Chapter 66 Preparations
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The time has entered May, and the day when Li Mingbao will go to the United States is getting closer and closer. At this time, Li Mingbao began to prepare for his trip to the United States. If he wants to make a difference there, he will not be able to do it alone as he does in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, with the help of the sixth uncle before, and his second brother was also able to bring himself into the industry hand-in-hand, he basically didn't encounter any trouble. But when he went to Hollywood, Li Mingbao didn't have such good conditions.
On the Hollywood side, Li Mingbao can be said to be unaccompanied, and it is difficult to find anyone. Although it is certain that you will have to bring money in the past, sometimes money is not necessarily easy to use. If there is no familiar guy to lead the way, Li Mingbao used to want to make movies, which was difficult, and it was even more difficult to get the movie released, and it was even more difficult to get a good income.
If you just mess around in Hollywood and don't have much other needs, Li Mingbao has money, so he can live well there, and he can have any service. But Li Mingbao didn't play in the past, but did things, so over there, it wasn't so easy to mix.
Boss Zou has been in Hollywood for so many years, and it is difficult to move forward in the Hollywood market. Li Mingbao, a newcomer, wants to be able to make money immediately, which is not so easy.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao still had some time before going to Hollywood, and this time in Hong Kong was enough for him to do something. For example, if you find someone who is more familiar with Hollywood, with the leadership of such a person, Li Mingbao believes that working there in the early days will become much happier, at least you don't have to worry about trivial things every day.
In Hong Kong, if you want to talk about people who are familiar with Hollywood, most people will think of a big guy, that is Zou Wenhuai. As a bigwig who wants to make a difference in Hollywood, although Zou Wenhuai's foundation is in Hong Kong, he has never given up on Hollywood exhibitions.
If Li Mingbao can get in touch with Boss Zou, it will be much more convenient for him to do things in Hollywood. But Li Mingbao is not so cold to Boss Zou, this has nothing to do with Uncle Six, after all, when it comes to Hollywood, even if Li Mingbao cooperates with Zou Wenhuai over there, Uncle Six's hand can't let go, at most he is a little idle, and he can't do anything to Li Mingbao.
As for waiting for Li Mingbao to return to Hong Kong and then cleaning up Li Mingbao's affairs, it is estimated that the sixth uncle will think about it in his heart. Li Mingbao, who has a golden finger, is mixed in Hollywood, and he will definitely come out soon, and after Li Mingbao makes money over there, if the sixth uncle wants to clean up Li Mingbao, it depends on whether Li Mingbao will continue to agree.
So on the Hollywood side, Li Mingbao and Zou Wenhuai cooperate or something, Li Mingbao is not afraid of anything. But Li Mingbao didn't want to get in touch with Zou Wenhuai no matter what, because he knew that Zou Wenhuai, who was always suppressed by Shao Daheng, was actually not a good match.
Otherwise, after Zou Wenhuai betrayed the Shaw Brothers back then, the sixth uncle would not have been so angry, and he had fought a lawsuit with Zou Wenhuai for so many years, and he was still entangled until now. was able to wrestle with Uncle Six, although he was always at a disadvantage, but he didn't fall down at a touch. Such a character is actually not much easier to get along with than with Shao Tycoon.
He is a character who can break Shao Tycoon's wrists, and compared to Li Mingbao, who fell down in front of Shao Tycoon, his strength will be much stronger. In Hong Kong, Shao Daheng has some scruples that Li Mingbao doesn't understand, but when it comes to Hollywood, Boss Zou wants to do something to Li Mingbao, and Li Mingbao doesn't even have room to fight back.
To put it mildly, on the Hollywood side, Li Mingbao is like a fat sheep, in front of Boss Zou, a person who has been friends with Hollywood for many years, Li Mingbao will be even more unbearable than colliding with Shao Tycoon in Hong Kong, because he has no foundation over there. And although Zou Daheng can't be regarded as much success over there, he is also a person with his own territory, and he is half a master, and it is really simple to deal with Li Mingbao.
In the face of a tiger wolf like Boss Zou, Li Mingbao is too naïve to cooperate with him when his strength is too different. It is precisely with such scruples that even though Li Mingbao knew that he wanted to open up the situation as much as possible in Hollywood, and cooperating with Zou Wenhuai was a good choice, he still gave up such an idea directly.
Instead of praying in your heart for a happy cooperation, it is better to just replace a character who is not so strong. In Hong Kong, Chow is not the only one who is familiar with the situation in Hollywood.
In these days, Hong Kong is still the territory of the United Kingdom, so the communication with the outside world is relatively frequent, especially in the film industry. The reason why Boss Zou is so famous is because he succeeded in Li Xiaolong's matter at the beginning, coupled with his identity as a big man, so when everyone thinks of the situation in Hong Kong against Hollywood, the first thing that comes to mind is Boss Zou.
In addition to Boss Zou, there are actually some suitable people. And the person Li Mingbao wants to work with, in Li Mingbao's opinion, is definitely a more suitable person than Boss Zou, that is, Jiang Zhiqiang.
Jiang Zhiqiang is the most known to later generations for his unique film channels in Europe and the United States. Big 6 and many Hong Kong movies were promoted to Europe and the United States by him, and the most famous "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was originally released in Europe and the United States by relying on Jiang Zhiqiang.
As the boss of Anle, Jiang Zhiqiang's film experience is very rich, and his travel channels in Europe and the United States are also very smooth. Although his career is not as big as Boss Zou's, his strength cannot be underestimated.
Of course, those things were all done by him in the future. And the current Jiang Zhiqiang obviously does not have that much strength. Even at this time, he was not the boss of Anle, but his brother was in this business.
But don't think that you can underestimate him at this time, when Li Mingbao thought of Jiang Zhiqiang, he consciously collected information about Jiang Zhiqiang. And Jiang Zhiqiang is not a secret and powerful person, Li Mingbao wants to find his information, it is really easy.
So after looking at Jiang Zhiqiang's resume, Li Mingbao felt more and more that Jiang Zhiqiang was his most suitable partner in Hollywood. Even Li Mingbao wanted to pay the price and let Jiang Zhiqiang do things for himself directly.
As a 13-year-old who started running business in Europe and the United States, Jiang Zhiqiang, who is now 28 years old, can be described as young and experienced.
As a very small, non-mainstream small cinema chain in Hong Kong that screens Western films, Jiang Zhiqiang's efforts in the past few years can be said to be indispensable. If there is no Jiang Zhiqiang, Anle's western film business will basically not be able to continue, because most of the western films released in Anle theaters are brought back from Europe and the United States by Jiang Zhiqiang.
Last year, Jiang Zhiqiang and their An Le won the third place at the Hong Kong box office with a film randomly edited out of a foreign documentary. Even in history, without Li Mingbao making trouble, their film can be said to be so bad that it can't be worse, and it has won the second best result in the total box office in Hong Kong in the 80s. And with Li Mingbao's involvement, the first place was occupied by "Happy Ghost", and they only got the third place (the box office of "Baby Zhiduoxing" was counted in eighty-one years.) But even if it is the third place, they can be said to have made a lot of money, after all, those movies that are cut at will have a pitiful low cost, and the box office is basically a net profit.
And the person who came up with the idea to make such a movie is actually Jiang Zhiqiang. Such a person, although he is not very old, is absolutely experienced, especially for the understanding of Hollywood, which Zou Wenhuai can't match. It's not that Zou Wenhuai's status in Hollywood is lower than Jiang Zhiqiang's, but Jiang Zhiqiang's understanding of Hollywood is better than Zou Wenhuai's.
After all, Zou Wenhuai's purpose in Hollywood is to make money, and pushing his own movies over is his main purpose. However, Jiang Zhiqiang wants to bring Hollywood movies to Hong Kong, if he doesn't know about Hollywood, he may not be suitable to get some movies to Hong Kong, and if they are not suitable, he will not be able to make money, and his work will be meaningless.
With Jiang Zhiqiang, Li Mingbao doesn't have to worry about it, at least in the film industry. After all, Jiang Zhiqiang needs to deal with various Hollywood film companies to buy Western films, and with him over there to help him, Li Mingbao will not be blackened, and he is still helping others count money when he is sold.
Of course, it can't be said that Jiang Zhiqiang is omnipotent over there. After all, the movies he bought over there were all outdated old films, and the price of new films was not affordable for a small theater like Anle. So although Jiang Zhiqiang has an understanding of Hollywood's film companies, he also has acquaintances.
But the acquaintances of the film companies he got along with will definitely not be the top executives of those film companies, after all, the staff who sell old films, no matter where they are, cannot be high-level, and the high-level will not be responsible for these low-profit businesses. If Li Mingbao wants to get more prices over there, he will definitely need to come forward to negotiate in person.
Since he decided to cooperate with Jiang Zhiqiang, Li Mingbao's actions were not slow, and he directly made an appointment with Jiang Zhiqiang, saying that there were some businesses that needed to be discussed with Jiang Zhiqiang. Regarding Li Mingbao, a newly promoted wealthy man in Hong Kong, wants to talk to him, Jiang Zhiqiang is not only puzzled, but also knows some inside stories.
Regarding Li Mingbao's going to Hollywood, it is not a special secret in the entertainment industry. Recently, there have been no newspapers to report this matter, but because Li Minghuang was ruthless before, even the newspapers reported on Li Mingbao's affairs, and they began to restrain themselves, so that they would not be like before, and even Li Mingbao's every day was eager for someone to report it.
For those newspapers, it is now okay to report on the topic of Li Mingbao. But at least it won't arouse Li Mingbao's disgust, so that both sides have leeway, and Li Mingbao going to Hollywood, for Li Mingbao, is obviously not a happy thing, the newspaper broke the news in advance before Li Mingbao himself said it, obviously it will anger Li Mingbao, which is not very cost-effective.