Thursday, October 16th. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The people of Xiangjiang have been looking forward to Cheng Long's Hollywood super masterpiece "Killer Trench" for almost a year, and it has officially begun to be released in Xiangjiang.

In order to make "Killer Trench" have good results, He Guanchang and Cai Yongchang went out in person, promised a lot of conditions, and added their own theaters, and contacted 43 theaters to co-screen in one go.

This number is a little worse than the 50 theaters of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but it also broke the record for the number of theaters in which Hong Kong movies were released.

This is also because of the arrival of Yin Jun, which made Zou Wenhuai make a lot of money on "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and Zou Wenhuai has the confidence to contact the theater for release.

Zou Wenhuai also allocated 1 million publicity funds to promote the big production of "Killer Trench" in newspapers all over Asia, especially in Xiangjiang, but never mentioned its box office in the United States.

"Killer Trench" grossed $8.5 million in the United States, which is not too bad for Asian-starred films, but it is not as good as many of the films that came out of the box office in the opening weekend.

But after Cheng Long gathered a group of actors and made a lot of changes to the movie, he still had more confidence after watching the new version of Zou Wenhuai.

Like him, it was the audience of Xiangjiang who thought the same way.

Although "Killer Trench" has hit the streets in the United States, Xiangjiang people feel that Americans have different appreciation standards from them, and Americans feel bad, which does not mean that it does not meet the taste of Xiangjiang people.

Cheng Long is a very good star in Xiangjiang, although he can't replace the position of the Xu brothers at present, but he has been successful in several movies in a row, and he is increasingly popular with everyone, and the upward momentum is also obvious.

Therefore, after the box office results of the first day came out, it reached as much as 1.5 million! This is not Saturday or Sunday!!

Golden Harvest and Cheng Long couldn't help but smile, waiting for the box office to explode in the three days of the weekend.

But the next day's box office, in the early hours of the morning, called Jiahe one after another, and after summarizing, everyone was dumbfounded.

720,000!

The box office is down by more than half!?

Zou Wenhuai felt that he had made a mistake, but he called back again to confirm, but found that the result was not bad at all.

Cheng Long, who was very happy yesterday, didn't feel that his face was swollen and red.

I spent 2 million US dollars to reshoot more than a third of the footage, deliberately catering to Asian audiences, but it still doesn't work?

If you don't even survive the first week, how will the results of the second week plummet...... It's unimaginable.

And it turned out to be exactly what they thought.

Saturday's box office was 850,000.

Sunday's box office was 530,000.

The box office in the first four days totaled 3.6 million!

For others, such a result is already very good, but this is Cheng Long's movie!

This is a big-budget movie that cost a total of $12 million!!

In Xiangjiang, Cheng Long's base camp, he can only get such results, which really makes Jiahe very frustrated.

Not only Hong Kong, but the rest of the places in the first weekend, including Japan, South Korea, Germany, France and other places, added up to only HK$23 million.

When he came to the office in the morning, hearing this unexpected news, Zou Wenhuai sighed heavily, with a look of loss.

"Perhaps...... Maybe we can wait a little longer, just in case ......"

Cai Yongchang's comforting words were stopped by Zou Wenhuai raising his hand before he finished speaking, "Don't comfort me, I can still bear this blow! It's just a failure, let's get it back next time!"

"But ......"

He Guanchang wanted to speak and stopped.

"Say, Ah Chang, am I still afraid of any blow?" Zou Wenhuai said with a smile, "Is there something wrong with someone in the theater?"

"It's not them, although they're also a little dissatisfied. He Guanchang said, "It's those shareholders, they came to me early in the morning, said they wanted to sell their shares, and asked me if I wanted to take over." ”

"Huh?" Zou Wenhuai was startled, "Who are they?"

"All five families came. He Guanchang smiled bitterly, "They must have been channeled well, otherwise it would be impossible to come together." ”

"Are they crazy? just for this loss?" Cai Yongchang said in disbelief, "Didn't we make $25 million on Raiders of the Lost Ark? Why are they so ignorant?"

"On the one hand, they think that this time is too miserable, and secondly, they don't think that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is our credit, but Yin Jun's insight. He Guanchang said: "So they are afraid that Jiahe will come here a few times in the future, which will affect the value of the shares in their hands." And now happens to be the time when Golden Harvest shares can afford to sell at a price. ”

"Isn't it that simple?" Zou Wenhuai said with a deep groan, "I know that Lao Zhu, Lao Qin, and Lao Zhang are all very shrewd people. If they want to sell their shares in Golden Harvest, they must have other plans. ”

"Brother Huai, you guessed right. He Guanchang replied, "Hasn't the land and housing prices in Xiangjiang gone crazy recently? They also want to gather together to invest in real estate and get a piece of the pie." ”

"Real estate?" Zou Wenhuai scoffed, "Real estate is very hot, but the predators fighting in there, is it something they can provoke?

"I think so too, but they've been fascinated by the real estate rush and are bent on cashing out and leaving. He Guanchang said, "Brother Huai, you also know that although Golden Harvest has paid some dividends in recent years, we are actively expanding the company, and we have not yet been listed, so the value has increased a little less......"

"Alas!"

Zou Wenhuai sighed, "That's it, you call them all over, and I'll ask again." They're all old friends, and I can't bear to let them go......"

When Jiahe was established that year, Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang, and Cai Yongchang exchanged money and labor for 40% of the shares.

Then five local businessmen also funded some of them, and obtained 20% of the shares, the remaining 25% were Japanese-owned, and 15% were Korean-owned.

Over the years, Golden Harvest's valuation has increased sixfold from 50 million at the beginning to 300 million Hong Kong dollars now.

But if you take into account that Zou Wenhuai established Golden Harvest in 70 years, and after ten years, Golden Harvest has such a scale, it is too slow compared to the financial and real estate development of Xiangjiang.

In the past ten years, the real estate in Hong Kong has increased by five or six times?

Generally it is ten times, and the most twelve or thirteen times are there!

In other words, if they had used the money to buy a house in 1970, then if they sold it now, the cost of 10 million would now be at least 100 million.

This time, the real estate surge that began at the end of last year has made these shareholders see another opportunity to make a lot of money, and this time, Golden Harvest's "Killer Trench" fiasco has made them even more determined to this idea.

Zou Wenhuai feels that in fact, Golden Harvest will soon usher in new development, but real estate has risen too much, for the sake of stability, these old friends are actually better to keep Golden Harvest shares.

……

Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

Golden Harvest is struggling with the box office of "Killer Trench" here, but the performance of the Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe, which started two days in advance, has been highly sought after by theater fans.

The classic Kunqu opera they carefully prepared was not only fascinated by a group of fans, but also those Kunqu opera, Huangmei, Yue opera, Peking opera, Cantonese opera...... and so on, and so on, all came to cheer, and one by one the flower baskets were placed at the intersection of the stage.

Acting in opera is different from movies, acting in opera is a live performance, your singing, reading, doing, playing, every move, every smile, the big guys can see whether they are attentive.

The Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe originally represented the pinnacle of Chinese Kunqu Opera, and with the fact that it was prepared, it was naturally full of energy and strived to contribute the best Kunqu Opera to everyone.

Since you are serious, then everyone will be able to see and appreciate your efforts.

As a result, the 1,500 seats in the Lee Stage are full every day, and it is difficult to find a ticket.

The ticket prices of scalpers have even been fried to two or three times, but they were snapped up by fans as soon as they came out.

Originally, the Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe started performing on Tuesday the 14th, and it was a five-day summary to Saturday on the 18th, and it was going to take a day off on Sunday, and then play a second show on Monday.

But the audience's response was just too enthusiastic.

After soliciting the opinions of the actors, the troupe leaders decided to simply add an additional performance on Sunday on the 19th, and when the temporary ticket sales were on the night of the 18th, there was chaos at the door, and there was almost no fighting.

If it weren't for the police officers rushing over to maintain order, I'm afraid there would have been a real conflict.

Encouraged by such good results, Gao Hong has entrusted the staff to ask Yin Jun if they can add another ten days to the performance.

Because according to the current momentum, at least two-thirds of the people in the queue have not bought tickets, and ten more days of performance will not be a problem at all.

The Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe also has some plans, in fact, they have prepared two more scenes, which are ready to be used when this kind of accident happens.

Yin Jun asked Gao Hong, performing for 17 days in one go, plus 10 days, almost a month, if everyone can afford it, don't you have to work so hard.

As a result, Gao Hong's answer was that because of the full preparation, there were many actors who could be replaced, so even the pillars, everyone was not too hard, after all, there was only one game a day.

Moreover, after they returned to the mainland, they had time to rest, and finally came to Xiangjiang to promote their Kunqu opera culture and make some money, and every actor in the Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe was unwilling to miss this opportunity.

Hearing such a reply, Yin Jun sighed unconsciously, and immediately asked Tian Jiachun to discuss the postponement with the Li Stage and the hotel.

It's rare that they have a fighting spirit that those dance troupes don't have after 40 years, and Yin Jun is willing to help them.

In this era of great changes unseen in a thousand years, there are many such respectable people!