A few days later, the funds were in place, Wu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and the scenes of Wang Guxian's children were over, and Wang's mother wanted to invite Wu Cheng to their house for a meal.

In this regard, Wu Cheng did not refuse, took Lin Qingxia with a gift, and went to the appointment.

Wang Guxian's grandfather used to be an army officer and a cultural person, and he had a lot of good feelings for people like Wu Cheng, who were born in novels. Especially when I heard Wu Cheng mention that his grandfather was also a soldier at the beginning, but after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he disarmed his armor and returned to the field, and Grandpa Wang was even happier.

pulled Wu Cheng and talked about the Anti-Japanese War at the beginning, but when he mentioned the end of the Anti-Japanese War and the internal war between the two parties, he was also embarrassed, they were all compatriots, and they were too anxious to fry each other!

However, compared with Grandpa Wang, Wu Cheng, a half-baked literary creator, is somewhat weak-hearted. Fortunately, Grandpa Wang is now studying local historiography, and Wu Cheng does not know much about this aspect, which is understandable.

Wang's father is a basketball national player and is tall, and Wang Guxian's two elder brothers are also slender, although they are still very young, their height is not bad.

However, in front of Wu Cheng, her two elder brothers looked immature, although they looked the same young, but in terms of words and deeds, Wu Cheng was already an adult.

At least, Grandpa Wang and Dad Wang didn't treat Wu Cheng as a child.

Not long after dinner, Wu Cheng and Lin Qingxia said goodbye to the Wang family. Seeing Wang Guxian's reluctant look, Wu Cheng patted her little head and said with a smile: "Study hard in the future, you have to listen to your parents, you know? If you want to inherit your brother, call your brother, if you want to come to Xiangjiang to play, tell your brother Cheng, and Brother Cheng will take you to play!"

Seeing Wu Cheng coaxing a child, and Wang Guxian was willing to let him coax, the Wang family couldn't help but laugh, but they didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

The little guys' scenes are over, and the next scenes will get bigger and bigger.

However, Wu Cheng asked Huang Baiming to pick out some small scenes, especially the small scenes in the military village, and first finish filming these small scenes, and then shoot the big scenes.

A week or so passed, Shi Nansheng also came, Wu Cheng chatted with Shi Nansheng for more than an hour, and then sent her to California tomorrow to find Michael Ovitz at the same time, looking for a film company with distribution and production capabilities in California.

The company doesn't need to be big, as long as it has a little distribution channel. The extra 5 million Hong Kong dollars is for this service. As for the music companies and brokerage companies here, they can take out mortgages from the film branch. The play "Taking the Wrong Car" is in cooperation with Longxiang Pictures in the name of the branch, as long as the movie is released, it will not take a few minutes.

During this period, Hollywood films entered a period of depression, many filmmakers lost their jobs, and many small film companies went bankrupt. If Wu Cheng has money, it is not impossible to buy one of the eight major film companies. More than a decade later, Japan's Sony bought Colombia, a case in point.

And on the morning when Shi Nansheng was preparing to leave for California, Wu received an ocean call from Michael Ovitz.

"Oh, my friend, why are you only answering the phone now!" Wu Chengcai picked up and asked, 'Who are you looking for?' Michael's voice came, "Guess what kind of good news I brought you?" Oh, of course, unfortunately, there is also bad news. ”

Wu Cheng, who was shirtless, answered the phone with one hand, wiped the sweat on his body with a towel in the other, and smiled: "Hey, Mike, calm down your feelings first!"

"Okay! I'm too excited!" said Michael, taking a deep breath.

Lin Qingxia's head stuck out of the kitchen and said softly, "Who?"

"Lao Mei is calling from there!" Wu Cheng covered the earpiece and said, and then heard Michael's voice coming from the earpiece, "Hey, buddy, you haven't told me yet, which one do you want to listen to first?"

"Bad news!"

"Wort?"

"I say, listen to the bad news first!" Wu Cheng repeated, "In our East, there is an old saying called 'bitter first and then sweet'. I like that too, because I've always liked happy endings. As long as the ending is happy and there are a few twists in the middle, it doesn't matter!"

"Well, I'll admit, I'm in love with your Eastern philosophy!" Michael Ovitz laughed and said, "By the way, I like happy endings too!"

Wu Cheng laughed when he heard this, but unfortunately this guy's own life is not a happy ending!

"So, please tell me! I'm mentally prepared!"

"Okay!" Michael paused, as if organizing the language, "yes, when I asked Twentieth Century Fox to take over the film, they were basically more moved, but George Lucas, the director of the film you liked, went to lobby the top management of Twentieth Century Fox, and they were almost moved by him." ”

"Wott?" Wu Cheng also said, because he was quite surprised.

Michael laughed and continued: "Later, I learned that 40% of the peripheral copyright of this film was in the hands of that director. In other words, although you bought a piece of the film from Twentieth Century Fox, the surrounding rights are incomplete. I've been in contact with that director, but unfortunately, he's a diehard and doesn't intend to budge!"

Wu Cheng exhaled, finally clenched his fist, and smiled: "Although there are some regrets, it is also within my acceptability." After a pause, he added, "There will be no more bad news than that!" I don't want to hear more bad news than good news early in the morning!"

"Of course, there is only one bad news, and the rest is good news!"

"In this way, there is more than one!" Wu Cheng laughed.

"Of course, the first good news is that Twentieth Century Fox is willing to sell you all the Qiē of 'Star Wars' for fifteen million, but I talked about nine and a half million, and then they don't even reduce the price anymore, and they also ask for cash payment. Michael shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly and said, "However, you said that as long as it is negotiated within 10 million, I had to reluctantly agree to them." I don't know, are you satisfied?"

"Very good!" Wu Cheng said with a smile.

People have invested 8 million, and after shooting for so long, 9.5 million can be bought, which is not bad!" "I want to know, how did you do it?" Wu Cheng asked again.

Speaking of this, Michael smiled and said: "Actually, Twentieth Century Fox himself is a little hesitant, because it was originally scheduled to be released this Christmas, but George Lucas not only failed to complete the film on a regular basis, but also proposed additional investment, and Fox was already very angry." At this time, you want to take over the film, and it's too late for them to be happy. ”

After a pause, Michael said: "However, my friend, I am a little worried about the release of this film for you, and here in general, this film is generally not optimistic. If no one wants to release this film, I think you're going to be in a really bad situation. ”

Wu Cheng naturally understands that if a good movie is not released, the box office will not be much better. Wu Cheng, who had seen the introduction of this film on Du Niang, knew that when this film was released, it did encounter problems, and the production company was still a big company like Twentieth Century Fox. If it is replaced by a small company like itself, it is difficult to say whether the theater chain will sell it!

So, what Michael said, is indeed a big problem.

However, Wu Cheng feels that nothing can stop its progress in this film, even if the film schedule can't keep up at the beginning, as long as everyone sees its potential, the power it bursts out will be unstoppable, just give it a little time to ferment.

Of course, Wu Cheng felt that the publicity that should be done should also keep up. However, these are all later words, because he knows that this film will not be released until May next year, and there is still enough time for him to promote, and the capital chain can also make Wu Cheng breathe a sigh of relief.

"I'll arrange this!" Wu Cheng smiled and said, "So, what's the other good news for me?

Michael was silent and said, "We have indeed discussed, but three of our five founders are ready to withdraw their shares, leaving me and Lang." So, we can promise you about the acquisition of eighty percent of the shares for five million dollars. It's just that we have one more condition that you have to say yes!"

Wu Cheng wrinkled his brows and said, "You continue!"

"What Lang meant, including my own meaning, is that even if you own eighty percent of the company's shares, you have to promise us that you can't meddle in the normal operation of the company. I know that this condition is a bit excessive for investors, but CAA is our brainchild, and like our children, we don't want to ......"

Wu Cheng interrupted him and said, "Other than that, are there any other conditions?"

Michael paused and said, "We don't ask for anything else!"

Wu Cheng hummed and said, "I can promise you this condition." In addition, I can also promise you that if the company is profitable, I will not be stingy to give you additional dividends, and tell your colleagues to work hard, and I am optimistic about your future. Of course, I also have some ideas, I will sort them out later, fax them to you, whether to adopt them, you can choose for yourself. ”

"I also hope to have the opportunity to exchange ideas with you!" Michael breathed a sigh of relief, was in a good mood, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of beautiful women here in Hollywood, my friend, you should come and experience it if you have the chance, you will be fascinated by this place, I promise you!"

"There will be a chance!" Wu Cheng said with a smile.