Chapter 122: Harvest on Hollywood's Side

(Ask for a ticket!)

Leslie Cheung went back, Ren Dahua also went back, and there was a Huang Baiming.

When the time came to mid-September, Zhao Yazhi stayed on Treasure Island for more than a week, and finally returned to Xiangjiang Wireless to report for duty, and the 'Huiming' crew has been established.

And Shi Nansheng, who went to California for nearly a month, also returned. She did not go back to Xiangjiang, but first came to Baodao and reported to Wu Cheng what she had done in California in the past month.

First of all, there are five agreements, one for the purchase of Star Wars, one with George Lucas, the director of Star Wars, for the rights to Star Wars, one for Lucas's creation of the Industrial Magic Light Company, one for a stake in CAA, and finally for the acquisition of a small film company with distribution capabilities.

Lucas's Industrial Magic Light is a film special effects company built with the shooting funds of 'Star Wars', and Wu Cheng, as an 'investor' in 'Star Wars', has the right to own the shares of Industrial Magic Light.

Although the lawyer team led by Shi Nansheng tried their best to get only 40% of the shares of Industrial Magic, Wu Cheng was quite satisfied with this.

Of course, what Wu Cheng didn't know was that Lucas scolded Wu Cheng for being a vampire. Fortunately, Wu Cheng was very simple when he gave him the second investment, which sealed his mouth.

The second investment was $3 million that Shi Nansheng obtained after acquiring the film company, along with part of CAA's shares.

When Shi Nansheng returned from California, the 80 million Hong Kong dollars she brought with her had been spent. However, Wu Cheng didn't think it was a pity, because the 80 million, in exchange, would be hundreds of millions of profits, although no one could see it now.

"Well done!" Wu Cheng smiled at those agreements.

Shi Nansheng smiled and said: "Boss, I'm just running errands, you've already negotiated everything, and I don't have any credit for this!"

Having said that, Wu Cheng knew that if Shi Nansheng didn't take care of him, how could he sit here and make movies, he had to be busy to death.

"Don't be modest, I took note of your merits. Wu Cheng said with a smile: "This year is also a small harvest year for Donglong International, and I will take out one percent of the year-end dividend for you as a bonus." In addition, I am going to promote you to be the vice president of the company, and also to manage the company's film distribution, what do you think?"

When Shi Nansheng heard this, her heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and she felt that the stage provided by Wu Cheng for her was getting bigger and bigger, which was a challenge and an opportunity.

After calming down the surging tide of her heart, she looked serious and said, "If the boss is not afraid that I am young and inexperienced, I am willing to accept this challenge!"

Wu Cheng nodded and said with a smile: "Your ability, I believe, lack of experience, can be accumulated slowly, now the company is still small, you have enough time to adapt and learn." In addition, I will give you a reward of 1 percent of my share in the company. Whether you decide to increase in the future depends on your grades, how about it?

"Yes, thank you, boss, for your attention!" Shi Nansheng said with a serious expression, but with excitement that could not be concealed, and at the end it seemed that he couldn't help it, and laughed again.

Wu Cheng also smiled, and said at the end: "Originally, I wanted you to go to California to sit down, and I would prefer to trust my own people than those foreigners." And you, too, are a very suitable candidate. However, the situation in California is a bit complicated, and the xenophobia there, especially the exclusion of our Chinese diaspera, I think you should be able to feel it. ”

Shi Nansheng nodded, and Wu Cheng continued: "So, I invited a foreigner to come back and manage it for me, and the foreigner is in charge of the foreigner, and now they should have nothing to say!"

"You mean Shirley Lansing? She's a very capable woman. ”

Thinking of this woman, Shi Nansheng also admires it from the bottom of his heart, since she was poached by Michael Ovitz from the Columbia-owned film company, the branch has been well organized by her, and even now she has begun to prepare a new film - "Home Alone".

The digging of Shirley Lansing, a strong woman, was instructed by Wu Cheng. Among the many strongmen in Hollywood, Wu Cheng has the deepest impression of this strong woman.

In fact, there are few Hollywood strongmen that Wu Cheng knows, and Shirley Lansing is remembered by Wu Cheng because she is a woman.

In Hollywood in later generations, the name of this strong woman is definitely not small.

Just from the "Hollywood Women's Rights List" specially set up the "Shirley Lansing Leadership Award" named after her, you can see how awesome this woman is!

But now this woman has just entered the company management industry, and Michael Ovitz didn't spend much effort to poach her.

In fact, when it comes to management talents, several giants of CAA's brokerage company actually have that ability, but these giants, except for Ovitz and Meyer, all took the money to find another way. Wu Cheng believes that these people are probably scolding themselves for being stupid!

A few days ago, she called me to ask me for money for filming! If it weren't for the fact that 'Drunken One' was sold in Southeast Asia for a million dollars, I really wouldn't have been able to get it. I hope she doesn't mess up Home Alone. ”

Wu Cheng smiled, remembering that the film "Home Alone" was handed over to Michael Ovitz and them to operate, and Shirley Lansing's unhappy look, Wu Cheng wanted to laugh.

In fact, it is no wonder that the preparatory work in the early stage of the film is handed over to CAA to operate, although the film company has saved a lot of trouble, but the cost has also increased!

If it weren't for Wu Cheng's eighty-percent stake in CAA, Shirley Lansing would probably be unrelenting with Wu Cheng. Because she has already seen that such a bundled sale of CAA is definitely a big check and balance for the film company, and it is very unfavorable to the film company.

Fortunately, she didn't know that this idea was actually Wu Cheng's own idea, otherwise she would probably be speechless!

When Michael Ovitz and others saw Wu Cheng's plan, they were so shocked that they almost worshipped Wu Cheng as a god. They believe that as long as this plan succeeds, the future of Hollywood will be decided by them. Yes, one by one, they are full of energy.

And what makes them even happier is that Wu Cheng, the boss, actually has a film company to cooperate with them in doing this. As long as the film is released successfully, CAA will be an instant hit.

Ovitz was also secretly glad that he was not hot-headed and took the money given by Wu Cheng to start a new business, otherwise, it is estimated that he would be crushed by such a plan!

Now, he has some sympathy for the three colleagues before him.

Seeing Wu Cheng's smile, Shi Nansheng was a little worried: "Boss, is our stall a little too big? Donglong International has only been established for less than a year, and we have not only set up a branch here on the treasure island, but also set up a branch in Hollywood. Especially on the Hollywood side, a film can cost tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, or even hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, once the investment fails...... Golden Harvest has been established for so many years, and although I yearn for Hollywood, I don't dare to do it!"

Wu Cheng smiled when he heard this, and said: "You only saw the problem of investment failure, didn't you think about what would happen if the investment was successful? As for Jiahe, don't mention it!"

With his innate prescience and prescience, coupled with so many movies in his mind, it is no problem to stir up a little storm on the Hollywood side.

He didn't take the so-called failure to heart, because as long as he didn't die and didn't take out things that were too advanced, he wouldn't die at all. And even if he dies, he is confident that he can revive it, and making a movie is nothing more than publicity! As long as the quality of the movie is passable, it is not hopelessly rotten, and once the publicity is in place, he is not afraid that it will not sell well at the box office.

As long as the theater side doesn't deliberately target them, there's no problem!

"Since you are so confident, boss, I won't say more!" Shi Nansheng smiled: "I'll go back to Xiangjiang tomorrow, does the boss have anything else to explain?"

Wu Cheng nodded and said, "Go ahead! Over there in the company, you should also pay close attention to the distribution work of other film companies, although this piece of meat is small, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, it is also meat! Especially the distribution network of those countries in Nanyang, we must be established quickly, we can't always be subject to Shao Daheng, who knows when this old man will suddenly go crazy and sell us!"

When Shi Nansheng heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle, and only Wu Chenghui said this about Shao Tycoon.

When Shi Nansheng got up to leave, Wu Cheng stopped her again, "That's right! Send a few copies of those films made by our company to Hollywood, hand them over to Lan Sin, and let her operate them in North America, no matter how low the box office is, as long as there is the sound of our Chinese films." ”

"Understood, I'll remember!"

Wu Cheng nodded and watched Shi Nansheng leave.

As long as the release of Chinese films can open a small opening in North America, it will be a rare victory for Donglong International.

As far as this stage is concerned, all Wu Cheng can do is to infiltrate slowly.

……

After Shi Nansheng left, Wu Cheng once again entered the filming of the film.

In fact, after the crew was divided into two groups, the progress of filming has accelerated a lot. If it weren't for Wu Cheng's request for excellence, the filming would have ended a long time ago.

In late September, the film was finally completed under a fire in the military village.

Watching the sprinkler keep spraying water towards the flames that jumped up, but couldn't extinguish it, Yu Kanping said: "If only our film could be like this fire, it would be great!"

Wu Cheng smiled when he heard this: "Don't worry! It will definitely be even hotter than this fire! I am very confident in what we have filmed." Next is the post-production, and the soundtrack has a big right, so I'm not worried, but in terms of editing, you have to have a snack. Be sure to cut it according to the requirements I gave you, the importance of editing, you don't need me to repeat it, you know it. ”

Yu Kanping nodded and said, "I'll follow up!"

"I'm going to Hollywood, and when I'm done with the rough cuts, let me know I'll be back!"

"Okay!"