"Fat Dragon Crossing the River" is not as troublesome as "Cheng Ji Teahouse", it quickly passed the review of the Electrical Inspection Department, and it was released smoothly.

After some setbacks, "Cheng Kee Teahouse" was finally released.

The two films were released together, and they fought in the ring with "The Romance" directed by Shaw Brothers Li Hanxiangda and "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" directed by Golden Harvest Wu Siyuan.

"The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" is a new work directed by Wu Siyuan, starring Liang Xiaolong.

Liang Xiaolong is a TV actor who is more familiar to Chinese people, starring in ATV's "Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen" and other TV series, which were popular across the Taiwan Strait and three places in the eighties and nineties.

But because he once went to the mainland to make films, he was banned by Taiwan and forced to retire. It wasn't until Zhou Xingchi asked him to play the Huoyun evil god in "Kung Fu" that he reappeared.

It is rumored that this person is an actor with real kung fu, who has practiced boxing since he was a child, and his best record is to repel the siege of more than a dozen people, and he only suffered a minor injury.

Wu Siyuan praised him as the starring role, also to take over Bruce Lee's class. "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" is also an ambitious work, the film went to Italy to shoot with an investment of more than 600,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Golden Harvest also expects Liang Xiaolong to create a miracle and become Bruce Lee's successor, so that the Xu brothers will not be in the past.

Four films were released at the same time, and "The Romance" directed by Li Hanxiang was unbeatable, with a box office of 300,000 on the first day, ranking first on the list.

In the 70s, although director Li Hanxiang's films did not break any box office records, every film he shot was very popular, and this man was a prolific director, who could shoot several films a year. Taken together, it earns more than any director in Hong Kong, and can be regarded as one of the lucky generals of Shaw Brothers.

Temporarily ranking second at the box office is Hong Jingbao's "Fat Dragon Crossing the River", witty and interesting fights are his magic weapon to win, but the story is similar to "Raptors Across the River" starring Bruce Lee, which is inevitably criticized.

The third place at the box office is "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" starring Liang Xiaolong, with a box office of only more than 50,000 Hong Kong dollars on the first day, which is far from "Romantic Affairs".

It is said that at the midnight premiere, the audience scolded loudly together, scolding director Wu Siyuan and crying.

Wu Siyuan has also initially established his own reputation in the Hong Kong film industry after making blockbuster films such as "Dangkou Beach" and "Hungry Tiger and Dragon". Since being absorbed by Golden Harvest, after the increase in funds in his hands, he also wants to do a big job. This "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" is his ambitious work.

But this unpopularity was so unpopular that he expected, and he was extremely frustrated.

Gui Zhihong's "Cheng Kee Teahouse" ranked last, with a box office of only more than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is not as good as the blockbusters produced by other independent film companies.

"How could the box office of "Cheng Kee Teahouse" be so low, I obviously went to watch the midnight show, and the audience's response was very good." Xu Guanwu frowned and asked Liang Shuyi.

"Cheng Kee Teahouse" obviously belongs to the category of applause or not, although the story is very fresh and the theme is also very novel, but Hong Kong audiences do not accept this theme for the time being, it is possible." Leung explained.

Xu Guanwu nodded, there are too many well-received movies in the history of Hong Kong films, and it is a pity that they were born at the wrong time.

"Since this is the case, let's move "Cheng Kee Teahouse" to Yimei Cinema and try to extend the time for its release. The subject matter of this film is very good, and if it can be grown, Hong Kong will have another theme in the future. ”

Liang Shuyi nodded.

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After "Cheng Kee Teahouse" was moved to Yimei Cinema, there was no obvious improvement at the box office, and the box office in the first week was only 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, which made director Gui Zhihong very frustrated.

As depressed as he is Wu Siyuan, the box office of "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" is also sluggish, with a box office of only 500,000 in the first week, and there is no possibility of more than one million.

At that time, a movie of more than one million dollars was considered a blockbuster, just like in the 80s, a movie could not sell more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, so it could not be called a blockbuster.

Wu Siyuan was very depressed, but he still strengthened his spirit and filmed "Honest Storm". It's the movie based on the Godber embezzlement case.

Compared with Gui Zhihong and Wu Siyuan, Hong Jingbao's life is very prosperous, and the box office of "Fat Dragon Crossing the River" will be 700,000 in the first week, and it will exceed the million mark next week.

Although the familiar plots in the play have been criticized, it is fortunate that this is Zeng Zhiwei's first experimental work.

and the second film "Tiger Field Chicken" starring him is about to be completed.

"Tiger Field Chicken" is a work written, directed and acted by new director Mai Jia, the plot is absurd, bizarre, the biggest feature is to carry out the funny to the end, the biggest disadvantage is that the plot is too absurd, a little brain, you can find countless hard injuries.

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In the second week of the release of "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong", there was a sudden turning point at the box office.

Liang Xiaolong, the star of this film, was on the front page of "Oriental Daily" because of a criminal case.

It turned out that at Ping An Building in Yau Ma Tei that day, Liang Xiaolong was somehow beaten by more than a dozen gangsters armed with sharp blades. Although Liang Xiaolong was bare-handed, he relied on his good kung fu to put down more than a dozen people, but he only suffered a little skin injury.

Such a brilliant record immediately caused a sensation in Hong Kong and made people talk about it.

In order to catch a glimpse of Liang Xiaolong's kung fu style, people flocked to the theater to buy tickets, which made the box office of "The Little Godfather of Hong Kong" rise instead of falling, which made Wu Siyuan cry out incredible.

Xu Guanwu was already worried about the incident of "Cheng Kee Tea House", but when he saw this, he couldn't help but have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately linked the gangster's knife to slash people with the gangsters in "Cheng Kee Tea House", and vigorously appealed to the Hong Kong police to protect the safety of the public.

took advantage of the east wind so coincidentally that "Cheng Ji Teahouse" also gained attention because of this matter, and the box office also soared.

"Cheng Kee Teahouse" was originally a good film, but the audience was not used to this kind of film for a while. But after a period of screening, word of mouth, and a little hype, the originally upset "Cheng Kee Teahouse" gradually became popular.

In the third week, the box office has reached 700,000, and the attendance rate is still slowly rising, which is a typical case of a low box office in the early stage but a hot box office in the later stage.

Seeing that the box office of "Cheng Kee Teahouse" has improved, director Gui Zhihong has finally regained his self-confidence.

"Mr. Xu, I want to make a sequel to "Cheng Kee Teahouse"." Gui Zhihong took the initiative to ask, "At the end of the last play, I specially left a mystery so that I could make a sequel. ”

Xu Guanwu looked at him in surprise.

There are very few directors in Hong Kong who are willing to make a sequel, and after Wu Yusen finished filming "The True Color of Heroes", he resolutely refused to make a second part. Later, under Xu Ke's coercion and temptation, he reluctantly filmed "The True Colors of Heroes II", but he never admitted that it was his own work.

Xu Ke filmed the sequels of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", also because when filming the first two works, he didn't make any money and could only make money for the second part.

In contrast, all the blockbuster films in Hollywood have sequel movies without exception, and some movies have more than a dozen sequels, or dozens of sequels.

From an analysis point of view, the reason is that Hollywood movies are all commercial operations, and after a movie is successful at the box office, the producer is bound to squeeze out the commercial value of the film, and making a sequel is a good deal that makes sure that it will not lose money.

Although Hong Kong films are also commercial, the rights of directors are very large. If the director doesn't want to make a sequel, I'm afraid it will be difficult for anyone to force it.

And in Hollywood, the director's rights are firmly suppressed by the producer, and it doesn't matter if you don't want to shoot, I can immediately change to another person to shoot.

The theme of the movie "Cheng Kee Teahouse" is very good, and Xu Guanwu also wants to take the opportunity to make it a new blockbuster movie genre. So when he heard that Gui Zhihong offered to shoot a sequel, Xu Guanwu was very happy.