Chapter 180 - Release Date
On January 30, the first day of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" was released, Shaw Brothers Pearl Theater on Bad New Street, Causeway Bay.
Huang Zhan held the hand of his confidante Lin Yan all the way and followed the bustling crowd into the theater. Looking at the theater that was almost filled in, Huang Zhan glanced at the movie tickets again before continuing to move forward.
Soon Huang Zhan found his and the woman's seat, but before he could sit down, he smiled at a middle-aged man next to him who had been sitting for a long time and said, "You half-old man, I didn't expect to meet you and invite me to a movie one day."
"Haha, I can't guarantee the rest, but I still have the money to ask you two to watch a movie." The middle-aged man turned around and looked at Huang Zhan and smiled.
Huang Zhan looked at a vinyl record in the middle-aged man's hand, and sat down and smiled, "Why, Jiahui, have you seen your disciple's work?"
Gu Jiahui smiled helplessly and waved the record in his hand and said, "I have never seen this Li Xuan before. I naturally don't dare to be the title of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer". Almost every song in the album "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" is a fine piece. It was sold out just yesterday. This one is what I respected today."
"Haha." Huang Zhan laughed and said, "No matter how good I have never met, no matter how good I am, no matter how good I am, no one in Hong Kong now knows that Li Xuan was taught by your apprentice Xu Huqin."
"I don't have the ability, and I don't have the ability either." Gu Jiahui waved his hand and looked at the big screen in front and said, "I read the report that the soundtrack of this movie is also very good. This time I can see a good movie before leaving Hong Kong, which is very gratifying!"
"You, you..." Huang Zhan pointed helplessly at Gu Jiahui and joked: "People often say that they learn until they are old, but few of them have done it. You are so lucky. You are still thinking about going to the United States to study and do whatever you want!"
"How is this called turbulence?" Gu Jiahui pointed to the album in his hand and said: "When you don't learn much, how can you know how big the world is. Don't talk about anything else, just like this album has a lot of things I need to learn..."
"Okay, okay!" Huang Zhan quickly interrupted Gu Jiahui's long speech, pointed to the big screen and said, "The movie is about to begin. Watch movies and watch movies."
“…”
The album of the same name of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" was launched one day earlier than the movie. With the advance promotion of the movie and the deep popularity of Xu Shi and Lin Qingxia in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, the record sold more than 6,000 copies in Hong Kong on the first day of its launch, which directly led to the sale of goods in audio and video stores. Southeast Asia and Taiwan also won the first stop, and all the messages were reported to urgently need the record to replenish its stock.
Xu Tujie successfully entered the Taiwan market with this east wind. Zheng Kuhan now can be said to be tired and happy!
Just when Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui were still discussing this album, there were also several people in the Jade Theater next to Mingzhu Cinema.
Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng sat side by side. After a conversation with Mai Jia and others a few days ago, Xu Ke has joined the New Art City. However, now the few people have not yet decided what kind of movie to shoot, so under Xu Ke's "proposal", the five of the Seven Monsters of New Art City will come to watch this "Swordsman" in the future. Moreover, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian are also very excited about this movie that has been boasting in the media for a long time.
As for why the three big men in New Art City did not participate in the premiere of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", Li Xuan did not send an invitation letter. Nowadays, New Art City can only be regarded as a small film company, and Li Xuan and these three future big men have only one-sided relationships. If they send an invitation letter, it is estimated that all Hong Kong film companies Li Xuan would have to give it.
Shi Nansheng next to Xu Ke was not the chief manager of Xinyi City at this time, she was just here to watch a movie with her boyfriend.
In today's Hong Kong film industry, Li Xuan has also become a big and small figure. Many small film companies have even begun to carefully study and imitate his movies, ready to follow the trend and make a big profit at any time.
But this time, I'm afraid some people will be disappointed.
The movie "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" only had one beginning, and Mai Jia and his friends felt their eyes lit up. The camera and the artwork were indeed much better than the original martial arts movies.
Especially the fancy martial arts and wonderful light skills displayed at the beginning of the movie made the audience on the scene dazzling.
Xu Ke watched this movie again, but felt that he benefited a lot. He sighed silently in his heart: "This is a real martial arts movie!"
However, although Xu Ke had a lot of feelings at this time, Mecca next to him frowned, turned to look at Huang Baiming and said, "This movie is good, but it is also difficult to learn."
"Oh!" Huang Boming sighed, then nodded and responded: "Yes, it is not only difficult to learn, but also it is probably difficult to find investors."
After hearing Huang Baiming's words, Mai Jia secretly glanced at Xu Ke, then nodded silently.
"So pretty!"
"Dongfang Bubai is really domineering."
"I didn't expect Lin Qingxia to be so handsome in men's clothing!"
"Damn! The sun rises east, I am the only one who is unbeaten."
“…”
Suddenly, a burst of screams of men and women sounded in the screening hall, but Dongfang Bubai, played by Lin Qingxia, sat on the cannon barrel with a domineering attitude and was persuading the Dongchang actor. After changing into men's clothing, Lin Qingxia's heroic face was very impressed by a large number of viewers.
I'm afraid after today, regardless of gender, I don't know how many people will fall under Lin Qingxia's pomegranate skirt.
Mai Jia and his group and the audience were exclaiming and praising each other, but they didn't notice that there were two people sitting quietly watching the movie in the last row of the theater.
Lin Qingxia finally felt relieved when she saw the audience's fierce reaction.
Although the audience also praised her Lin Qingxia during the premiere, most of them were film critics at that time. These days, there are many things that are very popular but not popular. Only when these real audiences praise her can they prove that she has finally succeeded in transforming and is no longer the eternal goddess of love and art films.
"How is it? Are you excited?" Li Xuan smiled.
"Excited!" Lin Qingxia nodded without any concealment and said again: "Thank you."
Li Xuan looked at the big screen ahead and said slowly: "No need to thank you."
The movie continues, and the audience also finds that the fights inside are getting more and more exciting. Finally, the scene between Linghu Chong and Xiang Wentian fighting swords in the movie.
"Leave the sword style!"
As the protagonist shouted this sentence, a sword light flashed on the big screen. A refreshing sword fighting brought great shock to the audience.
Where have the audience seen such a wonderful martial arts scene? The protagonist flew away in an instant, flew and danced omnipotently, and easily pulled out dazzling sword flowers, making the opponent unable to fight back.
This is simply a crazy and cool rhythm!
While the audience was excited, the eyes that didn't dare to blink were also staring at the big screen, fearing that they would miss a second of the exciting shots.
Li Xuan looked at the theater that became much quieter in an instant and couldn't help but laugh softly.
Last year, the "Famous Sword" with a slightly new martial arts movie flavor has firmly ranked first in the box office of the martial arts movie of the year, and the audience was fascinated by watching it. This year, I made out the most exciting movie in the history of the new martial arts movie. If you don’t believe it, these audiences will not buy it!
A melodious sound of flute came from the screen, but it was another scene of Linghu Chong chanting poems about the moon. The nonsense limerick also deeply infected the audience at this time, especially the original author of the poem, Xu Ke.
Looking at Linghu Chong on the screen, Xu Ke also whispered in a daze: "We are in the world, and we will be urging us as soon as we enter the world. The emperor's map is overwhelming..."
It’s a pity that Xu Ke’s poem was interrupted by another person before he finished reciting it. Mai Jia turned to look at Huang Baiming and asked, “Bai Ming, how much does this Li Xuan cost to film "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer"?”
"How much?" Huang Boming seemed to understand something, and touched his nose before replying, "I heard that the shooting cost was nearly 7 million yuan in total, and later it cost about 1 million yuan to advertise and premiere. The total cost should be about 8 million yuan."
"Ah 8 million!" Mai Jia said with a longing look on her face: "I don't know when our Xinyi City will be able to make such a ruthless move."
Listening to the two of them singing and reunion beside him, Xu Ke frowned slightly. He was about to say something when he found that his hand was being held.
Chapter completed!