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"Cooperation?" Xu Cun said in amazement.

"When you cooperated with Zou Wenhuai, that traitor, you helped him shoot a "Lucky Star High Photo", which made him a lot of money. Now, let's work together again, do you have to express it too?" Shao Yifu said.

"Sixth uncle, I'm stupid by nature, can you tell me what you think?" Xu Cun pretended to be stupid.

"We at Shaw Brothers are going to make a big sci-fi comedy. You come to be the director, let's also work together, and then use this movie to impact Hollywood, how about it?" Shao Yifu looked at Xu Cun and explained.

Listening to Shao Yifu say the words "large-scale sci-fi comedy", Xu Cun immediately thought that the movie Shao Yifu said was one of the giant holes in the history of Xiangjiang film - "Interstellar Blunt Tire".

Then, 10,000 grass and mud horses suddenly floated in Xu Cun's heart!

"Grass, this old guy actually wants me to take over the giant pit of "Interstellar Blunt Tire"!" Xu Cun scolded in his heart.

After calming down for a while, Xu Cuncai said: "Sixth uncle, don't you always dig Zhang Guoming from me, just to make this movie? Why do you want me to take over now?"

Xiangjiang is too small, and the Xiangjiang film circle is even smaller, even if Xu Cun is not a reborn person, as long as he inquires a little, he can also know that Zhang Guoming went to Shaw Brothers to make this so-called large-scale sci-fi comedy. Therefore, Shao Yifu was not surprised that Xu Cun knew about it. He smiled and said, "That kid is a bit talented, but his strength and fame are far from being comparable to yours." Moreover, if you come to make this alien movie, it will definitely be a big hit in North America. ”

Shao Yifu knew what his idea was - Shao Yifu just wanted to use Xu Cun's name and the popularity of "ET" to make a follow-up movie, and then use this follow-up movie to make money.

Xu Cun did not despise Shao Yifu's behavior, on the contrary, he admired Shao Yifu's vision a little -- from the perspective of making money, this is definitely a good idea! Moreover, the feasibility is very high.

But Xu Cun's stomach is limited, and he really can't make another good movie that is even half of "ET". Therefore, Xu Cun can't make this money, and he can't ruin the tall image he has built up with great difficulty for this money.

Therefore, Xu Cun said: "Sixth uncle, I sold the copyright of "ET", you should have heard of it, right?"

Of course, Shao Yifu had heard about this, and it was precisely because he heard that Xu Cun had made $65 million by selling the copyright of "ET", that Shao Yifu made up his mind to merge Shaw Brothers and DreamWorks.

Although it is not clear what Xu Cun's purpose is in mentioning this matter at this time, Shao Yifu still said with admiration: "Ah Cun, you have played so beautifully with this hand, and it has greatly increased the prestige of our G people!"

Xu Cunxian said modestly: "I'm just a blind cat who met a dead mouse." Then he added: "Alain Ryder Jr., the general manager of Twentieth Century Fox Films, told me that as long as I made a sequel to 'ET' for Twentieth Century Fox Films, he would raise the royalties to $75 million." ”

With Shao Yifu's old way, he naturally knows that Xu Cun Zài is not showing off to him when he mentions this matter at this time, but telling him Shao Yifu, as long as Xu Cun is willing to shoot the sequel to "ET", someone will be willing to pay 10 million US dollars.

In this regard, Shao Yifu smiled dryly and said: "Ah Cun, your current salary has risen to 10 million US dollars a movie? Make a movie, there will be 40 or 50 million Hong Kong dollars in your account, I think you don't want to be the boss of a film company, just be a full-time director, so that you can not only be insurance but also make a lot of money, how good!"

"The sequel to 'ET' is a special case, except for Twentieth Century Fox, how can any film company pay me such a high salary? Hollywood studios ask me to make the most films, and they only offer me three million dollars a movie plus a 1 percent box office share as a salary. Xu Cun said with a smile.

After listening to Xu Cun's self-reported value, Shao Yifu calculated in his heart: "Three million US dollars is 14 or 5 million Hong Kong dollars, plus the box office share must be at least 20 million Hong Kong dollars, which is enough for Shaw Brothers to make 20 movies......"

Suddenly, Shao Yifu lost more than half of his interest in asking Xu Cun to direct "Interstellar Blunt Tire".

"I make too much money to make movies, and the production cost of "ET" is nearly 120 million Hong Kong dollars...... Sometimes, I can't help but wonder what if "ET" fails, will I be left with nothing?"

Hearing Xu Cun say that the production cost of "ET" was 120 million Hong Kong dollars, the corners of Shao Yifu's mouth twitched unconsciously! Immediately afterward, he basically dispelled the idea of asking Xu Cun to make a movie.

In order not to take on the huge pit of "Interstellar Blunt Tire", Xu Cun made another fierce prediction: ""ET" has taken my understanding of aliens to the extreme, and I am afraid that I will never be able to make alien movies of this height in my life." ”

Xu Cun's words made Shao Yifu completely abandon the idea of asking Xu Cun to shoot "Interstellar Blunt Tire", but Shao Yifu couldn't swallow back what he just said immediately. Therefore, he said with displeasure: "Ah Cun, if you don't want to help Shaw Brothers make movies, just say it, although our Shaw Brothers can't compare with the eight major Hollywood film companies, we can still get one or two hundred million Hong Kong dollars in production fees!"

"Sixth uncle, you are old and discouraged, listen to my thoughts first, it's not too late for you to get angry when you get old!" Xu Cun said with a smile.

"Hollywood blockbusters are all about special effects, and as long as the special effects are in place, the box office will never be too bad...... I have a special effects team in Hollywood, the special effects team that produced "ET", this team is definitely one of the top special effects teams in the world today, as long as you need it, Uncle Six, I will immediately let them report to Shaw Brothers. In addition, I also have a very good director in my hand - he is a rare film all-rounder, he has fought in Hollywood with me, and he is a hundred times stronger than Zhang Guoming's turtle on how to use the special effects team to make a movie, if Uncle Sixth you have a place where you need him to work, I will let him report to Shaw Brothers as well. Xu Cun said again.

The special effects team Xu Cun refers to is a new digital field formed by the merger of Stan Winston Studio and the digital field - in order to win over Stan Winston Studio, Xu Cun invested $5 million in the new digital field at once, and gave Stan Winston a 30 percent stake to make it the second largest shareholder and general manager of the new digital field.

The director Xu Cun said is Chen Xunqi - A Xunqi likes to be in touch with new things and has a strong ability to accept things, so Chen Xunqi learned the most during his time with Xu Cun in Hollywood.

Xu Cun believes that if Chen Xunqi replaces the famous director "Interstellar Blunt Tire" by Erwu Zaizhang, who has never even gone out of Xiangjiang, and the special effects of "Interstellar Blunt Tire" are made by the digital field, "Interstellar Blunt Tire" may not be able to become a blockbuster movie.

Shao Yifu was very moved by Xu Cun's compromise plan - he pondered a little and said, "How much does it cost to make this movie with the director you told you about with your special effects team?"

"It depends on what you want to do, Uncle Six—if you do the kind of Cheng dù of "ET", the special effects will only cost four or five million dollars. If you want to do the kind of "Star Wars", you have to spend at least tens of millions of dollars on special effects. Xu Cun said.

Xu Cun's words made Shao Yifu feel a pang of pain -- he felt that the movie world had become too crazy! It was so crazy that he, a person who had been in the film industry all his life, felt unfamiliar! He really couldn't figure out how it was possible for a movie to spend so much money on special effects alone?

Speaking of which, Shao Yifu is also quite interesting - with a net worth of nearly 10 billion, he can spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars on charity, but he is not willing to waste even a penny more on movies. His character is also one of the reasons for the decline of director zhì Shaw Pictures.

But-

In any case, Shao Yifu is now one of the top movie tycoons in Xiangjiang, so he still has some courage - after a little silence, Shao Yifu made up his mind and said: "Ah Cun, you let them come, this time I am going to spend at least 50 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot this sci-fi comedy!"

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(To be continued.) )