Jiang Ran pursed his lips after listening to Zou Wenhuai's words, and then said, "Uncle Huai, you are well-informed! ”

"Hehe! Ah Ran, who doesn't care about your project in Hong Kong now?" Zou Wenhuai said as a matter of course, "How is it? We had a great time working together last time, and we will work together again this time. ”

After Zou Wenhuai vaguely complimented Jiang Ran, he once again pulled the topic to cooperation.

For Zou Wenhuai's proposal, Jiang Ran has no intention of agreeing, although his new movie is adapted from a later Hollywood movie, but after the adaptation, this movie has become a sideways Hong Kong movie.

Even Jiang Ran has plans to put this film on the North American screen, but the essence of the movie, whether it is investment or production crew, will be controlled by Hong Kong personnel.

Because of this, Jiang Ran's budget for this movie is only 10 million Hong Kong dollars, although for the current Hong Kong film, this is already a great spending. ”

"But this budget is not a big deal for Jiang Ran and Ranfeng Group, and there is no need to introduce additional investment.

"Uncle Huai, my film this time is just a Hong Kong film, and the cost is not high, so I have no plans to introduce other investments for the time being. Jiang Ran didn't beat around the bush and directly rejected Zou Wenhuai.

Hearing Jiang Ran's words, Zou Wenhuai was slightly disappointed in his heart, he tasted the sweetness of cooperating with Jiang Ran on "Zombie Out of the Cage", and naturally hoped to cooperate with Jiang Ran again.

But, obviously, this time he was going to be disappointed. Although he also understands that if it is just a Hong Kong film, Jiang Ran really does not need to pull him to invest.

"That's a shame. Zou Wenhuai said disappointedly, "I thought we could work together again." ”

When Jiang Ran heard this, thinking about Stephen's phone call just now, his heart moved, and he said, "Uncle Huai, if you want to talk about cooperation, I really have a project to cooperate with now." ”

"Oh, what project?" Zou Wenhuai asked eagerly, "Could it be that Ah Ran has opened another project at the same time?"

"It's not a project I'm responsible for. Jiang Ran denied Zou Wenhuai's conjecture, "It is a Hollywood movie, a film about the Vietnam War, directed and planned by Offley Stone, with a total investment of about 50 million to 10 million US dollars." ”

Hearing that the planning and director of the movie was a Hollywood director who had never heard of the name, Zou Wenhuai was very disappointed, and he opened his mouth and planned to refuse directly, but after thinking about it, maybe this was an opportunity to buy Jiang Ran.

"Haven't you heard of this Offley Stone?" Zou Wenhuai said with a look of embarrassment, "What?

Jiang Ran introduced with a smile: "Director Stone is a very good independent film director and has a good reputation in the independent film circle. ”

"I watched the "Field Platoon" he planned this time, and it has great potential, and our Ranfeng Group will get at least half of the investment rights in this movie. In order to increase Zou Wenhuai's confidence, Jiang Ran directly told the other party the investment amount of Ranfeng Group to show his importance and confidence in this movie.

Sure enough, when he heard that Ranfeng Group planned to control half of the investment amount of "Field Platoon", Zou Wenhuai's attitude immediately changed.

"Oh, Ah Ran, are you so optimistic about this movie?" Zou Wenhuai said with great interest, "In this case, I believe in Ah Ran's vision." You asked the director of that stone to contact me, and I voted for this movie. ”

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In recent years, June has gradually begun to attract the attention of Hong Kong filmmakers and most people, because the Hong Kong Film Awards have gradually been fixed on this month in recent years.

With the support of Jiang Ran and Ranfeng Group, the Hong Kong Film Awards are now more and more accepted by Hong Kong filmmakers and the public, and the corresponding influence is also increasing.

This year, that is, 1985, is the fourth year after the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and in early June, the shortlist of this year's Academy Awards began to be officially announced.

This time at the Film Awards, Jiang Ran was nominated for Best Director again, and his film last year, "Zombies Out of the Cage", won a total of ten nominations including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor in this Academy Award nomination.

also because of a large number of nominations, "Zombie Out of the Cage" made a big splash in this Academy Award nomination, and together with Yan Hao's "Passing Years", it became the film with the most nominations at this Academy Awards.

In addition to "Zombie Out of the Cage", this time Ranfeng Group's "Happy Ghost", "Working Emperor" and "Coke Family" have also received some nominations.

"Mr. Jiang, the Organizing Committee of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival has called again, hoping that you can take the time to go to Japan to participate in this film festival. Gui Zecheng stood in front of Jiang Ran and said tentatively.

Jiang Ran frowned slightly, and then said, "Didn't they already send me an invitation some time ago? Didn't I already ask you to call them back?"

"Yes!" Gui Zecheng nodded in confirmation, "We declined them last time, but yesterday they invited you again, hoping you can participate." ”

The Asia-Pacific Film Festival is created by the Asia-Pacific Film Producers Alliance, which is held in a different location each year and is held by the member countries of the alliance on a rotating basis.

It aims to improve the standard of film art in the Asia-Pacific region, and promote the friendly development of relations between countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region through the dissemination and exchange of films in the Asia-Pacific region.

The film festival has a very long history, and as you can see from the purpose of holding it, the festival was founded with a strong political purpose and background.

Because of this, Jiang Ran doesn't really want to participate in this film festival now, who knows if he will encounter some politically sensitive issues at the film festival, after all, Hong Kong's current political and ecological environment itself is not very stable.

In the entire Asia-Pacific region, whether the mainland is strong or weak, her every move is bound to have a far-reaching impact on the entire Asia-Pacific region.

The current Jiang Ran doesn't want to be contaminated with anything related to politics at all, so when he sent a letter to him from the Organizing Committee of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, he directly found an excuse to politely reject the other party. But he didn't expect the other party to send him an invitation again.

Jiang Ran didn't think that his influence in the whole of Asia was really so great that he had to invite the Asia-Pacific Film Festival again and again.

Whether there is anything wrong with Jiang Ran is unknown, but it also strengthened Jiang Ran's determination not to go to Japan to participate in the film festival.

As for the negative impact on himself and the Ranfeng Group, Jiang Ran didn't care too much.

On the one hand, Hong Kong films now dominate the entire Asia-Pacific region, and the films of Ran Feng Group have clearly become a representative of Hong Kong films.

Jiang Ran believes that as long as it is not a very serious problem, the distributors and cinema operators in these regions will definitely not let go of a money-making company like Ran Feng and not cooperate.

On the other hand, now Ranfeng Group and Jiang Ran, through newspapers and magazines and other media, as well as film and television works, have a lot of influence in the entire Asia-Pacific region.

"Reject them!" Jiang Ran thought about it for a moment, and then said very simply, "However, Le Zhiren, Liu Liwei and others from the group can participate on behalf of me and the group." ”

"In addition, the signed artists under our group, as long as they are within the scope of invitation to the film festival, require them to participate, so that everyone can get by. Jiang Ran finally added.

"I see, Mr. Jiang. Gui Zecheng nodded in agreement.