When Zhao Donghuai was sitting in the office of the new ATV headquarters, he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looked at ATV, not to mention Director Zhao himself, who was undergoing a big move with the cooperation of Zhao Logistics.

Many ATV staff who are busy are also beaming and happy.

After moving to a new home, human beings are generally pursuing better and better living and working environments. Qiu Shuzhen picked up the newspaper and read, "The Legend of Love has been in theaters for two weeks, and the data results are very good."

"The box office in Hong Kong was 29 million Hong Kong dollars in two weeks, Wanwan's was 33 million Hong Kong dollars, and Haojiang's was more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars, adding up to 65 million!"

"The mainland grossed 53 million yuan in two weeks, and South Korea took in 116 million Hong Kong dollars in box office. Gee, the island country is far behind in comparison. It only took 800 million yen in ten days. It took 13 million US dollars in North America and more than 9 million US dollars in Europe."

The 800 million yen of the island country is equivalent to 52 million Hong Kong dollars according to the current exchange rate. In such a large island country market, the box office is only equal to one-half of South Korea? After all, in this era, South Korea only has 42 million people, while the island country has more than 120 million people.

Moreover, because of the Plaza Accord, the island country is much richer than South Koreans!

Under normal circumstances, the box office data of the two places need to be reversed. It is more common for the island country to be about two or three times that of South Korea.

But the project "The Legend of Swordsman" is just like this. It has exploded in South Korea... Because MBC has been rebroadcasting blockbusters and idol dramas such as "Meteor Garden" and "Blue Life and Death", which has invisibly attracted too many fans for Li Ming.

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There is also the movie box office, Zhao Donghuai's Wanjia Cinema Line has improved again.

After all, the island country was released a few days later than South Korea, and the publicity and distribution efforts were not sufficient, so it achieved such results.

Even so, the box office data of this project is terrifying enough. Hong Kong, Mainland China, and South Korea have already cut a box office of 288 million Hong Kong dollars.

The more than 22 million US dollars in Europe and the United States was another 173 million Hong Kong dollars in box office, and the total box office exceeded 450 million! After calculation, the total box office was more than 57 million US dollars in about 14 days of release, and it lasted until the end. This is another global figure

There is a big movie that can hopefully break $100 million.

Calculated based on the investment ratio, the net box office income that Li Jiaxin can obtain from this movie is about more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, the wild box office explosion in the early stage is also related to the fact that most of the theaters in Wanjia Cinemas are playing the movie "The Legend of the Sword". There are no other blockbusters to be released in this period. Wait until around the 10th.

When Xu Ke's (Once Upon a Time in China: Top Gun) is released, it will be a big diversion.

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Time passed and May 10th arrived as scheduled.

From Hong Kong to the Mainland and South Korea, (Once Upon a Time in China: Top Gun) has been released across the board. This big movie that Xu Ke took more than a year to release really attracted the attention of countless movie fans during the promotion period.

This is not to say that Li Lianjie has such a powerful and terrifying appeal. One thing is that Ajie's current popularity, status, etc. in the Hong Kong film industry are relatively weak.

Whether it's the new action movie stars like Lam Ching-ying or Andy Lau, or Bruce Willis, or Cheng Long or Yuen Biao, they've all made a big splash in the field of action movies.

Ajie, who once only became famous with the "Shaolin Temple" series, is already down a notch.

Li Lianjie's appeal is no longer sufficient, and this big movie is mainly promoted by Tsui Hark... Xu Hark is not bad, including the Chinese Ghost Story series, Home Alone series, Good Will Hunting, Cat and Mouse Game, etc.

Even though there are many films jointly directed by Xu Ke and Wang Jing, this does not hinder Xu Ke's reputation as a great director and he is top-notch in Hong Kong's Haowan entertainment circle.

The two parts of Home Alone each grossed more than 400 million US dollars at the global box office, and Good Will Hunting made Al Pacino win the Oscar.

More importantly, (A Chinese Ghost Story 2), because the dubbing subtitles of the European and American version were changed, and the setting of absorbing radiation and becoming stronger, it was released in Europe and the United States on February 22, and finally made more than 80 million U.S. dollars at the box office. This is

Refers to Europe and the United States combined.

Then A Chinese Ghost Story 1 also had re-subtitles and dubbing, and was re-released. It also took in more than 60 million U.S. dollars at the box office in Europe and the United States.

This led to Xu Ke being the one to dominate Wang Jingfei in the A Chinese Story series. In various joint blockbusters, the outside world felt that Xu Ke was stronger and was leading Wang Jingfei.

It took him more than a year of silence to come out with "Once Upon a Time", and the announcement of the film featured Xu Ke, which is enough to make movie fans look forward to it.

Even though Hong Kong Film has produced many Once Upon a Time film and television projects in the past, it still can't stop Lao Xu's golden signature.

Then the movie fans who were attracted into the theater experienced a high-quality movie viewing experience. When they walked out of the theater, too many people were shocked and dizzy.

The fight scenes in the new Huang Feihong directed by Xu Ke are really beautiful, majestic and elegant. The protagonist played by Jet Li is full of the style of a great master, which is very different from many martial arts and action movies in the past.

Just from the perspective of a martial arts movie, this is definitely a high-quality masterpiece.

But this movie is far more than limited to martial arts. There are classic lines in it, such as "Jinshan, is there really a golden mountain in the world?" "If there really is a golden mountain in this world, why do these foreign ships come to our port?"

What? Maybe we are already standing on a golden mountain."

This movie contains the collision of Chinese and Western ideas. Foreigners are unreliable, the government is unreliable, gangs are rampant, internal fighting is endless, and people are in dire straits. What can we rely on? Only self-improvement.

The theme song of a man's self-improvement has made countless audiences excited. This kind of film that promotes national integrity has been shown in depth in the previous Ip Man films and has also aroused the emotions of countless audiences.

However, in the Once Upon a Time movie, it is not just about simply lifting up your national emotions and venting them, but it also involves deep thinking.

At the beginning of the benchmark movie, Liu Yongfu presented Huang Feihong with a fan with the shocking characters "Unequal Treaty" on it. However, the fan was accidentally burned later, with the word "NO" specially burned. It was unfolded again, leaving only

Under it are the four characters "Equality Treaty" in tattered paper.

This kind of aggregation of countless contradictions from top to bottom, from inside to outside in the late Qing Dynasty has always been presented in a compact movie. It can be said that many viewers have watched a lot and felt that they had seen a lot and understood a lot.

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But if you think about it carefully, it seems that your understanding is too superficial!

If you look at Huang Feihong from the perspective of the 2020s, Master Huang still has too many pedantic, ignorant, backward and other ideas, and he seems not open enough and not enough of a protagonist.

However, that was the example of feudal literati in the early 20th century, and they were not time travellers. Where did they come from such advanced thinking and insights?

Once "Once Upon a Time" came out, the box office was certainly not bad. According to the data when it was first released, the market situation in Hong Kong, Mainland China and South Korea was almost the same.

Of course, this is just a chase. Before, Gu Jian was almost exclusively dominated by Wanjia theaters in one schedule, and the six theaters basically showed that one movie, so the box office data is naturally good and strong.

After Once Upon a Time is released, it will basically be a six-hall theater, three shows of Once Upon a Time, three shows of Once Upon a Time, which cannot possibly be stronger than the performance of Once Upon a Time.

However, in North America and Europe, after this movie was released, they also followed the achievements of the old sword!

It was released in North America two days later than Hong Kong's Haowan. It was released on Thursday the 12th. The North American box office dropped 8 million US dollars in its first weekend. Looking at the trend, it is better than the record of Gu Jian.

This is not too surprising. European and American audiences have always liked Chinese kung fu movies, and King of Kung Fu Ajie... has quite a lot of appeal.

It grossed more than 8 million U.S. dollars in its first weekend. If you watch this movie for a long time, it will at least earn more than 30 million U.S. dollars in North America, and may even hit 40 million U.S. dollars. It is not as good as the second and third parts of Cheng Long's Police Story, but

, should be much better than Police Story 1.

When the box office results in various regions were released one after another, and all kinds of good reviews were swept in, almost overwhelming Xu Ke's studio, Director Xu was determined and excited, and wanted to hold a celebration banquet in advance.

The Legend of the Sword Worldwide is expected to break through 100 million U.S. dollars, and Once Upon a Time is also very hopeful. Once it breaks through 100 million U.S. dollars, Xu Ke Studio hopes to get back more than 30 million U.S. dollars in share, which is 200 to 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

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Compared with the efforts he put in over more than a year, this answer still made him very happy and surprised.

Li Lianjie is also popular!

Even though this Ajie became popular throughout Asia in 1983 with the Shaolin Temple, his development in the last few years was not very satisfactory. It took him until 1988 to rise again with a momentum that was not weaker than that of Cheng Long.

If Yuan Biao went out in the past, he would be greeted by Master Ye wherever he went. Now, whenever Ajie goes out, someone will call him Master Huang wherever he goes.

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May 20th.

When Zhao Donghuai saw Lin Zhengying, Hu Huizhong and the Four Heavenly Kings gangsters in the new ATV building, he immediately greeted with a smile, "Has the film been made?"

A Ying nodded excitedly, "It's been about half a year since I first received the news. Fortunately, it's true. The plot setting is a bit old-fashioned, but the fighting scenes should still be exciting."

"At least on the surface, it shouldn't be considered a failed blockbuster sequel."

It is not considered a failed blockbuster sequel, but it can only be said that Aying is still modest. Comparing A Better Tomorrow 3 to the standard Hero series, Infernal Affairs 3 to the Infernal Affairs series...

This film, Rescue 3, is still a high-quality work above the standard.

But Zhao Donghuai also knows that after filming the third part of the Hurricane series, it will be difficult to officially release Hurricane 4. The first three parts have almost exhausted the moviegoers’ potential.

"This movie will be released on June 1st. It will be released on a staggered schedule with Once Upon a Time in China. Starting from June, the summer movie will be released, and there will be more and more blockbusters."

"But in the future, A-ying, if you want to star in a new action blockbuster, you should make a guest appearance in Hua Zai's Flying Tiger 3, or have a slot in the middle of "Speed ​​of Life and Death", or maybe do a formal "Flying Tiger" collaboration project!

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It’s May 20th, and not only has Rescue 3 been in post-production and is waiting to be released, The Twilight Saga 2, which started filming in early April, has also been completed and is in post-production.

When the Twilight Saga takes over, it will be time for (Source Code/Speed ​​2) to be released worldwide, as well as Fei Jing's (Hero of China).

There are quite a few blockbusters currently known for this summer season.

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It’s also May 20th.

A flight from Shanghai to Incheon landed steadily. The moment Li Taimin walked out of the airport, his expression became much more relaxed when he looked at the five muscular young men with short haircuts around him.

When the group of people continued to walk towards the two Mercedes Benz cars at the airport, Li Taimin turned to the translator beside him and said, "Translator He, please tell Wang and Zhou Ji that I will apply as soon as possible to equip them with body armor and documents to legally hold firearms.

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"From today on, my personal safety, Li Taimin, will be handed over to them!"

Li Taimin is the president of a large company in Incheon. He is worth more than HK$4 billion. His business scope includes shipping, terminals, international trade, etc.

I can't say that he is a top-notch rich man, but he is definitely a rich man who was richer than Kang Eun-ho of the Lok Sang Club and Song Se-bin of the Miracle Era before the Eagle Gang and the Four Heavenly Kings gangs spread to South Korea.

But damn it, since the rise of those guys, the public security in South Korea has become more and more chaotic and dissolute, making even a rich man like him full of uneasiness.

He wanted to go to Pan Asia Group to hire bodyguards, but he couldn't...

When the business of the Eagle Gang and the Four Heavenly Kings gangs spread from Seoul to Incheon, Busan and other places, Li Taimin was among the first to run away.
To be continued...