"Knock-"

There was a knock on the door, Shao Yifu put down the pen in his hand, rubbed his eyebrows, soothed the depression in his heart, and then said slowly: "Please come in." ”

"Click!"

The door was pushed open, and Fang Yihua walked in gently, and it could be seen from the tired look on her face that Fang Yihua didn't seem to be doing well for a while.

"Yihua, how is the box office of "Modern Bodyguard" over there at Golden Harvest?" Shao Yifu asked in a deep voice, but he was too lazy to ask about the box office of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", anyway, the box office of this movie hovered around 750,000 Hong Kong dollars every day.

"Alas......" Fang Yihua sighed and handed the report in his hand to Shao Yifu, and then said: "27 theaters, 5 screenings a day, and the box office on the first day yesterday was 1.95 million. ”

Shao Yifu looked at the report he was holding in his left hand, rubbed his right hand on the paper, and said after a deep sigh: "1.95 million, which is equivalent to the results of our Shaw Brothers Cinema in two and a half days." Zou Wenhuai really made a big deal this time! ”

Golden Harvest came up with a 27-theater co-screening of "Modern Bodyguard" this time, which not only stunned Li Xuan and the whole of Hong Kong, but also caught Shao Yifu off guard.

How big is Hong Kong?

Such a big place, apart from some remote locations in Kowloon, New Territories, and then spread out these 27 cinemas, is enough to make those who suffer from dense phobia a heart jump.

It's like when people walk down the street and see all sorts of posters of Modern Bodyguard.

And "Modern Bodyguard" can still get a box office of 1.95 million on the 6th day of its release, which can only be described by the word pervert. But what about "Smiling Proud Jianghu"? The surname of Shaw Brothers still does not change, and the 16 theaters are several levels worse than "Modern Bodyguard" in terms of quantity, not to mention not increasing the number of screenings.

"Sixth brother, don't be discouraged." Fang Yihua looked at Shao Yifu and said with relief: "Zou Wenhuai is mainly a theater after all, and we still have to take care of Shaw Brothers Pictures." ”

"Shaw Brothers, alas!" Shao Yifu shook his head quite self-deprecatingly, and continued to ask, "Huashan, are they still bothering you in the past two days?" ”

“……”

Looking at Fang Yihua, who was silent, Shao Yifu threw the report on the desk, and said a little angrily: "I've taken so many steps back, what do they want?" ”

Shao Yifu felt that he was now like Song Renzong, and he wanted to have a "Wang Anshi Reform", but he didn't expect that the content and interests of these changes involved a large number of opponents, and he, the emperor, had no power to resist before such a behemoth as Shaw Brothers Pictures, which had become a self-contained system, and took one step back.

"They want to make ......" Fang Yihua paused, thought for a while before continuing: "They said that if "Smiling Proud Jianghu" was shown for too long, it would break the rules of Shaw Brothers, so they wanted "Smiling Proud Jianghu" to be filmed in three weeks after its release. ”

"Ha, they have a good plan." Shao Yifu smiled coldly: "According to the current momentum, three weeks can just avoid the limelight of "Modern Bodyguard", and save me half of face." Speaking of which, this is also a good piece of advice. But if I really do this, it can be regarded as a betrayal of my allies, and it is estimated that there will be no company in Hong Kong looking for Shaw Brothers to co-produce movies in the future, right? This can protect their interests, and it is really a good suggestion to kill three birds with one stone. ”

Looking at Shao Yifu, who was a little angry, Fang Yihua was silent for a while before continuing to ask: "Then Sixth Brother, ...... this suggestion?"

"Drag!" Shao Yifu said slowly: "Just drag it out like this, let them mumble for a few days." I knew it wouldn't do me any good to let these people get together. ”

"That's okay, sixth brother, I'll go out first......"

"Wait, Yihua!" Seeing Fang Yihua turn around and want to come out, Shao Yifu hurriedly stopped her, and then said: "In the future, your focus will be on the wireless side, as for the Shao family, just leave it to Jiaxi to take care of." ”

“……”

Fang Yihua glanced at Shao Yifu in amazement, you must know that Fang Yihua not only holds an important position in wireless now, but also the production business of Shaw Brothers is basically managed by her, and Huang Jiaxi, the production manager, is just a set on the bright side, and she has no rights at all.

But now, Shao Yifu actually asked Fang Yihua to hand over the production business of Shaw Brothers!

Fang Yihua instantly thought of two possibilities, one is that Shao Yifu sees that he is unhappy and wants to seize power, which is of course impossible; The second is that Shao Yifu is already very dissatisfied with the current Shaw Brothers Pictures, and is ready to throw away this parasitic tumor on his body.

Fang Yihua, who had figured everything out, nodded and responded softly: "Well, I know." ”

"That's okay, you go out and get busy."

Shao Yifu replied casually, watched Fang Yihua walk out of the office, and leaned back in the chair and began to close his eyes.

Time is slowly moving forward, and the New Year's box office battle between Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest is becoming more and more intense, but unilaterally, Golden Harvest has been working hard, and Shaw Brothers has basically made no moves.

As expected, the box office of "Modern Bodyguard" reached an astonishing 8.41 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week, successfully setting a new box office record for Hong Kong films in the first week. and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" only got a first-week box office of 5.21 million, according to this data, the results are very far behind "Modern Bodyguard". Judging from the budget of Shaw Brothers who only plans to screen "Smiling Proud Jianghu" for three weeks, Li Xuan estimates that he can only earn back half of his capital in Hong Kong.

Li Xuan's ambition this time was really dragged down by the old tooth-shattering tiger of the Shaw Brothers.

In the second week, the box office growth of "Modern Bodyguard" finally slowed down, but it also got a box office of 6.22 million. Because of the joint screening of 27 theaters, the attendance rate of some theaters even plummeted to less than 50%, and theaters had to start reducing the number of screenings of "Modern Bodyguard". As for several of these luxury theaters, due to the attendance rate, they also began to withdraw from the screening alliance at this time, and continued to run their original business.

In this way, the third week of "Modern Bodyguard" should not have such dazzling results. Just "Modern Bodyguard" has accumulated a box office of 14.6 million in the past two weeks, and Golden Harvest likes to extend the release time of its movies in theaters, "Modern Bodyguard" is very likely to hit the box office of 20 million Hong Kong dollars!

In the New Year's file of 1980, Golden Harvest's "Senior Brother Out of the Horse" broke through the box office of 10 million. And just a year later, in the 1981 New Year's file, "Modern Bodyguard" began to hit the box office of 20 million again. This is not only a victory for Golden Harvest, but also a clear proof of the prosperity of Hong Kong films!

At this time, various media in Hong Kong have been eyeing Golden Harvest Cinemas, waiting for the day when "Modern Bodyguard" will break the record.

In this regard, Li Xuan, who saw the box office of 4.97 million in the second week of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", had to reluctantly say that sometimes it is really important to choose teammates!

Li Xuan was depressed and helpless on the one hand, but on the other hand, Lei Juekun of Princess Jin and Li Xuan felt a little sympathetic, and this big guy was also depressed now.

When Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest were having a good time, Lei Juekun had the idea of retreating into advance, and he set "Happy Fairy Nest" to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year a week after the release of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Modern Bodyguard".

In this way, there are two benefits, the first advantage is that the number of moviegoers will rise sharply during the Lunar New Year, even if Princess Jin loses at the box office, she will not lose ugly; The second benefit is that the box office of the two movies should be weak after "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Modern Bodyguard" fight for a week, and "Happy Fairy Nest" will not only dominate the New Year's stalls, but at least it can grab a large part of the box office.

It's just that what Lei Juekun didn't expect was that these two movies were beyond his expectations, "Smiling Proud Jianghu" has few theaters, so movie tickets have been hard to find, and the popularity of the release has not stopped at all in the second week. And "Modern Bodyguard" is not to mention, before the first week ended, Zou Wenhuai came to a big move of 27 theaters to co-screen, beating the Shaw Brothers and giving Princess Jin a hard beating.

As a result, "Happy Fairy Nest" only got a weekly box office of 3.01 million in the first week of its release in the 18 theaters of the Golden Princess, and the average attendance rate of the theaters was less than 50%. The high-quality films launched by a large theater in the New Year have been so bad that Lei Juekun can't help but realize how far he is from Shaw Brothers Golden Harvest.

Watching the Jiahe family have fun in this New Year's file, Li Xuan, Shao Yifu and Lei Juekun are also full of depression to usher in the new year.