When Chu went to the theater, he almost fainted. Dusty and dark when projected on screen, the quality was horrible. Rather than Dolby, the audio sounded like it was coming from a transistor radio. Nevertheless, even under those circumstances, the film was able to gross RMB20 million.
2004 年他幫東森電視台拍一部電視電影《一石二鳥》，被大陸片商以 100 萬人民幣買下版權，轉成底片拷貝後在三百多家戲院上映；他到戲院一看差點昏倒，銀幕黑漆漆的，畫質差、又沒有杜比音響，聲音「扁」得像從收音機裡出來，這麼差的硬體條件，竟然還賣了 2,000 萬人民幣。