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Chapter 396 Subjective Initiative

Curved shadow.

When Xu Ligong learned that Li An would cooperate with Huang Ze again and invest tens of millions of dollars to rush into Hollywood, he felt bad.

Cai Mingliang has just confirmed that he will join Xinghai and become a director under Xinghai.

Li An is going to cooperate with Xinghai again soon.

It turns out that the director's two debut films were shot at China Film Corporation, but gradually he has nothing to do with that company anymore!

In fact, he was well aware that the director was getting better and better with each film and it was impossible for him to stay in China Film forever.

But thinking about the fact that those two directors won big awards and made a lot of money whenever they collaborated with Huang Ze, he felt that the film that Li An and Xinghai were collaborating on to impact Hollywood would also have a good chance of being a success!
That's success in Hollywood!

Earn US dollars.

He couldn't get involved and always felt like he was losing a lot of money.

Even if he wanted to participate, he was a little unsure. After all, Huang Ze had no shortage of investment for making movies, and he was not so arrogant as to just ask for a share.

After much deliberation, Xu Ligong finally went to Hong Kong Island Xinghai Company in person to ask for a meeting with Huang Ze.

"Mr. Huang, congratulations!" As soon as they met, Xu Ligong started to congratulate with a smile on his face.

"Hey, what is there to congratulate!" Huang Ze knew that the other party would not come to him for no reason, but when the enemy comes, we will fight him; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. Li An is not a director under their company.

That's freedom!
So there is absolutely nothing to worry about.

"Sit down!" Huang Ze asked him to sit down, not bothering to play witty words with him, "Boss Xu, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Are you here for Sense and Sensibility this time?"

"Mr. Huang is Mr. Huang, I guessed it right!"

"I heard that the cost of Sense and Sensibility was tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Huang, are you interested in taking our China Film Corporation's funding? Let me support you, Mr. Huang."

"Ten million dollars is indeed not a small sum. The company is operating well and does not need external funding!"

Huang Ze laughed in his heart.

If you were the China Film Corporation, and you wanted to invest, I would have no objection. You have the qualifications. Even if you don't have them now, it would be considered a token of friendship.

But who made you just a crescent shadow?

If you need to shoot in Wanwan, then you will definitely have a share.

But this time, none of the filming locations need to be in Wanwan, so Huang Ze really doesn't need to share the profits of a project that he knows has a high probability of making money.

"What if I'm willing to pay a premium?" Seeing that Huang Ze was not even willing to spread the risk, Xu Ligong became more and more certain that there would be profit in this film, so he lowered his bid.

"No need." Huang Ze still didn't want to.

How much can the premium be?
Fifty percent are dead.

If I report 100%, the other party will definitely feel that I am insulting him.

But the problem is that the other party doesn’t accept the 100% premium, but I feel like I’m losing out!
"Sense and Sensibility" had a global box office of over 100 million in its previous life.

It was a low-cost movie and achieved good box office results.

"How about I offer a 20 percent premium?"

"There's really no need to discuss this." Huang Ze still shook his head. "If you really want to invest, why not offer to buy the distribution rights of Sense and Sensibility in advance? What do you think?"

"That's fine." Seeing Huang Ze's determined face, Xu Ligong knew that his idea was a failure, so he continued the conversation along with Huang Ze's words, "Five hundred thousand dollars?"

"I am sincere." Huang Ze took a sip of water, "We have cooperated several times. Which of our cooperation works has the lowest box office in Taiwan? Be sincere, one million and five hundred thousand US dollars, and the Taiwanese distribution of this film will be handed over to you." "But it's an English film!" Xu Ligong smiled bitterly, "You also know that there are restrictions on the copies of such films in our country. There can only be twelve copies. It's not easy to make money."

"The restrictions on copying don't prevent English films from achieving high box office in your country, right?"

"Besides, will copying continue to be so restricted?"

"What does this mean?" asked Xu Ligong.

"Hong Kong films are getting worse year by year. Your commercial films are basically going nowhere. If you don't gradually allow copies of Western films, what will your cinemas do? Just leave them empty? You will definitely gradually allow it. There is a lot of room for improvement!"

"I'm from China Film Group, how come I don't know?" Xu Ligong shrugged. "Boss Huang, this is unpredictable. So, I'll buy it in advance at $700,000!"

"It's still the same price, one million and a half million!"

After some bargaining, the final number stopped at 1.2 million US dollars. Xu Ligong thought of Huang Ze's previous achievements. In addition, the director of this film was Li An. If it could achieve success in Hollywood, the publicity would be much more effective. So he gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Then it's settled. I wish Director Huang's film a big hit in Hollywood!"

……

The "Sense and Sensibility" project has been preliminarily finalized, and the most important framework has been built. Huang Ze will no longer worry about this matter and leave it to Li An and the company's people to worry about.

After all, no project is more important than your own project.

But sometimes, Huang Ze doesn't take care of things, but things still need Huang Ze to take care of them.

And it's something that has to be taken care of.

Zhang Jianya, the leader of horror films in the company's commercial film category, found Huang Ze with a bag in his hand.

As Huang Ze's eyes stayed on the bag, Zhang Jianya took out the things in the bag.

Sure enough, it was a script.

"Final Destination 2 was released last Halloween. I've been taking a year off and have been working on the script for Final Destination 3. What do you think?"

Zhang Jianya is getting more and more motivated as he shoots more films.

With the fans accumulated from the first "Final Destination", the box office of the second film reached a new level and successfully exceeded 50 million US dollars.

Including the horror films he has shot before, he can be considered a director with a total box office of over 100 million in North America.

"Okay!"

Huang Ze was so happy that the people in the company were so proactive.

He immediately took the script and started reading it.

For this type of film, the script doesn't have to be too innovative, it still follows the same routine, a group of people escape danger, and then die one by one in sequence, and the ways of death are also due to various accidents.

"But why did you choose the subway?"

"I think we need to change the previous dangerous encounter. This time it's a subway, which is quite common. But the first time we saw it was a plane, and the second time it was a car. Wouldn't the audience be getting tired of it?"

"What will it be replaced with?"

"It's a roller coaster."

"What a good idea!" Zhang Jianya's eyes lit up and he nodded immediately, "I'll go back and revise the script right away."

"Don't be anxious!" Huang Ze stopped Zhang Jianya, "Have you ever thought about not shooting the third part first? Let's shoot another horror movie?"

(End of this chapter)