Golden Harvest Cinema Line is one of the five major cinema chains in Hong Kong and Hong Kong, and it is also one of the two cinema chains that released "Farewell My Concubine" this time. When the manager of Golden Harvest saw that the box office of the movie in the past three days was only tens of thousands, he shook his head, and then called his subordinates in and said, "Tomorrow, this "Farewell My Concubine" will not be released, and it will be replaced by another money-making movie!" ”

"Yes the manager...... It's just that ......" What the manager didn't expect was that his subordinates were actually a little fragmented and vomited.

"Any questions?" The manager asked, frowning.

"There is no big problem, that is, many people have called us recently to ask when the theater will have the schedule of "Farewell My Concubine", and they have to pick a special time to watch it!" The subordinate said.

"Oh!" The manager didn't care too much about anything, no matter how bad the movie was, there would always be people who would call to ask about the movie's release time, after all, turnip pickles have their own favorites.

However, the manager thought about it and realized that something seemed wrong with the situation, and if it was just someone calling, it would not have made his subordinates stumble.

Unless there are a lot of people on this call.

"How many calls did you get today?" The manager asked.

"About 1,000 of them...... said with a wry smile.

“1000！！” The manager's voice froze suddenly, and after a moment, he asked in disbelief, "Are you sure?" Thousands of people called to ask when the movie would be released? ”

"That's right, just now the customer service department complained to me, saying that "Farewell My Concubine" has too little daytime, and basically in the morning or after 12 o'clock in the morning, so that many viewers who come to call give up watching the movie, and at the same time scold us for being pigs on the phone!" Subordinates.

"Thousands of people called to ask about a movie??" The manager began to recall in his mind that the last movie that could achieve such an effect was Xing Ye's death judge, and the last one was Xing Ye's truant Weilong, and further back, it was Fa Ge's God of Gamblers.

These three movies, without exception, were the box office champions of Hong Kong and Hong Kong that year, how could there be thousands of people calling to ask about the film schedule for such a "Farewell My Concubine" with a box office of only tens of thousands?

The manager didn't know that in fact, there shouldn't have been so many people calling to ask, because under normal circumstances, as long as the audience walked into the cinema, they would be able to see the movie schedule in the last few days on the billboard of the cinema, and there was no need to call to ask.

But there are too few movie theaters where "Farewell My Concubine" is released, and there are very few shows, and the vast majority of audiences can only call the film company to inquire about the film schedule of the entire theater after looking for two or three movie theaters and not finding the film schedule, which also led to a sharp increase in the number of callers.

But this also releases a signal without exception, that is, there are actually a lot of viewers who want to watch "Farewell My Concubine", otherwise why have few people called to ask about the film schedule for other movies with the same results?

"In the entire theater chain, how many shows of "Farewell My Concubine" were scheduled yesterday?" The manager immediately asked, because someone above greeted him and said that he wanted to press "Farewell My Concubine", so the manager didn't care about the specific number of films scheduled for "Farewell My Concubine", anyway, it would be right to let the following row be less.

"Yesterday, our theater chain had a total of 72 movies in 72 theaters!" Subordinates received.

"What! 72 movies, you can have a movie box office of 48,000! The manager's eyes are about to pop out, the attendance rate has exceeded 50%, what kind of fairy movie is this Nima, to be able to achieve this dramatic attendance.

"Go, arrange one for me now, I'm going to see this movie for myself!" The manager felt that he had to understand the charm of "Farewell My Concubine" for himself.

So, under the arrangement of the manager, in one of the company's movie screening rooms, the manager and several other executives began to watch the movie "Farewell My Concubine" for the first time.

This is three hours of time, and after three hours, the audience is solemn, including the manager, everyone can't help but wipe their tears.

"I can see why attendance is so high!" The manager sighed, such a good movie, no one who has seen it will say that he is not good, and Guorong's performance is simply god-like acting, he is a straight man who can't be straighter, and he can't help but be a little immersed in this man's emotional world.

"This will be a movie that will go down in history!" As a professional filmmaker, it is not difficult for a manager to make such a judgment.

So, he immediately returned to his office, and then reported to Boss Zou, the boss of Golden Harvest, about the situation of "Farewell My Concubine" this time.

"Boss, I promise, this is a shocking movie to the extreme, and I strongly recommend that our theaters arrange a large number of screenings of "Farewell My Concubine" in the next few weeks!" The manager was straightforward about his opinion.

"Is this movie really that good?" Boss Zou hesitated a little, his Golden Harvest itself is also making movies, and there are 20-35 movies released every year, he actually doesn't welcome mainland movies to be released in Hong Kong, if it weren't for his good relationship with Guorong, his Golden Harvest wouldn't even give "Farewell My Concubine" a chance to be released.

But now the people below actually took the initiative to call him to ask him to increase the number of games, which made Boss Zou very hesitant.

"Boss, if it is released, this will definitely be a movie that can reach the 10 million level at the box office!" The manager said one last word.

"Okay, I see, do what you want!" Boss Zou immediately made a decision, the world is the richest, and you can get along with anything, but don't get along with money.

"I announce that starting tomorrow, we will arrange at least 10 screenings of "Farewell My Concubine" every day in a total of 283 cinemas, and at least 5 screenings of "Farewell My Concubine" after 6:00 p.m., understand?" The manager's orders were passed down, and then they were quickly carried out by the various theaters.

In fact, compared with the high-level theater line executives, the theaters below see the situation more clearly and clearly. After all, the operators of the theater can see which movie is overcrowded and which movie is crowded for the first time.

For example, in a theater in Mong Kok, they arranged "Farewell My Concubine" to be released at 12:30 p.m., thinking that there might not be a single audience at that time, but in fact, 80% of the seats in the entire theater were full.

There are still so many people watching movies in the early morning, which is a big scene that people in the theater have never seen, and at the same time, these audiences did not forget to scold in the theater, saying that the theater is a pig, and such a good movie is actually arranged in the early morning, which is clear that they don't want to make money.

So the theaters below have long wanted to increase the number of shows, and if the above doesn't take the initiative to speak, they will have to give their opinions.

But fortunately, the above order should increase the number of films on the fourth day, although the above order is no less than 10 shows per day, but the direct operators of these theaters have directly increased this number to more than 15 shows.

The eyes of the masses are bright.

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