I have to say that Chenglong's box office appeal in Yueben is really not covered, a bad movie of "Killer Trench" can sell 520 million yuan at the ultra-high box office in Yueben, so it is not surprising that this well-made "Police Story" is a big hit Li Xuan.

The day after the premiere, "Police Story" was officially released at the Empire Theater. Toho's first screening of this movie was as high as five screenings, and the movie was almost full, which made Toho's senior Hideyuki Okada very happy. However, no matter how happy Dongbao and the main creators of the crew are, this movie has reached the top in terms of the number of screenings in the book.

Do you dare to rehearse seven screenings? That's called unpatriotic!

In the following week, the popularity of "Police Story" did not decrease in the slightest, and the theater was full every day, and even there was a long queue outside the theater to buy tickets. With such a high attendance rate, in addition to "Police Story" catching the tail of this summer file, the main reason is that Chenglong's strong box office appeal and the production of this movie are also very good, which makes those fans watch it over and over again.

Fuji TV, as one of Toho's shareholders, also continued to promote the movie during its release. In addition to continuously broadcasting movie trailers on TV stations and announcing all the information about the movie in real time, Fuji TV also invited Chenglong, Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong to appear on their ace variety show "Star Thousand and One Nights", and did another movie promotion.

Well, Li Xuan, the director behind the scenes, is obviously not among this 'star'.

The popularity of "Police Story" is so high that it really exceeds Li Xuan's imagination, and it also disrupts Li Xuan's entire film shooting plan. For a whole week, Chenglong and Lin Qingxia held seven consecutive fan meetings in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and other places under the arrangement of Toho's publicity staff, and continued to expand the promotion of the film.

In one week, just one week, "Police Story" won a super high ration box office of 430 million yuan in Yueben. The media in Hong Kong were stunned, and they exclaimed that there was another "Enter the Dragon", and Chenglong finally became the second Li Xiaolong.

As early as 1974, Li Xiaolong's movie "Enter the Dragon" won a horror ration box office of 1200 million yuan in Yueben. At that time, the first week of "Enter the Dragon" was 550 million yuan.

And don't forget, in the early 70s, the movie was not as declining as it is now, and the theater chain was not rushing to release Hong Kong movies. So at that time, the ratio of the rationed box office to the total box office of "Enter the Dragon" was around 5:5, and now Hong Kong movies are popular in Asia, and Hong Kong films, especially Chenglong's films, are basically distributed around 6:4 in the book, and this time "Police Story" is a big hit, and the quota of the rationed box office has even risen to about 6.5.

Based on the above reasons, coupled with the rapid development of the economy in recent years, the first-week ration box office of "Enter the Dragon" is at least nearly double that of "Police Story". These mass media said that Chenglong caught up with Li Xiaolong, but it was a bit exaggerated to say that the sedan chair was carried by everyone.

But who hates good words?

Even with Fuji TV is a casual competition, and Chaoyue TV, which is also one of the five major private wireless TV stations in this year, praised "Police Story" as the best movie in this summer's file, and highly praised Chenglong's fighting spirit, wishing "Police Story" a big hit and deeply looking forward to Chenglong's next movie.

On the other hand, the film magazine "Film Xunbao", which is the object of imitation of Hong Kong's "Film Fortnightly", expressed its own concerns about local films from the perspective of the success of "Police Story". In the 60s, the director of Yuben snorted lightly, Hong Kong films don't want to catch up with Yuben in 20 years; However, 20 years later, Hong Kong films have surpassed the original films, but the shooting techniques of the local films are still stuck in the 60s......

The news of the big sale of "Police Story" in this book was continuously transmitted back to Hong Kong by several accompanying reporters sent by Golden Harvest, which triggered layers of violent shocks. The ordinary people in Hong Kong suddenly found that they suddenly had no sense of the movies being shown in those theaters, and they just wanted to check the entertainment newspapers every day to see if there was any new news about "Police Story". As long as they saw that "Police Story" continued to sell in the book, the faces of these people were full of amazement and pride.

However, regardless of whether the people care or not, Hong Kong's film summer season is slowly coming to an end.

Princess Jin's "Chasing Girls" achieved a total box office of 9.06 million, although there is still a gap from the box office of 10 million, but it can be regarded as a perfect ending for Princess Jin. And "Zombie Dao Chang 2" supervised by Hong Jingbao also continued the old way of small cost and big box office of psychedelic kung fu films, and got a box office of 10.13 million. As for "Martial Arts" directed by Shaw Brothers Liu Jialiang, it was painted before Li Xuan and they went to the book, and it got a box office of 4.51 million.

As Shaw Brothers and Princess Jin withdrew from the summer file, Golden Harvest at this time grabbed the tail of the summer file and released Chenglong's "Cannonball Speed".

This star-studded bad film under the banner of Chenglong's participation in the game, although it has been successful at the box office in North America, it has suffered the same treatment as "Killer Trench" in Hong Kong. Even Chenglong's Yu Wei of "Police Story" failed to save the box office of the film, and he hurriedly finished painting after only getting 5.7 million Hong Kong dollars after its release in Hong Kong for two weeks.

At this point, the 1981 Hong Kong summer file finally came to an end.

"Hey, Uncle Qiang." Li Xuan looked at the bunch of fans gathered around, and said helplessly to Chen Zhiqiang: "Can you let the people around you disperse, how can we film?" ”

"Alas!" Chen Zhiqiang sighed, wiped his face and said, "I'll try again." ”

The whole crew finally started up urgently after wasting a week, and because of the absence of Chenglong and Lin Qingxia in this week, only two or three shots that didn't need them were filmed. And now the crew can't rush it, Chenglong doesn't have to rush back to Hong Kong to start a new play, and the Southeast Asian promotion of "Police Story" also needs him to stand on the scene.

It's just that this time, Li Xuan and Lin Qingxia won't go over no matter what.

Now they're catching up at Fuji-Q Amusement Park at the foot of Mount Fuji on the outskirts of Tokyo, one of the best amusement parks in Tokyo, with the world's fastest roller coaster and the largest haunted house, which attracts a large number of visitors every year. In addition, from the amusement park, you can clearly see the majestic Mt. Fuji in the distance, which is very pleasing to the eye.

Because of Chenglong's filming, the crew did not have to pay any fees for filming in Fuji-Q Amusement Park, and even the amusement park staff helped them throughout the process and got a little sponsorship. However, Fuji-Q is also conditional, and I hope that there will be a few shots of Fuji-Q brands in the movie.

This is not a big problem, Li Xuan nodded and agreed.

But when it was time to actually film, Li Xuan found that because the park was not closed, a lot of Chenglong's fans poured in, and the scene was chaotic. Li Xuan's head is too big, and he is busy pulling Chenglong's agent Chen Zhiqiang to do the film coordination.

But after tossing like this for more than ten minutes, Li Xuan found that Chen Zhiqiang seemed to have nothing to do with these fans. Think about it, these fans dare to chase stars and fight against the security personnel, how can they leave after listening to you say two words.

"Uncle Qiang, no matter, let's start filming." Li Xuan sighed and said.

"But?" Chen Zhiqiang pointed to the crowd of onlookers and said in surprise: "It's not good for these fans to appear in the camera." ”

"It's fine." Li Xuan picked up the script and looked at it and said, "Let's shoot the footage of Ah Long climbing the Ferris wheel here first, don't shoot these fans below." After Aaron went to the haunted house to film, we lined up a small group of people to come over and take the panoramic view on the ground. ”

"Well, that's a good idea." Chen Zhiqiang nodded and replied softly.

Li Xuan chuckled and waved his hand, then walked to Chenglong's side and asked, "Ah Long, it's okay for you to jump down from the Ferris wheel this time, right?" Filming with you always makes me scared. ”

"It's okay! You still don't worry about the action I designed, and besides, this Fuji-Q big brand is still hanging on the Ferris wheel, don't you kill two birds with one stone? Chenglong made a few chest expansion movements, looked at the Ferris wheel next to him and said, "By the way, are you ready to start shooting?" ”

"Hmm!"

"Let's get started, I'm ready." Chenglong said with his head held high.

Li Xuan also raised his loudspeaker with a smile, looked at the excited fans around him and said, "Buried in their positions, ready to start filming!" (To be continued.) )