Arriving in Hong Kong Island, Ye Fan took everyone to Victoria Harbor to celebrate the New Year. Just when Ye Fan was having a great time, when it was almost 0 o'clock, there were long queues at the entrance of many cinemas in Hong Kong Island.

Many film and television company bosses looked at the crowd watching "The Suspect" with envy. Many people were wondering whether they should follow suit and film such a love tragedy.

As for whether you are watching "Dark Flower", there are so many couples buying tickets. After watching "Dark Flower", are you going to get a room? Are you kidding? They must be watching romance movies!

The next day, when the box office results of the premiere came out, some people were happy and some were worried.

The box office of the premiere of "Dark Flower" was only 170,000, while the box office of "Suspect" was a full 860,000!

Boss Yang and Leslie Cheung are very happy now. According to this trend, the box office will definitely exceed 10 million, and 20 million is also possible.

You must know how difficult it is to win 10 million or even 20 million box office during the schedule of "Titanic".

On December 19th, Little Broken Boat was released globally. It was a huge hit in the global film market, let alone Hong Kong Island.

"Black Gold" is a classic. When it was released on the 23rd, the box office on the first day was only over 1 million. By the 31st, it was only over 6 million. Whether the box office can exceed 10 million before the movie is released is a question.

However, the investment in "Black Gold" was as high as 58 million Hong Kong dollars, and it must have lost everything at the box office. It can be said to be miserable.

Judging from this situation, "Dark Flower" is not much better. In Ye Fan's impression, it seems that the box office of "Dark Flower" and "Black Gold" did not exceed 10 million.

The main reason is that they encountered the release of "Titanic", which had a great impact. Although Ye Fan was confident in this film, he did not dare to go as hard as a broken ship. That would be a direct confrontation with the knife - courting death!

January 1st is considered the best time for the Spring Festival. "Titanic" has been released for 20 days. The box office on Hong Kong Island has exceeded 100 million, and the peak movie viewing period has passed. "Suspect", which is also a romance film, will be released in the east wind.

Just right.

Ye Fan, who had learned the box office figures for the premiere, had no intention of playing around and asked Zeng Li and the others to play by themselves first. He would cooperate with Leslie Cheung and others on a road show, and he would go over to find them when Ye Fan was free.

Unexpectedly, there were so many people watching the movie that Ye Fan followed the leading actor for a whole day.

Of course, the box office results that day were also very gratifying. The No. 1 box office of "Suspect" was 4.13 million (plus the box office of the premiere).

Not surprisingly, "Dark Flower" had similar box office sales to "Black Gold" on that day, which was also over 1 million. They were both movies that were well-received but not well-received.

"Titanic" had a box office of 5.03 million. According to this trend, the box office of this movie in the last ten days is estimated to be more than 10 million. Leslie Cheung kept lamenting the horror of this movie during his break.

However, Ye Fan knew that after the release of "The Suspect", a lot of the box office revenue of "Titanic" had been taken away. The box office record of "Little Broken Ship" on Hong Kong Island was 128 million Hong Kong dollars. It is estimated that 120 million Hong Kong dollars would be good in this life.

After having the idea of ​​​​sniping at the box office of "Titanic", Ye Fan became more motivated in terms of promotion.

On the 2nd, he, Leslie Cheung and others began to work separately, trying to visit more theaters.

Audiences who have watched "Suspect" almost all have positive reviews for the movie. As word of mouth spreads, the good reputation of "Suspect" spreads among the public.

Coupled with the previous praise of this film by female filmmakers, the fermentation of word-of-mouth, and the opportunity to see handsome guys like Leslie Cheung and Ye Fan, the consumption potential of Hong Kong female audiences has been completely stimulated.

Tears and emotion have become the theme of this drama, which has been wildly promoted by female audiences. In their eyes, the dedication of the protagonist in this movie is no worse than Jack's.

"Titanic" has already caused a wave of excitement before, and "Suspect" has caused another wave, which surprised and shocked many people. No one expected that female viewers, who have always been regarded as a niche group, would actually

Has such box office potential.

After all, "Titanic" is an ugly Chinese blockbuster, so it is not surprising that it has such influence. Previous Hong Kong romance films have not had this effect.

Facts have proved that romance movies are not necessarily blockbusters, it all depends on how you shoot them.

The box office of comedy movies is high, but for female audiences, as long as the love tragedy is well filmed, they will be very receptive to it, and will even give it to their girlfriends and friends to watch movies like Amway.

Other Hong Kong film companies did not expect that female audiences would have such box-office potential, and it would also attract a large number of male groups to watch the film. This allowed the reputation and box office of "Suspect" to continue to rise.

The box office of "Suspect" No. 2 did not fall but rose, reaching 4.67 million, "Titan" had a box office of 4.75 million, and "Dark Flower" was even worse, with only a few hundred thousand box office.

On the 3rd, Boss Yang once again mobilized his personal connections and stepped up publicity.

And Hong Kong Island filmmakers don't know if they saw that there was finally a Hong Kong film that could beat "Titan" at the box office, and they helped "Suspect" promote it, making this movie even more popular on Hong Kong Island, and in terms of public opinion

It has even become an existence that is not inferior to "Titan".

When Ye Fan saw this scene, he sighed in his heart, if only they had realized this earlier, the decline of Hong Kong films would not have been so fast.

In the evening, Ye Fan did not go out for publicity. He played with Zeng Li and the others for a while, and then prepared to go home. Ye Fan, Yang Mi and his daughter naturally went back to Yanjing, while Zeng Li and Tianxian's mother and daughter flew to Wuhan together.

When Ye Fan returned to Yanjing in the early morning, good news came from Hong Kong Island. It lived up to expectations. The box office of "Suspect" No. 3 reached 5.22 million, surpassing the 4.1 million of "Titan".

During the three-day New Year's Day period, the attendance rate of "Suspect" hit a new high for the New Year's Day period. With a super high box office result of 14.02 million, it narrowly surpassed the 13.88 million box office of "Titan" and became the box office champion for the three days of New Year's Day.

This made the Hong Kong film community rejoice, as if they had won a victory. However, Ye Fan felt that the box office was a little strange, because the box office of "Suspect" on the 4th dropped, a bit too much.

Ye Fan understands all these operations of buying and stealing box offices. After all, he was in this business in his previous life. It seems that the Hong Kong filmmakers have won, but Ye Fan understands that Boss Yang is the biggest winner at the moment.

Compared with spending hundreds of thousands or millions to buy box office, the movie produced by YH company surpassed "Titan", and the reputation gained was enough for Boss Yang to establish himself in the film industry.

Not to mention that Ye Fan was still keeping an eye on the Hong Kong stock market. After the New Year's Day holiday, YH Company's stock price surged immediately. Boss Yang took the opportunity to make a profit. The money he made was much more than what he spent on box office.

Already.

Of course, Ye Fan, who is familiar with this kind of routine, would never miss this opportunity. He had already asked Shen Xusheng to absorb a lot of YH company stocks in advance. Through this, he made a small profit of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and bought it for Zeng Li on Hong Kong Island.

All the money was earned back.

But no matter what means were used, the results and achievements of "Suspect" are all here, making this movie a complete hit.

"Suspect" not only gave YH Company its own representative work, but also allowed Leslie Cheung, whose career was at a low point last year, to reappear in front of the public, changing many people's impression of him.

Moreover, many female audiences and film critics have supported Leslie Cheung. Media reporters have also been a lot more tolerant of his previous incidents. His reputation has changed for the better after just one movie. Now my brother is very grateful to Ye Fan.

However, Lin Qingxia's rise to fame was a little troublesome. She planned to quit the film after the filming of this movie last year. However, after "The Suspect" became a hit, she had more film appointments, but she still turned down all of them.

It can be said that "The Suspect" is the last movie starring Lin Qingxia, and mainland actors such as Chen Daoming and Liu Yifei have also become quite famous in Hong Kong Island.

Of course, Ye Fan is definitely the one with the highest overall income. Although he played a supporting role in "The Suspect", his acting skills in the finished film are also remarkable, and his performance among newcomers can be said to be very good.

, which left an impression on many Hong Kong filmmakers.

Mainly in the film industry, Ye Fan's fame and influence have skyrocketed. The success of "Suspect" has made many people in the industry finally recognize Ye Fan's talent.

The first movie and TV series were both huge successes, and coupled with Ye Fan's achievements in novels and music, this cannot be concealed by luck.

Many Hong Kong filmmakers have contacted Ye Fan, wanting to collaborate with him, and many people are eyeing Ye Fan's novels, among which "The Knife of Spring" is the most attractive!

There are also some people who are relatively well-informed and approached Ye Fan to discuss cooperation through Huo Wenxi, but Ye Fan shunned them for the time being. He has no time to think about it now. He just asked Huo Wenxi to write down some reliable people. Anyone who wants to make money should go away.

go.

However, during the fourth Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, Ye Fan met someone he couldn't bear to shirk.

"Brother Hua, we meet again. You sang "Greater China" very well."

Andy Lau looked at Ye Fan with a smile on his face and said self-deprecatingly: "No matter how good you are in singing, the box office of your movie is a mess. I envy you. In 4 days, the box office of "Suspect" exceeded 15 million."

Yes, "Black Gold" has only earned 8 million so far."

Ye Fan said modestly: "No, I'm just lucky. It's all thanks to everyone. I watched "Black Gold" and it was really good. It's just bad luck that I came across "Titanic"."

"Oh, who says it's not the case?" Andy Lau sighed: "I really envy Brother Rong. I can cooperate with you and win a movie that is both well-received and well-received even if I play cards."

Speaking of this, Ye Fan still couldn't understand what it meant. Ye Fan, who knew Hua Tsai's personality, asked directly: "Brother Hua, do you also want to make a movie with me?"

"Of course I would like to film with you if I have the chance, but I would also like to know if you have any future movie plans. As long as it is your script, I would also like to invest and cooperate with you."

Looking at Andy Lau's sincere expression, Ye Fan fell into deep thought and felt that it would be okay to release the movie now.

So Ye Fan nodded and said: "Brother Hua, I also want to cooperate with you. I have an idea for a script in my mind, but I don't have time at this time. I will contact you when I finish writing the script. What do you think?"

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Andy Lau was overjoyed when he heard this. He didn't expect that so many colleagues in Hong Kong had failed to contact Ye Fan. It was an unexpected surprise that he could get Ye Fan's reply when he came to him. He thought Ye Fan would also decline him.

"It doesn't matter. No matter how long it takes, I'll be waiting for your script. Don't leave in a hurry once the rehearsal is over. I'll be the host. Let's get together and talk about your idea for the script."

Ye Fan also smiled and agreed. He still trusted Andy Lau's character.

Moreover, there are many types of "Face Changing" and "Two Heroes" stories in Hong Kong. As long as the key information and plot are not disclosed, I don't believe that anyone can write "Infernal Affairs" ahead of him!

After the rehearsal, Ye Fan invited the princess to have a late-night snack with Andy Lau. Of course, the location must be at Jufu Tower.

Even though he has met a lot of celebrities, Ye Fan's father was still very excited when he saw Andy Lau's arrival, and he took Andy Lau for a group photo.

Brother Hua also has a good temper, and knowing that Ye Jun is Ye Fan's father, he is also very cooperative. He even invites him to have dinner and drinks with him, which makes Ye Jun extremely happy.
Chapter completed!