At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the premiere of "Death is Coming" officially began.

Chen Qiming took the stage as a producer and producer to speak a few words, and then handed over the stage to the main creator of the crew.

The main creative team gave an explanation on stage, and at twelve o'clock, the movie officially began.

Compared with the original version, this version of Qiming Film and Television has different changes to the background setting of the characters.

Because the protagonist Liming and the heroine Zhou Huimin are Asian, the background has been modified to a certain extent.

The place where the story takes place has also been changed to Hong Kong.

However, considering that the film was aimed at the North American market from the beginning, in addition to the male and female protagonists, the other supporting roles are still foreigners.

The story of the Grim Reaper is simple.

Ike, played by Li Ming, is an employee of a foreign company in Hong Kong.

Because of the company's business, he and his colleagues were preparing to take a plane to Paris, and before takeoff, he suddenly had a foreboding feeling that he seemed to see the plane explode in the air.

The frightened Ike made a loud noise and asked the flight attendants to let the passengers out of the cabin, and there was chaos in the cabin.

Ike and six other passengers are kicked out of the cabin, including his colleagues Billy and Todd, a female colleague named Weiwei (played by Zhou Huimin), Carter, who had been scuffling with Ike, and his girlfriend Tyri, and their boss Layton.

When a group of 7 people were angrily harassed by their bosses because they couldn't go to Paris, news came from the airport that the plane had really had an accident.

People are very afraid that Ike can make such an accurate prediction, and the Hong Kong police also rush to investigate, but Ike wants to forget about the disaster as soon as possible and live a normal life.

However, things get very complicated, and Ike continues to have a premonition of death, and the survivors continue to die abnormally one after another.

Ike decides to fight death and change his fate with his friends.

In addition to the fact that the protagonist has been changed to a Chinese, and some scenes and details are different, the other stories are generally no different from the story in the dream.

Originally, this story was a hit movie in 2000 and was hailed as a classic of North American horror films.

Therefore, as soon as the movie is made, the tension created immediately attracts the audience who come to watch the movie.

Rumble......

On the screen, a bus slammed into a car.

The car was hit and deformed.

"Wow......"

"Hiss......"

The scene of the death was so real that the moviegoers screamed.

The main reason for the success of the play "Death is Coming" is the director's creation of tension and the kind of death that is extremely real and comes suddenly.

The deaths of these characters, in particular, are definitely the least common in this period.

Electric fans cut off people's heads, and cars crush people.

All kinds of bloody scenes can make the audience feel extremely real.

"I'm grass, this is on the book of life and death!"

"It must be black and white impermanence that has come to arrest people!"

Halfway through the film, the audience could understand why these people died.

Then link to the Chinese name of the film.

In the Chinese version of "The Grim Reaper", Chen Qiming finally decided on the name after some thinking and changing a few names.

The Chinese version of this film is called "The Book of Life and Death".

It means that as long as the person who leaves his name in the book of life and death, even if he escapes, death will still find him.

Therefore, after the audience thinks of the name of the movie and the characters in the plot can't escape, they spontaneously associate it with the ancient legend "Hades told you to die in the third watch, and he will not keep you until the fifth watch".

In addition, the development of the story is also very novel, there are no ghosts in the whole process, and the death of the characters depends on various accidents, which further sets off the inescapable atmosphere.

In the corner of the theater, film critic Paul sat with Wang Jing.

The two are discussing the plot of the movie.

"What a novel idea, this type of horror film, it's unprecedented!"

Wang Jing's face was hot, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, and various thoughts collided.

With the help of the plot of the accidental death in the movie, he has flashed one story after another.

"Indeed, this is definitely a turning point for horror films!"

Paul, the film critic next to him, felt the same way, and kept writing on the paper.

Suddenly, he looked at Wang Jing, "This is a very worthwhile theme, I have a hunch, the box office of the movie will definitely explode, do you want to make one yourself?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Jing's face fell.

glanced at Chen Qiming in the front row, and said depressedly: "This idea is indeed very good, but it is too unique and easy to identify, no matter how you change it, as long as it does not deviate from this category, it will be identified as plagiarism."

Chen Qiming will definitely not allow others to plagiarize. ”

"The Grim Reaper is Coming" ...... No, the play "The Book of Life and Death" is so easy to copy, died unexpectedly!

As long as he relies on this setting, Wang Jing can shoot ten films.

But he didn't dare to shoot.

If this play was a play by other companies, he might dare to try it.

But Chen Qiming's no.

This guy attaches great importance to the copyright of his play, but if anyone dares to copy it, the lawsuit will come immediately.

Before, he filmed "Crazy Boy" without Chen Qiming's consent, and suffered a big loss from Chen Qiming.

In the end, if he hadn't taken the initiative to admit his mistake, and took the initiative to guarantee that the series he filmed would be released in Chen Qiming's theater, he would definitely be killed by Chen Qiming.

In addition, there are lessons from the past few days.

Since the fire of "Python Disaster", many film companies in Hong Kong have copied and filmed.

Chen Qiming doesn't care much about following the trend.

But as long as anyone's plot is plagiarized from his "Python Disaster", they will immediately receive a lawyer's letter.

A few days ago, a small company plagiarized "The Disaster of the Python" and made a similar film.

This small company is still very smart, and it didn't copy it all, but it just borrowed the setting of the blood orchid and changed it to an immortal flower.

As a result, before the movie was released, he received a lawyer's letter from Qiming Film and Television, and the court was held quickly.

In the end, this small company lost two million Hong Kong films, destroyed the rubber, and disbanded the crew, and the matter was over.

Because of this incident, the lawyer team of Qiming Film and Television is a well-known.

Therefore, even if Wang Jing is very interested in following the trend, she has to suppress her thoughts.

"It's a pity!" Paul sighed.

He is very optimistic about this drama, thinks it can make money, and thinks that if Wang Jing shoots, he can more or less vote.

Pity......

The movie is scene after scene, and every few minutes there will be a thrilling scene, and the audience is nervous at the same time, and they are all shouting for fun.

When the audience was silent in the movie, He Guanchang's face was not very good.

He has been in the industry for many years, and he naturally knows the quality of movies.

Just a few minutes after the movie, he knew that the movie was definitely going to explode at the box office.

The first is the novelty of the genre, and the second is the large scene.

In the movie, there are trucks hitting cars at every turn, or all kinds of big scenes.

Originally, he also thought that Chen Qiming's investment of tens of millions of dollars in promoting this film was false publicity.

Now it seems that this is true.

And this is not a good thing for Golden Harvest.

Although He Guanchang was very angry with the company about offending Chen Qiming.

But if you are offended, you are offended.

Although he had the idea of easing the relationship, after knowing that he could not ease the relationship, he also had another idea.

Last week, he had already arranged for the company's screenwriter to write a script for "Python Disaster" that could not be regarded as plagiarism, but could only be regarded as following the trend.

However, the script was written.

But there is a problem, that is, if the film wants to make money, the investment cannot be small.

Even, if you want to achieve the effect of "Anaconda Calamity", the investment must not be less than 10 million US dollars.

Ten million dollars!

To be honest, Golden Harvest has never invested in such a large project all year round.

Now, just to follow the trend of the python disaster, most people in the company are unwilling to invest so much money.

So, he set his sights on "The Book of Life and Death".

After the success of several hit movies, Chen Qiming's creative ability in movie scripts has been recognized by many people.

Among them is He Guanchang.

He Guanchang has analyzed several successful films of Qiming Film and Television.

He found a feature, that is, in addition to the huge special effects of Chen Qiming's movie, the setting of the movie is also novel.

Almost every script created by him can attract audiences.

Therefore, he set his sights on "The Book of Life and Death".

I thought that after watching the movie, if it is easy to follow the trend, I will shoot directly with the trend.

Originally, according to his thoughts, there shouldn't be much investment in "The Book of Life and Death".

But now after watching the movie, he knows that he was wrong.

If he wants to follow the trend and come up with results, then the investment must also be indispensable.

Otherwise, even if you follow the trend, you won't make much money.

If he can't make money, why should he follow suit?

He Guanchang estimated it himself, and his heart was directly cold.

Golden Harvest follows the trend of this movie, if you want to make a lot of money, the scene can't be small, but the scene can't be small, and the investment will naturally have to be big, otherwise it is impossible to follow the trend and make results.

Just like the zombie series and gambling series back then, there are countless followers, but if the investment is not in place, it is very difficult to follow the trend and achieve good results.

At that time, many people in these two series followed suit, although they both made some money, but the ones who really succeeded in making a lot of money like the original had to belong to those companies with large investments.

Therefore, it is obvious that with the follow-up of "The Grim Reaper", Golden Harvest will either have to invest a lot, or it can only invest a little casually, which will ruin the reputation of this series.

"Forget it, why bother pursuing scenes, just follow the trend, with the snake film frenzy brought up by "Python Disaster", even if there is no big scene, just follow the trend, I think, there will be a lot of audiences to watch!

Don't want to make a lot of money, as long as you can make a little money! ”

After pondering in his heart for a long time, He Guanchang made a decision in his heart.

At this point, an hour and a half had passed.

The movie is finally over.

Including Liming, Zhou Huimin and several foreign actors began to take the stage to be interviewed by reporters.

Chen Qiming did not plan to go on stage again, he privately greeted a few friends who came to help, and then left the theater quickly when the reporters were paying attention to the stage.

It's not that Chen Qiming doesn't pay attention to this movie.

It's that he has something to do this afternoon.

This afternoon, the Fok family, one of the four major families in Hong Kong, organized a large-scale charity auction at the Wongtee Hotel in Central.

Originally, Chen Qiming was not invited.

Although he has been very prosperous in the past two years, he has not actually squeezed into the upper class of Hong Kong.

But at this charity reception, Guo Henian happened to be among the invitees.

He was very optimistic about Chen Qiming, so he called and asked Chen Qiming to follow.

In this regard, Chen Qiming naturally readily agreed.

He is worried that he will not have the opportunity to contact the middle and upper class people in Hong Kong!

This was the right opportunity for him to get in touch with these people.

So, after nothing happened on the side of "The Grim Reaper (Book of Life and Death)", he left the theater.

……

Charity Auction Cocktail Reception.

It arose in the period of Western monarchy, and its history is not long.

The charity auction at the beginning was said to have been held by the king.

The intention was also very direct, that is, the king was short of money and hoped that the merchants and nobles would "give generously".

With the development of the times, charity drinking parties have flowed into the people, and they have been held by various forces.

During this period, making money is no longer the most important thing, and not many people hold charity cocktail parties, because they really want to make a profit from it.

"Fame, nobility, publicity", these have become more important purposes.

7:30 p.m., Central.

Night begins to fall, and the lights of the dozens of storey buildings are bright.

Wongtee Hotel is one of the most exclusive hotels in Hong Kong.

Like the Shangri-La Hotel of the Guo family, it has branches in various countries in Southeast Asia.

However, unlike Shangri-La Hotel, Royal Hotel focuses on the upper market.

It is the first choice for the truly wealthy to hold events.

At this time, there were already luxury cars gathered outside the Royal Hotel, and the guests were like a cloud.

A large number of luxury cars that can only be seen in rumors are parked in the garage under the leadership of the hotel parking boy.

One by one, the wealthy guests in suits and ties, dressed in bright dresses, took the invitations and entered the hotel as if they were walking on the red carpet.

There were also some guests standing in the doorway, looking left and right, as if waiting for someone.

Chirping......

A white BMW stopped at the door, and two figures walked down the car.

As soon as the two appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of many people around them.

"It's Chen Qiming and Li Jiaxin! How did they get here? ”

"Tsk...... Two plays! ”

"I don't think they can come to this kind of occasion!"

"Don't say that, Chen Qiming has a lot of ability, although he is in the entertainment industry, but in just a few years, he has a value of hundreds of millions, and the Peacebird brand he founded has become a rare unicorn company in Hong Kong, it is not strange that he can come to this kind of occasion!"

There was curiosity and contempt in the eyes of the people around him.

Chen Qiming ignored it completely and took Li Jiaxin's hand and got out of the car.

On today's occasion, Chen Qiming originally didn't plan to bring someone over.

But when Guo Henian called that day, Li Jiaxin happened to be there.

Since knowing that Chen Qiming was going to come to this big occasion where people from wealthy families gathered, Li Jiaxin stuck to Chen Qiming.

In order to let Chen Qiming bring her, she tried her best to serve Chen Qiming comfortably.

Thinking that it would not be a big problem to bring her here, Chen Qiming agreed to let her be his female companion.

It was better to come early than to come, Chen Qiming and the others had just arrived, and a luxury convoy drove over from not far away.

Guo He is here.

"Ming Tsai! It's early! ”

Guo Henian saw Chen Qiming as soon as he got out of the car, and led people over with a smile.

"Guo Lao!"

Chen Qiming smiled and shook his hand.

"Young people are good!"

Guo Henian glanced at Li Jiaxin and teased with a smile.

Li Jiaxin is still a bit famous.

The most beautiful Hong Kong sister!

However, for people like Guo Henian, it is not worth his greeting.

Guo Henian's main conversation partner is still Chen Qiming.

He is very optimistic about Chen Qiming's Peacebird Company.

Although I have obtained 10% of the equity of this company, I am not satisfied.

The reason why Chen Qiming was introduced to the reception of the upper class in Hong Kong this time was to befriend Chen Qiming, in order to get some more shares of Peacebird.

"Last time, I said that the Peacebird would make a big move, why hasn't it moved?"

As he walked, Guo Henian asked.

"Don't be in a hurry, we're talking, we can start after the New Year at the latest!"

Chen Qiming said.

Chen Qiming has chatted with Guo Henian several times, including the development of Peacebird.

Chen Qiming told Guo Henian that he plans to invite the Four Heavenly Kings to serve as the spokesperson of Peacebird with him this year, forming the five spokespersons of Hong Kong and Taiwan, so as to promote the influence of Peacebird in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Guo Henian nodded, and then asked, "What about the athletes?" I think sports brands are a very good way to go. ”

"I'm going to talk to NBA stars when I go to the U.S. in a while and see if there's a chance to sign a few athlete spokespeople!"

Chen Qiming replied.

(End of chapter)