Southeast Asia and Europe aside, Japan's box office can only be described as hot, thanks to the previous promotion of "Shaolin Football" and "Journey to the West", Zhou Xingxing itself has long had a lot of popularity in Japan, at this time the new film was released and there were Japanese female stars in it, the Japanese are very proud to enter Hollywood, so, even though Tomoaki Aonuma's reputation is not very good, but the box office of "Green Hornet" in Japan still ushered in a surprising explosion, and the box office in the first week reached 1.2 billion yen, after the explosion of "The Spy Maze", there was immediately a newspaper that wrote blindly, saying that the era of Jack Cheng is over, and he can no longer swing his fists and feet when he is old, Hong Kong, no, the whole of Asia has entered the era of Zhou Xingxing.

Of course, it can't be wrong to say that. In the original world line, Jack Cheng is indeed inferior to one, and in the end, the connection class was not cultivated well. Zhou Xingxing is indeed one step at a time, but this footprint is too slow. After becoming a director, it was simply intolerably slow.

At present, it seems that under the impetus of Shen Zhenghui, his performance is quite impressive compared to the same period in history. The most important thing is that he has taken a direct step into the world like Jack, instead of being confined to the Chinese-speaking area of East Asia as before.

Shen Xingguo and Liang Kexiu also felt this craze, although these two were arranged to travel when they were in Japan, Liang Kexiu was worried about Ling's granddaughter, and spent more time with her granddaughter. But throughout Kasuhi, at the behest of Mitsumi Fukuda, information was opened to them almost free and transparently. So, when Liang Kexiu and Shen Xingguo reluctantly left Japan. They already have a deep understanding of Kasuga's business, and Shen Xingguo, as a practitioner in this industry, will naturally care about his son's investment performance after the release of "The Green Hornet", and then, he will be in a daze at this box office.

Exceeding $100 million at the U.S. box office is a sure thing, and of course, it seems unlikely that the $80 million invested in the U.S. market will be completely recovered, but the box office outside the U.S. is simply a surprise. By the time Christmas arrived, the U.S. box office had already crossed the 100 million mark. Although at this time the screens shown have begun to decrease. However, in the overseas market, the box office in Hong Kong has exceeded 80 million Hong Kong dollars, and the Japanese market has reached a record 3 billion yen, plus the fragmented market in Europe. Cost recovery is no longer a difficult task.

Seeing such a craze. The Chinese film market, which was originally firmly seated in Diaoyutai, also had to speed up its progress. It was announced that the film would be released during the New Year's Day -- there was no way to be in a hurry, the pirated version came in, and the film would not be able to sell at a high price, and the approval department was under the call of the comrades below. Finally the approval process was simplified and, of course, the PR in Colombia played a huge role.

The domestic market has not yet been released, but according to the analysis, the box office should be at least similar to that of Hong Kong.

So, the overall number was added, and Columbia was pleasantly surprised to find that the global box office of this film was close to the total box office of 200 million US dollars, which is certainly a big profit, and it is clear that this is also a good start and laid the foundation for the sequel. It is believed that the fiery video tape market will bring continuous revenue.

Shen Xingguo and Liang Kexiu were obviously also shocked by the news and numbers that were summarized, especially Shen Xingguo, who is an insider, unlike his wife who can only brag about his son, he can deeply understand the meaning behind this box office, especially when he was in Japan, he was close to the release of "The Green Hornet", and he understood the importance of this film better.

In 2001, the U.S. film market reached $8.14 billion, although "The Green Hornet" will be counted in the box office in 2002 because of the release schedule, but its final box office in the United States can surpass "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", reaching 120 million US dollars, if ranked in the 2001 box office list, it can be ranked 17th, and it is still being released in other parts of the world, and it is estimated that the global box office will exceed 250 million US dollars, although it is not as good as Jack's "Rush Hour 2" 's U.S. box office is $226 million, and the global box office is $347 million, but Zhou Xingxing's first entry into Hollywood has such a result, which can be said to be blind, and the results are comparable to Jack's "Rush Hour 1".

The most shocking thing is not Zhou Xingxing's appearance in the movie, but in this film, he also serves as a director, acting and directing and has such good results, from the perspective of division of labor, he is much more influential than Jack, which means that even if he can't be an actor in the future, he can be active in Hollywood as a director. And judging from the current situation, Zhou Xingxing himself definitely has a longer acting life than Jack Cheng, he is different from action movie actors, there will always be doubts that he is too old to fight.

Of course, commercial success is only one aspect, and the successful entry into Hollywood also has political benefits in a sense. At this point, Shen Xingguo felt it the most, because of the matter of "Shaolin Football" before, the release of "The Green Hornet" in the mainland was also deliberately difficult, although it was not said that it could not be released, but this schedule has almost been ripping off, and Mr. Han of China Film was also tortured to death, but when "The Green Hornet" opened up the market overseas, quickly exceeded 10 million US dollars in North America, and broke 60 million US dollars in two weeks, as soon as the news came out, film censorship almost immediately entered the highway, After simply trimming a few shots, it was released and ready to be screened in theaters.

Only Jack Cheng and Jett Lee have opened the Hollywood market before, these two people are the spokespersons of the same theme - kung fu movies, Zhou Xingxing's film this time is in the name of paying tribute to Bruce Lee, and it is also a kung fu movie, but it is fundamentally not a kung fu movie. It's as if the fight in "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is also very intense, but it is not actually a martial arts film.

Zhou Xingxing opened up a new field for the Chinese and gained recognition, which is why "The Green Hornet" was finally approved so quickly.

During Shen Xingguo's time in China, he was constantly inquired about the news, everyone knew that this film was the result of the tripartite cooperation between Kasuga and Columbia and Zhou Xingxing represented by Shen Zhenghui, and when the box office results came out, all the insiders were not calm, Zhou Xingxing's 10/10 treatment was exposed, many people were red-eyed, and some people also speculated about how much money Kasuga made in it. The high box office of Hollywood movies used to have nothing to do with the Chinese film industry, but suddenly a related person appeared around everyone, which naturally attracted everyone's attention. Spring 40 million US dollars, half of the investment, immediately recovered the cost, not to mention, but also able to absorb the long-term interest, experts estimate, videotapes, VCD, DVD, the income can reach 60% of the box office, which means that the spring may be able to earn 50 million US dollars, converted into RMB, equivalent to the national box office for half a year.

All the eyes were green.

Especially Kasuga then announced a series of plans, the release of "The Legend of Wukong", the release of "Battle Fairy Snow Wind", and the filming of "Black Fist 2", although the director is not Shen Zhenghui, but Miyamoto who took over is also a cutting-edge director in Japan, not to mention that his assistant director is Yuan Xiangren and Lu Yang, the director of "Slaying the Wolf", Obviously, this director combination must be temporary. Many people ponder that Kasuga is likely to put three people together to gain experience, and then split them up to let them fight alone, which can be regarded as cultivating their own directors, so it seems that Haruhi is very confident to grow and develop in the industry. Not to mention that this year's annual drama "Infernal Affairs" has investment in Haruga, and the sequel Kasuga, which is expected to be popular, also has investment.

Many filmmakers beat their chests and sighed, sighing that they don't have a good vision like Shen Zhenghui to invest in such a promising movie?

Immediately afterwards, Kasuga officially announced Shen Zhenghui's new film plan, in 2002, Shen Zhenghui will make a large-scale Zuò movie, but did not disclose more details. But this is enough to attract attention, and many insiders, bigwig-level figures, began to take the initiative to inquire about what the film is going to shoot, what actors are needed, how it is going to be released, and so on. Many well-informed people swear that Shen Zhenghui is also about to step into Hollywood, and he will not turn a blind eye to Zhou Xingxing stealing his limelight, but in fact, Shen Zhenghui was more favored by Hollywood before this, Hollywood felt that he was closer to Hollywood's aesthetics in the theme of action movies, and well-informed sources revealed that before this, Colombia intended to invite Shen Zhenghui to shoot an action movie, but Shen Zhenghui had just finished filming "Black Fist", and he didn't have the heart to repeat himself for the time being, so he gave this opportunity to Zhou Xingxing.

The rumors have noses and eyes, as if they are true, even Shen Zhenghui himself was embarrassed to come out to refute the rumors, and soon he was surrounded by more troubles, all those who have a way want to inquire about the type of his new film, want to know what type of hero and heroine he wants to use, if the protagonist is decided, then whether the supporting role is still needed.

Not limited to Japan and Hong Kong, Shen Xingguo and Liang Kexiu in the mainland are also trying to find ways to get in touch, and even South Korea, the newly established partners are not shy to try to promote Korean female stars to director Shen Zhenghui, and now is the time when Kim Hee Shan and An are booming, of course, "Blue Life and Death Love" and "My Savage Girlfriend" are also popular, so Koreans are ashamed to say that Korean female stars are the best Smecta.

What Shen Zhenghui cares about is that he can finally be freed from the tedious corporate work, and after this period of physical and mental torture, he finally found that the hard filming is sometimes a kind of rest. (To be continued......)