"Boss! Even with extra vacation, our audit department has the highest chance of calling in sick in the company! After all, the impact of those bad movies on us is too great! These are physical and mental effects, although they cannot be seen or touched, but the degree of damage is sometimes worse than the external injuries that can be seen. ”

Thinking of Mr. Jerry, who is already very old, is about to retire, and is often harmed by bad film inflammation, Jenny's tears are more and more.

"Okay, don't cry!" Lei Weidong, who is more fraternal, can't stand the crying of beautiful women the most, and when the beautiful women cry, they can't help but want to comfort them.

"I'll implement it later, if it's really like what Jenny said, I won't be unkind, and I will approve the vacation of your audit department!"

"Thank you boss!" Hearing Lei Weidong's words, Jenny's expression was obviously much better, wiped her tears and laughed happily.

"Boss! For the sake of your health, stay away from bad movies, I can give you a few suggestions! ”

"Speak up and listen!" Since there are many more bad movies in Hollywood than on the other side of the ocean, Lei Weidong feels that it is definitely good for him to understand some common sense of bad movies, at least he can avoid the harm of bad movies.

"The most bad movies in Hollywood are small-budget films, especially those invested by independent filmmakers!"

Jenny snapped her fingers and said: "Although Hollywood produces a very large number of bad movies every year, there are generally traces to follow. ”

For example, for nameless directors and leading actors, there are at most one or two second- and third-tier actors as the protagonists to act as window dressing; For example, the cost is relatively low, and there is no publicity before the release; Sci-fi, fantasy, action, horror and other genre movies are the hardest hit areas of bad Hollywood movies, so boss, it's best to go around such films with strange titles and vague story introductions! ”

"Not bad!" Lei Weidong nodded, in fact, Hollywood's bad movies are rarely recognized, because of the production cost, many bad movies can basically be distinguished by looking at the posters, trailers and stills.

The number of these bad movies is also very consistent, lacking in creativity, cliché, mediocre and boring everywhere......

Such a film Lei Weidong basically couldn't see in his previous life, because of cultural traditions, the real Hollywood bad movies are actually difficult for audiences on the other side of the Pacific to see in theaters.

Because of the restrictions on the number of imported Hollywood films each year, those bad films that failed at the North American word-of-mouth box office could not squeeze into the quota of mainland films.

In addition, in Hollywood, capital is king, and everything is for the purpose of making money, and if a director makes two films in a row that are neither popular nor popular, it will be difficult for him to find a film company to invest in him!

For example, the great director Wolfgang Peterson fell into a situation where there were no films to make in Hollywood after the successive failures of the two films "Troy" and "Poseidon".

British Rose Kate Beckinsale was halted by the box office failures of two major productions, "Pearl Harbor" and "Van Helsing", and lost the opportunity to step into Hollywood's A-list actors.

If it weren't for the B-grade film series like "Tales of the Night", Kate Beckinsale would not have a place in Hollywood at all, and could only spin around in European literary films like Sophie Marceau.

It can be said that if you don't go to the video market to buy a film and watch it yourself, in fact, there are very few bad movies, just like Jenny said, many bad movies can't enter the theater at all, and they directly enter the video market to cheat money.

At another time, Lei Weidong had heard that in Hollywood, there were companies that specialized in producing all kinds of copycat garbage movies, and some of these films Lei Weidong had also heard of.

When people shoot "Transformers", they shoot "Transformers"; When people shoot "I Am Legend", they shoot "I Am the Ending"; When people shoot "10,000 Years Before History", they shoot "100 Million Years Before History" and "Atlantic Rim" after "Pacific Rim".

The cost of each film is basically less than $1 million, and such films will not be released in theaters, and DVDs will be released directly, relying on shoddy production to make money next to the blockbuster that has just been released.

This kind of bad movie is outright garbage, no nutrition, and there is no pursuit except to cheat money, everyone can hide from such a film, although the cost is not expensive, but spending money to watch a bad movie is not only a waste of time, a waste of life, if you get bad film inflammation, it will be troublesome.

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The next day, Lei Weidong came to MSI headquarters early in the morning, as the boss, naturally has the privilege of the boss, Lei Weidong greeted, Li Mingyu and Jenny and others moved all the scripts received by the company, including the scripts collected by Li Mingyu some time ago, for the boss to review.

Thousands of scripts were piled up in front of the desk, occupying half of the company's space, which made Lei Weidong startled when he saw it, this is too much, if you want to read them all, you don't have to think about it for ten days and half a month.

"How can there be so many scripts! How long was this collected! Lei Weidong couldn't believe his eyes.

"This is a script collected in the two years since the company was founded! This is all after the initial screening, otherwise there are more scripts! Boss, do you need to watch them all? Jenny smiled and brought in a stack of scripts.

"Hmmm! No! Lei Weidong, who just wanted to nod his head and say that he wanted to see it all. I suddenly remembered a problem, that is, I don't know English and can't read these scripts! This is really not possible, is it unrealistic to ask Li Mingyu to translate all the scripts.

"I don't have the time to take a look!" Lei Weidong shook his head.

"Jenny, you arrange for someone to pick out all the scripts for horror films! In the future, our company will focus on the shooting and distribution of horror films! Lei Weidong set the tone for the later development of MSI, firstly, he can reduce his workload, and secondly, the investment in horror films is relatively small, which is famous for being small and broad, which is very suitable for the development of MSI.

"Understood! Boss! ”

The leader said a word, and the subordinate ran and broke his leg.

Now that the big boss Lei Weidong has spoken, Jenny and they have to do what they are asked to do. There can be no complaints.

Although there are a lot of scripts, Li Mingyu and Jenny took Lei Weidong's instructions and transferred more than a dozen people from other departments, and after the efforts of these dozen people in the morning, they finally sorted the scripts well.

When he went to work in the afternoon, when Lei Weidong walked into the company, he found that the script had been neatly divided into several pieces.

"Lei Shao! This is the script of the horror film we have put together! There are about 2,000 copies! Li Mingyu saw Lei Weidong enter the house and hurriedly introduced:

"Well, hard work! I'll give you a bonus at the end of the month! Lei Weidong is not the kind of boss who doesn't talk about people, and directly gives the two of them a sweet date.

"Thank you! Boss! "In the United States, no spiritual reward is as good as a material reward, and Li Mingyu and Jenny were very happy to hear that Lei Weidong was going to give out a bonus.

"I'm not good at English, it's too much trouble to read the script, Brother Li, please read it to me! Just name and invest the amount and the outline of the story! Lei Weidong picked up a script casually, flipped through it, and sure enough, the English characters in it were all I didn't know it, and it didn't know me either, so I had to shake my head and throw it back.

"Understood! Lei Shao: "Li Mingyu casually picked up the top script and read it.

"Death! Invest $100,000 and ...... story"

"Over!" Lei Weidong waved his hand, and Li Mingyu threw away the script in his hand, picked up a copy again, and read it!

There are dozens of scripts in a row, all of which are names and contents that Lei Weidong has never heard of, so Lei Weidong didn't say anything directly, and in the end he didn't even say anything, just waved his hand.

After reading for an hour in a row, some of the mentally depressed Li Mingyu was replaced by a Chinese girl, who was transferred from Xiaomi Comics, because she knew Mandarin, she was directly called by Jenny to replace Li Mingyu.

Time passed quickly, a few hours had passed, Li Mingyu and the little girl had rotated several times, Jenny was sitting on the sofa and was about to fall asleep, and Lei Weidong finally heard a useful news.

"Halloween. The investment amount is 300,000 US dollars, and the story content is .......! ”

"Stop! Lei Weidong's voice took back Li Mingyu's hand that was about to throw out the script. "Lei Shao! What do you mean! ”

"Read the script outline anew!" Lei Weidong commanded.

"Okay! Lei Shao! Halloween! The investment amount is 300,000 US dollars, and the story outline ......" Hearing Lei Weidong's order, Li Mingyu re-read the script.

"I invested the 300,000, Jenny, you go and call the owner of the script and buy the copyright of the script!" Ray Wei instructed Jenny:

Although Lei Weidong has not seen this "Halloween" movie, it does not prevent Lei Weidong from being familiar with it, because this movie has made seven or eight sequels.

You have to know what kind of movies in Hollywood will make a sequel! Only those movies that make money will be made, you must know that with the ability to make sequels, Hollywood far surpasses Hong Kong, at least there is no sequel to that movie in Hong Kong that can make more than eight sequels, and in Hollywood, there are not only movies that have made eight sequels, but also quite a few.

It can be said that the essence of Americans is to squeeze the money-making potential of each movie.

The movie "Halloween" ended up with a global box office of $60 million, compared to the investment of $300,000, it was simply a big deal.

Of course, compared with other mainstream action films released at the same time, his global box office of 60 million is actually not as good as the results of large commercial films in the United States alone, but in terms of investment amount and shooting time, ordinary action movies are weak.