Chapter Ninety-Two: Speak Your Mind
"True Colors of Heroes" has already been completed and has been produced, and this party is due to the fact that the movie is about to be released tomorrow.
The decision not to be released at midnight was initially not understood, because many people, including several of the leading actors, didn't even know what kind of movie "True Colors of Heroes" was; And Lei Jiankun, who is in charge of the theater, has never said anything about this, and directly agreed, which made others a little incomprehensible; That's why Chen Yongren made a table of banquets for a cadre to explain......
"There is no need to ......," Chen Yongren told everyone.
"Why?" Several people shouted in unison.
"Do you care about that?" Chen Yongren asked with a strange smile.
Everyone looked at each other and was silent for a long time, Di Rong was straightforward and took the lead in asking questions: "The movie has not been promoted, and there has been no media report about us before, if we don't have a midnight show and release it directly, it will have a great impact on the box office, and the situation is even ...... worse."
The second half of the sentence was not finished, but everyone understood what he meant, nothing, if the movie was not made well, no one watched it for a few days after it was released, and the final result was hastily offline.
Cui Baozhu and Zhuang Cheng did not speak, as the company's senior executives, Chen Yongren had already passed through them, and he came to them to have more contact with the people present, these are all important to him in his heart and rely on him in the future.
Lan Gengcai and Chen Jiashang, who are also working on the special effects of "The True Color of Heroes", are calm-minded, and they have been in contact for a long time, and they know Chen Yongren better, until the latter is young and frivolous on the surface, but he acts thoughtfully and has his own routine, so he waits for his solution.
Zou Yunfa and Zeng Guorong have a lot of considerations, after a month of cooperation, although they are already familiar with the relationship with several people here, but they only cooperate with them as actors, but Chen Yongren's wine table tonight is like an internal meeting of Legendary Pictures, which makes the two a little worried.
Chen Yongren and Wu Yulin looked at each other and smiled, looked around at everyone, and said in a firm tone: "I can tell you very responsibly that "The True Color of Heroes" is one of the best works in the history of Hong Kong cinema so far, and everyone here will get great glory because of this work, so ...... We don't have to do any midnight shows, just release ......".
Not only the midnight show, Chen Yongren didn't even think about the premiere, for a movie, the best publicity strategy is to let its reputation ferment naturally, promoting a product is not new, many people have long been immune to this, and it is the real success to let people take the initiative to buy it; To put it another way, dog bites are not new, people bite dogs are news.
"Think about it, if we say it's a good movie to other people, and then the audience says it's good, then it's a good movie; But what would happen if no one knew about the movie, and everyone else watched it and shouted that it was wonderful? It's going to be more than a good movie, it's a ...... Good movie! Chen Yongren held back for a long time, still the same adjective.
"It's not the same!" Zhuang Cheng interface.
Chen Yongren slapped the table, "That's what it means!" ”。
"Is "True Colors of Heroes" really so magical?" Liu Weiqiang, who served as Huang Yuetai's photographic assistant, was surprised.
Everyone else looked at Wu Yulin, after all, apart from Chen Yongren, he was the only director who knew the specific situation.
Wu Yulin smiled bitterly and said to everyone: "Don't look at me, I just talked about the movie, and I didn't expect Ah Ren to make such a decision!" ”。
"We just want to know how the movie goes? You're all done, and you don't have a midnight premiere, but we who are involved don't know what kind of movie we've made. Di Rong complained to his junior brother, and the others nodded.
"Let's put it this way...... "The True Color of Heroes" is the most satisfying work I have ever been a director!" Wu Yulin pondered for a moment and replied.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and said no more, and Cui Baozhu comforted when he saw this: "Don't worry! Our Chen is always a master who never suffers, have you forgotten his famous work "Two Big Smoking Guns"? A work that is obviously not in line with the market trend was forced to 20 million by him, and "The True Color of Heroes" is the first movie produced by his company after its establishment, how can he not take it seriously? ”。
Everyone thought about it and thought it was true, although Wu Yulin was also puzzled by this, but Chen Yongren was willing to support him to complete the filming and release of "The True Color of Heroes", which was already a wish of his, and during the filming process, he felt that the latter attached importance to the film, and he was grateful mixed with trust, so he didn't say much.
Although the three leading actors Di Rong, Zou Yunfa, and Zeng Guorong were a little embarrassed, after all, they only existed here as actors, and they were already familiar with everyone present, so they didn't want to say much, so they began to remain silent.
Chen Yongren laughed at Cui Baozhu's words, saw the reaction of the three people, guessed what they were thinking, and smiled at everyone: "Actually, it's not that there is no publicity at all, at least the movie theater will put up posters, so that people who enter the movie theater know that there is this movie; Merely...... How so? Someone will do a free indirect propaganda ...... for us."
What does that mean? The crowd thought it was strange.
"If you have time tomorrow to spend money to go to the cinema to support your own movie, you will naturally understand when the time comes......," Chen Yongren smiled meaningfully.
Everyone was thinking about the meaning of Chen Yongren's words, but saw the latter raise his glass with a smug face, "I would like to congratulate in advance on the birth of "The True Color of Heroes", which will definitely shake Xiangjiang, right...... It should be a shock to the world, everyone cheers ......".
Although some people were still bottomless or confused, they were infected by Chen Yongren's emotions, and they raised their glasses and cheered in unison......
China's wine table cannot be untitled, "The True Color of Heroes" has already been discussed, everyone eats and drinks, and then talks about other things, and the central point around is of course the main thing in the circle......
"After Xinyicheng's "Family Portrait" and Golden Harvest's "Food Truck" went offline with a box office of more than 20 million last month, the performance of the market is really bleak!" Zou Yanfa sighed; What he actually wants to say is that the market is bleak, and he is worried that it will have an impact on "The True Color of Heroes".
Zhuang Cheng heard what he meant, and said: "Speaking of which, there are already 6 movies with a box office of more than 20 million in the Hong Kong film industry this year, and now there are two months before the end of the year, and the major film companies must have prepared big moves for Christmas, maybe the top ten movies at the local box office this year are all at the level of 20 million, I don't know if you have thought about this kind of thing in the first two years?" ”。
The others nodded their heads in deep agreement, knowing that before 1984, there were only three films in Hong Kong that grossed more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
The first place is Xinyicheng's "Best Partner", the first "Bald Detective" directly broke the Hong Kong box office record with 26.04 million Hong Kong dollars in 1982, while "Young Master Long", which ranked second at the box office that year, was only 17.93 million Hong Kong dollars.
This was followed by two films with a box office of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars in 1983, 23.27 million for the second part of "Best Partner" and 21.99 million for "Five Lucky Stars".
And now 1984 has not yet passed, but there are already 6 films, the first of which is the third part of "Best Partner" "The Queen's Secret Order" with 29.28 million, which is also the box office record holder in Hong Kong film history today.
followed by Li Lianjie's second part of the "Shaolin Trilogy", "Shaolin Kid", with a box office of 22.28 million; Last month's "Family Portrait" was 22.12 million, "Fast Food Truck" was 21.31 million, and finally Chen Yongren's "Two Big Smoking Guns" was 20.84 million and Debao's "Brave Double Cannon" was 20.17 million.
"Xinyicheng is really making a lot of money, with nearly half of the nine box office 20 million-level movies, and they are all top-ranked existences!" Chen Jiashang sighed.
"It should be said that Boss Lei has made a lot of money, counting the boss's "Two Big Smoking Guns", more than half of the movies are all released in Golden Princess!" Chen Jiaqing said with a smile.
"Speaking of which, recently, Princess Jin is quite strange, only four large theaters and a few small theaters are open as usual, and other medium-sized theaters are being renovated, but there has been no news for more than a month, our movies won't just rely on these theaters, right?" Zou Yunfa was worried, Zhong Zhong said.
"Don't worry, tomorrow the Golden Princess Cinema Line will be reopened, and ...... Everyone will understand tomorrow! Chen Yongren said with a smile.
Zou Yanfa breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that he was a little upset, worried about gaffes, so he turned his mouth and sighed: "There are other factors that affect the bleak film market now, but we can't do anything about it, we can only resign ourselves to fate!" ”。
"What Fa Ge said is...... That thing about the future of Hong Kong? Chen Musheng asked hesitantly.
Zou Yunfa nodded, everyone else also has their own thoughts, and they are in a different institutional society, which is related to their future lives.
"Now that you've talked about it, would you be interested in hearing some of my opinions?"
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, but they saw that although Chen Yongren was smiling, his eyes showed that he was extremely serious......