Chapter 223: Tsui Hark's Betrayal?
Lin Zhengying was stunned for a long time before she reacted, her face turned red, she was both excited and frightened, she opened her mouth several times and couldn't speak, and finally turned into excitement, as if she had won the five million jackpot, and she couldn't wait to yell and let the whole world share the joy, opening a company is a simple sentence for Wang Zifan, but for him, it is a life-changing thing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hong Jinbao pushed Lin Zhengying with a smile and reminded: "Ah Fan is still waiting for you to reply?"
Lin Zhengying choked up and said, "I am willing!"
Wang Zifan was speechless, he didn't expect Lin Zhengying to be moved to cry with a casual sentence, isn't it just to start a company, there is such a fuss, and he didn't promise benefits such as fifty-five dividends, no matter what he thought in his heart, he turned into a smile and comforted: "Then it's decided, you will be responsible for the new company, and I will pay for the filming!"
"Thank you, Mr. Wang!" Lin Zhengying was sincerely grateful.
Hong Jinbao was also happy for his friend, but he also had his own purpose for coming here today, so he pondered for a moment and said: "Afan, if you want to open the North American market, I have an idea, not only North America, but even Japan can occupy it by the way!"
Wang Zifan's heart moved, isn't this the biggest advantage of Jiahe, and he said curiously: "Let's talk about it!"
Hong Jinbao said word by word: "Dig Ah Long!"
Wang Zifan was also stunned, looking at Hong Jinbao with strange eyes, since last year, Golden Harvest has pushed Cheng Long to Hollywood, this is not a blank check that Shaw promised to Zhou Run, Cheng Long joined Golden Harvest, and let him star in "Killer Trench", and strive to make him the second kung fu superstar to enter the international after Li Xiaolong, but Golden Harvest's previous filming of "Hejing Blood" is no longer a blockbuster, and "Killer Trench" is also unsatisfactory, for the sake of insurance, Golden Harvest spent 20 million US dollars to invite a number of Hollywood superstars to participate in " Cannonball Speed", with a sky-high salary of 5 million US dollars, he brought Bi Leonos to star, don't look at Xu Guanwen running towards Hollywood every day, in fact, he is just a cameo, the main work is behind the scenes, Cheng Long is half of the starring role, although "Cannonball Speed" is not good at the box office in Hong Kong, but it has taken away 100 million US dollars in the global market box office, which can be called a victory for Golden Harvest to enter Hollywood.
Shi Nansheng said excitedly: "This is a way! Jiahe's biggest trump card now is Cheng Long!"
Lin Zhengying, who reacted, secretly smacked her tongue, Hong Jinbao's move was too ruthless, it seems that this time it is an iron-hearted dream factory.
Cheng Long's value Prince Fan also knew, otherwise he would not have signed several film contracts before his career, but these words came out of Hong Jinbao's mouth, it felt weird, and he didn't plan to dig Cheng Long, Jiahe can divide the equity, what did he dig it for, and said clearly: "Don't go off-topic, I plan to make a few films!"
Hong Jinbao was slightly disappointed, now DreamWorks is the leader of the comedy faction, action movies are in decline, but kung fu movies need much more money than small-budget comedies, if you want to change this habit, the best way is to make kung fu blockbusters, sell the film to Japan, the United States, no matter how good the comedy pie is, it can't compare to one-tenth of the income in other cities.
Lin Zhengying and Shi Nansheng couldn't react, this is Cheng Long!
Hong Jinbao sighed: "It's easy to make American films, Golden Harvest made more than a dozen foreign films in those two years, including "Cannonball Speed", which was completely released as an American film, "Cannonball Speed" has Aaron and Xu Guanwen, and the others are not easy to put in!
In fact, Hong Jinbao has not made it clear that Zou Wenhuai is in "Cannonball Speed" There are two reasons for Xu Guanwen and Cheng Long, the United States has a large territory, there are many people in the central region may have never seen Chinese or other Asians, some think that Chinese still have long braids, so he added some Chinese faces into my mainstream American movies, hoping to make these Chinese stars popular, at that time, only Zou Wenhuai, who was the boss, could do this, Americans looked down on Chinese stars, so the selection must be a big star lineup, ordinary stars do not accept, put it in is not interesting, so there is Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, these two were the kings of the Hong Kong box office at that time, but after the filming was done in the American way, the Americans bought it, Cheng Long was not satisfied, and Hong Kong people didn't like to watch it, it was completely in the style of Western films.
These princes know better than Hong Jinbao, so he doesn't plan to shoot in the style of Western films, he will shoot Chinese films if he wants to, and use Chinese film culture to open up the American market, instead of using Chinese stars, let alone using Chinese stars as stepping stones for Hollywood stars like "Cannonball Speed", and completely use Western culture to make money.
In this regard, Golden Harvest is a reference, until the late 80s, Zou Wenhuai has produced a number of Western films, such as "Hejing Blood", "The Third Corps", "Merry Night Flowers", "Cannonball Speed", "Cannonball Speed Sequel", "Weilong Detective" and "Thunderbolt Corps", etc., but in addition to "Cannonball Speed" Except for the North American box office of more than 100 million, the others are not satisfactory, and the continuous high production costs have to make Golden Harvest more and more cautious about shooting Western films, which shows that it is not feasible to integrate Chinese stars into Western-style films in the United States.
Shi Nansheng wanted to ask about the cost of production, but thinking that he was no longer the financial director, he changed his words and said: "Hollywood films have a long preparation period, should you invite Westerners in terms of directors and production costs?"
Wang Zifan thought for a while, and felt that the current Hong Kong people did not know enough about Hollywood culture, even the new wave like Xu Ke was just learning the surface, and if he wanted to sell the film to the United States, he had to find a few Yankees to participate, and nodded and said: "Please!"
Shi Nansheng acted as an assistant and took out a notebook to record it.
"Afan, I'm ......" Hong Jinbao wanted to speak and stopped.
Wang Zifan smiled and said: "Sanmao, you also have a share, I only trust my own people in kung fu guidance!"
"No problem!" Hong Jinbao breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most afraid of was that Wang Zifan invited an American to be a guide, and "Cannonball Speed" was, but the action shots were nondescript, and Hong Kong people didn't like it at all.
Wang Zifan saw the secretary Zhou Hailin coming in and out several times, and said with a smile: "This is the situation, I will personally handle the script this time, you guys are ready, by the way, Sanmao, how was the filming of "Loser"?"
"It's almost!" Hong Jinbao was very embarrassed, for the sake of quality, the filming cycle of this film is a bit long, plus DreamWorks was blocked by Princess Jin a few months ago, which made him uneasy and delayed a lot of progress, and now he is rushing to the scene, fortunately, several leading actors are working hard, and no one is injured, otherwise it is possible to delay like "Young Master Long".
Wang Zifan didn't break it, nodded and said, "Don't worry, just tell me if you lack money!"
"I see!"
Seeing that he was still not leaving, Wang Zifan said unexpectedly: "Is there anything else?"
Hong Jinbao hesitated for a moment and twisted: "I want to set up a company!"
Wang Zifan was secretly funny, he just met Hong Jinbao, he was known as the senior brother in front of him, and he was very domineering, but now he looks like a woman.
Lin Zhengying helped: "Senior brother, he is cooperating with DreamWorks!"
Wang Zifan said: "Of course this is good!"
Hong Jinbao breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's good if you agree, my request is not too much, how about a fifty-fifty dividend?"
After Li Xiaolong's sudden death, Golden Harvest did not stop implementing the dividend system, but further recruited more superstars to join, such as Hong Jinbao's "Baohe", Cheng Long's "Weihe", Yuan Di and Yuan Kui's "Taihe", Xu Guanwen's "Xu's", Zhang Jianting and Chen You's "Two Friends" and so on are successful products, and the two also share profits in different proportions, this equal and mutually beneficial cooperative relationship has been maintained until Golden Harvest is discontinued, since the successful model, DreamWorks naturally absorbs, so it has many film companies, film studios.
The dividend system provides unprecedented flexibility for a group of superstars' filmmaking, which in turn creates credibility between the crowd and DreamWorks.
Lin Zhengying said with a smile: "In fact, we only signed a contract with Golden Harvest in the first year, and we don't need anything else, we rely on credit." ”
Wang Zifan thought that DreamWorks couldn't lag behind Jiahe, and said with a smile: "The contract is not needed, but some agreements are still needed for the film to start!"
Hong Jinbao nodded in agreement, in fact, Jiahe is more strict in this regard, once the film is made, the whole process will be controlled, and the finances are no exception, once the overspending Jiahe will ask, and even buy out the film at a low price, and finally all the profits go to Jiahe, the producer and director only have a fixed salary, and he has encountered this situation several times and lost a lot of money.
Wang Zifan said: "What is the name of your company?"
Hong Jinbao said: "Fan Bao!"
"Fan Bao?" Wang Zifan frowned, feeling that this name sounded awkward, thinking about it carefully, isn't this the homonym of his name and Hong Jinbao's!
"Let's call it Debao!"
"Okay, I'm fine!" Hong Jinbao agreed with a smile, thinking it had something to do with the word 'de'.
Wang Zifan served tea to send off guests, Hong Jinbao and Lin Zhengying all said goodbye, Shi Nansheng stayed to report on the affairs of the distribution company, Wang Zifan gave instructions one by one, and asked her to be responsible for contacting Hollywood distribution companies, recruiting directors and other work, and finally called Zhou Hailin in.
"Boss, Director Xu Ke wants to see you!"
"As soon as I sent my wife away, my husband came running, damn! This husband and wife didn't negotiate, let him in!"
"Okay!"
Wang Zifan took a sip of tea, saw Xu Ke, and asked directly, "Is there something?"
"I signed a contract with Golden Harvest!"
Burst!
Xu Ke said a word, and the tea in Wang Zifan's mouth squirted out!
What's the situation, Shi Nansheng was still reporting to him just now, and Xu Ke jumped to Jiahe?
Xu Ke carefully observed Wang Zifan's face and explained: "I will finish filming the sequel to "Best Partner" before leaving!"
Wang Zifan really wanted to go up and kick him twice, suppress his anger, and said patiently: "What the hell is going on, now that the people of Golden Harvest have broken their heads and come to DreamWorks, why do you come the other way around?"