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Chapter 182: Million Premieres

Chapter 182: Million Premieres

In fact, as Liang Xiǎo Long expected, although "The Mummy Returns" won a super high box office of $68 million in three days after its premiere, it did not ignite the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie, and the next week, the box office plummeted, only $42 million, which is still too large. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the overseas box office did very well this week, taking a crazy $71 million. Ten days after its release, the total box office was as high as $181 million, which is already a very high box office, but if you want to live a lifeless box office market, you obviously lack some confidence.

"It seems that there is no drama again." Rachel sighed lightly, although she won a high box office, but she wanted to use it to live the box office market. However, judging from the current box office results, as long as it does not collapse at the box office in the third week like "Godzilla", this is another film that can make a lot of money.

"The Mummy Returns" does not have a box office market in the West, and this year's Hollywood blockbusters can basically be said to be buried, leaving only "Million Dollar Baby" and "Sui and Tang Heroes 2". Among them, "Million Dollar Baby" is Hollywood's largest investment film this year, with a production cost of up to $160 million, and "Sui and Tang Heroes 2" is the most investment among many blockbusters this year, with only $80 million. But it must be taken into account that "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties 2" was filmed in China, using Chinese actors, and the salary is not much at all, so the scenes it produces can definitely be compared to a film with an investment of about 120 million.

This is also inevitable, among the Chinese stars in Hollywood, in addition to Duan Yihong, who won the Oscar, has a salary of up to 15 million US dollars, others such as Andy, Leslie Cheung, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat and others have a salary of 5 million US dollars to 12 million US dollars, of which Andy is the highest, after all, there are many films filmed and he also has a high reputation in the music industry.

Fast forward to September, with several new films released every week, but few films that have received a great response. Under such circumstances, the martial arts conference is still in full swing and has entered the audition stage. The scope of the audition is very large, kung fu martial arts, boxing, taekwondo, beauty wrestling, folk ...... The requirement of the martial arts conference is that as long as you have a certain foundation and dare to come, we dare to ask for it. Moreover, in order to expand its influence, the Quartet of the Martial Arts Conference also waved a large amount of money to invite the masters of major competitions to come to the battle.

In this regard, the martial arts conference is indeed generous, the appearance fee is higher than that given by the UFC, and the championship prize is also much higher than that of other events. It can be seen that the directors of the Quartet have made up their minds to make the martial arts conference the most influential fighting event.

However, seeing that the situation was good, there was a sudden discordant voice, and the new champion of K1, Ernest . Huszt, as well as '96 K1 champion Andy. Hu Ge also stood up and expressed his willingness to compete in the martial arts conference, but they also said that they hoped to meet Liang Xiǎo Long in the ring to prove that K1 is the most powerful performance.

Everyone knows that Liang Xiǎo Dragon is very strong, otherwise it would not be possible to play four matches in a row in one Xiǎo hour and knock out four opponents, including the veteran champion of K1, Peter. Az. So, for the speeches of these two people, everyone has only one feeling, their heads are stupid, right? Challenge the team battle, do you have enough to find a beating?

Everyone also knows that Liang Xiǎo Long is not keen on the ring, but on movies, and if he wants to participate in the ring battle of the martial arts conference, he has to give up the time to shoot movies. So, the Shadow Mi, especially his hardcore Shadow Mi, stood up almost immediately and angrily scolded Nestor and Andy, and told Liang Xiǎo Long to ignore them.

Seeing this report, Liang Xiǎo Long couldn't help but have a headache, as the shadows said, instead of wasting time in the ring, it is better to write two more scripts and make more money. Of course, it's not that Liang Xiǎo Long doesn't like to play with people, on the contrary, he also likes to play with people, but he never runs to the ring to bully people, his ideal opponents are those underground fighting masters who fight with their lives.

After spending a few years in the United States, he has been to Las Vegas a lot and has seen a lot of underground black boxing. To put it bluntly, if those masters in the ring face the masters of upper and lower boxing, there is absolutely only one end - death, because people's fighting skills are honed with their lives in the training camp.

Liang Xiǎo Long once regarded the underground black boxing master as an imaginary enemy, in terms of speed, explosiveness, and boxing he had to win, but when it came to experience, the black boxing master had to beat him, so that the fight would be enough to stab. The masters in the ring have a lot of rules, although there are knockout scenes from time to time, but most of them win by scoring points, and they can't provoke his fighting at all.

But people have already spoken, if you avoid it without fighting, it will be a bit ungentlemanly. The most important thing is that if these two K1 champions can participate in the martial arts conference, the influence of the event will inevitably reach a higher level, and the ratings will also be brushed up. Therefore, Liang Xiǎo Long still hopes that they will be able to participate in this competition. And as long as they participate and someone beats them, the martial arts conference will be able to cultivate their own star players, and there will be no need to worry about not having masters to participate in the battle in the coming year.

"Honey, I don't think there's any need to bother with them." Rachel doesn't want Liang Xiǎo Long to participate in such an event, aside from being defeated, even if he wins, if he gets injured in the game, it will be distressing enough. In her opinion, Liang Xiǎo Long is best to be an honest filmmaker, and peace and security are the most important things.

"I don't want to participate either, but sometimes, some things are bit." Liang Xiǎo Long sighed lightly, he didn't have any good ideas now, if he wanted to participate in this competition, it would be almost impossible to make a movie next year. But if you don't go to war, you will also fall into the argument of avoiding war, which will be criticized.

Just when he was contradictory, Carl suddenly called: "Brother, what's the matter?" Do you want to participate in this martial arts conference? Liang Xiǎo Long smiled: "Since you called, you must have a better idea, say, what do you think?" Karl said: "Actually, it's not complicated, the key is whether you have the confidence to beat these two mallets." Liang Xiǎo Long smiled: "What do you think? ”

"Since there is no problem on your side, then it's okay, remember to read the official website of the martial arts conference in the afternoon." With that, Carl cut off the call. Liang Xiǎo Long was a little inexplicable, but he still waited patiently, waited until the afternoon, and then clicked on the official website of the martial arts conference, and there was a line of text on the homepage: "Captain, will fight the martial arts conference." ”

"When did I say yes?" Liang Xiǎo Long couldn't help but be depressed, and then clicked on the link, which was described in detail. According to the rules, Liang Xiǎo Dragon does not participate in legitimate competitions, but if a player can reach the final, he can get a chance to challenge Liang Xiǎo Dragon. And, as long as you defeat Liang Xiǎo Dragon, you can get a prize of up to $3 million.

"Treat me as the last gatekeeper?" Liang Xiǎo Long couldn't help but be depressed, he felt like he was the ultimate boss in the game, either killed by the challenger or killed by the challenger.

"And if everybody chooses to challenge, then I must not be exhausted?" Liang Xiǎo Long was depressed to find that there were a total of ten levels in the men's competition in the martial arts conference, and there were twenty finalists, if each one chose to challenge, he would have to play twenty games, and he would not be exhausted to death?

"This dead Carl, I thought he had come up with something good, it turned out to be just a bad idea." Rachel gritted her teeth in anger, cursed indignantly, and swore that she would find an opportunity to teach Carl a lesson that he would never forget.

"I'll turn him into a black pig's head." Jessica snorted as well, and then began to think with Rachel about how to trick Carl. However, it is obvious that these two NV people are not tricky masters, and when they discussed most of the Xiǎo, they didn't discuss any good solutions, and in the end, Rachel had a flexible brain, and he smiled: "I'll move the rescuers." ”

"xiǎo 丫tou, don't you want to be a sister?" Rachel dialed Kayla's number, and when it came to tricks, Kayla was definitely a master among the masters, thinking that Carl's Karl flow back then was born from one of her tricks.

"Hum ......" xiǎo girl hummed a few words on the other end of the phone, but she didn't speak. Rachel couldn't help but laugh: "What's wrong?" My sister didn't offend. Xiǎo girl hummed: "I don't want to go to school, I want to film." It turned out that after taking over the filming of "100% Man", Xiǎo girl played too crazy, and her parents felt that it was sometimes not a good thing for Xiǎo to become famous, so they let her fade out of the entertainment industry and close the school, ready to let her grow up and return to the entertainment industry.

"Then you should find you Uncle Xiǎo Dragon." Rachel smiled: "It just so happens that you're about to have winter vacation, why don't you come to the United States to live for a while?" ”

"That's pretty much it." Xiǎo girl was happy at this time: "However, you have to call my parents again, otherwise they won't agree to me going alone." ”

"Alright, I'll call them later." Rachel assured before cutting off the call.

"Baby, why don't you ask xiǎo 丫头 tricky method?" Jessica is a little mushy.

"Waiting for xiǎo girl to come over, according to the actual situation, isn't it more interesting to play?" Rachel giggled, as if Carl had been caught off guard.

The news of Liang Xiǎo's participation in the war blew out like the wind, which caught many people off guard, and even Nestor and Andy, who provoked this matter, were also a little caught off guard, originally, they were just thinking about using this matter to hype themselves, but they didn't expect Liang Xiǎo Long to really stand up. However, it doesn't matter, they have already thought about it, if they can really defeat Liang Xiǎo Dragon in the martial arts conference, the prize money of 3 million US dollars is enough for them to be free for a while.

Yes, three million US dollars, in exchange for chéng yuan, is more than 20 million, enough to do a lot of things. Many masters hidden in the folk have also stood up and are ready to make an appearance at the martial arts conference, even if they fail in the end, the appearance fee is not low.

The media also made a lot of reports on this matter, and rushed to Yanhuang Film Company and Kung Fu Martial Arts Hall for interviews as soon as possible, Liang Xiǎo Long also stood in front of the media again because of this matter, and talked to his grandmother in the face of reporters' questions: "The martial arts conference is not the martial arts conference of Chinese kung fu, he is a platform, a platform for various schools of various countries to flow to each other. For the addition of the final challenge, it is not because of how special I am, but because I am a film director and I have two more films to shoot next year, so I can't find time, so I thought of such a compromise. However, I am very excited to have the opportunity to meet Jiāo, a martial arts master from all over the world. ”

Excited boxers are naturally excited, since watching those four ring fights in 96, they can no longer see Liang Xiǎo Dragon's boxing match, they no longer think about when they can see Liang Xiǎo Dragon's heroic posture in the ring again, and then see Liang Xiǎo Dragon's sharp and unparalleled match. And now, when the opportunity comes, what reason do they have to suppress the excitement in their hearts?

Excited Shadows are even more excited. Actually, this year they were disappointed with Liang Xiǎo Longting, because Liang Xiǎo Long only made one movie this year, and it has not been released yet, which makes the filmmakers feel very uncomfortable. And now, Liang Xiǎo Long threatened on the spot that he would shoot two films next year, and naturally he would not disappoint everyone.

"Sure enough, one man can be a million soldiers" After the press conference, Carl said with a smile: "Just because of you, the popularity of the event has increased by at least 30%." ”

"That's right, this is only in the United States, in the world, I don't know how many boxers will fall in love with the martial arts tournament because of this." Mark also agreed with Carl's statement, but he felt a little emotion in his heart, he decided to invest in the kung fu gym at that time, and he just wanted to grow it slowly and step by step, but he didn't expect that in just two years, it would already have such a large scale, and a ring battle was held.

Moreover, the audition of the martial arts conference players has begun, and it will be broadcast live and broadcast through the ABC TV sports channel (note: ABC TV has ten channels and more than 200 sub-channels), and the ratings are also very good. Moreover, in terms of publicity, the TV station attaches great importance to creating grassroots heroes, which can arouse the audience's sense of substitution, which has caused a very strong response.

Liang Xiǎo Long also especially agrees with this, the hero with a grassroots atmosphere, that is the hero in the eyes of the common people. Among them, Liang Xiǎo Long remembers that there was a particularly successful case in his previous life, that is, Wang Hongxiang, who was created by the show "Wulin Feng", whose Wang style of play is fierce and stabbing ji, which is especially loved by the audience, and has created a myth of winning 29 consecutive games and KO masters from many countries. It's just a pity that he was knocked out in the thirtieth game. However, after being defeated, Wang Hongxiang stood up again, and all the battles that followed were all victorious.

If the martial arts conference can cultivate grassroots heroes like Wang Hongxiang, then there is no doubt that the ratings of the game will be a notch higher.

The martial arts conference has entered the audition stage, and time is passing day by day, and the highlight of this year is about to begin, and the premiere of "Million Baby" created by Liang Xiǎo Dragon will also be held. Liang Xiǎo Long was a little apprehensive, the production cost of "Million Dollar Baby" was as high as 160 million US dollars, plus investment in publicity, copying, transportation, etc., a total of 230 million US dollars. In other words, if it doesn't exceed $400 million at the box office, it will be a loss-making film at the box office.

Of course, after all, there are many sectors in which Hollywood movies make money, and even if this film only has a box office of $200 million, it can still be profitable in other sectors. Because, under the heavy investment of Liang Xiǎo Long, it can definitely be called a film that can be fully commercially developed.

But simple profit is not what Liang Xiǎo Long wants, what he wants is to break the current dull box office market, although it will not create a crazy 97 like last year, but if he can break the dull box office market in two years, then he Liang Xiǎo Long will definitely be able to leave an unsurpassed mark in history.

But when you think about it, no one can say what the final result will be. Just like "Godzilla" and "The Return of the Mummy of Tomb Robber Mi City" also seemed to break the dull box office market, but they all failed in the end, especially "Godzilla", the box office profit can be said to be minimal, and it does not reflect the value of blockbusters at all.

"Captain, have confidence?" Before the premiere, Shirley called to ask if she had to put her weight on other films after the box office market failure of "Saving Private Ryan", after all, Pyra Méng still had a few films that had not been released, and if the box office market continued to be like this, it would have a big impact on the company's films. In the absence of heavyweight blockbusters in her own company, she can only put her treasure on other companies, so like the previous "Godzilla" and "The Mummy Returns", Shirley also expects them to get good results. It's a pity that she was disappointed.

However, she is still very confident in Liang Xiǎo Long, who made Liang Xiǎo Dragon a guarantee of the box office?

"After watching the film, you have the answer, see you at the premiere." Liang Xiǎo Long pretended to cut off the call with confidence, but in fact, he didn't have any bottom in his heart. If it weren't for the Oscars this year, he would definitely not choose to shoot "Million Dollar Baby", but would directly choose to shoot a high-grossing commercial blockbuster, and he wouldn't have to spend so much time adapting it.

Because of the low box office market, Yanhuang Film Company also paid great attention to this premiere and chose the Los Angeles Hotel as the premiere site. When Liang Xiǎo Long arrived, the outside of the hotel was already surrounded by shadows, and there were a large number of fist mi, who were holding a photo of Liang Xiǎo Long in the ring, and as soon as Liang Xiǎo Long appeared, he shouted wildly: "Captain, our invincible captain, our favorite captain." ”

"Hillary, our invincible Hillary." Liang Xiǎo Dragon suddenly dragged Hillary over, and then raised Hillary's left hand as when he announced the result of the ring battle, and shouted: "I feel like all the shadows who came to the premiere, but today, Hillary is the boxing champion, I believe in her, she will definitely bring you the most beautiful visual enjoyment." ”

"Captain, if you want to do this, at least give advance notice." Hillary muttered softly, and then beckoned to greet the shadows, who were very popular. Especially media reporters, they are more willing to take pictures of Hillary, although Hillary is only a second-tier star now, they all believe that when the film is released, Hillary will definitely be among the first-line.