Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 692 Successful Counterattack
And when Lin Biqi sent the news, the promotion of "Pretty Girl" had come to an end.

The movie is less than two days away from its release, and McDonald and Lai Dawei stay in the company all day.

The publicity budget for "Pretty Girl" is not much, only 20.

After all, the production cost of this drama is not high, so McDonald does not dare to ask for too much publicity fee.

It can be said that this drama was very low-key before it was released. After all, it is actually very difficult to attract audiences because it is not a popular subject.

Now is the era of comedy and action movies, even if it is changed to Lin Daoqiu's generation.

It can be said that although McDonald's courage is not small, but at this time, his mood became uneasy.

"Anyway, "Pretty Girl" has been filmed, so we can rest assured and wait for the results."

Li Dawei was very open-minded, after all, no matter how nervous he was, it was useless.

Mai Dangxiong just nodded but didn't say a word. This kind of waiting really made people feel tormented.

Two days later, "Pretty Girl" was officially released. On the first day, Li Maowen gave the show [-] theaters.

Because there is no celebrity relationship, Mai Dangxiong and Li Dawei took a group of actors and accepted a brief interview with the reporter at the entrance of the leading theater of New Oriental Cinemas.

The reporter didn't seem to have much interest in the movie. After asking some random questions, McDonald brought the cast and crew into the theater.

Today's attendance rate is good, reaching [-]%, but even so, McDonald's mood is still not happy.

Generally, when a movie is released, the box office curve has always been from high to low.

There wasn't a full house on the first day, so it's conceivable that the performance of this drama will not be much better in the future.

But Mai Dangxiong didn't say these words, he just thought secretly in his heart.

He is even thinking about it. After "Pretty Girl" hits the market, his second movie may have to shoot some popular genres.

Otherwise, if the losses continue, it will be impossible to find someone to invest in.

The box office of "Pretty Girl" on the first day was very mediocre, only 53 yuan. This was achieved because Lin Daoqiu asked Li Maowen to arrange more films for this drama.

The next day, when McDonald learned of the previous day's box office results, he didn't say anything, but sat alone in the office smoking a cigarette.

No need to be reminded, McDonald himself has realized that it is almost impossible for this film to turn around.

He even felt that it was unknown whether the box office of "Pretty Girl" could break 200 million.

"Dong dong dong..."

At this time, there was a knock on the door suddenly, and after Mai Dangxiong answered, Li Dawei and Wen Jun walked in from the door.

"The box office of "Pretty Girl" is out the day before."

McDangxiong pointed to the table.

Wen Jun and Li Dawei actually knew about it before they came, so they didn't look at the things on the table.

"Actually, it's normal for this kind of realistic drama to sell poorly. You don't need to do this."

Wen Jun persuaded Mai Dangxiong instead.

Even if "Pretty Girl" hit the street, it doesn't have much to do with him, after all, when he wrote this movie, he didn't plan to shoot it right away.

It was just that Mai Dangxiong met him, and the other party insisted on taking it for filming. Wen Jun agreed without thinking too much.

The present result was not beyond Wen Jun's expectation.

You only need to pay a little attention to the box office to know which movies sell best now.

"Okay, don't comfort me anymore, I plan to make a gangster movie next time."

Because of the relationship between "Student Police Attack" and "Police Story", now the police and gangster movies have suddenly become a big hit.

Although he doesn't like to follow the trend, but at this time, McDonald has no way to think too much.

Wen Jun stayed for a while and then left. He still had a lot of things to do.

After Wen Jun left, Li Dawei suddenly said something.

"Actually, it's not necessarily a bad thing for this drama to hit the street."

As soon as Li Dawei finished speaking, Mai Dangxiong immediately raised his head, his eyes full of doubts.

Knowing that Li Dawei was definitely not talking ironically, Mai Dangxiong was very curious about what he meant by this sentence.

"Actually, we can go to Mr. Lin and ask him to give us a script."

When Li Dawei said this, Mai Dangxiong was even more shocked, because he didn't expect the other party to think this way.

"Do you think Mr. Lin will agree to our request?"

Mai Dangxiong didn't know where Li Dawei got the courage to have such an outrageous idea.

It was rumored that a script by Lin Daoqiu was worth 1000 million yuan, and that was already a few years ago.

Now if Lin Daoqiu wanted to write a script, even if they had to spend all their wealth, it would not be enough.

And Lin Daoqiu's script is not so easy to ask for.

"I don't know about it, but even if you can't get the script, it would be good if you can get an idea from Mr. Lin."

Li Dawei didn't have to ask Mai Dangxiong to get the script from Lin Daoqiu, as long as they could get an idea, they could write the script according to the idea given by Lin Daoqiu.

Shaking his head, although Mai Dangxiong was very tempted by Li Dawei's proposal, he felt that with his friendship with Lin Daoqiu, this matter was really difficult to handle.

"Anyway, it's like this now, why don't you try it, Mr. Lin won't kill us, what do you think?"

Li Dawei has nothing to do now, it depends on whether Mai Dangxiong is willing to try his suggestion.

"Let me think again."

In fact, Mai Dangxiong was already shaken, but he couldn't hold back his face for a while, and asked Lin Daoqiu to give him a script.

But just when Mai Dangxiong was still struggling, should he ask Lin Daoqiu for a script?

The box office performance of "Pretty Girl" unexpectedly showed a reverse growth on the second day.

Although it has only increased from 53 to 65, this is a big encouragement for McDonald.

After that, almost every day, the box office of "Pretty Girl" increased, and it didn't drop slowly until the single-day box office broke one million.

Two weeks later, "Pretty Girl" finally got a box office score of 1000 million.

Many people looked down on McDonald's opening work before, but they didn't expect that the last movie would be able to successfully counterattack.

Even Wen Jun, the screenwriter of this play, didn't expect such a result in the end.

Li Dawei, who originally persuaded Mai Dangxiong to go to Lin Daoqiu to ask for the script, didn't mention it later, as if nothing happened.

And with the big hit of "Pretty Girl", the matter of the heroine Lin Biqi became the focus of the reporter's attention.

(End of this chapter)