Entertainment tycoon since 83

Chapter 144: The Ring is released

D&B Cinemas is a cinema located in Central.

The first screening of "The Ring" was held here.

Huang Ze sat in the middle of the first row, with Liang Jiahui on the right and Pan Disheng on the left.

Pan Disheng actually didn't have to come, but he really couldn't resist Yang Ziqiong's invitation.

Besides, they are getting married next year, and he will not let his wife show up in public then. Even if "The Ring" is not Yang Ziqiong's last movie, it is the second to last one, so she came to do it to save her face.

Sitting in his seat, he started chatting with Huang Ze, "I heard that Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels has been sold to the North American market by you, Mr. Huang. How is the box office?"

"Okay!"

"The last time they called, they said the box office was over five million dollars."

“But it’s already been out for a month and a half.”

"Director Huang, you are too modest, aren't you?" Pan Disheng laughed and said calmly, "Don't forget that I studied in the United States. I still understand the release process of most films there."

“Even though the film has been out for a month and a half, there are still many cities that haven’t started showing it yet, right?”

"I don't know the exact number of theaters showing the film, but I'm guessing the final box office will be no less than 15 million U.S. dollars! It may even exceed 20 million U.S. dollars!"

When he expressed his guess, Pan Disheng also felt his heart agitated.

He has never liked the film and television industry, thinking that the plate is too small and that the results are just so-so. He invests in movies and theaters more to promote his jewelry and watches, and to pick up girls, uh, that is, Yang Ziqiong.

But when he thought about the box office of 20 million US dollars, Huang Ze might make tens of millions of dollars in profit from "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", he suddenly felt that the film and television industry seemed to have great potential.

pity……

Other filmmakers can’t do that.

The person who could do it was Bruce Lee.

《龙争虎斗》73年首映片租425万，74年重映片租395万，79年重映片租330万，总计1050万美元片租，即票房2148万美元。

But this person is already dead.

Jackie Chan and Golden Harvest, whose box office in Hong Kong was even better than Bruce Lee's, tried several times in the United States but failed to even break tens of millions of dollars.

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" is an exception, and it relies more on Huang Ze.

And Huang Ze's assets, roughly estimated based on record sales and movie revenue, are not as good as mine, but they are also at the same level as mine, and the difference is not that big.

It is impossible for him to recruit Huang Ze and let Rang concentrate on making money for him.

Since he couldn't do it, Pan Disheng withdrew his thoughts and decided to carry out the original plan. When he got married next year, he would withdraw from D&B Films and would see how the theaters would perform then.

"Hahaha!" Hearing this, Huang Ze laughed, "Until the last minute, no one knows what the box office will be! We can only say it's OK. I have high hopes for this movie. It may be able to compete with Jackie Chan's movies!"

"Oh?"

If someone else said this, Pan Disheng would think that the other person was bragging.

But Huang Ze's words aroused Pan Di's interest and he looked at the screen.

At the beginning, the character played by Chow Hui-min was in the bedroom with another girl.

The two chatted while playing.

It is said that there is a video tape with terrifying power, and that those who see the video tape will receive strange phone calls and will inevitably die a week later. However, as the camera keeps advancing, the audience feels a sense of oppression.

really!

Just as I finished talking about the mysterious videotape of this song, the phone rang.

Many girls who came to the theater to watch the movie were so scared that they crawled into their boyfriends' arms, and then the boys smiled weirdly, "This is the good thing about horror movies!"

Fortunately, the call was a false alarm.

But then, one of the girls saw something terrifying, and then she died, leaving behind her terrified face.

The reporter played by Yang Ziqiong noticed the mysterious videotape incident and began to investigate. It was not until the 30th minute of the film that the audience and the reporter saw the true appearance of the videotape.

The picture is blurry.

It's probably about a woman taking a picture in front of a mirror, a bunch of people crawling on the ground, and a pupil with the word "zhen" in it.

The scene changed again, showing an ancient and secluded place covered with fallen leaves. There was a dry well. Suddenly, a pale hand stretched out from the well.

After a hand fell out, the picture ended and turned into a snowflake.

As soon as the scene ended, the phone at the heroine's house rang. When she picked it up, there was no sound from the other end.

After experiencing all kinds of strange things, she believed the rumors and was frightened and hurried to find her ex-husband played by Liang Jiahui.

After some research, my ex-husband found a rumor that in the second year after the Japanese occupied Hong Kong Island, a woman named Azhi on Lantau Island predicted a storm, but later she committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.

After this research, the heroine returned home and found that her six-year-old son was sitting in front of the TV for some unknown reason, watching the contents of the mysterious videotape.

His son, like himself, was trapped in the murder trap of the mysterious videotape.

If the curse cannot be broken, the whole family will die.

After arriving at the local area and investigating, they heard a rumor that after predicting the storm, Azhi was taken to the hospital by a Japanese doctor named Kudo and underwent many experiments in order to prove the existence of super powers.

However, an accident occurred during an open experiment. Azhi committed suicide after the experiment, Dr. Kudo's whereabouts were unknown, and Azhi's daughter Azhen also disappeared.

The few of them found Azhi's cousin who ran an old hotel, where they found the room where Azhi was combing his hair.

But Azhi's cousin was unwilling to say more. The female reporter stepped forward and grabbed Azhi's cousin's wrist. Through telepathy, she learned the truth of the incident that year.

Dr. Kudo arranged for Azhi to do a super power experiment in front of many people, but he was questioned by reporters for fraud. In the chaos, the reporter who took the lead in questioning suddenly died.

It was discovered that this was done by Ah Zhen, whose super powers were even more powerful and could kill a person with willpower alone.

The heroine who came in here had her wrist held by Azhen. In reality, she suddenly fainted, and a black handprint appeared on her wrist.

Soon, the heroine thought of something. When she was investigating the case, she received a phone call while watching a videotape in the hotel where the previous deceased lived. This was the same thing that happened to the deceased, but the ex-husband did not receive a phone call when watching the videotape. The hotel might be related to Ah Zhen.

Finally they found a well in the hotel that was sealed with cement boards.

The telepathic telepathy found the scene where Dr. Kudo threw Azhen into the well and covered it with cement board. After opening the cement board, there were nails on the wall of the well. It turned out that Azhen did not die after being thrown in. He died in despair. The heroine's ex-husband went down and found Azhen's body and called the police. The matter was over.

"Tsk, it's just average, not scary at all." A Qiang, who was sitting in the audience, curled his lips. "I thought this movie was so scary before. The soundtrack and the sense of suspense and horror are really good. It has a great atmosphere."

"But watching it now, there aren't too many scary scenes. The scariest scene is just a well and a hand. It's a horror movie, a horror movie. People come to see ghosts. What kind of a horror movie is this?"

"The plot is more like a detective drama, but it doesn't have the unraveling feeling of a detective drama."

(End of this chapter)