The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 352 Cheng Long is really moved

"King Kong" is a blockbuster, with a global box office of [-] million dollars, absolutely awesome.

On Hong Kong Island, in Wanwan, in Xinmatai, and in the peninsula, they are all crushing.

However, in Li Shengyao's previous life, "King Kong" was not so domineering in the mainland, with a total box office of around 600 million, less than [-] million.

Piracy is a factor, but not the main one.

"King Kong" has long had an original version in the beautiful country, and has an audience base. Now this is a remake.

Places like Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, Xinmatai, etc., they accept more beautiful Chinese culture, and many people have seen the original version, so "King Kong" can have such a big influence.

Without this cultural foundation in the Mainland, naturally, it would not have such a great influence.

However, it still had a huge impact on mainland movies at this time.

Li Shengyao originally predicted that "If Love" and "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" would have a box office of about 3000 million, but because of his time travel, the addition of "Extreme Escape" diverted the box office.

At this time King Kong was released, and the daily box office of "If Love" and "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" came to 60 million.

"Love Epilepsy" is also hard to reach 5000 million, this movie is now more than 100 million box office every day.

"Extreme Escape" is the only exception. On December 29th, "Extreme Escape" won a box office of 800 million.

On December 100, "Extreme Escape" won a box office of [-] million.

On December 31, "Extreme Escape" won a box office of 200 million.

The total box office of "Extreme Escape" reached 1000 million.

And looking at the box office trend, there should be another 3000 to [-] million in the future.

At the same time, although "Extreme Escape" is not comparable to "King Kong" in Hong Kong Island, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, it still beats "The King of Love" by many star actors.

"Extreme Escape" won a box office of 100 million in Hong Kong Island, and 300 million in Xinmatai.

In summary, "Extreme Escape" is not comparable to "Punch, Dad", but it must be profitable.

With a cost of 4000 million, excluding Cheng Long's cameo, there are only two mainland stars, Li Lianhua and Deng Chao, which is enough gold.

The word "Director Li" appears in more and more entertainment media reports.

Two consecutive movies with over [-] million yuan and two consecutive movies making money have already proved the appeal of Director Li's brand.

In the field of commercial films, many people rank Li Shengyao, Feng Xiaogang, and Lao Mouzi together, and think that the three of them are the three most appealing directors in the mainland.

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A villa in Mount Davis on Hong Kong Island is brightly lit, and the table is covered with red wine, fruits, and imported nuts.

Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao sat facing each other. Besides the two of them, there were several other men and women, including Yuan Biao and Yuan Qiu.

Hong Jinbao is the oldest person here, but he is in good spirits on happy occasions, and he is in very good condition at this time, with a red face and a sonorous voice.

Hong Jinbao is filming "Raid 1", he is the director, so he can naturally lead Hong Tianming.

There are no big scenes in this movie. They chose a building in the Walled City of Hong Kong Island, which is enough for filming.

As for actors, Hong Kong Island has no shortage of martial artists at this time, enough for Wu Jing to fight.

Today is New Year's Day, and the production crew is resting, so Hong Jinbao organized a get-together for the brothers and sisters to brag about.

When people get older, they are used to remembering the past and blowing water.

He is now cooperating with Lee Seung Yew, naturally he often brings Lee Seung Yew,

Yuan Biao and Yuan Hua are now spending most of their time in the mainland, and they know very well about Director Li's affairs.

""Extreme Escape" is very good-looking, it's very funny, "The Great Sacred Man" is so messed up, I thought they were stars."

"Yeah, Director Li is really capable, he is so young, he will definitely be able to go to Hollywood in the future."

"Not only in the mainland, his TV series are selling well in Southeast Asia, and his movies can be sold in Southeast Asia."

Several people chatted casually.

Cheng Long listened while peeling melon seeds.

He had watched "Extreme Escape" in the Mainland a long time ago, and he went to Yanjing to attend the premiere of "Extreme Escape". It was indeed a very interesting movie.

He felt that the movie should be able to sell millions of dollars at the box office in the beautiful country.

There are parkour elements in it, which is what the audience in the beautiful country likes to watch.

"Let's Punch, Dad" sold millions of dollars.

If "Extreme Escape" can also sell several million dollars, that would be really great.

With a few more movies, maybe Director Li can also form a reputation in the beautiful country, and then he can really go to the beautiful country to direct movies.

Cheng Long knows that compared with other Chinese actors, his biggest advantage is that he is well-known all over the world, and his films can also make money in other countries.

But to be honest, it is difficult to maintain such an advantage when making movies on Hong Kong Island.

Last year's "New Police Story" and this year's "Myth" did not do well at the overseas box office.

He can't fight like he did when he was young, and ordinary fighting can't attract the audience, he is also very confused.

At this moment, Hong Jinbao rolled his eyes at Cheng Long, and said to the other juniors, "Director Li wanted to cooperate with Aaron, but he didn't agree."

Yuen Biao asked in confusion, "Why don't you agree?"

Cheng Long rolled his eyes at Yuen Biao, "Whether his movie is suitable for me, that's not certain."

Hong Jinbao said at this time: "Director Li seems to be a very thoughtful person, Aaron, I think you can talk to him, maybe it's suitable?"

Cheng Long has already decided to play Chen Musheng's "Baby Project". The script of this movie was conceived by Cheng Long and Chen Musheng together. The filming will start in a few days and should be finished in April.

After filming "Baby Project", Cheng Long wanted to go back to Hollywood to film "Rush Hour 3".

Cheng Long had talked with Hong Jinbao about this matter, but Hong Jinbao was not very optimistic about it.

With the current level of investment in Hollywood blockbusters, the investment in "Rush Hour 3" is estimated to be more than 1 million yuan, which means that the global box office will need almost [-] million yuan to recover the cost.

too difficult.

If he can't reach this level, Cheng Long's reputation in Hollywood will be completely ruined.

Keep it or not, at least there is still a possibility.

When Cheng Long heard this, he paused slightly.

Then I thought about the filming of "Extreme Escape". Although Li Shengyao is young, he is indeed a person with strong control.

Such a person should be confident before making an invitation for cooperation.

However, Director Li has a better reputation now. Will someone say that he has to follow Director Li to earn a living?
Cheng Long hesitated.

Hong Jinbao then said: "Aaron, let's have a chat. You haven't even talked with him carefully. You don't know any stories or genres. How do you know it's not suitable for you?"

"Now that "Extreme Escape" is released, he should be preparing a new movie right away. Make a decision early and don't regret it later."

Hong Jinbao spoke with sincerity and sincerity, and Cheng Long could tell that the eldest brother was doing it for his own good.

Now that he is stuck in a bottleneck in his career and needs new types of movies, maybe he should really talk to Li Shengyao.

(End of this chapter)