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Originally, after "Independence Day", Hollywood thought that Daenerys Entertainment would stop and give everyone some room to play. After all, starting from "Face Changing", as of July 7, Daenerys Entertainment related films have been obtained. In the summer of 31, it won 1997 consecutive single-week box office titles, and no one expected to jump out of a dark horse like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

On August 8th, another box office week opened, and the number of screens of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" increased significantly again, reaching 8 yuan. In order to maximize the film's box office potential, the film's publicity and distribution investment was also added to the film production. Costs were flat at $2393 million.

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If the filming process of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is so tiring that people don't want to live, the intensive promotional schedule restarted in the past two weeks has made Li Youhu tired and happy.

After more than a year of hard work, it was finally not in vain.

To be precise, the harvest is rich.

Not only has she quickly become a well-known Chinese actress in North America, but even in China, she has become famous as quickly as Jiang Anqi in the first half of the year, and she is more popular than Jiang Anqi. After all, Jiang Anqi only played one role in "Hurricane Rescue". Point of the vase, she is indeed very heavy on the heroine.

"Private Interview with Kangxi Weifu", which is currently on the air, because of her participation, even if it is not in the story unit of her character, with the promotion of Jinshu, the ratings have also increased significantly recently.

The release date of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which has been undecided in China, was also quickly decided following the success of the film in North America, and it was set for September 9th.

An executive from Daenerys Entertainment also said that this time is even expected to win her an Oscar nomination in next year's awards season, at least a Golden Globe nomination.Whether it is an Oscar or a Golden Globe, Li Youhu would have never even dared to think about it a year ago.

Saturday, April 8.

After two weeks of promotional schedule finally came to an end, Daenerys Entertainment threw a celebratory party for the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" crew at an Upper West Side hotel.

Dressed up to attend the evening, Li Youhu finally saw a certain man who hadn't shown up for a while.

Simon has been going around all over the place recently, and he just flew over from Los Angeles today.

When Li Youhu approached with a slightly long silver low-cut dress skirt, he could only hear someone discussing with Ang Lee about the release of the film in China.

"The Chinese schedule of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was indeed deliberately delayed by me. Although it is a Chinese film, this film was shot for Western audiences from the beginning, and it is more suitable for release in North America first, and then feedback to China. If it was shown in China first, the audience there would not like this style too much." Simon said, feeling Li Youhu approaching in a light scented wind, he took him over, turned his head to sniff, and smiled He switched to Chinese: "Very fragrant and very white."

How can there be such a greeting?

Li Youhu gave someone a coquettish look, but leaned obediently by his side, consciously acting as a vase.

Simon did not ignore Mr. Yu who was following behind Li Youhu: "You are also beautiful tonight."

Really dishonest.

Teacher Yu slandered.

At least you can boast that you are both fragrant and white. She is wearing a black dress, which is more skin-friendly than Li Youhu's silver.

Thinking with such a slight resentment, Teacher Yu was not so bold as to stick close to him like Li Youhu. He just let himself smile at him politely, and greeted Li An before turning to the man again: " Let’s talk, I’ll go to...that, get something to eat.”

Turn around and leave.

I didn't hear someone's persuasion, and the slight resentment intensified for some reason. Of course, I definitely won't take the initiative to go back.

Simon watched Teacher Yu turn around and turned to Li Ang again. Since he changed the Chinese, he did not change it, and then asked, "By the way, is the preparation of "Ice Storm" going well recently?"

"It went well," Li An also changed his Chinese, and said, "Also, the intern sent by Daenerys is nice and very thoughtful."

Li An was naturally talking about the unique Xu.

Simon took advantage of the situation: "If you think it's good, you can help him in the future and act as a producer for his future debut. According to the Chinese saying, this is called passing on the torch, right?"

Li An was indeed very satisfied with that intern. He was a little surprised when he heard Simon's words of "passing the torch". At the same time, he was also inexplicably touched. He just hesitated and nodded quickly: "Okay."

After chatting a few more words, Li An took the initiative to get out of the way.

Simon brought Li Youhu to a buffet table, picked some food together, and asked with a smile: "How do you feel recently, isn't it very floating?"

"That's right," Li Youhu nodded subconsciously, then quickly denied, "I'm not floating."

"It's okay, it's a normal reaction to float around at this time."

As Simon spoke, he thought of Baige Wu.

He already knew about Baige Wu's signing of the film contract with Paramount, and he had also seen the script of "American Police Officer" that Wu would know personally.

Basically, it followed the story of "The Fugitive" a few years ago. The plane crashed and escaped, and the murderer was reversed. It also made Simon think of another "Prison in the Air" that was supposed to be released this year but was dropped by butterflies.After checking, I found out that it is a new script written by the screenwriter of "The Fugitive", similar to a routine, and I eat my own money.Once you are familiar with Hollywood, you will get used to it. All kinds of splicing and miscellaneous, innovation is not easy on the one hand, and it is safer to do so on the other hand.

Looking back, I also found that I had a little memory of this movie in my previous life. Without more information, the movie's box office prospects can be imagined.

In any case, this story is quite suitable for Baige Wu to shoot.

As for the future?

It doesn't matter if you don't meet, if it collides with a film under Daenerys Entertainment, Simon will not be polite.

Li Youhu didn't know what Simon was thinking, but he also understood that the man was teasing, so he didn't continue to deny it, but said: "I still feel like a dream. I went to Cannes in May, and the audience responded very well, but at that time they It is said that the box office in North America is only about 5 million, but now, everyone is saying that it is expected to exceed 5000 million, and it is incredible that a Chinese martial arts can break [-] million in North America."

After Simon picked out some food, he led Li Youhu to a round table in the corner of the banquet hall, sat down and said, "I can only say that it just happened to be the right time. If there is such a good film in the future, it may not be sold in North America." 1 million at the box office."

Li Youhu had just picked up a piece of crab cake with a fork, but he stopped and asked curiously, "Why?"

"The reason is very complicated, and you don't understand it even if you tell me."

Li Youhu pouted, but didn't ask any further questions.

In fact, Simon was also a little surprised by the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

In order to avoid the "Titanic" at the end of the year, Simon put "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the summer file. Without the help of the awards season, he was prepared that the box office of this movie will shrink compared to before.

Looking at it now, not only will it not shrink, it will even be higher.

As for why.

Very complicated.

The first is the environment.

The current North American film market is still in an era where all kinds of films can be sold as long as they are good enough, and audiences are willing to buy tickets for various films to enter the theater. Therefore, unpopular literary films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also have blockbusters. soil.

Simon has been quietly suppressing and delaying the rise of the blockbuster era in recent years, and the key is to maintain this diversity.

However, the trend is hard to stop.

In a few years, not only the overseas art film market will shrink sharply, but North America will be the same, and even the diversity of the film market will suffer even more. Only super blockbusters and low-budget horror films that are small and big can live well. For other types, one or two dark horses can only be regarded as accidents.

The Oscars will also become niche due to the loss of diversity in the film market, and even go for self-entertainment.

It can be said that now is the last good era of literary films.

Secondly, the reason for the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the resurgent kung fu craze in North America.

In this regard, "Red Zone", "Rush Hour", "Black Man", "Taken" and so on in recent years are all beneficiaries.

However, kung fu is still no match for superheroes.

It’s better at this stage. Simon is also deliberately suppressing the DC movie universe. In the future, Transformers, aliens, and all kinds of superheroes who fly into the sky and escape from the earth will swarm, and kung fu will lose its charm.

Again, it is Daenerys Entertainment's strong and flexible publicity capabilities.

Just one detail, since last year, Simon has actually been laying the groundwork for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is what made Ang Lee get an Oscar nomination for "Sense and Sensibility" for best director.In the original time and space, Ang Lee's film adaptation of this famous book was nominated for best picture, but missed the best director option.

In order to enhance Ang Lee's reputation and increase the publicity of this year's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Gaomen Films specially won the best director nomination for Ang Lee last year.

Finally, it is the novelty-seeking psychology of North American audiences.

The scenery in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is beautiful, and the fighting is fierce, which North American audiences have never seen before.

After this head soup, if someone does the same thing, it will not be so easy to attract the audience.

Of course, the basis of all this is that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" itself is a very good movie.

In the discussion about the North American success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", there is always the fact that this movie was successful only after catering to the tastes of Western audiences, so that later on, many major oriental directors imitated each other and applied various Western styles such as "Hamlet". The classic template shoots Chinese blockbusters, trying to cater to Western audiences.

It's not right.

The part of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" that caters to Western audiences is actually a common human emotion.

Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian have a restrained yet tacit relationship.

Yu Jiaolong is unruly and arrogant, pursuing freedom under the surface, admiring and yearning for the stronger.

Even Li Mubai's insistence on revenge.

These are easy to understand, and they are not deliberately catered to the West, but emotions that everyone can understand.

It is also worth mentioning that many people regretted that Jeter Lee was not able to appear in this movie, which reduced the hero's force value and greatly reduced the action scenes.But in fact, if Jeter Lee really played it, it might fail.Because the action scenes are overemphasized, it is likely to obscure the director's expression of the emotional core of the film.

It is conceivable that Jeter Lee will definitely not be able to play Li Mubai, who is overwhelmed by the cold and reveals exhaustion and forbearance portrayed by Brother Chu.

Lacking emotional expression and turning into a more pure martial arts film, it is difficult for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to receive a classic-level super high evaluation from Western critics. If such a niche film lacks public opinion support, the box office cannot be too high.

All in all, the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is still the result of good timing, favorable location, and harmonious people.

Chapter 1150

Inside a mansion facing the sea in East Hampton.

It's Saturday, September 8th.

Last night I was a bit tossed and turned. When I woke up, I looked at my watch and found that it was already past eight o'clock. It was a bit too much to stay in bed until past eight o'clock in Xia Tian, ​​so Teacher Yu decided to come a little longer.

Lying in bed, thinking about last night.

At the party I attended, a certain man naturally took her and Li Youhu away together. He thought he would stay in Manhattan, but unexpectedly he came here by helicopter, and found that there were already Wei Canchai and others in this mansion. A group of girls from the Guofeng Art Troupe are waiting.

Obviously arranged in advance.

What followed can be imagined.

When the man and a group of girls changed into swimsuits and played in the open-air swimming pool, Teacher Yu refused, saying that he was a little tired and went to rest first.

I was a little confused the first time, and I didn't want to make myself too easy to talk.

What's more, she was with a group of girls who were much younger than her.

Too messy.

A certain guy didn't force her, and let her leave. As a result, she couldn't fall asleep until late at night, tossing and turning, and even had a thought that she didn't want to admit. If he insisted strongly, she would obey.

nasty man.

When the time came to nine o'clock, he still sat up, dressed and washed, and left the bedroom on the second floor of the villa.

When I came to the corridor, the surrounding area seemed very quiet.

Knowing that the master bedroom is on the other side, they didn't dare to go over to inquire, and they probably got up early.

As soon as he came downstairs, he met the tall waitress with a ponytail next to him, who seemed to be called Carmen Kess. In front of this girl whose face and figure overwhelmed her, Teacher Yu felt a little inferior, politely After saying hello, he subconsciously asked, "Carmen, is Simon still there?"

Carmen Kath gestured to the side of the hall: "The boss is in the study, Miss Yu, do you want to have breakfast first, or go to the boss's place?"

Teacher Yu subconsciously said quickly, "I'll have breakfast first."

Carmen happened to be going to the restaurant too, so she led Teacher Yu to the corridor on the other side.

Teacher Yu followed behind, hesitated a little, but couldn't help asking: "Have they all left?"

"You mean, Miss Li and the others?"

"Yes."

Carmen said: "They haven't gotten up yet."

Teacher Yu subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

Last night... how crazy I was playing, I don't even get up now.

When the two came to the restaurant, Carmen waited for Teacher Yu to sit down, explained a few words to the waitress, and then went about her own business.

Teacher Yu finished his breakfast absent-mindedly, but there were still no voices from those girls outside. They were obviously still asleep. A maid asked again, so she said hello to someone, and she was taken to the door of a study.

After knocking on the door, the waitress left. Teacher Yu heard the voice inside, opened the door and went in. In the bright morning light, he saw a man sitting behind a large white desk.

However, Mr. Yu, who squinted slightly because of the light change, quickly enlarged his eyes slightly.

Because the man became a little girl in his arms.

She looks about ten years old, but with just one glance, she is a standard beauty embryo.Seeing her looking over, the little girl also raised a pair of dark eyes to look at her, and there seemed to be a bit of hostility in her eyes.

"Sit whatever you want," the man behind the desk closed one document and changed another, said something casually, noticed her gaze, and smiled again: "This is Miu Miao, maybe you have seen her Mom, Shirley."

Shirley is Ms. Liu's English name after she came to the United States.

Teacher Yu often dealt with the girl from the Guofeng Art Troupe by Li Youhu's side. Last year, he met once, and heard Li Youhu gossip about the mother and daughter. This is the first time he saw her little girl.

only……

While walking to sit on the sofa across from the desk, Mr. Yu sized up the little girl again, mainly because the girl's posture in the man's arms seemed too intimate.