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Chapter 146
Hearing what Brother Fa said, Chu Yian couldn't help but laugh:
"Thank you Brother Fa for reminding me, I will."
In fact, he also understands the nature of those European and American audiences, as well as those hosts.
Although Chu Yian is very skilled, he is still likely to be targeted by others if others don't know about it.
Especially in places like Hollywood, people treat people differently.
At the beginning, Chu Yian had no reputation at all, and people really wanted to discriminate and manipulate him in all aspects.
However, people with ability can stand up straight no matter where they go, and they are not afraid at all.
But if they really want to go there for publicity, Chu Yian is not going to take Zeng Lai with them, because it is still too chaotic there.
During this period, many people still think that the moon in foreign countries is particularly round, but Chu Yian has never had such an idea.
It is still more reassuring to stand on the land of his own motherland. Outside, he is a wanderer, and no matter what he does, it is different from what he does in China.
With Chu Yian's current ability and wealth, it would be very easy for him to go abroad, but he still thinks his motherland is the best!
At this time, Chu Yian and Zeng Lai have already started to follow Li Min around the country.
It is to improve the box office performance of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in China.
But Chu Yian is not very optimistic about it. He knows the characteristics of this movie too well.
But Li Min seemed very confident, and would ask from time to time:
"Anzi, how much do you think our movie will eventually make at the box office?"
But before Chu Yian could answer, he continued to talk to himself:
"I think it will definitely be no problem to break 100 million. With you two here, that is a guarantee of box office success!"
"I am so lucky. I invited you to star in my movie when you were not popular yet."
"Lao Mouzi would never have thought that you would become a popular first-line star in less than two years. I guess he regrets not asking you to make a movie earlier, but it's too late."
Chu Yian couldn't help but sigh when he heard Li Min still gloating.
Judging from the plot of the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is not as compact as Hero.
Chinese people are used to watching various martial arts movies with fast-paced plots and strong dramatic conflicts, such as Tsui Hark's Huang Feihong series, Swordsman, etc. Now they are suddenly given a slow-paced "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". It would be strange if they like it?
However, considering that Chu Yian and Zeng Lai are starring in the film, there may be many viewers willing to pay for tickets to go to the cinema to watch it.
It depends on how much face they give.
At this time, Chu Yian did not have the heart to hit Li Min, but just smiled and said:
"Director Li, man proposes, God disposes. Let's do what we can do well, and leave the rest to the market."
"I always think so, and the results are not bad. I hope there will be a good result this time."
Hearing Chu Yian say this, Li Min thought that the young man was habitually modest.
"Oh, Anzi, young people should be aggressive! You have to dare to think and fight. I dare to think, why don't you dare to think?"
"Let's go, let's keep working hard and have a good road show!"
"I will definitely reach new heights by then!"
Chu Yian looked at Zeng Lai at this time, and could only be speechless in his heart. This director really has no idea at all.
However, what surprised Chu Yian was that the last stop was in Hong Kong. This time, the cinema chain gave Li Amine a lot of face and prepared to release the film in Hong Kong and the mainland at the same time.
Let's see how much box office market he can get at that time.
In Hong Kong, Chu Yian was a little surprised by the warm welcome he received.
Because Chu Yian's previous movies and TV series were indeed very popular in Hong Kong.
"Those Years" also achieved a box office result of nearly 30 million in Hong Kong, which is very good for movies in Hong Kong. For the current Hong Kong film market, it is expected to win the annual box office champion this year.
But this is only the box office in Hong Kong after all.
Now Chu Yian's arrival has set off the heat of the whole city and is very popular!
When he came, his elder brother Cheng who was still in Hong Kong, and a group of big men who had drunk with him before, naturally came to invite him to a party.
Interestingly, this time Big Brother City invited Chu Yian to star in his movie "The Secret Agent" which started shooting this year.
However, Chu Yian refused this time, and the reason was very sufficient:
"Big Brother, it's not that I don't want to work with you, but my previous schedule has been given to Director Zhang Yimou."
"Besides, I invested in his movie, so I can't just give up.. "
Hearing Chu Yian's words, Big Brother Cheng also expressed regret:
"Oh, that's such a pity. If you were here, our movie box office would probably increase by more than half!"
"You don't know how popular you are here now!"
"Just with a love movie, you have made it to our top 10 box office list!"
Hearing Big Brother Cheng's high praise, Chu Yian just smiled and waved his hand in response:
"That's all the audience's love, luck..."
However, when talking about Big Brother Cheng's new movie, Chu Yian couldn't help but think of the almost flopped performance of this movie in his previous life.
In fact, "The Spy in the City" is quite good, and it should be considered a work above the standard among Big Brother Cheng's movies.
The key is that the investment is huge, costing nearly 200 million Hong Kong dollars!
Such a large production, but the box office was not satisfactory, which also had a certain impact on Big Brother Cheng.
Chu Yian, however I know why this movie failed at the box office.
Because the company that made this movie at the time, Galaxy Pictures, did something cool.
A movie called "The Spy Who Came in 2003" was released on the Internet, which was broadcasted as a series with the official movie "The Spy Who Came in 2003".
This "The Spy Who Came in 2003" is a sequel to the movie, and some information was released in advance for the audience to watch for free. In this way, the audience's expectations for the movie were increased, and it could be linked to the movie.
Some of the puzzles in this free "The Spy Who Came in 2003" can be answered by watching the movie.
But they overestimated the role of the Internet at that time. Although the Internet in Hong Kong had been launched at that time and everyone had some concept of the Internet, there were very few real netizens.
In addition, when netizens watched this movie, even fewer videos were saved. As a result, there was almost no video material preserved for this "The Spy Who Came to Power 2003" in later generations, and it disappeared in the history of film.
Therefore, many viewers who have not watched this sequel feel confused when watching "The Spy Who Came to Power".
It was originally a good operation, but because of the misjudgment of the role of the Internet at that time, the final 200 million investment was lost. Almost wasted.
Chu Yian felt that if he had the chance, he should remind his elder brother Cheng.
It was a good movie, but it became a bad movie because of editing and operation. It was a pity.
However, these are all later.
Now Chu Yian also felt the welcome of Hong Kong City. What was even more surprising was that during the road show, he also received an invitation from another idol of his.
At this time, Stephen Chow was filming Shaolin Soccer. When he heard that Chu Yian was coming, Stephen Chow specially asked someone to contact him and asked if he was willing to play a cameo role in the movie.