Chapter 124: The Big Shots of Youth
After finishing the conversation with the two giants of CAA in the future, Wu Cheng made an ocean-going phone call back to the company secretariat in Xiangjiang, where it was the afternoon, and Wang was relieved to answer the phone.
At this time, when I call home, there will definitely be no one at home who answers.
As soon as Wang Xinwei heard Wu Cheng's voice, he said happily: "Boss, do you have any instructions?"
Wu Cheng hummed and said, "In the evening, you tell Sister Zhi and ask her to take the villa in the middle of the mountain and mortgage it to the bank, and you can borrow as much as you can, I have an urgent need." ”
Seven million Hong Kong dollars is not a small amount, and with Wu Cheng's current situation, if he embezzles the company's funds, he can make up for it. It can be used ruthlessly, and once there is a problem in the company's capital chain, it will be a lot of trouble. Therefore, he can only use his own private property.
The mansion in the middle of the mountain is estimated to only be able to lend two million, and there is still a difference of five million. On the side of the publishing house of "Jurassic Park", Wu Cheng received a manuscript fee of about 100,000 US dollars, plus the manuscript fee from Xiangjiang, adding up to about 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
Then, Wu Cheng made another phone call to Chen Shufen, the general manager of the brokerage company, and asked her to mortgage the Tiancheng brokerage company to the bank to see how much she could lend.
Although Chen Shufen didn't understand what Wu Cheng did, the boss personally instructed her that she had no good way but to do it.
Fortunately, although the investment of Tiancheng Jijing Company is only two million, Hong Jinbao and Shenglong's salaries have risen, as well as Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia.
In this way, this intangible wealth was actually mortgaged with 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
All of a sudden, Wu Cheng became rich again.
Seeing that Wu Cheng had prepared the funds in less than a week, the two persons in charge of CAA Economic and Economic Company had stronger and stronger confidence in Wu Cheng.
What made Wu Cheng feel incredible was that the high-level executives at MGM were actually moved when they heard that someone was willing to take over "Rocky" for 1.2 million. But they opened their mouths and offered a high price of three million, and finally negotiated one and a half million.
In this regard, Wu Cheng did not continue to grind with them, and directly asked Shirley Lansing to come forward, signed the contract, and transferred "Rocky" to the Hollywood branch of Donglong International.
At the same time, Stallone also transferred the brokerage contract to CAA brokerage.
After that, Wu Cheng, accompanied by Shirley Lansing, inspected the situation of the next branch.
At this time, Shirley Lansing was still a mature and intellectual beauty, compared with the wrinkled old lady in later generations, it can be said that she is like two people.
I have to sigh that time is really a ruthless ******!
Shirley Lansing also did not expect that their boss, Wu Cheng, would be such a young man. Although in her eyes, this young man's temperament is quite outstanding, but his appearance is not the kind she admires.
Of course, those who are handsome in the East may not be accepted lightly in the West, which is the result of regional aesthetic differences.
Wu Cheng is in Xiangjiang, and he can be regarded as a handsome guy, otherwise, Leslie Cheung would not say that Wu Cheng's face is whiter than his. But in this old beauty, Wu Cheng's appearance of little fresh meat is not very marketable, at least there are not many beauties who discharge him.
The confidence given to him by the flight attendant on the plane was gradually dispelled a lot.
Fortunately, Wu Cheng is not very interested in foreign beauties. Moreover, during this period, the Hollywood goddesses he admired had not yet appeared, either children or had not yet been born.
Yes, he wasn't very disappointed.
Accompanied by Shirley Lansing, Wu Cheng also got to know George Lucas, although this uncle did not give Wu Cheng a good look, but Wu Cheng privately put forward some opinions when he made Zuò special effects, but this uncle was immediately impressed by him.
Although Wu Cheng doesn't know how to make special effects, he knows what kind of effects 'Star Wars' wants. And the effects he proposed were the things that Lucas wanted, but he had been at a loss and didn't know how to express them.
is like a layer of window paper, although he wants this effect in his mind, but there is no specific rendering, and what Wu Cheng provided him is the final rendering.
In this way, Lucas was naturally delighted. Moreover, during the discussion with Wu Cheng, Lucas found that some of Wu Cheng's ideas coincided with him.
This made Lucas even more like he regarded Wu Cheng as his confidant. Excited, he no longer minded Wu Cheng snatching his industrial magic light special effects company.
This harvest was something that Wu Chenglai didn't expect at all. And being able to harvest the friendship of this great director made Wu Cheng feel that this trip to Hollywood was not in vain.
What Wu Cheng didn't expect was that he had only been in Hollywood for a week, and the great director Spielberg actually came to the door, just when he visited the 'Star Wars' industrial magic light company.
At this time, Lucas and Spielberg were not friends, and although the two knew each other, they had no contact. Otherwise, they would have been talking about filming "Raiders of the Lost Ark" a long time ago. It is precisely because Wu Cheng knew that Lucas had already conceived this film, so when he was writing the script, he did not choose this.
However, he didn't know that the "Alien ET" he wrote was already in Spielberg's mind. Although it is not what Spielberg imagined, there are many similarities. And this is also the reason why Spielberg came to the door.
When facing this great director, Wu Cheng was a little excited, but he didn't show it. After traveling for so long, he has seen a lot of big stars and directors, and even some tycoons in the industry have seen a lot, so how could he lose his temper in person!
It's just that when Spielberg excitedly mentioned the script of "Alien ET", Wu Cheng was slightly moved, especially when he excitedly said, 'This is exactly what I imagined', Wu Cheng was a little worried about whether he had collided with him.
Fortunately, he didn't say that Wu Cheng was plagiarizing his idea in the end, only that their ideas coincided, which made Wu Cheng breathe a sigh of relief.
"I like this script of yours very much, if I can, I want to buy it!" Spielberg did not hide his love for this script at all, and looked at Wu Cheng with a look of hope.
Wu Cheng smiled and picked up the coffee in front of him, looked at Shirley Lansing and Lucas, who were accompanying him, and said with a smile: "This film, it will definitely be filmed, the director candidate, I am also optimistic about you, Mr. Spielberg, I have also seen your "Jaws", it is very wonderful! I have no doubt about your directing ability. However, this film still needs to wait, not only because of the technical problems of making 'aliens', but also because of our financial problems. ”
"Can't you shoot with other film companies?" he added.
Wu Cheng laughed again when he heard this, and said, "Since I know that this script is a good script and firmly believe that it can make me money, then why should I cooperate with other film companies?"
Wu Cheng's words made Spielberg speechless, but a little helpless.
Seeing that he really liked this script, Wu Cheng said: "You can rest assured, if we shoot this film in the future, then, I promise, you will be the only director." ”
After getting Wu Cheng's promise, Spielberg's mood was much better, but he still had some pity. When you find a good script, you want to shoot it immediately, which is a common problem for all directors.
After exchanging contact information with Lucas and Spielberg, Wu Cheng quit them and left the Industrial Magic Light Studio with Lansing.
Then, Wu Cheng paid attention to the preparations for "Home Alone", the director of Home Alone, they chose Alan Parker, the director of the recently released "Little Ghost Head and Thief Abba", the young actors are still choosing, and the others are simple.
Wu Cheng's request is to sign the director and the little actor to save any trouble after "Home Alone" becomes popular.
After that, Wu Cheng, who had been in California for two weeks, planned to return to Xiangjiang.
Here, after knowing that Wu Cheng is the owner of a film company, although there are many female stars who are willing to post it, in Wu Cheng's opinion, they are not very famous.
In fact, these are not big problems, the real problem is that he is not used to the bold and open attitude of Western women, and the more casual attitude towards 'sexual' issues.
And in the case of not preparing to take it into the harry/palace, he doesn't want to mess around.
But what Wu Cheng didn't expect was that before he left, someone actually regarded himself as a rich Kaizi and wanted to fool him.
The man who regarded Wu Cheng as Kaizi was named Steve Jobs.
How, does it sound familiar?
When Wu Cheng heard this name at first glance, he was also startled, because he knew that the president of Apple was called by this name, and this name could be described as famous in later generations.
Coupled with his appearance, Wu Cheng found that he was really the legendary character.
It's just that being fooled by this guy as a Kaizi who knows nothing, Wu Cheng feels a little funny, but at the same time a little annoyed.
Anyone who is regarded as a Kaizi will not feel good in his heart!
After some inquiry, I found out that this guy only knew about him as an Oriental after hearing that someone had taken over the unpopular 'Star Wars'.
Later, Jobs heard rumors that this rich man from the East had taken over a new MGM film "Rocky", and he was very generous.
Yes, after some inquiry, I came to the door.
Jobs's purpose was very simple, he was selling his computer, because Wu Cheng had a film company here, and he definitely needed to use a computer or something.
In addition, he also felt that Wu Cheng was stupid and had a lot of money, and it would be better if he could fool some money to invest in his company.
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