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Chapter 285 "The Night When the Comet Came" (Please subscribe!)

"Eight friends including Amy, Kevin, and Beth gathered at Mike's house for a party and chat. Amy, who is a dancer, told two stories at the dinner table. The first one was about a regret that Amy had."

"The other one is about a strange incident that happened when a comet crossed the earth many years ago: it is about a Finnish woman who called the police on that day and said that the husband in her family was not her real husband. The police asked the woman to provide evidence, and the woman said it. The police were stunned because she said she had killed her husband last night."

"At the climax of Amy's story, suddenly there was a power outage at Mike's house. When everyone went out, they found that the entire community was plunged into darkness. Only a certain house two blocks away still had lights on. Amy proposed to visit But when they arrived at the house, they found that eight people who looked exactly like them were having dinner in the house..."

The story Chen Dong told is exactly what was later called a classic suspense movie that liberal arts students couldn't understand - "The Night the Comet Came."

In order to study this movie, he watched it five or six times, so he can now talk about it.

It was only after Chen Dong finished telling the whole story that he realized that a circle of people had gathered around him.

Even Director Cameron was among them. The moment Chen Dong met his eyes, he saw a trace of doubt just like in other people's eyes. But the other person was indeed a world-class director, and soon this doubt turned into excited.

The excitement a director feels when seeing a good script.

Although Cameron may have known in his heart that the young Eastern director in front of him would not be willing to give up such a good story to him.

After seeing Cameron's rejection, several directors who had been interested in the project also gave up the idea.

It is said that Chen Dong, in addition to providing a notebook for the "Hunger Games" project, is almost equivalent to an indifferent hands-off shopkeeper.

Especially Leonardo, who is very close to Chen Dong, is already thinking about which role he should play.

In fact, even if Chen Dong was really willing to sell this story to him, he wouldn't be able to film it in a short time because the TV version of "Titanic" he is preparing is about to start filming.

On the other hand, the actors and stars surrounding him all became excited.

The next day, "The Hunger Games" was released simultaneously in 3782 theaters in North America, with a box office of $2100 million on the first day.

"Chen, your story is very exciting, but it is also very brain-burning. Even if I only listened to it for the first time, I was still a little confused. Of course, I am not questioning your ability to tell stories. I just want to say that if you If you plan to sell it, please consider me.”

Chen Dong was a little surprised that Cameron would be interested in this story, but it was an accident. He and the other person were not related, so there was no way he would give it up, so he declined without hesitation: "Sorry, Director Cameron, this I want to tell the story myself.”

Now that the project is making money, and he, the boss, is a vested interest, of course the first thing he does is share the cake.

It beat "Transformers 3", which had been released for a month, to win the daily box office championship.

In another half month, he will fly to Finland to shoot there.

But he still tried it just in case.

There are no currently released Hollywood movies that pose a threat to "The Hunger Games," which means that it is a certainty that the movie will win the box office title in its first week.

In Hollywood, being the first-week box office champion is not only a reputation, it is also a very precious publicity resource. The key is that this publicity resource does not require any publicity fees from the production company.

"Well, it seems that we are no longer destined to be together." Cameron said with a slight regret, but he didn't bother too much.

Of course, Chen Dong can ignore them, but if he does that, his employees will be like monks, and who will work actively for you?

In addition, the success of "The Hunger Games 1" also means that this series can continue to be filmed.

According to Alice's idea, she wanted to make a big push and start the second part immediately, but she was suppressed by Chen Dong. Because Chen Dong plans to shoot "The Night the Comet Came" first, and as for "The Hunger Games 2", his suggestion is to wait until the box office of the first part is divided before launching the project, otherwise the company's capital flow will be relatively tight.

Seeing that "The Hunger Games" unexpectedly won the weekly box office championship in North America, Chen Dong did not wait for the day of the party for it, leaving the script of "The Night the Comet Came" for Alice to submit. Prepared, he took the plane back home and left Los Angeles.

Of course, before Chen Dong left Los Angeles, Leonardo came to his company, signed an actor contract with him, and took away the complete script of "Comet".

What Chen Dong didn't know was that in order to take on "Comet", Leonardo also rejected Quentin Quentin's new film "Digoya Unchained", which is known as a genius director.

"Transformers 3" was released in China more than half a month later than in North America, so when Chen Dong returned to China, the movie was still going strong.

The extremely high daily box office of no less than 5000 million yuan every day has suppressed many domestic movies, let alone looking up, and it is difficult to even take a breath.

At the same time, the film also achieved a daily box office of 1.12 million on its third day of release, directly setting a new daily box office record.

The threshold of 10 billion is not difficult for this movie, at least it is easy.

Moreover, the media analyzed that its box office potential is higher than that of "Avatar" and "Interstellar".

This means that this movie is fully capable of breaking the box office record of 14.5 billion set by "Interstellar".

Of course, this requires a premise, that is, "Transformers 3" can also get a one-month extension key.

As soon as Chen Dong returned to China, he was still confused when he was called to a meeting by the General Administration.

Although the main topic of this meeting was not to discuss "Transformers 3", Tong Bureau, who presided over the meeting, still discussed the film's application for an extension key at the meeting with a group of filmmakers.

As a result, it naturally encountered opposition and complaints from the vast majority of people.

"Director Chen, wait a moment."

The meeting was over, and Chen Dong was about to get up and go home.

But he didn't want to be suddenly stopped by someone he didn't expect at all.

"Mr. Zhang, do you have anything to do with me?"

Chen Dong looked at Zhang Weiping, who was walking towards him quickly, and felt confused.

Zhang Weiping walked up to Chen Dong and saw the curious glances from the people around him. He didn't say anything, but asked: "Director Chen, can you take a step to speak?"

Chen Dong felt even more confused when he saw this guy's mysterious look.

At the same time, there is also a third degree of curiosity.

In addition, it was not easy to offend the other person's face, so he nodded subconsciously.

"it is good……"

(End of this chapter)