Chapter 388 "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" movie project launched
To get back to the point, Huo Wenxi led Feilong Media to achieve extremely excellent results, and Lin Cheng, as her boss and man, naturally wanted to sacrifice his life and do his best to treat her, so the dog man and woman staged an unsightly shameful act in the president's office.
Afterwards, a cigarette is as happy as a fairy.
After an unusually fierce hand-to-hand fight, the dog man and woman have put on their clothes and become human-like again.
Huo Wenxi suddenly said: "Cheng Zai, our Feilong Media's TV series has achieved great success, is it time to start the film project." ”
"Film project?" Lin Cheng said confusedly.
"That's right, entertainment companies can only afford to make movies, and we should also make a blockbuster movie to prove the strength of Feilong Media, "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang" is not counted, this movie is obviously a work of money, and many filmmakers in the circle have expressed dissatisfaction with us, saying that we only care about making money and ignoring art.
Moreover, when you established Flying Eagle Entertainment, you took out seven movie scripts to shoot in one go, and Feilong Media is also your entertainment company, so you can't favor one over the other!" Huo Wenxi said coquettishly.
"Of course not!" Lin Cheng soothed: "The Xiangjiang Film Market will hit the streets sooner or later, so I will take advantage of the fact that Xiangjiang Film still has a breath to focus on shooting seven good movies in these two years, and when the millennium comes, Xiangjiang Film will be completely hopeless, and in the future, I will only let it focus on overseas distribution, and make movies."
Compared with Xiangjiang movies, although mainland movies are not much better now, the future of Chinese films must be in the mainland, take "Titanic" as an example, this blockbuster has achieved a box office of more than 100 million in Xiangjiang, and it is the only film that has broken 100 million since the opening of Xiangjiang, and there will be no film that can break its record within ten years.
But in the mainland, as early as 1982, "Shaolin Temple" starring Li Lianjie has already achieved a box office record of 160 million, as long as mainland fans resume their movie-watching habits, films that break 100 million will abound in the future.
Since I am so optimistic about the future of the mainland film market, entertainment companies will naturally focus on Feilong Media, and Feiying Entertainment, which is at most engaged in overseas distribution, cannot be compared at all.
By the way, didn't I provide you with a movie script called "Hero", in my opinion, this film is a film that can break 100 million at the box office, how are you prepared?"
Huo Wenxi said dissatisfiedly: "The film "Hero" is not only provided to us by Feilong Media, but also produced by Feiying Entertainment. However, this film has already started, Zhang Guoshi led the crew to Jiuzhaigou, and the six leading actors are all in place. ”
Lin Cheng thought for a while and said, "A single "Hero" is indeed a bit thin for Feilong Media. In this way, you go to contact Mr. Wang Dulu's family, buy the film and television copyright of his "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and then ask Hollywood director Li Yu to direct, you can definitely make a martial arts blockbuster no less than "Hero". ”
In his previous life, Lin Cheng watched the pirated DVD of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was really drowsy, except for Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Zhen's boat scene that gave him a little refreshment, Lin Cheng spent almost the whole time in his sleep.
Although Lao Mouzi's "Hero" is also very bad, he is a photographer after all, and the whole film of "Hero" is still very powerful as a landscape promotional blockbuster in Jiuzhaigou, at least Lin Cheng watched the whole process.
In Lin Cheng's heart, these two films are not the worst, only worse.
Of course, no matter how much Lin Cheng doesn't like these two films, these two films are the most profitable films in this era!
Not to mention Feng Dagang and Uncle Ge's New Year's drama, although Feng Dagang's New Year's drama Lin Cheng watched it very happily, but the domestic box office is only 30 or 40 million, and as for the overseas box office, don't mention it, it is almost equal to zero.
On the other hand, "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the domestic box office of "Hero" is 260 million yuan, the North American box office is also 53.7 million US dollars, and the global total box office is 177 million US dollars, which is equivalent to almost 1.4 billion yuan.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is even more awesome, this movie belongs to a typical representative of the fragrance that blooms in the wall, although it only achieved 10 million at the box office in the mainland, but its overseas box office is as high as 213 million, parentheses, US dollars, equivalent to RMB 1.7 billion, which is much more profitable than "Hero".
The film is particularly outstanding at the North American box office, earning nearly $130 million at the box office, a record that has not been broken until Lin Cheng was reborn in 2017, and is the highest-grossing Chinese film in North America.
In terms of awards, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is even more awesome, with ten nominations at the Oscars and four Oscars, which can be said to be a great success both commercially and artistically.
And compared with the $30 million cost of Lao Mouzi's filming of "Hero", the shooting cost of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" filmed by Li Yu is only $17 million, which is definitely a small and profitable project.
Such a profiteering project, for Lin Cheng, who is greedy for money, how could he miss it?!
""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", I seem to have seen this one, but the author, Mr. Wang Dulu, has passed away, I don't know if his family is difficult to do, will he open his mouth to us?
Lin Cheng said with a smile: "When the time comes, you take the adapted script of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" written by me to the US imperialist to invite him in person, and he will definitely agree to direct it after reading my script."
As for Mr. Wang Dulu's family, they are all reasonable cultural people, we put Mr. Wang Dulu's on the big screen, as long as we don't change the mess, they will definitely agree to sell us the film copyright of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". ”
Huo Wenxi said in surprise: "You are so sure of it, as if you know Li Yu very well." ”
Lin Cheng nodded and said: "Of course, I heard that Li Yu has always had a plan to shoot a martial arts movie, but he has never been able to find a suitable theme and script, as long as he reads the script I wrote and asks him to direct, it will definitely be no problem." ”
Huo Wenxi said helplessly: "Well, in this case, our Feilong Media will shoot "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but how much is the investment in this film?
Although our Feilong Media has just received 150 million yuan, we have invested all our funds in the filming of the blockbuster "Hero", and now we don't have much money in the company's account. ”
Lin Cheng thought for a while and said, "The cost of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is almost 20 million US dollars. In this way, when I transfer 200 million yuan to the account of Feilong Media, it will definitely be enough for you to use it for a while. ”
Huo Wenxi smiled happily when he heard this, threw himself into his arms and kissed Lin Cheng, and said with a smile: "That's pretty much it! By the way, who are you going to invite to play the protagonist of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", won't it be Li Lianjie and Liang Chaowei again?"
Liang Chaowei is okay, and his acting skills are OK, but Li Lianjie still counts it, his salary is 80 million Hong Kong dollars, we might as well invite mainland actors to star, in fact, Chen Zhiming's acting skills are very good, I am very optimistic about him. ”