Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 144 "Green Snake" box office

November.

The world's first new audio-visual product developed by Wanyan Company in the Mainland can bring video and sound together, and is more convenient and cheaper than laser CDs, and it has swept the whole of Asia.

The emergence of VCD has impacted the recording industry and even the entire film and television industry.

A new kind of audio product has just been developed.

This is definitely going to be a huge market.

Affected by this, many record companies and even film companies have begun to record their copyrighted songs and movies into VCDs for distribution.

Fulong Company is no exception. After VCD became popular, they immediately re-recorded several of the company's best-selling records.

Especially Chen Qiming's "Fairy Tale" and "The Heart Is Too Soft".

As soon as the VCD versions of the two albums appeared, they immediately ushered in a very huge sales explosion in the market.

Since its release on October 25, in just one week, the VCD versions of "Fairy Tale" and "Too Soft Heart" have sold 20 and 30 copies respectively.

Of course, the benefits brought by this wave of VCDs are not limited to Chen Qiming alone.

All singers and actors with hit songs and movies have enjoyed this wave of bonuses.

The Four Heavenly Kings, Double Monday, Jet Li and so on.

Some of everyone's previous works began to spread to the inland and other places with less influence at an extremely fast speed.

And among all the companies and personnel who have enjoyed this wave of VCD bonuses.

The one who earns the most is definitely Hong Kong Media Asia Film and Television.

The company, which specializes in videotape distribution, holds the copyrights of too many Hong Kong films.

At the beginning, Media Asia purchased the copyrights of many film companies at prices ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Originally relying on the distribution of videos to earn back the cost.

Now, with the emergence of VCD, the old movies have been pushed to the foreground again.

Media Asia quickly reached a cooperation with Wanyan VCD, and made all their old movies that could not be shown in the mainland into VCDs and sent them to the mainland.

VCD is not expensive, a VCD costs more than ten yuan.

However, given the huge population base in the Mainland, Media Asia has brought hundreds of millions of RMB in revenue in just one month, making this company the leading large company in Hong Kong in a short period of time.

And just when VCD became popular and began to bring great changes to the recording industry and film and television industry.

On November [-]th, "Green Snake" starring Chen Qiming was released.

Although Chen Qiming was not in Hong Kong and did not attend the on-site promotional activities, it does not mean that Chen Qiming could not promote the movie.

There are countless ways to promote without real people present at the campaign.

With Chen Qiming's popularity, even if he doesn't attend the event, as long as the media and newspapers mention him, it will basically bring a lot of attention.

Not to mention, when Golden Harvest promoted the movie, it even directly used the slogan of the first movie starring Chen Qiming.

Although Chen Qiming's role in this movie is not really the protagonist.

But it's okay.

The producer thinks, and the distributor thinks the same.

On the promotional poster, his name ranks ahead of Joey Wong and Maggie Cheung.

Under such circumstances, naturally a large number of Chen Qiming's fans walked into the theater for this.

Of course, apart from the fact that this is Chen Qiming's first starring role, "Green Snake" also features Maggie Cheung and Joey Wong for promotion.

Moreover, Golden Harvest also launched a joint hype with "New Love".

Said that in the November schedule, Chen Qiming will play with his left hand and his right hand.

Hitting yourself, this promotional point is still very good, attracting a lot of movie fans into the cinema.

With the huge attention, "Green Snake" was released for three days and won a total of 800 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.

This box office data is absolutely top-notch. If you continue to follow this box office trend, the final box office of this movie will definitely not be low.

It's just a pity that the word-of-mouth of this movie has encountered polarization.

Among film critics, many people said that this movie is very good, it captures humanity, and the actors are well portrayed.

But among fans, the film has a poor reputation.

Many movie fans expressed that they could not understand the movie and thought it was a bad movie.

Who is the film made for?Not movie critics!

If only relying on them, the film industry would be over.

No matter what kind of movie it is, it is the audience that ultimately determines the success of the movie.

In the case that a large number of movie fans thought it was a bad movie, the box office of the movie began to drop sharply in the second week.

In the first week, the average box office was about 200 million a day, but in the second week, the box office dropped day by day.

On the first day, the box office was still 200 million, but on the second day, the box office was only 100 million.

On the third day, it dropped to 50.

Because the box office is getting lower and lower, it even only got a box office of 20 million in the next few days of the second week.

Therefore, Golden Harvest had to choose to release the movie in advance after the tenth day of its release, and the total box office of the movie was fixed at more than 300 million.

In general, this box office definitely did not earn back Golden Harvest's investment, but this figure is also very good.

Although the box office of Hong Kong movies has been increasing in recent years, there are only twenty or thirty movies with a box office of tens of millions each year.

However, although "Green Snake" was released, Chen Qiming did not disappear from the major media newspapers in Hong Kong.

When the box office of "Green Snake" was decreasing day by day, a large number of media newspapers began to bad-mouth Chen Qiming, thinking that he had no box office appeal.

There was even an actor named Huang in Hong Kong who directly posted words in the media, mocking Chen Qiming.

"Some people, who can sing a few songs, really think that they are very good, cross-border! He really thinks he is Andy Lau!"

Huang's remarks were published by many media in Hong Kong, and the popularity was very good.

"Is this guy sick? Bite me out of nowhere?"

Chen Qiming couldn't help asking after listening to the original words of Huang described by Liu Ciwei on the phone.

"Because you're hot, and his movie is about to be released, so naturally he's staring at you!"

Liu Ciwei on the phone said.

"Heh... Another bloody and perverted violent movie?"

Hearing this, Chen Qiming couldn't help but sneer.

Since the 80s, Hong Kong movies have entered a very prosperous period.

A large number of record-breaking movies continue to appear, creating many actors with box office appeal.

Such as Chow Yun-fat, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Jet Li and others.

These people, no matter whether the movie is good or bad, as long as they join the movie, relying on their local and overseas popularity and influence, the movie will be 100% profitable.

In this era, actors have a huge influence on the box office of movies.

Whether there is a big star in a movie will definitely seriously affect the box office of the movie.

Just like "Green Snake", although most of the media are saying that Chen Qiming's box office appeal is not enough.

But that's really just a rhetoric.

If we really want to talk about it, most of the credit for "Green Snake"'s 800 million box office in its first week comes from Chen Qiming.

Therefore, the guy who said he has no charisma is completely open-eyed and talking nonsense.

Especially this Huang.

If we were to divide the actors in Hong Kong into two categories, one would be those like Stephen Chow and others who shoot feature films and rely on the appeal of actors to boost the box office.

The other type is people like Huang.

They have no box office appeal, so most of the films they star in are low-budget films.

As for low-cost movies, if they want to attract audiences, they have to go in two directions.

One is pornographic and the other is violent and bloody.

The representative figure of this kind of movie is Huang Mou.

With his fierce appearance, he is naturally suitable for this kind of movie, and since his debut, he has been acting in this kind of movie.

Chen Qiming is not looking down on actors who play pornographic third-grade and bloody and violent movies.

He also has friends in this area.

He got along very well with Xu Jinjiang, who was born in a tertiary film.

But this Huang...

To be honest, Chen Qiming really didn't understand how this guy got the confidence to compete with himself in box office appeal.

"You publish a newspaper, publish the box office of all the movies I participated in, and make a comparison with his movies.

Facts are always better than lip service! ! "

Chen Qiming said.

However, just after he finished speaking, he paused again, "Forget it, don't publish in the newspaper, a jumping clown, my common knowledge with him is to praise him, let him dance, I will see how long he can dance."

Chen Qiming originally wanted to hit Huang in the face with the box office data.

But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

No need.

With his reputation, if he goes to fight with this guy, it will 100% increase his popularity.

Chen Qiming was not willing to do such a thing.

Saying a word to him will make you feel bad.

(End of this chapter)