Superstars start from Hong Kong Entertainment

Chapter 477 Three Series

"Mr. He, you have made a wise choice. We have given us the North American publishing rights of "Fast and Furious", and we will definitely not disappoint you.

Maybe, see you next time, maybe you and Mr. Andy Lau are already the first-line film and song superstars in North America. "

In Huaren Film and Television Office, Annie from New Line Films handed over the contract documents to He Jin with a smile on his face.

"hope so!"

He Jin smiled.

Annie's so-called film and song superstars mean that "Fast and Furious" is released by them, and it may become a hit.

The movie has become a blockbuster, so He Jin and Andy Lau will naturally rise.

"By the way, once again, although the North American copyright of "Fast and Furious 2" will give priority to your company, the final price still depends on the first one. This is our bottom line.

Regarding this point, Mr. Annie should add it to the contract! "

He Jin opened the contract, looked at it, and talked.

"Don't worry, Mr. He, we have already included this item in the contract, it's on the last page."

Annie is very happy now, he chose to agree to some of He Jin's not too difficult requests.

When New Line Pictures was negotiating "Fast and Furious", they were not idle in North America.

They inspected the North American market and are very confident in "Fast and Furious".

Some time ago, the box office data of "Life and Death" exploded, and it became a dark horse hit.

Although there are differences between "Fast and Furious" and "Speed", there are many similarities between the two.

If done right, The Fast and the Furious' North American box office could pay off like never before.

"OK, happy cooperation!"

He Jin carefully read every piece of contract information, and after confirming that there was no problem, he signed his name on it.

"Happy cooperation!"

After accepting a contract that belonged to him, Annie smiled again.

The signing of the contract meant that the movie would truly fall into the hands of New Line Films, and he didn't have to worry about other Hollywood studios paying a higher price.

This made a huge stone fall from his heart.

After sending Anni out of the gate of Huaren Film and Television, He Jin returned to the company to arrange some things, and then left the company to go to Huaxing Records.

At present, the scale of Huaren Film and Television is getting bigger and bigger.

With the success of "Fast and Furious" at the box office and the continued strong box office of "Young and Dangerous 2", Huaren has become another company after Zhengdong Film and Television that has a series of blockbusters.

Even, because the box office data of Huaren Film and Television is better than that of Zhengdong, Huaren's influence is greater than that of Zhengdong.

Currently, Huaren Films holds three series of IPs, all of which are at their peak.

The first is the "Yin Yang Road" series, this IP belongs to the small investment series IP.

Although the investment is small, the income is very considerable. It belongs to the kind of series that can continue to be shot even if it fails.

In later generations, this IP was filmed a staggering 21 times.

Although the income of the subsequent films is very small, and even the word-of-mouth is not as good as one, it is undeniable that this horror film series can be said to be the longest-running series.

Although the income of this kind of film is small, it is stable and can be used to train newcomers.

And Hua Ren's second IP is the Young and Dangerous series.

Compared with "Yin Yang Road", the influence of the Young and Dangerous series is different.

This series set off a frenzy of Young and Dangerous. Since the first half of this year, there have been dozens of Hong Kong film reviews based on Young and Dangerous.

In addition, two parts of this series have just been filmed. The box office of the first part is more than [-] million. Although the second part seems to be a bit worse, the final box office must be around [-] million.

This is already a sweet pastry series.

However, He Jin plans to put this series on hold for a while, and he is still considering whether to continue filming.

Recently, the influence of this series has begun to appear, and many young and Dangerous fans have begun to appear on the street, imitating the things in the plot.

He Jin intends to see the follow-up impact. If the follow-up impact is still the same as in the previous life, then he will go into battle in the third part, punish Chen Haonan on the spot, and end this series.

Compared with the hesitation of the Young and Dangerous series, He Jin attaches great importance to the "Fast and Furious" series.

He Jin intends to use this movie as Huaren's rescue movie.

Just like Sony in later generations, the company loses money and releases Spider-Man, and the company's valuation drops, and Spider-Man is released.

Anyway, as long as the company is in crisis, let the little spiders go.

As for "Fast and Furious", He Jin intends to make it into this kind of movie.

Originally, according to the plan, "Fast and Furious 2" was going to be released during the Spring Festival.

Because of this plan, he intends to put it away next year.

His plan is to release "Fast and Furious" once a year, and run the film with the most sophisticated and luxurious investment lineup.

Precisely because "Fast and Furious" needs to be released next year, in the next few months of this year, Hua Ren only planned two movies.

One is "Yin Yang Road 3", and the other is the movie "Tasteless Detective" submitted by Johnnie To.

Needless to say, "Yin Yang Road 3" is the third part of the Yin Yang Road series.

As for "Tasteless Detective", this movie has an influence on He Jin.

He remembered that he read a news article in later generations, it seems that Johnnie To started from this movie and found his gangster-themed shooting genre.

It was with this movie that Johnnie To's classics "Gunfire" and "Underworld" came out.

He Jin remembered that although the box office of the movie "Tasteless Detective" did not enter the top ten box office charts in 1995, it still made money for the investment company.

Moreover, Du Qifeng probably knew that he would add some immature ideas to this movie, so when he asked He Jin to invest, he only asked for an investment of [-] million.

In other words, the investment in this movie is not big.

Although He Jin really wants Hua Ren's every movie to be a box office and word-of-mouth movie.

But he also knew it was unlikely.

In many cases, word of mouth is not directly proportional to the box office.

In addition, although He Jin remembered many classic movies in his mind, he was a music fan in his previous life, not a movie fan. Although he knew many classic movies, he was not very familiar with the plots of these movies.

Except for those movies that he was particularly impressed with, he only knew a rough plot of many movies.

It's okay to let him talk about it, but it's really difficult for him to write those classic movies without any change.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to let Hua Ren make classic films all the time.

On the other hand, for the movies of those directors who have an impression, you can invest in them yourself.

Just like "Tasteless Detective".

Anyway, He Jin's idea is that it is enough for Hua Ren to produce one or two films with high box office a year, and the other films can be films made by familiar directors.

Anyway, even if the box office can't make money back, he can still make money with the help of VCD discs.

Therefore, even if he didn't know the specific box office of Detective Tasteless, he let Johnnie To shoot.

The most important thing for Huaren now is to have a movie library.

A big company can only be a big company if it has enough film library.

Otherwise, like Huaren and Zhengdong now, they are just nouveau riche.

Moreover, a film and television company makes money not only by high-grossing movies.

For low-cost movies, if you accumulate less, you will make more, and the profits will definitely be higher.

Look at Golden Harvest, they actually only have a few high-grossing movies a year.

But why is he the No. [-] film and television company in Xiangjiang?

People are making money from mid-to-low-cost movies.

Golden Harvest starts working on dozens of movies a year, earning tens to millions of dollars per movie, and tens of millions a year.

And there is no risk in doing so.

Specializing in big productions, they earn a lot when they make money, but they are also easy to be taken away in a wave. Andy Lau's skyline was almost taken away by big productions.

Therefore, big productions cannot be trusted, instead small and medium productions should be He Jin's plan.

Of course, He Jin will still do suitable large-scale productions, but he will try to do as little as possible.

(End of this chapter)