Kang Jianfei was fixing his tie in front of the full-length mirror. Today was the release of his first movie in his life, so he was going to dress more formally in a suit and leather boots. Unfortunately, he didn't like to be restrained. Even after changing several ties, he felt like he was being chained.
chain, and finally just throw the tie aside.
Wen Bixia was wearing a red and black plaid coat with a pink scarf around her neck. She ran over and circled in front of Kang Jianfei and asked: "Brother, do you think my dress looks good?"
"It's beautiful!" Kang Jianfei said without blinking.
Wen Bixia stayed at Kang Jianfei's house every day and had been familiar with him for a long time. At this time, she pouted and said, "How do you know if he looks good or not if you don't even look at him?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Do you still need to look at it? Xiaxia looks good in whatever she wears."
"Really?" Wen Bixia felt indescribably proud after hearing Kang Jianfei's praise.
"Happy Ghost" was completed at the end of November, and it has been more than two months now. Wen Bixia went home once in the middle, and stayed with Kang Jianfei the rest of the time. This girl spent the rest of the day watching TV and going shopping.
That is to help Kang Jianfei wash clothes, clean the room and cook. Of the original 3,000 yuan salary, Wen Bixia gave 2,000 yuan to her mother and got 1,000 yuan herself. Now her share has been spent.
What is a material girl?
Wen Bixia gave this term a perfect interpretation.
Kang Jianfei packed up his belongings and asked, "Xiaxia, today is the New Year's Eve, why don't you go home and get together with your parents?"
"What's so good about Xiao Nian? Besides, my movie is being released today. I can't watch the movie when I go back to Tiu Keng Ling!" Wen Bixia watched Kang Jianfei's face nervously as she spoke, for fear that Kang Jianfei would drive her back.
For her, the two months she lived here were the most comfortable days in her life. As long as Kang Jianfei didn't drive her away, she planned to stay here forever.
"Let's go, don't be late!" Kang Jianfei didn't say any more. Anyway, it would be nice to have a free servant at home.
When Wen Bixia saw that Kang Jianfei didn't ask her to go home again, she immediately happily took Kang Jianfei's arm and they went out together.
Today is the Little New Year, and according to customs and traditions, we have to pay homage to the Stove Lord. However, in big cities, we don’t pay so much attention to it. We usually celebrate by having dinner together, or going shopping and watching movies.
Hu Juncai went to his father-in-law-to-be’s house today. His relationship with TVB actor Huang Minyi is progressing rapidly. Even though he sometimes lacks a brain, he is still very smart under normal circumstances. Huang Minyi is only a 16-year-old girl.
I was deceived by this guy's sweet words.
After taking to the street, Kang Jianfei called a taxi and drove to his cousin's house in Shek Kip Mei.
The car drove downstairs, and Wu Chenggang's family was already waiting there. Wu Ruiqing and Wu Ruixue, two brothers and sisters, were wearing new clothes. When they saw Kang Jianfei coming, they shouted "cousin" loudly.
Zhou Mingfang did not come out, saying she wanted to stay at home to take care of the children. Another cousin, Liang Ying, had a rare smile today. When she saw Kang Jianfei and Wen Bixia coming over, each of them stuffed a red envelope.
More than ten minutes later, Kang Jianfei and his cousin's family took a car to the entrance of the Golden Princess Cinema, where some people were already queuing up to buy tickets outside the ticket hall.
"My movie poster is my movie poster!" Wen Bixia suddenly pointed at the promotional poster at the entrance of the cinema and shouted.
Kang Jianfei lightly slapped her on the back of the head and said, "You will be a star from now on, so pay attention to your image."
"Oh." Wen Bixia shut up immediately, but in her heart she felt complacent about becoming a star.
Wu Chenggang looked at the huge poster of "Happy Ghost" and sighed: "Ah Fei, now I still feel like a dream, your movie is actually released!"
Liang Ying chimed in: "You think everyone is like you and will never make a difference in your life. This guy was born to eat this kind of rice."
When Wu Chenggang heard this, he felt extremely depressed and could only smile bitterly. How could he dare to compete with Kang Jianfei now?
In the past half month, not only "Oriental Daily" has been promoting "Happy Ghost", but Golden Princess Cinemas has also been promoting "Happy Ghost". Kang Jianfei's movie has not yet been released, but his reputation as a director has already attracted countless directors.
I'm jealous to death.
Faced with such money-splitting publicity, Jiahe's boss Zou showed no sign of weakness and promoted "Junior Brother Goes Out" with greater intensity. The speed at which he spent money was no longer a normal commercial promotion, and it completely seemed like he was trying to show his grudge.
Zou Wenhuai's idea is very simple. This is the first appearance of the Golden Princess Cinema after the reform, and Jiahe must nip it in the cradle.
Zou Wenhuai betrayed Shaw Brothers and encouraged Wang Yu of the Red Star to rebel against Shaw Brothers and remake Shaw Brothers' famous movie "The One-Armed Sword" across the country. In anger, Shao Yifu also came up with the idea of killing Jiahe for infringing the film copyright.
Zou Wenhuai was taken to court, and the two families started a bitter lawsuit, which cost millions in legal fees alone.
That was one million in 1970. The lawsuit has not yet been decided, and the lawyers on both sides have been advantaged in vain.
Kang Jianfei and the others got their movie tickets early and went straight into the theater.
Golden Princess Cinema is the leading theater in the entire Golden Princess Cinema Line, with a total of 1,500 seats. When they entered, there were already a lot of people sitting in the theater.
Kang Jianfei carefully observed the surrounding situation and found that most of the audience came together with whole families and children. This should be attributed to the advertisement of "Oriental Daily".
Time passed slowly, and when the movie was about to start, the entire theater was less than 80% full.
Kang Jianfei's heart sank, this was not a good sign!
The recent days of publicity regardless of cost have made everyone who should know about "Happy Ghost" know that it should be full. Golden Princess Cinema is still a leading cinema. If there are no seats here, then the attendance rate of other theaters will only be
Lower!
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When Kang Jianfei felt bad, Li Maowen also received a summary of information from various theaters, went to Lei Juekun and said: "Boss, "Happy Ghost" has started its first round of screenings. Princess Jin has the highest attendance rate, but only 76.4%
, the average attendance rate of the entire theater chain is 58%.”
"Phew," Lei Juekun breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "the average attendance rate is more than half, which is already beyond my expectations."
Li Maowen said anxiously: "Boss, movies are different from other businesses. This time we have done enough publicity. The attendance rate is so low on the first day of release, and it will only be even lower in the future. I suggest that we remove 8 theaters tomorrow and change the screening
For other films, "Happy Ghost" is enough to be released in 10 theaters!"
"No rush, let's wait for two days," Lei Juekun asked, "Where's Jiahe? Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Goes Out" is also being screened across the board. How are they doing?"
Li Maowen said: "The news hasn't come through yet, I'll ask the people below to get the phone call directly here."
Li Maowen didn't understand that this time the full-line screening was no longer just a matter of compensation and profit. Lei Juekun spent so much on publicity, and spent more than 100,000 just to hire people to perform lion dances every day, so why would he care?
What about the revenue from other movies shown in the 8 theaters?
This is fighting for grudges and face. Regardless of whether she is fighting to lose or winning, Princess Jin will be considered on an equal footing with Jiahe Cinema from now on.
Faced with Princess Jin's challenge, Shao Yifu did not accept the challenge. He cowered and scheduled "Modern Countryman" to premiere a week later. But Zou Wenhuai had no choice but to accept the challenge because he would have to compete with Princess Jin for film sources in the future.
A few months ago, Jiahe snatched Cheng Long from Luo Wei. Luo Wei was so angry that he paid the society to do things. As a result, Cheng Long was harassed by people on the road again and again during the filming of "Junior Brother". Zou Wenhuai originally planned to let Cheng Long
After filming, she went to the United States to avoid the limelight, but Princess Jin suddenly came to the scene. In order to compete with Princess Jin, Zou Wenhuai spent a lot of money to buy connections in the society, just to allow Cheng Long to stay in Hong Kong and personally contribute to "Junior Brother"
"Go Out" to promote.
In Lei Juekun's office, both of them were silently waiting for the call.
"Jingle Bell……"
When the phone rang, Li Maowen jumped up from his chair to answer the phone and asked: "Hey, how is the situation of Jiahe Cinema Line?"
"Manager Li, the Jinmaoping Theater of Jiahe Cinema Line is full!"
"Full?" Li Maowen asked.
"Yes, full!"
Two minutes later, another call came: "Manager Li, the Cheung Chau Theater is full!"
"Manager Li, the Xiangdao Theater is full!"
"..."
The calls came one after another. In the end, Li Maowen was not in the mood to listen. He threw the phone aside and said: "There are 19 theaters in the Jiahe Cinema Line, 8 of which are full, and the occupancy rate of 6 is more than 80%. The attendance rate of the rest is at least
Above 70%... we lost miserably!"
Hong Kong is just that big, and the audience base is there. If your theaters are full, and my theaters are robbed, there will be no attendance. The contrast will be even more intense as one goes down and the other goes up.
Lei Juekun seemed to have not heard anything and said calmly: "Observe for two more days. If you lose, you lose. It's not like the sky is falling!"
