Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 348: Gathering of Hong Kong’s upper class (four thousand)
At 11:30 noon, the premiere of "Death is Coming" officially begins.

Chen Qiming came on stage as a producer and producer and said a few words, and then handed the stage over to the main creators of the crew.

The creative team each gave an explanation on the stage, and at twelve o'clock, the movie officially started.

Compared with the original version, Qiming Film and Television’s version has different changes to the character background settings.

Because the protagonist Liming and the heroine Zhou Huimin are Asians, certain modifications were made to the background.

The place where the story takes place has also been changed to Hong Kong.

However, considering that the film was aimed at the North American market from the beginning, apart from the male and female protagonists, the other supporting characters are still foreigners.

The story of Death Comes is simple.

Ike, played by Lai Lai, is an employee of a foreign company in Hong Kong.

Due to company business, he and his colleagues were preparing to take a plane to Paris. Before taking off, he suddenly had an ominous premonition. He seemed to see the plane exploding in the air.

The frightened Ike made a loud noise and asked the flight attendants to let the passengers leave the cabin. The cabin was in chaos.
Ike and 6 other passengers were kicked out of the cabin, including his colleagues Billy and Todd, a female colleague named Weiwei (played by Vivian Chow), and Carter and his girlfriend who had struggled with Ike Terry, and their boss Layton.

When a group of seven people were angered by their boss because they were unable to go to Paris, news came from the airport that the plane had really been involved in an accident.

People were very scared that Ike could predict so accurately, and the Hong Kong police also came to investigate, but Ike hoped to forget this disaster as soon as possible and live a normal life.

However, things became very complicated. Ike kept having premonitions of death, and the survivors died abnormally one after another.

Ike decided to fight death and change his destiny with his friends.

Except that the protagonist in the movie is changed to a Chinese, and some scenes and details are different, the rest of the story is roughly the same as the story in the dream.

Originally this story was a hit movie in 2000 and was hailed as a classic of North American horror films.

Therefore, from the beginning of the movie, the tense atmosphere created immediately attracted the audience who came to watch the movie.

boom……

On the screen, a bus slammed into a car.

The car was hit and deformed.

"Wow……"

"hiss……"

The extremely real death scene scared the audience in the cinema and screamed.

The main reason for the success of "Death Is Coming" is the director's creation of a tense atmosphere and the real and sudden death.

In particular, the deaths of these characters are definitely the rarest in this period.

Electric fans cut off people's heads, and cars crushed people.

All kinds of extremely bloody scenes can make the audience feel extremely real.

"Damn it, this is a book of life and death!"

"Hei Bai Wuchang must be here to arrest him!"

Less than halfway through the movie, the audience roughly understands why these people died.

Let’s get back to the Chinese name of this movie.

For the Chinese version of "Death Is Coming", Chen Qiming finally settled on the name after some thought and changing several names.

The Chinese version of this film is called "Book of Life and Death".

This means that as long as a person's name is left in the book of life and death, even if he escapes, death will still find him.

Therefore, when the audience thinks of the name of the movie and the fact that the characters in the plot are unable to escape no matter what, they spontaneously think of the ancient legend "The King of Hell told you to die at the third watch, but he will not leave you until the fifth watch."

In addition, the development of the story is also very novel. There are no ghosts throughout the whole process. The deaths of the characters all depend on various accidents, which further enhances the inescapable atmosphere.

In the corner of the theater, film critic Paul and Wang Jing sat together.

The two are discussing the plot of the movie.

"What a novel idea. This type of horror film is unprecedented!"

Wang Jing's face was filled with enthusiasm. An idea suddenly appeared in his mind, and various thoughts collided.

With the help of the accidental death plot in the movie, he has flashed up stories one after another.

"Indeed, this is definitely a turning point in horror movies!"

Paul, the film critic next to him, felt the same way and kept writing on paper.

Suddenly, he looked at Wang Jing and said, "This is a subject worth trying. I have a hunch that the movie will definitely explode at the box office. Do you want to make one yourself?"

Hearing this, Wang Jing's face fell.

He glanced at Chen Qiming in the front row and said depressedly: "This idea is indeed very good, but it is too unique and easy to identify. No matter how you change it, as long as it does not deviate from this category, it will be considered plagiarism.

Chen Qiming will definitely not allow others to plagiarize. "

"The God of Death"... No, "The Book of Life and Death" is too good to be copied. An accidental death!

As long as it relies on this setting, Wang Jing can make ten movies.

But he didn't dare to shoot.

If this drama had been produced by another company, he might have dared to try it.

But Chen Qiming’s cannot.

This guy takes the copyright of his plays very seriously. If anyone dares to copy them, a lawsuit will come immediately.

Previously, he suffered a big loss from Chen Qiming when he filmed "Young and Dangerous" without Chen Qiming's consent.

In the end, if he hadn't taken the initiative to admit his mistake, and also proactively guaranteed that the series he filmed would be released in Chen Qiming's theaters, he would definitely be sued to death by Chen Qiming.

In addition, there are lessons learned from the past few days.

Ever since "Anaconda" became a hit, many film companies in Hong Kong have copied and followed suit.

Chen Qiming doesn't care much about following the trend.

But as long as anyone's plot plagiarizes his "Anaconda", he will immediately receive a letter from a lawyer.

A few days ago, a small company copied "Anaconda" and made a similar film.

This small company is very smart and did not copy everything. It just borrowed the setting of Blood Orchid and changed it to Immortality Flower.

As a result, before the movie was released, we received a letter from Qiming Film and Television’s lawyers, and the court was quickly opened.

In the end, this small company lost a total of 200 million Hong Kong dollars, destroyed the rubber, and disbanded the crew, and the matter was over.

Because of this incident, Qiming Film and Television’s legal team is famous.

Therefore, even though Wang Jing was very interested in the drama "Feng Feng", he had to put his mind down.

"What a pity!" Paul sighed.

He was very optimistic about this drama and thought it could make money. He also thought that if Wang Jing filmed it, he would be able to invest more or less in it.

pity……

The movie goes from scene to scene, and every few minutes there will be a thrilling scene, which makes the audience nervous and at the same time, everyone screams and enjoys it.

While the audience was silent in the movie, He Guanchang didn't look good.

He has been in the industry for many years and naturally knows the quality of movies very well.

Just a few minutes into the movie, he knew that the movie was going to be a box office hit.

The first is the novelty of the genre, and the second is the grandeur of the scene.

In movies, there are always trucks hitting cars, or various big scenes.

Originally, he thought that Chen Qiming's investment of tens of millions of dollars in promoting this film was false propaganda.

Now it seems that this is true.

But this is not a good thing for Jiahe.

Although He Guanchang was very angry with the company for offending Chen Qiming.

But if you offend, you are offended.

Although he had the idea of ​​​​easing the relationship, after knowing that it could not be eased, he also had other ideas.

Last week, he had arranged for the company's screenwriters to write a script for "Anaconda" that could not be regarded as plagiarism, but could only be regarded as following the trend.

However, the script was written.

But there is a problem, that is, if a movie wants to make money, the investment cannot be small.

Even if you want to achieve the effect of "Anaconda", the investment must be at least ten million US dollars.

Tens of millions of dollars!

To be honest, Jiahe has few investment projects of this magnitude throughout the year.

Now, most people in the company are not willing to invest so much money just to follow the trend of Python Disaster.

So, he set his sights on the "Book of Life and Death".

After the success of several popular movies, Chen Qiming's creative ability in movie scripts has been recognized by many people.

Among them is He Guanchang.He Guanchang has analyzed several successful movies of Qiming Film and Television.

He discovered a characteristic, that is, in addition to the huge special effects, Chen Qiming's movies also have novel settings.

Almost every script written by him can attract the audience.

Therefore, he focused on the "Book of Life and Death".

I thought, after watching the movie, if it is easy to follow the trend, I would just follow the trend and shoot.

Originally, according to his idea, the "Book of Life and Death" shouldn't cost much money to invest.

But now after watching the movie, he knew that he was wrong.

If he wants to follow the trend and come up with results, the investment must also be indispensable.

Otherwise, even if you follow the trend, you won’t make much money.

If he can't make money, then why should he follow the trend?
He Guanchang made some calculations on his own, and felt a great chill in his heart.

If you want to make a lot of money from Jiahe's follow-up movie, the scene cannot be small, but the scene cannot be small, so the investment must be large, otherwise it will be impossible to follow the trend and achieve results.

Just like the zombie series and gambling movie series back then, there were countless people following the trend, but if the investment is not in place, it is very difficult to follow the trend and achieve good results.

At that time, many people followed the trend of these two series. Although they both made some money, those who really succeeded in making big money like the original ones had to belong to companies with large investments.

Therefore, it is obvious that to follow the trend of "The God of Death", Golden Harvest will either have to invest a huge amount, or it can only invest a little casually, which will ruin the reputation of this series.

"Forget it, why pursue the scene and just follow the trend? With the craze of snake movies caused by "Anaconda", even if there is no big scene, just follow the trend, I think there will be a lot of audiences to watch!

You don’t want to make a lot of money, just a little bit! "

After thinking about it for a long time, He Guanchang made a decision in his mind.

At this time, an hour and a half has passed.

The movie is finally over.

Including Liming, Zhou Huimin and several foreign actors began to take the stage to be interviewed by reporters.

Chen Qiming did not intend to go on stage again. He greeted several friends who came to support him privately, and then quickly left the theater while reporters were paying attention to the stage.

It's not that Chen Qiming doesn't take this movie seriously.

But he has something to do this afternoon.

This afternoon, the Huo family, one of the four largest families in Hong Kong, organized a large-scale charity auction reception at the Royal Court Hotel in Central.

Originally, Chen Qiming was not invited.

Although he has been very prosperous in the past two years, in real terms, he has not joined the upper class in Hong Kong.

But at this charity reception, Robert Kuok happened to be among the invitees.

He was very optimistic about Chen Qiming, so he called and asked Chen Qiming to follow him.

Chen Qiming naturally readily agreed to this.

He is worried that he has no chance to interact with the middle and upper class people in Hong Kong!

This opportunity just allowed him to get in touch with these people.

Therefore, after nothing happened in "The God of Death (Book of Life and Death)", he left the theater.

……

Charity auction reception.

It arose in the Western imperial period and has a long history.

The charity auction reception at the beginning was said to be hosted by the king.

The intention is also very direct, that is, the king is short of money and hopes that the merchants and nobles will "give generously".

With the development of the times, charity receptions have flowed into the private sector and have been organized by various forces in various ways.

During this period, making money is no longer the most important thing, and not many people hold charity receptions because they really want to make a fortune from it.

"Being famous, establishing a reputation, and publicizing" have become more important purposes.

07:30 pm, Central.

Night began to fall, and the lights among the dozens of stories high buildings were bright.

The Royal Court Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in Hong Kong.

Like Guo's Shangri-La Hotel, it has branches in various countries in Southeast Asia.

However, unlike the Shangri-La Hotel, the Royal Court Hotel focuses on the upper-class market.

It is the first choice place for the real rich to hold events.

At this time, luxury cars and guests were gathered outside the Huangting Hotel.

A large number of luxury cars that could only be seen in rumors were parked in the garage under the leadership of the hotel parking boy.

Wearing suits, ties, and brightly colored dresses, wealthy guests held invitations and entered the hotel as if they were walking on a red carpet.

There were also some guests standing at the door, looking left and right, as if waiting for someone.

squeak……

A white BMW stopped at the door, and two figures got out of the car.

As soon as the two people appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of many people around them.

"It's Chen Qiming and Li Jiaxin! Why are they here?"

"Tsk...two actors!"

"You don't think they can come to such an occasion, do you?"

"Don't say that, Chen Qiming is very capable. Although he is in the entertainment industry, he has a net worth of hundreds of millions in just a few years. The Peacebird brand he founded has also become a rare unicorn company in Hong Kong. He can come to this kind of company The occasion is not strange!”

There was curiosity and contempt in the eyes of the people around him.

Chen Qiming ignored it completely and took Li Jiaxin's hand to get out of the car.

On today's occasion, Chen Qiming had no intention of bringing anyone here.

But when Robert Kuok called that day, Michelle Reis happened to be there.

Ever since she knew that Chen Qiming was coming to this grand occasion where wealthy people gathered, Li Jiaxin became attached to Chen Qiming.

In order to let Chen Qiming bring her here, she tried her best to make Chen Qiming serve him comfortably.

Thinking that it wouldn't be a big problem to bring her here, Chen Qiming agreed to let her be his female companion.

It was a coincidence that they arrived early. As soon as Chen Qiming and his two men arrived, a luxury motorcade drove over from a short distance away.

Robert Kuok is here.

"Mingzai! You're here early!"

Robert Kuok saw Chen Qiming as soon as he got out of the car, smiled and led people over.

"Old Guo!"

Chen Qiming smiled and shook hands with him.

"Young people are good!"

Robert Kuok glanced at Li Jiaxin and joked with a smile.

Michelle Reis is still somewhat famous.

The most beautiful Hong Kong girl!

However, for people like Robert Kuok, it is not worthy of his greeting.

Kuok Henian’s main conversation partner was Chen Qiming.

He is very optimistic about Chen Qiming's Peacebird Company.

Although I have obtained [-]% of the equity of this company, I am not satisfied.

The reason why Chen Qiming was introduced to the cocktail party of Hong Kong's upper class this time was to befriend Chen Qiming in order to get some more shares of Peacebird.

"Last time you said that Peacebird would make a big move, why hasn't it happened yet?"

While walking, Robert Kuok asked.

"There's no rush, we're talking about it, and we can start after the Chinese New Year at the latest!"

Chen Qiming said.

Chen Qiming had chatted with Robert Kuok several times, and one of them talked about the development of Peacebird.

Chen Qiming told Robert Kuok that he plans to invite the Four Heavenly Kings to join him as spokespersons for Peacebird this year, forming the top five spokespersons in Hong Kong and Taiwan, in order to promote Peacebird's influence in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Robert Kuok nodded, and then asked: "What about athletes? I think sports brands are a very good development direction."

"I plan to interview NBA stars when I go to the United States in a while to see if there is any chance of signing some athletes as spokespersons!"

Chen Qiming replied.

(End of this chapter)