Chapter 121: New Shaolin Temple Released
The old man surnamed Wang gave up, but there were still many people who wanted to cause trouble for Liu Hongmin.
This time, without Xiyuan's intervention, many people thought that Xiyuan had condoned their actions, so they became more rampant.
Professor Tao and Ms. Chu were very worried about this, fearing that Liu Hongmin would be caught up in this storm of public opinion.
Ms. Chu has been paying close attention to Liu Hongmin's situation recently. "New Year's Day is coming soon, and the movie 'New Shaolin Temple' should be released soon, right? Why not let him go to Hong Kong?"
Professor Tao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll talk to him tomorrow."
Liu Hongmin was reluctant to hide away, but Professor Tao was right, as the boss, he still needed to attend the premiere of "New Shaolin Temple".
"You haven't seen your girlfriend for a few months, so you can take advantage of the diagnosis time to relax. But remember the time, and don't throw away the name representative thing."
Liu Hongmin nodded, said goodbye to Professor Tao, packed up his things, and took Chen Yu to Hong Kong.
Lan Jieying happened to have nothing to do, so he followed Zou Shifang to pick up the plane.
"Honey, I miss you so much!"
Lan Jieying threw herself directly into Liu Hongmin's arms, "Can you please not go back?"
Liu Hongmin smiled and said, "How can that be possible? My parents are still in Beijing!"
Lan Jieying pouted but didn't argue.
The four returned to the company, Chen Yu went to arrange the hotel. Liu Hongmin took Lan Jieying to a meeting with Zou Shifang and Wang Yaowei.
"Because of the success of 'Shaolin's Kid', the cinema chain offered us a high price for the film. During this period, we invested millions in publicity and did street interviews. Many people are looking forward to the release of 'New Shaolin Temple' and said they will definitely go to see it. From this perspective, our twin star strategy was successful."
"But there is a problem now. As the twins grow up, their sense of humor is gradually fading. If we let them act in comedies again, the opportunity may not be very good."
Liu Hongmin tapped his thigh with his fingers a few times, "Are you acting in a TV series?"
Zou Shifang was stunned, "We are a film company."
Liu Hongmin smiled and asked, "Can't a film company make a TV series?"
Wang Yaowei smiled and said, "Of course, it's just that film companies generally don't look down on TV dramas. Compared to the big screen, the small screen is indeed not high enough."
Liu Hongmin waved his hand and said, "What we need to do now is to maintain the popularity of Gemini. If there is no good movie script, then we can make a TV series."
"Are you cooperating with RTV?"
"Not only RTV, we can also cooperate with China TV. We can use RTV's filming team, mainland scenes and actors, and we can write the script."
"Do you have a script?"
"It's just an idea. I'll write it down later and you can find a few screenwriters to expand on it."
"That's easy. Hong Kong has no shortage of screenwriters."
At this time, Lan Jieying said, "Three CEOs, our company only makes one movie a year, isn't that too little? We are all too idle, and it's not a good idea to always appear in other companies' movies!"
Zou Shifang looked at Liu Hongmin and said, "Take care of your woman."
Wang Yaowei felt that what Lan Jieying said made sense. "Mr. Liu, Ah Ying is right. Our company has too few works. We can't just keep all the money in the account to earn interest. Although Yen is getting promoted, it's still far behind the income from making movies. Besides, Ah Ying and Ah Xing often have a lot of free time."
"This is my fault!" Liu Hongmin admitted his mistake.
"I didn't ask you to set up an editorial department. While the script is circulating, hire a few screenwriters."
Wang Yaowei nodded, "I didn't notice it before." The three of them discussed some simple plans and then dispersed.
At one o'clock on December 12, the cinema began to show "New Shaolin Temple".
The main creative staff sat in the back row of the theater again. Liu Hongmin glanced inside the theater and found that the attendance rate was 90%. For a midnight show, this attendance rate was considered high.
As soon as the movie started, the theater was filled with laughter.
Like "The Young Master", Liu Hongmin still feels that it is not as good as the original. Xu Xiaoming is indeed very good, and the shortcomings of the Gemini's declining sense of comedy are covered up by his shooting skills.
However, the Gemini stars are indeed no longer suitable for filming kung fu comedies and must transform.
Zhou Xingxing's acting skills have been polished for the past two years and are already very good. He plays Huang Ningmeng better than Zhang Weijian. More importantly, Zhou Xingxing's idol is Bruce Lee, and he has been learning martial arts since he made money. In terms of diligence and talent, Zhou Xingxing is first-rate.
Maybe, the next movie can let Stephen Chow be the protagonist.
Lan Jieying's performance as Red Lemon was a little disappointing. However, as a vase, Lan Jieying was very suitable.
"Whoosh whoosh-"
As the highlights played, the audience stood up, applauded and looked for the main creative staff. When they saw Xu Xiaoming and the main actors come on stage, they immediately shouted excitedly.
"Director Xu, this is such a great shot!"
Seeing this, Liu Hongmin smiled, then walked out of the theater with Chen Yu.
"New Shaolin Temple" is done!
The next morning, as soon as Liu Hongmin arrived at the company, Wang Yaowei came to him with the box office statistics sheet.
"The first day box office was 200 million, which is better than "The Young Master"."
Liu Hongmin nodded, "It seems that the one million yuan of publicity fee was not wasted."
Wang Yaowei: "According to the first day box office estimate, this time we can get at least 1800 million."
"The more the better!" Liu Hongmin said, "Leave the publicity to Brother Xiaoming. Your current task is to focus on the theaters in Southeast Asia. Is there still no chance for the film to be shown in Green Island?"
"No, there is basically no hope in the past few years." Wang Yaowei explained: "However, Yuehou may have a chance this time."
"Try your best! Selling a little means the better." Liu Hongmin doesn't have high hopes for this. Vietnam has not been peaceful in recent years. Fortunately, Vietnam is not engaged in a full-scale war, so the people still need entertainment.
"By the way, please keep in touch with Thailand. We may shoot our next movie there."
Next movie? Wang Yaowei immediately became excited, "Mr. Liu, what movie?"
"Suspense comedy."
Wang Yaowei was stunned. What type of movie is suspense comedy?
He wanted to ask more, but Liu Hongmin had already entered the office. He wanted to follow him, but he saw Liu Hongmin picked up a pen and started writing. Seeing Liu Hongmin start writing, Wang Yaowei immediately suppressed his curiosity.
Yesterday, Liu Hongmin handed him the outline of "The True Little Monk", which was good and fast. I don't know what he wrote today.
In the evening, Wang Yaowei deliberately left work late, and after Liu Hongmin finished writing, he immediately went over.
"Mr. Liu, have you finished writing?"
"Not yet!" Liu Hongmin shook the notebook in front of him, "You have to wait for two days. I'll show it to you when I finish it."
Wang Yaowei felt a little regretful. He glanced at the notebook and saw five words written on the cover - Chinatown Detective.
(End of this chapter)
