"Ah Ren, how is it?" Chen Yongxin asked, and his girlfriend Shen Xiaolan next to him also looked over.

With the beginning of the closing prologue of "Die Hard", the lights in the screening room were turned on, Chen Yongren yawned and said with a wry smile: "You ask me what I do, I don't know anything about this!" ”。

Turning his head, he asked Zhuang Cheng, "Brother Cheng, what do you think of the effect?" ”。

Zhuang Cheng nodded and smiled: "Of course, it can't be compared with the actor himself, but the effect is already good, and Mr. Xie, one of the protagonists, is personally recording ...... for himself."

Chen Yongren waved his hand and interrupted: "That's okay, you hand over the work at hand and prepare to go to the United States, I have asked Brother Qi to ask Mr. De Niro, he will make arrangements for you!" Remember...... The focus is on Miramax and the new line two ......".

"Why do you have to go through these two separate companies?" Zhuang Cheng was strange.

"Because these two are market-tested." Of course, Chen Yongren would not answer like this, but chuckled: "Of course, after detailed investigation and careful consideration, several giant companies will definitely look down on us, and they will not have good conditions if they do, so they can only rely on smaller and capable independent publishers, and these two companies are more reliable among them!" ”。

After Zhuang Cheng agreed, Chen Yongren turned his head, "Second brother, Sister Lan, thank you for your hard work!" ”。

Chen Yongxin smiled: "Don't miss our hard work......."

Chen Yongren laughed and scolded, the person he called his second brother was Chen Xunqi's younger brother Chen Yongxin, the latter and his girlfriend Shen Xiaolan are both voice actors, and their voices will exist in many classic Chinese and foreign film and television dramas and cartoons in the future.

Chen Yongxin in his memory was later the permanent voice actor of Bruce Willis, the main protagonist of "Die Hard", and his girlfriend Shen Xiaolan was also a permanent voice actor of Zhang Manyu for a long time.

At this time, most Hong Kong films were generally equipped with Chinese and English subtitles because of the consideration of the Fuwai market and the political reasons of Hong Kong itself, and the dubbing seemed a bit redundant, but there were always exceptions.

And the purpose of all this is, of course, to release "Die Hard" to the North American market, and Americans are not used to reading subtitles.

The task of this trip will be in charge of Zhuang Cheng, and Mr. De Niro in Chen Yongren's mouth has starred in famous films such as "The Godfather 2", "Taxi Driver", "Deer Hunter", and became an Oscar winner with "Raging Bull" three years ago, and the famous American actor Robert De Niro.

Of course, Chen Yongren and Robert De Niro are not familiar with each other, and the reason why they can get in touch is because of his film debut "Two Big Smoking Guns".

During the competition of "Two Big Smoking Guns" at the Cannes Film Festival, the film "Once Upon a Time in America" starring Robert De Niro was also one of the films exhibited at that time, and Chen Yongren also specially asked Zhang Manyu to be the translator to watch the four-hour version of the film, but he didn't know that Robert De Niro, one of the leading actors, was also in Cannes at the time.

"Two Big Smoking Guns" is one of the hot films of the current Cannes Film Festival, as a senior filmmaker, Robert De Niro certainly also paid attention to it, and also aroused his great interest, and even went to find Chen Yongren because of this, but fate did not arrive, the two did not meet, Robert De Niro only saw Chen Xunqi and left a business card for the latter.

Chen Yongren had the mentality of giving it a try, and contacted Robert De Niro with Chen Xunqi, but he did not expect it to be successful, and the latter was willing to act as a matchmaker for them to contact publishers in North America.

In fact, not only in the East, but also in the West, people also need the presence of face-saving characters to do things, such as Hu Jingquan's "Chivalrous Girl" was a mediocre hit when it was first released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it was not until a few years later that it became famous through French curator Pierre Lisien's entry into the Cannes Film Festival.

and "Young Once Upon a Time's Iron Horse", which has the most stylized action design in the Wong Fei Hung series in memory, was released in North America many years after its release under the recommendation of Quentin Tarendino, a great admirer of Wong Fei Hung.

After 8 years, when the film's videotapes and VCD discs have already sold well, "Young Wong Fei Hung: The Iron Horse" still won the sixth place in the North American weekend box office chart once it was released, and finally achieved a box office result of nearly $15 million.

Chow Yun-fat's films during his time in Hong Kong were never officially released in North America, but his films sold a considerable number of DVDs in North America, especially "True Colors of Heroes", "Bloody Heroes" and "Hot Hand Detective" co-starring Leung Chaowei.

Many of Brother Yuanlong's early movies were officially released after he entered Hollywood with Tang Jili's "Red Fan Zone", and after many years, many movies have grossed more than 10 million US dollars.

To sum up, we can also see the peak of Hong Kong films, many movies decades later rely on the support of some theater bigwigs for global simultaneous releases, but the box office is surprisingly low but they are not ashamed, and they are embarrassed to be cheeky and declare it to the outside world as a "rare good result".

Facts show that as long as the quality of the film is passable, it can also get good results in areas with different cultures.

As for the two companies named by Chen Yongren to Zhuang Cheng, it is because he combines his later memories and has a slight understanding of some situations in Hollywood; Most of the successful Chinese films in North America are basically through two independent companies, Miramax and New Line Pictures, although I don't know the specific situation inside, but after the factual data test, he believes that there must be a certain truth.

"The True Color of Heroes" is in full swing under the direction of Wu Yulin, but Chen Yongren served as the executive producer but did not interfere with it much, and only checked the results of filming after he stopped work every day, and pointed out some deficiencies.

Chen Yongren is not idle, on the one hand, he deals with the company's affairs, and on the other hand, he constantly enriches himself.

When I have nothing to do, I write a novel, the trilogy of "Midnight Bell" has been completed, and it is being written not as a novel, but as a story meeting, called "Snowpiercer", Chen Yongren plans to find a professional talent to compile it into a comic after completing the plot, this work will be adapted into a movie by Korean directors in the future, and it has won a win-win situation at the box office and word of mouth in many countries around the world.

Chen Yongren actually has some ability in painting, in his previous life, he studied advertising design in school, so he was able to make all kinds of detailed movie storyboard scripts, but comics are too time-consuming, he won't do it himself, Lao Tzu is millions per minute......

And "Snowpiercer" will win an award at a major comic festival in France two years later, and the original author may have already started to work on it; Although there is a gap between the story adapted by myself and the original book, it is better to complete it first, in case of a fight, it is easy to be reasonable, it is a big deal to talk about the theme crash, this kind of thing has not happened, and it is also unclear and helpless to start a lawsuit, and it is generally impossible to end it in the end.

In terms of work, the Wang family was not pulled into the company by Chen Yongren but became the company's "most detiful" department manager, and every day he was "adrift" to learn how to become a director, and all the work was handed over to his wife Chen Yiji, Chen Yongren also turned a blind eye and didn't see it.

Chen Jiashang and Chen Jiaqing, two brothers, were stuffed into the editorial department as deputy managers by him, and the two were planning a script.

Under Chen Yongren's intentional arrangement, Lan Gengcai and Dong Wei founded a new department, the "New Visual Effects and Imaging Studio", to recruit some dragon and tiger martial artists, stuntmen, speed bikers, and technical talents who know how to specialize in special effects, makeup, architecture and other "miscellaneous" technical talents, specializing in some film stunts and special effects.

In fact, there were some talents in this field in the early days of the Hong Kong film industry, and they also made some special effects movies, but most of the works were relatively ...... Tokusatsu movies are naturally special, such as Li Xiuxian starring in a Hong Kong version of "King Kong" - "Orangutan King" a few years ago, the Chinese version of the superhero Ultraman - "Guan Gong vs. Aliens", and the famous "Interstellar Blunt Tire" not long ago are among them.

He wanted to go to the world and was unwilling to spend a lot of money on excellent production, which led to the failure of a series of "Hong Kong blockbusters", but it led to the fear of this type of film in Hong Kong since then, only one "ghost talent" Xu Ke "plays with his heart and does not die", and he remembers that two years later, he will set up a "new visual stunt studio" that has a great impact on the avant-garde works of Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s, and I don't know if he will have any impact on the latter when he takes the lead?

Chen Yongren laughed and put aside this thought, let's take a step and see one step at a time! He has other things to do, or to study......

He has already memorized the professional issues in film, and all he needs to do is draw inferences from one case and use them flexibly; He believes that this can be mastered through a period of practice.

In his spare time, Chen Yongren will also go to learn several foreign languages with Chen Xunqi, no way, the future to the world, this is an unavoidable problem, fortunately, he now has the ability to remember, and it is quite easy to learn.

Speaking of which, before the start-up, the crew's first meeting was also quite interesting, the director was notorious, the leading actors were unwilling, the outdated Di Rong, the down-and-out Fa Ge, the undesirable singer in the film industry, and the aura of the four men was depressed.

In fact, Di Rong, Zou Yanfa, and Zhang Guoren have already learned the general situation before, but for Di Rong, Chen Yongren and Wu Yulin are from the same school as him, and he is proud, fashionable and peaceful in his career, not to mention that he has nothing to praise now.

The other two used to be the main figures of the martial arts league in the TV station and the music industry, but they have been unwilling to do so since they entered the film industry, although they don't act in every movie, they are not too picky; Both of them are people of both virtue and art, and they have not yet come out, so they naturally will not put any scores and shelves, and Chen Yongren's works have also been tested by the market, and after some hesitation, they finally agreed.

The most important thing is that Chen Yongren explained in detail the core concept of "The True Color of Heroes" and his personal views on the role for the four of them through his speech.