The fans outside continued to curse Li Xuan, who is the director of "Black Man", but he was very excited at this moment.

Because the premiere of "The Black Man" happened to be Sunday, and the beginning of the summer season, coupled with the continuous publicity of newspapers for a week, the theater attendance rate was once almost full during the prime time. The first day of the movie's box office was as high as 860,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was 30,000 higher than Chenglong's premiere of "The Junior Brother". However, "The Black Man" has four more luxury theaters than "The Junior Brother" released, but "The Black Man" still lost.

Moreover, Li Xuan doesn't think this movie will be as pleasing as those comedy movies, and someone can watch it for more than ten times.

The audience nowadays are just looking for something new.

But what is even more gratifying is that on the working day of the next day, many people actually returned to the theater to watch it for the second time because of the Easter Egg drama. As a result, the average attendance rate of the theater was approaching 90%, and "Black Man" won another single-day box office of 800,000 yuan.

The summer war between Jiahe and Shaw Brothers began with Li Xuan. As for Princess Jin, one of the three major theaters, she is still fighting and not in a hurry.

The pioneer of Shaw Brothers' summer season is a movie called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". The director is not famous and the actors are not famous. It is completely popular. As a result, the movie was painted eight days after it was released in a hurry. The total box office was just the same as the first day of "The Black Man", and it earned 860,000 Hong Kong dollars.

The first week box office results of "The Black Man" have also been counted, reaching an astonishing HK$4.41 million, successfully breaking the first week box office record held by "The Junior Brother".

The media exclaimed that another box office movie of tens of millions is about to be born!

However, Li Xuan was not that optimistic.

The plot of "Black Man" is weak and dark, and the number of viewers is definitely not as good as "Junior Brother" and "Mr. Zombie". Whether the box office can exceed 10 million in the end depends on whether God gives Li Xuan the face.

Li Xuan also felt that among the 4.41 million box office, at least more than 10% of the people were cheated by Easter eggs and returned to the theater. Now people know Easter eggs, and fewer people can cheat in the future.

After the simple hot ending, Shaw finally released his summer work, which was the horror film "Evil" directed by Gui Zhihong. Li Xuan has heard of this movie in later generations, but it is not because he has watched this movie himself, but because of an interesting story.

It was rumored that the box office performance of the movie "Evil" was good at that time, so Gui Zhihong hurriedly filmed another movie "Evil Fighting Evil". As a result, the box office was better after "Evil Fighting Evil" came out. Now Gui Zhihong became addicted to filming, and he came another movie "Evil Fighting Evil Again".

After completing the trilogy, Gui Zhihong stopped.

But after traveling through time, Li Xuan learned a little more about Gui Zhihong.

"Shaw Brothers stars are as numerous as stars in the sky!" - This is a slogan from Shaw Brothers Pictures before, and many viewers also agree with it. However, Shaw Brothers directors who control these stars are no less than stars at all.

However, among these directors, there are not many who can truly become famous and have box office appeal. After counting, in addition to Li Hanxiang, Zhang Ce and Chu Yuan, each with their own styles and can maintain their standards, Liu Jialiang, who conquers the world with kung fu films and Cheng Gang, whose works are of varying quality, are also considered two. The last one is Gui Zhihong, who is good at shooting movies of various styles.

As expected, as soon as the movie "Evil" was launched, the box office exceeded 500,000 on the first day. This result is nothing for a group of movies with a box office of over 10 million yuan. But for Shaw Brothers and the entire Hong Kong film industry, it is already a very impressive result.

A match that was very different is still going on, but Li Xuan had no time to take care of these things at this time.

"Black Man" made him famous in one fell swoop in the way of a director, and what followed was interview invitations from various newspapers and magazines.

Li Xuan, who didn't like to face these interviews, directly refused all invitations and went around between home and company every day. While dealing with the scripts he would film next, he was waiting for those screenwriters or directors who were not talented to come to him.

But Li Xuan didn't expect that the director who was not well received by Huai Cai did not come to the house, but a director who was very glorious recently came to the house.

"Sister Hua, why are you here? Long time no see, please come in!" As soon as Li Xuan came out of the office, he saw Li Li walking towards his office with Xu Anhua and hurriedly reached out to greet him.

"Axuan, I won't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing!" Xu Anhua smiled at Li Xuan as soon as he entered the office.

"Oh? Sister Hua please sit first." Li Xuan gestured to the sofa seat in the office. Before Xu Anhua could answer, he softly explained to Li Li who was still standing aside: "Xiaoli, go and pour a cup of tea in."

Seeing Li Li covering her door and walking out, Li Xuan looked at Xu Anhua in confusion and asked, "I wonder what Sister Hua is doing with me?"

"That's right." Xu Anhua returned and took out a script from the briefcase she carried with him, handed it to Li Xuan and said: "I have a script that I want to make into a movie, but after searching for it for a long time, I still couldn't find an investor, so..."

"Uh..." Li Xuan glanced at Xu Anhua who stopped talking, took the script and asked curiously: "Sister Hua can't find an investor? Where is Bigao Company?"

Bigao Film Company is a film company formed by Zhang Aijia and Liang Shuyi, a senior executive of TVB. "Crazy Job" was invested by this company. The boss Zhang Aijia also played a role in it.

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Xu Anhua smiled bitterly and said, "I broke up earlier than Gao, but I can't be an investor."

“…”

Li Xuan was speechless. It was like this in Hong Kong now. New film companies were born every day and old film companies went bankrupt. He was no longer surprised now.

Seeing Xu Anhua, who was quite bitter, take the tea from Li Li, Li Xuan lowered his head and started reading the script.

"The Story of Hu Yue"?

Li Xuan was stunned by the name of the script. He must have never seen this movie in later generations, but he also felt very familiar.

That should be because this movie is a little famous in later generations. Li Xuan thought to himself, maybe he can invest and try it.

So Li Xuan opened the script and started to read it roughly.

The script is roughly about some things that happened when a Vietnamese refugee fled to Hong Kong. The content is in line with Xu Anhua's general style and is a film that combines art and business. This kind of film generally has a good reputation, but the box office is not outstanding. Of course, the investment will not be very high, and even if you lose, you won't lose much.

But, it's strange...

Li Xuan put down the script and looked at Xu Anhua and asked in confusion: "Sister Hua, I read the script and it feels very good. But I'm very strange. Logically speaking, this kind of script should not be difficult to find investors, right? I think Gao Yun, who just worked with you, shouldn't reject this script."

After filming "Crazy Job", Xu Anhua filmed another movie called "Crashing into the King". This movie was invested by Xiao Qingqing's Gaoyun Film Company. As a result, the movie was released at the end of May, and it earned more than 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars in box office, which made Gaoyun make a fortune.

"Well..., what's the reason?" Xu Anhua pondered for a moment and said carefully: "It's this movie that I plan to film on the spot, and..."

Depend on!

After hearing this half sentence, Li Xuan finally knew why Gao Yun stopped investing. Most of the scenes in this script happened in the Philippines. To maintain a movie crew abroad, the investment must be increased by at least about 30%. This condition is not enough for several small companies to withstand!

Li Xuan was still complaining secretly, but saw Xu Anhua continue to say: "Also, I want to choose the male lead in this movie myself."

Selecting the male lead by himself? Li Xuan frowned. It doesn’t matter if the male lead is handed over to Xu Anhua for the male lead.

After considering it for a while, Li Xuan asked directly: "Sister Hua, how much investment do you need? Who are you choosing the male protagonist?"

"The investment costs about 1.3 million yuan. As for the male lead..." Xu Anhua hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "I chose Zhou Runfa. I think he has the most similar temperament among Hong Kong actors."

sweat!

No wonder Xu Anhua couldn't find an investor. 1.3 million is already a lot for ordinary people. The male protagonist also needs to use Zhou Runfa, the famous "box office poison". How determined the investors can take out the money!

At this time, Li Xuan finally remembered why the name "Hu Yue's Story" sounds so familiar. This movie seems to be Fa Ge's early masterpiece?

"Axuan, I know this is a embarrassing you. If it is inconvenient, forget it, I'll leave first." Xu Anhua picked up the script on the coffee table, stood up and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, Sister Hua!" Li Xuan suddenly stood up, looked at Xu Anhua and said, "I promised you two conditions, but..."

"What?" Xu Anhua exclaimed and interrupted Li Xuan's words.

Looking at Xu Anhua who was a little excited, Li Xuan pressed his hand and smiled and said, "Don't be excited, Sister Hua, I said I promised you the two conditions, but I also have one condition..."

"Sorry, I'm too out of my composure. Axuan, what are your conditions?" Xu Anhua asked excitedly.

"My conditions are very simple. If you have other roles, you must first consider the actors of my company." Li Xuan chuckled and continued: "Of course, if the temperament does not match, I will not force it. You must know that I am also a filmmaker and know how to choose."

"Yes, it's very fair, I agree too." Xu Anhua said happily.

"Then, Sister Hua..." Li Xuan stretched out his right hand and smiled: "I wish us a happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!" (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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