Chapter Forty-Seven: Night. Shop" craze
On May 7, 1983, the annual Cannes International Film Festival was held as scheduled, and Han Ziguang and Lu Falan were also busy.
Night. As the opening film, "Shop" has already done a good job of post-dubbing, and during the screening, it will not affect the viewing of crooked nuts at all. Night. The concept of "Shop" is very clear, but the cost is small, but it is made in the style of black humor, which is refreshing, and many people like this movie.
Han Ziguang smiled slightly, this is a shooting technique that transcends this era, which will naturally surprise many filmmakers, after all, he draws a lot of surface techniques in the form of comics, although he doesn't understand it very well, but he has seen many movies, and he can draw the picture completely.
At the booth, Han Ziguang saw many people laughing, I believe that Crooked Guoren also likes this kind of humorous film, so there should be a filmmaker coming to the door, and he will not worry about not being able to sell it at a good price, but this kind of thing is handed over to Lu Falan to manage, and he and Sophie. Marceau is in charge of the platform.
Now Sophie. Marceau is also considered his own person, so he naturally wants to cheer for himself, and there is no doubt that Sophie. Marceau is still very popular in France, which makes many reporters come, but what is surprising is that today's French kiss is like a lover with Han Ziguang, which immediately caused countless reporters to shoot wildly.
Han Ziguang's identity is also gradually emerging, once reported, it caused a stir in France, an eighteen-year-old Oriental teenager, but he is already worth nearly 100 million US dollars, and it was completed in just a few months, it is simply a miracle, the French who were still depressed, but felt that such a talented, and young and wealthy person, may really be worthy of this French kiss.
It can be said that Han Ziguang is famous in France, and at the same time, many people have come to the door, and many publishers want to cooperate with Han Ziguang, but unfortunately they basically want to buy out "Night. The distribution rights of the store in Europe or the Americas, including of course the rights to video tapes and the like.
Han Ziguang also understands that Europe and the United States still don't attach much importance to oriental movies, except for Bruce Lee's movies, which opened the door to Europe and the United States, other movies are not enough to watch at all, and his "Night. It's already a very good thing that the store can be sold, not to mention that it is worth five million dollars, which is undoubtedly a lot of money compared to the cost of more than 30,000 dollars.
After Lu Falan took out the quotations of various distributors, Han Ziguang asked him to establish a good relationship with major distributors and lay a good foundation for future film distribution. Lu Falan is naturally full of joy about this, after all, five million US dollars, in addition to half of the light and shadow entertainment company, there is also half of the profit of 5%, that is, a commission of 125,000 US dollars, which is 780,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong dollars.
Lu Falan never thought that money would be so easy to make, of course, there are not many opportunities like this, but even so made him see the future prospects of Han Ziguang's company, which will definitely not be low, so at this time, he wholeheartedly wants to help Han Ziguang's company become bigger and stronger.
Han Ziguang in France with Sophie. Marceau was walking the red carpet and selling for $5 million at the same time, which was transmitted back to Xiangjiang, and the entire Xiangjiang was all boiling, and a new round of movie-watching craze broke out at the same time. What kind of movie is "Shop", which was originally released for seven days, and with the passing of the seven-day holiday, the movie-watching craze has subsided, but revenge viewing broke out again.
Originally, the seven-day holiday of Labor Day made the movie viewing reach a boom, the box office was about two million every day in seven days, and the box office has accumulated more than 13 million in seven days, which shocked the eyeballs of a place, everyone thought that this was a small-budget movie, and it did not attract much people's attention, but now the box office has exceeded everyone's expectations, even as the director of the film, Gao Zhisen, has become a man of the hour.
Originally! Everyone thinks that a small-budget movie is not to worry about at all, Zhou Wenhuai of Golden Harvest and Mecca of New Art City, Lei Juekun, etc., all of them did not take it to heart, but they just felt that "Night. The advertisement of "Store" is very loud, especially the "Light and Shadow Entertainment Fashion Magazine" will break some fierce news in every issue, and all over Xiangjiang, there are information about "Night. Shop", the advertising offensive can be described as indiscriminate bombardment.
However, no one thought of a small "Night. The store turned out to be such a huge wave, not only sold overseas at a sky-high price of 5 million US dollars, but now 5 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars, and in September, it is equivalent to more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a huge profit. Now the news from overseas has driven a new round of movie-watching in Xiangjiang, and it is no longer a dream for this movie to break through the 20 million mark at the box office.
What is the concept of HK$20 million? The current box office record holder is the box office record of 2,600 for "Best Partner", and now it is the two "Best Partner" film series that have broken the 20 million film mark, but their investments are millions of Hong Kong dollars.
Xinyicheng opened up the situation with two "Best Partners" in Xiangjiang Films, so that Light and Shadow Entertainment Company undoubtedly fired the first shot in Xiangjiang, and it is a small film with an investment of only 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Even, at this time, some people have already begun to shout "Night. "Shop" broke last year's "Best Partner" set a movie record, but unfortunately this is not the case, Han Ziguang, as the initiator, is more rational, he understands that the record of the movie is not so easy to break. What's more, Han Ziguang also understands that now "Night. The reason why "Shop" is so popular is entirely because of the publicity in place, coupled with the international fame, otherwise it would be difficult to be so popular.
As Han Ziguang thought, when the movie was released almost and was about to be released, the box office of the movie reached about 25 million, although it did not break the box office record, but it was also a strong contender for the box office championship in 83 years, and at this time, it had already surpassed the box office of 23 million of "Best Partner 2", and only "Five Lucky Stars" could be fought in the next movie.
Pick up "Night. The movie of "Shop" is "Flower Heart" by the Shaw Brothers, and Shaw Brothers also wants to take advantage of this shareholder trend to make a fortune.
The movie "Flower Heart" is a movie written and directed by Wang Jin, originally the production of Shaw Brothers films was reduced a lot, and at this time, Shaw Brothers can come up with very few directors, Wang Jin is one of them, and the film directed by him is definitely among the best among the movies produced by Shaw Brothers.
Of course, none of this is something Han Ziguang needs to worry about, as he thought, "Night. Although "Shop" was shortlisted for the Best Screenplay Award, it did not have a chance to win the award at all, but even so, it made a name for himself internationally and attracted the attention of many people.