How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 200 Prove Yourself Again
Still the original release date, May [-]th.

[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] officially landed in North American theaters.

Since the distribution mode of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the first time, and it also bears Zhang Nan's name, the Hollywood giants did not deliberately make it difficult for the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Of course.

The more important reason is that Hollywood giants also want to release "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" first, to see how the current North American film market is.

With [-] large screens, the screening scale of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" looks decent.

But these [-] big screens are not all owned by the distribution channel that Zhang Nan pulled out.

Among them, there are more than 700 copies, which were temporarily transferred to Zhang Nan by several Hollywood giants for the sake of Zhang Nan's face, and because they can't use it at present.

then……

[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] was released on Tuesday, at this rather embarrassing time.

On the first day in North America, it won a box office of more than 700 million U.S. dollars.

This result can only be regarded as average.

But in the next few days, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was getting higher and higher day by day.

After the weekend ended, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" reached 4210 million U.S. dollars in its first week, making the entire Hollywood mogul look dumbfounded and a little dizzy.

I don't know it's the film market during the North American summer vacation, and the ice has been broken ahead of schedule.

Good luck with [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon].

But no matter how you say it, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is about to explode, if nothing unexpected happens.

With a box office of more than 4000 million U.S. dollars in the first week, it is absolutely no problem for the box office in North America to break through [-] million U.S. dollars, and there is even a great chance to break the box office of [-] million U.S. dollars in North America.

Then the Hollywood tycoons came to take their salary from the bottom of the pot.

The more than 700 big screens that I lent to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were transferred back, and at the same time, the movie that I was planning to release at the end of May was released ahead of schedule.

Faced with the reduction in the scale of screenings, coupled with the increase in competitors, and the release time has come to the next week.

The box office of [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] no longer had the previous trend of increasing day by day, and began to remain stable, and even wanted to decline.

The only good news is that this wave of movies will be released.

It is [Magic City Noon] starring Chenglong and invested by Disney, and [Mission: Impossible 2] starring Tom Cruise, directed by Wu Baige, and invested by Paramount.

The main creative teams of the two projects have a close relationship with Zhang Nan.

Therefore, in terms of public opinion and propaganda, they used some insidious tricks to engage in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and they are normal competition with each other.

Then the first month of the entire 2000 summer vacation will be in May.

Movies with a bit of sound and quality can only be counted on [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon], [Mad Noon] and [Mission: Impossible 2].

And [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon], a pure oriental ancient martial arts film, needless to say, is full of Huaguo style.

[Magic City Noon] This name is full of the atmosphere of the mainland, and it is also starring Chenglong. Needless to say, it is also full of Huaguo style.

Only the overall style of "Mission Impossible 2" is not very close to Hua Guo's style, but the director is Wu Baige.

So a group of good North American media, by finding some rules and making big news.

For the North American summer vacation in 2000, in May, a Huaguo movie month was launched.

Originally, the mainland was at a low ebb stage of lack of self-confidence at this time.

As soon as such a report came out, it was immediately reprinted by the major media, causing a lot of excitement.

And because Zhang Nan is currently too popular in the Mainland.

So soon someone dug out Zhang Nan's relationship with two of these three projects across the Pacific Ocean.

[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] was invested by Zhang Nan.

[Mission: Impossible 2] has Zhang Nan as a cameo, and Tom Cruise's personal dividend contract was sold to Zhang Nan by Tom Cruise at a fixed price.

In other words, the better the box office of [Mission: Impossible 2], the more profit Zhang Nan can make.

It’s a pity that [Magic City Noon] has nothing to do with Zhang Nan, so that Zhang Nan can’t arrange the film month of North America and Huaguo. All projects, some are not perfect.

But after the release of "Magic City at Noon", the box office dropped rapidly, and many mainlanders also felt why Zhang Nan has the name of a box office mascot in North America.

People who were still feeling sorry before, are already feeling emotional at this time.

"Hey, is this the name of the box office mascot? I see it, I see it."
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It didn't perform well at the box office in its premiere.

After a few weeks, the follow-up box office performance of "Magic City Noon" has not shown a downward trend.

After Chenglong's "Noon in the Magic City" barely released for nearly a month, it fell behind.

However, the overall box office performance of "Magic City Noon" was not as brave as "Rush Hour 1998" in 1 the previous year.

It only scored 5693.7 million US dollars in North America, and the global box office can reach 9971.4 million US dollars.

Compared with its $5500 million production fee.

The whole project can't be said to be a blood loss, but it can only barely be said to be in balance.

Because the box office of a movie does not exceed [-] million yuan, there is a big difference in the peripheral profits of a movie and the effect on the stock price increase.

It can be said that this [Magic City Noon] has lowered the status of the coffee that Chenglong just gathered because of [Rush Hour 1].

And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will continue to compete with "Mission: Impossible 2" in North America and even the global movie market.

There was a stalemate for a while, and in the end [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] was the first to lose due to relatively weak distribution channels and minor reasons.

However, the box office performance of 1.68 million in North America and 3.2 million US dollars worldwide is still much better than the box office performance of the original space-time.

Relying on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Zhang Nan directly earned 600 million US dollars in box office dividends, plus 8000 million US dollars in peripheral profits, and 8000 million US dollars in stock price fluctuation profits.

A wave of direct income of nearly 2.56 million US dollars, throwing away 500 million US dollars in production costs, Zhang Nan can still leave a profit of 2.41 million US dollars.

Looking at the money in his hand, Zhang Nan could only sigh, no wonder Hollywood tycoons were so curious, and no wonder Wall Street institutions, even though they were often cheated by Hollywood tycoons, couldn't help but want to hook up with Hollywood tycoons.

It is too much money.

And when Zhang Nan was making a lot of money.

[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] director Li An and starring Zhou Jie in the main creative team.

Also relying on the great success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", she became famous in one fell swoop and successfully landed in Hollywood.

As for Ye Quanzhen, he has already become famous by relying on Zhang Nan and landed in Hollywood.

As for Zhang Ziyi, because of his coffee position, he was almost meaningless. It can only be said that he has made a certain name in Hollywood, and there is still a certain distance from landing in Hollywood.

It can be said that those who have a relationship with [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] have gained a lot of help from [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon].

The only one who has not benefited from the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is probably Zhou Runfa who failed to venture into North America and curled up back to Xiangjiang for retirement.

Because in recent years, Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television circles have really not had any big hit movie projects.

The only thing worthy of special mention this year is Chenglong's [Magic City Noon].

But [Magic City Noon] had another box office crash.

In [Mission: Impossible 2], Wu Baige is just a director, and there are not many hot spots.

The media can only focus on [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon].

Looking through the past materials, I found that [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] actually invited Zhou Runfa to play the leading role, and then rushed to interview Zhou Runfa.

Zhou Runfa regretted seeing the newspaper at home.

Seeing the media rushing over and conducting interviews on his wounds, Zhou Runfa only felt that life was even more miserable.
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Naturally, Zhang Nanyuan didn't know about the news from Xiangjiang in North America.

And Zhang Nan didn't have time to watch unnecessary entertainment news, he was busy counting money.

Because although [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] has been drawn, [Mission: Impossible 2] is still in theaters.

Brother cruise sold the various dividend contracts of "Mission: Impossible 2" to Zhang Nan at a fixed price of 8000 million US dollars, and the interest rate difference in it was quite a lot.

Naturally, Zhang Nan didn't need to worry about collecting the profits from these contracts.

You can pay attention to the progress of related projects, but it is still necessary.

But Zhang Nan currently has more than one [Mission Impossible 2] project in his hands.

Comedy films starring Jim Carrey and produced by [-]th Century Fox - [One Head, Two Bigs], [X-Men], [Gladiator]... are all released during the summer vacation, and Zhang Nan needs to follow them from time to time Check out the progress.

The most important thing is that Zhang Nan's box office mascot name, after another test of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Mission: Impossible 2" and "Magic City Noon", has increased a lot of credibility and attracted Many projects and crews peeped.

After all, before the release of these three films, whoever watched them would not say that "Noon in the Magic City" without Zhang Nan's participation was the one with the highest box office.

But Zhang Nan knew that this degree of coveting was still relatively slight.

After the summer vacation, [One First Two Big], [X-Men], [Gladiator]... and other projects that he put into the Longbow Film and Television Fund, all of them sold well at the box office.

Not to mention Hollywood, even many projects and institutions on Wall Street want to spy on him.

I'm afraid that even if he pulls the eight-hour remuneration to 2000 million US dollars, he probably won't be able to turn down the hearts of these enthusiastic people who want to spend a lot of money to invite him to be a guest star.

But Zhang Nan really doesn't plan to do any other projects this year.

Because this year he starred in the film projects that will be released, including the [Matrix] trilogy and [The Sixth Sense].

The movie project to be released as a cameo is [Gladiator].

The movie to be dubbed is "Dinosaur", which Disney made based on his response some time ago.

Then he will also star in the third part of the Wuguan series - [Neon Wuguan].

Go to guest star [Rush Hour 2], [Artificial Intelligence], [Hannibal], [Harry Potter], [Jurassic Park 3], [Ocean's Eleven].

Really overwhelmed.

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