"Selfie ......" Li Xuan smiled bitterly and said slowly: "This Shao Brothers, isn't it just rushing to make money from us now." ”

"Money?" Wang Jin was slightly stunned, thought for a while and said: "It's not enough to make a lot of money, but a small amount of money is for sure, just like you and Shaw Brothers co-producing "Smiling Proud Jianghu", favors are something that must not be saved, and I won't be stupid enough to help them shoot a few dramas in a row." And Shaw Brothers is very determined this time, Aunt Six not only asked me to make a film this time, but also said that as long as they can see the director and script of Shaw Brothers, they can invest in making films. ”

"Shhhh

Li Xuan gasped and asked in surprise, "Did Fang Yihua really say that?" ”

"Hmm." Wang Jin nodded, and continued: "But judging from the current situation, they Shaw Clan haven't been able to look down on anyone yet. ”

"That's not bad." Li Xuan stood up, nodded and said: "Although this is not a satellite company system, it is completely the usual method of those small film companies, Fang Yihua can be considered powerful to make such cruel words, and I don't know what kind of chaos is happening in the Shaw Brothers now." ”

Watching Li Xuan clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Wang Jin smiled and said, "Then you are wrong, there is no chaos in the Shaw Brothers now." Those directors are so shrewd, they all know that they don't dare to change anything after what happened to you last time, and now they are watching from the sidelines one by one. ”

"Watching from the sidelines?" Li Xuan sneered and continued: "The Shaw Clan is now terminally ill, and if they don't change much, they will definitely die, they are watching coldly now, and it will be the turn of others to watch them coldly in the future." ”

Wang Jin shook his head slightly, and sighed: "They are also a group of poor people, they have been in the Shaw Brothers for about twenty years, and they have long been accustomed to the rules of the Shaw Brothers. Now that someone suddenly wants to break this rule, isn't that forcing them to their death, of course, they have to try their best to stop it. ”

Li Xuan, who had just walked into the kitchen, paused, and then sighed.

Indeed, the directors of the Shaw Brothers have become accustomed to the rules of the big set after decades of hard work. For example, Huashan, who is the most ruthless opponent of reform among these people, he joined Shaw Brothers in 1963, and worked hard for nearly 20 years, from a young man to a middle-aged man, and finally became a director. If this is a reform, won't the suffering of the previous ten years be in vain? Not to mention that after the reform, 90% of Shaw Brothers directors are estimated to lose their jobs because of making bad films that lose money. But most of these directors are middle-aged people in their forties like Hua Shan, who is the most stressful time for their families and careers, how can they survive after losing their jobs?

In the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", didn't the old man who lived in prison all his life commit suicide because he was not used to the rules outside.

"So, you're looking for Ah Hong to star in your new movie?" While washing the dishes, Li Xuan changed the topic and asked loudly, "There is no intimacy in it, right?" ”

Wang Jin hurriedly shook his head and replied, "No, it's not that I don't know that you are a person with a small belly, how about it?" Ah Hong should have some free time recently. ”

"Free time?" Li Xuan thought for a while and replied: "She should have free time recently, my new drama didn't start filming so soon." ”

"New play?" Wang Jin was stunned for a moment, and then asked in astonishment.

Li Xuan nodded and replied, "Hmm."

"What type of film? How did I not know? ”

"Fashion kung fu films, but ......" Li Xuan looked at Wang Jin with disdain and said: "But what kind of film do I make, why do you want to know?" ”

“……”

Just when Li Xuan and Wang Jin began to be busy with their new plays, "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" also came with good news in Yueben and South Korea.

Needless to say, although Lin Qingxia has always been famous, Xu Xijie is a very famous star in this book. Several films starring the Hui brothers have performed well at the box office, and Hui Yijie's album is an extremely popular seller in Yueben, and he set a record of selling more than 500,000 copies in three weeks in 1979 when he released the album "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" in Yueben. And in that year, Xu Yijie also became the first Hong Kong representative singer to participate in the Tokyo Music Festival.

Therefore, "Smiling Proud Jianghu" got a ration of 320 million yuan at the box office in just half a month after its release. Such a result has beaten Li Xuan's own company's first few movies, which can be regarded as a big profit.

It's just that what makes Li Xuan a little speechless is that this movie he carefully made is not as good as Chenglong's bad Hollywood movie at the box office. "Killer Trench" has already received a super high box office of 410 million yuan when it was released for half a month. Li Xuan estimated that if the movie wasn't too bad, the results might have been higher.

However, it can also be seen that Chenglong's box office appeal in this book is really not covered!

South Korea, on the other hand, is also recovering from the turmoil of the coup d'état that has just passed. The new political leader initiated a series of measures such as economic reforms, which led to a steady increase in the South Korean economy, and the income level and consumption level of the residents also increased a lot. So the box office data of this movie is also much better than that of the previous two years. At this point, it seems to be similar to this year's Taiwan.

It's a pity that the influence of Xu Yijie and Lin Qingxia is like no longer here.

In the early 80s, South Korea's political axe, like some countries in Southeast Asia, imposed restrictions on foreign films, so the total number of Hong Kong and Taiwan films released in South Korea each year will not exceed 15.

And the Shaw Brothers, who have thirty or forty film plans every year, have basically forgotten this land because of the poor allocation of places and the lack of competitiveness of the films produced. However, Shaw Brothers' old rival Golden Harvest has been focusing on the Korean market, and movies are released here every year. For example, the five movies that Chenglong has made famous since he became famous, and none of them have been released here by Golden Harvest. Especially Chenglong's "Drunken Fist", because the Korean box office statistics method only counts the number of moviegoers, it has created a super high box office of nearly 2 million moviegoers.

However, what makes Li Xuan feel interesting is that the Korean audience is obviously a lot more reasonable than the audience in Yueben, the bad movie "Killer Trench" has received a super high ration box office of 520 million in Yueben, but the number of moviegoers in South Korea has just reached 470,000, which is not much different from Hong Jingbao's "Lin Shirong". However, compared with the Korean box office data of Chenglong's other four films, it was a complete fiasco.

It's just that although Shaw Brothers didn't release movies to South Korea, the dead camel was bigger than a horse, and Shao Yifu simply said hello here, and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was released steadily.

At the first day of the release of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", the number of moviegoers has just reached 50,000. Two days after the movie was released, the number of moviegoers suddenly rose to 180,000, and the results of such a counterattack shocked the jaws of many Korean filmmakers.

Just past 1980, the highest-grossing movie in South Korea was Yoo Si-wei's "Mr. Zombie". Because of the impact of the political turmoil at that time, the total number of viewers of "Mr. Zombie" only reached 1.17 million.

As a result, in just half a month, the number of viewers of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in South Korea exceeded one million, and the results instantly surpassed "Mr. Zombie".

His movie was a big hit in a foreign city, and Li Xuan didn't have time to be happy, after he answered a transatlantic phone call, he hurriedly packed his luggage and rushed to Kai Tak International Airport alone.

It's just that Li Xuan didn't expect that he also met Xu Yiwen and Chenglong in the airport waiting room.