Chapter 119: Poaching Xu Guanwen
“Hey, the brother-in-law kissed so excitingly!”
The intimate scene between Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia was being shown in the movie.
Zhao Yazhi hit the younger sister: "This is a movie, what a fuss."
The whole family of the old Zhao family stared at the big screen without blinking, and the second sister even covered her head into the child's eyes.
Even if Yang Ye is thick-skinned, he is still a little embarrassed now.
In fact, they didn’t show much, they just hugged and kissed each other. For today’s movies, it’s nothing at all.
The first part of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was fine, but after watching too many fights in "Shaolin Temple" and "Fist of Heroes", I felt it was not exciting at all.
Until the fight between Li Mubai and Yu Jiaolong later, he took off without even stamping his feet.
Floating across the beautiful lake and fighting on the bamboo branches, everyone in the old Zhao family was stunned.
In the late 1980s, for almost ten years, Hong Kong movies and TV series featured various flying and escaping films, completely ignoring the laws of physics.
"New Blue Blood Sword", "Six-fingered Piano Demon", "New Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Child Mother", "New Crane Needle"...
This series of martial arts movies Inside, the characters are no longer human, they are all gods!
After watching it too much, everyone got very tired of it, so... the action movie changed again to physical fighting.
This is how the 1994 "Fist of Heroes" and the 1995 "Broken Blade" came about.
However, these two classics appeared at the intersection of style changes. Although they received good reviews, the audience could not adapt to them for a while, so the box office was very poor.
Then, before the style had completely changed, Hong Kong movies suddenly exploded, and martial arts movies never recovered.
But no matter what, starting in 1994, the martial arts style of Chinese-language movies began to change to a realistic style that involves fists and flesh.
Including the later rise of Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, this is the case.
In this case, 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Li Bian suddenly went back to his old ways and started practicing Qinggong.
The first feeling of the Chinese audience was that they were very surprised, and the second feeling was...that's it?
I got tired of seeing you ten years ago, and you are so light and flaccid, with no energy at all.
At that time, the Six-fingered Piano Demon, the Tianshan Child Elder, the Palace Master Yao Yue, the Golden Snake Man, Bai Yunfei, Lan Xiaodie... who was not a biubiubiu who could destroy the world with a wave of his hand?
In comparison, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is simply weak!
Not many people have understood the so-called artistic conception of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Therefore, when this film was released, its reputation in the Chinese world was not very impressive.
Mainland box office 10 million, annual 15. The Hong Kong box office grossed HK$14.7 million, ranking ninth in the year. The box office in Taiwan is NT$20 million, ranking first among Chinese films, but how much is NT$20 million?
But now...
On the one hand, under the dual pressure of Oscar and Palme d'Or, no one dares to say that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not good.
The bad thing is that you have no taste and you don’t understand it, so you’ll have to go to the cinema to watch it again.
On the other hand, this kind of flying and escaping is still quite new for now.
Moreover, Hu Jinquan is actually much better than Li Yin in creating the atmosphere of the picture. He really made it poetic and picturesque, which looks very pleasing to the eye.
......
"This movie is so artistic, no wonder it won so many awards abroad."
After the movie was shown, Zhao Yangming commented.
"Where can I find this novel? I would like to read it again." Zhao Yangming is a martial arts fan.
Yang Ye said: "Wang Dulu's novel has not been published in Hong Kong, but it is available in Taiwan. I have a copy on hand and will send it to you another day."
"No need to send it specially, let Zhizhi give it to me Just bring it here. But when you are free, you can come to our house and we will have a drink."
The whole family came out of the movie theater, and Zhao Yazhi's eldest nephew suddenly asked: "Uncle Yang. , what’s there?”
Yang Ye said: “That’s a handicraft store, let’s go and take a look!”
Everyone walked in and found that there were all kinds of figures and toys inside, but they were all related to movies.
There are figures of Bruce Lee, figures of Chen Long’s Drunken Master, figures of Yang Ye Shaolin Temple novices, and figures of Jade Dragon holding the Qingming Sword...
Also There are all kinds of toys and souvenirs. For example, a miniature version of the Qingming Sword, a pillow with the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon LOGO, a cartoon keychain, a lighter...
"Mommy, I want the Qingming Sword!" The eldest nephew immediately set his sights on the sword!
Although the sister-in-law was unwilling to let her son play with these toys such as knives and swords, she happily bought them in front of Yang Ye.
"198 yuan, thank you!"
"Such a small sword for 198 yuan?" The sister-in-law couldn't help complaining. It's not that I can't afford it, I just think it's expensive. This thing isn't even made of metal.
Yang Ye explained: "These are derivative products from the movie. They are in limited quantity, while supplies last, and have collection value, so the price cannot be calculated according to the price of ordinary toys."
My sister-in-law said oh, but she said in her heart, you are really good at making money.
At this time, many people who had watched the movie were coming here. Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi were both stars, especially Yang Ye, who was so famous. He was afraid of causing a commotion, so he quickly said: "Everyone, let's go first. Otherwise, we won't be able to leave." He picked up Zhao Yazhi and ran away.
……
The box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the first day was 1.61 million!
Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang looked at the box office data and remained silent for a long time.
What is the concept of 1.61 million?
In 1976, "Meteor and Butterfly Sword" ranked seventh at the box office in Hong Kong, with a box office of 1.59 million.
In other words, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" could reach the seventh place in 1976 at the box office in one day.
"Is this... so good-looking?"
Zou Wenhuai shook his head: "It's not a question of whether it looks good or not, but the scale of Baiyang Cinema is too big. It uses the American cinema The latest multi-theater model. Don't forget that there are only six theaters. Each theater has more than 1,000 seats, which is larger than Taiping Theater.
In addition, Yang Ye has also cooperated with two theaters, Lisheng and Anle, as well as six independent theaters with which they have cooperated before. This means that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will be released simultaneously in 29 theaters in Hong Kong. Released.
This scale exceeds any previous movie, not to mention that Yang Ye spent two million on overwhelming publicity and whetted the audience's appetite for such a long time.
In addition, the price of movie tickets has increased again this year. Together, these factors can achieve a box office of 1.61 million in one day. "
He Guanchang said: "Fortunately, we have adjusted the release date of "Fa Qian Han" to August, otherwise we would have crashed into it and we would have died without knowing how. You said, we don’t have that big a grudge against Aye, right? "
Zou Wenhuai said: "This is not a matter of hatred. Speaking of which, we just thought he was dead, so we just wanted to take the opportunity to poach his people. This is normal business behavior. How bad can it be? It would be the same if Yang Ye stood in our position.
In fact, Yang Ye plotted against us not because of any hatred. His theater chain has been under construction at least two years ago. It's just that others thought it was a shopping mall and didn't even notice that he was building a movie theater.
Yang Ye has great ambitions. Since we are his competitors, he will naturally use any means to attack us. Unfortunately, we have no means to deal with him. ”
“What if we find a club? "
"People from the society are looking for death if they directly confront Yang Ye. Not only can he fight him, but he also has the relationship with the city, unless he uses a gun. "
"With a gun? This guy managed to escape right under the nose of a gunman in Japan! The murderer is still squatting in the cell. Besides, using a gun would only make things worse, not this far. "
"What should we do? Bai Yang now has two trump cards, Yang Ye and Aaron. We are just the Xu brothers and are no match at all. Those other satellite companies are completely useless. ”
"I said before that I should not contact Aaron again. Now that everyone is at odds with each other, let's talk to Aaron again. No matter how much it costs, we must poach him."
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Peninsula Hotel!
Xu Guanwen quickly walked into the Film Man Tea Restaurant and soon came to a corner.
“Aye, I’m sorry, there’s a traffic jam on the road.”
Yang Ye smiled and said: "It's normal to have a traffic jam at this point. I just arrived here not long ago."
Xu Guanwen sat down, ordered a cup of stockings milk tea, and said: "The song "Last time you helped Ajie write it" "Half a Category" is really good. His records are selling like crazy. I haven't thanked you properly yet."
"It's just a song. Brother Wen, don't take it to heart. Ajie has already treated me to it. It’s time to eat.”
The two chatted awkwardly for a while, then Yang Ye got right to the point: “I heard that you haven’t received the dividends from “Half a Category” yet?”
Xu Guanwen Hearing this, his eyes flashed, he adjusted his glasses and said with a smile: "Aye, you're not here to poach people, are you?"
Yang Ye said: "Of course! My theater chain is larger than Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, and the facilities are more luxurious. It will definitely be more cost-effective for you to show movies in my theater than Jiahe."
Xu Guanwen laughed Said: "But Baiyang has you and Aaron, and Hu Jinquan. I can't schedule a good schedule at all."
Yang Ye said: "Then you should go to Baiyang Cinema to visit, we are a multiplex cinema , a cinema has 6-8 screening halls, and it is not a problem to show two popular movies at the same time.
As for overseas channels, I have already opened up, and it is only better than Jiahe, and there is still a matter of box office sharing. , we can sign an agreement. If I still delay the payment beyond the agreed time limit, I am willing to pay three times the compensation."
Yang Ye opened his mouth and thought of all aspects for Xu Guanwen, but Xu Guanwen didn't even think about it. Reason for rejection.
"I'll go back and discuss it with Ajie and the others!" Xu Guanwen did not answer immediately, but dropped a sentence.
Yang Ye smiled and said: "No problem!"
Over there, Jiahe has not yet taken action to recruit Chen Long, but here Yang Ye has already connected with Xu Guanwen.
(End of this chapter)