My girlfriend is an idol - Chapter 2157
On the contrary, there are few films with high cost investment and high profit return.
These Hollywood film companies love and hate Cameron.
They opened their eyes to the script creativity created by Cameron, a hot tempered and arrogant director. So far, there has been no failed film in his directing career.
As for hate, I have to mention his ability to burn money.
From Titanic to avatar, Cameron broke the record of the world’s most expensive film investment and production cost several times.
Of course, it is also very appropriate for him to use the truth that he can’t give up children and set up wolves.
The box office of Titanic and avatar is ten times the difference of film investment.
It surprised countless production companies and filmmakers preparing to see Cameron’s jokes.
Looking back, Li Xianzhe revealed his intention to invest in the sequel of avatar to the old man in front of him. The other party was not surprised by his idea.
Just… As a middleman, when he helped him make an appointment with Cameron as usual, the old man didn’t directly promise, but took this opportunity to mention another thing to him.
This is also the reason why he recently suffered from insomnia and finally came to the hospital.
“Lee… You’re my best friend, aren’t you?”
Li Xianzhe didn’t see what the other party wanted to do for a moment, but followed his words “of course.”
“Well… You said, what should I do if someone holds a gun and asks me to make a movie for them?”
“Hey, Steven, today is not international April Fool’s day. Don’t make such a joke?”
Li Xianzhe was stunned and sat up straight. “Who are you? Steven Spielberg… Who would be crazy to shoot a movie with a gun at you?”
“I also hope today is international April Fool’s day, but… It’s true.”
Spielberg smiled bitterly. “I didn’t mention it to anyone, including James.
But God probably sympathized with my experience, so he let me meet you here. ”
At this point, it is obvious that Spielberg is asking for help!
“Is there really such a thing?”
After repeatedly confirming that the old friend was not tricking himself, Li Xianzhe frowned and meditated.
Frankly, since the 1930s, Wall Street bankers have extended their capitalist hand into Hollywood.
The dream land is similar to the underworld investment in films in the early HK entertainment circle to coerce artists to make money for their films, so that the public has a strange attitude when referring to these things.
However, such a thing happened to Spielberg, which made Li Xianzhe feel a little strange.
In Hollywood, any film company that can gain a firm foothold is secretly involved with the local gangsters.
Not to mention whether the high-rise has its own black background, there are still some cases of paying protection fees or hooking up with local snakes like brothers.
Far from the company, the closer Disney CEO Kevin Fuyuan and Marvel’s Kevin Fitch.
The difference is that the local snakes they know are not comparable to those street gangs in a strict sense.
When the gangs grow to a certain level, they will face the choice of white transformation.
Investing in the entertainment industry is what many gangsters choose to do.
Today, there are many high-level Disney and marvel pictures with a black background.
The larger ones are from well-known local groups, and the smaller ones are only named in some societies.
Leaving aside the investment of Wall Street bankers and local gangs in film money laundering, it has long been an open secret.
Li Xianzhe thinks Spielberg is the top director in Hollywood and even in the world. Those who can be more influential and famous than him have gone to the grave.
Therefore, even if there is capital to find Spielberg to make a film, there is no need to use this low-level, no technical content, and easy to offend people.
Unless… They let Spielberg make a film that ordinary directors can’t make?
“Who wants you to make a movie?”
Li Xianzhe has vaguely guessed the reason why Spielberg is so embarrassed, but at the moment, his head is still a little noisy. He always feels that he has caught something, but he doesn’t know.
“It’s from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown, New York.”
Huaxia chamber of Commerce?
Li Xianzhe’s eyes twitched.
This… Is really a big man.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce was an organization founded in New York by a group of Qing people who came to the United States from China in the early years of the San Francisco gold rush.
At first, it was to fight against the exclusion of local blacks.
With the development of time, the chamber of Commerce has gradually developed into the largest Chinese American business organization in the United States, controlling half of the commodity channels exported from China to the United States.
Of course, what is still unknown is that the name of the predecessor of the chamber of Commerce has appeared many times in Hongmen, an organization often mentioned in Chinese online novels.
It can also be said that Huaxia chamber of commerce is the product of Hongmen’s transformation from an ancient organization to a modern enterprise.
“Shouldn’t…”
When Li Xianzhe started the real estate business for Li Xiuman in the United States in his early years, he had contact with people from the Huaxia chamber of Commerce.
Despite their “complex” history of making a fortune and the fact that many American politicians don’t like them (because they don’t participate in the general election), most of the members of this chamber of commerce are entrepreneurs with a good reputation in the industry.
If you really want to invite a director of Spielberg’s level to make a film, it’s ok as long as you pay.
Can you pull out a gun and force the latter to shoot
“The head of this chamber of Commerce and the son of the former head gave me a check for $300 million, saying it was the cost of film shooting and production, plus $100 million, saying it was my personal reward.”
“what?”
Rao Shi Li Xianzhe was prepared and couldn’t help opening his eyes when he heard the price.
Four hundred million dollars, even if you take out one hundred million dollars of Spielberg’s remuneration and use 300 million dollars to make a film, this is the ceiling of Hollywood film investment at present.
In the impression, only Cameron’s “Avatar” has reached.
But… That’s the sum of Cameron’s investments.
Perhaps the $200 million investment in Titanic more than a decade ago is definitely more than what Spielberg received today.
In addition, follow the box office revenue system of Hollywood films.
Li Xianzhe believes that if the film wants to get back, Spielberg must ensure that its final box office is more than $1 billion.
Even marvel, whose superhero movies exploded, can’t boast of such a big mouth.
The box office of the first film of the Avengers reached 1.5 billion on the premise that there are many superhero personal films and the world outlook of the universe is still taking shape.
If there were no independent films of heroes such as iron man, Captain America and Thor, which released the “Avenger alliance” series from the beginning, the final box office would not be so high.
From this we can see that Spielberg’s pressure can be imagined.