Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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In the studio of DreamWorks Studios.

Taking advantage of the gap between the filming of "The Matrix", Liu Zhenwei handed the script of "The Ghost Police Office" co-created by him and Wang Jiawei to Xu Cun, and asked, "Mr. Xu, can you read this script?"

In 1980, a consortium company from the Philippines decided to enter the film and television industry in Hong Kong, and established Century Film Company in Hong Kong, and appointed a young man who had studied printing art in the UK to return to Hong Kong to manage the business. It was Liu Zhenwei who was less than thirty years old at the time.

The fledgling Liu Zhenwei didn't have any contacts in the film and television industry, so he recruited a group of new ~Inspur directors to play their best, and produced "The Marginal Man", "Death of Xiyingpan", "Bingmei" and other fairly good movies.

Director Tang Jiming's "Death of Sai Ying Pun" is unforgettable for its sharp editing rhythm and cologne-style violent beauty, but at the same time, it has also been controversial in public opinion because of its too manly psychology, thus bringing great joy to "Century". less topics.

Generally speaking, most of the films produced by Century Pictures are new-wave cult films in style, and they also have a strong sense of avant-garde in terms of images and editing.

Last year, Century Pictures was reorganized into "Wuzhou Century", and successively produced films such as "Aftermath", "****", "Mismarried Bean" and "Two-breasted Brothers", but the quality and response were not as good as "Century Films". "Videos of the period.

At the beginning of this year, due to the bankruptcy of the bank that mortgaged the company's assets, "Century" had to stop its production business.

At that time, the disheartened Liu Zhenwei was about to change his career to start a business.

As a result, a phone call made by Xu Cun himself was left behind.

Liu Zhenwei is really courageous. When Xu Cun approached him in person, he dared to ask three things--form his own team, be his own director, and ask for a production fee of 1.5 million.

It is no longer the seven or eight years that Xu Cun has been in the industry, and the production fee of 1.5 million is relatively small even for a small-budget film.

In addition, Liu Zhenwei is a rare good director in Xiangjiang.

Therefore, Xu Cun agreed to Liu Zhenwei's three conditions without even thinking about it.

but--

After learning that Liu Zhenwei's team included Wang Jiawei, the king of cheating, Xu Cun also proposed to take a look at the script of the movie Liu Zhenwei was about to make—Xu Cun was really afraid that Wang Jiawei would cheat himself like he cheated Deng Guangrong.

And "Haunted Police Station" is the first work prepared by Liu Zhenwei.

Seeing that the script that Liu Zhenwei brought was "Haunted Police Station", not "Days of Being Wild", nor "Evil, West Poison", Xu Cun simply flipped through it and said, "Okay, it's a pretty good script, and it's within budget. If it’s not enough, you can come to me again, and if the filming is good enough, I’ll ask Dreamworks Cinemas to give you a joint screening.”

Hearing Xu Cun's two promises, Liu Zhenwei was overjoyed—whether it was the previous century or the subsequent Wuzhou Century, none of them had enjoyed the treatment of full-line screenings in more than ten theaters, let alone in Xiangjiang No. 1 Courtyard The treatment of syndicated screenings on the whole line is up! If the filming of "Haunted Police Station" is finished, then he, Liu Zhenwei, will most likely take this opportunity to soar into the sky!

Liu Zhenwei suppressed his excitement and sincerely thanked Xu Cun: "Thank you, Mr. Xu, for giving me a chance!"

Xu Cun smiled and said: "Do it well. Recently, I plan to reform the DreamWorks film company. On the basis of the basic salary, I will give the film production team a share of the box office. As long as you finish the film, you will be designated to make more money than you do business." Much more."

actually--

This proposal was put forward by Hu Huizhong. This was her second fire as the general manager of DreamWorks Films.

No one can deny that money is a huge source of creativity and an important condition for retaining talents. Therefore, Hu Huizhong had such a proposal.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Cun was persuaded by Hu Huizhong. Therefore, Xu Cun decided to distribute 5% of Xiangjiang's local box office and 2% of overseas box office to the production team, so that they have the opportunity to earn more money.

Of course!

At the same time, the basic salary of the production team will also be reduced by a large part.

In addition to Liu Zhenwei, among the people who joined DreamWorks Films this year, there are also two well-known filmmakers in the Hong Kong film industry in the previous life-Luo Qirui and Zhang Wanting, the couple's best partner.

Luo Qirui and Zhang Wanting are classmates in the Directing Department of New York University. There are only three Chinese in the class, and they often film in a group.

This year, the two returned to Xiangjiang together, and were recruited by Tang Shuxuan into DreamWorks Film Company.

After joining DreamWorks Films, Luo Qirui and Zhang Wanting took out the film they had prepared a long time ago-the first part of the immigration trilogy "Illegal Immigrant".

Tang Shuxuan used her immunity this year to shoot this movie.

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Now that it has entered October, it's time to prepare for this year's Lunar New Year movie.

This year's Lunar New Year, all major film companies are going all out to prepare for another big fight.

The film that Golden Harvest is preparing is Dakasi's "Fortune Train".

New Art City presented their most powerful film best partner series, and used the original crew to shoot "Best Partner A Thousand Miles Rescue the poor woman".

Yindu is planning to screen "North and South Shaolin" produced by Shaw Brothers and starring Li Lianjie in the Lunar New Year file.

Debao is preparing to release Zhang Jianting's "Goodbye Seven Days".

Except for Debao's "Goodbye Seven Days of Love", the other films are extremely competitive, and even Xu Cun dare not underestimate them.

As the largest film company in Hong Kong, DreamWorks is bound to win the top spot in the Lunar New Year.

But "Ghost in the Office" and "Illegal Immigrant" alone can't compete with the films carefully prepared by other major film companies. The Annunciation is also impossible to win.

How about "Out of Africa" ​​by DreamWorks Pictures (the US branch)?

No way—the risk is too great to bet on the somewhat exotic foreign film "Out of Africa".

What about the release of "The Matrix" directed by Xu Cun himself?

Not to mention—due to various difficulties encountered in special effects, the shooting of "The Matrix" was so slow that it was impossible for "The Matrix" to be filmed before the year, so how could it be released?

Therefore, if he does not want to give up the top spot in the Lunar New Year file to other film companies, Xu Cun has to help DreamWorks Films plan a film that can stabilize "Rich Train", "Best Partner Thousand Miles Rescue the poor", "North and South" Shaolin movie. As for "Goodbye Seven Days", Xu Cun is not prepared to give it a chance to compete with other films on the same stage - Xu Cun plans to ask the legal department of DreamWorks Group to sue Debao Films before "Goodbye Seven Days" is released. The company violated copyright and refused to let "Goodbye Seven Days Love" be released.

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