Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 39: Celebration Banquet for Breaking HK$3 Million
As time goes by, the publicity for the subsequent release period is gradually promoted on the Internet. Let’s talk about the little stories made up by the Internet trolls...

Let the male netizens pretending to be in cities all over the world excitedly say that because of the thriller adventure movie "The Shallows", they had a date with the goddess and held hands with her.

Are there any hotels left?
Including anti-theft and other publicity and promotion, it was not until January 2002, 1, during the New Year's Day holiday.

Pang Bingcai was in a beautiful courtyard. Following Li Wenyu's instructions, she dressed up beautifully and recited some festive lines to thank netizens.

The Shallows grossed 510 million in the first weekend in mainland China and 1800 million in the second week, accumulating over 2300 million RMB. It is now 2300 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong Island, and has accumulated to 1200 million Hong Kong dollars in Taiwan.

China’s total data is 5800 million!
If we talk about box office success, we still have to look at South Korea and Taiwan at this stage. They are more developed and the prices are higher. The cumulative box office in South Korea has reached 5100 million Hong Kong dollars, and in Taiwan it has reached 5700 million Hong Kong dollars.

Putting aside Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Filipino maids, Indonesia and other places, this has created a small miracle of 1.66 million Hong Kong dollars in East Asia.

Is that the end? No, The Shallows also sold the European and American screening rights for $600 million. Due to the time difference, the data collection was a little slow, but it is now out.

During the Christmas and New Year holidays in North America, the film grossed a total of $1100 million over the first weekend and the second week. Judging from this trend, there was no postponement of the release and no various Internet promotions.

It can still reach a total box office of 3000 million US dollars.

Europa is worth more than 800 million US dollars, and there is a high chance that it will eventually reach 2000 million US dollars.

Now the total of 2000 million US dollars in Europe and the United States is equivalent to more than 1.56 million Hong Kong dollars!

In this thank-you video recorded by Pang Bing, he started with the Chinese box office, saying good things and thanking the audience, and then mentioned the overall result, that The Shallows has exceeded 3.2 million Hong Kong dollars worldwide.

The film is sold all over the world outside China, and the money has gradually gone into the hands of Zhang Guorong and Li Wenyu, but the better the box office is abroad, the more it proves Pang Bing's box office ability.

She has just been selected as the most beautiful woman in Asia, and was chosen in the first multi-national interactive beauty pageant on the Internet after the millennium. She is like a rising superstar.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's global box office of US$2.13 million is equivalent to more than HK$16 billion!
The hero originally rushed down a global record of more than 14 billion yuan.

These are all very recent films. The question is, how big were the crews for those two films? What about The Shallows? It took a crew of 20 or 30 people behind the scenes plus a fat ice master to handle it all.

These achievements are often posted on Penguin.com and in the Bingbing Bar created by Pangbing, Asia's most beautiful face, and are pinned to the top and updated in a timely manner.

Countless fans of Jinsuo since "Return of the Condor Heroes" have directly become fans of Bingbing, often showing off various data and screenshots and attacking the forums of Wei Zhentian and Lin Xinru.

The battles on Tieba are becoming more and more lively, and have become a source of fun for countless people in the online world.

Especially the gossip that Aunt Qiong complained about Bingbing being a maid for life spread online...

The fun is even greater.

Those who watch the show never mind the big things.

A video was shot in front of a professional film camera, and Li Wenyu finished work. Pang Bing ran over excitedly again, talking glibly and bringing the film back to life. Today, only she and Li Wenyu were here.

The two of them wanted to buy a single-family courtyard house. They came across a suitable courtyard while looking at houses. The sale was still under negotiation with the original landlord. Since everything was settled, it would not be difficult to borrow it for a video.

You mean money? After the project was officially launched, the sound engineer crew received 350 million yuan in director and screenwriter fees.

The price of courtyard houses in Beijing is really not high at this stage!
Take Mr. Yu as an example. He bought two houses for 260 million yuan in 2004, one of which is 300 square meters and the other is 150 square meters.

Pang Bing has also received a shampoo commercial, with a one-year endorsement fee of 200 million RMB + 300 million Hong Kong dollars! He received a % deposit and is waiting to shoot the commercial.

This price is very high. After the popularity of "Swallow Return of the Pearl", she filmed more than a dozen commercials in the two or three years after that, and the advertising revenue exceeded 3000 million. Pang Bing's advertisements will be broadcast in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The strength of Asia's most beautiful woman is bombarding the world.

The box office is so impressive with the lead role alone, is there any hope of breaking 3000 million US dollars in the United States?

Now only Jet Li and Jackie Chan have that kind of appeal.

Now she has the white and thin look of the mute girl with yellow clothes in Kung Fu, and her face is the same.

Li Wenyu laughed. "9 million in 2300 days. Mainly because we don't have that many holidays, the box office on weekdays has dropped significantly. But if we can maintain this for a long time, we have a good chance of breaking million."

"Let's go, upload the video to the mainland and overseas versions, thank the fans, thank you..."

Anyway, this is just like a thank-you speech after winning an award at a film festival!

Tonight, Zhang Guorong will lead her team to a major hotel in Beijing to hold a celebration banquet for breaking the 3 million ice sculpture mark. This is the first time it has been held, and they will continue to do so in the future when more figures are broken.

These data do not include the figures for Monday, December 12st, and New Year's Day, Tuesday, January 31st.

Pang Bing's eyes lit up. "Will Zhang Jie come to the celebration banquet with Director Zhang? Will Xiao Wei also come with Director Liu, Stephen Chow and the others?"

Li Wenyu nodded. A commercial popcorn movie had really exploded like this. I couldn't expect it to win any awards, but it had also let too many people see the sales...

Apart from Jet Li, Jackie Chan and others, you just need to make the promotion big enough.

It can make a splash around the world and fetch a lot of money in Europe and the United States.

There are many representatives from corporate groups who want to get in and get to know him!

This is similar to the early opening of the era of Chinese blockbusters brought about by Heroes. After Heroes, many film producers, whether in Europe and the United States or in East Asia and Southeast Asia, have high expectations for mainland blockbusters.

Then came House of Flying Daggers, The Banquet, The Promise, and Curse of the Golden Flower? The film producers lost money and ran away again and again.

Just then, Li Wenyu's phone rang. After answering, Zhang Guorong's voice rang on the other end, "Ayu, Director Chen said he couldn't come. He also criticized our Shark Beach on the phone for being flashy, meaningless, and fooling the audience into spending their money."

"He even said that he didn't criticize Shark Beach during the interview just for my sake. How did he change so drastically?"

Li Wenyu was speechless. After more than ten seconds, he complained, "Forget it if you don't come. Brother Rong, don't worry about it. The last time you worked together was six years ago."

It is now January 2002, 1, and we have entered the 2 era.

He was also sure that even though The Shallows had achieved such an outrageous box office result, not many people in the academic field would be willing to praise it.

No one fired any shots at the media, one reason being that it did not really affect the profits of mainland academics.

It didn't do anything to the other party's cake. Secondly, anyone who was slightly informed should have known that Zhang Guorong was in the first half of 02.

With two award-winning films in hand, two of the top three European films, Gong Li, Wang Jiawei and others are cooperating and working together with Brother Arong.

After chatting for a few minutes, they hung up the phone. When Pang Bing asked what happened, Li Wenyu said something that made Pang Bing's conscience grow bigger. "Tsk, what's so great about it? I don't even like his project. If he offers me an offer in the future, I will reject him every time."

The three biggest beneficiaries of Shark Beach, are they going to bombard the media with criticism to save Brother Rong's face?

If it weren't for Brother Rong's face, wouldn't Old Chen have scolded them both?
(End of this chapter)