Hong Kong Stubborn - Chapter 151

On December 31, Luo Junyan temporarily threw the problem to Brother Cheng who stayed in the United States, and he accompanied his wife to a movie together. We are about to enter a new century, so we should say goodbye to the last film of 1999.

“Chariots of Fire 2 Speed ​​Legend”, released on the 18th, was produced by the best partner film company. Today is the last day of screening. Whether the box office can exceed 15 million Hong Kong dollars depends on the attendance of the last night.

But regardless of whether it can break through the 15 million Hong Kong dollar box office, this film has secured its position as the box office champion in the short half-year period after the summer break, and it has saved a trace of face for the Christmas stall of the Xiangjiang Film Market.

In the movie theater, Luo Junyan looked at the screen, but wondered in his mind, why can such a clichéd plot sell for 15 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office? When the film was over, Luo Junyan was still in a state of thinking.

Sister Army gave him a light push, and Luo Junyan recovered and smiled apologetically.

Sister Army said: “It is said that you have come out of the two-person world, your body has followed out, and your brain is still at home.”

When the two walked out of the theater, Luo Junyan put his arms around sister army’s waist and said, “My wife, do you think this film is good-looking?”

Sister Army said without hesitation: “Fortunately, drag racing is quite exciting, and Ekin Cheng is also very stylish.”

Luo Junyan asked curiously: “Don’t all female audiences like emotional drama? I thought you would pay attention to the emotional lines of Ekin Cheng, Lin Xilei and Cecilia Cheung.”

Sister Army took him by the arm and said, “I knew it from the beginning. There must be only Cecilia Cheung in the end. If the protagonist and heroine cannot be together in the end, then it is really a bad movie. The screenwriter and director should not be foolish, and the audience is not stupid. of.”

Luo Junyan paced slowly with sister army, and asked: “My wife, don’t you hate motorcyclists, why do you still find motorcycling in the movie exciting?”

Sister Army estimated that he couldn’t let him empty his mind tonight. She shook her head helplessly, and said, “Joy, anger, sorrow, sorrow, fear and terror are the instinctive emotions that people have. Just like I don’t believe there are ghosts in the world, but Watching ghost movies will still be scared. I am disgusted with unobstructed passionate movies, but don’t you have any response after watching Fengyue movies? When there is a strong stimulus, the thinking follows the emotions, and the protagonist is dangerous when racing. , Of course I feel very nervous.”

Luo Junyan suddenly felt that he had touched the clues of the truth of Hollywood movies. Thinking is active, and emotions are passive. It is a way of thinking to cater to the audience’s thinking and make the audience make rational judgments. Want to mobilize the audience’s emotions, make the audience into an emotional whirlpool, this is another idea.

The so-called Hollywood popcorn movie does not give the audience time to actively think, and frequently mobilizes the audience’s various passive emotions, making you want to die in the whole process.

The former pursues a sense of substitution and resonance, while the latter requires manipulation and stimulation.

Just like when watching “Superman”, who has time to think about which boxer briefs or briefs are more suitable for Superman’s body shape, and which one is more in line with their own aesthetics? As long as you don’t make mistakes in the standpoint of universal values, such as the standards of good and evil, the standards of beauty and ugliness, and so on.

As my sister army said, the fact that the hero and heroine are not together in the end is a stance error, which is a bad movie in the eyes of the audience.

Luo Junyan decided to make a zombie movie, because zombie movies can stimulate the most emotional points, and almost all the emotions, anger, sorrow, joy, sorrow, and terror. Reason for selling.

It was also from this moment that Luo Junyan cleared his own path of development, focusing on the production of popcorn movies, even though the first zombie film was broken in North America.

After New Year’s Day in 2000, Luo Junyan’s family and Luo Meizi’s family went to worship their father. Luo Junyan has already heard that Huang Jiadong’s dog has been employed in the “East Weekly” again, very good, and I will see you when I come back next time.

Luo Junyan was preparing to return to the United States before the Spring Festival to prepare for the film. During this period of time, he had another round of sincere and in-depth discussions with the heads of various companies. Now his mood is calm and he needs to plan more for these subordinates.

Lu Huaxue still did not date, but she did not show loss after Brother Cheng escaped from Xiangjiang. She was a woman who was soft on the outside and strong on the inside. Snowman Times Media only earned more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars in film promotion service fees after Luo Junyan left Xiangjiang. This road is really just enough to make ends meet. Lu Huaxue means to participate in the “Emperor Net”.

“Emperor Net” is a professional animation website being organized by Huang Yulang, the first person in the Xiangjiang comics industry. Currently, several companies in the industry have been contacted to participate in shares, and an invitation has also been issued to Lu Huaxue. The reason is simple. Snowman Times Media has experience in operating websites, and Snowman has the ability to produce and distribute films. These are rare resources for Huang Yulang.

Lu Huaxue met and talked with Huang Yulang. Huang Yulang’s ambition is to break out of Asia and go to the world. The Internet is the best way. After the completion of “Emperor Net”, all participating companies will exclusively grant the publishing copyright of its comics to the “Emperor Net”. The fee for viewing comics on the Internet is very low, and the profit will be distributed in the form of share.

Luo Junyan immediately thought of those comic companies in the United States. Many blockbuster movies were adapted from comics into movie scripts. However, Snowman Times Media only needs to invest 5 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire a 10% stake in “Emperor Net”. At the same time, Lu Huaxue will also serve as the director of “Emperor Net” and has considerable management authority.

Luo Junyan agreed without saying a word. It doesn’t matter if 5 million Hong Kong dollars are cheated. Such opportunities are rare. And he suggested that Lu Huaxue could buy a comic publishing company. With an online publishing platform, it would be a pity not to use it.

Yingxue Royal Entertainment Brokerage Company is also very lightly operated. It requires money but no money, and resources but no resources. The Xiangjiang movie market is half-dead, and it is only strange if it is booming. Luo Junyan wanted to hear Huo Wenxi’s own thoughts this time, even if she wanted to transform.

Huo Wenxi didn’t mean to transform at all. She asked to expand the business to the mainland. When the money was not enough, she would ask Luo Junyan. Luo Junyan readily agreed. In the end, he wanted to persuade sister Xi to find a boyfriend for dating, but finally he couldn’t say that the 27- or 8-year-old woman should be able to manage her life well.

The last one is Hu Xin and Snow Knight Film Distribution Company. I have to say that this girl Hu Xin is very lucky. With a piece of “Life and Death”, he can make a net profit of more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars after tax. With the addition of seven or eight small profits, he can at least be able to Collect more than 25 million Hong Kong dollars in cash.

Luo Junyan talked to Cheng over the phone, and Cheng understood that Luo Junyan had made his determination to build the theater line, and that the integration of the distribution and the theater line was the best choice.

Therefore, Brother Cheng said that 30 million Hong Kong dollars would be enough for Luo Junyan to take over. This money can be used for dividends. After a long time, he was waiting for the money.

In the end, Luo Junyan decided that Snow Country Entertainment Investment Co., Ltd. invested 50 million Hong Kong dollars to acquire 100% of the shares of Snow Knight Film Distribution Company.

Hu Xin became the president of Snow Country Entertainment Investment Company, with an annual salary of 5 million Hong Kong dollars. But for the time being, she will not be given shares, because the amount of funds to be invested is too large, even if the shares are given to her, it will be diluted to the decimal point and I don’t know how many.

There is still less than 70 million Hong Kong dollars in cash in the Snow Country Entertainment Investment Company’s account. It is enough to recruit troops and buy horses. After Hu Xin comes up with his own theater construction plan, he can decide how much money to invest. This process of research and planning is not fast. The 2001 plan can be launched even if it is efficient.

The acquisition funds of 50 million Hong Kong dollars were not reinvested this time, and were directly divided according to the shareholding ratio. Hu Xin 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars, Cheng Ge 4.75 million Hong Kong dollars, Lomez 2.38 million Hong Kong dollars, Luo Junyan and his wife 40.37 million Hong Kong dollars, in terms of the current situation, this amount of money is only enough to stuff your teeth.

All change procedures are handled by the entrusted law firm, Hu Xin is solely responsible, and Luo Meizi is still the company’s supervisor and is responsible for administrative affairs. At this point, the affairs of South Korea and Hong Kong have been handled.

On January 20, Luo Junyan and his wife flew to the United States with their children. Brother Cong stayed in Xiangjiang on standby at any time.

Brother Cheng has not been idle for this period of time, looking for three classic American zombie films “Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Living Dead” and “A Group of Dead” and watched repeatedly.

In the end, Brother Cheng concluded that zombie movies are really different from zombie movies. Zombie movies are under the guise of ghosts and horror movies, but they are no different from **** gangster movies. Both are cut at the sight of people, one picture money and territory, one picture meat and blood, but the zombie film saves the lines, a group of secondaries do not use knives, and use claws and teeth.

Then you need to make a choice, whether to shoot the American-style brainless sack young and Dangerous series? Or do you want to make an authentic oriental zombie movie?

The Eastern Zombie has a thought core, it belongs to the creation under the loopholes of the rules of heaven. To put it bluntly, they are not within the Three Realms and Five Elements. Zombies do bad things either to completely get rid of the shackles of the heavens, or to replace the heavens and become the masters.

Therefore, Taoist priests tried their best to eradicate zombies, and saving people is only a piggyback. Guarding the way of heaven is the fundamental. After passing the examination of the gods, and then withstanding the shock therapy of thunder-strike, one hundred percent can become a civil servant in the fairy world.

Luo Junyan was dumbfounded immediately after listening to Brother Cheng’s explanation. The master was really not covered, and he was blind if he didn’t go to cultivate immortals.

However, after careful consideration, it is obviously inappropriate to shoot zombie films. The subject matter is small, it is a speculative project, and the most important thing is that there is no follow-up malleability. If it’s just for making money, that’s ok, but is Luo Junyan going all the way to the United States just to make a profit?

Luo Junyan decides to engage in Oriental Zombies. Once this subject matter has become popular, it will even stand firm in Hollywood. Therefore, Luo Junyan informed Bian Sicong to buy the copyright of the remake of “Mr. Zombie”. Unfortunately, Lin Zhengying is no longer there. Otherwise, Luo Junyan would rather be a supporting role and would like to promote Jiu Shu as a popular Hollywood star, but now he can only compete. Pack yourself as the nine uncles of North America.

Bian Sicong went to Jiahe to negotiate the purchase of the copyright of the remake. The news spread quickly. It was heard that Luo Junyan was going to remake “Mr. Zombie” in Hollywood. Sammo Hung immediately called Luo Junyan.

“Mr. Zombie” was released by Twentieth Century Fox in North America, and sales were quite bleak. Do you think that Hollywood studios have never thought about remakes? It’s because after testing the water, no one likes to watch it. American audiences can’t understand what Jiu Shu is doing. Where are the police and the army? Can you even use a gun?

It’s useless to persuade Luo Junyan now. He is now thinking of creating a magical movie with a combination of East and West. If you don’t try it, you can’t do it. The subject matter of Hollywood movies is all-encompassing. You think of all the copyrights when you check the idea, and basically block the way for you. There are hundreds of thousands of screenwriters on record, which is no joke.

Jiahe did not embarrass Luo Junyan, as long as the copyright buyout fee of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Which of these big bosses like Run Run and Wenhuai Zou has not had the dream of leading Hong Kong Films to enter the North American market? If the Shaw Brothers Film Company hadn’t invested heavily to gain a foothold in Hollywood, how could it collapse? Big bosses and directors and artists have different feelings and ambitions. In addition to wanting to make money, they also have a wrestling mentality. These people are not only for making money, but also like heroes.

The copyright of the remake of “Mr. Zombie” is obtained, but the task of adapting is very heavy. In addition to retaining the main characters, the main story line and the wonderful sections, everything else must be overthrown to meet the appetite of the Americans.

This job is left to Brother Cheng. It is easy to find screenwriters who work in the United States.

After Brother Cong arrived in the U.S., Luo Junyan threw at him all the things he had prepared in the early stage and began to look for suitable actors. He was planning to use some big names for this film, and the headshot would not be fired, and it would be even more difficult to mix up the bottom.

Hollywood only recognizes your commercial value. If you prove it once, there will be resources to come to your door, and the chance of success the second time is much greater. Otherwise, you will either survive or escape.

Director Wu Yusen is undoubtedly lucky. Director Lin Lingdong’s luck is not so good. The Hong Kong film circle is followed by red and white, leaving room. Hollywood in the United States directly divides the darling and the abandoned baby.

So in Hollywood in the United States, the long-term plan and the postponement approach will not work.