Liu Cixin's novels have been read by Zhang Ran, not only Liu Cixin's novels, but now that "Science Fiction World" has received it, and if it feels that it may be adapted into a movie, it will be sent to Zhang Ran as soon as possible. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Mirror" is a good science fiction novel, but it doesn't have a particularly stunning concept, and it is not suitable for making a science fiction blockbuster with particularly strong visual effects. Zhang Ran didn't expect Huayi to buy this story, and wanted to pull himself into the gang, and asked: "The novel involves corruption of high-ranking officials, and it will definitely not pass the trial in China." Where are you going to put it?"

Wang Zhonglei said with a smile: "I think it can be made into a blockbuster if it is placed in the United States, someone finds out about the corruption of high-ranking officials, and is hunted down, from the United States to Europe, full of dangers, fortunately, there are mysterious people secretly helping, he can always escape first, and finally turn defeat into victory." But we don't have the experience in this area, and we don't have the strength to make such a blockbuster. If there's something you're interested in, we can do it together?"

Zhang Ran was a little surprised, Huayi's "Night Banquet" is about to start, claiming to cost 15 million US dollars, using a lot of money; and most of Huayi's artists have been poached by Orange Sky, and they will sign a large number of well-known artists to enrich their team, and they also need money; with Huayi's strength, where will the money come to launch a blockbuster?

Could it be that a new round of private placement is being carried out? Zhang Ran's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a key name: Ma Yun, the boss of Alibaba. Zhang Ran once saw a report that Ma Yun is a shareholder of Huayi. It's just that when Ma Yun became a shareholder of Huayi, Zhang Ran is not clear, and now it seems that Ma Yun should have invested in Huayi.

Now that Huayi has the money from Ma Yun's shares, it is not surprising that it wants to expand overseas markets.

For domestic film companies to expand overseas markets, Zhang Ran raised his hands in favor, but he is not too optimistic about this project. He looked at Wu Yusen and said with a smile: "Director Wu Yusen made a science fiction movie called "Memory Rift" in 03, the story is about Affleck is a reverse engineer who found that he predicted that future inventions would lead to world disasters, so he didn't want to do it. According to the rules, he must be brainwashed, but because he has already seen his future, he arranged in advance for Uma Thurman to transfer his personal belongings and replace them with items that can help him in the future, and then successfully escaped from friends and police again and again, and at the last moment, changed his fate. Does it sound a little similar to "Mirror"? "Mirror" is probably the same result in the United States. ”

Wu Yusen felt that Zhang Ran was satirizing himself, and it was precisely because of the box office failure of "Memory Rift" and the previous fiasco of "Wind Whisperer" that he had to return to China. He finally couldn't help it anymore, snorted heavily, and brushed his sleeves away.

Zhang Ran's face was full of surprise: "Director Wu, why did you leave?"

Everyone present didn't answer, they looked at Zhang Ran puzzled, they didn't understand why he wanted to run Wu Yusen, there didn't seem to be any intersection between them, right?

Zhang Ran shrugged his shoulders: "Director Wu should have misunderstood, I really don't mean anything else." ”

Wang Zhonglei didn't care about Wu Yusen, and asked, "What do you think of "Mirror"?"

Zhang Ran raised his hands to support domestic sci-fi films, and the promotion of sci-fi films to the film industry is incomparable to other film genres. He suggested: ""Mirror" can be done in the United States, but it is too risky, and it is much easier to put it in Hong Kong. Because of censorship, many themes cannot pass the review if they are placed in the mainland, but there is no problem with putting the story in Xiangjiang. For example, when making a monster movie, the monster attack on Beiping will definitely not pass the trial, but it is possible to put it in Xiangjiang, and I really think that filmmakers in Xiangjiang and the mainland should work together. In the future, when the students of the Asian Film Academy make feature films, many films will also be released in Xiangjiang. Don't talk about this, I don't know if the director and starring lineup have been decided?"

Wang Zhonglei said with a smile: "We originally planned to put it in Xiangjiang, the director is going to invite Chen Musheng, the heroine is Li Binbin, and the male protagonists are expected to be Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, and Ren Dahua." Is Director Zhang interested in this project?"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head: "The lineup is good, but I want to take students, the movie of the earthquake, and the Olympic bidding, it's really unskilled." ”

Wang Zhonglei's eyes flashed slightly, and he said with a little regret: "That's a pity!"

On the way back to the hotel, Zhang Ran looked solemn and felt faintly uneasy in his heart.

Jia Milk Liang They talked and laughed, but they didn't pay attention. Bai Ling's heart was more detailed, and he asked in a low voice, "Teacher Zhang, what's wrong?"

"No!" Zhang Ran smiled at her, "I'm just thinking about something!"

Bai Ling asked, "Is it related to Wang Zhonglei?"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "How do you know?"

Bai Ling said: "When you were talking to Wu Yusen, Wang Zhonglei looked at you from a distance, his eyes were full of hatred, as if he was about to kill someone. Then he came and talked to you, and he retracted, and he looked like he was fine!"

"I know!" Zhang Ran frowned slightly, it seems that things are indeed as he thought, Huayi knows that stealing the box office of "Kung Fu" is poked out by himself.

The income from the distribution of films is an important source of income for Huayi. The theft of the box office has greatly damaged Huayi's reputation, and other films basically dare not easily hand over their movies to Huayi for distribution, for fear of being stolen from the box office. Huayi naturally hates the person who stabbed this incident, and it is not surprising that he is mixed with Chen Ziwen.

Zhang Ran is not afraid of Chen Ziwen or Huayi, but he is a little jealous of the Beijing circle behind Huayi, and these people have a lot of energy.

However, now Huayi has a lot of troubles, Wang Jinhua has fled, and the entire Huayi people are in turmoil. And now Orange Sky is recruiting troops on a large scale, and the threat to Huayi is particularly great. Before defeating Orange Sky, Huayi should not come to provoke itself!

Do you want to join forces with Orange Sky to fight Huayi?

Zhang Ran thought about it and gave up, although he didn't like Huayi, but Huayi was relatively professional in domestic film companies. If Huayi is defeated and a company like Orange Sky that does not understand movies at all is allowed to run rampant in China, it will be the entire film industry that will suffer.

At this moment, a thought crossed Zhang Ran's mind, and he couldn't help but shout: "It's not good!"

Early the next morning, Zhang Ran boarded the plane back to China. After the plane landed, he drove all the way to the peak of the century.

Wu Ruide saw Zhang Ran sweating profusely, and couldn't help laughing: "Was it blocked by the reporter and asked you to explain?"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "What do you want me to explain?"

Wu Ruide put a newspaper in front of Zhang Ran, and the headline of the newspaper read, "Zhang Ran bombarded Xiangjiang filmmakers, Wu Yusen left the table angrily".

There were many reporters at the scene of China Night, and someone should have heard Zhang Ran's words and published them. However, Zhang Ran didn't care about this, some Xiangjiang filmmakers just owe scolding, shouldn't bad movie makers like Wang Jin and Liu Zhenwei treat the audience as fools? If the scolding can make them have more respect for the audience, then Zhang Ran is really willing to be a troll.

Zhang Ran asked: "This time, a lot of Xiangjiang filmmakers jumped out to scold me?"

Wu Ruide shook his head: "Not so far." ”

Zhang Ran smiled: "It's not strange, it's themselves who jumped out and lost face." ”

Wu Ruide doesn't know much about Xiangjiang movies: "Why do you say that?"

Zhang Ran explained: "I used to hear many people say that the turning point of Xiangjiang films from prosperity to decline was in 93, and I chatted with Zhou Xingchi some time ago to find out what was going on. In the last century, Taiwan Bend only allowed Taiwan bend films and Hong Kong films to be released in the mainland. There are strict restrictions on Hollywood movie bends, and only eight copies can be imported into a Hollywood movie. In 93, "Jigong" was sold to Taiwanese filmmakers for 30 million Hong Kong dollars, but it failed miserably at the box office, and Taiwan-bent filmmakers lost all their money. This incident triggered the eight major film companies in Taiwan and the Xiangjiang Film Practitioners Association to negotiate a price reduction. But the people who were sent by Xiangjiang to negotiate in the past threatened the Taiwanese film company, if you want to cap it, then we will not give you the movie. Of course, the Taiwanese film producers did not do it, and when they turned around, they demanded that the Taiwanese authorities relax restrictions on Hollywood films. How can Xiangjiang movies beat Hollywood, and if this is released, the market in Taiwan will be lost! Taiwan is the most important market for Xiangjiang films, and as soon as Taiwan loses Xiangjiang films, it will hurt its vitality!"

Wu Ruide understood now: "No wonder they don't come out to respond, as soon as they respond, everyone will find that they are really short-sighted." If you had made less money at the beginning and let some profits be given to the Taiwanese film manufacturers, everyone would have made money, and they would not have fallen into the situation they are in today!"

Qiu Yuanxu said with a smile: "Not to mention this, in fact, Xiangjiang Movies died largely due to infighting. After the financial crisis, Golden Harvest followed the trend of the times and filmed the special effects movie "Fengyun", which was a huge success at the box office, making people see the possibility of Hong Kong films transforming to technology. But in the same year, Shaw Brothers joined forces with six major companies such as Media Asia and China Star to encircle and suppress Golden Harvest, and snatched the land that Golden Harvest was going to use to build a studio from the government. For a film company, losing the set is losing the base on which it depends, and Golden Harvest has been in a slump ever since. It's such a time, I don't want to join forces to save the city, and I'm still fighting among myself, is there still a reason for heaven if I don't die?"

Zhang Ran sighed: "Zou Wenhuai has the most vision among the filmmakers in Xiangjiang, and he was the first to implement the independent producer system in Xiangjiang, thus opening up an era of unprecedented prosperity in the Xiangjiang film industry. It's a pity that the hero was defeated at the hands of the rats, it's a pity!"

Wu Ruide shook his head and said: "I always thought that Run Run Shaw was a character, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that!"

Zhang Ran also felt the same way, but he didn't have time to sigh now: "Let's get down to business, I met Wang Zhonglei at the Chinese Night in Venice this time, and he wanted to pull me to do a science fiction project." I suddenly thought of a question, now many domestic film companies are following the trend to make science fiction films, Orange Sky has RB company behind it, it is very rich, and they will definitely follow up. However, science fiction films are not easy to pass the review, and the best solution is to put them in Xiangjiang, and Orange Sky itself has no ability to make movies, so they are likely to buy a film company from Xiangjiang to make movies in the short term!"

Qiu Yuanxu thought about Xiangjiang's film company for a while, and his face changed greatly: "Golden Harvest, they will buy Golden Harvest!"

Golden Harvest was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 94 years, with a market value of more than 240 million Hong Kong dollars per share. But in recent years, Golden Harvest has fallen into trouble, and its market value has plummeted, and it is now less than HK$0.2 per share.

Buying Golden Harvest is definitely the best choice!

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "Golden Harvest is our goal, it is very important to us, and it must not fall into the hands of Orange Sky, so we will start the preparations for the acquisition as soon as possible!"

The peak of the century is ready to develop genre films, and many stories of genre films cannot pass the review in the mainland, so they can only be placed in Xiangjiang or abroad. In the story of Xiangjiang, it is naturally better to go to Xiangjiang to shoot, and if you have a branch office to operate there, it will save you a lot of trouble. In addition, Golden Harvest has a cinema chain in its hands, which is also coveted by the peak of the century. Therefore, the acquisition of Golden Harvest is a goal that has been set at the beginning of the establishment of Century Summit.

It's just that the peak of the century was established not long ago, the foundation is unstable, the focus of work is on website construction and promotion, and there is no time and energy for anything else, so this matter has been put aside.

Wu Ruide knew that he couldn't let it go anymore, and immediately said: "I will immediately set up an acquisition team, make preparations for the acquisition within half a month, and then talk to Zou Wenhuai!" (To be continued.) )