The experience of later generations has long told Lin Xiaozhi that for a good movie, whether it will be released in the two prime times of summer and Spring Festival, although the impact will be there, it is not as big as imagined.

This has been fully confirmed in the mainland, although mainland film companies have relied on their connections to monopolize the high-quality resources of the mainland's two prime periods, the summer and the Spring Festival, for a long time, and once squeezed out the imported American blockbusters to the point that they are far inferior to local productions in terms of the number of screenings, release dates, and screens.

However, American blockbusters are still at the most disadvantaged by relying on one excellent film after another, constantly breaking the monopoly and constraints of mainland filmmakers, causing more and more theaters to separate from local film production companies.

Many American films have missed the prime time of the mainland due to problems such as import review and release in the so-called off-season, and they still frequently create record-breaking box office myths in later generations, which can be seen.

The concept of prime time was conceived in Hong Kong in the 70s, and it was not until the mid-80s that it finally took shape, whether it was the schedule before and after the Spring Festival or the summer screening, it has become a must for many film companies in Hong Kong since '87.

A few years ago, Lin Xiaozhi also paid more attention to these two major schedules, but with his popularity and the strength of Media Asia climbing, and at the same time, the Debao Cinema Line under his name is firmly on the throne of Hong Kong's largest cinema chain, and now although he arranges the company to produce other films every year to deal with the two prime schedules, most of the films he shoots will deliberately avoid these two schedules and arrange to be released before the end of the year.

First, you can avoid competing with many film companies, avoiding a plunge at the box office, or meaningless cannibalism. Second, apart from himself, there are few film companies in Hong Kong that have discovered this gap before the end of the year, and even if they do, it is difficult to make a good movie like him and Media Asia, and almost half of the box office in Hong Kong during the same period.

Undoubtedly, a few years of practice have made Lin Xiaozhi more confident.

Since the release of "League of Assassins" in October this year, the box office has been soaring, although it is not full, but it has continued to be popular.

Other film companies are also somewhat unprepared, Yongsheng has not yet come out of the previous black storm, this year, in addition to the two-part "Deer and Ding Ji" that started filming at the beginning of the year, Yongsheng only has a few small costs for Wang Jing and other Yongsheng directors to shoot.

Not to mention the Golden Princess, after the listing some time ago, Lei Qizheng made a lot of money between his backhand, this Lei family's eldest young master is not a movie material, and now all his thoughts are on contacting the next family to sell the shares of the Golden Princess, the turmoil at the top makes the new art city that should have been more relaxed due to the listing is very helpless, although eleven movies have been launched this year, but there are only two films with an investment of 20 million, all of which are small costs.

If you want to talk about Hong Kong, the only thing that can make Lin Xiaozhi and Huanya a little jealous now is the Golden Harvest family. However, Golden Harvest's original strength of Cheng Long's "Police Story 3" was unsatisfactory at the box office in the summer file, and it was almost crushed by Yongsheng's "Deer and Ding Ji" two-part series, and the box office was exceeded by a large margin. This year's Golden Harvest once again committed a pit of Hollywood filmmakers who were sick with red eyes, and the two co-filmed "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" once again couldn't negotiate with labor and film dividends, and the movie stuck in the later stage has not been finished for eight months, forcing Zou Wenhuai to go to the United States three times in half a year, and after coming back, he was also ruthless in recruiting troops, it seems that he has had enough of being constrained by American filmmakers, and is ready to follow Media Asia and does not plan to cooperate with ghost filmmakers in Hollywood.

To say that this year's Golden Harvest's big production zuò, in addition to "Police Story 3" co-produced with Cheng Long, there is actually a movie called "Weilong Detective" that Lin Xiaozhi pays more attention to.

The script of this movie is from the hand of Ni Zhen, a 'little genius in Xiangjiang', which seems to have a very vulgar name, but the content is a high imitation of a very popular movie in the United States a few years ago - "Bald Detective", which is a funny police drama that Cheng Long is very good at. Ni Zhen has been very prosperous in the Hong Kong film industry in the past two years, although his character is a little worse, but he is very good at real materials and market vision. A few years ago, he was beaten by Lin Xiaozhi, and after he almost couldn't get along in Hong Kong, he was really pressed by his family at the beginning and didn't dare to provoke Lin Xiaozhi again, but a person like him who is arrogant and cautious, once he recognizes who is not on the right path, it will be a lifetime of grudges. Therefore, after seeing that Lin Xiaozhi started with movies and achieved an amazing career in just a few years, he did not go down the road of writing and publishing that he was good at, but still entered the film industry with his head.

If you want to give Lin Xiaozhi a good look, Ni Zhen will naturally not do things brainlessly. Before he entered the industry, he had actually been in TVB and Golden Harvest, and he knew a little about the filming of TV series and movies. Originally, if he wanted to, he could have asked his father Ni Mad for a script, and then after more than ten years of steady fighting, he might be able to become a character. But Ni Zhen couldn't wait and didn't want to take this safe path, he first carefully studied the market in the circle, and found that in recent years, Hong Kong people's enthusiasm for movies has repeatedly decreased. Combined with Lin Xiaozhi's various actions after his debut, Ni Zhen's brilliant head turned around, and he quickly learned the old routines of literati and copied the successful works of others.

If you want to copy, you must choose the best to copy, Ni Zhen has studied in the United States, and naturally knows that the current world movies are the hottest and best first American blockbusters. At this time, American films are still fighting Hong Kong films in Asia, although there will be a few American film companies that do not give up trying to sell their films, but most of them have failed repeatedly because of differences in values and culture, and at the same time they have been boycotted by local forces, but it does not mean that their films are really bad.

In the past two years, he didn't rely on his father to come forward, he didn't ask his parents for help, and successively copied three or four American movies to adapt a Hong Kong version that is more in line with the aesthetics of local audiences. Up to now, he has not only kicked out the partners he had cooperated with in the early years and monopolized the film company and renamed it 'Ni's Pictures', but at the same time, he has become more ambitious, and he has begun to try to cooperate with other giant film companies to make his development faster.

"Weilong Detective" appeared in this situation, at the beginning of the year, Ni Zhen took this script to contact Golden Harvest, Sammo Hung saw at a glance that this script was very consistent with Cheng Long's style, under his promotion, Golden Harvest, Weihe and Ni's Pictures cooperated, Golden Harvest paid 50 million to build a foundation, Cheng Long and Ni Zhen each paid 10 million, so there was this movie.

Lin Xiaozhi once asked someone to inquire that because the movie Golden Harvest did not have too many special effects, it was actually completed half a month earlier than his "League of Assassins". He originally thought that this movie, which was said to be filmed to the satisfaction of Golden Harvest, would be matched with his "League of Assassins", but he didn't expect that after learning about his release schedule, Golden Harvest actually took the initiative to adjust the release time and changed it to December, obviously to avoid his limelight and unwilling to stage a dragon and tiger fight with him.

Without the constraints of these three, most of the other film companies in Hong Kong would not be able to survive. "League of Assassins" was naturally popular in Hong Kong and Macao as soon as it was released, and almost exploded other movies released in Hong Kong and Macao during the same period, which made non-Debao theater merchants mourn, and they could only watch the hot ticket buying team on Debao's side and the rising box office of "League of Assassins".

A little later than the first releases, League of Assassins soon landed in South Korea. In the early 90s, Korean local films had not yet risen, and although there were some excellent filmmakers, they were better at shooting movies with political themes, and Hong Kong films were more than one street in terms of commerciality. What's more, in recent years, Media Asia has worked hard to operate, and a number of high-quality films have been continuously arranged to be released in South Korea every year, which still makes Hong Kong films the most popular in South Korea, and they are still above American blockbusters.

The whole movie is full of highlights and innovations, once "League of Assassins" was released, the cool elements and the large-scale publicity of Media Asia set an astonishing record of 4.17 million viewers in just five days, which shocked the whole South Korean country.

At this time, Kim Haotai, the editor-in-chief of the film weekly "The Voice of Film", which had not yet collapsed, even choked: "...... In Asia, there is a magical place called Hong Kong, with land and talents far inferior to that of the Republic of Korea, but it has created a more brilliant film industry than half of Asia. The "Police Story" series and "Huang Feihong" series filmed by many directors such as Mr. Tang Jili and Mr. Xu Ke have made our people exclaim. In addition, Mr. Lin Xiaozhi, a famous commercial film director in Asia and even around the world, can create and shoot some classics that make professional filmmakers astonish and cite as textbooks every year. Where exactly is the gap? If that terrible 'film censorship' is not eliminated, the films of the Republic of Korea will not be able to rise for a day! ”

South Korea's veteran filmmaker Lim Kwon-taek also sighed: "American-style quality and creativity, Asian-style wonderful action scenes, after watching Mr. Lim Hyo-chi's new work "League of Assassins" with my friends, I have to admit that we can't make such a wonderful movie. Korean cinema is still far from the world......"

All of a sudden, the media all over South Korea were full of news and reports related to it.