Chapter 192: The Schedule of Confusion

Wu Xiuhan's eldest aunt Wu Jinbian is the eldest of his grandfather Wu Yuze's ten children, so Wu Jinbian has been deeply favored by his father since he was a child.

It can be said that Wu Jinbian has grown up carefree all the way since he was a child.

When Ng was 19 years old, because of his love of movies and Cantonese opera, Ng opened a film company for her recreation, and in 1935, when Ng was 21 years old, she rented a small studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and produced her first Cantonese film, Iron Blood.

When the film was released in Xiangjiang, it was applauded and acclaimed, and achieved good results.

So the following year, Wu Jinbian came to Xiangjiang and began to concentrate on making Cantonese films. After making five Cantonese films in a row, she had to return to San Francisco due to the outbreak of the Pacific War.

Then, he continued to shoot Cantonese films in Hollywood.

His "Golden Gate Girl" filmed in the United States is the debut of kung fu superstar Li Xiaolong, who was still a baby at the time, and played a baby girl in it.

After making four more Cantonese films in the United States, Wu Jinfeng officially announced his retirement in 49.

However, as 'the only Chinese female director in Hollywood in the thirties and forties', Wu Jinbian's life is not feminine at all, not only wearing men's clothes and combing men's hair, but even in life, she doesn't like others to call her Miss, but prefers the title of 'Brother Flaw'.

She has never been in a relationship with a man, but she had a lace scandal with some women when she was in Xiangjiang.

"Women's World", directed by him in 1939, was the first film in the history of Chinese film with all-female characters, with a total of 36 female actors in the film.

In such an era, a woman who puts on a 'I am a lesbian' face is very wonderful under the spotlight.

But in reality, I have been receiving a strange vision.

So although Wu Jinbian was born and raised in San Francisco on the West Coast, he went to New York on the East Coast and opened a Chinese restaurant.

Since she was a child, Wu Xiuhan has also been full of a sense of confusion about this deviant aunt.

As a girl, she naturally admires and envies her aunt as a strong woman, but as a girl, she naturally can't understand her aunt's abnormal orientation.

So when Li Ziyun came up in person, Wu Xiuhan's brain crashed directly.

It's just that obviously the two pure girls are not familiar with how to kiss, so after three or four seconds of lip-to-lip, Li Ziyun frowned and retracted her head.

Touching his lower lip, Li Ziyun said freely: "What, I don't feel it at all." ”

"Ah——!h

"Oops, I'm curious, so I'll give it a try. ”

"Try it?!"

"Oops, don't pinch, right......"

"Did you try that? ”

……

"Ahem-ha-——!!!ha-a

The two women were still pinching each other, and suddenly one of the third row in front couldn't help it, coughed several times in a row, and looked back at them for a long time.

Only then did the two of them realize that there was too much commotion just now, so they hurriedly sat down peacefully.

"Wait a minute, I'll settle accounts with you!" Wu Xiuhan still whispered angrily.

"Watching movies, watching movies, it began. ”

"Humph!"

As the screen in front of me gradually brightened, an unfamiliar movie logo of two women appeared in front of me, and the movie was fast-paced, and it started directly with the subtitles.

"Jiahe, Hanhan, have you heard of this company?"

"Nope. ”

"Oh-"

As the plot of the movie progressed, the two girls finally quieted down, but before they could feel anything, they directly immersed themselves.

"Haha, this mom and dad are so funny. ”

"It's just that the children are gone. ”

……

"Wow Ka Ka, these two thieves are so pitiful. ”

"It's just, it's miserable. ”

……

"Oops, oops, hit!"

"Hahaha-"

"This little boy is so smart. ”

……

"Ah, Ah Qi just has two lines. ”

"Not a lot. ”

"Yes. ”

……

"Wow, little Andy got caught. ”

"What should I do?"

"Don't worry, look, the old man is here. ”

……

"Ah, the ending is so touching. ”

"It's so warm to be a family together. ”

"That's it. ”

……

With the end of the whole movie, Wu Xiuhan and the two daughters walked out of the theater with the happy crowd with satisfaction.

"Oops, that little protagonist Andy is so cute, I wish I had such a brother. Li Ziyun said with a smile on the side.

Wu Xiuhan thought about his cousin and cousin, and couldn't help but shudder and said, "Forget it, compared to my younger brother, I still want an older brother." ”

"Well, my brother is also very good, but that uncle and aunt have to work hard. ”

"Roll ——!"

Li Ziyun was yelled at by her best friend, turned around in embarrassment, looked at the poster at the door of the theater and changed the topic: "Eh, Hanhan, the movies over there in Xiangjiang are so good-looking? ”

"Strange?"

"That's right. Li Ziyun nodded and responded: "I watched this film today, but I didn't blink my eyes." ”

"Me ...... too"

As she spoke, the two girls looked at each other inexplicably, and then they both looked at the huge family carnival poster.

"Ah, my brain hurts, no matter what, I'm going to go home and bring my parents to see them again. ”

"Okay, I'll call my aunt too. ”

……

"Home Alone" was released on Saturday, December 22, in 30 theaters of the United Theater Line, perhaps Lianmei also considered that this is a Chinese movie, although it has been prepared in English, these 30 theaters are still selected near major Chinese gathering areas in the United States.

As for the promotion of the movie, although the distributor is basically responsible for it, Luen Mei will definitely not provide much publicity for "Home Alone", and it will be good if two posters are printed.

It's just that the $20,000 left by Yang Qiu ......

This amount of money is not enough for the current production scale in the United States, and there are more Christmas films such as "African Queen", which is also distributed by United States, and the production cost is millions of dollars.

Then its publicity cost, according to the current Hollywood standards, at least starts at 200,000!

With a tenfold gap and squeezed into the same schedule, how can you achieve good results in publicity?

Zou Dingxin simply broke the jar and broke it, and he didn't make much of a scene, and took more than 10,000 US dollars to find a Chinese-language newspaper with the most widely circulated, and advertised it for a week.

It can be regarded as a net with and without fish.

Then, as Christmas approached, Home Alone joined the Christmas wars.

On the first day of the release of "Home Alone", the attendance rate was not very good, and the average of the statistics was only 40%, and even in some places it just reached 30%.

Compared to several other Christmas movies, the data can be described as bleak!

On the spot, some minority shareholders of Lianmei wanted to replace the movie in those theaters with extremely poor data, but Zou Dingxin took the distribution contract and reluctantly resisted.

After the next day of worry, when the data came out in the evening, he found that the attendance rate had basically risen to more than three and a half percent, and Zou Dingxin was finally relieved.

At this time, with the official release of "Queen of Africa", which was not favored by the United States, the newspaper was suddenly full of praise, and this love adventure film suddenly exploded at the box office.

Now "Home Alone" is even more inconspicuous.

It's just that before those clamoring small shareholders can speak again, the attendance rate of more than 60% on the third day of "Home Alone" will automatically shut their mouths.

On Christmas Day, the attendance rate of "Home Alone" exploded, with an average of more than 90%, and a few even full, and the movie theaters were basically full of people.

Why?

It can only be said that in addition to the good quality of this film, it all depends on the foil of peers!

"The African Queen" released by United States is a romantic adventure film, "Blood on the Rhine" released by Twentieth Century Fox is a war film, "I Miss You" released by Warners is a romance film, "Death of a Salesman" released by Columbia is a feature film, and distributed by Universal......

Looking at all the movies in the Christmas file, except for "Home Alone", there is no real family-friendly movie!

Yang Qiu always feels that the current movie atmosphere in the United States is like the battle for the schedule in Xiangjiang, which has an awkward atmosphere.

What the hell are you thinking?