After the Oscar award was announced, "The Undertaker" was like a rainbow, and the box office, which was already about to be released, soared again, winning 21.45 million in a single week, and finally broke through the 100 million mark after 2 months of release, becoming another Chinese film with a North American box office of over 100 million after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". 【】

In China, "The Undertaker" was also released, and then the halo of the Oscars, this literary film, which was not favored by others, also won the box office of 210.98 million in a single week.

Although it is not as good as the results of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", but judging from literary films alone, "The Undertaker" is enough to go down in history.

He Tiejun, the general manager of Shanghai Film Group, was already happy, and he blamed Gu Xiaofan for why he didn't go to "The Undertaker" before, but he didn't expect that with the scenery on the Oscars, fans across the country entered the cinema like a pilgrimage.

The surging box office power is unimaginable, and researchers within Shanghai Film estimate that even if this craze subsides after a week, the box office of "The Undertaker" should be between 500 million and 700 million.

Compared with the cost of 30 million, this revenue ratio has greatly surpassed "Outwitting Tiger Mountain".

When fans all over China were immersed in the joyful atmosphere of Gu Xiaofan, the "billion-dollar director", who lived up to expectations and won the Oscar, fans in North America were gritting their teeth and waiting for the new news of the "villain".

What kind of English works is this "villain" going to come up with this year to realize the Oscar Kyo?

What kind of white character is he going to play?

Filmmakers all over the United States are speculating about Gu Xiaofan's next move, but as the helmsman of Warner, Abel Warner is clear.

There is only one answer, that is, a year ago, he sternly rejected the role Gu Xiaofan wanted to play, the clown in "The Dark Knight".

When "The Undertaker" miraculously won three Oscars, and Warner's own "Rejuvenation" failed, the atmosphere of Warner in Times has begun to change a little.

Shareholders are starting to get out of the way, and the old Jetter's men are starting to stir up the shareholders who are ready to get back in power next year.

But what Abel couldn't understand was that they wanted to rely on a Chinese?

When Neil brought Black Feather Studios manager Kerr Chen to Warner's board of directors, Abel Warner was furious.

In particular, Neil said proudly in front of all the directors: "We got back the copyright to the script of "The Dark Knight", and the film can finally start filming. ”

The way he spoke was really like his father, Old Jet, but his Taoism was much more innocent than his father's.

"I agree that "The Dark Knight" will be co-produced and distributed with Black Feather Studios, but I don't agree that the clown should be played by Gu Xiaofan, he is a good director, but Asians should not play such a heavy role!?"

"Why not? The clown didn't show his face, and who knows if he was yellow-skinned or dark-skinned, or orange-skinned? Villains show clowns! Isn't that excellent publicity!? ”

"There is no evidence that Gu Xiaofan has the strength to play English roles, at least he has not proven himself, we can't let him privately identify himself as an important role just because he cooperates with Black Feather Studio, which does not meet Warner's rules for selecting actors."

At the board meeting, Neil and Chen Keer did not speak, but the directors represented by both parties stimulated the discussion.

Black Feather Studios joined Warner, which greatly increased the strength of Old Jett's faction, and everyone no longer had to envy Abel for having Nolan, a top commercial director, especially after snatching "The Dark Knight", it directly hit Abel's foundation.

But Abel cleverly held that Gu Xiaofan should never play a "clown" and bite to the death.

Both sides should strive for their own core interests.

Old Jett's sudden death made things much more difficult.

And Chen Keer is watching all this coldly, this discussion has been going on for three consecutive days, and both sides have not budged an inch.

As she expected, after the Oscars, the current strength of the two factions within Warner is not much different, but the Abel faction still has the absolute upper hand, and the proposal of "The Dark Knight" will remain deadlocked.

It wasn't until the two sides were a little tired from arguing that they both probed each other's bottom line, and Chen Keer suddenly spoke:

"Since all the core questions revolve around whether Gu Xiaofan has the ability to play the clown, then why don't we just look at the effect, our Black Feather Studio can shoot a drama series at HBO first, and Gu Xiaofan will play an important role to see the actual effect of his performance by the North American audience, and then make a final decision in the second half of the year."

After speaking, in front of the board members, there was a TV series project document called "Game of Thrones".

Almost everyone knows what kind of story this is, and in Hollywood it's the least likely to be commercialized, as was "The Lord of the Rings."

The pace is slow...... There are many characters...... The investment is huge...... That's all about this series that is daunting to the producers.

Abel looked at the script of the series in front of him, flipped through it slightly, and made a very clear judgment in his heart.

Such a work, the future is uncertain, even if it will be popular, from slowly accumulating popularity, but it will really start to work, at least 2 or 3 seasons...... And Black Feather Studio said that it would look at the results in the second half of the year.

This subtle time difference will determine the difference in actual effect.

"What about investment? The investment in this drama is at least $60 million for a season? There is also 20 million publicity expenses...... Which fool would invest? A white director snorted.

Chen Keer looked at him directly: "We Black Feather Studio are fully responsible, and the profit sharing is also in accordance with the buyout method, no matter how much the ratings are, we will share it to HBO and only mention a fixed fee, and the group's revenue does not have any risk." ”

As soon as he said this, Abel Warner, Moki and the others were slightly surprised, they didn't expect Black Feather Studio to have such a strong fund.

Chen Keer looked at the moved expressions of the shareholders and knew that all this was in their plan.

Abel Warner must have thought that most of the time was only enough to shoot one season of "Game of Thrones", but he didn't know that Black Feather Studio's plan was to invest $300 million and prepare for four seasons together......

Chen Ke'er thought of this, her palms were also slightly sweaty, when Gu Xiaofan told her this plan, she felt that this was simply too risky, such a big-themed drama, if the cleaning rate is not good, not only will she not be able to win "The Dark Knight", but she is afraid that it will affect the acquisition of Warner next year......

But she thought so...... Abel Warner, of course, thought the same way, so it was possible that he would say yes.

It's just that this kind of long negotiation is really torturous of patience, Chen Ke'er sighed in her heart, Gu Xiaofan is smart, she doesn't attend this kind of thing at all, and she is fully responsible...... I became a shopkeeper......