Reverse Rebirth 1990

Chapter 254 260 [Tear up the contract]

In July in Hong Kong, the weather is not very good. The sun has been scorching hot since the morning.The sky was blank, and the whole earth was dazzling with white light.Walking on the road, the water in the body seems to be evaporated at any time, which is dizzying.

Compared with the unstoppable heat of the weather, the atmosphere of the Hong Kong film industry is even hotter than this scorching heat. The tension in the air can be felt no matter where you go.

July has already entered the summer vacation, and the summer vacation is a time when every major film company in Hong Kong is racing against time.

As the newly established film company, yes, Phantom Entertainment filmed the upcoming movie "God of Cookery", and also successfully held a promotional meeting for "God of Cookery", and even posted posters of "God of Cookery" all over the street. Yes, but this does not shake the current distribution of power in the Hong Kong film industry.

In the Hong Kong film industry, since Shaw Brothers cut production, Golden Harvest and Yongsheng have become unprecedented giants. Behind them, the rankings are Golden Princess and Debao.Princess Jin comes from New Art City, and Debao was founded by Sammo Hung with many stars.The strength of these two film companies should not be underestimated.

What does Phantom Entertainment have?
One play, one star.

"God of Cookery" and Zhou Xingchi.

No matter how hype the Phantom was, it was soon overwhelmed by the promotion of Yongsheng and Jiahe's new movie.

During the summer vacation, Golden Harvest will release the action film "Flying Eagle Project" by Jackie Chan.According to the catchphrase, "Big Brother Jackie Chan escaped death, the thrilling action is unprecedented!" In addition, "Flying Eagle Project" is also followed by the film "The Lame Man" co-produced by Golden Harvest and McDonald Films.

Insein Entertainment is about to release "Once Upon a Time", and "Huang Feihong" will be followed by Zhou Xingchi's "Play Back to School 2".These two dramas are both very powerful works, one starring Jet Li and the other starring Zhou Xingchi, and both dramas are also "series" films, with a very broad audience base.

In contrast, no matter how powerful Song Zhichao is and how good he is at hype, he still can't make "God of Cookery" hype to the sky.

It is precisely because he understands this truth that Song Zhichao no longer uses the tactic of "frying", but uses the tactic of "cracking".

In the previous life, many celebrities were very good at "getting popularity", and even some big-name writers were very good at "getting popularity". For example, Wang Shuo sneered at Jin Yong's popularity and scolded Jin Yong.Film directors are riding on the popularity. For example, "Ip Man" became popular, and some Hong Kong directors started shooting Ip Man's prequel and postscript based on the popularity. "A Chinese Journey to the West" was popular, so the filming of "The Treasure Box of Yue Guang", "The Great Sage of Love" and so on was started based on the popularity.

It can be said that this kind of trick of "getting popularity" has long been common in previous lives, but it is very rare in Hong Kong in this era.

Today's Hong Kong filmmakers are basically "pure". For them, life is filming, spanking, and picking up girls. They are still very unfamiliar with this kind of "hotness" tricks, but today, Song Zhichao gave them collective sex. a lesson.

Newspapers and magazines that were supposed to publish the release of new films from major film companies were all taken up by "Phantom apologizes to Yongsheng, Song Zhichao apologizes to Huaqiang" without exception.

Whether it was Golden Harvest's "Flying Eagle Project" or Yongsheng's "Play Back To School", they all died amid Song Zhichao's cheeky apology.

"I'm sorry for Yongsheng, I made a move to be sorry for Mr. Xiang; Zhongyou, I hope everyone will continue to support us Phantom Entertainment, the premiere of "God of Cookery" is about to begin——"

"I'm very interested in Zhou Xingchi, and I hope he joins Phantom. This is just a sincere invitation, and I don't mean to poach people. I also hope that the media will not misunderstand—our Phantom's new movie, which is the food starring Xingzi. The theme "God of Cookery" will be released soon, and I hope everyone will join us!"

These are Song Zhichao's "Quotations of Apology" that squeezed out "Flying Eagle Project" and "Fight Back To School", when the war was on the verge of breaking out and publicity was crucial in the summer vacation.

But no matter who it is, after reading these "quotations", they always feel that these quotations are more like the slogan of their own movies.

Ever since, "God of Cookery", which had just been squeezed out of the headlines by major film companies, once again topped the list of entertainment news.

At the same time, the premiere of "God of Cookery" is about to begin.

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Phantom World Entertainment Company——
Just last night, Song Zhichao directed the people under him to work until midnight, and then fell asleep in the small room behind the office.

At four o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by a noise.

After putting on clothes and washing up, when I came downstairs to the company, I realized that the whole company was brightly lit.

Song Zhichao saw Fu Ershao sitting on the chair stupidly, wondering what he was thinking.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Fu Jiajun woke up startled, seeing that it was Song Zhichao, he was overjoyed, now he completely regards Song Zhichao as a panacea for all diseases, thinking that there is nothing in this world that he can't just settle.

"A Chao, you finally woke up."

"What, are you waiting for me?"

"Of course, I have an urgent matter with you!" Fu Jiajun pulled Song Zhichao to a corner, with a gloomy expression on his face.

"What's the matter?" Seeing his expression, Song Zhichao knew something was wrong.

Fu Jiajun took a deep breath.Dao: "Not long ago, when we cast "The God of Cookery", we found a few movie theaters to cooperate with and asked them to help release this movie. Do you remember this?"

"Of course I remember. It should be Debao Film Company and Yonggao Film Company. They have more than 30 movie theaters, and some small theaters. They are all good!" Song Zhichao nodded.

"I just received a call from the managers of Debao and Yonggao Cinemas. They informed me that because both Debao and Yonggao Film Company launched their main summer movies, the theaters were not enough, so they planned to tear up the contract and not help us show "The God of Cookery." "." Fu Jiajun's face became annoyed.

When encountering such a thing, anyone who is put pigeons like this will become annoyed.

After hearing Fu Jiajun's words, Song Zhichao was not surprised. Instead, he nodded and said, "It's normal. The competition for summer slots is so fierce now. One more movie theater showing your own movie will bring more box office. No one will take it easy. Give up such theaters."

Everyone knows that whether a movie is good or not, and whether it has a box office or not, is not decided by the audience who went to see the movie, but by the bosses of movie theaters.

According to Song Zhichao, he must want all of Hong Kong's "six major theaters" to show his films.It's a pity that this idea can only be thought of in the mind.

Think about Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu" in his previous life. It was precisely because hundreds of cinemas of all sizes in Hong Kong screened this movie that the box office of "Kung Fu" exceeded [-] million, breaking the historical record of Hong Kong's box office and sitting on the top of the list. Top spot position.

If the Hong Kong film industry at that time was like it is now, then the box office of "Kung Fu" could only be screened in dozens of theaters together.

As for why not all theaters are showing this movie, there is only one reason, and that is internal strife.

There are currently six leading cinemas in Hong Kong, namely Jiale Cinemas under Golden Harvest, Golden Princess Cinemas under Golden Princess, Golden Sound Cinemas under Yongsheng, Xinbao Cinemas under Debao, and Yonggao Cinemas. Yonggao Cinemas, and Shaw Cinemas under Shaw Brothers.

These six theaters control about a hundred movie theaters in Hong Kong. New film companies like Phantom World can shoot and produce movies, but if they want to show movies, they must rely on the six major movie theaters in Hong Kong.

But this time it was obvious that Song Zhichao's "heating" was too much, not to mention that the film promotions of Jiahe and Yongsheng were suppressed, and even the new movies of Debao and Yonggao were not spared, so he was going to tear up the contract and not help "God of Cookery" was released.

(End of this chapter)