Liu Yiwei and Huang Ying happily said goodbye.

Li Xuan looked at the table full of food and never took a bite again. If he didn't know how popular this "Mr. Zombie" would be in the future, Li Xuan would not have invested. But now, Li Xuan regrets it a little, after all, "Seven Golden Corpses" has only passed five years, and I don't know if it will affect this movie.

3.5 million is enough for Li Xuan's serious investment to make five small-budget movies.

Anyway, he was in no mood to eat, Li Xuan let out a long sigh, dropped the table full of meals and went home.

In the next time, Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong began to look for houses all over the street. It's a pity that the house hasn't been found yet, and "Scary" has finally been released.

Unlike Wang Jin, who was panicked, Li Xuan seemed very calm. This film is very much in line with the tastes of the audience in this era, and the capital preservation is certain.

But he didn't expect that after the box office came out, Li Xuan was also taken aback.

A full 380,000! 15 theaters have screened three times in a row, with an average attendance rate of more than 80%.

This is Hong Jingbao's ability to attract gold when there is no opponent in the summer file!

In August 1979, Chenglong's "Master and Brother Out of the Horse" had just finished the late stage, but the movie that was originally planned to be released in the summer was ruthlessly pitted by his master Yu Zhanyuan, and Master Yu's "Master Out of the Horse" was filmed intermittently in the United States for several months without finishing. And Golden Harvest's other box office guarantee Xu brothers, one is busy singing and the other is busy behind the scenes, and they have not come up with a movie this year.

As for the Shaw Brothers, director Chu Yuanda, who is guaranteed at the box office, has just made a big show in July, and the martial arts movie "The Peerless Double Pride" directed by him won a box office of more than 4 million at once, which made the Shaw Brothers proud in this summer war. However, in August, Shaw Brothers also quieted down, and only three new films by small directors were released.

"Scary" is proud of the world in this situation where there is no opponent!

On the second day of the release of "Scary", 15 theaters of Golden Harvest were even fuller, and the box office reached 430,000 in a single day. On the fourth day, it was the Sunday with the largest number of moviegoers, and Golden Harvest finally couldn't sit still and began to increase the number of screenings of "Scary", and the box office exceeded 600,000 at once.

In the following week, the films in the other four theaters of Golden Harvest were drawn in advance or postponed to make way for "Scary". And the box office of "Scary" in the first week was also placed in front of the public.

The box office in the first week was 3.47 million!

What is this concept? This number is nearly one million more than the box office of Chenglong's "Laughing Fist Monster" in the first week at the beginning of the year!

At this time, not only Li Xuan was dumbfounded, but even Hong Jingbao, who was reading the script in Hong Jiaban's office, was also in a trance.

Hong Jingbao was also shocked by this data, you must know that the movies he starred in, although the reputation and box office are very good, one or two can be on the top ten of the Hong Kong box office every year. However, the local box office of the movie he starred in has never exceeded 3 million, and the highest is last year's "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua", and the total box office in Hong Kong is only 2.86 million!

Now such a "Scary People", in the first week, he compared all the movies he had acted in before.

Hong Jingbao, who has just finished co-starring with Mai Jia in "Fighting for Life", is making a choice for the next play. He looked at his left hand and then at his right.

There are three words written squarely above the script he is holding in his left hand - "Lin Shirong", which was sold to him by a screenwriter not long ago, and the content of the script is an old-fashioned martial arts theme that Hong Jingbao is very good at. And what he is holding in his right hand is a script that he left behind not long ago, called "Ghost Fights Ghost".

That's right! It's a cut of the beard, because this script was written by a guy named Huang Ying.

Not long ago, when this person and Liu Yiwei came to the door with two scripts, he left this script, and pushed the "Mr. Zombie" that was inaccurate and expensive to Li Xuan.

He can't afford to lose 3.5 million now, no more than Li Xuan's whole company, there are only two people, and he has to support dozens of people in the Hong family's class.

"Ah Ying, which film do you think we should make next?" Hong Jingbao asked Lin Zhengying, who was sitting opposite.

"Eh, "Ghost Fights" ......" Lin Zhengying said hesitantly. Since the box office of "Scary" became popular, he has tasted the sweetness, and his status in Hongjiaban has improved a lot, and now there are small film companies outside that have begun to ask him to film. For this script of "Ghost Fighting", which is similar to "People Are Scary", I naturally prefer it.

"Well...... I think that's good, too." Hong Jingbao looked at the script in his right hand, decided to be a follow-up master, and continued: "This time we Baoxiang will do it ourselves!" ”

"What about Boss Zou?" Lin Zhengying asked.

"Don't worry about it over there......" Hong Jingbao smiled and said, "Boss Zou is ready to hold Yuanhug, and now he doesn't have so much time to worry about other things." ”

"Oh......" Lin Zhengying nodded as if she didn't understand, and she always felt that Hong Jingbao's words just now were a little wrong.

While a bunch of people were stunned by the movie, the director and producer of the film were busy moving things.

"Huh? It's true? Wang Jin stood in the elevator and looked at Li Xuan sitting on the small single sofa and asked in surprise.

"Well, Boss Zou said to give us a week to extend the movie." Li Xuan said while holding the TV in his arms.

"Wow!" Wang Jin shouted proudly and said excitedly: "It's not a dream to have a movie of more than seven million, seven million, seven million, ......."

There was a crisp "ding dong" and the elevator door opened.

Li Xuan stood up with the TV set in his arms: "Got it, the new seven million directors, hurry up and move things." ”

Li Xuan was moving, and he and Zhong Chuhong finally found a satisfactory house in Broadcasting Road, located in Room 504 of Baiyuan, No. 49 Broadcasting Road. Doesn't it sound familiar? Yes, it is where Wang Fatzi's family is located, but Wang Jin's house is on the sixth floor. The house is an apartment-style house, with four bedrooms and two living rooms, with a real backdrop to the Lion Rock. However, the price is very expensive, and it cost Li Xuan 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is enough for him to buy a townhouse at the foot of the mid-levels.

"Hey! Xuan Zai, stop, stop. ”

As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the elevator with the TV set, Wang Jin behind shouted.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuan stopped and turned around and asked, and Wang Fatzi walked over panting with a single sofa.

"Bang"

Wang Jin put the sofa on the ground, gasped and said, "Change, let's change, the sofa is too big for me to hold." ”

"The sofa is big?" Li Xuan glanced down at the single sofa that didn't even have a backrest, this is still big?

"It's not that the sofa is big, it's that you're too fat." Li Xuan criticized unceremoniously.

"Then do you want to change it?" Wang Jin glared at Li Xuan: "If you don't change, I won't help you move." ”

"Change! What a hassle, come on! Li Xuan held the TV with both hands and handed it over.

Wang Jin hurriedly took over the TV and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it is still easy to move small things.

Li Xuan picked up the sofa casually, and asked Wang Jin as he walked, "You really don't come to my company?" ”

"Not coming, your company? I don't even have an address! Wang Jin said disdainfully.

"Don't worry, the house is ready, I'll go find an office building." Li Xuan was not too difficult, and replied indifferently: "Then where are you going to go?" Shaw? ”

"I don't know...... Wang Jin said wistfully, "do you know? Yesterday, Aunt Six came to see my father. ”

"Aunt Six?" Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Fang Yihua is looking for your father?" Want you to get into Shaw Brothers? ”

"Hmm!"

Wang Jin nodded.

"Then will you come in?" Li Xuan asked curiously.

"I said I don't know, let's talk about it after I finish filming "The King of a Thousand Kings", it's not that you don't know what the director's situation is at Shaw Brothers." Wang Jin replied distressedly.

The directors of the Shaw Brothers are better than those who hit the streets, but they are also a more tragic existence.

Shaw Brothers' production model was still a big studio system, and in the late '70s it became increasingly rigid, with problems centered on coercive control over directors and actors. The relationship between the actors, the director and the Shaw Brothers is contractual, with the company's production department formulating scripts, providing them to the director for filming, and allowing the director to write and direct himself. But the fundamental problem is in profits, Shaw Brothers has never been willing to share dividends with directors and actors, but only a salary system.

No matter how outstanding the box office performance of the film is, or how successful it is, the consequences are borne by the company's reading power, and the director is not allowed to share it. This relationship between Shaw Brothers and the director has greatly weakened the director's positive surname, such as Xu Yiwen once asked for a dividend method, and took out the script of "Ghost Horse Double Star" to share the box office results with Shaw Brothers, but was rejected by Shaw Brothers, and this kind of thing also happened to Li Hanxiang, Zhang Ce and others.

Under this system, no matter how good Wang Jin's movie is, it will be his life. This is equivalent to his life for Wang Jin, who dared to ask Li Xuan for dividends with a script.

But what worries Wang Jin is that if he doesn't join the Shaw Brothers, will it have any impact on Wang Tianlin?