On March 13, 1984, "A Comic Book Goes to the World" was released in Hong Kong, and after the premiere date, Lin Qi personally inquired about the box office.

Lin Qi is the "screenwriter" of this movie, although he only provided the title and plot outline, and the details were filled in by the company's screenwriting team.

However, after the movie was released, Lin Qi was still written in the screenwriter column, after all, this is also the selling point of the movie to attract the box office.

Of course, Lin Qi felt that he wrote in the producer column, which might be more in line with the actual situation.

"Mr. Lin, the box office of "A Comic Book Goes to the World" on the first day was 1.07 million, which was within the expected range. Huang Xizhao didn't show much surprise and said, "However, the biggest discovery of this movie is Wang Jing, this kid is a talent, cultivate more, and he may become a great director in the future." ”

"Wang Jing?" Lin Qi said, "I'm more optimistic about Stephen Chow!"

"Why?" Huang Xizhao was a little puzzled, "The more contribution of this drama is Wang Jing, although Stephen Chow's performance is outstanding, it has not yet reached the level of amazingness." Even, the audience commented that Lin Qingxia was better than Stephen Chow. ”

"He is a very talented actor in comedy, and his achievements may be higher than that of Xu Guanwen, a cold-faced joker. Lin Qi believed in his vision and said, "For every play, sign a new contract with him and extend his brokerage contract...... How many years has he signed now?"

In the mid-70s and early 80s, Hui was arguably one of the highest-grossing directors and actors in the Hong Kong film industry. It's just that in the mid-80s, the Xu brothers parted ways, and Xu Guanwen also seemed to be running out of inspiration, and the movies he created gradually became less popular than before. To put it simply, the market has changed, and Xu Guanwen is out of breath......

After that, comedies in the Hong Kong film market are still blockbusters, and even, after that, many directors imitate Xu Guanwen's previous ghost horse comedies, and they can still make money, but it is difficult to be as popular as in the 70s. After all, the market is constantly changing, and what was once the most popular routine is now a cliché.

In the 80s, many comedy directors failed to surpass Hui Guanwen (inflationary factors, the Hong Kong dollar in the 80s was far less valuable than the original Hong Kong dollar). It wasn't until Stephen Chow's nonsensical comedy that Hong Kong comedy rushed to another level.

Of course, Stephen Chow's comedies were imitated a lot, but many of the imitations were not in place, so they had to be superficial, not the essence.

In essence, Stephen Chow's nonsensical classics may be more of a personal style bonus, rather than just the charm of the nonsensical comedy itself.

Many representatives of comedy have a strong personal style, and excellent comedy masters are often irreproducible. It is precisely because of this that the most important thing to know that Stephen Chow's comedy will be popular in the future is not the script, nor the original director and crew, but ...... Stephen chow!

Grasping this core element is the most important.

"Ten years!" Huang Xizhao said, "until February 93, 500,000 yuan signing fee." ”

Not all artists who debut in newly entrepreneurial film and television entertainment companies can get a signing fee, and ordinary signed artists do not have a signing fee, but they have a minimum annual salary guarantee. During the contract period, if the minimum income is lower, the company will make up for it to ensure the basic survival of the debut artist. At the same time, some people who are miserable and are not suitable for being artists but have signed a long-term contract, the company can also arrange for them to do logistics or other work.

The artist with the signing fee is the recognition of the company's value, with the lowest grade of 20,000 yuan a year and 50,000 yuan a year of middle and upper grade. It is often a contract for one person, and a long-term contract for stars at different prices.

At a lower level than debut artists and signed gold artists, there are some trainees who have not yet debuted, and they can only get a small amount of living expenses, and whether they can have a chance to debut depends on luck.

Therefore, trainees envy debut artists, while debut artists envy those artists who can get a signing fee. Basically, under the system of a new start-up film and television entertainment company, there is already a small star, and if the signing money is very much, for example, if you get a million signing money a year, even if you are not a big star, you are the object of the company's support.

After all, the signing fee is only the money paid for the brokerage contract, and the share of the performance is still calculated separately. Generally speaking, artists under the system of newly entrepreneurial film and television entertainment companies have a much higher security system and income than other companies.

"The price increase, for every additional year, will increase by 1 million. Lin Qi smiled and said, "The contract is not only limited to the actor, but also the director's contract. ”

"Is it appropriate to give so much?" Huang Xizhao complained, "It's almost the same as Jackie Chan's contract." ”

"In the future, he can be comparable to Jackie Chan!" Lin Qi smiled confidently.

Hearing the boss's insistence, Huang Xizhao didn't say anything. Professional managers are most afraid that they will have to take the blame for the decisions they make, but the boss must do it, even if it is wrong, he does not have to take the blame, and he has also persuaded him, even if he loses money in the future, he is not to blame.

And Lin Qi is very confident - signing a long-term contract with Stephen Chow is no less than Golden Harvest when he first poached Jackie Chan.

In order to dig Jackie Chan in 79 years, the check rose from 1 million to 5 million, but the price of 5 million was to sign a long-term contract. Moreover, the long-term contract at the beginning is not reliable, and it needs to be continuously increased to extend the term of the contract, and its contract is up to more than 20 years, until the beginning of the 21st century, Jackie Chan's contract has long expired, but it is still after the death of his godfather He Guanchang that he left Golden Harvest.

Although Jackie Chan's departure from Golden Harvest accelerated the decline of the Golden Harvest Empire, in fact, he has worked for Golden Harvest for more than 20 years, which can be called benevolence and righteousness. Before leaving Golden Harvest, in fact, Golden Harvest already felt that Jackie Chan was getting old and losing value, and planned to cultivate new stars, reducing the tilt of resources to Jackie Chan. Assuming that the later Golden Harvest was not snubbed because of Jackie Chan's low ebb, but continued to support Jackie Chan, perhaps, Golden Harvest may be another ending......

"By the way, Wang Jing also signed. Lin Qi said, "Ten years, 1 million signing money." In addition, the minimum annual investment budget of 20 million yuan is used to invest in Wang Jing's films, and after filming his own company's films, he can take over the work outside, but he needs to handle it through the company's agent. ”

Huang Xizhao agreed: "This Wang Jing is definitely worth investing in, and ideas are endless. Although his temperament is a little impetuous, he is patient and should be able to make a good movie. ”

Wang Jing is a rare director who disdains literary films, and he is a director who can make money by filming with his eyes closed and his feet. Perhaps, limited by the pattern, as well as too lazy, unwilling to learn, led to little progress later.

Later, people used Wang Jing's more than 100 regular movies released in theaters at the box office, which was not as high as the total box office of several movies made by Stephen Chow. But even so, Wang Jing can still rank among the top ten big directors in the cumulative box office of Chinese films.

Moreover, during Wang Jing's high-production period, the mainland film box office market had not yet risen, so a blockbuster movie actually had a box office of between a few million and twenty or thirty million.

If this bad movie king was born 20 years later, and the peak of creation is the 21st century, then ...... It is conceivable that he can still beat the industry with his feet to shoot films, and he can be ten with one!

In fact, Wang Jing did this in the 80s~90s, and the bad movies concocted in ten days and half a month are also better than the movies made by some literary film directors in half a year or even more than a year.

In the 90s, during the downturn of Hong Kong films, Wang Jing was full of firepower, one person was equal to half of the Hong Kong film box office market, and all the other directors added up were not enough for him to play.

Because, at that time, the investment in most of the director's films was at a loss nine times out of ten, and the crooks who invested in Wang Jing made money nine times out of ten.

So, investors naturally lined up to hand over the money to Wang Jing to make a film. There is no shortage of investment, and the filming speed is fast, and most of them make money, such a rapid-fire cannon naturally makes the entire industry blush.

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After the box office was released on the first day, the box office of "A Comic Book Goes to the World" was still relatively stable, and there was no sign of a high box office on the opening day, and there was no sign of continuous diving in the follow-up. On the ninth day of release, the box office has exceeded 10 million yuan.

Next, the film's Hong Kong local box office eventually reached 28 million yuan, although it did not become a record-breaking film. But it has also become a rare blockbuster movie, after all, at this time, there are still only a handful of films with a box office of more than 20 million on the box office list of Hong Kong films, and "A Comic Book Goes to the World" has entered the top ten of the all-time box office list, which is enough for the entire industry to study the secret of this film's success.

Of course, most of the industry insiders are not on the point, some think that gangster movies will be a hit, and some think that the plot keeps turning and seems normal, but there will be a reversal at any time, and the movie that reverses after the reversal may be a blockbuster.

Some people's analysis is more reasonable - movies with comedy elements may be a blockbuster!

However, the main factor that really sold out was Stephen Chow!

It's just that because Stephen Chow has not succeeded one after another, no one will realize that he is the main factor!

In fact, after the big sale of "A Comic Book to the World", many people in the industry were holding banknotes and preparing to find Wang Jing to make a new film. However, Wang Jing regretfully said that she signed a ten-year long-term contract with a new start-up film and television company.

"A Comic Book to the World" should be regarded as a movie in which Stephen Chow transformed into a blockbuster movie star, before that, Stephen Chow acted as a host in TV series, and also played roles in some less famous movies, and he was definitely not recognized as the leading actor of a popular movie.

At the same time, Wang Jing used to be a screenwriter, and although the director's work "A Thousand Kings Fighting a Thousand Tyrants" achieved a box office of 10 million, the subsequent box office performance of the movie was not very good. Therefore, it did not receive the attention of the industry, and it was originally backed by the mountain of Shaw Brothers films, but after the Shaw Brothers was discontinued, Wang Jing had to find a job by herself outside. "A Comic Book Goes to the World" is an opportunity for Wang Jing to turn over, and of course he works hard.

Although the plot of "A Comic Book Goes to the World" in history is a bit nonsensical, it is still based on feelings on the whole, although Stephen Chow's performance in the work can find the shadow of the later masterpieces, but it is still a little worse, after all, the original director Leung Jiaren was not born in a comedy, but made his debut in an action movie. In addition, there is a bit of a tribute to the gangster hero films represented by "The True Colors of Heroes" in the 80s, which makes the overall effect more like a literary film.

And...... The brotherhood between Xingzi and Ah Jun in it...... The base sees the base, the corrupt see the rot, and the rotten girls and young ladies will scream. Originally, the plot showed brotherhood, but if Ah Jun was replaced with a sister...... Maybe more comedic,

That's how this movie is played, Ah Jun didn't look for a male actor, but asked Lin Qingxia to act. Lin Qingxia, who made her debut in Qiong Yao's drama, came to Hong Kong in 83 because of emotional problems and the sluggish local film market in Taiwan, and soon after, she was invited by a new start-up film and television company to sign a five-year brokerage contract.

The plot in this movie, after a period of magic change, the brotherhood has become, a cool man in men's clothing who can beat a handsome guy admired by Ah Xing, is actually a girl, and uses this in the middle to make some jokes.

At the same time, Wang Jing did not completely shoot according to the script, Wang Jing liked to be lazy during the filming process, giving Stephen Chow more room to play. That. The nonsensical scenes in this drama that make people laugh out loud have increased a lot.

The original work of "A Comics Goes to the World" does not have a lot to do with comics, it's just that the protagonist Ah Xing likes to read the heroes in the comics, and then worships the handsome brother he meets in reality. On the whole, comics are not much to the plot promotion, even if the comic elements are removed, it will not be affected. But...... Lin Qi's magic change script, coupled with Wang Jing's play, made the comics an important prop. Even, when the protagonist Ah Xing encountered difficulties, he actually had a comic character possessed and changed from a weak chicken to a superman in an instant.

The production budget of this film is 21 million yuan, in fact, according to the experience of the Hong Kong film industry, it is not necessary to use so much money, but ...... The newly started film and television entertainment company has a rule that it does not make small-budget movies, and the minimum threshold is only 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which is already the threshold for Hong Kong's top productions.

The Hong Kong film industry in this era has a budget of 5 million, which is considered a big production. Like a new creative film and television entertainment company, such a capricious film and television entertainment company with a lower budget does not invest, but only invests in films of more than 10 million yuan, which on the one hand makes the entire industry envious, and at the same time, it also makes peers breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the fact that films below 10 million are not invested, which means that the number of films invested by new start-up film and television companies every year will not be too much, and the impact on the market will not be too great.

In other words, if a company invests 50 million yuan to make movies every year, with an average budget of 1 million yuan per movie, and can make 50 movies a year, such a company will have a greater impact on the pattern of Hong Kong's box office market.

However, the reason why the newly started film and television entertainment companies are doing this is also because the target standard is all over the world, and the global market is the hunting ground, which must raise the capital threshold a little.

Some movies, with a budget of 1 million to a budget of 10 million, can be made, and the improvement of quality with a budget of 10 million may only be two or three percent, but if the goal is to the global market, the movies that could have been sold can increase a little more investment, which can slightly increase the attendance rate, even if the attendance rate of each theater increases by a few percentage points, but, compared with the same period of movies, the leading attendance rate will naturally be arranged with more theater resources, and in a limited time, more theater performances will be seized, and the benefits obtained by it will far exceed the pay。