Putting down the phone, Lin Yuquan shook his head, the signing of a separate settlement between Summit Entertainment and the Screenwriters Association did have a big impact as soon as it was announced. Meyer knew that he would call as soon as he saw the news, but what did this have to do with him, he didn't care that a certain senior executive of the six major movies would be dissatisfied with him or anything.

Coming to the balcony and looking at the verdant and pleasant scenery of Beverly Hills, he then dialed Zhen Zidan's phone again, and Zhen Zidan on the other side seemed to be busy, and only answered the phone after a while.

"Brother Zidan, are you busy? It took so long to answer the phone. ”

"No, I was playing with my daughter just now, I didn't notice the phone ringing at first, have you returned to China?" Zhen Zidan's hearty voice came from the phone.

"No, it will take a few days to go back, I've been busy lately, but you're very idle! didn't go to filming, and had time to play with Xiaoru. Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

"Isn't this the end of the year? Of course, I'll be a little idle, and I'm different from you, I'm mainly an actor, I don't have so many things to worry about, but I'm not idle, and I've been practicing Wing Chun at home recently. Zhen Zidan said slowly.

"Lian Wing Chun, is it ready for filming?" Lin Yuquan asked in a raised voice.

"Well, I am ready to start filming "Ip Man" after the year, which is Bruce Lee's master, Ip Man, who is praised as a generation of grandmasters." Zhen Zidan said.

"Ip Man, this is indeed a good theme, and it is also very suitable for your play, hey, I also said that I asked you to be the action director of my film?" Lin Yuquan said with some regret that he was going to let Zhen Zidan serve as the action director of "Spartan 300 Warriors" and "Fast and Exciting * Emotions 4", but now it seems that he is one step too late.

"Oh. Really! Is it "Spartan 300 Warriors" or "Fast & Furious 4"? When will the film be filmed? Zhen Zidan asked with a smile. There was no emotion in the words. There are indeed not many Chinese filmmakers who can be indifferent to the opportunity to participate in Hollywood blockbusters such as "Spartan 300 Warriors" and "Fast and Exciting * Love 4", as a Chinese martial arts star, there are examples of Bruce Lee, Cheng Long, and Li Lianjie in the past, and he used to be eager for any opportunity to make a name for himself in Hollywood, but that is all in the past, the days of mixing action directors in Hollywood in the past few years have made him tired of it, and he wants to be an actor more than action directors. If Lin Yuquan had invited him to star in a Hollywood movie, he might have become excited.

"It's not one, it's the action director of these two movies, if the filming starts, it will be a few months later, but the actors will train for several months before the filming starts, so the action director will join the crew at the end of the month, and I was going to look for you, but it seems that I can only find someone else." Lin Yuquan said with pity, not only because of a group of martial arts instructors. He is most familiar with Zhen Zidan, and Zhen Zidan himself is an excellent action actor. can guide the actors at the same time, and demonstrate it in person, which is something that Yuan Heping, Cheng Xiaodong and others can't do today.

"There's really no way, I want to spend the Spring Festival with my family, and I also want to shoot "Ip Man", I really can't spare time." Zhen Zidan's helpless tone came from the phone: "What style of action direction do you need?" If it's a type of action like me, it's better to find my master, who served as the action director of "The King of Kung Fu" last year, and he has no works recently, maybe there is a time schedule. ”

Yuan Baye, this is indeed a martial arts instructor that he admires very much, but age is a problem, Lin Yuquan rubbed his brows, because he locked Zhen Zidan at the beginning, he didn't consider the alternative, but now he really has to find someone else, a series of well-known martial arts instructors flashed in his mind, Liu Jialiang, who is older than Yuan Heping, and he is probably too old to bear the heavy work of shooting two movies one after another; Cheng Xiaodong, his age is not old, he has obvious advantages over Yuan Heping and Liu Jialiang, but unfortunately the action style is not suitable for the style of the two movies; Lin Di'an, who is considered to be in the prime of life, but although the other party is internationally famous for his action direction in the two movies "The Matrix" and "Spider-Man 2", his own martial arts guidance level is still a long way from excellence in his opinion; Sammo Hung is very versatile, and he is also an actor he admires very much, many of his movies are designed by himself, and his age is slightly younger than Yuan Heping

After a little hesitation, Lin Yuquan said: "Well, what I want is indeed a sharp and coherent action director, of course the eighth master is a master in this regard, but his age may not be able to bear the difficulty of shooting two movies in a row, from preparation to completion, it takes at least eight months of hard work." ”

"Oh, yes, I overlooked that, so who are you going to look for?" Zhen Zidan asked.

"Sammo Hung brother's phone number, do you have it?" Lin Yuquan said directly.

"Heh, you're going to let Brother Hong be the action director, this will definitely not work, because Brother Hong is the action director of "Ip Man" that I want to film, and he seems to have actor works this year." Zhen Zidan said with a smile.

"Oh, this is really a coincidence, the two action directors I was looking for in a row are related to "Ip Man". Lin Yuquan smiled dumbly: "Shouldn't you tell me that Director Yuankui is the director of "Ip Man"? ”

"Heh, not this time, the director is Director Ye Weixin." Listening to Lin Yuquan's depressed tone, Zhen Zidan couldn't help laughing.

"That's good, do you have Director Yuan Kui's phone number?" Lin Yuquan smiled, Yuan Kui is one of the suitable candidates he just considered, as one of the Seven Little Blessings, Yuan Kui is not famous as an actor, but because of his identity as a director and martial arts instructor, he is one of the most famous martial arts instructors in Hong Kong, and has guided the actions of a series of movies such as "Young Master Long", "Fang Shiyu", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "Hong Xiguan", "X-Men", etc., the action design style is more consistent with his needs, and his age is not too long.

"Of course, Hong Kong's circle is not big." Zhen Zidan said.

To Lin Yuquan's relief, he later invited Yuan Kui to be the martial arts instructor, and Yuan Kui did not hesitate too much, so he agreed to serve as the action director of the two films, of course, this is also related to his generosity. $2 million remuneration for two films. Not many people in the country can get this kind of treatment.

Got the action direction. Lin Yuquan breathed a sigh of relief, he would not interfere with the filming of "Spartan 300 Warriors" and "Fast and Exciting * Love 4", but in the action scenes, he would try his best to make the scenes of the film more exciting and shocking according to his own ideas, and the action director was when he did not have time to personally participate in the filming of the film. The person who is the most critical to realizing his overall idea.

The next thing is to communicate with Lin Yibin and select the crew members such as soundtrack, screenwriting, photography, editing, casting director, art direction, art design, set designer, costume design, etc., but the selection is the selection, and the specific invitation is made by Universal Pictures.

While communicating with Lin Yibin, Lin Yuquan also paid close attention to the preparation of the crew of "Spartan 300 Warriors", of course, since he was about to return to China, it was also on the agenda to deal with the affairs of Summit Entertainment, Little Bear Publishing House, and Emperor Games in advance.

Like Summit Entertainment, Little Bear Publishing achieved historic success in its first year of acquisition, thanks to the success of Savage Story: Rise of the Apes and Twilight: Lunar Eclipse. As of December 31, 2007, Twilight: Lunar Eclipse had sold 3.17 million copies in North America. has set a new high in the series, and with the launch of the first two novels overseas, the overseas sales of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse" have also reached an astonishing 4.12 million copies, which is still because the overseas landing time is not long, and the film has not been released at the same time.

Comparatively, because Lin Yuquan's influence in the world far exceeds that of Stephanie. Mel, even if it seems to belong to the play ticket "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape" in its personal influence and a steady stream of good word-of-mouth, finally achieved extremely dazzling results, as of the end of 07, the United States sold 3.23 million copies, and the latter surpassed the sales of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse", becoming the second best-selling book in North America in 07, as for the first highest, of course, the last part of the Harry Potter series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", this novel sold 8 million copies in North America last year, With more than 35 million copies sold worldwide, it is the number one selling novel of the year.

As Lin Yuquan's base camp, after the sales exceeded 3 million copies at the end of October, in the last two months, "The Rise of the Apes" continued to make efforts, and the sales of the novel reached 4.89 million copies unimaginable by the end of 07, and it became the sales champion of domestic fiction books.

In addition, although it has not been on the market for a long time, "Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes" still sold 5.75 million copies in 43 countries and regions outside of North America and mainland China, so that its total global sales last year reached 12.87 million copies.

If you add the 7.29 million copies of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse", then the total global sales of Little Bear Press last year reached 21.16 million copies, which is not only the first among small and medium-sized publishers, even Simon. Major publishing houses such as Schuster, Random House, and Penguin were also jealous.

You must know that last year, there were about 1.3 million kinds of books sold in the United States, and the total sales of these books were only 699 million copies, on average, the North American sales of each novel were only 537 copies, compared to "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape Clan", "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse" is really embarrassing, after all, even the United States, which has the highest book sales in the world, has very few books that sell more than one million books a year. The Harry Potter series was published in the United States by Skorastic.

With 12.87 million copies sold and new books, Lin Yuquan and "Wild Stories: The Rise of the Apes" also surpassed "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", which actually sold more, to become the most notable author and the most notable novel of the year.

At the same time, the future sales prospects of the "Wild Story" series have aroused everyone's attention, knowing that the "Harry Potter" series, which has sold 350 million copies worldwide, was only in July 2000, with the advent of the fourth "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", it began to create a myth in the history of zào publishing, and the sales of its first "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" are far less terrifying than "The Wild Story: Rise of the Apes".

In addition, by Dan. Brown's "The Da Vinci Code", which has set off another sales myth in recent years, broke the American novel sales record with 7.5 million copies. Cumulative global sales have exceeded 50 million copies. Become one of the highest-grossing novels of all time. However, its sales in the same period after its release in 03 were also inferior to "Savage Tales: Rise of the Apes".

Being able to achieve such an astonishing sales in the first series of novels naturally makes people look forward to the future sales of the "Wild Story" series.

Thanks to the hot sales of the two novels, Little Bear Publishing has gained great popularity and also reaped a profit of more than $36 million after tax. Haggis, $1 million for employees, $10 million for employees, $10 million for Lin Yuquan and Stephanie. Mel divides the infrared, and the remaining funds will be invested in the expansion of Little Bear Publishing this year.

Although Bear Publishing can safely rely on the operation of the "Twilight" follow-up series and the "Wild Age" follow-up series to reap the rewards handsomely. But whether it's Lin Yuquan, or Stephanie. Mel, or Paul. Haggis and the staff at Little Bear Publishing are not content and do not want to make progress.

For Little Bear Press, this year's goal is to have a complete book industry chain and operate more than 10 novels.

The situation of Emperor Gate Games is very different from that of Summit Entertainment and Little Bear Press, the latter two were very successful in the first year of acquisition, while Emperor Gate Games has been in a dormant period of silent development of games in the past year, except for the media reports and public attention when it was first acquired by Lin Yuquan, and may have long been forgotten by the fast-paced people.

But that's set to change dramatically this year, as the game for Wild Stories comes after a year of almost round-the-clock development by a team of 200 people. It is about 75% complete, and it is expected to start the medial side by the middle of this year. And then enter the open beta at the end of the year.

With an estimated R&D cost of more than $50 million, combined with the global success of the Wild Stories novel and the sensational impact of the film's release, there is no doubt that the release of the game will definitely spark a global gaming boom.

In order to make the launch of the game more influential, Lin Yuquan allocated another $15 million for the promotion plan launched in February, striving to win the attention of gamers around the world.

Summit Entertainment's work plan for this year is also in full swing, in terms of schedule, all the films that have been filmed have been scheduled, the first to appear is "Fatal Bend 2", which will be released in 2030 theaters in North America on March 28, mainly against Sony's low-budget suspense film "Winning 21 Points" and 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studio's fourth feature film animation "Horton and Anonymous".

"Wild Story: Rise of the Ape" was placed in the lively summer file, which is indeed lively enough, Marvel Studios invested $140 million in "Iron Man", Warner Bros. invested $120 million in "Speed Racer", Disney invested nearly $200 million in "The Legend of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian", Paramount invested $185 million in "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4", Warner New Line production, based on the popular TV series "Desire * City", Paramount DreamWorks co-production, The $130 million animated film "Kung Fu Panda", the new version of "The Amazing Hulk" with $125 million from Universal Pictures, "The Machine Qì Man Wall-E" produced by Disney and produced by Pixar, "Superman for All" with $150 million from Sony, and $75 million from Universal Pictures. Jolie starred in the much-anticipated "Wanted", produced by Warner Bros., Christopher. Nolan's new work "Batman 6: Night Knight" and Universal's $145 million "The Mummy 3" have appeared one after another, making the fierce competition in this year's summer file Cheng Dù no less than last year.

"Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" is finally scheduled to be released in 3,956 theaters in North America on June 20, and its rivals will be Universal Pictures' adaptation of the classic 60s series "Confused Detective" and "Kung Fu Panda" in the second week of release, and the following week will be "Wal-E" and "Wanted".

"Twilight: Twilight" is scheduled to land in 3,643 theaters in North America on November 21 because the summer season is too intense, and at the same time it is the Kyoto Olympics in August, so it is scheduled to land in 3,643 theaters in North America on November 21, and will land in the global market in the next few days, and its opponent in North America is expected to be mainly "007: Quantum of Solace" in the second week of release.

In terms of film shooting, "Spartan 300 Warriors" with an investment budget of 100 million US dollars, "Twilight: New Moon" with an investment of 75 million US dollars, "Boxer" with an investment of 30 million US dollars, "Fatal Bend 3" with an investment of 20 million US dollars, and "Black Valentine" with an investment of 12 million US dollars are all on the agenda.

Other aspects of work, such as the procurement of independent film distribution rights and the establishment of more overseas offices, are all in progress, and the biggest problem now facing Summit Entertainment is that their boss Lin Yuquan's new film has not yet been seen, as the director of "Hurricane Rescue", which is expected to contribute $300 million in profits to the company, the absence of his new film is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Summit Entertainment.

New film, when Lin Yuquan is busy, of course he is also having a headache about this matter, he is really not the kind of person who can be idle. (To be continued......) R1292