Chapter 1244 Movie Pattern

In the past few months, the economic downturn in Hong Kong and the downturn in Hong Kong's real estate have made people in Hong Kong panic, but they have never affected the film and entertainment industry in Hong Kong.

Films including "Mr. Zombie 2" and "Happy Ghost" that have repeatedly broken Hong Kong box office records were released in these months.

No matter how poor or miserable you are, you still have to have necessary entertainment and leisure. Just as in the past few months, business has been very good in several streets known for their romantic scenes.

At the end of August, the first part of the trilogy of Shaw Brothers' withdrawal from the film industry - "Chocolate" was released amidst a sigh of relief.

Because Shaw Brothers is about to leave, Golden Harvest, an old rival, has also put aside its previous grievances and specially allocated 10 cinemas for "Detective Chocolate".

Kirin Films, which has taken over the Shaw Brothers Cinemas chain, also provided full support and helped to contact and schedule films for a total of 30 cinemas.

Coupled with other bits and pieces, "Chocolate" was released in 55 theaters in one go, setting a record for the highest release of a Shaw Brothers movie.

This Shaw Brothers carefully crafted work written by Yin Jun, under the banner of the final trilogy, has attracted countless movie fans from the beginning.

This time, the rare high production level, reasonable and novel plot made the audience feel fresh and new. Every day, they said on the "Entertainment Tucao Edition" of "Kilin Daily" that if such a movie had been made earlier, how could Shaw Brothers have fallen behind? To where it is today?

With a large number of film schedules and good reputation, "Chocolate" collected 12 million box office in the first three days of the weekend. It also collected 10.5 million and 950,000 box office in the following two weeks, and exceeded 32 million box office in three weeks. In one fell swoop, it surpassed the previous "Blind Detective" and became Shaw Brothers' highest-grossing film.

If we continue with this trend, there is no doubt that we will finally draw at a height of 40 million.

In the overseas market, "Chocolate" is also highly sought after. In the Shaw Brothers theater chain in Nanyang alone, the three-week performance reached 80 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a new high for Shaw Brothers.

Looking at this result, Mr. Shao Liu was pleased and sighed at the same time.

In his mind, for a moment, he wondered if he should continue doing it.

But after all, he is a decisive person. Since he has decided to do his best on TV, he will not regret it and will only do it seriously and wholeheartedly.

Shaw Brothers is about to leave this bustling film industry, but this does not mean that the Hong Kong film industry is lonely.

From the two heroes fighting for hegemony in the past, Xiangjiang now has a three-power situation.

Qilin Films, Golden Harvest, and Xinyi City, the three film companies are competing for excellence, and good movies are emerging one after another. It can be said that they are inseparable.

Don't forget that Qilin Film has the world's number one gold medal screenwriter Yin Jun, but Yin Jun is only one person after all. He cannot produce dozens of movies a year, only three or five at most.

A mature film company will certainly not only release three or five movies a year, but at least a dozen.

For example, Golden Harvest, together with its satellite companies, had 26 movies released last year, ranking first in Hong Kong.

Followed closely by New Art City, they produced a total of 21 movies.

The third place is Qilin Film Company, which produced 15 films.

The remaining medium-sized film companies and small film companies jointly contributed more than 100 movies, making a total of 180 movies released in Hong Kong, with an average of more than 14 movies released every month.

This does not include movies imported from Hollywood and Japan.

If it weren't for the fact that the total number of movie theaters in Xiangjiang now exceeds 150, and there are about 100 large-scale movie theaters, it's hard to say that every movie can be screened.

Also, don’t forget that each of Yin Jun’s movies has been shown for six weeks, but in fact, not many movies in Xiangjiang can be shown for four weeks. At best, half of the 200 movies can be shown for four weeks. Remarkable.

More movies are released within a week or two, and there are even one-day tours in theaters.

no way.

The theater market is so cruel.

Once your movie's attendance is not very good, it will attract all kinds of harsh conditions.

Before the Kirin Cinema Line was built, among the film companies that did not have a theater chain of their own, only Kirin Film Company dared to make conditions with the theater chain, and dared to directly open a movie in forty or fifty cinemas, and then the conditions for sharing must be met. Only 50% is enough.

In fact, under the leadership of Yin Jun, the current Xiangjiang movies have spread all over Asia, and even the whole world.

At least within Asia, Hong Kong films have achieved overall dominance.

Before Yin Jun, although Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest also created a market, they were just well-known.

Only starting from Yin Jun, one wonderful movie after another, and hard work year after year, have completely conquered the audience across Asia.

The five largest movie box office markets in Asia - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand. Among the top ten box office movies every year, at least 5 are Hong Kong movies. This is a very high figure. Compared with Hollywood movies are even better.

But this is not the effort of Yin Jun alone, but the efforts of all Hong Kong filmmakers.

Xiangjiang is too small to support so many film companies and filmmakers.

Therefore, when everyone watched Yin Jun continue to conquer foreign markets, they all suddenly woke up and began to follow Yin Jun.

Those who have learned the best are Jiahe and Xinyi City.

Jiahe has three trump cards: the Xu brothers, Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao.

Xinyi City has weird talents like the Seven Weirds of Xinyi City.

In addition to Yin Jun giving them scripts for the two companies, these very capable filmmakers were also stimulated by Yin Jun to create many good movies.

For example, in the past July and August, the Xu brothers released another movie. It was not the cold joke movie they were most familiar with, but turned into a more ironic and absurd movie—— "The Land of Right and Wrong".

This movie was released in only 30 theaters at the beginning, but it made more than 5 million at the box office in the first week. In the second week, the number of theaters was increased urgently, and it earned more than 8 million at the box office. After 6 weeks of screening, The total box office is more than 30 million, which is not only the best box office result of the Hui brothers, but also the second highest among all films in Hong Kong except for Yin Jun's screenwriter.

The first one is of course Cheng Long's "Police Story".

Over at Xinyi City, a total of 7 movies were released during the three months of the summer season, which is an astonishing density.

Except for the two films with Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei, which only closed at the box office of 4 million and 7 million, the rest all had a box office of more than 15 million.

"You Are Proper", written and directed by Huang Baiming, is the most powerful, with a total box office of more than 35 million, which shocked the whole of Hong Kong.

Because of this, the achievements that the Xu family brothers had just achieved were pushed to the back by "Little Students Are Proper".

Three years ago, it was an extraordinary achievement for Xiangjiang Movie to reach over 10 million yuan.

But with the continuous advancement of the times, movies with 10 million yuan today can only be regarded as barely enough.

For a truly high-end movie, it has to earn more than 20 million.

As long as any director or actor has starred in a movie with a box office of 20 million, then they are the same size and are considered well-known people.

If it's 30 million, that's even more impressive. The newspapers will immediately give you the name of "popular fried chicken" or "first-class director", which is absolutely top-notch.

If it's 40 million or 50 million, in Xiangjiang so far, except for the film written and produced by Yin Jun, no one else can achieve such results.

Cheng Long, who is known as a kung fu superstar, has just exceeded the limit with "Police Story", which has only reached 30 million.

However, if you want to talk about Cheng Long's popularity, he is among the top in Xiangjiang.

Because he is the only one who can achieve a box office of more than 30 million by writing scripts and filming without relying on Yin Jun - of course, there are also the Xu brothers and Huang Baiming.

Because of this, the current superstars and even directors in Xiangjiang do not dare to say that they are better than Cheng Long.

After all, they also relied on Yin Jun to achieve so many results.

For example, Fei Xiang.

If it weren't for Yin Jun who selected him to star in "Speed", would he have become famous all over the world and become a new star known all over the world?

If it were Cheng Long... Well, forget it Cheng Long, if it were our Zhang Guorong, wouldn't it be the same?

That is to say, Zhang Guorong is stubborn and only likes to play music and not much like movies.

Otherwise, based on his relationship with Yin Jun, where would it be Fei Xiang's turn to become famous all over the world?

However, it is said that Jun Shao could no longer stand the laziness of his best friend and appointed him to star in a big-budget movie. The director and producer were McDonald's, a gold medal producer from ATV.

Let’s see if Zhang Guorong can become another Fei Xiang!

Speaking of Leslie Cheung, we have to talk about another celebrity who is as popular as him, Tony Leung Chaowei.

Although Tony Leung's qualifications in the film industry are still very young, in the television industry, Tony Leung is already an invincible player in the world.

Even the veteran super first-line stars Zheng Shaoqiu, Huang Yuanshen and others are still inferior to the youthful and invincible Tony Leung.

People in Xiangjiang love Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Many people list them as the two unparalleled prides. Although it is a bit flattering, it is definitely not without reason.

But Liang Chaowei was another friend of Yin Jun. It is said that Yin Jun felt that he was a little impetuous and his acting skills were not yet in place, so he had to force him to hone his skills for a few more years.

Nowadays, most of the movies Tony Leung Chiu-wai stars in are supporting roles and guest appearances, far less powerful than he was in the TV industry.

Many movie fans in Xiangjiang are actually already calling fervently.

"Master Jun, please prepare carefully! If in two or three years, Wei Zai and Rong Zai can appear in the same movie, that will be our great blessing!"

Yin Jun wanted to laugh when he saw such an appeal.

In this world, only Yin Jun knows that Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung really collaborated on a very wonderful movie.

"Happy Together".

It is no exaggeration to say that this movie is simply the pinnacle of the collaboration between Sunglasses King, Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung.

Although Yin Jun did not approve of homosexuality, looking at the performances of Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung, he had to lament that it was a crime for this movie to make either of them lose the title of Best Actor.

Except for some sensitive scenes, every shot taken by the sunglasses king is like a scroll, making people reluctant to take their eyes away.

Of course, in this life, the fates of Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung have changed, and this classic movie will not be released.

But it doesn't matter.

There are so many excellent movies, and there are plenty of opportunities for the two of them to collaborate.

Even though both of them are somewhat lazy in character, with Yin Jun's supervision, they can't be lazy even if they want to.

For example, if they were in "Infernal Affairs" and the two of them competed with each other's acting skills, the audience would be mesmerized! ?

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