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After leaving Shanhaiguan, I met Zhao Benshan.

Upon hearing that Jiang Heng had come to Shenyang, Uncle Benshan and his disciples gave him a warm reception.

In 2004, Uncle Benshan was at the peak of his artistic career.

This year, "Marshal Ma", the pioneer of the Northeast Renaissance, was staged, and "Biaoxue" gradually became a shining cultural symbol.

It was also during this period that "Liu Laogen Grand Stage" opened, and Uncle Benshan's business empire gradually took shape.

Uncle Benshan had a great influence during this period, and he also had the ambition to enter the film industry.

In the original history, Benshan Media and director Zhang Yimou cooperated to produce "Three Guns Surprise" and also produced "Laughing Jianghu".

In this life, it is not uncommon to set eyes on Jiang Heng.

Of course, Jiang Heng would not shoot a film like "Three Guns", but he still had some respect for Uncle Benshan.

Especially after he withdrew from the Spring Festival Gala, he realized how much people were looking forward to the Spring Festival Gala with Uncle Benshan.

Another thing is that in the second season of "Dafeng Night Watchman", Jiang Heng was going to invite him to guest star in Kou Yangzhou!

With Uncle Benshan's acting skills, I believe he will have a good performance.

In Shenyang, in a luxury hotel box, everyone was toasting and drinking happily, and the atmosphere was very warm.

Mainly because Uncle Benshan and his disciples were talking interestingly, and there were bursts of laughter in the room from time to time.

"Director Jiang, I toast you a glass. In this world, the person I admire most is my master. Without my master, I am nothing. He taught me the skills. The second person I admire is you, Director Jiang. It's amazing to be able to earn money from foreigners!

How many businessmen are great in China, but nothing when they go abroad!

Your movie can earn dollars, yen, pounds, marks, francs, rubles...!"

"Rubles are worthless!"

The toast was made by Tang Jianjun, who later played "Xie Guangkun" in "Country Love", and the one who interrupted was Tang Xiaohu, who played "Li Daguo".

The two of them sang in unison, causing laughter again.

Tang Jianjun said: "Whether it is worth money or not is amazing, what does it mean? It means that Director Jiang's movies are well made. If poor places like Zimbabwe where people can't even afford to eat watch "Inception", it means that our spiritual food is delicious!"

Jiang Heng couldn't help laughing and waved his hand and said: "It's not that exaggerated. It really hasn't been shown in Zimbabwe!"

Zhao Benshan said: "You can sell it to them. How many countries has your film been released in? Can you sell it to those that are not shown in theaters?"

Jiang Heng said: "There are only more than 120 countries. Except for those that everyone knows, the rest are basically small countries."

Everyone in the box was amazed. More than 120 countries, it's really amazing.

What's more amazing is that the global box office is so high. If it can break through 900 million US dollars, it will be more than 8 billion yuan in RMB. How much money will it make!

For a while, even Zhao Benshan felt dizzy and became more determined to enter the film industry.

I couldn't help but ask, "If we make a movie, what would be a good choice?"

Jiang Heng laughed. He led a group of disciples to entertain and flatter him, so it was hard to pour cold water on him.

But if you ask these people what kind of movie to make, Jiang Heng doesn't know, because they haven't made a very successful movie.

Although "The Laughing Man" achieved a box office of 156 million, its reputation was too bad, and it didn't make that much money.

Fortunately, Zhao Benshan was very smart. When he saw Jiang Heng hesitate, he knew that it was difficult for him.

He laughed at himself, "Alas, in fact, it's not interesting for us to make low-budget movies. It's really hard to find themes and genres for blockbusters, so let's just make comedies!"

Jiang Heng hurriedly followed his words and said, "In fact, making comedy movies is a good choice. There is still a lot of room for development in this field. If there is any movie in China that can catch up with my blockbuster in terms of box office, it will be a comedy!"

Thinking about it, he added, "Military action!"

Zhao Benshan and others automatically ignored the word "military action" and said with surprise, "Is it really that promising?"

Jiang Heng smiled, "Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style comedy is very successful. Although the box office is only tens of millions, it can't resist the low cost, and each one makes a lot of money!"

Everyone's face twitched unconsciously when they heard it. It's only tens of millions, and only Jiang Heng can say this. After all, the single-day box office of "Inception" is more than 60 million.

Zhao Benshan nodded slightly, "That's really a good idea!"

Jiang Heng smiled when he heard it, and didn't say anything else.

In fact, Uncle Benshan and his disciples are good at making people laugh, but in terms of comedy movies, it seems that there is a lack of excellent directors, so there are no excellent movies.

In this regard, Chen Peisi is far behind.

After a meal, Jiang Heng returned to the hotel accompanied by his assistant, driver, and bodyguard.

In the following days, he first strolled in Shenyang and then went to Harbin.

Harbin in 2004 was still quite fashionable, but the economic vitality was insufficient. Jiang Heng did not see any good investment projects after a round of visits, so he bought a luxury house on Friendship Road as a place to stay for summer vacation in the future.

Since his rebirth, Jiang Heng has made too much money with special effects blockbusters.

Foreign funds are mainly used to buy real estate and stocks, such as luxury houses in the United States, Britain, and Australia, Apple, Coca-Cola, American Express, McDonald's, and stocks of those technology companies that will develop.

Domestic funds are basically invested in commercial real estate, buildings, luxury houses, and land.

Stocks are also bought, but the investment is in Hong Kong stocks, and A-shares have to wait for the bull market!

When Jiang Heng returned to Beijing, it was already late August, and "Inception" was released.

The box office performance in the mainland market was fixed at 781 million yuan, which did not even pass the 800 million mark.

It is expected that the media always said that this movie was a bit "brain-burning" and difficult to understand, which still affected the viewing choices of some audiences.

In Hong Kong, it achieved an excellent result of 72.1 million Hong Kong dollars (9.21 million US dollars), which was a great surprise.

In the North American market, "Inception" won a box office of 320 million US dollars, temporarily ranking fourth in the year.

According to the data in Jiang Heng's memory, it should be the fourth in the year without a doubt.

Counting the box office performance in Formosa, "Inception" won a total of 430 million US dollars in the Chinese and American film markets.

Compared with Jiang Heng's other works, the advantage is not very obvious.

Fortunately, the film is very popular in Europe and Australia, and performs well in Japan and South Korea. Combined with the box office in Southeast Asia and other countries, the global box office of the film has exceeded the 900 million US dollar mark, reaching 912 million US dollars.

What is even more exciting is the positive comments on the film by media in many countries. They all believe that "Inception" is a rare masterpiece and worthy of awards.

In particular, Hollywood has already had "agents" call and claim that "Inception" has a great probability of winning an Oscar, but it only needs to pay some public relations fees to be foolproof.

After experiencing the "information bombardment" of later generations, the so-called award selection is not mysterious to Jiang Heng at all, and naturally he will not be reluctant to spend money.

He immediately took a plane to Hollywood to run for the award.