Chapter 250 Uncle Da Goes Bankrupt! (Please Subscribe!)
Entering April, Cheng Long's "Laughing Boxing Strange Move" has been released for three weeks.
After breaking Xiangjiang's first week box office record of 5.9 million in the first week, the second week's box office also exploded at 3.6 million, and the third week's box office was 2.08 million. The cumulative box office has reached 11.58 million. There is still a release time for the last week. It may break the Hong Kong box office record set by "Prodigal Boy" last month.
This made Xiangjiang's filmmakers dumbfounded.
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In the past two or three years, Xiangjiang's box office record could not be changed, but now it has been broken 3 times a year, and once a month.
Could it be that the spring of Xiangjiang Film is coming?
Moreover, Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist Strange Trick" is not only popular in Xiangjiang, it continues Xiangjiang's record of high-grossing movies in recent years, and it still sells very well in other places.
Many smart film distributors bought the distribution rights of "Laughing Boxing Strange Tricks" at a high price after the first week of screenings, and then in the past two weeks in other places, such as Japan and South Korea, it was extremely popular. There has been an upsurge in watching this movie all over the country.
The box office in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and other places is also extremely gratifying. Cheng Long, who was already very popular, suddenly became more popular.
In addition, on Cathay Pacific Cinemas, the show also started in the second week, and the box office results are even more gratifying. After two weeks, the box office is as high as 15 million Hong Kong dollars, and the total box office should be at least 20 million a month. According to the normal 30% In terms of pure share, it should be more than 6 million.
With the blessing of such achievements, Cheng Long climbed rapidly, and he was already a step above Hong Jinbao, becoming the number one kung fu superstar in Hong Kong.
While "Laughing Boxing Strange Moves" dominated the box office, Siyuan Films had already released its second film of the year - "Butterfly Transformation".
This first film directed by Xu Ke, who jumped from Jiashi, received a lot of praise when it was shown to theater managers, and a total of 17 movie theaters were contacted for release.
Yin Jun remembered that the box office of "Butterfly Change" in his previous life was more than 1 million, but because the cost was not high, he could still make a small profit of 200,000 to 300,000.
But there have been many changes in this life. Xu Ke also practiced "The Legend of the White-haired Witch" in Jiashi, which has richer experience, and also referred to many works of Yin Jun. I believe that Xu Ke His strength should be much stronger than his previous life.
In fact, under the influence of Yin Jun, the box office of Xiangjiang movies has been greatly improved.
For example, the box office champion in the previous life in 1979 was Cheng Long's "Laughing Boxing Strange Trick", but the box office was only 5.4 million, which is not even as good as the box office for a week in this life.
This is because Cheng Long in this life has changed a lot from his previous life.
After filming "Fist of Fist" and "Dragon Fist" in succession, which did not perform well at the box office, he already has a better understanding of his own style.
Coupled with the movie "Owl and Dumbo", it happened to be that the funny fighting styles of Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long were incorporated in the previous life.
After seeing this, Cheng Long was further inspired, so this life's "Laughing Fist Strange Move" is better than the previous one, and the box office soaring is naturally reasonable.
Also, a good movie playback can give the overall moviegoers a better feeling, and then make them more willing to go to the movie theater to watch movies.
Nowadays, excellent movies such as "Owl and Dumbo" and "The Prodigal Boy" are continuously broadcast, and people suddenly think "Hey, all the movies in the cinema are good movies, so let's go and see them", Naturally, it will drive up the movie box office.
Also benefited from this, "Butterfly Change" caught up with a good time, and then naturally it will have a lot of box office bonuses.
There must be more than one smart person.
For example, Shaw Brothers has recently aggressively increased the release of movies. Although it is a bit old-fashioned, it has stars that everyone likes and a plot that everyone is used to. The box office is still good, and the box office in other cities is also gratifying.
But Yin Jun also saw that the box office of Shaw Brothers' recent movies is getting worse and worse. A martial arts movie was released at the end of March, and it was released after only 7 days of release. The total box office is less than 600,000, which is very average.
If the Shaw Brothers still continued with their previous tactics, they would definitely be completely lonely like in the previous life.
Entering April, TVB also broke out a big news.
That is Wu Mengda, who became famous for filming "Chu Liuxiang" and "Dragon Babu". Because of his gambling addiction, he owed a lot of money and even applied for bankruptcy to the court.
Hearing this news, Yin Jun was taken aback.
In the previous life, Wu Mengda used to be addicted to gambling and went bankrupt, but definitely not now.
Even in his previous life, after the filming of "Chu Liuxiang", Wu Mengda was full of ambition, addicted to gambling, and then fell into bankruptcy.
But in this life, Wu Mengda filmed "Chu Liuxiang" and started filming "Tianlong Babu" non-stop. In such an intensive working time, he could find opportunities to make big bets and finally go bankrupt?
Yin Jun made a phone call and got to know Liu Tianci before he knew the details.
It was indeed Wu Mengda who killed himself.
After "Chu Liuxiang" was broadcast, he suddenly became very popular. Every day, the boss paid him to treat him to dinner, and during the entertainment, Wu Mengda, who originally liked playing mahjong and gambling, gradually became addicted to it. in it.
Especially during the period when he was poached by TVB at a high price, he was addicted to various casinos, and he missed the time for filming several times, which made Wang Tianlin very angry.
When the filming of "Dragon and Babu" was finished, Wang Tianlin immediately put this new star who was already addicted to gambling into the sidelines, and did not continue to arrange scenes for him at all.
For Wang Tianlin's move, Shao Yifu, who knew the cause and effect, also expressed his support with both hands.
Unexpectedly, not only did Wu Mengda not repent, but he felt that no one was in charge of him and that it was great not to film, so he went in and out of major casinos even more, and finally borrowed a whole lot of debt. There was no way to repay it, so he just Could have declared bankruptcy.
It is worth mentioning that although Zhou Runfa was filming in Qiongdao Island when Wu Mengda’s death bet was the worst in this life, when Zhou Runfa came back at the end of March, Wu Mengda also borrowed 100,000. Finally, when Wu Mengda wanted to borrow again, Zhou Runfa, who had already heard that he was gambling, refused to lend it to him as in the previous life, and also said the same thing as the previous life.
"I lent you money, and you go to gamble again, how can this work?"
Many people in the previous life did not actually notice the harm this sentence brought to Wu Mengda.
In fact, at this time, Wu Mengda was already scared, and wanted to quickly find a friend to borrow money to pay back those people, but Zhou Runfa, the richest and best-connected man, didn't believe him, thinking that he was still going to gamble. It broke his heart.
From this time on, Wu Mengda no longer regarded Zhou Runfa as a friend.
This is why in the golden age of Hong Kong films, Wu Mengda and Zhou Runfa were both prolific actors, but there was almost no reason for cooperation.
Of course, it cannot be said that Zhou Runfa is wrong. From his point of view, he actually thinks he is right. He can lend money to Wu Mengda to do things, but he will not lend him money to gamble.
Wu Mengda couldn't borrow money in the end, which was also related to his exhausting excuses to borrow money to gamble.
It's just that the relationship between the two has indeed drifted away since this time, which is really embarrassing.
This time, it was actually Wu Mengda who was sorry for Zhou Runfa, but after decades, Wu Mengda had changed his ways, but was ruthlessly abandoned by Zhou Xingxing.
Wu Mengda never borrowed money from Yin Jun, even if he came to borrow money from Yin Jun, Yin Jun, who knew his gambling, would not lend it to him.
Now Wu Mengda fell into bankruptcy earlier than in his previous life, and was sued by Wireless for additional compensation, demanding to recover his remuneration, etc., totaling 500,000, but in the end the court ruled that Wu Mengda needs to repay Wireless 200,000.
If calculated as a whole, Wu Mengda needs to repay the creditors 3.8 million Hong Kong dollars, and all his assets will be mortgaged and auctioned to repay other people's money.
During the period of personal bankruptcy, he needs to hand over all his income to the receivership office, and the receivership office will dispose of his income. Except for a small part for household use, the rest will be paid off in installments.
Then, the Receivership Office has strict regulations on how to use the money.
All in all, it is a luxury for Wu Mengda to have a good meal before paying off the debt.
Under such circumstances, Yin Jun told Liu Tianci and asked him to hire Wu Mengda to play a supporting role in TV dramas, and arrange as many roles as possible for him.
"He and I have always known each other. If I don't give him a hand at this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to get up again." Yin Jun said, "Brother Da is not a bad person. After the heartbreak, he can fully wake up and become a good actor."
As a result, two days later, Yin Jun received a call from Wu Mengda.
Wu Mengda on the phone burst into tears and kept saying thanks.
"Jun Shao, I, Dazai, swear to God, if I don't start a good life again, I will be hit by thunder! I will always remember your kindness!!"
Putting down the phone, Yin Jun unconsciously shook his head and smiled.
If it was someone else, maybe they wouldn't think Wu Mengda's words were special.
Only teenagers know that this is the beginning of the first gold-medal supporting actor in Hong Kong comedy movies crawling out of hell and gaining a new life!
Xiangjiang Films, you really can't do without you, Uncle Da!