"There's no need to be in a hurry for "Insidious 2". Zhang Junsheng took out two yellow crane towers from his pocket, handed one to Wen Ziren, and said to the latter's surprised eyes: "Let's set aside a year or two for the film to attract more people in the disc and rental market, and then make a sequel." ”

“… Is this marijuana?"

"You think too much, this is a cigarette, a Chinese cigarette!"

lit, took a puff, and looked at the script of "The Conjuring", which began with the words: "Based on a true story..."

“… Is this true?"

"Of course, Gerard Bullitle's "Calling: The Warrens' Murderous Career Record"

"True story..."

In fact, the origin of "The Conjuring" is far simpler than everyone thinks, it is a small producer who tries his luck with the original book...

In fact, "The Conjuring" is very much in line with Lao Mei's demand for horror films, "Haunted House", "The Innocent Man", and "The Exorcist" are all of this genre.

"The Conjuring" tells the story of a pair of exorcists...

A small producer from Texas, Tony DeRosa-Gulund, got his hands on an audio tape of Andrea Perron interviewing Warren's family.

At the time, the Warren family bought a house that they didn't know was haunted when they bought it.

Tony Derosa Grund ripped all the tapes Andrea Perron had provided, always hoping to bring the story to the screen, and adapted the script.

It's just that in Hollywood, it's all too common for a good story or even a good script to not be appreciated, so Tony Derosa Grunde's plans have been repeatedly delayed.

For nearly two decades, Tony DeRosa Gulund has been looking for an opportunity to bring the film to the screen, but to no avail.

During this period, the script once fell into the hands of New Line Pictures, and the result was moldy in the script library of New Line Pictures, until early last year, at an exchange meeting in the circle of horror filmmakers, Tony DeRosa Gulund met Wen Ziren...

The latter is very fond of such horror genres.

Of course, the script has been modified to a certain extent, and I originally wanted to find my old partner Ray Werner to do the script work on "The Conjuring" together, who was busy preparing for "Insidious 2"...

So I found a few professional screenwriters, and I have been grinding for several months before I built the framework of "The Conjuring"...

"According to you, "The Conjuring", "Annabelle", "Nun", "The Hunchback" will all slowly appear..."

After flipping through the script of "The Conjuring", Zhang Junsheng suddenly asked: "... Do you know Stephen King's Joker?"

"Stephen King?"

"Yes!"

Wen Ziren took a deep breath following Zhang Junsheng's example, couldn't help coughing a few times, and then asked, "... You're talking about "Return of the Clown"!"

"Yes, Return of the Clown..."

"That copyright should be in the hands of the new line... Most of Stephen King's horror film copyrights are in the hands of New Line, and in those years, "The Lord of the Rings" was a big hit, and New Line bought a large number of copyrights..."

“…”

This horse-stepping...

"Is it possible to get our hands on it? Let's create another 'Stephen King horror universe'?"

"It should be okay, Stephen King's movie adaptation is not a big hit," after a pause, Wen Ziren frowned: "But I don't have that much energy..."

"Then dig up a few people who are good at directing horror films, don't you often participate in exchange meetings, tell them, come to the top, we have money, and we are not afraid of losses!"

“OK！”

Wen Ziren nodded.

Don't underestimate Wen Ziren, this product is the leader of the famous Hollywood horror film organization "Cheer Gang"!

The "Hoop Gang" is an organization that loves to shoot their own horror films at a cost of less than 10 million dollars, and its famous directors include Wen Ziren, Eli Rose ("Human Skin Inn"), Ray Warner ("Latent"), Darren Lynn Bowsman ("Chainsaw 2"), Nell Marshall ("Invasion of Darkness"), Alexander Aka ("Eyes Across the Mountain"), Eli Rose ("No Bones Left"), Anders Muschietti ("Mom"...

They are all masters who do big things with little money...

Robert Rodriguez wanted to infiltrate the organization to get a vote, but was told by everyone that the cost of filming was too high, and he went cool...

"Didn't you hang out at Lionsgate before? there must have been a lot of horror movies in there..."

"Rob Freyman seems to have been in touch with Sally Redstone, why don't we go check it out?"

"Let's go!"

Sally Redstone is the head of Viacom's CBS TV station, CBS belongs to the six major public stations in the United States, the style is very obvious, known as the "old man's station", the programs broadcast tend to be more conservative, all crime dramas, such as "Naval Criminal Investigation Service", "Criminal Minds", "Basic Deduction Law", "Suspect Tracking"...

In addition to crime dramas, sitcoms are also a major feature, and representative works include "Two and a Half Heroes" and "The Romance of Mom and Dad"...

"Two and a Half Heroes" has been in turmoil because of the problem of starring Charlie Sheen, and he was simply fired this year...

The specific reason is because of Charlie Sheen's moral loss: domestic violence, sex addiction, drug abuse...

Of course, the most direct reason is because Charlie Sheen directly insults the boss...

……

"StarZ belongs to the cable station, and it owns hit dramas such as "Temple Spring and Autumn", "Crash", "Windy City Gangster", "Invasion" and so on..."

"What does Viacom say?"

Zhang Junsheng interrupted Rob Freman's report and asked directly about the results.

“… They agreed to buy Lionsgate together, but on one condition..."

"What conditions?"

Rob Freman looked embarrassed, but still told the truth: "They want to burn after they buy shares..."

“… Of course, you can!"

Why did Zhang Junsheng agree to Sequoia Capital, Comcast, and Morgan Consortium to burn after the shareholding, of course, to protect himself, he is a Chinese, doing business in the United States, looking for a few local snakes to be attached to, dividends are protection fees...

Viacom is the third-largest media group in North America, and there are benefits to their stake.

At least Pinnacle has the opportunity to step in the Paramount project...

"They want 30 percent of the shares!"

“… Walter?"

Thirty percent? Why don't you die?

The person in charge of the burn-in-the-burn after reading who was sitting next to him said: "The streaming media business has been considered by Wall Street to be a new direction for media development, and the market value of the burn-in-the-book is growing..."

"The shares in my hands will definitely be diluted, and it would be good to keep 30% in the end, but you can't sell 30% at once, it's no different from robbery!"

"Viacom wants to buy it and burn it after reading..."

"There are no doors!"

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