Chapter 103: Honggu Wangfu (2/4 update)

Accompanied by a lawyer recruited by Lucas, Chen Ping'an negotiated the release of the two films with Twentieth Century Fox and then sent the others back to Hong Kong, except for Li Xiaolin.

The experience in the United States opened Li Xiaolin's eyes to see that Chen Ping'an was not without nothing in the United States, and finally willingly agreed to Chen Ping'an, join Dark Horse International, and manage the brokerage company for Chen Ping'an in the future.

Li Xiaolin is still far from a qualified Hollywood agent, even if the only two artists under Dark Horse International America, Ubi Goldpoeu and Brad Pitt, are newcomers. Fortunately, with Anne Heard, a strong woman, he can be familiar with the Hollywood entertainment industry and various rules and unspoken rules in the shortest possible time, and with the experience of being an agent in Hong Kong, he can become a qualified agent as soon as possible.

After the dinner that day, Anne Heard and Cameron discussed for three days, and finally decided to take a gamble and merge their company into Dark Horse International America, Inc., with Anne Heard as the general manager and Chen Ping'an's partner in the United States.

The registered capital of the company was adjusted to 20 million US dollars, and Anne Heard valued her company at 1.5 million yuan, plus 4.5 million in cash, a total of 6 million US dollars was invested in Dark Horse International USA and obtained 30% of the shares. Chen Ping'an will contribute 14 million yuan and control 70% of the equity to become a major shareholder, but the funds have only received 3 million US dollars so far, which is still the remaining investment of "People and Ghosts".

Due to the sharp decline in prices, especially actors' salaries, the cost of "The Ghost Is Not Settled" is only 7 million US dollars, which is 13 million less than the 22 million in the next 90 years. This is still the result of Chen Ping'an's excellence, otherwise he can save one million.

Chen Ping'an really couldn't take out the remaining 11 million funds. He didn't hide it, and told Anne Hurd the truth, and the latter almost turned his face on the spot when he heard it. Feeling Chen Ping'an's honesty, Anne Hurd agreed to Chen Ping'an's suggestion, and made up for it as soon as the box office of "Ghost Love" arrived.

And agreed that if the funds are still not available before June next year, the company's existing funds will be invested in the distribution of shares, in that case, Chen Ping'an will only be able to obtain 33% of the shares, and will also give the copyright of "Terminator" to Anne Heard as compensation.

This agreement seems to be very risky, Zhong Chuhong privately persuaded Chen Ping'an several times, but Chen Ping'an was full of confidence in "The Love of People and Ghosts" and agreed without hesitation. With Anne Hurd, a strong woman, joining the gang, and Li Xiaolin secretly spying on himself, he can save a lot of energy on the American side.

Zhong Chuhong seems to be prosperous again, since Chen Ping'an came into contact with her, good things have been sent to the door one after another.

First of all, Zhou Runfa joined passionately; Then Zhang Guozhong and Li Xiaolin came to the door automatically, and Ye Zhiming joined in; The harvest of this trip to the United States was even greater, Li Xiaolin was convinced, Anne Herd and the company were merged into Dark Horse International, and Cameron also joined; The day after the company was re-registered, a fellow villager suddenly found the hotel and came to Chen Ping'an.

At this time, Chen Ping'an had already sent the others back to Hong Kong, under the pretext that he and Zhong Chuhong still had to deal with company affairs, as well as cooperate with the promotion of the film, and stay in Los Angeles for a while longer. In fact, in terms of the company, he basically handed over to Anne Heard to take care of, and he generally did not interfere in the operation of the company according to the agreement, as for the publicity of "The Love of Ghosts and Ghosts...... It didn't matter to him at all.

Twentieth Century Fox's publicity for "The Ghost Is Not Gone" is not small, with stills, posters, posters, newspapers and television mysteries, and all kinds of means to cope with the simultaneous release of 550 fast screens in the United States during the Christmas season. The main actors in the play are naturally the focus of publicity.

Brad Pitt is a sunny and handsome man, and Whoopi Goldpoo is black, both of whom are publicizable and able to win the appropriate audience into the cinema. Although Zhong Chuhong is an Oriental, women have unique advantages, especially beautiful and sexy women, under Chen Ping'an's construction, they were made into "Oriental Marilyn Monroe" by the Fox propaganda department, as an Oriental woman presented to Westerners for the first time, her charm cannot be doubted.

But what about Chen Ping'an...... Well, with a height of one meter eight, a handsome appearance, and a slender body that has trained four-pack abs, it would be okay if it was a Westerner, but he is an Oriental! So Chen Ping'an was ignored by the gorgeous one. Only in posters and posters, there are pictures of the hero and heroine hugging and kissing, but the actor also adopts actinic blurring treatment, and he can't see the appearance of the hero at all.

On the other hand, Zhong Chuhong, in order to match the stills poster, Fox specially hired a professional photography company to shoot a sexy album for her, in which she posed in various ** poses, which was sexy and charming.

Of course, this is also a means of publicity, creating a sense of mystery to attract audiences to the theater. It is the first time that the movie promotion does not reveal the actor, although there is gossip that the news that Chen Ping'an is the actor is revealed to the media, but Fox found more people to spread false news.

As a result, at the end of 1985, Hollywood had the first strange phenomenon of fierce debate around who the actor of a movie was. The Oriental version was the first to circulate, followed by the American version starring white Americans, Europeans, blacks, and even Indians, and it was very popular for a while.

Creating a sense of mystery was proposed by someone from Fox's propaganda department, but the others were Chen Ping'an's ideas. At first, Fox was still a little apprehensive, but later, I saw more and more people participating in the debate, and even many people made bets about it, and no one could convince anyone. In the end, even many of the Fox staff were confused, and they couldn't figure out which version was true.

For this reason, little Alain Ryder specially told his subordinates to be careful when dealing with Chen Ping'an in the future, this Oriental is too shrewd and very greedy. Well, little Alain Ryder's words are not "shrewd", but "treacherous".

When Jiang Zhiqiang knocked on Chen Ping'an's door, Chen Ping'an was warming up with Zhong Chuhong.

Zhong Chuhong's sexy album is too seductive, with bikini photos that meet American tastes, and it is glamorous; There are light shirt and tulle photos that reflect the subtle beauty of oriental women, revealing fragrant shoulders and beautiful legs, which makes people want to stop. After "Playboy" saw this set of albums, he got in touch with the Fox staff, and intended to let Zhong Chuhong shoot another series of more unrestrained photos and publish it on the cover of "Playboy".

Chen Ping'an did not hesitate to refuse the invitation to "Playboy" for Zhong Chuhong.

The earlier "Playboy" advocated a style of "noble taste" and "happy but not lewd", and took the high-style, middle-class entertainment consumption route. From the mid-60s, the beautiful women on the cover began to sing the main role, and it became more and more revealing. In the 70s, it directly entered the pornographic film and television market, and there were more and more fruit photos in it.

Chen Ping'an wants Zhong Chuhong to break into Hollywood, but he is not going to use this way to let his women go into battle and become popular with the help of "Playboy".

Today, I had dinner for two, held hands and walked a few times on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and returned to the hotel at nine o'clock. Sitting on the sofa, Chen Ping'an began to flip through Zhong Chuhong's sexy photos again, Zhong Chuhong snuggled in his arms to evaluate each photo, and after a while, Chen Ping'an was a little unable to hold on, and Zhong Chuhong began to warm up.

When the two were disheveled, an inopportune knock came from outside the door, interrupting their warmth.

"Who!" Chen Ping'an's tone was very bad, and anyone who was disturbed during Wen Cun would not be happy.

"May I ask Chen Ping'an, is Mr. Chen here?"

Speaking Cantonese, is it a journalist?

Chen Ping'an walked to the back of the door, opened a slit, and looked at the visitor with a cautious face. Outside the door was a middle-aged man in his early thirties, who was not good-looking, short in stature, not like a reporter, but carrying a backpack behind him, which still aroused Chen Ping'an's vigilance: "Who are you?" ”

"You are Mr. Chen Ping'an, my name is Jiang Zhiqiang."

"Who!"

"Jiang Zhiqiang of Anle Film Company."

"You are Jiang Zhiqiang? Come in, come in! ”

Chen Ping'an's door was wide open, and Jiang Zhiqiang was warmly invited in, looking like he hated to see each other.

In later generations, there are few people who are mixed directors and producers in the entertainment industry who don't know the famous Jiang Zhiqiang. This gentleman is low-key, but he is an invisible boss in the film industry, and is known as an "unprecedented" behind-the-scenes figure in the Chinese film industry.

Excellent domestic films have been promoted to the international market through his hands, even the large-scale productions of big directors such as Li Press and Lao Mouzi are no exception; He also represented the AMC Cinemas in Hong Kong, as well as the two major Hollywood studios Universal and Sony's film distribution in Chinese-speaking regions.

In later generations, Chen Ping'an had no chance to reach others, but now it is different, Chen Ping'an's soul wears, and Jiang Zhiqiang has not yet started.

The current Anle Film Company, Jiang Zhiqiang's father Jiang Zuyi basically retreated into the background, and Jiang Zhiqiang's brother Jiang Zhiwen was at the helm, Jiang Zhiqiang was mainly responsible for running to Europe and the United States to acquire Western films, and Anle Cinemas specialized in screening Western films, and "The Terminator" in March and April this year was introduced by Jiang Zhiqiang and released in Anle Cinemas.

Jiang Zhiqiang is one of the most important partners in Chen Ping'an's plan, and he is also an indispensable and important person in the vast entertainment empire he envisioned. However, Jiang Zhiqiang is the second son of Anle Pictures, Chen Ping'an's Dark Horse International does not have the conditions to attract the other party now, and Jiang Zhiqiang often travels abroad, so he has not gone to the other party.

I didn't want to meet in the United States tonight, and Jiang Zhiqiang took the initiative to come to the door, which can't but be said to be a surprise.

Ah Hong is really prosperous for me!

Chen Ping'an subconsciously looked at Zhong Chuhong, but he didn't know that Jiang Zhiqiang also saw Zhong Chuhong. Although the clothes of the two have been neatly tidied up, the extra traces left in the room still make Jiang Zhiqiang judge at a glance that the relationship between the two is unusual!

"Looks like I'm not here at the right time, sorry to disturb you two." Jiang Zhiqiang turned around to leave, but Chen Ping'an moved two steps to block the door: "Since Brother Jiang is here, why should he leave in a hurry?" ”

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