Chapter 107: The Crazy "Night"

Su's Entertainment quickly stopped pre-selling movie tickets, not because no one was buying, but because too many people were going to buy them.

According to the current pre-sale situation, Su Cinema and the cooperative Xinbao Cinema Line can't arrange the film scheduling plan at all, after all, they have to take care of other movies.

When Su Entertainment announced that the pre-sale box office of "Tales of the Night" was nearly 20 million, the entire Hong Kong film industry was completely boiling.

You must know that this number has surpassed the earlier "True Colors of Heroes 3" directed by Xu Ke and Wu Yusen's "Bloody Heroes". And this is still in the case that many people have not bought movie tickets, once the Golden Princess Cinema and Golden Harvest Cinema Line join, then the box office will rise significantly.

Apparently this figure is putting pressure on several other studios in Hong Kong, who are already expecting a new box office record for "Tales of the Night" in Hong Kong.

Faced with the huge temptation of profits, Lei Juekun, as a pure businessman, chose to chase profits, so soon after, Golden Princess Cinema and Su's Entertainment officially joined the screening plan of "Legend of the Night".

"Ah Chang, what should we do now?" Zou Wenhuai said to He Guanchang with a heavy face: "Now the owners of the following theaters have asked us to agree to screen "Legend of the Night". ”

"This is also something that can't be helped, and the blockbuster ability shown in "Tales of the Night" makes these little bosses unable to refuse. He Guanchang said with some embarrassment: "If we don't agree, even if there is a contract, it is estimated that they are likely to get out of it." ”

Zou Wenhuai was really a little uncertain this time: "Then are you watching our theater chain help "Legend of the Night" set a box office record?"

"The trend has come. He Guanchang said: "But fortunately, Su's Entertainment does not have a special film production company, and they only started the show to support Zhong Chuhong." They will definitely not be able to catch up with us in a short time. ”

"Hey, let's agree to the theater screening of "Tales of the Night". Zou Wenhuai sighed and said: "It's okay like this, it is estimated that it will stimulate Ah Long, and let him rest assured, don't think about running to Heli all day long." ”

He Guanchang looked at Zou Wenhuai, and some words had not yet been said - he was afraid that Su's Entertainment would rise in an instant like Jiahe, Xinyicheng, and Debao back then.

Soon Golden Harvest Cinemas announced that it had reached an agreement with Su's Entertainment and would join the screening plan of "Tales of the Night". As a result, "Tales of the Night" will be screened simultaneously in all theaters in Hong Kong on December 2.

Su Entertainment has already secured screenings in other Asian locations such as Japan, Taiwan and Southeast Asia before securing other cinema chains in Hong Kong. Subsequently, there was good news from Europe and North America, so "Tales of the Night" will become the first Hong Kong film to be released simultaneously worldwide.

When it came to dealing with the American side, there were also some hiccups in it. In the end, Lei Shidong's Viacom Entertainment agreed to screen "Tales of the Night" in its theaters.

This qiē thanks to Jamie?? Dimon, in Jamie?? Under the introduction of Damon, Su Chenyu met with Lei Shidong as the boss behind X Fund and Standard Chartered Bank. Of course, Lei Shidong expressed surprise at Su Chenyu's youth, and bluntly said that the big country in the East is really a magical country.

At first, Lei Shidong only agreed to show it in several theaters under his umbrella for the sake of Su Chenyu's identity, but after Su Chenyu showed Lei Shidong a part of the fragment of "Legend of the Night", he agreed to show it in all his theaters.

Saturday, December 2, 1989, 8:00pm HKT.

The largest cinema in the Su Cinema Line - Brilliant Cinema in Central, Su Chenyu and Zhong Chuhong walked in hand in hand. The two of them naturally came to see the premiere of "Tales of the Night", because no premieres were held, so "Tales of the Night" started its "road to glory" in a low-key manner.

The three trailers for Tales of the Night were playing on the screen, and the movie theater was already packed, and there were plenty of people outside waiting to see the next show or buy the remaining tickets.

The movie soon begins, with a golden dragon emerging from the darkness and ending up in a glittering "S" - the hallmark of Su's Entertainment. Su Chenyu felt that Zhong Chuhong beside her was a little nervous, so she stretched out her hand and took her over and leaned her into her arms, so that she could feel her support.

This is where the plot of the film begins in earnest - a thunderclap resounds, a pouring rain falls outside the dilapidated church, and a gloomy feeling hits you. As a flock of white doves flew by, Zhong Chuhong's voice began to sound, and she began to preliminarily introduce the grievances and entanglements between the zombie drought clan and the Wu clan Xingtian, Kuafu, and Chiyou.

Suddenly, the audience, especially the male audience, exclaimed, Zhong Chuhong, dressed in a tight leather coat, appeared, half-kneeling on the high seat of the church, she couldn't say that she was sexy and cold.

The plot continues, and when Zhong Chuhong jumps smoothly from the height of the church to the ground, everyone lets out and exclaims - this action is really dazzling.

Compared with the audience's addiction, some filmmakers watched it with a solemn face. As Wu Yusen's old enemy, Xu Ke also secretly watched this movie in the cinema, he naturally understood the Tao here, but he didn't expect it to bring such a shocking visual impact.

What followed was a shootout between Zhong Chuhong and the Xingtian Clan, which was obviously Wu Yusen's area of expertise, and the whole process was arranged very intensely and tensely. What fascinated the audience was that Zhong Chuhong, who has always been the goddess of the screen, turned into the queen of gunfights, and her clean and neat movements really shocked everyone's eyes. And Zhou Runfa, who has always been a hero, has transformed into a gentle and elegant "intellectual youth".

It doesn't seem to give the audience a chance to breathe at all, when Xu Jinjiang plays the big man of the Chiyou tribe transforms into a mythical image - a human body with cow hooves, four eyes and six hands, ears and sideburns like a sword halberd, and a horned head, there were bursts of exclamations in various movie theaters. Although the special effects made by Industrial Light & Magic are really ordinary from the perspective of future generations, they are shocking to everyone in this era.

The people who secretly watched the movies in the cinema were also extremely surprised, but they also knew that the special effects must have cost a lot of money - otherwise how could they cost so much 100 million.

At the same time, they also found the high box office that comes with this high investment.

However, Xu Ke was the most injured person, and he spent 20 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot "The Legend of Shushan" with special effects, which ended in a fiasco. Now people don't know that eleven years later, the new "Legend of Shushan" that this old monster Xu spent nearly 100 million to shoot is a loss.

The plot of the movie continues to advance, and Chu Hong, played by Zhong Chuhong, accidentally discovers a secret - the blood of Mike, played by Zhou Yunfa, can fuse the genes of the two creatures, the witch clan and the zombies. Once whoever has this mixed bloodline, who can return to the Honghuang ancestral bloodline, then has a supreme power.

When the second leader of the Chiyou clan learned of this secret, he frantically chased Mike, trying to inject his blood and the blood of the zombie clan elder into his body to gain supreme power. Chu Hong was very sympathetic to Mike's plight and wanted to help this handsome life-saving benefactor, and magical love sprouted in them. Among them, the images of Drought Fish, Xingtian, and Kuafu also appeared one by one, bringing endless shock to the audience.

In the end, there was a big reversal in the plot, and Chu Hong found that his adoptive father, the second-generation zombie drought ancestor, was actually his own enemy, so Chu Hong and Mike teamed up to fight his adoptive father. Although the two finally teamed up to kill the second generation of the Drought Ancestor, the blood of the second generation of the Drought Ancestor activated the first Drought Ancestor at the end - and thus the first part of "Tales of the Night" ended.

Zhong Chuhong couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw that after the movie ended, the audience didn't seem to be moving. There is no way, the investment in "Legend of the Night" is too large, which makes Zhong Chuhong feel a lot of pressure, for fear that he will mess up the film because of himself.

"What's wrong with them?" Zhong Chuhong asked softly, "Are they dissatisfied with the movie?"

Su Chenyu kissed Zhong Chuhong with a smile, and then said, "They were all shocked, and they haven't reacted yet." My dear, you have succeeded, and from today you will be the brightest star in Hong Kong and the whole of Asia. ”

Sure enough, as soon as Su Chenyu's words were finished, all the audience spontaneously stood up and applauded, which seemed to be dedicated to all the cast and crew of "Tales of the Night".

The above scene happened in many movie theaters, and there is no doubt that "Tales of the Night" was a huge success.

"See? Wu Yusen's wife, Niu Chunlong, said to her husband next to her: "I know it will be successful." ”

Wu Yusen was a little excited, yes, he succeeded, even without Xu Ke - he Wu Yusen can become the best director in Hong Kong. These days, Wu Yusen is really under pressure, as the first film director in Hong Kong with an investment of more than 100 million, he is facing all kinds of pressure and doubts from all sides. But now that he has succeeded, he will also become the most shining director in Hong Kong.

Of course, some people are happy and some are worried, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang both have dignified faces after watching the movie. The two of them, who have been in the film industry for many years, naturally understand the huge box office potential of this film, but this also arouses their competitive spirit. Compared with the two giants of Golden Harvest, Pan Disheng had a gloomy face after watching the movie, and he almost didn't scare Yang Ziqiong when he went home.

After the premiere was full, the next few shows were still full. Many people even go out to buy "scalper tickets" at a high price after reading the first time, and some people are even reluctant to leave for a long time after reading it. This kind of movie-watching frenzy is that major theaters have to temporarily withdraw other films in order to increase the number of screenings as much as possible.

This kind of large-scale movie-going frenzy is not only in Hong Kong, but also in Japan, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Even the United States and Canada, which are a few hours older than Hong Kong, have seen a movie-going craze for "Tales of the Night", and similar news has come from Europe.

The crazy movie-watching tide naturally brings crazy box office. Sure enough, the next day, when Shum Jianxun, who had been worried, got the first-day box office statistics, he thought he was wrong.

A crazy number......