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Chapter 108 Hey ~ Thank you readers for your support

On January 2001, 1, which was the third day after the movie "The Grandmaster" was released, the popularity of various news about this movie in mainland China had not yet completely subsided, and a piece of news from Hong Kong Island once again made "The Grandmaster" This film appeared in the public eye together with its director Cao Qing.

On this day, in the on-site interview report sent by Hong Kong News TV, it can be clearly seen that there are quite a few residents of Hong Kong Island at the entrance of the cinema on Hong Kong Island, trying to grab the movie tickets for the movie "The Grandmaster" .

Even though it was just released in Hong Kong Island for less than a week, this super literary film "The Grandmaster" originally from Wang Jiawei is still like a bomb that exploded in the water, directly spreading across the whole world. The Hong Kong Island area has caused countless splashes.

Even because of the fact that the film is not currently scheduled for too many films, countless fans in the Hong Kong Island area who wanted to watch this film had to queue up an hour in advance at the entrance of the cinema.

And every time in these movie theaters, some of the audience just walked out of the theater hall of "The Grandmaster" and charged again and joined the ranks of ticket-grabbing army at the gates of the major movie theaters, trying hard to buy more tickets for themselves and for their friends. A ticket to the movie "The Grandmaster".

Faced with this scrambling situation, the operators of the movie theaters in the entire Hong Kong Island area were both surprised and happy. They were a little bit reluctant to show a mainland movie in their movie theaters, and all of a sudden they expressed their concern for Tengda Film and Television. The staff sent by the entertainment company to contact them had a very good attitude, and even began to take the initiative to increase the screening rate for "The Grandmaster", a movie they hadn't seen much before.

As a result, the results of Cao Qing's third film "The Grandmaster" in the Hong Kong Island area began to gain a visible box office soaring speed.

Even a week later, the box office results of "The Grandmaster" directed by Cao Qing not only achieved a super good result of 814.5 million Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong Island area in only one week, but also directly sold in the Hong Kong Island area. It abruptly set off a wave of martial arts craze, which brought a lot of students and achievements to the major martial arts schools on Hong Kong Island.

Among these martial arts gyms, Xingyi and Wing Chun are the most popular. Even Cao Qing himself did not expect that his movie "The Grandmaster" could cause such a big hit in the Hong Kong Island area. The turmoil brought about such a fanatical influence, after all, even Wang Jiawei himself in the previous life could not do this kind of thing.

However, Wang Jiawei's movie back then was indeed full of hardships, and he never showed his brilliance in front of the world.

First of all, it took ten years from the preparation to the official shooting of this film, and it took him three years just to cast the film for this film. It took more than three years and nearly four years before it was released.

In the fast-paced era of later generations, Wang Jiawei's operation really exhausted all the patience of the film investors for him, so that the film was released in 2013 without being fully prepared. These film investors directly pressed the front desk and rushed to release.

Due to the hasty release, although the box office performance of the film "The Grandmaster" has reached the highest among all the films directed by Wang Jiawei, reaching a super high level of 2.89 million in one fell swoop, but in fact this version is still It's still an unfinished version. In this version, the protagonist Ip Man is not highlighted. On the contrary, it looks like a group drama with a loose structure.

But in the 2015 3D version, Wang Jiawei successfully solved this problem, and successfully made all the rhythms of the movie follow Ip Man, and did not make the movie like the 2013 version. , so much so that Miss Gong Er became the main character.

This time, even though it was the second time it appeared on the theaters, the 3D version of "The Grandmaster" still achieved a box office record of over 6000 million in mainland China, setting a record for the highest box office re-screening of a domestic film in one fell swoop.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that when faced with Cao Qing's version of "The Great Master", which is already very Wang Jiawei's style, and then perfectly added some fierce fighting scenes to the original version of the literary picture, Hong Kong people these days suddenly That's it. In addition, Cao Qing's film is released during the very tight Lunar New Year period, so Hong Kong people are quite willing to pay for it.

On January 1th, which is the eighth day after the movie "The Grandmaster" was released on Hong Kong Island, on this day, the enthusiasm for "The Grandmaster" in the cinemas of the whole Hong Kong Island area remained high, and the screening rate reached In the case of 26%, the average attendance rate of the mainland film "The Grandmaster" in all cinemas on Hong Kong Island is still as high as 27.8%.

On the second day, although this data dropped slightly, it still tenaciously maintained at a super excellent level of 70.1%. It not only firmly suppressed the film directed by Martin Campbell, Chris O'Donnell, Disaster thriller "Vertical Limit" starring Robin Toni, Scott Green, Isabella Skrupko and others.

Moreover, even the Hong Kong blockbuster "The Lost Secret Service" produced by Hong Kong Island's local film company Golden Harvest, directed by the well-known Hong Kong director Chen Dexun, and starring Cheng Long, Xu Ruoxuan, Wu Xinguo, Zeng Zhiwei, Jin Wen, etc. suppressed.

However, a large part of the reason why Cao Qing's "The Grandmaster" was able to suppress "The Secret Agent" starring Cheng Long is also because this Hong Kong blockbuster was very popular in the early stage, but its reputation dropped in the later stage. for the sake.

However, although there are various reasons, in any case, Cao Qing's "The Grandmaster", which was screened one day later than "The Lost Secret Service", he even strongly suppressed it in a short period of time in Hong Kong Island. The movie "The Lost Secret Service" starring the international superstar Cheng Long is undeniable news after all.

On the second day, when the news spread to the mainland, the atmosphere in the entire Huaguo film and television circle suddenly boiled up. Countless mainland film and television staff who had been bullied by Hong Kong island directors and Hong Kong island artists all had There was a feeling of elation.

Probably because of this, Cao Qing's popularity has been continuously increasing on the system page for a while, and even reached the level of nearly [-] influence in one fell swoop, which is far from what it takes to become a famous B-level director. The [-] influence index has begun to become extremely close.

However, it is different from the situation in the mainland where emotions are boiling. It is probably because many people in Hong Kong Island have always looked down on the relationship between mainland film and television personnel. Therefore, in the following week, Cao Qing's "The Great Master" was received both openly and secretly. There was a lot of suppression in the Hong Kong Island film and television circles, and the film's attendance rate began to decline due to various publicity by the Hong Kong Island media.

By February 2nd, the last day of the second week of "The Grandmaster"'s release in Hong Kong Island, the average attendance rate of the film in Hong Kong Island had dropped to 2%. The box office of the Hong Kong Island area where the film is located is only 30.2 million box office, which is not even as good as the box office of the film during the period when the filming rate was low last week.

However, Cao Qing, who already knew that those Hong Kong people would definitely not be caught without a fight, was calm about this kind of thing. What he really cared about these days was not the box office performance of the movie "The Grandmaster" at all. Instead, it was the rising influence index on his own system panel.

Just looking at the constant influence index on his system panel every day has made Cao Qing very happy.

Anyway, no matter how much these Hong Kong Island media make a fuss, as long as I can successfully be promoted to a B-level famous director after a while, then when my next film hits Hong Kong Island, no matter how troublesome these media do, there will definitely be Enthusiastic people come to help themselves resist these rumors, suppress and block them.

Cao Qing never doubted the power of the system.

Sure enough, as time went by, on February 2th, as Cao Qing's influence value on the system panel successfully reached 10, his information on the system panel was instantly changed to a B-level famous director.

And on the same day, suddenly there was an enthusiastic patriotic boss in the Hong Kong Island area who couldn't get used to these troublesome media.

On February 2, in the Hong Kong Island area, a TVB special column report titled "After Wang Jiawei No. 10" shocked the entire Hong Kong Island area.

In this news report, Mr. Shao Yifu, who has a high reputation in the entire Hong Kong Island area, praised Cao Qing, a talented director, at the beginning of the article. One of the most capable literary film directors.

Soon, with the strong support of Mr. Shao Yifu, those Hong Kong media who had attacked Cao Qing's film countless times finally stopped their original words of attack, and some of them even turned to write for "A Generation" The Grandmaster is singing its carols.

But don’t blame these Hong Kong media’s scumbags. The Shao family’s influence in the entire Hong Kong Island area is really too great, especially in the field of film and television circles. Dare to go against the grain when Shao Yifu, the head of Shaw Brothers, has blatantly determined the nature of the movie "The Grandmaster", after all, this is too much to slap the Shao family in the face.

These old fritter-like Hong Kong island media people and Hong Kong island artists are very clear about when it is difficult to attack and insult certain movies and use them to gain the audience's attention, and when they must decisively choose to shut up.

Those who really can't figure it out should have been banned and trampled into mud by this industry before they became famous.

Relying on Shao Yifu's huge influence in Hong Kong Island, Cao Qing's third film "The Grandmaster" finally returned to the normal screening rhythm in the third week.

This time, without the chaotic rhythm of those boring media, the box office trend of the movie "The Grandmaster" in the third and fourth weeks on Hong Kong Island is quite gratifying.

Especially in the third week, I don’t know if it’s because the movie “The Grandmaster” has been hacked every day, so that this movie can appear in the ears of Hong Kong people every day. The third week just started , Cao Qing's "The Grandmaster" went on a rampage in major movie theaters on Hong Kong Island, earning a full 120 million box office in one fell swoop.

And at the end of this week, the movie "The Grandmaster" went against the market and won a box office of 632.53 Hong Kong dollars, even compared with the 622.23 yuan that the movie received in the second week. The box office is even higher by a few points, which can be said to completely subvert the iron law that the box office of general movies is falling wildly every week.

It's not even just the third week, even the movie "The Grandmaster" did well at the box office in the fourth week on Hong Kong Island, with a box office hit of nearly 400 million in Hong Kong.

In this way, when "The Grandmaster" was released in Hong Kong Island, this mainland movie won a super score of almost 2800 million Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop in Hong Kong Island, which directly created the record of a mainland movie when it was released in Hong Kong. The highest grossing record possible.

With a box office of 2800 million Hong Kong dollars and a film release time of almost 70 days, the movie "The Grandmaster" will earn an average of [-] Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong Island every day.

According to the current exchange rate between Hong Kong dollars and RMB, Cao Qingguang took away 2940 million RMB directly from Hong Kong Island by relying on this "The Grandmaster" movie, which is simply crazy.

Calculated based on the investment cost of the film "The Grandmaster" of more than 1600 million, at present relying on the box office in the Mainland and Hong Kong Island alone, the profit of the movie "The Grandmaster" has already reached about 300 million yuan, and there are still more to come. There are box office markets in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and various small countries in Southeast Asia waiting for the movie "The Grandmaster" to harvest.

According to these market dynamics, the final box office forecast of "The Grandmaster" currently given by Hong Kong media has reached about 8500 million yuan, which means that based on these box office income alone, the net profit of the movie "The Grandmaster" It’s close to 1200 million yuan. If you add in the movie’s original soundtrack, DVD and other peripheral income, Tenda Film and Television Entertainment’s net profit this year from this movie alone has reached about 2000 million yuan.

Of course, this calculation is wrong. In fact, the profit that Cao Qing can reap from this "The Grandmaster" is only 800 million yuan of peripheral income such as the original soundtrack DVD week.

But this is enough. After all, Cao Qing did not invest any cost at all, and he relied entirely on the system to invest.

And he just directed it, and as a result, he not only got a director's income of 800 yuan from the system and a generous peripheral income of [-] million yuan, but also won two lottery places in the future. (I was promoted to a B-level famous director once, and finished shooting a movie once), facing such a huge profit from such a small investment, Cao Qing at this moment is simply too happy.

(End of this chapter)