Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Amid much anticipation, the second day after the box office releases of "The Little Mermaid" and "The Big Boss", word immediately spread throughout the film industry.

"The Little Mermaid" beat "The Big Boss" with 1.08 million, which was 720,000. It seems that Golden Harvest can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

After all, Yuan Biao's reputation is still there, and Mai Jia's "Crazy Old Man" has a lot of jokes, but it can only be regarded as a qualified comedy.

Compared to the pair of brothers Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung, Mai Jia and Shi Tian are obviously much weaker.

However, Lei Juekun did not feel discouraged. Instead, he comforted Mai Jia and others.

"Yuan Biao only made a movie last year that broke the Hong Kong box office record. This time we only lost less than 400,000, which is already very good. As long as we can break 3 million, I will hold a celebration banquet for everyone."

Compared to Jiahe's ambitions, Lei Juekun is much more down-to-earth. After all, he didn't open a theater just to get angry with Jiahe. Making money is his main purpose.

As long as the first movie he opens can take in 3 million at the box office, he will be satisfied.

After all, most of the movies in Hong Kong at this time have not yet achieved a box office of three million, so he has nothing to feel sad about.

But compared to Lei Juekun's relaxation, Jiahe's side seemed much more nervous.

Because in their opinion, the distance between the two dramas is less than 400,000 yuan. If there is even a slight difference, it is very likely that "Crazy Old Man" will overtake them.

"Let the people in the Propaganda Department do more advertising, and we must expand the box office."

In order to win this show, Zou Wenhuai decided to invest more money in advertising, with the purpose of increasing the box office of "Miscellaneous Boys".

He Guanchang doesn't have much opinion on this, because it doesn't matter even if he invests hundreds of thousands.

As long as Xiangjiang's performance is good enough, it will naturally make a lot of money by selling the port, and the hundreds of thousands of publicity expenses will be nothing at all.

"In the past few days, I heard that many people have transferred to Lei Juekun, including Wu Siyuan and others."

In Hong Kong, Wu Siyuan can be said to be a very important filmmaker. His Siyuan Pictures has produced many blockbuster movies before.

Last year's "Snake" and "Drunken Master" were shot by him because of his unique insight and he went to Jackie Chan.

Moreover, the two dramas together have a box office of more than 9 million. If such a person is attracted by Lei Juekun, it will be a big trouble for Jiahe.

But the strange thing is that Zou Wenhuai didn't care about this.

"Don't even think about how long it will take for Xiangjiang to produce a martial arts star. Wu Siyuan is also unlucky. I don't believe he is so lucky that he can find a dragon."

Zou Wenhuai was certain that Wu Siyuan would never be able to find someone who could compete with Jackie Chan, so he didn't care where Wu Siyuan planned to invest.

"And that old fox Wu Siyuan is not stupid. He can't possibly throw all his chips to Lei Juekun at this time. He will leave a way out for himself."

Unless Wu Siyuan is sure that Princess Jin will definitely surpass Jiahe in the future, in that case he may make a desperate move and switch to Princess Jin.

But based on Zou Wenhuai's understanding of him, this guy is not the kind of impulsive person.

Moreover, the other party is not too young and will not make blind choices like young people. In the end, he will definitely choose to be a wallflower.

"But no matter what, in addition to Wu Siyuan, there are other independent producers who have cooperated with us before, and now they will be transferred to Princess Jin. We have to be careful about this."

The news that He Guanchang received in the past few days made him feel on pins and needles. If this continues, Jiahe will become another Shaw Brothers in less than a year.

"Okay, I will seriously consider this matter, so you don't need to mention it anymore."

Zou Wenhuai seemed to have made up his mind and planned to wait for a change. He did not believe that Lei Juekun's cancellation of the base fee would not have an impact on the theater.

After all, in addition to Lei Juekun's own theater, several of Princess Jin's thirteen theaters are franchises. His cancellation of the base fee will greatly affect the theater's income.

He, Lei Juekun, has money and can afford it, but when other theater owners find that they can't make money, will they let this happen?

If a quarrel breaks out, Lei Juekun will be in an uncontrollable situation and will either have to recharge the base fee or break up with the participating theaters.

When He Guanchang saw that he could not persuade Zou Wenhuai, he could only nodded and sighed silently in his heart.

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Compared to the fight between Jiahe and Princess Jin, Shaw Brothers is much calmer.

"Twins" took in a box office of RMB 800,000 on the first day it was released, which made Run Run Shaw very happy.

On this day, he invited Lin Daoqiu out for afternoon tea, wanting to know how the filming of "Mission Impossible" was progressing.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Six, for keeping you waiting."

Lin Daoqiu arrived ten minutes late, so he quickly apologized to Run Run Shaw.

"Mr. Lin, you're welcome. You're a busy man right now. Please sit down."

After Lin Daoqiu sat down, he found that the smile on Shao Yifu's face had never stopped.

Before coming, Lin Daoqiu already knew the box office of "The Greatest Love", so he guessed that Run Run Shaw's good mood had something to do with the box office performance of "The Greatest Two".

"Mr. Lin should also know about Jiahe and Princess Jin these days."

"It turns out that Uncle Six is ​​also interested in this matter."

In fact, Jiahe and Princess Jin are both competitors of Shaw Brothers. Run Run Shaw will pay attention to their developments, which is actually normal.

"Lei Juekun's move can be said to have forced Jiahe to a dead end. Mr. Lin might as well take a guess, will Zou Wenhuai also follow Princess Jin and cancel the basic fee?"

In Shaw's eyes, Zou Wenhuai was the traitor who betrayed Shaw Brothers, and the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point because of the incident in "The One-Armed Sword".

In the past few years, Shaw Brothers has been miserably suppressed by Jiahe. Now a rare Lei Juekun has appeared, almost forcing Jiahe to a dead end. How can Shaw not be happy about this?

"I don't know about this, but Jiahe has not taken any action yet. It seems that Mr. Zou is still considering it. I think most likely Jiahe will not cancel the basic fee in the near future."

In Lin Daoqiu's view, Zou Wenhuai should have followed up on the day after Lei Juekun announced the cancellation of the base fee.

If that's the case, Princess Jin's advantage will be gone, at least Jiahe can be in an invincible position.

But Zou Wenhuai has not made any move until now, which means that he is still hesitating. It can only be said that he has missed the best opportunity.

"Mr. Lin thinks that if Shaw Brothers also announces the cancellation of the basic fee, what will be the reaction from Jiahe?"

As soon as Shao Run Run's words came out, Lin Daoqiu opened his eyes wide. He never expected that Shao Run Run would join this battle in order to force Jiahe to death.