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In the largest conference room of Summit Entertainment Company, Chen Xueqian sat down in the main seat and looked around, and found that everyone was looking at him, and he couldn't help but turn his head. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Chen Xueqian didn't say anything about this, and quietly waited for everyone to attack him. But the crowd looked at each other, and no one would speak.
The room fell into an embarrassment for a while, and after a long time, Chen Xueqian knocked on the table and said, "Everyone, just say what you have!" ”
Hearing Chen Xueqian's words, everyone looked at each other again before a middle-aged man spoke: "Chairman, we just have a good idea of a script and hope to win it." ”
Chen Xueqian nodded and said, "Then take it!" ”
After listening to Chen Xueqian's words, everyone was speechless again, and for some reason everyone only felt that this person was completely deliberate.
If they can take it directly, do they still need to make it so mysterious?
The people who were blocked by Chen Xueqian were a little speechless for a while, and they were silent for a while before anyone spoke again.
This time it was Bill, the head of distribution, who spoke. Because of the release of "The Hangover" this time, he and Chen Xueqian are relatively familiar.
"Chen, actually, here's the thing, we noticed that your new book 'Twilight' is very popular, so we hope that you will agree to give the book to our company to adapt. Of course, it's best for Chen you to shoot. ”
Chen Xueqian listened to Bill's words with a sudden expression, it turned out that these people wanted to fight their own novel ideas, but this is actually nothing, after all, Summit Entertainment has half of his shares, and it is also beneficial for him to hand it over to Summit Entertainment to shoot.
Thinking of this, Chen Xueqian immediately nodded, "Yes, I can hand over this novel to the company for adaptation, as for the director, you can find someone else, I already have other arrangements." ”
After Chen Xueqian finished speaking, all the directors suddenly became complicated at the same time.
Originally, it was a very good thing to get the right to adapt the novel, but Chen Xueqian made it clear that he would not direct, which couldn't help but disappoint everyone, after all, Chen Xueqian is a god who claims to be undefeated.
And Chen Xueqian just said that he has an arrangement, but the company does not have any planning, it is obvious that he will still make this production independently, which is a lot of money!
However, they did not have any ability to restrain Chen Xueqian, and they could only sigh at this time.
Chen Xueqian is still more concerned about the adaptation of his novel, which is naturally not because he really cares about the quality of this novel, but he is worried that his golden job will be smashed.
"Give it to me when you're done with the script!" Chen Xueqian said casually.
"Okay, but Chen, you said you have a movie to make and need help from the company?" It was Bill who spoke.
Chen Xueqian shook his head, "My next movie was made in South Korea, so I don't need the company's help." ”
However, everyone instantly shouted, "South Korea? Chen, why did you go to South Korea to make movies? As far as I know, Korean movies don't make much money. ”
Chen Xueqian smiled, "I can still earn a little, and you also know that I am a Chinese after all, and I can't give up on the Asian market." ”
"The Asian market?" One of the directors of Summit Entertainment couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Chen Xueqian's words woke up many people at once. Asia is definitely a very good market for the film market, at least a potential market, because it is home to almost half of the world's population.
It's just that it's still in the semi-closed stage at this time, and Hollywood can only watch and do it anxiously.
However, Chen Xueqian is different, he is a real Chinese, and the protective regulations that keep Hollywood out of Chen Xueqian are completely non-existent.
Thinking of this, the faces of the board members suddenly changed, "Korean movies can still be tried!" ”
"You can also make a few Chinese films!" Another shareholder was more direct.
In his previous life, the box office of the whole of Asia was initially completely monopolized by Hong Kong films, and later Taiwanese films rose for a while.
But since the decline of Hong Kong films, it can be said that there is no monopoly in Asia.
And what Chen Xueqian wants to do is to restart the glory of the golden age of Hong Kong films.
There are many reasons for the decline of the film market in a region.
The decline of Hong Kong films is related to the lack of scripts and the stagnation of film technology, of course, there are also reasons for the shrinking market.
The cost of movies continues to increase, but the box office does not have a corresponding basic guarantee, which inevitably puts Hong Kong films in trouble.
However, Chen Xueqian knows that in the future, China will become an extremely huge market in the world, and relying on this market, Chinese films can rise.
However, China's film censorship system has severely limited the development potential of mainland films, and the reason why Chen Xueqian set up a film company in South Korea is not only to entrap Koreans for money, but also to reduce restrictions.
Summit Entertainment's board of directors didn't last long. Chen Xueqian soon announced the dismissal of the meeting, for the film shooting of "Twilight", Chen Xueqian is very much looking forward to the previous life, in his previous life, Summit Entertainment began in 2009, and it was by relying on this series of movies that he finally gained a firm foothold in the American film market.
At this time, the Lord of the Rings had just ended, and the Harry Potter series had begun to weaken, and everyone slowly lost the novelty of its magical world.
Chen Xueqian launched the Twilight series at this time, as long as the quality of the film is not too bad, then there is no problem in triggering a global craze.
The popularity of the twilight series in the previous life can be called against the sky, a group of actors with little acting skills, with this series of movies, have a global box office of nearly 2 billion.
Among them, North America itself has a billion, and the global market contributes another billion, which can already scare people to death.
After the board meeting, Chen Xueqian did not stay in the company for long, and he actually had no special requirements for the management of Summit Entertainment. At this time, he only needs to choose a few good scripts for Summit Entertainment every year, and he doesn't need to interfere too much with the rest.
Shortly after Chen Xueqian left the company, Summit Entertainment officially announced that it would adapt Chen Xueqian's new work "Twilight". The tentative title of the film is "Twilight".
This news immediately caused a fierce reaction from the outside world, because it indicates that Chen Xueqian has loosened the mouth of adapting the novel to the movie, so "The Hunger Games", which previously caused a trend in Europe and the United States, can undoubtedly start to be adapted.
In this script, there is more and more scarcity, and everyone has turned their attention to those already popular literary works, which are the big IPs often mentioned in later generations.
At this time, everyone has seen some successful cases, such as the "Harry Potter" series and so on, and if Chen Xueqian's adaptation continues to be successful, then an adaptation frenzy will definitely appear.
And during this time, as long as the news related to Chen Xueqian is a big hit, the media also pays special attention to this news.
Soon, Chen Xueqian received interview invitations from many magazines, and Chen Xueqian did not refuse them all, but chose to agree to the interview with Time Magazine.
The interview was scheduled for October 2, and Chen Xueqian was ready to return to China after the interview, and he will fly to South Korea after staying in China for a while.
"Time" magazine and Chen Xueqian also intersected, when he was in Japan, Chen Xueqian relied on "Time" magazine to settle the situation in one fell swoop.
The interview started at 9 o'clock in the morning, and Chen Xueqian was interviewed at Summit Entertainment Company, which was regarded as helping the company promote it a little.
It was a middle-aged white man who was sent to interview Chen Xueqian, and when he began to speak, Chen Xueqian understood why Time Magazine had sent him to interview him.
"Chen, I noticed that you never seem to have written a book or made a film in China, why is that?"
When this white man named James asked the first question, Chen Xueqian couldn't help but be stunned, because the other party actually spoke Chinese.
Chen Xueqian thought for a while and said, "Actually, my first novel was in Chinese, but it was later translated into Japanese and published in Japan. ”
"Then why not consider publishing in China? I mean, isn't it generally supposed to be published domestically? ”
Chen Xueqian shrugged and said: "That's because the genre I write has no market in China, and domestic novels are more martial arts." (To be continued.) )