Benedict Community east of Beverly Hills.

It is Saturday, July 25th.

On Wednesday night, Jack Achievement flew to Los Angeles and settled in the mansion he just bought last year.

It's almost noon.

I just watched the sample "Agent Phantom" sent from Hong Kong with Disney Pictures President Bill Michanik. The assistant came over to remind me that the guests had arrived one after another.

Regardless of the reputation of some aspects, Jack Cheng is definitely a person with high emotional intelligence, and he is truly a big brother-like person.

I realized that more and more Chinese-language filmmakers have entered Hollywood in the past two years, and many people have been here recently. Jack Cheng took this opportunity to gather everyone to get together to connect with each other and can help each other in the future.

The first one to arrive was Chou, and by the way he brought Michelle Young, one of the heroines of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Everyone greeted me, and Jack Cheng also introduced Bill Michanik to the two.

Bill Michanik had already heard some news about the first day of the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the morning, and was quite enthusiastic about Chou and Michelle Young.

Then, Jet Lee, Xu, and even some other Asian faces who were still in Hollywood but had not yet made a name arrived one after another.

Jet Lee won't mention it.

Another old monster Xu took advantage of this wave of Chinese-language filmmakers going to the United States and recently signed a film contract with Warner. The protagonist is Steven Sieger, a direct action actor under Warner. He is currently writing a script and has a preliminary idea to roughly tell a story about a police cooperation between Hong Kong and the United States. This setting is mainly to be able to shoot in Hong Kong, where he is familiar with. It is expected that there will be funds from the other side of the ocean to participate, with a budget of about 25 million US dollars.

In addition, some of the Hollywood natives Jack Cheng knew in recent years. When 12 o'clock passed, the villa hall was already bustling and bustling, and even Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, rushed over.

This is a self-service party.

Seeing that everyone had started, Jack Cheng, as the master, had not yet said a few opening remarks, and the atmosphere gradually became subtle.

Because the most dazzling Chinese-language filmmaker in Hollywood has not arrived yet, it is Bai Ge Wu, who has sold the success of "Broken Arrow", "Mission Impossible 2" and "Face Change".

A more sensitive person can actually find that on Wednesday's premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Jeter Lee deliberately flew from China to support him, while Bai Ge Wu, who is in North America, did not attend. Even though Bai Ge Wu's recent actions make people understand that he did not cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment again, this is a film of his fellow countrymen. Putting aside the factors of Daenerys Entertainment, we should support each other in the end.

And the old monster Xu this time.

In "The True Color of Heroes" back then, the grievances are hard to describe. Now that Old Monster Xu follows the steps of others, it is hard to say what Bai Ge Wu Hui is thinking.

Until twelve o'clock passed, Bai Ge Wu finally came slowly.

After all, he was a Chinese-language filmmaker at this time. Both Jack Cheng and others and many native Hollywood people came forward.

"I'm so sorry, Aaron, there was a meeting in the morning, and there was a traffic jam on the road," Bai Ge Wu Lianlian said sorry. Seeing Bill Michanik, he felt warm again: "Bill, I didn't expect you to be there too."

"I'm glad to see you again," Bill Michanik also shook hands with Bai Gewu with a smile, and took advantage of the situation: "Wu, how about the "Double Crisis" project, let's take the time to talk about it?"

Bai Gewu smiled on his face, but he refused without any politeness: "Bill, I think we should not waste time. I hope to have absolute control over our projects in the future. You obviously can't give this, right?"

"It's OK to talk about it, I'm on the phone with Mr. Messier from France."

"Sorry, I've actually negotiated a script with Paramount," Bai Gewu interrupted directly and signaled to the side: "Also, I'll go and say hello to Afa and the others."

Bill Michanik looked at Bai Ge Wu leaving, and he could only regret it.

Then he saw Danny Morris, the president of New World Films who was indifferent to Bai Ge Wu Arlai, and he couldn't help but feel a little gloating.

With the local box office of "Face Change" about to exceed 200 million, Bai Gewu has been very popular in Hollywood recently. Daenerys Entertainment has trained this big-name director, but now he is watching him leave without trying his best to keep him. In the eyes of Michanik, a traditional Hollywood executive, it is very unwise.

On the other hand, Bai Gewu greeted everyone and came to Fa Ge, and was sorry again: "I've been a little busy recently. Ah Fa has not been able to attend the premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". I hope you don't mind."

Brother Fa was not strange at all on the surface, but seemed to be in a good mood. He smiled and said, "It's okay."

Bai Ge Wu didn't mean to talk about this. In fact, if you want to go, you can certainly take time. However, he has made three big-selling movies for Daenerys Entertainment, and he doesn't plan to let the other party take advantage of him. Even though he knows the current influence of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood, with the big-selling movies of the three movies, Bai Ge Wu firmly believes that he can still do a good job without Daenerys Entertainment.

Recently, Bai Gewu successfully signed two film contracts with Paramount, one is a gunfight action movie that cooperated with Fa Ge as the producer, and the other is a project he directed himself, called "American Police Officer", which is similar to the concept of "The Desperate World", tells the story of a policeman discovering various conspiracies while pursuing a plane crash and escaping criminals.

Except for Paramount who has locked in Tommy Lee Jones in "The Destiny", he, as a director, has considerable power in other aspects, including the final editing rights. And his budget also generously gave $100 million directly, which is the same as "Face Change".

Compared to the various constraints he had when working with Daenerys Entertainment, this is the working state he wanted most.

When a person is very successful, he will gradually become more open about many things. After a while, Bai Gewu also took the initiative to chat with Mr. Xu, with a little bit of resolving past grudges, saying that he would say hello to himself if he needs anything in Hollywood.

The atmosphere of the cocktail party became quite harmonious as a result.

When several big names gathered together, the topic unknowingly talked about some recent movies.

"I have also followed Jiahe's "Agent of Phantom", and I probably haven't finished it yet, right?"

"The filming was just finished last week and is in the late stage," Jack Cheng said: "Mr. Zou asked someone to send a sample. Mr. Michanik and I just watched it in the morning. After all, the collaboration between "Police Story 4" is very pleasant."

Bai Gewu drank some wine, was full of energy and talked happily: "This time the strategy is actually great. The two protagonists, Hong Kong stars and Hollywood actors, but Haonan is a little less famous. It's better to add some money to find Andy Lau or Wei Zai, as well as the heroine, Jiang Anqi..."

Speaking of this, Lao Wu was not fainted, and stopped in time and said, "Anyway, the strategy of combining Chinese and Western styles is very correct. Just like Aaron and Ajie's "Rush Hour" and "Hurricane Rescue", when we work hard in Hollywood, we should follow the local customs. Li's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" seems to me as a counterexample. It's simply a mess to bring a pure martial arts movie to Hollywood. How can it be successful?"

After hearing Bai Gewu's words, the acquaintances around him looked a little strange, but they did not refute anything.

But Bill Michanik, who still stayed, couldn't help but speak: "Wu, do you know the first day box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?" When Bai Ge Wu looked at him with a little confusion, Michanik took the initiative to reveal the mystery: "143 screens, the first day's box office was 1.65 million US dollars, and it was also Paramount's "Hamburger Movement" that was painted yesterday, with 1,887 screens, and only 1.07 million US dollars on the first day."

143 screens, 1.65 million on the first day.

1887 screens, 1.07 million on the first day.

The contrast is strong.

Even if many preview videos are inevitably very high due to small-scale screenings, it is rare to have more than 10,000 yuan in the first day of the studio, not to mention that the summer season is a non-winning awards season. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won 1.65 million on the first day, and the first week may be between 7 million and 8 million.

Many Chinese-language films in North America may not have a total box office of seven or eight million, but this is just the expected preview results of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Thinking of Bai Ge Wu Gang's comments, the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

Finally, Jack Cheng smoothed out: "Danelles spent so much effort to promote the preview, it is worth a better result. What can be done for more than one million box office? The key is to rely on the follow-up."

Brother Long wants to give face, not to mention that everyone understands that this is a step, and everyone agrees. Bill Michanik just now also tactfully did not say more, after all, it is possible to cooperate in the future.

When Bai Gewu almost made himself unable to get out of Taiwan, the whole Hollywood gradually paid attention to the box office trend of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Even though many people think that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will sell well based on various prior feedback, it won $1.65 million in the first day with only 143 screens, which is still beyond everyone's expectations.

The weekend passed in a blink of an eye.

On Monday, July 28, the box office statistics were released. The final box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was $4.96 million in three days of painting, surpassing "American Pi" with nearly $35,000, and ranked fifth in the weekend's three-day box office list, second only to "One Day", "Rebirth", "No More" and "Tornado".

Subsequently, a full week from July 25 to July 31 passed, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" earned $7.53 million in box office, and the ranking was still fifth.

Each venue is close to $53,000.

Daenerys Entertainment followed up in time, and the super high preview of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has become a hot topic of attention for more media at once, and it once again produced a word-of-mouth effect among the audience.

On August 1, a new box office week begins.

Due to strong feedback on the first week's preview, Daenerys Entertainment made timely adjustments and directly expanded the original large-scale screen size of more than 1,500 blocks in the first week of the first week of the large-scale release to 1,863 blocks, and plans to consider adding again according to the specific circumstances.

Subsequently, the box office potential of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" officially began to be released.

Faced with the attack of two new films and other old films on August 1, under the popularity of continued fermentation, from August 1 to August 7, the first week of large-scale paintings, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" finally won a box office of US$29.13 million!

Directly win the first place in the weekly box office list.

Perhaps the single-week box office of other movies with less than $30 million is only average, but for a Chinese-language film that has entered Hollywood, it is still a literary Chinese-language film with a box office of $29.14 million, which is completely a phenomenal dark horse level.

Including the first week's pre-show, in just half a month after its release, the cumulative box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has reached US$36.67 million.

Moreover, unlike "The Rebirth Man", which cut 53% in the first week with a 27.55 million USD in the first week, "The Hidden Dragon" will obviously go a long way and is even very hopeful to become the first Chinese-language film to achieve a box office of over 100 million in North America.

Originally after "One Day", Hollywood thought Daenerys Entertainment would calm down and give everyone some room to play. After all, starting with "Face Change", as of July 31, Daenerys Entertainment related videos have won 10 consecutive single-week box office championships in the 1997 summer season. No one expected to jump out of a dark horse like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

On August 8, another box office week began, and the number of screens of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" increased significantly again, reaching 2,393 yuan. In order to maximize the box office potential of the film, the promotion and promotion investment of this film was also added to US$15 million, which was the same as the production cost of the film.

New York.

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

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

To be precise, the harvest is great.

Not only did North America quickly become a well-known Chinese actress, but she also became famous in China like Jiang Anqi in the first half of the year, and was more popular than Jiang Anqi. After all, Jiang Anqi was just a vase with more scenes in "Hurricane Rescue", and she was indeed a very heavy heroine.

The ongoing "Kangxi Private Visit" has been broadcast, even if she is not yet a story unit for her role, with the promotion of Jinshu, her ratings have also increased significantly recently.

The delayed release date of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in China has also quickly made a decision with the success of the movie in North America and is scheduled to be released on September 5th.

An executive of Daenerys Entertainment also said that this time, he is even expected to win an Oscar nomination for her next awards season, at least it is a Golden Globe nomination. Whether it is the Oscar or the Golden Globe, Li Youhu didn't dare to think about it a year ago.

Saturday, August 9.

The promotional schedule for two consecutive weeks after its release finally came to an end. Daenerys Entertainment held a celebration party for the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at a hotel on the Upper West Side.

Attendance in the evening, Li Youhu finally met a man who had not shown up for this period again.

Simon has been walking around recently and has just flew over from Los Angeles today.

When Li Youhu walked up with a slightly longer silver low-cut dress, he only heard someone discussing the film's release with Ang Lee.

"I really delayed the Chinese schedule of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Although it is a Chinese-language film, this movie was filmed for Western audiences at the beginning, and it is more suitable for being released in North America first and then feedback to China. If it was released in China first, the audience over there would not like this style too much." Simon said, feeling Li Youhu's approaching in a faint fragrance, he took it over, sniffed it over his head, and smiled and changed to Chinese: "It's very fragrant and white."

How could anyone say hello like this?

Li Youhu glanced at someone charmingly, but leaned against him obediently and acted as a vase.

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

Really insincere.
To be continued...