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Chapter 230: The God of Gamblers Attacks

After finishing this task, we finalized the co-production with Shanghai Film Studio.

He paid for it himself, and Shanghai Film Studio cooperated with him, provided people and connections, and helped him submit "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" from China to the Oscars to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film. At that time, the domestic screening revenue and video tape revenue of the film would belong to Shanghai Film Studio.

Of course, the copyright still belongs to Huang Ze's Xinghai.

This was the way they collaborated on the last film "Once Upon a Time in China", and Shanghai Film Studio made a lot of money. So when the new director of the Shanghai Film Studio was told about this, he didn't hesitate and agreed to the collaboration.

After signing the contract, Huang Ze returned to Hong Kong Island.

He first invested $1.5 million in Quentin to let him make "Reservoir Dogs".

Then he called several assistant directors who were often used in the royal team to Xinghai and asked them to go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to audition for their own Yu Jiaolong.

After this, Huang Ze began to retreat and write the script!

The author of the original novel, Wang Dulu, was a Manchu, so naturally he wrote about the Qing Dynasty.

But who can blame Huang Ze for being Han Chinese?

Besides, this is just a novel. Unlike "Huang Feihong", which is set in the late Qing Dynasty, you can't change it even if you want to. Huang Ze directly changed the background to the mid-Ming Dynasty.

The styles of buildings and other things are similar, and the scenes in the original film can be completely universal.

As for the Nine Gates Admiral, we can change it to Jinyiwei or something like that, it’s not a problem at all.

Since there was no Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty, we could only change Luo Xiaohu into a bandit in Gansu.

Everything makes sense, Huang Ze just makes a lot of changes.

Because he also had to invent a plausible identity, Huang Ze wrote it quite carefully. It took him a week to finish the script and then he entered the stage of drawing storyboards.

……

Time is like a wild donkey, it never stops running and directly hits number 17.

Xinghai’s second film after “The Grudge” this year, “God of Gamblers”, is now released across the Xinghai Cinemas!

Knowing the potential of this film and being a self-produced film, Huang Ze naturally wanted to support it.

He stopped drawing the storyboards for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and went to his own cinema.

He sat between Wang Rixiang and Liang Jiahui.

"Boss, when will Pulp Fiction be released?" Liang Jiahui asked in his increasingly fluent Mandarin.

"October and November, what's wrong? Can't hold it back?" Huang Ze tilted his head to look at Liang Jiahui and punched him in the arm, "Want to become an international superstar soon?"

"Haha, I'm just a supporting role, how can I become a superstar!" Liang Jiahui tried hard to suppress the upturned corners of his mouth.

"But if this film earns 50 million US dollars, and it's included in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, it shouldn't be a problem for him to be called an international movie star, right?" Liang Jiahui couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter.

The reason for laughing was that he thought of Jackie Chan.

The box office in Hong Kong is guaranteed, and it will basically sell well in South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.

But he tried Hollywood twice in a row and failed miserably both times.

As for him, he had never considered this at all, but everything went smoothly for him. The first film was a small hit, and he didn't know how the second one would perform. But after all, it was a Palme d'Or film and it was distributed by Warner, so the performance should not be lower than the first one, right?

“Is it necessary to laugh like that?” Huang Ze looked like an old man, afraid of being infected by him, and quickly turned his head to Wang Rixiang.

This is similar.

The one just now was very happy, but this one looks like he has lost all hope in life.

His arms hung naturally, and he looked like he was waiting to die.

"what happened?"

"Ah?" Huang Ze called him, and Wang Rixiang came back to his senses. "Nothing, I was just daydreaming." "What are you thinking about? The box office of this movie?"

"Yes!" Wang Rixiang did not deny it, "We have another competitor that is showing at the same time."

"Who?" Huang Ze really didn't consider any concurrent competitors when releasing his movies in Hong Kong Island. Now that there are cinemas, he has nothing to worry about.

No matter how awesome you are, you won't have much impact on my box office.

Unless you're the Titanic.

"Once Upon a Time in China II, directed by Xu Ke, is released today at Golden Harvest." Wang Rixiang raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead. "It's a very strong competitor."

"After all, this is the first film in which Lee Lien-chieh plays Wong Fei-hung after your two films, Director Huang, and Xu Ke is also a martial arts film director. I am a little worried."

"What if our "God of Gamblers" is followed by "The Saint of Gamblers"? "

"Keep filming!" Huang Ze said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, I believe in this film!"

Xu Ke is indeed a competitor.

But, when filming "The Lion King" in the previous life, did they go to Beijing to shoot the scenes?
Taiwan has not lifted the ban yet, does he dare to go?

Aren’t you afraid of being banned?

Even if she is not afraid, Jiahe will be afraid.

Most likely, I don’t know where the scenery was found or how it was set up, so the effect is poor.

Even if the effect is the same, in the Hong Kong market, why should "God of Gamblers" be afraid of "Once Upon a Time in China"?
"Well, whether it's life or death, today has come, so don't think about those unnecessary things."

Huang Ze tried to persuade him, but he didn't care whether it was useful or not, and continued watching "God of Gamblers".

In fact, this is just a case of masters defeating novices in fishing. Ordinary people win money by helping masters to fish, just like the online articles that I like to read in later generations. The feeling of satisfaction is absolutely great.

The audience will certainly not help but think, if I meet someone like Gao Jin who has lost his memory one day, wouldn’t it be great?

The more you think about it, the happier it gets, and the more you want to read on.

Coupled with the magical gambling skills in the film, although Liang Jiahui’s performance as the boss was not as successful as Chow Run-fat, he also had a unique charm. When the film ended, most of the audience applauded.

While applauding, they chatted about their impressions of the movie.

"Ah! This movie is awesome!"

"It's a great film. Xinghai finally stopped letting ghosts scare us. I couldn't recover from watching the last movie, The Grudge, for two months."

"This movie is really good. I'll ask my friends to watch it again when I get home."

Hearing the thunderous applause and the audience's comments, Wang Rixiang, who had been worried, finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Director Huang, I am really confident this time. This movie will definitely not be less than 20 million!"

"Hehe..." Huang Ze just smiled and did not refute Wang Rixiang's conservative estimate.

After all, the leading actors have been replaced, and no one can tell whether the box office can still be as high as in the previous life.

It's easy to say big words, but hard to take them back.

Fortunately, the movie "God of Gamblers" has a certain charm to it, and the box office can be said to have exploded from the beginning.

It was released on the evening of 17.

The advance screening plus the screening on the 18th grossed three million at the box office!
The next day, Saturday, it climbed directly to 3.3 million.

By the fourth day, the total box office had exceeded 10 million, reaching 11 million.

This is another movie that has the potential to break 30 million.

The total box office of "Lion King" on that day was only 9 million, with an obvious gap. It would not become a major problem for Xinghai in this summer season at all.

(End of this chapter)