(The title of the first two chapters of the film is wrong, it should be "The Lion of the Heavenly General") -

Golden Hammer Film and Television began to contact when the company filed for bankruptcy last year, and after more than half a year of bargaining, a preliminary acquisition plan has basically been reached. ≤≤ ≤ ≤ said that this plan still needs to be approved by local courts in the United States.

After returning from the United States, two weeks passed.

Wang Xu recorded four consecutive episodes of "Running Brothers", during which the box office of "Journey to the West" won 1.93 billion, and the film was originally released in a week, but major domestic film companies have decided to postpone the broadcast cycle of the film, Wanda Group took the lead in announcing that it will extend the screening cycle for "Journey to the West" for another half a month, and at the same time "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "Cinderella" will be screened together, and other film companies will follow suit.

It is impossible to predict how much box office the film will eventually achieve this time, anyway, it is a certainty to break through 2 billion.

In addition, the news that Wang Xu, Zhuang Xiaodie and his wife joined "The Lion of the Heavenly General" has also been confirmed.

"The Lion of the Heavens" released a cast list:

Huo An, Jackie Chan.

Luquis, John. Cusack

Tibes, Adrian. Brody

Xiuqing, Zhuang Xiaodie

Yan Tou, Wang Xu (Special Performance)

Mouse, Chen He

Yin Po, Cui Siyuan

In addition, no news has been announced about the film, and even the filming location is confidential, let alone a launch conference.

On August 7th, Wang Xu and Zhuang Xiaodie quietly rushed to the Dunhuang Gobi Desert in Gansu, where the most important scenes of "The Lion of the Heavenly General" will be filmed.

The production cost of this film alone is 400 million yuan, plus the later publicity costs, and the investment exceeds 500 million. The filming cost of the two parts of "Journey to the West" is claimed to be 300 million, but in fact, it is only a little more than 200 million. So when Wang Xu arrived at the crew, it was like arriving at a big market. There were nearly 1,000 people in the eye.

The climate of the desert is relatively hot during the day, and when there is wind, there is gravel, so everyone wears a scarf to cover their mouth and nose.

Wang Xu already felt in advance that this shooting would be very hard for everyone, so when he saw Jackie Chan's big brother sweating, he said: "Big brother, I'm afraid everyone can bear the climate if it's so hot." ”

Jackie Chan wiped his sweat and said, "Yes." It's okay in the morning, but the highest temperature in the afternoon is 50 degrees, and I can't stand it at all, so we strive to finish filming in the morning and shoot indoor scenes in the afternoon. ”

Wang Xu said: "The conditions for filming in the desert are really difficult, in March, I was filming in the desert over there in Yinchuan, the white climate was dry, and the temperature dropped again at night. It's really hard for a few southerners like us to fit in. ”

"It's not easy to be an actor." After Jackie Chan sighed, he said with a smile: "The box office of "Big Talk" yesterday was 1.9 billion, which is really amazing. ”

Wang Xu said modestly: "It's not as powerful as you said, big brother, half of the success factor is that we all caught up with the good period of the film market boom." ”

This is not wrong, today's film market is growing at a rate of 30% per year, the total box office in the first eight months of this year has been the same as last year, and it is expected that the total domestic box office will enter the 80 billion mark this year, and Wang Xu traveled through the previous time and space of the earth. In 2014, the total box office of domestic films was 29.6 billion, and the total box office of the North American market was about 65 billion yuan. It can be seen that the film industry is booming here.

"yes, it's the best time for us filmmakers."

While talking, Jackie Chan led the two into a tent, and the other actors were enjoying the cool inside.

"Captain, sister-in-law, you're here." Chen He was very happy to see Wang Xu coming, and got up and hugged him.

"What did you get to?"

"I'm this morning."

Then. Wang Xu met several other actors, especially two Hollywood actors, Cusack and Brody.

"Dave, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Dave, congratulations on the sale of 1.9 billion for your movie "Journey to the West."

Cusack and Brody, two Hollywood actors, have known other actors in advance and know that Wang Xu is young. debuted late, but his fame in China is that he is a superstar of the same grade as Jackie Chan, and he also knows that the movie "Journey to the West" starring him is the highest-grossing movie in China today.

1.9 billion yuan is equivalent to 300 million US dollars, which is also a dazzling data in Hollywood, and such a bull is worthy of the two actors.

Wang Xu also treats each other with courtesy, and he also respects the two of them.

"Oh God, this pretty lady should be the Purple Fairy?" Cusack spoke broken Chinese, and finally got the four words Zixia fairy right.

Zhuang Xiaodie took off her veil, and her beautiful face was as beautiful as a flower, which made the light in the entire tent brighter, and immediately made the two foreign movie stars feel amazing.

"It's an honor to meet you, beautiful fairy." Brody, like Cusack, kisses Fluttershy's hand, a Western high society kiss for a noble and beautiful woman. If the relationship between the two parties is close, you can also hug and kiss each other.

"Brother Sledgehammer!"

At this time, a tall and handsome Korean guy hugged Wang Xu and said hello. He is a member of the K-pop boy group Super-Junior, Choi Si-won, and Han Geng was a member of this team before.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, and I'm growing strong again." Wang Xu hammered Cui Siyuan.

Why do the two of them seem to know each other very well? This starts with Andy Lau.

Cui Siyuan and Andy Lau have a different fate. In 2005, he met Andy Lau through the Chinese film "Ink Attack". At that time, under the high temperature conditions on the set, Choi Siwon put on 9 costumes, and suddenly fainted due to the increase in blood pressure and almost fell from a height. And below him stood a group of extras with spears, which was very dangerous, but fortunately Andy Lau on the side pulled him at that time, so there was no danger, and the relationship between the two became very good since then.

Cui Siyuan called Andy Lau the boss, and in the column of celebrity friend relationship in his Baidu Encyclopedia, "Teacher Andy Lau" is particularly eye-catching.

The relationship between Wang Xu and Andy Lau does not need to be explained, the two met at Brother Hua's birthday party last year, and later met a few times on different occasions, and they became acquainted with each other.

Wang Xu didn't have many foreign friends, Cui Siyuan and Xiao Wu both.

Jackie Chan's "The Lion of the Great" gathers star artists from China, the United States and South Korea, of course, the target is not only the domestic market, but also the overseas market.

At present, in the domestic film industry, only Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Ang Lee, John Woo and a few other people's film works have overseas markets, don't look at Wang Xu's current comedy works in China are an invincible and invincible momentum, but the overseas box office is a bit miserable.

For example, "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" collected 1.6 billion box office in China, but in the entire Southeast Asia, the box office of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines combined was less than 50 million; And "Journey to the West" has just been released overseas, and the box office may be more optimistic, but it is also a bit difficult to break 100 million.

The main reason for the overseas failure of the box office is that the film is not international enough and foreigners can't understand it. Therefore, Wang Xu joined the big brother's movie with zero pay, and he also had the experience of learning from the big brother's filmmaking. (To be continued......)