Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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On January 26th, "Desperate To Find A Lot" and "Smart Boy" will be screened at the same time.

The first duel between Xu Cun and Jiahe kicked off.

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

To be honest, Yuan Biao's acting skills and kung fu are better than Dong Wei's, so "The Seduction of Eye-catching Boy" looks better than the previous life.

However, "Smart Boy's Bewitching Trick", like many current movies, has a fatal flaw - the plot. From the beginning to the end, "Smart Boy's Seduction" is mainly based on the humorous fight between Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao, and the plot can be said to be incomprehensible.

Therefore, "Smart Boy's Seduction" does not pose much threat to "Mr. Zombie".

In comparison, "Despicable Detective" is a little more difficult-it is starring Qiao Hong, Wu Yaohan, Miao Kexiu, and Mu Sairen. All four of them were well-known actors at this time. If they were placed in later generations, the four of them could all be regarded as popular first-line actors. Moreover, some plots of "Despicable Detectives" are also a bit interesting.

However, generally speaking, "Despicable Detective" is actually a follow-up work of "Half Gold Eight Liang" and "Fat Qian Han", without much innovation.

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

But in any case, the population of Xiangjiang is so small. Therefore, no matter how poorly the filming of "The Eye-catching Boy" and "The Despicable Detective" are bad, relying on the high popularity of Sammo Hung, You Qiao Hong, Wu Yaohan, Miao Kexiu, and Mu Sairen in Xiangjiang, " "Mr. Zombie" and "Desperate to Find a Way" still took away many viewers from "Mr. Zombie", which caused "Mr. Zombie" to drop from the situation of almost full shows in the first week to an average attendance rate of only 100%. Eighty-six.

Although the attendance rate dropped by more than 10%, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" in the second week rose to 5.4 million due to the increase of 1.2 yuan per ticket.

The box office of "Mr. Zombie" in the second week not only envied other filmmakers in Hong Kong, but even Xu Cun, who had always been hopeless about the box office exceeding 20 million, began to think that the box office of "Mr. Zombie" might reach 20 million.

However, the reality slapped Xu Cun severely - in the third week, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" suddenly plunged, 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 contract with Shaw Cinemas not to withdraw from the theaters. Therefore, in the face of this big diving situation, Shi Nansheng took the initiative to change the six screenings a day 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.

In the fifth week, "Monkey Clutch" and Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist" were released at the same time.

Under the attack of "Monkey Clutch Hand" and "Laughing Fist", on February 17th, the average attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" was only 43%.

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

So far, 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, under the suggestion of Xu Cun and Shao Yifu, Shi Nansheng and Wang Hongbing negotiated and reached the following agreements:

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

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

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 of "Mr. Zombie" rose 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 cut in half.

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

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

On behalf of Shao Yifu, Wang Hongbing asked Xu Cun if he needed to show it for another week.

Xu Cun thought for a while, and then declined—the box office potential of "Mr. Zombie" has been fully released, and it is ambiguous whether it can break through the 20 million mark in one more week of screenings, and the extremely pragmatic Xu Cun is not willing. Do things that make money and make money.

The production cost of "Mr. Zombie" is 3.74 million, the publicity fee is 1.34 million, the base fee of Shaw Cinemas is 5.74 million, and the copy fee and other miscellaneous expenses are 8. Wan more.

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

In other words, excluding 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, a city with a population of more than five million, can be sold at a price of only 6.9 yuan. It grossed nearly 20 million at the box office, which is simply shocking!

In fact, it's normal for this to happen - all along, Xu Cun only counts the box office based on one person watching only one show. But what Xu Cun didn't know was that many viewers watched several episodes repeatedly. One of the young couple watched nine episodes of "Mr. Zombie" in a row in order to learn the song "Love of My Life". The grades of the sisters were even tougher. They even watched 12 episodes of "Mr. Zombie" in 40 days.

Xu Cun has always only paid attention to results, and he also has a bad habit of looking forward to Shu. Therefore, after learning that the local box office alone earned him eight or nine million Hong Kong dollars, Xu Cun immediately turned his attention to the overseas box office—he was looking forward to an even bigger surprise from the overseas box office!

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