China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 720: "Unparalleled" is coming

Since Warna has allowed Li Yu to participate in the next Oscars, it means that they must have spent a lot of money hiring a lobbying company to lobby the judges.

Li Yu doesn't need to worry that Huana will play tricks on him.

The producer of "Barbie" is Warner Bros. The film's award is good for Warner Bros. It will also be good for Li Yu's next film "Joker".

Li Yugang had just landed in Beijing and had no time to express his feelings about being in China when Zhuang Wenqiang and Bona's chairman Yu Dong called him one after another and invited him to attend the premiere press conference of "Wushuang".

It is true that "Barbie" did not perform well in the domestic market, but that does not mean that Li Yu is not well-known in the country.

People in China have seen the global box office of "Barbie" of 14.5 billion US dollars.

It can also be said that it was the movie "Barbie" that was not well received in China, not the director Li Yu.

These days, the news that "Barbie"'s global box office has exceeded 3 million, 5 million, and 10 billion has been bombarding domestic netizens.

Li Yu is currently on the rise, and asking Li Yu to step down from the stage would be beneficial to the exposure of the film.

There is another very important point, Li Yu shot two billion-dollar movies in a row.

This shows that Li Yu is lucky. Zhuang Wenqiang and Yu Dong plan to take advantage of Li Yu's luck and hope that "Wushuang" can be as successful at the box office as "Aquaman" and "Barbie".

It sounds a bit superstitious, but in the entertainment industry, there are a lot of superstitious people, especially Hong Kong people like Zhuang Wenqiang, who are the most superstitious.

The rich people in Hong Kong Island are particularly superstitious, and Zhuang Wenqiang is no exception. He really wants to absorb some of Li Yu's luck for good luck.

Li Yuken agreed because he was the largest investor in the movie "Wushuang".

He hopes the movie will be a big hit more than Zhuang Wenqiang and Yu Dong.

The premiere press conference of "Wushuang" was held in Beijing, so Li Yu didn't need to fly to other cities, which saved a lot of trouble.

On the day of the premiere press conference, Li Yu arrived on time.

When Zhuang Wenqiang wrote the script of "Wushuang", not many people were optimistic about it. However, after receiving investment from the mainland, the film received a lot of attention.

After all, the movie has the gimmick of Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok acting together.

One of them is one of the members of Shuang Zhou Yu Cheng.

The other one is one of the Four Heavenly Kings.

The two of them are definitely household names in China, and even children have heard of their names to some extent.

But like Hong Kong films, they all seem to be on the decline.

They are very famous, but it’s hard to say how much box office they can bring in.

The quality of the movie is good, so they can provide some positive bonuses.

They can't save the poor quality of the movie.

Both of them have starred in many bad movies with mediocre performance.

Zhou Runfa's hairstyle today is shoulder-length, and he still has the charm of the God of Gamblers Gao Jin.

Aaron Kwok was wearing a plaid suit. Although he is older, he is still very handsome. After all, he relied on his looks to make a living back then.

In that era when there were many beauties and handsome men, and each beauty had its own characteristics, there was no need to question the appearance of a man who made a living by his looks.

The netizens who are particularly picky have never criticized Aaron Kwok's appearance. They usually criticize his height. Especially when standing next to Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok is more than half a head shorter.

So the promotional photos taken on the spot are very interesting. In most of the photos, Aaron Kwok and Chow Run-fat are not standing together, and there are always one or two women between them.

Either there is a big sweet girl in the middle, or there are big sweet girl and Zhang Jingchu in the middle.

In the interview area on the red carpet, Zhuang Wenqiang, Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok all started to flatter each other commercially.

Aaron Kwok said that the character he played in the film was a very talented painter, and the boss of the criminal group played by Chow Yun-fat was also a painter. The two of them teamed up to make counterfeit money, which was very exciting and interesting.

Zhang Jingchu worked with Aaron Kwok many years ago, in a bad movie called "Full Alert".

Zhang Jingchu and Wu Jing played a couple in the film. She was a supporting role and was killed not long after she appeared on the screen.

She is very emotionally intelligent and exaggerates Aaron Kwok's acting skills. She believes that as an actor he has been constantly expanding his acting range and is no longer the same as before.

This is true. Aaron Kwok has now become a talented actor. Like Andy Lau, he has gotten rid of the title of "little fresh meat".

Chow Yun-fat walked the red carpet with his wife, attracting a lot of attention.

He said that "Wushuang" was the most interesting play he had performed in all these years.

In addition to praising the professionalism and wonderful performances of leading actors such as Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, and Da Tiantian, Zhuang Wenqiang, who is both a screenwriter and director, mentioned Li Yu's name.

“Today, I am able to stand here and share the movie ‘Wushuang’ with you. The person I should thank the most is Director Li. Without him, I don’t know how long it would take for this movie to be released.

It has been ten years since I wrote the script. Ten years, more than three thousand days and nights. As a director and screenwriter, I don't know how tormented I am inside that my script has not been able to be turned into a film in ten years.

At that time, I saw that Wang Jing and Director Li had a very good relationship, so I asked Liu Dehua to help convey a message to Wang Jing to see if Wang Jing was willing to act as a connection and let me contact Director Li.

Then I met Director Li through Wang Jing. Director Li was really generous. After reading my script, he said he would invest in me..."

Zhuang Wenqiang almost praised Li Yu to the sky.

He was really grateful to Li Yu.

If it weren't for Li Yu, it's hard to say how long his "Wushuang" would have remained buried. Maybe even when he retires, no one would invest in it.

He doesn't have a God's perspective. In his opinion, it is normal that no one cares about it for ten years, ten years after another, and then another ten years.

Of course, Zhuang Wenqiang did not forget to thank Yu Dong, chairman of Bonanza, the producer of "Wushuang".

When Li Yu was invited to give a speech, someone asked him why he chose to invest in Zhuang Wenqiang's "Wushuang". He replied: "Because I have money. I made too much money from making movies in Hollywood and I can't spend it all. So I didn't even blink an eye when investing money in Director Zhuang."

This answer caused laughter from the audience.

After the joke, Li Yu began to answer seriously: "Of course it's because Director Zhuang showed me a very good script. I personally think that this movie is likely to be the last rare afterglow of Hong Kong films, and it deserves the reputation of being the best commercial film in Hong Kong in the past five years."

Li Yu spoke highly of "Wushuang", but Zhuang Wenqiang felt a little uncomfortable listening to it.

Because he once said that he is not dead yet, so Hong Kong films cannot die.

He firmly believes that there is still hope for Hong Kong films. People like him certainly don't like to hear things like "Hong Kong films' last rays of light", as if Hong Kong films have already been put into the ICU and will soon die.

But Li Yu didn't care what Zhuang Wenqiang thought.

What Li Yu said was the truth. People like Zhuang Wenqiang who insisted that Hong Kong films are not dead are a minority in Hong Kong Island. He is the one who is unwilling to admit the reality.

(End of this chapter)