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Since there were no plans to make a sequel, there were no easter eggs at the end of the film.

The film ends after the Lingxiao Palace, which symbolizes heaven, is completely destroyed. After all, we can’t have a scene where the Jade Emperor fights Sun Wukong, that would be a bit inconsistent.

Moreover, the length is not allowed. It is more than two hours. If you add the plot, it will be divided into two parts.

Therefore, as soon as the film ended, some of the audience members were eager to leave the venue in a hurry. Of course, the vast majority of them stayed in their seats and wanted to listen to the live interview.

"Hello, Director Jiang, I am a reporter from "China Film Report". Thank you very much for bringing a new and exciting Journey to the West story to the audience. So what we are curious about is how you came up with such a story, which is similar to "The Lion". What about completely different Journey to the West stories such as "Tuoling", "Pingdingshan", and "Daughter's Kingdom"?

Jiang Heng held the microphone and smiled and said: "Legends are about making people into myths, and myths are about making gods into people. I originally wanted to interpret the characters in Journey to the West from a human perspective. The Sun Wukong in the original work has always been bold. Free. After becoming the Victorious Buddha, can I really endure those strict constraints?

And can Lingshan and Heaven really trust Sun Wukong?

A person who has turned against Heaven twice, Lingshan and Heaven, has no defense at all?

Then one day, I happened to see the episode of "Water Margin" on TV, where Song Jiang and Lu Junyi were given poisoned wine. I suddenly had an idea, how could I really feel relieved, how could I completely trust him, how could I not hold anything back?

Since Buddha can make the Tightening Curse disappear without Wukong noticing, he must have the ability to make this thing suddenly appear.

Then I thought about what would happen if Wukong left Lingshan Mountain and returned to Huaguo Mountain, and that’s why I created the video you are watching now! "

After Jiang Heng finished speaking, the audience was stunned for about two or three seconds and then applauded enthusiastically.

Firstly, I think the film is really good, and secondly, I think Jiang Heng’s creative idea is really novel.

Since the beginning of the domestic film and television industry, film and television works on the theme of Journey to the West have emerged one after another, but there are really very few that are as groundbreaking as "Black Myth: Wukong".

"Journey to the West" is one example. The story is absolutely top-notch, but the action scenes are too weird.

Later, another reporter asked Jiang Heng how he thought that Yang Jian and Nezha were also helping to rebel against Tianting.

Jiang Heng then came up with the concept of "the three most rebellious boys in heaven", saying that Nezha weighed 100 pounds, 99 pounds of bone rebellious plus one pound of lotus root starch, which made the guests and the audience laugh.

In fact, the story about Yang Jian and Nezha secretly rebelling against Heaven was reflected in the "Lotus Lantern" a few years ago.

It's just that the Internet media was not yet developed at that time, and the concept of "the three rebels in heaven" was not widely spread.

But once Jiang Heng says it now, it will inevitably spread throughout the Chinese entertainment industry and become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Afterwards, Jiang Heng answered another question from the audience, and the premiere ceremony came to an end.

Reporters and audiences left the venue one after another, and most of the guests were arranged by Bona Pictures to attend a dinner at a nearby five-star hotel.

At the banquet, all the guests expressed their congratulations, believing that "Black Myth: Wukong" will once again set off a movie-going craze, and the box office of 28, 9, or more than 3 billion is inevitable!

Fortunately, Jiang Heng didn't make a movie in the first half of the year, so the New Year's Eve schedule at the end of 2012 and the Spring Festival at the beginning of 2013 were completely free.

Otherwise, who can compete?

Jiang Heng smiled warmly and toasted with many guests.

Tang Yan at the table next to him was also accepting congratulations from a group of female stars.

She plays Kang Jinlong in "Black Myth: Wukong". She has a coquettish beauty in human form, and her makeup is very special and unforgettable. Her popularity has skyrocketed and she is sure to become more popular.

As for the actresses sitting at the same table, some were sincerely happy for Tang Yan, but many were secretly jealous.

"Tangtang, your performance as Kang Jinlong is really great, maybe you can win the Best Actress Award!"

Tang Yan smiled slightly: "It's okay. Actually, I'm still in a daze now. It's all Director Jiang who tells the story so well!"

"Of course. If it weren't for Director Jiang, we wouldn't be here today to toast him!"

"Go together, go together!"

A group of female stars surrounded Tang Yan and came to Jiang Heng.

Tang Yan was not restrained, he toasted generously and said a lot of words of thanks.

Some people like to make noises, saying that the toast is too insincere, why should I kiss him anyway?

After hearing this, Liu Yifei and Jing Tan stared at him with unkind eyes, and then the man realized that he had made a mistake.

But the words had already been said, so Tang Yan pretended not to hear and kissed Jiang Heng gently on the cheek, causing the whole audience to scream and uproar.

When Jing Tian saw this, he toasted with a glass of wine, hoping to imitate his example.

Jiang Heng stopped him in a hurry and said with a smile: "Just toast, don't take advantage of me!" Da Tiantian rolled her eyes in anger.

However, because of Jiang Heng's words, the actresses behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, if Jing Tan really did that, the people behind him would be under too much psychological pressure.

If you don’t learn, do you have any ideas?

You offended Director Jiang and still want to leave? I’m afraid it will be difficult to become famous again!

Wang Zhonglei, who was sitting on the side, looked at the golden flowers of Aiyouteng Pictures with envy, and murmured in a low voice, "You can really pretend, can you still tolerate such a good thing?"

Feng Xiaogang whispered: "How can this kind of thing be done in public? Of course it has to be carried behind someone's back!"

"Too!"

But he said that the atmosphere of the banquet was quite lively. Everyone ate and drank until about ten o'clock in the evening, and then they got on good terms and went to a bar or KTV for a second game.

Most of the journalists who attended the premiere of "Black Myth: Wukong" had finished writing the first draft and were urgently revising and proofreading in preparation for publication.

As for the film critics, they were relatively free and each chose a more insightful entry point to write an article. In general, they still mainly praised the film.

As for the netizens on Douban and Tieba, the focus was still on the special effects scenes of the film.

Especially the action scene of Sun Wukong "defending Yang Jian with his back to him", which was praised to the extreme.

"Black Myth: Wukong" was said to be the most beautiful fighting scene among Jiang Heng's "Journey to the West" films, which made the audience look forward to it and hoped that the film would be released soon.

The next day, Jiang Heng came to iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures, and his assistant Cui Zhenzhen brought him a stack of newspapers.

Jiang Heng flipped through them casually and saw that they were all praising the film. Then he looked online and saw that they were mostly positive comments.

Soon Du Huan came over and said that he would lead the team to fly to Shanghai later to start the new film screening there.

Jiang Heng had no objection, because it had been discussed long ago. Later, he would fly to Japan to attend the premiere of the new film held by the partner Toho Co., Ltd.

In the next few days, he would fly to popular film markets such as South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France to participate in the local new film premieres.

In addition to his driver, bodyguard, and assistant, Tang Yan's team also accompanied him.

The reason is simple. She starred in "Splitting the Mountain to Save Mother" a few years ago and is still famous in the international market.

Mainly because European and American audiences have a deeper impression of Jiang Heng's self-directed and self-acted films. Tang Yan can play Jiang Heng's sister in the film, so a considerable part of the audience remembers it.

With this arrangement, the other two beauties were a little restless.

I don't know how the two discussed it, anyway, Liu Yifei accompanied them in the end.

The problem is that she didn't play a role in "Black Myth: Wukong", but she just followed him.

Liu Yifei's reason was that she happened to travel around the world with Jiang Heng, and then went directly to the Maldives, saving him the trouble of taking a detour.

Jiang Heng had no choice but to let Liu Yifei be a senior executive in Bona Pictures, and also a member of the publicity team.

The group went to Tokyo first, then Seoul and Los Angeles. They were warmly welcomed wherever they went.

Because in recent years, it is the era of special effects blockbusters and 3D movies. Whether it is Jiang Heng's special effects blockbusters or Marvel's superheroes, they are very popular with audiences from all over the world.

Especially the former, it is a must-see movie for many audiences every summer and winter.

Because the special effects level of Jiang Heng's films has always been online, and the action scenes are also quite exciting. It brings some comfort to the audience who have suffered from "pseudo 3D blockbusters" in recent years.

Jiang Heng's films, even if there are cultural differences and difficult to understand, have never been bad in terms of visual effects.

Furthermore, as Jiang Heng's films have been popular around the world for more than ten years, some related Chinese culture has also been spread there, and foreign audiences are not completely ignorant.

They are also looking forward to "Black Myth: Wukong", which is adapted from "Journey to the West".

However, after Jiang Heng led the team to participate in the premiere promotion in several countries overseas, he asked Tang Yan and others to return home first.

He took Liu Yifei and a group of bodyguards to the Maldives for vacation.

In China, July 13th soon arrived.

The long-awaited fans got up early and went to the cinema to grab IMAX3D movie tickets.

"Hello, two IMAX 3D movie tickets!"

"Uh, there are only seats in the front two rows, is that ok?"

"Ah? The front two rows are sold out so quickly, what about the second show?"

"There are seats in the back for the second show, but they are closer to the side!"

"Okay, two tickets!"

"One hundred and sixty!"

Because of the ticket subsidies from the film company and group buying websites, the 2D version has low-priced tickets of 9.9 yuan and 19.9 yuan, but the number is limited, and the audience needs to grab them at a specific time.

As for the 3D version, it starts at 39.9 yuan, and the average ticket price is around 50 yuan.

The IMAX 3D version, which is more popular with young audiences, has a slightly lower ticket price than in previous years, but it still remains at a high level of 80 yuan per ticket.

It's one hundred and sixty for two people, which is still a certain financial pressure for many young couples.

But even so, the IMAX 3D theater still has the highest attendance rate.

After all, Jiang Heng's films are mainly about visual effects.

As a result, people who have watched ordinary 3D and 2D movies are too embarrassed to post invoices on WeChat Moments. Only IMAX movies are more prestigious!

On this day, theaters in popular commercial areas in major cities across the country were almost full, and almost all the theaters were filled with "gods who want to pass the level".

The next day, the box office of the film was released. The box office of the film on the first day of release was 301 million. It did not break the previous single-day record, but it was also a very dazzling result.

After all, on July 13, some students had not yet had a holiday.

As schools went on vacation one after another, the box office of "Black Myth: Wukong" was bound to continue to soar.

Sure enough, on Saturday, the day after the release, the single-day box office soared to 375 million.

And on Sunday, it fell back to 329 million.

Jiang Heng's film once again broke 1 billion in three days. In addition, "Black Myth: Wukong" was adapted from "Journey to the West", and the original novel was more well-known than "Battle Through the Heavens".

It can be said that it is highly likely that "Black Myth: Wukong" will surpass "Fights Break Sphere" and set a new box office record for mainland films.

After being widely reported by major media, many film and television company bosses and directors were jealous and really envious!

In a studio at the China Film Digital Base, the filming of "Detective Dee: Rise of the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" is nearing completion.

Even some of the special effects shots in the film have been sent to the special effects company for production early, in order to be able to land in time for the 2013 Spring Festival and make a lot of money.

The Wang brothers attach great importance to this film, and Wang Zhonglei often comes to visit the set.

This time, Mr. Wang couldn't help but sigh.

"Breaking 300 million in a single day and 1 billion in three days, when can we make a film like this?"

Xu Ke smiled, "Increase investment, the total investment of his film starts from 200 to 300 million US dollars, and the effect is naturally outstanding.

How much have we invested? 200 million, the special effects are definitely not comparable!"

In fact, in the original history, the production cost of "Detective Dee: Rise of the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" was 130 million, and the cost of publicity and distribution was only 170 million.

The reason why Huayi can have 200 million RMB in production cost in this life is because of Jiang Heng's blockbuster and Huayi wants to seize the market.

It is a great trust to pay 200 million RMB to Xu Laoguai.

As for getting 200-300 million USD, let alone whether Huayi has so much money in its account, even if it has, it is impossible to give it to Xu Laoguai.

As described in the plot of "Black Myth: Wukong", Sun Wukong rebelled against the heaven twice, and it is not surprising that there is a third time.

Xu Ke once failed in a blockbuster like "The Legend of Zu Mountain", so no matter which investor faces him, they will not be able to help but wonder whether this movie will follow the footsteps of "The Legend of Zu Mountain", the reason is the same.

So Wang Zhonglei just laughed and said a few polite words after listening to Xu Ke's statement.

He sighed in his heart, it's a pity that Feng Xiaogang can't shoot mythological and fairy-tale blockbusters, otherwise he can really make one!

In Shanghai, Wu Yusen is reading the newspaper in the director's rest area on the set of "The Crossing".

Compared with more convenient and faster electronic media, he still prefers paper. So after the premiere of "Black Myth: Wukong", he asked his assistant to bring those newspapers with entertainment news every day, just to read the reports about "Black Myth: Wukong".

But the more he read the news, the more unhappy he was. Jiang Heng was praised to the point of being a flower.

What "China's No. 1 Director", "International Director", "Famous at Home and Abroad", all kinds of nice words were arranged on it.

But these are all false. What makes Wu Yusen most unhappy is the report that the average daily box office exceeds 300 million and breaks 1 billion in three days.

Haven't these audiences seen Sun Wukong? It was adapted in a dark style, and it could actually deceive so many box office.

In his opinion, the plot of "Black Myth: Wukong" is not very clever, especially the scene of making trouble in the Heavenly Palace at the end, which is too cliché.

It is obviously the tight hoop curse that harms you, and committing suicide and rebirth is also to completely get rid of the shackles of the tight hoop curse.

If that's the case, then you should go to Lingshan to find the Buddha. What's the big deal about making trouble in the Heavenly Palace to find the Jade Emperor? (End of this chapter)