MTL - Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire-Chapter 63 Longwang Shu

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On the 26th of January, "The Thief and the Detective Duoduo" and "The Eye-Catching Trick" were released at the same time.

The first duel between Xu Cun and Jiahe kicked off.

"The Bewitching Trick" was originally supposed to be starring Sammo Hung and Dong Wei, but Dong Wei followed Xu Cun early, so "The Bewitching Trick" was starring Sammo Hung and Yuan Biao.

To be honest, Yuan Biao's acting skills and kung fu are better than Dong Wei's, so "Bright Eyes" is better than the previous life.

However, "Bright Eyed Tricks", like many movies now, has a fatal flaw - the plot. From beginning to end, "Bright Eyed Tricks" is dominated by the humorous fight between Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao, and the plot can be said to be unintelligible.

Therefore, "Bright Boy Bewitching Trick" does not pose much threat to "Mr. Zombie".

Comparatively speaking, "The Thief and Detective Duoduo" is a little more difficult - it is starring Qiao Hong, Wu Yaohan, Miao Kexiu, and Miao Sairen. These four were all well-known actors at this time. If it is put into later generations, the four of them can be regarded as popular first-line actors. Moreover, some of the bridges in "The Thief and Wonderful Detective Duoduo" are also a bit interesting.

However, to sum up, "The Thief and the Detective Duoduo" is actually a follow-up work of "Banjin Ba Liang" and "Fan Qian Han", and there is not much innovation.

Therefore, the threat to "Mr. Zombie" is not too great.

But no matter what, the population of Xiangjiang is just that. Therefore, even if the filming of "Bright Eyes Bewitching Tricks" and "Many Thieves" were poorly shot, with the super popularity of Sammo Hung, You Qiao Hong, Wu Yaohan, Miao Kexiu, and Miao Sairen in Xiangjiang, " Eye-catching Tricks and Detectives also snatched away a lot of viewers from Mr. Zombie, which made Mr. Zombie drop from an almost full house in the first week to an average attendance rate of only 100%. of eighty-six.

Although the attendance rate dropped by more than 10%, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" rose to 5.4 million in the second week because the ticket price of each movie increased by one or two.

The box office of "Mr. Zombie" in the second week was not only the envy of other filmmakers in Hong Kong, but even Xu Cun, who had always had no hope of the box office exceeding 20 million, began to think that the box office of "Mr. Zombie" might reach 20 million.

However, reality gave Xu Cun a slap in the face - in the third week, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" suddenly plummeted, and the average attendance rate jumped from 86% to 71%. The weekly box office also dropped from 5.4 million to 4.45 million.

Because Xu Cun signed a non-resignation contract with Shaw Brothers Cinema. Therefore, in the face of this big diving situation, Shi Nansheng took the initiative to request that the six screenings a day be changed back to the original five screenings a day.

But even so, the average attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" in the fourth week dropped to 62%, and the weekly box office dropped from 4.45 million to 2.7 million.

By the fifth week, "Monkey-shaped Button Hands" and Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist Strange Trick" were released at the same time.

Under the attack of "Monkey Clutching Hands" and "Laughing Fist Strange Tricks", the average attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" on February 17 was only 43%.

Seeing this, Shi Nansheng went to discuss with Wang Hongbing about reducing the number of screenings of Mr. Zombie.

Up to now, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" has exceeded 15 million, so the fire of "Mr. Zombie" is a foregone conclusion.

In this way, Shao Yifu no longer needs to be angry with Xu Cun.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Xu Cun and Shao Yifu, Shi Nansheng and Wang Hongbing negotiated and reached the following agreements:

First, each theater gave out two screenings of Chu Yuan's "The Scimitar of the Full Moon" every day, and the basic fee dropped from 155,000 per day to 87,000 per day.

Second, on the 18th of February, Shaw Brothers Cinemas will pay DreamWorks all the local box office that "Mr. Zombie" has obtained so far. On March 1, the Shaw Brothers Cinemas gave DreamWorks all the box office of "Mr. Zombie".

Third, Shaw Brothers is responsible for the overseas distribution of "Mr. Zombie", and the overseas box office is settled by DreamWorks on a monthly basis.

Two more screenings were cut, and the six-day average attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" increased from 42 percent to 55 percent.

In the fifth week, the weekly box office of "Mr. Zombie" dropped from 2.9 million to 1.5 million, almost halving.

In the last five days, the average attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" was only 32%, and the five-day box office total was only 590,000, which was enough to cover the bottom line.

When "Mr. Zombie" is painted, the total box office of "Mr. Zombie" is 19.65 million, which is only 350,000 short of the 20 million mark, which is a bit regrettable.

On behalf of Shao Yifu, Wang Hongbing asked Xu Cun if it would take another week.

Xu Cun thought about it~www.novelbuddy.com~ and then declined - the box office potential of "Mr. Zombie" has been fully released, and whether it can break the 20 million mark after another week is ambiguous, and it is extremely pragmatic. Xu Cun, who is also unwilling to do something that loses money and makes a lot of noise.

The production cost of "Mr. Zombie" is 3.74 million, the publicity fee is 1.34 million, the bottom line of Shaw's cinema is 5.74 million, and the copy fee and other miscellaneous expenses are 8. Thousands more.

In total, the cost of "Mr. Zombie" is 10.86 million.

In other words, not counting the overseas box office, Xu Cun earned 8.79 million.

Looking at the settlement list calculated by the finance department, not only other people couldn't believe it, but even Xu Cun couldn't believe it - Xiangjiang, with a population of more than five million, was able to sell it when the ticket price was only 6 yuan and 9 yuan. Nearly 20 million at the box office, this is simply too shocking!

In fact, it's normal for this to happen - all along, Xu Cun has only counted the box office based on one person only watching one game. But what Xu Cun didn't know was that many viewers watched several shows repeatedly. Among them, a young couple watched nine shows of "Mr. Zombie" in a row in order to learn the song "The Love of My Life", while He Chaoqiong and He Chaofeng The sisters' results were even more sturdy. They actually watched twelve "Mr. Zombie" shows in 40 days.

Xu Cun has always only attached importance to results, and he also has a bad habit of winning. Therefore, after learning that the local box office alone made him 80,000 to 9 million Hong Kong dollars, Xu Cun immediately turned his attention to the overseas box office - he was looking forward to the overseas box office giving him a bigger surprise~www.novelbuddy. com~Welcome all book lovers to come and read. The latest, fastest and most popular serial works are all in~www.novelbuddy.com~ mobile phone users, please go to read.