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Zhou Xingxing, who had gray hair and looked a little haggard, was very helpless, so he could only answer sincerely: "Li Xiaole and Feng Xiaogang are directors I like very much, I hope their movies have very good results, I hope our three movies have very good results......" After speaking, Zhou Xingxing couldn't help but sigh and joked:

"When I presented Director Li at the Academy Awards last year, he was still a newcomer, but I didn't expect that when I came to the mainland this year, he already had two blockbusters of 400 million... If I had known, I would have told him that when my movie is released in the future, please help me stagger it, so as not to hurt my innocent ......."

Although the words are modest, but Zhou Xingxing is Zhou Xingxing, "Kung Fu" won a beautiful report card of 12.39 million across the country on the first day of release, becoming a single-day box office champion, while "No Thieves in the World" was a little weak, only won 4.3 million box office on this day, the most surprising thing is "Let the Bullets Fly", even "No Thieves in the World", which has only been released for two weeks, was suppressed by "Kung Fu", but "Let the Bullets Fly", which has been released for more than a month, rebounded strongly and won 9.86 million.

This set a new record, "Bullet" became the first film in the mainland to still win more than 8 million box office in a single day after its release for one month, you must know that "Titanic", which is known as the strongest stamina, only won 7.46 million in a single day after its release in January.

The three super-first-class directors in the Chinese region kicked off in the Chinese New Year war, not only the fans were addicted, but even the industry was jubilant, and theaters across the country were in the golden season of theaters during the week of Christmas, and fans during this time were undoubtedly happy.

When you go to the theater, you can see three Chinese movie masterpieces when you look up, Jiang Wen, Ge You, Liu Dehua, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingxing...... Posters of these glowing Chinese shijie actors hang all over the theater, and you can see all these superstars on the big screen in one day if you want to.

Christmas on the 25th, from 9 o'clock in the morning since the theater opened, the theaters in major cities have shown unprecedented crowding, couples, young people are flocked to the theater ticket hall on this day, the theater managers are pleased to find that Wanda, Shinkansen, Xingmei many theaters computer statistics reality, on today's day, Chu Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, four cities of cinemas appeared an unprecedented miracle of more than 85% of each movie!

According to national statistics, the box office on this day alone reached 51.29 million, which is the first time in the history of mainland films that it has exceeded 50 million in a single day, and on this day, 32 new theaters opened across the country, and the number of mainland cinemas reached 1478 and the number of screens reached 3600.

This week is not only a festival for movie fans, but also a festival for mainland filmmakers, everyone looks at the soaring report card, thinking about the rich prize money at the end of the year, excited, ecstatic.

As one of the founders of this feast, Huayi Brothers held a grand celebration banquet, because in this week, the two movies they released "No Thieves in the World" and "Kung Fu" were box office hits, especially "Kung Fu" won an amazing result of 91.79 million in one fell swoop, and the box office is expected to reach about 250 million.

Under the gorgeous lights, Zhou Xingxing at the buffet banquet, Feng Xiaogang toasted with the proud Wang Zonglei at the banquet, and the three were in a good mood, and Zhou Xingxing toasted in rusty Chinese:

"This time, it is still with Zong Lei's help, "Kung Fu" can have such a good result, I salute you."

"Master Xing is polite, I also have two more lights." Wang Zonglei, who was in the limelight at the dinner, already had obvious alcohol on his cheeks, and smiled, thinking that when their Huayi Brothers Company was just established, Feng Xiaogang's movie had already made the industry a leader with a box office of only tens of millions, who would have thought that in just a few years, the box office of a movie produced by Huayi Company in a single week would be close to 100 million.

For Huayi, it is no longer very difficult to make money by distributing movies, what matters is how much money can be made.

"In fact, the box office performance of "Kung Fu" is so good this time, and I still have to thank Xiaogang, if it weren't for his "No Thieves in the World" to warm up the market, I'm afraid we wouldn't have reached this result." Wang Zonglei complimented Feng Xiaogang.

"Eh, Zong Lei, what you said is chilling me......" Feng Xiaogang shook his head and held a goblet of wine glass, and waved his hand again and again: "This credit can't be attributed to me, thank you, you have to thank Li Xiaole, in the end, it's his "Let the Bullets Fly" is ruthless enough, I followed him and ate a hot meal. ”

"Ahem...... Xiaogang, you are drunk~haha" Wang Zonglei felt a little embarrassed, hugged Feng Xiaogang's shoulders and said with a smile, what is more popular than people, when "No Thieves in the World" exceeded 1.5 billion, and "Kung Fu" was expected to have a box office of 2.5 billion, Li Xiaole's "Let the Bullets Fly" of the People's China Film Company had already crossed the 500 million mark in great strides and went to 600 million.

Huayi Brothers gathered all the resources to produce and distribute the two super blockbusters, just to show their strength in this thriving film market, but Wang Zonglei never expected that a "Let the Bullets Fly" would be invincible all over the world in the Chinese New Year file, not to mention the record in the first week, and then revised twice, and the box office rebounded twice, and now it is in the weekly list with a box office score of 88.67 million in a single week, and it has bitten the "Kung Fu" that premiered for a week......

Terrible, respectable, and ...... This is Wang Zonglei's mind now, when he thinks of Li Xiaole, he pops out these words.

"Zong Lei, do you think that the combined box office results of our two movies can beat "Bullet"?" Zhou Xingxing suddenly looked at Wang Zonglei curiously and asked.

"Of course it's not a problem." Wang Zonglei was stunned for a moment, but smiled confidently: ""Kung Fu" will also be released overseas, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, we have already contacted Colombian companies in these places, "Let the Bullets Fly" Their selling point lies in the dialogue and plot, no matter how limited by culture, but Xingye's action comedy has no borders." ”

"What if it's just the mainland?" Zhou Xingxing asked with an accentuated tone of the word "mainland".

"This ...... I don't know. Wang Zonglei looked at him left and right, Zhou Xingxing and Feng Xiaogang both glanced at each other, and saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes, although directors like them don't need the box office to prove anything, but seeing that the two of them together are not as good as a 22-year-old rising star, this feeling of being far surpassed by newcomers makes them feel extremely lost......

has achieved unprecedented box office results, but they are beginning to be confused, and now is their time coming? Or is their time coming to an end?

It's just that when they think of Li Xiaole's young face, they will feel an inexplicable sense of crisis when they are no longer young, and at the same time there is a trace of envy...... If I could stand on this stage at the age of 22, what a wonderful thing.

After entering January, the New Year's Day holiday ended, people began to return to the busy life at the end of the year, the craze of the theater began to gradually decline, the theater carnival began to calm down, on January 1, 2005, it broke through the 600 million mark, Li Xiaole fulfilled his promise to the beginning of the release, and then 20 days later, Hollywood was in full swing Tom Hanks "Polar Express", Taiwan's popular king Wu Zongxian's comedy "Two Birds with One Stone" was released one after another, and the number of "Let the Bullets Fly" gradually decreased, slowly retreating to the second line.

On the day of January 20th, when "Let the Bullets Fly" went to the country and only lined up 76 screens near the next stage, it finally broke through the 700 million mark, which once again made fans take a deep breath, in 2002, when "Hero" got the box office of 2.5, everyone felt that Zhang Yimou had created a miracle, and in early 2004, after "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" swept the mainland with a box office of 400 million, people were once again amazed at the potential of the mainland market.

And just a year later, "Let the Bullets Fly" appeared, 700 million ...... It has increased this box office performance by 300 million ...... Now, no one knows what the limit of the mainland box office is? Maybe 800 million? 900 million? Or a billion?

Perhaps only one person knows this answer, that is, the director Li Xiaole himself, who continues to set records, what is 700 million? Nearly $100 million at the box office (at the exchange rate at the time).

If you only count the box office ranking of a single region, this result ranks as high as 24th in the world!! And it's the only movie in the top 50 of the year's box office list from outside the United States!

In this list, among the list of Hollywood company names, the name of China Film Group from China appears for the first time, and at the same time, a very strangely pronounced name "Happy・Li" appears on the director's column

This is the first time that a North American studio has paid attention to the name, and at Time Warner, Happy-Li's file has entered the director's archive for this year's film, and is classified as a C- in the four grades A, B, C, and D.

Take a closer look at this list, there are only four Chinese directors who can be shortlisted, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Wang Jiawei, and Wu Yusen.

Among them, the highest ranking is Ang Lee, after filming the mediocre box office "Hulk" last year, Li arranged the name from B+ to B-, and Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai, who have won frequent international awards, are both ranked C+, and Wu Yusen, who suffered a box office waterloo after filming "The Wind Whisperer", directly caused MGM to fall into a serious financial score from A- in 2001 to C......

Whether it's Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, or Disney's production managers, they are all wondering where this Happy・Li from China is sacred?

When they saw Happy's information, they all looked at the immature and delicate Oriental boy in the photo in a daze, and they didn't dare to verify it in detail, and then they opened their mouths wide and said "Wow~"!

It is unbelievable that a 22-year-old director has made a movie in China with a box office of nearly 100 million US dollars!

However, Happy Li's weakness also seems to be obvious, the subject matter is single, he has been running in comedy, and it seems that the heat is still close, and Hollywood production managers want to wait to see what his next movie is? Can he become the next Ang Lee? Zhou Xingxing, who had gray hair and looked a little haggard, was very helpless, so he could only answer sincerely: "Li Xiaole and Feng Xiaogang are directors I like very much, I hope their movies have very good results, I hope our three movies have very good results......" After speaking, Zhou Xingxing couldn't help but sigh and joked:

"When I presented Director Li at the Academy Awards last year, he was still a newcomer, but I didn't expect that when I came to the mainland this year, he already had two blockbusters of 400 million... If I had known, I would have told him that when my movie is released in the future, please help me stagger it, so as not to hurt my innocent ......."

Although the words are modest, but Zhou Xingxing is Zhou Xingxing, "Kung Fu" won a beautiful report card of 12.39 million across the country on the first day of release, becoming a single-day box office champion, while "No Thieves in the World" was a little weak, only won 4.3 million box office on this day, the most surprising thing is "Let the Bullets Fly", even "No Thieves in the World", which has only been released for two weeks, was suppressed by "Kung Fu", but "Let the Bullets Fly", which has been released for more than a month, rebounded strongly and won 9.86 million.

This set a new record, "Bullet" became the first film in the mainland to still win more than 8 million box office in a single day after its release for one month, you must know that "Titanic", which is known as the strongest stamina, only won 7.46 million in a single day after its release in January.

The three super-first-class directors in the Chinese region kicked off in the Chinese New Year war, not only the fans were addicted, but even the industry was jubilant, and theaters across the country were in the golden season of theaters during the week of Christmas, and fans during this time were undoubtedly happy.

When you go to the theater, you can see three Chinese movie masterpieces when you look up, Jiang Wen, Ge You, Liu Dehua, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingxing...... Posters of these glowing Chinese shijie actors hang all over the theater, and you can see all these superstars on the big screen in one day if you want to.

Christmas on the 25th, from 9 o'clock in the morning since the theater opened, the theaters in major cities have shown unprecedented crowding, couples, young people are flocked to the theater ticket hall on this day, the theater managers are pleased to find that Wanda, Shinkansen, Xingmei many theaters computer statistics reality, on today's day, Chu Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, four cities of cinemas appeared an unprecedented miracle of more than 85% of each movie!

According to national statistics, the box office on this day alone reached 51.29 million, which is the first time in the history of mainland films that it has exceeded 50 million in a single day, and on this day, 32 new theaters opened across the country, and the number of mainland cinemas reached 1478 and the number of screens reached 3600.

This week is not only a festival for movie fans, but also a festival for mainland filmmakers, everyone looks at the soaring report card, thinking about the rich prize money at the end of the year, excited, ecstatic.

As one of the founders of this feast, Huayi Brothers held a grand celebration banquet, because in this week, the two movies they released "No Thieves in the World" and "Kung Fu" were box office hits, especially "Kung Fu" won an amazing result of 91.79 million in one fell swoop, and the box office is expected to reach about 250 million.

Under the gorgeous lights, Zhou Xingxing at the buffet banquet, Feng Xiaogang toasted with the proud Wang Zonglei at the banquet, and the three were in a good mood, and Zhou Xingxing toasted in rusty Chinese:

"This time, it is still with Zong Lei's help, "Kung Fu" can have such a good result, I salute you."

"Master Xing is polite, I also have two more lights." Wang Zonglei, who was in the limelight at the dinner, already had obvious alcohol on his cheeks, and smiled, thinking that when their Huayi Brothers Company was just established, Feng Xiaogang's movie had already made the industry a leader with a box office of only tens of millions, who would have thought that in just a few years, the box office of a movie produced by Huayi Company in a single week would be close to 100 million.

For Huayi, it is no longer very difficult to make money by distributing movies, what matters is how much money can be made.

"In fact, the box office performance of "Kung Fu" is so good this time, and I still have to thank Xiaogang, if it weren't for his "No Thieves in the World" to warm up the market, I'm afraid we wouldn't have reached this result." Wang Zonglei complimented Feng Xiaogang.

"Eh, Zong Lei, what you said is chilling me......" Feng Xiaogang shook his head and held a goblet of wine glass, and waved his hand again and again: "This credit can't be attributed to me, thank you, you have to thank Li Xiaole, in the end, it's his "Let the Bullets Fly" is ruthless enough, I followed him and ate a hot meal. ”

"Ahem...... Xiaogang, you are drunk~haha" Wang Zonglei felt a little embarrassed, hugged Feng Xiaogang's shoulders and said with a smile, what is more popular than people, when "No Thieves in the World" exceeded 1.5 billion, and "Kung Fu" was expected to have a box office of 2.5 billion, Li Xiaole's "Let the Bullets Fly" of the People's China Film Company had already crossed the 500 million mark in great strides and went to 600 million.

Huayi Brothers gathered all the resources to produce and distribute the two super blockbusters, just to show their strength in this thriving film market, but Wang Zonglei never expected that a "Let the Bullets Fly" would be invincible all over the world in the Chinese New Year file, not to mention the record in the first week, and then revised twice, and the box office rebounded twice, and now it is in the weekly list with a box office score of 88.67 million in a single week, and it has bitten the "Kung Fu" that premiered for a week......

Terrible, respectable, and ...... This is Wang Zonglei's mind now, when he thinks of Li Xiaole, he pops out these words.

"Zong Lei, do you think that the combined box office results of our two movies can beat "Bullet"?" Zhou Xingxing suddenly looked at Wang Zonglei curiously and asked.

"Of course it's not a problem." Wang Zonglei was stunned for a moment, but smiled confidently: ""Kung Fu" will also be released overseas, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, we have already contacted Colombian companies in these places, "Let the Bullets Fly" Their selling point lies in the dialogue and plot, no matter how limited by culture, but Xingye's action comedy has no borders." ”

"What if it's just the mainland?" Zhou Xingxing asked with an accentuated tone of the word "mainland".

"This ...... I don't know. Wang Zonglei looked at him left and right, Zhou Xingxing and Feng Xiaogang both glanced at each other, and saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes, although directors like them don't need the box office to prove anything, but seeing that the two of them together are not as good as a 22-year-old rising star, this feeling of being far surpassed by newcomers makes them feel extremely lost......

has achieved unprecedented box office results, but they are beginning to be confused, and now is their time coming? Or is their time coming to an end?

It's just that when they think of Li Xiaole's young face, they will feel an inexplicable sense of crisis when they are no longer young, and at the same time there is a trace of envy...... If I could stand on this stage at the age of 22, what a wonderful thing.

After entering January, the New Year's Day holiday ended, people began to return to the busy life at the end of the year, the craze of the theater began to gradually decline, the theater carnival began to calm down, on January 1, 2005, it broke through the 600 million mark, Li Xiaole fulfilled his promise to the beginning of the release, and then 20 days later, Hollywood was in full swing Tom Hanks "Polar Express", Taiwan's popular king Wu Zongxian's comedy "Two Birds with One Stone" was released one after another, and the number of "Let the Bullets Fly" gradually decreased, slowly retreating to the second line.

On the day of January 20th, when "Let the Bullets Fly" went to the country and only lined up 76 screens near the next stage, it finally broke through the 700 million mark, which once again made fans take a deep breath, in 2002, when "Hero" got the box office of 2.5, everyone felt that Zhang Yimou had created a miracle, and in early 2004, after "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" swept the mainland with a box office of 400 million, people were once again amazed at the potential of the mainland market.

And just a year later, "Let the Bullets Fly" appeared, 700 million ...... It has increased this box office performance by 300 million ...... Now, no one knows what the limit of the mainland box office is? Maybe 800 million? 900 million? Or a billion?

Perhaps only one person knows this answer, that is, the director Li Xiaole himself, who continues to set records, what is 700 million? Nearly $100 million at the box office (at the exchange rate at the time).

If you only count the box office ranking of a single region, this result ranks as high as 24th in the world!! And it's the only movie in the top 50 of the year's box office list from outside the United States!

In this list, among the list of Hollywood company names, the name of China Film Group from China appears for the first time, and at the same time, a very strangely pronounced name "Happy・Li" appears on the director's column

This is the first time that a North American studio has paid attention to the name, and at Time Warner, Happy-Li's file has entered the director's archive for this year's film, and is classified as a C- in the four grades A, B, C, and D.

Take a closer look at this list, there are only four Chinese directors who can be shortlisted, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Wang Jiawei, and Wu Yusen.

Among them, the highest ranking is Ang Lee, after filming the mediocre box office "Hulk" last year, Li arranged the name from B+ to B-, and Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai, who have won frequent international awards, are both ranked C+, and Wu Yusen, who suffered a box office waterloo after filming "The Wind Whisperer", directly caused MGM to fall into a serious financial score from A- in 2001 to C......

Whether it's Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, or Disney's production managers, they are all wondering where this Happy・Li from China is sacred?

When they saw Happy's information, they all looked at the immature and delicate Oriental boy in the photo in a daze, and they didn't dare to verify it in detail, and then they opened their mouths wide and said "Wow~"!

It is unbelievable that a 22-year-old director has made a movie in China with a box office of nearly 100 million US dollars!

However, Happy Li's weakness also seems to be obvious, the subject matter is single, he has been running in comedy, and it seems that the heat is still close, and Hollywood production managers want to wait to see what his next movie is? Can he become the next Ang Lee?