Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chen Qiming didn't know what happened to his best partner.

At this time, he had returned to the villa and was receiving guests.

This year, Pacific Film and Television’s performance in film and television has been as good as ever.

Produced such excellent films as "The Storm 2", "Alone 2" and "Resident Evil".

Among them, Resident Evil successfully opened a new series for the Pacific.

What is certain is that this series may be one of the important projects of Pacific Film and Television in the next few years.

In fact, the global box office of "Resident Evil" is not high.

The investment in this movie was about 30 million US dollars, and it only earned a total of more than 70 million US dollars at the global box office.

According to the rule that only investment companies can make money if the box office is three times the investment, the box office of this film did not even allow Pacific to recover its costs.

If there is no money, why does Pacific still regard this project as a key project?
This is entirely because "Resident Evil" exploded in the disc market.

A few months ago, when "Resident Evil" suffered a box office loss, all Pacific executives, including Chen Qiming, actually wanted to shelve the project.

But who would have thought that after this film was released in theaters, it would quickly usher in a big explosion in the European and American disc markets.

In just three months, the film earned US$1.1 million in disc revenue in North America.

Although Pacific only received a small portion of the revenue from these discs, it was enough to make up for the show's losses and make the show profitable.

Well, it's not just a small profit. After calculation, adding up the disc share of this movie in all regions around the world, plus the box office share, Pacific Pictures will make a profit of 20 million US dollars from this movie.

With 20 million US dollars, there are only a few films in the world that can achieve such a high profit every year.

Therefore, after discussing with other people in the company, Chen Qiming decided to start production of "Resident Evil 2" immediately.

For this reason, he also called Theron specifically and asked her to come to Hong Kong. Chen Qiming planned to sign multiple follow-up film contracts with her at once for "Resident Evil".

Chen Qiming's move is necessary.

Although Theron's ability to star in "Resident Evil" is entirely dependent on his relationship.

But it is undeniable that Theron performed very well in this drama.

With her outstanding performance in this drama, she has successfully attracted the attention of many Hollywood film and television companies.

Currently, many companies are planning to invite her to film.

In order to prevent Theron's salary from rising sharply in the future, "Resident Evil" cannot afford to hire her. In order to prevent the situation like Iron Man from happening, Chen Qiming must make preparations in advance and sign a whole series with Theron before she becomes a real hit. film appointment.

The so-called Iron Man situation is actually talking about Robert Downey Jr.

In Future Memory, Marvel promoted Downey, who was in his trough, to star in "Iron Man".

As a result, Downey became famous as a result.

The contract between Marvel and Downey was not too strict, which resulted in Downey's salary rising to an astonishing hundreds of millions of dollars after filming several consecutive Marvel movies.

Marvel has to accept this, because Downey is already recognized as Iron Man.

Replacing him would cause strong dissatisfaction among movie fans.

In the end, Marvel had to accept Downey's amazing salary conditions.

The same is true for Resident Evil.

The script written by Chen Qiming is based on the later "Resident Evil" movie.

In a series, the protagonist will always be Alice.

Now, Theron has been cast in Alice.

If he doesn't want Theron to ask for a salary increase after she becomes famous on the grounds that only she can play this role, Chen Qiming must take precautions now.

Don't say that Sailong is his Chen Qiming's woman.

This is what Chen Qiming doesn't believe the most.

He has never seen too many plots of falling in love and killing each other.

It's not uncommon for brothers and sons to go to court over money in recent years.

Of course, Chen Qiming did all this just as a precaution. Not that he really thought Theron would do that.

If he really doesn't believe her, he has every chance to replace her now.

It’s only one movie anyway, so although replacing her will have an impact, it won’t be particularly big.

In the villa, a group of people were having a barbecue. In addition to Chen Qiming himself, several of his friends were also there, Andy Lau, Zhang Yusheng, Jay Chou and Anita Mui who came with Andy Lau.

And then there's Charlize Theron.

oh! And his little sister Chen Qirui.

This year, Chen Qirui went to college. Because Chen Qiming's career focus is now mainly concentrated in Hong Kong, she applied for the University of Hong Kong and is now studying here.

As for my mother.

She was unwilling to come here.

In fact, Chen Qiming probably understands why.

The older generation basically has a strong sense of homesickness.

No matter how developed they are, they tend to stay where they grew up.

Therefore, she did not come to Hong Kong, but continued to stay in Taipei.

"Brother, you are so awesome! You found a foreign girl to be your girlfriend."

There was only one foreigner in the room, and Charlize was pretty, which made Chen Qirui look at her frequently.

After watching it for a while, he even ran to Chen Qiming and whispered softly.

"Children, what do you know? Go away."

Chen Qiming's face was straight.

"I'm not a kid anymore, I'm already in college."

Hearing Chen Qiming say that she was a child, Chen Qirui suddenly became unhappy. She made a face at Chen Qiming, then turned around and ran to Andy Lau.

"Brother Hua, you can remember what my mother told you before, to take care of my brother.

Look at him, he has brought all the foreign girls home. "

"Hahaha……"

Her words made everyone burst into laughter. Zhang Yusheng couldn't help laughing and asked, "What? You don't like your brother to associate with foreigners?"

"I don't like it!" Chen Qirui said without hesitation that she didn't like Chen Qiming finding a foreigner as his sister-in-law.

Chen Qiming was too lazy to pay attention to Chen Qirui. He chatted a few words in English with Charlize, who looked very lonely, and then walked towards Anita Mui with a barbecue.

"Sister Mei, it's been a long time since we drank together!"

"Two years? Three years? I can't even remember." Anita Mui laughed.

"Maybe two years! The last time was at your birthday party." Chen Qi recalled.

"Probably!" Anita Mui nodded.

Afterwards, the two fell into silence.

Speaking of which, Chen Qiming and Anita Mui have had many interactions, but they have always been just acquaintances.

If it weren't for Andy Lau, Anita Mui probably wouldn't have appeared in Chen Qiming's villa today.

Also because they weren't very familiar with each other, the two of them couldn't find a topic to talk about for a while.

"Actually, I came here today mainly because I wanted to ask for your help." Anita Mui was silent for a while and then took the initiative to speak.

"You say!"

"I'm preparing a new album here, but I've never been satisfied with the title song. I'd like to ask you to write one for me. I wonder if you can help?"

(End of this chapter)