Island Tycoon

Chapter 239 Stepping Stone

In the eyes of Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, the rapid rise of the Nanguo Cinemas has not affected their current status. At best, they are just jumping around in front of them, and at most they are a little bit of an eyesore.

On the contrary, Ye Jingcheng's high-profile involvement in theater chains may also boost the industry's economy, and then they will have more resources and talents at their disposal.So their big move this time is not aimed at the southern theaters.

Just as Ye Jingcheng thought, these two tycoons planned to develop the Hollywood market.

Golden Harvest's plan is to let Cheng Long, who is the front man, enter the Hollywood star camp first, so he recruited old-school Hollywood director Robert Cross to create an action comedy "Killer's Trenches" for Cheng Long.

Ye Jingcheng didn't watch this movie in his previous life because it was full of scolding.But he knows that the box office of the movie is not bad. The box office of the island country and France alone has exceeded 1000 million US dollars.

As for the production cost of this film, the production cost of the film is not very high, and most of it is spent on publicity.Zou Wenhuai personally announced in Hollywood with arrogance: Golden Harvest will invest 6000 million US dollars to shoot 6 large-scale production films with international superstars participating.

It can be seen from this that even if "Killer's Trenches" is a good start for Golden Harvest to enter Hollywood, the budget will not exceed 500 million US dollars, so this film will not only not lose money, but also make Golden Harvest a profit.

It can only be said that the aesthetics of "Killer's Trench" is not suitable for Chinese people to watch, so its box office on Hong Kong Island only earned 580 million Hong Kong dollars. Although it still ranked second in the annual movie box office, the response from the audience was constant.

As for Shaw Brothers' plan to enter Hollywood, Shaw Yifu is indeed much more sophisticated than Zou Wenhuai in terms of temperament.Zou Wen is full of ambitions and plans to pass the movie "The Killer" and step into the Hollywood circle.

And Shao Yifu's approach is more low-key and safe. In addition to hiring a Hollywood director to guide the filming, the actors in it are also blond. Last year, he used "Havoc on Earth" as a pathfinding stone.

With an investment of nearly 600 million US dollars, it can only be said that it breaks even.However, his original ambitions were indeed hit hard.So this time, Shao Yifu, who thought he had touched the threshold, once again invested in the sci-fi movie "2020", another translation is "Blade Runner".

The production budget of this film is as high as US$2800, and Shao Yifu's investment share accounts for 1000% of it, which is also an investment of nearly US$500 million. The total profit of this little-known film exceeds US$[-] million.

It's just that compared with Shao Yifu's wishful thinking, the gap between the two is too big, so he once again shelved his plan to enter Hollywood.

Another year later, Shao Yifu made another move. He seemed to be very optimistic about science fiction movies.

Facts have proved that Shao Yifu's vision is very vicious. Sci-fi movies are indeed thematic movies in the future, but his vision is too advanced. People in this era have not yet popularized science, so how to accept some unimaginable things is the scientific knowledge of the screenwriter. None may pass.

So the film he invested in this time is "Interstellar Blur", which was produced by Shaw Brothers himself.This four-faced film that can quite embody the characteristics of "beading", "parody" and "mash-up of elements" of Hong Kong films is completely imitating Hollywood jokes, and there is no film with a main story.

As a result, it couldn't be sold in the foreign market, and the local theaters were full of criticism, making it a joke in the film industry for a while. It was able to do so thanks to its producer Fang Yihua.

Regarding the Shaw Brothers situation, Ye Jingcheng just wanted to say two simple words: "It deserves it." Fang Yihua, an old woman, is not bad in management and personnel, but if you let her get involved in film investment, she will directly Just fall into the set of self-management.

That's not okay, that's not right.You have to listen to me, or I will let you make pornographic movies.It's not that Ye Jingcheng underestimates women, it's that Fang Yihua is completely ignorant, isn't it just messing around with the crew's affairs?
Ye Jingcheng just laughed off the two big actions of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe after hearing them.It's no wonder that neither Golden Harvest nor Shaw Brothers released blockbuster movies during the peak box office season of summer.

However, compared to the box office of previous years, this year's movie box office is a good start. The glorious decade of Hong Kong Island movies is coming. I believe that more and more people will join the movie industry in the future.

In the summer vacation, Green Lantern Entertainment's "Why Me" is the top performer, with a total box office expected to exceed 700 million.Golden Harvest's "Money's Mischief", which has already fallen into the painting, took second place, with a total box office of 400 million.

Shaw's "Evil" and Princess Jin's "Crazy Big Brother" have not yet announced the outcome of the two sides. What is certain is that the total box office of these two films can exceed 300 million.

After Li Ying left the office, Zhu Baoyi made an intercom call within a few minutes.You said that this silly girl would just come in if she wanted me, why is it so troublesome to make a phone call.

Well, it turned out he was just being self-indulgent.Zhu Baoyi called because there were two people outside the door who wanted to see him.One of them was Zhou Xingchi, and the other was Liao Qizhi who seemed to be Zhou Xingchi's follower.

Speaking of Zhou Xingchi's coming this time, he had considered it for a long time.In the end, he was encouraged by Liao Qizhi to come here, so Liao Qizhi came here today, first to embolden Zhou Xingchi, and second, of course, to show his face in front of Ye Jingcheng.

"Ye Sheng, I want to ask..." After sitting down, Zhou Xingchi hesitantly started the topic and said, "I want to ask about the "Invincible Lucky Star", Ye Sheng, when do you plan to turn it on?"

Ye Jingcheng leaned on the class chair and asked calmly, "What? What do you think?"

"This..." Zhou Xingchi's hands that were constantly rubbing were beginning to sweat.

Liao Qizhi glanced at Zhou Xingchi, hurriedly seized the opportunity to perform, and suggested, "Ye Sheng, wait for me to talk about it."

Ye Jingcheng raised his chin, motioning for him to continue talking.Liao Qizhi rolled his eyes and said: "Actually, that's how it is. Ah Xing has been honing his acting skills at home during this time, but Ye Sheng, you know that acting skills can't be achieved only by personal training, so Ah Xing thought Said to learn from the scriptures in the play."

Liao Qizhi tactfully expressed Zhou Xingchi's thoughts, and the latter immediately gave him a grateful look, and then said: "Yes, Ye Sheng. I think no matter how well I train myself, it's better to practice in the play to make a breakthrough." sex."

"Is that so?" Ye Jingcheng looked at the two of them with great interest. Originally, he agreed to Wu Mengda and delayed the film "Invincible Lucky Star" for a few months in order to hone Zhou Xingchi's impetuous character.

However, he found that this approach is not practical. Zhou Xingchi is indeed very talented in acting, but his personal character is very unflattering.Ye Jingcheng wanted to cultivate this seedling because he had expectations for him.

Now it seems that instead of letting time wear away Zhou Xingchi's character, it is more practical to let him stumble.So he gave up his original idea and replied: "I'll see if Huang Baiming has time later and let him direct this film."

"Thank you Ye Sheng, thank you Ye Sheng." Zhou Xingchi thanked repeatedly.Although he wanted Ye Jingcheng to direct this film more, but the rest of the film was so urgent that he only wanted to make another name for himself in the near future.

"Go back if you have nothing to do, someone will notify you when there is a new announcement." Ye Jingcheng sent off.

"Okay, okay." Zhou Xingchi bowed and smiled apologetically, then pulled Liao Qizhi and said, "Azhi, let's go."

Liao Qizhi is naturally unwilling, your own business is over.How could he forget about his good brother before he hinted at Zhou Xingchi.Ye Jingcheng said: "Liao Qizhi, you stay here, I have something to tell you."

"A Xing, you go first, don't wait for me."

Immediately, Liao Qizhi was overjoyed, and sent Zhou Xingchi the same way, saying: "Behave well, you will be him from now on."

Hearing this, Zhou Xingchi was silent for a few seconds, and left the office angrily.

As for Liao Qizhi who was left behind, as he expected, Ye Jingcheng let him play several different roles, and nodded in agreement during the process, it seemed that he would soon have a bright future.

What Liao Qizhi didn't know was that Ye Jingcheng's nod did not mean that he agreed with his acting skills. On the contrary, he felt that Liao Qizhi's acting skills were very exaggerated.

Keeping this Liao Qizhi down is because Ye Jingcheng is sure that this person is useful.

"That's right, have you read Xingzi's script?" Seeing Liao Qizhi who was expressing his enthusiasm, Ye Jingcheng pressed his hand to signal him to stop.

After Liao Qizhi sat down, he responded repeatedly: "I've seen it, and I know all the characters in it."

"There is a character named Billy in it, and you will play it." Ye Jingcheng promised.

"Billy boy?" After thinking over and over again, Liao Qizhi finally remembered this character. He was a villain and didn't have many roles.

Immediately, he showed a bit of disappointment.

Ye Jingcheng snorted coldly, and asked, "Xingzi's first role was less than yours, but his current salary has risen to [-], do you know why?"

Liao Qizhi immediately defended his gaffe, why Zhou Xingchi became popular.Liao Qizhi and most of the people who were jealous of Zhou Xingchi thought at first glance, isn't it because he flattered Ye Jingcheng and took the position?So Zhou Xingchi became famous entirely because of Ye Jingcheng's single-handed operation.

Seeing Liao Qizhi's sudden change of attitude, Ye Jingcheng nodded, with a teachable face.Said: "Behave well, maybe you will be Zhou Xingchi in the future."

"Ye Sheng, don't worry, I will definitely not let you down." Liao Qizhi may not have great wisdom, but he still has small cleverness.

Ye Jingcheng secretly thought that he wanted him to replace Zhou Xingchi, but thinking about it, there was nothing strange about it, how many people could stand Zhou Xingchi's bad temper.

"Okay, you can go back if you have nothing to do." Ye Jingcheng shook his head secretly, Liao Qizhi's character is full of a villain.

Is it possible for Ye Jingcheng to let him replace Zhou Xingchi?Obviously it's impossible, and Ye Jingcheng didn't finish what he said just now, the whole sentence should be: "You are the stepping stone for Zhou Xingchi's personality change."

(End of this chapter)