This New Year's file, "Best Partner" is really hot!

Although there is Li Xuan's "Police Story" Zhuyu in front, and there is the Christmas impact of "Black Man 2", the main direction is comedy, Xinyicheng still made this fashion action film with a different taste. And this time, in order to avoid Li Xuan's "Lucky Star Shine", Princess Jin also deliberately advanced the screening time of "Best Partner" by five days.

As a result, "Best Partner", which was released in 22 theaters of Golden Princess, won a super high box office of 1.61 million on the first day of its release. By the time Golden Harvest, Shuangnan and Shaw Brothers released their own high-quality films for the New Year, Princess Jin had already swept away more than 7.9 million Hong Kong dollars on the big cake of the Hong Kong box office market.

With such results, it is not a problem for "Best Partner" to hit the box office of 20 million in the end.

In the face of such a strong enemy, it is no longer a premiere or midnight show that the publicity can work. So Li Xuan simply did not hold a premiere for "Lucky Stars", nor did he take it to the midnight show to be screened, and only put a few advertisements in some newspapers, magazines and TV stations.

Other publicity cooperation depends on the support of the theater chain.

However, Golden Harvest is really powerful, as usual, it is screened together with four luxury theaters, and more importantly, on the first day of the film's release, it gave an ultra-high schedule of seven screenings per day, and other films of Golden Harvest Cinemas have given way.

Since 1981, Golden Harvest has tasted the sweetness of joint screenings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and this time it is a New Year's file involving all Chinese regions, so "Lucky Stars" was taken to Taiwan for screening, only four days later than Hong Kong. And this time it was not only screened in the two theaters of Golden Harvest and Cathay Pacific, Zou Wenhuai also pulled Huang Zhuohan's Ximen Cinema into it, and the three theaters in Taiwan screened "Lucky Star Gaozhao" together.

Taiwan postponed the release for four days, not to mention it for the time being, just on the first day of the release of "Lucky Star Gaozhao" in Hong Kong, the terrifying box office appeal of Chenglong, Hong Jingbao, Lin Qingxia and Wu Yaohan was fully exposed.

The 23 theaters were full, and the people who bought tickets outside the theaters had even lined up on the road, and had to let the police maintain order, and there were even several major clashes due to queuing to buy tickets that day. When a major riot broke out in Central at the end of last month, the nerves of the police were still so tense that the police even appeared on patrol outside the theater where "Lucky Stars Shine High".

This interesting picture was taken by a reporter from the "Oriental Daily", and the next day the newspaper published a big headline with the photo - "Lucky Star Gaozhao" became popular in Hong Kong, and PTU (Note: Hong Kong Police Tactical Unit) was dispatched urgently!

As soon as this news came out, it immediately added another handful of oil to the already popular "Lucky Star Gaozhao", and immediately burned the enthusiasm of the entire Hong Kong audience. There are more people queuing outside the Golden Harvest Theater, and now PTU is not only patrolling outside the theater, but is really stationed outside the theater to help Golden Harvest maintain order in the theater.

Such a harmonious picture of police-public cooperation appeared outside every Golden Harvest Cinema during the New Year in 1982, which deeply shocked later filmmakers.

"Lucky Stars" rose to the sky with this momentum, and "Best Partner", which was still bright and blind at the box office, started the most tragic New Year's battle in Hong Kong film history.

It's just that under the popularity of these two movies, there is an undercurrent lurking, which is quietly surging.

Compared with the popularity of the two movies "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and "Best Partner" and the difficulty of finding a ticket, the door of Nanhua Cinema, the leading theater of Shuangnan Cinema Line, is much more deserted. There was no need to queue or wait at all, Li Xuan bought five movie tickets for "Shaolin Temple".

Li Xuan, who was standing at the entrance of the theater with big sunglasses and a thin scarf, looked at the people around him and muttered quietly: "Hit the street, why haven't they come yet, the movie is about to start." ”

"Maybe something is delayed, wait, the movie will not start for more than ten minutes." Zhong Chuhong, who was also dressed up, pushed the sunglasses on his nose and looked at the movie ticket in his hand and replied.

It's not okay for the two of them not to dress up like this, Zhong Chuhong is a star and needless to say, even Li Xuan, who doesn't like to be in the newspaper, has been in the headlines almost every day for a month after this Golden Horse Awards. Now everyone in Hong Kong knows Li Xuan, but at least half of the people know his face.

A big star and a big director came to the leftist's leading theater to watch a movie openly, and Li Xuan still came to watch it in the New Year, when he had just won so many Golden Horse Awards and his own movie was released, isn't this a slap in the face of Jiahe and the Taiwan authorities.

"Doodoo-"

Suddenly, from the south side of the driveway, there was a familiar sound of Li Xuan's car horn, Li Xuan and the two turned their heads to look, and saw Wang Jin's white car slowly driving into the parking lot.

"Hey, why did you come from the south?" Li Xuan looked at Wang Jin and his daughter-in-law and asked loudly.

Wang Jin didn't need to pretend, scratched the back of his head and said: "I just drove along the sea, don't say that your "Lucky Star Gaozhao" is really hot, Gangwei Avenue is blocked." ”

"Just blow it!" Li Xuan glared at Wang Jin, handed over the two movie tickets and said, "If Gangwei Avenue is blocked, the Hong Kong Governor can step down." ”

"Where did I blow it?" Wang Jinyu said indignantly: "Although I exaggerated a little and didn't block it, the people who bought the tickets also lined up on the road." ”

Li Xuan waved his hand and said lazily: "I won't have anything to do with you, what about Xiao Tong Tong?" Throw it at home for Uncle Wang to see? ”

"Two-year-old baby, don't throw it at home, do you still bring it to watch a movie?" Wang Jin also replied with disdain, and then asked suspiciously: "How did you think of inviting us to watch a movie, or a mainland movie?" "Shaolin Temple"? ”

"I'm here to cultivate your patriotism **, let you see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, so that you can always remember that you are a Chinese." Li Xuan said with a bare shore posture at this moment.

"Ahh Wang Jin smacked Li Xuan fiercely, and scolded with a smile: "You yourself still swam over there, have the face to say us?" ”

“……”

The four of them quarreled at the entrance of the theater, and after waiting for another four or five minutes, Lin Qingxia, who was belatedly and fully armed, finally came. The five of them officially entered the theater, found their seats, sat down and waited for the movie to begin.

The attendance rate of "Shaolin Temple" is really not ideal, because it is a mainland film, and there are "Lucky Stars" and "Best Partner" to grab people, so the attendance rate in the Nanhua Theater is less than forty percent, and there are a few people sparsely sitting. According to the general rules of Hong Kong cinemas, this kind of film with a low attendance rate at the beginning is basically shown for about a week. For example, Zhang Ce's "Chongxiao Tower" could have been released for six days, but it was directly won by the disappointed Shaw Brothers senior management in only four days.

However, Li Xuan is confident in this movie, and the god film "Shaolin Temple" not only sold hundreds of millions of soft girl coins in the mainland in 82 years, but also swept all the way across Asia, in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and even the book are all the way forward. There is no reason that in this life, "Shaolin Temple" will be soft when it arrives in Hong Kong, and Li Xuan's butterfly wings have not been fanned so big.

And now there is only one reason for the low attendance, and that is the stamina of "Shaolin Temple". Li Xuan is now looking forward to the box office performance of "Shaolin Temple", even more than the attention of his own movie.

The theater suddenly dimmed, and a beam of light hit the big screen, but it was "Shaolin Temple" that began.

"The world is out of Shaolin! Legend of the river? There is Shaolin Temple in the north, Fu? Built with Shaolin Temple, Zhejiang? Jiang, Guang? East, four? There is also a Shaolin Temple in Sichuan, but where is the Shaolin Temple, a martial arts holy land that has been mysterious since ancient times? Songshan, located in the middle ......"

Li Xuan has to admit that this Zhang Xinyan is amazing, he didn't feel it when he watched "Shaolin Temple" when he was a child, but now he watches it again, and he feels that Zhang Xinyan's picture is very stable, and the map of the mountains and rivers of the mainland that appeared at the beginning of the movie is like a far-reaching landscape ink painting under its guide tube, which instantly attracted everyone in the cinema.

In a moment, the theater fell silent. (To be continued.) )