After the bombardment publicity of Media Asia covering the whole of Hong Kong, "Resident Evil" has been in the limelight since its release, after winning nearly 4 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the first day, the box office successfully exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars on the third day, and then broke 5 million Hong Kong dollars on the fifth day, and the total box office in seven days has reached 1976. 330,000 Hong Kong dollars, with a surplus of more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, the astonishing weekly box office of 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

In just one week, it has attracted more than 600,000 movie fans to the theater to watch the movie.

"The box office almost broke 20 million within seven days of release, and the huge blockbuster "Resident Evil" was a big success, and the box office may break 50 million again" - "Oriental Daily"

"Enthusiastically sought after by fans, "Resident Evil" has an amazing box office, and Media Asia has made a lot of money" - "Sing Tao Daily"

"Ming Pao": "The word-of-mouth is amazing, and the blockbuster "Resident Evil" with a huge investment of Media Asia has created an unprecedented feat in the Hong Kong film industry, with more than 600,000 moviegoers in a week, or will break the record of "Tangshan Big Brother""

On October 3l, 1971, the Hong Kong film industry was born an amazing feat that has not been broken by a film so far. "Tangshan Big Brother" produced and filmed by Golden Harvest was released, and at a ticket price of about one piece, 319 were created in just over three weeks. The box office of 740,000 Hong Kong dollars attracted a total of about 3 million moviegoers to the theater, accounting for more than one-fifth of the total number of moviegoers in Hong Kong that year. This record, which has not been broken since it was recorded by the Hong Kong film industry in 71 years

"Big Brother Tangshan" undoubtedly left a set of brilliant data, the annual box office champion in 71 years, the number of moviegoers in ten days exceeded l150,000 (the highest in Hong Kong), and the cumulative total number of moviegoers exceeded 3 million. According to the data of that year, the total box office in Hong Kong in 71 was about 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, the total number of moviegoers was 140,000, and the average ticket price was 85 Hong Kong dollars ("Tangshan Big Brother" was Bruce Lee's first film after returning to Hong Kong.

"As soon as "Resident Evil" came out, we finally fought a turnaround battle"

It has been more than a week since the release of "Resident Evil", and the amazing box office and word-of-mouth have attracted great satisfaction from all over Asia. No, Chen Qiang, who is also the president of New Asia, just came back from outside and happily entered Lin Xiaozhi's office, and brought the newspaper he just brought from outside to Lin Xiaozhi to see, "Ming Pao is very optimistic about Lin Dong's new movie, and gives a very high evaluation."

At a glance and ten lines, Lin Xiaozhi quickly finished reading it, and smiled dumbly: "The evaluation given by "Ming Pao" is quite high, but we have the opportunity to sprint in terms of the number of moviegoers within ten days, as for the total number of moviegoers, don't think about that."

The times are different, and he also knows the results of "Big Brother Tangshan" back then. However, it can only be said that the data and records, the earlier the year, the better it is to create, and it is difficult to break now. Not to mention anything else, when "Tangshan Big Brother" was released in 71, a movie ticket was only one dollar. In the RU year, when Hong Kong's first movie with a box office of more than 10 million was born, although it got a box office of l1 million Hong Kong dollars, the average ticket price that year had risen to more than 8 yuan, and the ticket price of "Pei Di Horse" was not found). Two years later, "Best Partner" was born, and when the box office shook Hong Kong with a box office of more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, the ticket price of the movie skyrocketed to a dollar, and the actual number of moviegoers was far less than that of "Tangshan Big Brother".

Not to mention their "Resident Evil", after the popularity of the first week, as soon as the excitement passed, everyone watched it, and the box office was naturally not as good as the previous week. And it has risen to 30 Hong Kong dollars a movie ticket, "Resident Evil" wants to break the record of moviegoers created by "Tangshan Big Brother" that year, and the total box office must not be more than 90 million Hong Kong dollars.

However, this feat is not something that no one has done. At least Lin Xiaozhi knew that in the near future, an American-made shipwreck film swept the box office of various countries, and with a ticket price of 40 Hong Kong dollars, it took more than 127 million box office from Hong Kong, and finally broke the record set by "Tangshan Big Brother", and at the same time, it also gave the local Hong Kong film that was on the verge of death a kick in the door, kicking away its last trace of confidence in resisting the invasion of American blockbusters.

Lin Xiaozhi didn't want to talk about this topic much, and he still had something to do today. After glancing at the time on the wall, he smiled and urged, "The theater line hurriedly found you, wouldn't it just ask you to bring me two newspapers?" ”

"What else can happen, the same as a few days ago" Lin Xiaozhi did not deliberately hide his small actions, so Chen Qiang saw that he looked at the time from time to time, and knew that he still had something to do, so he had to make a long story short: "Recently, many private theaters over there have asked if they can introduce the screening of "Resident Evil", which is popular on our sale. Lin Dong, after you divided the functions of the group's subsidiaries before, although you gave the film distribution rights to the theater chain, you have to talk to me if you want to introduce joint screenings outside, so you came to me over and wanted to talk about it. ”

Lin Xiaozhi nodded, and there was inevitably a conflict between subsidiaries like Xinyicheng and Princess Jin and the parent company in the future, because of the uneven profits, he had stipulated at the group meeting that whether it was Xinya or Debao's own films, the overseas distribution rights would be handed over to Meiya, and Hong Kong and the mainland would be handed over to Debao Cinemas. It seems that Debao Cinemas is at a loss, but it is not, because the distribution of Meiya relies on second-hand, whether it is Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, it is necessary to share the share with local theaters and film distributors. The Debao Cinema Line is directly related to Media Asia 73, and it not only has a local cinema chain in Hong Kong, Lin Xiaozhi also plans to assign all the theaters in the mainland in the future to the name of Debao.

Someone wants to introduce the release of Media Asia's recently sold "Resident Evil", which is actually a private theater contacted Media Asia long before the movie was released. However, he felt that Debao Cinemas had enough theaters in Hong Kong and didn't want to share the dividends with other theaters. Second, in order to expand the influence of the statistical system of Debao Cinemas, he proposed that the introducer must sign a three-year to five-year co-screening contract with Debao Cinemas, that is, what movies Debao shows, they must show what they want, and the time from the release to the next painting must also be consistent with that of Debao Cinemas, and the box office statistics system used by Debao must also be installed.

Unfortunately, although Media Asia has repeatedly reiterated that it will provide a box office statistics system for free and provide technical support for partner theaters, almost all private theaters that have contacted Media Asia have backed down in the face of the loss of cinema and autonomy.

"So how did you talk? Are those theaters relieved? ”

Chen Qiang shook his head, "Their attitude is good, I also met with representatives of several small theaters today, and they took the initiative to reduce part of the dividends in exchange for introducing our film screenings." He was also willing to introduce our box office statistics system, and even said that he could sign a long-term franchise contract with us. I just don't agree with us taking away the right to show and choose the movie. ”

They didn't agree, but it was Lin Xiaozhi's expectation, as long as they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be willing to take away these two most important powers and completely treat them as younger brothers.

Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi also looked unimpressed when he heard this, "The selection and screening rights of the film are what we want to win the most, and everything else is secondary." If this one can't be discussed, nothing else needs to be discussed. Hong Kong is so big, we have our own cinema chain, why bother to give away the profits to share dividends to others. The reason why they ⊥ join is just to separate Debao Cinema Line in the future and form a large cinema group as a foreshadowing. ”

As soon as he said this, Chen Qiang thought about it for a while, and immediately understood the amazing ambition of the young chairman in front of him. He is not satisfied with just owning a listed company in Media Asia, and even everything he is doing now is to develop Debao Cinemas into a large cinema group and then go public in the future. It's no wonder that after he acquired Debao Cinemas, he began to gradually liquidate the so-called Debao franchised theaters, sold the old theaters, and then spent money to build new standardized theaters, and even specially hired someone to write a set of box office statistics software for Debao Cinemas, and his feelings were all paving the way for this.

After understanding what he meant, Chen Qiang could only say sorry in his heart for those private theaters, and at the same time began to worry about how to explain to them when he had agreed to go to the banquet at noon.

After saying the matter, Chen Qiang, who found that Lin Xiaozhi had gone to check the time several times, quickly found an excuse to leave, which relieved Lin Xiaozhi, who really had something to do today, and immediately got up to clean up and prepare to leave the company and go out.

He does have something to do today, because Zhou Huimin's delivery date is scheduled today, although according to the previous ultrasound scan, there is more than seventy percent chance that the baby in her belly is a girl rather than an old man who wants to hold his great-grandson the most, but he is still a father for the first time in two lives, and the anxiety in his heart has messed up his mood, and he can come to the company to report that he is worthy of his identity as a workaholic. Although, after only coming to the company and sitting for less than two hours, he couldn't help but want to leave early to go to the hospital.

It's a pity that just after packing up his things and preparing to go out, an uninvited guest came to the door, so he had to stop.