Volume 1 Chapter 177 The Harvest Season
"The box office of "The Beauty" was 40,000 in the first week, Ye Yuqing sat in the name of a new generation of stars, and the box office appeal was amazing"
"New Asia's "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" won the third place at the box office in the first week of July, and the wealthy and young once again proved that New Asia's star-making ability is extraordinary, and the great director of Fengyue films, He Fan, fought again in ancient costumes, and Ye Zilin's ancient costumes are unbelievably beautiful"
""Bloody Heroes" won the championship, Zhou Yanfa and Li Xiuxian's iron-blooded tough guys are hard to hide the beauty of Ye's Shuangshu, Jiahe Ye Yuqing has a variety of styles, and Xinya Yezi frieze chest device is amazing"
With the release of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", the alternative competition between New Asia and Golden Harvest has officially begun. The two film companies once resented because Golden Harvest poached Ye Yuqing, the cash cow that Lin Xiaozhi had worked so hard to cultivate, and there was no cooperative relationship in normal times, so the relationship itself was not very good. In order to promote its company's new film, Xinya also has a new pillar 'Ye Lintel' that will be launched with a new package, and when it is time, it also compares Ye Zilin and Ye Yuqing to the other. Although the competition and hype have brought up the topic, it has also strengthened the friction between the two film companies.
After the box office came out in the first week, although it was said that it was stronger than New Asia, they knew their own affairs, and the senior management of Golden Harvest knew better than anyone that the cost of their investment in "Lady of the Princess" was higher than that of New Asia's "Liao Zhai Yan Tan". And although the box office in the first week also threw out the first line of New Asia, the gap is far from satisfying Jiahe, and this fire is naturally more prosperous.
All of a sudden, the newspapers were not only full of discussions, resentment, jealousy and verbal criticism from all walks of life about the two Fengyue films that entered the top three box office in the first week of July. Even the two film companies Golden Harvest and New Asia are constantly attacking each other for a more high-grossing box office. The fiery atmosphere and the continuous reports of the media have also attracted the curiosity of many audiences, who have bought tickets to watch the movie in theaters, and have also made some contributions to the box office recovery in this July summer file.
The box office in the first week of July was inseparable, and people began to pay attention to the box office in the second week.
On July 8, Zeng Zhiwei's low-budget alternative comedy film "Rejuvenation" was released, with an excellent plot and bold imagination, which made it beat "Bloody Heroes", "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", "Qing Ben Beauty" and "Single Aristocrat" and "Supreme" five movies with a box office of 870,000 on the first day of release, and won the single-day highest-grossing box office champion, which made Golden Harvest happy.
On July 9th, Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen's master and apprentice co-directed, and it took only three and a half weeks to shoot the small-budget film "The Secret of Development" was released, as one of the three giants of the new art city, but the film directed by Huang Baiming did not choose to be released in the Golden Princess Cinema, but handed it over to the new treasure cinema line, which lacked a film source, to distribute on behalf of the film. As soon as the movie landed on the screen, it quickly intensified the contradictions between the three giants of the new art city. Mecca, the president of Xinyicheng, once again attacked Huang Baiming in the newspaper, "If you don't want to play, don't play, just break up."
As soon as Mecca's remarks came out, it immediately attracted the attention of all walks of life in Hong Kong, and it was reported that the big financier behind the new art city, the tycoon of the Kowloon Lei family, Lei Juekun, was also alarmed, and he took the initiative to invite the three giants of the new art city to have dinner despite his illness, hoping to coordinate the relationship between the three giants. As for the outcome, the outside world naturally doesn't know, Lin Xiaozhi asked Gao Zhisen out of curiosity if he could make another movie for New Asia, only to get a vague reply from his mouth. "Lei Sheng has spoken, Brother Ming also has to give face, I'm afraid I won't be able to pick up outside movies for the time being"
It can be seen that under the coordination of Lei Juekun, the big financier behind Xinyi City, the contradictions between the three giants should be eased.
On July, Debao released "The Proud Eagle", which has been four weeks old, and the film that Liu Dehua and Guan Zhilin co-shot again finally took off the shelves with a box office of more than 10.4 million, making a small profit for the investor Sanhe Pictures.
The box office for the second week of July came out quickly, and the box office was generally quite lower than the first week. The box office of "Bloody Heroes" has fallen by 4.63 million, and the decline is so large that Princess Jin and Wu Yusen did not expect it. However, it was unexpectedly not "The Beauty" or "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" that succeeded him to win this week's box office championship, and naturally it was impossible for the box office to have fallen to only more than 2.9 million "Single Aristocrat". The movie that won the box office champion this week was "Rejuvenation" directed by Zeng Zhiwei, with a box office of 5.04 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week of release, beating "The Beauty" of 4.97 million and "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" of 4.59 million, and won the box office throne in the second week of July.
In the box office of the second week of July, although the traditional police and bandit-themed movie "Bloody Heroes" was sought after by the audience, the box office decline momentum was also obvious, and there was a bit of applause. In stark contrast, movies with relatively novel themes, whether it is Zeng Zhiwei's "Rejuvenation" or the two Fengyue films, have not been affected too much, although the box office has also fallen compared with the same period in previous years, but the decline is much lower than that of "Bloody Heroes".
The box office exceeded 10 million in two weeks after its release, and although the box office of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" has always been overwhelmed by Golden Harvest's "Beauty", Xinya is very satisfied with the report card handed over by Ye Zilin's first Fengyue film. The first Fengyue film can compete with Ye Yuqing, who has been famous for a year, and is only slightly at a disadvantage, even the opponent Jiahe began to regret it, and found that he missed a box office cash cow because of his temporary ignorance.
On July 14, after more than three weeks of intensive publicity, the new film "Water Margin Laughter" directed by Gao Zhisen of New Asia Investment was finally released.
Hong Kong films have always liked to make costume films, among the four famous novels recognized by China, except for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Hong Kong rarely shoots, and the other three masterpieces have not been on the screen to meet the audience in the decades after the birth of Hong Kong films. "Water Margin Laughter" is a spoof of the story about the hero of Liangshan and the heavenly wounded star Wu Song, who served as the commander of the infantry.
The story is very interesting, the mighty Liangshan hero Wu Song in "Water Margin" has become a timid and reckless man in the hands of Gao Zhisen, but whenever he is drunk, he reveals his true feelings and is extremely brave. Once drunk, he met a tiger in Jingyanggang, and by mistake became a tiger-fighting hero admired by tens of thousands of people. However, Gao Zhisen and Gu Dezhao's spoof is not only this, the originally short and cowardly Wu Dalang became a tall and fierce Zhu in "Water Margin Laughter", Wu Dalang starring Wu Mengda actually became a male and female liar with the coquettish Pan Jinlian starring Ye Zilin, specializing in immortal jumping and intimidation to make money. Pan Jinlian seduced the womanizer with her beauty, and Wu Dalang pretended to break the adultery and extort a huge amount of money, which was unstoppable. Wu Song reunited with the Da Lang brothers, and Lang Juesong would prevent him from developing, so he asked Pan Jinlian to use a trick to drive Song away. At the same time, the couple chose Kaizi, that is, the fat, fat and ignorant Ximenqing played by Zheng Zeshi, and staged a funny comedy.
In this movie, the publicity of New Asia is obviously not as big as "Liao Zhai Yan Tan", which is actually easy to understand. After all, "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" is just a Fengyue film, and its innate reputation is shorter than that of traditional movies, and it has to rely on publicity to make up for it. But Gao Zhisen's movie is not, not to mention that he himself is already the top director of the entire Hong Kong pyramid, just his name of '20 million director' is put out, saying that his new movie is about to be released, under the huge box office appeal, the movie has not yet been released, and there are frequent good news from the Golden Princess Cinema Line, and the number of calls received to reserve movie tickets alone has exceeded 30,000.
The box office appeal of the great director Gao Zhisen can be seen, and naturally a lot of energy is saved from New Asia in publicity
And the movie "Water Margin Laughter" did not live up to the expectations of Lin Xiaozhi and Xinya, landing on the Golden Princess Cinema on the 14th, the box office broke through one million Hong Kong dollars on the first day, reaching a height of 1.39 million, and it really lived up to Gao Zhisen's 20 million director's name. By the 20th, the box office of "Water Margin Laughter", which has only been released for five days, has sold more than 6 million, and according to the current momentum, it is not surprising that this film may break through the box office of 20 million, adding another fire to Gao Zhisen's "20 million director".
However, on the day of July l, Debao Cinema finally couldn't bear to see the box office in the third week of its release, but it plummeted to only one million in five days. It won a box office of 1.34 million on the day it landed in theaters for the first time on the L day, and the limelight was not worse than Gao Zhisen's "Water Margin", becoming the biggest opponent of "Water Margin" sweeping the box office.
In the remaining days, the entire Hong Kong box office has almost become a battlefield for the hegemony of the two films. In order to win the release of New Asia's "Water Margin Laughter" on Golden Princess, Golden Princess President Wu Zhaocan promised to give some of the high-quality screenings to New Asia's film. Since the release of "Water Margin", the box office of "Bloody Heroes", which has decreased in screenings and theaters, has continued to decline.
However, Wu Yusen should not care too much about the quality of the Hong Kong box office, because on this day, a news from a Taiwan news agency was transmitted back to Hong Kong. Wu Yusen, who flew to Taipei with Zhou Yanfa under the banner of 'propaganda' the day before, reached two agreements with him in the mansion of Tsai Songlin, chairman of the Taiwan Academy and Business Boss, Scholar Company, in the evening of the same day, one of which was that the Scholar Company bought out all the distribution rights of "Bloody Heroes" in Taiwan at a price of 8.17 million Hong Kong dollars.
The other is an investment agreement signed by Cai Songlin with Wu Yusen in his private name, in which he invested in Wu Yusen with RU million Taiwan dollars (about UU million Hong Kong dollars) to obtain UU shares in the new film company tentatively named 'Wu Yusen Film Studio). The other two partners, Wu Yusen and Zhou Yunfa, each invested 7 million Hong Kong dollars in shares, respectively occupying 20% of the shares of 'Wu Yusen Film Studio. Since then, the rumors that Wu Yusen, who has been hyped since the beginning of the year, are about to leave Xu Ke's studio have finally been confirmed.
After a busy few months, it's harvest season.
With the third week of its release, the box office of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" broke 3 million again, and the box office of this movie, which has been released for more than 20 days, has reached a height of 14.77 million, seeing that the box office of 15UU million is just around the corner, Xinya This movie can only paint with regrets, and sit back and watch the box office of "The Beauty" invested by the opponent Golden Harvest exceed 16UU million Hong Kong dollars, and climb towards 20 million little by little. On the evening of the evening, after the end of the first day of release, New Asia received a call from Debao Cinema Line, which was not a call from Cen Jianxun, the president of Debao Cinema Line, who was a little hypocritical with New Asia, but a distribution manager of their cinema line.
Maybe it's because I'm annoyed that Xinya handed over "Water Margin Laughter" to the opponent Golden Princess to operate, or maybe it's because I saw that the attendance rate of "Liao Zhai Yan Tan" has fallen by three or four percent, and the profit is not high, in short, Debao notified the front of Xinya's film on the day, and then concentrated all high-quality resources on "Royal Sister 4" to compete with Princess Jin's "Water Margin Laughter" and the upcoming new movie "Frozen Wonder Man" by Golden Harvest in July.