Wang Xiaohu and the gambling king Corkrian, hit it off, and soon discussed the cooperation of "007-Casino Royale", the gambling king is very positive about this, in Corkrian's own words: "This is the first time in my life that I became interested in movies. 【】”

And Universal boss Long Meyer looked at Wang Xiaohu like a monster, Hollywood insiders know that Corkrian is definitely not a material for making movies, to be precise, he is a mediocre and stupid talent, although everyone disdains this big boss, but no one dares to bring it up face-to-face. So seeing that Corkerian has such a strong interest in a movie, and it is the Oriental who tempts the gambling king to become interested, a Wang Xiaohu who they desperately suppressed in the first three weeks and is now desperately stammering!

Longmeyer felt some serious hypoxia in his brain, "Hell, are they all crazy, is it a movie for Tiger. Is it so easy for the king? So easy? ”

Think about Universal racking his brains for a popular film, and even cheekily buying other people's copyrights, Long Mayer's old face is hot, the gap, the naked gap!

After Wang Xiaohu and Corklian discussed the idea of the new movie, Longmayer shook his head and sighed, trying to squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said to Wang Xiaohu: "Dear Tiger, should we sit down and talk about "Jaws"? ”

Wang Xiaohu stuck the Rambo saber on the round table, and after taking a sip of Erguotou, he sucked his mouth and said, "Of course, Mr. Longmayer, I think my assistant Winterdur has already told you the conditions, right?" ”

"Yes, I don't have any opinion, in fact, I think it is more reasonable for your company to get 3% box office dividends." Longmayer smiled and asked the secretary to bring the briefcase, handed the five contracts that had already been printed to Wang Xiaohu and said, "If you have no other opinions, just sign them." ”

Wang Xiaohu took the contract and took a quick look, basically the same as his own requirements, as long as he signed it, the sequel to the "Jaws" series will be transferred to Universal, it doesn't matter how many episodes Universal wants to shoot, the premise is that it needs to be handed over to Concord 3% of the box office dividends every year.

"Huh? Dude, I'm afraid I can't promise you this last one! Wang Xiaohu frowned and said: "Although I am the boss of Industrial Light & Magic, I am not obligated to let them serve you for free, if you want to get their special effects services, you should talk to Lucas or Grant." ”

Universal has a good calculation, wants to get free special effects support from ILM, what kind of international jokes, now that ILM has established a good reputation in Hollywood, to put it mildly, even if your movie is a third-rate plot, as long as it is polished by ILM stunts, it can also get a lot of box office results.

Industrial Light & Magic is now the golden sign to increase the box office!

"Well, in fact, I just learned about it, and I'll talk to Lucas about it." Longmeyer said helplessly, in fact, Lucas came out of Universal, and Lucasfilm and Universal are also face-to-face.

Since Lucas was tied to Concorde's chariot by Wang Xiaohu, the main employees of Lucasfilm have been integrated into Concorde, because the working environment of Concord is far better than Lucas's earlier film company, and the salaries of employees here are also the highest in Hollywood. In fact, Lucasfilm has become Concorde's first satellite company in the United States.

Longmeyer's secretary hurriedly took the contract to the town to revise it, and striking while the iron was hot was a must, and Longmayer was not sure when the next time he would see Wang Xiaohu.

After a whole day, in the evening, the transfer contract for the sequel to "Jaws" was finally signed, and Longmeyer finally breathed a sigh of relief and happily embarked on the flight back to Los Angeles with the contract.

"Tiger, how long are you going to stay in this place?" Corklian asked.

Wang Xiaohu thought for a while and said: "I plan to take the next flight back, you must know that there is still a lot of follow-up work waiting for me to be busy with "Mythology". ”

Wang Xiaohu came to Canada mainly for two things, the first thing is of course the right thing, is to win the weight of the negotiation, the other thing is to practice shooting, from the current situation, he has completed the scheduled plan excellently, the five giants came to show goodwill, and the marksmanship is also practiced well, at least the data and characteristics of various commonly used firearms he has come easily, and the marksmanship has also been accurate, and now what is lacking is experience.

"Why don't you go back with me on my private jet?" Corklian extended a sincere invitation.

Not anyone is qualified to fly with the gambling king, even if it is a peer, you see that when Longmayer left just now, the gambling king did not invite him, which shows the gambling king's favor for Wang Xiaohu.

"Why not?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

From the current point of view, although Concord has gained a firm foothold in Hollywood, it still needs to further establish a good relationship with its peers, not to mention the 20th Century Fox, which has been old friends for many years anyway. Wilson's help was not unrelated.

In the earliest plan, Wang Xiaohu thought that he would form a partnership with Universal's Longmaiyer for "Jaws", but he did not expect to be involved with the deep-pocketed MGM.

Although MGM's performance has declined significantly in recent years, Corkrian is the gambling king of Las Vegas, even a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, MGM's signboard is still well-known for Hollywood now, and being able to get close to MGM will also help Wang Xiaohu's future development in Hollywood.

Of course, Wang Xiaohu knows very well that all the prerequisites must be that Concord will always be able to make movies called it, and will always have special effects technology that other companies envy.

The most fundamental difference between Chinese and Americans is that Chinese pay attention to personal feelings, while Americans pay attention to real benefits.

But as long as the other major film giants figure out the details of Industrial Light and Magic and set up their own special effects team, Wang Xiaohu's lead will be discounted.

And now there are less than ten years left before the era of computer special effects dominating Hollywood, Wang Xiaohu can use this time to continue to recruit and strengthen the comprehensive strength of Concord.

"Hey Tiger, how are you feeling?"

After walking into the gambling king's private jet, the gambling king happily led Wang Xiaohu around the plane, as if showing his territory again.

"Very good, I'm afraid that the plane of the head of state may not have your luxury." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Of course!" Corkrian nodded as a matter of course, and after snapping his fingers, two golden cats with a sense of body and a small amount of fabric came over with red wine.

"Do you want to try it?" Corkrian raised his eyebrows, of course Wang Xiaohu knew what he was referring to, the flight attendants on private jets like this are generally very skilled in various businesses, but he didn't have much interest in this aspect, shook his head and said, "It's better not to use it, I just want to take a good rest." ”

"Oh, that's a shame!" Corklian sighed and said, "You know, they're America's sweethearts." ”

"Sweetheart? Meat bullets are pretty much the same! Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

Corkrian saw that Wang Xiaohu was not too interested, so he raised his hand to let the two golden silk cats go down, obviously, the golden silk cat responsible for serving Wang Xiaohu was a little disappointed, she was serving the Oriental for the first time, but she was ruthlessly refused, and did not forget to snort when leaving, which caused Corklian to laugh: "Tiger, it is not appropriate to refuse the service of a beautiful woman, it is very rude." ”

Wang Xiaohu pouted and no longer dwelled on this topic, but talked to him about movies, and it was very helpless that Corkrian's interest in movies was little and less, and he yawned without talking a few words: "Tiger, I'm afraid I'm going to take a break, this time in order to see you, I rarely got up in the morning." ”

"Go, go, go! Go and rest with your sweetheart. Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and shook his head

In late June 1980, the distribution agencies of the five major Hollywood film companies all supported "Myth", this time there were eight major theaters in North America to participate in the release of "Myth", and the gambling king Corkrian alone provided three theaters, and from the fourth week, 2500 theaters in North America played "Myth" simultaneously.

So Wang Xiaohu was surprised by the box office results of the fourth week, the box office broke through the 50 million mark in a single week, plus more than 40 million in the first three weeks, and in a whole month, "Myth" earned 90 million!

And this is the first week of simultaneous release in nine major theaters in North America, and it is just the beginning, with the joint promotion of the five major distributors, "Myth" has gained more and more popularity.

Wang Xiaohu was not idle, after he returned to the Los Angeles branch, he immediately asked Corklian to send the novels of the "007" series to his side, and spent more than a week roughly sorting out the script according to his memories, and the rest was handed over to MGM's professional script team to polish.

As a thank you to Wang Xiaohu for providing the script and cooperation of "007-Casino Royale", Corklian signed a film promotion contract with Wang Xiaohu, which made Wang Xiaohu addicted after watching it.

It is important to know that a movie is not only released in theaters in Hollywood, but also in the television industry, which is as influential as the movie, through TV broadcasting, tape, cable TV, and secondary releases have become effective ways to increase the box office.

MGM definitely has a lot of experience in this area, and 20th Century Fox is perfecting it, but after all, it is not as rich as MGM.

The gift that Corkrian gave to Wang Xiaohu was very large, and in the next year, all MGM's entertainment industries would try to cooperate with Concord in this kind of bundled cooperation, Wang Xiaohu didn't think that Corklian had such an economic acumen, it must have been helped by his think tank.

This contract is equally important to Wang Xiaohu, that is, since then, the distribution channels of Concorde Films have two more ways, on the one hand, the broadcast income of TV and cable TV, and on the other hand, the distribution of tapes, mainly for various background music and theme songs in the movie.

According to the contract, MGM will take 4% of the dividends, Wang Xiaohu does not have too many opinions on this, after all, in Hollywood, interests are still the first, if there is no interest, no one will be stupid to do anything for free.

Under the bombardment of many people, "Myth" maintained a good score of 50 million in the fifth week, but from the sixth week, this score began to decline gradually, and when the beginning of July came, the data dropped to 30 million.

The "Myth" trend set off by the whole Hollywood and the hurricane in China have finally begun to cool down slowly.

In two months, "Myth" made 170 million in Hollywood, which made Hollywood giants happy, so the presidents of several other Hollywood companies accounted for Wang Xiaohu's light, and they spent a very luxurious night in Las Vegas, and Corkrian prepared a special celebration party in the casino.

"Hey, guys, cheers for Tiger and The-Myth!" Corklian shouted excitedly as he raised his goblet.

You must know that in addition to 20th Century Fox, MGM has invested the most, under the unprecedented attraction frenzy of "Myth" to Americans, with the participation of many Hollywood giants, this profit snowball is getting bigger and bigger, and whoever invests the most will receive the most profits.

Since Corkerian served as the president of MGM, this is the wisest choice he has made, many MGM executives have been patting the gambling king's sycophants these days, so that the gambling king walks lightly, and sometimes he can't buy it with money when he is flattered, no wonder the gambling king will be so generous to hold this celebration in the base camp of Las Vegas.

"Tiger, come up and say something." Corkerian pulled Wang Xiaohu to the front, and there were not only giants from major companies present today, but also many Hollywood female stars, all of whom were dressed with a sense of surname.

Wang Xiaohu coughed, "Guys, I suddenly feel a kind of excitement to stand on the stage of the Academy Awards, because I see a lot of beautiful girls here." ”

The tycoons laughed, and the girls frequently flattered Wang Xiaohu.

"Alright, let's get down to business!" Wang Xiaohu said: "Thank you very much for your strong support to Concord, without everyone's help, I believe that "Myth" may not have achieved such good box office results, but I want to tell you that this is only the first time that we have started to work together in Hollywood, and I believe that in the future, Hollywood will be under everyone's control!" ”

"Cheers to Hollywood splendor!"

"Cheers!"

All the guests raised their wine glasses in the air.

Towards the end of the summer vacation in 1980, Concord's horse-drawn carriage was speeding down Hollywood's Cotai Strip.

(To be continued)