Chapter 676

While heated discussions continued to swirl, on March 3, the third day after Havoc in Heaven broke the global box-office record, Lu Heng booked the top-floor banquet hall of Beijing's Hilton Hotel on behalf of the production team. There, he held a grand celebration for Havoc in Heaven, which was still conquering new territory worldwide.

The invited guests included not only the cast and crew of Havoc in Heaven, but also renowned heavyweights from both the international and domestic entertainment industries. Representatives of Hollywood's eight major studios and A-list superstars made the celebration a glittering, truly international affair.

Yet the biggest draw of the evening was Lu Heng's announcement of the payments the principal cast and key crew members would receive under their profit-sharing agreements. Rumors had already circulated within the industry that Zhao Miao and the others had taken no upfront fees for Havoc in Heaven, signing profit-sharing agreements instead. However, neither Heng Xuan Studio nor the people involved had ever directly confirmed this. With Havoc in Heaven setting such astonishing box-office records worldwide, even as everyone cheered the film on, some had begun doing the math for Lu Heng. At the thought that these actors' shares might earn them more than the benchmark for the twenty-million-dollar club, many media outlets began to ache on behalf of his hemorrhaging wallet.

Some even secretly speculated whether, as Havoc in Heaven's worldwide box-office figures climbed ever higher, Lu Heng and Heng Xuan Studio would find an excuse to tear up the earlier agreements—and whether the principal cast would turn against him over the money.

But today, at the celebration for Havoc in Heaven, Lu Heng showed everyone through his actions that he had no intention of going back on his word. In fact, so delighted was he by the film's astonishing