It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 867: The new work of the great poet Chen! Audition? Harvest! Acquisition? Sit back and reap the fruits of his labor?

The time soon came to late September.

Looking around, the entire mainland cinema market has been occupied by Hollywood imported blockbusters, and no domestic films can stand out.

Especially with the cancellation of "Mr. Six" and "Bad Angels", the rest of the domestic films are wailing!
You know, more than 20 days have passed since New Year's Day. Except for a domestic animated film "Boonie Bears: Return of the Bears", no other domestic film has a box office of over million yuan.

From this we can see how badly these domestic films have been tortured.

However, although there are no high-quality domestic blockbusters in theaters for the time being, there are still many blockbusters waiting to be released by film and television producers.

Let’s not talk about the movies released during the Spring Festival, just talk about the blockbusters that are currently being filmed and produced. They are all recognized as “top masterpieces” in the industry!
"Operation Red Sea", "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Kunlun Temple", "Detective Chinatown 2", "The Great Wall", "I Am Not Madame Bovary", "Zhu Xian", "Eternal Love"...

There are already many experts in the industry analyzing and predicting the box office performance of these movies.

Looking around, there are quite a few top blockbusters with huge box office potential!
However, what many people never expected was that at this critical moment, Brother Chen Kai, who had been silent for half a year due to "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", suddenly emerged.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, several news items about the great poet Chen suddenly became a hot search, attracting countless people to watch.

"According to the latest announcement on the official website of the Film Bureau, the script adapted from the novel "Monk Kukai: The Great Tang Ghost Banquet" by Japanese writer Baku Yumemakura, which was written by Chen Kai himself and took six years to write, has officially passed the review today."

"It is reported that the new script is called "Legend of the Demon Cat", not "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" or "Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty" as circulated online."

"In order to ensure the smooth shooting of this film, Brother Chen Kai prepared for many years and spent a huge amount of money to build a 2011-acre "Tangcheng Film and Television Base" since 550.

The base is composed of the Tang Palace, Mingde Gate, Qinglong Temple, Arc de Triomphe, Qianbu Corridor, Gao Lishi's Residence, East Market, West Market and other major buildings and courtyards. It is designed in accordance with the layout of the garden, focusing on the relationship between the overall and the local positions, mainly to highlight the effect of changing scenery as you move..."

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As soon as the news came out that Brother Chen Kai's new script had passed the review, Chen Fei paid attention to it immediately.

The reason is very simple, mainly because there is Huang Xiaoming, a guy with very good popularity in the crew!
As soon as the Film Bureau issued a notice saying that the script had passed review, the leader immediately called Brother Chen Kai to ask if there was any role suitable for him.

However, he seemed to have hit a snag, and the other side did not give him a clear answer.

This can be judged from the fact that Huang Xiaoming's face did not look very good after he hung up the phone.

Others avoided talking about it, but Zhou Xun didn't care and asked directly: "Why? Were you rejected by Brother Chen Kai?"

"Not really." Huang Xiaoming shook his head and said, "Director Chen Kai said that there is no rush to select actors now, and the casting may be carried out through 'open auditions' later."

Audition?
Zhou Xun was slightly stunned. "Like in Eternal Love?"

Huang Xiaoming said uncertainly: "It should be about the same."

Chen Fei was debugging the equipment nearby and said jokingly, "Haha, it seems that our Director Chen is also going to start using the 'traffic' trick."

Upon hearing this, the rest of the people on the set fell silent.

We are all insiders, and we all know that Chen Fei doesn't have much affection for "traffic stars", which can be seen from the fact that he has always been at odds with Alibaba Pictures.

Because of this, naturally no one would touch this bad luck, or even take the initiative to continue the topic.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit tense, Huang Xiaoming quickly changed the subject: "I've been watching the news recently, and it seems that the technological development in our country is getting faster and faster!

Since the successful development of the rocket recovery technology last year, this year we have the Sky Eye telescope, the Long March 5, the Tiangong-2, and the Tianzhou-1, all of which are about to be launched into space. Isn’t this technological innovation too fast? "

Zhou Xun didn't know much about this topic, so he chose to keep quiet.

Zhang Yi, on the other hand, echoed with great interest: "Not only that, I heard that in addition to rockets, other technologies such as artificial intelligence, chips, satellites, etc. have begun to explode."

"Tsk, tsk, the future won't be about filming in outer space, right?"

"Don't tell me yet, it's really possible!"

The two of them were chatting back and forth, and they didn't notice that Chen Fei's face had become angry.

Artificial intelligence, rockets, chips, satellites...

That is to say, he cannot reveal it to anyone, otherwise, Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Yi and others would be frightened to death on the spot!

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As February draws closer, many Spring Festival blockbusters such as "The Mermaid", "Journey to the West: The Monkey King 2", "Kung Fu Panda 4", "Ip Man 4", and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: Sword of Destiny" have launched their pre-release "publicity wars".

Looking around, the Internet is extremely lively!
Each film producer is taking turns to show off their abilities and strength in the upcoming Spring Festival period.

That morning, several news reprinted from Hollywood successfully attracted Chen Fei's attention.

"The 88th Academy Awards officially announced the nomination list today, "The Big Short", "Bridge of Spies"

Many high-quality Hollywood blockbusters such as "Brooklyn" and "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" were nominated..."

"It is a pity that there are still no domestic films in the nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars. Chinese-language films have once again failed to make the list."

"It is reported that the comedy, science fiction, action film "Deadpool", jointly produced by Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox, has not been introduced to domestic theaters because it contains a lot of bloody and violent scenes. It can only be released in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places."

Although these pieces of news did not spark discussion in the mainland film and television circles or among netizens, and did not make it to the Weibo hot search list, they made Chen Fei fall into deep thought.

According to the information he had learned, 20th Century Fox had bought too many copyrights from Marvel in the decades since its founding!
In addition to the current "Deadpool", there are also a series of copyrights that should belong to Marvel, including "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Daredevil" and so on.

As Marvel is developing better and better, Chen Fei now very much wants to get all the copyrights of Marvel series movies back.

After all, even Spider-Man has successfully returned home, so the copyrights of other movies should not continue to be exposed.

So, 20th Century Fox became his target.

What makes him feel "lucky" is that Fox's development has not been very good in recent years. It did not produce or release any movies in the whole of last year and has been living off its past capital.

Moreover, according to Natasha's investigation, 138th Century Fox now even has a debt of up to billion US dollars!

Under such great pressure, 81th Century Fox, which was founded years ago, has already entered a state of "dead end".

Perhaps because of seeing the popularity of Marvel, 20th Century Fox wanted to save itself, so it joined forces with Marvel to produce the movie "Deadpool".

But facing that huge debt, how can a movie like "Deadpool" save it?

Therefore, no matter how hard they try now, they are just holding on.

This gave rise to a huge ambition in Chen Fei's heart!
If 20th Century Fox could be acquired, not only would the adaptation rights to the Marvel series of films be recovered, but also the film rights to many of the world's top masterpieces such as "The Simpsons", "Avatar" and "Titanic" would be obtained.

Although this "ambition" will cost nearly 100 billion US dollars to achieve, Chen Fei feels it is well worth it!

You know, the current market value of Walton Pictures is almost catching up with Disney. The gap between the two is very small, and the latter is about to be surpassed.

Under such circumstances, if Walton Pictures can successfully acquire 1th Century Fox, it will definitely be able to achieve a class leap and become the No. Hollywood film and television company in one fell swoop!

This achievement has unparalleled appeal and temptation for both Chen Fei and Natasha!

Therefore, the acquisition plan has now been officially launched.

Chen Fei is very much looking forward to the day when the acquisition is successful. By then, the eight major and six major Hollywood companies will have to be reshuffled!

As a result, Walton Pictures will surely successfully take the No. 1 throne, dazzling the eyes of countless film and television industry practitioners and top financial groups and tycoons in the investment circle around the world!
However, just as he was boldly imagining a bright future, Wanda's boss suddenly took action. At 13: Beijing time, Wanda's announcement directly blew up the entire film and television industry!

"After months of negotiations, the group officially acquired 35% of the shares of Legendary Pictures, a top Hollywood film production company, yesterday for no more than US$230 billion (approximately RMB 100 billion) in cash.

From now on, Wanda Pictures will officially enter Hollywood, participate in the global film production and distribution business, and will participate in the competition in the global film box office market..."

As soon as this notice came out, no matter the Lunar New Year period, Spring Festival period, or Hollywood period, they were all suppressed, with no hope of emerging at all.

The domestic media went crazy!
Especially the entertainment media, they all rushed over and started looking for opportunities to take advantage of the popularity, fearing that they would be left behind.

“It is understood that Wanda has become the world’s largest cinema chain owner since it spent US$12 billion to acquire 5% of AMC Cinema Line in May 31.

Although Wanda cannot compete with Pan Asia Cinemas in terms of the number and quality of domestic cinema chains, it has long been the leader in global cinema chain share!
Now, after the successful acquisition of Legendary Pictures, its business scope has achieved global coverage, from production to distribution to theaters, and has completed the layout of the entire industry chain. "

"Legendary Pictures was founded in 2000, 16 years ago. It is an independent American film production company and a well-known Hollywood film company. Its main businesses include film, television, digital media and animation."

"After acquiring Legendary Pictures, Wanda will own the film and television copyrights of many films including The Hangover, Man of Steel and Jurassic Park."

"It is reported that Legendary Pictures has an investment share in the Sino-foreign co-production blockbuster "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Jing Tian, ​​Liu Dehua and others."

With various news reports constantly appearing one after another, the mainland film industry is in a sensation!
After reading the related news, not to mention the actors and celebrities, even the CEOs of major film and television production companies were stunned and could not recover for a long time.

We really didn’t expect that Wanda would be so “generous” and invest in a Hollywood film company!

Wang Changtian called Chen Fei immediately.

As soon as he spoke, he asked curiously, "It seems that there is a big gap between this Legendary Pictures and the Walton Pictures that you control, right?"

Chen Fei smiled and explained, "There are currently six recognized giants in Hollywood, namely Disney, Sony Columbia, Paramount, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner.

Following closely behind are independent production companies such as Lionsgate and Legendary Pictures, all of which adopt a low-budget, patchwork production model.

As for Walton Pictures, although it is also an independent production company, we have been ranked No. 4 in the Hollywood film company revenue list for four consecutive years.

Especially after the explosion of Marvel-related superhero movies, Walton Pictures' revenue has surpassed all other Hollywood film and television production companies."

"Wow! So awesome?" Wang Changtian swore rarely.

He really didn't understand any of this. Although Guangguang had been involved in the film and television industry for several years, it had always been in this circle in China and had never even taken the lead in a big-investment movie.

Under such circumstances, how could he possibly be so ambitious as to pay attention to a Hollywood film company?
"It's OK." Chen Fei said modestly, "Walton Pictures is still in the early stages of development and has not yet fully exploded."

Wang Changtian: “…”

Lao Wang had previously thought that after Wanda’s move, Guangxian would have to “kneel down and lick” it with a shameless face.

But now it seems that it is enough to just lick Chen Fei. Although Wanda seems to be very powerful, it is actually just like that.

Of course, Wang Changtian could think this way purely because he had a good relationship with Chen Fei.

But Huayi on the other hand is more "tragic".

At this time, in Wang Zhongjun's office.

After reading the news, the two brothers of the Wang family looked at each other and felt that Huayi’s originally smooth road ahead was suddenly overgrown with thorns and weeds.

They had just planned to secretly poach Ye Ning and were already secretly preparing for a battle with Wanda.

But no one expected that Wanda Pictures would actually turn around and acquire a Hollywood production company, and its status in the industry skyrocketed instantly!
You know, Wanda, with Legendary Pictures, now has the ability to compete with Huayi.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

"What can I do? What can I do? If an enemy comes, I will fight him with my army. If a flood comes, I will block it with earth."

Wang Zhongjun's face was full of worry and he felt uneasy in his heart.

He didn't know why, but ever since Huayi's stock price fell from more than 900 billion to more than 400 billion in the second half of last year, he had a vague feeling of foreboding.

So much time has passed, and this premonition has not only not subsided, but has become stronger and stronger!

During this period of time, he has been hypnotizing himself, "Huayi is the first capital of the private film and television industry, and is also the object of support and support from the top, so there will definitely be no problems."

But what surprised him was that this hypnosis didn't seem to have much effect, and the ominous premonition became stronger and stronger!

He had a vague feeling that something was not right, but he just couldn't find it.

……

At the same time, after finishing the call with Wang Changtian, Chen Fei immediately called Huo Qigang.

"Old Huo, please arrange for some people to keep an eye on Wanda's overseas cinema chains. If there is any movement, remember to notify me immediately."

"Wanda?" Huo Qigang was puzzled. "Why are you targeting their cinemas? Our Pan Asia Cinema Line has a large share overseas!"

"Don't ask too much. You will know when the time comes. Now just do as I say."

Chen Fei deliberately played a riddle, ignored Huo Qigang's doubts, and hung up the phone directly.

If he remembered correctly, Wanda's AMC Cinemas will face huge losses in the next few years due to the impact of streaming media and certain force majeure factors!

In addition, Wanda has spread its business too wide, and when it needs to recover funds in the future, it will definitely give priority to divesting these non-core overseas businesses.

By then, Pan Asia Cinemas may be able to take over part of it smoothly at a low price.

After all, by comparison, cooking for yourself is far less enjoyable than sitting back and enjoying the fruits of others’ labor!

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Time quickly came to the 26th, and the last Hollywood imported movie before the Spring Festival, "Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: Lost on Journey", was released.

However, at a time when many domestic films are in a tense situation, this movie did not show the strength of a Hollywood imported blockbuster.

The first-day box office revenue of 726 million really made many investors breathe a sigh of relief.

However, even so, the remaining domestic films have not been able to "turn things around."

Movies such as "The Evil Dead", "Aria of Steel Plate", "Diary of Youth", "Forbidden Zone", "Gone Girl", etc., none of them can break the 1 million box office.

Even the movie "Pacific Rim" starring Zhang Yuqi and Brandon Routh was severely criticized by netizens on the day of its release!

You know, when this movie was being promoted, it was confidently stated that it could be compared to "Pacific Rim".

But no one expected that the movie would make a huge fuss after it was released. Although it was not as expensive as a 50-cent special effect, it did not exceed one dollar overall.

For a time, the slogan "Domestic science fiction movies are dead" appeared on the Internet again, sparking a lot of heated discussions!

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