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It was summer 2009. James Studio, which had been working tirelessly in Hollywood on Atlanta, held a press conference announcing that Atlanta had completed post-production and was officially scheduled for the Christmas release window that year.

As Atlanta began its global promotional campaign ahead of its release, Lu Heng, who had been holed up in New Zealand overseeing Havoc in Heaven's post-production, once again entered the view of movie fans around the world.

Director James personally called Wei Linxuan, hoping Heng Xuan Studio could handle Atlanta's release promotion. He also invited Lu Heng to oversee the film's global publicity campaign.

In addition, Director James specifically asked how Havoc in Heaven's post-production was coming along.

That was when he learned from Lu Heng that Havoc in Heaven would also complete post-production by the end of the month and was preparing to release during the Spring Festival window in 2010. He was instantly filled with emotion—

As "the highest-grossing and most free-spending" Hollywood director on the planet, James Frank had finished filming Atlanta in 2007, yet its visual effects had been completed in fits and starts for more than two years. The reason was that the production's budget had been spent too quickly, forcing Director James to seek investment everywhere during post-production to ensure Atlanta could continue normally.

Then the Subprime Mortgage Crisis triggered a global financial crisis, and the entire economy of M Country fell into a slump. Many investors who had once ruled Wall Street went bankrupt amid the turbulent stock market. Even the investment banks that managed to hold on became increasingly conservative with their investments and had no interest whatsoever in James's film.

In the end, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan stepped forward and, under the name of Heng Xuan Studio, invested an additional fifty million M dollars