Monday.In the morning.
On the third day since the movie opened.
The International Celebrity Rankings Index was refreshed. The index saw yet another astonis.h.i.+ng change of the rankings. Zhang Ye advanced from the 59th place on the international C-list rankings by seven places and was now ranked 52nd after his international popularity grew tremendously.
It had to be said that Zhang Ye"s international popularity had not moved at all prior to this. Furthermore, this was the third day since Wolf Warrior 2 had premiered. In fact, even though Wolf Warrior 2 was given a "global" release, its showtimes overseas were as good as negligible, and it could be considered as having only released in China. Yet that was still enough to increase Zhang Ye"s international popularity by a lot, so it could be seen just how great of a feat it was for a Chinese movie to defeat a Hollywood movie in the past weekend"s global box office rankings. It had completely shocked everyone around the world!
The whole world had their attention on this!
The media outlets of many countries were reporting about it!
Something about a world-cla.s.s director.
Something about an international action star.
All kinds of t.i.tles were attached to Zhang Ye.
At this moment, the attacks from Hollywood started.
"The final box office earnings are still not confirmed."
"World-cla.s.s director? That"ll depend on the gross box office earnings the movie gets. It has only been two days."
"I won"t acknowledge that he"s an international action star!"
"It"s clear as day that Zhang Ye"s physical fitness is atrocious, so how can he be called an international action star? That"s actually too professional a term to use for him. Actors who can be labeled as action stars are all very good at fighting. They have to do it for real and not just shoot a few action scenes to be called an action star. Neither would having a slightly better global box office performance earn them the t.i.tle of being an international action star. Just look at Zhang Ye. Does he even look like he"s an actor who can fight? Don"t mention fighting, just based on his physical fitness alone, I doubt he can even run a mile, heh."
The barbs were all pointed at Zhang Ye.
The purpose of Hollywood"s attack was obvious. It was to stifle the bl.u.s.ter of Wolf Warrior 2"s performance to affect their box office earnings. Even now, they were still hopeful that Commando 2 would be able to beat Wolf Warrior 2 and that their own box office earnings would surpa.s.s their rival"s by the end of the day!
…
In China.
Shanghai.
Outside the airport, in a van.
Zhang Ye and several actors were on the way to a promotional tour stop. For the next few days, the main members of the film crew would be traveling the entire country to promote their movie. This was also their way to express their sincerity and help push Wolf Warrior 2"s box office earnings to a new high.
Ha Qiqi said, "Why is there a traffic jam?"
Zhang Zuo said anxiously, "There are news reports of major traffic jams happening all over Shanghai."
"This is bad." Sophia kept checking her watch. "The tour starts at 9 AM, but it"s almost 8. What if we don"t make it on time?"
Honk honk honk!
Honk honk honk!
There was the sound of honking all around, but the traffic wasn"t moving at all!
Zhang Ye couldn"t sit around and wait anymore. "This show is our first stop and is crucial to our box office earnings, so we must not be late for it. How many kilometers are we away from the theater?"
Yao Jiancai said, "We"re still more than 20 kilometers away."
Ha Qiqi checked the GPS. "The entire way is congested."
Boss Qian Jr. let out a curse, "f.u.c.k. If I knew it would"ve been like this, I would"ve asked my dad to buy a private helicopter. This traffic is delaying us! If we arrive late to our stop, those Hollywood b.a.s.t.a.r.ds will surely seize the opportunity to attack us and claim that we don"t respect the audience! The entire world is looking at us under a microscope. If there is even a small mishap, they will definitely exaggerate and blow it out of proportion!"
They waited another two minutes.
The traffic was still not moving.
Zhang Ye looked out to the roadside. "Where"s the for visiting.
On the same night.
The news broke.
"Wolf Warrior 2"s first tour stop is successfully held!"
"Major traffic jams across Shanghai, Zhang Ye runs to the theater!"
"What is professionalism?"
"Zhang Ye really lives up to the people"s expectations!"
"Running a half-marathon to get to a tour stop?"
"Zhang Ye"s crazy run in Shanghai tops the trending list of searches!"
Some of the nosier media outlets even used the times and geolocation information of the netizens" Weibo posts to write a detailed article and tracked the distance and time of Zhang Ye"s run on the highway to the theater. If they hadn"t counted it, it wouldn"t have mattered. But now that they did, it gave the entire world something to be shocked about!
For the entire journey, Zhang Ye had actually run 22 kilometers in total!
How long is a half-marathon? 13.1 miles! Converted to the metric system, that would be 21.1 kilometers!
In other words, the distance that Zhang Ye ran was actually one kilometer longer than a half-marathon. And the time that he took to run to the theater was a shocking 59 minutes and 18 seconds. Upon checking the results of this year"s international half-marathon races, everyone was shocked to discover that Zhang Ye had run the best time in the world this year. Even the professional marathon runners were not as fast as him!
This conclusion was frightening!
It was so frightening that the world was astonished!
…
The Web blew up!
An American netizen: "What?"
A j.a.panese netizen: "That"s too fast a time!"
A UK netizen: "Is that the best time this year?"
An Indian netizen: "How is this possible!"
A Canadian netizen: "This is the level of an elite athlete!"
A French netizen: "Didn"t Hollywood claim that Zhang Ye"s physical fitness was atrocious? That he wasn"t qualified to be called an action star? H-How is that f.u.c.king called having atrocious physical fitness? Just how fit is he really!"
A Korea netizen: "Did you guys see the photos? His clothes and shoes!"
A collared s.h.i.+rt.
And dress pants.
Paired with leather shoes.
He didn"t wear any running apparel!
Even like this, he was still able to run the best time of the year?
People around the world didn"t know how to react.
Only the Chinese netizens were laughing.
"Did you guys just find out?"
"This fellow isn"t human to begin with."
"Teacher Zhang has smacked Hollywood in the face again!"
"Right after Hollywood speaks, Face-smacking Zhang slaps them in the face!"
"Zhang Ye"s physical fitness is atrocious? This is a joke that can make me laugh for a 100 f.u.c.king years!"