As soon as this large-scale anti-gang operation in Hong Kong was launched, it was very shocking to a group of community members, and even the number of idle people on the streets was much reduced. When those community members scolded the Hong Kong government for meddling in their backs, Li Xuan was very happy, although he knew that this situation was just a flash in the pan, but who didn't want the place where he lived to be safer?

But this matter has little to do with the film industry, except for a few guys who applaud when there are no outsiders, everyone is still busy with their careers.

And on April 25, "Mr. Zombie", which had been struggling on the canvas for six weeks, finally came to an end, with a total box office of 10.17 million, finally living up to expectations and breaking through the box office of 10 million.

Looking at this result, Li Xuan felt a little crying and laughing.

It's been six weeks, one day less than the documentary "The Bitter War", and finally broke the box office of 10 million. But this achievement is not good and wrong. After all, the movie can still get a box office of 10 million in such a strange schedule, which is definitely not bad. Many people, including Li Xuan, think that if this movie can get the New Year's file to fight, it may be able to win the 11 million box office of "Senior Brother Out of the Horse".

But now that the movie has already been drawn, there is no need to think too much about it. In addition to paying attention to the next box office of Nanyang and Yueben, Li Xuan rushed into the post-production room of "Black Man" again.

Li Xuan didn't plan to have any celebration banquet, what was there to celebrate in the position of a second child!

Besides, Hong Kong people are not stupid, seeing that "Mr. Zombie" is such a blockbuster, it is much better than the remake of the gunfight film "The King of Killers", and they are preparing to follow the trend in a swarm. At this time, the crew of "Zombie Road Chief" on Lantau Island was too tired, and they couldn't spare any extra time to shoot in a hurry.

Li Xuan's next focus is only on the box office of "Mr. Zombie" in Nanyang and Yueben. Because April was going to make way for the release of "Brother and Brother" in other cities, Golden Harvest did not release "Mr. Zombie" in these two places at the same time as Hong Kong. Therefore, when "Mr. Zombie" was painted in Hong Kong, it had just been released in Nanyang. In this book, "Mr. Zombie" will not be scheduled for half a month later.

And on April 28, three days after "Mr. Zombie" was painted, "The King of Killers", which had been released for 26 days, was also painted offline, and the total box office rushed to 9.27 million. Although there are two 10 million box office jewels in front, it still gave Yongsheng Film Company the first shot of fame!

Many filmmakers exclaimed in the newspaper that Hong Kong movies have fully entered the era of tens of millions of box office!

However, with such a dazzling achievement of "The King of Killers", Xiang Huaqiang did not plan to hold a celebration banquet like Li Xuan. It's not that they don't have this mood, but now that they are in the period of the police's vigorous anti-gangstery, it is better for him, the big man of New Ngee An, to keep a low profile and not be shot out.

But Xiang Huaqiang didn't plan to hold a celebration banquet, but Wang Jin, a guy who scratched his bag, would not give up, so he held a small celebration banquet under other names.

"Come, let's all congratulate the fat man for a glass, cheers!"

"Okay, cheers, happy Jinzai!"

"Cheers, I wish the fat man every step of the way!"

"Fat Wang, happy life!"

"Fatty, happy life! Successful! ”

“……”

In the midst of the hustle, more than a dozen wine glasses touched each other. Li Xuan, Wang Fatzi, and seven or eight pure masters were standing in a private room in the Dunhuang Restaurant, celebrating Wang Fatzi's birthday lively.

Pouring a full glass of beer hard, Li Xuan did it with a somewhat hot face. This Wang Fat Man, last year, he was born in his own year and said that he didn't see this guy have a birthday banquet on this day, but this year he is generous.

Li Xuan felt that his empty stomach was a little bloated and uncomfortable, so he hurriedly grabbed a piece of garlic crispy bone and began to gnaw it violently.

Today's Shengyu Banquet King Fat Man invited more than a dozen people, and they were all pure masters. This situation once made Li Xuan secretly guess if Wang Jin would invite everyone to do some inappropriate activities at night. However, Li Xuan still remembers that AIDS was discovered in the past few years, and he will have to take it easy when the time comes.

Most of the people invited by Wang Jin are screenwriters of TVB, and Li Xuan doesn't know any of them, and this time they only made a rough acquaintance. Of course, Wang Jin's good friend, Shu Qi, the editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly", was also invited.

There is another person that Li Xuan didn't expect was also invited, and it was one of Li Xuan's nominal "senior brothers" - Du Qifeng! Li Xuan is in later generations, but he likes his two movies "Dark War" and "Gunfire" very much, and the characters in them are all portrayed by the director so handsome.

After Li Xuan crossed over and followed Wang Tianlin on the Shaw Brothers set for a long time, he realized that Du Qifeng was also the one who went out from wireless.

As early as 1972, 17-year-old Du Qifeng began to work as a chorre on Hong Kong TVB, and his first job was as a messenger.

The so-called messenger can also be called "flying paper boy", and this position is a major feature of the filming of Hong Kong-made movies and TV dramas at this time. Hong Kong is an efficient society, and in order to shoot in a hurry, directors sometimes have no script at all before the start of filming of a TV or movie, only one story outline, and after the start of filming, they can only wait for the screenwriter to pass over the script to be filmed that day, and often shoot a day to write a day's script. And the staff who pass the script between the director and the screenwriter are the messengers.

When Li Xuan met Wang Jin on the first day, Wang Fatzi was making a cameo appearance in this job.

After working as a messenger for two years, Du Qifeng was finally admitted to the Hong Kong TVB Artist Training Class in 1974 and became the fourth student of the TVB Artist Training Class.

During this period, he played a trick in the TV series, playing some small roles such as officials. However, his appearance is not very good, and he has no future in terms of actors. Therefore, two months after graduation, Du Qifeng moved behind the scenes, studied under Wang Tianlin, and began to learn filming.

And now Du Qifeng is already an official director of TVB.

"Jin Zai, this time your movie is a big box office hit, why is the celebration banquet so shabby. This Dunhuang restaurant can't be graded, brother, I want to go to Fulinmen to eat fried chicken, what should I do? Cheng Fen, one of the wireless screenwriters, opened his mouth and laughed.

"What to do? Cold. Wang Jin pointed at Li Xuan and shouted: "The real boss of the movie is there, I have to find him when I go to Fulinmen." ”

"Hey, fat man, you're really good, I only have that little share, what kind of real boss. Besides......" Li Xuan was not convinced, patted Du Qifeng's shoulder next to him and replied: "You ask Senior Brother, what kind of banquet did this fat man say when he invited us?" The birthday banquet is not a celebration banquet. ”

"Ah Xuan, this can't be done, even if you don't have the majority of Jinzai's movie, this zombie is always yours." Shu Qi walked up to Li Xuan with a wine glass, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Say, when will this movie be celebrated?" ”

"Well...... this"

"Ah Xuan, you won't want to invite you, right?" asked another screenwriter, Zhang Yicheng, with a red face.

"Please, please, please!" Li Xuan had a headache, waved his hand and said, "Tomorrow night, I have a treat." ”

"Yo ha, yes, fried chicken tomorrow night!"

"Come, everyone, a toast to tomorrow night's Blessing Door!"

"Cheers!"

“……”

As soon as the words fell, a dozen or so cups touched again.

"Uh-" Cheng Fen burped, put down the wine glass in his hand and sighed: "Hey, you still have a chance!" Ah Xuan is the big boss of the film company, Jin Zai is now a 10-million-level director, Ah Qi has his own magazine, and Qi Feng has also started making movies. Now there are only a few of us left, and we are still doing a broken screenwriter with small profits, and people are ...... than others."

Too lazy to listen to Cheng Fen continue to talk drunk, Li Xuan looked at Du Qifeng, who rarely spoke next to him, with a curious expression, and asked, "Senior brother is also making movies recently?" ”

It is estimated that Du Qifeng was a little unaccustomed to being called by Li Xuan's familiar "senior brother", and after a pause, he nodded and said, "Yes, I just finished filming." ”

"Oh? What is the name of the movie, when it is released, I will go to cheer for my senior brother! ”

"The title of the film is "Blue Water and Cold Pool", but ......" Du Qifeng suddenly paused with a somewhat strange face, and then continued: "However, if you want to support the show, you have to go to Shuangnan Cinema to watch it." ”

"Forehead ......"

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, Shuangnan Cinema is a leftist cinema, and Ye Zhiming took the movie to Shuangnan to screen it, and was banned by Taiwan. Now Du Qifeng dares to do this with a swagger, and the only movie that he can invest in is not filmed in Taiwan's ban.

What production company is so good? Li Xuan couldn't help it, and asked curiously, "Which company invested in the movie?" ”

Du Qifeng glanced at Li Xuan lightly, picked up the wine glass on the table and said lightly: "Phoenix." ”

Depend on!

Li Xuan felt a large flock of crows flying overhead, and thought it was some kind of special cow film company. But I didn't expect it to be a leftist film company, and people didn't think about going to Taiwan to release it from the beginning.

Hong Kong's cinema chains are divided into left and right factions, and film companies are of course also divided into two factions.

Needless to say, the rightist producers among them, because if they are not rightists, the company's films will not be sold in Taiwan. On the other hand, there are only three leftist film production companies, Great Wall, Phoenix and Xinlian, which are operated by people specially allocated by the mainland. Because of the previous ten years of turmoil in the mainland, these three companies have been greatly affected, basically in a state of shutdown, and sometimes even have no money to pay workers' wages. It was not until the turmoil in the mainland subsided in the past two years that these three companies began to slowly recover.

Li Xuan didn't expect that these companies had begun to find people to make movies again. (To be continued.) )