Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1102 Boost morale
A series of movie-related newspapers such as "LA Movie News", "Hollywood Report" and "Movie Scene" all broke out an explosive news the next day.

Universal has joined the ranks of showing "Godzilla". So far, the total number of screens for "Godzilla" has exceeded 5000 yuan, which is simply incredible.

On TV shows, the discussion about "Godzilla" has not diminished since the movie was released.

Even many film critics who were prejudiced against "Godzilla" at the beginning expressed their apologies to the movie "Godzilla" after the movie was released.

"I want to apologize to "Godzilla" because I said "Godzilla" is just a sensational movie on the TV show, but after watching this movie, I very much agree with what Mr. Lin said. A cross-generational film, there is no doubt about it.”

"At the beginning, I also questioned the investment of this film as high as 5000 million, but now I think everything Mr. Lin said is true. If it didn't cost so much money, it would never be possible to make a film like "Godzilla". Such an excellent film."

Guests and hosts on the TV show raved about the Godzilla drama.

In the first week of its release, it earned 6000 million U.S. dollars, and after Warner joined, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" has skyrocketed to [-] million.

If this record continues, after the end of the second week, "Godzilla" will have accumulated a box office of [-] million.

On the other side of Xiangjiang, the movie-watching craze for "Godzilla" is almost the same as that of Hollywood.

After the first week, the box office of "Godzilla" has reached 4000 and [-] million, and it has always been fully sold out.

At the beginning, Lin Daoqiu said that "Godzilla" could generate a box office of [-] million in Xiangjiang, but many people felt that this seemed unlikely.

However, if the popularity of "Godzilla" continues to burn like this at this time, two weeks of screening time will definitely not be enough.

And because of the release of "Godzilla", "Happy Three Cannons" launched by Baocheng Cinemas only got 300 million box office in the first week.

The usual attendance rate has dropped to about [-]%, which is definitely a huge blow to Baocheng Cinemas and Pan Disheng.

But maybe it was because they had already made preparations before, so Pan Disheng didn't think there was any problem. They had already expected the ferocity of "Godzilla", but they didn't expect it to be so terrifying.

But this is just Pan Disheng's personal thoughts. He thinks it's okay, but it doesn't mean that other people have the same thoughts as him.

People like Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Zeng Zhiwei secretly watched Godzilla after it was released.

At that time, apart from being shocked, what they felt was more powerless.

Before "Godzilla", Xiangjiang Cinemas once screened an action movie "Tomb Raider" starring Brigitte Lin.

At that time, after watching "Tomb Raider", they were even more surprised by the special effects technology in it, but for Brigitte Lin's fighting and action scenes, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao didn't think there was anything special about it.

If it was them who did it, it would definitely be better and more eye-catching than hers.

However, after experiencing the baptism of "Godzilla", Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao both clearly realized that the market for pure action movies in the future will no longer be as simple as before.

Before Lin Daoqiu came, the action movies of Xiangjiang Films had always been old-style kung fu comedies, and the moves were all rigid.

And when Lin Daoqiu came, he started from kung fu comedy, slowly moved towards action movies, and now it has become an action special effects movie.

If they are still at the stage of kung fu comedy, then I believe it will not be long before they will be abandoned by the audience.

It is a pity that even if they know this is the case, they are powerless to change the current predicament.

The investment of a special effects film is at least 3000 million, and there is no way to recoup the cost in Xiangjiang alone, and it is possible to sell it in the port.

And 3000 million can only be said to be an entry-level level. If you want to hire a foreign team, the cost will naturally be more.

Although Xiangjiang has a magic studio, this company is controlled by Lin Daoqiu, and he will never let the magic studio help Baocheng theaters to film.

The dilemma that Sammo Hung and the others are now facing is that they cannot make big productions and can only live on their old capital.

And even if Pan Disheng casts a few big productions on a whim, if the box office does not sell well, like "New Shushan Swordsman" at that time, Baocheng Cinemas will definitely close down.

"Why didn't you speak?"

Pan Disheng found it very strange that no one spoke at this meeting today, and everyone seemed to be preoccupied.

"I know that the movie "Godzilla" is really fierce, but it won't last long, at most three weeks, and it took Lin Daoqiu several years to make a movie called "Godzilla." ", don't need to be so nervous."

From Pan Disheng's point of view, it took so long to film "Godzilla" and there is not one every year. Is everyone's morale so low?

But what he didn't understand was that what Sammo Hung and the others were worried about was not the movie "Godzilla", but the magic studio that produced "Godzilla".

"Mr. Pan is right. There is no need for everyone to be so depressed. After all, it takes several years to release one Godzilla, so it doesn't have such a big impact on us."

In front of Pan Disheng, Sammo Hung didn't dare to tell the truth. Anyway, if everyone knows something, they will know it. It is not good to say it.

"Actually, I'm holding this meeting today to tell everyone that this year I plan to invest an additional [-] million yuan to make three blockbuster special effects films, and I will never let Xiangjiang Cinemas focus on its beauty."

Pan Disheng felt that his generous investment this time would definitely boost morale.

But Sammo Hung and others all applauded after listening, but judging from the expressions on their faces, none of them seemed very happy.

After all, apart from "Godzilla", the investment in "Tomb Raider" has exceeded [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

3000 million to 4000 million Hong Kong dollars to make a special effects movie, there is definitely no way to compare with the Hong Kong Cinemas.

But with such support, Sammo Hung and the others naturally have nothing to complain about.

It’s just a special effect movie made with tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. If you want to compare it with those real blockbusters made by New Oriental, what kind of result will it have in the end? The relationship was not mentioned.

(End of this chapter)