Hong Kong Entertainment: Kung Fu Superstar 1981

Chapter 94 Released Early
under night.

Zhang Yang leaned against the door frame of the boxing gym and raised his chin at Hong Jinbao who had just stepped out of the car.

"Brother Jinbao, why are you thinking of coming over at this time? Come earlier next time, so I can watch the boxing match with you."

Compared to Zhang Yang, who has been beaming with joy recently due to the booming momentum in the boxing gym, Hong Jinbao's face looked much more serious. After waving his hand to Zhang Yang, Hong Jinbao came closer and spoke in a low voice.

"Just now, I went to see the situation at Shaw Brothers Cinema."

"Going to Shaw Brothers?" Zhang Yang was startled.

"Well, because of the previous joint screening plan, Shaw Brothers is playing our Golden Harvest's "Qi Men Dun Jia". I just came back after watching the midnight premiere." When Hong Jinbao spoke, his frown never relaxed. Pass.

No matter how stupid he was, Zhang Yang knew that something might not be right, so he asked tentatively.

"The situation is not optimistic?"

"Yes, the response at the scene was mediocre, and the attendance rate at the scene was only about [-]%. This film...it is difficult to break the [-] million mark."

After hearing Hong Jinbao's judgment, Zhang Yang couldn't help but clicked his tongue.

Although Zhang Yang had some minor frictions with the Yuan family class because of the robbery of the studio, Zhang Yang still had a certain impression of the film "Qi Men Dun Jia". Some of the thaumaturgic designs in it were Later, I read it often.

However, even such a film, which is considered to be excellent in both quality and conception, could not achieve satisfactory results in Hong Kong in the 80s. It must be said that Hong Kong films in the golden era were a bit too complicated.

But Hong Jinbao rushed to him in the middle of the night, couldn't he just to inform him of this?

Just when Zhang Yang was puzzled, Hong Jinbao seemed to have seen through his doubts, and continued: "The joint screening plan did not achieve the expected results. If there is no accident, the senior management of Golden Harvest may ask "Mr. Zombie" to be released earlier. , so as to compete with New Art City's new film "Night Terror" in August. I heard that your film was completed last month, how is the editing going?"

After working on it for a long time, it turned out to be the supervisor...

However, it would not be bad for Zhang Yang if "Mr. Zombie" could be released in advance.

After all, according to the gambling agreement, if the film can sell high box office, Zhang Yang's share ratio will also increase.

Putting money in your pocket is better than anything else.

After coming back to his senses, Zhang Yang smiled relaxedly.

"Don't worry, the editing work has basically been completed, and the film should be delivered before next week."

Hearing the news, Hong Jinbao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"As long as everything goes well, I won't bother you anymore and just go about your business."

After speaking, Hong Jinbao waved his hand and turned to leave.

From beginning to end, this Jiahe "Marshal" came and went in a hurry, sincerely not giving Zhang Yang a chance to stay.

As he got into the car and walked away, Chen Yijie's curious voice came from behind him.

"Yangzi, why is he here in the middle of the night?" "What else can he do? He just asked us to come out to save the situation."

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In order to make "Mr. Zombie" released as early as expected, Zhang Yang spent every day in Yingyang Studio in the first week of August, working with Chen Jia Shang to complete the post-editing work.

Although Zhang Yang didn't know much about the editing industry, he had watched the original version of "Mr. Zombie". Although he couldn't understand which scenes were worth keeping and which ones were best cut. Practical, but I can still give Chen Jiashang a lot of advice.

While Zhang Yang was busy with the final editing work of "Mr. Zombie", in New Art City, "Night Terror" starring Zhang Aijia also started to be released as scheduled on August 8, and the cost of this film did not count. The high-quality small production has actually continued Xinyi City's surging momentum this year. The midnight premiere attendance rate was close to 5%, and it seems to be the prototype of another multi-million box office masterpiece.

Regarding this situation, the top management of Jiahe and Shaw Brothers saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts.

Especially for Shaw Brothers, they have obviously come up with the blockbuster IP "Tathagata Palm", but based on the first week's box office estimates, the final box office results will be difficult to break the 700 million mark, and even if the expectations are exceeded With over 700 million, this is already their second highest-grossing film this year.

As for Golden Harvest, although the momentum of the new film is not as strong as New Art City's "Night Cry", the box office of "Qi Men Dun Jia" in the first week is significantly higher than that of "Tathagata Palm", and it is even expected to break through the 800 million mark , not to mention that because they signed rising star Zhang Yang, with his mid-year film "Fist of Fury", they successfully secured the second place in the annual box office list.

However, the huge difference between the two situations did not make Jiahe's senior executives feel complacent about it.

After all, before New Art City had even exerted its influence, Golden Harvest had already overtaken Shaw Brothers and became the veritable No. [-] theater chain in Hong Kong. Now, the emergence of New Art City has undoubtedly completely turned this already a foregone conclusion. Muddle.

Zou Wenhuai didn't want Jiahe to become the second Shaw Brothers. For this reason, he was naturally extremely anxious.

Fortunately, just two days after "Night Terror" was released, Zhang Yang finally brought "Mr. Zombie" to Jiahe.

Half an hour after Zhang Yang handed over the film, in the small screening room inside Jiahe Company, Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang, Hong Jinbao and Huang Bingyao, the boss of Jiahe's screenwriting team, sat in the room and looked at the screen quietly.

What was shown on the screen was of course "Mr. Zombie" brought by Zhang Yang.

Looking at the heroic Lin Zhengying on the screen, Hong Jinbao couldn't help but secretly smack his tongue.

He and Lin Zhengying are definitely old acquaintances, but even so, the moment Lin Zhengying put on the yellow Taoist robe, Hong Jinbao was shocked by the heroic spirit he exuded.

I really didn't expect that he would be so aura wearing Taoist robes.

When I start filming my man, I have to let him put on a suit like this and support me!

Hong Jinbao focused all his attention on his old acquaintances, while Huang Bingyao carefully studied the depiction and presentation of zombies in the film.

He had read the script of "Mr. Zombie" before, and because of this, he was even more curious about how Zhang Yang would choose to portray the zombies in the script, and how those sentimental ideas would be retained on the big screen.

The room was full of people, each with their own thoughts, and no one said a word. Even in many seemingly joyous scenes, only Hong Jinbao could not hold back his laughter. Otherwise, there was only silence.

It wasn't until "Mr. Zombie" was finished that Zou Wenhuai took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes and spoke.

"Let's talk about it. How is this movie? Jinbao, I'll tell you about it first."

(End of this chapter)