This kind of thing happens often in reality. A recognized classic and good song is not as good as a popular song when it is released. A good movie that can score 9 points is often crushed by a commercial film that can only score 6 points.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Putting aside factors such as luck, the most important thing is the popularity issue. Popular culture does not require too deep thought. Sometimes being too thoughtful will affect the popularity of a work.

Kang Jianfei traveled through several years and counted the increase in movie ticket prices. The lowest box office among the movies he made was "Dao Madan", but "Dao Madan" was the movie he won the most awards.

Let’s talk about the movie “Shushan”. After Kang Jianfei’s strict control and the collective efforts of Xu Ke and the screenwriters of Dream Factory, it is impeccable in terms of the plot. Especially the 120-minute theatrical version of “Shushan”, which removes the literary style of the 3-hour director version, and the rhythm of the whole movie is so smooth that it is said.

During the two-hour movie screening time, either the wonderful special effects technology, the beautiful landscape of the motherland, or the joyful battles. In the middle, love, friendship, inspiration and punishment of evil will be linked together, and there will be no slackness for the audience, or even no time to think. You just need to sit in the cinema and watch the movies obediently, and from time to time you will be amazed and cheered, and two hours will pass in a blink of an eye.

Although the plot of "The Rich Train" is also very attractive, and the comedy film has a natural advantage in Hong Kong, it is still much worse than "Shushan".

The overwhelming publicity in the early stage allowed Hong Kong people who watched TV to see the trailer of "Shushan" even more. Coupled with the halo of the Venice Film Festival and the Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prix, as well as the good reputation after the release of "Shushan", all this created the box office myth of "Shushan" in the Christmas season - to put it bluntly, many Hong Kong people have been "brainwashed" by the information about "Shushan". When we mention watching movies during this period, the first choice is "Shushan" from DreamWorks.

Comedy movies are available every year in Hong Kong, but god-level special effects blockbusters are rare. The momentum and box office of "Shushan" will become as big as snowballs.

In order to continue to build momentum for "Shushan". Not only did the specific box office data be given to "Oriental Daily", but even the news program of Phoenix Channel was broadcast: "According to data provided by Oriental Cinema, "Shushan" had a box office of 3.32 million on the first day. The weekly box office was 17.36 million, which is the best record of opening a Hong Kong movie. Since "Shushan" was full from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, the Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company once again rented four theaters in Yindu Cinema, and the number of theaters released by "Shushan" reached 32..."

"The Rich Train" was defeated. It was a complete defeat. Jiahe and Xinbao two theaters jointly screened 27 theaters. Although the box office on the first day also reached 2.74 million, the box office in the first week was only 12.91 million. In the first week of release, it was dumped by "Shushan" with more than 5 million.

As for other Hong Kong films released during the Christmas season and the Hollywood film "The City of War" introduced by Anle Theater, its attendance rate can no longer be described as "miserable", and it is simply miserable.

In another time and space, "The City of War" can get a box office of nearly HK$13 million in Hong Kong. However, because "Shushan" and "The Rich Train" snatched the audience away, the box office for one week was less than 3 million. It is hard to say whether the final box office can exceed 10 million.

"Shushan" is undoubtedly a milestone movie. I dare not say that it will open the era of special effects blockbusters in Hong Kong films, but "Shushan" will definitely inject a new vitality into the Hong Kong film market where comedy and kung fu films are flooded." - "Movie Biweekly".

"Facts have proved that Chinese-language films can also be shot at the level of "Star Wars"." - Wenhui Daily.

"Xu Ke is undoubtedly the best Chinese director. He can perfectly combine the commercial and artistic elements of the film and achieve double harvests in box office trophys all over the world." - "Daily Express".

"The "Shushan" model cannot be replicated. Because Hong Kong films rely too much on overseas markets, high-investment blockbusters have great investment risks, which is almost no different from stock trading." - Hong Kong Business Daily.

From Christmas to New Year's Day, news about "Shushan" can be seen everywhere in Hong Kong, spreading the "Shushan" craze like a plague.

What made Kang Jianfei laugh and cry was that "Shushan" did not start the so-called blockbuster era in Hong Kong movies. The most direct impact of its hot sale was that in the next few years, countless "Swordsman" movies were born. Some of them were gimmicks of special effects production, but the content in it was Shaw's set level. Putting a few balls of fireworks was a battle, but it would be enough to trick the audience into the cinema anyway.

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My good friend, Zeng Zhiwei, is receiving Sammo Hung and Mecca in his office.

The copyright of the movie "Fugui Train" belongs to Zeng Zhiwei's good friend Film Company, but there are quite a lot of investors behind it. Taiwan Scholars Company, Zeng Zhiwei, Sammo Hung and Mecca each have one, and then Jiahe added part of the investment through Baohe Company.

"The box office of "Shushan" is 30 million, right?" Sammo Hung said, peeling the peanut shell.

"It was 30 million yesterday. It's only 20 days since it was released, and the fans are like crazy." Mecca sighed. In fact, he also contributed more than ten yuan to "Shushan" and had to admit that other people's movies were indeed well-made.

"It's almost over. Hong Kong has only so many people. Those who should go to the theater have all gone in to watch it. "Shushan" has also been decreasing in the past few days." Zeng Zhiwei was open-minded. The purpose of his visit to Sammo Hung and Mecca was actually to make money. Now this goal has been achieved. "Fugui Train" has exceeded 20 million in Hong Kong's box office, and the Nanyang, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia markets can still get a lot of money back, and even a few people can make a fortune.

Zeng Zhiwei was very open-minded, but Chen Rongmei and Zou Wenhuai were quite disappointed. They fought with Kang Jianfei not only with box office, but with reputation and momentum.

"Can Xu Ke be invited to make a movie?" asked Cai Songlin, who came to Hong Kong to buy movies in person again.

Feng Bingzhong said hesitantly: "Xu Ke's current director's salary has risen so much, and he will definitely not look down on investments of average scale. I'm afraid that it is a risk to ask him to make a movie."

Cai Songlin said: "I don't really want Xu Ke to direct it himself. Just pay him some money to get the title of producer."

If Zou Wenhuai really regards movies as a career, then people like Chen Rongmei and Cai Songlin just regard movies as tools for making money. Cai Songlin is better. After all, he started out by publishing movies. If he wants to do well in the future, he has to continue making movies. Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong, the two young men, even have the idea of ​​making money. The future of Hong Kong movies has nothing to do with them. Anyway, try to make money as much as possible, and withdraw if you can't make money.

For this reason, Chen Rongmei and Feng Bingzhong agreed with Cai Songlin's proposal. The three of them jointly discussed investing in a "special effects swordsman blockbuster film", and then spent 200,000 to ask Xu Ke to be the producer's name for promotion.

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"200,000 yuan as the producer?" In the tea restaurant, Xu Ke looked at Feng Bingzhong with a strange smile, then shook his head and declined, "Sorry, I'm very tight next year and I don't have time to cooperate with Mr. Feng."

Feng Bingzhong pushed Xu Ke's check and said, "Don't need to delay Director Xu's time. As long as you agree to us sign your name in the production column, the 200,000 will be yours."

"Forget it, I won't receive any reward without any merits." Xu Ke refused without any hesitation.

If Feng Bingzhong had found Xu Ke with a check of 2 million, he would probably think about it seriously, but 200,000 is really too cheap. Those inferior followers are really cheating. They damage the reputation they had finally saved for 200,000, unless Xu Ke's brain breaks down.

"How about 300,000?" Feng Bingzhong saw that Xu Ke thought there was little money.

Xu Ke stood up and said, "Sorry, Mr. Feng, I will say goodbye first if I have something to do."

300,000 is really nothing for Xu Ke today. Judging from the current global box office trend of "Shushan", he can get at least HK$5 million. After all, he is the nominal owner of the licensing studio.

For Hong Kong directors, the income of 5 million yuan for a movie is considered awesome at this time. In the original time and space, Wang Jing was so popular in 1992 that he could only get 4 million yuan for a movie, but now there are almost no pure directors who can get more than 1 million yuan.

Like Kang Jianfei, Xu Guanwen, Mecca, Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long and others, directors will definitely earn more than 1 million yuan in a movie, but their identities are not just directors, they are also the bosses of film companies.

After New Year's Day, the New Year's Day holiday lasted for half a month. "Shushan" was screened from December 20 to January 25, and the release time lasted for 36 days.

However, starting from January 5, as fans' enthusiasm for watching movies decreased, "Shushan" gradually reduced the number of scenes. From 32 theaters at its peak, it was reduced to 8 theaters two a day. The free theater resources were used to screen another movie from DreamWorks.

Until the film was completely released in "Shushan", Hong Kong won 38.84 million yuan in box office, breaking the Hong Kong movie local box office record again.

As for "The Rich Train", it also won a good box office of 26.79 million, which was enough for investors to make a lot of money.

However, the situation in overseas markets is somewhat different. When "Shushan" was released in Europe, America and Asia, audiences from all over the world also showed different attitudes.
Chapter completed!