Chapter Eighty-Five: A Million Scripts
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The next day, countless media pages were occupied by "Happy Ghost" and "Lin Shirong", and "Happy Ghost" occupied most of the space, both reporters and film critics gave "Happy Ghost" a positive evaluation, coupled with the word of mouth of those moviegoers yesterday, which directly led to the momentum of "Happy Ghost" and began to crush "Lin Shirong"!
"Happy Ghost" has been screened three times in a row, the average attendance rate has increased unabated, and the daily box office has reached 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be not bad, at least higher than "Lin Shirong". and in terms of audience praise, it is even more popular with "Lin Shirong".
On the second day, many Zhao Chen fans who were still watching couldn't wait to watch the movie after learning that it was not a tragedy, but who knew that many people couldn't buy tickets on this day.
These audiences who can't buy tickets are naturally dissatisfied, believing that Shaw Brothers should increase the number of theaters and screenings of "Happy Ghost".
Shao Yifu did not act immediately, but took a wait-and-see attitude, watching the full attendance rate of "Happy Ghost" every day, and a happy mood arose. Judging from this situation, the local box office of "Happy Ghost" of more than 5 million is certain, and it may break the box office record.
That is, on the afternoon of the second day after the release of "Happy Ghost", in Golden Harvest Film Company, Zou Wenhuai was sitting on a chair, frowning and looking at the report in his hand. And there was a person standing next to him, who was He Guanchang, another boss of Golden Harvest.
"According to the current trend, the local box office of "Happy Ghost" is bound to exceed five million, which makes Shaw Brothers breathe a sigh of relief!"
Zou Wenhuai had some disappointment on his face, in recent years, Jiahe has surpassed the Shaw Brothers, especially this year, and the Shaw Brothers are out of breath. But he didn't expect Zhao Chen's "Happy Ghost" to achieve such good results, which was really unexpected by him.
"I didn't expect that Zhao Chen to be so powerful, this kind of talent is really amazing. His first TV script "Shanghai Tang" became a classic TV series, but he didn't expect his first movie script "Happy Ghost" to be so brilliant, and it was a sure thing to break into the top ten at the annual box office, but I don't know what Cheng dΓΉ will achieve in the end. β
Zou Wenhuai nodded, and recognized Zhao Chen's ability in screenwriting, if it was timed, he would not be able to bring the Shaw Brothers back to life, so he said: "Or, let's go get him here and write the script for us?" β
"It's basically unlikely, if you think about the relationship between him and Shao Yifu, how can you give up your connections in this area lightly! Moreover, do you think he will be short of money, judging from the sales of comic companies today, his ability to collect money is not much worse than our Golden Harvest. Even if we take 10,000 steps back, we can really ask him to write a script for us, but how much should we bid? The low-budget movie "Happy Ghost" alone can at least bring him millions of local box office shares! β
He Guanchang shook his head and vetoed Zou Wenhuai's suggestion, if he was just a poor boy, he would naturally be able to use interests to trap him, but Zhao Chen was no longer the poor boy he was half a year ago, in He Guanchang's opinion, the future Zhao Chen might be able to surpass Jiahe in terms of his ability to collect money.
"Guan Chang, what you said is very right, how can you know if you don't try it, as long as the box office of the movie is very good, even if it is a million, we will start to sell it!"
Zou Wenhuai tapped his fingers on the tabletop, pondered for a moment before raising his head, his eyes full of determination.
"Then I'll try!"
He Guanchang nodded, he knew what Zou Wenhuai meant, if Zhao Chen continued to write the script for the Shaw Brothers like this, then the Shaw Brothers might come back to life, and it would be difficult for Golden Harvest to dominate the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
With the passage of time, the reputation of "Happy Ghost" was quickly established, and more and more people brought their families into the cinema to watch it, bringing a lot of box office revenue to "Happy Ghost". But at the same time, some people who didn't buy tickets were also dissatisfied, and it was really full of "Happy Ghosts" in the past few days, and there were signs that it was hard to find a ticket.
In such a situation, a week has passed, the weekly box office of "Happy Ghost" has reached 3.57 million, and the most important thing is that the movie-watching boom has not decreased, even if the Christmas vacation is over, but due to the influence of word of mouth, the attendance rate of each cinema has been maintained at more than 8o%, and some movie theaters with good locations are even full.
As for Li Hanxiang's "** Jade", it didn't even get a million box office in the week, and the attendance rate was getting lower and lower, and the average attendance rate on the seventh day did not even reach 50%. Although this is only the achievement of six movie theaters, such an achievement still makes Li Hanxiang, a great director, cry without tears, and never expected that "Happy Ghost" would achieve such results in the week. Compared with "Happy Ghost", "Jade" is really nothing.
What made Li Hanxiang even more sad and indignant was that Shao Yifu decided to withdraw "**Jade" and planned to use all the six cinemas of "**Jade" to broadcast "Happy Ghost". Shao Yifu may be too old to keep up, but his decision-making ability has not declined, feeling the box office potential of "Happy Ghost", he has a crazy plan in his heart. He wants to make "Happy Ghost" the first film to surpass the domestic box office of 10 million, so as to rebuild the reputation of Shaw Brothers.
Of course, another reason why Shao Yifu made this decision is that the New Year's Day holiday is coming, and when those students are on vacation, the box office of "Happy Ghost" will rise again.
Just when Shao Yifu was planning to screen "Happy Ghost" across the board, He Guanchang finally waited for Zhao Chen in the World Comics Company.
He Guanchang never thought that Zhao Chen would be a hands-off shopkeeper, he came over every day these days, but he didn't see Zhao Chen's figure, only Shangguan Xiaobao was a hard-working commander.
He Guanchang is a celebrity after all, and he came to find Zhao Chen in person, and Shangguan Xiaobao naturally informed him a long time ago. It's just that Zhao Chen knew quite well in his heart the purpose of He Guanchang's coming to him, and it was impossible for him to give up Shao Yifu's connections, so he didn't bother to come over to meet He Guanchang, but he didn't expect He Guanchang's patience to be so good, and he was caught.
"Mr. He, I've been busy lately, I really can't spare time, and I hope Mr. He won't be surprised!" Zhao Chen is the kind of guy who talks about people and talks nonsense, he is not as busy as before these days, but he still finds time to go to Zhou Huimin's house to cultivate feelings. γ
"Where, where is it, screenwriter Zhao has a lot of opportunities, it's like I have nothing to do all day long. It's really better to be famous than to meet, I didn't expect Screenwriter Zhao to be younger than in the photo, what a blessing! β
He Guanchang was naturally a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he had a request but it was not easy to do it, so he had to hold it in his heart, not to mention how depressed he was, and let him, the boss of Golden Harvest, eat so many closed doors.
"Mr. He, please sit here! Mr. He should have something important to come to me this time, right? β
He Guanchang sat opposite Zhao Chen, nodded, and took out a bearer check from the bag he was carrying and put it in front of Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen just glanced at it, his eyes couldn't help shrinking, this check was one million, which was a lot of income for him, but he instantly regained his calm, as if the check was missing a zero.
"Mr. He, tell me your purpose!"
"Screenwriter Zhao, this is a million, please ask screenwriter Zhao to write a script specifically for Ah Long!"
Hearing He Guanchang say this, Zhao Chen began to ponder, the Ah Long in He Guanchang's mouth was naturally Cheng Long. Zhao Chen has also watched several classic kung fu movies of Cheng Long, and there is naturally no shortage of scripts.
It's just that there are some entanglements of interests in this, if you really write a script for Jiahe, then Shao Yifu may be dissatisfied; But the wealth is moving, the million checks in front of him are the direct benefits, and the indirect benefits are to start his reputation as a screenwriter, if someone wants to find him to write a script in the future, it is impossible to write a script without a million, and he can establish the name of a million screenwriters in one fell swoop.
"That's it, I think Shao Yifu will understand, and I will cooperate with Shaw Brothers more in the future." Zhao Chen thought so in his heart, but said with an embarrassed expression on his face: "Since Mr. He looks at it like this, then I will reluctantly accept it." β
"I wonder when the script written by Zhao will come out?"
Looking at Zhao Chen's expression, He Guanchang scolded secretly in his heart, but on the surface, he still looked so calm and breezy.
"Give me a week!"
As soon as He Guanchang heard the time given by Zhao Chen, he couldn't help but say with hesitation: "This is ...... Isn't it too short! β
"Mr. He, do you think I'm going to smash my own signboard! Don't worry, one week is enough! If your company doesn't think the script is eye-catching, this check can be returned to you. β
"Okay, then wait for the good news of Screenwriter Zhao."
"Mr. Ho, let's go."
After the week passed, major media reported the results of this week's box office, "Happy Ghost" can be said to be far ahead, and "Lin Shirong" can be worthy of a million box office under the suppression of "Happy Ghost", as for "**Jade" is undoubtedly a lot miserable, the weekly box office is a fraction of that of "Happy Ghost", and for a while, "Happy Ghost" became famous again, and the box office, which was originally a little reduced, rose again.
In this case, the New Year's Day holiday began, under the joint encirclement and suppression of students, "Happy Ghost" once again continued to occupy the first place at the box office this week without any obstacles, due to the relationship between the whole line, this week's box office was not worse than the previous week, but a little more, reaching a box office of 4.12 million, and the average attendance rate remained above seventy.
In the case of "Happy Ghost" continuing to rise, the media exclaimed that the wolf is coming, and if it continues like this, "Happy Ghost" is likely to break the local box office record in Xiangjiang, and may become the first film to exceed 10 million local box office.
Such media reports are simply like free advertisements, which undoubtedly makes "Happy Ghost" profitable, and the box office shrinkage has become much slower.
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