Chapter 189: Rush Hour 3 Filming Completed, Painted Skin

Chapter 189: Rush Hour 3 filming completed, Painted Skin box office results released

For Hollywood, the most important Asian market is the Japanese market now, and the most important in the future is the Chinese market.

The Japanese market is now the second largest film market in the world, and the Chinese market is the fastest growing market in the world.

And Wu Yuan is undoubtedly the director with the greatest influence in the Japanese and Korean markets among the current Hollywood directors.

Coincidentally, Jackie Chan is also the Hollywood actor with the greatest influence in the Japanese and Korean markets!

Yes, Jackie Chan has a great influence in Japan as well.

Before Wu Yuan, the record holder of the Chinese-language box office in Japan was Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan's martial arts films in the 1990s had a good box office performance in the Japanese market, and many people watched them!

Roald had to look forward to the Asian box office of Rush Hour 3!

Wu Yuan + Jackie Chan, never had such a wonderful start!

"Daniel, go go go!" Early the next morning, Roald knocked on Wu Yuan's hotel door and pulled him up impatiently, "Come, it's time to start work!"

After taking two consecutive days off, Wu Yuan was finally able to film "Rush Hour 3" honestly.

In the following days in Mexico, he worked hard every day, the crew had almost run-in, and the overall filming was constantly speeding up.

It was originally planned to shoot in Mexico for a work cycle of one and a half months, but Wu Yuan only took one month to get it done.

In early February 2006, the crew of "Rush Hour 3" completed a large number of fighting scenes in Mexico and rescued the president's daughter. The crew moved to Washington again.

The filming in Washington was very simple. It was just some scenes in some places in the White House that were open to tourists, and it took only three to five days.

The plots in the movie that really involved the "President's Office" were all shot in the studio in Los Angeles. The real White House would not allow the film crew to shoot in.

Just like it is impossible for the Zhongnanhai to allow the film crew to go in for filming.

After spending three to five days to shoot the ending scenes in Washington, the filming of "Rush Hour 3" was basically completed.

Action movies are actually so simple to shoot. There is no complexity in the plot, and there is no high requirement for acting skills.

The difficulty of shooting depends entirely on whether the actors can shoot the fighting scenes smoothly.

With Jackie Chan and Cheng Long, Wu Yuan naturally does not need to worry about the fighting scenes in "Rush Hour 3", and the overall shooting was completed relatively easily.

This time, Wu Yuan has the editing rights for "Rush Hour 3", but he has no plan to edit the movie himself.

The specific post-production work was still handed over to New Line. He only needs to check the effect of the film in the end and give some editing and modification suggestions.

For Wu Yuan, after the Washington scenes were shot, he was considered "finished".

Wu Yuan has been busy for more than a year and a half. He has only taken a break for two or three months since the filming of "Love" in the summer of the previous year. He must take a vacation.

However, vacation does not mean returning to China.

After bidding farewell to the crew, Wu Yuan returned to Los Angeles alone.

It was not that he was busy with work during the period of returning to the light, and he did not pay any attention to John. After returning to Los Angeles, Wu Yuan immediately went back to his mansion, resting while waiting for his girlfriend.

Yes, Liu Yifei is coming to the United States to reunite with him.

Now China is in the Spring Festival holiday. Although the Spring Festival atmosphere in Tokyo is not strong, Liu Yifei and her daughter still have to celebrate the Spring Festival. Their reserved project every Spring Festival is to visit relatives.

First go back to my hometown to see my grandmother, and then come to Los Angeles to see my aunt.

Last Spring Festival, Wu Yuan was filming in the Caribbean, and missed Liu Yifei's visit to Los Angeles. This year, he will not miss it.

On February 16, 2006, Wu Yuan called Daisy to drive to Los Angeles International Airport early in the morning.

A little after two in the afternoon, he finally met his girlfriend and future mother-in-law at the airport after not seeing her for two months.

Looking at the mother and daughter, both wearing sunglasses and looking like they were cut from the same mold, Wu Yuan showed a warm smile on his face.

"Xixi, Auntie, you are here."

"You must be tired after sitting on the flight for so long. Let's go back and rest for a while."

After taking Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli out of the airport, as soon as they got in the car, Liu Yifei chattered and shared her daily life with Wu Yuan.

"Brother, when we boarded the plane in Beijing, many fans came to see me off!"

"Mom also left the contact information of several fans, so they can contact mom directly if they have something in the future."

Sitting in the back row, holding Wu Yuan's arm, Liu Yifei's face was full of smiles, and her little mouth kept chattering, from China to Tokyo, from life to movies.

"Brother, your "Painted Skin" box office is so high!"

"The box office in the mainland is 230 million, the box office in Hong Kong is 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and Japan has sold 5.6 billion yen. Even South Korea has mobilized more than 4 million people to watch it."

The release of Painted Skin in Asia has basically ended.

Unfortunately, the box office of "Painted Skin" in the mainland did not break the record of "Hero" in the end, and it was fixed at 230 million yuan.

There are still not enough cinemas in the mainland this year. Without the influence of the Ministry of Culture, it is still difficult for "Painted Skin" to break the box office of 250 million.

After all, the films "A Thousand Miles Alone" and "A Chinese Odyssey" released at the same time, as well as "King Kong" and "Huo Yuanjia" released later, have taken a lot of screenings for profit sharing.

This is different from the situation when "Hero" monopolized all the screenings.

However, the box office performance of "Painted Skin" in various Asian countries is much better than that of "Hero".

The Japanese yen is still quite valuable now. One hundred yen can be exchanged for more than seven yuan. The box office of 5.5 billion yen is equivalent to nearly 450 million yuan.

In addition, the more than four million viewers in South Korea also brought in a box office of about 200 million yuan, and the box office of 10 million US dollars contributed by Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

"Painted Skin" has a total box office of nearly 1 billion yuan in six East Asian countries.

This result is nearly half less than "Your Name", mainly due to the box office in the Japanese market.

This box office result is definitely not bad, but considering the cost, the profit level is obviously not comparable to "Your Name".

In fact, this is the limitation of Chinese blockbusters.

After all, Chinese movies are not like Hollywood movies, which have a global market to make money.

For Chinese-language films, the more expensive the investment cost, the harder it is to make a profit.

Even when the Chinese film industry was at its most prosperous and the market was the largest, the profit ratio of "The Wandering Earth" could not be compared with comedy films such as the "囧" series.

This is why the Chinese-language film market later became more and more fond of comedy films.

Comedy films have good box office performance and low investment, and are the easiest subject to make money!

The second is romance films, which are also low-investment and are prone to dark horses and blockbusters.

Why bother to make science fiction, magic, fantasy, costume, and war-themed blockbusters when you can make a lot of money by making comedy and romance films?

Only big directors, top directors, have the ambition to make such blockbusters.

Wu Yuan is such a big director. Even though he knows that making science fiction and fantasy blockbusters is definitely not as profitable as making comedy and romance films, Wu Yuan still wants to make more blockbusters in China, especially themes that have not appeared in Chinese-language films before!

If he wants to make money, during his heyday in Hollywood, he made mostly low-budget comedy movies and R-rated movies, all of which made hundreds of millions of dollars!

In China, he wants to try to bring more novel, high-level, high-investment visual blockbusters to Chinese audiences!

He even wants to teach Chinese filmmakers how to make movies and blockbusters!

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!

As the only Chinese director who has developed in Hollywood and the only director who has been exposed to Hollywood blockbusters, he has the obligation to lead Chinese-language films to catch up with Hollywood and develop and expand the mainland film industry!

"The box office of "Painted Skin" has basically reached expectations." Wu Yuan said to Liu Yifei easily: "When President Han led the team to the Toronto Film Festival, he also sold a lot of distribution rights for "Painted Skin."

"Now the distribution in North America is still pending."

"Fox is willing to help with the distribution of "Painted Skin", but the specific release date is still under discussion."

Speaking of this, Wu Yuan was also a little proud.

Unlike other Chinese films whose North American distribution rights can only be bought out at a low price, Wu Yuan can still make a living in North America.

At least he will not be bullied by Harvey Weinstein, the old liar and pervert.

It's just that the specific release time has to be arranged slowly.

"Hero" was delayed for more than a year before it was released in North America.

"Painted Skin" is not a traditional Chinese kung fu film, and Fox only took the trouble to distribute it because the director was Wu Yuan.

According to Fox's internal review, the box office of "Painted Skin" in North America is estimated to be only 20 to 30 million US dollars, and most of this depends on Wu Yuan's fame to attract audiences to the cinema.

Wu Yuan stretched out his hand and dotingly pinched Liu Yifei's nose. He said with a smile: "It has been basically confirmed within the company that "Painted Skin" will definitely have a sequel."

"You can also play a role in the sequel when the time comes. The heroine will most likely not be replaced, but an important female supporting role will be added at that time."

"Also, I am in Hollywood and have cooperated with New Line on a new series of film projects. There is also an important female supporting role in the first part. You can play it when the time comes."

"You don't have a suitable script to take in the mainland for the time being, but you can come to Hollywood to play some supporting roles first and make yourself familiar to North American audiences."

Liu Xiaoli, who had been sitting quietly in the co-pilot seat, opened her mouth when she heard Wu Yuan's words, but still hesitated.

She didn't want Liu Yifei to play a supporting role in a mainland movie.

After all, she is now the second highest-grossing actress in the mainland, second only to Zhang Ziyi. How can she play a supporting role for other actresses?

But Wu Yuan then said that he would bring Liu Yifei to Hollywood to get some experience, so Liu Xiaoli immediately swallowed her words back.

Since Wu Yuan was going to bring Liu Yifei to Hollywood, then it was no big deal to star in "Painted Skin 2". It was not shameful to play a supporting role in Wu Yuan's movie, and she should feel honored!

"Xixi, we still have to listen to Director Wu's advice." Liu Xiaoli forced a smile on her face and looked at Wu Yuan, "Director Wu, you can arrange Xixi's film career plan. Your vision and professionalism in this regard are definitely better than mine."

Wu Yuan smiled, "Aunt Liu, just call me Xiao Wu or Xiao Yuan, don't call me Director Wu all the time."

"After all, my relationship with Xixi is different now."

Looking at the sweet smiles of Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei after they looked at each other in the rearview mirror, Liu Xiaoli's back teeth were almost broken.

Good boy!

It's okay to take my cabbage, but you are so righteous and confident, not guilty at all!

So angry! But I still have to keep smiling.

Liu Xiaoli nodded with a stiff smile, turned her head and looked out the window.

"How long will it take to get there?"

"Tired."

In order to better serve her employer, Daisy, who has studied Chinese privately for a year, replied in poor Chinese: "It will be there in half an hour, ma'am."

Waving her hand, Liu Xiaoli leaned back weakly on the chair.

She had a hunch that she might not be very happy on this trip to Los Angeles to visit relatives.

Looking at the rearview mirror, Liu Yifei, who was in the back seat, hugged Wu Yuan's arm tightly with both hands, half of her body was hanging on Wu Yuan, and Liu Xiaoli felt a complex emotion in her heart.

She used to hang on to me like this.

She felt wronged, helpless, and wanted to cry.

The little cabbage that she had worked so hard to raise for 18 years was no longer on her as a mother.