"Emmanuel", a classic of French erotic films, has a global box office of more than 100 million US dollars, compared to the cost of 500,000 US dollars, it can be said that the producers will wake up with laughter in their dreams.

The movie is full of a lot of nudity, but it is very subtle compared to the "real gun" adult movie.

The focus of this film is on the beautiful human body and artistic photography, without the direct sensory stimulation of hard lenses. In layman's terms, this film made by people pays attention to the atmosphere, which is a tease, rather than a real knife and a real gun.

After this film was introduced by Liang Shuyi, it was released in Art Theater and attracted a lot of audiences to watch. Although it is indicated on the poster that it is not suitable for children and is banned from eighteen years, the box office still continues to climb.

At the same time, the reputation of this movie is also very good, although it is an erotic movie with three omissions, but the connotation expressed is very rich, and the film critics give a very high evaluation.

For a win-win movie like "Emmanuel" at the box office and word of mouth, those production companies in Hong Kong will naturally not let it go.

For a while, many production companies followed the trend to shoot movies with the same theme, such as "Emmanuelle's Old Mud Girl", "Emmanniu's Temple Street Thirteen Phoenix", "Emmanniu's My Nature" and so on.

Even Shaw Brothers has found Sylvia, the star of "Emmanuelle". Christol, together with erotic film director He Fan, filmed "Zaijian Emmanniu".

Seeing the movie "Emmanuelle", the stirring Hong Kong has risen "Emmanuel fever", and Xu Guanwu also has to sigh that Hong Kong filmmakers are flexible and fast, dare to shoot anything, and can use anything.

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The success of "Emmanuelle" has somewhat relieved the pressure on the art and art theater chain, but this movie has not resolved the public opinion pressure faced by the Xu Brothers.

When Xu Guanwu returned to Hong Kong before, some people protested downstairs in the Hui Brothers Company, and the disturbing staff could not concentrate on their work.

After the release of "Emmanniu", Xu Guanwu added another sentence to the charge, showing erotic movies, and the hat that hurt social morals was suddenly buckled on his head.

Xu Guanwu felt very aggrieved by this, he only screened one, and Shaw Brothers has several Fengyue films every year, but no one ran to Shaw Brothers Cinemas to protest.

"Sister, it's clear that you're bullying." Xu Guanwu looked at the dozens of people gathered downstairs.

These people don't know if they are hired or not, they go downstairs at eight o'clock every day to shout, and there are always a few people. As soon as the police came, the men fled like sparrows, and as soon as the police left, they immediately gathered. Xu Guanwu doubted whether they had watched our party's war teaching film "Sparrow War".

Xu Guanwu couldn't stand this kind of dogskin plaster protest before, and moved to the "Daily Daily" by himself.

Later, the "Daily Daily" was blocked by hawkers, and the noise was also unbearable, so Xu Guanwu had to move back. Fortunately, after such a toss, his resistance increased a lot, and he learned to turn a blind eye to those who protested.

In fact, Xu Guanwu also knew that the reason why so many people protested was not because of the fault of the Xu Brothers company, but because of the poor economic environment of the whole country.

If the economy is booming, everyone has a job to open and make money, and the ghost is willing to stand downstairs every day, leaning his neck and shouting up.

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In addition to the box office popularity of "Emmanuelle", there is also good news, that is, Cheng Long's "Serpentine Trickster" was released in the United States.

When Xu Guanwu participated in the Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards, he brought many copies of Hong Kong-made movies, and Cheng Long's "Serpentine Trickster" was among them.

Then Xu Guanwu became a shareholder of the National Entertainment Company and helped Lei Shidong solve many problems, Lei Shidong reciprocated by taking the copy of the movie brought by Xu Guanwu and promising to help him distribute it in his theaters.

"Serpentine Trickster" was first screened in the Chinatown theater in Los Angeles, and the audience's response was very good, which increased Lei Shidong's confidence.

Later, it was screened in communities where South Americans and African-Americans gathered, and although it was not as sensational as "Enter the Dragon", the audience's response was also good.

The well-designed fight scenes of "Serpentine Trickster" gave these audiences a great shock.

In the 70s, the United States was still full of racial discrimination, African Americans, South Americans, and Chinese Americans were all discriminated against, so people were full of anger in their hearts.

In films such as "Enter the Dragon" and "Raptors Across the River", Bruce Lee played the image of a kung fu master who dared to resist, and it was so sought after because people's hearts were full of anger, and they desperately longed for a channel to vent their anger.

Although the character played by Cheng Long is not as heroic as Bruce Lee, his diligence and kindness, as well as his behavior of drawing a knife to help him when he sees injustice, still make him a hero in people's minds.

Seeing that this "Serpentine Trickster" has successively won a good reputation and box office, Lei Shidong immediately decided to expand the scale of the movie's release.

In the white community, although "Serpentine" is not as popular as "Enter the Dragon", it still earns very well at the box office.

Xu Guanwu was very happy when he learned that "Serpentine Trickster" was very popular in the United States.

Darryl. Seeing that this movie was a hit, Zaniuk also planned to invite Cheng Long to Hollywood to develop and make a few action movies for 20th Century Fox.

However, for his proposal, Xu Guanwu thought about it and still refused.

Hollywood in the United States is not as easy to mix as imagined, and the actors will be very limited there, that is, the dolls in the hands of the producer and director, so that you can do whatever you want, and there is not much room to play.

On the Hong Kong side, Cheng Long can act as the star, director and producer himself, and the power is alone, but in Hollywood, this is almost completely impossible.

Those Hollywood producers invest hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars at a time to bring back tens of millions of dollars at the box office, not to let you do it alone.

If your movie fails, then no matter how popular you were before, how popular and talented you were, you will be immediately thrown into the cold, and it will be difficult to have a chance to turn over.

Therefore, Xu Guanwu considered Cheng Long's acting career, and would not risk pushing Cheng Long to Hollywood before he mastered the eight major Hollywood film companies.

"Let's use these Hong Kong-made kung fu films to lay the foundation for him first, so that after a few years, when I buy 20th Century Fox and enter the Hollywood market, the road will be much smoother." Xu Guanwu rejected Darryl. After Zaniuk's proposal, he pondered in his heart.

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Just when "Emmanuelle" was released and Xu Guanwu was happy that Cheng Long had gained popularity in the United States, the distribution channel of "Daily Daily" was also preliminarily constructed.

After a week of trial promotion, the free distribution of "Tian Tian Daily" has indeed created a lot of customer flow for the store.

Many people will take a cup of soy milk, mineral water and other small goods with them when they receive free newspapers, and those who come to shop will also take a newspaper with them.

So "Tiantian Daily" and those stores and supermarkets have achieved a win-win situation.

Due to the boycott by hawkers, the circulation of the newspaper fell below 100,000 copies, but four days later, it immediately returned to the good record of 450,000 copies, setting a new sales record.

With two newspapers with a combined circulation of more than 700,000 copies, Xu Guanwu's voice in Hong Kong has increased a lot.

The combined sales volume of all other newspapers before was only one million copies. The impact of the "Finance Edition" has now dropped sharply to more than 700,000 copies, and sales are still declining.

That's the big shock that comes with free distribution.

In a recession, people can naturally save a few cents. Since there are free distributions and the quality of the content is good, why bother spending money on it?

Hong Kong people have always been very good at calculating, and this account has already been calculated thoroughly.

If you get a free newspaper every day, you can save three cents a day, which is nine dollars a month.

The vegetables bought for nine yuan can be eaten for a week.

And the newspaper saves too much, and you can still make money by selling scrap products back.

In conclusion, free newspapers have many benefits.

Under the impact of Xu Guanwu's two free newspapers, the sales of other daily newspapers among the lower masses have greatly decreased, but the sales of the middle class and the wealthy business class have not changed.

In the eyes of those who have money, a few cents of a newspaper is not too expensive, and it looks comfortable with much less advertising.