The 106-minute movie ends when the 106-minute movie ends when the protagonist uses a long-range sniper rifle to snipe the escaped professor thousands of meters away, using the same tactics his father used to assassinate Mr. X. Rock music with a slight heavy metal wind sounds, a detailed list of crew members appears on the end credits, and the film ends with the end of the screening.

At the end of the movie, a few whistles and buzzing conversations suddenly sounded in the originally quiet screening hall, but few people were in a hurry to leave their seats.

“…… Sure enough, it's really worth it to come to watch this movie on a rainy day, and I will say that the movie of the great director Lin Xiaozhi is the most worth watching! ”

"Lin Xiaozhi's action shootout films, although they lack Wu Yusen-style touching, but if you want to watch passion and coolness, you have to watch his movies. Yang Lin is cool, what kind of gun fighting skills are he, he can jump two buildings in one jump, and the bullets that come out are all bent, cool...... This movie ticket is worth it! ”

"Earned, Da Nose Fei bought tickets with his girlfriend and didn't want to come when it rained, it was a big loss to sell the tickets to the two of us, and I can now imagine his face when we go to work tomorrow. "League of Assassins" is so well filmed, you may not be able to buy tickets within a week, this kid is the most obsessed brother, he can cry! ”

"Brother Fa and Brother Long are super cool, and if you want me to say that the director let them die so early is the biggest failure. The face of the actor Yang Lin is as black as charcoal, although his acting skills are good, there are too many poor brothers. No, I'll have to buy another ticket to see it! ”

……

The buzzing discussion in the screening room continued until the lights in the hall came on and the staff had to come in to inform them that the screening was over, and some of the audience members who had not yet finished meeting to see the film got up and left.

Chen Baisheng frowned slightly, patted the shoulder of the old man next to him, Lin Fu, and stood up.

"How?"

Lin Fu put the palm-sized notebook in his pocket, and in order not to forget the highlights of the movies he had watched before, he had just used the notebook to jot down some of the wonderful and innovative aspects of "League of Assassins". As soon as he heard Chen Baisheng ask him, he thought for a while before shaking his head and saying, "...... The old problem of film critics, I know that the outside world always accuses us of seeing differently from ordinary people, but although Lin Sheng's film has some connotations of 'doing the right thing for heaven' and 'supporting justice', it is not as good as "A Tale of Two Cities" in terms of pure artistry. ”

"But it is an out-and-out blockbuster commercial blockbuster, from special effects to scenes to investment, Lin Xiaozhi is worthy of the reputation of Hong Kong's chief commercial film director, and innovations can be seen everywhere in the movie!"

Lin Fu looked at Chen Baisheng in surprise, but he didn't expect that he would take the initiative to speak for Lin Xiaozhi. He knows too much about the old man's temper and temperament than others, and he has a little grudge with Sammo Hung back then, and Sammo Hung has long been careless after so many years, but he occasionally pulls people out from time to time to scold a bloody dog. This Lin Xiaozhi has been pushing their "Film Fortnightly" to death since the Academy Awards at the beginning of the year, which will make Chen Baisheng say a few pertinent comments for him.

However, he was a little surprised in his heart, he quickly understood Chen Baisheng's thoughts, his eyes suddenly widened at the boss, and he lost his voice: "Old Chen, you plan to ......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Chen Baisheng sigh and nodded, interrupting him: "Let's go, I'll go to ATV in person tomorrow, it's been delayed until October, and it can't be delayed anymore, and if you don't sign a contract, you won't be able to do it again next year's Academy Awards." ”

Three years ago, "Film Fortnightly" reached a cooperation consensus with TVB, the overlord of Hong Kong TV at that time, and signed a three-year contract to give TVB the live broadcast of the "Academy Awards". After the Academy Awards in March this year, the contracts between the two companies also expired. Although TVB wants to continue to renew its contract with the Academy Awards, they have comprehensively considered the influence of TVB and ATV in the past few years, and the influence of the past three Academy Awards has also fluctuated to a certain extent. Of course, there is another main reason, that is, the impact of the shutdown of the former Hong Kong film industry giant Shaw Brothers, which belongs to the same company as TVB, has become more and more significant, and as Media Asia Films, which belongs to the same family as ATV, has replaced it with the largest film group in Hong Kong and even in Asia, "Film Fortnightly" and the Academy Awards Organizing Committee took the initiative to release goodwill to Lin Xiaozhi and his ATV after careful consideration, hoping to change to ATV.

However, no one expected that this originally win-win cooperation intention would be changed by Lin Xiaozhi's dissatisfaction with the Academy Awards in recent years and ATV's request to meddle in the management of the Academy Awards. With his slap in the face at this year's Academy Awards, the relationship between the two families suddenly dropped to a freezing point, and the two sides once accused and abused each other on a variety of media platforms, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they tore their faces.

Taking advantage of the disagreement between the two companies, TVB did not take the opportunity to submit a renewal request to the Academy Awards. However, Chen Baisheng and others scolded Lin Xiaozhi, but they knew one thing very well in their hearts, that is, once they cooperated with TVB, which is still the highest-rated TV overlord in Hong Kong, the Academy Awards, which had been painstakingly operated for many years, would be destroyed by Lin Xiaozhi and his Media Asia boycott, and even the worst situation was that Media Asia completely abandoned the Academy Awards, and Lin Xiaozhi relied on the many media platforms in his hands to kick away the Academy Awards and make a new award to fight with the Academy Awards.

Judging from Chen Baisheng and others' understanding of Lin Xiaozhi, he can do such a thing. However, Hong Kong is just a small place, although the local market has expanded in recent years, but now it may be close to its peak, while other markets in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and other cities have successively squeezed out Hong Kong films. At this time, if you really want to come up with another award to fight the Academy Awards, whether you win or lose, it is not necessarily a good thing for Hong Kong films.

Mak Jiaqi picked up the cute handbag and got up, her slightly green face was full of excitement: "Fa Ge acted really well, although it is very regrettable that he died at the end, but this movie is too good." Big star, if you are popular, don't forget to sign for me! ”

Chen Xiaochun also stood up, and he couldn't hide the smile on his face when he heard this, the lights in the screening hall were on, and he saw clearly that the girl who had been sitting next to him was very young and beautiful, no worse than some popular actresses. With a move in his heart, he asked: "Jiaqi, don't make fun of me, you know that I look like this, I'm just a little actor now." But you are so beautiful and a model, have you ever wanted to make movies and become a star? ”

In the nearly two hours of the movie's screening, the two chatted with each other, and Chen Xiaochun was also very good at coaxing girls to be happy with one mouth, although the two had only known each other for a short time, they had already exchanged contact information with each other.

Mak Jiaqi was praised by him, smiled and bent her eyes, but still replied shyly: "Yes, yes, I originally wanted to participate in this year's Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, but my aunt told me that the threshold for Sister Hong Kong is very high, and I missed it when I hesitated, so I had to wait for next year!" "Her voice is beautiful, as pleasant as a lark.

Chen Xiaochun had heard this girl who couldn't hide her words before, and now she is staying at the local agency is her uncle's, because she has no strength, so she takes on some jobs such as covering small companies or magazines, and her aunt is her current agent.

Seeing that Mak Jiaqi's conditions are so superior, Chen Xiaochun couldn't help but move in his heart, and said: "I think you can consider participating in next year's Miss Asia beauty pageant, ATV's current boss is the big director Mr. Lin Xiaozhi, he himself is not only a rich man, but also a well-known media giant in Hong Kong, and his Media Asia Film Group is also a leader in the industry." Now almost all of ATV's contracted artists can get invitations to a few movies with their new contracts, like I should be able to get at least one more movie invitation now! ”

"Really?"

Mai Jiaqi was obviously moved, Chen Xiaochun smiled, and glanced at the time on his wrist, "It's already at this point, no wonder I feel a little hungry, we meet by fate, I know there is a very good shop nearby, why don't we have lunch together, if you have some ideas about entering ATV, I can also help you refer to it!" ”

"Okay!" Mak Jiaqi only thought about it for a moment and agreed with a smile.

The two of them immediately blended in the flow of people and walked towards the outside of the screening room.

Cheng Xiaodong was afraid that it would be embarrassing to be recognized by the people in the circle, until everyone was almost gone, so he got up and stretched, "I learned a lot of new moves!" ”

He smiled and said to Xu Ke next to him, and Xu Ke repeatedly stroked his chin and stroked his beard, and nodded slightly after a while. After digesting the shock brought to him by Lin Xiaozhi's new movie, Xu Ke's face was full of chagrin, "Repeatedly ignoring special effects and new vision is definitely the biggest mistake I have ever made......"

Although Cheng Xiaodong didn't answer when he heard this, he nodded secretly in his heart.

Xu Ke can definitely be said to be one of the first filmmakers in Hong Kong to come into contact with film special effects, and even the first special effects company in Hong Kong, New Vision, was invested and founded by him. It's a pity that although the popularity of "A Chinese Ghost Story" made Xu Ke make money, he also realized how expensive special effects are, so he has been treating it as a chicken that lays golden eggs for the next few years, but he has repeatedly refused to continue to inject money to practice technology and upgrade equipment for new vision, and in the first two years, he short-sightedly packaged and sold most of the technical staff to Lin Xiaozhi's Huanya.

Although the power of Media Asia's special effects today does not rely entirely on the new vision of the past, the group of technicians who were taken away by Lin Xiaozhi at a sky-high price have now all become the backbone and foundation of Media Asia's special effects. However, in the past two years, when Media Asia relied on being willing to spend money to improve the scale and quality of movie scenes with special effects, although Xu Ke re-realized the importance of special effects, he only went to Taiwan to dig up some Taiwanese special effects personnel to supplement the strength of New Vision (Lin Xiaozhi poached people at the beginning, and the signboard of 'New Vision Studio' was still retained by Xu Ke), but then his investment in New Vision was still insufficient.

In the past two years, Xu Ketong Guò has made a lot of money from his cooperation with Media Asia, but like most Hong Kong filmmakers, a large part of his income is used to buy properties and real estate for value preservation, and only a small part is continued to be used for film investment.

Cheng Xiaodong had the heart to comfort him, saying: "It's not too late to find out, I often hear Lin Sheng say that the future of movie special effects will become an inseparable part." Although we are not as good as Media Asia, the www.biquge.info of Biqu Ge is also much higher than other companies! ”

Xu Ke nodded but didn't speak again, seeing that the audience in the screening hall had almost gone, they didn't delay any longer, and left the screening hall directly.

The box office of "League of Assassins" on the first day was basically settled at half past three in the morning of the next day, because the United Kingdom is located in the zero time zone, eight hours earlier than Hong Kong, so it is not dark in Hong Kong, and the box office number that has been counted over there has been sent, "League of Assassins" debuted in the UK with a total of 951 screens in 297 theaters, because of the early publicity and Lin Xiaozhi has made some fame in the UK, and the box office got 1.57 million pounds on the first day of release, Although it is far inferior to the previous American film "Instinct" (216) released in mid-September. £960,000), and "Batman Returns" (277), which was released on the same day. 470,000 pounds), but it almost tied "Alien 3" (162), which was released five days earlier. £290,000), with the strength to compete for the UK box office charts in October.

In Hong Kong and Macau, the premiere of League of Assassins was held in 57 theaters of the Turbow Cinemas and other cinemas, with a total of 287 screens screened sequentially. Because among the movies released at the same time, there are only two films, "92 Condor Heroes" and "New Dragon Gate Inn", and the former is not at all as good as "League of Assassins", and the latter is simply close to the next picture, strictly speaking, "League of Assassins" has no other films competing with it for the same box office, so on the first day, it was almost a standout at the box office regardless of weather factors, and easily won 267 in the local port on the same day. The box office of 70,000 Hong Kong dollars also got 44 in Macau. With a box office of 30,000 Australian dollars, the box office in the two places alone exceeded 3 million Hong Kong dollars on the first day, which shocked the whole of Media Asia.

Although the mainland and Hong Kong belong to the same time zone, but limited by the fact that the mainland has not yet formed a unified box office market at this time, if you want to count the first-day box office revenue of the mainland at this time, you must at least wait until around noon on the second day to summarize the number of jù in Beijing.

Although Japan and Hong Kong are separated by a time zone, because Japan has a developed economy and the national box office market system has been formed as early as the 70s, the box office statistics on the first day are extremely fast, almost the same as Hong Kong, and it was sent to Lin Xiaozhi. And when he saw that Kadokawa Pictures, who had just signed a contract with him in Japan, he got the land 7423 on the first day of Japan. At the box office of 60,000 yen, he was relieved to know that he and Media Asia were finally going to gain a foothold in Japan.

Huanya got the box office number, even if it was covered by others, at most it would be a little later to know from other sources. So Lin Xiaozhi never meant to hide it, not to mention that this can also affect the audience's choice, so after the box office numbers summarized by various places were obtained, he immediately let people spread it. So much so that when the second **** woke up, on the media and entertainment version of the entire second day in Hong Kong, there was only one protagonist, and that was Lin Xiaozhi and his new movie - "League of Assassins".

In the newspaper kiosks and stacks of newspapers in the alleys, the headline of the entertainment edition of Cheng Pao was particularly conspicuous: "The box office myth has struck again, and the first day of the release of "League of Assassins" has broken box office records in various places, taking you to understand the charm of commercial blockbusters!" ”

Cheng Pao has been the throat newspaper he used to influence public opinion since Lin Xiaozhi became a shareholder a few years ago, and this status has not changed even after he later acquired Ming Pao and Tian Tian Daily. Because Lin Xiaozhi did not immediately carry out a large-scale purge of the management of Ming Pao and Tian Tian Daily, the two newspaper groups he bought maintained a considerable degree of autonomy, which is far less than that of Cheng Pao.

The film review report of "Cheng Pao" occupies almost a page, introducing the surprising aspects of the film in an all-round way: "...... Amazing whimsy, there is no doubt that the great director Lin Xiaozhi has brought us a perfect commercial blockbuster. Grandiose scale, scenes, wonderful innovation and ideas, I think when every audience buys tickets and enters the theater, and sees the protagonists on the screen jumping over two high-rise buildings dozens of meters away, shooting the turning bullets from the gun with a flick of their arms, and the cool gun fighting skills, they will not feel sorry for the 35 yuan ticket price. is another blockbuster commercial blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions, and the great director Lin Xiaozhi once again uses his imagination and talent to bring us a work full of sincerity! ”