The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 160 Penguin Pictures' wishful thinking

Jiang Hongwei has also worked as a director and producer. He is a complete insider. He is not from the Internet. He was recruited by Chen Zhonghuai, who was the president of Penguin Video Network at the time, to join Penguin Pictures.

Jiang Hongwei has a wide range of domestic and foreign film and television works, but the movie "Source Code", even in the rough cut version, made him feel extremely amazing.

It’s not like he has never seen film and television works related to time and space, such as the classic “Back to the Future” trilogy filmed by Hollywood in the late 80s and early 90s, which involved traveling through time and space, triggering the butterfly effect and parallel universes, etc. Various concepts.

If "Signal" just made the concept of time and space more interesting and fresh, then "Source Code" opened up a more creative science fiction concept.

Using the remaining 8 minutes of memory after the death of the human brain, to build a source code world, and can continue to go back and use this to solve the case, and finally found that this "source code" world is still a real parallel universe (this is Chen Jingxing's version of the Chinese army Fang’s explanation of the principle of the source code machine was misled by terrorist organizations).

This kind of imagination can be described as wild and unconstrained. Looking at the three films Chen Jingxing made before, he constructed a parallel universe from the quantum coherent Schrödinger's cat, and then involved psychology to forcibly gather personalities together and kill each other to determine the winner. Treat schizophrenia, then use a walkie-talkie to connect the father and son across time and space, solve the case across time and space, and finally go back to the infinite rewind of "Source Code".

It gives people the impression that Chen Jingxing has endless novel ideas in his mind, as if he wants to fill each movie with novel ideas, each movie can produce a different job, and none of them is a repeat of the previous work creativity.

Jiang Hongwei said half enviously, half emotionally: "He gives me the feeling that he is still at the peak of his creation, although I don't know how he did it, but this kind of creative genius like diabetes insipidus is not uncommon in other fields. , it should not be time to go downhill."

"I have the same judgment as you." Chen Zhonghuai, President of Penguin Films, said firmly, "Since this is the case, Chen Jingxing insists on filming the project of "Gravity", so we will support him."

"Do you think the project "Gravity" can be successful?" Jiang Hongwei's success is not the successful production of the film, but the huge rewards - just recovering the cost is a failure, and the amount of 8 million funds Idle for a year or two, come back intact, this is already a huge loss.

Chen Zhonghuai shook his head: "Whether I like it or not, I can't change the huge risks involved in this project. I don't think "Gravity" will definitely succeed, but will the failure of this project bring DreamWorks to the brink of death?"

Jiang Hongwei thought for a while, and seemed to have captured Chen Zhonghuai's true intention: "Maybe it will hurt the muscles and bones, but it won't drag DreamWorks to death."

DreamWorks is still one of the few debt-free companies in the film and television industry.

"Since even if "Gravity" encounters a major failure, it can't kill DreamWorks or Chen Jingxing, so isn't this our opportunity?" Chen Zhonghuai looked at Jiang Hongwei with a half-smile and said, "It seems that this young man is so I can't wait to complete the second round of financing, just to reserve funds for the "Gravity" project. Of course, this is understandable. After all, if he goes to the bank to get credit financing for the "Gravity" project, I can guarantee No bank dares to lend.

If "Gravity" is a success, then we are also the beneficiaries. If it fails, who will solve the financial difficulties encountered by DreamWorks?bank?What they are good at is collecting umbrellas on rainy days.

This is an opportunity for us to further seize DreamWorks. No matter what the industry, there are very few examples where the founder can still occupy the majority of the shares after two rounds of financing.

Every step of DreamWorks is too precise, and every step of his has achieved unexpected success. This is why he can make such a big career after only giving up 25% of the shares. The reason, if there are no accidents, I am afraid that DreamWorks will not raise funds again before going public. We have too few shares in DreamWorks. I believe Huanshiwang thinks so.

Since Chen Jingxing is still at the peak of his creation, it means that he has more long-term value. Even if he is a genius, he is only a 23-year-old young man. With such an achievement, who can hold back his tail?He wants to pursue his dream, so let him chase it. All we have to do is wait, wait for the moment when he steps into the air, and then seize the opportunity to tie him to the boat of Penguin Films. "

Jiang Hongwei was not too surprised by Chen Zhonghuai's point of view, because he had already vaguely guessed it before, and such an idea is not wrong. All of this is based on Chen Jingxing's judgment that he is still at the peak of his creation. prerequisites, then it is not surprising what choices Internet companies with deep pockets like them will make.

This is not the first time they have done this kind of thing of "sending charcoal in the snow" to deepen control.

"I'm afraid that Huanshiwang also has such an idea." Jiang Hongwei was a little unwilling: "I really hope that Huanshiwang can be intimidated by the project of "Gravity" and dare not continue to follow up."

Huanshi.com and Chen Jingxing have a personal relationship, and they are also long-term staunch supporters and partners. If they can use the project "Gravity" to squeeze Huanshi.com into the back, it will be a big gain.

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"Shocked, DreamWorks, a sci-fi film specialist, has launched a billion-dollar blockbuster!"

"Chen Jingxing's next movie is a space sci-fi masterpiece!"

"Penguin Pictures joins forces with DreamWorks to create the most expensive domestic film"

"Chen Jingxing's new film invested 1.5 million US dollars, setting a record!"

"Chen Jingxing's new film became popular before it was shot. It is rumored that the cost is 10 billion, 30 billion can we get back the cost?"

"Can a sci-fi movie with an investment of more than 10 billion be paid back?"

"DreamWorks is leading the sci-fi masterpiece, and it is rumored that there will be superstars joining in!"

Dreamworks' new project, or Chen Jingxing's new movie, which many movie fans have been looking forward to is suddenly exposed, but the media's attention is all on the sky-high production cost.

Of course, the production cost of "Gravity" is not expected to reach 10 billion, but let's not talk about the tradition of water injection in the film and television industry. How about making it all up?Easier for media marketing.

It's not just that the media's attention is focused on the sky-high production cost, many netizens, including fans of Chen Jingxing's movie, are also focusing on the 10 billion cost.

When most netizens or ordinary people heard the news, their first reaction was naturally "Yeah! It's another money laundering movie."

This routine is not uncommon in China, and audiences who don’t know much about film and television investment can tell the difference between 1 million and 10 billion.

Spending 10 billion to make a movie, in the eyes of most people, this is not a normal thing.

(End of this chapter)