This director is vindictive.

Chapter 54: Not everyone can play the role of a zombie Taoist priest, only when there is comparison can there be harm

There was something else that Chen Mo never expected.

"Mr. Vampire" was officially released in Hong Kong Island a few days ago.

Perhaps it’s because Hong Kong Island is more interested in films about zombies, feng shui, and the like.

As a result, it earned nearly one million Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the first day of its release.

Don’t think that this daily box office is low. In fact, it is really not low.

As word of mouth spread, the box office performance of "Mr. Vampire" actually continued to rise.

On the day of the winter solstice, "Mr. Vampire" set a new record for daily box office in Hong Kong Island, reaching a staggering three million.

After a full week of release in Hong Kong Island, the cumulative box office reached over 8 million.

In addition, there is a custom of tomb sweeping during the winter solstice in Hong Kong Island, so "Mr. Vampire" became completely popular because of this.

In the mainland, people don't really care about Feng Shui these days as much as people in Hong Kong Island. But it's really different in Hong Kong Island. They pay more attention to this aspect, and many people believe in it.

Therefore, some of the strange things that happened in cemeteries in the mainland are also happening in Hong Kong Island, and they are even more outrageous.

Because some people really went to ask the "master" for help, asking questions like "dragonfly touching the water hole" and "snowflakes covering the roof", and the answers given by the famous "master" were correct as said in the movie, and it was indeed so.

For a while, regardless of whether the family's grave was just a drop in the bucket, everyone thought that "covering the roof with snowflakes" sounded auspicious and didn't cost much, so what were they waiting for? Anyway, cement couldn't seal it with anything.

And inexplicably, Hong Kong and the mainland suddenly started to move forward together.

The linkage here mainly refers to the fact that "Mr. Vampire" was released in Hong Kong Island for a week and the box office reached more than 8 million.

After Orange Sky Golden Harvest announced this news, it attracted widespread media coverage.

Although it is already 2011, in reality, no matter how much the mainland movies do at the box office in the mainland, most of the time, it is difficult to get a high box office in Hong Kong Island.

Even a movie like "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame" directed by a big Hong Kong director and starring big stars with a big cast only took in a little over 10 million at the Hong Kong box office.

So the box office of "Mr. Vampire" is amazing!
In fact, not to mention the mainland media, even Orange Sky Golden Harvest never expected that "Mr. Vampire" would be so popular in Hong Kong Island.

Orange Sky Golden Harvest quickly released "Mr. Vampire" in Taiwan and some areas in Southeast Asia.

time flies.

When Chen Mo returned to his hometown for the New Year, the online box office of "Mr. Vampire" in the mainland had exceeded 4000 million. However, the daily box office had fallen below six figures, with only tens of thousands of yuan per day.

However, the box office results in Hong Kong Island, Taiwan, and some parts of Southeast Asia were far beyond people's expectations.

The box office revenue in Hong Kong was over 1800 million, and in Taiwan it also earned over 4000 million New Taiwan dollars (equivalent to 1200 million). Adding to that the box office revenue in Southeast Asia, the total box office revenue of "Mr. Vampire" is almost over million!

It can be said that not only Orange Sky Golden Harvest did not expect it, even Chen Mo did not expect it at all.

After this news came out, Chen Mo's reputation rose even more.

Moreover, the huge sales of "Mr. Vampire" in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia have also given many people a misunderstanding that online movies can counterattack theaters and achieve good results.

For a time, online film projects emerged like mushrooms after a rain.

During the Spring Festival, the three major video websites launched six hastily produced online movies in one go.

However, it turns out that the miracle of "Mr. Vampire" is not something that everyone can replicate.

Those six online movies were hastily produced to make money, and the results are predictable. The audience is not stupid.

The combined box office revenue of the six online movies for the better part of a month was less than 10 million yuan. This made many netizens, who had originally had high expectations for online movies, angry and frustrated.

"Mr. Vampire made me naively believe that online movies were worth looking forward to, but in the end, I was fed a mouthful of shit!"

"The point is, this is just too disgusting, right? You can just follow the trend, but you call it a zombie? And the zombie Taoist priest, how can he be so disgusting?"

"There's absolutely no comparison, absolutely no comparison!"

"After watching Uncle Ying's Zombie Taoist Priest, I always feel that the others are lame! There is really no harm without comparison!"

"Who says it's not? I always compare him with Uncle Ying in my mind, and the difference is obvious!"

That’s right, the success of “Mr. Vampire” made these six hastily produced online movies all imitations of zombie movies. Even the characters are similar, with one master and two apprentices.

But the result was that the audience, who had just eaten the delicious food, could not swallow it at all.

The more I looked forward to it before, the more disgusted I feel now.

At this time, the three major video websites immediately released the news that the sequel to "Mr. Vampire" was about to start filming, which was considered to comfort the injured audience.

However, this time the director was Uncle Ying.

Chen Mo also reached an agreement with Xiaoma Pentium on the cooperation of "Love Is Not Blind".

What he values ​​is the distribution capability of Pony. Last year, although "The Treasure Box Office" was such a bad movie, they managed to push the box office to over 100 million yuan, which shows that Pony.com's distribution capability is indeed very good.

Compared to Chen Mo's "Mr. Vampire", the investment of "Love Is Not Blind" is much more complicated.

It’s not that Chen Mo doesn’t know the potential of this movie. He certainly wants to keep it to himself like he did with “Mr. Vampire”, but that’s simply unrealistic.

Because "Love Is Not Blind" is a theatrical movie, there are too many things to involve, such as publicity and distribution.

In terms of publicity, it doesn’t mean that people will be willing to provide channels just because you give them money. In many cases, you need to exchange them for investment shares.

Of course, giving up his investment share can indeed save Chen Mo a lot of trouble. He only needs to be responsible for making a good movie.

Although Chen Mo is not considered a big director in the current film industry, the project of "Love Is Not Blind" became popular in the industry after it was established and the investment was confirmed.

So, before Chen Mo even started casting, people started coming to inquire about the news.

The first person who came to him surprised Chen Mo, but he also felt it was reasonable. That person was Wang Jinhua, who was known as the number one agent in the entertainment industry.

With Wang Jinhua's connections and influence in the entertainment industry, Chen Mo was not surprised that he was the first to know the news.

Even Chen Mo guessed the actor Wang Jinhua was going to recommend.

To be honest, Chen Mo actually thinks that Bai Baihe performed very well in "Love Is Not Blind", and even the role of Hui Zheng was also good.

But he would absolutely not use the latter, and Chen Mo actually had a candidate in mind for the replacement. On the contrary, Chen Mo was a little conflicted about the former.

Chen Mo recognized Bai Baihe's acting skills, but the "one-finger Zen" incident in her previous life was still fresh in Chen Mo's memory. The impression was so deep that it made him a little conflicted. Simply put, she was being pretentious. To put it bluntly, the one-finger Zen incident had not happened yet.

As for the candidate to replace Bai Baihe, it is Wang Ludan, who is also an enemy of mine.

But Chen Mo couldn't use this guy either, because she was also a member of the Stab Cult!

Chen Mo also considered Xiao Zhao, but was ultimately rejected by him. There was no other way, Xiao Zhao was too small! I always felt that she couldn't play the role of an older leftover woman.

(End of this chapter)