Golden Harvest Company vacated half of the theaters to screen "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", which is obviously a certain distance from the number of performances promised before that is second only to "Modern Bodyguard".

"Modern Bodyguard" has been screened in more than 40 cinemas in Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Cinemas, and other small cinemas in Hong Kong are vying to introduce copy screenings.

At its peak, "Modern Bodyguard" was screened in 80 cinemas in Hong Kong.

During that period, 90% of Hong Kong's cinemas screened this popular movie, which created a local box office myth of 43.27 million Hong Kong dollars!

Of course, although "Modern Bodyguard" is wonderful, it has serious limitations of the times.

With the passage of time, wait until Stephen Chow's nonsensical comedy appeared in the 90s. Xu Guanwen's movie era came to an end.

Zhang Shaojie believes that a movie like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", even if it is placed 30 years later, is destined to be a classic! Even if it was an investment of 100 million in the 90s, it may not be able to shoot such a visual effect!

However, in any case, it is impossible for Golden Harvest Cinema to support "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" like supporting "Modern Bodyguard"!

At this time, Golden Harvest Company invests in at least 20 movies every year. Golden Harvest Company's own films should at least occupy the general number of screenings of Golden Harvest Cinemas.

In addition, in order to reduce the risk of filmmaking, Golden Harvest's cinema chain also screens 30 films invested and shot by other film companies every year.

There are important blockbusters released in Golden Harvest, and the movies of other companies naturally have to make way for Golden Harvest's blockbusters.

Even if there are no major films released by Golden Harvest in March, at least half of the theaters are used to screen Golden Harvest's self-made films.

gave Baolong Film Company 20 movie theaters, which is already considered to be second only to "Modern Bodyguard".

"Damn! In the future, if he has money, Lao Tzu will open 50 cinemas in Hong Kong, 500 cinemas in Taiwan, in Yueben, and all over Southeast Asia. When the time comes, the movies made by Lao Tzu will only be screened in his own theaters, and there will be no way for others to want to introduce them! Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but complain.

Gu Long smiled: "Running a movie theater chain, especially a cross-border theater chain, is not just about having money!" In every region, there are land snakes! Cinemas in Taiwan, Yueben, Southeast Asia and other places, who is not a local head snake can afford to play? Outsiders, no matter how rich you are, do you have a political axe background? Do you have a relationship with a local underworld leader? If not, I'm sorry, Hades is easy to deal with, but the little ghost is difficult! You will face two excuses to be fined in three days, and ten times a month by the underworld to collect protection money, how can the business continue? ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned for a moment and said: "Many theater owners in Hong Kong have neither a political axe background nor an underworld background!" Can you play differently? ”

"Hong Kong's political axe has a limited role in market intervention, so its sense of existence is limited. Rich and rich, if there is a reputation in the company, among the thousands or tens of thousands of employees, they are themselves a force, and they are naturally not afraid of the underworld! However, the average small company still has to recruit underworld people to solve some unnecessary troubles. Moreover, how many employees in our company do you think are triads? Gu Long suddenly laughed.

Zhang Shaojie frowned and said, "Baolong Film Company also has an underworld? ”

"Of course there is, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, that company doesn't have an underworld background?" Gu Long said with a smile, "Just like companies like Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, they have invited many dragon and tiger martial artists with martial arts backgrounds, and those who are acrobatic actors and crew members are even more three-minded and all-encompassing!" Guess how many of our companies are involved in the underworld? ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "I can't guess! ”

In fact, Zhang Shaojie's disgust with the underworld made him not want to guess.

Gu Long shook his head and said: "You are a scholar who has too little contact with society, and you deal with high-level people like Jin Yong all day long, so naturally I don't know how many employees under your command are underworlds!" However, any company that really runs the entertainment industry is inseparable from its friends in the underworld! ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "However, now use the underworld to solve small problems, and in the future, they will let you help them launder money, and let you help them commit crimes, what should I do?" They can help you solve a small problem, but they can become a big problem later! ”

Gu Long shook his head and said: "When "Datang" was filmed, the crew reached more than 200 people at most, and the underworld characters accounted for at least one-fifth. Even if you don't mix with the underworld, you actually have a fierce capital, which makes the characters on the road jealous! Take Mr. Yuan Heping's Yuan family class as an example, he usually dances with knives and sticks, but there are really underworld characters who bully him, and his apprentices are also so unambiguous that they can fight with people on the street. In the eyes of others, these martial arts gyms who practice martial arts, even if they are not mixed with the underworld, are regarded as characters by the Tao. ”

"We are running a film company, so we can't learn from the low-level dragon and tiger martial artists and dragon actors, in order not to be bullied, find an underworld backer as an umbrella, right?" Zhang Shaojie said.

Gu Long smiled, "In this world, capital is king, and everything else is vassal. You see, all over the world, it is the rich and powerful who drive the underworld, and very few underworlds can drive the rich and powerful! If you want to gain a foothold in the market and don't rely on those underworld horses to support your momentum, that's not a mermaid? Sometimes, with soliciting some underworld friends, just to avoid trouble! And the friends who are willing to work for us, and usually behave very well, are actually tired of the underworld career. I asked them to just use their previous identities and their knowledge of the rules of the underworld to help us solve our problems! In our company, I don't want to call them gangsters, but 'charlatans'! ”

"Advisor?" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but laugh, what a martial arts atmosphere!

Gu Long casually found a few employees and asked a few questions.

These employees are not afraid to say that they have a background in the underworld.

A makeup artist surnamed Qin smiled: "Last month, a few new Yi'an people came to collect premiums and were scolded back by Lao Tzu. The dog said, their boss used to be an apprentice with me, and the protection money was received from the master. Later, my apprentice came to apologize, which was a face! Because I have a little background, Mr. Gu Long asked me to work part-time as a special 'Jianghu consultant' position in the company, and my salary rose to 5,000 yuan per month. ”

Zhang Shaojie shook his head and smiled bitterly, finally knowing that Baolong Film Company can be regarded as "involved in crime". Hiring underworld characters to solve troubles is just a conventional means in this era.

The real underworld bosses invaded the entertainment industry in the late 80s, when the underworld bosses represented by the Xiang brothers of New Ngee An opened film companies and entertainment companies one after another. Since then, the unhealthy trends in the Hong Kong entertainment industry have begun to be irrepressible!

Since the 90s, underworld bigwigs have used movies and records to launder money, let celebrities drink and sleep together, and intermediary stars provide surname services to the rich. It can be said that the underworld's investment in the film industry has polluted the atmosphere and accelerated the decline of Hong Kong's entertainment industry.

Of course, the decline of the Hong Kong entertainment industry in history is due to many factors, and the underworld factor is only a small part. For example, South Korea and Southeast Asia have introduced local protectionism and restricted the import of Hong Kong films, making Hong Kong films sweep the Asian film industry and never see it again.

In addition, the protectionism of Asian markets has frustrated the scale of Hong Kong's film exports. What's even more deadly is the Hollywood movie special effects technology! In the 90s, because of the development of the IT industry, Hollywood's computer special effects technology was promoted, and earth-shaking changes were made.

Since then, the special effects blockbuster frenzy has swept the world!

In this "Hollywood vs the world" market competition, what is surprising is that the United States has won an overwhelming victory in all markets in the world by itself.

From North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and China, box office records are often set by Hollywood!

In fact, the number of films exported by the United States, that is, in the dozens, is even less than the number of Hong Kong films exported each year.

However, the box office results of Hollywood blockbusters are dozens or hundreds of times that of Hong Kong films! The kind of high-quality blockbuster that you can't resist is the most terrible enemy!

Thinking of this, Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but sneer.

Blockbuster is it? Is it a CG special effect?

In this technological competition, Lao Tzu dared to be the first in the world and seized the commanding heights of technology!

When it comes to computer CG special effects in the future, the first thing people will think of is "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" - just like when people think of science fiction movies, people will first think of "Star Wars".

Because, when "Datang" was filmed, the budget was exhausted, and only 800,000 cash was saved. Zhang Shaojie scraped together 500,000 yuan from his bank account. There is only a total cost of 1.3 million yuan, which is used for the movie promotion of "Datang"!

In fact, because of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", in order to avoid being interfered by the media, the media was not invited to hold a huge opening ceremony.

At the stage of filming, no trailers, stills and the like were leaked.

Therefore, although this movie is known to many directors in the circle, it has never been known to reporters first-hand. Therefore, the progress of the movie version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has always seemed very mysterious!

There is only gossip circulating - "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is about to be made into a movie.

But who is the director, who is the investor, the cast, and the cost of investment? All of this is an unknown territory shrouded in fog

Now, it's about to be released, and a few days before the release, hype it up, which can be regarded as a warm-up!

On March 11, Baolong Film Company began to officially send invitations to Hong Kong's well-known media - TVB, Li's TV, "Ming Pao", "Sing Tao Daily", "Oriental Daily" and other major media.

Because the major media have long been very curious about the news of the movie version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!

The night before, an invitation was delivered. The next day, whether it was the major media that took the initiative to invite or other small media that did not accept the invitation, all flocked to it.

More than 100 media people hurried to the headquarters of Baolong Film Company to participate in the press conference before the release of the film version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

(To be continued)