Chapter 759. Filming of "New World" begins

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It is said that Chen Xiaotang, who is far away in Hong Kong, appointed Jim, a black buddy explosive head, as the head of the plan to buy Hollywood Fox. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And Jim lived up to his trust, and simply took this as the most important thing in his life.

Having said that, Jim is very grateful to Chen Xiaotang for giving him the opportunity to "show off his might" or "exhale and raise his eyebrows". In the past, as the owner of many small Hollywood film companies, the explosive head Jim shrank his head and behaved like a man, plus he was black, and his black skin made him blocked everywhere in the mainstream of Hollywood, and many white American colleagues looked down on him, ridiculed him, ridiculed him, and thought that he was at most like this in his life.

But now, Brother Jim is on the rise!

With a huge amount of dollars, he actually wants to buy a long-established Hollywood company...... Fox!

This news is absolutely exciting, the little man suddenly became a big giant, the little white rabbit suddenly became a big bad wolf, and the black brother suddenly became a big boss who bought Fox...... The changes are even more exciting than the Hollywood movies that are being released.

However, Fox is not so easy to acquire, and Australian media tycoon Mercodor is also playing with its idea. It is said that the two are currently in talks to acquire the company. If the exhibition follows the original historical trajectory, it will not be long before the media magnate Mercodor will take Fox into his bag and turn it into a film subsidiary of his News Corporation. Under the operation of News Corporation, Fox in the 2o century came back from the dead, not only restoring its former glory, but also entering a stable period that lasted for more than 2o years. But now, due to the intervention of the hidden enemy of Shadow Entertainment. Everything has changed.

Explosive head Jim began to contact Fox under the banner of "Hollywood peers".

Compared to Merck, there are more "outsiders". Explosive head Jim, a black man, is much kinder, after all, everyone is their own people, after all, everyone eats in Hollywood, after all, fat water does not flow into outsiders' fields......

What's more, according to Chen Xiaotang's instructions, the price of two billion US dollars offered by the explosive head Jim was enough to make the decision-makers of Fox excited.

And Jim's reason for making such a huge amount of money is: our own film company can't be ruined by Australians!

What a good man, what a noble sentiment!

Because of this sentence. Instantly, Fox executives were impressed with the sudden acquirer.

Black friends are still cute!

Of course, green bills are cuter!

Then everything seems to be easy, after all, doing business is just like blind date, and first impressions are crucial.

The explosive head Jim made a good impression on the decision-makers of Fox Films, and the media tycoon Mercado, not to be outdone, began to inquire into the details of Jim's side, especially wanting to know the purchase price they offered.

It's better to have a business system in the United States. In order to avoid vicious competition, one of the commercial mechanisms is that the buyer's price code must not be disclosed to the other party before the acquisition cooperation is completed, because this is a typical commercial crime.

So it is conceivable that Mercado did not find anything in the end. At this time, Jim, the explosive head who is Chen Xiaotang's personal representative, has begun to officially contact the people of Fox Company, and the next thing to do is to negotiate and sign the contract, of course. There is also one hand to pay and one hand to deliver......

But the problem is that the total amount of money raised by Chen Xiaotang is only one billion US dollars. Among them, Magic Shadow Entertainment contributed 300 million, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Xinyicheng and Debao contributed 700 million, but what was promised to Fox was 2 billion US dollars, what about the other billion? !

Explosive head Jim is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but Chen Xiaotang is in Hong Kong, and he calls across the ocean to tell Explosive Head Jim, "Now, the game really has to start!" ”

Chen Xiaotang's so-called "game" is very simple: Magic Shadow, Fox, and Bank, playing the time difference between these three.

The Shadow signed a contract with Fox for the acquisition, and the Shadow signed a mortgage contract with Lehman Bank of the United States, which could be held at the same place, of course, both Fox and Lehman were unaware, and it was all up to the Shadow to draw Tai Chi in the middle.

The process is that Magic Entertainment first signs an acquisition contract with Fox, then pays a signing fee of one billion US dollars first, and after the signing is completed, it takes the contract away for five minutes under the pretext of "the need to verify the legal effect of the contract".

Within five minutes, the Shadow took the contract, and then signed a mortgage agreement with Lehman Bank of the United States, used the contract as collateral, loaned one billion dollars, and directly took it and threw it to Fox.

In this way, with the help of a five-minute time difference, Magic Entertainment can fully acquire the old Hollywood Fox Company with half of the money in its hands.

To put it mildly, this is a very common business speculation technique, which can be described as a half-pulled "empty glove white wolf"; To put it nicely, it is the result of the combination of wisdom and thoughtfulness, courage and practical action.

Chen Xiaotang told the explosive head Jim about his seemingly simple, but actually dangerous strategy, and then left a sentence, "Everything depends on you!" Then he made a handshake shopkeeper.

In Chen Xiaotang's view, the explosive head Jim is also a person who has acted, as for the "commercial drama" directed by himself, whether he can act wonderfully depends on himself, and he can't help anything.

As the saying goes: success or failure of things, three points depend on hard work, and seven points are destined!

Looking back, Chen Xiaotang waited for the good news from Hollywood, and began to plan the filming plan of Magic Shadow Entertainment in the second half of the year.

In the past few years, the Magic Shadow Entertainment Exhibition has been very fast, in the words of the outside world, this company is like riding a rocket into the sky, flying in a flash, and it is estimated that it has landed on the moon in June......

However, Chen Xiaotang knows that the reason why this company can achieve today's achievements is not because of himself, a big star and big boss, but because of the efforts of all the staff, such as the artists who are integrated with the company, Li Lianjie, Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi, Zhou Huimin and others, the films they shoot are blockbusters, and their names have almost become the guarantee of the box office. There are also fat people Wang Jing, Li Lizhi, Liu Zhenwei, Wang Jiawei, etc., as directors, everyone has different genres of filming, some take the comedy route, some are good at underworld themes, and some are used to love scenes...... In a word. Each is wonderful in its own way.

Of course, there are also some unsung behind-the-scenes heroes. For example, photographer Christopher Doyle, action director Liu Xingbo, and gold medal scissor hand Liang Puwen, etc., these people are also the mainstay of the company, it can be said that without their efforts, there would be no company today.

Chen Xiaotang is a star, a boss, and a person who values love and righteousness. Because of his affection, he will ignore "nepotism", and with the title of favoring someone, he will praise Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Wei and others, who will let them be dead friends with him.

Magic Shadow Entertainment is with the help of this group of die-hard friends. has produced many excellent movies, such as "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier", "Infernal Affairs", and the recently released "Dark War".

If the classic sign of Shaw Brothers in the past was "Shaw Brothers production, it must be a good product", then this slogan is now attributed to Magic Shadow Entertainment.

"Produced by the Shadow. Absolutely fine", this has become the unwritten identity of the whole of Hong Kong and even Asia.

Boutique, better than the best, go further!

Now, Chen Xiaotang is back from Hollywood. The big deal of buying Fox is on the back burner.

You can't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Good things are grinding, these are Chen Xiaotang's own words to comfort himself.

In fact, Chen Xiaotang's heart is really smoky, so he is looking forward to Shao Daheng and others giving him a reply to implement, but unfortunately, no.

During this time, Chen Xiaotang had finished writing the script of "League of Assassins", and the Magic Shadow Entertainment Company was also preparing to start filming a new drama, in order to put himself in a "busy" state of work, so as to forget about Fox for the time being, Chen Xiaotang buried himself in writing a new script, called "New World".

"New World" was originally a Korean movie, and this drama is billed as "the Korean version of "Infernal Affairs".

The content of the story is very interesting, a boss of a community in South Korea was killed in a car accident, and the incident caused a lot of shocks in black and white. In order to curb the association's further penetration into the legal sphere and continue to grow, the police promptly proposed the "New World Plan", which aims to interfere in the election of the association's successor boss. Around the title of president, Ding Qing, the No. 3 person under the association, who was born from overseas Chinese, and Li Zhongjiu, the executive director of the No. 4 person, launched a series of open and secret battles. In the midst of the crisis, the police ordered Li Zicheng, who had been undercover for ten years, to influence the election results. Zicheng got acquainted with Ding Qing six years ago, and got the respect and trust of the other party. Zicheng, who was already tired of the black ~ Dao life, had no choice but to accept the order, but he undoubtedly threw himself into the very dangerous black whirlpool.

At first glance, this drama seems to be somewhat similar to the comprehensive version of the Hong Kong movie "Underworld" and "Infernal Affairs", both of which are fighting for the right to talk, and they are all undercover agents planted by the police, but the ultimate highlight of this drama is that this undercover agent is against the sky, not only filling in the opponent of the club, but also directly killing the police who control themselves, and then sitting on the throne of the big guy in a dignified manner and becoming the ultimate boss!

Just ask, how could such an ending ever happen?!

The original undercover policeman directly became an underworld boss, and in the end, he sat proudly, and everyone bowed to express their allegiance, and the whole scene was quite "Godfather" style......

Chen Xiaotang likes this play very much, because the route of this play is different.

The final counterattack is simply blinding, and now Chen Xiaotang's Magic Shadow Entertainment has filmed "Infernal Affairs", so why not shoot this counterattack version of "New World"? !

Chen Xiaotang thought of it, considering that only Du Qifeng, who shoots this kind of subject in Hong Kong, is the peak, so Chen Xiaotang contacted his half senior brother.

Du Qifeng is now proud of the spring breeze in wireless, with the cultivation of his mentor Wang Tianlin, coupled with the attention of the sixth aunt Fang Yihua, Du Qifeng's voice in the entire wireless company is getting bigger and bigger, and no one dares to ask this postman-born Zhuang director.

However, when the spring breeze was proud, Du Qifeng was vaguely dissatisfied, because he was an aspiring young man, and it was inevitable that he had great ambitions, and the territory of the wireless company was too small to let him show his strengths, and he felt that his talent was vaguely restrained by the small screen of TV, and he needed to make a movie to help him loosen his bonds.

However, is the movie so easy to make? He vaguely remembers the failure he suffered when filming his first drama "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold". This kind of failure is unforgettable, so that Du Qifeng began to lie down and try his courage, looking for his own film style, and then he now that making martial arts movies by himself is really not that piece of material, although his martial arts TV series is so excellent and eye-catching, but it is not effective to use it in movies when used on TV.

The reason for this is that TV martial arts gives you plenty of time to build your characters. A series has as few as twenty episodes and as many as fifty or sixty episodes. Enough for you to toss; But in a movie, in just 90 minutes, you have to finish the story in your hand, which gives you a sense of urgency. Du Qifeng feels that he is not very good at reducing martial arts stories, in contrast, Cheng Xiaodong, who is also from wireless, is an expert in this area.

So where are your advantages?!

Du Qifeng asked himself.

In the end, he came up with the answer, what he was interested in was what he was best at, so in the following days, Du Qifeng buried himself in filming "City Special Police". "The World of Love", as well as new films with urban themes such as "The Seven Year Itch".

Especially in terms of police and gangster films, Du Qifeng has quietly begun to have his own creative concept, and this concept is inspired by the magic movie "Infernal Affairs".

It turns out that movies can be made like this!

In Du Qifeng's view, "Infernal Affairs" has become a new benchmark for police and gangster films, and he is unconsciously moving towards this banner.......

Just as he was squirming. Chen Xiaotang found him.

In the apartment room, socks, newspapers, and instant noodle bags were casually thrown on the sand.

Beer bottles, cans. There are also ashtrays, which are placed on the table for "exhibitions".

The floor is messy, and there are various movie posters posted on the walls, and there are even special posters of Japanese small movie female stars, plump ~ buttocks ~ fat ~ breasts. The taste is unique.

This is the home of the great director Du Qifeng, who would have thought that Director Du, who is very handsome on the surface. Secretly, it's so stuffy~ sloppy and sloppy.

However, our explanation from Director Du is that I am too busy with work and have no time to clean up, and as for those posters, they can provide me with inspiration......

At this moment, Chen Xiaotang was leisurely drinking tea, and Du Qifeng next to him took a puff of cigarette, concentrating, or "hungry" to read the script of "New World".

Time passes slowly.

Half an hour later, Du Qifeng exhaled a sigh of relief, took the script and did not talk to Chen Xiaotang, but stayed alone.

Chen Xiaotang didn't bother him, he still drank tea, but the tea was already cold.

"Whew!" Du Qifeng took another breath, then came back to his senses, glanced at Chen Xiaotang, and asked in disbelief, "You wrote this script?" ”

Chen Xiaotang nodded.

"Well, that's great!" Du Qifeng filmed the case, "It can be said that it is the first time I have seen such a wonderful script!" ”

Next, Du Qifeng talked about the characteristics of the script, what ingenuity, surprise, imagination, and genius strokes...... praised Chen Xiaotang as if Li Bai and Du Fu were possessed, and they were almost a little embarrassed.

finally waited until Du Qifeng finished spitting at Xingzi, and then Chen Xiaotang smiled and said: "Since it is such a good script, then Brother Feng, are you willing to direct this play?" ”

Du Qifeng was silent.

You must know that Chen Xiaotang and Du Qifeng can be said to be "teachers from the same school", both of which were cultivated by the great director Wang Tianlin. In contrast, Du Qifeng started early and is a real senior brother, while Chen Xiaotang started late and can only be regarded as half of Wang Tianlin's apprentice. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Du Qifeng, who has been trained by a famous teacher, will definitely surpass Chen Xiaotang's achievements N times. But the fact is that Chen Xiaotang ran away from the dark horse, ran directly out of the gate, and in less than five years, he has become a world-class superstar, while Du Qifeng is still nesting in the small screen of wireless tinkering, and occasionally has a good time on the big screen.

With such a huge gap, how can you let a guy with strong self-esteem like Du Qifeng bear it?!

Therefore, Du Qifeng will avoid Chen Xiaotang very "suspiciously", and when many people pull the relationship through the back door, he scoffs at it, so we don't participate!

It can be realized, this half-pulled junior brother of his came to the door, and threw out such a fragrant script bait, just waiting for his old fish to take the bait, do you say he did it or not? !

If you accept Chen Xiaotang's proposal, then you will acquiesce to this "favor"; If you refuse, it's such a good script...... After this village, there is no such shop.

It's a real headache.

Du Qifeng grabbed the teacup and took a sip, and Chen Xiaotang next to him hurriedly said, "That's mine... Leftover tea. ”

Du Qifeng was stunned, "I'm sorry, I can't spit it out....."

Chen Xiaotang smiled dumbly, "So what about this play, do you accept it or not?" ”

Du Qifeng thought calmly, "Who is the starring role?" ”

Chen Xiaotang: "Undecided for the time being...... If you're a director, a few ...... recommended."

Du Qifeng suddenly smiled and said, "If you act, I'll take it!" ”

Chen Xiaotang never thought that the starring role of the drama "New World" would fall on his head.

At the beginning, he considered Liu Dehua and Liang Wei, and it was most appropriate for them to play it, after all, they had starred in "Infernal Affairs", and it was definitely enough to let them play this Korean version of "New World" again. But Du Qifeng put forward the condition, let him be the director, Chen Xiaotang himself must be the actor.

But now Chen Xiaotang is busy with the acquisition of Fox, where does he have the time and mood to film? !

But Du Qifeng ...... Chen Xiaotang really wants to envelop this goods under his command and let him be called the person of Magic Shadow Entertainment, you must know that there are few people who can be called "Hong Kong film masters" in the future, and Lao Du is definitely one of the best.

After thinking about it briefly, Chen Xiaotang gave the answer, "Okay, let's cooperate!" ”

No one expected that the big star Chen Xiaotang would beat Hong Kong films again.

Since he came back, everyone has decided that he is going to show in Hollywood for a long time, and it will be very difficult to see his pure Hong Kong films in the future. However, Magic Shadow Entertainment Company suddenly announced that the black~ gang film "New World", directed by director Du Qifeng and starring Chen Xiaotang, is about to start filming.

This news is undoubtedly a thunderbolt, which directly blew up many fans who like Chen Xiaotang with surprise.

It's back!

Tang Tsai returns to Hong Kong films!

You can see his wonderful performance again!

Haha, God is pitiful, our Chen Tianwang "re-emerged from the rivers and lakes"!