Chapter 30 Determine the cinema line
"Alright, I'll go first. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Mo Xuan waved his hand and left after speaking, the purpose of asking Wang Jing this question was to see if Li Lizhen had lied to him and approached him in the name of Wang Jing, although he was lustful, he didn't like scheming women.
Looking at Mo Xuan's departing back, Wang Jing thought to himself that it seems that there is nothing bad about men, and Mr. Mo also loves this tone, it seems that in the future, it will ............
Seeing that "Happy Ghost" is about to be completed, Mo Xuan has gradually begun to work on the cinema issue of the movie "Happy Ghost".
The next day, early in the morning, Mo Xuan came to the office of the administrative director of Zongheng Pictures.
"Ah Yi, how is the recent investigation of the recent movie releases in major theaters in Xiangjiang that I asked you to investigate. Mo Xuan asked Fan Chengyi, who was working on documents in the office.
"Mr. Mo, according to your instructions, I got the list of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and the movies that will be released in Xinyicheng recently through a series of means such as bribery, and I originally planned to send it to you last night, but who knew that there was something at home temporarily. Fan Chengyi said immediately, and immediately took out a document from the drawer.
Mo Xuan waved his hand to indicate that it didn't matter, and then took the theater information handed over by Fan Chengyi and looked at it carefully, from which Mo Xuan found that the information about the films released in theaters in August, September, and October was much more detailed than the information about the movies released in other months. "Mr. Mo, since you mentioned before that you want to release the movie "Happy Ghost" in the summer vacation, I will focus on August, September, and October. While Mo Xuan was looking at the documents carefully, Fan Chengyi stood next to him and explained.
"Yes, yes, Ah Yi, you are quite sophisticated. Mo Xuan praised Fan Chengyi. The reason why he ordered Fan Chengyi to do many things was also because he liked him, and he knew what he could do with his brain, not what Mo Xuan commanded, what was the use of Mo Xuan coming to such a person.
Mo Xuan looked at the documents Fan Chengyi gave him just now, and the first one was the release information of the New Art City movie. The recent movies to be released in Xinyicheng include "Young Master Weiwei", "I Love Night Fragrance", "Prying the Corner", "Difficult Brothers", "Taking the Wrong Car" and other movies, and the highlight of them is the movie "Taking the Wrong Car".
"The Wrong Car" is directed by Yu Kanping, starring Sun Yue, Liu Ruiqi, Li Liqun, etc., the film won 11 nominations at the 20th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, and finally won 4 awards including Best Actor, Best Film Original Music, and Best Original Song. The original songs of the movie "If the Wine Sells Nothing", "The Same Moonlight", "Whether", "Please Follow Me" and other widely popular.
But if Mo Xuan is not mistaken, although "The Wrong Car" was a huge success on Taiwan Island, and Xinyicheng opened the Taiwan film market with this movie, it was seriously hit the streets in Xiangjiang.
Xiangjiang audiences have been accustomed to watching the kind of witty comedy movies of the lower class people for many years, and they are not interested in tear-jerking movies like "The Wrong Car".
The second is about the movies that Golden Harvest Cinemas will release in recent months, including "The Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain", "People Scare Ghosts", "Nameless Fire", "Teppanyaki", "Mr. Your Surname" and other movies.
Except for "The Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain" Mo Xuan, who had heard of it in his previous life, Mo Xuan did not have the slightest impression in his mind in other movies, and it must be difficult to escape the end of hitting the street.
"New Shushan Swordsman" is adapted from the fantasy martial arts novel "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" by the owner of Huanzhu Mansion, which is a fantasy martial arts movie directed by Xu Ke and starring Yuan Biao, Zheng Shaoqiu and Lin Qingxia.
The film tells the story of the South China Sea swordsman Ding Yin who wanted to destroy the raging blood demon but was possessed by it, Di Mingqi and others went to Tiandao Peak to find Li Yiqi's female hero and Ziqing's double sword in order to save the world.
Mo Xuan heard Wang Jing say some time ago that this movie was fully invested by Golden Harvest with more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the special effects team of Hollywood's "Star Wars" was invited to produce visual effects, and Golden Harvest's Hong family class designed the action.
Moreover, Golden Harvest also invited Zheng Shaoqiu, the first brother of the Shaw Brothers martial arts drama, to play the swordsman Ding Yin, which made Shao Yifu furious about this, thanks to Shen Dianxia's intercession for Zheng Shaoqiu.
Not only that, Golden Harvest also went to Taiwan many times and invited Lin Qingxia, who is known as the "No. 1 Beauty in Southeast Asia", to play the role of the owner of Immortal Castle in the movie.
However, the truth is brutal. In Mo Xuan's memory, the film is the first sci-fi martial arts film in Hong Kong to hire the "Star Wars" stunt team to support the stunt shots, with outstanding visual effects, but the plot is a bit messy because there are too many characters and clues, and many places are not clear, so the box office is not very ideal, but it has reached more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
Although the box office of more than 10 million yuan is good compared to other movies, compared with the extremely high investment and the dismal overseas market, it ended up at a loss.
As for the Shaw Brothers, the movies released are "Ghosts", "Demon Souls", "Men and Women", "Doom Ground Car", "Hero Shen Shengyi" and other movies that Mo Xuan has never heard of.
Mo Xuan pondered in his heart for a while and decided to release the movie "Happy Ghost" in August of Shaw Brothers Cinemas.
At this time, if he wants to find Xinyicheng or Golden Harvest to release "Happy Ghost", the other party probably won't agree, after all, the two sides have no friendship, and the other party has its own highlight to be released, how can he give him the schedule as an outsider.
The second is because his relationship with Shao Yifu has gotten along well recently, and Shaw Brothers movies have hit the streets one after another, presumably he asked Shao Yifu to release "Happy Ghost" in Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and Shao Yifu would be easier to agree.
Third, he just noticed that Xinyicheng's "Taking the Wrong Car" and Golden Harvest's "Xinshu Mountain Swordsman" were both released in August, compared to the high investment of the two films, the box office of the two films is not ideal, Mo Xuan is confident that the box office of "Happy Ghost" in Xiangjiang will definitely surpass "Take the Wrong Car" and "Xinshu Mountain Swordsman".
Think about it, how incredible it is that a movie with a small investment by an unknown company actually overturned Xinyicheng and Golden Harvest.
Mo Xuan's release of the movie "Happy Ghost" at this time just took advantage of the situation, stepping on the top of Golden Harvest and Xinyi City, and instantly launched the fame of his Xuanyuan Pictures, attracting more film talents to join him, and his Zongheng Pictures took off.