Although Wang Jin really wants to have a premiere of every movie like Li Xuan, and invite some film and television stars to cheer him on, he has obviously not reached this height now. So "Black Man 2" was released in 15 theaters of Golden Harvest on December 22 after holding a simple midnight show.

And the movies released on the same day also include "The Condor Heroes" directed by Shaw Brothers Zhang Ce and "Reborn Man" directed by Weng Weiquan of Xinyicheng.

However, in Li Xuan's view, "The Condor Heroes" and "Reborn" are not opponents of "Black Man 2" at all.

Among them, Zhang Ce, the director of "The Condor Heroes", insisted on his own path of combining martial arts and martial arts because he opposed Li Xuan's style of making martial arts films, and the martial arts films he made gradually couldn't keep up. In the past year, the box office of Shaw Brothers' martial arts films has plummeted all the way, and even Chu Yuan, who makes martial arts films much more elegantly, has been greatly affected, and he will no longer regain the arrogance of Chu Tens of Millions.

As for "Reborn Man" in New Art City, Li Xuan also just wants to look up to the sky and sigh, Xu Ke, a representative of the academic school and the new wave, has just lowered his arrogant head in front of reality and ran to shoot a comedy. And now there is another representative of the academic school and the New Wave, with his head held high, and his foot is dripping into the muddy waters of the film industry.

O Nima! Do you want to die when you put on a tragic horror movie at Christmas? It is also a tragic horror film with the director's personal literary temperament.

Thinking about his senior brother Du Qifeng's "Blue Water and Cold Pool", Li Xuan knew the fate of this "Regeneration". It's just that this Christmas file has been a long time ago, and Li Xuan has been curious, how did the three bigwigs who have always insisted on making comedies in Hong Kong in New Arts City come up with investing in this movie?

Of course, that's all for later, but we started looking at it at the beginning of the Christmas season in 1981.

In fact, this year's Christmas stalls in Hong Kong are not lively, and Shaw Brothers can't come up with any good movies, and Golden Harvest is here that Chenglong is injured, Wu Yusen is refrigerated, Xu Yiwen is on vacation, and Hong Jinbao has run to the New Year's file, so it can only be Yuan Dart's "Black Man 2". As for Princess Jin, the whole company of Xinyicheng is preparing for the god-level movie "Best Partner", so it can only use the "god" movie "Reborn" to top the Christmas file.

Why did the three theaters release the movie on December 22?

Because this day is the winter solstice, in Hong Kong and even some cities in the south of the mainland, there has been a saying that 'the winter solstice is the New Year'. Therefore, although this day is not a statutory holiday, some companies in Hong Kong will close work early or simply take a holiday to let them celebrate this holiday. Therefore, the box office of the movie on this day will even perform better than the box office on a normal Sunday.

And the box office statistics on the day of the winter solstice also prove this.

On the first day of Christmas, Hong Kong's three major cinema chains formed two completely different echelons. The 15 theaters where Golden Harvest screened "Black Man 2" were full, and the movie name of Golden Princess's "Reborn" also coaxed a bunch of ignorant audiences, and the attendance rate also reached more than ninety percent. As for Shaw Brothers' "The Condor Heroes", audiences who are tired of watching old-fashioned martial arts movies are extremely unconvinced, and the attendance rate on the first day has begun to hover around 60%, which scared the Shaw Brothers to begin to reduce the screening theater of "The Condor Heroes" on the second day.

As a result, the box office statistics on the first day came out quickly, and "Black Man 2" got a box office of 720,000 Hong Kong dollars on the first day. And because there are two more theaters for the release of "Reborn" than "Black Man 2", it has reached a tie with "Black Man 2". As for Shaw Brothers' "The Condor Heroes", it only got 510,000 movie box office.

And in the following week, after Christmas really came, the box office trend of Hong Kong's three major cinema chains gradually formed three echelons.

Needless to say, the popularity of "Black Man 2" is needless to say, and the average attendance rate throughout the week is above 90%. Under the condition that its situation is completely bullish, Golden Harvest increased the number of theaters it released the next day in line with the principle that it is a fool not to make money, and initially completed the full line of screenings. In just the first week, "Black Man 2" won a total box office of 5.12 million with the domineering spirit of the world, breaking the original highest record of Wang Jin's movie.

As for "Reborn", which was complained about by the audience, the attendance rate plummeted from the next day, but it still remained above 60%, and won 3.07 million at the box office throughout the week. and Shaw Brothers' "The Condor Heroes" was hurriedly painted a week after its release, winning the box office of 2.37 million, creating the worst result of the Shaw Brothers Christmas file. Then Shaw Brothers took over another movie by Zhang Ce "Rushing to the Sky Tower", but this movie was even worse, it was painted in four days, and the box office was less than 900,000 Hong Kong dollars.

During the Spring Festival of 1982, Li Xuan heard that Zhang Ce was lying on a hospital bed......

From then until the closure of Shaw Brothers Pictures, Shaw Brothers never released any old-fashioned martial arts movies in the Christmas and New Year stalls. And December 22, 1981, is also considered to be the day when Hong Kong's old-fashioned martial arts movies really came to a dead end.

So since New Year's Day in 1982, this Christmas stall has become an unfair struggle between Golden Harvest and the Golden Princess!

Since the second week, the attendance of both films has gradually declined. The Golden Princess Cinema Line couldn't hold on at first, and began to reduce the number of theaters for "Reborn". And "Black Man 2" is still hovering above 60% because the attendance rate has been hovering above 60%, so it is still holding up for the full range of screenings.

And "Reborn" finally couldn't stand it after persisting in the Golden Princess Cinema for 18 days, and it was painted offline on January 11, 1982, and received a box office of 6.01 million in 21 days after its release. Although this story is tragic and terrifying, it is also eye-catching that it can achieve such good results with the support of Princess Jin.

But just when Lei Juekun was ready to praise Weng Weiquan, something happened that made Li Xuan almost burst into laughter. When "Reborn Man" was taken to Taiwan for film censorship, it was banned by the Taiwan Information Service on the grounds of "promoting feudal superstition"!

O Nima! Li Xuan looked up to the sky and sighed, this is exactly the same as what happened to him in the original "Curse", the unlucky "Regeneration", the propaganda feudal superstition, this has to make Taiwanese audiences watch less good movies, and let Li Xuan and the film company bosses make less money!

Ahem, of course, this is a foreign word and will not be mentioned.

Anyway, no matter how depressed Lei Juekun and several bigwigs in Xinyi City were, Li Xuan and Wang Jin had a very happy Christmas time this time.

"Black Man 2" has been released in Golden Harvest Cinemas for four weeks before all the pictures are drawn, because it is basically a monopoly, so "Black Man 2" has achieved a proud result of more than 15 million!

This data not only set a new box office record for Wang Jin and returned him to the throne of tens of millions of directors, but also allowed investor Li Xuan to not only recover the cost of the film in the city, but also make a lot of money.

Of course, more importantly, "Black Man 2" passed Taiwan's film censorship.

However, Li Xuan didn't have time to participate in Wang Jin's celebration banquet to celebrate, and he was attracted by the upcoming New Year's file.

On January 18, 1982, "Black Man 2" was painted offline;

On January 21, 1982, the three major cinema chains of Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and Shuangnan officially participated in the box office battle of this New Year's stall at the same time;

5 days ago, on January 16, 1982, Princess Jin took the lead and released "Best Partner" across the board. (To be continued.) )