When Tsui Hark came out of Jiang Ran's office, his expression relaxed a lot, and after discussing Zhong Chuhong's role in the movie just now, Tsui Hark hesitantly mentioned to Jiang Ran the idea that he wanted Lin Qingxia to play a role.

At that time, Tsui Hark could obviously feel Zhong Chuhong's dissatisfaction beside Jiang Ran, but perhaps because of Tsui Hark's cooperative attitude in arranging Zhong Chuhong's role just now, Zhong Chuhong confessed his feelings.

Therefore, although Zhong Chuhong's face was not good, after opening his mouth, he did not refute Tsui Hark directly in front of Jiang Ran after all.

Zhong Chuhong did not speak out against it, which does not mean that Jiang Ran agreed with Tsui Hark's opinion. Frowning, Jiang Ran looked at Tsui Hark and said, "Brother Ke, you should know very well how many actresses there are in our company now." We don't have enough of our own actors, and if possible, I still hope that Ke Ge can use our own people in the movie as much as possible. ”

Why did Jiang Ran give Tsui Hark the script of "Sword and Horse" in the first place, and not anything else. You must know that Tsui Hark's later works are more famous than "Sword and Horse".

At that time, the reason why Jiang Ran took out the book "Sword and Horse" was, on the one hand, to pull Tsui Hark to the road of directing in his previous life as soon as possible.

And another very important reason is that there are too many actresses in the Ranfeng Group now, from the earliest Dai Yue, to the new Li Lizhen's three daughters, seven or eight actresses.

And what is the annual production volume of the Ranfeng Group? At present, the scale seems to be only six or seven plays, so on average, the resources that each of these actresses can get within the group every year is only one play.

And such a resource is obviously not enough to meet the needs of these actors, so those agents in the Ministry of Economic Affairs are now very competitive.

Zhong Chuhong, the person in charge of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, did not miss any opportunity to recommend the actors of Ranfeng Group to other crews, but the quality of resources for the interpretation opportunities obtained by such recommendations was much worse than that of Ranfeng Group's internal resources.

It was in this situation that Jiang Ran came up with a script like "Dao Ma Dan" to alleviate the current overly fierce competition within the Ranfeng Group.

In this case, how could Jiang Ran open this opening for Tsui Hark, even if the person mentioned by Tsui Hark was Lin Qingxia, whom Jiang Ran admired very much, because it would destroy the balance within the Ranfeng Group.

After Jiang Ran finished speaking, he looked at Tsui Hark, and without waiting for Tsui Hark to speak again, he continued to say with a smile: "Of course, if you can pull Lin Qingxia to our group, it will be different." ”

After Xu Hark got a reply from Jiang Ran that was similar to Shi Nansheng, he was slightly disappointed at first, but after thinking about it, with Jiang Ran's words, he didn't have to be embarrassed anymore.

It is precisely because of this that when Tsui Hark walked out of Jiang Ran's office, his expression was very relaxed.

Jiang Ran didn't pay attention to Jet Li and Lin Qingxia after that, and he left Hong Kong with a few staff members on October 25.

Los Angeles, USA.

Jiang Ran met Zhou Rui, who came to pick him up at the airport, and just got off the plane, before he had time to rest, he rushed to the American branch of Ranfeng Group non-stop.

Tomorrow, Friday, Saw 2 will be released in more than 1,000 theaters in North America at the same time, and with the foundation laid by the first film, the release of this film is going very well.

As Jiang Ran's surprise, as an extremely bloody thriller movie, "Saw 2" is inevitably rated as an R-rated movie.

Coming to the rented office of the branch, this is the first time Jiang Ran has come since the establishment of the North American company, and it can be seen that the scale of the company is not large, with only more than 20 employees in total.

Under the leadership of the company's general manager, Stephen Owen, Jiang Ran and others came to a small conference room, and Jiang Ran sat down in the first place.

"What's going on with the promotion and distribution of the movie now?" Jiang Ran asked directly to Stephen and Zhou Rui as soon as he sat down.

Stephen glanced at Zhou Rui and motioned for the other party to answer.

"Mr. Jiang, because of the word-of-mouth foundation of the first movie, the release of our sequel film is going smoothly. ”

"At present, thanks to the efforts of us and Miramax Films, we have organized more than 1,300 theaters this time, and the theater chain has promised that if the follow-up results are excellent, the scale of screenings will be expanded. ”

Jiang Ran nodded, and then asked, "What about the propaganda?"

"Since the end of the first part last year, we have been following up on the people who rent the "Chainsaw" videotape, and we found that more than 60% of these people are between the ages of 17 and 27. Of the remaining 40 percent, the vast majority are between the ages of 27 and 40. ”

"Therefore, based on this, we have formulated a targeted publicity plan, mainly for universities in the United States, and then publish soft and hard announcements in newspapers, magazines, and entertainment venues for this age group......" Zhou Rui introduced the film's publicity plan to Jiang Ran in detail.

On the second day after Jiang Ran arrived in the United States, "Saw 2" finally officially met with North American audiences, and on the first day of release, it achieved very good opening results, with a total of more than 1,300 theaters in North America, with an average of two screenings on the first day, and a total of more than 5 million box office results.

At the same time that the film was released in North America, a considerable number of countries in Asia, Europe and other places also released the film simultaneously.

After the movie was released, after seeing the results on the first day, coupled with the detailed publicity plan produced by Stephen and other North American branches, Jiang Ran was completely relieved about the movie "Saw 2".

After Jiang Ran was completely relieved of the work of Stephen and others, he no longer stayed in the company and indiscriminately mixed with the next publicity and distribution work of this movie.

Because, Jiang Ran has other important things to do.

Jiang Ran came to North America this time, although on the surface it seems to be to urge the release of "Saw 2". But, in reality, this is only part of his job.

In addition to the work of "Chainsaw Scream 2", Jiang Ran's more important work is to come to the United States to communicate with Miramax Films for the future publicity and distribution of "Zombie Out".

After all, "Zombie Out" does not have the same popularity as "Saw 2", and it also has a considerable audience base.

Jiang Ran met Harvey Weinstein again the day after the release of the chainsaw, and the other party was still the same, straightforward and enthusiastic on the surface, but cunning on the inside.

"Jiang, I have long heard Zhou say that you are coming to the United States, but I didn't expect that you would not come until the movie was released. Weinstein looked at Jiang Ran and said.

Jiang Ran shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I am very optimistic about the production quality of "Saw 2", with the foundation laid by the previous film, and with the support of Harvey, I very much believe that even without me, Stephen and they will do a great job." ”

"And in fact...... Jiang Ran spread his hands, "you also saw it." ”

Listening to Jiang Ran's words, Weinstein also nodded happily and said with a smile: "The movie is indeed very good, you found a good director for it." I've met Yu, a young man with a lot of potential. ”

"Today, I saw a lot of comments in the newspaper, thinking that the sequel surpasses the previous work in terms of camera visual processing. Harvey was obviously very satisfied with the results of "Saw 2", and joked about Jiang Ran in a good mood.

Jiang Ran didn't think much of Weinstein's jokes, the sequel movie was inferior to the previous work in terms of plot, and in the case of a significant increase in production costs, if the visual effects were worse, what would it use to attract the audience.

After Jiang Ran and Weinstein exchanged a few polite words, he got to the point, "Harvey, now that our "Zombie Out of the Cage" is about to complete post-production, what is your opinion on the subsequent announcement?"

On "Saw 2", Miramax Films, whether it is produced or promoted, is a soy sauce role, and has no right to speak.

But in the movie "Zombie Out of the Cage", although they are in production, because of Jiang Ran's insistence, they don't have much right to speak, but there are a lot of them.

Whether it is the movie script or the shooting and editing of "Zombie Out of the Cage", Miramax Film has followed the whole process, and the competition for dominance with Ranfeng Group and Jiang Ran has happened from time to time.

Although Miramax Films, the production right of the movie, has always wanted to intervene, but under Jiang Ran's tough attitude, it is mainly based on Jiang Ran's opinion.

However, on the issue of publicity, Jiang Ran had to rely on the connections and experience of the Harvey Weinstein brothers in Hollywood for decades.

It is precisely for this reason that Jiang Ran cautiously came over to discuss with Weinstein in person this time, hoping to come up with a concrete and effective publicity plan as soon as possible.