"Mr. Zombie: The best cooldown movie this summer!"

"Millions of directors are back strongly!"

“Awesome Kung Fu Comedy I haven’t seen in ten years!”

After watching the premiere, reporters from other newspapers were still very restrained in praise of Mr. Zombie, and some guys with brain disease (Kang Jianfei thought) were picky. However, the three newspapers that Oriental DreamWorks spent money to buy soft articles were crazy about Mr. Zombie for three consecutive days before the release.

Under the influence of long-term reports, coupled with the fame that Kang Jianfei had accumulated before, 16 theaters, including the first ri, Princess Jin, Li Stage, Watson, and Li Ge, released in "Mr. Zombie", were full of events, and the attendance rate of the other seven theaters was more than 90%.

Such a grand occasion is in a strong contrast to the average attendance rate of "Happy Ghost" first release, which is less than 60%, and is even better than Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Takes Horse" during the Chun Festival.

The entire Hong Kong film industry was shocked. After the publicity and premiere of "Mr. Zombies", many people expected Kang Jianfei's new film to be popular. But who would have thought that "Mr. Zombies" would be so popular?

To put it bluntly, the reason why "Mr. Zombie" caused the movie-watching cháo is simply the following reasons:

First of all, it is naturally that the publicity came into play, which has long lifted the audience's appetite, and the situation of queuing up at the entrance of the cinema to buy tickets at the beginning of the release;

Second, Kang Jianfei's own fame, whether it is "The Legend of Qin", "Shanghai Bund", "Happy Ghost", or his robbery incident some time ago, has made him a topical figure in Hong Kong;

Third, there are no other good movies during this period. Cheng Long is still filming "The Killer Trench" in the United States, and Sammo Hung is also producing "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", and no one robbed the audience with Kang Jianfei;

Fourth, that is, "Mr. Zombie" itself has excellent quality. Whether in terms of shooting techniques, types, scripts, etc., this movie belongs to the top of this era.

Although "Mr. Zombie" was released only five years ahead of schedule, these five years have been a five-year transformation, development and maturity of Hong Kong films, and a qualitative leap forward and afterwards!

23 cinemas were released at the same time, 16 of which were full, and the remaining 7 had an attendance rate of more than 90%. Such abnormal results directly shocked the other filmmakers who received the news.

Even Lei Juekun and Li Maowen were scared and didn't believe the scene they saw with their own eyes.

Outside the ticket window of Princess Jin Theater, the people queuing up to buy tickets lined up more than 200 meters away, blocking a store next to it, causing the owner of the store to come to the cinema to complain.

Most of the people queuing are students, and a large part of them are adults. The ones in front are fine, but the ones in the back have long been impatient.

"Hey, go to the line, someone is going to the line in front!"

"Whoever goes to the line, come out soon."

"No wonder I haven't moved after queuing for so long, it turns out that someone has been in the line."

"Pull out that slacking off quickly and beat him up!"

"Who dares to touch me? My boss is Big Fei Ge in Causeway Bay"

"It's you who beat me!"

“…”

The ticket buying team suddenly became a mess. Some people took advantage of the chaos to jump into the line, some people took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, and the noise and scolding sounded.

The cigar in Lei Juekun's hand ignited a piece of the boss and still didn't know it. It was not until the chaos in front that he destroyed the cigar and said to Li Maowen: "Tomorrow, add more scenes to "Mr. Zombie" and postpone the screening of that "Liang Blood Arrow"."

Li Maowen sighed: "Kid Kang Jianfei will be a super director from now on. If he could maintain this momentum for a few more days, Mr. Zombie's box office would probably be close to 20 million."

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Zou Wenhuai has been very upset these two days. Due to the strong release of "Mr. Zombie", the audience has been directly sucked away, resulting in less than 40% of the attendance rate of movies released on Shaw Brothers theaters.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!" The knock on the door sounded.

Zou Wenhuai put down the pen in his hand and said, "Come in!"

The one who came in was Zou Wenhuai's assistant. He walked in and said, "Mr. Zou, the news I just received was that the first ri of "Mr. Zombie" had a box office of 960,000. The next day, due to the increase in the number of releases, the single ri box office was 1.17 million."

"The box office of single ri is 1.17 million?" Zou Wenhuai looked at his assistant in surprise. He thought he had heard it wrong.

Hell, there were so many movies released in Hong Kong in the first half of the year, with only 8 movies with a box office of over 2 million. "Mr. Zombie" actually exceeded one million in a single box office, which sounds like a fantasy!

The assistant confirmed: "It is indeed a single ri box office of 1.17 million, and 23 theaters are screened five times a day. All the movies released by Princess Golden Cinemas have given way to "Mr. Zombie". Although the attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" has declined, the number of viewers has been increasing."

Zou Wenhuai was so shocked that he couldn't stop talking, and after a long time he said, "Where did this monster pop up from Kang Jianfei?"

Zou Wenhuai waved his hand and asked his assistant to go out first. Before the latter closed the door, He Guanchang walked in, pulled up his chair and sat down and said, "This time the box office of "Mr. Zombie" is too weird."

Zou Wenhuai leaned on the leather chair and said, "Yes, the box office is so high that those audiences are like crazy."

He Guanchang suddenly laughed and said, "The higher the box office of "Mr. Zombie", the bigger the crack between Lei Juekun and Kang Jianfei. I know Lei Juekun's temper, he will not be willing to sell his own movies released in theaters, but this film company is completely out of his control. I heard that Mecca and others are going to form a new company called Xinyi City. Xinyi City is absolutely controlled by Lei Juekun, and Kang Jianfei's Oriental Dream Factory is still Kang Jianfei's wholly owned by Kang Jianfei."

Zou Wenhuai said: "You mean, when Jinbao Film Company and Xinyi City get on track, Lei Juekun will take action against Kang Jianfei, or even lose the box office to force Kang Jianfei to surrender?"

"Absolutely!" He Guanchang affirmed, "But if the box office of Jinbao Film Company and Xinyi City is too bad, Lei Juekun will not have the courage to slap himself and will continue to cooperate with Kang Jianfei."

Zou Wenhuai was silent. He could only wait now. Cheng Long finished filming "The Killer Trench" in Hollywood, and then used this Sino-US cooperation blockbuster to get back the lost scenes now.

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"Uncle Nine!"

"Hello Uncle Jiu."

"Uncle Jiu, I'll go drink together after work."

“…”

On the set of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", everyone greeted him wherever Lin Zhengying went.

A week ago, Lin Zhengying was just a senior martial artist in the Hong family class. However, with the popularity of "Mr. Zombie", Lin Zhengying, as the male lead, has become a first-line movie actor in Hong Kong. People who used to call him "A Ying" now call him "Uncle Jiu" after Lin Zhengying's name in "Mr. Zombie".

In just a few days, three film companies have asked Lin Zhengying to film, and they all act as the male lead. In the past, Lin Zhengying never dreamed that he would be so glorious, and even now, he felt like he was in a dream.

Seeing Lin Zhengying coming, Hong Jinbao also asked eagerly: "Aying, how do you shoot this battle scene well?"

"I'll read the script first." Lin Zhengying picked up the script and started reading it. He felt that Hong Jinbao was much more polite to him these days, but this kind of politeness made him extremely awkward.

After the increase in screenings of "Mr. Zombie", its money-making ability has been fully released.

The first ri box office was 960,000, and the cumulative box office in the first week was 7.05 million. Such a terrifying box office has left others speechless. Half a year ago, the box office of "The Junior Brother" and "Happy Ghost" was only about 8 million in two weeks!

In fact, Kang Jianfei himself did not expect this to happen. Because the box office of the original "Mr. Zombie" was only over 20 million in Hong Kong, and the ticket price of the movie at that time had doubled compared to now.

Even because of the strong publicity, no competitors, etc., Kang Jianfei thinks that the box office will be about 15 million. But the current situation of "Mr. Zombie" is quite a sign of moving towards a box office of 20 million!

In fact, Kang Jianfei still underestimated the box office gain brought by the movie's super era. It is not that Hong Kong people are reluctant to spend money to watch movies. The key point is whether this movie is worth it or not.

Just like two years later, "Best Partner" became the first movie to exceed 20 million, and it was directly more than 26 million, far exceeding other movies of the same period.

why is that?

Because "Best Partner" is well produced, the audience is willing to buy tickets.

The same is true for "Mr. Zombie". There are almost no flaws in all aspects, and the genre and plot are extremely novel, which ultimately resulted in a terrifying box office revenue.

How popular is Mr. Zombie?

Even the host of the TV station and the columnist of the magazine inadvertently talked about "Mr. Zombie".

In order to increase the ratings of variety shows, Li's TV specially invited the main creators of "Mr. Zombies" to be guests. At first, the director of the variety show department called Kang Jianfei to call, but Kang Jianfei was quite revenge. Lishi didn't help him broadcast the premiere before, but now he is too lazy to receive the call. He just said that he would hang up the phone when he was not free.

Kang Jianfei made a move, and Lishi became anxious. Huang Xizhao, the general manager of the TV station, actually called to invite him. Only then did Kang Jianfei feel a little face and took his Tao Wu to go there happily-the TV station wanted him to blow a few times while recording the show.

"Movie Biweekly" issued a special issue specifically for "Mr. Zombie", calling it the leader in Hong Kong's Xinlang cháo films. Kang Jianfei was suddenly named the representative figure of director Xinlang cháo.

Because of the great success of "Mr. Zombie", zombie films have become completely popular. Before "Mr. Zombie" has been lost, three zombie films that follow the trend have started filming at the same time. It is conceivable that there will be more follow-up works in the second half of the year.

Li Bihua, a female writer who is already well-known, wrote in her column: "Kang Jianfei is a mysterious character. His many abilities are unknown, but his actions are always unexpected. When he films "Happy Ghost", countless people follow the comedy ghost movies; when he films "Mr. Zombie", countless people follow the zombie movies. It seems that every thing he does can cause a stream of cháo. I am looking forward to what his next movie will be..."

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Today is the third update, and there are two chapters of monthly tickets with 200 yuan, a total of five updates. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!