Huo Yaowen did have this idea about the matter of engaging in a martial arts gym chain, but he didn't have the time and energy now, so he just mentioned the matter of registering for the Jeet Kune Do Association.

But it was this sentence that made Bruce Lee's eyes light up, and he hurriedly ran to Takeyuki Kimura to discuss this matter.

Seeing the two of them muttering there, it seemed that they would not have time to accompany him to Chinatown for a while, so Huo Yaowen had no choice but to take Luo Cheng, Zou Wenhuai and Mark together to accompany him for a walk in Chinatown.

Although it seems more interesting to go to Hollywood to see movie stars in Los Angeles, Chinatown is also a good sightseeing spot for Huo Yaowen and others, anyway, Davide and a newly hired American lawyer who is very familiar with the film industry are in heated negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox about the matter, and they don't know how many days it will take to negotiate, they have time to see all over Los Angeles.

It was a lot of fun for a few people to chat while strolling around Chinatown.

Luo Cheng suddenly smiled and said: "Mr. Huo, I couldn't help this time, and I also received your commission, it seems that my trip to the United States is a public-funded tour!"

Zou Wenhuai raised his eyebrows and looked at Huo Yaowen curiously: "Mr. Huo came to the United States this time to talk about the publication of a new book?"

When we met in the morning, Mark was introduced as the editor-in-chief of Bantan Books, so Zou Wenhuai thought he had come to the United States to talk about publishing.

Without waiting for Huo Yaowen to speak, Mark, who was playing with a traditional Chinese knot in front of a stall, turned around and shook his head and said, "No, Mr. Evan came to the United States this time to discuss the matter of co-producing a movie with Fox. ”

Make a movie?!

Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai's eyes couldn't help but widen, Fox should be Hollywood's Twentieth Century Fox Film Company, how could Huo Yaowen go to the United States to make movies with others!

"Well, this time I came to the United States to discuss with Fox about the adaptation of my sci-fi book "1999" into a movie. Huo Yaowen nodded, he didn't mean to hide it, anyway, there was nothing to hide about it, and when the crew of "1999" was formed and came to Hong Kong to film, Zou Wenhuai would definitely know.

“1999！”

Although Zou Wenhuai has not watched "1999", during the time he came to the United States, he already knew how famous Huo Yaowen was in the United States, and "1999", which can be called the universe trilogy, was already familiar, but he didn't expect that now Huo Yaowen was going to make a movie, and the person he cooperated with was Fox Company!

At present, almost all Hollywood science fiction films are big investments, and the investment cost of "2001: A Space Odyssey" a few years ago was as high as 15 million US dollars, which is almost fifteen times the investment of Zou Wenhuai's current "Enter the Dragon" with Warner!

Therefore, as soon as he heard that the movie he wanted to cooperate with was "1999", Zou Wenhuai was excited, swallowed his saliva, and pretended to ask casually: "I don't know how much Mr. Huo and Fox are going to invest in the filming of "1999"? I heard people say that science fiction movies seem to have a lot of investment. ”

"Forty million!"

"Dollars?"

Looking at Zou Wenhuai's surprised look, Huo Yaowen smiled and said, "Of course it's US dollars, it can't be Hong Kong dollars, right?"

"Then I don't know how much Mr. Huo has contributed?"

"Twenty million, mainly because I'm a little tight right now, otherwise I'll give a little more. ”

"Gollum ......"

20 million US dollars, almost 20 times the investment of "Enter the Dragon"!

Zou Wenhuai has struggled for most of his life, and he doesn't even have one-tenth of Huo Yaowen's money, this is still when his opponent is tight, this is really empty for decades!

He really didn't know what to say, and now the purchasing power of 20 million US dollars is not low, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which is enough to buy several streets of shops in Central, the most prosperous city in Hong Kong.

Seeing that Zou Wenhuai's face was solemn and he didn't speak, Huo Yaowen glanced at it a few times, thinking that he couldn't have been hit.

Forget it, leave him alone.

When Huo Yaowen was about to continue shopping, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a stall selling old books, there was a very familiar cover on it, he walked over curiously, squatted down and picked it up, it turned out to be "Tang Heavenly Demon Chronicles"!

At a glance at the stalls, good guys, "Sweet Honey", "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", "The Legend of Shenzhou", "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "Pingxia Film", "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Jinghua", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", "The Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", ...... All Chinese books.

The vendor was a middle-aged Chinese man in his forties, and he saw that Huo Yaowen was interested, and introduced in English: "Sir, do you want to buy a few martial arts books? These books are all written by well-known martial arts writers in Hong Kong, and what you are holding in your hand is a fantasy martial arts written by Evan, who is famous all over the United States." ”

"You don't think these books are genuine. Huo Yaowen suddenly noticed that the publishing company behind "Datang" in his hand was a string of English letters, what was it called "Amway Publishing Company".

As soon as he heard that the young man in front of him was speaking Cantonese, the middle-aged man also smiled in Cantonese: "Listening to Mr.'s accent, it should be from Hong Kong." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Then it's not surprising that these books are 100% genuine. ”

With the words of the middle-aged man, Huo Yaowen suddenly came over, it turned out that he had brought these books to the United States!

Since Fok Yaowen established the Hong Kong Martial Arts Culture Development and Promotion Association the year before last, and asked Litu to develop the business of the Egyptian book manager company to Hong Kong, Litu has signed overseas copyright contracts with most of the association's writers.

The first overseas region to choose to publish is the United States, because it is the country with the largest number of Chinese in the world.

Originally, Litu wanted to cooperate with Bantan Book Publishing Company, after all, there was Huo Yaowen's button, but Bantan Company had never published Chinese books, so he had to contact an ordinary publishing company for cooperation.

Perhaps there was the name Evan in the Chinese book, and the small publishing company gladly agreed to the cooperation, in order to save trouble, the Amway publishing company only purchased a batch of Chinese character templates, hired a few Chinese editors, and directly applied the martial arts books in Hong Kong.

If you don't look at the publishing company behind you, others will only think that it is published in Hong Kong.

Within two years, dozens of martial arts books were published one after another, and in Chinatown, a place with the largest number of Chinese, no matter how old-fashioned martial arts they were, sales were quite high, and a martial arts trend was formed.

Listening to the middle-aged man's explanation, Huo Yaowen thought for a few seconds and said with a smile: "How much is this book?"

"$1. ”

Yes, second-hand books are so expensive!

Huo Yaowen took out his wallet, took out a dollar card, and handed it to the other party, then he stood up and walked to Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng, who was buying some gadgets, saw that the boss was holding a book in his hand, looked at it carefully, and said in surprise: "Datang Heavenly Demon Zhi, when did you bring it?"

"It was published by a publishing company in the United States, and it should be that they didn't change the cover because they were troublesome, and they almost put it over directly. ”

Huo Yaowen pointed to the publishing company behind the book and showed it to Luo Cheng.

"Amway Publishing Company. ”

"Well, didn't you just say that you didn't do anything in the United States? I'm afraid you're going to be busy. Huo Yaowen smiled, the reason why he came to the United States was not to sign a contract with Fox, but to buy an English newspaper in the United States, and now it seems that he will add an additional publishing company.

As early as when he was preparing to leave for the United States, Fok Yaowen had already thought about buying a newspaper for his Universal Newspaper, so that although there was still a long way to go from News Corp., the news from Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States would be able to be obtained and shared among the three places as soon as possible.

……

After all, he is not an American and does not know much about the newspaper industry in the United States, so he asked him to go directly to a headhunting company in the United States to see if there is a newspaper suitable for acquisition.

On the other hand, after several days of heated talks between Davide and Fox, they finally negotiated a global box office share and peripheral share, and also agreed to cooperate with Huo Yaowen's Universal Film Company to jointly distribute it in Asia.

Ryder looked at the signed contract in his hand, got up with a smile and said, "Mr. Evan has a good cooperation!"

"Happy working with Mr. Ryder. Huo Yaowen shook hands with him politely.

"Mr. Evan, we at Fox have specially prepared a banquet for you at the hotel, and I hope Mr. Evan will be able to appreciate his face. ”

"Okay, Mr. Ryder. ”

Perhaps because of the successful signing, the group was smiling on the way to the banquet held by Fox.

When it came to the banquet, many executives and directors of Fox Company came to drink and chat with Huo Yaowen, he had to show a polite smile, deal with the past one by one, and wait to see that the surrounding foreigners were gone, he said to Wen Yingguang, who only came from Hong Kong yesterday: "Manager Wen, the matter here will be handed over to you, you are the producer I sent, but you must ensure the flow of funds, if there is anything you don't understand, just ask Davide directly, he is very familiar with this aspect of work." ”

"No problem, general manager, I will strictly control it!" Wen Yingguang nodded excitedly!

At this moment, he has been in a trance, and he still can't believe that the company has cooperated with the American Twentieth Century Fox Film Company to cooperate in a science fiction movie with an investment cost of up to 40 million US dollars!

"Sorry to excuse me. Mr. Evan, I heard you're going back to Hong Kong in a few days??"

Huo Yaowen looked back and found that it was George Lucas, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Yes, I'm going back to Hong Kong in the next two days, Lucas, do you have anything to do?"

"That ......" Lucas hesitated for a few seconds before gritting his teeth and said, "That's the case, Mr. Evan, I think you can stay for a few days, I am still full of doubts about the new script, some prop ideas, I think I may need your help." ”

In the past few days, Luo Cheng has been busy looking for a suitable English newspaper to buy, Huo Yaowen can stay in the United States for a few more days, thinking of this, he nodded and said: "Yes, but I think it won't be more than a week at most." ”

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