At the Peninsula Hotel Tea Restaurant, Wang Tianlin sat down, and his fat body tortured the chair squeakingly, as if he would fall apart at any time.

Shao Yifu sat opposite Wang Tianlin, watching Wang Tianlin swallow a lotus seed bag of rice dumplings, and couldn't help saying, "Tianlin, you eat so much more, be careful that one day you will be so fat that you can't walk."

Wang Tianlin wiped the scum on his mouth and said, "I have eaten this way for decades, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't eat it for a day."

Shao Yifu asked casually: "Do you have any plans to shoot a new drama recently?"

"Not yet," Wang Tianlin knew that Shao Yifu was not here to ask him this today, so he took the initiative to explain, "Axiang (Wang Jing) can't help Xiang Huaqiang film. Sixth brother, you know the background of the Xiang family."

Shao Yifu nodded. In fact, before the promotion of "Chasing Girls in Hardcover", he already knew that Wang Jing was helping the Xiang brothers make movies. However, in view of Wang Tianlin's face, and in the Xiang brothers' background, Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua both chose to turn a blind eye to this matter.

But unexpectedly, "Chasing Girls in Hardcover" was sold so much at the box office, which forced Shao Yifu to ask. Shao Yifu said: "I also know the background of the Xiang family. The purpose of my visit today is not to ask for guilt, but to ask Axiang, what is the situation in this "Chasing Girls in Hardcover"?"

After receiving a call from Shao Yifu to have afternoon tea yesterday, Wang Tianlin had already asked Wang Jing about the incident and immediately replied: "Xiang Huaqiang felt that making money by making movies, so he opened a film company. He had no team under his command, and didn't know where to get a script and took the script to invite Zeng Zhiwei from Dream Factory to director. Later, Kang Jianfei personally asked, and took out another script for Xiang Huaqiang, and recommended Axiang to be the director, and that was the result."

Shao Yifu asked: "Did Kang Jianfei invest in "Hardcover Chasing Girls"?"

Wang Tianlin nodded and said, "It should be, but Axiang is not very clear. It may be that Xiang Huaqiang and Kang Jianfei have privately divided the box office."

Shao Yifu did not investigate this matter any more, but smiled and said, "Tianlin, Axiang is a talent. The director's two dramas were so popular at the box office, and it is awesome for the younger generation. Now the older generation of Shaw's directors are behind the scenes and cannot keep up with the movie-watching tastes of young people. Only by strongly supporting young people like Axiang to make movies is the right thing to do."

Shao Yifu said this to fully support Wang Jing as the director. Wang Tianlin was naturally happy with his son’s promising future and said, “I will discuss with the weak boy when I go back and let him write the script first.”

Shao Yifu smiled and said, "That's good. Let him make a movie with peace of mind. I don't blame him for helping Yongsheng make movies."

"I will let him take out the script as soon as possible." Wang Tianlin nodded and said.

After eating two cages of buns, Wang Tianlin drove home with his big belly.

Seeing Wang Jing playing with his daughter, Wang Tianlin said, "Axiang, Uncle Six wants you to make a movie, you should think about it carefully."

Wang Jing has been in a good mood in recent days. He was reluctant to be "invited" by Xiang Huaqiang to film "Hardcover Girls". As a result, the movie is now selling well at the box office, not only has it received a considerable director's salary, but Xiang Huaqiang also generously stated that as long as the box office of "Hardcover Girls" can exceed 10 million, he will be given a red envelope of 100,000 yuan.

Not only that, after the release of "Chasing Girls in Hardcover", many independent film companies called him to make movies. This feeling was really cool.

After Wang Jing put down his daughter, he ran into the study and took out a script and said, "I have written this "King of the Thieves" long ago. Because I was invited by my boss to make a movie, I have never taken it out."

Wang Tianlin looked at the script and asked, "When are you going to shoot?"

Wang Jing said confidently: "It's January 10th now. I have a good idea for the actors of "The King of Thieves". As long as Uncle Six is ​​willing to invest, I can finish filming at the end of January. I will spend a few days to do the post-production, and it will be released on February 10th at most."

What is a fast gunner?

This guy Wang Jing is.

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In the few days after New Year's Day, the box office battle between "Brothers and Brothers" and "Hardcover Chasing Girls" was hard to distinguish. Both movies are urban comedy, and the genre and style are very close, so they are very good at grabbing actors.

In the end, the box office battle between the two movies evolved into a war between the two theater companies, Princess Golden Cinema and Jiahe Cinema. Both theaters freed up the canvas of most theaters, fully supporting the release of these two movies, and were still spending a lot of money to promote during the release of the film.

Just as the two theater companies were in full swing, "Shaolin Temple" suddenly and quietly released on Lianhua Cinema. (Lianhua Cinema is the name of the reorganized Shuangnan Cinema, and its key theaters include Nanyang, Nanhua, Yindu, Guobin, etc.)

"Shaolin Temple" was released on January 1 and has not been widely promoted. Even the director of this film did not expect the film to be sold in Hong Kong.

Lianhua Cinemas generally release films made by Hong Kong left-wing film companies and mainland China. There was a group of loyal audiences that were very prosperous in the 1950s and early 1960s, and even steadily suppressed Shaw Brothers. However, during the ten-year movement, Lianhua Cinemas declined with left-wing film companies. Now, whether it is Nanhua Cinemas or several left-wing companies, most of the time, they operate at a loss and require the mainland's finances to subsidize.

In the first few days of its release, the box office was not very good, and the attendance rate was only a pitiful 30%. Most Hong Kong audiences went to watch "Brothers in Desperate" and "Chasing Girls in Hardcover".

However, in the second week of "Shaolin Temple", box office revenue suddenly surged, and the attendance rate was increasing in an extraordinary form. By the tenth day of its release, it was full.

Judging from the audience base in Hong Kong, it is already the limit to having two movies sold well at the same time. If three good movies compete for box office, one of them will inevitably have a sharp reduction in attendance due to the audience being stolen.

Due to the explosive growth of the attendance rate of "Shaolin Temple", "Brothers in Desperate", which has been released for 20 days, cannot hold on. This movie was originally worth 18 million yuan, but it was made by "Shaolin Temple" and the final box office was only 1,528.

"Chasing Girls in Hardcover" is released in a relatively low-key manner, and it has enough momentum. It finally came to a relaxation after "Brothers in Desperate" and the total box office in Hong Kong is just over 14 million.

The mainland is very mysterious for Hong Kong people at this time. The mystery is both a fear of a special regime and a strong curiosity to understand.

Unfortunately, there are almost no ways for overseas people to understand the mainland at this time. Although Nanhua Cinemas often stage mainland films, most of them are stereotyped propaganda films or art films that Hong Kong people are not interested in. Although left-wing newspapers such as Wenhui Po and Ta Kung Pao are propaganda windows for the party to be located in Hong Kong, they mainly promote major policies in the mainland, such as convening the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee and implementing reform and opening up.

As for the lives of ordinary people in mainland China and the beautiful lands of the mainland, Hong Kong people want to see but cannot.

"Shaolin Temple" is completely different from the promotional films produced in the mainland before. It is actually a kung fu film that Hong Kong people like to watch, and it was shot in real scenes at Shaolin Temple.

Without being widely publicized, this movie quickly attracted most of the audience to pass on word of mouth and became a veritable box office dark horse.

Most Hong Kong people see the true face of Shaolin Temple for the first time through the big screen, and the monk practice scenes in the movie also make Hong Kong audiences believe it.

Li Lianjie became a hit and quickly occupied the front pages of major newspapers - not the entertainment version, and Shuangnan Cinema also reversed the long-term loss situation and made a big profit with a movie "Shaolin Temple".

If you want to ask what is the most popular movie in the new year this year? No one will answer it is "Brothers in the Dead" or "Chasing Girls in the Dead", and everyone will only say it is "Shaolin Temple".

In fact, the box office data of "Shaolin Temple" is not much better than "Brothers and Brothers". However, as the first commercial film jointly produced by the Mainland and Great Wall, "Shaolin Temple" is really eye-catching, which makes the audience and media attention focus on this movie.

"Shaolin Temple" was popular for half a month, and the box office frenzy it finally cooled down, and the box office successfully exceeded "Brothers in Desperate" - 16.15 million. Although it is only a few hundred thousand more than "Brothers in Desperate", don't forget that this movie has not been promoted much, and it has become popular entirely based on its reputation.

The Lunar New Year is almost over now!

A few days before the fall of "Shaolin Temple", "Oriental Daily" finally took the lead in publishing the news of Kang Jianfei's new film.

This time, when I went to the mainland to shoot "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", Kang Jianfei spent more than 8 million yuan, which is a very rare blockbuster for a costume martial arts film. Although Cheng Long's costume kung fu movie is also very expensive, most of the budget is spent on Cheng Long's pay, which is incomparable to "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng".

Since you have spent so much money, there is naturally no need to save any more.

On the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month, Kang Jianfei posted a full-page advertisement in the Oriental Daily. There are no stills on the advertisement, only a few promotional advertisement content-

Kang Jianfei

Return of the King

Wudang

Of

Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng

Officially released on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month

These books were written by Chen Mingsheng, and a large number of newspaper pages were left blank. These brush and slogans were very eye-catching and attracted great attention that day.

Just when the media was paying great attention, the next day, "Oriental Daily" and "Ming Pao" published a full-page advertisement again, and this time there was an additional movie poster on the advertisement.

However, everyone on the poster had silhouettes that couldn't see clearly. They were only dressed in a chivalrous dress, and were holding a soft whip in their hands and smiling sweetly.

On the third day, advertisements appeared again in Oriental Daily, Ming Pao and Industrial and Commercial Daily. In addition to Wen Bixia, Hui Yinghong's image of the double-knife woman became clearer.
Chapter completed!