Chapter 425 introduces "Terminator 2" to Huaxia

Luo Xianli and Yu Linsheng, ** and Lu Liang, after going back, how will they think about it, then it is not what Fang Mingyuan needs to worry about, the reason why they are invited today, Fang Mingyuan mainly has two purposes, one is to show goodwill to both sides, to be able to see movies that others can't see in advance, this is also a kind of glory, isn't it? Socialism is good, not in empty words, but in the hope of showing real achievements to prove that our social system is stronger than the other side

However, inviting Cameron to shoot a tourism resource introduction film for Yazhou was not Fang Mingyuan's temporary idea, but something he had considered before. As for the inspiration, it naturally came from the Beijing Olympic bid in later generations, but the well-known director in China can only be said to have just started his career, so Cameron, who will be in full swing, has become Fang Mingyuan's most popular choice at present.

Of course, it is not easy for Cameron to shoot an introduction to Yazhou's tourism resources. Cameron's temper is a well-known name in Hollywood, and if he wants to be the director and shoot a "commercial", I'm afraid few people dare to pat their chests and guarantee it. But this is not difficult, Fang Mingyuan already has a spectrum in his heart.

This year is 91 years, Fang Mingyuan remembers very well that in the previous life in 96 years, another milestone film in the history of American cinema officially started shooting, and its budget funds reached 150 million US dollars, which made the CEOs of major American film companies also staggered, this is only the initial amount, and in fact, its shooting cost reached an unprecedented 200 million US dollars, which does not include more than 40 million US dollars for publicity, for which Cameron also gave up his directorial fee of 8 million yuan. In other words, under normal circumstances, the cost of this movie is more than $250 million

This amount of money is extremely risky for Twentieth Century Fox. The company's leaders feared that "Titanic" would repeat the tragedy of "Heaven's Gate". The financial failure of this film, which was very expensive at the time, even led to the sale of United American Pictures, which was filming it at the time. At the same time, some people can't express doubts about Cameron's directing style, and even have suggestions to remove him. But by that time, Twentieth Century Fox had no choice, if Cameron was not replaced, the movie might still be successful, but with Cameron, who would be able to take over Cameron's work at this time?

So, Twentieth Century Fox sold the distribution rights of "Titanic" in the United States to Paramount Pictures for $65 million for insurance purposes. And this deal, Paramount Pictures, later earned at least double the net profit

Although "Titanic" only officially began filming in '96, in fact, James Cameron has always been interested in shipwrecks. In the early nineties, he began to pay attention to the Titanic, he felt the potential of this story, and even said that the story of the sinking of the Titanic was a "great, realistic novel".

Therefore, using this bait to catch Cameron, Fang Mingyuan is completely sure

"Sure enough, it's a very beautiful place, Hawaii in the East" Standing on the shore of Wuzhizhou Island, looking at the sea on the first line of Tianshui and the two nearby bays, Cameron made no secret of his admiration. Such a beautiful scenery, even in the United States, is rare, Fang Mingyuan only spent 100 million US dollars, and got the right to use it for 70 years, which is worth it in terms of China's national conditions

"Fang Shao's business talent is really outstanding, and I believe that this place will definitely become a well-known tourist attraction in Shijie in the future," Gao Er on the side also praised sincerely. Dressed in a swimsuit, although he is not very young, his still bumpy figure is still quite eye-catching. Fortunately, this is Wuzhizhou Island, which belongs to Fang Mingyuan's private territory, and there are no foreign tourists, otherwise, it will definitely attract the attention of many people. Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but secretly admire that the director's profession is really a profession of reading beautiful women.

"Xiexie, I think so too, that's why I'm investing here. I believe that when the two of you come here again next year, you will find that this place will be a different place. Fang Mingyuan smiled confidently.

Goyer's eyes rolled and said: "Dear Fang, this time I came to your country with him in person, on the one hand, he hopes to listen to your opinion before the movie is released, and the facts have proved that his insistence is undoubtedly right, and your opinion has a role that cannot be ignored for the perfection of this movie." On the other hand, we also want to hear your opinion, can "Terminator 2" enter the Chinese film market?"

For Huaxia, a huge market with a population of nearly one billion, Americans can be said to be salivating, and the film industry is naturally no exception. But decades of closure have made it impossible for American films to openly enter the Chinese market. Although it is said that since the reform and opening up, the Chinese people have relaxed a lot of control over imports and exports, but the ban on audio-visual products has still not been resolved. If "Terminator" is the first film to enter China from normal channels, then it will be a rare opportunity for both Emerald Bird Films, as well as Gower and Cameron personally

"Account-sharing films" Fang Mingyuan's mind immediately showed the pattern of Huaxia importing American films in his previous life.

As the name suggests, a film is shown in other countries and the box office revenue is distributed according to a certain percentage. For example, when an American film is screened on the Huaxia Film Market, the Huaxia Film Party does not pay for its copyright, but pays the American film company in the form of a split account.

This change was made in 94 years, in order to change the depressed scene of the Chinese film market at that time, the boss of the China Film Corporation at that time proposed to the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television that first-class foreign films be imported for screening in the form of internationally accepted box office accounting, and then use this income to support the development of China's domestic film industry. At the end of that year, the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television approved this proposal, allowing the import of ten films per year that "basically reflect the outstanding achievements of Shijie civilization and express the achievements of contemporary films", thus opening the door to Shijie in the Chinese film market, of course, mainly in Hollywood.

Fang Mingyuan remembers that some media reported on this incident at the beginning, and at that time, referring to the internationally accepted box office accounting form, the proportion of revenue sharing of all parties involved in imported blockbusters, the producer, that is, the American film company, could get about 30%. Moreover, in order to quickly occupy the Chinese market, the producers of imported blockbusters also bear the cost of publicity.

It is this change that has gradually opened the door to the Chinese film market, and the majority of Chinese people can finally watch the latest shijie movies like the citizens of European and American countries. Although it is said that many Chinese people later believed that the Americans used the tool of movies to carry out cultural aggression against the whole of Shijie, including China, and tried their best to export American culture, so as to influence the perception of the United States by the people of various countries.

But Fang Mingyuan believes that this system, in the final analysis, has broadened the horizons of the Chinese people, and truly made the Chinese people realize that the original movie can be made like this, and the original foreign shijie is like this

As for the cultural aggression that those people say, if you watch a few American movies a year, you will be captured by American culture and become yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people, then it can only prove that the "socialism is good" that has been sung since kindergarten is still not worth the short dozens of hours of ideological "indoctrination" after more than ten years of continuous education in primary school, middle school, and university, thus proving the failure of education in China and the failure of our own TV and movie producers

However, although Fang Mingyuan knew the direction of future development, at present, he did not want to deliberately promote it. In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, it will take time for Kumho Group to grow

"Theoretically speaking, I think "Terminator 2" should be able to enter the Chinese film market, for the simple reason that it can also be regarded as a Hong Kong-funded film, and the entry of Hong Kong-funded films into China is not a big problem at present. Fang Mingyuan said unhurriedly. He also told the truth, as we entered the 90s and as the date of Hong Kong's return to the motherland approached, the Chinese government's preferential treatment of Hong Kong was one after another. The smooth entry of Hong Kong films into the mainland is one of them. Of course, these scissors are essential.

Cameron and Gower's eyes lit up immediately, and the two sides agreed to contribute 55% of the shares. I didn't expect to use it here

"I plan to do this, "Terminator 2" will definitely not be released in the United States and China at the same time, so before entering China, the external publicity will be funded by five or five dollars. However, for the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of Huaxia, when requesting approval, Kumho Group will claim that after the final calculation, the Hong Kong side of "Terminator 2" will contribute one US dollar more than your company, so our shares are more than 50% and your shares are 49.9999...... , infinitely close to fifty percent. In this case, I think the possibility of "Terminator 2" being approved will be greatly increased," Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but laugh when he said Zuihou.

Gower and Cameron couldn't help laughing, although the advantage of one in 50 million in the investment amount, although it was still a little more after all, but in a substantive sense, it was completely negligible for both parties. But this has given the Huaxia Radio and Television Department a very good step. They also know that sometimes, just such an inconspicuous small step is enough to change the fate of a movie.

"Fang, I think you have a premeditated plan a long time ago" Cameron Daxiao said, if "Terminator 2" can be successfully released in Chinese theaters, then it will be the first American film to enter China through formal channels in decades, and this alone is enough to make Cameron leave another strong mark in the history of American cinema. Even a hundred years later, when it comes to this period of history, no one can avoid him Cameron.

Fang Mingyuan smiled faintly, did not admit it, of course, did not deny it.

Indeed, as Cameron said, from the very beginning, he took this into account. The producer of "Terminator 2" has had a fundamental change from the previous life from the beginning, and the intervention of Kumho Group has made it a coat of Hong Kong capital, although it has not done anything else except for funding for the whole movie. But with this layer of clothing, "Terminator 2" has plenty of reasons to enter China.

First of all, there are no ** scenes in "Terminator 2", and there is a lot of violence, but for Chinese people who grew up watching "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" since childhood, I am afraid it is difficult to understand that Americans have argued for a long time over the question of whether John can shoot or not.

Second, "Terminator 2" promotes anti-nuclear ideas, which has no reason to refuse for the Chinese government, which has promised not to be the first to use nuclear weapons and has passed by the nuclear crisis several times in history.

Third, in any case, Hong Kong capital occupies half of the country in "Terminator 2", and Kumho is the fastest rising film company in the Hong Kong film industry, and it has a close cooperative relationship with the original old film companies in the Hong Kong industry, and there is this background of the Guo family, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television wants to refuse, and it has to think twice before adding up together, Fang Mingyuan believes that it should only be a matter of time before "Terminator 2" enters the Chinese cinema.

"Miss Goyle, James, but I warn you not to expect too much from the box office in China that the people here have low incomes and cannot afford to pay as high a ticket price as in the United States. The ticket price must be in line with the national conditions of China," Fang Mingyuan said solemnly.

Cameron shrugged his shoulders, he was just a director, and the ticket price was not his responsibility.

Ms. Gower pondered for a moment, then smiled and said, "Fang, I don't think it's a big problem, to be honest, in the Huaxia film market, we didn't have much hope originally. If it weren't for you and Ms. Yu, we would have given up the Huaxia Film Market. Although people always want to gain fame and fortune, I think that if you can get one of them without losing money, such a result is acceptable to the board of directors of the company. "Anyway, everyone is half and half, and if the Emerald Bird Film Company can't get a lot of money, then Kumho is the same, Goyle thought very clearly.

Fang Mingyuan clapped his hands and said happily: "Then a word is a certainty"