Chapter 745 A New Round of Box Office War

Thursday, January 1, 1981.

The first day of the new year happens to be a holiday, so there are especially many people coming to watch the movie.

Although New Art City's movies are the most anticipated, on this day, other movie companies still gritted their teeth and released their own movies, striving to achieve good box office results during this time period.

Because it is the weekend again, these consecutive days are basically not slow, so people have enough time to relax and have fun.

In addition, everyone also wants to start a good sign.

Not only the three major theater chains, but also other scattered theater chains and theaters are all fully booked with movies today, and basically no one is empty.

However, there are only so many audiences in Xiangjiang, so they will naturally choose to watch.

Judging from the current survey, most people will choose to watch "The Best Partner", but there are also many people who are looking forward to Golden Harvest Hong Jinbao's kung fu film. In addition, Shaw Brothers' emerging director Wang Jing also has a funny movie "The Big Woman". "Decisive Battle" attacks.

Wang Jing is really working hard. He finished filming "Police School" in October and then took on another movie in the blink of an eye. From the start of filming to the completion of production, it only took 30 days.

The reason why a movie took 30 days to shoot was because Wang Jing learned a lesson from his last movie.

Yin Jun once told him, "If you are not serious about the movie, it will repay you with the box office." He firmly remembered this sentence, so after filming "Police Academy", he faced In response to Shaw Brothers' request, he carefully revised the script he had written before starting filming.

Hung Kam-bao's new film is called "The Great Thief", and the model is somewhat similar to "The Owl and the Dumbo". With Hung Kam-bao's head, it is impossible to think of a super classic like "The Five Lucky Stars", and besides, the real creator of "The Five Lucky Stars" , or Huang Bingyao.

In addition, Wu Siyuan himself has a movie released, called "Midnight Coffee", and he has found 12 theaters to screen it simultaneously. This is like pulling out a tooth from the tiger's mouth. He can organize so many theaters in addition to the three major theater chains. It fully reflects Wu Siyuan's communication skills.

But nothing else matters, the most important thing is the quality of the movie.

Therefore, when the box office report came out on January 2, everyone was in an uproar.

First place, "The Best Partner", 1.8 million.

Second place, "Battle of the Women", 330,000.

Third place, "The Thief Zheng Ping", 270,000.

Fourth place, "Midnight Coffee", 160,000.

the fifth place……

The second to fourth place, combined, are not even a fraction of the "Best Partner", which is really unexpected.

In the past, even Yin Jun's movies have never achieved such sweeping results!

Unexpectedly, the gap is so big this time. Is it true that Yin Jun can only rule the film industry alone?

Of course, this statement is still a bit biased.

Because Cheng Long's movie has not been released yet, and Xu Guanwen's movie has not been released either. Neither of these two Hong Kong superstars' movies directly compete with "The Best Partner", which is also an important reason why the box office of "The Best Partner" is so high.

However, a single-day box office figure of 1.8 million is really amazing!

The last film with such a high first-day box office was "Police Academy" which cost 90 million. However, "The Best Partner" cost at most 20 million even with Yin Jun's sky-high script fee. The astonishing speed of attracting money, maybe the box office will exceed 13 million in two weeks!

As if to confirm everyone's guesses, "The Best Partner" dropped 33% on the second day of Friday, with a box office of 1.4 million, but on Saturday, it immediately rose to 1.8 million.

The high box office is one thing, but more importantly, everyone is very enthusiastic about the endless high-tech methods and hilarious and heartwarming clips in "The Best Partner". Some people often feel their stomachs hurt from laughing.

On Sunday, the biggest rest day, and with the good reputation of the previous few days, "The Best Partner" hit the box office of 2 million in one breath, becoming the second local film in Hong Kong to break the 2 million box office in a single day. !

So in the first four days of its first weekend, "The Best Partner" directly took home 7 million yuan at the box office, and both its performance and reputation became popular.

Several other movies that were clamoring to follow "The Best" were suddenly silenced.

Except for Wang Jing's "Battle of the Women", which earned 1.9 million in the first four days in the first weekend, which is considered to be barely qualified, the rest all lost so much that they lost their pants.

Especially Siyuan Film Company. They spent a total of 4 million on the production of "Midnight Coffee" and invited Zheng Yuling and Tang Huanrong to star. However, based on the four-day box office result of 850,000 in the first weekend, it is estimated that the total box office will be less than 2 million. Being forced offline is a huge loss!

Golden Harvest is actually not feeling well either. Hung Kam-po is once again trying to make a fool of himself, but his results are getting worse and worse, much worse than those in the summer season. This makes people inside Golden Harvest question whether this former Kung Fu star has lost his charm. , started to go downhill?

There were also some comments in the newspapers, thinking that Hong Kong movies have now reached a winner-takes-all stage?

Although the Hong Kong film market has gradually begun to prosper, if only one or two companies are powerful, it will be a harm to most filmmakers in Hong Kong.

After all, most of the filmmakers in Hong Kong belong to film companies, rather than agency companies like those in the United States, which greatly restricts their cooperation in movies.

Different from the other companies with sad faces, Xinyi City hosted a banquet for guests at the most famous Fulinmen Restaurant in Xiangjiang on Monday night. They invited a full 20 tables for banquets. The cost of this alone was as high as more than 60,000. !

There were a lot of reporters at the scene, and it was such a prosperous scene to see the stars from all walks of life in New Art City attending the celebration.

No wonder they are happy.

After the first week's box office came out, many theater operators from overseas came to buy out the local distribution of "The Best Partner" at a high price.

Xu Guanjie is already famous, and Zhao Yazhi is also a super goddess. Combined with the combination of the two and the overwhelming reputation and box office of "The Best Partner", it would be strange for those theater companies not to rush to get it.

The highest buyout price offered by the Japanese theater chain is HK$10 million. If you want a share of the box office, it is 30% according to international practice.

Even the theater operators in Southeast Asia, who are always stingy, have given a total price of more than 12 million Hong Kong dollars. Add in Baodao and South Korea, and the total price has now reached 30 million!

However, Lei Juekun was not in a hurry.

He is very optimistic about "The Best" and feels that the box office performance in the second week can be good. If the box office can be stable in the second week, the price can at least increase by several million. ——After all, the quality of a movie can definitely be seen after the second week.

It's just a week's wait, and it's not like he can't afford to wait.

Lei Juekun can afford to wait, but some people can't afford to wait.

He is Wu Siyuan, who suffered serious losses.

Wu Siyuan has asked Yin Jun to get a movie script every year for the past two years, and the results have been very good. He can earn at least seven to eight million.

But he is also someone who is not willing to just make money from Yin Jun's scripts, so he has also invested in and filmed many movies in the past two years, making some profits and losing money, but overall he lost a lot.

Then this one, a heartwarming and funny romance film that he had high hopes for and thought could surpass Yin Jun's famous work "Goodbye Seven Days of Love", suffered such a miserable loss, which he never expected.

A movie has a net loss of more than 3 million yuan. No matter how sharp the housing prices in Xiangjiang are now, this amount of money is enough to buy six 500-square-foot houses!

In other words, if Wu Siyuan had used this money to invest in real estate a few months ago instead of making movies, he would have made a huge profit of more than 20%!

Wu Siyuan's family background was not strong to begin with, but he suddenly lost more than 3 million yuan, which was really a bit of a stretch. Basically, there was not much savings left over the past two years.

If another movie like this happens, Siyuan Film Company will have to close down.

At this time, who did Wu Siyuan think of first?

Of course it’s Yin Jun!

As long as Yin Jun is willing to take action, even if the price of his script has soared to 5 million, Wu Siyuan can earn at least 3 to 4 million and restore a lot of vitality.

In fact, the reason why Wu Siyuan didn't ask Yin Jun to get the script before was because the price Yin Jun wanted was getting higher and higher, and it had reached the point where he couldn't afford it.

For example, Cheng Long's movie shot in the United States actually cost 10 million Hong Kong dollars!

There is also the current "Best Partner". Everyone in Hong Kong knows that Yin Jun wants 5 million, and New Art City must buy Yin Jun's scripts for the next two movies. They are not allowed to do it themselves, and they have to do it themselves. Begins in part four.

Wu Siyuan was thinking at the time that his Yin Jun script only earned seven to eight million per movie, and Yin Jun got a big share of it all at once. He had worked hard for a while, but only three or four million had been earned. Isn't this a huge loss? ?

So, he found a few screenwriters himself and polished the script. He originally thought that he would invest a lot and gain a lot, but he didn't expect that he would invest a lot in the street.

Nowadays, the strong contrast between "Best Partner" and "Midnight Coffee" tells Wu Siyuan with facts. It is really fanciful for you to want to get rid of Yin Jun's influence and make big money by yourself!

The best way for Wu Siyuan is to make small-budget movies. After accumulating enough resources, he can continue to make movies with medium capital. He should not make movies with big capital. Even the seven giants of Hollywood have done this. Several companies have gone bankrupt. How can you, a small film company in Hong Kong, qualify for big-scale productions?

But in this impetuous society in Hong Kong, Wu Siyuan was forced to do big productions, which led to a disastrous failure.

This is due to Wu Siyuan and also to social trends.

But now, it seems that the only one who can save Wu Siyuan is Yin Jun!