Huayu: Starting from intercepting Duan Yu

Chapter 153 The terrifying speed of making money, Zhang Ziyi's request

["The Chronicles of Narnia" beats "King Kong" to win the weekly box office championship again! ]

[The Chronicles of Narnia is expected to gross over $6 million worldwide!]

["King Kong" is expected to exceed 5 million US dollars at the global box office! ]

[The $1.5 million investment in the superhero movie "Iron Man" has officially started filming! ]

[Robert Downey Jr.'s appearance as Tony Stark in Iron Man revealed! ]

[It is reported that the investment of 1.5 million US dollars for "Iron Man" was entirely funded by the director! ]

[Hollywood's biggest gamble of the 21st century: A Chinese director stakes his entire fortune on "Iron Man"!]

The next day, famous American media such as CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times all reported news about "Iron Man".

In any case, Marvel superhero movies have a considerable audience in the United States.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be making losses all the time and there would still be film companies making movies.

What's more, it's a superhero movie with an investment of 1.5 million US dollars.

Not to mention that the 1.5 million US dollars was personally funded by the Chinese director of this film.

This is definitely the craziest personal gamble in Hollywood in recent years!
Not only that, these media also dug up all of Xu Yi's experiences in the past few years!
So the Americans who saw these reports were all shocked without exception!
"Oh my god, this guy actually spent 1.5 million dollars to make a movie!"

"If I had 1.5 million rice knives, I would have done nothing and just wait to enjoy myself!"

"The key is, this guy earned his 1.5 million Mi Dao himself! And it only took him three years!"

“This guy is crazy!”

"But this guy is definitely a genius. Not only has he won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but his album sales are also number one in Asia!"

"I've also seen his movie 'Love'. It's really well made!"

"And Iron Man's armor, it seems he designed and made it himself!"

"From this perspective, Iron Man may not be a bad movie!"

"Let's see how it gets reviewed and praised. I definitely won't be watching it in the cinema right away!"

Of course, there are also many boycotts besides this.

"Oh shit, how could the Chinese possibly make a superhero movie!"

"Have Chinese people read Marvel comics?"

"Robert Downey Jr.? Hasn't he sucked himself to death yet?"

"I will never watch any Robert Downey Jr. movie! And I won't take my kids to watch it!"

"Let this Chinese director and Robert Downey Jr. die together!"

At the same time, these American media reports were immediately reprinted by domestic media.

Nowadays, several major domestic portals, in order to compete for users and traffic, all send people to monitor foreign media reports.

As long as there is something suitable, it will be reprinted to the country immediately.

What's more, these are reports about Xu Yi.

So when domestic netizens saw the reports reprinted by these domestic media, they immediately became excited.

At the same time, from these reports, they can finally guess something accurately.

How much money has Xu Yi made in the past few years!

"Holy crap, Xu Yi actually spent 1.5 million Mi Dao to make a movie!"

"The speed at which this guy makes money is terrifying!"

"Didn't you see in the report that part of the 1.5 million US dollars was a loan?"

"Even if it's a loan, there has to be collateral!"

"Movie production is so risky. If there's no collateral, do you think those foreign banks would lend him so much money?"

"And this 1.5 million Mi Dao is probably just his overseas assets. Domestic assets haven't been counted yet!"

"But the speed at which this guy spends money is unmatched by ordinary people! He just gave Liu Yifei a sports car worth several million, and I don't know how much he's spent on other female celebrities!"

"Tsk, spending this little money on a female celebrity is nothing to this guy!"

"That's right. This guy's songs are basically at the top of the ringtone download rankings of several major operators. Someone has calculated that this guy has made at least hundreds of millions from ringtones alone!"

"Hundreds of millions? Who are you looking down on?! Someone inside the operator revealed that Xu Yi's songs were all signed under a separate contract with the operator, and his share of the ringtone revenue is higher than other singers. He's made at least hundreds of millions from the ringtone business!"

"A few hundred million? No wonder this guy doesn't treat money as money!"

"He's so rich, so generous, and he's so talented, and he's the owner of an entertainment company. Which female celebrity could possibly refuse him?"

……

After the opening ceremony, Xu Yi devoted himself to the filming of "Iron Man".

He completely ignored outside public opinion.

Leave it all to Harvey.

The filming schedule for "Iron Man" is still very tight.

According to Xu Yi's plan, the shooting will take about three months.

A movie is about two hours long.

In addition, all the plots are already in Xu Yi's mind.

That is, there is no need to take extra shots.

So three months of shooting time is definitely not a short time.

This is because we have to change several places during this period.

We also need to cooperate with the US military in filming.

Otherwise the shooting time could be even shorter.

However, the post-production of special effects may take half a year.

Xu Yi plans to release this movie during the Christmas season this year.

It will be the Chinese New Year holiday at that time.

And if he remembered correctly, the box office champion of this year's Chinese New Year holiday was "Curse of the Golden Flower".

Director Zhang Yimou, producer Zhang Weiping.

Plus there’s Chow Yun-fat from Hong Kong, who was just rejected by Hollywood.

And Jay Chou from Taiwan.

If he doesn't give it a hard sniper attack, he'd be doing himself a disservice!
I feel so sorry for this group!

As for dealing with the media and reporters, this kind of thing can make you stand out.

Harvey naturally wouldn't refuse.

But at the same time, he began to regret it a little.

Because gradually he discovered that Xu Yi's "Iron Man".

It didn't seem to be as bad a movie as he had initially imagined.

But the contract had already been signed, so there was no point in him going back on his word.

Now is not a good time to fall out with Xu Yi.

He prepared everything and would wait until the movie was finished to see the quality of the movie!
What he didn't know was that Xu Yi had already seen through his little thoughts.

What's more, Xu Yi knew very well that he was a new Hollywood director.

Still a Chinese.

It would be strange if Harvey could really abide by the contract and not play any tricks!
But he doesn't even take Harvey seriously!
...Two months later, most of the filming of "Iron Man" was successfully completed.

If nothing goes wrong, three months of shooting time will be more than enough.

And at this time, the day of this year's Oscar awards ceremony has arrived.

In fact, this year's Oscars have nothing to do with Xu Yi.

He doesn't even have a movie released, let alone a nomination.

But as last year's winner of Best Foreign Language Film.

He is also the youngest winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award in history.

Harvey still helped him get a role as an awards presenter, responsible for presenting the award to the winner of this year's Best Foreign Language Film.

After all, Harvey is not only the producer of this "Iron Man".

It also shares a 21% share of the box office with the distribution company.

With this guy's ability and connections in Hollywood.

Even if you talk to the distribution company, the lowest 17% distribution share is not completely impossible.

In this way, he can own at most 4% of the box office share of "Iron Man".

So even if this "Iron Man" is indeed a bad movie.

He will also try his best to promote the film.

Anyway, Xu Yi admitted the consequences of losses and damaged reputation.

He is only responsible for making money!

Not to mention now, he is discovering more and more.

This "Iron Man" is not only not a bad movie, but the quality is surprisingly good.

I won’t say whether it can explode or not.

As long as the special effects aren't too bad, at least the loss shouldn't be too great.

So much so that he began to look at Xu Yi with admiration again.

He couldn't help but pay more attention to this movie!
"Director Xu, can I walk the red carpet with you tomorrow?"

"Iron Man" crew, in a hotel room.

Zhang Ziyi leaned in Xu Yi's arms, breathing slightly.

There is no way, Xu Yi is not only strong in combat.

The lasting power is even stronger.

So much so that she had to use all her skills and spent more than an hour to satisfy Xu Yi.

This was the result of Xu Yi intentionally letting her off because he saw she was working too hard.

Otherwise, if Xu Yi is unhappy, she will be busy until dawn but it will not have any effect!

"Don't you have your own crew?"

Xu Yi pretended not to understand what she meant.

At this year's Oscars, the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" starring Zhang Ziyi received multiple nominations.

But these awards she was nominated for have nothing to do with her at all.

They are all technical awards.

However, Zhang Ziyi herself once again became an Oscar presenter.

Responsible for presenting awards to the winners of the Best Editing competition.

But she was obviously not very willing to walk the red carpet and attend award ceremonies with the crew of "Memoirs of a Geisha".

After all, there are no big-name stars in this movie.

There is no attention either.

Also in this movie.

All the nude scenes were performed topless.

In other words, no one except the audience can see it.

Everyone else at the filming site had seen what they needed to see.

But this has nothing to do with Xu Yi.

The deal between him and Zhang Ziyi was originally a deal.

Before the transaction, Zhang Ziyi's reputation was already not very good.

At that time, I was working with Fang Shilong on the filming of "Rush Hour 2", and it happened to be Fang Shilong's birthday.

She packed herself up and sent herself to Fang Shilong on the pretext that she had not prepared a birthday present.

Not only did she kiss him on the spot, but she also had sex with him.

He also fed Fangshilong grapes and then picked up the grape skins with his hands.

And use your mouth to catch the champagne poured by the sex dragon.

Xu Yi naturally knew all this a long time ago.

That's why she is still young.

There is indeed nothing dirty on his body.

Otherwise, Xu Yi might not be interested in her.

But even so, Xu Yi would still take some protective measures at the beginning.

Later, his martial arts skills were upgraded to the grandmaster level, and he became immune to all poisons.

This is when I have no more worries.

But there is one advantage to this type of female star.

That's when it ends, there's no psychological burden at all.

You don't have to care about her feelings at all.

So don't say she just made a movie called "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Even if Zhang Ziyi really ran away to Xiaozi Country and devoted herself to art.

At most, Xu Yi would just buy an authentic disc and keep it in his collection.

And there will be no other feeling.

Including this time letting her play a role in "Iron Man".

It is also because it is a co-production and Chinese actors are needed to participate.

Otherwise, "Iron Man" would just be regarded as an imported film.

The domestic box office share is only 13%.

"Director Xu, I was wrong. I shouldn't have accepted that role..."

Zhang Ziyi immediately begged for mercy.

But Xu Yi was not moved at all.

So after taking a look at Xu Yi, she had no choice but to grit her teeth.

Once again, dragging my extremely exhausted body, I slowly slid down...

(End of this chapter)