Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

According to Zhou Ziheng's idea, he wanted to bring Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Stephen Chow together to the premiere of "The Man from Nowhere".

When these people attend a movie together, the publicity effect can definitely be described as explosive.

However, the idea was good, but the result was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Apart from Jackie Chan, neither Jet Li nor Stephen Chow could come.

As for why...

It's simple, they just happen to have a movie released these days.

This year's Spring Festival period should be considered the most intense one in recent years.

Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow and Jet Li all have movies released during this period.

They are Jackie Chan's "A Good Man" released on January 97st, Stephen Chow's "All's Well, Ends Well " released on February th, and Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China II" released on February st.

Plus Zhou Ziheng's "The Man from Lone Star".

The four films bring together some of the most powerful box office draws in the Chinese-speaking world.

Among them, Jackie Chan is obviously the most popular one.

He has won the Hong Kong annual box office championship for two consecutive years. If he wins it again this year, he will become the person who has won the Hong Kong annual box office championship for three consecutive years.

Because this is a rare gathering of some of the most box office-appealing figures in the Chinese film industry, this period of time this year is particularly eye-catching.

The media have all focused their attention on several movies to see who will be the final winner.

Jackie Chan is undoubtedly the most favored one, after all, he has been very popular in the film industry in recent years.

Then there is Stephen Chow.

Although Stephen Chow has not won the box office championship in recent years, he has basically never fallen out of the top ten.

Furthermore, "All's Well, Ends Well 97" is a movie produced by Wong Jing's company.

As we all know, what Wong Jing's company likes to do most in its movies is to gather a large number of stars.

The same is true for "All's Well, Ends Well 97". In addition to Stephen Chow, a series of movie stars including Wong Jing, Chiao Hong, Francis Ng, Jacklyn Wu, Christy Chung, Ng Wing-wai, Gigi Lai, and Lee Wai Man also starred in the film.

There are also a large number of guest appearances by Leslie Cheung, Wong Yuk-long, Law Kar-ying, Chow Man-kin, Teddy Robin, Li Wan-wah, Wakin Chau and others.

In terms of the cast, this is definitely the movie with the largest cast this year.

Later, Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China" was also well received by film critics.

This is the first time in several years that Jet Li plays Wong Fei-hung again, and his co-star is still Sammo Hung, which makes the possibility of this movie becoming a box office hit even higher.

Finally, Zhou Ziheng's "The Man from Nowhere" became the least favored one.

The reason!
According to film critics, Zhou Ziheng has not yet truly proven his box office appeal.

Indeed, "Tazza" was a huge hit in Asia.

But the idea of ​​becoming one of the top few in the Chinese film industry just because one of his movies is a big hit obviously cannot convince these film critics.

Some film critics even publicly stated that Zhou Ziheng's pay was the least worthwhile.

Currently, Zhou Ziheng’s salary has been raised to around 9 million per movie.

There is still some gap between him and Jet Li and Stephen Chow.

But even so, film critics still think that Zhou Ziheng's pay is too high.

He is actually only worth four or five million.

However, although film critics and the media generally did not look favorably upon "The Man from Nowhere".

But among ordinary people, expectations for Zhou Ziheng's movie are very high.

The sales of "Love Story Under the Stars" are about to exceed 10 million, which makes Zhou Ziheng's personal popularity very high.

Even if you cross over to the film industry, you will be very competitive.

February 2nd.

"A Good Man" has been released for two days and has earned 7.8 million at the box office in two days, which is quite deterrent.

Following closely behind was "Once Upon a Time in China II: The Lion of the Western Region", which was released on the 1st and took in 3.45 million in a single day.

On the 2nd, the premiere of "The Man from Nowhere" began.

As the largest cinema in the Hengyu Cinema chain in Kowloon Tong, Hengyu Cinema hosted a grand premiere that day.

Early in the morning, Zhou Ziheng arrived at the theater first with the crew.

They arrived early enough, at around nine o'clock.

But there were people who came earlier than them, and that was Zhou Ziheng's fans.

"Zhou Ziheng, Zhou Ziheng!"

"Hengzi, we love you!"

"We will always support you..."

The street across from the theater was packed with people.

Groups of young fans held up Zhou Ziheng's posters and shouted in unison.

The temperature in Hong Kong is a bit low this year, especially in the early mornings of winter. Layers of white frost form on the streets, and white mist rises under the rising sun.

Zhou Ziheng got out of the car and was hit by a cold wind, which made him exhale a breath that turned into a cloud of white mist.

Rubbing his cold hands, Zhou Ziheng quickly walked towards this group of lovely fans.

"Everyone came too early. It's so cold. What if you get frozen?"

Zhou Ziheng intimately patted the felt hats worn by several female fans.

"It doesn't matter if I catch a cold as long as I can see you!"

A young girl, probably only seventeen or eighteen years old, responded loudly.

"Yes, we are not afraid!"

“And it’s not cold at all.”

A group of people were talking at once.

"Thank you! Thank you everyone for coming to support me!"

While thanking them, Zhou Ziheng turned around and called his assistant to count the number of people present and buy each of them a cup of hot soy milk and a breakfast.

After buying breakfast, he distributed it to everyone personally.

This is not the first time he has done this.

Zhou Ziheng may not be the one who loves fans the most, but he is definitely one of them.

Wherever he goes, facing his fans, unless there are special circumstances, he will usually take photos with them and sign autographs.

Last winter in Northeast China, he even gave away a batch of winter clothes to his fans.

There are quite a lot of fans here today, several hundred people.

By the time everyone had received their stuff, it was almost half past ten and the sun was already high in the sky.

Seeing this, Zhou Ziheng did not continue to accompany the fans outside, but went in first.

In the theater, Zhou Ziheng met the main creators of the crew.

Director Benny Chan, actors Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli, Wu Jing and others were all there.

"Brother Ziheng, I miss you so much!"

As soon as Zhou Ziheng came in, Liu Yifei ran over and pounced on him like a koala.

It is said that girls change a lot when they grow up.

After not seeing her for a few months, Liu Yifei has grown taller again.

"I missed you a lot, too!" Zhou Ziheng coaxed her and walked over to talk to Chen Musheng.

"How is it? Do you feel any pressure? The opponents this time are not easy."

It is indeed not easy, even Zhou Ziheng himself is a little scared.

He is invincible in the Chinese music scene, but in the film industry, Jackie Chan and his companions are the mountains he cannot overcome at the moment.

No matter what, they have been working in this industry for so many years.

There are also a large number of classic representative works.

And all his film works combined are not as many as others’ in one year.

"I have nothing to worry about. You'll be there to support me if the sky falls."

Chen Musheng seems free and easy, and can even take a joke.

"Anyway, if the movie fails, your salary will be deducted."

Zhou Ziheng couldn't help but make a joke after hearing what he said.

(End of this chapter)