"Extra! Extra!" Li Kai in the office of the general manager of Lei Zhen Cinema Line said with a smile on the phone. Originally, the reason why he only arranged more than 20 cinemas for the premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was indeed due to many factors.

First of all, there are too many movies in this year's summer vacation schedule. If it weren't for "The True Color of Heroes" in front and Xu You's constant lobbying, Li Kai would only give ten cinemas, and the time period would not be prime time!

What's more, will there be a market for costume ghost films like "A Chinese Ghost Story"? Before the release, if you ask 100 people, it is estimated that 99 people will not say that they are willing to watch such a movie. And from the beginning of the preparation, the entire crew has been experiencing various 'scandals', how can it be possible to shoot good things?

At the midnight test screening, Li Kai did see the dawn of hope. When he knew the premiere box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story", he also felt sorry for Chen Jialuo, Chen Xiaodong and others. This is a good movie!

But then came the current situation.

At the beginning, it was the owners of various movie theaters who called the person in charge of the cinema chain and told "A Chinese Ghost Story" that it needed to be screened!

And now, several regional leaders have called to tell Li Kai: Need to add a show, you need to add a screen!

It has to be said that the film studio has been fully prepared for such a situation. The copy of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was prepared a lot at the beginning at Chen Jialuo's insistence. Although he later learned that Li Kai had only arranged for more than 20 cinemas in remote areas to be screened, he was not discouraged at all.

On the contrary, after the fiasco of the premiere, he also cheered up Chen Xiaodong and others.

Now it seems that Chen Jialuo is clearly the only winner in this game!

"Dark Horse Rush!"

"The battle for the summer box office was unexpectedly steep. 》

"Fang Long, Xu Shan, and Zhou Jin can't cover Wang Xiaoxian's shadow. 》

With countless audiences pouring into cinemas, the box office battle began to come into view.

As a box office battle in the summer file, Fang Long's self-directed and self-starred "Plan A Sequel" is undoubtedly the leader! However, his first position is not unbreakable, followed by "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Autumn Fairy Tale" The box office is almost the same.

I have to say that the golden period of the explosion of Xiangjiang movies is difficult to judge, and Fang Long's movies are naturally needless to say, they have always been the top three frequent visitors to the box office of Xiangjiang movies over the years. But Zhou Jin salted fish turned over and completely occupied the film market this year.

Looking at "A Chinese Ghost Story", which was once sung and mourned, the box office is also bizarre and eccentric. The box office on the second day was better than the first day, and a week later, the box office was even higher than the premiere box office......

If "Plan A Sequel" is now the first at the box office, everyone expected it, then "A Chinese Ghost Story", which was not optimistic at the beginning, is definitely a sudden rise. From the release of more than 20 movie theaters, all the cinemas under the Lei Zhen Cinema Line have been arranged to be broadcast. Rao is so, there are long queues at the major ticket windows!

And "Autumn Fairy Tale" is still being released, and everyone is talking about the pure love and charm of Zhou Jin and Zhong Qiushui, a screen couple who is still co-starred by the two of them, "Ghost Bride" once again broke in as a "dark horse". This movie can be said to have borrowed the trend of ghost movies from "A Chinese Ghost Story", and even Jia Shang didn't expect to make another popular movie by such a mistake.

With the adjustment of the number of screenings, the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is not favored by everyone, has climbed for a while. This classic Hong Kong version of 'people and ghosts' has completely made all doubts disappear!

Is it arrogant? No, obviously not. This is called self-confidence!

If "Plan A Sequel" sells Fang Long's playful performance, and "Autumn Fairy Tale" sells pure love, then "A Chinese Ghost Story" sells moving stories and touching emotional dramas! Among them, the special effects productions that seem to be very gorgeous during this period have also deeply attracted a lot of audiences.

Film critics have naturally been moved by the wind for a long time. began to follow the audience into the cinema to watch "A Chinese Ghost Story", and they really miscalculated this time.

A Chinese Ghost Story, a grossly underrated post-New Wave film. 》

If you look closely, this Chen Jialuo producer, Chen Xiaodong's film is not a serious costume film, in which the number of lines abounds, Shen Zhongwen's leggings for the two male protagonists have a very trendy cloth pattern; it can't be completely considered a martial arts film, there don't seem to be rivers and lakes in the film, among them, the martial arts Yan Chixia is not staying in Lanruo Temple to catch demons for chivalry and righteousness, but to stay away from people; it can't be considered a horror movie, at least those shots that are beyond common sense don't really exist to frighten the audience, it seems to be a little bit of bad taste.

Everyone in the film wants to do something to make them happy according to their own values: Xiahou wants to compete for the ranking of martial arts, Yan Chixia wants to hide from right and wrong, Ning Caichen wants to collect accounts, grandma wants to collect yang energy, Jianghu people want to arrest wanted criminals for bounties, and even the county official who Chen Jialuo personally played in battle who can't open his eyes is very sincere and always thinks about bribery, and it can also be mentioned by the way that in Ning Caichen's room, there are only dried corpses that run with the smell of blood.

To say that this movie is about love, it is a bit purely consequential (the two are running for their lives most of the time), in fact, it shows desire in more pages, but in the end, what breaks all these entanglements is just the obsession between the two who have not had time to distinguish and think carefully. If you count carefully, you will find that the real dialogue between Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian is actually no more than 30 sentences.

So what kind of movie is this? Here's the point, in today's era when the market is dominated by action comedy urban films, it doesn't matter if a good movie proves that a commercial film caters to as many directions as possible.

The important thing is that when you look at it in one go, you will feel that it is really good-looking. "A Chinese Ghost Story" has enough rich and natural elements, and it is arranged by the choreographer and director to appear one by one with great confidence. Fighting, eroticism, suspense, comedy, heavy taste, but also still have moving emotions, cool kindness, laughter and scolding, all disregarded, to leave the hustle and bustle in the world.

The spectacle in "A Chinese Ghost Story", except for wielding a sword and adding a little bit of post-production light invented in the era of "Rulai Divine Palm", the rest are all live-action production, huge tongues, flexible branches, hungry dried corpses, and flying heads all over the sky, which makes people feel that the whole team is working hard to shoot, and they will try their best to cooperate, and those props are really tied up and collided with the actors.

I don't know if anyone has counted how many times Ning Caichen fell in the movie. Zhang Baorong was in such a stumbling embarrassment, leaving us a dazzling little scholar. On the way to the dangerous night, she carefully helped him kill all the wild wolves and hang them on the tree, because he thought that she was in trouble, and he would also push away the powerful and take the horse and run back to Lanruo Temple. These tacit understandings should be doomed from the moment he mustered up the courage to chase away the terrible snake he was afraid of.

It's like Ning Nie's affection, which is destined to be a tragedy, but this does not prevent them from leaving each other with the short period of danger of "only envying mandarin ducks and not envying immortals". It didn't hinder her, Yan Chixia suddenly found that in fact, she escaped into the world of ghosts, and she couldn't help but face the complexity of people.

This movie is talking about love in the name of costume ghost films, and it is talking about many current situations in society through love.

It is said that Chen Jialuo was led from the script to the shooting, and I believe that this young man who appeared at the end of the New Wave Movement, will become a 'genius' in the Hong Kong film industry. This "A Chinese Ghost Story", I give it a score of 90.