new kung fu king

Chapter 525 Crazy Release Plan

When the two Mandarin and Cantonese versions were put in front of Wang Xiaohu, he was not in a hurry to release them in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, which confused many people, wondering what kind of medicine Wang Xiaohu would sell in his gourd.

"Brother Hu, in the past few days, agents from all over Southeast Asia have called to remind us, asking when our "Mythology" is going to be released."

In addition to focusing on publicity in Xiehe, Xu Junlong has another important identity, which is the distribution department. Since the editing of the three versions of "Mythology", a 3-minute "Mythology" trailer interview, agents all over Southeast Asia They were shocked after watching it, and the profit-seeking businessmen immediately realized the business opportunities behind this movie. They were very interested in the movie with an investment of 3000 million Hong Kong dollars from Xiehe Company, and wanted to win the agency rights as soon as possible to arrange publicity.

Wang Xiaohu propped his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Don't worry, just wait."

Xu Junlong hummed, but did not leave, which means: How long to wait?
"If they still call, you tell them this: "Myth" will be released in North America first, then consider the mainland, followed by Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia."

"Ah?" Xu Junlong yelled, his mouth opened and closed, and he froze in surprise.

"Do you have any other questions?"

Xu Junlong finally came back to his senses and said, "No, there's no problem."

"Well, go get busy." Wang Xiaohu waved his hands, and continued to fall into deep thought.

After get off work, two female employees walked out of Xiehe Company, and they talked in a low voice while walking.

"Hey, Xiaozhen, have you heard that "Mythology" will premiere in North America first."

"Yeah, yeah, I just heard Xiao Zhao from the distribution department say that Brother Hu is going to make a big move this time!"

"Just like this, when will I see the full version? I'm almost tortured by that romantic trailer."

"Me too, these days I've been dreaming about flying in Tiangong."

"Oh, you are so moved, you dead girl, tell me who did you dream of flying with?"

After a while, several employees came out of Concorde, and the topic they discussed also revolved around the release time of "Myth".

"Xiao Zhao, you heard me right, did Xu Tou really say that to the agents in Southeast Asia?"

Xiao Zhao is the secretary of the publishing department, a young man in his early 20s with a black lens, he nodded solemnly and said: "No mistake, if I didn't happen to send materials to Xu Tou and heard it, I guess there is no one in our company Know."

"Isn't it false information?" someone asked.

Xiao Zhao helped the black frame on the bridge of his nose and said: "You don't believe me, there is nothing you can do, let's wait and see."

The next day, the news that "Mythology" was first released in the United States spread like wildfire, and quickly spread in the Hong Kong film industry. Those who heard it were amazed at Wang Xiaohu's great writing, envied and admired, such as the people from several satellite companies in Xiehe.

But more disdain and criticism!
Run Run Shaw, who has always maintained a good relationship with Wang Xiaohu, just shook his head with a wry smile after hearing the news. He is too lazy to say anything now, so when facing the media interview, he expressed his sincere wishes to Wang Xiaohu, hoping that He can realize his dream back then.

Everyone in Hong Kong knows that since the two brothers Bruce Lee and Wang Xiaohu opened the door to the international film market, many companies have tried to enter Hollywood. The first to bear the brunt is Golden Harvest. They jointly concocted Bruce Lee's "posthumous work" with the big Hollywood company Warner Bros. "Game of Death" originally wanted to make a fortune, but was smashed into the dust by Wang Xiaohu. Golden Harvest has also become a past tense of Hong Kong movies.

Later, Wang Xiaohu became famous in Hollywood by directing "Rocky", becoming the first Chinese to win a statuette at the Oscars, breaking the record of only foreigners in Oscar history. Shark", "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", and "Star Wars" have dominated the North American box office for four consecutive years!
Such a crazy move not only shocked Hollywood, but also shocked the Hong Kong film industry. Who wouldn't want to be No. [-] of Concorde, so Run Run Shaw, who was so excited, also secretly matched with Hollywood behind Wang Xiaohu's back.

In 1975, when Wang Xiaohu was fully preparing for "Shattering Earth", Shaw Brothers and the British company Hammer, known as the "Vampire Camp", cooperated in the filming of "Seven Golden Corpses". Therefore, most of the dialogue in the film is in English. The actors also read the dialogue in person.
Shaw Brothers publicized this film a combination of local and foreign, but because there were too many complicated things in the film, the audience at that time could not accept it, resulting in a disastrous box office failure.

Wang Xiaohu only found out about this later, and he made a big joke of Run Run Shaw at that time. He knew that the Hong Kong film industry would not dare to touch the subject of zombies again for the next ten years. Stretch out in Hong Kong.

In 1976, Wang Xiaohu went to mainland China to shoot "Shaking Earth". During this period, the ambitious Shaw invested HK$6000 million to film the film version of James Clare's best-selling novel "The Big Class" (not the one starring Chen Chong).

In 1978, Shaw took out another 1600 million US dollars to participate in the investment of the Hollywood blockbuster "Earth Havoc" starring Sean Connery.
In this way, no matter whether it is shooting a big production for the international market or directly investing in a Hollywood blockbuster, Shaw Brothers has invested heavily in the intention of opening up the international market.

It is a pity that things backfired. In 76, "The Taipan" had little response; "Earth Havoc" had a mediocre box office. In short, the commercial failure of these big productions finally made Run Run Shaw discouraged about entering the international market.In contrast, Shaw Brothers' low-cost film "The First Fist of the World" shot in 73 was inspired by the accidental sales, and they continued to export a large number of Kung Fu films to the European and American markets, which made considerable profits. Loyal fans like Quentin Tarantino.
So Run Run Shaw simply gave up his dream of entering Hollywood, and watched Wang Xiaohu make great strides in foreign lands to win gold and silver. At the same time, he completely pinned his dream on Wang Xiaohu, hoping that he could represent Chinese films and make a name for himself in Hollywood.

Others don't have the cultivation of Shao Daheng.

Wu Siyuan was the first to jump out and said to the reporter: "I have to admire Wang Xiaohu's courage, don't look at him doing so well in Hollywood, it's because the movies he made catered to American tastes, but he wanted to make Americans accept him. Authentic Chinese culture is as difficult as reaching the sky, and "Mythology" may become a big joke!"

The reporter was very unconvinced and asked back: "But according to the employees of Xiehe Company, the trailer of "Mythology" is very good, full of high imagination, and very romantic!"

"The trailer? None of us have seen it. It's just their internal promotion. Have any of you watched it?" Wu Siyuan said with a big laugh.

The reporters shook their heads. Indeed, the only people who have seen the trailer of "Mythology" are the employees of Xiehe, but do the words of Xiehe employees count?
"Don't Americans lack romance? How can rich imagination be comparable to "Star Wars"!" Wu Siyuan chattered, "I'm not afraid to tell you that our Siyuan company is preparing two big productions, both of which are produced by Directed by our great director Tsui Hark."

Before Wu Siyuan finished speaking, the reporters all realized that Wu Siyuan was using Wang Xiaohu to hype up his new movie. Now everyone lost their interest and retreated with long guns and short cannons. Only Wu Siyuan was left there. blink.

After a long time, Mr. Wu tore up the speech he had prepared long ago, pointed at the reporters who were leaving and said, "White-eyed wolf, it's too fucking shocking!"

"Xiehe Company has undergone major changes, and the original five major film companies have freely combined, and Hong Kong films will be fully prosperous." --- "Ming Pao"

"Sing Tao Daily" reported: "Is it a blessing or a curse? Does Xiehe's move mean that Wang Xiaohu is about to give up the five major satellite companies to please Hollywood?"

"Wang Xiaohu spent two years spending [-] Hong Kong dollars to create "Mythology", but gave up the Hong Kong domestic market box office and prioritized the Hollywood premiere. Most local filmmakers expressed their incomprehension. Sir Shao wished Wang Xiaohu a smooth journey in Hollywood."

"A film with strong oriental elements should be shown in Hollywood. Wu Siyuan, the president of Siyuan Films, expressed his incomprehension. He believes that there is a huge surprise between Eastern and Western cultures. The only way to make Western audiences recognize Hong Kong films is kung fu films. "

This is the second time that the Hong Kong media have raised suspicions against Xiehe, Wang Xiaohu, and "Myth". All doubts have disappeared since then, and everyone began to believe that Wang Xiaohu has a very accurate grasp of the tastes of audiences in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia.

But this time is different, because the news from Xiehe Distribution Department is that "Myth" will premiere in Hollywood on behalf of the two major film industries of Hong Kong and mainland China.

All Hong Kong citizens who pay close attention to the newspapers know that the mainland has gone through ten years of cultural revolution in the past few years, not to mention ten years of economic regression, and the film industry has never developed at all. Otherwise, how could the leftist film companies that were active in Hong Kong a few years ago Depressed?

It would be no problem to say that Wang Xiaohu represented Hong Kong films in Hollywood premieres. They believed that Wang Xiaohu had such ability. After all, "Hong Xiguan" and "Police Story" sold well in North America, and they both broke into the top [-] box office in North America. But that is all based on the fact that Xiehe has released a large number of kung fu movies and action-adventure movies in the United States in recent years.

Now Wang Xiaohu doesn’t shoot kung fu movies and action-adventure movies that he is good at, but cooperates with the mainland to shoot historical movies to promote China’s 5000-year-old culture. Taking word of mouth, but showing it directly in Hollywood, what is this not courting death for?
Many people have begun to believe what Wu Siyuan said: "Mythology" will become a big joke!

And more people want to see this big joke happen, because for nearly eight years, Wang Xiaohu has been so smooth, so smooth that the self-confidence of this young man has inflated to an indescribable level!

Hong Kong filmmakers are looking forward to the fall of this dazzling star, Wang Xiaohu. Only after he falls can everyone take advantage of the opportunity to share the fertile and attractive cake of Hong Kong movies.

"What do you think?"

On March 1980, 3, Wang Xiaohu was sitting in the boss's chair, holding a map of mainland China and telling Run Run Shaw.

The map was the size of a table, and at this moment, countless arrows and numbers were drawn in three colors of black, red, and blue.

After looking at it, Run Run Shaw fell into deep thought. To be precise, he was looking for a more reasonable reason to persuade Wang Xiaohu to give up this crazy plan.

"Black represents the free screening area, red represents the free screening area for the military and the government, and blue is the area where you need to collect movie tickets. Is this how it is divided?"

Run Run Shaw asked after looking at it for a long time.

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "It's divided like this."

"I can't see the slightest profit on your map!" Run Run Shaw pointed to the blue area and said, "Here, there are only six relatively developed areas in BJ, Tianjin, Shanghai, Changchun, Guangdong, Xuzhou, and Jinan. According to your statistics, there are only 120 theaters in these six cities.”

Run Run Shaw pointed to the red and black areas again, and said, "And these two areas are released free of charge, accounting for 90% of the total. How do you recover the cost?"

"Hehe, I never wanted to make a dime in mainland China!" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Xiao Hu, this is not the conclusion that a successful businessman should make." Run Run Shaw sighed and said, "I still stick to my sentence. It doesn't matter how you struggle in Hollywood. After all, Hong Kong is your home. Regardless of it, but to please the mainland market, will they appreciate it? When will the 3000 million you invest be able to recover the cost!"

Wang Xiaohu didn't speak, but picked up a pen and wrote three English letters on the map: USA!

Run Run Shaw smiled. He felt that Wang Xiaohu was completely confused. Five years of painful experience in Hollywood told him that Americans are not interested in new things, especially foreign cultures. In their opinion, there is only American culture in the world. It is cutting-edge and global.

"Little Tiger, my intuition tells me that your luck is coming to an end!" Run Run Shaw said, "Ten years in Hedong, ten years in Hexi, I appreciate the courage and courage of young people, but I don't appreciate things without brains. There is still a week left in the time you stipulated, you should think about it carefully, after all, you have already reorganized the five major satellite companies, it can be said that once you fail, you will not even be able to grab the last straw to save your life!"

"They have their stage, and I have my mission. Everyone's pursuit is different." Wang Xiaohu said seriously: "When you and I are at this stage, the amount of money is just a bunch of numbers. As for the number of people behind Zero doesn't matter anymore, why not open up a bigger space while you are young and have the opportunity?"

(End of this chapter)