Qi Jie left the next day.

Liao Liao stayed for two more days, which was considered to be enough to stretch his lazy muscles, and then flew back to Los Angeles.

The rest of the time, and Li Qian, finally belonged to Xie Bing alone.

In fact, it was only a few days, but Xie Bing was still satisfied.

Then she flew away.

Li Qian was also only delayed in Paris, deliberately one day later than Xie Bing, met with John Dyce, and the next day's plane also flew back to Shuntianfu.

At this time in the Chinese entertainment industry, the shock brought by "The Matrix" has not completely subsided, but "Dragon Gate Inn" has completely occupied the attention and heated discussions of all the people.

This movie was released for three weeks, and the domestic box office exceeded 400 million.

Moreover, it has achieved quite outstanding box office results in Japan, South Korea, and several countries in Southeast Asia, and no matter at home or abroad, as long as it is released in a place, the reputation is explosive!

As Xie Bing said, Jin Han was a god.

A lot of media praised him to the sky.

Some people rated Li Qian, Jin Han, Wu Han, and Lu Ping as the four major directors of the academy, and some people said that Jin Han and Du Weiyun and Liu Chengzhang together, thinking that "Dragon Gate Inn" has the same texture and feelings as Du Weiyun's series of martial arts masterpieces to some extent, and unlike Du Weiyun, Jin Han, like Liu Chengzhang, is the kind of director who is good at telling a good story wrapped in exquisite shots and sultry feelings.

Of course, the company also began to call Li Qian, Jin Han, Zhao He and Feng Bicheng the "Four King Kongs" - when she heard her talk about this nickname in Qi Jie's office, Li Qian was stunned for a long time, and Qi Jie laughed for a long time.

Of course, the director's fame is in the industry, but for the vast majority of ordinary audiences, the most reliable thing they remember about a popular film must be the actors.

He Yingyu's fire goes without saying.

The savage girlfriend of the year, the sexy beating girl in "The Matrix", to the coquettish proprietress Jin Jiyu in "Dragon Gate Inn", it can be said that among the actresses in today's Chinese entertainment industry, no one can be more popular than her!

Cheng Subei and Zhou Zhiyu all jumped up a level suddenly with the popularity of the movie.

Among the young generation of domestic film students, Zhou Baoshan and Zhou Zhiyu are known as "Erzhou".

And less than a week after the movie was released, Cheng Suhua received a call from the famous domestic female director Zhang Zifang, she said: "You have a charming neutral temperament!"

She wanted to invite Cheng Suhua to audition for her film that was in the pipeline.

It is said to be the story of two girls.

When she called Cheng Suhua, she said that she was actively inviting Fu Hongxue to play another role.

Fu Hongxue didn't know what the reaction would be, but Cheng Subei was here, Li Qian's first reaction when he received the call was, "Push! No, I don't want others to see you look like you're not wearing clothes!"

Cheng Suhua couldn't laugh.

She certainly made this call on purpose.

In fact, from the personal positioning of Cheng Subei in Minghu culture, to the roles that Cheng Subei has played over the years, and even from the positioning of the several products she is now endorsing, she will never accept such a movie role - in Europe and the United States, it is good to say that in China, in the Chinese cultural circle, this kind of same-sex theme is simply a proper death.

And she herself is obviously not interested in this kind of film where the sword goes sideways.

What kind of education did Cheng Suhua receive from childhood to adulthood?

That is the most typical and orthodox oriental traditional education!

Although she was a little rebellious a few years ago, in the final analysis, she is still a very traditional girl - she is not the only one who has many things promoted by Western society, but many young people in China today actually do not approve of it.

As for what Zhang Zifang said will impact Cannes - Cheng Suhua said that it is not uncommon!

I don't know if Zhang Zifang feels that she is really not very good at making popular commercial films, in recent years, it is clear that the overall trend of the domestic film industry is to be more and more inclined to do the market and box office, and the tide of commercialization is simply overwhelming, but she has begun to pay more attention to several major film festivals in Europe than in previous years!

So, now she even wants to try the way of filming same-sex themes!

Sometimes Li Qian can't help but wonder: Could it be that he and Jin Han have made a little name in the European art film industry, which makes Zhang Zifang, who has been obsessed with this piece for more than ten years, more and more unconvinced?

But her current path is about to kill herself, and of course Li Qian can't allow her young lady to jump down with her.

Not only that, but he also subconsciously began to think about another issue.

Over the past years, Zhang Zifang and her small and fresh films have always been a clear stream in Chinese cinema and a banner for Chinese female filmmakers.

But now, she herself is going to a dead end, is it time for the Chinese film industry to produce another female director who can carry the banner of women's narrative films?

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On September 14, 45 days after its release, "The Matrix" officially rolled off the production line from North America. In the end, this popular Chinese sci-fi blockbuster all over North America won a staggering $545 million at the North American box office, not only temporarily topping the 2004 North American annual box office list, but also jumping to the third place in the North American all-time box office list - second only to "Titanic" and "Star Wars" Part 1.

Since then, the film has also been screened in many places around the world such as Europe and Latin America, and only in a few countries such as China has the film the right to extend the screening period.

In China, it will even be screened until December - of course, after entering mid-to-late September, no matter how powerful the film is, after all, it has been released for more than 40 days, and the scale of the screening will naturally shrink again and again, but no matter what, the remaining 100-odd canvas long-term screenings, there are still many audiences willing to cheer every day, and each of these screenings is basically the pure profit of the distributor and the theater side!

As the months passed, the film finally ended its full screening in China, that is, officially in all markets around the world, and it was a success.

In the end, it won the first place in the 2004 North American film box office list and the third place in the North American historical box office, and with a final score of 1.045 billion Chinese yuan, it became the first work in the Chinese film market to break the box office of more than one billion, which of course became the first in the history of China's domestic films.

And the global box office of the film finally fell to $1.63 billion.

second only to "Titanic", surpassed the first part of "Jurassic Park", and won the second place in the global all-time box office list!

"The Matrix" has undoubtedly become the first hot word in the global film market and cultural and entertainment market in 2004, and Zhou Baoshan's image of Neo in the movie is popular all over the world.

At the same time, the martial arts masterpiece "Dragon Gate Inn" directed by Jin Han, director of Minghu Culture Film and Television, took over the magic wand in the hands of "The Matrix" and began to quickly become popular all over the pan-Chinese cultural circles, including China - in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and throughout Southeast Asia, the film quickly set off an extremely high movie-watching boom among local audiences.

Of course, unlike the film's popularity in the above-mentioned regions, this film was successively introduced to the film markets of seven European countries and the North American market for screening, but the response was mediocre - it has proved that John Days does have a vision and judgment beyond ordinary people in the choice of introducing Chinese films to European and American countries.

Those complicated intrigues, in the eyes of Chinese, will feel particularly enjoyable, but in the eyes of the vast majority of audiences in Europe and the United States, they feel not happy at all, and even many people say that they are confused.

It's not even a bargain, but it's not a big gain.

In the end, the film was released in hundreds of theaters in North America, and in just one week, the scale of screenings was reduced to just over 100, and it was drawn just over a month after its release.

Its total box office in North America is $7.85 million.

The distributors, Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Films, are definitely going to lose money - the promotion and distribution costs of this film cost nearly 10 million dollars in total!

But losing money is temporary.

With the release of the movie's DVD, although it is impossible to make money back as soon as possible, but after a few months of selling, the two companies found that the packaging operation of the film's theatrical distribution rights and DVD distribution rights has actually begun to generate profits.

The situation in Europe is much better than that in North America, during the theatrical release, it was just a matter of making and losing, and as soon as the DVD was released, it basically began to see profits.

Of course, although it has not been played in Europe and the United States, this has not affected the dazzling status of "Dragon Gate Inn" in the Chinese film industry - the final domestic box office was 710 million Chinese yuan, becoming second only to "The Matrix" and "The Gate of Life and Death", and the global box office was 520 million US dollars, which also made the global box office of the film enter the top five of the global box office list of Chinese films in one fell swoop!

Jin Han has become one of the most famous digital directors in China with this film.

In the same period, unlike the global success of "The Matrix" and the strong sweep of "Dragon Gate Inn" across the pan-Chinese cultural circle, Liu Chengzhang has always been extremely low-key - the box office of this movie does not seem to have brought people any surprises from the beginning.

When it was released, the wind of "The Matrix" sweeping everything had not passed, and after it was released for two or three weeks, "The Matrix" was finally not so majestic, and "Dragon Gate Inn" came again!

However, when the movie was offline at the end of September, many people were surprised to find that although it never exploded, the box office trend of the movie was so stable that it was simply surprising - you know, at that time, "Sword Fairy" was high and low to a terrifying degree!

So in the end, it was screened every week, and it didn't seem to show any outstanding performance, but when it was released, the film got a box office of more than 440 million yuan in one fell swoop - surpassing "The Swordsman and the Monk" and "Sword Fairy" in one fell swoop, and became the highest-grossing film among all Liu Chengzhang's works! Moreover, despite the investment of more than 100 million, it was still profitable!

After its final box office was released, Hu Fei specially set up a wine for Liu Chengzhang to celebrate, and invited Li Qian over, and the media sighed one after another: Liu Chengzhang is back!

Of course, that's all for later.

On the third day after Li Qian returned from France, Lu Lingxi and Han Shunzhang came together.

Now that Li Qian, Jin Han, Zhao He, Feng Bicheng and others have all put their minds on movies, the two of them, a man and a woman, are basically the two top names in charge of the TV series on the side of Minghu Culture.

Lu Lingxi's "Daming Palace Ci" was on a set of programs on Huaxia TV in May this year, and the ratings were quite good, especially the word-of-mouth, which was simply amazing.

And "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", directed by Han Shunzhang, landed on Huaxia TV in August, with the readership of the original work, and the original author is Li Qian, the ratings of this TV series can be imagined. Han Shunzhang's directing skills are there, and as soon as the TV series came out, it naturally became a rapid hit.

It can be said that today, when the film and television department of Minghu Culture began to tilt its shooting resources and shooting energy to the film to a large extent, it is precisely because of these two TV series that it continues to establish that Minghu Culture is still the leading leader of domestic TV dramas.

The two of them naturally work hard.

What's more, one of them was Li Qian's department chair and served as his teacher for a year, and the other also served as their counselor, and their identities were extraordinary.

So, Li Qian personally made tea and entertained the two of them.

At the same time, Li Qian was also clear about the intention of the two of them.

After the completion of the later stage of "Daming Palace Ci", Lu Lingxi has been resting for half a year, and Han Shunzhang's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is similar.

The difference is only that Han Shunzhang is the big housekeeper of the Minghu Culture, Film and Television Department, he has a lot of things to be responsible for, and after finishing the TV series he is responsible for, he is still very busy every day, and it is not a rest at all.

Of course, in the final analysis, Han Shunzhang's first identity is still a director.

At present, the third part of "Once Upon a Time" has not even been filmed, and Lu Lingxi is also not interested in playing other roles, so as a director, she is currently in an "unemployed" state.

Therefore, after the tea was served, everyone sat down and chatted a few words of homely life, Li Qian asked directly and straight to the point: "Do you want to start a new drama?"

Han Shunzhang and Lu Lingxi were surprised when they heard this.

Especially Lu Lingxi, at this time, she couldn't help but turn her head and glance at Han Shunzhang - if it weren't for the fact that everyone had cooperated for many years, she knew Han Shunzhang's personality very well, and she had absolute trust in his character, so she couldn't help but wonder if he had greeted Li Qian in advance.