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Chapter 322 The Hunger Games

So, in the media reports about the "Tangshan Earthquake", this article appeared:
""The Great Earthquake" premiered in Tangshan, Cheng Yu'an praised Zhang Zifeng's aura is compelling, and I want to invite him to appear in the new play."

Even more exaggerated: "Cheng Yu'an made an appointment with Zhang Zifeng on the spot, and the new play tailored a script for him."

The accompanying picture is a group photo of Cheng Yu'an holding Zhang Zifeng at the premiere.

New play?Didn't you say that there will be no new dramas this year?

The reporters were puzzled, so they asked remotely.

Chen Zhixi, president of Long-distance Movie Division, responded: "Director Cheng just likes Zhang Zifeng's performance, and he has no idea about the new movie, but the possibility of follow-up cooperation is not ruled out."

At the same time, the grand premiere of "Inception" in London has been sent back to China, and the domestic media naturally focused on Liu Yifei:
"The most anticipated movie of the summer is Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece, Inception. The film premiered in London yesterday, and 'Jack' Leonardo DiCaprio... Liu Yifei, who played Adrian in the middle, appeared in a black evening dress, sweeping away the previous image of "fairy sister", elegant and extraordinary."

The picture sent back to China shows Liu Yifei walking the red carpet with Xiao Li on his arm.

Poor Cheng Yu'an did not appear in the media reports, not even a picture.

Since yesterday, Liu Yifei has spared no effort to promote "Inception" on her personal Weibo.Ten bursts of posts on Weibo, and posters and red carpet pictures of the London premiere.

Let the fairy powder have enough addiction.

"Sissy is so beautiful!"

"I've been looking forward to it for a whole year, just waiting for "Inception" to be released in China!"

"I was at the scene, and I want to say that Sissy is not photogenic in person, and she is ten times more beautiful offline than in the photos!"

In the exposed photos of Liu Yifei, there is also a group photo of herself and Cheng Yuan.

"Who is this person? Why is he hugging Sissi's waist?" There are many people who don't know Cheng Yu'an.

"Are you crazy? He is Cheng Yu'an, the biggest investor in "Inception", Sissi's boss, and Sissy's rumored boyfriend."

"The dog man climbs!"

"Dog man climbs +1"

"Dog man climbs +2"

"Dog man climbs +10086"

Judging from the response to the London premiere, "Inception" has achieved very good results in Nolan's hometown.

The major media have given quite high evaluation, so I won't repeat them here.

At this time, Cheng Yu'an had already landed in Los Angeles.

After landing, Cheng Yuan rushed to the company non-stop.

Cheng Lingfeng has a good understanding of the company's situation, and has already moved into the new office to work with Bob. In ten and a half months, Bob will officially retire after handing over the work at hand.

How busy is an international superstar like Leonardo?

Let's put it this way, his film contract has been scheduled for 3 years later, if he is not extremely picky about the script, the schedule can be later.

Now Xiao Li is very restrained in making butt films, only one or two a year.So there is still room for him to make a film. It is not difficult to find out his rest time, script and film salary.

The other is that Xiao Li of "Inception" has to travel all over the global market with the crew, and the real global promotion is very tiring.

In comparison, Liu Yifei only needs to travel to a few countries, take a break in August, and then return to China for publicity at the end of August.

Liu Yifei is not in the United States now, but went to Singapore to promote.

When Cheng Yuan came to the company, Cheng Lingfeng was reading a book, saw Cheng Yuan coming, and said:

"Bob bought the copyright of the new adaptation. I don't like such novels. This kind of bestseller looks really boring."

Cheng Lingfeng personally prefers classic literature, and is not very interested in current bestsellers.

This is why she seldom intervenes in IP adaptation, her aesthetics are not in this area.

"What book?" Cheng Yu'an took the book in Cheng Lingfeng's hand.

The title of the book is written big on the cover: "The Hunger Game".

Translated "The Hunger Games".

"Huh! This book is very popular, and it was actually won by Bob." Bob gave himself such a big gift when he was retiring.

"Bob told me about this book. He's been talking to Susan Collins since October 08 and didn't sign a contract with her until last month. This bitch is killing us."

"How much did she want?" Cheng Yu'an asked.

"She started asking for a US$300 million adaptation license plus 7% box office profit sharing." This is what Bob told her.

"Who does she think she is? Rowling?" Rowling is qualified to make such an offer. What makes Susan Collins!
"She just saw that the adaptation we made before did well, so she wanted to get more points." Could Cheng Lingfeng know what she was thinking?

"As soon as this offer came out, well-known producers in Hollywood called her crazy for wanting to make money. Universal's vice president Jimmy Hogwarts called her a crazy woman by name during a meeting."

The cooperation between a major film company and Universal is in the honeymoon period, and Universal is definitely on Bob's side.

"Finally, it dragged on for more than a year or two. Susan Collins finally relented and bought out the rights to adapt the entire series of "The Hunger Games" for US$150 million. .”

"It's still too much." According to Cheng Yu'an's temper, he didn't want to give 150 million yuan, and he wouldn't even want the adaptation rights of "The Hunger Games" more than 100 million yuan.

But now that it has been taken down by Bob, the three and a half million yuan is ignored.

"Universal is also very optimistic about "The Hunger Games" and wants to develop it with us." Cheng Lingfeng said.

"Thinking too much, we made this movie ourselves." The cost of the four-part series was less than 2 million US dollars, and the global box office was 30 billion US dollars.What are you thinking!

"However, distribution and merchandise can still be given to Universal." It's just operating as usual.

"Is this film going to be filmed this year?" Cheng Lingfeng asked.

"You can make a script first, find actors, wait for a year, start filming next year, and release it the year after, there is no rush." ​​Cheng Yu'an is waiting for Hollywood's political correctness.

"The Hunger Games" is an action movie with a big heroine, and what he is waiting for is feminist style.

"This can be played by Sissy." Cheng Lingfeng mentioned.

"Forget it, her skills are fine, but this is a story about a dystopia in the West, and it's not appropriate for Sissy to appear in it." It's not that Cheng Yu'an never thought of letting his girlfriend play Katniss, but the movie picture he came up with is very It's awkward, Liu Yifei's face is out of place in the whole film, "Let's do the script first, and the actors will talk about it later."

The Hunger Games is in no rush.

"Hey, are you going to Ranqiu's wedding at the end of the month?"

Cheng Lingfeng said: "I don't have time to go." Now she has just taken over the company and has too many things to do.

The aunt and nephew were discussing the development of the company in the office, and after a while, Lucy (formerly Bob's secretary, now that Bob doesn't need it, she followed Cheng Lingfeng) knocked on the door and came in: "Boss, there are two Chinese people outside the door who want to see you. "

"Have you made an appointment?"

Lucy shook her head: "No, but he said his name is Wang Zhonglei."

"Why is he here?" Cheng Yu'an muttered, "Tell them to the reception room, I'll come over later."

"Don't think about it," Cheng Lingfeng saw that Cheng Yu'an couldn't figure it out, and reminded him, "In order to tie Li Bingbing, Huayi gave her the heroine of "Iron Armor and Steel Fist", and signed the contract for the character with one hand. A few days before the movie It's on."

(End of this chapter)