MGM became popular, and when the two movies hit $800 million in the summer, all the entertainment news pages in Hollywood reported on the situation after Shao Yingying became the owner, because the money earned by these two movies was enough to support MGM, which was about to collapse, for a long time. It's just that what they don't know very well is that these two movies don't exactly belong to MGM, and after the money earned by "Super Body" is divided among MGM in proportion, all the money is transferred back to China, and the money is used to repay the loan that Shao Yingying mortgaged to the bank with the hero Huayi, and "The Hangover" is MGM's real money-making movie, but the same amount of money can't go into MGM's books.

Part of the profits from "The Hangover" should be kept to cope with the next repayment period, and the remaining part should be used as "Either Become a God?" Or die? After all, it is not possible to succeed every time to make a movie into a 0 cost, according to Shao Yingxing's Huaxia-style thinking, it is called the family to have overnight food and not panic.

However, when Shao Yingying was busy and prepared the script, and Harry Sloan also swallowed the RO-FX studio to give them the backing of special effects, and all the problems were ready, Harry Sloan's steps to make the new movie into a zero-cost one went wrong.

"Shao, I can't go to Germany or England right now, we're not quite ready."

When Harry Sloan finished saying this, Shao Yingying looked at him, and the two of them stared at each other in the office, Shao Yingying asked very puzzled, "What else do you need to prepare?" Didn't you go with the script, and we would be able to start filming after it was decided? ”

"Of course not." Harry Sloan explained, "It's not that simple, first of all. The confidence that the film brought to the Germans and the British was enough, after all, the series has rushed from the B level to the ranks of the A class system, and the quality is beyond doubt; Secondly. Your Shao Yingying's directing ability has also been recognized, and the box office and word-of-mouth are there; In the end, MGM, despite its downfall, has recently raised its head. We can say that we have the qualifications to stand in front of the Germans and the British, but we lack one thing. ”

"What?" Shao Yingying asked.

Harry Sloan also said without hesitation: "The big name that makes the Europeans recognize." ”

"Shao, if you are now a Golden Globe Award actor or Oscar winner. Well, none of us need to look for it, the film you starred in will be specially sent to you by many countries around the world that give film benefits. But you're not, and you're an artist who has just become popular in Hollywood, which will make people feel distrustful. They are afraid that you are the same as Cheng Long. There are too many ups and downs in the box office market. Let them ride a rollercoaster ride like worry. ”

"If we had a big name, even if there was only one real big name, I dare to say that this movie would have been nine out of ten at zero cost, and now we are short of such a little variable."

Shao Yingying leaned in the office and looked at Harry Sloan: "Harry...... I contacted all the big names you can think of, but when their agents heard that they were playing a supporting role for me, they all refused, and even I found a black movie star. Cheng Long was right. It's really impossible to let Hollywood's first-line show me a supporting role. ”

"Unless. I gave up the role of the male lead. ”

Harry Sloan listened to Shao Yingying's words, and said smoothly: "You ......"

"Don't think about it, there's no way I'm going to give up the lead actor, this is my film, the series I've built with my own hands, whether it's Tom Cruise, Blatter Pitt, Robert Downey or Denzel Washington, I'm not going to give up my place for any of them. Because today I gave up this position, Hollywood will never change the rules for the sake of a Chinese, and at that time, no matter how high my box office is, no matter how many awards my film can win, there will not be any big name, a Hollywood first-line big name appears in your movie, they know that you will make changes when you are forced to do so, they just need to wait until your patience is gone, they can become the protagonist of your movie. ”

Shao Yingying was a little angry: "Only by persevering and waiting for the time that belongs to me comes, at that time, after the emergence of two black actors in Hollywood, there may be a Chinese actor, just like the United States can accept any nation in the world, even blacks can become the president of this country, and Chinese can also become politicians here." ”

"Harry, only by persevering until that day comes, can we poach away those poor self-esteem of Hollywood, and wait for the first Hollywood big name to willingly play a supporting role for me under the pressure of MGM movies, and I can truly become the top star of Hollywood, and it will take time. Until then, I had to be on my own. ”

Harry Sloan didn't hear anything that could end with an exclamation point in Shao's mouth, but every sentence Shao Yingying said in his ears was filled with angry shouts.

"Okay, I'll try my best."

Shao Yingying shook his head and said: "Harry, it's not about trying, it's not about asking, it's about doing the best, don't be disappointed if you can't do it, it's a big deal, I'll raise money." ”

"You mean, Chunkage?" Harry Sloan couldn't understand Shao Yingying's thinking: "Is there any difference between bowing to Zhongying and giving up the male lead?" Aren't they all bowed? Besides, we can make more money by giving up the male lead! ”

"You don't understand, in our hearts, bowing to our own people is completely different from bowing to others, not to mention that Zhongying invests in my Shao Yingying's movie, and I don't need to bow my head."

In the eyes of the Chinese people, many Chinese people have very strange ideas, for example, they absolutely do not believe that Chinese with a monthly salary of no more than 2,000 US dollars can return to China with 9,000 US dollars at the end of the year, because their airport staff can't take out 9,000 US dollars in cash with an annual salary of 60,000 US dollars, so there are incidents where Chinese people bring too much cash and are repeatedly detained after their small commodity building was hit by a plane. They couldn't even imagine how the Chinese could save this money, and how could they understand the deeper things described by Shao Yingying, so, in Harry Sloan's opinion, Shao Yingying's idea was simply incredible.

Helplessly, Harry rushed to Germany after persuading Shao Yingying to no avail, which was his first step, and after Germany, he had to go to New Zealand and the United Kingdom, all of which have very good policies in terms of film shooting, which is convenient for the operation of MGM's new films.

At this moment, Shao Yingying is wearing the title of producer, watching the filming process of the second season of "The Walking Dead" in the studio every day, and finalizing the contract of Andrew Lincoln to star in his new movie, but I didn't expect Wang Jinghua to come with a shocking news!

"Boss Shao, we have received an order from Huayi Performing Arts Network about you, and the order comes from Millennium Pictures."

Millennium Pictures?

Shao Yingying thought about it carefully for a long time, but he never remembered what impression this 'Millennium Pictures' had in his memory: "Aren't you just pushing it for me?" Do we still have a crew in China who are willing to spend such a high salary to hire me? Not the boring people on the internet......"

"It's better to listen to me, at first we thought it was boring people, so we didn't care, but I didn't expect them to send the script and the lineup, I think it's better for you to decide this matter." Wang Jinghua's tone was a little too formal, which made Shao Yingying wonder if he had heard it wrong, and several domestic giants didn't know it, how could they get a millennium film industry not long after they went abroad?

"Say it." Shao Yingying was really interested, sitting on a chair with a phone in the studio, watching the staff build a green set, watching the actors audition in front of the camera, and using this phone call to kill time.

Wang Jinghua said in another paragraph on the phone: "There are ...... on the cast list Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Li Lianjie, Duff Lange, Terry Cruise, Mickey Locke, Randy Kudrow, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger. ”

"What!"

Scold!

Shao Yingying stood up from his chair in an instant, he really didn't pay much attention to Millennium Pictures, but there was only one movie that these people got together, and that was "The Expendables"!

"The director and producer is Sylvester Stallone, the screenwriter is Duff Callaham, and you are invited to play the role of Yang, Li Lianjie plays Yin, you play a pair of brothers, and you are a younger brother."

Originally, it wasn't written like this, in the movie where Shao Yingying watched a gathering of tough guys, Li Lianjie's role is called Yang Yin, the only Asian in the 'death squad', who once served in the mysterious army, although he is not big, he has amazing combat effectiveness, his fists and feet are quite fast, he has an extraordinary tactical mind and excellent skills to fight against ten.

How could it be, how could this character be split into two people, one yang and one yin......

Shao Yingying figured it out, it must be that he has been too well-known for his gambling with the entire Hollywood media recently, coupled with the tough guy image he used to have on the screen and the naked muscles exposed in "The Wind" meet the standards of a group of muscular men in "The Expendables", so he got involved in this movie that is a bit of a tough guy.

"Millennium Pictures not only wants to sign a contract with you for this movie, but also a draft contract with you for a sequel...... You know why, right? ”

Shao Yingying knows too well, his price on Huayi Performing Arts Network is sky-high for China, but when converted into US dollars, it is estimated that the producer can laugh crazy, when have you ever seen a star who has made a certain reputation in Hollywood and has enough fan groups in Huaxia to be cheap enough to be this kind of Cheng dù? Then why don't you hurry up and beat the rabbit and set the contract first?

"I asked someone to inquire a little, there was only the role of Li Lianjie in the original script, and there was no you, I don't know why I added you, I think that if we don't accept the contract according to the price of Huayi Performing Arts Online, I am afraid that we will be immediately excluded from the periphery of these Hollywood first-line tough guys, Boss Shao, I would rather lose some money in this matter, as long as you are on this drama, your status in Hollywood will rise. You, decide for yourself, we're going to do our best to reply to others. (To be continued......)