From the late 40s to the mid-50s, American cinema also experienced a series of blows and challenges. First, in May 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the long-delayed Paramount case under antitrust law, illegalizing the monopoly of large corporations and requiring production companies to abandon the business of distributing and operating movie theaters. This cut off major sources of revenue for large companies, forcing them to drastically reduce film production and lay off employees.

In the United States, the most critical link in the entire film market process is production and screening, as for the distribution link, because of the implementation of the "theater system", a boss is both an intermediate distributor and an exhibitor, and can directly get the film from the film dealer or distribution agent, and immediately arrange the screening according to the importance of the film, and the intermediate distribution link is streamlined to the greatest extent.

In 1977, George. Lucas filmed Star Wars, 1982, Steven. Spielberg filmed "Aliens," and they quickly developed technocratic cinema into a mainstream commercial film, and in 1980, Martin Anderson. Scorse's Raging Bull found its foothold in the arts and the public, modernizing mainstream Hollywood cinema. In the eighties, with the development of Martin. Scorsese, Francis. Coppola, Woody Allen, Lucas, Spielberg and others returned to their thrones, and the "New Hollywood" of the decade of the seventies came to an end. This group of "movie kids" has achieved a displacement of positions and a round of cycles, from the periphery to the orthodoxy, from the anti-system to the system itself.

On a passenger plane to Hawaii, Spielberg flashed all kinds of information in his mind, although he didn't see the prince, but he knew that he was the same kind of person as that one, he didn't like to be controlled by others, and wanted to break the rules and achieve himself. The only difference is that Wang Zichuan did it, and he is still groping.

Spielberg was secretly excited, and he was sure that he could persuade Wang Zichuan to cooperate with him to jointly open up the American market and set up his own film production and distribution company, only in this way that the money earned by a film would not be divided by those vampires.

"The plane landed in an hour!"

Spielberg gradually calmed down and began to organize sentences, since they wanted to cooperate. Then we have to get to know each other, and he doesn't want to ruin this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The United States, like Hong Kong, implements a cinema system, which is a natural product of competition in the film market and a guarantee of the common interests of film dealers and theaters, so it has basically become a common practice in the world, such as the American multi-purpose cinema line, United Artists cinema line, and Sony cinema line in the United States; Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Cinema Line and Oriental Cinema Line.

Spielberg took out his notebook and in a few moments wrote several pages.

"He must be interested in cinemas. But the United States is different from Hong Kong, Hong Kong is too small, and if you control those few theater lines, you will control the entire industry. It's not so easy in the United States, any large theater chain has thousands of screens, and no one can control the theater chain and want to make money in the American film industry. The best way to do this is to form a distribution company, like Paramount or Twentieth Century Fox! ”

When Spielberg was flying to Hawaii, Wang Zichuan also received a call from Chen Baixiang.

"Spielberg? He wants to see me? ”

Steven. Spielberg!. He is a two-time Academy Award-winning director for his films "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan", and his famous commercial films such as "Jaws", "E.T.", and "Jurassic Park" are also well-known to fans around the world.

Chen Baixiang said with a smile: "I have already investigated, Spielberg is a director and producer, and his famous work is "Jaws", with a cost of $9 million, and a box office of $470,653,000!" Ah Chuan, this is a good opportunity, an opportunity for us to take off entertainment and enter Hollywood, not to mention anything else, Spielberg's connections alone have saved us a few years. ”

"He's an independent filmmaker!"

Wang Zichuan slowly groaned, independent films mainly refer to films that are independent of the big Hollywood studios and produced zuò, with the signature characteristics of 'non-Hollywood', and Hollywood films have a certain heterogeneity, large studios rely on money to make movies, while independent films rely on scripts and directors, the theme and shooting techniques are innovative, and most of them are low-budget films that are not suitable for large studios.

"What independent films? Is it the same as our studio? Chen Baixiang thought of Nanyang and Taiwan's wealthy businessmen, these people are not filmmakers at all, with the idea of getting a ticket and leaving, they don't care about the life or death of the Hong Kong film industry at all.

Wang Zichuan had a lot of professional knowledge in his mind, and swallowed all the words to his mouth, and explained casually: "The current independent film itself is not a very clear concept, independent and non-independent are not clear, the difference in division criteria will make the answers varied, fortunately, independent film does not need to be forcibly defined, now let's not talk about the connotation and scope of the concept of independent film, you first tell me Spielberg's purpose." ”

This Spielberg is not an idle figure, in 1993, he spent more than $60 million to make "Jurassic Park". The film created a world of dinosaurs and quickly set off a dinosaur craze across the United States, spreading to Japan, Europe and Southeast Asia. A few months later, he released "Schindler's List," a realistic lyric film in a very different style from "Jurassic Park," in which Spielberg brought to the screen the tragedy of the Nazi massacre of six million Jews in Germany during World War II. The film, which uses black-and-white negatives and a hand-held camera, not only won a high box office, but also won several awards at the Oscars along with Jurassic Park.

Chen Baixiang muttered: "He went to the mainland to shoot the scene, and he went to the doctor for illness, and he actually found us." ”

Wang Zichuan said with a smile: "It's also his luck, didn't we Tengfei Entertainment cooperate with the mainland in "Jingwu Heroes", you immediately contact the person in charge over there, and say that Tengfei Entertainment guarantees whether it can be accommodating." ”

"This should be no problem, our movies are not filmed in the mainland once or twice." Chen Baixiang agreed, Spielberg looked for him, he could push back, he wouldn't do anything without interest, but Wang Zichuan's order, he couldn't be perfunctory.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zichuan was excited, this is a good opportunity, it is not a problem for Tengfei Entertainment to enter Hollywood in one fell swoop, Golden Harvest took five years, invested hundreds of millions of US dollars, and made four or five Hollywood blockbusters before making small achievements, the partner of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" this time is only a small studio in the United States, that's it, Golden Harvest is restricted by this little-known studio, and it doesn't even have the right to nominate the starring role.

"By the way, before Spielberg came, I had to write a script, a blockbuster script, the box office of the highest-grossing movie "Titanic" in the United States was $1.8 billion, and the box office of "Avatar" was $2.7 billion, but these two films cost too much money, and the production cycle is too long, which is not suitable for the current take-off entertainment." Wang Zichuan sighed secretly, and quickly became excited, if he can't afford to shoot now, it doesn't mean that he can't afford to play in the future, all the blockbuster movies in Hong Kong have been taken by him, and the United States is no exception.

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Zichuan decided to make "Home Alone", which not only brought infinite happiness to the majority of movie lovers, but also made this film the ninth highest grossing film in the history of American cinema, and the best comedy ever made in the United States. With a total of $533,000,000 worldwide, it became the highest-grossing comedy film in the Guinness Book of World Records.

"The original idea for the film came from a 1989 film, the one in Uncle Buck, in which Culkin's character asks a person in an email similar to a temporary childcare job, and now it's only 1986, and no one dares to say that they plagiarize!"

In the film "Home Alone", Wang Zichuan watched it five times in his previous life, and he was amused to laugh every time, especially the two stupid thieves, who were played to death by a child of a few years old.

The most rare thing is that the script of the film is very simple, several classic scenes, Wang Zichuan remembers very clearly, Kevin is the youngest member of a big family, when his family flew to Paris to celebrate Christmas, he was unexpectedly left alone at home, and more complicated, Kevin's family unfortunately became the target of a pair of bandits, the little ghost Kevin tried to resist these two bandits, and did not hesitate to turn the world upside down, causing a series of exciting and laughing scenes.

Wang Zichuan quickly completed the outline of the script, added classic plots and lines according to the outline, and when he completed the script, six hours had passed, it was pitch black outside, and it was late at night.

"Ah Tong should be asleep." Wang Zichuan dispelled the idea of looking for Li Ruotong to celebrate, ordered a supper alone, and after eating, took a hot bath, and lay on the bed to consider the starring role of "Home Alone".

"The Kevin in the original script played very well, now it's 86, I remember that he was born in 80, just six years old, and the age in the script is to match, the only trouble is that I don't know where he is."

Thinking of this, Wang Zichuan gave up, the United States is so big, the sea of people is vast, where to find a six-year-old child! Besides, this child has never acted, and he doesn't know what the other party's parents are called, so it is better to hold an audition, maybe he can find a more suitable candidate.

"Those two stupid thieves are easy to find, they are both adults, you can find them by looking up at the actors' union according to their names."

Wang Zichuan nodded slowly, it is August now, and there are still more than four months left before the Christmas schedule, so if you are in a hurry, you can catch the bus this Christmas. (To be continued......)

PS: I have been rewarded 10 times when I was half-awake and half-asleep, thank you to this book friend. The outline of the trip to the mainland is being prepared to begin.

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To be honest, American dramas are so difficult to write, I don't know anything about them, and I always feel that Americans are the same, and I can't remember a star