Chapter 60: Midnight Session

Since the Hui brothers successively launched comedy films such as "Ghost Horse Double Star" and "Modern Times", Heung Kong Films has ushered in the peak period of comedy, and Cheng Long's kung fu comedy and the "Best Partner" series launched by Xinyicheng have been widely loved by the audience.

With the end of the movie, the Shaw Brothers Theater resounded with continuous applause from the audience, the new real and false gem creativity, the black humorous comedy style, and the endless laughter made the audience have an extremely comfortable viewing experience, what the audience could do was to send their most sincere applause to the film's creators.

Wang Zheng and the leading actors stood on the stage of the theater, feeling the continuous applause, and their hearts were very excited, which is undoubtedly the audience's affirmation of the entire crew, and their efforts have been recognized by the audience, which is the success that the entire crew wants to see the most.

In the face of such a lovely audience, Wang Zheng has some feelings in his heart, although this is not his first directorial film, but every film is born, with his and the entire team's efforts, can be recognized by the audience, which brings him more creative motivation.

"Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Crazy Stone" were both made by Wang Zheng in desperation, and with the recognition and support of more audiences, I believe that he will be more willing to make a more perfect remake of those classic films in his previous life in the future.

The applause that lasted for a few minutes gradually stopped, and Wang Zheng had the opportunity to speak on behalf of the crew.

"First of all, thank you very much for your support, it is with your praise that our entire crew has more motivation to continue creating, thank you!"

Wang Zheng led the entire crew and bowed to the audience in the seats to thank them.

Li Yuan, who was sitting in the seat, continued to applaud loudly with his already red palms, and his liking for this "Crazy Stone" was no less than the previous ghost blowing the lamp!

"This is my second film to be directed and it went so far, and I am very grateful to all the staff of our entire crew for their behind-the-scenes efforts to make the full film possible. Thank you to Shaw Brothers Film Company for providing a lot of support for the filming of the film, and finally thank you to all the leading actors in the crew, it is because of their excellent performances that such a wonderful movie can be made!

Due to time constraints, the leading actors successively delivered short personal speeches.

Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehao, and Da Fei are very good friends with Wang Zheng, and they naturally won't say much about polite thanks, this is the second movie they have worked together on, sharing with the audience their understanding of the role and many interesting things in the process of acting.

Having the opportunity to participate in such an excellent work, Liu Qingyun, Wu Zhenyu, Lan Jieying, and Liu Jialing are very grateful to Wang Zheng!

Wu Mengda's speech touched the audience very much, his eyes were red and he told his psychological journey, from confusion to despair, thanks to Fa Ge and Wang Zheng, so that he could regain hope!

Zhou Yunfa said that "Crazy Stone" is an unprecedented modern comedy, and Wang Zheng is highly respected both inside and outside the words.

After the leading actors finished speaking, the audience left the theater with some unfinished thinking, and the next broadcast will continue to start.

Before the Chinese New Year of Xiangjiang Films, such a special business model as the midnight show was the most popular, which witnessed and highlighted the glory of Xiangjiang Films.

In the downtown area of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the multiplex cinemas in Portland Street, Kimberley Street, Temple Street and Shanghai Street where the nightlife venues of Jordan Road are concentrated are particularly lively, today is the weekend, and it is the Lunar New Year period, the midnight show began at about 11 o'clock in the evening, and the multiplex theater is already crowded with people, and the itinerant hawkers are shouting and selling sugarcane, fried chestnuts, brine beef offal, roasted corn, popcorn and other snacks.

The midnight audience was overwhelmingly young, men and women, calling friends and friends, and it was particularly noisy. Among the many multiplexes, only two films, "Crazy Stone" and "Best Buddies", will be shown tonight, and the audience will choose which films to watch according to their preferences.

The first part of "Best Partner" has a good reputation, and most viewers choose to watch the sequel. Now Wang Zheng and Liang Chaowei are also famous, coupled with the five million advertising bombardment of Shaw Brothers, the rest of the audience chose to watch "Crazy Stone".

In the screening hall of "Best Partner", after the audience entered the venue and took their seats, they applauded or scolded along with the plot while munching on sugar cane, showing the characteristics of the Midnight Show in Hong Kong.

On the other hand, in the screening hall of "Crazy Stone", as the audience entered, there was a burst of laughter inside, from the beginning to the end of the film, there were laughs everywhere.

The midnight show highly reflects the preferences of grassroots audiences, and commercial film producers can get a lot of data from it, and after calculation and analysis, they can better shoot the film style that the audience prefers, and this model has accumulated a lot of experience for the rise of Hong Kong Films.

After a week of hot screenings, on February 11, the box office of the two films "Crazy Stone" and "Best Partner Shows Their Magical Powers" came out one after another, followed by film reviews from various magazines.

"Best Partner Shows Magical Powers" ended on February 11, with a total box office of 8.11 million Hong Kong dollars and 8 days.

"Crazy Stone" ended on February 11, was released for 7 days, with a cumulative box office of 6.8 million Hong Kong dollars.

Hong Kong Daily: ""Crazy Stone" is an absurd story, with a plot full of jokes, a logical script, a unique perspective of a cutting-edge director, and a group of actors with not very outstanding acting skills, which can be regarded as an excellent Xiangjiang comedy. ”

Yinghua Entertainment Weekly: "The second part of the best partner series, due to the unprecedented success of the first part, this Xiangjiang agent film imitating 007 has also been officially set as the tone of the series, in terms of film technology investment, it can be seen that Mecca's painstaking efforts, car modification, Xu Guanjie's rocket chair, and robot war, it is simply a combination of 007 and cartoons, the vision is quite shocking, this is undoubtedly a very successful sequel!"

Entertainment Weekly Weekly: ""Crazy Stone" has a very good multi-line narrative, especially at the beginning, the seemingly unrelated plots can be cleverly strung together without deliberateness, the characters are explained very clearly, and the film's ingenious narrative is full of black humor, with constant laughter, and it also reflects the "crazy" image of the characters, which is of practical significance. The downside is that the theme of the whole story is not deep enough. ”

The Sun reported: "Although "Crazy Stone" has British actor George, the British Empire's Buckingham Palace and the "God Save the Queen" national anthem are deliberately blackened, which makes us have to suspect director Wang Zheng's sinister intentions!"