When Zhang Shaojie was wandering in Guangzhou, the development of Baolong Films was also a thousand miles. In addition to Hong Kong Baolong, which went to the large-scale production route, Tsui Hark served as the director, and invested 7 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot "Six Finger Piano Demon".

Taiwan's Powerlong Film Company also invested NT$3 million to invite cutting-edge director Hou Hsiao-hsien to produce "The Story of Xiao Bi".

"The Story of Xiao Bi" was originally a book of the same name written by Taiwanese female writer Zhu Tianwen. Because, when writing this film, Zhu Tianwen happened to meet Taiwan's new director Hou Hsiao-hsien, and photographer Chen Kunhou.

After reading "The Story of Xiao Bi", Hou Xiaoxian was very interested in this film adaptation, and has always been interested in finding a suitable investor for this movie.

Speaking of which, Hou Hsiao-hsien is also a remarkable figure in the Taiwanese film industry. Hou Hsiao-hsien, who debuted in 78, was originally a screenwriter and wrote movie scripts such as "Peach Blossom Girl Fighting Zhou Gong", "Good Morning Taipei", "I Came on the Waves", etc., and he is also famous among Taiwanese screenwriters.

And Hou Hsiao-hsien served as a director for the first time in 1980 and filmed the love movie "She Who Slips Around", and actually won a box office of more than NT$10 million, which inevitably became a cutting-edge dark horse among Taiwanese directors!

Hou Hsiao-hsien is a successful director who is both good and acclaimed, and not only does he often win a lot of money at the box office, but he also has won many awards at many international film festivals. This kind of potential dark horse director, if it is in the 90s, it will naturally be a fragrant bun that everyone is wooing. But it's only the early 80s, and Hou Hsiao-hyun has directed a movie, so the industry doesn't think that this instant hit director can stay popular.

After Hou Hsiao-hsien decided to make the movie "The Story of Xiao Bi", he solicited investment everywhere, but most film companies were only willing to invest less than NT$1 million, and were unwilling to invest more.

Disappointed, Hou Hsiao-hsien took the script to Taiwan's Powerlong Film Company and tried to persuade Taiwan's Powerlong to invest NT$3 million for filming.

Taiwan Baolong reported the filming plan to the headquarters, and Gu Long did not care about the instructions - such a small cost investment, the decision is completely decided by the Taiwan branch, and there is no need to ask for instructions one by one!

The cooperation between Taiwan Powerlong Film and Hou Hsiao-hsien was naturally successfully reached.

After sending the request from the Taiwan branch, Gu Long originally planned to take time to write the first episode of "Detective Conan" in the near future.

However, at the beginning of August, Yindu Institutional Film Company, which represents the mainland's political axe capital, as well as film distribution companies in South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and other major regions, have stepped through the threshold and come to discuss film cooperation.

For overseas cooperation, Gulong was all pushed to Golden Harvest Company, because Golden Harvest Company has more experience in dealing with international film distribution.

And Gu Long personally entertained He Qingxin, the manager of the distribution department of Yindu Institutional Film Company.

"Mr. He, your business is busy, and today you are a rare customer, come to our small company to inspect the work?" Gu Long laughed.

"Compared to your Baolong, which is in the limelight, we are a small company!" He Qingxin added, ""The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is an international blockbuster, but we can't shoot it in Yindu! ”

Yindu is a great film company, and in the early 50s, it was not a unified company. Rather, it is composed of a bunch of old left-wing film companies such as Great Wall, Phoenix, Xinlian, etc. In fact, the seniority of these companies is no less than that of Shaw Brothers. However, after the rise of cutting-edge companies such as Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and New Arts City, these old film companies have been difficult to support because of the recession.

As a result, the Yindu Agency, which was originally coordinating these left-wing film companies, directly began to be ordered to reorganize more than 20 left-wing film companies in Hong Kong to form a new giant - "Yindu Institutional Film Company"!

Unlike other Hong Kong film companies, although Yindu has always been a start-up and rooted in Hong Kong, it is a 100% state-owned enterprise that is directly controlled by the central government. As a result, Yindu institutions are uniquely positioned to have smooth issuance channels in the Mainland.

Gu Long smiled bitterly: "The films of your Yindu organization can be distributed in the mainland market with a population of more than one billion, which is enough to make all the film companies in Hong Kong envious!" ”

He Qingxin smiled: "Actually, we also intend to cooperate with you to report "Datang" to the cultural department for review, if there are no serious political problems, it should be possible to release it in the mainland!" ”

"Really?" Gu Long couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Although, Chinese films in the 80s did not achieve a theatrical system, and the total box office scale is not very transparent. However, in these days, most Hong Kong film companies know that as long as they can successfully distribute in the mainland, box office dividends are always amazing.

After some consultations, Gu Long and He Qingxin agreed on a cooperation agreement. Yindu Institution acted as the mainland distributor of the film version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". The box office dividend income of "The Great Tang" in Chinese mainland, Yindu Organization and Baolong Film Company each take 50%!

Half of the box office revenue will be given to Yindu Agency, which is also a helpless thing.

After all, among all the film companies in Hong Kong, only Yindu is confident that it will successfully distribute the film in the mainland!

—————————— in 1981, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" undoubtedly became the focus of entertainment in Asia. Especially in Yueben, because the film market is very large, this popular blockbuster occupied the top of the box office list of Yueben movies throughout June, and obtained a box office result of 5.3 billion yuan in one month.

In the same period, "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun", although at the beginning of its release, it was able to fight fiercely with "Datang", and collected 3.2 billion yuan at the box office within a month.

But in July, the popularity of the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been stable to more than 1 billion yuan per week, and although the plot, actors, and directors of "Sailor Suit" are all strong, they finally lost to the computer CG special effects of "Datang".

Entering July, the box office of "Datang" has stabilized at more than 150 million yuan per day. "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" dropped to an increase of 30 million yuan at the box office.

At this point, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" dominates the film market, and there is no suspense! Because, the only powerful competitor, "Sailor Suit", had abandoned his weapon and surrendered soon after, and removed the silver screen!

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was screened in the Yueben Film Market until the eighth week, and the cumulative box office of 10.7 billion yuan was earned, and the movie attendance rate began to drop below 30%.

At this time, the two major cinema chains of Songzhu and Dongbao were still reluctant to completely paint "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", but only reduced the number of theaters screened in an orderly manner.

Therefore, by the beginning of August, there were still more than 70 movie theaters in the entire Yueben showing "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and the box office was still growing steadily at a rate of more than 40 million yuan per day.

Although "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" gradually retreated from the top position, it has been on the box office list of this movie, stubbornly staying among the top ten.

You must know that the exchange rate between the yuan and the US dollar at this time is around 200:1, and the box office of 10.7 billion yuan has reached the level of 50 million US dollars when converted into US dollars

Such a terrifying box office result has ranked among the top 15 in the history of the box office of this movie. Moreover, it is already the most amazing box office result in the overseas box office market for Chinese films!

was constantly stimulated by the news that the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was in the box office market of this movie. The original work of "Datang" became a bestseller after the book was released.

The original work of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been published in 3 episodes, with a total sales of more than 12 million copies, with an average of 4 million copies per episode.

Such terrifying sales have been compared to the trilogy of Seiichi Morimura, the best-selling mystery writer of Kadokawa Shoten in the 70s, "Proof of Wild Surname", "Proof of Youth", and "Proof of Human Surname"!

Seiichi Morimura is also a miracle writer. The sales of the trilogy of "Proof of Wild Surname", "Proof of Youth" and "Proof of Human Surname" have reached more than 3 million copies. And these three were all adapted into movies by Kadokawa Bookstore, and the movie versions have also become classics with a box office of more than 1 billion yuan!

According to the price of each episode of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" at 1,200 yuan, Zhang Shaojie's royalty is 20%, that is, for every book sold, Zhang Shaojie can get 240 yuan. In just one and a half months, Zhang Shaojie's royalties in Yueben have reached nearly 3 billion yuan.

Driven by the popularity of the movie version, the best-selling book of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is almost the same as the movie's dividends!

It can be seen that movies promote sales, and this model in the 80s is almost a cheating formula!

Kadokawa Bookstore, which pioneered this model, has repeatedly created blockbuster movies and bestsellers, which further proves the invincibility of this win-win model of bestsellers and movies!

The owner of Tokuma Bookstore, Tokuma Yasukuai, said distressedly: "It's a pity that Zhang Sang went back to Hong Kong, otherwise it would be good to sign the anime adaptation rights of "Datang" again."

"It doesn't matter, Zhang Sang is our partner, as long as he comes to Ben next time, or we go to Hong Kong in person. As long as the conditions are right, he will give priority to giving us the anime adaptation rights! Hayao Miyazaki said.

"Well, that's nature! With my friendship with Zhang Sang, "Tokuma Yasui was not ashamed, recalling the relationship between him and Zhang Shaojie.

Miyazaki listened to it, as if he thought that Tokuma Yasukuai and Zhang Shaojie were really hardcore buddies.

In fact, Tokuma Kangkuai and Zhang Shaojie have only had a few exchanges because of their interests. Camaraderie? Is this thing for food?

However, Tokuma Yasukuai does have shit luck.

Historically, Tokuma Shoten has invested in various fields such as movies, records, manga, and anime, imitating the transformation of Kadokawa Shoten. Tokuma Yasushi happened to meet the anime director Hayao Miyazaki, but patiently talked about his ideals with Miyazaki.

As a result, Miyazaki was impressed by it and jumped to Tokuma Shoten. Previously, Miyazaki was the editor-in-chief of Animage, an anime magazine owned by Tokuma Shoten. However, Tokuma Shoten invested in supporting Miyazaki's anime.

In 83, after the animation of "Valley of the Wind" was born, Miyazaki suddenly became famous all over the world and gradually became a generation of animation masters! Later, in '85, Tokuma Shoten invested in supporting Miyazaki in establishing Studio Ghibli. This studio later became a myth in the anime industry.

(To be continued)