"MGM?"

After Chris shouted out this name suspiciously, the whole person let out a sneer with great disdain: "Shao, you let people deceive." ”

Immediately afterwards, he counted his treasures: "MGM used to be the leading boss of Hollywood, but what era was that?" Since the Paramount Act, MGM has had to give up its screening rights and go with the flow in Hollywood. ”

"Hero Huayi belongs to a new rising company, and MGM has become a rotten ship!"

"From 1994 to 2001, it should be regarded as the period of MGM's glory, "True Lies", "Life and Death", "Hannibal", "Legally Blonde", "Thrilling Cannibal" were crazy sales, but this is nothing for Hollywood. There are only five big-selling movies in seven years, and the other movies are either tied or lose money, do you know what Hollywood's annual production is? Do you know how many movies MGM has in the movie library? I tell you, MGM has about 4,000 movies and nearly 5,000 movies in its film library, and you calculate how many movies they will make in a year, and whether these five blockbuster movies can sustain them for seven years. ”

In 2002, Wu Yusen's "Changing Face" and "Mission Impossible 2" made MGM see the light of day again, but the next "Wind Whisperer" almost made them lose all the money they had just accumulated. Not to mention the past two years, who doesn't know that MGM is borrowing money to get by, and you have to cooperate with them? ”

Call.

Chris gasped and said, "I might as well tell you the truth, if MGM doesn't have that many series of movies that can give them a loan." They don't stand up today. ”

"Aren't you afraid that you won't get back the money if you sell Source Code?"

Chris looked at Shao Yingying and persuaded with a cautious face: "You really want to lean against MGM, you will be dragged down!" Don't forget that the financial situation of the hero Huayi is not much better than MGM. ”

"We're different." Chris was instantly full of confidence: "As long as you are willing to give up the rights to adapt this movie." We will give 5 million! This money, together with your box office profits and the cost of transferring the rights to audiovisual productions, can you pay off almost one-tenth of your debts, do you still need to consider this? ”

"Oh~~~~" Shao Yingying responded with a long voice: "That's the case." ”

Shao Yingying took advantage of the stubble and nodded hurriedly: "Lao Ke, I have to thank you, otherwise I will let people die." ”

Old Gram?

What is this called?

Chris hesitated for a second, then began to wait for Shao Yingying's answer. He has already said everything he can and can't say, and how to choose next depends on Shao Yingying.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yingying took out his mobile phone and dialed a phone number. The moment the phone was connected, he was scolded for his face: "Zhang Wan, don't you want to do it anymore?" Yes! Colombia has such a good environment, and I still want to buy the adaptation rights of our "Source Code". You're sold to someone and it's over. If you have an old relationship, why do you have to make a MGM if you don't take care of it? Can MGM cooperate? They don't even have to be able to eat tomorrow, you say, are you charging MGM money? ”

"What?"

Shao Yingying took the phone and glanced at Chris, as if he had leaked his mouth: "How much do they give?" 10 million? Or the dollar? ”

covered his mouth suddenly, and then looked at Chris in great embarrassment, as if this action was frozen there: "Okay, is it useful to give 100 million?" At that time, if MGM files for bankruptcy, you and I will have to eat chaff! ”

"Cash check?"

"Did you go to the bank and check it? Say you can cash in directly? ”

Shao Yingying glanced at Chris again. Showing it to Chris, he simply turned his head to avoid his eyes.

"Whoa, whoa...... You wait. What you've heard can't be framed, right? How do I think this looks like a trick by two companies to tear each other down? ”

"So, I'm here with Lao Ke now, I'll ask later, I'm sure it's their frame, I'll call you back later."

Shao Yingying hung up the phone and directly changed the topic: "Lao Ke, I have to ask you something, Zhang Wan, the general manager of our company, said that he knew one thing when he contacted the people at MGM, there was no fire in the Columbia head office, and he also said that the account details put forward by the people after buying off your company's accountant showed that the North American box office of our "Source Code" had already hit your account. Belch...... There shouldn't be such a thing, right? You said that we have such a good relationship, everything is discussed...... Lao Ke, could it be that you forgot? You recall carefully, did the people below not tell you clearly, in fact, the box office in North America is already in your hands, you are just too busy to tell them to transfer money to us? ”

"Framed, it's all framed!"

Chris slapped his desk and yelled, looking like he was about to go berserk.

"I said it was a false accusation just now!" Shao Yingying followed Gonghuo and said: "I'm still thinking, if it is according to the situation you said, where will MGM get this check for 10 million US dollars?" Didn't you just give 5 million, maybe you still said RMB...... That's it, I'll call the police when I go back, maybe there's a commercial fraud here. Shao Yingying got up and said, "Lao Ke, then you stay, I'll go back first, I can't stay anymore." If this kid wants to empty the white wolf from my hand, then he will have to weigh the speed of our accounting, I promise, if he really intends to lie to me, he will be recognized before he walks from the hero Huayi to the airport. ”

Swindle...... Chris looked at Shao Yingying's eyes and said, "Shao, what about the adaptation rights?" ”

"When the two of us are so close, I can't talk about it, now I have to go back to the company immediately, another day, another day, I'll invite you another day."

Shao Yingying ignored him at all, got up and left.

"Shao, Shao ......"

……

Downstairs in Columbia, in a black Mercedes-Benz car, Shao Yingying, wearing a gray suit, sat behind the driver, and Zhang Wan sat in the position that should have belonged to the boss.

"Boss Shao, why am I so awkward when I hear Chris calling you? Shao, Shao's, this is how we communicate with livestock when we drive donkey carts in our village. Zhang Wan and Shao Yingying didn't see each other at all, making jokes that shouldn't have belonged between bosses and subordinates.

"Anything serious, isn't it?" Shao Yingying glared at Zhang Wan and said, "I'm talking upstairs." What do you enjoy on the phone? Why don't I cover the phone and your laughter can reach Chris's ears, why don't you make a louder noise so that his secretary can hear it? ”

Zhang Wan restrained his smile. Inquired: "Boss Shao, do you think we have ordered thoroughly enough?" I don't have a score in my heart, if Chris doesn't understand that we're talking about him, not MGM but about them Columbia, then what? ”

"What to do? I'm going to sue him after the contract period! ”

Shao Yingying said fiercely: "The most wrong thing we did was that we shouldn't feed him, some people are used to it." thinks that some money that shouldn't belong to them is deserved, and he is not happy if you don't give it to him. You took him as a friend, and now he treats you as a wrongdoer. ”

"Our "Twilight Zone" is still in people's hands." Zhang Wan reminded him.

"That's why I said the contract period." Shao Yingying thought thoughtfully: "But he should be able to understand." How many years have we been mixing this, if you can't taste this meaning, what are you messing with? ”

"Drive."

Cars were driven off the side of the road, and black Mercedes quickly poured into the traffic.

Sometimes people are quite cheap. Once you grab food from other people's bowls, you get used to it. When he sees something delicious in your bowl, he should think it's his own. This problem can't be changed, when one day you tell him 'get away, this is my food', he can hate you to death, and he can't wait to think about you for this bit of food, and he has to think 'if you don't give it to me, I'll kill you'. There are a lot of such sluts, so many that everyone on the streets and alleys has them. They will appear around everyone as a mixed eater and drinker. I always have no more than 100 yuan in my pocket, and I am very familiar with everyone, and I am not only poor but also have no ability at all. I wear it every day, like a successful person.

Chris has his own skills, but Hollywood companies are used to eating the profits of my country's film production companies, and every movie they get for Hollywood release is bought at a buyout price before 2007, and films like "Hero" that have made good overseas box office results have not only made them profitable, but also spoiled this group of guys. Therefore, the appearance of "Source Code" has become the 'food' in Chris's eyes, as if this plate of food does not belong to Shao Yingying, and should be placed on their table.

And what about us?

Due to the lack of technology and promotion level, they frequently suffer big losses in this, and they still stubbornly defend their own territory, without the slightest ambition, and no film production company has ever wanted to fight for the international box office.

That's the sadness.

If Xiangjiang is not committed to making money, repeating the movie routine again and again, but thinking about innovation, going out in the most glorious era of the Xiangjiang Film Market, not just sending stars like Cheng Long and Li Lianjie out, will the result be different?

Will China become the next Xiangjiang according to such a development route? At the end of 2014, didn't our 5 billion actor Huang Bo also have no impact on the world? If you exchange this money for dollars and deduct it from a crooked actor abroad, you can see what people will look like! International superstar !!

Whether it is "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", "Thai Embarrassment" and "Heart Flower Road", this kind of small-cost box office movie has made us accustomed to using the smallest resources to obtain the maximum benefit in the game, but the reason why this kind of movie wins is the audience's vision in the current era. It's right to fight big with a small one, this is also the most basic business common sense, because even if it is a loss, it will not hurt the muscles and bones, which has caused a box office miracle that we can understand but others can't.

But Hollywood doesn't do that, most of the time they still put the main background in the United States, but the story dares to be placed in any corner.

"Transformers", "Thor", "Pacific Rim", "Super Battleship", whether it is from comics, games, or movies adapted from pure imagination, relying on the combination of simple plot and scientific and technological means to achieve a successful way of dazzling visual experience has been placed in front of them, but no one dares to learn, even Liu Dehua's "Future Police" in exchange for endless ridicule, and no one praises its spirit of exploration. Why?

Why do we know that if we can't compete with visual blockbusters by relying solely on clever films like "Heart Blossom Road" and "Thai Embarrassment", once people start to stop accepting comedy and there is a full-scale box office collapse like Xiangjiang, we will still do it with nothing?

Shao Yingying couldn't figure it out, so he planned to take the first step forward, and he had to take the first step forward.

"Brother Zhang, after the celebration banquet, help me contact Industrial Light & Magic, that is, the company that helps make special effects for Star Wars and Transformers, I need to talk to them."

"By the way, you still have to help me contact MGM, Colombia can't continue to rely on, we have to prepare in advance." (To be continued......)