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Chapter 34 American Trumpet
Didi Didi~~~
The phone rang, it was an unfamiliar number.

Cheng Yu'an picked it up: "Hello, who is it?"

The man on the phone said in English, "Boss, this is Bob."

Cheng Yu'an is a professional manager of "a big film company" in the United States.

Cheng Yu'an immediately switched to English mode: "Hey, Bob, what's the matter?"

"James has finished filming "Chain Saw" and is panicking. You have to come to the United States. The company has recruited some people in the past few months, and you, the boss, can't justify it if you don't show up." Bob said to the Chinese boss I like it and feel helpless.

What I like is that Cheng Yu'an delegated the power to Bob to manage the company; what is helpless is that Boss Cheng is away from the United States for a long time, and he has to send overseas emails and make overseas phone calls if he has something to do.

"OK, Bob, I still have something to do in China, so I'll come back in a few days." Cheng Yu'an thought for a while, and he really should go, otherwise the trumpet might be stolen.

"Youth Son of Heaven" no longer needs him to watch.

After resting for a few days, Cheng Yuan flew to the United States.

Still in Los Angeles.

"Hey, boss!" Bob, who came to pick up the plane, gave Cheng Yu'an a hug affectionately, "How was the trip?"

"It's okay." Cheng Yu'an got into Bob's car, "I need to beat the jet lag, take me to Beverly Hills, we can talk about it tomorrow if we have anything to do."

"OK!"

Come to Beverly Hills, the door of the old man's villa.

Ding Dong!

No one should.

Press again.

Still no one answered.

Cheng Yu'an probed inside and found that the whole house seemed to be deserted.

He took out the phone and called grandpa, it rang for a long time before he was picked up.

"Hello, Yu'an, what's the matter?" Grandpa Jianlang's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Where are people? Why is there no one at home?"

"Oh, I'm going on a trip, and I plan to spend three to five years traveling around the world." Grandpa laughed, it seemed that he was having a good time.

"No, why didn't you tell me about such a big matter, who would I call if something happened. Do my uncle, third uncle and fourth uncle know?" The old man is over 70, and Cheng Yu'an can't let Cheng Yuan not worry.

"What can happen, your aunt Wang is following."

"Where are you now?"

"I'm... eh, I won't tell you, I'll come back when I've had enough fun, don't worry about me. The key to the house is buried under the second tree from the right in the garden, you dig it out to open the door yourself. Don't say anything, Bye."

This old man...

Cheng Yu'an has nothing to do.

I dug out the key and opened the door. The house is still very tidy, and there is no dust everywhere. It seems that I have just left for a few days.

After recuperating all night, Cheng Yu'an appeared at the gate of a big movie company during the daytime the next day, and met Wen Ziren and his good friend Ray Warner.

The filming of "Chain Saw" has been completed long ago, and the post-production has also been completed.

In the company's screening room, Cheng Yu'an watched the finished film.

Maintaining the high standard of the previous life, he said: "A great film. If you are not a director, you must be an excellent editor."

Wen Ziren smiled and said, "Thank you, boss, and..."

Before he finished speaking, Cheng Yuan's cell phone rang: "Sorry."

Picking up the phone, before Cheng Yu'an could say hello, the other party laughed loudly: "Cheng, you are such a genius!"

The caller was Daniel from Fox, who bought the remake rights of "Sniper Booth" for more than 400 million yuan.

"Daniel, do you have anything good to share?" Cheng Yu'an asked.

"Of course, but I must tell you in person, are you in the United States?"

"I'm in the company, you just come here."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Yu'an explained: "Fox's call. James, what did you want to say just now?"

Wen Ziren said: "Boss, I have already finished filming the film, but the issue of distribution has not yet been settled."

When the two signed the contract, Wen Ziren was in charge of producing the film, and Cheng Yu'an was in charge of finding distribution for the film.

Of course, Cheng Yu'an couldn't break his promise: "Don't worry, I will find you a good publisher. Daniel from Fox will come over right away, and we can talk to Fox."

"OK."

After two cups of coffee in the company, Daniel arrived.

Yankees like hugs very much, but Cheng Yuan is not used to it, and Daniel also gave him a big hug when he came up.

"Cheng, you are my lucky star. Did you know that "Sniper Phone Booth" is a big seller!"

After Fox bought the remake rights, it quickly organized the crew to shoot the film.

The cost was 1300 million US dollars and it took 12 days.

It began to be shown in North America in June, and directly received 6 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Seeing that the situation is good, Fox immediately arranged for a global release.

Daniel has held his head high in the company these days, and no one will make fun of him for spending 400 million dollars to buy an oriental movie.

After listening to Daniel, everyone understood.

Daniel continued, "Cheng, I must buy you a drink."

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "I have time to drink anytime, and I have a movie here that I want to show you."

"Ok, of course it's okay." Daniel now trusts Cheng Yu'an very much. If "Sniper Phone Booth" works well, the global box office may even exceed [-] million.

Daniel's promotion and salary increase are just around the corner.

Everyone accompanied Daniel to watch "Chain Saw" again. During the viewing process, Daniel frowned and closed his eyes slightly.

100 minutes passed quickly, and Daniel exclaimed: "You made a perfect horror movie! Cheng, you must give this movie to Fox. It's great!"

Only then did Cheng Yu'an introduce Wen Ziren and Ray Warner to Daniel: "This is the director and screenwriter of "Chain Saw", and the leading actor Adam is also played by Lei."

"It's a great movie." Daniel shook hands with the two, "I can now represent Fox and buy "Chain Saw" for $1000 million."

As soon as the price tag came out, Wen Ziren and Ray Warner's eyes lit up!
The most money the two of them had seen was the 150 million US dollars invested by Cheng Yu'an before, and Daniel opened it up to 1000 million, and the hearts of the two were hammered.

But Cheng Yuan shook his head: "Daniel, I think you have misunderstood. I don't want to sell this movie to you like "Sniper Phone Booth". I just want to entrust a company to distribute it."

Daniel shrugged: "It seems that you have great confidence in "Chain Saw"."

If you don’t buy out, that is to follow the distribution model.

"Of course, this is the company's first film. We Chinese pay attention to a good start. I hope "Saw" can bring good luck to the company." Cheng Yu'an said.

"Since you are so confident, let's do as you say." Daniel didn't worry too much about the distribution model.

In his view, although horror films have a good fan base around the world, their ability to leverage the box office is mediocre.

Small profits at most.

Not every horror movie is called The Ringer.

After sending Daniel away, Bob began to report to Cheng Yu'an on the company's situation in the past few months.

The company has recruited some people, but it is still considered a small scale. It has only produced "Chain Saw", and the release has just been negotiated.

The company is doing well at the moment, but it is in urgent need of good projects.

"Boss, James wants to continue making horror movies. He has taken a fancy to "Howl" and wants the company to buy the remake rights." Bob said.

"Is it the horror novel by Jay Anson?" Cheng Yu'an remembered the book.

"Yes, a movie was made in 1979, and no one has touched it since. James wants to try it." Bob said.

"Of course remakes are possible, but the copyright of remakes of such bestsellers is very expensive." Cheng Yu'an's first consideration is the cost.

"Boss, this book has been over 20 years ago, and no one has read it for a long time. The latest "Ghost Cries and Gods Howl" was filmed 7 years ago, and the reputation and box office of that movie are very bad. I believe Jay Anson is now more than happy to sell the remake rights to make some extra money."

"Since you are so confident, let's talk about it, but the copyright fee cannot exceed 50 US dollars."

Bob chuckled: "I'm going to take 20. Jay Anson is having a bad time and needs money urgently."

"OK, I'll wait for your good news." Cheng Yu'an agreed to the project.

　Chapter 2 is late and a bit stuck.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)