Chapter 102 Three things
February 19, 1980, the fourth day of the first lunar month, is sunny, and it belongs to the rain in the twenty-four solar terms.
But it didn't rain in Hong Kong that day.
The warm sunlight shone into Li Xuan's study from the window. Fine dust filled the air, looming in the sun. Li Xuan held a pencil in his right hand and constantly modified the storyboard script, while his left hand rubbed the paper from time to time. As the left hand continued to shake, the silver-white platinum ring on his middle finger also reflected dazzling brilliance in the sun.
As the pencil slowly drew the last stroke, Li Xuan leaned on the back of the chair and stretched his waist heavily. Feeling the discomfort of the middle finger of his left hand, Li Xuan stretched his left hand in front of him and carefully rubbed the ring with his thumb.
Li Xuan smiled at himself. This should not be considered an engagement ring for "engagement ring". This is a birthday gift from Li Xuan to Zhong Chuhong - a couple ring.
"Dingling..."
The phone in the living room suddenly rang.
"Wife, get the power..."
Li Xuan had just shouted a little while before he suddenly remembered that Zhong Chuhong had gone back to her parents' house early in the morning to help see the shop. He shook his head with a wry smile, and Li Xuan walked out of the study.
"Dingling..."
Obviously, the owner on the other end of the phone was very patient, and the phone kept ringing.
"Hey, hello." Li Xuan picked up the microphone and lay lazily on the sofa.
"Axuan, it's me, Tu Wei." A familiar voice came from the receiver, but it was called by Liu Tu Wei, with a sense of joy in his words.
Li Xuan rubbed his forehead that was a little bit woody after drawing the script for a long time and replied, "Tianwei, happy new year, is there anything wrong?"
"Ah, a happy new year. Axuan, guess where I am?" Liu Chuwei was stunned for a moment, said congratulations, and then asked happily.
Where do you care about me? Li Xuan felt a little complaining in his heart. Just as he was about to reply casually, he suddenly remembered something and quickly sat up from the sofa and asked, "Are you in Taiwan?"
The only intersection between Liu Chuwei and Li Xuan is the only one who meets "Mr. Zombies". It is the Chinese New Year and it is also the time when "Mr. Zombies" is officially released in Taiwan.
"Haha, not bad, I'm in Ximending now." Liu Chuwei said with a laugh.
Ximending, located in the northeast of Wanhua District, Taipei City, is the most important consumer business district in the western district of Taipei and the most concentrated place in Taipei City. There are even nearly twenty theaters on a small street inside.
"Uh, did you go there today?" Li Xuan asked curiously.
"No, I came before the New Year." Liu Tuwei continued to smile and said, "Axuan, we succeeded!"
"Success?" Li Xuan was stunned.
"Haha, yes, it's successful!" Liu Chuwei obviously overjoyed and kept saying, "You really should come to Ximending to see the scene now. The entire movie street is full of people buying tickets. I just saw a few people fighting because of snatching tickets."
"Ah? It's not that outrageous, right?" Li Xuan asked in surprise.
"What an outrageous thing? You can come and see it with your own eyes. It's really full of things!" Liu Chuwei argued there.
"Uh, since it's true, I can't go there." Li Xuan said hesitantly: "Ti Wei, how many days are you going to stay there?"
"How many days are you staying? I have to see. I'm going to stay for about a week anyway. Is there anything wrong?" Liu Tuwei asked strangely.
"Nothing big is going on." Li Xuan said after careful consideration: "When you are there, you can observe the attendance rate of the movie. I want to budget whether it will be so popular when it is released in Hong Kong."
"Okay, no problem! This is the answer..." Liu Chuwei suddenly stopped talking after a while, and then said loudly: "Damn, someone else has started fighting outside. I won't tell you anymore. I'll go out and persuade you to fight."
"Hey, you..."
"Dou—Dou—"
Li Xuan smiled bitterly with the hanging microphone. This was the first time Liu Chuwei was director. It seemed that he was too excited. He had not even spent the New Year at home. He went to Taiwan to watch a movie in Taiwan.
However, the popularity of "Mr. Zombie" was expected by Li Xuan. In addition to some information brought by later generations, just watching this time, the whole movie took more than three months to complete. In this era, it was already a slow work.
Liu Chuwei's director skills are not weak, and he works slowly and meticulously, and his quality is not much different from that of later generations.
However, this movie that was introduced to Taiwan for media freedom, Li Xuan just wanted to complain, since you want to be free, you should be free. What is the title of "Mr. Zombie" to "Stop Breathing for the time being"? This name was frustrated to death when you heard it.
"Mr. Zombie" is popular in Taiwan, triggering a national movie viewing craze. Hong Kong is not quiet, with Jiahe and Shaw brothers fighting each other, especially when the ticket prices of movies rose by nearly one-third.
Chenglong's movie "The Junior Brother" that had been hidden for several months was finally released on February 9th before the New Year. At this time, Chenglong's box office appeal was not a joke. The premiere of "The Junior Brother" was full of daily life, and he won a box office of 830,000 on the first day. It was a real good start.
The box office on the first day was as high as 830,000. In terms of 20 days of release, the box office of "The Junior Brother" will definitely exceed 10 million. Zou Wenhuai was overjoyed when he got this data. If "The Junior Brother" really broke the box office of 10 million, in addition to the income of the movie itself, it will also bring huge reputation and influence. Jiahe will also use this to create new glory and steadily take the position of the Hong Kong film industry as a tycoon.
For this reason, Zou Wenhuai did not hesitate to promote the movie, and bought a whole entertainment page to promote the movie on several influential newspapers such as Ming Pao and Oriental Daily.
Faced with Jiahe's aggressive momentum, Shaw Brothers, who was already old, could not resist it.
Shaw Brothers released "Modern Grove" starring Lin Zixiang and Jing Li in the New Year. Both of them are TV stars, but unfortunately they are not very good in the film industry. Moreover, the whole movie was filmed with a scattered plot, which made the audience feel unaware of the so-called.
Shao Yifu also knew that this movie could not compare to Jiahe's "The Junior Brother Takes Horse", so he used a move to retreat and advance, so he simply let the movie be screened one week later than "The Junior Brother Takes Horse" and was painted on the entire line on New Year's Eve.
Unfortunately, Shao Yifu's wishful thinking was obviously wrong. The attendance rate of the newly released movie "Modern Grove" on the first day was similar to that of "The Junior Brother", which had been released for a week, and it was even lower the next day.
Here, for those in the film industry, the outcome of this box office battle has been decided, and now many people are waiting to see when "The Junior Brother" will break the box office of tens of millions.
Li Xuan was also very excited about this because he knew that from then on, the performance of movies in large companies was not measured by millions of box offices, but was often shown by tens of millions of dollars.
"Dingdong Dingdong..."
Another rapid doorbell rang.
It was really lively today! Li Xuan thought for a moment and opened the door.
"Fatty, what are you doing here at this time?" Li Xuan asked, looking at Wang Jin who was hurried into the house.
"Water, I'll drink a little water first." Wang Jin didn't take Li Xuan's words first.
Seeing Wang Jin drinking a big glass of water, Li Xuan asked curiously: "What are you doing? Running?"
"No, I won't mess with myself." Wang Jin waved his hand and continued: "I just came back from Shuqi. Do you know that something big is about to happen in the Hong Kong film industry."
Shu Qi, every time he heard this name, Li Xuan felt his head scramble. After rubbing his forehead, Li Xuan said angrily: "Of course I know something is going to happen. Isn't it just that the box office of "Junior Brother Takes Out" will soon exceed 10 million."
"It's not this." Wang Jin said mysteriously: "Do you know, Lei Juekun, the boss of Lisheng Cinema, invited newspapers and magazines from all over Hong Kong to attend the press conference held at Lisheng Cinema the day after tomorrow."
"Tsk tsk! That's really a big move." Li Xuan sighed on the surface, but he was muttering in his heart, is he going to establish Princess Jin Cinema?
"Just, I don't know what Lei Juekun wants to do so many things?" Wang Jin also said in confusion.
"Don't care." Li Xuan shrugged: "It doesn't have much impact on us anyway, so let's take a look first."
Li Xuan still remembers that Princess Jin was supported by Xinyi City. Now there is not even a shadow of Xinyi City. I guess Princess Jin will not cause anything even if it is established now.
Chapter completed!