Within a few days, under the arrangement of Uncle Shao Liu, the production manager of Shaw Brothers Company negotiated specific cooperation matters with Wen Yingguang.

Shaw Brothers will invest $5 million in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and will not be involved in any production of the film, except for a producer position who has little power to oversee funding.

On the American side, Wen Yingguang still wanted to cooperate with Fox at first, after all, there had been good cooperation between the previous two films, and if he asked them again for this one, he would definitely not refuse.

But this proposal was rejected by Huo Yaowen, and he did not choose to continue to cooperate with Twentieth Century Fox.

Because long-term cooperation with a film company is not conducive to the development of the United States branch of Oneworld, after all, it will definitely take the road of independent production in the future, and it is easy to be targeted by other Hollywood studios if it always cooperates with Fox.

After thinking about it, I finally decided to find Paramount!

In the past few years, the eight major film companies in the United States, except for Universal, Disney and Fox, which hugged Huo Yaowen's thigh, are not bad, many of the other five have sunset, and the most representative is MGM!

In 1970, MGM was bought by the American gambling tycoon Kirk Kercorion, the casino tycoon had no intention of developing movies, just bought MGM, announced the construction of the MGM Hotel and Casino, and also made MGM, the once Hollywood giant film company, more and more distant from the film industry.

In the past eight years, less than 20 movies have been made, and they are all mainly based on small costs, and basically they don't make any money.

Huo Yaowen knew that MGM would be sold by the casino tycoon again in the future, but he had thought about buying it in his heart, so he naturally would not cooperate with MGM at this time and make money for them to continue to live.

The sooner he went bankrupt, Huo Yaowen could also acquire it one day earlier.

A few days later, the United States branch of Universal sent a message saying that Paramount's people attached great importance to the cooperation with Fok Yaowen and would send a special person to Hong Kong to discuss cooperation with Universal Film Corporation.

After getting the Paramount and deciding to cooperate with Uncle Shao Liu, Huo Yaowen began to write the raiders of the lost ark, he first slightly modified the first trilogy of raiders of the lost ark that he had watched, and after being able to connect with Huo Hero in the ghost blowing the lamp, it took him more than half a month to write the script and completeness of the first part.

In terms of details, he didn't bother to improve them, so he directly threw them to Yao Wenjie, and asked him to arrange for someone to slowly refine them, and when the revisions were completed, he directly contacted Bantan Book Publishing Company, Thames Publishing Company and some cooperative publishers for publishing.

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It's June.

When Davide was planning for the listing of Universal Press in the United States, Huo Yaowen also began to prepare to invest in the mainland.

In the late 70s and early 80s, the country was basically dominated by entrepot trade, and there was nothing more profitable than export trade when everything was left to be rebuilt and everything was lacking.

It's a pity that eighty percent of Huo Yaowen's assets are mainly in the publishing industry such as newspapers, books, and weeklies, and the only physical factory is Magpie Furniture Factory.

The mainland furniture market is still very broad, but it is not suitable for export trade.

When Huo Yaowen was thinking about how to invest in the mainland, on the other side, Gu Long came to the door.

Woda Old Road, Huo Mansion.

"When did Brother Xiong come back from Taiwan?"

Huo Yaowen smiled and welcomed Gu Long into the living room.

"Just came back yesterday!"

As he spoke, Gu Long took the teacup handed over by Zhang's mother, and said with a smile, "Thank you." ”

"What about the younger siblings and children?" Gu Long took a sip of tea, glanced at the living room, and looked at Huo Yaowen curiously.

Huo Yaowen walked to the TV, took out a cigar from a box on the table, threw it to Gu Long, and then said: "They live in my mother's house in the middle of the mountain, haven't they been on holiday in kindergarten for the past few days? ”

"Cuban cigars, what a good thing. Gu Long took the cigar, just sniffed it, and immediately sniffed that it was a top cigar from Cuba.

"I don't smoke what others give, so I keep it there, if you like it, I'll give it to you later." "The cigar was given to Sir Zhou by Huo Yaowen during the Chinese New Year, and Sir Zhou gave it to him.

Sir Zhou likes cigars and often smokes without leaving his hand, but in the past few years, his health has not been good, and the doctor told him not to smoke and drink, so he gave Huo Yaowen more than a dozen good cigars given to him by others.

"Are there any scissors?" Gu Long sniffed his cigar, his heart tickled.

"Yes, there's a whole set of tools. ”

As he spoke, Huo Yaowen got up again and walked to the TV, and took the special set of cigar tools to Gu Long.

After a skillful operation, just a moment of effort, Gu Long roasted the entire cigar body, and then took a slow breath, swallowed the clouds and spit out the mist, and said beautifully: "Sure enough, it is an authentic Cuban cigar, this one costs dozens of dollars." ”

"I don't know, I guess it's about the same. Huo Yaowen shook his head, he had already quit smoking, let alone cigars.

Gu Long said while smoking a cigar: "Yaowen, I came here this time, mainly because I have a friend who wants to do a show on your TV station. ”

"Friend, what do you do, and do you do in the TV industry?"

"Sort of. Gu Long took another sip, swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and said, "Do you know about the puppet show?"

Puppet show ?!!

Golden Light or Thunderbolt?!

Demigods, half-saints and half-immortals, all Confucianism and all Taoism are all sages, there are thousands of real books in their brains, and it is true to master the elements of the civil and military half of the sky?

"Yes, puppet show. ”

Gu Long nodded and continued: "I have an old friend, who specializes in puppet shows in Taiwan, and has been producing puppet shows on TV stations in the early years, which is similar to TV dramas, and the ratings in Taiwan are very high, but the authorities promote Chinese and do not allow Hokkien to be used, so it is forbidden to broadcast puppet shows on TV." ”

"It can't be Mr. Huang Haidai, right?" Huo Yaowen had watched the Thunderbolt puppet show on the Internet in his previous life, and he also knew a little bit about the Golden Light puppet show, so he naturally knew Mr. Huang, the grandmaster of the puppet show.

"Have you heard of him? I thought puppet theater was only popular in Taiwan. ”

When Gu Long heard that Huo Yaowen knew Huang Haidai, he immediately smiled and said: "That's right, it's Mr. Huang, originally he didn't want to come to Hong Kong to develop, but the authorities have been promoting the Chinese language, plus the props for making puppet shows are relatively expensive, and usually taking apprentices out to perform does not make much money, so it is not a way to go on, so I recommend him to come to Hong Kong to try it and see if it can be broadcast on your Phoenix TV." ”

"This ......"

Huo Yaowen thought for a while and said directly: "I've watched a little bit of puppet shows, if this form of drama is broadcast on TV, the ratings should not be too bad." It's just that you have to insist on using Hokkien, I'm afraid it's not easy to do, and you also know that Cantonese and Cantonese are commonly spoken here in Hong Kong. ”

Gu Long said: "I told him about this early in the morning, and he said that the Cantonese version can also be done. ”

"Then it's no problem, but you ask Mr. Huang to see if you can make Kyushu into a puppet show, after all, there are not many puppet shows in Hong Kong, if there is a Kyushu theme, I think there should not be too few people watching. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled, he hadn't seen the puppet show in this era, but he had seen a lot of Jinguang and Thunderbolt decades later, and it would be quite interesting to make Kyushu into a puppet show.

"I guess it's fine. Gu Long didn't dare to guarantee the ticket, he didn't know about the creation of puppet shows, but looking at the plot of puppet shows today, it is basically based on martial arts, and I want to make it into the mythical style of Kyushu, and there are quite a lot of them, but the investment in props is relatively large.

"In this way, you told Mr. Huang that only if you do Kyushu puppet show, you will support whatever Phoenix Station needs, whether it is prop production or the camera used for shooting, all are the best. ”

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