Chapter 215 New Record-Breaking Movie! (First Update! Please Subscribe! Ask for a Monthly Pass!)

During New Year's Day, Cheng Long's fourth film in 1978 has almost come to an end.

The film was screened for 23 days in total, and the cumulative box office of Xiangjiang was a little over 2.54 million, while the selling price in other places increased a little, reaching 2.7 million.

Excluding all the expenses and theater share, Golden Harvest and Luo Wei Film Company earned a total of about 3.4 million yuan, and because they agreed to share equally, Luo Wei earned 1.7 million yuan alone.

If this income was calculated in the past, it would make Luo Wei laugh from ear to ear.

But the lead actor of this movie is Cheng Long. The box office of the previous "Serpentine" and "Drunken Master" in Xiangjiang and other places keeps rising. It seems that Cheng Long, who is already a new generation of kung fu superstar, unexpectedly followed up with the next two movies. , only brought Luo Wei a profit of 4 million, which really disappointed Luo Wei.

But Luo Wei had no choice.

Because Cheng Long had already terminated the contract with him and compensated him 2 million yuan, in the legal sense, he had not owed him a long time ago.

It's just that Cheng Long is quite a kind person, and he feels that Luo Wei pulled him back from being a mixer worker at the construction site, and after several years of training, he has achieved what he is today, and he owes him a favor.

So he took two films for Luo Wei that Luo Wei planned for him to shoot in 1979.

But Golden Harvest's interests must also be guaranteed, so Cheng Long only took over the filming of these two films at a price of 100,000, and the profits were shared between the two of them.

Due to emotion and reason, Cheng Long couldn't do better.

What's more, Cheng Long has already thought up a new movie for himself. He has polished the script for a long time and discussed it with his friends for a long time. Now that he has returned the favor, he can just focus on it Make your own movie.

As the saying goes, I will appear on the stage after you sing, Cheng Long's "Dragon Fist" is drawn, and Hong Jinbao's "Owl and Dumbo" has already started publicity in full swing.

You know, at this time, Hong Jinbao's "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua" is still in theaters.

"Mr. Zan and Changqianhua" has a good momentum. It reached a score of 1.9 million in the first week. Although it dropped a lot in the second week, the total score is around 3 million, which can still be expected.

But whether it is within Golden Harvest or from the perspective of the bosses and managers of major independent movie theaters, these can already be ignored.

Because this "Owl and Dumbo" is a movie specially created by Yin Jun for Hong Jinbao, and it is said to be the first modern urban comedy martial arts movie in Hong Kong.

After two days of screenings, in addition to Golden Harvest's 15 theaters all announcing the release of "Owl and Dumbo", a total of 17 other movie theaters have also signed contracts for screenings for at least two weeks.

This means that "Owl and Dumbo" has broken the record of the number of theaters, and has become the first movie in Xiangjiang's history that more than 30 movie theaters jointly screened.

This year's Spring Festival is on the 28th, and on Friday, January 5th, "Owl and Dumbo" will be released grandly.

There are 31 movie theaters, which are more than the previous 24 for "Seven Days of Love", and 25 for "Seven Days of Love".

Whether it can support such a large broadcast base, many people have no idea.

But whether it is Golden Harvest or other movie theater managers, they all think that this is an excellent movie, at least a movie that will perform well at the box office. As for how much better it will be, they still don't know.

Under the high expectations, the box office results on the first day gave everyone a reassurance.

The box office of "Owl and Dumbo" on the first day was 1.01 million!

Breaking the 850,000 box office record of "Seven Days of Love", successfully becoming the first movie in Xiangjiang's history with a box office of over 1 million on its first day!

Although there is a reason why the movie ticket price has risen to about 6.2 yuan since New Year's Day in 1978, but if it exceeds 1 million, it is more than that. In many cases, only the absolute ticket value is recognized.

Hong Jinbao was still stable, but many people in Hong's class and Garbo Films had already exclaimed, clamoring for him to hold a celebration party.

As the producer and one of the leading actors, Mecca couldn't help sighing when she saw such achievements. Yin Jun's script was really wonderful, and it easily impressed the Xiangjiang people.

But what Mecca didn't expect was that the box office results in the next few days would continue to rise.

When the first week's box office results came out, the box office of "Owl and Dumbo" reached 5.07 million, breaking Xiangjiang's first-week movie box office record again!

The previous record for the highest box office in the first week was set by the Xu Brothers' "Sell. Body Deed" last year, which broke through 4 million in the first week.

But in just over half a year, "Owl and Dumbo" went straight to the next level, bravely breaking through the 5 million box office record, which is jaw-dropping.

This also made countless Xiangjiang filmmakers cheer up after being envious and jealous.

The performance of "Owl and Dumbo" is so good. Of course, there are reasons for the sharp increase in the price of movie tickets, and there are also reasons why Yin Jun's script is indeed excellent, but more importantly, it represents that the film market in Xiangjiang has continued to grow. Prosperity has risen, and more and more people have begun to walk into the cinema and watch movies!

If the overall market expands, it will be beneficial to all filmmakers!

Back to "Owl and Dumbo", seeing how "Owl and Dumbo" made so much money, Golden Harvest quickly drew down "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua", which had been released for two weeks. Well, then Hong Jinbao and the others will definitely be unhappy, but they won't now, because the time period for the withdrawal is all given to "Owl and Dumbo".

The final box office of "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua" was 2.76 million, which is tens of thousands less than that of the previous life, but this is irrelevant. It can still be ranked among the top ten box office in Xiangjiang in 1978.

With the support of Golden Harvest, although the number of viewers of "Owl and Dumbo" dropped a little in the second week, the box office also reached 2.81 million, a drop of almost 40%, which is not bad and falls within the normal range.

At the same time, everyone's evaluation of "Owl and Dumbo" is also very high.

"There are a lot of stunts, fighting and speeding skills here, which allow us to see a different Xiangjiang movie. If we can get rid of some old things, I think Xiangjiang movies can have a higher pursuit." - Great director Li Hanxiang.

"If I were to shoot the movie, I would definitely make the movie extremely tragic, but Hong Jinbao made the fight funny and thrilling without making people feel uncomfortable. I think this kind of shooting skills can be added to my Go inside the movie." - Jagged director Chuck.

"I don't know any shooting skills or anything, but it looks good anyway, I like it!"

"What you all saw was a fight, but what I saw was the tender scene in Owl and Dumbo. Although they are liars, they are little people with a sense of justice!"

"Actually, the policeman played by Feng Haofan is also very good. Although he used the owl and Dumbo, he was also for justice. Didn't you see that he let them go in the end? I like it too. Such an ending!"

"Hahaha, why don't you say that our young master Jun is a genius? Could other screenwriters have imagined such a plot concept, such an arrangement, such a reversal? The box office is so good, it's all thanks to Jun Shao!!"

"..."

Seeing that the response in Xiangjiang was so good, the publishers in other places couldn't sit still.

Except for Cathay Pacific Cinemas, which has an agreement with Golden Harvest, which still distributes the movie with a share, the rest of the places sold a total of 2.9 million for a sell-off fee.

According to the distribution network of Cathay Pacific Cinemas, "Owl and Dumbo" should also have a box office of tens of millions, and maybe 15 million.

Unless there are such heaven-defying existences as "Titanic" and "Avatar", any other movie will inevitably be worse from week to week.

Because 7 theaters chose to release "Owl and Dumbo", its box office fell to 1.32 million in the third week, but it was a short distance away from the 10.37 million box office of "Seven Days of Love".

By the time the painting was released in the fourth week, the total box office of "Owl and Dumbo" in Xiangjiang reached a record-breaking 11.25 million, officially replacing "Seven Days of Love" and became the first box office record holder in Xiangjiang.

According to the sharing contract signed between Golden Harvest and Jiabao Company, Hong Jinbao can get 60% of all profits, including his production costs.

Originally, Golden Harvest and its satellite company signed a share contract of about 30%-50%. However, because "Owl and Dumbo" has Yin Jun's script, and Hong Jinbao and the others worked very hard on the production, so Golden Harvest adopted the A step-by-step partitioning model.

The starting point of the share is 5 million, and the highest is 10 million, and the overall profit share of more than 10 million is 60%.

Not only Golden Harvest, but several other independent movie theaters were also divided in this way after the coordination of Golden Harvest.

Note that what is mentioned here is profit sharing, not box office sharing—there are also box office sharing in theaters and cinemas.

According to this ratio, before Cathay Pacific Cinemas has finished showing "Owl and Dumbo", Garbo Company can get about 4.7 million Hong Kong dollars.

This amount alone is enough to remove all production costs, including Yin Jun's script fee, and make a net profit of 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Coupled with the fact that Cathay Pacific Cinemas easily broke through the box office equivalent to 12 million Hong Kong dollars in two weeks, the movie's 5 million profit is absolutely certain!

Because of this, on the second day after the painting of "Owl and Dumbo", Hong Jinbao was generous and held a banquet at Da. When they arrived at the scene, together with the reporters from the entertainment industry and even the reporters from the TV station, it was extremely lively.

Hong Jinbao, who set a new box office record in Hong Kong, was drunk, but his face was red, and he laughed at everyone, showing his glory and joy.

No wonder.

It has been more than ten years since Hong Jinbao made his debut, and he has been the protagonist for three to five years, but he has never been so successful. A movie has repeatedly broken multiple box office records in Hong Kong.

Although it does not necessarily mean that Hong Jinbao will secure the box office champion this year, but the hope is still very high.

Stars gathered at the banquet, but to many people's regret, they did not see Yin Jun, the screenwriter of "Owl and Dumbo".

According to Hong Jinbao, Yin Jun was unable to attend because of important matters.

Many people also understand that this is mostly due to Yin Jun's temper, he doesn't like lively scenes at all, so such a celebration party can be postponed.

Thinking that the top two movies in Hong Kong's box office are all scripts written by Yin Jun himself. His strength in movies is obviously as good as in TV dramas, and many people's minds suddenly became hot.

Of course it doesn't mean that they are going to use horizontal.

Today's Xiangjiang movies are still in the process of groping, and the Xiangjiang government is not as strict as it is in the past. There are more places for associations to do business and make money. It is really true to make movies. Few can see it.

Those who come to make movies, except those who really like movies, are speculators.

What they are thinking about now is how to use money to impress Yin Jun and make money for their movies.

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