Let's turn back the clock a little bit.

On the morning of January 20, North American time, Cheng Long, who flew to Los Angeles from Hong Kong Island again, was chatting with Will Smith a little nervously.

"Jackie, is Daniel really not coming to the premiere?" Will Smith asked, a little unhappily.

"Yes." Cheng Long also sighed, "He is very busy in Huaxia, he is making a movie and supervising a movie, so he really can't spare time to come to North America." ”

This is just a fool of Will, whether it is Cheng Long or Xinxian knows that the reason why Wu Yuan did not come to the premiere is that he thinks that the series "Rush Hour" has little to do with him.

Even if he took over the third part, the fans of this movie are all coming for Cheng Long, and no one really cares who the director is.

The new line actually tried to use him and Cheng Long as the focus of publicity, promoting that "Rush Hour 3" would be the best Hollywood movie with the taste of Chinese kung fu movies.

However, fans don't care too much about this, they only care about Cheng Long or starring!

In this case, Wu Yuan naturally did not have to come to the United States specifically for the premiere of this movie.

"Oh, that's a shame, I'd like to talk to Daniel about my new movie."

Will Smith has been at the peak of his popularity in the past two years, and various film appointments have continued. In addition to "Rush Hour 3", he also has a "I Am Legend" to be released this year.

And last year, he also won the Best Actor title at many A-class film festivals with "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

For Will Smith, in the box office, he is already the ceiling among black actors, and he is the best black commercial actor in Hollywood.

But in terms of awards, he is really still lacking, neither the "Men in Black" series nor "Enemy of the Mechanical" can bring him awards.

After tasting the benefits of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", he now wants to act in some art films and win awards.

And Wu Yuan is one of the directors he knows with the highest artistic achievement, of course he wants to have more contact with Wu Yuan.

Unlike Will's regrets, Cheng Long has no regrets about Wu Yuan's absence from the premiere, and as the ceiling of Hollywood's Chinese actors, Cheng Long is destined to have a lot of intersections with Wu Yuan, the best Chinese director.

Next, he will play the role of Xiaofeng in "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", and he has the time and opportunity to contact Wu Yuan.

He smiled and comforted: "Will, it doesn't matter if Director Wu doesn't come, believe me, this movie will definitely be a big hit." ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon on January 20th, the premiere of "Rush Hour 3", which was quite lively, was successfully held in Los Angeles.

At the premiere, the invited critics and lucky viewers finally met the sequel to the series.

Different from the original "Rush Hour 3", the overall plot of "Rush Hour 3" adapted by Wu Yuan is more like "Hurricane Rescue" with added jokes, and the main line revolves around the story of Cheng Long and Will, the golden pair, who went to Mexico to rescue the president's daughter.

On the one hand, Wu Yuan fully trusted Cheng Long, allowing him to continue the usual action comedy style in "Baby Plan" and "Plan A", and on the other hand, he accelerated the pace of the movie and added more exciting fighting scenes and rescue scenes.

As a commercial movie, this Wu Yuan's version of "Rush Hour 3" is undoubtedly qualified, and it can't be said to be excellent, but it definitely reaches the level of "Hurricane Rescue".

"A commercial action movie with an obvious style!"

"A qualified popcorn movie, with constant jokes in the excitement, Cheng Long returned to his comfort zone."

"Jackie Chan x Daniel wu, Hollywood's strongest Asian director and actor have teamed up to deliver an exciting Chinese kung fu movie!"

"It's not bad, it's better than the previous work, and the joining of the first-line directors has injected new vitality into this series!"

"As a popcorn movie, it is excellent, and the combination of Cheng Long and Will Smith is also eye-catching, and it is worth the audience to go to the cinema to see."

In the third part, the director boldly introduced a new setting: "Ace Secret Service", I believe this is definitely not a random design, maybe the director and the production company in the next big game of chess, we should look forward to the follow-up works of the Rush Hour series! ”

"This is a work that carries on the past and the future, the first two starring Chris Tucker has been replaced by Will Smith, the backstory has also been re-set, a mysterious secret service department has been introduced, maybe our Interpol Inspector Lee is about to start a new adventure, I'm looking forward to it!"

After the premiere, film critics from all walks of life quickly expressed their opinions on "Rush Hour 3" on the Internet.

Obviously, Wu Yuan, who has watched countless commercial films with mature routines in his dreams, can still be recognized by most film critics with his easy adaptation of "Rush Hour 3".

Hollywood's film critics are actually more professional than Asian film critics, and their evaluation of a movie will be very clear from the beginning.

Commercial films have one set of judging criteria for commercial films, and literary films have another set of criteria for literary films.

Many domestic film critics will always criticize a commercial film from the perspective of examining literary films, which often makes commercial films that are okay worthless in their mouths.

This is inherently wrong.

Commercial films and literary films are originally two different shooting systems, from the idea of the script to the final effect they want to present, they are all opposites, and if they have to be treated together, can they be judged normally?

And the film critics here in Hollywood will not be like this, they have regarded "Rush Hour 3" as a commercial blockbuster from the beginning, and naturally came to the conclusion that this is a qualified popcorn movie, and it is a work worthy of the audience to go to the cinema to relax.

Although, it is inevitable that there will still be some film critics who complain at the end of the film review, Wu Yuan seems to prefer commercial films in recent years, and has not made literary films for a long time, and is a little willing to degenerate, but it is just a complaint, and it does not affect the evaluation of "Rush Hour 3".

Thanks to the praise of these film critics, "Rush Hour 3", which already has a large fan base, achieved a box office of $76.52 million in 3,268 theaters in North America in the first three days of its release.

This is higher than the $66.8 million in the opening weekend of "Rush Hour 2" and far more than the $33 million of "Rush Hour 1."

Who called Will Smith, the hottest black actor in "Rush Hour 3", and Wu Yuan, the "billion-dollar box office club director", to join!

The combined appeal of the two of them is higher than the original protagonist Chris Tucker, right?

So far, Cheng Long has successfully won the opening record of the top 3 action movies in North America, which are $33 million for "Rush Hour 1", $66.8 million for "Rush Hour 2" and $76.52 million for "Rush Hour 3".

In the field of action movies, Cheng Long is undoubtedly the actor who can carry the box office the most!

Even Hollywood Entertainment Newspaper has predicted that the North American box office of "Rush Hour 3" this time will exceed the record of $226 million in the second part and reach $250 million in North America, and it should not be a problem for the global record to break $300 million.

The cumulative global box office of the entire "Rush Hour" trilogy will exceed $850 million.

And this series is completely supported by Cheng Long's personal influence at the box office.

, an actor from Hong Kong Island, China, had to be valued by all the capital and film and television companies of Hollywood again.

On the day of the box office announcement of "Rush Hour 3", Jerry called Wu Yuan and praised him for choosing Cheng Long to play Xiaofeng.

Although Cheng Long's salary is indeed a bit high, taking $8 million from Disney, it is worth the money.

Does Chow Yunjun have the strength to win $1 billion at the box office (the cumulative total box office of Cheng Long's Hollywood movies) in Hollywood?

Can Chow Yun-fu attract 40 million people to watch his movies with his fame? ("Rush Hour 2" was watched by 40 million people in the United States, or 14 percent of the U.S. population, and that count includes videotapes.) ）

Before the release of "Rush Hour 3", perhaps Jerry and Disney will hesitate whether Cheng Long is worth the price.

After all, since "Rush Hour 2", Cheng Long has pounced on three movies in Hollywood, including "Magical Tuxedo", "Royal Weilong" and "Around the World in 80 Days", and is already on the verge of being abandoned by Hollywood.

His salary offer also fell from $15 million + box office share of "Rush Hour 2" to $10 million, and only $8 million when he joined "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

Haolaiwu is so realistic, the director or actor of three works in a row will be eliminated by this vanity fair immediately.

But now it's different, with the opening explosion of "Rush Hour 3", Cheng Long has returned to Haolaiwu again!

Looking at it now, spending $8 million to change such an actor to play "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is undoubtedly a very worthwhile thing, and Disney has picked up a big bargain.

Cheng Long's normal market price is around $15 million.

It's just that when talking about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", "Rush Hour 3" has not yet been released, and Cheng Long pounced on him until he was about to find no such name in Hollywood, so for the sake of Wu Yuan's face, he joined "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" at a low price.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Long returned lightning again!

Jerry is going to be happy!

Of course, what he values is not the Huaxia market behind Cheng Long.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" was not released in mainland China, and it did not affect the film's final global box office of 1.05 billion US dollars, sending Wu Yuan into the billion-dollar box office club.

What he values is Cheng Long's influence in Hollywood!

Seeing that "Rush Hour 3" will become a masterpiece of Cheng Longhaolaiwu, it will win more than $200 million at the box office in North America.

Such a fiery actor matched Depp and added the icing on the cake to "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", what a beautiful thing!

Receiving Jerry's call, in the face of his praise of not wanting money, Wu Yuan echoed a few words very calmly.

Cheng Long's strong return was originally facilitated by Wu Yuan.

Without him, there would be no current "Rush Hour 3", and Cheng Long's journey to the dock could have ended two years ago.

You must know that "Rush Hour 3" on the original trajectory only had a box office of $50.23 million in the first week, and although it also won the weekly championship, the final North American box office was only $139 million.

And the word-of-mouth of the Rush Hour series has completely smashed on the third part.

After replacing Will Smith and Wu Yuan changed the script, "Rush Hour 3" not only won the opening score of 30 million US dollars higher than the original version, but also had a very good reputation, which can make a perfect start for the next "Ace Agent" series!

This is what Wu Yuan values more.

He wants to push Cheng Long back to Haolaiwu, in addition to really appreciating the actor, he also wants him to make more money-making movies for the light era!

In other words, will the movie "Kung Fu Dream" still appear?

Hanging up Jerry's phone, Wu Yuan hugged Liu Yifei and lay on the bed, pondering.

The movie "Kung Fu Dream" is special.

In 2010, it was produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by Harold Zwat, and starring Cheng Long and Will Smith's son.

The project is rumored to have been made possible by Will Smith.

He likes Cheng Long very much, he is a fan of Cheng Long, and he wants to pave the way for his son, which led to the cooperation of this movie.

And although "Kung Fu Dream" hit the streets in the mainland box office, and it has a very poor evaluation among mainland fans, thinking that it is a bad movie.

But the film was really popular around the world, with the box office breaking $56 million in the first three days of its release and $359 million worldwide!

What is the concept of this achievement?

The global box office of "Rush Hour 2" is only 329 million US dollars, which is already a box office record for a Chinese actor starring in a Hollywood movie.

The double J plan of "The King of Kung Fu" has been hyped that the mainland box office is not good, but the response in the international market is very good, how much is this "very good"?

$128 million at the global box office.

"Kung Fu Dream" is nearly three times as much, what is the real global popularity?!

The production cost of "The King of Kung Fu" is as high as 500 million yuan, and even if "Kung Fu Dream" is given to Cheng Long Haolaiwu's salary specifications, it can be filmed for a maximum of 150 million yuan.

From a commercial point of view, "Kung Fu Dream" is definitely a high-quality movie that makes investors make a lot of money.

With his good relationship with Cheng Long, Wu Yuan knew that as long as he wanted to make it, the movie "Kung Fu Dream" would definitely be in the bag of the Light Age.

It's just that the reputation of this movie in the mainland is really poor, and the box office has hit the streets.

This may also be due to cultural differences.

If you choose to overcome this adaptation, you risk losing the global market.

If he doesn't overcome it, he will have to consider being scolded by the domestic audience.

After the baptism of "The King of Kung Fu", domestic fans are really super disgusted with the Chinese-themed movies that are filmed in Haolaiwu, and feel that this is an insult and blasphemy to Chinese culture.

Otherwise, it won't be released in China at all?

Wu Yuan frowned, trying to think of a way to properly handle the movie "Kung Fu Dream".

What a blissful annoyance!

"Senior brother, why don't you sleep yet?" A pair of hands touched his cheeks, and Liu Yifei, who woke up in a daze, asked with a glutinous voice and sleepiness.

Wu Yuan gently grabbed her hand and kissed it on the side of the mouth, "That's it." ”

It's not as important as sleeping with your girlfriend, so let's think about it later!

Count it yesterday

(End of chapter)