"You've never seen an adult child die?"

"No ......"

In silence, John replied faintly, then turned out the light in the room and walked out, Sandy wrapped in a blanket and quietly following him, and there was silence between the two for a moment.

"Uhhh

John started his car, and after half a lap, he suddenly stopped, hesitated, and turned to look at Sandy, who was still standing in the doorway.

Sandy looked at the car, and suddenly seemed to realize something, and got up and walked towards the car. Then the screen went black, and the subtitles slowly crept up with the sound of melodious music.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

A series of applause rang out, Paul, who had just had a chemotherapy treatment? Allen looked at Li Xuan and asked loudly, "Hey, Xuan, when will this movie be released?" ”

Allen, I don't know if it's because of the blow of cancer or what's wrong, he has seen a lot of things and started to like to have fun, and now he doesn't even care about Microsoft's affairs.

"I don't know, I'll have to wait until I find the right distributor." Li Xuan shrugged his shoulders and replied, he planned to delay it for a few years, and then release this movie when Microsoft went public, and then it would be the most favorable time.

Pity......

"Oh, Xuan, haven't you found a publisher yet?" Bill's old lady Mary? Gates interjected on the side, and as soon as the words came out, Li Xuan had a bad feeling, only to see Mary continue: "Then how about I introduce one to you?" Absolutely credibility guaranteed. ”

"Forehead ......"

Li Xuan's cold sweat came down at once, how could he forget Mary, a capable woman, she is the focus of the upper class of American society, and the person who can casually greet the stock god Warren Buffett and the top management of i**m is full of energy.

"How?" Mary continued.

"Ahh Li Xuan laughed dryly and asked, "Mary, let's say it first, I don't want it if it's not a good publisher." ”

The next day, Li Xuan sat on the plane to Las Vegas and couldn't wait to slap himself twice, telling you to shrink back vigorously, this time it hit the iron plate, see what you do now.

Mary? Gates really introduced Li Xuan to a very powerful person - Cork? Corkrian, this guy is a big real estate developer in Las Vegas, of course, this is just one of his identities, his other identity is the big boss of MGM.

In later generations, Li Xuan had heard a little about this guy, because the famous MGM Company finished playing in the hands of this guy.

Corkrian is a qualified gambler, before becoming a movie mogul, he had dropped out of school at an early age, also served in World War II, and after being discharged from the army, he also engaged in aircraft rental.

In 1966, the sale of the aircraft leasing company Kokrian developed.

Three years later, he was able to buy MGM.

After taking over MGM, Corkrian's penchant for making quick money has not changed. He sold all of MGM's costumes and props to invest in real estate in Las Vegas. Under Corkrian's business philosophy, MGM turned to the film agency distribution business, and the number of films produced plummeted to four or five per year.

Now MGM is still half-dead fluttering, and in a few years, Corkrian will find a way to make money, and then buy and sell MGM many times, the miracle is that in these n buying and selling, Corkrian himself made a fortune, but MGM was smashed and ruined.

But these have nothing to do with Li Xuan, as long as MGM doesn't card too low a share when it releases this movie.

"Oh, Lee, your movie is really good, but it looks like it should have a small audience." Corklian said as he sipped red wine and watched a movie.

Corkrian, who was older than Old Bill, was now in his sixties, but he still looked very athletic, and he acted and spoke with a strong military style, and he seemed to be a decisive man.

"Yes, but how many audiences there are will be to see the movie to be released, right? Li Xuan shook the wine glass in his hand and chuckled: "Just like "Twelve Angry Men" back then, wouldn't a dozen or so people in the same house also become big winners of major awards." ”

Corkrian smiled and teased: "No, you want to win an award for this movie?" It's hard, it's hard! ”

"Forehead ......"

Li Xuan took a sip of red wine slightly embarrassed, movies involving religious themes are more difficult to set foot in major film awards, and they are more afraid of getting into trouble for themselves, not to mention this movie that ridicules Jesus and Buddha.

"I didn't expect you to find Mary to play." Corkrian teased, "But her outfit looks a little old-fashioned, and I really didn't recognize it the first time." ”

Li Xuan smiled and replied, "In Mary's opinion, this may just be a joke of a few of our children. ”

"Alright, Lee, you can take the movie to Los Angeles." Corkrian raised his glass and said, "I'll say hello over there, it's not a problem to release it, as for how to do it, it depends on how the people in the company arrange it." ”

“……”

Corklian looked smart, and blocked what Li Xuan had left to say.

Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong flew everywhere, but the crew of Hong Kong's "True Colors of Heroes" was in a hurry, and the filming of this scene has been started for half a month, but why hasn't the heroine come back?

There was no way, Li Xuan was worth seeing off Zhong Chuhong at Las Vegas International Airport, and then boarded the plane to Los Angeles with a large bag.

MGM was greeted by Corkrian, and the people who received Li Xuan were much more advanced, and even sent MGM's distribution manager.

The next day, MGM invited some theater personnel to hold a test screening of the film for Li Xuan.

According to American practice, producers generally test films for theaters one to three weeks before the film's release, and some blockbusters even hold test screenings a few months before the release, and most of the moviegoers are the theater's film registrars (responsible for scheduling, evaluation, etc.), as well as some advertisers and operators.

After the film is screened, the producer will contact the person in charge of the theater chain and specify the necessary fixed expenses and sharing ratio for this period, as well as the number of screens and the time of screening.

Moreover, the United States has long stipulated that films that have not been screened are not allowed to be scheduled.

But......

Obviously, "This Man is from Earth" does not meet everyone's aesthetic tastes, and the polarized reviews are extremely polarized, for example, after the trial film meeting, half of the observers said that the film is a classic, while the other half think that the movie is very dull.

However, they are not very optimistic about the box office of this movie.

In the end, after MGM's matchmaking, "This Man from Earth" still got 300 screens in this off-season, which is very small for an off-season American movie, and the theater has to take 40% of the box office share, which seems a bit low in Hong Kong, but it is high in the United States.

However, the good news is that MGM promised to increase Li Xuan's profit share by 2% when the videotape was released, which was a surprise for Li Xuan, knowing that the more the videotape and DVD were released, the more valuable they were, sometimes even exceeding the box office revenue several times, which is really good news.

Everyone agreed on the details of the screening, and Li Xuan couldn't wait to take the advertiser to promote the film.

Generally speaking, Hollywood's publicity expenses are almost half of the cost of film production. But "This Man is from Earth", well, the cost is more than 10,000 US dollars, and the others are basically acting in friendship, Li Xuan provides various dinner ingredients and supper. But half of it is just over five thousand dollars, what can you advertise?

And the box office of the movie is not very optimistic, and the publicity is naturally not much fanfare, so Li Xuan hurriedly reversed 200,000 US dollars, and then found an advertising company to put up a few posters outside the theater and at the bus stop near the theater.

However, Li Xuan shamefully used "Police Story", at this time, the screening of "Police Story" in the United States had just come to an end, but it was also a hot spot, so Li Xuan directly wrote on the poster the words "The first American science fiction work of the director and screenwriter of "Police Story", so as not to worry about not being able to blind a few people into the theater at that time.

At this time, Zou Wenhuai was still happy for the American success of "Police Story", and he received an ocean-going call from He Xichang from the United States, saying that he had seen a very strange movie poster outside a theater in the United States.

When Zou Wenhuai put down the phone, he was still thinking to death, when did this Li Xuan go to the United States to shoot a science fiction movie? (To be continued.) )