Chapter 392 The King of Kung Fu


Chapter 392 The King of Kung Fu

April 16, afternoon.

The director of "The King of Kung Fu", Robert Minkoff, together with the action director and executive producer Yuan Heping, the four main protagonists of the film Chen Long, Jet Li, Liu Yifei, Li Binbin, and the chairman of "Emperor Group" Yang Shoucheng gathered in the capital. Chaoyang Park to attend the world premiere and red carpet ceremony of the film.

The event lasted for more than four hours, including dance performances, evening parties and the much-anticipated movie screening. More than a thousand guests took advantage of the giant light balloon carefully arranged by the organizer, which was suspended dozens of feet in the air. Afterwards, watch the movie on the outdoor big screen.

Very fresh and unprecedented.

The film company spent a total of one million US dollars to prepare for the premiere party of "The King of Kung Fu" and sent more than 400 security guards and police officers to maintain order and patrol more than 1,500 onlookers to prevent theft from happening.

In addition, many senior officials and people from the entertainment industry, such as Feng Xiaogang, Wang Jin, Zhao Wenzhuo and his wife, etc., all attended the grand event, which made the atmosphere full of excitement and excitement.

At the beginning of the red carpet ceremony, directors Rob Minkoff and Yuan Heping, together with the four protagonists, appeared to meet the guests and friends from the press. They suddenly discovered that two women who were not working on the film were mixed in. Among them - standing next to director Minkov is his wife, and the beautiful little girl next to Jet Li is his daughter!

The host asked Li Lianjie how his beloved daughter was feeling. She laughed and said that when her father asked her to take the film, she hoped to make a family film for her daughter. She felt very honored and was very grateful to her father for what he had done.

Just when the master of ceremonies wanted to ask other questions, the little girl seemed shy and could not speak. She had to rely on her father to smooth things over: "Both my father and daughter are practicing martial arts, and they do not know how to speak."


These words immediately attracted applause from the entire audience.

In addition, Liu Yifei’s elegant backless evening dress purchased from Milan also received unanimous praise.

At this period, Liu Yifei was still wearing haute couture evening gowns sponsored by luxury brands. When she fell out with Huayi and Boss Chen’s career was hit by the financial crisis, when she attended events again, she was still wearing these. Some relatively ordinary clothing.

Soon after the movie ended, thousands of spectators applauded for ten minutes, which made Chen Long and Jet Li very happy.

Many domestic media also singled out and praised Li Binbin for her excellent performance, saying that her white-haired witch look is very beautiful, so her role was so small that it was not worth it.

The film company also said that after seeing such an enthusiastic response from the audience after its premiere in Beijing, it has greatly increased its confidence in the film. It believes that when it is screened on more than 800 screens in China next week, and there are no big 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 eye-catching new films this week.

Before that, Wang Zhongjun made a phone call to Wang Shu and invited Wang Shu to attend the premiere.

Wang Shu declined because he was busy filming.

Li Binbin is an artist from Huayi. When the crew of "Taipei Trip" was filming, he also expressed Wang Zhongjun's meaning to Wang Shu.

It's just that Wang Shu is not a Huayi director or a "Beijing circle" director, so he is too lazy to join in the fun.

Feng Xiaogang went because Feng Xiaogang is a director of Huayi, and since Huayi is about to go public, he will naturally go to help.

As for Wang Jin, he not only wanted to go north to make money, but also looked at the face of Emperor Yang Shoucheng, so he also had reason to go to help.

Wang Shu went forward, there would be no benefit, and he would be disadvantaged.

If people like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are gone, it doesn't matter if he goes to show his face.

If he went alone, it would feel like licking Huayi.

Now that he is a big director who can go to Hollywood to film, he has to keep his cards close to his chest no matter what he does on many occasions, so naturally he will not go there to support him stupidly.

The crew of "Travel to Taipei", Li Binbin returned to work after attending the premiere of "Kung Fu King".

She handed a few movie tickets to Wang Shu and said with a smile: "The movie tickets for "The King of Kung Fu", Director Wang can go and see them when he has time."

Wang Shu heard the words and accepted them. He took the movie ticket and said with a smile: "Thanks, I'll go and see it when I have time."

The movie "The King of Kung Fu" is a Sino-US co-production, so the movie is divided into two versions.

Chinese version, Chen Long and Jet Li are on a par. In the North American version, Li Lianjie is the male protagonist.

This is surprising, because Chen Long is a bigger celebrity in North America, but the male lead is Jet Li.

The investment is US$70 million (production cost is 55 million, plus publicity and distribution, etc. 70 million), the global box office is US$128 million, and North American DVD and Blu-ray disc sales total US$25.33 million.

Total, 153 million US dollars.

According to the rough calculation of three times the cost to break even, the US$70 million investment in "The King of Kung Fu" requires an income of US$210 million to break even.

Therefore, Chen Long must have made a lot of money from the filming of this movie. Huayi is a Sino-US co-production. Huayi’s share of overseas income may not be the same. How high.

Therefore, nine times out of ten, you will lose a lot.

With Huayi's style, if "The King of Kung Fu" makes money, there will definitely continue to be co-productions.

Hua Yi has not made such a huge co-production since then, which is obviously not profitable.

It can be said that for such a hugely popular film, both the theaters, the starring actors, and the crew are all making money, while only the producers are making wedding dresses for others.

For example, Liu Yifei.

Hua Yi spent a lot of time, energy and money investing in a movie, but in the end it didn’t make any money, which was very unpleasant.

Therefore, if this movie promotes its own artists, it is still acceptable.

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

This made Huayi not only fail to fetch water from the bamboo basket, but also made wedding clothes for others.

For example, Chen Long made more than 100 million yuan from this movie because he enjoyed a share of the box office.

Take another example, Li Lianjie, whose salary was 1,000,000 US dollars, and he also made a lot of money.

Another example is Liu Yifei, whose remuneration is US$2.3 million, totaling RMB 1,500.

With Liu Yifei’s celebrity status, not only does she get paid a lot of money, but she is also a heroine in the movie.

Li Binbin, all matched her.

Hua Yi really lost his wife and his troops this time.

But having said that, although Huayi made wedding dresses for others and lost money, it played a role in promoting the growth of the mainland film market.

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

In general, 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 it if they had time.

As for Wang Shu, although he accepted the movie ticket, he actually had no intention of walking into the cinema to waste time.

(End of this chapter)

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