The second shot of the fifth scene of "The Mummy" Act 1!

"Hell, why do your camels sell here for half as much as they do in Cairo!"

Jonathan grunted and complained as he pulled money out of his wallet.

"Hi buddy! You can also not buy it, if you are confident that you can walk out of this desert on your feet alone! "The vendor made the money and looked triumphant.

Looking at his villainous appearance, Jonathan was even more unhappy, he looked back at Yang Lin, as if he really wanted to confirm with him if he could get out of the desert on two legs and reach the capital of the undead, Hamna Tower.

It's a pity that Yang Lin was very proud to see him eating deflated, he had a withered grass in his mouth, and a pair of knife eyebrows raised, "I promise, you will never imagine throwing half your life in the desert like I did before!" ”

……

Lin Xiaozhi sat in his seat, staring at Chow Yun-fat intently, habitually rubbing his chin with a lot of rough fingers, and soon rubbed off a piece of necrotic skin, he pinched it and flicked it out calmly after just looking at it, obviously used to it!

"It's windy, it looks like filming is going to stop in the afternoon!"

Zhang Yimou walked under his parasol with a gray towel on his head, his skin was originally a little brown and yellow, and now he said that he was an Indian, and no one would doubt it.

Lin Xiaozhi looked into the sky when he heard the sound and frowned slightly.

When it comes to the weather, the temperature in Egypt in February should be more comfortable than in Hong Kong. The average temperature during the day is between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius, and at night it can drop below 10 degrees Celsius.

But this is not China, it is a standard desert country where more than 95% of the territory is desert, the sun shines directly on sunny days, and the sand carried by the wind blowing from the ocean from time to time hits the face, even if you put on sunscreen, you can't stand the repeated tossing day after day, and after a month in Egypt, Lin Xiaozhi's face has shed two layers of bad skin alone, which makes his wife feel distressed to death when he came to see him from Hong Kong a few days ago.

Following Zhang Yimou's fingers, Lin Xiaozhi saw that the sky in the distance began to turn yellow, and shrugged helplessly.

Having been in Egypt for a while, he is also somewhat familiar with the bad weather here. For example, in the north of the country, sandstorms usually start to break out in April and May, but here in Egypt they are encountered almost every month of the year, but the difference is just in size. Desert flooding, drought in the Gobi, soil erosion, in the words of the locals, can spit out half a mouthful of sand in a breezy weather, although it is exaggerated, it also shows how common the wind and sand weather is in Egypt.

In the month they filmed in the desert town of Tantos, there have been three or four days when they had to stop filming because of sandstorms, except for using this weather to make up for the scenes where several groups of protagonists and others are traveling in the desert in bad weather, let alone filming locations, it is not even convenient to go out.

Seeing that the sky began to turn yellow again, obviously there was sand and dust about to hit, Lin Xiaozhi lifted the lead microphone, "OK, this scene is over!" Take a five-minute break, the makeup artist pays attention to the makeup, and we strive to go through three acts in one breath in the morning and rest in the afternoon! ”

……

As soon as he returned to the hotel, before he could take a hot shower and wash off his hair and sand, Lin Xiaozhi saw Ye Weixin appear in front of him, with an unconcealable smile on his face.

His heart moved, and he asked, "What made you come to see me personally?" How's the new movie going! ”

Ye Weixin's new movie, the old script is still from him. Because he knows Ye Weixin's filming style very well, he is actually not good at shooting pure action movies, but the kind of films that use ordinary or non-ordinary plots to deeply dissect human nature.

The new script prepared for him by Lin Hsiao-chi is called "Whose World", which is adapted from a very famous American movie "Truman's World" in the previous life.

At the beginning, he had the idea of making this movie, and he mainly wanted to advertise for ATV around the world, although Ye Weixin's reputation in Europe and the United States is not as good as his, but his reputation and attention have climbed rapidly after the release of "Fight Club" directed by him. The film eventually swept away nearly $80 million at the box office worldwide, and the tapes did not sell badly, making a lot of money for Media Asia.

So much so that after he finished filming this movie, many European and American film companies invited Ye Weixin to take charge of this film that was regarded as the 'opposite angle' by Asia, and Lin Xiaozhi was very relieved.

Speaking of which, the original TheMalcolmShow of "Truman's World" has been written out by screenwriter Andrew Nicolm two years ago, Lin Xiaozhi originally planned to spend money to buy it with him, who knew that he sent someone to inquire only to find out that Andrew Nichol's first draft turned out to be a sci-fi thriller, and it has almost no relevance to the final draft of "Truman's World".

With this discovery, and the fact that the other party asked for a fixed price of one million US dollars, it was ridiculously dark, so he kicked the original author aside with peace of mind, and generously wrote the Hong Kongized script of "Truman's World" and handed it over to Ye Weixin to shoot.

Ye Weixin nodded with a smile when he heard this, "The movie was completed half a month ago, in fact, if Andy's schedule wasn't too full, and he took two scenes to shoot at the same time, we might have finished filming a year ago." I'm going to put the movie on hold and wait until May! ”

After May?!

Lin Xiaozhi thought thoughtfully, for filmmakers, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind when it comes to May will not be anything else, only the Cannes Film Festival will be held in the small town of Cannes in the south of France in May. He knows that Ye Weixin is a bit of a literati, although he does not attach the same importance to fame as mainland filmmakers in later generations, and he still makes money from films, but if he can make some achievements in this most internationally influential film festival today, it will still be very attractive to him.

He nodded his head in support of his decision.

But he didn't know Ye Weixin and came to Egypt to meet him today, just to tell him about his new movie.

Sure enough, Ye Weixin only paused slightly, then raised his eyebrows and said to him excitedly: "Lin Sheng, maybe guessed what good news I was going to tell you today?" ”

Seeing that he was happy, he dared to sell his boss. Lin Xiaozhi glanced at him angrily, his heart was itching, and asked, "Give me a hint......

Ye Weixin smiled: "If I prompted, you wouldn't have guessed it all at once...... Well, Polygram ......"

"Could it be ......" Lin Xiaozhi's face suddenly turned ecstatic, "Polygram finally nodded?" ”

"That's right! Congratulations to Lin Sheng! ”

"Congratulations!"

Lin Xiaozhi hugged him excitedly and laughed wildly!

When it comes to PolyGram Records, I'm afraid anyone in the world who has worked with music will not know it. This record company, headquartered in London, England, is one of the world's most famous record giants, not only surpassing Lin Xiaozhi's Media Asia several times in total size, but also a big brother in the record industry today.

The predecessor of Polygram Records, Deutsche Grammophon, was founded in 1898 and became a subsidiary of Siemens, a German industrial giant, after World War II. In the early 70s, in order to resist the risk, Philips took the initiative to contact Siemens, and finally in 1972, the two major European industrial giants - Siemens and Philips reached an agreement, Deutsche Grammophon and Philips PPI company merged, the merged new record company was renamed "Polygram International Co., Ltd.", the headquarters moved to London, England, Siemens and Philips each owned half of its shares.

Backed by the support of the two major industrial giants in Europe, Polygram's development path or annexation road is more accurate, and it has successively acquired all the well-known jazz record labels of MGM Films, Shen Yun, Decca, AM, Motown, DefJam, Ludwin and other record companies.

In 1987, under pressure from the Bertelsmann Group, of which Siemens was one of its major shareholders, Siemens finally chose Bertelsmann and sold most of its shares in PolyGram to Philips, which became the holding company of Philips.

Now is the peak period of PolyGram, even the Sony Columbia record label, which is now known as the largest Sony Columbia record company in the United States, and the old giant Universal Music, which was acquired by Sony just two years ago, have mostly lost to it in the competition for top singers and bands, which shows its strength.

To say that Lin Xiaozhi and Polygram Records, except for the fact that he bought the shares of Xinyibao Records from the Hong Kong branch of Polygram Records a few years ago, there is not much cooperation between the two companies, and only occasionally they will come into contact when the soundtrack used in some films happens to belong to PolyGram.

So why did Lin Xiaozhi get involved with Polygram again this time, the reason is very simple, because Polygram is not only a record company, although its reputation is not obvious, but Polygram not only owns one of the largest film companies in Europe - PolyGram International Film Company, but also operates theaters in many European countries.

That's right, although Lin Xiaozhi is respectful of PolyGram's name - PolyGram International Film Company, which has now shown his ability to cheat, he is very greedy for the European cinema chain held by Polygram, especially the UCT Cinema Holdings Ltd., which owns nearly a quarter of the cinema chain in the UK.

In the UK, there are three largest cinema giants, among which the boss is Needless to say, it is Odeon, which MA has always cooperated with.

Odeon is a cinema giant company with cinemas, video games, restaurants, etc., headquartered in the United Kingdom, but there are cinemas in many countries throughout Europe, with nearly 1,700 screens, although it occupies a larger market share of the British cinema chain than UCT, more than one-third, but Odeon's financial situation in recent years is good, and the board of directors has no intention of selling, and wants to forcibly take it down, conservatively estimating that Lin Xiaozhi will prepare at least 600 million pounds for it, nearly 7 billion Hong Kong dollars, This was by no means acceptable to him.

And Vue Entertainment Co., Ltd., another theater giant in the UK, is almost as strong as UCT, and it was Lin Xiaozhi's target at the beginning.

Vue's family is the notorious Baron Hadlin, the most famous white supremacist and colonialist in Britain, who had arrogantly bought out the front page of a major London newspaper warning the Iron Lady Thatcher to give her a gun if she dared to sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, for which he was reportedly criminally detained for threatening the Prime Minister's safety.

If the old guy doesn't die, the Hadlin family will never sell Vue to Lin Xiaozhi, not to mention that Vue is also in contact with Pearson, the largest educational publishing company in Europe. In recent years, Pearson has been competing with Bertelsmann for the throne of Europe's largest publishing group, and at the same time, it is also following Bertelsmann's example to diversify.

Lin Xiaozhi has no intention of dealing with a raceist, so he can't choose, and the UCT cinema chain held by Polygram is the only choice for Media Asia!