Chapter 948

"On the second day of the public release of Jackie Chan's film *Bleeding Steel*, the daily box office plummeted by over 16 million, closing at 59.88 million; today's comprehensive screen share dropped by 10 points to 18.3%."

"Directed by Yuen Heping, produced by Tsui Hark, and featuring production by Nansun Shi, the fantasy martial arts blockbuster *The Thousand Faces of Dunjia*, starring Da Peng, Ni Ni, Aarif Rahman, Zhou Dongyu, and Liu Yan, grossed 26.73 million on its first day, falling far short of the expected opening day box office."

"Director Feng Xiaogang's film, the historical war drama *Youth*, has landed in theaters nationwide this morning. On its first day of release, the film's comprehensive screen share reached as high as 34.2%..."

"The daily box office for *Ex-Files 3* has fallen again, grossing 25.25 million yesterday... Relying on two films during the New Year's slot, Huayi is likely to become the biggest winner of this period."

The chaotic battle of the New Year's slot has completely entered a white-hot stage, waiting only for *Never Say Die* to charge into the battlefield in 20 hours; as for Director Chen's *Legend of the Demon Cat*, it still needs to wait another week...

In the morning, the main cast and crew of *She Kills* departed together, flying to Las Vegas.

Lin Nan and Liu Yifei specifically went out to see them off at the airport. When these people return, it will mean that this realistic suspense film has officially wrapped up.

Over in Shanghai, Ning Hao is also adhering to the style he had on the set of *Crazy Alien*: the shooting rhythm is always maxed out, and he doesn't treat the actors like human beings at all.

And with everyone being a veteran actor, Director Ning's high-intensity shooting makes the filming efficiency very gratifying and the progress exceptionally rapid!

Because everyone has enough acting skills to support them, situations with multiple NGs rarely occur;

Everyone's scenes can almost always be passed within three takes, and they are the best of the best; in other words, the more seasoned the acting, the easier the filming, especially for Li Baotian.

"Let's wait a while longer. Anyway, before I officially enter the training period, I will definitely go to visit the set."

Below the Enlight Pictures building, a red Ferrari slowly pulled to the side.

Liu Yifei was wearing Bluetooth earphones, continuing her call with Watching Shu Chang. The crew was currently filming a scene between Li Baotian and Qin Hailu, so Watching Shu Chang had time to chat with Liu Yifei.

"Get out of the car." Lin Nan urged Liu Qianqian with a sense of helplessness. From the airport to here, the two women had been chatting the whole way.

"That's settled then, bye-bye."

Liu Yifei decisively hung up the phone, then followed Lin Nan with cheerful steps, took his arm, and shared with a grin:

"I just heard Changchang say something funny. It seems the actors are too immersed in their roles and acting too well, to the point that Director Ning is having a bit of a headache right now."

Lin Nan naturally understood the meaning behind these words, which is that for the same shot, while the actors ensure one take is safe, the next take is always more brilliant than the previous one.

The result is that Director Ning is both wanting a better take and wanting to improve shooting efficiency without wasting time, and in the end, he is the one caught in a dilemma. After all, it's an award-seeking film, so naturally, one must choose the better performance, but time is also in short supply...

"Compared to Huang Bo and Shen Teng, the few here are all top-tier powerhouses, and Changchang is the youngest and weakest... Let Ning Hao have his own headache.

Oh right, speaking of visiting the set, let's go during the New Year. After *The Father* completely wraps up, we probably won't be able to see them again, since we two have to start getting busy too."

Lin Nan and Liu Yifei walked into the Enlight Pictures building while talking.

On the 12th floor, inside the chairman's office, Wang Changtian had been waiting for a while, unable to laugh or cry.

The moment he saw Lin Nan and Liu Yifei enter, his expression finally couldn't hold back a laugh, and he complained: "I never dreamed that Wu Jing would actually run off to Hollywood."

"Tell us in detail." Lin Nan and Liu Yifei sat down on the sofa to the side with smiles.

"What about Xie Nan? She didn't go, right?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.

"She didn't. Only Wu Jing was invited to go over, um, to organize promotion for his *Wolf Warrior 2*." Wang Changtian's smile revealed a sense of speechlessness.

"Logically speaking, all films that have registered for the Oscars can indeed go there for 'promotion'." Lin Nan also smiled speechlessly.

An hour ago, when he received that text message from Wang Changtian at the airport, he was completely stunned.

Wu Jing hadn't mixed in Hollywood before... One *Wolf Warrior 2* could be said to have made him "a poor man suddenly rich," and the drastic change in his surrounding environment naturally caused his mindset to change, and his desires were stimulated.

"But that side requires public relations, right? The costs... Lin Nan and I didn't know about this!" Liu Yifei reminded him in a low voice, also very puzzled.

"At the beginning of October, he mentioned this to me, saying he wanted to try, but I refused, so he went by himself these past two days."

Speaking of this, Wang Changtian suddenly looked at Lin Nan and Liu Yifei with a complex and playful expression, teasing: "He called me this morning, saying he would spend at most 2 million US dollars, and the primary goal is just a nomination.

You two know, just from the box office share of *Wolf Warrior 2*, he got 450 million. He's not short of these two million dollars. And... while doing serious business, he really did happen to make other connections."

"What connections?" Now, Lin Nan and Liu Yifei were even more puzzled and curious.

"The dog noses in Hollywood are too sharp. They all know that the trend in the domestic film market is mainstream films, and when it comes to the track of mainstream films and patriotic themes, the most popular and representative actor is Wu Jing;

He is also the current record holder for the highest box office in the Chinese film market, director and lead actor... In other words, Wu Jing is currently the actor with the most box office appeal in the country. And this characteristic of his will likely be maintained for many years, as long as the external environment doesn't change, or even gets worse..."

"So, they are wooing Wu Jing?" Liu Yifei blinked her eyes, guessing uncertainly.

And Wang Changtian's subconscious expression had already nakedly told Liu Yifei and Lin Nan that they guessed right!

"This is interesting. I'm very curious which company is wooing him?" Lin Nan asked with a laugh.

"Should be a big studio, right?" Liu Yifei also added.

Wang Changtian smiled and nodded, "It's Warner Bros. Wu Jing has decisively accepted the invitation and signed a memorandum of cooperation with them.

People are in high spirits when things go well. He was happy for a moment, so he became more determined to try public relations and threw out two million US dollars!"

After hearing Wang Changtian's explanation, Lin Nan and Liu Yifei didn't quite know what to say. A moment later, the two slowly began to analyze.

"Once the cooperation project is finalized later, I think it's highly likely to be a co-production. Um, mainly for the domestic market." Lin Nan said very affirmatively.

"The themes Wu Jing is suitable for are just those: action, adventure, special effects blockbusters... Anyway, it definitely can't be an acting-heavy route, and co-productions are only suitable for these themes. Um? It seems Warner Bros. does have a lot of big IPs, right?" Liu Yifei looked at Lin Nan, her eyes filled with thought.

"We'll see later. It's still too early to say these things now. But we have to admit, for Wu Jing, this trip to Hollywood was definitely not in vain. Warner Bros.' reputation is well-known, and it's very good."

Lin Nan smiled and affirmed. But there was one thing he didn't dare to say out loud, which was that Wu Jing's two million US dollars were definitely going to be thrown into the water.