Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Sammo Hung was driving in a car and was in a good mood today. However, when he was passing through the city and preparing to go to the studio for filming, when he passed a theater, Sammo Hung's expression suddenly changed slightly.

Then after driving through the second and third stores, his face began to become serious.

Yuen Biao, who was in the same car with Sammo Hung, had the same expression on his face.

When the car arrived at the fourth theater, Sammo Hung simply stopped on the side of the road. Then he and Yuan Biao got out of the car together and went to the place where the posters were posted outside the theater.

Because "Merry Christmas" is about to be released, most of the posters of "Merry Christmas" are posted outside the theaters of the Xiangjiang Cinema Chain.

However, what made Sammo Hung curious was not the movie "Merry Christmas", but the latest poster posted in the theater.

This colorful poster is mainly in black and gray tones. The gloomy weather in the poster seems to be about to usher in a storm.

There are high-rise buildings in the modern city inside, and on the other side are the rising waves of the sea.

From the perspective of the poster, it looks like you are sticking your head out of the sea and looking up at the buildings on the ground.

If it were just an ordinary movie poster, Sammo Hung would not care so much, but the three big characters on this poster immediately attracted his attention.

"Godzilla", the legendary movie that can move in seconds, is finally about to meet the audience, and the time is the day after "Merry Christmas" ends.

Just looking at this poster, you can't tell anything specific at all.

But for some reason, Sammo Hung, standing under this poster, felt a strong sense of oppression, which he had never felt before.

"Elder brother, it's almost time, we should leave."

There is still filming going on over there on the set, so Sammo Hung can't stay here for long.

Before leaving, Sammo Hung carefully read the promotional poster for "Godzilla", and then left with Yuen Biao.

And this kind of thing not only happened to Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the directors and screenwriters of Baocheng Cinemas, when they went out, they would stop involuntarily whenever they saw this poster, and then come up to watch it.

Especially Tsui Hark, on his way to the studio for filming, he, like Sammo Hung, stopped to take a closer look at this promotional poster that was said to be designed by Lin Daoqiu himself.

If he were to promote the movie "Godzilla" himself, Tsui Hark would definitely sell it out like Lin Daoqiu and leave the suspense until the end.

In the afternoon, in the conference room of Baocheng Cinema, the atmosphere was different from usual. Pan Disheng did not come to the company today, so the person presiding over the meeting was Shun Jianxun.

Except for Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, everyone else has already arrived.

Shi Tian, ​​Eric Tsang, Tsui Hark, Xu Guanwen and Zhang Jianting all have different expressions on their faces.

Among them, Shi Tian, ​​Zhang Jianting and Xu Guanwen seemed relatively calm. Tsui Hark was the most serious, followed by Eric Tsang.

Shi Tian, ​​Zhang Jianting and Xu Guanwen all felt that no matter how powerful "Godzilla" was, it would only be released for 14 days and would not have much impact on them.

As for Eric Tsang, he is worried that if "Godzilla" is released by then, it may directly affect the box office of his upcoming new film "Happy Three Guns" which will be released on Christmas.

Tsui Hark was the only person present who was truly aware of the danger, but he felt that no one would take it seriously even if he spoke out, so he chose to keep his mouth shut.

"Everyone should know that "Godzilla" is about to be released. Although the movie "Godzilla" does put a lot of pressure on us, we actually have nothing to worry about. It only depends on one movie."

Cen Jianxun's ideas were not much different from those of Shi Tian and others. They both felt that it could only be controlled by one movie, and that Lin Daoqiu could be powerful for two weeks.

Moreover, the just-released "Tomb Raider" broke the 50 million box office mark. "Godzilla" is so powerful that it is already amazing to break the 60 million box office mark.

Others nodded one after another, and everyone agreed with what Cen Jianxun said.

However, Eric Tsang's face still didn't look good. After all, this time he was going to face "Godzilla".

I originally wanted to make some money from "Happy Three-Banging Cannons". Even Eric Tsang had thought before that the box office of "Happy Three-Banging Cannons" could reach 2,000 yuan during the Christmas and New Year's Day holidays.

Ten thousand.

But now he no longer dares to have such extravagant expectations. He thinks that the box office of "Happy Three Guns" should be a little over 10 million by then.

But even so, this drama can still make money, just not too much.

"Director Zeng, thank you for your hard work this time. "Happy Three Guns" will face a lot of pressure when the time comes. Mr. Pan has already explained that when the time comes, Baocheng Cinema will do its best to help you consolidate the reputation of "Happy Three Guns"

box office."

After Zeng Zhiwei heard what Cen Jianxun said, he breathed a sigh of relief. This meant that at least if he lost too badly, Pan Disheng would not blame him too much.

At this time, except for Tsui Hark, everyone in the Baocheng Cinema chain is still full of optimism about the future.

Especially for next year’s Spring Festival, I am full of confidence because they have unveiled a secret weapon this time.

That is "The Seven Lucky Stars" co-starring Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Hui Guanwen, Wu Yiuhan, Shum Jianxun, Qin Xianglin, Eric Tsang, Koo Gallo, Wu Jiali and other stars.

It stands to reason that the copyright of "The Five Lucky Stars" belongs to Lin Daoqiu, so Sammo Hung and others should not be able to film it.

But this time Pan Disheng no longer cares so much. He must win the Xiangjiang Cinema in the Spring Festival next year.

And without Jackie Chan, the sequel to "Plan A" would definitely not have been filmed.

So Pan Disheng found the safest way, which was to choose to make a sequel to Five Lucky Stars.

But if you want to shoot, you can't directly use the lineup of the Five Lucky Stars. This would be a bit too obvious.

So this time he simply produced "The Best Seven Lucky Stars". Even if Lin Daoqiu wanted to sue, he would not have any evidence to prove that he plagiarized "The Five Lucky Stars".

I have to say that Pan Disheng's move was really insidious. Even after Lin Daoqiu learned about this situation, he really had no way to deal with Pan Disheng.

And since Pan Disheng chose to do this, he naturally wouldn't care what others say.

Anyway, he must win next year's Spring Festival, so that he can be proud and proud of himself and avoid the humiliation ahead of him.