Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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September 17, 1988.

The 24th Seoul Summer Olympic Games will be held as scheduled.

At the same time, My Sassy Girl is almost completely sold in Asia except Japan, where it has just begun to be released.

My Sassy Girl won a box office of 53.87 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, second only to the 55.43 million Hong Kong dollars of Spiderman and the 5,400 Hong Kong dollars of Captain America. With a box office of 1.22 million Hong Kong dollars, it ranks third in Hong Kong's total box office list.

My Sassy Girl has also achieved astonishing box office results no less than Xiangjiang in the mainland and Southeast Asian countries.

but--

My Sassy Girl is the craziest place to watch movies. In South Korea, My Sassy Girl actually won 10.03 million movie viewers, surpassing the original peak of more than one million movie viewers. The box office performance increased tenfold in an instant, and a small South Korea actually contributed nearly 20 million US dollars to the box office of My Sassy Girl.

My Sassy Girl is so crazy in Korea, even Xu Cun did not expect it! Later, DreamWorks organized market researchers to analyze and draw the following conclusions:

First of all, My Sassy Girl itself is of excellent quality and is a very rare good movie.

Secondly, and most importantly, since Emperor Cinemas and Emperor Land have established branch theaters in South Korea with 21 multiplex theaters, My Sassy Girl can be screened on a large scale across the board. Like the previous movies shown in South Korea, they were only shown in one or two old theaters at most a dozen.

(PS: In the past, when Hong Kong films were released in South Korea, they were generally only shown in no more than three cinemas in Seoul.)

Again, Koreans are really crazy-in fact, My Sassy Girl has already declined when it has more than 7 million viewers, but some Koreans with various reasons spontaneously re- Flocking to the cinema to watch it for the second time, the third time...the Nth time, the number of viewers of My Sassy Girlfriend has been pushed to more than 10 million, if not for the major Korean media. The results of My Sassy Girl with over 10 million viewers have been announced. Maybe My Sassy Girl will achieve even crazier results.

Are the Koreans the craziest?

The answer is - no.

In terms of word of mouth, Love Letter is actually not inferior to My Sassy Girl, and even slightly better than My Sassy Girl.

But in terms of box office, Love Letter completely lost to My Sassy Girl in regions other than Japan.

In fact, this is also normal-after all, My Sassy Girl full of jokes is more commercial, while Love Letter with a touch of sadness is more artistic.

But--

Although My Sassy Girl won the box office in every region except Japan, it still lost to Love Letter in the total box office.

There is only one reason for this completely unreasonable result - the Japanese are crazier than the Koreans, um... it should be added that the Japanese are more powerful than the Koreans!

With the Japanese scrambling to watch Love Letter over and over again, Love Letter has won 12.7 billion yen (equivalent to about 100 million U.S. dollars) in Japan, making people all over the world feel The astonishing box office results are second only to the box office results of 16.35 billion yen achieved by ET in Japan, and it has become the box office runner-up in the history of Japanese movies so far.

In addition, although the results of Love Letter in other parts of Asia are not as dazzling as My Sassy Girl, it is still a very popular movie.

Therefore, in terms of total box office, Love Letter easily blows up My Sassy Girlfriend!

Love Letter and My Sassy Girl, two low-cost films with a production cost of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, made DreamWorks earn at least 100 million U.S. dollars. This made the world once again see the world's number one director Xu While saving strength, it also made interested people pay attention to the two major film markets of Japan and South Korea!

Xu Cun didn't pay much attention to the astonishing achievements of Love Letter and My Sassy Girl—now, the profit of 200 million US dollars can no longer attract Xu Cun's attention.

Recently, there are only two companies that can attract Xu Cun's attention—Mitsubishi Petroleum and Nikkatsu.

After Iwasaki Masakazu's unremitting efforts, Xu Cun got his wish and reached an agreement with Mitsubishi Oil that after the 'Canada-Pacific' oil and gas pipeline is fully completed, Mitsubishi Oil will only use this oil and natural gas highway to import Canadian oil. And Xu Cun got his wish to get a 49% stake in Mitsubishi Petroleum.

The result seems simple, but in fact the process is extremely tortuous—Iwasaki Masakazu paid a lot of money to make Xu Cun happy, no, it should be said that Iwasaki Masakazu took Xu Cun to play with him when the next stock market crash happened. . Of course, Xu Cun didn't care how much Iwasaki Masakazu paid, anyway, he only wanted the result.

On the other hand, after Xu Cun spent a lot of money, the Sanada family, the largest shareholder of Nikkatsu, resolutely abandoned MGM and sold all the shares held by their family in Nikkatsu to Huangtu Land.

After getting the shares of Nikkatsu, He Chaoqiong immediately held the daily shareholders' meeting, and then proposed the division of Nikkor at the shareholders' meeting.

After quarreling for more than a month, Huangtu Land dropped 2.5 billion yen and all the equity of Nikkor, and then left Nikkor with all of Nikkor's theaters and cinemas.

After that, Huangtu Land carried out a comprehensive reform of Rihuo Cinemas, demolished and rebuilt all the original small theaters and small cinemas, and built the most advanced multiplex cinema in the world.

Afterwards, Huangtu Land leased all these multiplex theaters to the Emperor Cinemas in the United States, forming the Emperor Cinemas (Japanese branch).

In other words, all the goals of Xu Cun's trip to Japan have been achieved.

Coinciding with the opening of the Seoul Olympic Games, Xu Cun took his daughters (including the daughters who have been touring in the mainland for several months and Wan Qiwen who traveled around the world) to Seoul to watch the Olympic Games, and by the way, to participate in the world-class competition for the first time Ma Yanli cheered on - in fact, Xu Cun mainly went to cheer on He Meitian, who was also participating in a world-class competition for the first time.

By the way, neither Ma Yanli nor He Meitian actually qualified to participate in this Olympic Games.

But who made Ma Yanli and He Meitian stand behind Xu Cun? Even if Xu Cun didn't say a word, Wu Shaozu and others specially approved Ma Yanli and He Meitian to participate in this Olympic Games.

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