November 7, 1980, sunny!

The streets of Xiangjiang at night have passed by 10 o'clock in the evening and the abortion has not decreased at all. The people in Xiangjiang are keen on nightlife, and it is probably even worse in another ten years.

"Why are you wearing sunglasses for the first night?" Li Xuechu couldn't help but complain.

"What do you know? This way you will look like a big director." Fatty Wang said that, but he took off his sunglasses. "Today is a big day, and you are wearing it too casually." Today, the movie between the two began a midnight trial. After the trial, if the audience and the media have good feedback, it will be officially launched the day after tomorrow. If there is any problem, it may have to be postponed to re-edited and released according to the audience's response. This is the characteristic of Xiangjiang movies in this era.

"It's just a trial and not an interview, what's going on?"

"I'll go up to thank you after the screening."

"Just go, I'm not a director, why are you going up?"

"……All right."

It was still cold in Xiangjiang in November, and it seemed that there was no winter in the city. Li Xuechu just wore a long-sleeved T-shirt and rushed to the cinema with Fatty Wang in a suit and tie. Although he bought a car at the end of last month, he had not obtained his driver's license and could not drive it out.

The two arrived at the cinema and met Fa Ge and the others. After showing their tickets, they went in and sat down in the back row of the cinema one by one.

There are almost 70% or 80% of the cinemas, which is quite good for Wang Jin, a new director who just debuted.

After a few minutes, the movie screening time came. The lights in the cinema dimmed and the noise slowly stopped.

The screen lit up, and the first thing that appeared was Jiahe's logo, followed by his own Oriental Dream Factory logo. It was done quite exquisitely. Li Xuechu looked at it and thought it was okay.

The movie has begun to be screened, and the plot in the early days is still relatively dull. This is also the most nervous time for the two. If someone gets impatient to watch it, the movie will be considered a failure.

As time slowly passed, some noise began to sound in the cinema. The current attention and patience are not good. Hollywood movies are not allowed to enter the Hong Kong market for a long time, in addition to cultural differences, it also laid a long preview in the early stage, which made the audience impatient.

"Why haven't you gotten to the topic for so long?"

"It's plain, it's really boring."

“…”

During a whisper, the two were sitting on pins and needles.

Fortunately, after more than ten minutes in the early stage, the movie gradually became better and the laughter gradually increased.

"Hahaha, that's fine?"

"That guy is so bad, hehe..."

"Isn't that person Xu Wenqiang? I didn't expect that it would be so good to act in comedy."

“…”

Li Xuechu turned around and looked at Zhou Runfa. After his initial nervousness, Fa's smile became more and more. It felt good to be praised by the audience in the cinema.

The ending of the movie is a family-friendly scene that the audience likes to watch.

The scene of He Shengfa, the protagonist played by Brother Fa, driving an electric ladder at the airport, chasing the plane made the audience burst into laughter, and finally got the understanding of his wife and son. The ending of the three-member team also touched many people.

After the subtitles were screened, Wang Jin took Zhou Runfa and other actors to the front stage. They were greeted by the audience's applause and cheers.

"It seems that the movie has been successful." Li Xuechu put down a big rock in his heart as he heard the tide of applause at the scene.

......

"Chuzai, watch it, the movie review has come out."

Early the next morning, Wang Jin knocked on Li Xuechu's door with a large stack of newspapers.

Although Li Xuechu was awakened, he didn't care. The two of them were excitedly flirting with the newspapers brought by Wang Jin, searching for the film review column to see what was written in each newspaper.

The first one is Ming Pao Morning Post, which is considered a related household. When you open it, you will often find it a compliment.

"The plot is fascinating, and the whole movie is full of funny points. This is a movie worth watching. The plot is funny and unconventional. Congratulations to Mr. Wang Jin, the work he debuted is worthy of commendation, and congratulations to Mr. Zhou Runfa, the performance was very exciting."

Look at the next one.

"After Xu Wenqiang, Fa Ge finally successfully created another character. This is a lawyer who is used to false compliments. He has nothing to say all day long. After his child's birthday wish comes true, the protagonist who cannot lie is caught in the biggest career and family crisis. This makes people reflect: In our adult world, lying has become an indispensable skill? How many times do we lie every day and how many lies will we hear? If we suddenly cannot lie like the protagonist one day, will we be as difficult as the protagonist?... This is a comedy movie, but some things behind the comedy are also worth our deep consideration."

Li Xuechu likes this very much, which means that our movie has connotation! Haha... see the next one.

"Lying or being honest? Each of us has been in a dilemma in this choice. Being honest may lead to unhappiness, false compliments and excuses of escape have become social skills... It is impossible for a situation where lies cannot be told in movies in reality, so how should we choose?"

"Fa Ge's acting skills are admirable. This is a successful film... The author can assert that the movie can be loved and sought after by the audience. This November is not lonely."

Most of the film reviews gave high praise to the movie, some of them gave negative reviews on the exaggerated expressions and body movements in the movie, and there was also a film review that made the movie unreasonable plot. What birthday wishes made the protagonist unable to lie is simply nonsense...Brother, don't you know this is a movie? You have to be completely reasonable and still shoot a yarn?

Anyway, the results are mostly good.

"Hehe, it will be online tomorrow." Fatty Wang looked happy, "The audience responded well, and the movie reviews are quite good. Our movies will definitely make money."

"Then you need to say it? You don't look at who wrote the script." Li Xuechu was complacent and forgot that the script was actually copied by himself, but no one knew it, right?

The movie began to be released in amid people's expectations.

When it was first released, there were 14 theaters with six screenings. The box office on the first day was more than 110,000 yuan. With the current ticket price of 8 yuan, this means that nearly 14,000 people watched the movie, each of which was about 1,000 people, with an average attendance rate of about 60%.

Later, with the rise of reputation, the theaters and episodes added gradually increased, and the attendance rate did not decrease but increased. By the weekend, the box office exceeded 500,000 for the first time, and the box office in a week reached 1.45 million.

This is just the beginning.

In the second week, the box office dropped a little after the weekend, but compared with the first week's working day, the box office was still improving, and the weekend reached 600,000, which made another record. The total box office in the second week was 2.25 million.

Two hundred and eighteen thousand in the third week.

The box office exceeded 6 million in November, which was only five million away from Chen Long's 11 million box office record.

The movie industry in Xiangjiang is in a big uproar.

"Hangjiang movies have entered their golden age?"

"After Chen Long's junior brother made a breakthrough of ten million, the second movie that exceeded ten million is about to be born?"

"The new director Wang Jin, whose first work may exceed the height of his predecessors, is aimed at tens of millions of dollars."

......

But after December, the box office began to drop.

Week 4: One million and one million.

Week 5: One million and three million.

In the sixth week, due to the significant decline in box office, the movie was drawn in many theaters, with a weekly box office of 900,000.

In the seventh week, 430,000. At this point, the movie was completely drawn.

But even so, the total box office of the movie has indeed exceeded 10 million mark, reaching 10.4 million, which is only 600,000 yuan from the current box office champion.

"The King of Talks" was a great success in Xiangjiang!

On December 15th, at the Kaiyue Hotel in Xiangjiang, the crew of Dahuawang held a grand celebration banquet, with guests gathering.

Fatty Wang and Li Xuechu stood in front of the hotel to welcome guests.

"Brother Sanmao."

"Congratulations to both of you, you won the first battle! Now I have more expectations for the heroes after drinking." Hong Jinbao brought all the Hong family team over, with 20 or 30 people.

"Haha, I hope. It should be a big problem, but it will be calculated to be next year's box office results." Li Xuechu said with a smile.

Hong Jinbao and Chen Long are friends, brothers, and can also be considered competitors. After Chen Long's junior brother set a record of 11 million in Xiangjiang's box office, the Hong family also tried their best to catch up. Currently, the two games that are used to fight the ring are ghosts and drunk heroes.

"By the way, Uncle Huai may come here later." Hong Jinbao reminded.

"Uncle Huai is here too?" Wang Jin was overjoyed.

Hong Jinbao smiled and was about to say a few words when a loud laugh came over.

"Hahaha, what a young talent, congratulations to you guys." A man in his fifties walked over and followed Mecca, Huang Baining and others, needless to say, he must be Thick Thunder.

"Boss Lei." Hong Jinbao greeted with a smile.

No matter how much they fight in private, everyone is still in a harmonious state. Moreover, no matter how fierce the fight is, it is a matter between a few big guys. In fact, many of the people below have good personal relationships with each other.

"Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun have seen each other now, so it's only the only thing that's behind Daheng Shao." Li Xuechu thought to himself.
Chapter completed!