Chapter 267: The End of the Summer File
The premiere of "Weilong Detective" relied on Chenglong's fame, although it was lively, the number of stars was obviously not as good as the previous premieres held by Li Xuan. Lei Juekun naturally won't come, Shao Yifu definitely didn't move, and now most of those New Wave directors have been recruited by various film and television companies, so there are not a few academic directors.
The stars of Golden Harvest, the actors of Li Xuan's company and a few scattered stars of Golden Harvest's satellite companies seem to have a lot less gold content, but because it is a Chenglong movie, it is very popular.
Li Xuan listened to the discussion between the host and the crew on the stage, and also applauded from time to time.
Just an hour later, the premiere of "Weilong Detective" officially began.
The movie tells the story of a Hong Kong police officer chasing an international drug dealer, and as a result, the drug dealer takes hostages and confronts the police. If it weren't for Chenglong's action scenes under Li Xuan's guidance and bloody fighting, Li Xuan estimated that he would have fallen asleep watching this movie.
However, the heroine of this movie surprised Li Xuan very much, and it turned out to be ATV's popular actress Li Saifeng.
This little girl is proud of the spring breeze this year, and she met Golden Harvest to vigorously cultivate her own actress, so she successfully signed a contract with Golden Harvest, not only as soon as she entered Golden Harvest, she cooperated with the big star Chenglong as the heroine in "Weilong Detective", but also had her role in "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", and she had more roles than Lin Qingxia's.
This can be regarded as the object of Jiahe's support.
After the movie premiere, "Weilong Detective" was officially released, and "Difficult Brothers" directed by Mai Jia, the Golden Princess, was in the ring, but this no longer needs Li Xuan's attention, his summer file has already ended.
Just when "Weilong Detective" was screened in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and when Li Xuan and Wu Yusen were preparing for "The True Colors of Heroes", "Heavenly Love", a movie that deceived and cried many girls, finally landed in Southeast Asia and South Korea.
Well, "Heavenly Love" was not broadcast in Taiwan because Golden Harvest moved "Heavenly Love" back in order to make room for "Weilong Detective". As for the release of the movie, Golden Harvest does not have the ability to distribute so quickly.
What Li Xuan didn't expect was that why "Heavenly Love" was released to South Korea so quickly?
The next stunned scene appeared, "Heavenly Love" was released in South Korea for the first time, and the total number of moviegoers reached more than 70,000. Four days after its release, the number of moviegoers soared to 380,000, sweeping the box office of Korean movies.
In 1981, the highest-grossing movie in South Korea was Seong-ryong's "Police Story", which was released for six months and had a total audience of nearly 2.5 million, including 1.5 million in the Seoul area alone.
And this "Police Story" is also the record holder for the highest number of people in the history of Seoul, South Korea.
There are three treasures in Korean dramas in later generations: car accidents, cancer, and incurable, anyway, the hero and heroine all die no matter what, and the more tragic the death, the better, and now Li Xuan's "Heavenly Love" is poking the tears of Koreans.
As a result, in the summer of 1982, "Heavenly Love" set off a box office storm in South Korea. Even Yamaha's motorcycles are selling well in South Korea, and many girls with long hair and flying are also riding motorcycles on the road with their boyfriends around their waists, and as a result, the South Korean police are also facing the same problems in Hong Kong, which shows the degree of its popularity.
Not only was the movie a box office hit at the beginning, but "Heavenly Love" even broke the record for the longest screening of "Police Story", which was released in South Korea for nine months, and the total number of moviegoers also reached more than 2.6 million, successfully breaking the highest box office record for "Police Story" in South Korea.
From now on, when Koreans mention Hong Kong movies, they will not only think of Chenglong, because there is also a Zhou Runfa. And Zhong Chuhong, who has participated in "Police Story" and "Heavenly Love", is also popular in South Korea and has become a real international star.
And taking advantage of the opportunity of the hit of "Heavenly Love" in Southeast Asia and South Korea, Ye Zhiming also began to fully mobilize his old relationship with the record company, and sent the record to the two places not long after the movie was released. As a result, this record, which has won nearly 200,000 sales of triple platinum in Hong Kong, has also sold well in Southeast Asia and South Korea, and as a result, "Heavenly Love" has sold a total of nearly 500,000 copies in Southeast Asia and South Korea, and Ye Zhiming, the boss, has made a lot of money.
Needless to say, Chen Shuhua, a Taiwanese singer, became famous as soon as he sang, and even Li Xuan, a person who sings for fun, has been crowned as a popular singer.
Of course, this is all for later, so let's not mention it for the time being.
Waiting for Chenglong and his entourage to hold another premiere in Taiwan, Li Xuan had to leave the crew of "The True Color of Heroes" and take Zhong Chuhong to follow Chenglong, Chen Zhiqiang and He Xichang and his party on the plane to the United States.
It is not easy for foreign films to be sold to Hong Kong, and it is even more difficult for Hong Kong films to be distributed to other cities, otherwise why have Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest always been the bosses of the Hong Kong film industry, in addition to theaters, film distribution companies are their trump cards. For example, Princess Jin, who defeated the Shaw Brothers this time in the past two years, is actually a cut behind the Shaw Brothers in terms of heritage.
No, Yongjia's "Beware of Little Hands" made Princess Jin not release it for half a day, but Yongjia's boss Chen Xunqi couldn't stand it.
Nima, dare to open a theater with this distribution ability!
Chen Xunqi is a very talented person, and later he was called the best soundtrack among Hong Kong directors, the best producer in the soundtrack, the best flying car director in the production, the best screenwriter in the flying car director, one of the most famous actors in the screenwriter, and one of the most successful directors among the actors.
Then Zou Wenhuai couldn't cry or laugh, this movie released in the Golden Princess Theater actually let himself help distribute it......
As mentioned earlier, Zou Wenhuai is a person who likes to act with righteousness, this Chen Xunqi has made a lot of soundtracks for Jiahe, and he has indeed cooled him for a year, and this movie is still directed and starred by Hong Jingbao.
Okay, then let's help with the distribution.
So a very interesting scene in the history of Hong Kong cinema appeared, a film in which the Golden Princess participated in the investment and participation in the local screening was actually distributed to other cities with the help of the rival Golden Harvest Cinemas.
Li Xuan didn't know what Zou Wenhuai's mood was now, but Lei Juekun's face must be very exciting now, this was really slapped by his subordinates.
Well, no mention of foreign affairs.
Even though Golden Harvest's distribution ability is very good, his North American distribution ability is weak, and as a result, after a year of tossing, he finally released "Police Story" to the United States.
Li Xuan and his trip went to San Francisco, USA, to hold the premiere of "Police Story".
However, because Lin Qingxia is filming "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", which has been filmed for half a year, only Chenglong and Zhong Chuhong are the two leading actors. As for Li Xuan, he didn't have to follow him, but a news from the United States made Li Xuan a little stunned.
Immediately, Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong boarded the plane to Seattle.
That's right!
Chenglong and the three flew to San Francisco, but Li Xuan and the others flew to Seattle, but the two of them only stayed in Seattle for one day, and the next day they would rush to San Francisco to attend the movie premiere with Chenglong and a few people.
It is said that as soon as Li Xuan and the two left Seattle International Airport, they were surprised to find that the person who came to pick them up was Steve, the business manager of Microsoft? Balmer, is this business manager in a hurry......
"Oh, this beautiful lady must be Cherie, welcome to Seattle!" Steve? Balmer greeted Zhong Chuhong first, or if he hugged him, he simply shook hands.
"Is this Steve? Balmer, Microsoft's commercial manager, just call him Balmer. Li Xuan pointed to the tall man and said.
Zhong Chuhong tilted his head slightly and smiled: "Balmer, hello! ”
"Hello." Steve? Balmer gestured sideways and said, "Xuan, Cherie, come with me, I've booked you the best hotel in Seattle." ”
"Thank you!"
Sitting in Balmer's car, Li Xuan quietly looked out the window, and it was obvious that with the rise and development of computer technology, there were gradually more people here, and it was much more lively than before.
"Hi, Balmer, how's Allen's condition?" After casually looking at the street scene, Li Xuan turned his head and asked.
"Not bad." Steve? Balmer shrugged his shoulders and continued as he drove: "Thankfully, it was detected early, and there is no sign of spread. ”
"That's good ......" (To be continued.) )