Perhaps because there were no high-quality movies in August, the box office growth trend of "Anti-Corruption Storm" was unexpectedly good.

It exceeded 60 million in three days and successfully exceeded 100 million in seven days......

Compared with the investment share of less than 30 million Hong Kong dollars, this income can be said to have exceeded many people's expectations.

As a member of the co-producers, Shi Nansheng was quite surprised by this achievement, and there was a bit of disbelief in his tone when he talked to Chen Fei on the phone.

"Mr. Chen, according to the current trend, the box office is likely to rush to 300 million!"

Chen Fei smiled: "Haha, doesn't this just fit your and my minds?" ”

The two chatted about various subsequent publicity and celebration banquet topics, and finally returned to the movie itself.

"Do you have any thoughts on the follow-up sequel?"

There is a hook at the end of the script of the first part, which is just enough to pull out the second part.

Although Media Asia only received the script of the first part, it can be judged with a little analysis that the script of the second part has definitely been written by Chen Fei.

Among countless screenwriters around the world, who doesn't know that Chen Fei is the most prolific one?

Not only is the yield high, but the quality is good, and this pedal is very depressing.

Can't compare!

Can't compare at all!

"I've got the script ready." Chen Fei said bluntly.

Shi Nansheng's heart moved slightly, and he asked tentatively: "Or follow the regulations of the first part?" ”

"Of course, I am very happy to work with Chairman Shi, and I am confident that all our future cooperation will be as smooth as it was at the beginning."

"Haha, that's nature."

After chatting with Chen Fei about the filming plan for the second part, Shi Nansheng hung up the phone.

The moment she looked up, she saw all the board members with anticipation on their faces.

She smiled: "It went very well. ”

"Whew!"

Everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that a boulder in their hearts fell to the ground.

The several movies released today on the Xiangjiang side failed one after another, so that Media Asia became nervous, and was very afraid that "Anti-Corruption Storm" would also fail backwards.

What I didn't expect was that this movie was an unexpected big win!

Hong Kong films have been learning from Hollywood movies and are very good at launching sequels.

The first part was so successful that if the second part was not launched, the outside world would definitely laugh at them for being fools.

Now Chen Fei has promised to cooperate with Media Asia to launch the second part, which means that they can add a touch of brilliance to their work report next year.

Just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud.

At this time, someone suddenly raised confusion: "I remember that Chen Fei and Huo Qigang are both executive directors of Golden Harvest, right?" So why didn't the film go over there to make it? ”

This is also a confusion in the minds of many people.

It doesn't feel reasonable to have your own company, but you have to work with another company.

Seeing everyone looking over, Shi Nansheng smiled slightly: "The pattern needs to be opened." ”

As soon as these words came out, many people fell into deep thought.

"Screenwriter Department, come to my office to get the script later."

Shi Nansheng said as he got up and walked outside, but what came to mind was the incident when Chen Fei asked her to walk the red carpet with Yang Mi.

Human affection is like this, and only by using each other can we be more closely implicated.

Media Asia needs scripts, and Chen Fei needs them to help solve some bad things, which is to use each other.

As for why not use Jiahe and Huo Qigang......

She had vaguely heard recently that the eldest son of the Huo family seemed to be preparing to go down the path full of red stars?

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On August 15, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3: Endgame" withdrew from domestic theaters with a box office of 850 million yuan.

At the same time, the film's global box office also exceeded 650 million.

Catherine and her team started filming "Amazing Thieves" again.

On August 20, "Transformers 3" withdrew from mainland theaters with a score of 1.08 billion yuan, leaving a box office myth belonging to mechas!

Several Hollywood blockbusters have exceeded 1 billion at the box office, which has silenced many mainland filmmakers for a long time.

Chen Fei used "Heart Flower Road" to prove that it is not necessary to have high investment to reap high box office.

But Hollywood blockbusters use "strength" to prove that only high investment can receive high box office.

It's hard to do this!

The time is getting closer and closer to September, and the publicity frequency of movies such as "Global Love" and "Da Wusheng" that began at the beginning of the month has become much higher.

As for imported films, there are currently only two, namely "Norwegian Wood" and "The Smurfs".

The former is a movie about Little Day, and the latter is an animated film from Sony Columbia, starring a group of little guys covered in blue.

Just as Chen Fei was checking the news on the Internet, the secretary walked in: "Mr. Chen, this is an invitation letter from Juli Pictures." ”

"The legend of the White Snake?"

Chen Fei muttered in a low voice, took it and took a look, only to see that the date marked on it was September 25th, and the names of Yang Tsai and Cui Baozhu were still written on the check-off place.

According to the grapevine, Li Lian owes the latter a favor, so he starred in this movie.

"You take the invitation letter to Mr. Su and ask him to go for me at that time."

On the 25th, Chen Fei was ready to go to Mexico to complete the selection task of the system.

The premiere will definitely not be able to go, let Su Guohai show his face.

He really doesn't have a good impression of Yang Zai and Huang Shengyi.

These two people are always holding a shelf, too pedaling to pretend, and they are completely a pair of nouveau riche.

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It was fast in late August.

Chen Fei took the time to make a rough cut version of "Your Name", and then delivered it to the special effects department for post-rendering and special effects.

This process takes about a month and a half.

At the same time, Mr. Woody Allen, who was far away in Los Angeles, also sent an email informing him that "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" was officially completed.

Because I am going to compete for next year's Oscars, I will cut the queue for production in the later stage.

And the "big cousin" officially devoted himself to the filming of "The Hunger Games 2" after a brief rest for a few days.

Young is good, resistant!

Preparations on Natasha's side are also progressing well.

The planting of 30,000 acres of corn land was a big challenge, and Los Angeles certainly didn't have such a big place, and after many rounds, she finally signed a planting agreement with Spruce Ranch in Alberta, Canada.

Although this requires a huge amount of money, recalling Chen Fei's past successes, she still chooses to support it without hesitation.

What's more, the investment of $165 million is nothing to Chen Fei now.

A "The Avengers" burned more than $200 million, and in comparison, $165 million is just a drizzle.

After dealing with all the tedious work at hand, Chen Fei found Ning Hao and drove to the film bureau with him.

"Ghost Blows the Lantern" was sent for review a week ago, but unfortunately, the film seems to have quite a few problems.

However, in view of Chen Fei's excellent record in the past, the bureau is still ready to invite him over to talk.

The rules are dead, but people are alive, and everything is negotiable.

Yu Feihong's "Love Has an Afterlife" can pass the review and log in to the theater, and the script sent by Chen Fei has no reason why it can't pass the review, but it needs to be changed slightly.

The key is that the leaders of the bureau are very curious about the scripts he sent, and want to meet him and have a good chat.

And this happens to be what Chen Fei meant.

……

In the RV, Yang Mi received a call from Zeng Jia.

After auditioning for the crew of "Searching", she fell into a long waiting period.

Today happened to be the time to determine the actors, even if Yang Mi was a little confident, she couldn't help but get nervous at this time.

"Mimi, you're amazing!"

Hearing the voice on the phone, Yang Mi was slightly stunned at first, and then a smile appeared on her face.

Sure enough, as she thought, she still successfully passed.

There were a lot of people who auditioned that day, and there were many people with better acting skills than her, but when it came to popularity and connections, those people were much worse than herself.

Just walked the red carpet with Shi Nansheng, and she found that her star path seemed to have widened a lot.

Even when filming on the side of "The Four Famous Catches 2", Chen Jiashang and Xiangjiang's production team were kind to her, showing that everyone was the same passerby.

That's the benefit of networking and being backed by capital.

"Now that it's confirmed, let's sign the contract."

Yang Mi wanted to settle down as soon as possible in case other problems arose.

It's just that Zeng Jia added: "There is another small problem, Producer Chen hopes that after the start-up, you can devote yourself to filming... Chen Kaige's movies have always been so ......"

Hearing this, Yang Mi frowned slightly.

Throw yourself in?

She is currently working as the heroine of "The Four Famous Catches 2", how can she devote herself wholeheartedly?

"Isn't it just a female number two character? Need this? ”

"That's what they asked for."

"Let's sign it first, it's a big deal to say hello when the time comes, just stagger the schedule on both sides, and there won't be many scenes."

Yang Mi made a decision in an indifferent tone, she felt that she was now half a resource coffee, and she should have a bit of face.

"Okay."

Zeng Jia didn't mean to persuade too much, the more Yang Mi earned, the more she would be distributed.

There was no reason for her to let the ducks out again.

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As soon as he walked in from the main entrance of the Film Bureau, Chen Fei saw Han Sanping sitting in the resting place.

He raised his hand and said hello: "Han Dong, it's early?" ”

This one was called by him to help, after all, Han Sanping can be regarded as able to speak on the side of the Film Bureau.

"Not long after I sat down, Ning Hao also came......

After Han Sanping greeted the two, he led the way in front, and the three of them went straight to the conference room.

"I heard that you submitted a script for a series of movies this time?"

"Yes." Chen Fei said bluntly: "It can be expanded into a script similar to the Marvel Universe, and I want to see if it can be done in the mainland." ”

Han Sanping immediately became interested: "3D? ”

"Of course."

Ning Hao added in a whisper next to him: "I think it's better than the "Painted Skin" series. ”

Hearing this, the light in Han Sanping's eyes became brighter.

"Painted Skin 2" is about to soar to 800 million, if it is better than it, isn't this a proper billion-dollar box office movie?

Originally, he thought the word "ghost" was quite difficult to get around, but now that he looks at it, everything is a trivial matter in front of the billion-dollar box office.

After entering the conference room, Han Sanping will arrange to sit down first, and then go out to find the leaders of the bureau.

Chen Fei had a deep understanding of Huaxia's grinding degree, he originally thought that he would be left to dry for a while, but he didn't expect that within a minute, a group of leaders rushed in.

Han Sanping held a stack of scripts in her hand and followed behind Tong Ju, and the two were quite close.

Seeing Chen Fei and Ning Hao standing up, Tong Ju hurriedly smiled and signaled them to sit down and talk without restraint.

Han Sanping put the script on the table in the conference room, and looked at the words "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and 3D on the cover, he couldn't hide his curiosity, so he simply flipped through it.

If this is Brother Chen Kai or Zhang Yimou, what is sent over may be a script synopsis.

But "Ghost Blows the Lantern" is different, in addition to the complete script content, there are even sub-shots, shooting forms, promotion plans, and even follow-up development ideas......

The more she looked back, the wider Han Sanping's eyes widened.

This volume ...... If it is made completely, the investment will almost exceed 10 billion, right?

At this time, Tong Ju said directly to the point: "Xiao Chen, this is your company's script, can you tell me more about it?" ”

"Okay."

Chen Fei responded and said bluntly: "There are three scripts sent this time, namely "Exquisite Ancient City", "Longling Grotto", "Kunlun Divine Palace", ......"

first talked about the content synopsis of the three scripts, and Chen Fei extended the topic to sequels such as "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea" and "Wuxia Coffin Mountain".

After the concept of the four major schools of tomb robbery was introduced, he proposed to invite Hollywood actors to join and promote the film to the global vision.

As for the two sequences of "Angry Eyes Xiangxi" and "Yellow Skin Grave", which are outside the main plot, Chen Fei has higher expectations for them.

The former can be expanded to the Tomb Robbery Wind, and the latter builds a ghost blowing lantern universe......

Most of the content is explained in detail in the script, and what Chen Fei is talking about now is actually about the concept of the entire "Ghost Blowing Lantern Universe".

"We can learn from the experience of Hollywood's Big Six, keep launching sequels, and even develop theme parks and surrounding ......"

In fact, the Ghost Blowing Lantern Universe is just one of the plans held by Chen Fei, and there will be "Chinese Science Fiction Universe" and "Chinese Mythological Universe" in the future.

However, you have to eat bite after bite, and you have to walk step by step.

He will have time to push these things in the future, so let's start with the ghost blowing the lamp first.

"Our goal is to invest 10 billion yuan to make the entire IP, including the peripherals, and promote the ...... of Chinese elements."

Listening to Chen Fei's eloquent conversation, the eyes of a group of people in the conference room widened unconsciously.

Tong Ju subconsciously interrupted: "Where did the number of 10 billion come from? ”

"It's clearly marked in the plan." Chen Fei reminded him, and then added: "Copyright development, film shooting, publicity, global publication of books, theme park construction...... That's a huge investment! ”

If you only rely on the domestic market, this IP will definitely not be successful.

Chen Fei's goal is to promote the film to the world, attract foreign fans, and make the term "tomb robbery" popular around the world.

And to do that, you need to make a huge investment!

However, although the figure of 10 billion sounds exaggerated, it is actually only 1.7 billion US dollars, and it is not even as high as the box office of the movie "Inception".

This shows how big the gap between China and Hollywood is!

The conference room gradually became silent, and Chen Fei's eyes looked at Tong Ju, waiting for him to make a decision.

It should be no problem for the script to pass the review, and what he needs now is strong support from the bureau.

It is not easy to make such a big "cake", and if the bureau is willing to give some policy support, he can also make it a lot easier.

After thinking for a while, Tong Ju raised his eyes and looked over: "You directed it yourself?" ”

"Nope." Chen Fei shook his head: "I will participate in the filming as a producer and producer, and the director is Ning Haolai." ”

Director of Berlin Golden Bear + No.2 at the box office of Chinese films + one of the few directors in China who can shoot 3D movies, Ning Hao is naturally qualified to direct.

"Okay!"

After pondering for a moment, Tong Ju finally nodded, "The bureau will fully support this project, and if it is done, everyone's faces will shine." ”

After a verdict, the script was officially reviewed.

Although the word "ghost" is slightly harsh, it is undoubtedly also a form of propaganda.

And there are actually no ghosts in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", more of them are "ghosts" in people's hearts.

It could be a drug, or a hallucination, or an optical phenomenon, or even a scientific experiment, a Nazi product, a human mutation, and so on......

Chen Fei is not interested in learning from Yu Feihong, he doesn't have such a hard background, even if he has, there is no need to touch this kind of red line.

For such a big project, if you lose everything because of something unwarranted, it will be a bit of a.

When leaving the bureau, Han Sanping insisted on inviting the two to dinner, and dragged them to a nearby high-end restaurant.

Chen Fei was speechless: "Han Dong, there's no need for us to do this, right?" I will definitely leave it for you, and you can't do anything in it, there will definitely be a copy of Zhongying. ”

The budget was made a long time ago, and the investment in the first "Exquisite Ancient City" was about 600 million yuan.

Feiyue Film and Television will keep 70%, and the remaining 30% will be distributed to China Film, Shanghai Film, and Wanda.

are all old partners, those who should pay for the money, and those who change the efforts, the cooperation has always been carried out in this way.

"I'm not here for this...... Han Sanping twisted slightly, her heart was horizontal, and she simply said directly: "My daughter, hey, I originally asked her to study management, but by the time I knew it, she had already transferred to the choreography and directing department." ”

Hearing this, Chen Fei instantly understood.

"She wants to be a director?"

"Yes." Han Sanping nodded, "She is interested in developing in the direction of screenwriter, director, and producer." ”

Hearing this, Chen Fei and Ning Hao glanced at each other and had already made a decision.

"Then when "Ghost Blows the Lantern" is approved, let her join the group directly, starting with the assistant director, how about it?"

Han Sanping waved her hand again and again: "No, no, just let her be a crew to do chores." ”

Chen Fei smiled and didn't answer.

The daughter of the leading boss of China Film Group joined the group to do chores?

What international jokes?

Ning Hao poured water for the two of them and said, "Don't worry, Han Dong, I will definitely teach her well, and I will definitely train you a qualified director......

Han Sanping smiled knowingly: "Hey, okay, then I'll trouble you." ”

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The next day, the Film Bureau announced the script that was recently approved.

The three scripts of the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, "Exquisite Ancient City", "Longling Grotto", and "Kunlun Divine Palace" are among them!

The media was moving, and it didn't take long for the press release to appear online.

"Feiyue Film and Television's new script has been reviewed, three scripts, three 3D movies, and the writing is huge!"

"It is reported that Feiyue Film and Television will replicate the brilliant achievements of Hollywood's six major and launch the 'Ghost Blowing Lantern Big IP Project', with a total investment of more than 10 billion!"

"The key support projects of the Film Bureau, the follow-up strategic plan of Feiyue Film and Television has gradually become clear, so stay tuned for ......"

For a while, there was a sensation in the circle again!

Three scripts?

3D movies?

Big IP projects?

The total investment is more than 10 billion?

If this horse can participate in it, it will soar into the sky!

Suddenly, first- and second-tier star artists, brokerage companies, film and television production companies, etc., have heard the wind and moved, like wild cats smelling fishy!

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