In 1977, Hong Jingbao received support from Zou Wenhuai and directed and starred in "Monkey Sande and Mizuki" and set off the first shot for the kung fu comedy.

In 1978, Hong Jingbao, Mai Jia, Liu Jiarong and others jointly established Jiabao Film Company and produced a film called "Tiger Frog". As a result, the film sold 2.45 million yuan in the box office, becoming the 11th place in the Hong Kong box office rankings in 1978.

Hong Jingbao, who tasted the sweetness, found that the money he received from establishing a company and cooperating with theaters was far from comparable to the pay and dividends of an actor.

Therefore, in early 1979, Sammo Hung opened Baoxiang Film Company with a wholly owned business.

Li Xuan pursed his lips for this Baoxiang Film Company. It is estimated that the company is like Li Xuan's own Xuanyuan Company now, with only two or three kittens. Just like Li Xuan, the only ones in the company are named himself and Zhong Chuhong. There are probably even fewer Baoxiang. I haven't heard of any filming plans now, so it's probably only Hong Jingbao.

Don’t think it’s strange to open a company by one person. This was the case with the small film company in Hong Kong at that time. Just like the famous New Art City later, what was the opening? At that time, there were only five people in the company, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian, ​​and two handymen, not even a director. Later, Mai Jia found Wu Yusen, who was also director at Jiahe at the time, and the pseudonym Wu Shangfei secretly helped film a movie "The Funny Age". The box office was so popular that the company really developed.

At this time, small Hong Kong film companies were still temporarily renting the people. After finding the script and director, they went to the big studio to rent props, which would save a lot of money. If you do these things yourself, not to mention the maintenance of props, you would say that labor is a lot of money every month. Just like before Chenglong became popular, the film company in Luowei had a salary of 3,000 Hong Kong dollars per month. One month, even if your company didn't do anything, you might have to spend about 100,000 yuan, and several small companies could bear it.

"What are you looking for Baoxiang? Looking for a starring Brother Sanmao?" Wang Jin asked in the driver's seat.

Li Xuan didn't even raise his eyelids, and he held a pen in his right hand and painted on the script, saying, "Well, starring, plus cooperation."

"cooperate?"

"Well..." Li Xuan replied lightly: "Well, cooperate. Otherwise, do you think I have more than one million to form the crew and I still have money to invite him to star in it?"

Since Hong Jingbao became popular in the past two years, his pay has soared. Now it has reached 800,000 Hong Kong dollars. Li Xuan can't afford it, but he really couldn't think of the only person he could replace was to cooperate.

"Uh." Wang Jin nodded: "I really can't afford it, but..."

"But what?"

Wang Jin turned the steering wheel and said, "But now we will definitely not find anyone when we go to the Hong family class."

"Today is Sunday?" Li Xuan asked with a sudden realization.

I forgot about this. Today is the midnight show of Hong Jingbao's new drama "The Bad Family Boy". Although it is only two or three o'clock in the afternoon, they must be busy at Jiahe or in the theater now.

However, if it were the midnight show of "The Kids of Miscellaneous Family"? Li Xuan frowned and threw the script in his hand on the bridge.

"Fatty, I won't talk to them about the movie today." Li Xuan said from the side.

"Uh?" Seeing that his movie might be ruined, Wang Jin was a little anxious and asked hurriedly: "Why?"

"We are looking for Baoxiang, not Jiabao. Now we go buy tickets, we go to the midnight venue, and make an appointment with Sanmao to talk about it separately." Li Xuan replied. He remembered that there was Mai Jia in the promotional poster of "The Miscellaneous Boy". It was not good to only invite Baoxiang's people to make movies in front of Jiabao, and it is easy to offend people. Moreover, the one who offended Mai Jia, the boss of Xinyi City, was later, which was unworthy.

Li Xuan and Wang Jin sat in the bustling cinema and looked at the situation around him. Li Xuan, who was sitting in the front row, sighed, almost full of attendance, which was the real popularity. Li Xuan looked back again, but unfortunately he couldn't see clearly, and he didn't know if Hong Jingbao and his team were sitting in the back.

The ticket price of this cinema is the cheapest in the front row and the most expensive in the back row. When Li Xuan and the others remembered to buy tickets in the afternoon, there were only a few seats in the front row.

A black shadow suddenly sat down next to Li Xuan.

"Mr. Li?" asked the black shadow suddenly.

Li Xuan was stunned. After a closer look, it was Chen Baisheng, the editor of the movie biweekly magazine. He hurriedly greeted: "It turns out to be Mr. Chen, what a coincidence!"

"Yes, I didn't expect that Mr. Li also came to see the midnight event. He rarely saw Mr. Li here."

"Hehe, Mr. Hong's plays have always been excellent, so come and have a look." Li Xuan said with his mouth full of words running the train.

Chen Baisheng nodded and said, "Yes, the movies are getting better and better over the years. Where did we do before... Alas, Wu Ji is here, it's early enough!" Chen Baisheng suddenly looked at Li Xuan and said.

Li Xuan hurriedly looked back and saw a four-eyed boy in a suit walking past him.

"Haha, Editor Chen is joking. Isn't it better than you..." Four-eyed boy said hello in a teasing way, looked at Li Xuan, then walked to the other side and sat down.

"That's it?" Li Xuan looked at the four-eyed boy and asked Chen Baisheng.

Chen Baisheng replied: "Wu Yinren, a reporter from Chengbao, is also an amateur film critic."

"Oh..." Li Xuan nodded: "Are there many critics this time?"

"It's a lot." Chen Bosheng turned around and looked around, pointing to a bunch of people and said, "The reporters from Ming Pao, Wenhui Po, Ta Kung Pao, Overseas Chinese Daily, Xinbao, Oriental Daily, and Sing Tao Daily are all there. There are also magazine editors of "Southern Movies" and "Jiahe Movies"... and many amateur film critics have all come."

Li Xuan was stunned now. Looking at the dark group of people, he couldn't tell who was who, and said foolishly: "Mr. Hong has such a great influence! These film critics also formed a group to buy tickets."

"It's quite big, but it's a group to buy tickets?" Chen Bosheng looked at Li Xuan and said in confusion: "What group to buy tickets? Movie tickets are all given, it's useless if you don't come."

"Is there a movie ticket?" Li Xuan was stunned for a moment. What is this statement?

"Uh..." Chen Bosheng was stunned for a moment: "Don't Mr. Li know?"

"What do you know?"

Chen Baisheng looked at Li Xuan strangely and said, "If you watch the midnight show, the producers of the movie will usually invite some film critics to watch the movie for free, so that they can do some promotion while checking the quality of the movie."

Damn! Isn’t this the prototype of the premiere of later movies? Li Xuan cursed in his heart, and he said why there were no reviews after the midnight show of his movie? It turned out that there was such an episode, why didn’t anyone tell him?

"Uh..." Li Xuan said awkwardly: "I really don't know."

Chen Baisheng suddenly remembered Li Xuan's movie, nodded and said, "Understand."

"But, since you give me tickets, why do you give me the front seat?" Li Xuan asked differently. It was uncomfortable to watch the front seat in the front seat. After watching a movie, my neck and eyes were probably sore after watching a movie.

"Front seat?" It was probably because Chen Bosheng said with great interest: "We film critics have to watch more than ordinary audiences. We should pay attention to the picture, plot, props and even the expressions of actors, so it is better to sit in the front seat."

"So that's how it is!" Li Xuan nodded.

The screen suddenly lit up and the movie was about to begin. Li Xuan saw Chen Baisheng immediately took out a notebook from his pocket, picked up a pen and started writing and drawing.

As soon as the video began, the cane-jeans in the theater became quiet instantly.

Li Xuan sighed, this is the influence of a superstar!
Chapter completed!