The porters carried the New Year's goods from the villa into the car in large and small packages. Kang Jianfei could not help but let outsiders know about his relationship with several young lovers, so he stayed in the bedroom upstairs without showing up.
In a blink of an eye, it is the Lunar New Year, which is the Kitchen Festival on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. It is the day when Hong Kong citizens officially take the New Year holiday, and it is also the day when major theaters start to screen Spring Festival movies.
Although Hung Kam-bo's Bao Wo Company's "Man Scares Ghosts" stars the relatively famous Lam Ching-ying as the protagonist, it was still not included in Golden Harvest Cinema's Spring Festival schedule. Instead, after cutting some of the screenings of "Deadly Express",
This movie was crammed into the schedule, and it only ran for two weeks before being canceled.
But even so, the box office of "People Scare Ghosts" still reached 6.95 million, which is considered a relatively outstanding result.
Jiahe Cinema Line has scheduled "Teppanyaki" for the Spring Festival this year. This film is a comedy directed and starred by Xu Guanwen. The heroine is played by Xia Wenxi, who Jiahe signed last year.
In another time and space, Golden Harvest did not even have a female star under contract at this time. The heroine of this comedy film was Taiwanese singer Ye Qianwen. Now Ye Qianwen is a signed singer of Fengxing Records. Although she has begun to make a name for herself in Hong Kong, her reputation is still
Not very loud.
The film lined up by Jiahe Cinema is Xu Guanwen's "Teppanyaki", and the film released by Princess Jin is naturally "The Queen's Secret Order". Although the cast of this film has not changed much, the director is Xu Fufa
became Mecca.
Speaking of which, Mecca's directorial ability is far inferior to that of Xu Ke. Although he has a sharp vision and great ideas, directing work cannot be done just by relying on ideas. Can the quality of this film reach the level of The Original Time and Space?
It’s still unknown.
As for the once glorious Shaw Brothers theater chain, there are actually no films scheduled for this year's Spring Festival. Lu Qi's "The Heroes" was canceled a few days before the Spring Festival. Since then, the Shaw Brothers theater chain has been vacant.
And what about New Era Cinemas?
The four theaters of the Jiangjia Anle Cinema Line had another problem. They did not help Kang Jianfei to screen "Terminator", but instead invited several theaters of the New Era Cinema Line to screen "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi".
The "Star Wars" series has long been famous around the world, and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" became popular in North America last summer. It is extremely rare for Jiang Zhiwen to seize the Hong Kong distribution rights of this movie. In order to achieve good box office in Hong Kong.
Lucasfilm, the producer of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, has made a request that Anle Cinemas must release the film during the Spring Festival.
But in this way, Kang Jianfei was greatly cheated. Jiang Zhiwen not only screened "Star Wars: Jedi Strikes Back" in his own four theaters, but also invited several other theaters in the New Era Cinema chain to screen it together. This made Jiang Zhiwen
There are fewer theaters showing "Terminator".
Kang Jianfei is no longer too lazy to take care of Jiang Zhiwen's actions. Fortunately, the five newly opened theaters in charge of Zhang Moren have been renovated, barely making up for the lack of theaters.
At this point, the situation of Hong Kong’s Spring Festival box office war this year is as follows: 19 theaters of Golden Harvest Cinema Chain will release “Teppanyaki”, 23 theaters of Golden Princess Cinema Chain will release “The Queen’s Secret Order”, and Anle Cinema Chain will join 10 theaters in total
"Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" was released in theaters. "Terminator" was released in 18 theaters of New Era Cinemas, and "The Shaolin Kid" was released in 14 theaters of Yindu Cinemas.
The battle for the movie box office in Hong Kong has never been so fierce. Five movies of good quality were released at the same time in a place as small as a palm. This box office battle is destined to have no winner, because the audience base in Hong Kong is limited. Under competition with each other,
Everyone’s attendance will be pulled down, and the box office of a single movie will also be diluted.
Fortunately, Shaw Brothers didn't have any movies scheduled during the Spring Festival this year. Otherwise, it would have been a melee of the Six Nations.
"Brother, let's leave first." Wen Bixia said as she poked her head into the room, carrying a Louis Vuitton bag.
The door was quickly pushed open, and the other girls also walked in to say goodbye to Kang Jianfei. Today was the New Year's Eve, and they all had to go home with their New Year's goods, and would not return to the villa here until after the New Year.
Li Yanshan did not speak, but walked to Kang Jianfei and gave her a sweet kiss, kissing her man affectionately goodbye.
Due to the obsession of the five beautiful girls, Kang Jianfei has been accompanying them for the past two days, making love together all day long. He has conquered the five girls' bodies and minds.
Li Yanshan sometimes hates Kang Jianfei, and hates that this bad guy dragged her into the quagmire and made her become depraved and slutty, and could no longer fall in love like a normal woman. But now she fell into Kang Jianfei's arms and let him taste it.
Xiangton played with her body. But Li Yanshan was so obsessed that her heart was tied to that bad guy.
After the five girls lined up to kiss Kang Jianfei, they went downstairs and dispersed, taking the car arranged by Kang Jianfei to go home for the New Year.
It's rare for Kang Jianfei to be alone alone, close his eyes and think about business. He now owns 9 theaters, including one luxury theater (Taiping Theater), one old-style single-room theater (Queen's Theater), and the remaining 7 are newly built
of multiplex cinemas.
In terms of scale and quality, any one of these nine theaters can be used as the leading theater of a theater chain company.
After Zhang Moren contacted the theater operators of New Era Cinemas, there were only 10 theaters that were willing to form a new theater company with Kang Jianfei, but 7 of them were small theaters that Kang Jianfei looked down upon.
As a result, the scale of the newly formed theater chain was still not comparable to that of Golden Harvest and Golden Princess. However, Shaw Brothers theater chain once again put on a show of whether to sell or not, leaving Kang Jianfei extremely speechless.
No matter what, we will announce the establishment of a cinema chain company after the New Year. It will not be large enough to build new ones one by one.
After thinking about it for a long time, Kang Jianfei finally made up his mind and called Zhang Moren to discuss it.
While Kang Jianfei was still talking on the phone, the door was suddenly pushed open again, and Li Lizhen got in with a strange spirit, and said with a sweet smile: "Brother, can I come in?"
Kang Jianfei waved to her and continued to chat with Zhang Moren about the formation of the theater company, while Li Lizhen sat next to him and listened quietly.
"Why are you back again?" Kang Jianfei asked after hanging up the phone.
Li Lizhen said slyly: "I forgot something, so I came back."
In fact, Li Lizhen had forgotten something here. It was obvious that she wanted to take advantage of the fact that the other sisters had gone home for the New Year to kill someone so that she could be alone with Kang Jianfei.
Kang Jianfei didn't go into detail about Li Lizhen's thoughts. He put his arm around the girl's slim waist and said, "I'm planning to go out. Come watch a movie with me later."
"Watching a movie? That's great." Li Lizhen was ecstatic, feeling that it was the right time to come back, and Brother Fei would definitely love her the most in the future.
The two stayed at home for most of the day, and naturally they had another shameless romance. This time, Li Lizhen, who had only become a "woman" for a few days after serving Kang Jianfei alone, could not bear the whipping, and soon she lost her armor and fell into disarray. Finally,
Kang Jianfei could only use his small mouth and hands to vent.
After dinner in the evening, Kang Jianfei took Li Lizhen, whose legs were weak, and went out. He had already asked Zeng Bolin on the phone to prepare two movie tickets for him.
Li Lizhen was sitting in the passenger seat, with a postpartum blush still on her face. She looked sideways at Kang Jianfei who was driving, and the more she looked at her, the more attractive her man became.
Because it took a lot of time to cross the sea, Kang Jianfei drove to the Oriental Cinema in Kowloon. After parking the car in the underground garage, he put on his hat and took the elevator upstairs to watch a movie with Li Lizhen. Because housing prices and rents are very expensive, Hong Kong
Many of the new cinemas built in the past decade are not on the ground floor.
When he walked past the ticket window, Kang Jianfei observed carefully and found that although there were many people buying tickets, it was definitely not that many.
Kang Jianfei put his arm around Li Lizhen and walked into the screening room. When the movie was about to start, he did a rough count and found that the occupancy rate of the screening room with hundreds of seats was only about 50%. Compared with the publicity expenses Kang Jianfei invested and the number of audiences during the Spring Festival,
To put it bluntly, this attendance rate is a bit ugly.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand. Comedy and action movies include "Teppanyaki" by Xu Guanwen and "Best Partner 3" by Mecca, and Kung Fu movies include "Shaolin Boys" by Yindu. These three movies have taken away a large part of the market.
audience.
"Terminator" is a Western film, and it is a Hollywood science fiction film. "Star Wars: Endgame" released in Anle Cinema is also a Hollywood science fiction film. Compared with the world-renowned "Star Wars", "Terminator"
"There is no advantage at all. Hong Kong audiences who like this kind of movies will choose to watch "Star Wars", and naturally no one cares about "Terminator".
As a result, the attendance rate of "Terminator" can be imagined. If Kang Jianfei had not spent huge sums of money on promotion, it is estimated that there would be less than 30% of the audience in the screening hall now.
Although he had great confidence in "Terminator", Kang Jianfei was still a little worried at this time. He felt that he had made some miscalculations this time.
After the film company's credits, the picture on the screen suddenly darkened, and it immediately showed the apocalyptic battlefield. In the dim tones, robot patrols in the sky flew by, lasers streaked across the sky, and the ruins on the ground were all human.
Withered bones, a tracked armored vehicle drove by and crushed all these withered bones.
James Cameron only used Kang Jianfei's $8 million filming budget, which cost hundreds of thousands more than in the original time and space. In Hollywood, it can only be regarded as an ordinary-cost film. But even so, it will be seen decades later.
The special effects seemed very backward, but the audience in the screening room was shocked when they saw it.
The special effects scenes in Shaw Brothers' so-called sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar" are like a piece of shit compared to "The Terminator".
As English subtitles appeared on the screen, a Cantonese voice-over sounded in the auditorium: "Those robots emerged from the nuclear explosion war. Their war to exterminate mankind has been raging for decades. But the decisive battle will not start in the future.
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ps: Alas, I have been reading a chapter every day for a month. Now I can’t speed up even if I want to. I sit in front of the computer and just don’t want to code. 9
