Chapter 30 Determining the Cinema
"Okay, I'll leave first." Mo Xuan waved his hand and left. The purpose of his question was to see if Li Lizhen lies to him and to approach him in the name of Wang Jing. Although he is lustful, he doesn't like scheming women.
Looking at Mo Xuan's departure back, Wang Jing thought that there was nothing that men were not lewd, and Mr. Mo also loved this tone. It seems that in the future...
Seeing that "Happy Ghost" is about to be completed, Mo Xuan gradually began to work on the theater issue of the release of the movie "Happy Ghost".
The next day, Mo Xuan came to the administrative office of Zongheng Film early in the morning.
"Ayi, I asked you to investigate how the recent release of movies in major theaters in Xiangjiang has been investigated." Mo Xuan asked Fan Chengyi, who was processing documents in the office.
"Mr. Mo, I got Shaw Brothers, Jiahe, and the movie list that will be released in Xinyi City recently, as you ordered, as well as a series of methods. I planned to send it to you last night, but I knew that there was something to do at home." Fan Chengyi said immediately, and immediately took out a document from the drawer.
Mo Xuan waved his hand and said it was okay, and then took the theater information handed over by Fan Chengyi and read it carefully. From it, Mo Xuan found that the information about the theater releases in August, September and October is much more detailed than the information about the movies released in other months. "Mr. Mo, since you mentioned before that you wanted to release the movie "Happy Ghost" in the summer vacation, I focused on August, September and October three months." When Mo Xuan was reading the carefully document, Fan Chengyi stood beside him and explained.
"Not bad, Ayi, you are very experienced in doing things." Mo Xuan praised Fan Chengyi. The reason why he ordered Fan Chengyi to do many things was because he was interested in this and knew how to use his brain instead of what Mo Xuan told him to do. What is the use of Mo Xuan coming like that.
Mo Xuan looked at the documents given to him by Fan Chengyi. The first one was the release information of the New Art City movie. The recent movies to be released in New Art City include "The Young Master Weiwei", "I Love Night Love", "Peeling the Corners", "Brothers in Trouble", "Get on the Wrong Car", etc., and the highlight of it is the movie "Get on the Wrong Car".
"Hitting the Wrong Car" is directed by Yu Kanping and starring Sun Yue, Liu Ruiqi, Li Liqun and others. The film won 11 nominations at the 20th Taiwan Island Film Golden Horse Awards, and finally won 4 awards including Best Actor, Best Original Music, Best Original Songs, etc. The original movie songs "Wine Dry, No Wine", "Same Moonlight", "Does", "Please Come with Me" and other popular.
But if Mo Xuan remembers correctly, although "Hitting the Wrong Car" achieved great success in Taiwan and New Art City opened up the Taiwanese film market with this movie, it was a serious failure in Xiangjiang.
For many years, the audience in Xiangjiang has become accustomed to watching humorous comedy movies of the lower class, and is not interested in tear-jerking movies like "Hitting the Wrong Car". If it weren't for the box office victory of the Taiwan Island market, the box office in Xiangjiang alone would probably not be able to recover the cost of the film.
The second one is about the movies that Jiahe Theater will be released in recent months, including "New Shushan Swordsman", "Man and Ghosts", "Nameless Fire", "Teppanyaki", "Mr. No Name" and other movies.
Except for Mo Xuan who heard about "New Shushan Swordsman" in his previous life, there was no impression in Mo Xuan's mind in other movies, and he must have been unable to escape the end.
"New Shushan Swordsman" is adapted from the fantasy martial arts novel "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" by the owner of Huanzhu. It is a fantasy martial arts film directed by Xu Ke and starring Yuan Biao, Zheng Shaoqiu and Lin Qingxia. It was filmed by Jiahe to compete with "The Wrong Car" of Xinyi City.
The film tells the story of the South China Sea swordsman Ding Yin wants to destroy the raging blood demon but is possessed by him. Di Mingqi and others go to Tiandao Peak to find Li Yiqi's female hero and Ziqing double swords to save the people of the world.
Mo Xuan heard Wang Jing say some time ago that this movie was invested by Jiahe with more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and invited the special effects team from Hollywood "Star Wars" to create visual effects, and Jiahe's Hong family team designed the action.
In addition, Jiahe also invited Zheng Shaoqiu, the number one brother in the martial arts drama, to play the swordsman Ding Yin, which made Shao Yifu furious about this, thanks to Chen Dianxia pleaded for Zheng Shaoqiu.
Not only that, Jiahe also went to Taiwan many times to invite Lin Qingxia, who is known as the "No. 1 Beauty in Southeast Asia", to play the role of the immortal castle owner in the movie, and the stars gathered, making the movie look very popular from any perspective.
However, the fact is cruel. In Mo Xuan's memory, the film was the first science fiction martial arts film in Hong Kong to hire a special stunt team in "Star Wars" to support special stunt shots. It has outstanding visual effects, but the plot is a bit messy due to too many characters and clues. Many places are unclear, so the box office is not very ideal, and it only reaches more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
Although the box office of more than 10 million yuan for other movies is considered good, compared with the extremely high investment and the dismal overseas market, it ended up at a loss.
As for Shaw Brothers, the movies released are "Ghosts", "Demon Soul", "Men and Women", "Doom Car", "The Hero Shen Shengyi", etc., which Mo Xuan has never heard of, but at first glance, they are a floppy guy.
Mo Xuan pondered for a moment and decided to release the movie "Happy Ghost" in August on Shaw Brothers Theater.
At this time, if he wanted to find Xinyi City or Jiahe to release "Happy Ghost", the other party probably wouldn't agree. After all, the two parties have no friendship, and the other party has his own highlight to be released, how could he give the schedule to him an outsider?
Secondly, it is because he and Shaw Yifu have been getting along well recently, and Shaw Yifu has been making a frustration one after another. I believe that he would make a request to Shaw Yifu to release "Happy Ghost" on Shaw Theater, which is easier for Shaw Yifu to agree.
Third, he just noticed that New Art City's "The Wrong Car" and Jiahe's "The New Shushan Swordsman" were both released in August. Compared with the high investments of the two films, the box office of both films is not very ideal. Mo Xuan is confident that the box office of "Happy Ghost" in Xiangjiang will definitely surpass "The Wrong Car" and "The New Shushan Swordsman".
Think about it, it was so incredible that an unknown company invested a small movie that actually defeated Xinyi City and Jiahe.
Mo Xuan took advantage of the momentum to release the movie "Happy Ghost" and stepped on Jiahe and Xinyi City to gain the reputation of Zongheng Pictures and attract more film talents to join him. His Zongheng Pictures achieved its takeoff.
Chapter completed!