Chapter 136: Small Cost, Big Box Office

ps: Look at the exclusive story behind "Smiling Proud Xiangjiang", listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention (add friends on WeChat - add public account - enter qdread), and quietly tell me! On the day of the premiere of "Ghost Fights Ghost", Hong Jinbao quietly asked Lin Xi to send movie tickets, but "Back to the Future" has officially started, and Lin Xi finally didn't find time to watch it.

Hong Jinbao didn't dare to look at it himself, for fear of losing all his money.

Most of the members of the Seven Little Fortunes have the same idea as Hong Jinbao, only Lin Zhengying went to watch the movie on the first night of its release, and after coming back, he was surrounded by everyone and asked what the result was.

He didn't say anything, just shook his head and sighed.

Seeing Lin Zhengying like this, everyone thought to themselves that it was over, this time it must be done.

Only Yuan Biao was young and vigorous, and he didn't believe in this evil, so he went to Central the next day without telling everyone (the cinemas here are more concentrated), and he actually saw many people queuing up to buy tickets, and he couldn't help but be very curious and stepped forward to ask what was going on.

"This big brother, you also came to see the movie?"

The other party glared at Yuan Biao, and replied angrily: "Aren't you talking nonsense?" What am I doing here without watching movies? ”

Yuan Biao hurriedly bowed his head and apologized, and then asked which scene this person was watching.

Seeing that Yuan Biao's attitude was quite good, this person said to Nunu on the side of the poster column in the movie theater: "Just watch that fat man's "Ghost Fighting Ghost", my friend watched it last night and told me that the scene of the ghost eating people at the beginning of this movie scared him, and he thought it was a horror movie, but he didn't expect that the more he looked back, the funnier it became, and from time to time there would be one or two horror scenes. It's very enjoyable. ”

This man's words were immediately recognized by the people around him who were waiting to buy tickets.

"Yes, I was also introduced by a friend, and I haven't heard of any movie that is funny and scary before, so let's see if it's true."

"I heard that the fat man's skills are not bad, although they are not comparable to Bruce Lee. But the fight is still good, the key is that he can still make you laugh, I think this guy has a future, if this movie is really as good as others say, I will come to his movies in the future. ”

When Yuan Biao heard that so many people were optimistic about this movie, he also took out ten yuan from his trouser pocket and said, "Since everyone said so." I also bought tickets to watch this one! ”

After filming for about 5 or 6 minutes behind the line, Yuan Biao bought the ticket, looked back and saw that there was a long queue behind him, and then looked at the screening schedule, and found no particularly noteworthy movies.

Could it be that these people are all here to watch "Ghost Fighting"?

Yuan Biao couldn't help but think like this in his heart. But when I thought of Lin Zhengying's appearance after coming back yesterday, I couldn't help but beat a drum in my heart.

With this kind of anticipation and apprehension, Yuan Biao walked into the cinema, and was surprised to find that this scene was almost full.

"Hey, what are you doing standing there, sit down, the movie is about to begin!" The inspector shone a flashlight on Yuan Biao, and Yuan Biao reacted. Hurry up and sit down.

When he came in this time, he secretly brought a tape recorder, preparing to record the reactions of the audience, so that he could take it back as evidence to the senior brother and the other senior brothers.

As the man said in line. At the beginning of the movie, the scene of two evil ghosts, an old man and a young ghost, hiding in the jar and eating people, really frightened the audience, especially when the two ghosts ran out, hugged Hong Jinbao and bitten, and tore off a piece of meat from his thigh in blood, an audience member next to Yuan Biao was so frightened that he blocked it with his hand and didn't dare to look at the picture.

Yuan Biao saw it, but he was stealing joy in his heart. In this scene, the little ghost is played by him, but no one can recognize him after putting on makeup. And the scene where Hong Jinbao was bitten was actually made with pork and some red paint. I didn't expect it to really scare the audience.

Seeing that Hong Jinbao was about to be eaten by two evil ghosts on the screen, suddenly the camera turned, and a big fat man rolled off the bed screaming, and sat up in a cold sweat, and the audience woke up to it, it turned out to be just a nightmare.

The plot of "Ghost Fight" is actually not complicated, and Zhang Daring, the coachman played by Hong Jinbao, claims to be brave and fearless, and often bets with others to practice courage. One day, he called it a day early and found that his wife was having an affair with someone else, and the other party turned out to be the bold employer, Boss Tan. In order to cover up the truth, Boss Tan sent his master to find Maoshan Taoist Qian Zhenren and set up an altar to kill Daring.

Qian Zhenren set a trap and lured Zhang Daring to the Ma Family Ancestral Hall in the name of betting, and cast a spell to summon zombies to chase and kill Daring. Qian's junior brother Xu Zhenren was dissatisfied with his brother's murder for money, hurting the heavens and harming reason, and secretly assisted Bold to finally escape this catastrophe. However, Boss Tan's evil intentions are not dead, and if he can't make a plan, he has to be bold to death, so the two sides started another big fight.

Among them, Hong Jinbao and people fought to practice courage, lit two candles in the evening to peel apples in the mirror, first people pretended to be ghosts and scary, and then the fake ghosts were recognized but attracted real ghosts, the plot setting is quite ingenious, the atmosphere is full of twists and turns, horror, funny, and horror are very compact, and there is no sense of disobedience, the audience is laughing for a while and shouting.

Then there is the plot of the two sides finally setting up an altar to fight and invite God to come up, Sun Dasheng beats Nezha; Red Boy Station Lu Dongbin, Hong Jinbao's huge size played monkey boxing and then made the red tassel gun, and the audience couldn't help but shout good, and some people even applauded there!

This qiē was recorded by Yuan Biao with a tape recorder, and as soon as the movie ended, he immediately rushed back to find Hong Jinbao.

Hong Jinbao was in a hurry for the past two days, and there was a big bubble on his mouth, and when Yuan Biao found him, he was drinking herbal tea there, and asked Yuan Biao if he wanted a bowl.

"Senior brother, I have something that is more useful to keep than your herbal tea!"

Yuan Biao put the tape recorder in front of Hong Jinbao and deliberately sold it.

Hong Jinbao glanced at the tape recorder that Yuan Biao took out as if offering a treasure, and his heart suddenly cooled.

"That's what you're talking about?"

"Senior brother, don't underestimate it, I guarantee that after you listen to the content inside, you will definitely cure the disease."

Yuan Biao pressed the play button as he spoke, and then all kinds of noisy sounds came out of the tape recorder, laughing, crying, screaming and applauding, which directly made Hong Jinbao very stupid.

"What the hell are you? What do you want me to listen to? ”

"Just listen to this!" Yuan Biao winked at Hong Jinbao proudly: "Guess where I recorded it from?" ”

"How do I know?" Hong Jinbao put down the herbal tea in his hand. I didn't say it angrily.

Yuan Biao saw that Hong Jinbao didn't think in the direction he was guiding at all, so he had to take the initiative to explain: "Today I went to the cinema to watch a "Ghost Fight", and this is the reaction of the audience. ”

"What did you say?" Hong Jinbao stood up from his seat suddenly, "This is what you recorded in the cinema?" ”

Yuan Biao nodded.

Hong Jinbao slapped Yuan Biao's shoulder suddenly, and asked anxiously: "Do you see that one is full?" ”

"It's almost full. At least there weren't any empty seats around me, and I could see a lot of people queuing up to buy tickets after I came out. ”

Yuan Biao described the situation in front of the movie theater to Hong Jinbao, and Hong Jinbao was stunned after listening to it: Is it so outrageous?

"According to you, our drama should be very popular, right? But why did Jeongyoung come back yesterday with such an expression? ”

Yuan Biao shrugged helplessly, "I'm also very strange about this, anyway, the situation I see is very good." It was probably yesterday when everyone didn't know about this movie, and they only went to watch it after listening to the introduction of people who watched it. ”

Hong Jinbao thought about it, after all, he is not famous now, and these three movies are limited because of the cost of production. I didn't spend much money on publicity, I just printed some posters, advertised in a few tabloids, and it was normal for everyone to not know about this movie at first.

For the sake of prudence, Hong Jinbao called Lin Zhengying again and asked him about the situation in the movie theater yesterday.

"I went to the cinema at about 7 o'clock in the evening, and there were really few people coming in, and I didn't even fill a third of the seats. But in the process of watching, it was similar to the situation of Yuan Biaolu, and when I saw so few people, I felt that there should be no hope. When I came back, I didn't want to lie to you, and I couldn't bear to hurt everyone's confidence, so I didn't say anything. ”

When Lin Zhengying said this, he could basically match Hong Jinbao's previous guess.

In order to figure out this problem thoroughly, Hong Jinbao gathered all the brothers who had participated in the filming of this movie and asked everyone to go to different movie theaters to find out the situation. He also found a movie theater to sit in.

The result was exactly the same as what Yuan Biao said, and many viewers came to admire it. Basically, on this day, the movie theaters under Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, the number of screenings of "Ghost Fighting" was full.

Everyone came back and gave a feedback on the situation. Hong Jinbao knew that this time it might really be big.

Before, Hong Jinbao thought that as long as a movie could have a box office of about five million, it would be very good, and he could not only recover the investment but also make a small profit, but judging from the current situation, such an estimate may be too conservative.

On the third day of release, as more and more people watched this movie, more people walked into the cinema because of other people's recommendations, and for a while, "Ghost Fight" actually became the highest-grossing movie in the two theaters.

Since the beginning of the two-line screening, the Shaw Brothers side has been pressed by Golden Harvest, and it is only now that they have finally regained a little face, seeing that they can earn face and be profitable, the person in charge of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line immediately decided to double the number of screenings of "Ghost Fight".

After a week, the box office of "Ghost Fighting" actually rushed to more than 7 million!

When the statistical results were handed over to the person in charge of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, he was directly dumbfounded! And Hong Jinbao's first reaction after knowing the news was to pinch his thigh hard, making sure that it was not a dream.

At a cost of more than one million, it actually won such a high box office, and this is only a week's number, according to normal circumstances, this movie can be released for at least two weeks or so.

Even if there will be no more full-house sales before, it is a sure thing that the box office will break through 10 million.

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