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Chapter 843 Lunch for Two!

October 3, Beijing.

The film launching ceremony of "Lord of the Rings" was held grandly.

This may be the first time a Hollywood movie has a launching ceremony in China.

The purpose of this press conference is to change the current situation of Chinese filmmakers in the world film industry.

Prior to this, there was probably only one Hollywood film that had a press conference outside the United States, a British director named Wilson, who had filmed the spy series, and all eight of them had their press conferences held in London.

And "The Lord of the Rings", as a world fantasy masterpiece, has many controversies when it was filmed by the Chinese.

Now Li Zhifan has pushed the controversy to a higher level, and even wants to completely get rid of the blockbuster definition of "Hollywood movie", and promote the production and concept of Chinese movies to the international market.

For a long time, Chinese films have only contributed to the box office in the history of world film.

The outside world's evaluation of the take-off of the Chinese film industry can only say that "the box office has become the second largest market".

In terms of film production and content, it is still very weak, and compared with the world's film powers, there is still a big gap.

The Chinese translation of the movie "Lord of the Rings" followed the name "Lord of the Rings".

The literal translation of "The-Lord-of-the-Rings" is "Lord of the Rings".

In terms of Chinese artistic conception, "The Lord of the Rings" is more elegant and beautiful, and it also meets the aesthetic standards of Chinese naming.

"The Lord of the Rings" is the name of the original Chinese version of the book, but "Rings" means "Lord of the Rings", the overall translation is not complete, and the word "The-Lord" has not been translated.

The key point of the original English title is in the word "The-Lord", which means "king", "lord of...", not just "Rings" - the meaning of the Lord of the Rings is so thin.

When the Chinese name of "The Lord of the Rings" is announced, it will naturally attract some complaints from fans of the original book. Of course, it is a fan of the original book in China. After all, foreigners do not use Chinese, and their original title is not called Lord of the Rings.

"This name...then, it's not cool and domineering at all!"

"How good is "The Lord of the Rings"? Why is it called "The Lord of the Rings"?"

"All of a sudden, it became a lot low. Although it is said to follow the literal translation of the original text, it sounds nice to call it "The Lord of the Rings"!"

""The Lord of the Rings" is ugly, it's like a shoddy page game noun, "The Lord of the Rings" itself sounds good!"

"It seems that the copyright of the word "Lord of the Rings" is with the Chinese version of the book publisher, and it is not easy to operate!"

"Can't you buy it with money? Didn't Dongfang Entertainment buy all the copyrights of the book?"

"It's ugly, I'm not used to it anyway, it's uncomfortable!"

"In today's report, some wrote about "The Lord of the Rings" and some wrote about "The Lord of the Rings". I thought it was two movies!"

"My God! Low, Low, Low!"

"..."

Of course, most viewers still support it unconditionally. As long as it can be filmed, it doesn’t matter what the name of the Chinese version is.

Western Hemisphere.

America, Hollywood.

The film launch ceremony of "The Lord of the Rings" also affected countless hearts.

Especially Hollywood production staff, because the launching ceremony was only to announce the start of filming, not the official launch.

After the filming is announced, the financing will start. During the financing period, the actors, the team, and every staff member of the crew will be found.

Although the Chinese consortium can fully finance the production of the film, if it is to be fully released in every country in the world, it must let the global consortium taste a little bit of sweetness, so that they are willing to help matchmaking and work hard for subsequent releases.

Therefore, for this round of financing, Li Zhifan plans to recruit eight companies in the United States alone, with priority given to the issuing company.

……

20th Century Films.

"Oh! Li Zhifan is going to shoot "The Lord of the Rings"? Haha, I don't think he can do a good job!"

"The story system of "The Lord of the Rings" is too complicated, and John Ronald Riel Tonkin is a great linguist. Li Zhifan will definitely not be able to handle the elvish language alone. Does he know a small Nordic language?"

"Actually, you don't need to know it, it can be edited by the crew, and there are so many minority languages ​​in China, you can just use any one!"

"That's true! Anyway, it's fooling the audience! But if you have this mentality, the movie must be poorly produced!"

"We also fought for the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" back then, but the British didn't sell it, it's too damn painful!"

"So, we must not let a film production company from the East squeeze into our camp!"

"..."

These bigwigs were having a morning meeting and talking in general terms, but they couldn't come up with any perfect sanction plan for "Lord of the Rings".

"Boom boom boom!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the door of the meeting room opened before anyone could answer it.

A man ran in excitedly with a sandwich in one hand and a blank piece of paper in the other, shouting, "Wow, Wade, do you know what I got?"

"What? Why are you so rude?"

Wade looked at this man very dissatisfied. He was Wade's secretary, but he had an unusual relationship in private.

"Honey, I'm crazy, I can't believe it!"

The secretary shook the white paper in his hand excitedly, "Dongfang Entertainment called, and it was Li Zhifan himself, inviting us to invest in the movie "Lord of the Rings"! Wow, what a surprise!"

"what?"

"What?"

"WTF?"

"how is this possible?"

A group of people in the conference room were all stunned, and Wade even swears: "WTF? What did you say? Say it again?"

"OK, I mean, Li Zhifan invited us to invest in his upcoming "Lord of the Rings" movie!"

The secretary finished speaking word by word.

There was a dead silence in the meeting room, everyone stared at each other, feeling annoyed by what they had just said.

……

Fox Films.

The same message came at the same time.

The company's top management immediately met for a meeting.

At the same time, their CEO asked the secretary to bring some bottles of champagne.

"cheers!"

Fox Films CEO Kim Deson excitedly raised his goblet, "Congratulations to us for being able to cooperate with Mr. Li Zhifan and Dongfang Entertainment this time!"

"yeah!"

"Nice!"

"Beautiful!"

"Incredible! (Unbelievable)"

"Unbelievable! (Unbelievable)"

"Wonderful!"

"Marvelous!"

"Splendid!"

Everyone vented happily, as if they had won the right to shoot.

"Although we only have the right to invest, I will conduct further negotiations with Oriental Entertainment and try to share some of the distribution rights with us!" Jin Desen shook his wine glass, full of confidence.

……

At the same time, ten companies in Hollywood received invitations from Li Zhifan.

Because there will always be rejections, such as Brothers Alliance Film and Television, they directly refused.

So ten are candidates for relaxation, and the other nine have not yet given a specific reply. If all nine are willing, Li Zhifan has to consider which one of them to give up.

In other countries, many leaders in the investment industry also received calls from Li Zhifan.

Japan's Imperial Films, Russia's Mork Films, France's Wright First Films, etc., have made calls almost all over the world.

Just as "The Lord of the Rings" was aggressively attracting financing, Oriental Entertainment finally submitted an application for listing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the same time.

This also means that Oriental Entertainment does not use NASDAQ in the United States, nor does it use domestic A-shares, but chooses Hong Kong stocks.

Xiangjiang has always been a financial city in Asia. Even though its ranking has begun to decline in recent years, it is still stable. Moreover, many companies in the mainland have chosen to list in Xiangjiang. One is to support the Asian stock market, and the other is also aimed at the freedom of Hong Kong. market.

In terms of listing, Li Zhifan did not interfere at all, and he didn't have to attend the meeting about listing preparations. Anyway, he only needed to sign his name in the end, pass the economic review, and wait for the listing to make money.

As the largest individual shareholder of Oriental Entertainment, once the company goes public, he is very likely to become a billionaire, and it will be no problem to make money while lying down.

Of course, the stock market has risks, but for market makers, especially the Eastern Group, which has extensive experience in the stock market, this is not a problem at all.

……

Beijing.

Home.

"I heard that Oriental Entertainment is going public?"

As soon as he got home, Zhou Ke excitedly ran up to ask.

"Yes!"

Li Zhifan sighed, "I have finally waited for this day. I have been waiting for a long time!"

"Didn't you say five years at the beginning? It's only been two years, and it's listed. What are you talking about waiting for a long time!"

Zhou Ke said with a smile, "When it's listed, you can just sit at home and wait for the money to be collected!"

"The filming of "The Lord of the Rings" this time is the most important battle before the listing, and it is also an important project to attract investors. It is estimated that when the film is released, Oriental Entertainment will have already been listed. By then, the stock market and the box office will fight on two fronts. "The Lord of the Rings" "The King" is under a lot of pressure!" Li Zhifan said leisurely, he is not worried about the movie at all, but whether the market can change because of this movie is still very stressful.

"Listen! It's not a big deal, so I changed it to "Lord of the Rings". I guess many people still call this movie "Lord of the Rings"." Zhou Ke changed the subject and said with a smile, "By the way, the casting director Is it settled?"

"Not yet, it's about to start!"

Li Zhifan said, "This time I will not take on the role, and concentrate on making movies!"

"It's very kind of you to think so!"

Zhou Ke put her arms around Li Zhifan's neck and said immediately, "I really hope you always direct and act on your own, it's too tiring!"

"Haha, I'm used to it!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "Okay, where are the children?"

"If you don't check the time, you're already at school!"

Zhou Ke complained, "You careless father, you can't even remember this!"

"What about Mom and Dad?"

Li Zhifan asked again, and looked up upstairs, but he didn't hear any other movement at home.

"Mom and Dad went shopping, and said they won't come back for lunch!"

Zhou Ke said, "At first, I was thinking that I would eat something by myself at noon! It's all right now, Chef Li, you are back! Cook for me!"

Little Cherry and Little Tudou are both in the kindergarten now, and there will be arrangements for the two of them to eat, including lunch break at noon, so Zhou Ke doesn't have to worry about it.

"it is good!"

Li Zhifan smiled and said, "Then shall we go shopping?"

"Well, I'm going to clean up!"

Zhou Ke jumped away immediately, "Also, drive my car today, I'll drive it, and let you see my driving skills!"

"Your skills..." Li Zhifan was about to make a few jokes, but he quickly shut up and changed his words, "Okay, then I'll take the female driver's co-pilot once today!"

"Hmph! You still don't trust me! Don't you?"

Zhou Ke stuck out her tongue, "Let me tell you, the road in the capital is no problem for me now!"

"Okay! I believe in you, let's go!"

That's all Li Zhifan could say, and he didn't dare to make any further comments.

Zhou Ke changed into loose clothes, took the keys, and then went out to the garage with Li Zhifan.

She drives a mini car, the kind with double doors, but it can seat four people. She usually uses it to buy groceries. She is not in a hurry when there is a traffic jam.

"You probably lost all the nearby vegetable markets?"

On the way, Li Zhifan asked casually.

"Unfamiliar!"

However, Zhou Ke said that seeing Li Zhifan's expression stunned, he immediately smiled and said, "Now I go to the supermarket to buy. There are several big supermarkets nearby."

"The vegetables in the supermarket are not fresh, are they?"

Li Zhifan still understands these things, the more vegetables in the supermarket, the less fresh they are, even in specialized fresh food supermarkets.

"But if you go to the vegetable market at this point, the vegetables you buy are not fresh?"

Zhou Ke retorted, "If you want to buy fresh ones, you have to get up at six or seven in the morning to buy them. Except for parents, who can get up when we are resting?"

"I..." Li Zhifan is becoming more and more lazy now, and has lost the energy of previous years.

Although I still go to the gym often, I am not as diligent as I was when I was young.

Coupled with the fact that he was rarely at home during rest, he became more and more greedy for the smell of the bed.

It was just after 11 o'clock when I came back from the supermarket to buy vegetables.

But the two of them didn't rest, they just got into it unless they started to work, just to catch up with the meal time.

"Cut the tomatoes! I'll wash the vegetables!"

Zhou Ke picked up a handful of vegetables, threw them into the sink and started washing them.

Li Zhifan responded, picked up the knife and cut the tomato into small pieces.

"are you done!"

Li Zhifan looked at Zhou Ke washing the vegetables with his hips akimbo, and couldn't help but start, "Let me do the washing, you're too slow!"

"Think I'm slow? Hate it!"

Zhou Ke stretched out his green finger, and suddenly flicked it at Li Zhifan's face, and the water droplets sprayed his face.

"Okay! Take it!"

Li Zhifan immediately fought back, and the two immediately had a water fight, and their clothes were wet.

At this moment, the two of them are like children, they haven't played like this for a long time.

However, between a man and a woman, ordinary play is far from enough. I don't know who made the move first, or the two of them couldn't help it at the same time. After talking and talking, a spring breeze battle in the kitchen actually started...

As a result, the meal was not eaten until after one o'clock.

And just as the two of them were at the table, Mom and Dad came back.

Seeing the mess in the kitchen, my mother didn't know what happened, and shouted directly: "Li Zhifan! You bastard, you made a meal and messed up the kitchen like this? Those who didn't know thought you were doing an experiment!"

And what about Li Zhifan?
At this moment, he and Zhou Ke exchanged glances, and at the same time blushed and lowered their heads, grinning fiercely to pick up the rice.

(End of this chapter)