Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

Seeing the scene of Adolf and the donkey kissing on the screen, Luo Kai widened his eyes and couldn't help but sigh: "This American really knows how to play, really kissing is... ah!? Hahahaha!"

Halfway through his words, Luo Kai couldn't help laughing, it was really that the content on the TV at the moment was too exciting.

I don't know if this donkey named Sandy really likes Adolf. Not only was he kissed, but just when Adolf wanted to separate, the donkey actually swung out his tongue and brushed Adolf's mouth without warning. Adolf's entire mouth was immediately covered with the donkey's saliva.

Everyone was stunned by this scene, even Adolf, the person involved, was at a loss for a moment. When he turned around, he immediately burst into a series of "Puh, Puh, Puh", and occasionally mixed with involuntary swear words.

In theory, this kind of swear words are not allowed to appear in live broadcasts at all. After all, what if it teaches bad things to children all over the United States? But at this moment, everyone was just laughing at this accident, and no one would pay attention to the words like "FUCK" and "SHIT" that Adolf said.

Even the audience sitting in front of the TV didn't care, because the previous scene was too funny.

Fortunately, the staff soon brought disinfectant tissues and mineral water for Adolf to wash with a smirk on their faces, but even after using a pack of disinfectant tissues to wipe his mouth, Adolf always felt that there was still the donkey's saliva in his mouth. Obviously, Miss Sandy's wet kiss just now left a big shadow in Adolf's heart.

"Hahaha, go check if this donkey has French blood. Our Adolf didn't inherit the romance of his grandmother's French blood, but this Miss Sandy is obviously very French."

"Adolf, how does it feel to be kissed wetly? Do you feel excited?"

Faced with the ruthless teasing of the two hosts, Adolf wiped his mouth with the second pack of disinfectant tissues, and then replied: "It's terrible."

"What I'm most worried about is Adolf's wife. I don't know if she will forgive you or even dislike you." Mary laughed gloatingly, because Adolf mocked her for having Alzheimer's disease when she mentioned the French kiss before.

The audience in front of the TV laughed and had a lot of fun. For example, Luo Kai liked to watch the host scold Adolf, because Adolf predicted that "Assassin's League" would fail at the box office.

In the following days, Adolf became a topic of entertainment in the United States. If he had just kissed the donkey lightly, after all, Barkley had kissed the donkey's buttocks before, even if he was paid attention, many people would think he was an imitator.

But now, because of that accident, his popularity even overshadowed Barkley's.

This was something Adolf himself did not expect. He thought it would be a scandal, but he unexpectedly became more famous. In comparison, Albert, who initially plotted against him, was not noticed by many people. Only some people would occasionally remember that he had proposed the bet, but more people only remembered that Adolf was kissed wetly by the donkey.

Nie Weike didn't know how upset the black guy who spoke for him on TV was at the moment. In his eyes, the most important thing was the box office results.

Adolf's kiss by the donkey caused a sensation in the United States, and also kept the box office of "Assassin's League" in a good trend in the second week. Many viewers were willing to go to the cinema to see what movie made Adolf lose the bet.

As "The Assassin's Creed" continued to achieve good results, those film magazines also began to publish some articles analyzing the reasons for the film's success to attract readers' attention.

There are many such articles, but Nie Wei thinks the most correct one is written by a magazine called "American Light and Shadow Voice". The three core points mentioned in this magazine are also the main reasons why Nie Wei was confident in releasing this film on a large scale in the United States.

"This may seem like a Chinese film, but it is actually the purest Hollywood blockbuster. It has the eye-catching and explosive scenes of Hollywood blockbusters, including car chases, gunfights, and fist-to-flesh fighting. These are classic elements inherited from Hollywood blockbusters, which make people feel excited and adrenaline surges after watching them. It is especially attractive to young people who pursue excitement."

"And the rhythm of this film has also changed the procrastination of Chinese films in the past. Although it is a Chinese director, Mr. Nie Wei's research on Hollywood films is obviously meticulous and he has completely learned the essence of the rhythm of Hollywood films. Almost every few minutes, the audience will enjoy an audio-visual feast, which lasts for more than two hours. The movie has almost no boring dragging points. "

"The good rhythm is naturally due to the good plot. The theme of "Assassin's League" is "good is rewarded with good, evil is punished with evil", and the whole film is also carried out around this center. Director Nie Wei is smart in not giving the audience too much chicken soup for the soul. This core is completely interpreted by the actions of the characters, so that people will unconsciously accept the director's core idea of ​​shooting this film when watching the plot. "

"In short, in my opinion, this movie is completely a movie with the skin of a Chinese movie, but it is indeed a Hollywood movie in its bones. This is why it is so easily accepted by American audiences even though it is starred by a group of Chinese actors. "

Nie Wei cannot say that the magazine's analysis is completely correct, but at least it is 70% correct. In fact, his film is indeed mainly shot in the style of Hollywood, but some Chinese elements are added in the middle.

Nie Wei does not expect these Western audiences to accept Eastern elements at once, so he just uses this subtle way to let them accept some Eastern settings little by little. As the works accumulate, these little elements will eventually become a system, and then it will be the time when Eastern films can really carry their own Eastern elements to conquer Hollywood.

Nie Wei never doubted whether this would be successful, after all, many Western elements were also accepted by Oriental people in this way.

On the first day of the second week, "Assassin's League" got 3,300 screens, and that week, it also won 47.6 million, and the total box office results also accumulated to 133 million, temporarily ranking 19th in the 2008 North American box office rankings, replacing "The Detective" which previously occupied this position.

In the third week, the box office of "Assassin's Alliance" finally saw a sharp decline. First, the number of screenings has been declining along with the decline in box office. Second, the enthusiasm of the audience has been exhausted. After all, this is a pure action movie. Those big scenes are shocking when you see them for the first time, but after watching them two or three times, even the best scenes will probably make the audience bored.

In this regard, those warm art films or comedies can often attract audiences to go to the cinema again and again.

However, even with a sharp decline, "Assassin's Alliance" still achieved a box office of 16.2 million that week, and the total box office has exceeded 149 million, and it is about to break through the 150 million mark.

The film's ranking in the North American box office total list in 2008 has also risen again, replacing "Grand Car" which was originally ranked 12th.

Assassin's Alliance is expected to be released for another four weeks. By then, even if the number of screenings is greatly reduced, it is a foregone conclusion that the film will eventually exceed 150 million in box office.

At this time, the box office of the two movies ahead of it, "Sex and the City" and "Horton Hears a Who", were 152.6 million and 154.5 million respectively. There is almost no gap between "Assassins" and these two movies, and it is very likely that it will surpass them in the next week.

By then, "Assassins" will be able to sit on the tenth throne of the North American box office list in 2008. As for the top, it is a bit difficult to go above it with the current box office potential of "Assassins". Even "007 Quantum of Solace", which ranks ninth, has a box office record of nearly 170 million.

Compared with North America, "Assassins" is still struggling to climb up to the tenth position of the year. In China, this movie has long been far ahead, and the box office is so high that the second place can't even see its back.

The box office record of 125 million on the first day opened the curtain of the box office miracle of this movie in China. After three weeks, the cumulative box office has exceeded 1.2 billion, which is also the first movie in the history of Chinese movies to have a box office of more than 1 billion.

In China, this movie was praised as a masterpiece by the media, who believed that this movie had improved Chinese action movies by at least one level.

And the effect of this movie in China was far more than these praises.

For example, some peripherals were sold like crazy in online shopping malls, including the ergonomic keyboard used by Nie Wei, the silver ring with the Heart Sutra engraved on it that Li Binbin wore in the movie, or the mobile phones used by the two, and even the guns in the movie, all of which were imitated by online merchants and sold as toys to children.

In addition, a gunfight game under iFlytek also urgently contacted Huayi to purchase the copyright of this film, and then made the elements of the guns and even the main character shapes in the game into content, and took advantage of the popularity of the movie to put it in the mall and sell it at a discount.

According to an internal employee of iFlytek, these virtual goods were sold for nearly 100 million yuan in just one week after they were put on the shelves.

There is also a game company in Taiwan that went directly to DC headquarters to buy the game adaptation rights of this part of the comics. Who made this movie also well received in Taiwan? The local box office was so high that a group of film companies in Taiwan felt that they only needed to compete for the second place in the box office this year.

There are also places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan. The global response of this movie is very good. In addition to North America, the overseas box office can also bring nearly 100 million US dollars in box office revenue.

As of three weeks after the movie was screened, the global box office of "Assassin's League" has exceeded 400 million US dollars, ranking 11th in the annual global box office rankings, and the gap from the tenth "The Chronicles of Narnia" is only less than 20 million. I believe that this box office gap will be completely made up in the next few weeks. By then, "Assassin's League" will also become the first Chinese movie to enter the top ten of the global annual box office.

Now every extra box office score of this movie is creating a new historical record.

When "Assassin's League" was a global hit, Nie Wei also got good news in North America. The negotiations with AMC Theaters finally made a breakthrough. Several shareholders finally accepted Nie Wei's offer after more than a dozen negotiations and prepared to sell their shares.

After all, they also know that AMC's current business environment, if they continue to insist, will only make the stocks in their hands depreciate more and more.

It is better to sell them quickly while they are still worth some money and someone is willing to take them over. After all, the US dollars in hand are the greatest guarantee of wealth.

As for Nie Wei, he also has new ideas for this cinema with an outdated business model. As long as the acquisition is successful, he will invest a large amount of money to renovate these cinemas. Although these investments will make the cinemas fall into a deficit at the beginning, as long as the renovation is completed, the income at that time will be able to make up for the current losses, and it will also be able to re-establish the reputation of AMC Cinemas.

The unexpectedly excellent performance of "Assassin's League" also gave Disney a big surprise. This is also the best overseas film they have released in recent years. For this reason, Disney has decided to hold a grand celebration banquet for the success of this film.

As the protagonist, Nie Wei is naturally indispensable.

And this time, Li Binbin also attended with Nie Wei.

This girl has been in the United States for a week. In the middle, she participated in two talk shows and accepted interviews from three newspapers and magazines. These American entertainment media are obviously full of curiosity about this oriental goddess who suddenly appeared.

Interestingly, when she first came to the United States, Li Binbin still maintained her previous habit of coming here. She did not wear any disguise that day and went out with her face bare. As a result, more than a dozen fans blocked her in the supermarket, asking for autographs and taking photos. When she finally escaped back to the hotel, she realized that she was busy signing autographs and taking photos with fans, and she didn't even buy anything she wanted to buy.

However, Li Binbin did not feel annoyed at all about this, but was slightly proud.

After all, she finally had a popularity base in the United States, and what she dreamed of at the beginning was now being realized step by step.

For example, Disney is about to hold a celebration banquet for "Assassin's League".

Nie Wei doesn't care much about any celebration banquet. After all, it is just a formal banquet. Rather than a celebration, it is more like a show-off by the film company, and the people present are also for socializing.

Nie Wei didn't care, but Li Binbin cared a lot. She thought this was a good opportunity to break into Hollywood and develop connections. After all, this was a celebration party held by Disney, and there would definitely be many Hollywood stars attending. Even just getting to know them would be a good thing.

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