The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 584 "Cannonball Run" Released

In the next month, Xu Guanwu accompanied Lin Qingxia's mother and daughter, strolling leisurely from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of the United States, from Los Angeles to Miami.

The United States has a vast territory and beautiful scenery everywhere. Although there are not as many places of interest in China, the natural scenery is quite beautiful, especially the green vegetation and rivers and lakes. They are all unpolluted original ecology, which makes people used to Xu Guanwu and Lin Qingxia of the high-rise buildings in Hong Kong were all amazed.Even Xiao Sichen breathed the fresh air, and the smile on her face was much more than before.

"Ah Wu, if we can live in the United States in the future and don't go back to Hong Kong, how good would it be?" Lin Qingxia said softly, nestling in Xu Guanwu's arms.

"The scenery here is very good, but as a Chinese living here, I still feel a little uncomfortable." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "Unlike Hong Kong, the delicious food, beautiful scenery, and local customs are all things that make people worry about it."

Lin Qingxia smiled, and lightly grabbed Xu Guanwu's ear, "Is it the people from Hong Kong who make you worry?"

Xu Guanwu didn't answer, he was stunned for a while, and then suddenly said, "One month is almost over, and we should go back to Hong Kong to have a look at that time."

"Yeah, I'm really reluctant." Lin Qingxia said as she rubbed against Xu Guanwu's arms.

"It doesn't matter, I will buy a few houses in the United States later, and we will come here often for vacation in the future." Xu Guanwu smiled, "I'm afraid that you will only focus on making movies and don't want to come with me."

"It's not that exaggerated. I'm not very popular in Hong Kong now. After more than a year of rest, my popularity has disappeared." Lin Qingxia frowned and said.

"Impossible, even if you have lived in seclusion for ten or 20 years, you will still be as popular as you are now." Xu Guanwu waved his hand and said, "The number one beauty in Southeast Asia, this title is not something that everyone can hold securely."

"Ah Wu, do you think the movie "Love in a Fallen City" will be a success?" Lin Qingxia asked worriedly after hearing what he said.

"I don't dare to say that. It's up to people to plan things, but it's up to God to make things happen." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "Why, are you worried now?"

"Yes, when you said you were going back to Hong Kong, all those troubles came to your mind." Lin Qingxia nodded and said.

"It's my fault." Xu Guanwu immediately admitted his mistake, "But in fact, you don't have to worry. Other stars are worried that the bad box office will affect their future, and worry that no film company will hire them to film in the future. But what are you worried about? It doesn’t matter if this movie loses money, if one movie fails, we will make another one until it succeeds.”

"In that case, won't you worry about being scolded for wasting money?" Lin Qingxia was happy when she heard what he said, but she still spoke unforgivingly.

"It's good to be scolded, and you'll get used to scolding. As long as you're happy, it's worth it." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"Spoof." Lin Qingxia patted Xu Guanwu with a smile and said, but it was love and abuse. Looking at the smile on her face, she knew that she actually liked Xu Guanwu's words.

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The sweet days always seem to pass faster, and before one knows it, a month will pass, and Xu Guanwu is talking about returning to Hong Kong.This time I came out for a month, which was twice as long as the last time I went out with A Zhi. One can imagine that she must be angry now.

So Xu Guanwu specially helped her buy large and small bags of clothes, bags, and shoes from a famous brand store, and also bought her a ten-carat diamond ring from a jewelry store as compensation for this super long trip.

Although Lin Qingxia was somewhat reluctant to part with her life in the United States, she still chose to leave with Xu Guanwu.The two returned to Los Angeles from Miami, and by this time "Cannonball Run" had officially started showing.

In fact, when Xu Guanwu and Lin Qingxia first arrived in the United States, they had already seen the advertisement of "Cannonball Run" on TV.Because this is a road car chase comedy movie, and it has a strong lineup of big names, so the advertisement has attracted people's attention once it is broadcast.

Xu Guanwu also noticed that the advertisement of "Cannonball Speed" was shot very well, and he filmed two versions of the advertisement. The first version edited the exciting and hot speed scenes in the film, so that people can see the wonderful scenes of this movie in advance; Another version is to gather all the stars in the film and shoot a 30-second short film to show the strong star lineup of the film.

The two versions of advertisements correspond to audiences with different needs. Some of them like gorgeous car chasing scenes, and the other part likes chasing stars.

When Xu Guanwu and Lin Qingxia traveled to Kansas in the central part of the United States, they had already received a call from Hong Kong, saying that Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, and Yuan Biao had been sent to help with publicity.

By the time they arrived in Miami slowly, the movie "Cannonball Run" had been officially released.

The wonderful chase scenes, the joining of big-name stars, the humorous performances, the popular themes, and the overwhelming publicity made the movie "Cannonball Run" popular as soon as it was released.The box office achieved a good result of 400 million U.S. dollars on the first day of release, which made the distributor 20th Century Fox and the theater company National Entertainment very excited.The box office has reached an astonishing 300 million US dollars in the first week. It is predicted that the final box office of this movie will definitely exceed 500 million. Compared with the investment of [-] million, it is definitely a big profit.

Among them, Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, and Yuan Biao are only guest stars in the film, but the total time of all the scenes is as much as 25 minutes, which is only a little less than Burt Reynolds and others who are the leading actors. It's more important than big-name movie star Roger Moore's role.In particular, the three of them used their fists and kicks in the film, and the frequent occurrence of various thrilling actions stole the limelight.It also made the popularity of the three of them soar in the United States. It is estimated that "A Man of Gold and Jade", which will be released later, can also take advantage of this shareholder style to sell well.

Seeing that "Cannonball Speed" had a good box office, Xu Guanwu was relieved, and he did not meet with Lei Shidong and others again, and returned to Hong Kong by plane directly from Los Angeles.

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After leaving for a month, Hong Kong has become extremely lively.

The Australian consortium is currently flirting with the chairman of the Far East Bank, Qiu Degen. One is willing to sell and the other is willing to buy, but the price issue has not yet been negotiated.

Li's TV station was the second most watched TV station in Hong Kong earlier, and it may be worth two to three hundred million Hong Kong dollars. After all, Hong Kong currently only has three TV stations and five TV licenses.It is said that the Hong Kong government will not issue new TV licenses in the next ten years.Therefore, rare things are more expensive. Naturally, Li's TV station, which has two TV station licenses, raised the price immediately and called out a selling price of [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

But Qiu Degen felt that the price was too outrageous.It has been less than a year since the Australian consortium became the owner of Li's, and it has already ruined a TV station with great potential. Now even the actors are almost gone. If it is to reunite people and restore vitality, I don't know how much more it will cost money and blood.So Qiu Degen is only willing to pay [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

5000 million Hong Kong dollars is not enough to satisfy the appetite of the Australian consortium. In fact, they spent [-] million when they bought it at the beginning of the year.So now the two sides have a deadlock in terms of money.

Compared with the hard-working Li's TV station, Jiayi TV station is now doing a good job.Since being taken over by Carrian Group, Chen Songqing has invested huge sums of money successively. On the one hand, he seized the time to hold the second Miss Oriental beauty contest.Although it only took one month from registration to selection, which is a full two months less preparation period than last year, the scale of this beauty pageant is much larger than before.

The reason is that Chen Songqing is really generous this time. If he is selected as the champion, he can get 100 million in cash. No.4 has [-] in cash and a car.Such generous prizes are more than those offered by TVB, which naturally attracted many pretty girls to sign up.

In comparison, the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant held by TVB this year was completely robbed by the Miss Oriental beauty pageant.After all, the media likes to follow the red top and the white, so they will report on whichever side is popular.At present, Chen Songqing is a popular financial figure in Hong Kong, and Jiayi TV Station is currently engaged in the activity of "Millions of Gifts, Big Rewards, If You Want to Watch Jiayi Channel", give away prizes when the program is broadcast, small ones include pressure cookers, microwave ovens, Electric fans, telephones, etc. The big ones include color TVs, VCRs, refrigerators, and even cars.You can receive prizes for watching TV, which naturally attracts a large number of petty and cheap citizens to watch Jiayi TV, so that this TV station that has been on the tail for thousands of years has finally tasted the taste of the number one ratings.

In addition to the activity of viewing and gifting gifts, Jiayi TV also took the opportunity to start filming new dramas. The first drama was "Four Famous Catchers Shocking Kanto". The crew went to South Korea for filming.

The reason why I chose to shoot "Four Famous Catchers" is mainly because martial arts dramas have always been popular in Hong Kong, and they have always been appreciated by audiences. "Flying Knife", "Chu Liuxiang", or "The Change of the Silkworm" and "The Hero Shen Shengyi" of Li's TV station are all TV series with very high ratings.

Originally adapting the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long, two martial arts masters, the most guaranteed ratings, but it is a pity that just two years ago, TVB reached an agreement with Mr. Jin Yong to buy out the film and television adaptation rights of his works in Hong Kong, which means It means that in Hong Kong, apart from TVB, there is no TV station that can adapt and broadcast Mr. Jin Yong's works.

Even if TV stations in other regions buy the copyright and adapt it, they cannot sell it to Hong Kong according to the agreement. This is the exclusive right enjoyed by TVB in Hong Kong.

As for the copyright of Gu Long's novels, it had already been purchased a long time ago, and Zhang Anle almost died because of this.Later Gu Long's works were also bought by Xu Guanwu one after another, and other TV stations naturally had no right to adapt them.But nothing can be difficult for smart Chinese people. Although in principle TVB monopolizes the film and television adaptation rights of Gu Long's novels, and other TV stations have no right to adapt them again, but they can use the method of embedding flowers and trees to forcefully create many similar plots, but TV dramas with very different character names, episode titles, martial arts methods, etc., such as "The Best Sword in the World" once broadcast by Li's TV station, no matter how you look at it, it feels like Gu Long's novel "The Prodigal Son in the Border Town".However, due to the discrepancy in the storyline, the different names of the characters, and the relatively poor copyright awareness of Hong Kong people, even if they go to court, it is difficult to win the lawsuit, which makes these copycat works appear frequently.

This time, Jiayi TV Station did not follow the old path of Li's TV station's copycat, but purchased another masterpiece of martial arts master Mr. Wen Rui'an to adapt it.Wen Rui'an, an overseas Chinese in Malaysia, has been engaged in literary creation since he was very young, and he is a very creative talent.His works seek novelty and novelty, and have achieved great success in the field of martial arts novels. Together with Mr. Liang Yusheng, Mr. Jin Yong, and Mr. Gu Long, he is called the four great masters of martial arts novels.

Wen Rui'an is full of energy and has written many books, among which the "Shenzhou Heroes" series and "Four Famous Catchers" series are more famous.Among them, the "Four Famous Catchers" series is the most famous. They are ruthless, cold-blooded, life-seeking, and iron-handed. The four have their own characteristics, each possessing peerless martial arts, and their encounters are also full of twists and turns, which is breathtaking.

"Four Famous Arrests" was published in Mr. Jin Yong's "Ming Pao" before, and it once caused a sensation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nanyang.This time, it was adapted into a TV series by Jiayi TV Station. Once it was broadcast, the ratings skyrocketed and became the most popular drama series during the summer vacation.

(End of this chapter)