Chapter 215 The police attack
After the premiere of "Police Story", newspapers and media outlets used the entertainment version's front page headlines the next day to introduce Chenglong's transformation work, with full praise in their words.
As for those viewers who attended the movie premiere, they praised the movie after returning, which aroused a large number of curiosity and strong movie viewing among the Hong Kong people.
Just when the premiere of "Police Story", "The Legend of the Ghost" and "The Legend of the Flowers" that had been released for three weeks were also fully drawn.
In the end, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" received a box office of HK$7.36 million. Although Wang Jin's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" reached Shaw's dividend standard very early, the total box office was only HK$6.52 million, which was a good box office of more than 800,000. This time, the second confrontation between Shaw and Princess Kim was another winner.
So Wang Jin, who lost the box office in the movie, looked very bad these days, and he didn't even attend the premiere of "Police Story".
And on the third day after the premiere of "Police Story", the movie was officially released.
This time, Jiahe did not make any troubles like when she released "Modern Bodyguard" in the New Year. After all, the summer season has just begun. Moreover, because Princess Jin and Shaw both know the box office influence of Chenglong, no new high-quality movies have been scheduled to be released during this period. "Police Story" is a decent opponent.
So this time, Jiahe simply joined forces with several luxury theaters to form a theater with 23 theaters to release "Police Story" simultaneously. As for why there is one less theater than when "Modern Bodyguard" was first released, it is because Taiping Theater, which belongs to the luxury theater, closed down after the screening of "Modern Bodyguard" at the beginning of the year.
Needless to say, the first day of "Police Story" was released, 23 theaters were full. Every theater was in short supply of movie tickets. Many scalpers made a lot of money.
But what made the managers of various theaters even more stunned was that although 23 theaters released the movie at the same time, the attendance rate of "Police Story" was almost stable at more than 90%.
The movie is so popular, and the attendance rate has always remained high. There are only two reasons: First, Chenglong's fame is supported there. Thinking about the bad movie "The Killer's Treasure" has earned nearly 6 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. It can be imagined how attractive Chenglong's box office is; Second, "Police Story" is indeed very good. Under the banner of Chenglong's transformational work, it is also a movie made with great efforts. It swept away the dull atmosphere in previous Hong Kong criminal action movies in one fell swoop, attracting audiences to go to the cinema again and again to watch the movie.
In the just-published "Movie Biweekly", the film critic wrote: "The Police Story" is still the style of Chenglong's film that suppresses evil and promotes good, until it finally suppresses evil with good. However, the background of the story has moved from the early Republic of China to the modern era. Chenglong's transformational work seems to have the Hollywood narrative style. While laying the tense plot, he also did not forget to incorporate Chenglong's humorous style into it.
The action scenes in the movie have also changed Chenglong's previous "slow swallowing" and become quick and powerful. The most vivid line in the whole movie is the helplessness, disappointment and resentment that erupted after some of the protagonists were forced into desperate situations after being forced into a desperate situation, and the roar of "I believe you. But I can't rely on you" is a classic.
Although the exquisiteness of the picture of this movie is not as good as the director's previous film "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer", from the perspective of the type of the movie, the author believes that the director handles it just right.
Although the type of movie "Police Story" is a police and gangster film that has been available in Hong Kong. However, unlike previous police and gangster films, the skill of Chenglong's iron horse hard bridge is extremely real. Every action in the film is hard to figure out and hard, without any laziness or complicity. Even the quiet and beautiful Lin Qingxia is not spared in this film. One scene was smashed on the coffee table by a "big back" and the other scene was thrown out and smashed into the window, which made the audience frightened..."
Now not only the audience is terrified, but even those film industry people are terrified.
In the first three days, these 23 theaters only scheduled five screens for "Police Story" every day. However, due to too many audiences and too enthusiastic, the attendance rate has remained high, and the theaters had to reduce the number of other cannon fodder movies to increase the screening of "Police Story".
On the fourth day of the release of "Police Story", the average scheduling of the 23 theaters increased to a terrifying seven. Even the midnight show of some theaters was arranged for "Police Story". All other movies released by Jiahe Theater were forced to make way for "Police Story".
In just one week, the box office of "Police Story" has reached an astonishing HK$11.69 million, which is a total of HK$3 million higher than the first week of "Modern Bodyguard"!
"Police Story" not only broke the first week box office record of Hong Kong movies, but also became the first movie in Hong Kong history to have a box office of over 10 million in the first week.
The fascinating storyline, the terrifying box office attraction of Chenglong and the terrifying screening rate of Jiahe have created such an extremely terrifying box office data.
Li Xuan was stunned like all Hong Kong filmmakers. What does the box office of 11.69 million mean?
The average ticket price of Hong Kong movies is now 10.50 Hong Kong dollars. This box office result of over 10 million means that 1.1 million Hong Kong people entered the theater to watch this "Police Story" within a week.
Why do some people say that the box office of Hong Kong movies is in other places? Many independent film companies would rather pay the deposit of the money than use the movies to be distributed to Princess Jin? One of the main reasons is that the population base of Hong Kong's local port is small, and many movies cannot recover their capital in their local ports. A census just conducted by the Hong Kong government showed that at this time, the population of Hong Kong was only about 5.02 million, including the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.
The super data of 1.1 million represents that more than one-fifth of Hong Kong's population has entered the theater to watch the movie within a week!
Judging from the current horrifying box office growth rate of "Police Story", there must be some fans who have watched the movie more than once, and probably some have watched it several times a day. For example, when Chenglong's "The Junior Brother" was released, some have watched it more than ten times.
The first week of "Police Story" box office, attendance rate and the number of viewers are all telling people that it is obvious.
That is, another movie with a box office of 20 million is about to be born in Hong Kong, and the box office is very likely to break the record of "Modern Bodyguard" and become another new evidence of the prosperity of Hong Kong movies!
Just as audiences from Hong Kong and even outside the country were unanimously paying attention to the box office trend of "Police Story" in Hong Kong, Li Xuan and the main creators of the "Police Story" crew boarded the plane to Taiwan. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!