Li Xuan thinks that Shaw Brothers is very smart, especially now that Shaw Brothers Pictures and TVB are almost a family.

It is estimated that the people of Shaw Brothers have long known the power of "Shanghai Tang", and they have not screened their own movies in Shaw Brothers theaters for a rare month, which is an incredible thing for Shaw Brothers Pictures, which used to have a new film released almost every week.

Shaw Brothers released "The Qianlong Emperor and the Three Girls" on March 1, and then on March 10, TVB launched "Shanghai Tang", and two days later, "The Qianlong Emperor and the Three Girls" was drawn. Then for almost a full month, there were no new Shaw Brothers releases. According to the number of 25 episodes of "Shanghai Tang", one episode a day, it just ends on April 3, and then ......

Then, the Shaw Brothers' film schedule shows that the new film "Resentful Woman" directed by Lu Qi will be released on April 4. Baby? Mad Killer.

In the time that was available, Shaw Brothers released films from other small studios. While watching these wholly-owned film companies lose money to death, they happily collected the bottom money.

Shao Yifu is really a successful businessman, especially his ability to avoid danger is absolutely first-class.

While Li Xuan expressed his deep admiration for Shao Yifu, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his company's "Mr. Zombie".

"Mr. Zombie" was released on Saturday, March 15, just in time for the explosion of "Shanghai Tang" ratings, and only received a pitiful 510,000 songs at the box office. The next day was a little better on Sunday, with a box office of 650,000 Hong Kong dollars. Then the work began, and the box office plummeted. The box office fell to 390,000 on Monday, 410,000 on Tuesday, and 400,000 on Wednesday, and so it hovered around 400,000 from Monday to Friday, and returned to 490,000 on Saturday, and then rose to 600,000 on the second Sunday......

The box office curve of "Mr. Zombie" is very interesting, the general movie is a parabola that rises first and then falls or goes directly down from high, but "Mr. Zombie" is almost a horizontal straight line. has not been able to rise, but there is no obvious decline in the box office, and the attendance rate of the theater has been hovering around 50%.

It can be seen that many people who like this movie and "Shanghai Tang" are hesitating whether to watch it first.

This situation not only made Cai Yongchang, the boss of Golden Harvest Cinemas, cry and laugh, but also made Li Xuan speechless.

The attendance rate is stuck at 50%, which is a very speechless thing. You said that the theater chain should be reduced, but now the attendance rate of 50% is already very good, basically the movie is still making money, and it is still earning a lot. You said not to reduce, looking at the vacated half of the seats and feeling distressed.

Li Xuan looked at this strange scene and couldn't help but think of the documentary "The Tragic War" made up by Jiang Zhiwen of Anle Cinema.

This divine film has been released in Anle Theaters for more than three weeks, and the box office trend is also stable. Now the box office of "The Bitter War" in the first three weeks has reached 6.17 million, shattering the eyes of Hong Kong filmmakers. And what's even worse is that the box office decline trend is not obvious, according to the prediction of many film critics, this film can be released for more than two weeks, maybe the box office of this movie may break 10 million by then.

Damn it! A documentary that people who know a little bit of film are looking for some film clips randomly has begun to hit the box office of tens of millions. What did those directors who desperately worked everywhere to find people to pull investment?

Li Xuan doesn't care what these directors grew up eating, anyway, he is in a good mood now, and if he goes on on such a curve, he may not be able to recover his investment in Hong Kong, and may even hit the box office mark of 10 million.

However, this has to be shown by Golden Harvest for at least four weeks in a row.

Of course, this is impossible, so Li Xuan's expectation that the movie will break 10 million box office is just thinking about it.

This Sunday, I have to continue filming the literary drama in the library, but the daytime scenes were filmed last week, and now there is no need to rush the night scenes, after all, the nights are longer. And Li Xuan directly handed over the crew to Zeng Zhiwei in the afternoon, and came to the Peninsula Hotel alone.

Li Xuan didn't expect that he had invited someone to drink afternoon tea so many times at the Peninsula Hotel, and there was also a time when it was someone else's turn to invite him to drink tea.

"Mr. Lei, I'm sorry, I've been waiting for a long time!"

Li Xuan, led by the waiter, came to Lei Juekun's predetermined location, but found that he had already been waiting here.

"Haha, Mr. Li, it's okay, it's the contemptible who came early." Lei Juekun sat on the chair with great effort, not like he was drinking afternoon tea, but more like he was holding a meeting for his younger brother.

"Coffee, thank you."

Li Xuan didn't accept the menu handed over by the waiter, but directly explained to him. Watching the waiter turn to leave, Li Xuan smiled and said to Lei Juekun: "This is the first time someone has invited me to have afternoon tea on the peninsula, and I want to thank Mr. Lei here." ”

"Oh? That's Lei's honor! Lei Juekun raised the teacup in his hand and saluted Li Xuan for a while, before slowly taking a sip of himself.

Looking at Lei Juekun, who seemed to be confident, Li Xuan pondered slightly and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Lei invited me to have afternoon tea today, what is the so-called matter?" ”

"Hey, can't you invite a friend to tea if you're fine?" Lei Juekun asked pretending to be puzzled.

"Haha......"

Li Xuan shook his head with a smile, and said thank you to the waiter who delivered the food, then took a sip of his coffee and said with a slow smile: "Boss Lei, the two of us haven't reached the point of friendship yet, right?" ”

"Eh, is Mr. Li still minding the last "Scary" celebration banquet?"

"No......" Li Xuan shook his head, glanced at the street scene outside before turning around and continuing: "Last time at the celebration banquet, Mr. Lei went to Jiahe after all, and I just hurt the pond fish. I know that very well. ”

"Haha, since Mr. Li said so, I'm relieved." Lei Juekun took the napkin on the table and wiped his hands and smiled.

This old fox didn't take the initiative to speak after going around for a long time!

Li Xuan was not in a hurry, grabbed the dim sum on the plate and took a bite, before slowly saying, "The macarons here are very good, Boss Lei can try them." Now the beautiful seascape of Victoria Bay outside is blocked by the Space Museum, and I can only eat these delicacies to satisfy my cravings. ”

"Mr. Li will enjoy it, the food here is really good." Lei Juekun also took a bite of dim sum and said slowly: "However, there are a lot of delicacies in Hong Kong, isn't it?" Change places, maybe the ones there are more delicious. ”

"Where?" Li Xuan smiled and continued, "Mandarin Oriental opposite? It's just as old as here, and the taste is similar. ”

"Does Mr. Li know that Nathan Road has recently opened a new Dunhuang restaurant, and the frozen meat and seafood are very good, which is a must!" Lei Juekun replied to himself.

Li Xuan frowned, took another sip of his coffee, and then continued: "Mr. Lei, let's just say it if we have something to say, I'm a little tired of talking about dumb riddles." ”

"Uh......, Mr. Li is happy enough!" Lei Juekun stretched out a thumbs up, and he was no longer hypocritical, so he sat down and said: "Then I'll just say it directly, Lei wants Mr. Li's future movies to be screened by Princess Jin." ”

"Well, I can't just agree to this." Li Xuan carefully looked at Lei Juekun's face and saw that he had no different color, so he continued: "However, I'm very curious, I'm the boss of such a small film company, why would Boss Lei come to invite him personally?" ”

Lei Juekun shook his head when he heard this, and replied slowly: "Although the company is small, Mr. Li is a talent, so what's the big deal if Lei comes to the door in person." ”

"Forehead ......"

Unexpectedly, Lei Juekun gave such a panacea, Li Xuan was quite speechless, and then asked, "I won't be the first person Mr. Lei invited, right?" ”

"Haha, it's not." Lei Juekun smiled and waved his hand.

"Oh, I wonder what other companies can enter Boss Lei's eyes?" Li Xuan asked curiously.

"There are not many that catch the eye, but there are a lot of them." Lei Juekun smiled quite smugly: "For example, brothers, Binbin, Siyuan, cooperation and struggle, have all come to my theater." ”

Hearing these names, Li Xuan was a little surprised. Needless to say, the film company Brothers had never heard of it before, so it was ignored. But Wu Siyuan's Siyuan Film Company also went to Princess Jin, which made Li Xuan a little surprised, Wu Siyuan is very well-connected in Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest.

"Well, Boss Lei's ability is really amazing." Li Xuan shook his head lightly and sighed.

"Haha, thanks for the compliment!" Lei Juekun arched his hand and smiled.

"But ......" Li Xuan suddenly asked with some hesitation, "Isn't Ye Zhiming's Binbin about to collapse?" (To be continued.) )