Chapter 123: A Trip to California
(Ask for a ticket!)
After filming "Taking the Wrong Car", Wu Cheng was idle.
Since he is idle, he naturally has to go to Hollywood, where several companies have just been established, and if he, the boss, does not appear, what will others think?
Treating him as a fool is a trivial matter, and if the heads of several companies feel that Wu Cheng does not pay enough attention to the company they are responsible for and does not respect them enough, people's hearts will be easily scattered.
In addition to showing off the costume/force, the leadership inspection is actually more about cohesion. If a company does not have cohesion, its competitiveness can be imagined, how can such a company last long?
Of course, if you have a beautiful woman as your companion, the scenery will be even more beautiful.
It's a pity that the few women around Wu Cheng don't seem to be available. Zhao Yazhi is filming the 'Huiming' TV series in Xiangjiang, and the wireless side still attaches great importance to this drama, after all, it is the originator of the theme of crossing, and in the public survey, eighty percent of them said they were looking forward to it.
Wireless can't pay attention to it, and because of this, Li's side is like a big enemy.
Although Lin Qingxia just finished filming "The Wrong Car", Aunt Qiong Yao has been waiting for her for a long time, and she has not been able to spare time.
Wu Cheng estimates that when the drama over there is released, "The Wrong Car" is estimated to still be being promoted! In comparison, Aunt Qiong Yao's film has too few big scenes and a small investment.
As for Deng Lijun, he rested for a while before, and then began to fly around again, which also made Wu Cheng feel unhappy in his heart, and felt that Polygram was really crazy about money.
I want to take her contract over, but I can't get that much money out for a while. Her liquidated damages are not a matter of millions, but nearly 100 million.
Not to mention that Wu Cheng doesn't have so much money, even if she has so much money to 'ransom' her, she won't agree, because in this way, Wu Cheng's company will be dragged down by her.
When Wu Cheng wanted to transfer his contract, he mentioned to her that Chen Shufen had also been in contact with Polygram, but they didn't want to give up Deng Lijun's cash cow.
As for the other little sisters, they are too young, even if Wu Cheng wants to do bad things, he can't do this, even if it is Zhong Chuhong, Wu Cheng feels that she is still a little younger.
So, after thinking about it, he was the only one who went to Hollywood alone.
Hollywood in this period, although it was the center of world cinema, was still much worse than later generations. At least the Hollywood blockbusters of this period have not yet wreaked havoc on the whole world.
Hollywood's sweep of the world film industry began in the nineties, because their film technology is more than N years ahead, and in the face of Hollywood's special effects blockbusters, nothing can resist.
**Xiangjiang kung fu films in the 10s, in Southeast Asian countries, what a scenery it was, Xiangjiang is called the Hollywood of the East, and it is not for nothing that it is not unreasonable.
However, when the special effects blockbuster came up, the kung fu movie couldn't resist its offensive either.
Of course, there are many other reasons for this, but more often than not, film technology has not kept up. However, there is no way to do it, after all, after Southeast Asian countries adopted a policy of boycotting Hong Kong films, the film market for Hong Kong films has become smaller and smaller, and the quality of films has not kept up, so it has become very normal to be swept by Hollywood blockbusters.
If Donglong International wants to keep strong, it must not only keep pace with the times in film technology, but also open up the overseas film market. Although the mainland market is huge, there is no need to think about it at this time, and the catastrophe is not over yet. Even if it's over, if you want to develop, you have to wait for several years. Therefore, the overseas market is the most important thing at present.
Going to California, it was Michael Ovitz himself who picked up the airport, and Michael himself was extremely excited about Wu Cheng's arrival, and he felt that Wu Cheng was a genius.
If they hadn't agreed to Wu Cheng's stake before, and let Wu Cheng set up a new brokerage company by himself, it would definitely be a huge disaster for them.
Michael Ovitz has a typical white face, a high nose, a big nose, blonde hair combed smoothly, and a well-dressed person, giving people a sense of meticulousness.
Compared with Wu Cheng's height, Michael Ovitz is tall and strong, and Wu Cheng, who is now less than 1.7 meters, stands in front of him like a child.
When he saw Wu Cheng so young, Michael Ovitz was also stunned for a while, and then said in surprise: "Oh my God! I can't imagine that you are so young!"
Wu Cheng has never been very interested in the hug ceremony of foreigners, especially when men hug men.
However, Wu Cheng didn't want to be too maverick, so he hugged him and said with a smile: "Only when you are young can you have momentum! Only when you are young can you not be afraid of failure!
Michael couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said, "Now I understand! No wonder you dare to take over 'Star Wars', I admire your courage!"
"This is also what I am proud of!" Wu Cheng smiled and said, "Okay, let's go!"
As Michael walked out of the airport and into the parking lot, Wu Cheng got into his car, and he asked with a smile: "Cheng, compared to your Xiangjiang, how is California?
"Each has its own characteristics!" Wu Cheng said with a smile: "Xiangjiang is also an international metropolis. The difference is that the girls on your side are very enthusiastic and bold!"
"Haha...... How's it going? On the plane, did you have any sexual encounters?"
"Are you doubting my charm?"
"Oh no! I just think you're too young!"
When Wu Cheng heard this, he couldn't help rolling his eyes, remembering that on the plane, the white stewardess discharged to himself and secretly stuffed his phone number, Wu Cheng couldn't help but feel proud.
In the previous life, this kind of thing had never happened to him.
However, it was obvious that the white flight attendant was not the one he liked, so after getting off the plane, Wu Cheng directly threw away the phone number.
Along the way, Wu Cheng looked at the surrounding scenery, compared with the twenty-first century, California in this period is obviously not comparable. Although he never came to California in his previous life, he has always seen it in the movie, compared with the steel forest in later generations, the buildings of this period are obviously much more old-fashioned, and even the decoration outside has an old style.
However, he has stayed in the mainland, and he knows very well how big the gap between the mainland during this period and the developed country in front of him is.
But when he thought about it carefully, he felt a little proud, when the lion in the mainland regained his spirit, the momentum of its development easily made this country, which still looked down on it at this time, afraid of it, and regarded it as the number one enemy.
It can be seen how fast the development of the mainland will be in the next two or three decades.
"Hey Man, what are you thinking?" At some point, the car had stopped, and seeing that Wu Cheng was still pondering, Ovitz interrupted him with a smile and pulled him back to reality from his fugue.
"Have you arrived at the place?" Wu Cheng got out of the car, looked up at the small villa in front of him, and said with a smile on his face, "This is your house?
"Listen to 'Shi', your villa on the other side of the Xiangjiang is more luxurious than this. My goal, though, is to have my own mansion in Beverly Hills. ”
"I think you'll succeed!" Wu Cheng smiled.
Beverly Hills during this period, on the California side, was also very famous, just like the Repulse Bay villa or mid-level mansion in the hearts of Xiangjiang people.
All the stars want to own a Beverly Hills villa to prove their worth.
In the evening, Michael Ovitz called his partner Ron Meyer over for dinner.
Originally, they had five founders, but because Wu Cheng smashed down five million, the five of them divided it, and the other three took more than three million dollars and went to the stove again.
It's just that Wu Cheng is not familiar with the other three, so he didn't pay attention to it.
For Wu Cheng's age, Ron Meyer was also quite surprised.
Sixteen, oh my!
If you let them know that this is still an inflated age, you probably have to treat him as a demon!
When the three of them were eating, they chatted about the company, and under the proposal that Wu Cheng faxed to them, they had already begun to poach some new actors or directors.
For example, Harrison Ford, the actor of "Star Wars", and Sylvester Stallone, the actor of "Rocky", are all newcomers who are not famous, but as long as the film they participate in is released, it will definitely become popular.
Speaking of "Rocky", Wu Cheng was a little annoyed, because this film, I got the news from Ovitz, it seems that it has only started filming recently, if I had known about it, Wu Cheng would have invested.
You must know that the investment in this film is not much, but the box office is quite good, and the ratio is more than one to ten, which can be described as a typical example of 'knife sawing big trees'.
But thinking that he plagiarized Stallone's "First Blood" series, Wu Cheng stopped struggling.
Speaking of the film "Rocky", Ovitz said: "I heard that their investment in this play is only one million, and there must be a lack of funds, so since they are so optimistic, why not invest a little?"
When Wu Cheng heard this, he raised his eyebrows, showed a smile, and said, "Oh, are they willing to accept my investment?"
Ron Meyer smiled: "Why not? Now that this film has just been filmed, you can only accept that you are so optimistic about its box office results, just like 'Star Wars', if you are willing to pay 1.5 million to take over, it is estimated that they will be very willing to give up." ”
Wu Cheng thought for a while, finally nodded, and said, "I'll leave this matter to you! Give me a few days, and I'll raise funds!"
Since you have the opportunity to take over, then give it a try, there is nothing to lose if you don't succeed, and if you succeed in taking over, you will make a lot of money.