The popularity of "Police Story" exceeded anyone's expectations, including Lin Qi, who also felt a bit incredible. The box office broke 20 million in two weeks, and according to this trend, it should not be a problem to refresh the box office record of Hong Kong movies to more than 30 million.

Stimulated by Hong Kong's record-breaking box office figures, overseas distributors are also highly motivated, and in June, Singapore and Malaysia have been released in local theaters, because Golden Harvest Films also has theaters there. The box office of Singapore and Malaysia is not surprisingly popular, after all, Southeast Asia in this era is even more popular with Hong Kong films than Hollywood blockbusters.

"Police Story" in Japan and South Korea has become popular before it is released, and a large number of TV media and paper media have appeared in a large number of movies and Jackie Chan topics. Especially in the Japanese market, it has a surprisingly large number of fans, because, starting from "Drunken Fist", Jackie Chan has attracted a large number of fans in the Japanese market, so much so that it has laid the foundation for its international event.

In the 80s~90s, Hollywood valued Jackie Chan's box office appeal in the Asian market, not so much Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but Jackie Chan could sell as well as Hollywood blockbusters in the Japanese box office market.

In the 80s~90s, the influence of the Japanese animation industry continued to grow. However, live-action movies are not so awesome, even in the 21st century, it is difficult for local live-action movies in Japan to sell well, and directors who generally create a box office of 1 billion yen are equivalent to 50 million-level Japanese directors in the RMB market, and their status in the domestic industry is already considered a god.

At the same time, some Japanese animation directors have produced more than 20 billion yen of super-grossing animated films. First there was Hayao Miyazaki, and then Makoto Shinkai came out, and its animated theatrical version was so popular that even Disney would be impressed.

When it comes to live-action films, Japan is truly speechless, and not just its own films. Moreover, many of the original works are Japanese anime that are not done by word of mouth, and changing to live-action movies is basically seeing the light of day, whether it is adapted by a Japanese director or produced by a foreign company, basically, it is ruining the original work.

Strange to say, Japanese video games such as "Resident Evil" and "Silent Hill" have not been very successful.

All in all, a Chinese actor who is a blockbuster in the overseas market, and can direct and act, Jackie Chan should be a rare talent.

To be honest, Lin Qi did think about poaching Jackie Chan from Golden Harvest Film Company, after all, he knew that until the 21st century, Jackie Chan was still popular. Compared with the Chinese film industry, perhaps, it can't compare to Stephen Chow. However, from the perspective of the world, Jackie Chan is the most familiar Chinese star by fans around the world after Bruce Lee. If you poach Jackie Chan, even if you pay tens of millions of costs, it is definitely cost-effective.

But then he gave up poaching Jackie Chan, mainly because he violated business ethics in order to get excellent talents. Poaching, although it can get talents, will also get a negative reputation, as well as bad relations with some companies.

What's more, Lin Qi found that even if he poached Jackie Chan, there was no big bonus to the pattern of his career, and it was only an investment with an average rate of return. If it is for the rate of return, to poach Jackie Chan, it is better to use the money to buy a house and buy stocks, with the advantage of Lin Qi's information resources, even if you choose some projects to hold for a long time, the rate of return may not be worse than poaching Jackie Chan.

Of course, more importantly, there will be a large number of talents that can be cultivated from scratch in the coming decades. For example, after Stephen Chow joined Xingchen TV, Lin Qi explained the key training, so at this time, in addition to being the host of the TV station, Stephen Chow will have some opportunities to play supporting roles with lines and plots from time to time. The current Stephen Chow, of course, has not yet shown his future comedy talent, but his serious and hard-working spirit has also made him grow rapidly.

Lin Qi is ready to polish Stephen Chow's year and let him carry the beam. After all, Jackie Chan has become popular like this, and Golden Harvest has invested heavily in Jackie Chan, and his liquidated damages are naturally so expensive that he can't make money for at least ten years.

And cultivating some cheap seedlings by yourself, and giving them some opportunities to come out, you can make them grateful, and their return on investment is definitely much better than digging up popular stars.

As for who will be popular in the future, even the first-class scouts in the industry are not sure.

But Lin Qi is clear at a glance, as long as he takes out a list of stars and directors who will be popular in the future, he will know who to support.

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At the time of the release of "Police Story", "Happy Ghost 2", which was cooperated by a new venture film and television company and Xinyicheng, was also being filmed intensively.

Maggie Cheung, who is highly praised by a new start-up film and television company, has just released a popular movie, but she is filming "Happy Ghost 2" non-stop. This movie corrects Maggie Cheung, who was only a supporting role in the previous film, and lets her play the core role of the past female star Xu Banxiang.

Compared with "Police Story", Maggie Cheung is purely a vase, and the characters in this "Happy Ghost Crashing Ghost" can be said to be tailor-made for the current Maggie Cheung.

In essence, "Happy Ghost" is a high-value and lively movie. Before Stephen Chow's movies came out, such movies were already the pinnacle of comedy movies. Moreover, even by the standards of later generations, this is definitely a classic blockbuster commercial film, and its watchability is even better than that of some later comedy dark horses with a box office of 1 billion.

It can be said that this series has been regarded as the highest level of Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen's combination in his life. In the future, although the master and apprentice are comedians in the film and television industry, they have never created a movie that exceeds the "Happy Ghost" series.

Of course, for Maggie Cheung, at this stage, she is just selling her appearance, although her acting skills are not recognized. In the movie "Police Story", he was scolded and cried by Jackie Chan, and in addition, he was injured on his forehead during filming, and he has always had a little scar, which requires makeup to cover it up. However, after the performance of "Police Story", Maggie Cheung has indeed improved a lot. So much so that when "Happy Ghosts Hit Ghosts", the state of filming last year was already like two people.

"Boss Lin. Gao Zhisen said, ""Happy Ghost 2" is scheduled to be released in July, and the post-computer archiving and editing are synchronized with the daily shooting. Your company's 'Happy Girl Group', except for Zhou Huimin, who has to take the exam, is working overtime. However, she doesn't have many scenes......"

Lin Qi nodded and said, "It's okay, the focus of this drama is Maggie Cheung!" Lin Qi didn't take into account Gao Zhisen's speculation about his relationship with Maggie Cheung, in fact, Lin Qi is a very pure businessman, thinking about things, it's more about the rate of return than anything else.

Maggie Cheung's potential must be such as Stephen Chow, but investing in it can generate good returns, and she will naturally be stingy with the capital. What's more, when it was not popular, it had already been signed, and the cost paid was quite low. [.]