There are generally three ways to publish Hong Kong movies:
One is to "sell trailers", that is, pre-sale the copyright of the film in advance. For example, one day Kang Jianfei's film company has no funds, he can announce that he will shoot a movie soon, and then find film merchants and theater merchants to sell trailers to raise production fees.
This method is a gambling act for production companies and hospital merchants, and it was extremely popular in Hong Kong in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For example, a company spent 2 million to sign a film contract with Andy Lau, but the film was not yet started, and she could sell 8 million films from Taiwanese merchants with the film contract.
This thing is the same as pre-sale of the property in advance before construction has started.
(In addition, Hollywood shopping means that if a theater chain wants to buy a film from a film production company, it must buy all the films of the company throughout the year, including those that have not been previewed)
Second, the agency distribution company helps the distribution. This practice is done by film production companies only need to contact the distribution company and do not have to deal with the cinema;
The third is that it is released in a certain theater. Kang Jianfei’s Oriental Dream Factory is doing this in Hong Kong. He directly contacted the Golden Princess Cinema, saving the intermediate issuance costs.
In the past, the movies of Oriental DreamWorks were all provided by Princess Golden Film Distribution Company for helping us contact us. Now, except for Taiwan and Nanyang, DreamWorks' overseas distribution rights have been collected.
Like the release of "The Royal Sister" in ri this time, DreamWorks directly contacted ri's Songzhu Film and then distributed it by pinezhu Film.
Nowadays, the most popular movies in Ri are Kakugawa Film. Although Matsuba Film is one of the five major film companies, the production volume last year was not much higher than Kang Jianfei's Oriental Dream Factory.
In "The Royal Sister", Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka, are both pillars of the Songzhu Film. In addition, the quality of this movie is great, and when the Songzhu Film does not have a good film, it will naturally fully support the release of "The Royal Sister" in ri. If this movie is successful, then the Songzhu Film will not only receive a considerable distribution fee, but also praise its own stars.
Like Shaw Pictures, Songzhu Film is an old film company and has its own cinema chain. It is very easy to create 21 cinemas to screen "The Royal Sister".
If Princess Jin continues to be released, it is estimated that "The Royal Sister" will have to wait half a year before it will be released on ri.
Kyoto Shijo Nanza.
This name sounds really weird. In fact, it is like Li Stage and belongs to a luxurious theater. You can perform traditional dramas, hold concerts for singers, and also release movies as cinemas.
Like Tokyo Kabukiza, Kyoto, both belong to the industry under Matsuba Filmography.
Half a month ago, while Kang Jianfei was promoting "The Royal Sister" in Hong Kong, Songzhu Film was also promoting this movie. As for the promotional expenses, naturally, Songzhu Film was first placed on the board and then deducted from the box office revenue, which is also what most companies do when they are agents for distribution.
When "The Royal Sister" was promoted in Hong Kong, the focus of publicity was naturally Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia; but when RI was promoted, the publicity center was changed to Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka.
It has to be said that Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka have very good box office appeal. On the first day of New Year's Day, "The Royal Sister" was released in Shijo Nanzo, Kyoto, and the attendance rate of the first game was 74%.
The "Ri movie emperor" Takekino, who is as famous as Akira Kurosawa, is still a crosstalk actor at this time. He performed crosstalk in Shijo Nanzo yesterday and received two movie tickets for "The Royal Sister" with his partner. Today, after they performed crosstalk in another Kabukizo, they returned to Shijo Nanzo to watch free movies.
"I heard that this is a Hong Kong movie," said Kitano's partner Akihito Yamaguchi.
Takeshi Kitano nodded and said, "I heard about it too. Recently, the Songzhu Film has been promoting this movie, I hope it will be very good."
Akihito Yamaguchi said: "I only like to watch Bruce Lee's Hong Kong movies, and I don't know other Hong Kong actors."
Takeshi Kitano smiled and said, "Cheng Long is not bad either."
Yamaguchi Akihito shook his head and said, "His "Killer Trench" is so bad. I heard that it cost 3 billion ris to produce it alone. It would be better to use this money to arrange crosstalk for us."
"Haha, the crosstalk cannot be used for 3 billion. 300,000 is enough." Takeshi Kitano said with a smile.
While the two were talking, a beam of light was cast on the big screen, and the movie finally began.
Music and pictures are not boundaries. The opening animation of Oriental DreamWorks made Takeshi Kitano and Akihito Yamaguchi immediately quiet down, feeling that this film company that claims to be DreamWorks seems to be somewhat different from other film companies.
After the opening animation, a picture of the release of Songzhu Movie was added, which was temporarily added before the release of Ri.
The beginning of the movie is the streets of Tokyo, which immediately makes the audience familiar with it and reduces the sense of isolation of many imported videos.
The beginning is that Lin Qingxia rescued a ri man from the ri gang, and her neat skills immediately attracted many audiences, including Takeshi Kitano.
However, it was not until the audience familiar with Hiroyuki Sanada, which appeared, that the atmosphere in the screening room became warm. Especially when Hiroyuki Sanada showed his skills on the plane, stuffing the detonated grenade into the storage cabinet at a critical moment, thus saving the passengers of the entire plane, a burst of cheers broke out in the screening room.
The benefits of Kang Jianfei's invitation to join the RI star are finally reflected. This film is in Taiwan, and Taiwanese audiences are definitely Lin Qingxia, while Ri audiences are Sanada Hiroyuki and Matsusaka Keiko.
When Matsusaka Keiko appeared, Takekino heard someone in the back seat sighing: "Keiko is really worthy of being the number one beauty. This hairstyle is very suitable for her, like a gentle and virtuous wife and mother."
"Sana Kan and Keiko's daughters are also very cute. They are such a happy family."
"Sana Kun is amazing."
"Of course, he is Chiba Shinichi's disciple."
“…”
"Boom!" A violent explosion sounded, and as the flames burned in the car, all the audience was stunned.
"Baga!"
"How can this be done? Keiko and her daughter were actually bombed to death."
"Damn director, abominable screenwriter."
"Kill that bad guy!"
“…”
When I saw this, the audience's response was even greater than that of the Hong Kong audience. Especially afterwards, Hiroyuki Sanada was knocked into a big pit and was about to be buried alive. Many viewers were so excited that they sweated all over, fearing that the director would shoot Hiroyuki Sanada to death.
Until Lin Qingxia fought life and death with the villain to save Hiroyuki Sanada, the audience immediately became more fond of Lin Qingxia, and they praised Lin Qingxia for being beautiful and capable of fighting.
There is a long plot in the middle, and Hiroyuki Sanada did not appear. Just as the audience was impatient, the scene of Mikazu played by Kang Jianfei committing suicide finally moved the audience who was unfamiliar with him.
By this time the film was released, most of the movie had passed. Before, the audience had always regarded Kang Jianfei's horn as a joke clown, but now they finally regarded it as their "person".
Yamaguchi Akihito breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is a great movie that makes me feel ups and downs, and those fights, speeding and explosions are really great."
Take Kitano nodded and said, "Yes, Yamaguchi-kun, how about you saying we will also act in movies?"
"Ah?" Yamaguchi Akihito asked casually, but his eyes were staring at the big screen. When he saw Mi Gao being dug up his body, he couldn't help but curse, "Baga! So shameless."
The final battle made everyone very happy. The only thing that made the audience unhappy was: In the final battle, Hiroyuki Sanada actually injured his leg early, and the life-and-death battle was not participated in, and Lin Qingxia showed her face alone.
However, the final ending still satisfies the audience. The bad guys get the consequences of evil, and justice defeats evil.
After watching a movie, some viewers asked, "Who is that heroine? She looks so beautiful and has a great skill."
"I don't know, there are posters outside, just look at the posters."
"I know who she is. She is Taiwanese star Lin Qingxia. She used to have films showing her."
“…”
Lin Qingxia is very popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea, but she is not well-known in Ri. Although many of her movies have been screened in Ri, they have no influence.
However, from now on, audiences will remember that in addition to Cheng Long, there is another Chinese star named Lin Qingxia.
After watching the movie, the audience ran to see the poster information, and a man suddenly shouted: "I accidentally discovered that the actor who played Migao was the director of this movie!"
Take Kitano stared at the poster for a while, but he had the idea of ​​becoming an actor. This future movie Emperor is already middle-aged. After watching "The Royal Sister", he suddenly wanted to be an actor.
The first rimage of "The Royal Sister" was released in five games, and the attendance rate of the last two games was close to 80%, which made the person in charge of Songzhu Cinema happy.
On the second day of its release, New Year's Day, the average attendance rate of "The Royal Sister" gradually increased to 83%. In addition to the New Year's Day holiday, such a high attendance rate is mainly due to the New Year's Day holiday. Hiroyuki Sanada and Keiko Matsusaka have very strong box office appeal.
In the following few rips, as the reputation of "The Royal Sister" gradually spread, the number of viewers increased sharply.
Even "Asakurin" is in its entertainment version, calling "Senior Sister Royal" a box office dark horse for this year's New Year's edition, and praised Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada as very co-starred screen partners. Their handsome and beautiful appearances and great skills will definitely be the box office elixir in the future.
Ri's professional film magazine "Movie Weekly" exclaimed: Hong Kong's film production level has surpassed ri, "The Royal Sister" is the real action movie, and ri's action movie shooting techniques are still in the 1960s...
Songzhu Film saw "The Royal Sister" selling well. After some discussion and consideration, she took the initiative to contact Oriental Dream Factory, hoping to distribute "Mr. Zombie".
On the second day after "The Royal Sister" was released on RI, Kang Jianfei's second novel "The Ethereal Journey" was officially serialized in "Oriental Ri" on New Year's Day.
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Chapter completed!