Chapter 679
[105] The only Chinese movie star in the world!
Chapter 679 [105] Chinese movie stars are unique in the world!
"beat!"
"Fuck him, fuck him to death!"
"You hit my brother?"
"You're quite brave, boy!"
On the set of "Better Days", Chen Yu, with his hair tied up like a gangster's, was beaten up by a group of tattooed guys with blood all over his face.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Chen Yu suddenly raised his hand: "Use some strength, I'll let you hit me for real!"
"No, Brother Yu——"
Several extras looked embarrassed. Diao Yinan, who was watching the monitor, couldn't help but spit out the toothpick in his mouth and walked into the set with a smile: "What's wrong?"
"Brother Yu...Brother Yu told us to hit him hard!"
"Haha, is there anyone who has such a request?"
Diao Yinan smiled, but his expression suddenly turned serious: "Brother Yu told you to fight, so just fight. Why waste your words!"
"But--"
"No buts, Brother Yu has already bought insurance!"
"Don't kill him, but be ruthless. I've taught you that!"
Chen Yu was talking to several extras. These guys were all from Bian Xiang’s group and were relatively senior and promising actors.
But facing Chen Yu, everyone was obviously a little afraid.
If someone really gets injured, we'll all be responsible.
This is actually the dilemma faced by many extras.
The higher the income of an extra, the more things they need to pay attention to. The leading actor must not be offended. Even if Chen Yu said so, they actually don't have the courage to do so.
What's more, the person standing in front of him is the biggest name in this circle.
Who dares!
"Should I call Bian Xiang?"
"I'll do it if I ask you to. At least the punches and slaps should be real!"
"Otherwise, it doesn't look like it on my face!"
"I'm also an extra, hurry up!"
Chen Yu finally brought up Bian Xiang's name, and one of the extras gritted his teeth and said with embarrassment: "Then Brother Yu, we won't be polite!"
"Well, you're welcome!"
"bring it on!"
To be honest, if there were someone in the future who would satisfy such a request, there would be someone who would satisfy it.
But now, the extras are still very scared, so they have to be brave.
Snapped!
A slap suddenly and abruptly hit Chen Yu's face.
Diao Yinan was stunned.
Holy shit, this guy really hits? So loud?
Liu Yifei, who had been watching, suddenly stood up.
"Brother Yu, can...can I?"
The extra who beat Chen Yu looked very panicked, and it was obvious that he was an honest child.
"can!"
"If I didn't know, I would think you were seeking revenge!"
Chen Yu covered his face and looked at the boy in front of him with interest.
He didn't know whether the slap was because this guy was honest or because he was jealous of him, but the slap was pretty hard anyway.
"Come on, keep going!"
Chen Yu clapped his hands, and the scene where the male protagonist Liu Beishan from "Better Days" was beaten began again.
The three extras had a lot of fun fighting this time.
A grand slam actor was beaten by the three of them, with blood flowing from his mouth. This scene was enough for them to brag about for the rest of their lives.
"Ok!"
A few minutes later, Diao Yinan shouted with a loudspeaker.
Several assistants and makeup artists immediately ran to Chen Yu and started to touch up and remove makeup. After a while, Chen Yu came to the monitor with a slightly swollen face.
He is now the director of "Better Days", so he must watch this part carefully.
After finishing the global promotion of "Fast & Furious 3", he and Liu Yifei, who had finished long ago, rushed back to the crew as soon as possible.
The only scenes left to be filmed are those two and the others.
This director is really incompetent.
Fortunately, for the scenes in which he played the leading role, it was Chen Yu who told Diao Yinan and the actors how to shoot.
Maybe it was taken by Diao Yinan before, and if Chen Yu was not satisfied with it, he had to remove it.
"Okay, this part is over!"
After Chen Yu finished watching the segment that had just been filmed, several extras who were listening with their ears pricked up not far away couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
When they first heard about joining Chen Yu's crew to film, everyone was envious, but now, some of the extras really thought they were brave enough to take on such a job?!
"Producer, give everyone a red envelope later!"
Chen Yu pointed at a few extras, and an expression of disbelief immediately appeared on their faces.
Shit, I get paid for beating up the lead actor?
They were still scared, but they didn't expect Chen Yu to give them a red envelope?
"Brother Yu, this...we can't take this!"
"Yeah, we would feel bad if we fought!"
“I really…I really don’t want that!”
This is what extras are like. Sometimes they really want to do it, but they really don't dare. But deep down, they really have feelings for Chen Yu. Such a big star not only takes part in the filming himself, but also does it without a stunt double.
How many actors can do this?
But in the end, several extras could not resist Chen Yu's "special hobby" and accepted the red envelopes from him.
"These days, only I can do this!"
"Giving out red envelopes even after getting beaten!"
When Chen Yu was taking a break after filming a scene at noon, he was making fun of himself with Liu Yifei who was standing beside him.
"Ha ha!"
Liu Yifei was wearing the school uniform of the crew, with a smile on her innocent face: "Who told you that you are the good man Chen? I guess all these extras want to get involved with you now!"
"The whole crew wants to follow you!"
Apart from anything else, Chen Yu is really generous with money.
In this respect, he surpasses many film crew investors, but he is not a philanthropist. He will only reward those who do well, and will still scold those who do not.
And it wasn’t that Chen Yu did this on purpose, it was just that... he was used to staying in Hollywood.
Even with this kind of remuneration, it is less than one-tenth of that in Hollywood; the same crew spent 5000 million, while "Better Days" only needed 1000 million, and the former was in US dollars while the latter was in RMB.
So Chen Yu wanted to give more, make better movies, and increase the salaries in the industry at the same time.
Not to mention being a benchmark, at least those who follow him are willing to follow.
"'Emergency,' has it broken the 2 million mark?" After removing their makeup, Chen Yu and Liu Yifei got into a business car to rest.
The weather in August is as hot as a steamer, and the crew has moved the filming start time to 8 o'clock, so I can take a nap at noon.
"It's broken. The final amount should be around 2.1-2.2 million!"
"Brother Long is very satisfied!"
Liu Yifei fed Chen Yu the cut watermelon. At this time, the assistants were very sensible and did not get in the car. In fact, they were the ones who were supposed to do this.
But since the wife is here, any assistant with good sense will basically not take the initiative to do this.
"After such a fierce competition last month, it's already a great achievement to be among the top 15 box office in North America!"
"Escape Plan" grossed 2.2 million U.S. dollars in North America, over 1 million in Asia, and over 7000 million in other regions, totaling nearly 4 million U.S. dollars worldwide, which has significantly refreshed the global box office record for a movie starring Jackie Chan.
"Rush Hour 2" grossed 3.47 million worldwide and was considered a huge success; now "Taken" should have no problem grossing 4 million worldwide, which obviously means his influence has reached a new level.
Mainly because this time in the mainland, Jackie Chan earned 3.7 million yuan, which also set a new record in his film history.
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Of course, the biggest beneficiary was not Cheng Long, but Liu Yifei.
This was her first time to break into Hollywood and play the leading female role, albeit a vase. However, the global box office revenue of 4 million has made her almost as famous as Zhang Ziyi both domestically and internationally.
Jackie Chan has contributed to the domestic box office, and of course Liu Yifei has also contributed.
She can now pull in some box office revenue, although not much.
But that’s her progress.
As long as the international and domestic reputation is improved, will the award be far behind?
CAA has already given her several tens of millions of contracts anyway. It has to be said that beauties have a great natural advantage over male actors in endorsing luxury goods; although Chen Yu’s current endorsement fee is much higher than Liu Yifei’s.
But luxury goods are only for top male stars, female stars are more popular.
Of course, even though "Taken" was so popular, it only ranked fourth in North America and globally during this period.
The third largest movie in the North American market is currently "Fast & Furious 3". No one expected that an "Asian movie" starring Chen Yu could gross 2.6 million US dollars in North America.
The performance in the later period was even better than that of "Taken". The attendance rate was once higher than that of "Cars", which made the current North American screening schedule of "Fast & Furious 3" far surpass that of "Cars"!
Second only to "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".
"Caribbean 2", it is indeed completely unbeatable.
So fierce!
It is even more intense than Chen Yu’s previous life. I don’t know if it is due to the successive release of excellent works and blockbusters on the market.
As soon as "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" was released in North America, it broke several records, including the highest box office on the first day of release of 2 million US dollars, the highest single-day box office of 5550 million US dollars and the highest box office in the first week of release of 5580 million US dollars.
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It seems that once "Caribbean 2" is released, no one can compete with it.
Not to mention that "Fast and Furious 3" is completely no match for it, even if "Mission Impossible 3" is brought up, it will probably be beaten to second place.
It’s just that the market for “Caribbean 2” in North America is too hot.
It has only been released for 2 weeks and has already grossed 4.1 million US dollars, just in North America; it has already broken many records in other regions such as Europe and Asia. The industry predicts that the final global box office of this film will reach a terrifying level of 11 or even 12 billion US dollars.
This is another billion-dollar box office monster and the sixth North American film to join the billion-dollar club.
The global box office of "Mission Impossible 3" of 8 million also pales in comparison.
He is the undisputed number one in the global box office of the year.
As for "Cars", its North American box office is currently 2.8 million US dollars, and its global box office has reached 5.1 million US dollars, which is also quite strong.
But the global box office of "Fast and Furious 3" has reached 6.5 million US dollars.
Among them, North America has 2.6 million, Asia is close to 3 million, and other regions add up to almost 1 million!
Chen Yu now has several films in Asia that have grossed over 3 million US dollars. He is the only one in the world who can do this, and the title of "King of Asia" from Universal Studios is still gaining more and more value.
Even "Caribbean 2" has only grossed over 2 million US dollars in Asia so far. The fact that "Fast and Furious 3" was able to surpass it in this market is of course thanks to Japan and China.
The US$1.1 million box office in Japan once again set a new record for films starring Chen Yu in this region.
Hong Kong and Formosa also made breakthroughs one after another.
The box office in Hong Kong is about to exceed 9421 million, with the total box office reaching 3 million Hong Kong dollars; as for the box office in mainland China, it did not reach the more than 8 million of "Mission Impossible 6", but it also won a box office of nearly million!
In the end, the total box office in mainland China for "Fast & Furious 3" should be more than 6 million.
Even if the global population doesn’t reach 7 million, it’s pretty close.
With two consecutive movies hitting the top five in the global box office, Chen Yu’s Hollywood journey can be said to be a huge success. He is definitely the star with the fastest rising popularity in the world this year!
At least, Chen Yu now has a place in Hollywood.
"Mission Impossible 3" grossed over 8 million yuan, and "Fast and Furious 3" was close to 7 million yuan. Chen Yu handed in the best answer sheet for arriving in Hollywood.
Even a salary of 1200 million US dollars seems too little, after all, Chen Yuya has a net worth of 2 million US dollars.
"It all depends on next year's "Invisible Bourne". If this movie is a success, I will be the most successful Chinese movie star in Hollywood!"
Jet Li and Chen Yu have not met yet, but now, not to mention North America, Chen Yu's fame has completely surpassed that of Jackie Chan in basically the world, and the gap is currently 50-50 at most; after all, the big brother's accumulation and foundation over the years cannot be underestimated.
But in terms of box office strength, Chen Yu is definitely unique among Chinese.
"Next, let's make a good movie!"
Chen Yu is now fully focused on the current "Better Days", and the same is true for Liu Yifei.
They will have plenty of time next to polish this film.
As for "Bruce Lee", Chen Yu has already received the script sent to him by Li An. He still has some parts that he doesn't agree with and need to make some revisions.
It seems that this year, we only need to do these two things.
Chen Yu even found time to attend classes at the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama during the post-production of "Better Days".
"Finally I can take a break!"
Chen Yu and Liu Yifei fed each other fruits. They were exhausted from flying around the world for the two movies "Mission Impossible 3" and "Fast and Furious 3" some time ago. Liu Yifei felt a little nervous due to jet lag while promoting a movie, let alone Chen Yu.
Just treat filming as a break.
buzzing-
Just as Chen Yu was about to take a nap with Liu Yifei, his cell phone suddenly rang.
Richard of CAA.
"Charlie, it's almost midnight now, American time?"
The call so late must be about something important.
"Yeah, I was woken up by a phone call!"
"Regarding your role as the Joker in Batman 2, Warner Bros. conducted an advance survey on the toy-related market, and the situation is not good!"
"Oh?"
Chen Yu could actually foresee such a thing.
But the contract has been finalized, and Warner cannot regret it; besides, Warner will not remove him. No one can resist money, especially now that Chen Yu is in Asia, which is equivalent to bringing in 2 million US dollars in box office revenue.
Why don't they use actors like this?
Warner needs the Asian market very much because Europe and North America are dominated by white people.
"and then?"
"You're not calling me to complain, are you?"
(End of this chapter)