At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 674 Mind

"The most important thing in making a movie is reading the script and watching the people. I never look at the genre, because the genre is hard to grasp!"

"…Um."

"I came into contact with the film industry very late, the golden age of Hong Kong film, although I caught up...but at the beginning I only bought films and never participated in the production..."

After two glasses of wine, Shen Xudong did not lose his mind, but pulled Jiang Zhiqiang to listen to him tell a story...

Oh, Liu Yifei and Aunt Liu went to the KTV on the ground floor to sing, and Yang Shoucheng was there too...

I guess it's to check Liu Yifei's singing skills!
To put it another way, Anle Film and Television started out as a cinema, a family business. Jiang Zhiqiang only started to release his first film independently when he was 30 years old.

"Back then, I was a rich second generation who ate and waited to die, and I was not considered a rich second generation, because my family didn't have that much money!
Before I was 30 years old, I didn't know what I was going to do. I was doing spoofs outside all day long. The most obsessed was betting on horses and playing mahjong, but I couldn't win by gambling...

Later, I really didn’t know what to do, so I went to my father’s company to do nothing. I remember once I saw a foreign cartoon and liked it very much, so I spent a lot of money to promote it, and moved all other movies of the same period. Including a Hollywood blockbuster at the time.

As a result, that Hollywood blockbuster sold well, and the cartoon I like did poorly at the box office, causing An Le to lose a lot of money..."

"What animation?"

“Garfield on the Town…”

"Oh, Garfield..."

Jiang Zhiqiang continued: "This movie cost the company at least 500 million yuan, so I have to fill in the shortfall! But at that time, I really didn't understand movies, so I went to New York, studied at the New York Film Academy for a year, and then breathed out Watched over 500 movies...

After returning to Hong Kong, I introduced "Castle in the Sky", which was released in Hong Kong for 15 days, and the box office approached 1000 million. Then, I started to introduce Hayao Miyazaki's works, all of which were popular, and the revenue of Anle Films also broke through in one fell swoop. 5000.Two years later, in 1989, I officially took over the responsibility from my father and became the chairman of Anle Films. "

"And then you started investing in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?"

"No, I got to know Li Min from "Pushing Hands". I released him in Hong Kong, and later "Eating and Drinking Men and Women" was also released by me. We are very good friends."

"What about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?"

""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was an accident. The original investor was Chen Taiming, the boss of Yageo Electronics in Taiwan. He withdrew the investment during the financial crisis. Mr. Xu Ligong, the producer, had a stroke suddenly, and Li Min found it. I!"

"Actually, I don't want to do it either. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" cost 1500 million U.S. dollars. At that time, the investment of Hong Kong's top martial arts films was 2000 million Hong Kong dollars. Even Tsui Hark's 2001 big production "The Legend of Shushan" only had a budget of 8000 million U.S. dollars. [-] million Hong Kong dollars."

"Also, I reached an investment intention with Columbia Corporation at the time, so I thought I could carry it down. I didn't expect Sony, who agreed to invest, to be very cunning. The money was delayed for a year, and the crew was self-reliant. After that year, I It really burned so much money that I wanted to jump off a building.”

Shen Xudong nodded: "Foreigners are still very cunning..."

"They're not willing to bet on unknown types..."

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhiqiang sighed: "Unfortunately, the situation that was finally opened was ruined by a bunch of shoddy follow-ups!"

"You mean "The Promise"?"

"Haha, I didn't say which movie!"

While chatting, Yang Shoucheng came over and interjected, "Are you listening to your Uncle Jiang tell a story?"

"...Learn from the experience of the predecessors..."

At this time, Liu Yifei's mother and daughter also came up. Hearing this, she asked, "What is the experience of seniors?"

"How to make Chinese films go international!"

"Oh, what did you learn?"

Shen Xudong smiled: "If Chinese films want to enter the world, the first step is to cultivate international buyers, invite global buyers to participate in Chinese film festivals, understand and select Chinese films. The second step is to promote international co-productions, pre-sale first Investment, binding the interests of film producers in advance. The third step is to create a mature international schedule, such as the ability to promote the global synchronization of Spring Festival schedules, and promote Chinese films to truly integrate into the world market..."

Jiang Zhiqiang's eyes lit up: "Pre-sale + investment, your idea is very good!"

"So, Warner has invested in the "Taken" series and "The Raid" series... When I make a film, I first determine the genre and then consider the market. If you are like "On the Journey", it is impossible to pick markets outside the mainland. It has been successful, so it is positioned as a mainland comedy, but like the "Taken" series, which focuses on action dramas, it can be released internationally..."

"This is difficult!"

"...Well, it's really difficult. Action movies rely too much on the action actors themselves, and Hollywood learns very quickly. Wu Jing is filming "Death Tracker" and is working with Hollywood's action director team. He told me about those people In the continuation of the western fierce direct action design, many gorgeous moves designed in Chinese are added, which are very strong, and they will cooperate with hand-held lenses, wide-angle lenses and fast editing in the later stage, which makes people dizzying..."

"They have a complete industrial system, and they learn really quickly..."

……

Seeing the eloquent and eloquent Shen Xudong, Liu Yifei felt a little touched in her heart...

More is proud!

She knew that Shen Xudong was amazing before, and she is even more so now.

Being able to talk to Yang Shoucheng and Jiang Zhiqiang, and obviously in the upper hand...

These two are big shots in her eyes!

kind of adore...

It's normal, she already had a good impression of Shen Xudong, and although she hasn't seen each other for two years, she has always paid attention to him.

However, it was a pity that she herself knew that Shen Xudong was definitely not a good match.

In the past two years, there have been many female stars who have been rumored to have scandals with Shen Xudong, Fan Xiaopang, Xu Jinglei...

She had inquired about it secretly, and knew that although there were hype elements in these things, there was indeed a relationship...

Well, including during the filming of "Tian Long Ba Bu", she vaguely heard that Shen Xudong had some improper relationship with Zhong Liti, who played Kang Min in the crew...

To put it nicely, it's called a romantic man, but to put it badly, it's a scumbag who can't control his lower body.

However, what he said when he poured the wine just now was the truth - what does it have to do with her?It's not about finding him as a boyfriend.

He is definitely a quality bed partner!
Experience the feeling of setting off fireworks in your mind...

Aunt Liu on the side didn't understand very well, she was thinking about Golden Harvest's three-year film project, is it possible for Liu Yifei to act in one?
Then, she asked directly: "Xudong, I heard that you are coming to Hong Kong this time, and you are going to announce ten works of Golden Harvest?"

"...More than ten films," Shen Xudong shook his head: "Golden Harvest will make at least eight films every year! I mainly develop a press conference this time to give the stock market confidence." Speaking of this, he looked at Yang Shoucheng: "The photography exhibition will directly let The Hong Kong stock market’s cultural and entertainment sector fell by 30% as a whole, and if we don’t do anything, it’s hard to give investors confidence.”

Hearing this sentence, Yang Shoucheng was thoughtful: "So, you have to make a big splash..."

"Well, there is no way to do this, the market as a whole is not optimistic now..."

Before Shen Xudong finished speaking, Jiang Zhiqiang suddenly said: "I saw Golden Harvest's movie project, you want to restart "A Chinese Ghost Story"?"

(End of this chapter)