I want to be a giant of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 398 [The Superiority of the Times]

"The One-Armed Swordsman" was released hotly, and the box office was Changhong. It earned more than 40 Hong Kong dollars in the box office within ten days of its release, and the number of moviegoers reached 16.

Oriental Pictures won the first battle, and there was a lot of discussion among Hong Kong and Kowloon citizens for a while.

"Sha Dan Yao makes money from everything he does, what kind of luck is this!"

"No way! If you have a lot of money, you can burn it like this. His Oriental Films does not know how much money it has invested, and how many movies it will take to make it back. Moreover, it has acquired land to build a cinema in Tseung Kwan O. The investment is huge."

"That's true! The land of Oriental Studios alone is tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the subsequent construction costs must be thousands of Hong Kong dollars. This Hong Kong Island is afraid that only Sha Danyao can spend so much money!"

"I heard that Cheung Kong is still in the chaotic place of Singapore, investing [-] million Hong Kong dollars to build the Yangtze River Center; isn't this nonsense, and it will hurt the stock of Cheung Kong!"

"Maybe it can develop like Hong Kong Island!"

"Develop a P. I heard that the Chinese over there are having a hard time. They are surrounded by Southeast Asians who are eyeing them. I don't know when Singapore will be submerged in the surrounding powers."

On Hong Kong Island, people mention Wu Guangyao too often every day!
Shaw Brothers Films
Seeing the box office news about "The One-armed Swordsman" in the newspaper, Shao Lao Liu couldn't help but throw the newspaper underground and cursed loudly: "Traitor! Traitor! What a Zou Wenhuai, it's not worth leaving by himself, just steal my director , steal my actors, and also my script!"

After venting for a while, Shao Laoliu said to the new production director next to him: "How is the preparation of our film, will it be released before the Spring Festival?"

"Okay, boss, don't worry, everything is ready! When the time comes, let's show Oriental Pictures what a Shaw Brothers film is!" said the production director following the mood of the boss.

It's a pity that the flattery fell on the horse's leg, and Shao Lao Liu didn't appreciate it at all.

"Don't underestimate the enemy. Although our "Journey to the West" is a pioneering work, the shooting technique of "The One-Armed Swordsman" is also very classic. It combines Hollywood factors to give people a big scene and fast-paced effect. This time we can I'm very satisfied with a draw. This Zou Wenhuai has taken away half of my world!"

Shao Laoliu said at the end, it was heartbreaking and moved the new director of production;

The new production director couldn't help but think that when he left by himself in the future, he would definitely take some people with him.

On January 1966, 1, Shaw Brothers Films finally made a move, offering the ultimate move of "Journey to the West" to compete with Oriental Pictures' "One-Armed Swordsman".

Everyone on Hong Kong Island knows about the grievances between the two families!

The two film companies once fought in the newspapers, fighting a war of words;
Shaw Films believes that Oriental Pictures is not kind, and instead of cultivating talents by itself, it poachs a large number of talents trained by others;

Oriental Pictures said that Shao Laoliu was deducting Suo Suo and severely exploiting employees, which led to this "collective job hopping". Not only that, Oriental Pictures also cited various evidences of Shao Laoliu's deduction, poor food, and deducting the director's fee. wait.

At this time, "The One-Armed Swordsman" has already won the box office of 18 Hong Kong dollars in 60 days, and there is no problem breaking through 100 million Hong Kong dollars according to the trend.

At this time, Shaw Brothers Films produced "Journey to the West", a Chinese mythological masterpiece, which made the melon eaters think that Shaw Brothers Films was attacking Oriental Pictures.

As soon as "Journey to the West" was released, it was well received by many parties;
The film uses the most advanced optical special effects, combined with ancient costume action kung fu, which is refreshing. It also uses special effects makeup and a variety of special props. Monster images emerge in endlessly, and the fantasy is novel.

This is very marketable in this day and age!

Wu Guangyao called Zou Wenhuai to his office to teach him the opportunity.

Wu Guangyao said: "Shaw Brothers Films released "Journey to the West" at this time, obviously not wanting our "One-Armed Swordsman" to break through the million box office."

Wrinkle Wenhuai was also aggrieved at this time, after all, he was about to create a record, and someone came to interfere;

Generally, according to the practice of Hong Kong Island at this time, a film company has a movie that is in theaters, and other film companies will not take out the movie that they have placed high hopes on.

Because this is not good for both parties!

Zou Wenhuai said: "Boss Shao has such thoughts, but things may not go according to his wishes! The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the number of people watching the movie will increase at that time, so "The One-Armed Swordsman" is very likely to break through 100 million Hong Kong dollars. .”

When Wu Guangyao heard Zou Wenhuai mentioning the Spring Festival, he seemed inspired, and immediately searched the distant memories in his mind!

No way, it has been 18 years since I came to this era;

Except for some past life things that I often think about and recall, the memory of many other things is blurred.

Wu Guangyao thought for a while, and finally came up with a solution.

"In this way, since Shaw Brothers Pictures wants to have a battle, then we can't be cowardly. From now on, you use the resources of Oriental Media to promote the word 'Lunar New Year'. It's a big-budget film. Let's not be stingy, and we might as well use "The Drunk Man" as a 'New Year movie' to celebrate the New Year for the people of Hong Kong Island."

After hearing Wu Guangyao's words, Zou Wenhuai was thoughtful first, and then pleasantly surprised!

"It's an honor for the film industry that the boss mentioned the words 'New Year's file' and 'New Year's film'. This time we will vigorously promote it, and we will release at least one 'New Year's film' every year during the Spring Festival.”

Seeing that Zou Wenhuai can understand everything, Wu Guangyao is also more pleased. No wonder later generations can bring Golden Harvest Films out of the siege of Shaw Brothers Films.

Fortunately, Wu Guangyao gave him 5% of the shares, I believe he will not have other ideas!

He quit Shaw Brothers because he didn't want to be poor;

If he switches jobs from Oriental Pictures again, I'm afraid the industry in Hong Kong Island will really spit at him!
You already have shares, but you still want to change jobs. Isn't this a problem with your character!

On the second day after Shaw Brothers Films released "Journey to the West", the media industry in Hong Kong Island made a big publicity. On January 1, Oriental Pictures released the "Lunar New Year film" "The Drunk Man". It also introduced the two words "New Year's file" and "New Year's film" proposed by Oriental Pictures.

This time, in order to compete with the Shaw Brothers movie "Journey to the West", Oriental Media Group can be said to have given Oriental Pictures a lot of publicity resources.

Naturally, there is Wu Guangyao's care in this. As a person of later generations, Wu Guangyao knows very well that if the promotion of a good movie is not good, the box office will definitely not be high.

No, in order to promote the movie, the actors and directors of "The Drunk Man" were frequently dispatched to participate in some road shows.

Shao Laoliu saw Oriental Pictures' hype and proposed new words such as "Lunar New Year file" and "Lunar New Year film", and the director took the actors to some densely populated places to promote it, and Lei was dumbfounded.

It turns out that movies can still play like this!

learnt!
(End of this chapter)