Chapter 1999

The first day's turnover of Qilin Commercial Plaza blinded the eyes of Xiangjiang people.

Among them, the Tin Shui Wai store with the best performance, with the support of Kirin Group employees, has a single store turnover of 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

I am afraid that this record will not be broken by a shopping mall complex for a long time.

After all, this is the first time that Xiangjiang has such a commercial complex, and the sales promotion on the first day is very strong. Many products are genuine products with 30% or 20% off, which is very cost-effective.

And Tianshuiwei was originally the home of the Kirin Group. Everyone took care of the business of their own group company, so they were naturally willing to spend money.

On the day of August 18 alone, more than 5,000 air conditioners and refrigerators were moved home from the Tin Shui Wai store. Dealers of several brands of air conditioners and refrigerators gave themselves a few slaps when they settled accounts at night, thinking that they were dreaming. .

But everyone understands that the wallets of Xiangjiang people are not bottomless, and this kind of business is only available on special days.

When everyone gets used to the model of Kylin Commercial Plaza and understands the rules inside, there will not be so many people shopping, and the shoppers will not be as crazy as they were yesterday.

However, because it is a model integrating business, leisure, and dining, there will always be no shortage of guests.

In addition to looking at the business data, Yin Jun watched the performance of the Kirin Cinemas the most.

Including the 10 cinemas in Kylin Commercial Plaza, Kylin Cinemas now has a total of 32 cinemas, but only 8 were renovated on the site purchased by Kylin Cinemas in Xiangjiang before, and the remaining 14 are all affiliated. It was left behind by Shaw Cinemas.

In Yu Zheng's plan, since the Kylin Commercial Plaza will open about 10 more in the future, there are already enough 28 movie theaters in Xiangjiang, and there is no need to worry about those franchised movie theaters.

Franchise theaters have differences with their own in terms of management and activities, and they refuse to upgrade their equipment, and there are many demands. Yu Zheng has long wanted to attack them.

As soon as the 10 Kirin Commercial Plazas opened today, and the 10 movie theaters of the Kylin Cinema Line officially started showing movies, Yu Zheng's scruples were much less.

In her plan, within the next six months, at least 6 unqualified movie theaters will be eliminated.

Come back.

Since it was the first day of opening of Kylin Commercial Plaza yesterday, the first movie at 10 o'clock was full of people.

The Qilin Commercial Plaza in the mainland and Xiangjiang are different in size, but many of the facilities are the same, including the cinema.

They all have 6 small halls, each with 150 seats, using the latest audio and projection equipment, and each hall can play 2D and IMAX versions of movies.

Yesterday, movie fans watched two different types of movies.

The first is the long-awaited new film by Zhou Runfa, Liu Dehua and Wang Zuxian - "God of Gamblers".

This movie, written by Yin Jun and directed by Wang Jing, has sparked a frenzy of moviegoers since it was released in July, repeatedly breaking the box office records of Xiangjiang movies in Asia.

In the first week of its release, the box office of "God of Gamblers" reached 300 million at the first weekend, 20 million more than "A Chinese Ghost Story" some time ago, and it was also the first Hong Kong film to reach the box office of 300 million Hong Kong dollars in the first weekend.

In the second week, the power of "God of Gamblers" did not diminish, and it took 350 million Hong Kong dollars, still ranking first in Hong Kong movies.

Now it has come to the fifth week, and the box office of "God of Gamblers" has won 1.36 billion Hong Kong dollars, but it is still firmly suppressed in the cinemas in Xiangjiang, with an attendance rate of 30% during the daytime and 60% during the prime time period. other movies.

Yesterday, "God of Gamblers" opened a total of 2 halls in Qilin Commercial Plaza, and the total attendance rate is undoubtedly 100%.

Although many of you have watched "God of Gamblers" once, but this kind of best movie theater has different effects, so it doesn't hurt to watch it again.

The whole of Asia is like them. There are countless people who have watched "God of Gamblers" more than once, but it is a little strange that, like the previous life, "God of Gamblers" actually encountered Waterloo at the box office in Japan. Eye-popping.

The difference between the previous life and this life is that in this life, Zhou Runfa is in Japan, and he seems to be an Asian actor who has already become a god.

Several film masters in Japan have praised Zhou Runfa's acting skills on different occasions, which has reached a world-class level, otherwise the Cannes Best Actor and Oscar Best Actor nominations would not have fallen on him.

In the previous life, Zhou Runfa experienced a period of trough after "The True Colors of Heroes", and then turned around again with "God of Gamblers". He was not very famous in Japan before.

The weirdest thing is that this time, Yin Jun's screenwriting work was added as a bonus item.

Yin Jun's reputation in Japan, to put it bluntly, is ten times greater than Zhou Runfa, the Asian acting god.

All the works written by Yin Jun, even the very jerky "Rain Man" and "The Pianist", have a very good box office in Japan, and have always been the number one box office contribution in Asia.

But now Yin Jun's commercial blockbuster has been left out in the cold, which makes Japanese newspapers and magazines dare not imagine.

Therefore, with Yin Jun as his company, not only did Zhou Runfa not feel disappointed, but he felt indifferent.

Because he knows that it's not that he doesn't act well, but that the Japanese have different appreciation tastes.

If you look at the South Korean market this time, it hit 500 million box office in four weeks, making it the highest box office in Asia.

In fact, the box office performance in South Korea is very good, and the reason is very simple.

Liu Dehua is not very famous in South Korea now, at best he is just a very handsome new star.

But the other two lead actors are different.

Needless to say, Zhou Runfa is the number one actor in South Korea, only slightly weaker than Zhang Guorong.

The remaining Wang Zuxian captured the hearts of all Koreans at once with the previous "A Chinese Ghost Story". At that time, the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in South Korea was on par with Japan. They really liked Wang Zuxian so much .

Now that Wang Zuxian and Zhou Runfa are starring in a movie together, of course they are of course their great support.

According to this box office record, there are almost 13 million movie viewers in South Korea, which is enough to be compared with the super Hollywood blockbuster "Resident Evil".

Compared with "God of Gamblers", which is about to be released, the movies released in the remaining four halls of Kylin Commercial Plaza yesterday will be even more shocking.

It is the first global IMAX version of computer animation produced by Disney Animation - "Toy Story".

"Toy Story" was released globally in early August, and of course Xiangjiang was also released. After all, this is a film produced by a subsidiary of the Kirin Group, let alone a script written by Yin Jun.

The dubbing lineup is also very strong. Superstars such as Zheng Shaoqiu, Cheng Long, Li Xue, Zhang Guorong, Wen Bixia, etc. all participated in the dubbing, which is why Xiangjiang people are willing to go and have a look.

At that time, it was only an ordinary 2D version, and the box office results were not very good. After 2 weeks, the results were only more than 15 million Hong Kong dollars.

Today, the IMAX version that is shown in the Kirin Commercial Plaza is a very shocking IMAX version, so many people who want to try novelty go in and contribute to the box office.

Fortunately, this is not the main battlefield of "Toy Story", otherwise the production cost of more than 50 million US dollars will definitely lose all the pants left.

In fact, the box office of "Toy Story" in the United States has exceeded 150 million U.S. dollars in two weeks, and the combined box office in Europe and South America is 80 million U.S. dollars. It has already recovered its cost.

From this perspective, Disney's first computer-animated film was a great success.

Moreover, the most important income for this kind of animated film is not the box office, but the income from peripheral derivative copyrights.

If calculated over five years, the income from peripheral derivative copyrights should be twice that of the movie box office!

A good movie can be more.

Now "Toy Story" has aroused strong responses in Europe and the United States in terms of box office and word-of-mouth, and it can be called a smooth start.

Critics feel that with such a beginning, Disney should be more daring in using computers to make animated movies and IMAX version movies.

However, inside Disney, the opinions of many people are just the opposite.

Speaking of which, "Toy Story" is not as easy to succeed as everyone imagined.

More than 200 artists and animators were assembled to produce this computer-animated film, half of which were interns from Huaguo.

With so many people participating in the production, it took a full 14 months to complete it, which shows the manpower and material resources it consumes.

Changed to another small film company, which simply didn't have the strength to make it.

Also because it costs so much to make a computer animation, the "Toy Story" model has also been questioned within Disney.

Everyone thinks, should we stop making such complex computer animations and use the hand-drawing that Disney is most familiar with, which seems to be more traditional and less expensive.

Yin Jun heard this statement in the United States, and the Americans told Yin Jun very frankly.

This is also an important reason why Yin Jun wants to pull John Lasseter out and ask him to incorporate the animation production team of Industrial Light and Magic, and together with Edwin Catmull, an important reason for the establishment of Pixar.

Only when Pixar continues to achieve success, computer animation will receive more and more attention and become the mainstream of animation production in the world.

It was like this in the previous life, and it seems that this life is no exception.

Another advantage of the establishment of Pixar Animation Company is that they will continue to produce original animations, rather than blindly adapting them based on old American cartoons.

In the previous life, Pixar really went to the world because of this original trick.

Foreigners may not like cartoons with strong American flavors that much, but the kind of animated films that put the pattern in the world are deeply loved by everyone!