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December 12, around ten o'clock in the evening.

Li Wenyu and Pang Bing walked out of a big hotel together. The people who had dinner with him were a group of leaders from his hometown city.

The top guys in the tobacco system are all half-family members, helping Lao Li to block the drinking.

Of course, there are many people who help him block the alcohol, such as Yuan Biao, Xiong Xinxin and Zhang Jin. He started a roadshow at Zhengzhou University at 8 o'clock this morning.

Then I went back to my hometown and did three roadshows in movie theaters.

There are only two cinemas in comprehensive supermarkets and a two-story independent cinema in my hometown.

All of these were not missed, and then there was the dinner.

In addition to the creators of X-Life: The Last Airbender, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow also attended the roadshow and interacted with the audience.

Jackie Chan said that he took too much advantage in New Police Story.

Just from various surveys, more than 50% of the audience went to the cinema just for Huang Xiaoming, which was enough. He previously sold the exclusive online copyright of his films to Shi Guang at a low price.

Still a big advantage.

Jackie Chan, who is very chivalrous, means that when Li Wenyu is not around, he can run around and play. He is also famous for his good health.

Jackie Chan did make a cameo appearance.

He appeared on camera not once but several times.

Zhou Xingchi came for the script of his new film.

As early as July during the filming period of Extreme Occupation, Stephen Chow said in his guest appearance that Kung Fu 7 was in the works, and more than five months have passed since then.

He took the script of Kung Fu 2 and wanted to ask Li Wenyu for his comments, and then discuss cooperation, such as asking Li Wenyu's Time Media to invest.

Why? Because Li Wenyu could get a share of the South Korean vote bank instead of just selling the port.

Let me give you another simple piece of data.

In "Extreme Job 2", Jeon Ji-hyun is the heroine, the leading female role, and is paired with the leading male role played by the big star Won Piao, who was in the era when Hong Kong films bombarded South Korea into its own territory.

Zhang Guorong, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Hong Yubao and others all made guest appearances in the film.

Then a bunch of the world's most beautiful faces appeared one by one.

So the 24th and 25th are not weekends, but Christmas.

South Korea grossed HK$3600 million in box office in just two days!
This trend, coupled with the fact that Li Wenyu will be leading a large team to South Korea for a roadshow during the New Year's Day holiday on January 1nd.

It is basically certain that the box office of "Extreme Job" in South Korea will definitely exceed 1 million, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it will be between 1.5 million and 2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Li Wenyu's share of the box office is 36%? ? It's definitely a huge return of tens of millions.

This is why Stephen Chow wants to increase cooperation with Shi Guang. Once they cooperate, Kung Fu II can share the profits in South Korea and earn more.

Today's dinner.

Many leaders from my hometown came to drink, and many big names from the Chinese entertainment industry also gathered there.

Just drinking.

After the dinner, Li Wenyu took Pang Bing back to his home in the family compound of the city's tobacco system. After all, their relationship was made public to the whole country.

Come back home and live normally.

The other teams stayed in the hotel.

When he got home, the entire residential compound was still in an uproar. The secretary of the tobacco tycoon visited every household in advance to prevent the commotion from being too intense.

Most of them stayed at home and pointed at him and Fatty Bing through the window.

Old Li's family consists of his parents, sister, brother-in-law and nephew Guo Xiaohu.

Pang Bing gave Guo Xiaohu a big red envelope, and after a brief and polite exchange of words, his sister and brother-in-law left.

When they returned to the house to rest, Fat Bing asked curiously, "You have made so much money, your parents are fine, and what about your brother-in-law's family?"

Li Wenyu smiled and shook his head. "I introduced my brother-in-law to the bank and asked him to borrow a loan. He used the loan to open the six-hall cinema in the city."

"We've also opened several branches in the counties below us, and this is also a very stable business."

This brother-in-law originally planned to quit his job as a bus driver in the future and become an online influencer.

If you open a cinema in a small place now and take advantage of the booming box office in the mainland, you can make a small profit without any effort.

Of course, this is a collaboration with Oscar, the largest state-owned cinema chain in Henan Province, in which my brother-in-law’s family holds a 49% stake.

As for the national cinema chain? Lao Li considered waiting until he had 100% of the shares before exiting.

But there are also problems. When this kind of industrial expansion spreads across the country, in addition to absorbing franchise stores from all over the country, if you want to continue to open your own directly-managed branches, you will easily be targeted by local tyrants.

Just like supermarket entities are regional.

Pang Donglai, the most famous supermarket in Henan Province, opened its Pang Donglai Life Plaza in 2002, but it failed to break out of Xushi and Xinshi for the next 20 years.

It is limited to two places only.

The national cinema chain's physical business, which directly absorbs franchise stores, does not make much sense. It will definitely make money, but after tax, the cinema chain takes 7% and each franchise store in each place takes 50%.

Keeping 7% is just wasting time, and you will have to step in if there is a hidden danger. The biggest advantage is that you don't have to worry about Time Media's screening rate being suppressed.

Building cinema chains from scratch? Even internet giants can’t outmaneuver local tycoons across the country.

China Film Corporation is different, it has the Chinese character "中" in its name.

Li Wenyu could only guarantee that in his hometown city, the cinemas opened by his brother-in-law in the county could allow the Guo family to live a comfortable life.

Fat Bing suddenly realized, "Not bad. By the way, South Korea made 3600 million Hong Kong dollars in two days, while we in mainland China only made 1200 million RMB in two days? That's a big gap."

"The box office in Hong Kong Island was 1800 million."

Old Li was speechless. "This isn't a legal holiday in mainland China, how can we compare? Let's wait and see the entire first week."

The highest box office of Kung Fu in the summer season was 4600 million in one week.

Going back half a year, the Hero box office during last year's Lunar New Year holiday was less than 4000 million in a week.

Now the single-week box office of "Extreme Job" in mainland China is approaching 5000 million, and it will easily exceed 2 million in the first month when the winter vacation is fully launched.

The Spring Festival period is dominated by the end of Extreme Job, Infernal Affairs 2 and Extreme Escape.

Three blockbuster movies to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

This year can still be a happy one.

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Early in the morning on the 27th, Li Wenyu took Pang Bing to see his grandmother. She is now over 80 years old, in good spirits and very active.

After receiving the red envelope from Pang Bing, he also gave Pang Bing a jade bracelet.

Fat Bingle was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling the whole day.

This is the first time that Lao Li has really taken her to meet his family. Those older sisters outside, including the one with the slim waist, definitely can't reach this level.

She now thinks Gao Yuanyuan is pretty and no longer feels that Xiao Gao is a threat.

Li Wenyu's next roadshow will be in Shanghai on the 30th, so there is no need to rush.

At around 11 a.m., Lao Li arrived at the hotel. He took the Kung Fu 2 script from Zhou Xingchi, read it for a while, and nodded, saying, "Brother Xing, if you shoot your new film according to this format, the box office and reputation will definitely be good."

This version of Kung Fu 2 is quite different from the original version which had the planned taking over of the Axe Gang, helping an old lady cross the street, and being challenged by the Jianghu.

Kung Fu 2 tells the story of the protagonist Sing Jai, who was taking care of the Axe Gang when he encountered the invasion of the Japanese.

The overall direction is similar to Ip Man 1.

Unlike Ip Man 1, Ah Xing, the successful leader of the new Axe Gang, found out that one of the three tycoons in Shanghai had become a traitor.

A master of his generation easily broke into the lair of a traitor protected by countless people, took his head and fled away, his reputation spreading to Shanghai and even the whole country. Then he encountered a group of Japanese samurai assassins, and a group of traitors surrounded and killed him, with great special effects.

The hero coolly counterattacked and killed all the ambushers, showing the style of a master.

When the Japanese machine gun team aimed at the civilian area of ​​Shanghu, they threatened to shoot him if he did not surrender.

The male protagonist was imprisoned.

The Japanese want to have their own masters kill the Chinese fighter Xingzai in a huge public arena under the watchful eyes of the public, similar to the death of Huo Yuanjia in Jet Li's new Fist of Fury.

But this version is not poisoning.

It was the imprisonment that caused his power to drop sharply.

In the final battle, after being abused in various ways, Xingzai suddenly fought back and once again fought back to protect the ordinary people near the ring. He rushed into the machine gun group alone and was hit by artillery shells before he died.

At the end of the script, a little boy meets an old beggar who sells a bunch of magic secrets as an Easter egg.

This script, which has been polished for more than half a year, has an outline and 30% of the details.

Following Ip Man's anti-Japanese route, coupled with the various magical special effects of chasing Kung Fu 1? A generation of masters died in the war of resistance.

Easter eggs are the new heritage!
After the filming is finished, we can look for a new male lead to play Kung Fu III.

Li Wenyu smiled and smoked, then asked curiously, "Why did you let the hero die in battle?"

In the Ip Man series, the actor was just injured, and he could escape and shoot many films in a row.

As for whether Kung Fu Hustle 2 will steal everything from Ip Man, it's unlikely. One reason is the film industry's heavy special effects, like the oriental martial arts films like Harry Potter.

The successful grandmaster died bravely.

The other is a combat-style fighting move.

There are so many anti-Japanese films and TV series in the Chinese film industry that it is almost impossible to count them. Whether they are good or not depends entirely on the creators themselves.

Donnie Yen originally played Ip Man and then went on to play Chen Zhen, but that doesn't stop Fist of Fury from being a bad movie.

But at this stage, considering the level of control and standard that Stephen Chow has over the quality of his films, this is definitely a better work than CJ7 and The Mermaid.

Zhou Xingchi smiled and said, "As long as you approve of the script, I'll be relieved. My writing team and I wrote the protagonist to death just for the sake of sensationalism."

"Sensationalism can bring in more box office revenue, but I also don't want to be in front of the camera all the time. I want to try more behind the scenes."

"Mr. Li, Extreme Job can easily break 4 million in mainland China, right? Then, won't more good films in the next few years be able to break million individually?"

If it exceeds 35 million, 1.75% is also 40 million. If you can negotiate with the theaters for % or more, you will make more money.

Li Wenyu nodded affirmatively. "That day will definitely come. I'm not exaggerating. Just like I said during my first roadshow, from 00 to now, in less than four years, the number of Chinese internet users has increased by 4 million."

"More and more people can afford computers and cell phones, so watching movies..."

"Based on the number of moviegoers in South Korea, if there were 1 million moviegoers and a ticket price of 20 yuan, that would be a box office of 20 billion yuan."

"The most discussed figures for the number of viewers of Shaolin Temple in the 80s were 2.7 million, 5 million, or 10 billion."

"That figure is unimaginable today. Of course, the 10 billion viewership includes open-air cinemas that have expanded into rural areas across the country, which is far more difficult to calculate."

"As long as we have 20 million viewers for one film, it's pretty sure we'll break billion at the box office."

Zhou Xingchi took a long breath, his blood boiling and his head feeling a little dizzy.

He is just stating the facts. Think about the box office records of 5 million, million, and million that have been broken one after another in recent years, and fantasize about million.

So, the super-rich Mr. Li saw 20 billion directly???

With his head dizzy, Zhou Xingchi was speechless and unable to refute!

The most indisputable point about the horror legend of Shaolin Temple in the 80s is that the number of viewers nationwide must have exceeded 1 million.

If you take the controversial figure of 2.7 million and calculate it based on the current lowest ticket price of 20 yuan per ticket, then the box office has exceeded 50 billion yuan!
Even though there were many free performances back then.

Now cinema chains across the country are still promoting the film on the ground with an additional 20% increase in ticket sales.

Taking a few deep breaths, Zhou Xingchi suppressed his excitement and said, "Mr. Li, I haven't written the mute female role of the heroine yet. You can play it however you want. You can hire a writing team."

"I've considered an idea where, for example, the protagonist starts out looking for a medical solution to cure his deafness and learns the location of a famous doctor."

"I wanted to send the heroine to seek medical treatment, but in order to kill the traitor, I had to send my men to escort her."

"Then the heroine can be protected by bodyguards, perform freely, and come back to help the hero collect his body in the end, which would be great."

"It's also good to follow Gao Yuanyuan's path of playing a beautiful, strong and miserable female character in Extreme Pro."

Why is there only an outline plus 2% more details in Kung Fu 30?
In this version, there is no filler for Fat Bing's mute girl.

Zhou Xingchi said again, "When the country is in great trouble, the personal feelings of men and women can be abandoned. The heroine leaves and follows the path of transformation as a heroine, and after returning, she helps the hero collect his body."

"And then becoming the leader of the new third little boy seems like a good idea."

"This version can be as free as she wants."

What do you think of the beautiful, strong and miserable extreme professional girl?

She is super strong and good at fighting, very beautiful, and she is not chasing the boss for money, but is willing to do anything for him, even if it means committing crimes, killing people, or becoming his fans.

Then to being abandoned.

Now even in the Time Campus movie section, some fans are complaining about Xiao Gao's role.

Li Wenyu nodded, "I'll take a copy of the script back and think about it. You should also consider continuing to enrich this script. If Bingbing doesn't perform Kung Fu 2, she will just appear and die randomly."

"This book still needs to be a few levels richer."

The other party's description was good.

But Lao Li knows that you can't force it. If you can find a team of experts and arrange it in a way that does not disrupt the overall plot and enriches the life development of the mute girl, then it will definitely work.

Just like how Zhang Ziyi played the Grandmaster as Gong Er's second wife, it did not lower the quality of the Grandmaster, but instead elevated it.

But if the script can't handle it.

Can only give up.

You can't ruin a series just to force someone to be praised.

Li Wenyu has a screenwriter attribute of 100 points. If he puts in some effort, he will definitely be able to come up with a good branch direction, which requires accumulating slowly.

Let's work together.

When Li Wenyu returned home with a script, Pang Bing was still showing off her high emotional intelligence in front of his parents, so Lao Li showed her the script directly.

When Mr. and Mrs. Li learned that it was the script of Kung Fu 2, they were a little excited.

Father Li said directly, "When our family first opened the six-hall cinema in the city, I invited colleagues and friends to watch Kung Fu there five times."

"It really looks good. What's the direction of the second script?"

Li Wenyu briefly described it, and his father became excited again. "It feels a little familiar, as if I've vaguely seen it before, but the effect of Zhou Xingchi's performance is definitely different."

Pang Bing responded with a smile, "It does feel familiar. There's a scene of killing traitors in Lv Langwei's The Emperor of Shanghai: Heroes Dominating the World, and fighting in the martial arts ring has long been in the Fist of Fury series."

"Then there are the Fist of Fury and so on. The stories are very straightforward and the prototypes are all there."

"Whether you can take a good photo and make it look particularly good depends on your own ability."

Mutual borrowing, plagiarism and tributes are everywhere in the Hong Kong film circle.

Whether you can win or not is up to fate.

At least when the hero Ah Xing in Kung Fu goes to kill traitors, ordinary bullets can just hit him with a single swipe of the hand.

The quality of special effects is much better than The Matrix.

(End of this chapter)