You made me a superstar

Chapter 396 Overseas version of Infernal Affairs?

August [-]th.

early morning.

"Infernal Affairs" a new round of box office was placed on the table.

Huaxia box office is very good.

It was released for four days, with a daily box office of 700 million and a total box office of nearly 2000 million.

This data is certainly not unprecedented, but looking at the entire history of Chinese film, it can definitely be regarded as unprecedented, and it can even be said to be a milestone film.

Zhou Yang opened up the overseas box office.

"Infernal Affairs", relying on Laomei's SKY company, as one of China's export films, was officially released in [-] overseas countries and regions yesterday.

After seeing the overseas box office data on the information, Zhou Yang felt that the air in the entire office suddenly froze, and he felt a little cold.

"The box office of "Infernal Affairs" in North America was only over US$100 million..."

""Nightwalker" is four times as much as ours! Such a disparity in the box office is absolutely abnormal..."

"..."

Xu Mei's face was very ugly.

It seems that it is more difficult to accept the results of "Infernal Affairs" than Zhou Yang.

The movie "Infernal Affairs" was too explosive in China.

The box office broke 3000 million on the first day!

The four-day box office exceeded [-] million!

It was released for three days, and the attendance rate ranked first among the films of the same period, an astonishing attendance rate of close to 90.00%!

Word-of-mouth exploded, and on Douban and other major platforms, the word-of-mouth of "Infernal Affairs" even surpassed Zhou Yang's "Struggle" to reach 9.3 points, which is almost a score of a masterpiece!
……

Such an explosive movie once caused the whole company to put a lot of undue hopes on this movie. Even Xu Mei herself had imagined that this movie would be released overseas. Let the world's movies boil, but it is also the first shot of China's export movies!
however……

When the box office data was officially presented in her hands, she looked at the 100 million box office in disbelief, and even felt that she was mistaken.

"Infernal Affairs" hit the box office overseas, especially in Europe and America!

Her first reaction was that "Infernal Affairs" encountered a shady scene in the European and American film industry...

Since "Struggling", Zhou Yang actually has a group of loyal fans in Europe and the United States. Even if "Infernal Affairs" is not very good, these fans will at least go to the screening hall to watch this movie to support Zhou Yang, right?

$100 million debut!
This is so beautiful!
"The Hollywood movie "Superman 2" is released at this time, there is definitely an idea to suppress our "Infernal Affairs"..."

"The birth of our "Infernal Affairs" touched the cake of those Hollywood movies, especially our overseas release, they will definitely stare at us..."

"I have contacted SKY company. Our publicity in Europe and the United States is very difficult. Even some small corner media are more willing to report "Superman 2" or other movies released in August, even Django. "Nightwalker" obtained more overseas resources than us... the remaining resources of "Superman 2" were all replaced by "Nightwalker."

"The theaters are not very fair to us, our schedule is only half of that of "Nightwalker"..."

"..."

"We have been suppressed by various channels overseas, and this suppression has made it difficult for us..."

in the office.

Xu Mei took out her notebook.

The notebook contains various information about "Infernal Affairs" overseas.

As she spoke, she was indignant, and even said that she was gnashing her teeth when she was angry.

More than ten minutes later.

Xu Mei finished speaking.

After she finished speaking, she looked at Zhou Yang and hesitated for a while: "Mr. Zhou, we can't sit still... If possible, I hope the company can approve a sum of money for overseas publicity expenses. The Hollywood movie newspapers that should be bought, the ones that should be bought We're all going to buy every headline in the media, and other than that..."

"Infernal Affairs" did not spend any money on publicity.

Whether it's in China or Hollywood.

Naturally, there is no problem in China. Zhou Yang's popularity is at its peak, and "Infernal Affairs" is even more popular. For the sake of traffic, the media naturally flock to all kinds of hype, which indirectly increases the box office of "Infernal Affairs". ...

But other regions outside China are not the same.

The popularity of "Chain Saw" has long since subsided. Although "Struggle" was a big hit in Cannes, it is a niche movie at the box office after all. It is incomparable with pure commercial blockbusters, and it is no longer as popular as "Chain Saw". Back to the beginning.

"Infernal Affairs", which is not on its own territory, has not spent any publicity funds, and does not help those "big shots", naturally struggles at the overseas box office!

As Xu Mei talked, when she gradually realized that Zhou Yang hadn't said anything or responded, her voice gradually became softer.

She looked at Zhou Yang unconsciously, but saw Zhou Yang staring at the computer, as if browsing something over and over again.

What she wanted to say was finally suppressed by her.

The office also became silent.

Only the sound of the air conditioner blowing continuously...

Time passed bit by bit, Xu Mei looked at Zhou Yang's appearance, and began to feel a little uneasy in her heart, and even wondered if she had said something wrong.

She became inexplicably flustered, and instinctively lowered her head.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Yang turned off the comments on Overseas Movie Network and looked up at Xu Mei.

"Let me think about it again. Looking at the situation, blindly spending money on publicity may have little effect..."

"what?"

""Infernal Affairs" itself is not a movie designed to please Europe and the United States..."

For more than ten minutes just now, Zhou Yang has been browsing the movie reviews of movie fans on overseas websites.

About 30.00% of them couldn’t understand. They felt that the characters in "Infernal Affairs" were too complicated, and they didn't understand what the movie meant until the end.

More than 20.00% of the audience compared this movie with "Night Walker". They felt that the gunfights and action scenes between the good guys and the bad guys in "Night Walker" were very enjoyable, especially when several well-known overseas kung fu superstars played in "Night Walker". The acting skills in "Infernal Affairs" can be called classics, which perfectly hit their aesthetics, making them deeply immersed in it and unable to extricate themselves. On the other hand, the plot of "Infernal Affairs" is very boring. There is no fighting scene in the whole process, only dialogue, and there are very few gunfight scenes. Few, some movie fans even bluntly left after watching halfway, they really can't understand the art of oriental language...

Zhou Yang was not disappointed after reading this series of comments!
This is the inevitable result of the cultural differences between the East and the West. In the past, when many blockbuster movies from around the world were screened overseas, they were affected to varying degrees and the box office was not ideal.

This is normal.

The movie "Infernal Affairs" was not made to cater to the European and American markets at all, and, in the original memory, the overseas box office of "Infernal Affairs" itself was mediocre.

"Mr. Zhou, is it just... let others watch us laugh? At least, give it a try..."

Xu Mei bit her lip, feeling a little unwilling.

After getting the overseas box office data of "Infernal Affairs", her heart seemed to sink to the bottom.

Disappointed, unbelievable, uncomfortable...

All kinds of emotions lingered in her heart, making her panic for a while.

"Infernal Affairs", which has received countless praises in China, has been cold overseas. She can't even imagine how the Chinese media of tomorrow will belittle this movie under the promotion of caring people.

"Let me think about it again..."

Zhou Yang was still very calm, just tapping his fingers on the desk.

Walking from humbleness step by step, he has seen too many people who fell from high places.

He closed his eyes.

It suddenly occurred to him that there was a movie called "The Departed Walker" in Hollywood in the world. This movie had a box office of nearly [-] million U.S. dollars and won many Oscars.

In a sense, although "Infernal Affairs" did suffer at the overseas box office, its international influence cannot be denied.

These two seem to be contradictory, but in fact they are not contradictory. Under the influence of factors such as the times, unacceptable climate, or publicity, there are not a few movies with high reputation and high influence in China that are almost god-like but have a terrible box office. " The two movies "A Chinese Journey to the West" and "Evil in the West" are very clear examples...

Just when Zhou Yang was thinking about how to deal with this matter, Xu Mei's cell phone rang.

Xu Mei suddenly lost her voice after receiving the call.

"What? What did you say? What do you mean?"

"In order to make room for "Superman 2", our overseas version of "Infernal Affairs" has to be drawn ahead of schedule? Tomorrow at noon?"

"It's only been released for one day, what is this for?"

The phone is hung up.

"Snapped!"

Xu Mei couldn't hold the phone, and finally let the phone drop to the ground.

Her face was flushed red, panting continuously, and trembling all over in anger, she didn't recover after a long time.

She took a long breath and finally remained calm.

Just when I was about to say something to Zhou Yang...

But Zhou Yang's cell phone rang.

Zhou Yang looked at the calling number suspiciously.

The caller's number was so unfamiliar that even after Zhou Yang received the call and heard the respectful and apprehensive greeting from the other party, he didn't remember who the other party was after waiting for a long time.

"President Zhou, I'm Zheng Jun..."

"Eh? Hello..."

When the other party realized that Zhou Yang didn't recognize who he was, he immediately increased his voice.

Zheng Jun?

The name was both familiar and unfamiliar, as if he had heard it somewhere before, but Zhou Yang couldn't remember it for a while.

"Mr. Zhou, um, I'm filming "The Lamb" with Christian, because the filming progress of "The Lamb" is really too slow, so I adapted the script of "Infernal Affairs", and then I borrowed the script from "Infernal Affairs" For the plot, I filmed an American version of "Infernal Affairs" with Christian who couldn't finish filming "Lamb"... After filming and editing, I realized that I didn't say hello to you... The sample has been sent to your email, Please take a look, do you think this can be released in Laomei?"

"..." Picking up the phone, Zheng Jun said this in an awkward tone.

Zhou Yang was taken aback for a moment.

Then...

He suddenly remembered who Zheng Jun was!

He was the screenwriter of the original "Mine Bottom"!

Later, I followed Christian in old America, and I haven't heard from him for a long time.

did not expect……

This guy has been doing big things all the time?

　There is still only one update today...

　　There are some reasons, but it is not convenient to disclose.

　　Let's talk about it after recovering tomorrow...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)