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Volume 1 Chapter 587 The craze is coming (Part 2)

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    As soon as "League of Assassins" hit the box office everywhere, it immediately caused a tsunami-like sensation in Hong Kong.  "Despite the torrential rain hitting Hong Kong, the box office of "League of Assassins" in Hong Kong and Macau exceeded 3 million on its first day. Media Asia once again announced with success that the era of blockbuster films belonging to Hong Kong movies has arrived!" - "Ming Pao" "Media Asia finally stands in the European market  Keep your footing, evil weather will not stop the assassin storm. Great director Lin Xiaozhi's sincere new film - "Assassin's League" hit a new high in the UK, with a box office of more than 18 million (HKD) on the first day, which made the industry lose its voice." - "Tian Tian!  Daily News "Not to mention Macau, which is just across the water from Hong Kong, which is regarded as the home port of Hong Kong films, "Assassin's League" has created an astonishing first-day box office of more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars that has attracted countless attention in the industry, and when it  After the first-day box office data of the two films released on the same day in the UK and Japan were revealed, the Hong Kong industry and media were completely silenced.  In the UK, "League of Assassins" relied on the popularity accumulated by Lin Xiaozhi's hard work over the past few years. On the first day of release, it achieved an astonishing box office nearly seven times that of the local area.  In Japan, the foreign market that Hong Kong films have attached most importance to in recent years, "League of Assassins" also had a high-profile first day and achieved nearly twice the box office of the local market. The Japanese market is undoubtedly several times larger than Hong Kong, and the subsequent box office growth momentum is very strong.  It will obviously be higher than Hong Kong and will never be any lower.  Therefore, after handing over such an impeccable report card, not to mention that the Taiwanese media in Taiwan, which was originally gearing up and waiting, hoping that Lin Xiaozhi's new movie would encounter a waterloo, or better fall into grandma's house, were dumbfounded.  All he could do was stand aside and watch dryly.  As soon as this box office came out, even the "Oriental Daily News" in Hong Kong, which had many conflicts with Lin Xiaozhi, had to change its tone and wrote a sour soft article praising: " Undoubtedly, Lin Xiaozhi, who is extremely good at commercial film production, has found a way  There is a shortcut to success that most filmmakers have not yet discovered. He is not the first filmmaker in Hong Kong to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to shoot a blockbuster (Cheng Long and "Eagle Project"), but he is the first to invest over 100 million in a major production in a row.  And every commercial film director can bring him huge returns! " "It has been more than half a century since the birth of Hong Kong films. There are not many who can make a name for themselves in Southeast Asia, but only one can gain a foothold in Japan.  A few people. As the world's largest box office market, the European and American box office has always shut out Hong Kong films due to differences in values ??and culture. If the success of one movie can be described as a fluke, then two or three movies will follow in succession.  The emergence of masterpieces that are sensational in Europe and the United States can only prove one thing. Lin Xiaozhi and his Media Asia have figured out the aesthetics and preferences of European and American audiences, and have begun to make huge profits in the European and American markets" Although the mainland market is now far less than that of later generations.  Brilliant, but because Lin Xiaozhi regarded it as his local city, he paid more attention to it than other overseas markets. After the film was allowed to be screened in the north last year, he quickly established a branch with extremely high authority in the mainland. Both publicity and public relations were carried out in full compliance with local standards.  , when "League of Assassins" was released, Media Asia spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising in mainland China.  Although Media Asia failed to contact CCTV this time and landed on the mainland's most coverage publicity platform, it also reached cooperation with many heavyweight provincial newspapers and even Shenzhen TV to place advertisements for "Assassin's League" all over the country.  South China and coastal areas with more developed economies.  Coupled with the initial reputation gained by previous introduced films such as "Once Upon a Time", "League of Assassins" was released in mainland China, and the first day of its release under the overwhelming advertising was quite objective. According to Beijing Film Studio, the first day of release was  Incomplete statistical data sent at noon showed that the total box office of "Assassin's League" on the first day exceeded 3 million yuan only in the nine coastal and southern provinces where statistics have been completed, plus Shanghai, Forty-Nine City and other regions. Although compared with Japan,  The gap in the UK is obvious, but it is still higher than when "Once Upon a Time" was first introduced last year. From this, we can also see that the mainland movie box office market is showing an upward trend as the economy recovers and develops again.  When the data was fed back to Hong Kong, Lin Xiaozhi, who was refreshed, naturally arranged for Media Asia to publicize this in an orderly manner, in order to eliminate as much as possible the accusations against him that his opponents had never stopped since losing the Taiwan market.  At the same time, he did not forget to order the branch in mainland China to continue to increase advertising efforts in the hope of gaining greater response in the mainland.  It has to be said that for good movies, there is no real off-season or prime time.  With the release of "League of Assassins", the continuous advertising and publicity in the early stage and the fermentation of word-of-mouth soon set off a massive wave of movie-watching craze in various places.  "It's obviously not Litian, why are there so many people?!" In Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, a young man stood in the ticket hall of the Old Golden Bell Cinema under the Debao Cinema Line. Looking at the long queue in front, he couldn't help but say angrily.  .  His name is Zhang Xi, who is twenty years old this year. He is an ordinary person who started working at the cargo terminal under the introduction of his family after graduating from the seventh grade.As a working class worker, his work is tiring and dirty. Although he earns a good salary, he doesn't have many friends of the same age, let alone girlfriends. His only vacation entertainment is to rent some videos and watch movies at home.  It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Xi is a movie enthusiast. Ever since he was in school, he has been very fond of Kung Fu movies by Bruce Lee, Ti Lung, Cheng Long, Sammo Hung and others. He was once so obsessed with Cheng Long that he imitated him in everything he dressed. For Cheng Long  He has watched almost all of the movies at least ten times.  Later, after Fa Ge created a new pattern of Hong Kong hero films with "A Better Tomorrow", one more movie star he admired was Chow Yun-fat.  However, if you watch too many movies, even idiot fans will feel that Cheng Long's movies have strived to innovate in recent years but have never been able to break out of the old "Cheng Long traditional" framework. Although the big brother on the screen still fights desperately,  Zhang Xi still realizes that the appeal of his movies to him has become less and less attractive year by year.  Fat Brother is not much better. Although he started the trend of Hong Kong hero movies, in recent years, at least dozens of crude imitations of "A Better Tomorrow" have been released to the audience in Hong Kong every year, trying their best to make money.  Not much innovation has been seen. On the contrary, pioneers like Fa Ge and Wu Yusen were almost killed on the coast. Although the two have tried to change and collaborate in filming many new movies in recent years, it is still difficult to break out of the deep-rooted routine of hero movies.  .  Apart from the stunning "God of Gamblers" co-produced with the genius Fatty King, Fa Ge's other movies have a higher box office than "A Better Tomorrow".  I originally thought that Hong Kong movies were nothing to watch, but since the emergence of an actor named Zhou Xingchi two years ago, he has repeatedly set new highs in Hong Kong comedies with movies such as "The Dragon Back to School" and "The Gambler".  Lin Xiaozhi, a talented commercial film director with a rich family background, spent a lot of money to shoot many blockbusters, such as "Red Alert", "Resident Evil", etc. Each of them has no duplication of genres compared to the previous one, and often brings movie fans completely different from traditional Hong Kong films.  The different visual experience makes people unable to help but pay attention to him after watching it.  Since watching "Red Alert" directed by Lin Xiaozhi the year before last, Zhang Xi has also become completely obsessed with the movies of the young commercial film director who was not too cold at first.  Even last year, after Lin Xiaozhi's first blockbuster film "Resident Evil" with an investment of over 100 million yuan was released, in order to preview it, he even changed his past habit of renting video tapes to watch at home, and went to the theater to buy tickets and watch the movie for the first time since working.  And "Resident Evil" did not disappoint him. Zhang Xi watched it three times in the theater. Six months later, when he rented the video and watched it again at home, he still felt nervous and exciting.  .  Although many good movies have appeared in Hong Kong every year in recent years, for him who pursues novelty and excitement, they still lack a bit of flavor.  Therefore, when he first saw the novel film directed by Lin Xiaozhi, Zhang Xi couldn't help but feel excited. Now he has become one of Lin Xiaozhi's die-hard fans.  As early as the beginning of the year, he learned that Lin Xiaozhi had a new movie, and he had been secretly looking forward to it. After watching the promotional video of "Assassin's League" during ATV's program break some time ago, he was even more looking forward to the movie's release date.  Although he couldn¡¯t get a day off on the first day of the movie¡¯s release, he finally exchanged a day¡¯s rest with his friends today. After waking up early in the morning, he ate a quick meal and rushed to the theater to watch the movie.  Zhang Xi never expected that as soon as he arrived at the Debao-affiliated theater closest to his home, he found that there was already a long queue in the ticket hall.  Listening to the discussions among other people lining up around him, it turned out that just like him, they were also waiting to buy "Assassin's League" movie tickets.  "I heard from my colleagues that this movie is absolutely amazing. If you don't watch it, you will definitely be at a big loss. I don't know what to think?" "I really impressed the big-nosed girl. She actually ran out to watch the movie in such a heavy rain.  But judging from her excited tone on the phone, this movie is probably very good and I can¡¯t help but watch it.¡± ¡°I just came here for Brother Fa, who hasn¡¯t made anything eye-catching in the past two years!¡±  The movie. I heard that this time I collaborated with the great director Lin Xiaozhi. I must watch it!¡± ¡°Lim Xiaozhi¡¯s movie is absolutely amazing. It¡¯s even more exciting than the one in the promotional video. I can¡¯t wait to buy a ticket and watch it right away!¡±  Waiting in the long queue to buy tickets, and listening to the chatter in his ears from time to time, Zhang Xi's irritability and unhappiness gradually subsided.  Because "League of Assassins" was released on the same day in Hong Kong, Macao, Mainland China, the United Kingdom, and Japan, it created a miraculous box office and became a sensation on the first day of its release. In other places besides Hong Kong, fans lined up to grab the tickets.  Tickets are just for seeing a new movie and it happens almost everywhere.  For Western audiences, the summer season and the Christmas season should be the two most important prime time periods every year.  However, compared with the traditional off-seasons such as February, May, September, etc.,Among them, there are two smaller schedules that have always been hotly contested by European and American film distributors, namely ¡®Easter¡¯ in March and April and ¡®Halloween¡¯ in October and November.  In the early years, before Easter, you could always see a lot of religious and God-praising movies in European and American theaters, and around Halloween, there was a period when European and American ghost movies and horror movies were released intensively.  Originally, this year there should be a lot of ghost and horror films to be released to the audience around Halloween, but I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s because last year¡¯s ¡°Silence of the Lambs¡± in the United States received too strong a response, or because too many European and American films were overdrawn.  With the horror cells in the minds of filmmakers, apart from a few locally produced low-budget horror films in Europe before Halloween this year, most of the films that movie fans can look forward to are commercial blockbusters from the United States on the other side of the Atlantic.  As a long-established capitalist power, the UK has faced tight financial constraints due to the 'sterling case' created by international fast money just last month. The UK has spent tens of billions of dollars in foreign exchange in the battle with many pretenders.  Only then can we repel a bunch of hungry wolf-like international fast money capital.  However, although some price fluctuations briefly occurred in the UK, malignant changes such as runs and inflation did not occur.  As the empire that never sets in the past, even though it has declined now, it still left too much and too rich wealth for its descendants, which is far beyond what some of the newly rising countries in Asia can compare with.  The wealth in hand has not been reduced much due to the turmoil, and the British have always loved watching movies. Therefore, before Halloween is approaching, countless excited movie fans flock to the cinema almost every day. "Alien 3" is released,  "Lethal Weapon 3" is released. The popular American movie "Basic Instinct", which was released early last month and has been criticized by European film critics, is nearing the end of its release. If you don't go to see it, I'm afraid you won't have the chance to see it in the theater.  This is a romance movie that is said to be extremely fragrant.  And at this time, the American superhero film "Batman Returns" and the Hong Kong film "League of Assassins", which have been heavily advertised in the UK for a month or two, are also coming. It's really a wonderful October.  As a foreign commercial film director with a good reputation in the UK in recent years, Lin Xiaozhi has arranged with Media Asia for many movies to be released in the UK. He even had to accept the discriminatory treatment of British distributors, which is far inferior to European and American movies.  .  British movie fans, from their initial doubts and distrust, to exclamations and applause again and again, gradually became familiar with and accepted him and the "Hong Kong movies" he represented, especially the completely inconsistent behavior often shown in his movies.  The commercial structure and story creativity that are inferior to those of American blockbusters have made them more popular among British movie fans who have been dissatisfied with the increasingly declining local movies in recent years, especially the young generation who like novelty and pursue excitement.  "Weston bet me that if I didn't come to see "League of Assassins" I would definitely regret it. Where does this guy get his confidence?" Outside a cinema in the Brent area of ??London, several young people were laughing at each other and walking not far away.  Walk to the theater here.  They don¡¯t look too old. They seem to be still in college or maybe younger.  However, Brent is the area with the largest number of foreign immigrants among the many districts in London, especially the presence of many immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. This makes the security in this area much more chaotic than other districts in London, and as a result, some young locals  People are affected, and they disobey family discipline at a young age, or skip school and hang out with some gangsters, and some even join local gangs.  "Chinese Kung Fu, cool!" Among the group of people, a tall and thick-looking young man yelled and made hand gestures, with a bit of a 'Cheng Long' attitude, "Daisy also urged me to buy her a day after tomorrow  movie tickets, you know we just started dating, and she is different from us! " "Yes, that little bitch can pretend to be a princess in front of men. We are all little gangsters, but she is a good child in the eyes of teachers and parents!  "A young girl dressed as a concubine opened her mouth and said sarcastically. She had long nails, and her nails were covered with various trinkets. She must be young because her voice was very childish.  But the thick makeup on her face and the rich purple eyeshadow make it difficult for outsiders to tell her age.  "Carmela, do you want to quarrel?" "What's the quarrel? If you don't like it, don't follow. Carmela, don't you like 'Andy Lau' in "Resident Evil" the most? As far as I know, Liu is not the one in this film."  Be the star of the movie!¡± The little girl rolled her eyes at a few people and pushed her already grown breasts up, ¡°I like all Lin¡¯s movies. His movies are so cool. I want to watch them.¡±  ?¡± ¡°Okay!¡± ¡­ Walking into the theater ticket hall, Tamaki Koji pushed up his sunglasses and saw that no one around him recognized him, and he felt a little proud but also a little annoyed.  "I didn't expect "Assassin's League" to be so popular,""We didn't attend the premiere held at Kadokawa Pictures the day before yesterday, so we missed a lot" He whispered to his wife Hiroko Yakushimaru who was also wrapped up next to him. "As one of the best pop singers in Japan,  Tamaki Koji married Yakushimaru Hiroko, who is known as "Miura Momoe No. 2", but their life after marriage was not good. On the one hand, it was widely rumored that Yakushimaru Hiroko was cast as the former president of Kadokawa Film Studio.  Another reason for Haruki's support was that his wife Hiroko Yakushimaru was far more famous in Japan's entertainment industry than him. Although Koji Tamaki tried several times to enter the entertainment industry and become a true amphibious star.  However, after working hard for so many years, although his pop songs once deeply affected Hong Kong and Taiwan, thousands of miles away, he was still unable to gain a foothold in the entertainment industry, so he felt somewhat inferior in front of his wife. Hiroko Yakushimaru criticized him.  With a sweet smile, she also wore a hat and sunglasses to prevent others from recognizing her. She answered him in a low voice: " Kadokawa Pictures was acquired by Hong Kong's Media Asia Group some time ago. After all, Mr. Haruki single-handedly made me famous.  He has shown great kindness to me. Even though he is now accused of drug trafficking and imprisoned, I cannot add insult to injury!  " Tamaki Koji knew that her relationship with Kadokawa Haruki was unusual. Hearing this, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, but he did not show it. He nodded, quickly raised his brows, suppressed his voice and said excitedly: "Mr. Kadokawa, although he is very talented.  , but in terms of management, it is still far behind Lin Sang.  Media Asia Group is indeed one of the few large-scale film production companies in the world. You see, not long after they acquired Kadokawa Pictures, they have made big moves one after another.  I heard that "League of Assassins" was released on the same day in many countries and regions in Asia and Europe. The box office on the first day in the UK alone exceeded 300 million yen. I heard from my friends that Lin Sang's movie might be able to recover only in the UK.  cost and make a killing!  " Hiroko Yakushimaru's eyes flickered slightly. She knew that her husband was suspected of being seriously ill. For this reason, the two of them were not as happy as the outside world said after their marriage. They even had a quarrel just a month ago. Not long ago, she praised  Haruki Kadokawa, who made her debut, lost to his brother Kadokawa Rikihiko in the power struggle surrounding Kadokawa Bookstore. He was arrested by the police after being reported for drug trafficking, tax evasion, misappropriation of company assets, etc. In Japan, both drug trafficking and economic crimes are serious crimes.  Although he will not be sentenced to death, once it is confirmed that it is true, he will be imprisoned for at least seven years. When Kadokawa Haruki fell, her husband Tamaki Koji naturally felt relieved. Moreover, Media Asia recently acquired Kadokawa Pictures and cooperated with Kadokawa Shoten.  There are also a lot of big moves in Japan. Some time ago, the couple was first invited to dub the new movie "Assassin's League" by the great director and Media Asia boss Hayashi Koji. According to the wishes of her husband Koji Tamaki, Kadokawa Pictures seems to be preparing to sign a contract with him and invite him.  Starring and co-starring in several movies and scoring movies, this makes Tamaki Hiroshi, who has always wanted to enter the entertainment industry but has never been able to find a way, very excited. Today, he even dragged himself out with him, saying that he wanted to watch "The Assassin" for which they dubbed.  Alliance". Because they had movie tickets presented by Kadokawa Films, they naturally didn't have to queue up to buy tickets, so when Tamaki Koji and his wife entered the ticket hall, they just stopped for a moment and looked at the long queue of at least 20 or 30 people waiting to buy tickets.  The team went directly to the ticket check-in area at the entrance of the screening hall.
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