Liu Chuwei and Huang Ying said goodbye happily.

Li Xuan looked at the table full of meals and never took a bite. If he hadn't known how popular "Mr. Zombie" was in the future, Li Xuan would not have invested. But now, Li Xuan would have regretted it a little. After all, "Seven Golden Corpse" has just passed five years, and I don't know if it will affect this movie.

Three million and five million are enough for Li Xuan to invest in five small-cost movies.

Anyway, he was in no mood to eat, Li Xuan sighed, threw down the table full of meals and went home.

In the following time, Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong began to look for houses all over the streets. Unfortunately, the house had not been found yet, and "Scary People" was finally released.

Unlike the anxious Wang Jin, Li Xuan seems very calm. This film is very consistent with the tastes of audiences of this era, and it is certain that the guaranteed banknotes are guaranteed.

But unexpectedly, after the box office on the first day came out, Li Xuan was also shocked.

A total of 380,000! There were three consecutive episodes in 15 theaters, with an average attendance rate of more than 80%.

This is Hong Jingbao’s ability to attract money when there is no opponent in the summer season!

In August 1979, Chenglong's "The Junior Brother Comes" had just finished the late stage. The movie that was originally planned to be released in the summer season was severely tricked by his master Yu Zhanyuan. Master Yu's "The Master Comes" was filmed intermittently in the United States for several months and had not finished it. Another box office of Jiahe guaranteed that the Xu brothers, one was busy singing and the other was busy behind the scenes, and did not produce a movie this year.

As for Shaw Brothers, the box office guaranteed director Chu Yuanda just showed his might in July. The martial arts movie "The Twins" directed by him won more than 4 million yuan, making Shaw Brothers proud in this summer war. However, in August, Shaw Brothers also quieted down and only released three new films by the young director.

"Scary People" is so arrogant in this situation where there is no opponent!

On the second day of the release of "Scary People", 15 theaters in Jiahe were filled with all the events, with a single-day box office of 430,000. On the fourth day, it was Sunday with the largest number of viewers. Jiahe finally couldn't sit still and began to increase the number of screenings for "Scary People", but the box office of a single-day exceeded 600,000.

In the next week, movies from the other four Jiahe theaters were drawn in advance or pushed back to make way for "Scary People". The box office of "Scary People" was also in front of the public.

The box office was 3.47 million in the first week!

What is this concept? This number is nearly one million more than the box office of Chu Chenglong’s "Laughter Fist" in the first week!

Not only was Li Xuan stunned, but even Hong Jingbao, who was reading the script in the Hong family's office, was in a daze.

Hong Jingbao was also shocked by this data. You should know that although the movies he starred in were very good, one or two movies ranked among the top ten in Hong Kong's box office every year. However, the local box office of the movies he starred in has never exceeded three million. The highest was last year's "Mr. Praise and Finding Qianhua", and the total box office in Hong Kong was only 2.86 million!

Now, this movie "Scary People" has compared all the movies I have before in the first week.

Hong Jingbao, who had just finished "The Death-Breaking Sword" with Mai Jia, is making a choice for the next drama. He looked at his left hand and then his right hand.

The script he grabbed with his left hand was written squarely - "Lin Shirong", which was sold to him not long ago by a small screenwriter. The script content was an old-fashioned martial arts theme that Hong Jingbao was very good at. However, the script holding on his right hand was a script he left behind not long ago called "Ghost Fighting Ghosts".

That’s right! It’s just a snippet, because this script was written by a guy named Huang Ying.

Not long ago, when this man and Liu Chuwei came to the door with two scripts, he left behind the script and pushed the "Mr. Zombie" that was inaccurate and wasted money to Li Xuan.

He can't afford to lose 3.5 million now, no less than Li Xuan's entire company, he has to support dozens of people in the Hong family.

"Aying, what movie do you think we will shoot next?" Hong Jingbao asked Lin Zhengying, who was sitting opposite him.

"Uh, "Ghost Fights"..." Lin Zhengying said hesitantly. Since "Scary of Man" became popular in the box office, he has tasted the sweetness and his status in the Hong family class has improved a lot. Now, a small movie company outside has started to ask him to film. Naturally, he prefers this script "Scary of Man" script with similar themes as "Scary of Man", which is naturally more.

"Well..., I think this is good too." Hong Jingbao looked at the script on his right hand and decided to be a master of followers and continued: "This time we Baoxiang did it ourselves!"

"Where is Boss Zou?" Lin Zhengying asked.

"Don't worry over there..." Hong Jingbao smiled and said, "Boss Zou is preparing to support Yuan Hu. Now he doesn't have so much time to deal with other matters."

"Oh..." Lin Zhengying nodded in a slight sense of understanding, always feeling that something was wrong with Hong Jingbao's words just now.

While a bunch of people were surprised by this movie, the director and producer of the movie were busy moving things.

"Ah? Really?" Wang Jin stood in the elevator and asked in surprise as he looked at Li Xuan sitting on the small single sofa.

"Well, Boss Zou said to extend the movie for a week." Li Xuan said, holding the TV in his arms.

"Wow!" Wang Jin shouted proudly and said excitedly: "That movie is over seven million, it's not a dream, seven million, seven million..."

With a crisp "ding dong", the elevator door opened.

Li Xuan stood up in his arms with the TV: "I understand, the newly promoted director is 7 million, move things quickly."

Li Xuan was moving, and he and Zhong Chuhong finally found a satisfactory house on the radio channel, located in Room 504, Baiyuan, No. 49, Broadcast Road. Does it look familiar? Not bad, it is where Fatty Wang and his family are located, but Wang Jin's family is on the sixth floor. The house is an apartment-style house with four bedrooms and two living rooms, with a real backed by Lion Mountain. However, the price is very expensive, and it cost Li Xuan 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, enough for him to buy a townhouse at the foot of the mountain.

"Hey! Xuanzi, stop."

Li Xuan had just walked out of the elevator with the TV in his arms, and Wang Jin behind him shouted.

"What's wrong?" Li Xuan stopped and turned around and asked. Fatty Wang walked over with a single sofa panting.

"Bang"

Wang Jin put the sofa on the ground and gasped and said, "Switch, let's change, the sofa is too big, I can't hold it."

"The sofa is big?" Li Xuan looked down at the single sofa that didn't even have a backrest. Is this big?

"It's not that the sofa is big, it's that you are too fat." Li Xuan criticized without hesitation.

"Then will you change it?" Wang Jin glared at Li Xuan: "If you don't change it, I won't help you move."

"Switch it! It's really troublesome, then!" Li Xuan raised the TV with both hands and handed it over.

Wang Jin hurriedly took the TV and breathed a sigh of relief. It was a small thing to move.

Li Xuan picked up the sofa casually and asked Wang Jin as he walked, "You really don't come to my company?"

"If you don't come, your company? You don't even have an address!" Wang Jin said contemptuously.

"Don't worry, the house is ready, I'll go find an office building." Li Xuan was not forced to do anything and replied indifferently: "Then where are you going? Shaw?"

"I don't know..." Wang Jin said sadly: "Do you know? Aunt Liu asked my dad yesterday."

"Aunt Six?" Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Fang Yihua is looking for your dad? Do you want you to join Shaw Brothers?"

"Um!"

Wang Jin nodded.

"Then are you in?" Li Xuan asked curiously.

"I said I don't know. Let's talk about it after I finish filming "The King of Thousand Kings". You don't know what the director is like in Shaw Brothers." Wang Jin replied distressedly.

Shaw Brothers' director is better than those who fail, but it is also a relatively tragic existence.

Shaw's production model was still a large studio system, and in the late 1970s this system gradually became rigid. The problem was concentrated in the forced control of directors and actors. The relationship between actors, directors and Shaw was a contract system, which was formulated by the company's production department and provided to directors for filming, and also allowed directors to write and direct. But the fundamental problem was profits. Shaw never shared dividends with directors and actors, but was just a salary system.

No matter how outstanding the film's box office performance is or fails, the consequences will be borne independently by the company and the director will not be shared by the director. This relationship between Shaw and the director greatly weakened the director's enthusiasm. Xu Shiwen once proposed to implement dividends and took out the script of "The Two Stars" and wanted to share the box office results with Shaw, but was rejected by Shaw. This kind of thing also happened to Li Hanxiang, Zhang Ce and others.

Under this system, even if Wang Jin's movie is well filmed, he will die of his life. For Wang Jin, who dares to ask Li Xuan for dividends with a script, it is equivalent to taking his life.
Chapter completed!