Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 206

In fact, if director Li Boda is truly capable of adapting the novel "Infinite Terror" into a good film, then the sooner the film and television rights related to "Infinite Terror" are purchased, the better, as this would save a lot of money.

However, Li Boda simply doesn't have that much money on hand right now.

So in the end, Sister Wang simply flew to Hollywood to buy the film and television rights to the movies "Resident Evil" and "Alien".

In addition to film and television rights, Sister Wang also needs to try to contact actors related to "Resident Evil" and "Alien". However, "Alien" was filmed too long ago, and its female lead is now over sixty years old, so choosing an actress is even more of a headache.

They could either replace her with a younger actress, or use special effects to make this woman in her sixties appear younger in the film.

Of course, there's no accurate information yet about when [Infinite Terror] will be filmed. This time, Sister Wang is just trying to contact them and find out about their schedules.

After Wang Jie arrived in Hollywood, she would call Li Boda every day to tell him about her situation.

Finally, a few days later, Sister Wang successfully acquired the film and television adaptation rights to the Resident Evil series, including the first three films, as well as the Alien films.

In fact, Wang Jie initially planned to buy the film adaptation rights to "Resident Evil 1" and "Alien 1" separately. However, buying them separately would have been more expensive, while buying all three parts of the series plus two movies would have been much cheaper.

For example, buying the rights to Resident Evil 1 alone would cost two million US dollars, but buying Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3 together would cost five million US dollars, and with some negotiation, the price could be reduced by another 500,000 US dollars, bringing the total to only five and a half million US dollars.

The asking price for Alien 1 was also two million US dollars, but if you buy both Alien 1 and 2 directly, it would only cost three million US dollars.

Of course, because the Alien 1 and 2 movies were filmed a long time ago, in the 70s and 80s, the price could be negotiated down when buying the rights. In fact, two million US dollars was enough.

Buying the film and television rights to these five movies directly would be so much cheaper, so Sister Wang specifically called to ask Li Boda for his opinion.

Li Boda's opinion, naturally, can be summed up in one word—buy!

Of course, the reason why she only spent $6.5 million to buy the film and television adaptation rights to five movies was that she also specially hired a professional intermediary to negotiate the price. In addition to paying $6.5 million to acquire these five movies, she also paid the intermediary a commission of $500,000.

In other words, Wang Jie spent a total of seven million US dollars to acquire the film and television rights to these five movies.

Seven million US dollars, which is roughly 50 million yuan, or 10 million yuan per movie on average.

This price would be outrageously high in China, but in Hollywood, it's perfectly normal.

After all, in 2010, how high could the film adaptation rights and usage rights possibly go?
In fact, when Hollywood learned that Wang Jie wanted to buy the adaptation rights to their film, they couldn't help but scoff. They already had a successful film right there, and you're going to buy the rights and remake it? What kind of remake can you possibly make?
Who would watch a Hollywood remake by a Chinese person?

While they were selling the copyright, they were secretly mocking Sister Wang, thinking she had something wrong with her brain.

Of course, although they thought Sister Wang was out of her mind, they didn't mind selling the copyright, after all, who would turn down money?

In addition, Sister Wang took the opportunity to inquire about the price of the film adaptation rights and usage rights of "The Lord of the Rings: The First Avenger," and the other party quoted ten million US dollars!

That's right, one movie's budget jumped to ten million US dollars.

This is quite normal, considering that the combined box office of the three Resident Evil films doesn't even equal that of just one Lord of the Rings movie. Movies with high box office returns naturally have much more expensive copyrights.

After learning about the price of "The Lord of the Rings: The First Ring," Sister Wang stopped inquiring about other movies. After all, Hollywood film and television rights are so expensive, and no one could guarantee whether "Infinite Terror" would be successful as a movie.

In fact, Sister Wang was a little regretful. She regretted asking Li Boda whether he wanted to buy the film and television adaptation rights to "Resident Evil 1" and "Alien 1" or to buy the film and television adaptation rights to all five movies.

Although buying five movies individually is cheaper, if the filming of "Infinite Terror" fails, Li Boda might only be able to use "Resident Evil" and "Alien." The remaining three movies might be wasted.

And so, Wang Jie regained the film and television adaptation rights to five movies: Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3, and Alien 1 and 2.

When Li Boda looked at the purchase contract in Sister Wang's hand, his eyes lit up.

Now, Li Boda couldn't help but focus most of his attention on the movie "Infinite Terror," which he wanted to make, and he became less concerned about the filming of "Love is Not Blind."

However, Li Boda has a good temperament. Although he was very eager to film the movie "Infinite Terror", he adjusted his mindset and focused his energy on filming "Love is Not Blind".

After all, this film will have a significant impact on whether Li Boda can successfully film "Infinite Terror" later. The higher the quality and the better the box office performance of "Love is Not Blind," the more people will be willing to invest when Li Boda films "Infinite Terror," thus avoiding a situation of insufficient funds during the filming of "Infinite Terror."

However, the acquisition of the rights to the five Resident Evil films by Sister Wang still somewhat affected Li Boda's state of mind, making him somewhat impatient when directing Love is Not Blind.

Fortunately, Li Boda's directing skills are quite good, and the filming difficulty of "Love is Not Blind" is relatively low. So, although Li Boda was a bit more agitated, it did not affect the filming quality of "Love is Not Blind". On the contrary, it slightly increased the filming speed.

However, as time went by, Li Boda's slightly agitated mood gradually calmed down.

……

"When we're filming later, you'll follow my instructions. I'll tell you how to film, so just do it, understand?" Li Boda said to Zhao Liying and Wenzhang.

"No, do you even know what filming is? This is a special wedding your grandparents wanted to hold, a wedding with a dimly lit atmosphere. Don't ruin it. If you really mess it up, don't blame our company. You insisted on filming it yourself," Zhao Liying couldn't help but say to Li Boda.

"...Me, mess it up? Do you even understand? I, Li Boda, am a great director! A director whose single film grosses over 100 million! I'm even going to be the genius director of a big-budget sci-fi movie next. Do you think I don't know how to film?" Li Boda pointed at his nose, looking at Zhao Liying with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

"Brother, don't be angry, don't be angry. What does a woman know? Her brain is only so big. She doesn't understand anything except dating, let alone you, a big director who has entered the billion-yuan club. Please forgive her, please forgive her!" Wen Zhang quickly apologized from the side.

"Hmph, do I have to care who the director is just to watch a movie? He's not a celebrity." Zhao Liying grumbled from the side.

"Tch, I'm not going to stoop to your level."

Li Boda has made another cameo appearance in the movie "Love is Not Blind," though his role is somewhat insignificant. His role, however, remains that of the director—a genius director, the genius director about to direct a sci-fi blockbuster.

This can be seen as Li Boda giving himself another boost, which also improves his directing skills to some extent.

Zhao Liying is already used to cameo roles like Li Boda's.

After all, Li Boda has personally directed three films, and in each film he has made a cameo appearance as the director.

Zhao Liying would find it strange if Li Boda suddenly stopped making a cameo appearance, or if the role he was playing was no longer that of a director.

……

June 2010.

Li Boda looked at the camera and watched as Zhao Liying, who had just finished her performance after makeup, smiled. He then took the megaphone from the assistant director beside him.

"Cut! This scene is over!"

"I hereby announce that filming for 'Love is Not Blind' has officially wrapped!"

The film took more than two months to shoot. After filming the last scene, director Li Boda announced that filming for "Love is Not Blind" had wrapped.

With filming wrapped, the next step is to hold a wrap party.

The wrap party for Li Boda's previous movie was quite lively, but the lineup wasn't particularly large.

However, this time, at the wrap party for "Love is Not Blind," in addition to the crew members, the heads of the investors, and people from relevant local government departments, many industry bigwigs also attended.

People like Mr. Wang from Huayi, Mr. Wu from Orange Sky, and even Wang Jinghua from Shiba Culture Media all attended the event.

These people all wanted to cooperate with Li Boda.

The movie "Love is Not Blind" has been filmed, so there's no chance of collaborating again. But what about Li Boda's next movie? There might be a chance to work together again.

Although they didn't know what movie Li Boda would be making next, that didn't stop them from finding out in advance and making agreements or deals with him beforehand.

(End of this chapter)