While Shen Zhenghui was personally entangled and unhappy, other things were happening without his will.

"Spy Maze" was released in November, this is the last movie that Jack became Jiahe, whether it was at the time or in the future, it seems to be a little out of standard, Jiahe has already negotiated with Kasuga, the movie landed in the Japanese market in November as scheduled, the response is very average, the box office statistics are only five or six billion yen, Jiahe invested 170 million Hong Kong dollars in the big production zuò, and in the end it ended dismally, completely dispelling their courage to gamble, can only rely on the copyright of video tapes and the like in the future to slowly recover. Even Jiahe specially sent Wang Jiasheng to talk to Shen Zhenghui about copyright, and was willing to sell the Japanese copyright of some of the movies in his hand to Kasuga, which is a good business, whether it is to enrich the film library or something else, Kasuga can do this business. Although Jack Cheng is getting older, the movies of the past are still very valuable.

Then in December, "The Green Hornet" was released worldwide. Although it was not deliberately aligned, but because "The Spy Maze" had just been broadcast in Japan, there was a feeling of fighting against the Taiwan for a while, but Zhou Xingxing's masterpiece was carefully promoted by Colombia, at this moment, the war in Afghanistan is in full swing, but this does not mean that the broad masses of the people will not watch movies, it is in this form that the people need movies more.

War films originally scheduled to be released in 2001 had to be postponed due to the outbreak of real war, such as Wu's "The Wind Whisperer", but even if this film is postponed, it will not change its tragic fate, because because of this film, MGM has lost its independence.

In fact, Colombia also has great doubts and worries about the box office of "The Green Hornet", but at this moment, there is only such an appealing film industry that they can take out in their hands, and they have to give it a try. Columbia thought of Zhou Xingxing's appeal in Asia and Europe, especially in Asia, which is a big box office, and as for Europe, after the release of "Shaolin Football", it can be regarded as a preliminary market. Coupled with the fact that next year is a World Cup year, Colombia thought that they might be able to get a free ride on the publicity.

The world is always unexpected, in the first week of the release of "The Green Hornet", this film is actually a Chinese man with a male protagonist and a Japanese woman as a heroine, these two people show off their acting skills, and white men and white women are sexy in it, and the soy sauce movie suddenly made a force and reached a box office score of 27 million, which is still the result of Columbia not rolling out a large number of films. This result surprised everyone, and people were shocked to find that in this time period, it seems that comedy is still very marketable.

The U.S. box office continues to surprise people, with Zhou Xingxing's performance of Chinese kung fu in the film, and the 911 scene at the end of the film (Columbia finally gave a very political and correct ending, which can basically be said to make Zhou Xingxing perform a high consciousness of a lover of (American) country at the end, and I don't know if this is the case, through the censorship of the US State Administration of Radio, Film and Television). All of a sudden, the film received a flood of praise for its unique subject matter, exaggerated performances, and finally sublimated ending, so much so that the voices of opposition were full of racist prejudice.

Amid the pros and cons of the debate, the box office climbed steadily, reaching a high of 39 million in the second week, and Colombia's leadership almost fell asleep and woke up laughing.

Outside the United States, the box office is also powerful, the version released in Hong Kong is the director's version edited by Zhou Xingxing himself, there is no scene of the last 911, and the ending in the United States is very different, two different versions were released worldwide, in order to release DVDs in the future, the Hong Kong box office is also hot, 20 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week, and still maintains a high level of 21 million in the second week, and it looks like it is heading towards the box office record of 60 million in "Shaolin Football". Breaking the box office record of a local film in Hong Kong is not a problem at all. But obviously, "The Green Hornet" is recognized as a foreign movie, so it has the record of "Titanic" breaking 100 million in front of it, but obviously, box office analysis believes that it is unlikely that "The Green Hornet" can reach 80 million, and it will dive in the third week. (To be continued......)

PS: I fell into a stiff neck last night, my neck hurt to death, that's all before twelve o'clock, and I'll make up for it later.