Chapter 456 Celebration Banquet

"If you ask me, two billion is possible!"

A loud voice suddenly sounded, and everyone turned around to see a fat man full of aura striding over. It was Hong Jinbao, the "big brother" of Hong Kong film industry.

Speaking of which, Lao Hong has a really restless character.

In the early years of the Hong Kong film industry, there were "repeated jumps" among the major film and television companies.

After working with Jiang Heng for several years, I couldn't resist the temptation of independent production and started working on other projects.

Especially in 2008, "Ip Man", which he served as the action director, was a great success, so he gradually stopped cooperating with Jiang Heng and went to independent production.

The reason is simple. Jiang Heng's personal style in his films is too obvious.

The audience's attention is on the visual effects and storyline. No matter how beautiful the action scenes are, no one will remember him.

And how could he have been living under others for a long time? He just went when someone invited him, and gradually he cooperated less with Jiang Heng.

However, the relationship between the two is still good.

Jiang Heng has important events to promote, and Hong Jinbao will usually be there.

And if there is a suitable role in the film, Jiang Heng will also give priority to Hong Tianming.

In the entertainment industry, there are so many worldly things!

As for this time, Hong Jinbao will play the golden retriever lion king Xie Xun in "The New Eternal Sky", which can be regarded as a quite important role.

Seeing him coming, Jiang Heng stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Brother, you praise me so much. Nowadays, martial arts movies don't have such a large audience!"

Jiang Heng really felt that it would not be able to reach a box office as high as 2 billion, because the audience is not that big, and everyone no longer believes in the spirit of chivalry.

The reason why he has more than one billion is because of his popularity and influence.

To put it bluntly, everyone is just watching the excitement.

But Hong Jinbao seems to be really optimistic about this film. He casually mentioned a few reasons why the film became a hit, and it actually sounded like that.

Jiang Heng just laughed and didn't answer the question again.

He knows Hong Jinbao very well, and he always does things for a reason.

The reason why he admires and values ​​martial arts movies so much now is most likely to build momentum for the kung fu movie "Tai Chi 1: From Zero" for which he is the action director.

After all, Jiang Heng is starring in a martial arts movie. Does this mean that mainland martial arts movies are about to rise?

Director Jiang's film won't be released until a year later, so do you want to know about the newly released kung fu movie "Tai Chi"?

Jiang Heng instantly thought of their announcement idea.

It's just that the movie's reputation was extremely poor, and the box office was only over 100 million. It was considered a failure.

But that’s it, there’s a sequel!

"Tai Chi 2" was also released this year, one month later than the first one.

One more thing to mention is that the heroine of the film, Yang Tianbao, has soared in popularity due to "Run, Brother" and has become the film's box office hit.

At this moment, he also appeared at the celebration banquet with Huang Xiaoming.

"Can't you really try harder?"

In the corner of the banquet hall, Yang Tianbao acted coquettishly at Huang Xiaoming because she wanted to play a key female role in "Xin Yi Tian".

Huang Xiaoming said helplessly: "Don't worry about what has been decided a long time ago!"

"I don't think so. What a rare opportunity!" Yang Tianbao felt aggrieved.

She is now a proper goddess of variety shows. In terms of popularity and popularity, she is no less than a first-line female star.

Even in terms of film and television resources, we still can’t keep up.

I originally thought about playing a supporting actress role in "New Yitian". After getting along well with Director Jiang, I might one day be able to play the leading role in Jiang Heng's blockbuster.

By then, she will be an international actress...

However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

She got stuck on the first step and couldn't get the role, which was so disappointing to her.

At this point, all we can do is urge Huang Xiaoming to think of ways to help her obtain resources!

Under her soft words, Leader Huang quickly "fell" and said with a firm expression: "Okay, I'll ask you again, it may not work!"

After that, he took Yang Tianbao's hand and walked towards Jiang Heng.

"Congratulations, Director Jiang, the domestic box office of 3.6 billion has set a new record, and the box office of 2.2 billion US dollars has swept the world. You deserve the title of the number one director!" Huang Xiaoming stepped forward to congratulate you.

Jiang Heng laughed and said thank you, thank you!

Yang Tianbao also said some compliments, saying frankly that Jiang Heng was her idol and how much she admired him.

Jiang Heng chuckled and dealt with it casually.

Huang Xiaoming pondered for a moment and suddenly said that he wanted to make a guest appearance in "New Yitian" with Yang Tianbao for free.

Jiang Heng was startled when he heard this. He didn't expect Huang Xiaoming to say this in public. If he refused, it would be a bit embarrassing.

Still smiling, he said: "Thank you, thank you very much. You must be an old friend, and you always want to flatter me! However, the roles in the film have been decided."

Yang Tianbao was disappointed when he heard this, "Are there no other suitable ones?"

Jiang Heng glanced at the young Yang Tianbao and the affectionate Huang Xiaoming next to him.

Suddenly I thought of the couple in "Eternal Love" and said with a smile: "It's not like there's nothing at all, I just have to sacrifice Xiao Ming!"

Huang Xiaoming was stunned and didn't know what Jiang Heng meant by this, but he still said rationally: "It's okay, as long as we can participate in the show, it doesn't matter if we act ugly or something!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said: "No need to act ugly, you still play a hero, just a disabled hero!"

Huang Xiaoming asked: "Yin Liting, Yang Buhui?"

Jiang Heng smiled and said: "Exactly!"

Because in the main plot of this film "The Battle of Wan'an Temple", Yin Liting was recovering from his injuries and did not appear.

So when selecting actors and roles, he and Yang Buhui were not considered.

Under normal circumstances, they would just shoot and watch. If they felt it was necessary to appear, they would just find someone to make a cameo appearance.

If Huang Xiaoming and Yang Tianbao were willing to make a cameo appearance without any pay, Jiang Heng would have no reason to push them out.

"Yes, yes, we are willing to act!" Yang Tianbao said with a look of surprise.

Then he said that "Run, Brothers" made her famous today, and she had long wanted to do something for iYouTeng and Director Jiang.

Jiang Heng laughed and welcomed the two to join the "New Yitian" crew.

The people around looked at it and applauded to congratulate.

Then the celebration banquet officially began. Yu Dong personally acted as the host and announced that "Black Myth: Wukong" had achieved good box office results in mainland China and several major overseas film markets.

When the proud data were read out one by one, all the guests present were shocked and admired.

There were too many, and the box office results were so good that it made people despair.

For example, Wang Zhonglei of Huayi occasionally fantasizes that Huayi will surpass iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures one day and become the first in the industry.

But when he heard about the box office success of "Black Myth: Wukong", he instantly gave up the idea.

How to surpass? There is no way to surpass!

The domestic market has exceeded 3.6 billion. He really can't think of how to shoot and what kind of film can have a box office of over 3 billion!

As for the overseas market, now audiences in various countries recognize Jiang Heng's name. Even if others can make blockbusters of the same quality, they may not be able to grab the market, not to mention that the quality is far inferior! (End of this chapter)