After all, Jiahe used to be the overlord of the Hong Kong film industry, and soon arranged a meeting with Stephen Zhou, and Chairman Zou decided to invite Shen Zhenghui and Stephen Zhou to have dinner together.

Stephen Chow is a silent and strict person in front of strangers as usual, which is completely different from his image in the movie, but fortunately, Shen Zhenghui has been prepared for this.

Before the meal, he arrived a little earlier than Stephen Zhou at Jiahe's request, and Jiahe's Chairman Zou chatted with him for half an hour in advance, Chairman Zou was already old, and his heir had not been able to inherit his ability, mind and courage, and Jiahe was facing the crisis of recession in the near future, and even now, and now it was just a hard end. In Jiahe's eyes, Kasuga Pictures is a fast-growing Japanese film company, and the most important thing is that this company seems to value the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets - in fact, it is more coveted to the mainland market, and if Jiahe seizes this opportunity, he may be able to survive for a while longer - compared to its previous scenery, maintaining the ability to make films can indeed be regarded as a long breath.

Of course, Chairman Zou is not strongly chasing Shen Zhenghui and Jiahe to cooperate again, the opportunity Jiahe has given up, and the news received from various channels Jiahe has confirmed that Kasuga Pictures has found two other partners in Hong Kong, Lin Jian's Huanya and Xiangjia's Yongsheng, Kasuga will naturally not spend a lot of money to build another publishing and distribution company with others, but Kasuga is willing to continue to cooperate with Jiahe on a single film, which is also good news for Jiahe. Chairman Zou wants to talk about this problem, "Tokyo Raiders" wants to catch up with the 2000 Chinese New Year file, and he can't afford to wait, Chairman Zou and Shen Zhenhui are talking about this, he can't wait for the people below to fight for a long time, and wants to directly set the proportion of investment with Shen Zhenghui.

Shen Zhenghui, who has already been authorized by Fukuda Guangmei, will naturally not hesitate. Jiahe is not confident in getting a mainland release. Chairman Zou was too black in the 80s, and his good brother was a big mouth, and the result was tragic. In the end, the two sides agreed that the entire film would invest 40 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiahe and Kasuga Pictures would each contribute half, and at the same time, Kasuga Pictures would have a producer, and the filming in Tokyo would also be taken care of by Kasuga Pictures, and Japanese actors could be recommended by Kasuga Pictures and decided by the director. As for the sharing, Shen Zhenghui generously said that the box office outside Japan is completely given to Jiahe, and the box office in Japan is divided into three percent. But if the movie is released in the mainland, the box office income in the mainland will be divided in half.

Chairman Zou also generously agreed to this distribution, and the next thing was that Wang Jiasheng and Zhu Xinghe also went to talk.

When Stephen Zhou rushed over, Chairman Zou and Shen Zhenghui had already finished talking, and Stephen Zhou greeted Boss Zou with some restraint and sat down to greet him for a while. Chairman Zou got up and was about to leave. He knew that he was just pulling a line for Shen Zhenghui and Stephen Zhou to meet, and there was no need to stay after his affairs were discussed, so the dinner became Shen Zhenghui and Zhu Xinghe and Stephen Zhou and his assistant Tian Wen.

Stephen Zhou fell silent after Chairman Zou left, so he had to let his assistant Tian Wen talk about business, "Mr. Shen, right?" We have received a call from you, I heard that you want to invest in our new film "Shaolin Football"? ”

Seeing the real Stephen Zhou, Shen Zhenghui felt that he was still a little excited, although this Stephen Zhou was different from what he imagined in the movie and imagined, but there was still an irrepressible feeling flooding from the bottom of his heart, he took a deep breath, smiled and nodded.

"Yes," said Kazuya Zhuxing, "we Kasuga Pictures are very interested in Mr. Stephen Zhou's new film, and I heard that Mr. Stephen Zhou is raising funds for the new film, so Mr. Shen came from Japan to meet with Mr. Zhou to talk about investment." ”

Shen Zhenghui noticed that Stephen Zhou's brow furrowed at the mention of Japan.

"We have also made preparations before, and there is a written material for you to see." Tian Wen smiled, took out a written material and handed it to Shen Zhenghui and Zhuxing Kazuya, the entire film plans to invest 50 million Hong Kong dollars, and retains the possibility of 20% additional investment, Stephen Zhou part-time starring and director, the salary plus director fee is 20 million, the film production profit is less than 30 million, 55 shares, more than 30 million, 64 shares, Stephen Zhou takes 6.

Zhuxing Kazuya's face has become ugly, such a condition, no matter which film company it is given to, it will be rejected!

Shen Zhenghui tapped the table with his hand, as if he was in thought, and for a while, the table of the four people suddenly became cold.

After a long while, Shen Zhenghui stopped tapping on the table, he took a deep breath, and replied in a firm tone, "I can say yes to everything." ”

The people present took a breath of cool air, and Stephen Zhou's eyes moved, but his body didn't react much. Tian Wen did not hide his surprise, after all, this was talking about business, asking for a price all over the sky, and paying back the money on the ground, no one expected the other party to accept it at the beginning, and for a while, he himself was stunned.

"But I have strings attached." Shen Zhenghui said next, so that the harmony of the heavens and stars was also relieved.

"Tell me." Tian Wen's tone became much softer.

"I want full copyright to this film, including sequel shooting, TV series adaptation, and so on." Shen Zhenghui raised his eyebrows, "Of course, the filming of the sequel must ask for your opinions, in addition, I also want the peripheral copyright derived from this film, including figures, posters, etc., which can be discussed by the lawyer." ”

Tian Wen subconsciously set his eyes on Stephen Zhou, and Tian Wen had no idea about such conditions. The investment of 50 million Hong Kong dollars, the cost recovery box office according to the best 55 accounts, the box office at least more than 100 million can recover the cost, Hong Kong is impossible to have a box office, so you can only count on the foreign market. Stephen Zhou is guaranteed to have a good box office, but at the moment he is not an international superstar, he has not been tested by the international market, he is at most a representative of Hong Kong, China, and Asian culture, so when it is still difficult to figure out in the mainland market, the box office of movies with more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars in the market outside the mainland is a huge burden no matter how you look at it.

"Mr. Zhou, what do you think? To be honest, I like your movie very much, and if you agree to these conditions, we can still negotiate the amount of investment. ”

Tian Wen felt that his ears must have been broken, or he had auditory hallucinations, and there was still such a film investor who didn't think the investment amount was high enough!

Stephen Zhou moved his arms and placed them all on the table, "We have to think about it," he said, "I don't think it's appropriate to give you all the copyright and peripheral copyrights, and I think it's only okay to accept half of it." ”

"It is very difficult to coordinate the way of one and half people in the surrounding copyright, and it is very difficult to operate. And it's even more impossible for one person and half of the film copyright, we can sign a conditional contract for the launch of the sequel, but since it is a film I invested in, the copyright must belong to me. Otherwise, we could co-fund and then form a new company to hold the rights to the film, what do you think? ”

This is simply to make things complicated, and everyone knows it.

"In addition, I think it will be a little difficult for the name "Shaolin Football" to be released in the mainland, one is that Shaolin Temple is a religious legal person, although they are backward and outdated, but they have begun to pay attention to the registration and protection of trademarks, you take this name, there is a suspicion of trademark theft."

"How many years have we used this term to make movies, is it still illegal?" Tian Wen couldn't help but laugh.

Shen Zhenghui glanced at him, "Shaolin Football" could not be released in the mainland in the future, because the name Shaolin was taboo, and the film was not reviewed by Guangwei, and Hong Kong was the first to release it, which became a complete violation of the unapproved screening, so "Shaolin Football" completely lost the opportunity to be released in the mainland.

Stephen Zhou shook his head, "The name has been decided, and it can't be changed." His tone was firm as a rock.

For such a paranoid person, it is difficult to convince him of what he believes. Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Zhu Xinghe also picked up the menu, "Why don't we order first." ”

The group was talking about things, it was too early to talk about things with Jiahe before, and now the time is just time to eat, but the waiter didn't dare to come in if he didn't get the greeting, so there was no food in the original dinner.

"I just want a bowl of noodles." Stephen Zhou said to the waiter who called in, the waiter was still a little excited to see Stephen Zhou, but he was a little stunned when he heard this name.

"The noodles are good, anyway, our main thing is not to eat, so let's eat a bowl of noodles and continue to talk about things." Shen Zhenghui said of course, "I want braised beef noodles." ”

Zhu Xinghe also followed and asked for a bowl of seafood noodles, and Tian Wen probably got used to it and ordered a somen noodle. The waiter who ordered the order didn't know what it was like, but in such a high-end restaurant, he actually ordered four bowls of noodles to eat, which really made people laugh and cry.

Stephen Chow was probably a little embarrassed, "I really like to eat noodles." ”

"I like it too." Shen Zhenghui responded, "If you have time to go to Bashu together, I invite you to eat Bashu's dandan noodles, the taste is really unusual, in addition, the rice noodles in Fucheng are also good, if you like to eat noodles, you can also try it." ”

These words greatly eased the relationship with Stephen Zhou, and Stephen Zhou's expression softened, and he no longer looked strict to the end. After eating, the two sides talked about the specific steps if they were co-produced, and they had no opinion on sending producer Stephen Zhou in the spring, and he welcomed sending the assistant director to learn, but asked the assistant director to follow his arrangement on the set. Shen Zhenghui said that he had no objection to this. As for Zhu Xinghe also tentatively asked Japanese actors whether they could appear in the film, especially actresses, Stephen Zhou said with a straight face that the actors must be selected by himself, and Shen Zhenghui also expressed respect for the director's request.

Although in the end, Stephen Zhou did not make a decision on whether to accept the investment of Kasuga Pictures, and said that he would go back and think about Kasuga's conditions, but in terms of the topics discussed by the two sides, Shen Zhenghui obviously felt that he could be optimistic about the plan of this cooperation.