With the words of the third master, Shao Yingying's next life is completely in an irremediable chaos, and his comprehensive plan to enter Hollywood must be carried out at the same time as the acquisition of MGM, otherwise, time waits for no one, and he will not have much time in 2009.

The news that Harry Sloan fed back from the board of directors was that all MGM executives unanimously decided to sell MGM's resolution, after knowing this news, Shao Yingying didn't need any other details at all, it was best to leave these things to Zhongying, anyway, he didn't bother to interfere, what he had to take care of was creation.

"Harry, I want you to find three people, one is director Todd Phillips and the other is screenwriter Jon Lucas, before looking for these two people, ask if they have any new movies with Warners, if not, buy Jon Lucas's script "The Hangover" immediately, set a schedule for Todd Phillips, and let them kick the movie out for me in the early part of the summer schedule. If they have signed a contract with Warner, don't alarm anyone, just quietly return it, we can't afford to mess with Warner now. ”

"The other one, it's Michael Lewis, you must know this guy, right? His novel "Weakness: The Course of the Game" is well-known in your country, and the rights to adapt this novel were bought. ”

After hearing the words relayed by the translator, Harry Sloan said with some concern: "Shao, you will shoot the third film in your series this year, and if you open two more movies, you will ...... in terms of funds."

"I'll solve the problem of money for you." Shao Yingying answered with great certainty.

If these two movies can be won before Warner, then Shao Yingying's entry into MGM will usher in a good start. "The Hangover" is a model of a movie that uses a small budget to win a big box office, and the success of this film lies in the fact that it is full of rice crackers, in the context of the economic downturn in the country. The audience in the United States needs some venting, warm, and funny movies to heal their wounds, and at this time, they are a little dismissive of creative works, which is completely due to the general environment, and if "Source Code" encounters this environmental atmosphere, it must not be able to raise its head.

The main thing is that "The Hangover" invested only $35 million, and the filming process was very simple. Although there are some places full of ideas that will make you laugh, it broke the box office record of $234.8 million for the R-rated comedy "Billy Foshan's Super Detective" in China, setting a new peak for local comedy films, bringing the local box office comedy film to a peak of 238.2 million at the box office, and even exceeding 400 million at the global box office. This is a typical explosive movie, which takes the humor of Mi Guo's 'dumping' to the extreme.

"Weakness" is also a small and big movie, the entire production cost of the film is only 29 million US dollars, but the warmth and inspiration in it inspire every Chinese person under the financial crisis. This emotional transmission made "Weakness" a box office of 166 million. The rate of return is jaw-dropping.

With these two movies at the bottom, Shao Yingying can completely support the entire MGM with confidence.

Time is pressing, Shao Yingying can't help but dig into the corner.

Fortunately, Harry Sloan brought back the information that "Weakness" had finished filming and was waiting for the summer release, while "The Hangover" collapsed due to investment problems, and no company has taken over so far, and it was originally scheduled to start filming last summer. The movies released this year were thrown there and no one cared about them, and Todd Phillips broke his leg and still didn't get any investment for this small-budget film. In this case. Harry Sloan, even the battered MGM chairman, still holds The Hangover in his hands.

When Shao Yingying heard the news, he almost shouted excitedly in front of the translator, thanks to "The Hangover" in his hand, this is a super gold-absorbing machine that has created a total box office of more than $1 billion in the trilogy, and the box office return is even higher than the first part of "Twilight".

He is now going to make money, not only to make his name, but also to bring MGM back up, so that MGM's movie titles are all hung with the dragon logo.

"Chairman Han, I need to determine now how much start-up capital you can leave for the company after the acquisition? If I didn't have the start-up capital, I wouldn't be able to use it. "Shao Yingying, before the New Year, a phone call chased after the third master's mobile phone.

"Xiao Shao, are you in too much of a hurry? Although this matter is very smooth now, it will take time to complete the acquisition, and it is estimated that it will be at least the end of March to complete the acquisition, review, handover and other procedures. You're going to start now, isn't it, a little early? ”

Shao Yingying took the phone and said in his office: "Chairman Han, I need to have the most direct and fast financial guarantee to stand up MGM as fast as possible, otherwise I won't be able to start any plan, you know, the current MGM is an empty shell." Of course, I only take the dividends of the proportion of the shares for the money here, and I don't want to pay any more, and I make my own films, invest them myself, and only use MGM's channels, and I pay a lot of MGM as a distributor. ”

"100 million." The third master emphasized: "I can only keep 100 million start-up capital. ”

He also has his difficulties, he can't use 5 billion to buy MGM and leave a lot of money, right? Yes, you Shao Yingying's start-up capital is not too much, but if Zhongying uses money to smash MGM out of Shengsheng, why do you want Shao Yingying to directly invest a large amount of money to create a visual feast?

"Enough!"

Shao Yingying's 'crunchy' reply surprised the third master, he didn't expect Shao Yingying to really dare to take this hot plate.

After hanging up the phone, he had the start-up capital for "The Hangover", and then called MGM again for the translator to continue: "The second season of 'The Walking Dead' starts in April. In fact, he still wants to continue to open "Spartacus", but now STARZ has opened this TV series: "Harry, do you know the British "Shameless"? is the three-no TV series with no bottom line, no discipline, and everything you do, contact them, buy the remake copyright, and wait for the box office of "The Hangover" to come out, and take a part of it to start filming the first season directly. ”

"Shao, we now have two movies and two TV series in the process of establishing the project, but you told me that after the acquisition of MGM, the start-up capital left behind is only 100 million, are you sure that this money can roll over more and more? Or have you already counted the box office profits of "Super Body"? ”

Shao Yingying smiled when he heard this: "Harry, "Super Body" is mine, MGM only has 15 million dividends, and what I told you is the foundation for MGM, believe me, from today on, MGM will no longer be the former MGM!" ”

With the two TV series "The Walking Dead" and "Shameless", MGM will be able to get the full support of STARZ, which means that MGM finally has the TV station that he has worked with to promote the network. In addition, Shao Yingying also plans to make Zuò out the peripheral products in "The Walking Dead", such as a t-shirt printed with a zombie face, a Halloween zombie mask, a weapon model used by the characters in the story, and a doll in the original form of the character.

Also, as long as the box office of "The Hangover" is released, then "The Hangover 2" can be added to the advertising placement, and it can also be made into a zero-cost movie through the model of "Tomb Raider", that is to say, after the first "Hangover" made its own name, the future "Hangover" does not need to invest much cost, even if "Super Body" hits a high box office "Or become a god?" Or die? The cost of film production can also greatly reduce investment costs through guò means, this is Hollywood's way to make money, just pointing to the box office recovery after investing a lot of money in the early stage, when can you be well-off?

As for the domestic hero Hua Yi Shao Hero don't have to worry at all, next year's hero Hua Yi will definitely be a box office hit in the film market, first use "No Man's Land" and "Du Lala's Promotion" to dominate the summer file; "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" forcibly occupied the eleventh prime time; "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" can occupy the Chinese New Year file, it will cause a strong popularity in the big screen market. Now, the most important thing is that there are fewer and fewer things to choose from on the small screen market, and Shao Yingying has little time to copy the script, so he is left to pull Yoyo and say some ideas, and then let Yoyo write it, such as "Heart Art".

The good thing about the TV series "Mental Art" is that it has enough positive energy, not to mention, it can continue to maintain the consistent style of CCTV broadcasting dramas, only this style of drama will be selected by CCTV to be placed in prime time, and everything else is for nothing.

With a certain amount of film, the hero Hua Yi began in-depth cooperation with the movie channel under Wang Jinghua's intense development, except for loans, movies that have no great value have been sold to the movie channel at a very low price for copyright fees, in the domestic piracy rampant, genuine DVDs are not profitable at all, and the finished movie can be broadcast on the movie channel even if it is waste. If we can build a good relationship with STARZ, we may be able to buy out a time slot of the TV station to broadcast domestic films, so that it will be easier for domestic filmmakers to appear in front of foreign directors, but it is not yet known whether the ratings will pay for themselves.

After this qiē, Shao Yingying, who burned his ass, remembered that he hadn't done the most critical thing yet!

He arranged MGM's 2009 plan and the hero Huayi's 2009 plan, but the script of his movie didn't have a word, isn't this nonsense? I've been busy for a long time, forget about it!

But how can he have time to write a script, Wang Jinghua has already booked a ticket for him, next week, Shao Yingying will fly to the United States to fully promote "Super Body" in the United States, that is to say, Fan Ye is about to make his debut in Hollywood and even the international market!! (To be continued......)