in his hand, like all office workers, and rushed to work on the subway in the morning.

"A newspaper. ”

Passing by the newsstand, he took two steps and went backwards, took out a coin and handed it to the boss. Pick up a copy of The New Paper.

Walking on the road, flipping through the pages, a film review article of "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" came into view.

"The Butcher on a Rainy Night uses a lot of color to metaphorize the psychological fluctuations of the characters. At the beginning of the movie, the red taxi is particularly eerie in the warm and dark environment. There is a color style of Western oil painting............

Here I would like to praise the actor Liang Jiahui, who gave a palace-level performance...... Calm, sane, insane, perverted, gloomy, frightened, bloody, the whole movie brings the audience into the film, and every second is terrifying as the film is screened.

If the design in the front is the director's bold application of shots and colors, then the rendering of the atmosphere and the mobilization of rhythm in the second half are amazing. I thought that the murderer movie would only sell blood, but the director used the lens to interpret what it means to analyze human nature! "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" can be called a landmark film of Hong Kong Island thrillers. So viewers who like thrillers and horror themes must not miss it!"

The film reviews swayed more than 1,000 words, and Luo Zhiliang watched it with relish. A strong curiosity arose in my heart about this movie with the name of a Hong Kong-made thriller murderer. Coincidentally, there was a theater behind the newspaper where the film was shown. Tickets can be booked by phone.

Early in the morning, all office workers, students, and people who pay attention to entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong saw the report about "Butcher on a Rainy Night" and the news of Liang Gall-fai.

Liang Jiahui starred in "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to Politics with the Curtain" two works directed by Li Hanxiang. With the portrayal of Emperor Xianfeng, he defeated many male stars and won the title of actor. However, the Wanwan authorities have blocked our rising star ...... Hong Kong Island for unwarranted reasons" - "New Evening News".

The column on the "New Evening News" praised Liang Jiahui to the sky, constantly shouted injustice for him, and bitterly criticized the dictatorship of the Wanwan cultural department, which has the rhythm of Hong Kong people's unremitting self-improvement.

This touting made Liang Jiahui happy, no, floating.

Holding the newspaper and dangling in front of Wu Xiaozu for two days, the angry Wu Xiaozu led a group of brothers to find Jiang Jiahua every night...... rubbed the rice, and Liang Jiahui was heartbroken, so he gave up.

"Did you hear that the perverted murderer who was a sensation back then was adapted into a movie. "White-collar office workers get together and gossip.

They are very familiar with the "Lin Guoyun" case a few years ago, and a perverted murder movie about him undoubtedly makes these people very sensitive and curious.

"Wow, ***, ***, crushed-corpse, that's so exciting!" This is a new generation of non-mainstream on Hong Kong Island influenced by Western hippie culture. It's all about the subculture they like to follow.

"Actor Liang Jiahui? I was dragged by him to buy a few bracelets in the night market before, is the bracelet going to appreciate in value?" The citizens who were pitted by Liang Jiahui were pleasantly surprised.

The audience of thrillers and horror films themselves is concentrated among young people, and in recent years, there have been fantasy films represented by "Mr. Zombie" on Hong Kong Island, and the box office is very good. Among them, the main contributors to the box office are young white-collar workers and school students.

A wave of publicity has made "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" rise steadily, and film critics have praised the film's overall reputation.

Of course, there are also some newspapers and periodicals who think that this movie is vulgar, erotic, sexual, nude ~ too exposed, bloody, dark, and inferior in quality.

"The Butcher on a Rainy Night, the whole movie is full of dark human distortions. After watching this movie, I only saw a pervert who was constantly killing. Every shot is bloody and disgusting. The picture quality is rough and unbearable, it is really a big bad movie selling dog meat on the head of a sheep!" - "Ta Kung Pao"

There is also a lot of negative news. Many serious newspapers and magazines criticized the film. Even thought that this movie would teach bad young people.

This kind of polarizing commentary has also enhanced the fame of the film in disguise. It's just that on the other hand, it also limits the audience of the film.

However, the homicidal movie itself has a very fixed audience. It can't compare to the psychic kung fu of "Mr. Zombie". Not to mention those popular movie themes.

Negative news is normal, and even "The True Color of Heroes" has people scolding bad children. There is no single art form and medium in the world that can be enjoyed by everyone.

Wu Xiaozu decided to shoot a homicidal thriller movie, which itself had the purpose of attracting attention and being highly topical. I have long been mentally prepared to be scolded.

Thankfully, most of the critics, including the film, were supportive of the film. The continuous publicity also played a role in boosting the box office of the film.

Affected by word-of-mouth and publicity, that is, after the box office was tepid in the first two days, the box office of "Butcher on a Rainy Night" increased significantly from the third day.

In five days, the box office easily won a good result of 2.03 million Hong Kong dollars.

For a horror movie, a niche movie, this kind of box office is enough to be called a "box office dark horse". This is inseparable from the energy of the Jiang family.

Of course, this also proves the market potential of Hong Kong Island films.

In 1980, the total box office of Hong Kong Island exceeded 100 million yuan, as high as 184.3 million, and the average ticket price was 8 Hong Kong dollars.

In 81, it reached 241 million, and the ticket price rose to 10 Hong Kong dollars. 404 million in '82, 411 million in '83, 560 million in '84, and 608 million in '85.

In 6 years, the market revenue generated has increased by 6 times. The growth rate is amazing!

Before September 1986, the total box office in Hong Kong reached 580 million, and it was just around the corner to break last year's record.

If there is no accident, within the past two years, the local box office on Hong Kong Island will make a box office plate of 1 billion yuan. This has been proven in previous lives!

These are only the local box office on Hong Kong Island, and the Wanwan market, the Japanese and South Korean markets, the Southeast Asian market and even the European and American markets are not counted among them.

In the 80s, there were more than a billion yuan, do you still wonder why the club came to make money?

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Liang Jiahui has been interviewed by several media in the past few days, and the reporters are quite interested in the sad journey of this down-and-out actor returning to the big screen. It made him a little out of the limelight during September.

Jiang Jiahua played a big role in this. Coupled with the greeting of Li Hanxiang, a great director, Liang Jiahui's return to the entertainment industry is a matter of course.

Now, it only takes one opportunity to get the Wanwan cultural department to unblock it.

I believe that with Li Hanxiang's care, coupled with Jiang Jiahua's long-sleeved dancing skills, with Liang Jiahui's popularity during this time, it is not difficult to find this opportunity.

In later generations, the Wanwan authorities even explained that they only sealed Liang Jiahui for one year to set an example!

Don't argue with the Wanwan authorities about this kind of thing, these politicians are very good at pulling your IQ to his level, and then reward you with years of white~ idiot experience!

Compared with Liang Jiahui's popularity, Wu Xiaozu, the director, is more curious by insiders. all think that this young man is very thoughtful and has certain attainments in the field of horror films.

It is almost classified in the framework genre of "eighteenth-tier directors of low-budget horror films". There is a big gap compared with the top big directors.

"Azu, when will your next movie start?" This is the first sentence that Wu Xiaozu said when he met Jiang Zhiqiang.

As a businessman, how can Jiang Zhiqiang give up such an opportunity to make money? And he also wants to follow such an opportunity to enter the field of investment and production.

For the time being, Wu Xiaozu is very much in line with the requirements of their Antai Pictures.

"As soon as possible, I'll save up the script and show it to Jiang Sheng. Wu Xiaozu agreed without even thinking about it. At this time, Wu Xiaozu still had no choice.

The market decides to make. There is no reason for someone to invest, and he has no reason to refuse.