Chapter 177: Wang Lei's net worth increased again

The premiere of "Prison Fighter" at the Ganges Cinema in San Francisco was an unprecedented success. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fighting movements designed by Wang Lei himself, the true performance of boxing champion Tyson, and Shange Yunton's dazzling aerial leg method all stunned and fascinated thousands of spectators at the scene.

After watching the movie, many viewers immediately declared to the media reporters who interviewed him: This is the best-looking and most exciting kung fu action movie they have ever seen!

Li Guoyan was obviously shocked by this action movie, and even felt that the few action movies he had acted in before were all ****, and the action design was not of the same grade at all.

So Li Guoyan became interested in cooperating with Wang Lei, and also agreed to go to Netflix to play the kung fu hero "Shangqi" created by Marvel based on his father.

Wang Lei naturally didn't need to worry about referees and custom performance contracts, Wang Lei gave Zhou Yuqiang's phone number to Lisa and asked Lisa to talk to Zhou Yuqiang.

After being interviewed by media reporters, Wang Lei invited Li Guozhi to Lisa, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Tyson and Shange Winton to his parents' restaurant for a sumptuous Chinese meal.

Shang Ge Yunton was embarrassed to see Wang Lei's father, and apologized sincerely.

Wang Lei's father naturally didn't care about him, and he probably didn't remember Shang Ge Yunton!

At the dinner table, Wang Lei and Tom Bruce and others talked about his Netflix company, talked about the Marvel superhero characters he acquired and the concept of the "Marvel Universe" that will be created, and then talked about "Friends", which achieved hot ratings last year.

Since the first season of "Friends" was launched at the end of September last year, the ratings have been rising, and the number of viewers in the first few episodes has exceeded 15 million to 25 million, which is even more popular than in previous lives.

This is due to the hype methods that Wang Lei learned from his previous life, coupled with the fact that "Friends" was released five years earlier than in his previous life, there are not many sitcoms on major radio stations in the United States, and there is only one sitcom released at the same time, "Seinfeld", which led to a surge in ratings and gained countless fans.

Even the women in front of them, including the Zhou sisters, are fans of "Friends".

The second season of "Friends" has been released on September 20 this year. The first episode received 28 million viewers, and it is possible to reach an average of about 30 million viewers by the end of the second season.

Wang Lei vaguely remembered that in his previous life, the second season of "Friends" seemed to have two episodes that were broadcast continuously after the Super Bowl in the United States, and the result was more than 50 million viewers, a little more than the number of viewers in the finale.

I think of Bruce Willis and Shang Gwenton in their previous lives, both of whom had made cameo appearances in "Friends". Wang Lei immediately invited everyone to make a cameo.

Nowadays, few Hollywood movie stars may refuse Wang Lei's invitation, not to mention that Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis have a good relationship with Wang Lei, and they all nodded and agreed when they heard the rumors, including Li Guozhi.

It's just that it doesn't take much time to make a cameo appearance in a sitcom that is only twenty minutes long, not to mention that this is still a very popular sitcom, and there is definitely no harm in being able to brush your face in it.

Even Tyson patted his chest and said as long as he wasn't in the game. He was always available.

Seeing that Tyson was so interested, Wang Lei was even considering whether to bring Bill, Drexter, and even Michael Jordan to make cameos.

The meal made everyone happy, and they were very satisfied with the Chinese food cooked by Wang Lei's father, and they ran to the kitchen to thank Wang Lei's father, and Tom Hanks and his wife even said that they would eat Chinese food often in the future.

Wang Lei's father responded politely, his expression lukewarm.

Wang Lei, who has long been accustomed to his father's attitude, is not disappointed, he even thinks that even if the president of the United States comes to the restaurant to eat, his father will have such a lukewarm expression.

After sending off Li Guozhi and Tom Hanks and others, Wang Lei resumed his "daily" life of going to school, training and enhancing Zhou Yuwei's relationship every day.

Before I knew it, it was the end of November. Throughout November, Wang Lei's life was peaceful.

There is no boxing match, but Wang Lei is constantly reaping his honors in the film and television industry.

A month after its release, the box office exceeded $140 million in North America and $350 million worldwide.

It is much higher than Wang Lei's estimated box office, but compared with the box office of "Home Alone" and "The Sixth Sense", it is much worse, and it is not even as good as the "Batman" produced by Warner and directed by Tim Burton last year.

But Wang Lei was already satisfied.

After all, this is a kung fu action movie, and the cost is 40 million US dollars on the surface, but in fact it costs less than 30 million. And $10 million is Tyson's salary.

Importantly, this film is the world's highest-grossing kung fu action film, not only breaking the box office record of Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" in the 70s, but also the martial arts kung fu film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Li Yu ten years later.

Tyson was also satisfied. even called Wang Lei to ask when the sequel would be filmed.

It's just a pity that the sequel to "Black Prison Fighters" has nothing to do with Tyson, and the starring role will be Shange Winton.

And Wang Lei won't direct anymore.

In addition to "Boxers in Prison", the second season of "Friends" produced by Netflix has aired eleven episodes, and the tenth and eleventh episodes have risen to 39 million viewers because of cameos by Bruce Willis and Tom Hanks. It's just one million short of breaking 40 million.

In addition to the second season of "Friends", the first season of "Daredevil" produced by Netflix has also been released.

Although it did not release thirteen episodes in one go like in the previous life, this "Daredevil" starring Linu Kiewis was still a great hit, not to mention the super high reputation, and the number of viewers also exceeded 20 million.

is different from the first season of "Daredevil" produced by Netflix in the previous life, this "Daredevil" with Wang Lei providing the script outline and more than a dozen excellent screenwriters perfecting it in addition to Jin Ju, there is also a kung fu master played by Li Guoyi.

Although he only made a cameo appearance in a few episodes, the extremely sharp fighting moves and super skills like his father Bruce Lee still surprised the audience.

The action director is Wang Lei asked Netflix to specially invite the martial arts from Xiangjiang.

This martial finger is the younger brother of Yuan Baye, the first martial artist in the world.

After discussing with Wang Lei, he clearly grasped Wang Lei's thoughts, and designed different styles of fights for Lawyer Ma, Jin Ji and Shangqi respectively, so that Wang Lei felt like he was watching Xiangjiang kung fu action TV series, such as "Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen" and "Jingwumen".

It is probably the first time that American audiences have seen such a wonderful and exciting TV series with fights, all of them are enthusiastic and their hormones are rising, resulting in "Daredevil" gaining a large number of die-hard fans after only a few episodes have been broadcast.

At the same time, it also drove the comic book sales of Marvel's "Daredevil"!

Wang Lei also learned from Marvel in his previous life, and buried several easter eggs in the "Daredevil" series to prepare for next year's broadcast of "Spider-Man", "Jessica Jones" and "X-Men".

Because of the big sales of "Friends" and "Daredevil", Netflix has received a lot of advertising offers, and coupled with the upcoming videotapes, Netflix has begun to make profits for Wang Lei.

Wang Lei's net worth began to increase again, and Zhou Yuqiang calculated for him that if Netflix's video tape rental market is fully rolled out next year, and "Spider-Man", "Jessica Jones" and "X-Men" are also successfully released, and the harvest is not inferior to the reputation and viewership of "Daredevil", Wang Lei can get a minimum of $100 million a year by relying on Netflix alone.

And this number will continue to climb every year.

Wang Lei talked to Zhou Yuqiang about the "future" of the Internet, and Zhou Yuqiang said that if the future Internet really develops as Wang Lei predicted, the total value of Netflix in 20 years may exceed 30 billion US dollars, and if it goes public, it will be more.

Wang Lei thinks that Zhou Yuqiang is thinking too conservatively!

The Netflix company he planned was a little different from his previous life, and he didn't just make money by subscribing to and renting DVD movies online, Wang Lei also planned to wait for the rise of the Internet in a few years to get an online video site similar to Youtu and Tudou.

Twenty years later, if Netflix develops as he planned, and is linked to the Internet and online paid video, its market value will definitely exceed hundreds of billions of dollars.

At that time, he will be able to retire safely, and he can live a good life like an emperor without doing anything!

As for "counting money until you have cramps", Wang Lei said that he would not do such a childish thing.

In December, Abraham Ali, who punched Chen Jun into a vegetative state and caused the biggest tragedy in professional boxing this year, took the stage again.

Abraham's defending opponent this time is a Canadian fighter with a good record of 18-0 and 17 knockouts in 18 fights.

Wang Lei watched the Canadian fighter's previous fight videos and found that his strength was much stronger than Chen Jun's, and his physique was much stronger.

It stands to reason that even if the Canadian fighter loses to Abraham, he will at least be able to fight Abraham for eight or nine rounds.

But the actual result of the game was Wang Lei's big frown.

I don't know if the Canadian fighter was frightened by Abraham's "murderous name" and fought a little timidly, but he was still knocked out by Abraham with a heavy punch in less than a round.

Probably because of Chen Jun's tragedy, the referee was afraid that the Canadian fighter would also follow in Chen Jun's footsteps, so as soon as he saw Abraham knock down his opponent, he immediately rushed up to block Abraham and prevent him from attacking his opponent again.

And after the referee blocked Abraham, he didn't even look to see if the Canadian fighter could fight again, so he decisively waved his arm to announce the end of the fight.

Wang Lei keenly felt that something was wrong with this game.

It's as if he suddenly had an inspiration when he was writing, but he couldn't grasp it, although he instinctively felt that there was something wrong with this match between Abraham and the Canadian fighter, but he didn't know what it was?

So, Wang Lei called Arum to help get all the video footage of Abraham Ali's game. (To be continued.) )

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