"Mr. Zou is polite, Golden Harvest has continued to have good films in the past two years, and the development has reached a new level, and the development of Golden Harvest is the epitome of the development of Chinese films. Lin Mu also politely complimented a few words. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Mr. Lin's words are a little wrong, Golden Harvest is just a small fight in Hong Kong, how can it compare to your real efforts in the United States, if you want to say that your contribution to Chinese films, you are the model of Chinese filmmakers!" Zou Wenhuai's words are purely polite, in fact, Golden Harvest's development in the past two years has regained some of the feeling of dominating the Chinese film industry in the 80s, and he is also quite proud of it.

Only Lin Mu knows that although the current Golden Harvest seems to be beautiful, Hong Kong movies as a whole are in decline, Golden Harvest is difficult to support alone, and the final ending can be imagined, but he will not tell Zou Wenhuai these words, there is no break, there is no stand, growth is always accompanied by labor pains, which no one can change. "Mr. Zou's words make me feel ashamed, if the two of us continue to be so polite, it is estimated that Mr. Zou's business will be delayed!" Lin Mu reminded him so painlessly.

"Mr. Lin is still so refreshing!" Zou Wenhuai saw that he was almost polite, so he made his intentions clear, "Golden Harvest has just released a new film, and it feels good after it is released in Asia, so I want to push it to the American market to see how the effect is, I want to think about it, and it is most appropriate to come to Mr. Lin." After all, we are all Chinese/Chinese, and we can pick out many things clearly. ”

"I wonder what kind of film this is?" Lin Mu asked knowingly.

"You'll be interested!" Zou Wenhuai took out the sample tape with confidence, "This is a film directed by director Tang Jili. Maybe Mr. Lin was born in the United States and doesn't know much about this person, but in Asia, Tang Jili is a very famous action director, and this film is a concentrated embodiment of his directing style, and the action scenes in it are all designed by him himself! ”

Of course, Lin Mu would not know anything about Tang Jili, but he still showed a very curious look: "So who is better than this Tang Jili and Yuan Heping?" ”

"It can be said that the two are not equal, but for now, it may be that Yuan Heping's influence in Hollywood is much greater than that of Tang Jili." Zou Wenhuai played a little trick, what he said was actually complimenting Lin Mu for his support to Yuan Heping. "Actually, I think the starring role of this film will make Mr. Lin even more interested!"

"You're talking about Cheng Long!" Cheng Long has always been an actor that Lin Mu is very interested in, and Lin Mu did not pretend in front of Zou Wenhuai, he knew that the current Golden Harvest could no longer retain this kung fu superstar.

"This film is indeed starring Cheng Long!" Zou Wenhuai said with a wry smile that Lin Mu's judgment was not wrong, Cheng Long already had a plan to enter Hollywood, which he had a premonition when Lin Mu came to Hong Kong to find him a year ago. Zhen Zidan's success in Hollywood stimulated Cheng Long, especially before Zhen Zidan's fame in Hong Kong was still under Cheng Long, but a year later, Zhen Zidan had been recognized by mainstream movies in Hollywood, which made Cheng Long a little unwilling.

Lin Mu admits that kung fu movies were the key to the success of Chinese films in the 70s and 80s, but if Chinese films are always limited to kung fu movies and cannot dig deeper into the connotation of Chinese/Chinese culture, it will be almost impossible to compete with Hollywood films in the world film industry. Lin Mu started with action movies, which was only his initial means of promoting Chinese films in Hollywood, and he knew that sooner or later people would lose interest in these simple action movies, and how to use the essence of Chinese/Chinese culture was the problem that Lin Mu had been considering.

Action movies can be used by Hollywood only because of its unique commercial selling point, and in the eyes of many overseas audiences, this type of film is still a novelty, but this trick has gradually lost its appeal in Asia, where action movies have become commonplace. In fact, Chinese filmmakers should have reflected on this problem a long time ago, instead of replacing old wine with new bottles over and over again, which is a common problem of Chinese films in later generations, and those so-called blockbusters have not actually departed from the framework of kung fu movies.

But obviously Zou Wenhuai has not yet realized this, many Hong Kong filmmakers do not realize this, they attribute the decline of Hong Kong films to the economy, to politics, but they have never stood at the height of the development of the entire film industry to examine their own failures, history is always playing out a strikingly similar scene.

Lin Mu finally bought the distribution rights of "Red Fan Zone" in North America at a price of 8 million US dollars, this offer made Zou Wenhuai very satisfied, but Lin Mu himself was not happy at all, he knew that "Red Fan Zone" did well at the box office in North America, so he was not distressed by the 8 million US dollars, but was sad about the bleak prospects of Hong Kong films, not all people can see as long as him. The decline of Chinese-language films is just the beginning of the glory of Hollywood films in Chinese-speaking areas, although the success or failure of Hollywood movies is closely related to his own interests, but Lin Mu still has an unspeakable bitterness in his heart.

Zou Wenhuai left happily, in his own opinion, the trip had reached the final goal, but Lin Mu refused all visits after he left, he locked himself in the office, and thought about it alone for a long time. Lin Mu felt that he could not sit idly by and watch the decline of Chinese-language films, so he decided to speed up the pace of entering the Chinese-language film market. He urgently felt the lack of his own strength, and in the face of history, he had a deep sense of frustration.

"Red Fan Zone" officially landed in the North American film market under the promotion of Lin Mu, because the film is set in New York, the story is simple and direct, the rhythm is refreshing and bright, and it takes the traditional route of Hollywood movies to save beautiful women, which is very entertaining, so the American audience quickly accepted this movie, only a week after its release, Paramount recovered the entire investment in buying the copyright, which made a good start for Lin Mu to introduce a large number of Chinese films later.

After sending Zou Wenhuai away, Lin Mu knew that he would soon usher in another important person, and he was thinking about whether he should sign this Chinese actor for Paramount, but if he signed the contract, he didn't think about how to use this person well. This is not a person who will be grateful to you for just throwing him a role, if you want to keep this person, you must give him an important role, but now it is difficult for Hollywood to accept a movie starring Chinese, and you must find a suitable person to partner with you to complete a movie together.

Just when Lin Mu was worried about the arrangement of Cheng Long's future role, Cheng Long was also anxious about how to get on the line with Lin Mu. After so many years in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Cheng Long has developed a fixed thinking, in his opinion, Lin Mu is a very powerful person in Hollywood, and such a person will not meet him easily. According to the rules of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, there must be an introducer to facilitate the mutual acquaintance of the two. And the choice of this intermediary made Cheng Long a little embarrassed. In fact, the most suitable candidate is Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Jiahe, although the strength of Zou Wenhuai and Lin Mu is very different, but the status of the two is basically equal, Zou Wenhuai is a person who can speak in this regard, but Cheng Long quickly denied Zou Wenhuai, he just broke up with Jiahe, with his two pick-ups for Zou Wenhuai, Cheng Long didn't think that Zou Wenhuai would help him at this time.

Then Cheng Long thought of Yuan Heping, in Hong Kong he had several cooperation with Yuan Heping, more importantly, Yuan Heping was also born in the Yuan family class, he had followed Yu Zhanyuan to learn martial arts for more than a year, although he was not among the Seven Little Blessings, but in general, Cheng Long and he still have a little incense. Yuan Heping is the action director invited by Lin Mu from Hong Kong, and it is natural to recommend Cheng Long to Lin Mu, but Yuan Heping is in charge of the action director in the sequel crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean", he is not in the United States, and he will not be able to come back for a while, for Cheng Long, who is over 40 years old, he really can't wait now. "Red Fan Zone" broke the box office record for Chinese-language films in the United States, which made Cheng Long more confident in his breakthrough in Hollywood, and he is now anxious to prove himself.

After successively rejecting Zou Wenhuai and Yuan Heping, Cheng Long suddenly found that he had no one to choose from, which made him very distressed, and finally a friend who had worked in Hollywood reminded him that this is Hollywood, not Hong Kong. It is true that Lin Mu is the vice chairman of a major Hollywood company, but he is also a very famous producer, he will not talk about those habits like those bigwigs in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, Cheng Long wants to see him, he can go directly to the door. Lin Mu received the education of American culture, and in the consciousness of American culture, twisting and pinching is self-deprecating.

This friend's words gave Cheng Long a great inspiration, and he decided to go directly to Lin Mu to talk. In fact, Cheng Long lacked enough patience, Lin Mu just didn't find a suitable movie role for Cheng Long for a while, otherwise after learning the news that Cheng Long came to the United States, Lin Mu himself would take the initiative to come to the door. Lin Mu's quality and vision as an excellent producer are well-known in Hollywood.

Since Viacom held an extraordinary board meeting the day before, Lin Mu had just arrived at the company this morning and learned two important news from his assistant. The audio-visual distribution department of Paramount Pictures submitted to him a summary report on the audio-visual distribution of the film "Detective Plane Head", and another news was that Cheng Long came to him yesterday when Lin Mu went to the head office for a meeting. Because Lin Mu had explained in advance, the assistant arranged the meeting between him and Cheng Long this afternoon.

These two things were not much together, but they happened to come together, which made Lin Mu suddenly have a new idea in his heart. If "Strange Heroes in Disguise" made people know Jim Carrey, then "Detective Plane Head" is a famous work of Jim Carrey's nonsensical style, his plane head in the film is exaggerated and eye-catching, and his big action of squeezing eyebrows and eyebrows has broken the inherent performance mode of Hollywood comedians. However, the film's box office results and the industry's reputation have received completely different reviews.

The film was unanimously rejected by critics and wildly sought after by fans. The film was released on Christmas slot and went all the way to the box office, eventually grossing $260 million in the United States. But the film, which was a box office success, was slammed by critics, with one Washington Post reviewer unashamedly saying in his column: "As funny as Kerry is, we're tired of his performances." The Chicago Sun's criticism, on the other hand, was more subtle: "The film struggles through an unconvincing plot, and perhaps only children will enjoy it." ”

But judging from the report submitted by the company's distribution department, the audience's love for this film is mainly reflected in the high sales of video discs, and the comments of those media can be completely ignored, and more abuse can only increase the popularity of the film, which is the hype effect of the entertainment industry. However, Jim Carrey's hot popularity made Lin Mu think of him and Cheng Long together, Lin Mu suddenly felt that the two actually had some similarities in their performance styles, and they both walked to a relaxed and witty route, if these two people were put together, what kind of effect would it have?

In fact, for Cheng Long's role arrangement, Lin Mu considered "Rush Hour" at first, but he always felt that it was a bit inappropriate to make this film at this time. Action movie star Lin Mu has actually supported Zhen Zidan, and Cheng Long's biggest advantage is that he is good at performing traditional action movies with funny plots, which Zhen Zidan said he does not have, Lin Mu wants to tailor a role for Cheng Long that is really suitable for him.

With such a thought in his heart, Lin Mu had a little more confidence in the first meeting with Cheng Long in the afternoon, and he was now confident enough to leave Cheng Long behind.

Cheng Long came to Paramount headquarters early, in order to leave a good impression on Lin Mu, he paid special attention to his dress today, he knew that Westerners are very particular about these things, but unfortunately Lin Mu is actually an out-and-out Oriental in his bones, and his efforts are in vain. But when Lin Mu's assistant invited Cheng Long into the office, he suddenly became a little nervous, although he knew that he was about to meet a young man who was less than 24 years old, but Cheng Long did not have any contempt for him because of Lin Mu's age, he knew that Lin Mu's youth could only show one problem: this person was not simple.

Lin Mu personally greeted Cheng Long at the door of the office, Corporal Lixian Lin Mu has been doing a good job of this, he thinks this is a quality that a good producer must have. "I have heard the name of Mr. Cheng Long for a long time, and today I can finally meet me as I wish, this is really my personal honor!"

"Mr. Lin is polite!" Cheng Long felt that Lin Mu's demeanor was calm and decent, and there would always be a feeling of spring breeze when talking to him, "Actually, I also want to take a look at Hollywood and learn from the successful experience of American movies!" (To be continued.) )