Chapter 156 Movie Box Office and Beauty Love (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

   It is not just black and white images that are paying attention to the situation of the movie "Dragon and Tiger".

  Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and even people from other film companies are also paying attention to this film, not because of Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long, but because this is the first film with black and white images.

  At this time, with the blessing of Shanhai Cinemas, black and white images have become a force that cannot be ignored in the Xiangjiang film industry. In addition, Chu Huan has integrated a group of small and medium film companies before.

   No matter how you look at it, Black and White Video has become the third largest film company in Xiangjiang.

  How can such a situation not attract the attention of colleagues in the Xiangjiang Film Industry.

  Everyone wanted to see what the film would do for black and white images.

   Did it become an instant hit like Golden Harvest did with "The One-Armed Swordsman vs. the Blind Man", or did the movie hit the market, and the company continued to accumulate and wait for Li Hanxiang's movie?

  So at the entrance of the theater tonight, not only the staff of black and white video were asking about the company, but also the staff of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. Other film companies don’t have this capability!

  Tonight, both Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai did not sleep. Last time, the pair of old enemies had a tacit understanding and issued a ban on black and white images at the same time.

   As a result, it was destroyed by Chu Huan in less than a day. This made the two movie bosses very angry but helpless. Chu Huan's counterattack was too fierce.

   Just like what Chu Huan said that night in the private room of Yung Kee, if these people can unite, both Shaw Brothers and Jiahe need to be cautious.

The two of them were not as quick as Chu Huan, who could think of a way to counterattack so quickly. In addition, the two of them were enemies, and they were worried that if they went too far, it would easily cause Chu Huan to cooperate with the other party. It ended up in a situation of defending the enemy on both sides.

  So the three parties temporarily died down.

  At that time, the two of them knew that Chu Huan was not an easy person to deal with.

   If there is no accident, these two people will become their biggest enemies in the Xiangjiang film industry in the future besides each other.

  How could they not pay attention to such a character.

  At this time, both of them set their sights on the first movie "Dragon and Tiger Fighting" released in black and white.

  After the movie ended, the two quickly received a call from their subordinates, and learned about the feedback from the audience at the midnight show of "Dragon and Tiger Fight".

  After listening to the report, both of them had complicated expressions.

  Fang Yihua knew what Shao Yifu was paying attention to today, so it was rare that he did not return to his villa, but stayed at No. 8 Jiashu Road.

   "What do the people below say?"

  Fang Yihua saw Shao Yifu put down the phone, and hurriedly asked.

  Fang Yihua is not in a very good mood at this time. In fact, Fang Yihua's reputation in Shaw Brothers is not very good. If Shaw Brothers is compared to an ancient empire, Fang Yihua is now a harem.

  Fang Yihua's joining not only made Zou Wenhuai and others leave Shaw Brothers, but even Shao Yifu's children also left him.

  Zou Wenhuai has worked in Shaw for more than ten years. Even though some people did not follow him to Golden Harvest, they still respect Zou Wenhuai in their hearts.

  After Zou Wenhuai left, Fang Yihua succeeded Zou Wenhuai as the second in command of Shaw Brothers, and even carried forward Shao Yifu's stinginess.

   Such behavior is naturally not liked by the company's employees.

  Fang Yihua also understands this, although she said she doesn't care about it, as long as Shao Yifu believes in her.

   But in fact, Fang Yihua still cared about this matter very much.

  Now Shaw Brothers has not thought of a good way to deal with Golden Harvest, and a black and white image suddenly appeared. Before everyone could react, it had become the most potential film company in Xiangjiang.

  Fang Yihua felt that her life was not good.

  Shao Yifu's expression didn't change at all. It's been so many years, he hasn't experienced any kind of wind and rain. The situation he is facing today is a bit tricky for him, but it won't make him turn pale with shock.

   "The audience's feedback is not bad, but it's just an ordinary movie."

  Fang Yihua breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "That's great, these young people think they have some money, so they want to make blockbuster movies, it's just a joke!"

  Chu Huan, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Miao Kexiu are not all young people.

  If such a combination is put into later generations, it will be the kind of movie led by a small fresh meat, with extremely bad movie elements.

  No, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long are not young meat at all, only Miao Kexiu's appearance is definitely far superior to Xiaohua.

Shao Yifu glanced at his confidante, and said indifferently: "It's not that simple. Chu Huan, a young man, was able to hold up black and white images in such a short period of time, and even repelled me and me. Zou Wenhuai's joint suppression is not an ordinary person?"

  Fang Yihua looked at Shao Yifu in confusion and asked, "What's the matter?"

  Shao Yifu nodded and said: "The movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight" ingeniously ends at the end of the main part of the movie, and a clip of the movie was played, and the audience's response was very good!"

  Fang Yihua asked: "Big tidbits, isn't it the process of failure? What kind of reaction can this kind of thing cause?"

  Shao Yifu shook his head and said: "I don't know very well, I just listened to the people below. These tidbits are very exciting, and the feedback from the audience is very good."

  Although Fang Yihua still didn't have any specific concepts, she was still interested after hearing what Shao Yifu said, and said: "I never thought that Hong Jinbao would think of such a way to attract the audience."

Shao Yifu chuckled, and said, "It's impossible for Hong Jinbao to come up with the tidbits. He has been in the film industry for so many years, and he has never mentioned this kind of thing. How could he think of these things when he went to black and white images? It should be It was Chu Huan who proposed it."

  If it is said that Shao Yifu was concerned about the Shanhai Cinemas and Li Hanxiang in the black and white images before, then after a series of events, Shao Yifu has already set his target on Chu Huan.

   All of this was caused by Chu Huan.

   "A young man is a hero. I never thought that this young man would have such abilities. Zou Wenhuai is going to be in trouble!"

   When he said the last thing, Shao Yifu actually had a smug smile on his face.

  Fang Yihua looked at Shao Yifu's expression, and did not expect that Shao Yifu, who had always been very wary of Chu Huan, would praise Chu Huan at this time, and even said that Zou Wenhuai was going to be unlucky!

   Isn’t black-and-white video an opponent of Shaw Brothers?

Shao Yifu didn't wait for Fang Yihua to ask, and took the initiative to explain: "The strength of Golden Harvest lies in their theaters, studios, and overseas distribution channels. As for Li Xiaolong, now he has become a partner from a signed actor of Golden Harvest, and the two parties have no affiliation. relation.

  I have known Hong Jinbao for a long time. To Shaw Brothers, this person is not important. After all, we have Liu Jialiang, but for Golden Harvest, it is different.

   Golden Harvest has been established for too short a time and lacks sufficient background. He thought that capturing Li Xiaolong would make Golden Harvest rise?

  There is only one Li Xiaolong. If Golden Harvest really wants to be able to compete with our Shaw Brothers, it should rely on the films in the middle and lower parts, but in this regard, Golden Harvest has made little progress in the past two years.

   Originally, if Hong Jinbao had cultivated this talent for a few years, he could try to push him to be his own, but in the end, Jiahe gave him to Chu Huan for nothing.

  Li Xiaolong has great ambitions, which is one of the reasons why I didn't choose to sign him at the beginning. This person just wants to rely on us or Golden Harvest to improve his reputation in Xiangjiang.

You see, from now on, Li Xiaolong's films will all be his Xiehe film productions. As for Golden Harvest, he can only take the money and can't do anything else. Whether or not Li Xiaolong can be restrained is another matter.

   Lost the head actor, no successors, and the middle and lower films are not competitive. What will Golden Harvest have left? "

   When he said this, Shao Yifu even smiled.

In the final analysis, black and white images are only likely to develop into the third largest film company in Xiangjiang in the future, but Golden Harvest is now the second largest film company in Xiangjiang, and is the real enemy of Shaw Brothers. In addition, Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai Enmity between.

  Compared to black and white images, Shao Yifu prefers to see Zou Wenhuai being unlucky.

  Actually, Shao Yifu's analysis is not wrong. After Li Xiaolong's death next year, Golden Harvest immediately gave everyone a feeling that the building was about to collapse.

   But Zou Wenhuai was lucky again. At this time, he met the second nobleman in his business career, Xu Guanwen!

Xu Guanwen's Xu's comedy, the perfect successor to Li Xiaolong's Kung Fu movie, propped up another sky of Golden Harvest, and it was because of Xu Guanwen's existence that Golden Harvest had time to win Hong Jinbao, and then signed Cheng Long to become Xiangjiang One of the most important film companies of the 1970s and 1980s.

  So, in business, you can't believe in luck, but you must never be without luck.

  Think about it, without Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, etc., would Golden Harvest still be Golden Harvest?

  Fang Yihua tentatively asked: "Since this is the case, should Zhang Che's movie be released at the same time as Li Hanxiang's movie next month? We can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and watch the two of them fight to the death."

Shao Yifu waved his hand and said: "No, Jiahe has to deal with it, and black and white images can't be taken lightly. I always have a hunch that Chu Huan will even become a more difficult person to deal with than Zou Wenhuai in the future. Now continue to follow the previous plan. .

   Now what we have to do is to respond to all changes with the same. "

  Fang Yihua nodded, stood up and helped Yifu Shao, and the two returned to the bedroom.

  Zou Wenhuai's residence.

  Shao Yifu is accompanied by Fang Yihua, a confidante, and Zou Wenhuai also has such close partners as He Guanchang and Liang Feng.

   "Everyone knows about "Dragon and Tiger Fight", let me tell you what you think!"

   Zou Wenhuan rubbed his brows, preached to He Guanchang and Liang Feng, obviously he was not very satisfied with the result.

He Guanchang immediately said: "Chu Huan's idea of ​​releasing the tidbits is definitely a genius idea. If only based on the feedback from the audience at the midnight show, the box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger" would exceed one million. It is almost impossible, but that short one or two minutes of extras can increase the movie's box office by 200,000."

  Liang Feng also said: "But this thing is easy to imitate, we can discuss it with Li Xiaolong, and release some tidbits of his filming behind his movie."

  Zou Wenhuai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Don't you understand Aaron's character? He won't agree with you to do this."

  The reason why Zou Wenhuai was able to handle Li Xiaolong had a lot to do with his understanding of Li Xiaolong's character.

  Liang Feng thought about Li Xiaolong's character, and showed a helpless smile.

  He Guanchang continued: "Actually, I am also responsible for this matter. When Chu Huan dragged Li Xiaolong to ask Hong Jinbao, I agreed to this matter without thinking too much, but I didn't expect that Hong Jinbao's ability is really good!"

  Zou Wenhuai waved his hand and said, "I can't blame you for this matter. I made the final decision. I just didn't expect him to make a good movie."

  He Guanchang said: "I'm going to find a movie theater to see the situation of this movie tomorrow. Now I only have feedback from the midnight show, and I still can't fully understand the movie."

  Zou Wenhuai said: "Then I will trouble you. Now that things have happened, it is meaningless for us to regret the decisions we made before."

   Speaking of this, Zou Wenhuai looked at He Guanchang seriously, and Liang Feng said: "You two, black and white images must not be displayed, otherwise, we will be in danger!"

  He Guanchang and Liang Feng instantly understood what Zou Wenhuai meant.

   Golden Harvest’s development mechanism is completely different from Shaw’s.

  Shaw Brothers is the form of patriarchal system. All the films of Shaw Brothers are directed, shot and starred by Shaw Brothers, while Golden Harvest is the route of joint development by investing more satellite companies.

  Golden Harvest relied on the studios, theaters, and distribution channels they had accepted from Cathay Pacific, and could easily invest in small and medium-sized film companies in Xiangjiang, and even won Li Xiaolong with these advantages.

   But this year is different. In order to deal with the joint suppression of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, Chu Huan created an alliance, which instantly reduced Golden Harvest's resources.

"Right now, black-and-white images don't have their own studios and distribution channels outside the city, and we can continue to gain an advantage by relying on these, but looking at what Chu Huan has done after entering the film industry, I believe he will take this step sooner or later. Yes, if we just passively fight, this is a very unfavorable thing for us.”

  Zou Wenhuai continued to preach.

   Like Shao Yifu, what he values ​​is not the current "Dragon and Tiger Fight" with black and white images, but the possible development route of black and white images in the future, and the threat they bring to them.

   "Damn it, based on what I know about Shao Lao Liu's old fox, he must have the idea of ​​sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Now we not only have to deal with the pursuit of black and white images, but also be careful of Shao's sudden attack."

  Thinking of what Shao Yifu might do, Zou Wenhuai felt dizzy.

He Guanchang thought for a while and said: "I don't think Shao Lao Liu will let the black and white images become bigger, so for us now, the most important thing is to introduce some new filmmakers besides Aaron. movie."

  Zou Wenhuai nodded and said, "I think so too."

  After speaking, He Guanchang looked at Zou Wenhuai, and said earnestly: "Achang, you will be busy after watching the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight" tomorrow."

  He Guanchang nodded and said: "No problem, I will strengthen contact with other film companies in Xiangjiang, and I will also look for other film talents besides Aaron, and strive to continue to expand our company's talent pool and allies!"

  Zou Wenhuai nodded and said: "Let's do this first. From now on, we must pay more attention to black and white images, and at the same time keep an eye on the box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight"."

  Liang Feng added: "I think what needs to be paid more attention to is the situation when the movie "The Great Warlord" is released. This movie is the most important black and white movie this year!"

  Zou Wenhuai nodded and said, "That's right!"

  All of Xiangjiang's film colleagues are watching the box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger".

   At one o'clock in the morning the next day, the first-day box office of "Dragon and Tiger Fight" came out on the day it was officially released.

  81,000 Hong Kong dollars!

Doesn’t it seem like it’s very little, but what you need to look at is the current ticket price of Xiangjiang. At this time, there are five levels of seats in Xiangjiang Cinemas, which are building seats (also known as super seats), special seats, and back seats. , middle seat, front seat.

  The corresponding ticket prices are 3.5 Hong Kong dollars, 3 Hong Kong dollars, 2.4 Hong Kong dollars, 1.8 Hong Kong dollars, and 1.5 Hong Kong dollars.

  At the same time, the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fighting" is only shown in twelve theaters of Shanhai Cinemas, and it is already a pretty good box office to have this box office.

  At least for newcomers in the film industry like Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, and Miao Kexiu.

   "According to the news from the theater chain, the audience did not see a large-scale decline in the next few shows, and many audiences are very interested in the tidbits released by our company."

  Publishing Department Manager Pang Haoyang looked at Chu Huan with a happy face.

  Although the box office on the first day was not as good as those popular movies, but for the black and white film interior, this box office is enough to make them proud.

Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, Miao Kexiu and others also showed joyful expressions after hearing the box office on the first day. This already indicates that this movie will definitely not lose money, and will bring a lot of profits to the company up.

   You must know that their investment in this film is only 400,000 Hong Kong dollars!

  Although the box office of this movie will definitely show an obvious downward trend when it is released later, most of the movies that can achieve this box office on the first day can break through one million at the box office.

  Hong Jinbao said with a sigh of relief: "Finally, I have fulfilled my mission!"

At this time, Fang Jianhui reminded: "Brother Sanmao, don't you be proud of the victory and don't be discouraged by the defeat. Although the box office of "Dragon and Tiger" was good on the first day, don't forget that many viewers are attracted by the tidbits later. , Without this tidbit, the box office on the first day would not have achieved this result, so when we prepare a new movie later, we must learn from the current audience's reaction."

Hong Jinbao nodded seriously and said: "I understand that I basically spent all day in the cinema today, and carefully recorded the audience's reaction at every point in time for this movie. I believe that I will definitely be more enthusiastic about the next movie successful."

  Chu Huan glanced at Hong Jinbao appreciatively. It is not unreasonable for this person to be successful in the future. The foundation of success has already been laid with his serious attitude now.

  Now that Hong Jinbao has realized his problem, Chu Huan is not going to say anything more.

  But then he still said that when the movie’s box office exceeds 500,000, there will be a celebration banquet for everyone. If the movie’s box office exceeds 1 million, there will be a big red envelope for everyone.

   Such a decision immediately aroused cheers from the crowd.

  The movie continued to be released. On the second day, the daily box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger" was 79,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the drop was negligible.

   On the third day, 75,000 Hong Kong dollars.

   On the fourth day, there was a sharp drop, and the box office was 66,000 Hong Kong dollars.

  Finally, the movie "Dragon Tiger Fight" was released in Hong Kong for 23 days, and the total box office broke through the 1 million mark, which was 1.0535 million Hong Kong dollars.

This has surpassed the 944,400 Hong Kong dollars of "Naughty Girl", the tenth place in the top ten movie box office in Hong Kong last year, the 1,020,500 Hong Kong dollars of the ninth "One-armed Boxing King", and the 1,024,100 Hong Kong dollars of the eighth "Ti Ying". .

  But it is more difficult for the movie "Dragon and Tiger" to enter the top ten box office in Hong Kong this year, because according to the film and television records of Hong Kong, the box office of the tenth box office in Hong Kong this year will reach 1,223,900 Hong Kong dollars.

   But this is not important anymore. As far as black and white images are concerned, the box office of the first film can exceed 1 million, which is a perfect completion of his task.

  Estimated the cost of 400,000 Hong Kong dollars, this film brought 653,500 yuan of benefits to the black and white images.

  Of course, some other expenses should also be excluded.

   First of all, it is the division of Shanhai Cinemas.

  Although both companies belong to Chu Huan, they are independent in terms of money.

  According to the sharing plan signed by Shanhai Cinemas and Black and White Video, Shanhai Cinemas will share 20% of the box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger".

   That is 210,700!

  In fact, the real benefit of black and white images is 442,800 Hong Kong dollars!

  Time is pulled back to the day when "Dragon and Tiger Fight" was just released for two days.

  After paying attention to the box office of the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight" for two days, Chu Huan no longer paid attention to the box office of this movie, but focused on another matter.

   "Dragon and Tiger Fighting" Chu Huan himself did not have much hope for the movie. He has emphasized countless times before that this movie is experimental and flattering.

  So Chu Huan just chose to show it in Shanhai Cinemas.

  But the black and white film "The Great Warlord" that will be released next is different.

   This is the most important film of Black and White Video this year. The Shanhai theater chain is still a bit small. Chu Huan found Fang Jianhui and asked him to contact the independent theater in Xiangjiang immediately to discuss the release of "The Great Warlord" next month.

   This time, Chu Huan will not only let the film be shown in his own Shanhai cinema, but also expand the scale of his release and choose more independent theaters for release.

   In fact, Golden Harvest has been doing this kind of thing. The only film company in Hong Kong that really has the confidence to not need independent theaters is Shaw Brothers.

  Fang Jianhui said that when "The Great Warlord" is released, at least five theaters will be added to the company for release.

   "Brother Huan, do you have something to do tonight?"

  When Chu Huan walked out of the black-and-white image, Miao Kexiu also came out from inside, took the initiative to get into Chu Huan's car, and asked with evasive eyes.

  Chu Huan thought for a while, and said, "It's okay, what happened?"

  Miao Kexiu said in a low voice: "I want to thank you very much, so I want to invite you to my house and cook for you personally!"

  The release of the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fighting" brought Hong Jinbao from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and also made Cheng Long, an unknown person, an official movie star.

   Naturally, it also brought a lot of benefits to Miao Kexiu.

  Actually, before the movie was released, Miao Kexiu was under a lot of psychological pressure.

Even now, some Xiangjiang media are talking about the scandal between her and Chu Huan. The creation of black and white images happened after the scandal between her and Chu Huan. At that time, everyone said that Chu Huan was Chong Guan Yi was angry as a beauty, so he founded black and white video.

  A newcomer who had never entered the film industry, founded a film company for a starlet, and invested more than 20 million yuan. At the time, it was a loss-making business no matter how you looked at it.

   And Miao Kexiu has also become a contemporary confidante.

  The assets that Chu Huan has accumulated with great difficulty will fall on Miao Kexiu in a big way.

   Now it's all right. The movie "Dragon and Tiger Fight" has caused a sensation in Xiangjiang, and it is expected to become a movie with a box office of over one million. Because of the broadcast of the movie's extras, Miao Kexiu has also become a dedicated actress in the media.

   Word of mouth has undergone earth-shaking changes at this time.

   All of this made Miao Kexiu finally let go of the pressure in her heart.

  Chu Huan smiled and said, "You cook yourself?"

Miao Kexiu nodded shyly, and Chu Huan said seriously: "Then I have to supervise, we have known each other for so long, and I haven't really seen you cook, what if the thank you banquet turns into a death feast?" , then I will really complain."

  After being teased by Chu Huan, the shyness on Miao Kexiu's face disappeared and turned into dissatisfaction.

   "I've been practicing for days!"

  Chu Huan laughed and said, "Then how about we go buy the ingredients first?"

  Miao Kexiu looked at Chu Huan in surprise, and asked, "Brother Huan, do you want to go shopping for ingredients with me?"

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "Of course, otherwise how would you know what I like to eat?"

  Miao Kexiu was a little embarrassed, and said softly: "But me, I only practiced those few dishes."

  Chu Huan rubbed Miao Kexiu's head with a smile. Miao Kexiu enjoyed such an intimate gesture, but at the same time felt a little embarrassed.

   But she didn't refuse.

   "Don't worry, as long as it's made by you, I like to eat it!"

  Miao Kexiu nodded slightly.

  So Chu Huan asked Ma Jizu to drive to the vegetable market. After Chu Huan and Miao Kexiu had a shopping meal, they returned to Miao Kexiu's apartment together.

  After putting the ingredients in the kitchen, Miao Kexiu pushed Chu Huan to the living room, picked up a stack of magazines on the table, and put them in Chu Huan's hands.

   "Brother Huan, read the magazine first, I'm going to cook, don't disturb me!"

   After finishing speaking, he happily turned around to cook.

  If Chu Huan was such an obedient person, he would not be Chu Huan.

  He took a magazine casually, came to the kitchen, leaned against the door, and watched Miao Kexiu busy with work.

   Perhaps it was Chu Huan's attention that caused Miao Kexiu to make some mistakes from time to time, which made her even more flustered.

At this time, Chu Huan put down the magazine in his hand, walked up to Miao Kexiu, wrapped her arms around her slender waist from behind, and leaned on her shoulder, feeling the sensation brought by Miao Kexiu's body trembling at this time, Whispered in her ear.

   "I have a way to save you from being so nervous!"

  When Miao Kexiu didn't know how to respond, Chu Huan hugged Miao Kexiu directly in the princess's arms.

what!

  Miao Kexiu let out an exclamation.

   Also, at 11 am~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)