The two-story building on Broadcasting Road, since the DreamWorks headquarters moved to the Lisheng Building, it has been converted into an independent villa, and Wang Zifan originally planned to use this place as a secret garden, but due to the need to create "Best Partner", it was temporarily handed over to Mecca, Huang Baiming, Zeng Zhiwei, Shi Tian and others for use, and later Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng joined, and Xu Ke joined and recommended his friend Teddy Robin to join, which made up the prototype of "Seven Monsters of New Art City". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now Wang Zifan plans to call them the 'DreamWorks Seven'

In a small study, seven people sit around at 12 o'clock every night, both men and women, almost all of them have their hands in their hands, sometimes meditating, sometimes laughing. In the midst of the smoke, one after another movie scenes of chickens flying and dogs jumping, gradually taking shape in the exchange of information with seven mouths and seven pairs of ears, waiting to be put on the screen, as the DreamWorks logo with white letters on a red background is projected on the screen, the audience will usher in a 90-minute carnival.

In fact, since the New Wave Film Movement, a series of major changes have taken place in the Southeast Asian film market, on which Hong Kong independent production companies depend, with Singapore beginning to invest mainly in Hong Kong TV series, Thailand struggling with Hong Kong films due to the impact of the world economic crisis and restrictions on import quotas, and Vietnam losing its market due to political reasons.

As a result, Hong Kong's independent films have fallen into a trough, films with strong artistry and ideology and weak commerciality have lost the soil for survival, and Hong Kong films have entered a historical period of more commercialization and fierce market competition. In such a harsh ecological environment, one of the most important topic selection strategies adopted by DreamWorks 'Seven Monsters' is to closely track the popular themes in the world film industry in order to ensure box office profits.

Wang Zifan's adaptation and remake of popular themes in the world film industry is not a simple move to Hong Kong where the story takes place, and then replace the characters in the film with Hong Kong people, taking "Best Partner" as an example, the series does not stop at a simple imitation of 007 films, but rewrites it locally from the spiritual core, the protagonist of 007 movies James Bond is a deified hero, "Best Partner" One of the protagonists is a funny-looking bald guy who speaks a scum-like dialect, speaking Taiwanese and mountain dialects in the version released in the Cantonese region as Wang Zifan expected, and SD dialect in the Chinese released version.

In short, "Best Partner" deconstructs the heroism, romanticism and elitism of 007 films with a philosophy of pragmatism, opportunism, utilitarianism and hedonism, showing strong local cultural characteristics of Hong Kong.

By the time they arrived, the seven monsters had gathered and sat around the round table in the hall, and the smoke was in the middle of it.

Wang Zifan was choked and coughed as soon as he came in, and went over to open the window.

When he turned around, he found that the seven monsters were all looking at him in amazement.

"You go on!" Wang Zifan found a place to sit down, but he was reminding himself that he would have to come over often in the future, otherwise the people's hearts would be pulled away by Xinyicheng.

Mecca was the first to react, extinguished the cigarette butt and smiled: "We are discussing to report to you on the progress of the work!"

Wang Zifan smiled: "Such a coincidence, let's hear it!"

Huang Baiming smiled and said, "Mr. Wang, we have already finished the script!"

Wang Zifan nodded again, thinking to himself, no wonder they were so surprised just now, they were discussing how to fool him into taking the money!

In order to divide the new art city and isolate Mecca, Wang Zifan Ke spent a lot of thought, and in his office, several drawers were filled with information related to Mecca.

Before studying film, this science man with a background in electronic engineering spent most of his time in the movie theater in Chinatown, scolding bad movies at those Hong Kong films that were successful in selling the port, and the screen at that time was mainly broadcast: the men with the upper body in the kung fu film, the women with the upper body and the lower body in the Fengyue film, scolding and scolding in the dark theater, Mecca couldn't help but quit his job at the New York Telephone Company, and used several years of art courses to cleanse himself of the taste of an engineer, and before returning to Hong Kong, he deliberately participated in three American films to practice, including the James Bond series"Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner".

Don't look at Mecca in front of Wang Zifan like a ghost, in fact, he has also been deceived, after returning to Hong Kong, Mecca and his friends Wu Yaohan and Li Ying who have just met pondered a story together, ready to be ashamed of the Hong Kong films at that time, and the plan to establish Pioneer Pictures was put on the agenda at the same time, everyone is so talented, and they are not skilled, so they handed over the script to others to write. The story might really be a good one, because shortly after they handed the whimsical outline to the ghostwriter along with the deposit, the man disappeared. Until one day, the three of them went to the theater and stared at the screen with their mouths wide open, where a good story of their disappearance was being staged vividly.

Wang Zifan's eyes were on Huang Baiming and Shi Tian again, this ugly man with glasses used to be a manager of a foreign bank, with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan, when he bought the struggle film company, Mecca and Huang Baiming looked at the pie that fell from the sky and were very excited, only Shi Tian voted against, thinking that the new equity may cause the three of them to lose most of their income, or Huang Baiming, who had been a manager in a foreign bank, calculated such an account for him.

"We have limited funds, we have to wait for the film to be released before we can recoup the cost and make a second film, and if we make two films a year, we make two profits," he said. If you cooperate with Wang Zifan, you can make ten films a year, and if you divide half of them, you will have five profits. ”

Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian, these three people are the core of the Seven Monsters, and Wang Zifan has to use them and guard against them.

Shi Nansheng suddenly pursed his lips and smiled: "Today, the eight of us are gathered together, why don't we call the Eight Immortals in the future?"

Teddy Robin smiled: "Okay, eight immortals are better than seven monsters!"

The short hunched Teddy Robin was found by Xu Ke, this kind of appearance that was cut out after making a cameo appearance in "The Student Prince", in the new eight immortals with Mecca, Huang Baiming, Xu Ke, Shi Tian, etc., is not too shocking, this person is not very old, but the story is very long: when he was eleven or twelve years old, he became a child star in Li's voice, and he didn't know a few words, so he started to read the script, who knew that he was a child star, Teddy Robin never grew taller again, and made a cameo appearance in Deng Guangrong's [Student Prince] It's a real thing to be cut off, and when I become an adult, I get angry about this kind of thing from time to time, as if I'm a fuwa

Zeng Zhiweile said: "DreamWorks Eight Immortals!

Seven Monsters Become Eight Immortals! He also added himself! Wang Zifan couldn't cry or laugh for a while, but after thinking about it, he gave Shi Nansheng a thumbs up, the Seven Monsters are based on Wheat, Huang, and Shi, and the Eight Immortals are naturally headed by him Wang Zifan!

Mecca, Huang Baiming, and Shi Tian also thought of this, their faces were not so good-looking, they had also privately thought about using the Seven Monsters as the core to reorganize the New Art City, but now that they were so disturbed, the plan was ruined before it started.

Wang Zifan smiled and praised Shi Nansheng with He Xiangu, and used Lu Dongbin to make fun of Xu Ke, digging this couple to come to DreamWorks is his proud work, with Shi Nansheng, DreamWorks' accounts are clear, the director takes money from the company and goes out to ask for autographs, and the producer has big, medium, As for the throttling of filming expenditures, Shi Nansheng started with his boyfriend, Xu Ke had long wanted to skip him and go directly to Shi Nansheng to ask for the budget of the film, in order to achieve the goal, he could talk at home for twenty minutes, Shi Nansheng listened patiently, and then vetoed him more patiently.