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Chapter 392 The King of Kung Fu
June 4, afternoon.

"The Forbidden Kingdom" director Robert Minkoff, action director and executive producer Yuan Heping, the film's four main actors Chen Long, Li Lianjie, Liu Yifei, Li Binbin, and "Emperor Group" Chairman Yang Shoucheng, gathered in Chaoyang Park in Beijing to attend the world premiere and red carpet ceremony of the film.

The event lasted more than four hours and included dance performances, a gala and a much-anticipated movie screening. More than a thousand guests boarded a giant balloon carefully arranged by the organizer, suspended dozens of feet in the air, and watched the movie on an outdoor big screen.

It's very fresh and unprecedented.

The film company spent a total of one million US dollars to prepare for the premiere of "The Forbidden Kingdom", and dispatched more than four hundred security guards and police to maintain order on the scene, and to patrol more than fifteen thousand onlookers nearby to prevent pirated recordings from happening.

In addition, many senior officials and entertainment industry figures such as Feng Xiaogang, Wang Jin, and Zhao Wenzhuo and his wife all attended the event, which made the atmosphere more colorful and lively.

When the red carpet ceremony began, director Robert Minkoff and Yuan Heping, together with the four main actors, came out hand in hand to meet the guests and friends from the press. Among them, two ladies who were not members of the film's staff were discovered - the one standing next to director Minkoff was his wife, and the pretty little girl next to Jet Li was his daughter!
The host asked how Li Lianjie's beloved daughter felt. She smiled and said that when she heard her father say that the reason for taking on this film was because he wanted to make a family film for his daughter, she felt very honored and very grateful for what her father did.

When the MC wanted to ask other questions, the little girl was too shy to speak, so she had to rely on her father to smooth things over: "Both my father and I practice martial arts, but we don't know how to talk."

These words immediately drew applause from the audience.

In addition, Liu Yifei's elegant evening dress with a low back purchased from Milan also received unanimous praise.

During this period, Liu Yifei was still wearing high-end evening gowns sponsored by luxury brands. After she fell out with Huayi and Boss Chen's career was hit by the financial crisis, she started wearing relatively ordinary clothes when attending events.

Soon after the movie was over, the thousands of audience members clapped and cheered for ten minutes, which made Chen Long and Li Lianjie very happy.

Many domestic media outlets also singled out and praised Li Binbin for her outstanding performance, saying that her look as the white-haired witch was very beautiful, and therefore her small role was not worth it.

The film company also said that seeing the enthusiastic response from the audience after the premiere in Beijing, they have increased their confidence in the film. They believe that with more than 800 screens showing in the country next week and no major competitors, the box office should be quite good.

In the United States, the number of screens is set at more than 3,500, making it one of the most anticipated new films this week.

Before that, Wang Zhongjun called Wang Shu and invited him to attend the premiere.

Wang Shu declined the offer on the grounds that he was busy filming.

Li Binbin is an artist of Huayi. When filming "Trip to Taipei", he also expressed Wang Zhongjun's intentions to Wang Shu.

But Wang Shu is neither a Huayi director nor a Beijing director, so he is too lazy to join in the fun.

Feng Xiaogang went there because he is a director of the Huayi Group, and since Huayi is about to go public, he would naturally go to support it.

Wang Jin, who wanted to go north to make money and also had to give face to Emperor Entertainment Group's Yang Shoucheng, also had reason to go and help.

If Wang Shu goes there, there will be no benefit, and he will be at a disadvantage.

If people like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are there, it doesn't matter if he just shows up.

Just him going there alone would have a bit of the flavor of licking Hua Yi.

Now that he is a big director who can make movies in Hollywood, he has to behave himself in many occasions and naturally will not go to support others foolishly.

The crew of "Taipei Trip", Li Binbin returned to work after attending the premiere of "The Forbidden Kingdom".

She handed Wang Shu a few movie tickets and said with a smile, "Tickets for The Forbidden Kingdom. Director Wang, you can go and see it when you have time."

Wang Shu took the movie ticket and said with a smile, "Thank you. I'll go see it when I have time."

The movie "The Forbidden Kingdom" is a Sino-US co-production, so the film is divided into two versions.

In the Chinese version, Chen Long and Jet Li share equal roles. In the North American version, Jet Li is the No. 1 male lead.

This is very surprising because Chen Long is a bigger star in North America, but the leading male role became Li Lianjie.

The investment was 7000 million US dollars (production cost 5500 million, plus 7000 million for publicity and promotion), the global box office was 1.28 million US dollars, and the North American DVD and Blu-ray disc sales revenue totaled 2533 million US dollars.

Total, 1.53 million US dollars.

According to the rough calculation of three times the cost to break even, the $7000 million investment in "The Forbidden Kingdom" requires $2.1 million in revenue to break even.

Therefore, Chen Long will definitely make a lot of money after this movie is made, and Huayi will
For Sino-US co-productions, Huayi’s share of overseas revenue may not be very high.

Therefore, nine out of ten times, they suffered a lot of losses.

Based on Huayi’s style, if “The Forbidden Kingdom” makes money, there will definitely be more co-productions.

Since then, Huayi has not made such a high-profile co-production again, as it is obviously not profitable.

It can be said that for such a high-profile film, both the theaters, the leading actors, and the crew members are making money, but the producers are the ones making wedding dresses for others.

For example, Liu Yifei.

Huayi spent a lot of time, effort and money to invest in a movie, but in the end it didn't make any money, which was very frustrating.

Therefore, if this movie promotes its own artists, it would be acceptable.

As a result, Liu Yifei was unwilling to sign a contract with Huayi.

This meant that Huayi not only got nothing in return, but also made things difficult for others.

For example, Chen Long earned more than 100 million RMB from this movie because of his share of the box office revenue.

For example, Jet Li received 1000 million US dollars for each film and made a lot of money.

For example, Liu Yifei’s pay for a film is 230 million US dollars, totaling 1500 million RMB.

With Liu Yifei's status, not only did she receive a high salary, she was also the leading female role in the movie.

Li Binbin, all of them play supporting roles to her.

This time, Huayi lost both the wife and the troops.

But then again, although Huayi made wedding dresses for others and lost money, it did promote the growth of the mainland film market.

Moreover, no matter what, the release of such a blockbuster will also be of great benefit to Huayi's listing.

Overall, I can still find some reasons to comfort myself.

Li Binbin smiled back and then gave movie tickets to Liu Dehua and others.

Liu Dehua and others also expressed their gratitude and responded that they would go to the cinema to watch the film when they have time.

Although Wang Shu accepted the movie ticket, he actually had no intention of going into the cinema to waste time.

(End of this chapter)