Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 230 Hollywood is coming in!
In early June, Life and Death was released.

The total box office in Southeast Asia was US$46 million.

In mid-June, new rules for co-productions were announced.

Mr. Li of Zhonghe accepted an interview and announced his appointment as chairman of Yindu.

At the end of June, the crew from the Hong District finished filming and returned to China.

In the Beijing Film Studio, Chen Shiping stood in front of the office window, watching Han Laosan hurriedly leave, and couldn't help but sigh.

Han Laosan was deceived by Jiang Wen.

Another cart of 70mm film was hauled away.

It's all money!

If this continues, Sunshine will definitely exceed the budget.

Chen Shiping looked away from the window, looked back at Cheng Long and asked, "How do you feel this time?"

"It's not bad, but I always feel like something is missing."

The first thing Cheng Long did after returning to China was to watch the speed of life and death.

After reading it, I always feel empty inside.

Hu Jun is very handsome, there are many big scenes, and the fight on the subway roof is also very thrilling.

Just why not myself.

Chen Shiping took a sip of tea and said, "I'll go check it out after the rough cutting. Li Shaohong's ability is still pretty good."

Cheng Long nodded. The three films he collaborated with Beijing Film Studio were all directed by Li Shaohong, so he naturally knew Li Shaohong's abilities.

And he was the director of the fighting scenes, so the movie certainly won't be too bad.

"Director Chen, what was the movie you told me about last time?"

Cheng Long was very curious.

Chen Shiping smiled and said: "You are so anxious, then you should read the script first."

Chen Shiping took out a script from the table and threw it over.

After Cheng Long took it and took a look, he subconsciously read out the name on the script.

"True Lies?"

Cheng Long was a little confused. Why did it look like an art film?

However, Cheng Long continued to look.

Chen Shiping originally wanted to film Mission: Impossible, but after talking to Yu Hua last time, he felt that he was right.

Mission: Impossible is too far for current audiences, so it would be better to start with a true lie.

After the filming of True Lies is completed, Chen Shiping plans to let Cheng Long film The Bourne Supremacy.

In the first part of The Bourne Supremacy, the male protagonist lost his memory and everything was a mystery. He couldn't figure out his identity and was being hunted all the time.

For the audience, the sense of substitution and acceptance is better.

It's like opening a new account to play a game, and the background design won't be as exaggerated as Mission: Impossible.

After The Bourne Supremacy is completed and released, we can prepare a Hong Kong version of Mission: Impossible.

Step by step to improve the audience's acceptance of this type of film.

A policeman who lives and dies at the speed of his life, a special agent who tells true lies, a spy who loses his memory in The Bourne Supremacy, and finally a Mission: Impossible elite agent who rivals 007.

Chen Shiping feels that this order can be better accepted by the audience.

At the same time, it can also incubate movie IP as early as possible, so that action movies can become the same super IP as kung fu movies.

After more than twenty minutes, Cheng Long finished reading, but he just didn't like it a little.

This is different from the speed of life and death. What about the big scenes?
Bombing subways and airplanes! ?

Flying a plane is not fun! How fun is it to blow up a plane?

Chen Shiping smiled lightly and threw another script over and said, "There is another script, but I can only choose one of the two."

Cheng Long picked it up and took a look. The Bourne Supremacy?

This time it seems a little interesting.

After reading the script of The Bourne Supremacy, Cheng Long silently picked up True Lies.

What's the Bourne Supremacy thing? Not to mention blowing up planes, you can fly planes, and just drive around in a small car.

Chen Shiping couldn't help but laugh. He knew that Cheng Long wouldn't like The Bourne Supremacy now.

After watching the speed of life and death, how can I still bear to have a big scene?

There are many big scenes in Mission: Impossible, but Chen Shiping didn't show them to him.

That's not his style. True Lies and The Bourne Supremacy set his action style better.

A person with special skills but amnesia is more suitable for Cheng Long's fighting style.

Moreover, Cheng Long has always played a tough guy in a small role, so asking him to be an elite agent would only go against the rules.

Start with the raped special agent, and then move on to the amnesiac agent.

As for Mission: Impossible, Chen Shiping planned to use Jet Li, whose action style is more suitable for this kind of movie.

Let's have a PK with two Kung Fu superstars.

Let’s see who has more appeal and is more popular with the audience.

Chen Shiping put a lot of effort into writing these two scripts, and all the intelligence agencies and countries in them had to be redesigned.

It must be in line with the feelings of mainland audiences, and it must also give foreign audiences a familiar taste.

Cheng Long couldn't help but ask at this time: "Is there a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy? Have you finished writing the sequel?"

Chen Shiping hummed and said, "There are five parts in total. They are all finished, but you can't watch them. You won't be able to act after them."

Cheng Long: "." I'm not acting, I'm just asking out of curiosity.

But is it a bit too much to write five movies at once, so confident that the movie will be successful?
Looking into Chen Shiping's calm eyes, Cheng Long chose to believe him.

Cheng Long left with the True Lies script, and he wanted to go back and figure out the action design.

Chen Shiping stretched himself and thought about how he would go to China Film Group Corporation tomorrow to talk to people in Colombia about the distribution of Life and Death in Europe and the United States.

This is not a simple matter. You can’t just throw the movie in front of others and say let me distribute it.

There has to be an exchange of interests, introduce a movie, and then let Columbia release "Speed".

Still relatively cost-effective.

After all, the mainland market can already accommodate a box office of 20 million US dollars, which is a big market for Colombia.

This upper limit will continue to rise in the future, and the potential of the Chinese film market has made Hollywood people unable to ignore it.

When Chen Shiping arrived at China Film Group Corporation the next day, he found that the people in Colombia had a particularly good attitude.

He expressed that he is very happy to enter the Chinese market and is also willing to release films like Life and Death.

It has been able to achieve a box office of more than 40 million US dollars in Southeast Asia, which has shown that it is a very successful commercial movie.

Moreover, Life and Death is not a traditional Eastern movie, and Western audiences can also accept this style.

This is a sure-fire deal.

Of course, there is another main reason: Colombia wants to be the first person to come to the mainland to eat crabs.

"We hope to reach an introduction agreement, such as at least ten movies a year."

No matter how good the Colombian people are, they are still doing it to make money. As soon as the formal negotiations started, a big deal came.

Chen Shiping was speechless. How could I let you freely enter the mainland film market?

Ten movies a year! Let’s dream!

All ten together are about the same.

However, Chen Shiping had no say in this matter. After all, he had not yet come to work at China Film. China Film Group has its own considerations.

Then Chen Shiping sat there and watched the China Film Group people negotiating back and forth with them.

The people at China Film are indeed very strong in this regard. They have bought out many foreign films in the past, and practice makes perfect when it comes to negotiating.

Chen Shiping admired them quite a lot. He talked about the same question over and over again from all angles.

The negotiation lasted for more than three hours, and Chen Shiping ran out to use the toilet three times during the process.

I really can't sit still.

But soon someone from China Film Group ran over and told Chen Shiping that someone from Paramount was also here.

And they didn't invite them, they came here on their own initiative.

Chen Shiping followed him out of curiosity and saw that it was the same Cleese who was in Los Angeles last time.

Chen Shiping greeted him with a smile and said, "Kress, welcome to China."

"I didn't expect you to still remember me." Kress said with a smile: "Nowadays, Hollywood is talking about the emergence of an arrogant and arrogant director in China."

Chen Shiping laughed and said, "You are so direct in your speech. This would be very rude in China."

Chen Shiping was very enthusiastic about him. The timing of Paramount's arrival was perfect, and the people in Colombia were as stubborn as bulls now.

Let’s see how stubborn he is after the competition comes!

Chen Shiping smiled and took Kress to an office, where people from China Film and Television were about to appear.

Another tug-of-war is about to begin again.

However, after Chen Shiping chatted with Kress for a few words, he ran back to the original conference room.

The people from China Film Group knew that Paramount was coming. They looked at Chen Shiping and said with a smile: "Director Chen, why are you always lazy?"

Chen Shiping said apologetically: "An old friend from the United States is here. Let's meet him."

The people in Colombia didn’t understand Chinese, but the translator next to me did and subconsciously translated the conversation.

They didn't pay much attention at first, but after hearing what the translator said, they immediately felt something was wrong.

At this time, Chen Shiping deliberately lowered his voice and whispered a few words in Chinese to the people from China Film and Television about the people coming from Paramount.

The voice was neither too loud nor too quiet, just enough for the translator to hear.

The translator couldn't help but look at Chen Shiping. Isn't this trick of yours so disrespectful? No one can understand it!

However, after the translator turned his head and glanced at the Colombian people, he suddenly realized that foreigners may not understand it well.
As a translator hired by Colombia with a large sum of money, he felt that he had an obligation to translate every sentence.

As for whether the people in Colombia felt that they overheard secrets or saw through Chen Shiping's tricks, that was not their concern.

Chen Shiping was not pretending to be mysterious, he was just creating some psychological pressure on the people of Colombia first.

It's better not to disclose the news about Paramount's arrival openly now.

Until noon, the meeting was temporarily suspended and everyone went to eat together.

The people from Columbia and Paramount were staggered and there was no arrangement for them to meet.

Chen Shiping did not accompany any of them and drove directly home.

Let them misunderstand each other that they and their competitors are better off eating.

This is the first time that the mainland has taken the initiative to introduce Hollywood movies. In the past, it used to buy some TV series or TV broadcast rights.

After all, two years ago, the mainland's film market still had unified purchasing and sales, and it was impossible to buy out Hollywood movies.

It is precisely because this is the first time that the mainland's film market is growing rapidly that Hollywood film companies pay so much attention to it.

There is pressure only when there is competition.

Chen Shiping didn't show up for the next two days. The introduction was China Film's business, and he would discuss distribution after the negotiations were made.

Neither Columbia nor Paramount can figure out whether China Film will relax restrictions on imports this time, or whether it will only pursue overseas distribution at a fast pace.

There is no way to judge whether they should cooperate this time to put pressure on China Film.

In the end, the two parties discussed their own issues, and both wanted to seize this opportunity to enter the mainland market.

Two days later, the final results came out.

Colombia successfully won this cooperation,
China Film introduced a Colombian film, and Columbia distributed it.

However, the movies provided by Colombia must comply with the mainland's censorship system.

After the first step of cooperation was finalized, Chen Shiping waved his hand and asked the people from the distribution department to go up and torture the people in Colombia.

How to publicize the overseas issuance and the specific issue of distribution must be discussed in detail.

People in Colombia are numb, and they also want to discuss these issues with China Film.

But China Film Group just said that the policy does not allow it, it would be great if you can come in, don’t think too much.

After a whole day, no specific announcement issues were discussed in the end.

Chen Shiping is not in a hurry. This kind of thing cannot be solved in a day or two.

Paramount was unwilling to do so and continued to stay with China Film Group to discuss cooperation and wanted to join the mainland market.

Chen Shiping will not care about this matter, and China Film will worry about it himself.

After several days of talks with Columbia, the issue of instant release was finally settled.

In addition to North America, Columbia will also do distribution in Europe.

Now that everything has been released, we need to make more money.

However, Columbia did not pay too much attention to the speed of life and death and did not release it at full strength.

Choosing a very ordinary schedule, there are only about a thousand theaters in North America showing the film at the same time.

Chen Shiping didn't have any objections to this. It was his first time, so he wanted to play in a small area first.

Chen Shiping breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

Finally have the energy to do other things.

The Sunshine crew was about to finish filming at this time. Chen Shiping was watching Wang Shuo being held high in Lao Mo's restaurant and couldn't help but shake his head.

I really have no sympathy for the youth of these big-yard boys.

Two groups of kids wanted to fight, so they found an experienced middleman to come over.

Wang Shuo plays this middleman, and he really feels like he is acting in his true self.

Anyway, his acting skills are much better than Chen Shiping's.

After the filming of this scene was completed, Chen Shiping went to Han Laosan and said, "Please lead a team to follow up on this overseas release of Life and Death."

Han Laosan was stunned for a moment and asked: "Go to the United States?"

"Yes, do you mind if I ask you to go on a business trip when you first come to the factory?" Chen Shiping asked with a smile.

Han Laosan immediately shook his head and said, "I don't mind! It's not too late to be happy!"

Han Laosan is really happy. It is the first Chinese-language action blockbuster to be released overseas.

This makes a lot of sense!
In the past, when Chinese-language films were released overseas, the copyrights were sold.

It is fundamentally different from the speed of life and death!
Han Laosan really felt that Chen Shiping valued him, and this was a proper task to achieve results.

On the day of the premiere of Life and Death, Han Laosan admired Chen Shiping's ability.

This time he admired Chen Shiping's style.

If you can give yourself the results you get, you are a good leader!
I used to feel uncomfortable that Chen Shiping was a few years younger than me.

Now I have no objection at all.

We need such a courageous and capable leader!

Director Chen, we will be yours from now on. When you get promoted, I will definitely run the factory well!

(End of this chapter)