Chapter 181: Another year in the blink of an eye

There are many strange people in the entertainment industry, and after staying in it for a long time, you can always meet some strange people.

Lu Lin is often mentioned as a big director, but he is also the big boss of Longlin Pictures, and there is no need to talk about anything else in his 12-year income, just the box office share of the two films "Breakup Master" and "Thai Embarrassment" is enough for other film and television companies to earn, and they can not be earned. So this cross-border tyrant wants to spend money with Lu Lin, but he really wants to be blind.

But after all, this person came from across the border, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to do it. But some celebrities in the circle pretended to be forced, which can be called a clear brain circuit, which caught people off guard.

For example, when a famous language artist came to Beijing by plane, he asked to be greeted on a red carpet when he got off the plane, and his name was embroidered on the carpet, and then the airline decisively refused.

There is also a little fresh female artist who asked the crew to import mineral water by air for bathing. In other words, do you like to take cold showers, or do you plan to burn it yourself in a five-star hotel?

A lot of pretending to be forced to make people doubt the authenticity of the revelations, but also doubt the humanity of the protagonist. Fortunately, this kind of super difficult actor to serve has not been met by Lu Lin since his career.

After the end of the 2 billion celebration party, the popularity of "Houyi Shooting the Sun" gradually cooled, and the publicity activities of "Journey to the West" began to become more.

On January 28, Xing Ye and Luo Zhixiang appeared on Treasure Island, and the film began to be screened in cities across the country.

On February 3, the premiere press conference was held in Beijing, and director Zhou Xingxing led Shu Qi, Huang Bo, Luo Zhixiang, Zhou Xiuna, etc. to attend, while the leading actor Wen Zhang was absent because he was in the United States.

The reason why Wen Zhang was absent was because his directorial debut "Little Daddy" had completed the domestic scenes, and he needed to move to the United States to shoot the remaining scenes. Although it is excusable, the leading actor of the movie premiere is absent, and it is not good to say it after all.

But at this time, Wen Zhang's upward momentum was fierce, and it was estimated that he didn't take it to heart at all. Unexpectedly, only seven months later, when he was shouting hard for "Little Daddy" to promote it, he was attacked by his old man for neglecting the media.

New hatreds and old hatreds are all turned over, and news jokes such as "playing big names", "poor character", and "pretending to be forced" are dizzying to watch.

Although the leading actor was absent, Xing Ye also worked very hard to publicize, and successively went to Zhonghai, Yangcheng, and Hong Kong for the premiere ceremony. However, because of the appearance of Lu Lin, the trailer of another time and space "Invincible New Year" was removed.

Xing Ye naturally watched "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun", and he appreciated the plot and special effects in the film. However, the total investment of "Journey to the West" is only 113 million yuan, which is not comparable at all.

As for the additional cost, it is estimated that Xing Ye has never thought about it. Since the box office fiasco of "Journey to the West", he has been very cautious in film investment. Otherwise, he would not have been too cautious in "Journey to the West", and would have made trouble with Huayi in court.

The release of "Journey to the West" is approaching, which also means that the New Year is coming soon, and the start of "Wolf Warrior" will definitely be placed after the New Year.

By the time of the 28th of the lunar month, Longlin Film Company was on holiday, and Lu Lin wanted to celebrate the New Year alone as usual.

Dad's side actually made a rare phone call, and casually said during the conversation that if there is no arrangement for the New Year, you can go to him.

Lu Lin said that he would have to go to Los Angeles for two days to attend the premiere celebration of "Hou Yi Shooting Sun", and hung up the phone with a few polite sentences.

Then he booked a ticket to Phuket and decided to spend a good vacation outside during the Chinese New Year.

On February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year, "Journey to the West" was officially released, with 40.34% of the film scheduled on the first day and 76.85 million yuan. In the next three days, it broke 200 million, and on Valentine's Day, it collected 122 million in a single day. In addition to Lu Lin's works, it became the first domestic film with a single-day box office of over 100 million.

Of course, in addition to good box office results, it is a relatively average word-of-mouth. The special effects are average, the plot is old-fashioned, inappropriate for children, and the accusations of copying video games on the battlefield are endless.

But Hua Yi, the distributor of the film, didn't pay attention to these at all, they were already happy, after all, "1942" lost too much. The box office battle with Longlin Pictures lost too badly, and finally found some face here!

At the same time, some media reported that Chinese-language special effects blockbusters are no longer Lu Lin's alone. In the future, there will be many more names in the list of directors who have a box office of more than one billion.

For a while, all kinds of reports came out frequently, all of which put the names of Zhou Xingxing and Lu Lin together, and compared "Journey to the West" with "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Houyi Shooting the Sun". Then Xing Ye suffered a loss, and the box office trend was a little inferior to the posture of another time and space.

At this time, Lu Lin had already flown from Phuket to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "Hou Yi Shooting Sun" in the United States.

Although Yu Dong and Wang Changtian had two games before, they were both in the Chinatown and had little influence in the white society. But Lu Lin participated in the star-studded kind dominated by Warner.

This kind of liveliness, Wang Changtian doesn't like to get together, but Yu Dong wants to come over, and the female companion he brings is the "Peacock Princess" Jin Qiaoqiao.

In the hotel arranged by Warner, Lu Lin called his sister-in-law, and then chatted with Yu Dong about things in the film and television industry.

"The box office in the mainland is estimated to be 2.6 billion, and I don't know how many there can be in North America!" Yu Dong was full of expectations when he said this.

Lu Lin smiled, "We have already done everything we can do, now it depends on whether Warner can give it or not!"

Yu Dong said with a smile: "Hollywood's six majors, there is no distribution ability." I came here a while ago, in fact, the main reason was to see if they were interested in the release, and now it seems that the publicity is still quite strong!"

After all, Bo Na and Guang Xian are both experts in publicity, and they all know how deep the water is, and these two can say it well, which shows that Warner has done a good job in publicity.

The two chatted casually for a few more words, and under the guidance of Warner Fang staff, they took a car to the premiere venue together.

Because the main creators are not well-known in the United States, there is no red carpet ceremony, that is, the executives of Warner Fang have found several of its stars to support the scene. Invite some media, as well as industry bigwigs who are interested in "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun".

Because of the competition for distribution rights some time ago, "Hou Yi Shooting Sun" has a good reputation in the Hollywood film industry, and many industry bigwigs came to attend the premiere with curiosity.

Lu Lin met Harvey very "coincidentally", and the goods stepped forward to shake hands and said: "Oh, God, I really didn't expect you to come, you Chinese, shouldn't you all be at home for the New Year at this time, or are you very worried about the box office results of the film, want to come and see!"

Lu Lin smiled indifferently: "I am the director, screenwriter and starring of the film, and I have the obligation to attend on this occasion!"

"yes, Chinese boy, I think you might have to be a little mentally prepared, because not all Americans appreciate your set. I've seen too many Chinese films that have failed at the box office in the North American market over the years, and I hope that old guy at Fox doesn't lose too badly!" Harvey said with a smile.