Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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The box office performance of the Christmas file made the entire Xiangjiang film industry collectively confused, and many filmmakers and film companies even dared not make any more films!

The reasons for the sluggish box office of Hong Kong films are actually extremely complicated. There are external factors such as the shrinking film market in other cities and the eastward expansion of Hollywood films, as well as internal reasons such as the emergence of piracy and the popularization of VCDs. No one can fully explain. In short, the current situation of the Hong Kong film market That is, except for big directors, big stars, big production blockbusters, and ordinary Hong Kong movies, the citizens of Hong Kong have little interest in going to theaters and cinemas to watch them.

Under such circumstances, some small theaters and small cinemas were the first to fail, and fell into the embarrassing situation of having no films to show and losing money if they did.

So at the end of 1994, Xiangjiang set off another upsurge of closing theaters and movie theaters. After the New Year's Day in 1995, the number of theaters and movie theaters in Xiangjiang had grown from a maximum of 180. The number of people dropped sharply to more than one hundred and ten, which was nearly half of the peak.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, under Xu Cun's instruction, He Chaoqiong personally came forward and bought fifteen theaters and cinemas in the best locations, and then demolished them to build the world's most advanced multiplex cinema, and joined DreamWorks ( Xiangjiang) Cinemas, let DreamWorks (Xiangjiang) Cinemas have 53 the most advanced cinemas and multiplexes in the world to become a super-large cinema that can compete with other Xiangjiang cinemas.

In 1995, the most popular film in the Lunar New Year file was undoubtedly Cheng Long's "Red Fan District"-in Hong Kong alone, "Red Fan District" made a box office of more than 57 million Hong Kong dollars, and in Xu Cun's With the help, the global box office of "Red Fan District" reached more than 230 million U.S. dollars, far exceeding the 60 million U.S. dollars in the previous life. In addition, Cheng Long finally got his wish and entered the box office under the name Jackie Chan. European and American film market.

By the way, relying on "Red Fan District", Golden Harvest's stock has risen a lot, and it has steadily become the second largest film company in Xiangjiang and one of the famous film companies in the world.

but--

Different from Golden Harvest at this stage in the previous life, who rushed to expand production in order to collect money in the stock market (in the previous life, Golden Harvest participated in investment or produced as many as 66 films this year), this life is under the auspices of the prudent Zou Zhongjin. However, not only did Golden Harvest not take advantage of the momentum of "Red Fan District" to expand its production, but on the contrary, the annual output dropped sharply from 28 titles last year in 1994 to 18 titles.

To be fair here, Zou Zhongjin is not the only one who is stable—while reducing Golden Harvest's production volume, Zou Zhongjin also announced that Golden Harvest will be preparing to shoot "X-Men 2" to stabilize the stock price.

In short, Zou Zhongjin is much stronger than Zou Chongyan.

There are three differences between the Lunar New Year file in this life and the Lunar New Year file in the previous life:

The first difference is that "A Chinese Journey to the West", which was released in the Lunar New Year file in the previous life, was not released under Xu Cun's instruction, and it was suppressed indefinitely. There are many rumors about this, Some people said that during the filming of "A Chinese Journey to the West", Zhou Xingchi angered Xu Cun and was blocked by Xu Cun. Others said that "A Chinese Journey to the West" contained sensitive content that could not pass the review in many places, so it could not be released. The most outrageous statement is that Xu Cun was jealous of Zhou Xingchi's talent and was afraid of being caught up by Zhou Xingchi, so he suppressed Zhou Xingchi's peak work "Journey to the West". In short, the discussions and speculations about "Journey to the West" have never stopped. While "A Chinese Journey to the West" is covered with a veil of mystery, it also makes more people look forward to "A Chinese Journey to the West"!

The second difference is that the box office runner-up of this year's Lunar New Year stall is not "A Mansion of Gold and Jade" in the previous life-although the new art city under the auspices of Huang Baiming still filmed "A Mansion of Gold and Jade", but the three thousand dollars of "Mansion of Gold and Jade" The domestic box office of one million only makes it the fourth place in this year's Lunar New Year file, and the second place is "Captain America 2" produced by DreamWorks.

The third difference is that the new era "Soul Chariot 2" has achieved a box office of more than 46 million in Hong Kong, becoming the third place in the box office of Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year this year.

In addition, DreamWorks released a big news after the year. DreamWorks officially prepared to shoot the big movie "Iron Man", Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. The Avengers is used to politely reject the sluggish Xiangjiang film market.

Dreamworks, Golden Harvest, New Art City, and New Era's four major film companies have given some confidence to Hong Kong filmmakers, so that the Hong Kong film market in this life did not completely collapse in 1995...

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After the Spring Festival in 1995, Xu Cun took his family to Musha Island for more than a month's vacation.

After the holiday on Musha Island, Xu Cun did not return to Xiangjiang or Beijing, but flew to the United States with his daughters.

Xu Cun went to the United States for three reasons:

One is to personally maintain Xu Cun’s contacts in the United States, so as not to affect his huge investment in the United States, and the other is to go to see the development of Yahoo in person, and talk to Yang Zhiyuan and David Filo about the future of Yahoo The third is that Xu Cun saw a movie - "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

Needless to say, it is necessary to personally maintain Xu Cun’s network in the United States and talk to Yang Zhiyuan and David Filo about Yahoo’s development path. Before Xu Cun officially retires, there are some things that he cannot escape.

As for "This Killer Is Not So Cold", to be honest, Xu Cun once thought about directing the movie "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

But--

Because Xu Cun was too busy, he accidentally forgot this movie, and then missed this good movie.

Missing a movie is nothing to Xu Cun, even if it is "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

But Xu Cun is willing to miss "This Killer Is Not So Cold", but he is unwilling to miss Natalie Portman, the heroine in "This Killer Is Not So Cold", the beautiful goddess of Jerusalem.

In addition, after seeing the beautiful Jerusalem goddess Natalie Portman, Xu Cun suddenly discovered that several other European and American goddesses have also debuted, such as the black widow Scarlett Johansson in the previous "Avengers" , another example is the sexy stunner Jessica Alba, another example is the sweet princess Anne Hathaway with the elegance of Audrey Hepburn and the brilliance of Judy Garland, etc...

In other words, before Xu Cun knew it, a group of European and American goddesses grew up.

In this life, Xu Cun's definition of his own life is to live, die, and fight for girls all his life. How could he let these European and American goddesses go?

Besides, Xu Cun, who has always played with oriental women, also wants to change his taste!

So, at the end of March 1995, Xu Cun flew directly to the United States from Musha Island with his daughters who were fine...

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