Gu Weiqi came to Hollywood this time to take advantage of Hollywood's weakness and powerlessness to enter the European and American film markets first. Lay the foundation for the future conquest of the highest peak of the world film industry. However, at present, his focus must still be on Xiangjiang. Only by building Hong Kong into a real center of the Asian film industry and dominating the Asian film market in an all-round way can he free up his hands to attack Hollywood with all his might.

Hollywood, not so easy to conquer. There have been countless people in history who have tried to conquer this mountain and take charge of the world's film industry.

MGM tried, but failed; Fox tried, but also lost.

There are many, many large companies that have failed in the end, and no one in history has succeeded. Even though Howard Hughes, the film genius who once controlled Universal, made an unprecedented "Arabian Nights" and won the second Academy Award for Best Comedy. Later, he spent countless financial and material resources to blow up hundreds of planes, filmed the "Hell Angel" that shocked the whole world, and even established his hegemony in Hollywood for a time, but because of his wife's divorce, a generation of film geniuses collapsed.

And Gu Weiqi now wants not only to control Hollywood, but mainly to use Hollywood to support Chinese films, and to achieve the goal of letting Chinese films replace Hollywood - this is his ambition!

Of course, it's not easy to do that. The amount of money required is immeasurable. This is also an important reason why he returned to Xiangjiang and began to set up various companies after he raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the gold futures market on his last trip to the United States. In order to make more money and accumulate strength for the future super entertainment empire.

Now Xinqi International Publishing House is also a well-known large-scale publishing company in the United States. More than an hour later, Gu Weiqi got out of the car in front of the publishing house's office building, paid the fare, and strode in.

Gu Weiqi just walked into the first floor and saw four front desk ladies busy answering calls.

A typical Western front desk lady saw him, hung up the phone and said with a smile: "Hi, hello sir, is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

"Hello, I want to meet with you Miss Xiandi, can you please let me know?"

"You want to see our president?" The front desk lady looked at him in surprise and asked hesitantly, "Do you have an appointment?" ”

"Nope." Gu Weiqi shook his head, and changed his words: "But you just need to tell her that Zachary Gu is here." ”

"Zachary-Gu?" The front desk lady suddenly exclaimed, "Oh my God, are you the big boss?" ”

"You're right." Gu Weiqi shrugged his shoulders, nodded and chuckled, "Could you please help me inform Miss Xiandi?" ”

"Okay". The front desk lady nodded hurriedly, immediately picked up the phone and dialed a number, and said in a hurried tone: "President, the big boss is here." Yes, we are waiting in the lobby on the first floor of our company. ”

The other three front desk ladies were also surprised, and they didn't expect that the big boss would come to the company in person today. Gu Weiqi smiled at them, and when the front desk lady called to inform Xiandi, he glanced around cursoryly, only to see that there were staff coming and going from time to time, and the business was very busy.

Suddenly, the elevator door slowly opened suddenly, and Xiandi and Pei Yuying walked out of the elevator quickly, and said in surprise: "Oh, oh my God, boss, you are finally willing to come to the company to see us." ”

Pei Yuying continued: "Yes. But why didn't you give us a call before you came? Let's pick you up at the airport. ”

Gu Weiqi shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Didn't I want to surprise you?" ”

"Well, that's a pleasant surprise. Would you like to come to the office first and listen to our work report first? ”

"I'm not busy with work reports, this time I came to the United States mainly to distribute my films. I'm here to take a look at you guys, and I also want to ask Xiandi if you know some friends from the film company? ”

"I know a few friends in the film industry. But you just got off the plane, you should be hungry, right? Let's take care of the boss first, and then I'll help you contact a friend. ”

"It's for the best." Gu Weiqi nodded.

Then Xiandi and Pei Yuying took Gu Weiqi to a nearby hotel, and the three of them ordered a table of wine and food, chatting while eating. During the banquet, the two beauties reported to him the development of Xinqi International Publishing House in the past few months. Overall, the publishing house is doing very well right now. Especially some time ago, with the ten horror novels he came up with, and several of them were published successively, it set off a wave of horror novels.

In particular, several novels such as "Dead Dawn" and "Seven Deadly Sins" also occupied the New York Times bestseller list. And because of this, film companies or screenwriters often contact people in the copyright operation department of "Novelty International Press", hoping to obtain the film and television script adaptation rights of the published novels.

It's just that Gu Weiqi once specifically explained that Xiandi would not sell the adaptation rights of the novel for the time being, and she didn't dare to make an initiative to sell the copyright. But even if it's just publishing novels and comics, now the publishing house is making a lot of money. Transformers, in particular, are simply enduring. Moreover, in addition to opening several branches in Europe, Centi has also established good cooperative relations with some large publishing houses, and its business is thriving and its financial resources are rolling in.

Gu Weiqi was obviously very satisfied with the work of the two, and when he was in a happy mood, he inevitably drank two more glasses. As a result, he didn't drink very well, and he was so drunk that he was a mess. In his drunken dream, he felt as if two naked delicate bodies were wrapped around him, and subconsciously thought he was dreaming.

But when he woke up the next day, he found that there were really two more women in his arms, rubbed his confused head, and looked closely at Xiandi and Pei Yuying, which made him cry and laugh a little. It turns out that what happened last night was not a dream. It's just a pity that he didn't experience it because of the drunkenness last night. So he rolled over and got up, and first launched a charge at the golden cat-like Xiandi.

After tossing for a long time, the two satisfied women fell into a deep sleep again. After Gu Weiqi took a shower and ordered some food to fill his stomach, he took a business card given to him by Cindy and dialed the phone number of Davis, the new head of 20th Century Fox, according to the phone number on it.

Speaking of 20th Century Fox, it is a well-known film company founded in 1935, which was formed by the merger of Fox Film Company, a large company in the silent film era, and 20th Century Film Company. It was one of the eight major Hollywood studios in the 30s and 40s. On September 16, 1953, the widescreen feature film "The Robe", based on the biblical story, was released at the Roquea Cinema in New York.

This first widescreen feature film was not only the most profitable film since the company's founding, but also a technological breakthrough for the film since it moved from silent to sound. However, in the 70s, the company made very few films. However, many blockbuster films have been produced and released later, such as the global box office champion "Avatar", "Ice Age 1", "Ice Age 2", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Garfield", "The Day After Tomorrow" and so on.

But now, just this year, 20th Century Fox was bought by Big Oilman M. Davis.

In Gu Weiqi's impression, it seems that he was bought by media tycoon Merkeldo in 1985. But he didn't like the film company, but the company's subordinate Fox TV. Merktor signed a partnership agreement with Ya-Hoo to promote Fox's related businesses, including Fox Cable, Fox TV and Fox News, Fox Music and 20th Century Fox Films.

In fact, Xiandi received business cards from the owners of many film companies. The reason why Gu Weiqi chose to cooperate with 20th Century Fox is that he plans to build a good relationship with this company first, and in the future, he will take one more step ahead of media tycoon Merck and win 20th Century Fox. In this way, you can compete with many Hollywood studios.

Otherwise, he is an outsider, especially if he is still Chinese, for the xenophobic Chinese, if he does not have his own film distribution company in Hollywood, it will be difficult to break in. Of course, this is a rough plan for the future by Gu Weiqi, and as for how to implement it, it still needs to be carefully considered.

After the phone was dialed, a polite female voice soon came from the other end: "Hello, this is the office of the chairman of 20th Century Fox, who are you?" ”

"Hello." Gu Weiqi said bluntly: "I am Zachary Gu, the owner of Novelty International Press, and I want to talk to Mr. Davis, the owner of 20th Century Fox. ”

"Oh, wait a minute, I'll help you call our boss."

Suddenly, a calm and powerful male voice came from the phone: "Hi, hello, I'm Davis." ”

"Hello, Mr. Davis, I'm Zachary Gu, owner of Novelty International Press. I want to talk to you about business, I don't know if Mr. Davis has time, how about we meet and talk about it? ”

"Oh, I don't know what business it is? Could it be that Mr. Gu wants to sell us the rights to adapt the novel to 20th Century Fox? In that case, I'd love to meet with you and talk to you about it. ”

"No, no, Mr. Davis, I think you're mistaken. I'd like to talk to you about the business of a movie coming out. And I promise that as long as the publicity is done well, the film will definitely be a big hit. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Of course."

"Okay, you can come to our company with your video to find me, if it's tomorrow morning, I'll take some time to meet with you. By the way, let's also take a look at the movie that you can definitely sell, what kind of film is it? ”

"Okay, then we'll see Mr. Davis tomorrow morning."