Chapter Twenty-Three: Zhang Guorong's Spring

The box office of "Rain of Swords" surprised everyone, including Wang Jie.

The box office on the first day was 420,000 Hong Kong dollars, the second day soared to 980,000, and on the third day, it reached a record 110,000 Hong Kong dollars, becoming the first film in the history of Hong Kong to gross more than one million in a single day.

The film was screened for 58 days, and the total box office reached 3,000 and 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was the first film in Xiangjiang to break 30 million, and other film and television companies in Xiangjiang did not even have more than 10 million films at this time.

At the end of the 70s, the total population of Xiangjiang was far less than that of the later years, and according to statistics, the population of Xiangjiang in 76 years was only about 4.7 million. The box office of "Sword Rain" is so amazing, in addition to the good publicity and novel story structure, the technology of other films in Hong Kong for twenty or thirty years ahead of this time is indispensable, in fact, "Sword Rain" is far superior to most films in terms of picture technology, even if it is compared with Hollywood. Wang Jie has the original version as a reference, and he strives for perfection, which can naturally attract the audience's attention. According to incomplete statistics, many people in Xiangjiang have watched it more than twice, and some people have even watched it more than ten times, including Xu Ke, who has just entered Jiayi TV.

Xu Laowei is still in the exploration stage at the moment, and has not formed his own shooting style, let alone creating a new school of martial arts to become a generation of grandmasters. "Rain of Swords" not only opens a window, but simply establishes a broad avenue. The fully mature and further stylistic techniques have pointed out the direction for all Hong Kong filmmakers.

"Rain of Swords" has brought a huge reputation to everyone in front of and behind the scenes, it has made Guan Zhilin and Hu Huizhong, who are new to the film industry, famous, made Lin Qingxia's transformation successful, made Zeng Jiang go further, and improved the business level of everyone behind the scenes who participated in the filming A big step, which benefited the most from Zhang Guorong as the actor.

Zhang Guorong is the best choice in terms of character and professionalism, and the vast majority of Hong Kong people who went north to the Chinese mainland in parallel time and space have a very high opinion of themselves, and finally aroused everyone's hatred, Zhang Guorong is the only Hong Kong star who still makes many people in the mainland remember after his death. Through this period of getting along, Wang Jie admires Zhang Guorong's way of behaving in the world. Of course, Zhang Guorong at this time is far from being mature and stable in the future, and may not have experienced failure, and he looks youthful and excited.

Zhang Guorong was born rich and noble, and he was not at all like Cheng Long who climbed up from the bottom like Wang Jie, and he was somewhat in awe of Wang Jie. Zhang Guorong treats Wang Jie like an ordinary good friend, which makes Wang Jie feel extremely relaxed.

Although the ups and downs of the past and present lives made Wang Jie's personality a little indifferent, Zhang Guorong's friendship without any utilitarianism still made him feel like a spring breeze. Wang Jie treats Zhang Guorong with a rare different eye.

As a promotional attempt, Wang Jie not only edited the teaser, but also used the existing resources and manpower of the crew to shoot MTV of two film interludes, and the singers were Zhang Guorong. It's a great innovation, considering that the first relatively mature MTV was formed in 1983 when Michael Jackson was the first to incorporate dance into a music video.

Wang Jie chose two film interludes, in addition to the original version of "Sword Rain and Floating Life", there is also a song by Dong Chou's "Red Dust Inn", when these two songs were broadcast on Jiayi TV, the whole Xiangjiang was boiling. Zhang Guorong's handsome face, the timeless and beautiful pictures in MTV, and the novel and beautiful style of music made the boys and girls in Hong Kong fascinated, and also made Zhang Guorong a blockbuster.

In order not to waste Zhang Guorong's popularity, Wang Jie established DreamWorks Records, the head of the company is Chen Xunqi, the soundtrack of "Sword Rain", Chen Xunqi was reluctant at first, his dream was to be a film director, and later Wang Jie promised him that the record company would find someone to replace him in the future, and he could still participate in the filming of DreamWorks Pictures during the management of DreamWorks Records.

Rich and easy to do, in less than a week, on the basis of the acquisition of two relatively small record companies, DreamWorks Records initially established production and distribution channels, "Sword Rain" has just painted Zhang Guorong's "Sword Rain Floating Life" record immediately began to sell, the album has a total of eight songs, all provided by Wang Jie, in addition to "Sword Rain Floating Life" and "Red Dust Inn" also included "The Wind Continues to Blow", "Monica", "Who Resonates", "Unintentional Sleep", "Love of the Year", "Love" Six classic songs of Zhang Guorong in the future.

Due to the recent establishment of DreamWorks Records and the limited distribution capacity, all regions except Xiangjiang have licensed Polygram Records, because of Wang Jie's background, the contract signed by the two parties through negotiation stipulates that the profits of the record will be divided fifty-fifty.

In the second week, the sales of Xiangjiang reached 203158, breaking through the double platinum sales, and the sales in other cities ushered in a blowout, with 630271 sales that week, and the two weeks together directly exceeded 1 million copies, breaking the record of all Asian singers!

A record!

Zhang Guorong is directly a god!!

Although many critics said sourly that Zhang Guorong's "Sword Rain Floating Life" sales are so hot, in fact, there is a lot of water, the super sale of "Sword Rain" has brought him too many fans, and many fans even buy records for the two songs "Sword Rain Floating Life" and "Red Dust Inn", so there is a sales record of more than 1 million copies! Except for the factor of "Sword Rain", "Sword Rain Floating Life" can sell 400,000 copies, which should be thankful!

But no matter what they say, Zhang Guorong's soaring momentum is already unstoppable.

Fans are not only talking about "Sword Rain" and "Red Dust Inn", but also the fresh and moving "The Wind Continues to Blow", as well as other classic songs in the album.

For young people aged 15-25, Zhang Guorong not only has a beautiful voice, but also his handsome face is also intoxicating, and he has a smile as bright as the sun, which directly melts the hearts of young boys and girls, and makes them crazy obsessed with this new generation of idol superstars.

It is worth mentioning that RB and some girls in South Korea also established Zhang Guorong's chastity group, vowing not to marry Zhang Guorong in this life.

For a time, Zhang Guorong was already the most high-profile superstar in the Asian music scene!

The miracle of the box office of "Rain of Swords" in Hong Kong attracted the door-to-door rush of Bay Island, RB, South Korea and Southeast Asian cinema distributors, and Wang Jie took the opportunity to appoint Shi Nansheng and Le Yiling to establish DreamWorks' own distribution channels through negotiations. In the past, the overseas distribution of DreamWorks' films was handled by Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, although they did not suffer any losses, but Wang Jie did not want to be controlled by others.

Shi Nansheng and Le Yiling are worthy of being the heroines of the entertainment industry in the future of Hong Kong, and with the efforts of the two, they not only negotiated an account-sharing distribution treaty that benefited DreamWorks, but also laid a relatively complete distribution channel in other cities.

As an epoch-making film, "Rain of Swords" also lived up to DreamWorks' expectations, with an RB box office of 3 billion yen in just one month, more than 150,000 moviegoers in South Korea, a miracle of 25 million Taiwan dollars in Bay Island, and nearly 2 million US dollars contributed by the Southeast Asian generation.

When the news reached Xiangjiang, major newspapers and periodicals led by "Ming Pao" published comments jokingly saying that "Sword Rain" should be renamed "Qian Yu".