Chapter 189 Premiere Guests

The world premiere of "Journey to the West: Pingdingshan" is scheduled for Friday, December 12th.

The mainland premiere will be on December 12, the weekend.

Given that Jiang Heng’s special effects blockbusters have become must-see movies for many people every year, and they are also popular themes such as "Journey to the West".

In addition, with the success of "Lion Camel Ridge" before it was released, the film became popular before it was even released, and the premiere tickets were sold out as soon as they were released.

On the black market, an ordinary premiere ticket costs more than a thousand yuan.

As for the front row near the guest seats, the prices are simply sky-high.

In 04, people in mainland China were generally not rich, but there were a large number of wealthy people.

Among them, some like to look for female stars, and some rich girls like to chase male stars.

The most outrageous one is "Seven Hours Time Difference", which is almost as outrageous as the play starring Jiao Rongjun and Aunt Ximen.

However, since Jiang Heng became famous, especially after starring in "Splitting the Mountain to Save Mother", he has also gained many fanatical female fans.

Some of them, who thought they came from well-off families, also wanted to repeat such stories. When they told their elders about them, they were severely scolded.

Jiang Heng is not an ordinary star who can be manipulated by capital at will. He is an internationally renowned director. In terms of personal assets alone, he is among the top rich people.

But for some reason, Jiang Heng's name is not included in either the Hurun or Forbes rich list. Perhaps some people think that it will have a bad influence if a celebrity is on the rich list, and at the top of the list!
After all, if the richest man in a country is a director or a celebrity, what will the people think, and what will people abroad think?
Is it so difficult to run a business? A bunch of people working in the real industry don’t make as much as those making movies!
But the reality is that Jiang Heng’s personal assets at this moment may very well make him the richest man in mainland China, which is quite embarrassing!
Although there has been no authoritative media coverage of this matter, there have always been rumors circulating among the public.

Therefore, ordinary wealthy people dare not provoke Jiang Heng at all.

Those who are at the top of the list are still thinking about which movie of Jiang Heng is suitable for product placement to promote their own products!
However, there are all kinds of people in the world.

There are indeed some rich girls who don't care about that and are thinking about how to pursue Jiang Heng.

Among them was a girl called Xinxin, who was known as "the first socialite in Beijing". She claimed to have a strong background, and made a living by showing off her wealth. She was a jewelry designer as a hobby, and pursued Jiang Heng when she had nothing to do.

Picking up people at the airport, visiting the set, etc., those are all routine operations.

Jiang Heng initially tried to deal with it out of respect for the person who introduced him, but as he saw that the man was becoming more and more out of line, he became too lazy to pay any attention to him.

The socialite named Xinxin was not discouraged. Since she couldn't get a guest ticket, she bought a premiere ticket for ordinary audiences at a high price. At least she could be there and be close enough to Jiang Heng.

In the first row of the general audience, a pretty woman with a delicate face looked around and touched her friend with her arm, "Hey, Miaomiao, have you seen Jiang Heng?"

The girl named Miaomiao also had a fashionable appearance and a soft voice. "No, he hasn't come yet! Didn't you say that your second uncle is very powerful and can call Jiang Heng over with just one phone call? Why don't you just make it clear? Why bother with all this effort?"

Xinxin said, "Hey, don't you know my second uncle? He keeps repeating the same things over and over again. Isn't that intimidating to me?"

Miaomiao said: "Or you can also enter the entertainment industry and work with him on a movie. Wouldn't you see him every day?"

Xinxin's eyes widened, "Don't even think about it. My old man would beat me to death. He always said that in the old society, actors were...!"

As they were talking, they saw Jiang Heng walking towards them in a very fitting suit, looking very handsome. Xinxin instantly turned into a fangirl and stood up to wave, "Hey, Jiang Heng, I'm here!"

The best friend at the side had a speechless expression, turned her face to the side and sighed: "You are not far from being beaten to death!"

Jiang Heng, who was far away, was also speechless when he saw this. He nodded slightly and turned around to greet the people in the guest seats.

There are still quite a lot of people coming this time, including friends from the film and television industry, film creators, and some business leaders.

For example, Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu came. He had previously taken a fancy to the piece of land in Jiang Heng’s hands because according to the original history, it belonged to Sohu.

Zhang Chaoyang also took a fancy to Jiang Heng as in history. He had dinner with him twice and chatted with him several times after being introduced by a friend. Although the deal did not go through, they found that they got along well and became friends.

In addition, business tycoon Huang Guangyu also came.

He is the richest man in mainland China this year and is devoted to expanding his business. After seeing that a number of commercial brands had great success after inserting advertisements in "The Matrix 3" and "Inception", he also had the idea of ​​participating in advertisement insertion.

In theory, there is no need for him, the richest man in mainland China and the boss of Guomei, to take action in this matter.

But he felt that Jiang Heng was also a big boss, and he had to give the other party enough attention when discussing cooperation, so he came here in person.

Jiang Heng was naturally surprised and greeted them with a smile.

Because there were so many people, each person only exchanged a few words of greeting.

Hong Jinbao, who stood up with everyone else, was already at the end of the line.

Thinking of the scene when Jiang Heng first met him a few years ago, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, things have changed!

The person ranked ahead of Sammo Hung is the great director Rainie Wu.

According to original history, director Wu Yusen only returned to the Chinese film industry in 06.

In this life, because of the appearance of Jiang Heng, a lot of capital tends to invest in special effects blockbusters.

The problem is that in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, there are only a few directors capable of directing blockbuster films.

Let’s not talk about the mainland, on the Hong Kong side, besides Jiang Heng and Zhou Xingxing, there has to be Wu Yusen.

Xu Ke has been quiet for a while now because of several failures in a row.

Therefore, in the past two years, some people have been persuading Wu Yusen to return to the Chinese film industry.

Even the project was thought out for him, which was the most exciting "Battle of Red Cliffs" in the Three Kingdoms.

It is said that because of the box office failure of "Windtalkers", no one in Hollywood wanted to invite Wu Yusen to film a movie. Seeing such a warm welcome in China, he decided to return.

When participating in the script adaptation, everyone discussed the actor who would play Zhou Yu.

John Woo's preference was for Chow Yun-fat, but many people felt that Chow Yun-fat's age was not suitable.

Zhou Yu was only 33 years old during the Battle of Red Cliffs. Chow Yun-fat, who was born in 55, is almost years old. If he were to play Zhou Yu, how could he bring out the heroic spirit of Zhou Yu?

But if someone else were to play the male lead, it seems that his status and box office appeal would be lacking.

At this time, Wang Huiling, who was one of the screenwriters of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", suggested, why not invite Jiang Heng to play Zhou Yu?

Jiang Heng is young at this moment, mature beyond his years, and has an outstanding appearance.

When filming, he can coordinate a lot of large scenes well and remain calm, which makes him the best candidate for Mei Zhoulang.

When this proposal was made, everyone was stunned at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it was quite appropriate.

Even Wu Yusen thought that this proposal was very good, but he and Zhou Runfa had been friends for many years, but he was not very familiar with Jiang Heng, so he was still inclined to invite Zhou Runfa.

However, she could not resist the request of the investors and had to attend the premiere of Jiang Heng's new film, ready to take the opportunity to have a chat.

If Jiang Heng himself doesn't want to act, wouldn't that save a lot of trouble?

(End of this chapter)