Huh, delusional?

Yu Guang seemed to see that the back of a person who had just passed the ticket check and entered the screening hall was a little familiar, and Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help but stop.

"Husband, what's wrong......" Zhou Huimin saw him stop suddenly, and asked curiously.

“…… It's nothing, I look a little familiar with the person who just went in......" He replied in a slightly lower voice, because he was wearing sunglasses, it was difficult for others to recognize him at once unless he was nearby.

Zhou Huimin also put on a pair of sunglasses, she hugged Hua Yingying and smiled, "Crown Cinemas, which has 12 screening halls, is now the largest theater in Hong Kong, and today is the first day of your husband's new movie, and you don't have the habit of holding a preview screening before the movie is released, so there will definitely be some people in the circle who come here to watch the premiere!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi thought about it, but this was not the case, and his heart was suddenly relieved.

He never holds test screenings when making movies, which has long caused a lot of criticism in the Hong Kong industry. It is true that Lin Xiaozhi has always felt that before the official release of the movie, it is indeed a very good system to invite some die-hard fans to hold a test screening with film critics and friends in the circle.

However, the times are different, with the miniaturization of video recorders and cameras, as well as the decline of some media people, the original seventies and eighties that everyone could maintain tacitly never expose and leak the content and plot of the movie in advance has long become a piece of paper. Today's Hong Kong media, with the growth of paparazzi and entertainment groups, for the sake of a first-step headline, framing and concocting gimmicks have begun to become commonplace, and secretly filming the content of a movie leaked in advance. This is also the reason why Lin Xiaozhi withstood the pressure from inside and outside the group and never held a test screening.

The newly renovated Turvo-Crown Cinemas is now the largest multi-screen cinema in Hong Kong, with the capacity to accommodate more than 20,000 moviegoers a day at its peak. Of course, the maintenance cost is much higher than the more than 40 three-hall theaters that Debao has now built on a large scale, but because of the emergence of Crown Cinemas, Debao has suspended the construction plan of three-hall theaters and began to turn to the mainland enclosure to prepare for the construction of a mainland theater system.

Lin Xiaozhi is not the first time to come to Crown Cinema, and he is still the boss of Media Asia, so he naturally does not have to queue up for ticket inspection like everyone else. In order to see the audience's reaction, Lin Xiaozhi did not choose the VIP private room, the two entered a screening hall directly from the staff passage, and quickly found a place for the two of them in the front row and sat down.

Since there was still some time before the movie was shown, the lights in the screening room had not yet been turned off, and the two of them sat down and looked around, and immediately saw a few lines of white characters quickly appearing on the electronic screen hanging on the left wall.

"Congratulations to the box office of "The Judge of the Dead" has exceeded 45 million, setting a record for the highest box office of a Hong Kong film this year! In order to thank fans for their support, those who purchase tickets from October 5th to October 12th can use their movie tickets to receive a drink - a bottle of Jianlibao in any theater in Debao! ”

This novel electronic screen has replaced the traditional banners hung in Hong Kong cinemas in the past, and has surprised many first-time moviegoers at Crown Cinemas. Even Zhou Huimin's attention was attracted, and after looking at it for a while, he took his eyes off the electronic screen and said, "Master Xing is so powerful!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi smiled slightly when he heard this, Xing Ye's reputation in the Hong Kong entertainment industry before his rebirth was not good. Some people scolded him for being withdrawn, some people said that he couldn't be a man, some people accused him of being greedy and lustful, some people sarcastically mocked him for being a dime, and there were many voices of accusation, which could only say that the star master was a little inappropriate in dealing with people, but he rarely responded or scolded him in the face of other people's accusations and abuse, even if he was scolded by someone poking the bridge of his nose, he was just letting the agent come forward on his behalf.

Before he was reborn, he noticed one thing, and let half of the Hong Kong entertainment industry catch Xing Ye and abuse him, but several girlfriends who have dated him have never said anything bad about Xing Ye except for a wealthy daughter, especially Mok Wenwei, an old love, has come forward to support Xing Ye many times after breaking up. And every time there is a scolding war, many fans of the star on the Internet are one-sidedly supportive, which shows his personality charm.

Because of this, after being reborn, he has always attached great importance to Xing Ye. In order to poach him, he did not hesitate to invest heavily in Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures, and even took the initiative to reconcile the contradictions between Li Xiuxian and him. Later, after Xing Ye gained the corresponding fame, he took the initiative to draw up a new contract for him to raise the price, even if he was later poached by Yongsheng's big contract, he did not restrict or obstruct him. And Xing Ye's side did not force the owner to ask for a new contract or anything like the appearance of rumors in later generations, and every time Media Asia invited him to film a movie, he would also give a lower price than the outside world.

Maybe because of his poor background when he was a child, Zhou Xingchi attaches great importance to salary, but he is by no means the kind of person who has no conscience. And those who accuse him of disagreeing with the director and selfishly tampering with the plot during the filming process are even more crooked, because as far as Lin Xiaozhi knows, although Xing Ye did often mention yì to change the script when he cooperated with Liu Zhenwei in filming, every change is to create one hilarious classic after another with his acting skills and style.

Xing Ye is not a perfect person, he may love money, he may love women, he may not get along with the rest of the crew, and he will not make people laugh at the outside of the movie, but he is indeed one of the best and most professional filmmakers in Hong Kong. This is also the reason why Lin Xiaozhi has always admired him, whenever a classic is born, he will ask Debao Cinema to take the initiative to give screening and publicity resources tilt, so there is "Judge of the Dead", a work of Shao Yifu's 'Metropolitan Film Production Company', which can be released in Debao Cinema.

Affected by his butterfly effect, "The Judge of the Dead", which should have been released in July, was delayed until September before landing in several major theaters in Hong Kong, and so far "The Judge of the Dead" has been released for 29 days, and as of yesterday, it has created a box office of 45.57 million in Hong Kong, which is not much different from the box office of "Happy Family" released at the beginning of the year that exceeded 50 million. The Mets obviously had the idea to make it break 50 million at the box office and even break the annual box office record held by "Happy Family", so it took the initiative to contact Debao Cinemas to propose cooperation, and only then did a series of recent promotions and preferential activities occur.

"In the past summer file, Zhou Xingchi was the absolute biggest winner, and there was no one. Even this year is not an exaggeration to call it the 'Year of Stephen Chow'! Lin Xiaozhi reached out and hugged her shoulders, half-hugged Zhou Huimin in his arms, and whispered.

He is indeed not wrong in saying this, there is only one winner of this year's Hong Kong summer vacation file, and that is Zhou Xingchi.

Starting in July, the three Hong Kong box office winners of 'Double Week' are guaranteed to have a total of four films competing on the same stage. However, among the four movies against each other, "Rogue Goofy" starring Zhou Yunfa lost badly, and only won 17 million at the box office. And its production cost is said to be more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is said to be no less than 30 million, Lin Xiaozhi has no interest in revealing people's shortcomings, so he didn't ask Fa Ge, anyway, this movie is ironclad to lose money, Fa Ge has cooperated with his old buddy Wu Yusen for many movies and wanted to seek transformation without success, and cooperated with his old friend Lin Lingdong to fail again, it can only be said that Brother Xiao Ma has achieved him and ruined him.

Cheng Long worked hard, it took more than half a year to shoot in the early stage, and almost a year has passed since the post-production of "Police Story 3", which was also lost to Xing Ye. This work, which Brother Long is not willing to give up and is ready to test the waters of Hollywood again, is said to have cost no less than 70 million Hong Kong dollars in filming, but after its release, although it has received all the resources of Golden Harvest, although the publicity is far inferior to "League of Assassins", it is also a real deal, and millions of Hong Kong dollars have been smashed in Hong Kong alone. However, the box office was not satisfactory, from mid-July to the end of August, but only more than 37 million Hong Kong dollars were collected in the local box office in more than 40 days.

Lin Xiaozhi was particularly curious to pay attention to the evaluation of this movie by critics and fans, and most of the interviewees generally said that "Police Story 3" has a good level and Cheng Long's consistent style, but he didn't see the novelty and highlights, and compared with the first two films, he only changed clothes without changing materials, which made many of his fans feel tasteless.

On the other hand, Zhou Xingchi, only around this summer, he has four movies released successively, Media Asia's "Truant Weilong 2" was released in mid-June and put to the end of July, and its reputation declined with the same screening cycle of more than 40 days, but it still won more than 34 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office for Media Asia, compared to its production cost of only about 20 million, and it will earn as much as the film sells after the end of the local screening.

In July, starring Xing Ye, Yongsheng Investment's "Deer and Ding Ji 1" quickly became popular all over Xiangjiang as soon as it was screened, and it was screened from mid-July to the end of August, and its box office easily exceeded 40 million, although the media interviewed Jin Yong's old man, the lord was not very satisfied with the nonsensical style of Zhou Xingchi's version of "Deer and Ding Ji", but the audience's praise and support made the box office of "Lu Ding Ji 2", which was released for more than half a month, still rise like a blowout of oil, and it has not yet been painted It has received a box office of more than 32 million Hong Kong dollars.

Although it is difficult to say whether the final box office of "The Deer and Ding Ji 2" can break 40 million, no one can ignore one point, that is, the combined filming cost of the two "Deer and Ding Ji" is only 30 or 40 million, and it is a foregone conclusion that Yongsheng will make a lot of money with it.

From the beginning of the year to the present, Zhou Xingchi has only relied on five movies: "Happy Family", "Truant Weilong 2", "Lu Ding Ji 1 and 2", and "The Judge of the Dead", which has created a local box office of nearly 200 million. With such high yield and high quality, even Lin Xiaozhi has to admit that this year is the real 'Year of Zhou Xingchi'.

Cheng Xiaodong shook the drops of water on his forehead, didn't look at the soaked leather shoes on his feet, but stared with interest at the fans who were crowded in the ticket hall to buy tickets and wait in line for the ticket check-in, and only after a while did he turn around and say to Xu Ke next to him with envy: "...... No wonder the media often say recently that watching a movie is not popular, you only need to go to the ticket hall of Crown Cinemas for one stop to see it at a glance. Good guy, I'm afraid there must be a hundred and ten people in the hall just now, and if you calculate the time, it is estimated that the team has already entered. Obediently, on this rainy day, there are still so many people running to watch the movie, I'm afraid they are all coming for Lin Sheng's "League of Assassins"! ”

Xu Ke pressed the hat on his head and nodded slightly. Although he is notoriously difficult and has a strange temper in the industry, his serious attitude towards movies is top-notch. In previous years, whenever a best-selling movie was released, even if it was a genre that was 108,000 miles away from his style, he would secretly put on makeup and dress up alone and run to see it, and by the way, compare it with himself.

Of course, he is also a face-loving person. Most of the time, I watched it quietly alone, but recently "The League of Assassins" has made too much noise in Hong Kong and Macao, and I am obedient that this film will become the first film to be released in Hong Kong and Macao at the same time as the mainland, and it is also another blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million yuan by Lin Xiaozhi, and the promotional short film is also fascinating. So before the movie was released, his henchman and friend Cheng Xiaodong asked him to take a look on the first day.

Xu Ke didn't refuse his invitation, so there was a scene where the two appeared in the theater at the same time today.

They are all insiders, and it is not difficult to get an internal ticket, so the two of them are exempt from the ticket purchase process and go directly to the ticket gate.

Just took two steps, Cheng Xiaodong's eyes were alive enough, and he looked at the ticket gate in front of him, and suddenly touched Xu Ke's shoulder with a strange face.

"What's wrong?" Xu Ke hadn't figured out what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"Look ahead, at the ticket gates, the third and fourth people!" Cheng Xiaodong smiled and was very thief.

Xu Ke got his reminder, and couldn't help but look over there, and soon understood what Cheng Xiaodong was hinting at, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Chen Baisheng and Lin Fu? The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly" are here, and I heard that they have had a hard time lately, and the first round of selected works for the Academy Awards at this time in previous years should also be selected. But this year, hehe......" Cheng Xiaodong gloated, and even Xu Ke couldn't help but have a smile on his face.

The old people in the Hong Kong film industry all know that the people in the New Arts City family are not very good at dealing with "Film Fortnightly". At the beginning of the establishment of "Film Fortnightly", it put its position on the authoritative Hong Kong film publications, and a group of film critics and editors hired in the early years were naturally extremely strict about film criticism in this position, especially for the works of some famous directors, such as many classic movies that were sold in Xinyicheng were caught by "Film Biweekly" and wrote a lot of film criticism, and even made trouble that the three giants of Xinyicheng announced the ban on "Film Biweekly", which was not lifted until around 82.

Xu Ke was once a member of the seven-member team of Xinyi City, although he had no bad intentions, but when he saw that his former opponent was now deflated, his heart was inevitably dark.

TVB has been intending to continue to buy out the broadcast rights of the Academy Awards in the next three or five years since April, but they have not dared to give an answer. This mess is estimated to be enough for Chen Baisheng to have a headache, and now everyone in the circle is worried about Lin Sheng's attitude towards his Huanya. It is said that more than half of the filmmakers invited by the Golden Horse Awards in Hong Kong declined to participate in the selection of this year's Golden Horse Awards...... They also know that the Academy Awards must now make a decision, and the choice of TVB Lin Sheng and his Media Asia will definitely abandon the Academy Awards and create a new award! ”

Xu Ke rarely said so many words in one breath, and Cheng Xiaodong nodded again and again when he heard it, and the discerning people in the circle actually saw this. Now Lin Xiaozhi and his Huanya are sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, just wait for the Academy Awards or "Film Fortnightly" to be completely soft, otherwise everyone will scatter and play their own games.

Seeing Chen Baisheng and Lin Fu enter the screening hall through the ticket gate from a distance, Cheng Xiaodong said thoughtfully: "...... Their time is running out, and after delaying it for so long, I'm afraid they won't be able to wait for the middle of the month to take over......"

Xu Ke obviously thought of this as well, nodded and sighed invisibly, "Times are different!" ”

After saying that, he stopped talking, took out a movie ticket from his pocket, and walked to the ticket gate first.