On the second day of his arrival in Hong Kong, George. James and his family went to the cinema to watch "Once Upon a Time: Iron Fighting Centipede".

George has a few Chinese friends in the United States, although he can only speak a few simple Cantonese, but he can basically understand the dialogue in the movie, just watched it for ten minutes, he made up his mind to promote the movie to the United States market.

George took the initiative to find Huayi Brothers Film Group to discuss the purchase of films, Li Hualong received him, and the two sides had a very pleasant negotiation, and it didn't take long to finalize the price of $150,000.

After that, Li Hualong successfully promoted "Huang Feihong's Righteousness Bo Yuntian" to George.

Although the two Wong Fei Hung films screened in Hong Kong can be directly screened in the United States, this will definitely exclude many American people who cannot understand Cantonese and Chinese characters.

At George's request, Huayi Film hired a few translators who were proficient in English and added English subtitles to both films, although it cost a lot, but Li Hualong felt that it was worth it, compared to the $300,000 sales income, this investment was nothing, and he also thought that he would be able to bring these two films to the European market in the future.

After the release of the two "Once Upon a Time" films in the United States, they caused quite a stir, and the two films earned a total of $1.8 million, which made the distributor George Wong Wong Hung. James made a lot of money and the ROI was more than doubled.

After Li Hualong knew these news, he was not envious, after all, his hand could not reach out to the United States now, and in the future, he would definitely break into Hollywood.

"Once Upon a Time: Iron Fighting Centipede" has not been screened in Hong Kong for two months, and one of Lee's cinemas will continue to show the film for some time to come.

Li Yisong originally bought a cinema, which was later renamed Lianhua Cinema, and less than a year later, he transferred this cinema to Li Hualong's name. After Li Hualong had his first cinema, he established Lianhua Cinema Line Co., Ltd., and after that, he bought several cinemas, all of which were renamed Lianhua Cinemas, but each cinema would be preceded by a place name, such as the cinema in Causeway Bay, which was named "Lianhua Cinema in Causeway Bay".

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Zhou Lixiong stayed in Hong Kong for half a month, during which he lived in the Li family, he not only watched "Wong Fei Hung: Iron Fighting Centipede", but also watched the new movie "No Love" released in Hong Kong on March 8.

Zhou Lixiong doesn't like literary films like "No Love", he prefers "Huang Feihong: Iron Fighting Centipede", and thinks martial arts movies are enjoyable.

After learning about the operation of several Lianhua cinemas under Li Hualong, Zhou Lixiong left Hong Kong with confidence and prepared to return to Thailand to do a big job.

In order to support Zhou Lixiong's career, Li Huawen took out 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to invest in the soon-to-be-established Taihua Cinema Line Co., Ltd., Zhou Lixiong and his family will also take out about 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to register a company in Thailand, Li Huawen holds 40% of the shares of this cinema company, and the Zhou family holds 60% of the shares.

With a number of starring movies at the box office, Yang Meng became the most popular female star in Hong Kong, she starred in the low-cost literary film "No Love", before the film was released, many newspapers and periodicals took the initiative to report related news, which attracted the attention of many fans.

After the release of "No Love", the box office and word-of-mouth were both bumper.

Compared with the two "Wong Fei Hung" films invested and filmed by Huayi Brothers Film Group, "No Love" has a much worse ability to attract money, and finally only received a box office of 406,000, and the income from selling films in markets outside Hong Kong reached 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

The cost of "No Love" is very low, and Huayi Brothers Film Group has invested in the filming of this film and obtained an extremely rich return on investment.

At the beginning of April, Yue Feng's self-written and directed "Xiaolou Chunxiao" started filming, and Lin Dai and another actress named Song Yuanyuan served as the heroines of the film.

The plot of "Xiaolou Chunxiao" is a bit bloody, which can be described by the three words "four-cornered love".

The plot is like this, Peng Zigang and Zhao Xiaoping live in the same room, and the landlord Deng and his wife treat the two very well, and everyone gets along well. Upon learning that some residents had moved out, both begged the landlord to rent the room to his girlfriend and refused to let each other go. Fortunately, the landlord mediated, and their girlfriends also lived in the same house. is just simple, but his girlfriend Du Fin is fashionable; is very active, but his girlfriend Tang Ying is so quiet. The two couples eventually broke up due to personality differences, and instead formed a beautiful relationship with the object of their friend.

Li Hualong read the script of "Xiaolou Chunxiao" and was not optimistic about the box office of this movie, but he was not sure that he would not make money, after all, this is a small-budget movie.

Yue Feng wrote the script, and he also hoped to make this film, plus this is a small-budget movie, Li Hualong didn't think much about it, and directly approved the shooting plan.

Yang Meng did not participate in the filming of "Xiaolou Chunxiao" because of schedule problems, and she was still busy with the filming of "Peerless Beauty".

Yue Feng directed "Xiaolou Spring Dawn", and the filming progress was very fast, and it took 39 days to complete the filming work.

"Peerless Beauty" started filming before "Xiaolou Chunxiao", but the former is a costume blockbuster, and the filming speed is much slower, and "Xiaolou Chunxiao" completed filming a week after it was completed.

After participating in the celebration banquet of "Peerless Beauty", Yang Meng gave himself a few days off and returned to Hong Kong Island to live in Li's house.

Li Hualong also gave himself a few days off and did not go out to work, so he could not only spend more time with his wife and enjoy the pleasure of the boudoir, but also have more time to write novels and scripts.

One evening in late May, Li Hualong and Yang Meng lay in bed chatting after enjoying the joy of fish and water.

"Xianggong, you haven't gone out to work for a few days, aren't you worried at all?" Yang Meng asked.

"What's your heart?" Li Hualong asked rhetorically, he didn't understand what Yang Meng meant.

"There's a problem with the operation of your business."

"What's there to worry about, if there's really something big, someone will call me." Li Hualong smiled, "Mengmeng, I feel that you are enjoying your idle life this day!" ”

"yes!" Yang Meng smiled, "However, I also like to live a fulfilling life. In four days, "Fang Shiyu" will start filming, do you want to go to the set for a few days? ”

"I'm going. Tomorrow, I won't be at home with you, I'm going to the newspaper. ”

"Oh!" Yang Meng replied with a smile, "If you don't go to work again, I'm afraid that Abba and Auntie will talk about me." ”

"What are you talking about?" Li Hualong asked knowingly.

"Say I didn't do my duty as a wife." Yang Meng replied lightly, "Don't say it, go to bed early." ”

"Good night!" Li Hualong kissed Yang Meng on the forehead, and after saying goodnight, he reached out to turn off the light.

The next morning, Li Hualong had breakfast, read the newspaper at home, and saw that the Hong Kong Red Cross and the Medical Bureau had cooperated to set up a "blood bank" on May 19 to accept voluntary blood donations.

"Mengmeng, let's go donate blood together." Li Hualong said in a low voice.

"Blood donation? Doesn't it hurt? ”

"It shouldn't hurt. The hospital has a shortage of blood, many patients need blood transfusions, and there is not enough blood source, so we donate blood, which can be regarded as a good thing. ”

"Okay, I'll go with you to donate blood!" Yang Meng smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Hualong asked with a smile.

"I didn't expect you to be so loving!" Yang Meng smiled sweetly, put down the newspaper in his hand as he spoke, and stood up, "Let's go, let's go now." ”

Li Hualong also stood up and whispered, "Don't let Abba and Grandma know about this." ”

"Yes." Yang Meng nodded.

"What don't you want me to know?" Li Yisong, who had just walked around the yard and returned to the living room, asked with a smile.

"Our couple's little secret." Li Hualong smiled and said, "Abba, I have something to do with Mengmeng, let's go out first." ”