Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 367: Visit the Pier

"This one……"

Gu Ming knew that foreign box office sales were almost unreliable, but Xu Ke didn’t think so!

He also has the idea of ​​using the still popular Li Lianlian to try to sell some box office in North America.

Liang Jiahui is a million miles away from Li Lien!
"I'll think about it when I get back."

Xu Ke stretched out his hand and shook it with Gu Ming.

Then after a few more pleasantries, he left Daystar.

"hehe."

Looking at the closed door, Gu Ming smiled and shook his head, without any loss.

If you really follow Tsui Hark's approach, you won't be able to make any money at all, and you will have to lose money.

Even if he and Li Lianlian can sell a lot of foreign copyrights based on their reputation, why should I endorse such a film that had a box office of more than 100,000 US dollars in North America in its previous life?

If you sell it at a high price, you won't make any money. In the end, your reputation will be damaged!

……

the other side.

After leaving, he set his sights on President Yu of Bona.

Even if "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" fails, Mr. Yu still wants to establish a cooperative relationship with Xu Ke.

There is no way, the well-known local directors in China are either taken over by Daystar, or they are with Huayi, and they can only look for Hong Kong movies to feed themselves.

Xu Ke is definitely a representative director of Hong Kong films.

When he heard that Xu Ke was going to remake "Dragon Inn" and asked Li Lianlian to cooperate, he agreed almost instantly.

Li Lianlian's recent box office appeal is not bad.

Foreign copyrights can be sold for a sum!
Not only can you make a lot of money, but you can also open up relationships with some foreign publishers. It’s like killing two birds with one stone!

He immediately decided to invest in the film, and he was responsible for taking care of Li Lianlian.

An offer of $20 million was sent.

However, even if we don’t talk about the grievances between Li Lianjie and Xu Ke in "Once Upon a Time", Li Lianjie still wants to inquire about this film.

There are no secrets in the entertainment industry.

Soon I found out that Xu Ke was looking for Venus first.

But in the end he had to cooperate with Bona.

There is a story here.

One possibility is that Xu Ke was dissatisfied with the treatment, but he knew very well that the treatment given by Gu Ming was really not a scam. Judging from the situation at the time, it was definitely a suitable price.

One of his films even offered him $20 million, helping him enter the $20 million club.

Secondly, it’s because Director Gu doesn’t like this film!

Silk……

Thinking of this, even Li Lianlian felt a little scared.

Director Gu's vision is absolutely online. If he really doesn't like this film, then he has to pay attention.

After all, he has gotten to this point and has a series of movies attached to him. It's really hard for him to do things that will damage his box office ability.

As for the $20 million, you can earn more by maintaining your box office appeal.

After thinking about it, he called Gu Ming.

"I heard that Xu Ke wanted you to vote for a film, but you rejected it?"

"He wants to ask you for help, but we can't negotiate well." "Oh?" Li Lianjie raised his eyebrows, "You think it's not good to use me?"

"We can't get our money back!" Gu Ming said truthfully, "You can't count on this kind of film to be successful at the foreign box office. Times have changed. The era of ancient costume martial arts films in overseas markets has passed. "Hero" has a good box office, but you Do you think Xu Ke is the same as Zhang Yimou?"

Not to mention the fame accumulated overseas, there is no comparison at all.

Before filming "Hero", Zhang Yimou was definitely a well-known master of artistic films.

Xu Ke is more in Southeast Asia.

The timing didn't work either. At that time, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was the first film, and foreign audiences wanted to see similar martial arts films, but now, they are tired of watching them.

When it comes to images and colors, there is no need to compare. That is Zhang Yimou's specialty.

"what……"

He couldn't get his money back, so Li Lianlian marked the invitation in his heart!
At that time, it will affect me too much to take on the next film.

So, after thinking about it for a while, he refused, and his refusal was extremely firm.

Li Lianjie was definitely not considering the role, so Bona and Xu Ke set their sights on Zhou Xun and Chen Kun.

Again, there are no secrets in the entertainment industry.

They also knew what Li Lianjie could find out.

He refused without much consideration, without even calling Gu Ming to inquire.

Regardless of whether the conditions were not agreed upon or Gu Ming thought the film would not make money, they would not consider participating.

In the former, they have a too good relationship with Gu Ming to do such a thing. Not to mention the latter, who wants to act in a film that loses money! They don't lack such an opportunity.

After receiving the reply, Yu Dong secretly bit his back teeth and said, "Three of them didn't answer the question!"

"It's so disrespectful. I don't believe it. Without this butcher, we can still eat pigs with hair on them!"

"Director Xu, are there any alternative casting choices for these three roles?"

"Uh, what about this..." Xu Ke rubbed his nose.

"Zhao Huaian and backup actor Liang Jiahui are also from Daystar."

"For the other two roles, if you want to consider foreign box office, even if they are alternative roles, they are still in Daystar. If it doesn't work, you can use Yang Ziqiong, but first of all, her overseas box office appeal is average, and there is no actress with that appeal. Secondly, her domestic box office appeal is even more average."

"Who can we use for the role of Yu Huatian?"

Xu Ke was in some pain.

Originally, it was because we wanted to sell well overseas that we didn't collaborate with Daystar. So if we co-write, we have to give up on the domestic box office?
What to do with such huge production costs?
His Xu Ke reputation is not worth hundreds of millions.

Especially the failures in recent years have made him lose confidence at all.

"I feel like if I want to achieve big development, I can't get around Daystar!" Xu Ke sighed helplessly. The star he wanted to use was unavailable, so that was it. We still had to consider whether Daystar Cinemas would cause trouble in the end. Woolen cloth.

Even though Gu Ming doesn't care about these little things.

But who can ensure that the group of people below will not make their own decisions so that they can claim credit from Gu Ming.

"I think we still have to invite Venus to join us." Xu Ke looked at the ceiling and felt a pair of big hands pressing down. There was no way to escape, so he had no choice but to glance at Yu Dong opposite.

The two planned for a while, and finally Yudong found his old boss Han Sanpin, asked him to matchmaking, and had a meal with Gu Ming.

To be honest, he had heard about Xu Ke and Yu Dong getting together.

But as for Dong wanting to treat him to a meal, he was really confused.

If you and Xu Ke cooperate, just cooperate. I am such an arrogant person, how can I not let you cooperate?
You still invite me to dinner, is this a courtesy to the pier? I look like someone.

It's like I'm trying to do something secretly.

Am I that domineering?
Please don't insult my noble personality with your suspicious eyes!
(End of this chapter)