"Bring me a cup of strong coffee, no added sugar. Give me another hot dog with more ketchup......

After work, Lewis left the company and walked straight into a fast food restaurant not far from the company, feeling hungry, he was ready to order a dinner for a simple meal. He has just been divorced and now lives alone, because he has no children with his ex-wife, and it is easy to live alone without family ties. For example, he is now, after work, he either drives out of the city for a ride, or goes to the cinema to buy tickets to watch two movies, or swims in the civic pool for an hour, and occasionally catches a beautiful girl with a hot body for a one-night stand.

As for the hellish marriage, maybe after another three or two years, he will reconsider.

"Okay, please wait......"

The waiter was very quick and quickly delivered what he ordered.

"Oh, Xie Lu, Xie ......"

Taking a big sip of strong coffee, the bitterness stimulated his taste buds, making him feel that the tomato sauce was even more delicious after taking a big bite of the hot dog. This is what a friend Lewis taught him to eat fast food when he was in college, and I have to say that this combination may not be used to it at first, but once you get used to it, it tastes really good.

Lewis was eating a hot dog with relish, when he suddenly heard a young couple talking not far away: "...... I don't want to go shopping today, let's go to the theater and watch a movie

"Huh? But it's the off-season, and since last month's "The Silence of the Lambs," the newspapers say that there is no ...... for a good movie now."

"Didn't Lena just say that there is a very good Asian movie, go see it......"

"What's so good about Asian movies, the picture alone is terrible...... Okay, okay, I'm all up to you...

Taking the conversation between the two into his ears, Lewis's heart moved. He is not an avid movie lover, but San Jose is too close to Hollywood, the film capital of the United States, to avoid being affected, and although his work is not heavy, he rarely has a long vacation, which allows him to travel to Hawaii or Europe and Australia, and watching a movie after work is undoubtedly a good way for him to relax.

Glancing at the time on his wrist, it felt that it was still very early, Lewis ate the hot dog in three or five bites, thought about it and felt a little dissatisfied, and then ordered another one and took a small bucket of popcorn and a large glass of Coke by the way, and then left the fast food restaurant and drove to a movie theater not far away.

“…… What kind of movie tickets do I need? ”

The conductor is a black woman, and San Jose, not only close to Los Angeles but also close to Silicon Valley, is home to too many high-income, early-leaver American elites, so this average movie theater not far from Lewis's location has six screens, which is medium-to-large.

Not far from the "Take a Look at ......" ticket counter, there was a special space covered with promotional posters of various movies being released, and he walked over to look at it for a while, not only disappointed.

"Big Crocodile" is obviously a thriller that follows "Jaws", not his thing. He just watched "Bald Detective" four days ago, and "Blood Dragon" made him doze off for half of the time, and the reviews of "Hollywood Doctor" are not very good, and it is not his favorite type. After watching it in the publicity area for a while, Lewis couldn't help but be a little disappointed, as the two couples said just now, there are no good movies recently.

"Why, haven't you chosen yet?"

The black woman frowned when she saw him standing there, and asked with a smile.

Lewis shrugged, "It's the hellish off-season, either you've seen it or you're not interested." Why don't you recommend one to me......"

"What type do you like, guest ......?"

"Cool enough, cool enough...... Let me think about it, are there any more exciting action movies lately? ”

"Oh, try this movie from Asia - Red Alert, a supposedly good spy movie, made by Hong Kongers. A few guests just said that it was good, it seems that Asians also make movies...... I'll see, what a coincidence you're here, there's going to be another screening in eleven minutes, do you want to have one......"

Her recommendation made Lewis's heart move, and he remembered that there was a group of couples in a fast-food restaurant who said that there was an Asian movie that was made well. I immediately paid for one, and the ticket price of less than six dollars is really nothing for him with a monthly salary of nearly 10,000 yuan, and he can still afford such a cheap pastime.

After taking the ticket from the conductor and passing through the ticket inspector's check, Lewis found a random seat and sat down. Unlike Hong Kong, where the attendance rate will be full, the United States, which is now in the most prosperous period of the film industry, has more than 6,000 large and small theaters, not counting some hard-to-count drive-in theaters and private modified theaters.

Lewis has a good seat, but he doesn't need to be replaced. Finding his seat at the front and sitting down, he glanced around the theater, somewhat surprised. With an attendance rate of nearly 30 percent, it would not be much if it were a film from Europe, but it would be surprising if a film from South America and Asia could achieve this result. Because in the United States, where the local culture has always been strong, South America and Asia are just their own processing factories and raw material production areas in the eyes of Americans, and the people live in dictatorship and poverty, how can they have the ability and talent to make any good movies.

“…… I love this movie, and when I saw the media say it was a big hit in Europe, I was skeptical, but I still bought a ticket to watch it in the morning, which is good......"

The movie hasn't been shown yet, and the screening room is full of couples flirting or talking, many of whom have already seen it before and are recommending it to the people next to them. Out of curiosity, Lewis also pricked up his ears to listen to the sounds of conversation coming from all around.

The wait of a few minutes was not too long, and soon a projectionist came out to remind him that the screening was coming, and then the lights in the hall dimmed, and the screen quickly lit up.

At first, Lewis was worried that he would spend a few dollars to buy a movie ticket and see a bad movie that would make him want to vomit. After all, because of cultural differences, many movies that are popular in Asia have been released in Europe and the United States, and audiences have not bought them, and those with a box office of less than $100,000 have appeared.

However, at the beginning of the movie, he put this worry back and watched the movie quietly. The picture quality is not as bad as expected, although the delicacy and lighting are slightly inferior to Hollywood blockbusters, but it is also within the acceptable range. As the plot of the film unfolds, Lewis soon completely puts away his contempt for Asian films and begins to be truly attracted to the movie.

"It's unbelievable that Hong Kong people actually made a movie about CIAf agents......"

"Red Alert" I thought it was another movie similar to "Hunting Red October", but I didn't expect the title of this movie to be a plan......"

"The drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the collapse of the Warsaw bloc, and the collapse of the Soviet Union turned out to be our allies of the United States and NATO, who were operating behind the scenes......"

"Cool, Chinese is so good at filming, it reminds me of Bruce Lee......"

"The future belongs to the United States, that senior Chinese-American CIA official said it so well......"

“…… I've long thought the CIA was too secretive, and I've heard that it's in charge of all of our U.S. foreign intelligence, and that there are tens of thousands of employees and agents alone......"

"Cool, Accident is a good movie......"

In the midst of the uproar, many Americans, including Lewis, unexpectedly discovered that this movie, which they originally just bought tickets to watch out of curiosity, was unexpectedly a good movie that was not much worse than a Hollywood blockbuster.

Obviously, they are not the only ones who have discovered this, many American media have discovered this.

Movie Weekly: "...... When my old friend Robis recommended that I go to see it, I was surprised and asked him, do Hong Kong people make movies? In addition to being good at violent fights and shootouts, most of the movies I've seen have terrible plots, full of loopholes and inconsistencies in the settings are commonplace, and insisting on mixing their sense of humor with some very serious plots is, in my opinion, the biggest flaw in Hong Kong movies. So, I approached the cinema with a bit of reluctance. But to my surprise, this movie, called Red Alert, was unexpectedly a good movie. The plot is unexpectedly based on our American CIAf agents, and the screenwriter and director have made a wonderful movie through rich imagination. All I can say is that this is one of the best spy movies I've seen in recent years, and it's a little regrettable that the Chinese faces make me a little unaccustomed to watching Hollywood movies......"

The Los Angeles Times also gave a rating that was not low: "...... A wonderful Asian film, excellent conspiracy theories that are addictive, rigorous plot and addictive fight design, Hong Kong deserves the name of 'Oriental Hollywood, and has a very accurate grasp of commercial films, which is a successful commercial film

Although the New York Times, which has a great influence in the United States, is not optimistic about it," ...... Creatively, it is obvious that Hong Kong people are trying to imitate our American movies, and even the storyline is set to be related to the United States. It is said that it did unexpectedly well at the box office in Europe, but I can only say that it was a coincidence that it collided with the disintegration of Eastern European countries, relying on that untenable conspiracy theory to attract audiences to pay for it......"

However, Red Alert unexpectedly received a recommendation from influential independent film critic Edward Stade in the United States: "...... I've heard that it has grossed more than $60 million in Europe, and I'm betting it can make at least $30 million in North America. A very interesting movie, worth watching......

With a box office of $30 million, for those Hollywood blockbusters, the first-day box office may be more than that, but for most local small-budget films and overseas films, it is basically a success to get this box office.

Clearly, Red Alert shows this momentum. On its first day of release on April 1, it easily grossed $170,000 in North America, and that's only because it had only 7 theaters in the U.S. and 39 theaters in Canada. After Miramax discovered that Red Alert was well received, it immediately took the opportunity to launch a publicity offensive, contacting more than 700 theaters in just three days, and by the time it was released for a week, it had already had more than 16UU theaters in the United States and Canada.

"yes, the box office exceeded $5 million today, and it seems that we have really established ourselves in North America......

When he returned home after a day's filming, the tired Lin Xiaozhi had just taken a hot shower, and Li Jiaxin, the pillow person, took a piece of data that had just been faxed from the company and handed it to him. His gaze swept over the fax, and his spirit suddenly lifted, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Congratulations, Darling"

Li Jiaxin pulled him to sit down on the edge of the bed, took a towel from his hand to help him wipe his wet hair, and didn't forget to congratulate him with a smile.

"This is indeed good news...... Lin Xiaozhi raised his eyebrows, stimulated by this good news, and the fatigue of filming a whole day of movies seemed to dissipate.

Before "Red Alert" landed in North America, he was still a little worried that the Yankees would not buy it. After all, it is not uncommon for movies to be acclaimed and acclaimed in Europe, and they are not unpopular in the United States. And "Red Alert" is adapted from "Mission Impossible", although the special effects and scenes are slightly inferior to the movie in his memory, but he also spent a lot of thought on the plot and fighting scenes, which can be regarded as having their own advantages. But the final box office in Europe was much worse than the original work, and when it landed in North America this time, the passing mark in his heart was also lowered to around $30 million.

Today is the sixth day of Red Alert's release in North America, and its total box office in North America has reached $1.79 million in six days of release, and at the current pace, it is not too difficult for it to exceed $40 million at the end of its North American release. A pure Hong Kong film from investment to director to crew to actors, all from Hong Kong, can achieve a box office of more than 100 million US dollars within the world, what does this mean Lin Xiaozhi knows very well. Once they really did it, Golden Harvest, who could still have tried to compete with Media Asia for the leading position in the Hong Kong film industry by investing in the big sale of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", had to temporarily bow his head in front of him Lin Xiaozhi

A 'Made in the United States' without any Hong Kong genes except for investment, a movie that comes from Hong Kong from head to toe, this battle for hegemony between Golden Harvest and their Asia for the time being, it seems that he Lin Xiaozhi is a chess player, beating Zou Minhuai.

As for the future, it is definitely impossible for him to give Zou Minhuai and Jiahe the opportunity to overtake.

"Once the news is announced tomorrow, I believe that the stock price of Media Asia will still climb up again......" Meimei thought, he read the contents of the fax paper carefully again, and then solemnly put it on the bedside table.

Since "Red Alert" has sold the rights to European video tapes for more than $5 million, and at the same time after the news of the box office in Japan and South Korea came to Hong Kong, since the end of March, the stock price of Media Asia has been like eating hormones, frantically impacting the Yuan, and is now approaching the meta line. A few days ago, the "Hong Kong Financial Daily" also reassessed his wealth according to the market value of the stock price, and has now raised his worth to a height of 4.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. No one will be disgusted with money, and Lin Xiaozhi is the same, he still wishes that his wealth could be more. He even wished that Media Asia would finally be worth tens of billions of dollars like Warner Bros. before he was reborn.

This time, "Red Alert" suddenly bucked the trend in North America, although it was affected by the European box office to a certain extent. But it is also related to the fact that North America is in the off-season at this time, and there are no powerful blockbusters released. Not to mention farther, the "Terminator" that the world is looking forward to now, if the films that are being filmed such as "Captain Hook" and "Toy Condor" are scheduled to be released at the same time in April, the box office of "Red Alert" may not be so lucky.

However, the box office of 1.79L US dollars in six days of release is both lucky and unfortunate for "Red Alert", saying that it is unfortunate because the box office statistics of North America and Hong Kong are slightly deviated, it landed in North America on Wednesday, April 1, and it was screened in North America in six days according to the North American algorithm in six days, and the box office was counted in the two weeks before and after, and the result was less than 5 million box office, and it could only barely squeeze into the eighth place in a single week in the United States last week, which can only be said to be a not too conspicuous position.

However, Lin Xiaozhi is not the kind of person who is not greedy enough, the success of "Red Alert" in North America has undoubtedly made him more confident, with such a good start, when his next movie "Resident Evil" comes out, he may be able to go further in North America.

Affected by the North American box office hit of "Red Alert", Lin Xiaozhi has been in a good mood in the next few days, even if there are some problems during the filming of the new movie, he will most likely patiently help analyze what went wrong, and even in the free time and rest time of shooting, he personally combined experience to guide those artists who did not have much acting skills, and the number of NGs began to decrease for a while.

"Good, t"

Lin Xiaozhi called out, and the scene notes were quickly recorded, and after half a month of start-up, all the scenes of the second act were finally filmed.

Hearing the sound of the board, Zhang Yimou peeked out from behind the camera, and saw Lin Xiaozhi giving him a thumbs up, "Lao Zhang, you just grasped the lens very well, thank you for your hard work." The second act is now finished, everyone has a twenty-minute break, and we will start filming the third act later......"

"Good guy, director"

Zhang Yimou had some personal relations with him before, and after this period of cooperation, he quickly figured out his character, and realized that he was different from most arrogant Hong Kong filmmakers, and he was also used to his 'Lao Zhang, title.