Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 264 Chen Qiming of Alexander
This year's Lunar New Year market is much more active than last year.

Last year, due to the collective pressure of Taiwan's filmmakers, the number of blockbuster films released in the entire Lunar New Year file can be counted on the fingers.

This year, although Taiwan filmmakers have begun to pull out of Hong Kong on a large scale, the number of films made in Hong Kong throughout the year has almost halved compared to last year.

However, during the period of the Lunar New Year file, the filmmakers had no idea of ​​pressing films, which directly led to an explosion in the number of films released in the Lunar New Year file this year.

Throughout the Lunar New Year file, several large theaters in Hong Kong have almost all arranged two movies to be released.

However, although it is said that the movie releases of the Lunar New Year file are not all concentrated together.

But in terms of publicity, each company is not giving up.

The three films "God of Gamblers 2", "Jing Wu Heroes" and "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony" are the first batch of films released in the Lunar New Year file.

At the beginning of the release of the three films, they each started large-scale publicity.

"God of Gamblers 2" features Chow Yun-fat, and with the word-of-mouth box office of the previous film, not only the audience has the highest expectations, but it is also the most watched movie.

This was followed by Jet Li's Fist of Fist.

In the past few years, although Jet Li has never won the Hong Kong box office championship, not even the runner-up and third place, but it has not affected his box office appeal in Hong Kong at all.

Coupled with the background of the classic movie "Fist of Fury", many people in Hong Kong want to watch Jet Li's version of Chen Zhen.

Compared with the above two movie stars who have become famous in Hong Kong and even the entire Asian film industry in the past few years, "The Wind and Cloud" has the same attention, but it is lower than the above two movies in terms of box office estimates.

Chen Qiming has indeed been very successful in recent years. He is the number one singer in Asia and has successfully become an international superstar.

However, these achievements mainly come from the music scene.

In the film world, although Chen Qiming successfully won the Golden Horse Best Actor last year.

"New Love" starring him was the runner-up in the Hong Kong box office last year.

But it is undeniable that Chen Qiming's box office appeal is not as good as that of Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li, who have already sold many movies.

And this year, "The Laughing Lin Boy" starring Chen Qiming is very popular in the whole of Asia, although it is a big hit at the box office.

However, this film has been questioned by film critics, who believe that the box office of this film is not actually carried by Chen Qiming, but by the two children Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen.

Coupled with the fact that Chen Qiming's "Chongqing Forest" was released during the summer vacation this year, the film finally failed at the box office, with a total box office of only 300 million.

300 million, this is actually not Waterloo, this movie has undoubtedly made money for investors.

But for Chen Qiming, the popular music king, this box office is undoubtedly a failure.

You know, before "Chongqing Forest" was released, film critics and the media estimated the film's box office to be at least 2000 million.

result……

However, although the box office of the movie "Chongqing Forest" was considered a failure, it was a success in terms of word of mouth.

In particular, Chen Qiming's performance in it can be called a blast.

Some media even said that if this year's Golden Horse Awards and Golden Statue Awards did not give Chen Qiming the title of Best Actor, then there would be no need for these two awards to continue.

At present, the Golden Horse Awards have released the shortlist for this year's Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, among which Chen Qiming is on the list with "Chongqing Forest".

Closer to home.

It is precisely because the box office of "Chongqing Forest" is not high that this has led film critics to collectively question Chen Qiming's box office appeal.

While the movie "The Wind and Cloud Heroes of the World" has attracted a lot of attention, it has also been questioned by film critics.

At the same time, on the No. 16 day, Golden Harvest Cinemas released the box office data for the premiere of "God of Gamblers 2" on the No. 15 day.

380 fifty thousand!

On the first day of its release, "God of Gamblers 2" went crazy.

The terrifying single-day box office directly occupied the headlines of major film and magazines the next day.

As soon as the single-day box office of "God of Gamblers 2" came out, "The Wind and Cloud Heroes", which was not favored by the media, became even worse.

Someone even yelled at Chen Qiming, "Chen Qiming, you are doing well in the music world, but that doesn't mean you are doing the same in the film world! You still need to temper yourself!"

Chen Qiming didn't care much about the film critic's obviously targeted remarks.

He went to see "God of Gamblers 2" in person on the afternoon of the [-]th.

Compared with the vagueness in the dream, the real movie plot is obviously more attractive.

The whole film is different from the first one where all the scenes are put on Chow Yun-fat.

In this film, Wang Jing has obviously made great changes, and almost all the supporting roles in the film have their own charms.

Qiu Shuzhen, Liang Jiahui and even Xu Jinjiang, who has a good relationship with Chen Qiming, all performed very well in the film.

Especially Qiu Shuzhen, the movie has only been released for two days, and her popularity has skyrocketed.

The poster made for the coquettish shot of her biting a poker card in the film went crazy.

After watching this movie, Chen Qiming himself was under a lot of pressure, so he called the senior management of Qiming Film and Television to hold an emergency meeting that night.

"God of Gamblers 2" is clearly on the rise.

In his dream, although Chen Qiming knew that this movie became the first Hong Kong movie with a box office of over 5000 million in Hong Kong.

But that was just a piece of text, a memory without emotion.

After watching the film with his own eyes, coupled with the atmosphere of the scene, Chen Qiming panicked a little.

The Lunar New Year file is a big time, but the market is also limited.

For movies released at the same time, if one movie hits the box office, it is inevitable that the box office of another movie will be affected, and there may even be a situation where the box office does not rise at all.

Chen Qiming didn't want to see this situation.

The investment in "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony" has exceeded 4000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Among them, Qiming Film and Television monopolized 2000 million investment.

Most of the 2000 million came from the income dividend from investing in "New Love" last year, and part of it was re-injected by Chen Qiming.

If this fails, Qiming Film and Television will definitely collapse.

Qiming Film and Television is definitely a very important industry for Chen Qiming.

In his plan for the next few years, Qiming Film and Television has a very important position.

Especially at present, Qiming Films has a new cooperation with Time Warner, and plans to shoot three films in the next three years.

For this reason, he also brought in Golden Harvest and China Film Group.

If Qiming Film and Television had collapsed at this time, then Chen Qiming would not even have time to cry.

Therefore, we must find a way.

Find a way to prevent "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony" from being left behind too much in the confrontation with "God of Gamblers 2".

Once left behind, the weaker the weaker, I am afraid that within two weeks, this movie will truly become a blood loss movie.

(End of this chapter)