Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

"Sing Bao: A very different kind of gangster movie, dark and depressing, going all the way to the end, being an undercover agent and sinking into hell, then become the devil..."

"Sing Tao Daily: The soundtrack and camera language are both first-class. As for the story, it is a bit difficult to comment on. Congratulations to Chow Yun-fat for getting rid of Xu Wenqiang. After the new world, Pan Asia Cheng Ge is unique!"

"Xinbao: A pioneering gang film. Although the main creative team was unknown before this, I believe that from now on, no one will dare to ignore this name in the field of fashion gang dramas. Zhao Donghuai, compared with New World, Five Fantastic Strategies Fuxing’s undercover plan is more like a child’s game.”

"Ten Thousand People Times: People can't help themselves in the arena. Brotherly friendship, violent battles, and black and white fights. This is a classic modern gang movie feast like a textbook."

"Ming Pao: Zhou Runfa's acting skills are surprising, and Wan Ziliang's aura is worthy of a real big brother. In terms of actors' acting skills..."

"Hong Kong Daily: The Godfather Trilogy? If this is the first chapter in the Hong Kong Godfather series, the creative team has undoubtedly delivered an amazing answer."

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On a new day, Zhao Donghuai slept until the afternoon.

After all, it was already very late last night after attending the midnight screening of his first movie. This was also his break after finishing a major event in the past few months.

After sleeping until the afternoon, he was awakened by Du Qifeng's knock on the door. Sir Du came directly to read the newspapers with a pile of newspapers.

Zhao Donghuai was speechless.

However, he can understand that Sir Du is not the Du Dapao who has become famous in the film industry many years later. He is just a person who has been sinking for many years before becoming the assistant director of New World. He only directed a movie and he still has no confidence to continue in the film industry. The altar is messed up.

After listening to all the compliments in the newspaper, Zhao Donghuai grabbed a bottle of Coke and asked curiously, "How is the attendance today?"

Generally, movies hold midnight screenings in order to listen to the audience's word-of-mouth. If there are too many curses, they can be modified in time.

Only if it has a good reputation will it be released on a large scale without any changes.

However, Zhao Donghuai is more confident about this new world. The other creative teams, including Boss Shao, also gave good reviews after watching the movie, so they didn’t care too much about the midnight screening effect.

Strictly speaking, this is a midnight screening process that everyone follows. It will be released afterwards and will not be easily changed.

Today is August 16 of the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on Hong Kong Island.

Du Qifeng hurriedly sat up straight, trying to be serious, but couldn't help but smile. "It's not bad. Even if it's a morning show, I've seen it in Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei theaters, and the average attendance rate is more than 40%."

"That's right. Some people who took their children to watch the movie made a lot of complaints after coming out, which would frighten the children."

A gang film full of violent fights, with many bloody scenes of slashing and killing, it is normal for children to be frightened. This was also the case before the classification system in Hong Kong Island...

Zhao Donghuai took another sip of Coke and said with a smile, "It's very good. The key is to watch the afternoon and evening. Today is the first day of release."

The leading theaters in Shaw Brothers Mongkok and Yau Ma Tei have a large screening hall that can accommodate a thousand people, which is different from the various multi-functional theaters with one to two hundred seats in later generations.

"Where are Afa and the others?"

Du Qifeng laughed, "Ah Fa and Ah Liang are waiting in line to appear on the show again, and they are also preparing to appear on Happy Tonight tonight."

Now it's a group of TVB's biological sons and godsons, lining up to appear on the show to promote the new film... Well, this is also the highlight of Shaw Theater recently. The better the sales, the better Mr. Shaw is making money.

In addition to making money, it can also increase the popularity of the theater! Such as popcorn, cola and other businesses!

After chatting and joking excitedly for a while, Sir Du handed Director Zhao a cigarette to light, then he hesitated and said, "Director, that... that..."

Du Qifeng was not his mother-in-law's wife. Seeing the embarrassed look on his face, Zhao Donghuai laughed, "You want to say a sequel??"

Sir Du nodded hurriedly, right? When we first met, Director Zhao had agreed that if the first part was successful, he would direct the second part.

During the entire filming process, Du Qifeng felt that he had learned a lot. He even felt as if something had been set on fire.

When future generations talk about Sir To, their biggest impression is nothing more than gang and gangster films, such as gangsters, secret wars, gunfire, PTU, major events, drug wars, etc. This man is a professional in filming Hong Kong gangster gangster stories. experts.

However, in the past, Johnnie To's first movie was "Bishui Shui Han Shan Fatal Sword". Just by the name, you can tell it is a martial arts drama. He continued his studies at TVB and filmed mostly martial arts dramas.

In the original trajectory, Zhao Donghuai did not cross the line. He finished filming Huang Rihua's version of "Shooting the Condor" in 1983, and will film Tony Leung and Andy Lau's version of "The Deer and the Cauldron" next year.

But when the assistant director filmed a fashion club drama like New World, which is known as a pioneering style, Johnnie To felt as if the door to a new world had been opened.

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "Okay, as long as our box office is not bad, it shouldn't be bad either. You can prepare the second script of New World in the next few days. As long as the script passes the test, I will invest in filming for you."

"But when it comes to ugly things, the script is not up to par, so I won't vote for it."

Du Qifeng, "Ah..."

Didn't you prepare a script for me? He was stunned for a second before nodding and smiling brightly again, "Okay, I'll give it a try, but Director Zhao, my screenwriting skills still need to be improved. I can't write the script, so you have to help me."

Zhao Donghuai nodded.

He originally planned to give the original Infernal Affairs and Undercover Three Years and Three Years, the one where he was shot to death before he retired, to Sir Du. He just wanted to see Du Qifeng's current skills.

After joking for a while and seeing off Sir Du, Zhao Donghuai asked A Guang and A Yong who lived next door to buy food and wine. He planned to make a stove at home and relax with some wine.

Regarding the box office, we still have to look at the box office results in the past few days before talking about anything else.

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It’s another new day, September 23 in the Gregorian calendar and August 17 in the lunar calendar.

Zhao Donghuai was still sleeping when he heard a knock on the door. When he impatiently went to open the door, as soon as he opened the door, Guan Jiahui rushed in with an excited face, "Brother Huai, you are going to be popular. It was shown in 12 theaters all day yesterday. , the attendance rate is above 50%.”

“One day’s box office is over 700,000 yuan!”

How much more than 700,000? Not much, the average ticket price is 15 yuan, which is less than 50,000 people who have watched the movie. Based on the popularity of Zhou Yunfa and Lu Liangwei on the beach, the appeal of fans of Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong, and various publicity campaigns .

This can only be regarded as not bad.

But it's not bad either.

After all, this is an era in which only nine or ten movies in a year have a box office of over 10 million in the whole year. Even based on the current movie viewing efficiency and 12 theaters showing for about 20 days, there is hope that the opening of 700,000 will exceed 10 million. Ten million.

For a new director, two struggling assistant directors, and a team composed of a box-office killer and a group of newbies and rookies, this is a harbinger of success!

Fatty King is a second-generation movie maker, a great director, and a top student at the University of Hong Kong. His first movie made over five million.

No matter what the atmosphere was like during the filming of a movie, what the reputation was like before it was officially released, or what the reaction was like in previews, if it doesn’t hit the box office, it’s all still in vain.

When the box office pops up, that’s when...

Sister Guan now felt excited all over her body. When she was so excited, she glanced at Zhao Donghuai again, then she turned around with a low cry.

After all, young people who have just woken up are very angry.

We are all good kids.

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New World was released on a large scale. On the first day, Thursday, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the box office in 12 theaters exceeded 700,000, and on the second day, it was still over 700,000 on Friday.

On Saturday, Shaw Brothers had a full series of screenings, and the box office directly exceeded one million!

On Sunday, more than 1.2 million.

Doing the math, that’s more than 3.7 million in the first weekend.