With the news hype of media reporters and friends in the early stage, coupled with the green light given by Hong Kong's political axe, "Police Story" did not make a big deal in terms of publicity costs, otherwise it would be a lot of money. [Full text reading]

Even so, counting the cost of post-production, the overall cost of "Police Story" has reached as much as 7.4 million, which is 2.6 million less than Wang Xiaohu's expected 10 million, which makes Wang Xiaohu secretly proud, after hearing this data, Wang Xiaohu is very pleased and said: "It's not easy!" ”

It's really not easy, the cost of 7.4 million Hong Kong dollars is a super big production in the whole of Asia, this figure can even be more than the total assets of some film companies, and peers have complained many times about this, saying that Wang Xiaohu's move is intended to increase the cost of Hong Kong film shooting, and you can burn money yourself and lose your family, why should it hurt the pond fish, isn't this obviously making other small companies unable to survive?

Especially Wu Siyuan, he expressed considerable resentment about this, how to recover the cost of waiting for the release of "Police Story" like other peers. After all, such a big production is tantamount to a fantasy for them, and it is incompatible with the Hong Kong film industry with small investment and big returns, and in their eyes, it is a miracle that such a film can recover its cost!

Wu Siyuan and others do not doubt that Concord Company or Wang Xiaohu can control this new type of film theme, in fact, years of experience let them know that the release of "Police Story" will definitely be successful, but success does not mean that the box office level will exceed this number, who has made the box office sluggish in recent years, even Wang Xiaohu's "Hong Xiguan" has only 13.5 million Hong Kong dollars (Hong Kong only) so far.

You invested more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars at once, even if the box office exceeds 10 million, then the profit of your Concord Company is very weak, this high investment is not high reporting, what is this not a loser? Even a three-year-old child knows this truth, don't you Wang Xiaohu know?

Wu Siyuan said to his friend Chen Ziqiang before the release of the film: "Jackie Chan is a very potential actor, if he hadn't returned to Seven Little Blessings, his future would definitely be brighter than now, how do you know that after Wang Xiaohu hid him for two years, he would be bloody when he returned to the screen, it was simply to strangle Jackie Chan and mislead Jackie Chan, it's a pity that he is a good actor!" ”

This remark was quickly published by a good media reporter, and the implication is that Jackie Chan followed Wang Xiaohu without interest, disappeared from Concord Company for two years, and made a comeback by jumping off a building and other ways to play with his life, which is simply an act of unconscionable conscience.

The young and vigorous Jackie Chan almost ran away after seeing this newspaper, and planned to hold a news conference to criticize Wu Siyuan, but was stopped by Wang Xiaohu: "Go and record your "Tough Guy" well, don't bother paying too much attention to these little things." Can't you see that Wu Siyuan is taking the opportunity to hype up their company? ”

Jackie Chan thought about it, and punched the wall to make a loud noise, and then he clenched his fists and said: "Ah Hu, this path is my choice, I will prove it to everyone, my original choice of Jackie Chan is absolutely correct!" ”

"Well, it's just that determination. The publicity of "Police Story" is enough to be in place, if you come forward to refute it, it will seem that you are weak-minded, and you can ignore such negative news, the quality of the film and the box office are the last word! ”

After Wang Xiaohu persuaded Jackie Chan, he immediately started the overseas distribution route, Southeast Asia basically does not need to be managed, the main market is for the United States, the United Kingdom and other developed countries, after all, the investment cost of "Police Story" is too much, if you do not win a good circulation overseas, it is far from enough to rely on the market in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

He first called Winterdur, the head of the U.S. branch, and asked Winterdur to contact Twentieth Century Fox to release "Police Story" together, Lao Wen patted his chest and said: "Boss, I think there shouldn't be any problems with this matter, your "Hong Xiguan" is currently doing well at the North American box office, and the audience shouted wonderful after watching it, you may not know it, our former President Nixon is now your fan, God, this is crazy, Mr. President said: Hey, I know that cool little guy, A few years ago, he even came to the United States to do a martial arts show! ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled freely, it was obvious that this had far exceeded his expectations, the little guy in Nixon's mouth naturally referred to Jet Li, Nixon also warmly invited Jet Li to be his bodyguard, who knew that Jet Li categorically refused, such a Chinese child with a surname must have left a deep impression on Nixon.

"What's the box office score?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

"Wait for me to look at the statistics, oh God, as of now, the box office has been $13.1 million, which is really a good number, but boss, when did you bring your work to the Oscars, if I'm not mistaken, you haven't been to the Oscars for four years."

Winterdur complained: "Now a lot of American viewers are complaining that they want to see Tiger . Wang's more works, and your four films have been re-screened several times in North America, but they don't feel like enough! So I get a lot of calls from your fans every day, and they ask me: Hey, there's Tiger. What's the latest news about Wang? And there's a lot of fan letters piled up in the company, and you have to take the time to reply."

"Okay, okay!" After Wang Xiaohu heard this, it seems that American fans can't wait. "I'll go to Los Angeles in a month to choose the actress for my new film, and I'll send the actor's request by airmail later, so please prepare first."

"It's so exciting!" Winterdur whistled: "I think fans will be thrilled when they hear it." ”

Wang Xiaohu laughed.

"By the way, here's another piece of bad news!" Winter Dur suddenly said a little depressed: "Spielberg guy missed a good script, the name of the script is "Superman", damn it, Steven has been crazy lately, "Contact of the 3rd Kind" has not yet been completed, and he started to prepare for a new film, hell, he only has a new film in his heart, and it turned out to be"

Superman! I said, Wang Xiaohu's eyes twitched when he heard this, this is a superhero in the minds of Americans, and among all the Superman versions, the version that Spielberg missed is definitely a classic among the classics! Christopher. Reeve is also the best temperament and appearance of all Superman actors, but damn Spielberg missed this opportunity and really didn't know how to scold him.

"Well, if you miss it, you miss it!" Wang Xiaohu comforted himself: "Anyway, Superman has been filmed by others several times, now, Lao Wen, listen, from now on, you have to find a writer for me, I don't know the specific name, but I know that he wrote a book that reflects the Vietnam War, the title of the book is "First Blood", no matter how much it costs to find the author, I will take down the film and television adaptation rights of this book!" Have to! ”

Wang Xiaohu accentuated his tone on the phone, this is a memory that flashed in his brain in an instant, it is said that the first draft of the novel "First Blood" was completed as early as 1972, I hope God bless everything is still too late! That is the most classic work shot by Stallone in his life, Wang Xiaohu has missed Superman, and Lan Bo is determined to win, because in terms of influence, Lan Bo is far more representative of a man than Rocky!

Although the boss is very young, there is still some kind of blind surname worship for the boss, especially the boss attaches great importance to this matter, so after Lao Wen hung up the phone, he began to look for the author who wrote "The First Blood" in the vast sea of people, and he prayed to God in his heart, hoping that everything was still in time!

At the beginning of September, "Police Story" began to enter the copy stage, compared with the previous 248 copies, there were 13 additional copies, as for why these 13 copies were added, of course, Hong Kong political axe came forward, and more than a dozen theaters invested by political axes such as Lisheng, Kaisheng, and Legong also joined the screening ranks.

Don't underestimate these 13 theaters, including Lisheng, Kaisheng, and Legong three theaters, each of which is a large theater with a capacity of 3,000 people, and it is also updated synchronously with leading theaters such as Concord and Shaw Brothers in the projection equipment. And it is precisely because of the investment of the political axe that it is also decided that the three theaters generally will not show ordinary commercial films, and the Hong Kong political axe is an exception this time.

It's not that Wang Xiaohu didn't want to invest in the construction of such a large theater, but at that time, the Hong Kong government did not allow private theaters to exceed these three, so theaters with 1,000 people were also included in the ranks of large theaters at that time.

Wang Xiaohu thought about waiting for the smooth release of "Police Story", and he had to discuss with Hong Kong Governor MacLehose about anything, and approve a few plots of land to cover one or two such large theaters, after all, no matter how much they expand in the new century, they can't compete with these three large-scale theaters.

Wang Xiaohu was summoned by Hong Kong Governor MacLehose before the release, and after some discussion, the two sides decided to use the Han Palace Cinema as the leading cinema line of the film.

This gang alone let Wang Xiaohu shoot no less than 300 movie tickets, no way, if these people come by themselves, there are only more than 100 at most, but the officials, superintendents, and seven aunts and eight aunts of the nobles also have to participate in the premiere, although Wang Xiaohu is a little distressed, there is no way.

However, Wang Xiaohu still got a lot of cheap money from MacLehose, that is, "Police Story" will appear in major theaters in the UK in two months, which is also an objective box office income.

(To be continued)