In the Asian market, the most important market for Hollywood is the Japanese market now, and the most important market in the future is the Chinese market.

The Japanese market is now the world's second largest film market, while the Chinese market is the world's fastest-growing market.

And Wu Yuan is undoubtedly the director with the most influence in the two markets of Japan and South Korea among the directors on the current Hollywood side.

Coincidentally, Cheng Long is also the most influential Hollywood actor in the two markets of Japan and South Korea!

Yes, Cheng Long also has a lot of influence in Japan.

Before Wu Yuan, the holder of the Chinese box office record in Japan was Cheng Long.

Cheng Long's martial arts films in the 90s did well at the box office in the Japanese market, and there were a lot of people watching them!

Roald has to look forward to the Asian box office of "Rush Hour 3"!

Wu Yuan + Cheng Long, there has never been such a wonderful start!

“Daniel，Go go go！” Early the next morning, Roald knocked on Wu Yuan's hotel door and couldn't wait to pull him up, "Come on, it's time for us to start work!" ”

After taking two consecutive leave, Wu Yuan can finally honestly shoot "Rush Hour 3".

In the following days in Mexico, he worked hard every day, and the crew was almost running-in, and the overall shooting was constantly speeding up.

Originally, it was scheduled to take a month and a half to shoot in Mexico, but Wu Yuan only took a month to get it done.

At the beginning of February 2006, the crew of "Rush Hour 3" completed a large number of scenes in Mexico, and also rescued the president's daughter, and the crew moved to Washington again.

Filming in Washington was very simple, just doing some filming in some places in the White House that could be open to tourists, and it took three to five days to shoot.

The plot of the movie that really involves the "president's office" was filmed in the Los Angeles studio, and the real White House did not let the film crew go in to shoot.

Just like Zhongnanhai, it is impossible to let the film crew go in for filming.

After spending three or five days filming the finishing plot on Washington's side, the filming of "Rush Hour 3" is basically completed.

Action movies, filming is actually so simple, there is no complexity in the plot, and there are no high requirements for acting skills.

The difficulty of filming depends entirely on whether the actors shoot smoothly or not.

With the family class and Cheng Long, Wu Yuan naturally doesn't need to worry about the drama part of "Rush Hour 3", and the filming was completed quite easily.

This time "Rush Hour 3", Wu Yuan has the editing rights, but he has no intention of editing the movie himself.

The specific post-production work was still handed over to the new line, and he only needed to check the final effect of the finished film and give some editing modifications.

For Wu Yuan, after the filming of Washington's plot, he can be regarded as "finished".

has been busy for more than a year and a half, and since the filming of "Love" in the summer of the previous year, Wu Yuan, who had a break of two or three months in between, had to give himself a vacation.

However, a holiday does not mean that you have to return home.

Bidding farewell to the crew, Wu Yuan returned to Los Angeles alone.

It's not that he dealt with work in the Huiguang era, and he didn't pay attention to John at all, after Wu Yuan returned to Los Angeles, he went back to his mansion as soon as possible, resting while waiting for his little girlfriend.

Yes, Liu Yifei is coming to the United States to reunite with him.

Now that China is in the Spring Festival holiday, although the atmosphere of the Spring Festival in Tokyo is not strong, Liu Yifei's mother and daughter still have to celebrate the Spring Festival, and their reserved item for the Spring Festival every year is to visit relatives.

I will go back to my hometown to see my grandmother first, and then I will come to Los Angeles to meet my aunt.

Wu Yuan was filming in the Caribbean during the Spring Festival last year, but he missed Liu Yifei coming to Los Angeles, and he won't miss it this year.

On February 16, 2006, Wu Yuan called Daisy early in the morning and drove to Los Angeles International Airport.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, he finally picked up his little girlfriend and prospective mother-in-law at the pick-up gate.

Looking at the mother and daughter wearing sunglasses, as if carved out of a mold, Wu Yuan had a warm smile on his face.

"Sissi, Auntie, you're here."

"I'm tired of taking the flight for so long, let's go, go back and rest for a while."

took Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli out of the airport, and as soon as they got in the car, Liu Yifei chattered with Wu Yuan and shared their daily life.

"Senior brother, when we boarded the plane in the capital, there were a lot of fans who came to see me off!"

"Mom also left the contact information of a few fans, and they can contact their mother directly if they have something in the future."

Sitting in the back row, holding Wu Yuan's arm, Liu Yifei had a smile on his face, and kept honking his mouth, chatting from China to Tokyo, from life to movies.

"Senior brother, your "Painted Skin" box office is so high!"

"The mainland box office was 230 million, the Hong Kong Island box office was 40 million Hong Kong dollars, Japan also sold 5.6 billion yen, and even South Korea mobilized more than 4 million people to watch."

The release of Painted Skin in Asia has basically come to an end.

It's a pity that in the end, the mainland box office of "Painted Skin" still did not break the record of "Hero", and it was fixed at 230 million yuan.

The number of cinemas in the mainland this year is still not enough, and without the influence of the Ministry of Culture, it is still a little difficult for the box office of "Painted Skin" to break 250 million.

After all, in the same period, "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles" and "The Great Sage of Love", as well as "King Kong" and "Huo Yuanjia" released later, shared a lot of films.

This is different from the situation when "Hero" monopolized all the scheduled films.

However, the box office performance of "Painted Skin" in Asian countries is much better than that of "Hero".

The current yen is still relatively valuable, 100 yen can be exchanged for more than 7 yuan, and the box office of 5.5 billion yen is equivalent to nearly 450 million yuan.

In addition, more than 4 million moviegoers in South Korea also brought a box office of about 200 million yuan, as well as a box office of 10 million US dollars contributed by Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

"Painted Skin" was released in six East Asian countries and received a total of almost 1 billion yuan at the box office.

This result is nearly half less than "Your Name", mainly behind the box office in the Japanese market.

This box office performance is certainly not bad, but considering the cost, the obvious level of profitability cannot be compared with "Your Name" at all.

In fact, this is the limitation of Chinese blockbusters.

After all, Huaxia movies are not like Hollywood movies, which have a global market to make money.

For Chinese-language films, the more expensive the investment cost of the film, the more difficult it is to make a profit.

Even when the Chinese film industry is at its most prosperous and the market is the largest, the profit ratio of "The Wandering Earth" cannot be compared with comedy movies like the "Embarrassment" series.

This is also why the later Chinese film market is more and more fond of making comedy movies.

Comedy movies perform well at the box office and have low investment, which is the easiest theme to make money!

The second is romance films, which are also cheap in investment, and are prone to dark horses and blockbuster movies.

can make comedies and romance films and make a lot of money, why bother to make blockbusters with science fiction, magic, fantasy, costumes, and war themes?

Only big directors and top directors have the ambition to make this kind of blockbuster.

Precisely, Wu Yuan is this kind of director, even if he knows that he does sci-fi and fantasy-themed blockbusters, he must not make comedies and romance films to make money, but Wu Yuan still wants to make more blockbusters in China, especially themes that have not appeared in Chinese movies before!

If you want to make money, he is in the light era of Hollywood, and most of them are small-budget comedy movies and R-rated films, all of which make hundreds of millions of dollars!

In China, he wants to try to bring more novel, high-level, and high-investment visual blockbusters to Chinese audiences!

even arrogantly said that he wanted to teach Chinese filmmakers how to make movies and how to make blockbusters!

With great power comes great responsibility!

As the only director in China who has developed in Hollywood, and the only director who has been exposed to Hollywood's blockbusters, he has the obligation to lead Chinese films to catch up with Hollywood and develop and expand the mainland film industry!

"The box office of "Painted Skin" has basically met expectations." Wu Yuan said to Liu Yifei easily: "When Han Dong led the team to the Toronto Film Festival before, he also sold a lot of the distribution rights of "Painted Skin". ”

"It's just a matter of time before the North American release is pending."

"Fox is willing to help with the release of "Painted Skin", but the specific release time is still being discussed."

Speaking of this, Wu Yuan was also a little proud.

Unlike the dilemma that the North American distribution rights of other Chinese films can only be bought out at a low price, Wu Yuan can still eat in North America.

At least he won't be bullied by Harvey Weinstein, an old liar and an old whore.

It's just that the specific release time has to be arranged slowly.

"Hero" dragged on for more than a year before it was released in North America.

"Painted Skin", a movie that is not considered a traditional Chinese kung fu film, Fox also made great efforts to release "Painted Skin" for the sake of the director Wu Yuan.

In Fox's internal review, the box office of "Painted Skin" in North America is estimated to be only two or three million US dollars, and most of them have to rely on Wu Yuan's fame to attract audiences to the cinema.

Reaching out and pinching Liu Yifei's nose dotingly, Wu Yuan said with a smile: "The company has basically decided that "Painted Skin" will definitely be a sequel. ”

"When the time comes, you will also play a role in the sequel, the heroine will most likely not be replaced, but an important supporting actress will be added to it at that time."

"And I'm here at Hollywood, and I've collaborated with New Line on a new series of film projects, and there is also an important supporting actress in the first part, so you can play it then."

"You don't have a suitable script in the mainland for the time being, but you can come to Hollywood to play some supporting roles first, and be familiar in front of the North American audience."

Liu Xiaoli, who had been sitting quietly in the co-pilot, opened her mouth when she heard Wu Yuan's words, but she still wanted to speak and stopped.

She didn't want Liu Yifei to play a supporting role in mainland movies.

After all, she is now the second-highest grossing actress in the mainland, second only to the international chapter, how can she match other actresses?

But Wu Yuan then said that he would bring Liu Yifei to come to the dock to gild, and Liu Xiaoli immediately swallowed the words back.

Since Wu Yuan is going to bring Liu Yifei to come to the dock to mix, then there is nothing to appear in "Painted Skin 2", there is no shame in playing a supporting role in Wu Yuan's movie, it should be an honor!

"Sissi, we still have to listen to Director Wu's suggestions." Liu Xiaoli squeezed out a smile on her face and looked at Wu Yuan, "Director Wu, Qianqian's film career plan, you just look at the arrangement, your vision and professionalism in this regard must be stronger than mine." ”

Wu Yuan smiled, "Aunt Liu, you can just call me Xiao Wu or Xiao Yuan, don't take a bite of Director Wu." ”

"After all, my relationship with Sissi is different now."

Looking at the sweet smile in the rearview mirror, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei glanced at each other, and Liu Xiaoli's back molars were about to be crushed.

Attaboy!

It's okay to arch my cabbage, and I'm so arrogant, it's not empty at all, right?

It's so angry! But keep smiling.

Liu Xiaoli nodded her head with a stiff smile, turned her head, and looked out the window.

"How long will it take?"

"I'm tired."

In order to better serve her employer, Daisy, who has been studying Chinese privately for a year, replied in broken Chinese: "It'll be there in half an hour, ma'am." ”

With a wave of her hand, Liu Xiaoli leaned on the back of the chair weakly.

She had a hunch that she might not be very happy on this trip to Los Angeles.

Looking at the rearview mirror, in the back row, both hands were clasping Wu Yuan's arms, half of his body was hanging on Wu Yuan's body, and Liu Yifei, who was so sticky that he couldn't do it, Liu Xiaoli had a burst of complicated emotions in her heart.

She used to hang on herself like this.

Aggrieved, helpless, and some want to cry.

The little cabbage that has been raised by her family for 18 years is no longer on her mother.

(End of chapter)