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Chapter 327: The Transaction with Leonardo (Subscribe!)
"Titanic 3D" achieved 6600 million on its first day, although this was already "shocking" enough.

But what was even more unexpected was that the next day, the daily box office of this movie directly exceeded 1 million.

Simply incredible!

So much so that director Cameron and his team took off from Hollywood overnight and flew to China.

Leonardo, the male lead, is also on the entourage list.

But his purpose of coming to China, besides helping to promote the movie, was also for "Comet..."

……

Chen Xi, the newly appointed head of the variety show department of Dongcheng Pictures, reappeared in the company today after "disappearing" for more than a month.

The first thing she did when she returned to the company was to go to Chen Dong’s office with the copyright contract for "Infinite Challenge".

"Director Chen, thank you for fulfilling your mission."

"Well, that's good. Your department has worked hard."

Afterwards, Chen Dong convened a meeting of middle and senior management. In addition to commending Chen Xi and his team in the variety show department, this meeting also approved an event similar to the annual film conference held by Guangguang.

But this event of Dongcheng Pictures is not just a movie press conference, because it also includes TV series and the newly launched variety show "Extreme Challenge".

"It's scheduled for April 4th. Does anyone have any objections?"

Based on several dates provided by everyone at the meeting, Chen Dong chose April 4th. After he finished speaking, he looked around and found that no one had any objections, so he made the final decision and confirmed the event time.

At the same time, Director Cameron and Leonardo and his party had just finished a media meeting arranged by the Chinese distributor of "Titanic 3D". According to the itinerary, they should have returned to the hotel to rest, but Cameron heard that Leonardo was going to visit Director Chen Dong at Dongcheng Pictures, so he followed curiously.

Chen Dong received the news and went to the company gate to greet them in person.

"No wonder I heard the magpie calling when I woke up this morning. It turns out that there are distinguished guests here. Director Cameron, Leon, welcome."

"Chen, you seem to have gained a lot of weight. Should I welcome you to the group of middle-aged people in advance?"

"What a joke, I'm only 28..."

However, Chen Dong patted his belly and found that he seemed to have gained some weight.

He hugged Leonardo and shook hands with director Cameron.

Of course, the way of greeting has also changed from joking to being much more polite.

For example, Chen Dong congratulated Cameron on the high box office success of "Titanic 3D" in China.

The latter also complimented Chen Dong's "The Unknown".

And expressed curiosity about "Comet..."

"Chen, last time you called me and told me that the post-production of Comet was complete, I wanted to fly over to take a look, but was delayed by something. I came here today just to watch the movie..."

Hearing Leonardo's impatient voice, Chen Dong canceled his plan to take them to the reception room for some tea and instead took them directly to the screening room.

While Cameron and Leonardo were watching a movie at Dongcheng Pictures, the news of their visit to Chen Dong quickly appeared on major media websites.

“Is this how a big director should look like?”

"No, this is the appearance of an internationally renowned director."

"The national director has had a lot of negative news recently, and it seems that his reputation has been lost. Fortunately, our country has successors, and Director Chen Dong has emerged as a rising star."

"The one above, your house just got an internet cafe. Don't you know that Director Chen's international reputation has already surpassed that of Lao Mouzi?"

"Chen Kaige said: Where did you put me?"

"Don't get involved with the great poet Chen. Does this guy think he can make a living off of Farewell My Concubine? Look at what he made of The Promise. I still don't understand it."

"Haha, I understand it. Teacher Chen taught me how to understand it, and I still have it saved in my computer."

"Big-breasted brother upstairs, can you lend me one to talk to me, or I'll report you." "..."

Chen Dong has no time to surf the Internet, so naturally he doesn't know about the online discussions.

At this moment, he was chatting with Cameron and Leonardo about his "reading experience" of "Comet..."

As we were chatting, the topic turned to the public relations issues of the Oscars.

"That is to say, if I want "The Night the Comet Came" to compete for the Oscars next year, it will cost at least several million to tens of millions of dollars in PR fees..."

Before his rebirth, Chen Dong knew that the American Oscars had public relations fees, but he had never looked into them in detail and did not know that they were so expensive.

Hearing this, he even wanted to back out.

Of course, it’s not that Chen Dong can’t afford the public relations fees.

Mainly because he felt it was a bit unworthy.

Leonardo saw the hesitation on Chen Dong's face and wanted to say something, but because Cameron was there, he chose to swallow his words.

The next day, Leonardo appeared at East City Studios again, but Cameron did not come with him today.

The words he wanted to say yesterday but stopped talking about have finally come out now.

"Chen, do you think the Oscars' PR fees are a bit too expensive?"

Although Leonardo's question was very direct, it was indeed what Chen Dong was thinking. There was no need for him to lie, so he just nodded.

"Then will you still submit Comet... for an Oscar?"

Chen Dong met Leonardo's gaze and smiled gently: "Since I have already said it, I must sign up."

At this point, Chen Dong paused, thought for a moment and continued, "But I will only spend 500 million US dollars in public relations fees at most..."

When Leonardo heard that there was only $500 million, he immediately shook his head and said, "Not enough. $500 million is far from enough, unless you just want a bunch of nominations or one or two small awards that don't matter."

Chen Dong shrugged and said, "Although I know that if we can win one or two important awards at the Oscars, the bonus to the box office will only be secondary, and the PR fee can be easily earned back by selling DVDs alone, but I have to say from the bottom of my heart that the Oscars in your country are becoming less and less like a film festival."

If he had known before that the Oscars had raised the threshold and upper limit of public relations fees so high, he probably would not have said something like rushing for an Oscar.

But now that he has said it, he will not regret it. However, he thinks in his heart that this is only the first time and it will not happen again.

'Alas, I'd better report to the European Big Three honestly in the future. Although the influence of the Big Three has been declining year by year in recent years, at least they don't need PR fees!'

Chen Dong was distracted when Leonardo's voice suddenly brought him back to his senses.

"Chen, I have a plan. Do you think it's feasible?"

"All ears."

"I will pay for the PR of Comet..." and I promise it will not be less than 2000 million US dollars..."

Just hearing this, Chen Dong's expression became serious.

Asked: "What do you want?"

"20% of the shareable box office revenue plus 30% of the DVD copyright revenue."

Chen Dong pondered for a long time and gave Leonardo a new condition.

"20% of North American box office revenue plus 25% of DVD copyright revenue."

Leonardo also hesitated for a long time, then stretched out his hand to Chen Dong: "Deal!"

"make a deal!"

(End of this chapter)