Volume 1 Chapter 318 Sensation in Hong Kong (II)
The appearance of "Red Alert" is like a hungry and crazy prehistoric monster that has been staring at the box office at the end of the 90s.
The box office exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars in the first two days of its release on Wednesday and Thursday, and the crazy momentum just showed a little, and it immediately attracted a lot of media coverage. In this October, when the political topic is no longer hot, for their own sales, many media in Hong Kong are also tacitly waiting for the human nature news generator to bring them a new topic of national discussion.
And Lin Xiaozhi did not disappoint them, with the box office on Friday easily exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars again, winning the box office of U million Hong Kong dollars, and then the coming Saturday and weekend only two days "Red Alert" swept away the box office of 5.57 million Hong Kong dollars, especially on the weekend, this film created a new record of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in the history of Hong Kong films with a box office of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars. As soon as the news appeared, it immediately ignited the whole of Hong Kong and plunged the Oriental Hollywood into a boil.
As half of the official newspapers of New Asia, "Cheng Pao" first made a comprehensive report on it: "A new record is born, "Red Alert" broke the single-day box office of 3 million over the weekend, setting a new record for the highest single-day box office of a Hong Kong film since its birth", and then gave a full page to the entertainment section of the newspaper to report on the popularity of the film by the audience since its release.
"Swept the box office of 12 million Hong Kong dollars on the fifth day of release, following "The Saint of Gambling", New Asia's new work has been hotly sought after again, or it may become the second Hong Kong film with a box office of over 40 million" - "Ming Pao"
"Oriental Daily" recently appeared on the entertainment page again, and the names of Xinya and Lin Xiaozhi appeared: "The wealthy and young man spent 50 million yuan to create a new work that shocked the Hong Kong film industry"
The homepage of the entertainment edition of "Sing Tao Daily" directly set up a game: "Just a month ago, the box office of "The Saint of Gambling" exceeded 30 million Hong Kong dollars in three weeks, and the box office exceeded 40 million in the fifth week of its release. Do you guess that New Asia's new work "The Saint of Gambling", which is not weak, will break through the box office of 30 million in a few days? Can the box office exceed 40 million in a shorter time than "The Saint of Gambling"? Or even surpass "The Saint of Gambling" at the box office in the end? ”
Although "The Saint of Gambling" is also a film invested by New Asia, the media is obviously deliberately ignoring this at this moment. Some people even deliberately compare the two movies to create new topics.
As the director of "The Saint of Gambling", Liu Zhenwei was caught up in saliva, but he also behaved calmly: "...... You asked me if I was optimistic about Lin Sheng's new movie? You don't have to ask me this question at all, you should ask the audience, ask those who pay for tickets to enter the theater to watch the movie, and ask them why they are willing to spend money to watch the movie I have to say that Lin Sheng has made a good movie again. I'm looking forward to "Red Alert" surpassing "The Saint of Gambling" at the box office and setting a new highest-grossing record in Hong Kong......"
Some unscrupulous media want to find a topic from him, which is undoubtedly a trick. Liu Zhenwei was a senior executive of the film company earlier, and later after the company went bankrupt and became an editor and director, his sleek personality also made him quickly learn a lot of things when he first entered the industry, and it took him decades shorter than many talented directors to become one of the best commercial film directors in Hong Kong, he has always been good at being a man. Not to mention that "The Saint of Gambling" is a movie invested by New Asia, but to say that after the celebration party, he received a million red envelope reward from Lin Xiaozhi, which also made Liu Zhenwei never talk nonsense, so he offended a big financier.
Liu Zhenwei cleverly crossed the pit buried by the media and rejected the hype topic of the media with a decent manner, which really disappointed and disappointed many people. It also made the conspiracy that the media most wanted to see him, the current 40 million director (Liu Zhenwei's new title for "The Saint of Gambling") and Lin Xiaozhi, who is likely to become the second 40 million director, broke out into oral sex and even conflict.
However, the media naturally could not stop because of this, and soon turned its target to other people, and the popular actress Ye Zilin and Zhou Xingchi Dengshi entered the media's field of vision.
On October day, when Ye Zilin attended a brand event endorsed by herself, some media interviewed Ye Zilin and asked her sinisterly, "May I ask Miss Ye, as a female artist promoted by New Asia, why didn't you participate in the red alert where your boss started filming", but chose the movie "The Saint of Gambling"?" As far as I know, the filming of these two films started very close to each other......"
This is a vicious question that is not easy to answer. The original start time of "Red Alert" was before "The Saint of Gambling", obviously if Lin Xiaozhi had the intention to invite her at that time, she would definitely have the opportunity to participate in "Red Alert", just like Qiu Yueqing, because her blockbuster film "Cheating Treasure" had just been painted.
But Lin Xiaozhi did not invite her, although he then sent her to Liu Zhenwei and won her the role of the heroine of "The Saint of Gambling", which made her the first Hong Kong film heroine in Hong Kong history to exceed 40 million at the box office.
Ye Zilin glanced at the reporter with the "Oriental Daily" sign, and Meimu stayed on him for a moment. She didn't believe that as a reporter for Oriental Daily, the guy didn't understand these things. But at this time, the question is reversed, obviously with a strong flavor of sowing discord.
However, under the training of Lin Xiaozhi, this woman has gone from an unknown vase actor to a first-line sexy actress in Hong Kong in less than two years. As soon as his eyes rolled, he quickly had a rhetoric, and he smiled at the moment, deliberately teasing and smiling at the ill-intentioned reporter, and said: "The boss's new script has just been created, and Director Liu's new drama "The Saint of Gambling" is nearing completion. I was born in Fengyue films, at that time, after the fire of "Cheating Treasure", Director He revealed that he wanted to immigrate to Canada, and after thinking about it for a while, the boss decided that the company would no longer shoot Fengyue films, so he contacted Director Liu and asked me to serve as the heroine of "The Saint of Gambling" to help me transform into a ......"
She avoided the important and did not answer why Lin Xiaozhi did not invite her to play Red Alert", but hinted that she was valued by him, and after she replaced Ye Zilin with a Fengyue film to become the most popular star in Hong Kong, she helped her take on a new film transformation. This smart woman even unabashedly exposed the black history of her starring role in a tertiary film in front of the media, and her generous behavior made many Hong Kong media people have a great change in their opinion of her, and even Lin Xiaozhi secretly praised her.
Relying on a "Gambling Saint" to become a 'star master', Zhou Xingchi has just started and does not have the arrogance of later generations. He already knew that Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures was acquired by Lin Xiaozhi, and when a reporter asked him to predict the results of the movie Red Alert filmed by the new boss himself, he was not a stupid person at this time when he was helping Yongsheng shoot "The Gambler", "Lin Sheng is one of the best directors in Hong Kong, I have been to see "Red Alert", it is very ......exciting, but he is unwilling to predict the box office that "Red Alert" can achieve.
was asked about the difference in investment costs between the two films, and he was still vague: "The theme is different, "The Saint of Gambling" has no big scenes, and the investment is naturally not high. "Red Alert" plays high-tech, thrilling, and makes people look very cool, of course, it costs a lot of money......"
However, although Xing Ye's answer was decent, the success of "The Saint of Gambling" and the Xiang brothers personally went out and offered him a salary of 1.4 million to shoot "The Gambler", which still made him arrogant after being silent for many years before gaining a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film industry. Obviously, in his heart, there are still some differences between the "Saint of Gambling", which relied on his success with a small cost and a big return, and Lin Xiaozhi's "Red Alert" filmed at a cost of 50 million Hong Kong dollars.