Chapter Eighty-Six: Tens of Millions of Local Box Office
Just when the box office of "Happy Ghost" was getting closer and closer to 10 million, the annual leave arrived.
Hung Jinbao's "Lin Shirong" was off the shelves, and the box office did not even reach 3 million, so it can be said that the back of "Happy Ghost" was suppressed very badly. But this time it was Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Out".
"Senior Brother Out of the Horse" is Cheng Long's first film to enter Golden Harvest, and if you look at history, it is also the first movie in Xiangjiang to successfully break 10 million. It's a pity that due to "Happy Ghost", this title is bound to be added to "Happy Ghost".
When "Senior Brother Out of the Horse" was released, "Happy Ghost", which had been released for half a month, was undoubtedly greatly affected, and the attendance rate, which could have been maintained at 70%, suddenly reached 60%, and as for other street-fighting movies, they suffered heavy losses.
"Senior Brother Out of the Horse" is Cheng Long's first kung fu movie after entering Golden Harvest, and Cheng Long is also the first superstar of Golden Harvest today. And because of Cheng Long's fame, almost every movie theater was full at the beginning, and the daily box office exceeded 800,000.
But after two or three days, attendance is undoubtedly declining, albeit slowly.
Just when "Senior Brother Out of the Horse" was rising in front of it, after nearly 20 days of release, "Happy Ghost" successfully reached 10 million in front of everyone's surprise, becoming the first local film in Xiangjiang to reach 10 million.
When "Happy Ghost" exceeded 10 million, all the media competed to report it, and many of them made headlines, which undoubtedly gave the already weak "Happy Ghost" a strong advertisement, and the director zhì "Happy Ghost", which has less than 60% of the attendance, has risen against the trend, and the box office is still rising.
The contrarian rise of "Happy Ghost" has undoubtedly made "Senior Brother Out" have some impact, at least the rising box office is not as strong as before.
When various media sang praises, "Happy Ghost" finally succeeded in painting, and the local box office in Xiangjiang reached 12.57 million, it can be said that this movie alone brought Zhao Chen quite a lot of profits, and at the same time made him a well-known film screenwriter, and his status in the Xiangjiang screenwriting industry has risen a lot.
Sixty percent of the more than 10 million box office needs to be paid to Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and the remaining 2o% will be allocated to Shao Yifu, and the rest is his, but even so, the local box office alone has brought him more than 4 million profits, which are enough for him to pay the high arrears.
Not only that, after "Happy Ghost" is painted in Xiangjiang, it will begin to grab box office in markets outside its home country, which mainly includes Nanyang, Treasure Island and Island Country. However, if you want to succeed in getting these box offices, you will have to wait a few months.
That is, not long after the painting of "Happy Ghost", He Guanchang came to the World Comics Company again, but unlike before, this time it was Zhao Chen who called him to invite him over.
"Mr. He, you read the script first, if you are not satisfied, then this check can be recovered!"
As soon as he saw He Guanchang coming, Zhao Chen put a notebook and check in front of He Guanchang, and then regardless of He Guanchang, he carried out his work with peace of mind, he was quite confident in his script.
"Police Story!"
He Guanchang couldn't help frowning when he saw the name of the movie, the name was relatively mediocre, and after glancing at Zhao Chen, who was concentrating on work in front of him, He Guanchang felt a trace of dissatisfaction in his heart, but he still watched it.
Looking at it, He Guanchang began to be attracted by the script, and the whole person was brought into the script, but the script was written in too much detail, so detailed that there were not only a lot of words but also some drawings! These drawings basically list various actions, most of which are designed for Cheng Long and the main villain.
When He Guanchang carefully read the script, he was stunned to find that he had sat silently for more than two hours, but when he looked up at Zhao Chen across the table, there was an expression of admiration in his eyes, Zhao Chen was still drawing comics with a serious face, it seemed that he had been drawing comics since he read the script, and He Guanchang thought that Zhao Chen would definitely succeed in the future.
"Screenwriter Zhao, I'm done reading it!"
He Guanchang's voice was relatively soft when he spoke, and he was afraid of scaring Zhao Chen, who had been obsessed with work.
Zhao Chen was freed from work, but he would not be freed as soon as he entered the state of work, this was the habit of the previous life, only in this way will the quality of the comics be improved, and the degree will be faster.
"Oh, Mr. Ho, what do you think? If you're not satisfied, you can get that check back! ”
"Satisfied, quite satisfied! Screenwriter Zhao's skills are unparalleled in the entire Xiangjiang, and this check is also requested to be collected by screenwriter Zhao! ”
"Mr. He has won the prize! Oh yes, that's the theme song I made for this movie by the way! ”
Zhao Chen seemed to think of something, and put a piece of paper full of notes and words in front of He Guanchang, he didn't mind selling Jiahe more face, maybe he would be able to use Jiahe's connections in the future.
"This ...... Then I would like to thank Screenwriter Zhao on behalf of Jiahe, happy cooperation! ”
He Guanchang just glanced at the paper a few times, and put it away, the songs in "Shanghai Tang" and "Happy Ghost" were all made by Zhao Chen, he had no reason not to believe that the song in his hand would be bad, otherwise Zhao Chen would not be able to take it at all. But for both parties, a song is not worth much, and He Guanchang can only sell Zhao Chen a face.
"Happy working together!"
The two shook hands, and He Guanchang turned around and left the World Comics Company.
After all, "Senior Brother Out" is Cheng Long's debut work when he enters Golden Harvest, even if "Happy Ghost" has affected its box office, the final total box office still exceeded 10 million, becoming the second film in Xiangjiang to exceed 10 million.
During this period, Zhao Chen's name started again, mainly because Cheng Long's new movie began to get on track, and the screenwriter of the new movie was Zhao Chen. In order to achieve the purpose of publicity, Golden Harvest revealed the news of exchanging one million for Zhao Chen's script to the media. Of course, Jiahe was afraid of offending Zhao Chen, so he had already obtained Zhao Chen's consent in advance.
Due to the success of "Happy Ghost", Zhao Chen's reputation in the film industry has increased dramatically, especially for independent film companies, and people call almost every day to ask for scripts. But when the news of Golden Harvest came out, there were a lot fewer film companies asking for scripts, and most people began to wait and see, it was really an unaffordable price for most companies to have a script of one million.
Shao Yifu will naturally be dissatisfied in his heart, but after Zhao Chen wrote a script again, the anger in his heart disappeared, and this time the two invested half each. not only made Shao Yifu's dissatisfaction disappear, but also deepened the relationship between the two.
In addition to giving free publicity to the movie to be filmed, Zhao Chen also won the title of one million screenwriters, and some unscrupulous media even called him Zhao Million.
For this title, Zhao Chen didn't care about it, anyway, even if he corrected it himself, it was useless, but concentrated on his work.
"Girls' Weekly" has now been running for seven issues, and its sales have snowballed, although it is not as good as "Tianxia Weekly", but it is not too far, and the seventh issue has reached more than 80,000 copies.
It's really the American War that has the charm of both men and women, maybe the proportion of teenagers watching the American War is higher now, but the proportion of girls is also growing rapidly, and the proportion of men and women is about to reach half, and the female comic market in Xiangjiang is initially activated.
In this women's market, "Girl's Weekly" can be said to be a standout, and other comic companies are only greedy, but they really don't have the talent in this area, so they can only watch Zhao Chen monopolize this cake.
However, the success of "Girls' Weekly" has stimulated the restructuring of other comic companies, and they have come up with slogans of high salaries, hoping to recruit cartoonists in this area, but unfortunately, Xiangjiang is almost blank in this regard, where can I find qualified cartoonists in this area.
In fact, most of the current Xiangjiang cartoonists are men, and the paintings are basically muscle ** paintings, where can the delicacy and gorgeousness of female cartoons be reflected, which is destined for them to die without a problem. Unless they can take the time to train cartoonists in this area.
And it is precisely by virtue of activating the women's comic market that even Zhao Chen's other works have gained benefits, among which "Tianxia Weekly" undoubtedly has the largest income, and the sales of the original stable dìng have surged again, and the latest issue has reached 150,000 sales, which is not far from breaking the single issue of Xiangjiang comic magazine, and this record still belongs to Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate"!
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