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Chapter 289: The Sword Refers to North America. "The Hangover" officially began its large-scale release in Southeast Asia, which naturally attracted everyone's attention. Especially the Chinese fans who are now full of resentment, they are looking forward to the stars and the moon...... Especially after they learned that the movie had been released in Vietnam and Thailand, but there was no news that it had been released in the mainland, they were even more excited.

And the release of "The Hangover" in these countries did not live up to everyone's expectations, and it immediately beat many local films in these countries, and even beat many Hollywood blockbusters...... Sure enough, vulgarity is really common, and everyone may really have the seeds of vulgarity buried in their hearts.

At the same time, Luo Mo's popularity in these countries is also getting higher and higher, Li Weiping and Xu Zheng's popularity is also getting higher and higher, Li Weiping is more and more named "Asia's funniest fat man" by everyone, which is a flattering thing for him, but he didn't expect Luo Mo to really bring him so many things.

Luo Mo has become the only one among the young generation of Chinese movie stars who can spread his influence to Southeast Asia and East Asia, and has such popularity as he is now......

Of course, his popularity in these regions cannot be compared with Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, and Stephen Chow, but it is really surprising that he has worked hard to achieve such a big popularity in these countries at such a young age and from scratch...... There are also people who think that these Chinese stars are the beginning of regaining their influence throughout Asia, but many years later, everyone has confirmed that this view is correct and incorrect, and the correct thing is that Luo Mo did slowly rush out of the country with many Chinese stars after that, which is not correct...... Ten years later, no Chinese star can reach even one-fifth of Luo Mo's influence in Asia and even in the world.

In the first week of its large-scale release in Southeast Asia, "The Hangover" won the weekly box office champion in many countries, and in the second week of its release, "The Hangover" won the weekly box office champion in almost all countries released in Southeast Asia......

The large-scale release of "The Hangover" in Southeast Asia also triggered the second wave of box office surge of the film, and also attracted the attention of Chinese audiences. And this movie is also constantly breaking the box office records of some Chinese-language films in these countries, and even their own box office records.

The "Hangover" has been running for more than two months in Southeast Asia, with the longest of these countries being released in Singapore and 41 days in the Philippines.

In the end, "The Hangover" won $890,000 in Indonesia, $1.87 million in Malaysia, $370,000 in 41 days in the Philippines and $2.83 million in 76 days in Singapore, breaking the box office record for a Singaporean Chinese film held by "Kung Fu" in Singapore and becoming the fourth highest grossing box office in Singapore in 2009. After $1.56 million in Thailand and $1.27 million in Vietnam, "The Hangover" finally grossed $8.9 million in Southeast Asia, second only to the $9.05 million of the 2004 Chinese-language film "Kung Fu" and became the second highest grossing Chinese film in Southeast Asia......

In this way, after counting Southeast Asia, excluding Chinese mainland, "The Hangover" earned a total of $41 million at the box office in Asia...... This is equivalent to 2. A total box office of 800 million RMB! So far, the release of "The Hangover" in Asia has been a huge success, more than many of the first imaginations.

In these days, although "The Hangover" has not been released in Chinese mainland, the discussion about "The Hangover" has been very lively, and many major media are reporting on "The Hangover".

""The Hangover" became more and more courageous, winning the single-week championship in Japan and South Korea and becoming the first film in Chinese."

"The Hangover has a good reputation, and Japanese and Korean audiences think it's particularly funny."

"The Hangover" has broken movie box office records in many Southeast Asian countries, and the Southeast Asian box office may create a miracle."

"The Hangover" is a real box office success in Southeast Asia, and there are few miracles in creating Chinese-language films."

…… All kinds of voices are flooded with domestic voices, which also makes everyone urge a certain bureau to release "The Hangover" as soon as possible, and many people are already looking forward to this movie. It's just that there is no response from a certain bureau......

On April 8, 2009, Luo Mo was at home in Beijing.

By now, "The Hangover" has been a box office success in various parts of East and Southeast Asia, achieving an achievement that no one expected. At the beginning, "The Hangover" was not approved on the mainland side, and everyone secretly screamed in their hearts that it was over, thinking that "The Hangover" was going to be finished, after all, a Chinese-language movie has no mainland box office support, which is a very tragic thing to think about.

However, "The Hangover" launched a thrilling and shocking Jedi counterattack in such a situation, in places other than the mainland. This counterattack came too timely, so that the entire Chinese world was paying attention to this matter.

And now, "The Hangover" has begun to be released on a large scale throughout East and Southeast Asia, except for Chinese mainland and North Korea, and even now in Mongolia...... In the case of North Korea, they can't count on the box office, and in that evil country, "The Hangover" is definitely impossible to release......

In this case, interest in The Hangover has begun to emerge in many other places besides Asia, including the more sensitive American publishers.

In fact, after Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the North American box office successfully exceeded 100 million, Chinese filmmakers saw a hope of entering North America. Then, the North American box office of "Hero" exceeded 50 million, and "Ambush on All Sides", "Kung Fu" and "Huo Yuanjia" successively exceeded 10 million, which led to the boom of our costume films. Chinese films are not weak in North America, and 4 of the top 10 foreign language films on the North American list are Chinese films (you must know that there are so many countries in the world, and Chinese films occupy almost half of the country), but in recent years, after the box office fiasco of "Wuji", "Casting Names" and "Red Cliff", influential distributors in the United States have gradually alienated Chinese films......

Until now...... American publishers saw The Hangover.

The United States is a country of profit-heavy businessmen, and profitability is the driving force for their struggle, and many publishers also have a keen sense of smell. Before 06, it could be said that it was the honeymoon period between Chinese costume kung fu films and the United States, but after Li Lian's "Huo Yuanjia", Americans gradually began to lose the kind of love for Chinese kung fu films - a single genre has become a hard flaw for Chinese films in the United States. As for the good-looking kung fu elements in China...... Hollywood quickly learned - "The Matrix", "Kung Fu Panda", they learned that the cost of Chinese kung fu elements is very low, but Chinese movies can't learn their superb skills and the spirit of the movie.

Therefore, in this case, the influence of Chinese films in North America is also declining year by year......

"The Hangover", a film that is not a Chinese costume or a kung fu movie, has attracted the attention of American distributors after the fire in Southeast Asia and East Asia...... Because many of them have already seen the sample of "The Hangover...... Surprisingly, I found that this is a movie that seems to be Chinese, but I don't know what it is, but it always feels like an American movie...... No, it should be said that it is a universal film for any country.

The bad taste in this kind of movie can almost arouse the sense of identity of most human beings, and the fat man is enough to make the vast majority of people of the yellow, white and black races laugh.

A movie like Hairstyle has a risky place for North American distributors, but it also has the potential to reap very large returns - Chinese movies costume kung fu films are outdated, and if Chinese films want to regain the same impact on the world as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Kung Fu" in the years when they were popular, there must be something new, rather than blindly eating the old book.

So, "The Hangover" has come into their sights.

The box office hits of "The Hangover" in Southeast and East Asia catalyzed the film's attention to American businessmen, which was especially helpful when "The Hangover" was released in North America. Because Chinese movies are released in North America, the most taboo word is drag, such as Zhen Tsaidan's "Ip Man", which has a score of 8 on the authoritative American film review website IMBD. 1 point, but it was not delayed in its release, "Ip Man 2" has a better reputation, and Americans commented that it is "a vibrant, funny, and perfectly constructed work of art with various materials, whether it is shooting techniques, chivalrous tenderness and plot compilation, it presents a very high standard, and of course, Donnie Yen's unrivaled personal charm", "The film's martial arts instructor Sammo Hung undoubtedly has a wealth of experience, and all the fight scenes are designed and performed to be very enjoyable, obviously more strength comes from muscles than tightropes." ”…… As a result, such a movie, because it was delayed for a year, only grossed $200,000 at the end of the year......

And now, "The Hangover" is very likely to be released in the United States as soon as possible......

If it can really be released in the United States as soon as possible, then the box office of "The Hangover" should also have a competitive power.

However, publishers in the United States are still a little hesitant until now...... There's no way, they have really been pitted by Chinese movies in recent years, especially Bona, which is called a pit, buying out the North American rights of so many Chinese films, and the highest box office is only more than 200,000 US dollars......

So, there was a little bit of contact on the North American side, but more of a wait-and-see, but now it's a lot better than before, and they've at least begun to pay attention, and they've begun to think patiently about it and develop a strategy for The Hangover.

However, there is also a problem with this, that is, they are likely to want to buy out the copyright, which is also their consistent style of Chinese films, but what Luo Mo wants is a share of the North American box office...... Publicity Fee...... After the box office share comes into your own hands, you can give it out, in that case, the North American box office will hit the street, and if you don't hit the street, you will make money...... But this thing is really not easy to handle, so the negotiations are not too fast.

But there is better hope than no hope.