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Chapter 446 The Fast and the Furious ([-])
At the entrance of the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel, He Jin and Andy Lau stood on one side, and beside them, Johnnie To, Liu Qingyun, Little Jew and others were all there.

Although many fans of He Jin are boycotting Zhou Huimin, she is one of the heroines in this drama.

It is impossible for He Jin to reduce her role.

Therefore, she followed He Jin to attend today's event.

Compared with the previous times, Huaren Film and Television's films were screened directly, and the invited guests and film critics all went directly to the theater.

Things are different this time around with The Fast and the Furious.

In order to achieve the desired effect in publicity, He Jin and Andy Lau held a premiere reception at the Shangri-La Hotel.

And now, He Jin and his team are standing here to welcome the guests and film critics who came to the reception.

"Ah Jin, your career is getting better and better! I wish you a big hit at the box office!"

From afar, Leslie Cheung came here together with actress Anita Yuen, who has risen recently in the past two years, and Tony Leung's wife, Carina Lau.

The reason why the three of them came together was not because they had any ulterior secrets.

But recently they are filming the movie "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" produced by Oriental Film Distribution Co., Ltd., directed by Chen Kexin, and starring the three of them.

"Brother! Long time no see!"

The name "brother" is not only called by Leslie Cheung's fans, but also by reporters and colleagues.

"Miss Yuan, Sister Jialing!"

He Jin and his group went up to meet him.

"You two are getting bigger and bigger, you have to take care of us more in the future!"

Carina Lau laughed and joked with Ho Jin and Andy Lau.

The investment in "Fast and Furious" exceeds [-] million, and with the investment in various aspects of publicity, the investment of this movie has reached almost [-] million.

Although this investment is not as good as Jackie Chan's [-] to [-] million drama, it is still a big investment.

What is even more commendable is that this drama is solely owned by the company of He Jin and Andy Lau.

Not only in terms of investment, but also in terms of distribution, the film was also distributed by Tianmu and Huaren itself, and it was not handed over to other distribution companies.

Although the two of them will earn more when the box office makes a lot of money by doing this, it is also very risky.

It is also because of the high risk that many people in the circle are not optimistic about them.

After all, they have already invested more than [-] million yuan. If they want to make money, they need to earn more than [-] million yuan from the box office and CDs in order for the two of them to make money.

Counting the Hong Kong movies over the years, there are several box office, CD and overseas copyright sales that can exceed [-] million.

However, the outside world is not optimistic about it, but they still admire He Jin and Andy Lau for daring to play so big.

Movies have always had gambling elements in them.

Who can guarantee that He Jin and Andy Lau will lose.

If it is successful, with this case of independent production and distribution, the two companies will largely get rid of the situation of relying on other companies for distribution.

Moreover, He Jin and the two dared to release independently, only handing over the right to release in theaters to Golden Harvest, and holding all other rights in their hands, which is also something they can rely on.

This reliance is Huaxing Electric.

Since Huaxing Electronics was handed over to Zheng Donghan, with the help of the vast copyright library of Huaxing Records, Huaxing played a sales model of buying electrical appliances and giving VCD records of famous singers.

Not to mention, this way of buying a VCD player and sending a record is really a killer move.

After only a few months, Huaxing relied on the VCD rips of the songs of those well-known singers in the copyright library, directly allowing Huaxing VCD to almost occupy the entire Xiangjiang market.

With the advantage of being able to make VCDs by yourself, why should He Jin hand over the CD distribution rights to others? Wouldn’t it be good to sell them yourself!

"Small fights, nothing special, brother, sister Jia Ling, Miss Yuan, please come inside!"

He Jin said with a smile that he was just making a fuss, and invited some people into the hotel with Andy Lau.

After sending a few people into the hotel, He Jin and Andy Lau returned to the hotel entrance, bragging and beating while waiting for other guests.

The two of them planned to make the reception bigger this time, so they invited many people, but they invited almost all the familiar people in the circle.

Among them are many big directors and big stars like Jackie Chan, and even the top executives of many film and television companies, they have invited them.

Of course, many people will definitely not be able to come due to various reasons.

But almost all of these people called both men.

"If this movie makes money, what will our brothers do next?"

Although many people are not optimistic about "Fast and Furious", their disapproval cannot stop the audience from looking forward to this movie.

Especially after the promotional video of "Fast and Furious" was broadcast on TVB's prime-time advertising column at night, many fans expressed their anticipation for the movie.

Generally, when the promotion reaches a certain level, the distribution company will go to the streets to interview and count the audience's expectations for the play.

And according to the statistics sent back yesterday.

Among the [-] people interviewed, [-] people knew about "The Fast and the Furious", and among them, about [-] people might go to the theater to watch it.

Among these people, there are He Jin's fans, Andy Lau's movie fans, and passer-by fans of the two, and there are also many people who just saw the promotion and thought the movie would be interesting.

And this interview data made Andy Lau, who had been worried since the investment, feel much better.

"You're not afraid to invest with me, are you losing money?"

He Jin said with a smile.

"Investment! There are winners and losers. You have a good vision. If you hang out with you, there is still a good chance of making money."

Andy Lau said.

"Let's talk about it! If the first film has a good box office, we will find a way to release the second film as soon as possible. As for the third film, it depends on how much money we can make."

"Fast and Furious" has been filmed in two parts at one time, and the first part will be released today.

Now that the second part has been filmed, it must be released, but the release time depends on whether the first part can make money.

If it makes money, it will naturally choose to release it within this year.

If it is a loss, then the film can only be released first, and then released after the turmoil passes.

The reason for this is that He Jin concluded that if "Fast and Furious" fails at the box office, then he and Andy Lau will definitely fall into the quagmire of public opinion for a period of time.

Andy Lau is okay, although his focus has shifted to records in the past two years, the films he made are all small productions.

But small production has the advantage of small production, even if it fails, it will not have much impact.

In contrast, the films He Jin made in the past two years were all produced by CUHK.

Most of them seem to be quite high at the box office, but with the exception of "The Five Ancestors of Shaolin", all of them lost money to the producers.

If "Fast and Furious" hits again, he may also bear the title of box office poison like Chow Yun-fat back then.

The title of box office poison is not friendly to actors.

Whoever has the back is unlucky.

(End of this chapter)