Chapter 70: Walking on Two Legs
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Xu Cun is a vulgar person in his bones, and in his opinion, life is nothing more than two things - career and love.
To put it in layman's terms, money and women.
In terms of women, there is another Lin Qingxia, which naturally makes Xu Cun very happy!
In terms of money, there is also good news from Xiangjiang - after three splits, the box office of Nanyang, Japan and South Korea has reached the account of DreamWorks.
Nanyang, "Mr. Zombie" won a gratifying box office of $3.97 million, which was converted into more than 29 million Hong Kong dollars, and more than 9 million Hong Kong dollars were distributed to DreamWorks.
In South Korea, the number of moviegoers of "Mr. Zombie" is more than 47,000, which is converted into more than 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, and less than 200,000 are distributed to DreamWorks, and "Mr. Zombie" has also hit the streets in South Korea.
Japan, "Mr. Zombie", like "Happy Ghost", gave Xu Cun a big surprise, it actually won a gratifying box office of 650 million yen, which is more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars when converted into Hong Kong dollars, and it is about more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars to DreamWorks.
Now, only the bend of the table is left without painting.
So far, the box office of "Mr. Zombie" in Taiwan has exceeded 25 million Taiwan dollars, and it still has some stamina.
In Xu Cun's impression, "Mr. Zombie" was the champion of Taiwanese Chinese films in 85 years, and its box office seemed to be close to 50 million Taiwan dollars.
With the current turbulent situation in Taiwan, it is unrealistic to want "Mr. Zombie" to achieve the box office of the previous life.
However, although the box office has decreased a lot, "Mr. Zombie" is still the well-deserved box office champion of Taiwan this year so far.
Moreover, because it was released five or six years in advance, Xu Cun's "Mr. Zombie" is far more influential than "Mr. Zombie" in the previous life.
If the box office of Taiwan can reach 30 million Taiwan dollars, the overseas box office of "Mr. Zombie" will be about 56 million Hong Kong dollars, and it will be distributed to DreamWorks more than 17 million Hong Kong dollars.
Coupled with the 8.79 million Hong Kong dollars earned in this city, "Mr. Zombie" probably earned Xu Cun 26 million Hong Kong dollars.
Such an achievement makes Xu Cun even more happy.
However, in addition to the great coolness, Xu Cun also faced an annoyance - Shao Yifu was going to make a move on DreamWorks.
Shi Nansheng talked to Wang Hongbing three times before and after about the release of "The Wrong Car", but Wang Hongbing made excuses to shirk it. Moreover, Wang Hongbing asked Xu Cun every time when he would go back.
In this way, it became clear that Shao Yifu wanted to see him Xu Cun and was ready to have a showdown with him.
In fact, Xu Cun had already been mentally prepared for the arrival of this day, otherwise he would not have been able to ask Shi Nansheng to sign a contract with Shaw Brothers to settle the overseas box office of "Mr. Zombie" once a month.
However, Xu Cun's move is obviously to live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain - Shao Yifu did not mean to threaten Xu Cun by blocking Xu Cun's overseas box office.
Think about it, what is Shao Yifu's identity, how could he ruin the reputation of the Shao family for decades for this little money?
To be honest, Xu Cun really didn't want to break up with Shaw Brothers - cooperating with Shaw Brothers was a pleasure for Xu Cun. Shaw Brothers' distribution ability is definitely the first in Xiangjiang, even Golden Harvest is a step worse than it, as long as it cooperates with Shaw Brothers, Xu Cun does not have to worry about the issuance. In addition, Shaw Brothers is Shao Yifu's Yiyantang, as long as Shao Yifu is willing, Xu Cun can get the best screen time, which is also incomparable to Golden Harvest.
But the world's unsatisfactory things are ten out of ten, how can everything be as expected?
Fortunately, during the cooperation stage with Shaw Brothers, Xu Cun already had a certain reputation in Taiwan, Nanyang, Japan and South Korea with "Happy Ghost" and "Mr. Zombie", and made a lot of money.
Therefore, even if it separates from Shaw Brothers, DreamWorks will not run out of living space.
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Lin Qingxia's popularity in Taiwan is too high - Xu Cun heard her say that there are as many as a dozen plays looking for her this year, and there are as many as six or seven films with Qin Han and Qin Xianglin alone.
In terms of women, Xu Cun is quite stingy! Therefore, these scenes all made Xu Cun die, and only one "Blue Blood and Yellow Flower" was left for Lin Qingxia.
Of course, hypocrisy such as Xu Cun naturally can't admit that he is cautious, and the excuse he gave is: "There is not much in acting." In the past few years, you have acted in dozens of plays, have you ever won awards? Moreover, there is no market for literary and artistic dramas of love and love. Besides, our family is not short of money, so why make yourself so tired? ”
Lin Qingxia is not Li Saifeng's group of underage girls with little experience, of course she understands why Xu Cun would oppose her acting with Shuangqin.
To be honest, in Lin Qingxia's opinion, whether it is Qin Han and Qin Xianglin, or Zhao Ning and Chen Zixing, they are all humble gentlemen, and the same is true of the opponents of her previous short-lived relationships - even if Qin Han and others don't want to see her and others acting in love scenes, they will support her very gracefully.
Only Xu Cun is different, Xu Cun is not only stingy, but also scoundrel, but also shameless.
This made Lin Qingxia feel a little funny and a little strange, coupled with Xu Cun's incomparable talent, Lin Qingxia really liked Xu Cun.
Therefore, Lin Qingxia did not expose Xu Cun's careful thoughts, but pushed off all these films according to Xu Cun's wishes.
Seeing that Lin Qingxia was so well-behaved, Xu Cun couldn't help but say that after Lin Qingxia pushed down the last movie, Xu Cun promised to tailor a movie for her next year that could make her completely transformed.
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In the tea house on the side of the Sheraton Hotel.
Xu Cun, Lin Qingxia, and Yu Kanping are discussing the release of DreamWorks films in Electric Bend with two big names in the Taiwan Bend film industry.
One of these two people is Cai Songlin.
Now Cai Songlin is only one of the shareholders of a film company called 'Scholar'. The reason why Xu Cun asked him to cooperate is that in a few years, he will become the movie predator with the most theaters in Taiwan.
Compared with the current Cai Songlin, another person is much more powerful now, and this person is Wang Yingxiang.
In that year, Xinyicheng, which had only been established for one year, announced the establishment of a branch in Taiwan and hired Taiwanese director Yu Huanping as the company's administrative director.
The reason why New Arts City was able to expand its film business to Taiwan is that it has a close relationship with Longxiang Pictures, which has more than 10 years of distribution and production experience in Taiwan.
And the helmsman of Long Xiang is Wang Yingxiang, a highly respected film businessman in the circle.
Now, with Shao Yifu and a showdown imminent, Xu Cun naturally has to prepare early. In the Taiwan area, Xu Cun is looking for partners Cai Songlin and Wang Yingxiang. As for the administrative director of DreamWorks in the Taiwan area, he is the same as the new art city back then.
With the amazing results achieved by "Mr. Zombie" in Taiwan, Cai Songlin and Wang Yingxiang naturally can't wait to cooperate with Xu Cun.
Of course, Cai Songlin and Wang Yingxiang wanted to kick each other away and cooperate with Xu Cun alone.
However, Xu Cun would not let such a thing happen - after all, walking on two legs is the safest.
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