Chapter 108: If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent
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In '79, Li Yu was not the famous Chinese director, he was just a young man who had just earned a bachelor's degree in theater directing at the University of Illinois.
Like the choice of most filmmakers with dreams in the United States, Li Yan went to Hollywood to look for a job as soon as he got his degree certificate.
Unfortunately, for several months, Li Yan failed to find a suitable job.
This result was far from what Li Yu had thought before, and it also poured a lot of cold water on his scorching dream!
However, in the face of such a situation, Li Yu did not admit defeat, and he continued to look for a job and study at the same time - he thought that if he really couldn't find a suitable job, he would apply for the Zuò Institute of Film Production at New York University.
On this day......
Mr. Li, who had just been rejected by a film company, bought a newspaper on the side of the road as usual — and he was ready to continue looking for a job.
Unfolding the newspaper, a recruitment message caught Li's attention - a film company called DreamWorks was looking for an assistant director who could understand Chinese.
Unlike the vast majority of Europeans and Americans, Li Yan, who lives in Taiwan, knows that there is a DreamWorks film company in Asia, but he is not sure whether the DreamWorks mentioned in the newspaper is Xu Cun's Dream Factory.
But whether it is or not, Li Yu feels that the choreographer assistant that DreamWorks wants to recruit is tailor-made for him.
So, putting down the newspaper, Li Yu immediately rushed to Glendale......
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Making movies in Hollywood is much more difficult than Xu Cun imagined, especially under the premise that he is not well-known in Hollywood - many things are different from what Xu Cun imagined before he came to Hollywood. For example:
Xu Cun wanted to recruit three or five hundred children to audition for the actors of "ET", but the result was that the number of children who came to sign up was less than 100, and this was due to the fact that the salary given by DreamWorks was three times that of other film companies. Fortunately, Xu Cun Zài found the original starring role of "ET" among these children, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, and Robert McNafton. This made Xu Cun breathe a sigh of relief.
Xu Cun assigned an interpreter to each of the important crew members he brought to Xiangjiang, but they still couldn't communicate with the Hollywood staff.
In addition, Hollywood people look down on Xu Cun and his group of Orientals, and make trouble for Xu Cun and them everywhere -- several times, Chen Xunqi and others have had physical conflicts with Hollywood people.
Troubles are one after another, and everything has to be solved by Xu Cun himself, so that "ET" has just started filming and Xu Cun is anxious.
He Chaoqiong, who played with Xu Cunlai's crew, couldn't help but feel a little distressed when he saw Xu Cun, who had to do everything himself. Therefore, He Chaoqiong took the initiative to help Xu Cun coordinate the order on the set.
It's a pity that He Chaoqiong didn't play much of a role, and she was also verbally molested by a white young man.
Xu Cun's reverse scale is his woman, and this group of beauties really angered Xu Cun! So, under Xu Cun's instructions, Lin Zhengying, Chen Xunqi and other Xiangjiang personnel in the crew beat the white young man to serious injuries.
This incident caused a lot of trouble, and Lin Zhengying and more than 20 other people were all taken to the police station for accountability, and the incident even almost caused a diplomatic incident.
Later, Jeffrey found someone to coordinate, and Xu Cun compensated the white youth group performance for $350,000 to completely resolve the matter.
Afterwards, Xu Cun dismissed all those thorns, and doubled the salaries of the actors and group performers who were good (for this reason, with the intervention of the US G trade union, Xu Cun also compensated a lot of wages for those actors and group performers who were dismissed by him.) Coupled with the deterrence of the armed forces that injured the white youth this time, Xu Cun can be regarded as having the absolute right to speak in the crew of "ET".
To be honest, as a reborn person, Xu Cun also felt infinitely breathless when dealing with this group of beautiful guys, but he couldn't help it, there is a saying, the big husband can stretch and contract, ah no, he can bend and stretch - Xu Cun has always only valued the result, and he always thinks that no matter how beautiful the process is, it is not as important as the result! Therefore, in order to finish filming "ET" smoothly, use "ET" to make money from beautiful guys, and use "ET" to make money from people all over the world, he Xu Cun must endure this tone!
"ET" has just started filming, two or three million dollars have been used up by the special effects team and Yankees, and Xu Cun has invested another million dollars to establish DreamWorks (US G branch), Xu Cun's financial assistant Zhong Chuhong can't help but worry about Xu Cun - she is very worried about whether the funds of Xu Cun, who dares to be the first, can support Xu Cunshun to finish filming "ET", and she is also worried that Xu Cun's myth will be shattered.
Therefore, unconsciously, Zhong Chuhong began to care about Xu Cun, who became a little haggard due to sorting out the crew - the relationship between the two was also closer than before.
Unlike Zhong Chuhong's uncertainty, based on the recent series of events, Xu Cun has judged that the 70 million Hong Kong dollars he brought from Xiangjiang is simply not enough for him to finish filming "ET".
Fortunately, Shi Nansheng brought Xu Cun 300 million yen and five high-end Mitsubishi Motors car sponsorship from his old partner Mitsubishi Motors, 120 million yen toy sponsorship from Japan's Takara Company, and Jeffrey pulled $800,000 in candy sponsorship from Hershey Foods. In this way, Xu Cun added more than 2.6 million US dollars, that is, nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
And the overseas box office of "Lucky Stars" also came out.
In the Nanyang region, "Lucky Stars" achieved a box office of US$6.9 million, which is more than HK$51 million when converted into Hong Kong dollars.
In Japan, "Lucky Stars" earned a box office of 1.85 billion yen, which is nearly 60 million Hong Kong dollars.
In South Korea, the number of viewers of "Lucky Stars" is 520,000, which is more than 6.2 million Hong Kong dollars.
Together with the HK$26.44 million in Xiangjiang and NT$62.3 million in the Taiwan area, the box office of Fuxing Gaozhao totaled HK$156 million.
Excluding the costs of cinemas, cinemas, distribution fees, etc., DreamWorks and Golden Harvest can share a total of nearly 50 million Hong Kong dollars.
The filming cost of "Lucky Stars" was HK$17 million, and the publicity cost was HK$2.2 million.
In other words, so far, "Lucky Stars" has earned more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars for the producers DreamWorks and Golden Harvest.
After adding five to the second day, "Lucky Stars" made a profit of 15 million Hong Kong dollars for DreamWorks.
According to the copyright fee agreed between Xu Cun and He Yichang, Xu Cun can also get 25 million Hong Kong dollars.
In total, "Lucky Stars" made Xu Cun earn 40 million Hong Kong dollars.
In addition, Zou Wenhuai also brought "Lucky Star Gaozhao" to Hollywood, and Xu Cun may still be able to share some production fees, but he can't care about Jiahe anymore for copyright fees (this was agreed between Xu Cun and He Qichang at that time).
All the money was added together, Xu Cun made up another 60 million Hong Kong dollars, plus the original 70 million Hong Kong dollars, in order to shoot "ET", Xu Cun prepared a total of 130 million Hong Kong dollars.
This money should be enough for Xu Cun to shoot "ET". However, this money is almost all of Xu Cun's net worth. Therefore, this time it can really be said that Xu Cun became a benevolent if he was unsuccessful.
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