Chapter 123

Stone punched him in the chest angrily, and then fearing he would be in pain, quickly rubbed it.

"I have a lot of things to do, I always find you the first time when I'm free."

"Believe you a ghost!" Stone learned another Chinese sentence.

After filming that day, the two came to the cinema to watch the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises."

Because of the death of Harvey Dent, Batman is wanted by the police, and Gotham City seems to have returned to calm.

But the big villain Bane appeared, bringing chaos back to this simple-minded city.

He blew up the bridge connecting to the outside world, took the whole city hostage, and implemented a barbaric and cruel rule in the whole city.

When the military couldn't send military forces to attack because of the hostages,

the whole city was waiting for the return of Batman.

Further upgraded special effects performance, more exciting and shocking pictures, and fully upgraded conflict between good and evil,

made the audience in the cinema shout for fun!

Stone was also quite excited!

"Wow! This is no worse than Spider-Man!"

Soon, she saw Catwoman appear, and she couldn't laugh anymore.

Stone knew that Xu Can had been in too close contact with Anne Hathaway when filming "Love & Other Drugs."

"Is her figure great?"

In the darkness, Stone's big eyes were like night pearls, capturing people's souls.

"Yes." Xu Can admitted shamelessly.

"Ahhhhh, Shame on you, shameless!"

"But now I flew from Los Angeles to accompany you, instead of accompanying Anne to the premiere, didn't I?"

"Makes sense."

Stone was satisfied and hugged Xu Can to enjoy the movie.

Xu Can had no waves in his heart.

He found that he is now more than enough to deal with two people.

I'm afraid that if a few more come, he can easily deal with them, right?

"Well, I mentioned the matter to him, but unfortunately Director Xu feels you are young, and he is more inclined to choose actors over 30..."

"Okay, I see, thank you Brother Zheng."

"Hey, it's a small matter, we'll have a chance to cooperate in the future."

Capital, a villa area mansion.

The woman hung up the phone with a sigh.

She stared at the news on the computer, stunned.

"Global Times comprehensive report, recently, Chinese youth Xu Can was elected as *Time* magazine's Person of the Year, becoming the first Chinese person to be elected Person of the Year in the 21st century..."

……

*The Dark Knight Rises* had an opening weekend box office of 180 million USD, surpassing the record of *Spider-Man 1*,

but slightly inferior to *Spider-Man 2*.

According to Xu Can’s estimation, this film should be equivalent to the original version in the previous life, maintaining within 1.1 billion USD.

It couldn't surpass *Spider-Man 1*, and would lose to *Spider-Man 2* in the competition for the annual box office champion,

but the comprehensive box office could rank among the top ten in global film history.

Currently, the *Spider-Man* duology and *The Dark Knight* duology had already dominated the film history box office list,

plus the box office of *Iron Man*,

Xu Can alone occupied half of the top 10 seats in global film history box office!

"Discovered a terrifying fact: if *The Dark Knight Rises* global box office exceeds 1 billion USD,"

"5 films participated in by Xu Can will rank in the top 10 of the global box office list!"

"For Hollywood, this is no less than Genghis Khan’s cavalry sweeping through Europe a thousand years ago!"

"At least in terms of commercial films, this young Chinese filmmaker has already occupied an undeniable position globally!"

"If you ask which male actor in Hollywood has the most box office appeal today, Xu Can is probably the most powerful competitor!"

"Currently, there is a romance film invested in or participated in by Xu Can about to be released, and another sci-fi film is about to start filming!"

"He hasn't stopped his pace, but is accelerating to conquer Hollywood!"

"This is our cover character for this issue, Spider-Man, Xu Can!"

Due to Xu Can’s huge achievements in the film industry in the past two years, he appeared on the cover of *Time* magazine and was selected as the 2008 Person of the Year!

He alone contributed almost more than half of Hollywood’s box office, and he was indeed the most influential filmmaker in the past two years.

The entire Western society’s evaluation of Xu Can gradually changed,

from initially questioning his yellow-skinned Spider-Man, to now regarding him as the banner of Hollywood.

Previously, due to the deliberate propaganda and guidance of Western media, people all over the world had some misunderstandings about the Divine Land.

Now, because of Xu Can’s movies, everyone was willing to try to understand him and the country behind him.

After *Spider-Man 2*, *The Dark Knight Rises*, which he participated in writing and producing, was gradually approaching 1 billion USD as expected.

The two hot summer blockbusters globally were all related to Xu Can.

So much so that movies like *Hancock*, *Tropic Thunder*, *Beverly Hills Chihuahua*, and *Lakeview Terrace* were ignored by the market and became poor background boards.

Only *WALL-E* and *Madagascar 2*, due to the characteristics of animated films, could avoid the competition with superhero blockbusters and harvest a certain box office and attention.

It wasn't until *The Dark Knight Rises* was taken off the screen that major manufacturers like Paramount and Fox dared to take out the popcorn movies they had filmed to sell.

*The Twilight Saga: New Moon* was in such an awkward situation; they originally planned to harvest a wave of box office in the summer file,

but after careful consideration, Summit Entertainment decided to schedule the film for October.

*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor*, *Get Smart*, *Journey to the Center of the Earth*, etc., were all the same, grabbing the unpopular schedule that Xu Can didn't care about.

Even so, *The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor* didn't have a good ending, only harvesting 103 million USD before being taken off the screen in a hurry, causing Universal to lose a little money.

*Get Smart* 130 million, *Journey to the Center of the Earth* 170 million, barely breaking even.

Several major Hollywood manufacturers didn't make much money in 2008; the box office was basically snatched away by Xu Can.

Disney executives complained constantly in media interviews:

"Foreign filmmakers have seriously hindered the development of Hollywood!"

As a result, he was sprayed bloody by the vast number of North American netizens when he turned his head,

"After eating delicious meat, who wants to go back to eat garbage? Don't look at whether you have worked hard to make good movies, what qualifications do you have to blame others?"

"I support Xu Can, I support whoever makes good movies!"

"Everything speaks with works!"

From the perspective of box office, Xu Can’s movies were all bought by fans with US dollars, one ticket at a time;

from the perspective of works, Xu Can’s movies basically maintained a high score of 8.5 or above on IMDb!

He hadn't flipped over yet!

Naturally, he harvested a group of loyal believers.

After being fiercely roasted by netizens, Disney CEO Bob can only use the Oscars to make his case:

"This Chinese person is good at commercial films, but only won Best Supporting Actor in terms of performance."

"There are no awards for Best Actor, Best Director, or Best Picture."

"It's a bit too much to say he is the banner of Hollywood; so many Best Actors and Best Directors haven't spoken yet..."

James Cameron jumped out and expressed his views on Twitter, which had just become popular.

"I think *Time*'s selection is fine; Xu Can is the most dazzling star in Hollywood right now."

"I also like Xu’s movies very much; *Avatar* has already borrowed some of the filming techniques of Xu Can’s movies."

"I hope even more to have a chance to cooperate with Xu Can; his acting skills will be of great help to my works."

"So some people don't be sour; it will make you look very unstylish."

As a Hollywood veteran and the great director who created *Titanic*, Cameron publicly expressed his cooperation with Xu Can, making many fans full of expectations.

With the two joining forces, I don't know what kind of work they can bring?

Xu Can himself didn't pay attention to this; he was busy filming with two crews.