The Most Powerful Tycoon Reborn In Xiangjiang

A movie with an investment of 800,000 US dollars and a box office income of 25 million US dollars alone is enough to cause a huge sensation in Hollywood.

Even if the starring role of this movie is a man with an oriental face!

All film production companies are lamenting that Warner has dug a treasure this time!

They are all professionals, so they naturally understand the meaning of this.

Everyone knows that movies like Li Xiaolong are destined to be low-investment and high-return movies.

As long as the audience does not experience aesthetic fatigue for this type of film, then this type of film will always have a fixed audience market.

But other film companies also understand that in the face of such a filmmaker who is likely to become a cornucopia, Warner Pictures will firmly grasp it and prevent other film companies from getting involved.

So in Hollywood at this time, many big film companies have no other actions after envying Warner.

But among them, there are also some film companies who want to try.

Some will take the initiative to contact Li Xiaolong, some will contact Xiangjiang Golden Harvest where Li Xiaolong is located, and some film companies even want to find this type of film actors in North America.

But the film company that contacted Li Xiaolong or Golden Harvest already knew that Li Xiaolong had already signed a contract with Warner Bros.

However, there are always more solutions than problems, and some companies still want to see if there are other opportunities.

Among them is Twentieth Century Fox Films, one of the eight major film companies in Hollywood!

Twentieth Century Fox Films was established by founder William Fox in 1915, but at that time it was not called Twentieth Century Fox Films, but Fox Films!

But the founder didn't really make Fox Films bigger, and was even cleared out by the company in the end!

In 1930, facing a federal antitrust investigation (because of the 1929 MGM takeover), William Fox lost control of the studio.

In 1936, Fox himself went bankrupt.

In 1941, Fox was sentenced to a year in prison for bribing a judge during a bankruptcy liquidation.

Paroled in 1943, he had become a Hollywood pariah.

When he died in 1952, no one from the film industry came to his funeral.

So this person was called a tragic figure by later generations.

Although Fox himself has been squeezed out of the company, his name has been preserved.

Twentieth Century Films was founded in 1932 by former United Artists president Joseph Sink and Warner Bros. film producer Daryl Zanuck.

In 1935, Twentieth Century Films acquired Fox Films, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and established Twentieth Century Fox Films.

Then the 20th Century Fox Film Company discovered North American sweetheart Shirley Temple, Carmen Miranda who has the title of "Brazilian Bomb" and other movie stars.

From 1939 to 1945, Twentieth Century Fox Film Company became the most profitable film company in Hollywood. Representative works of this period include "Gentleman's Agreement", "Boomerang", "Dragon Tale" and so on. Among them, "A Gentleman's Agreement" won the Best Picture Award at the 20th Academy Awards.

In 1950, Fox's "The Beauty of the Comet" was a hit in the Oscars. It received a total of 14 nominations, setting a record for the most Oscar nominations for a single film. It was not until 47 years later that it was also produced by Fox "Titanic". tied the record.

Then 20th Century Fox found a real golden egg layer, Marilyn Monroe!

In just 53 years, the actress starred in three blockbuster films for 20th Century Fox, "Falling Rage," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Want to Marry a Rich Man."

The historical law that prosperity must decline is also fulfilled in 20th Century Fox!

First, in 1956, Zanuck, who only loved beauties but not country, withdrew from 20th Century Fox, and then producer Buddy Adler took over as the head of Fox, but he died within a year of taking office Then Skouras took office, a tough guy who used to clash with Zanuck, who cleaned up Fox's management, and then the company's operations began to become difficult.

In 1958, Fox bet on a historical movie with a budget of 2 million US dollars, which was the famous "Cleopatra" later.

Can you imagine that in 58 years, a movie with a budget of 2 million US dollars cost 44 million US dollars when it was finally shot?

Cleopatra is such a movie!

Because the movie was too expensive, coupled with Kuras' self-willedness and helplessness, the board of directors of Twentieth Century Fox had no choice but to invite Zanuck back to take charge of Twentieth Century Fox.

After Zanuck took office again, he directly closed the studio, laid off almost everyone, and urged "Cleopatra" to complete the post-production work as soon as possible.

However, the box office of this film in North America was only 48 million US dollars, and 20th Century Fox almost went bankrupt!

What got Fox back on track was the release of The Sound of Music in 1965, which broke box office records at the time, grossing a staggering $159 million!

Subsequently, Fox filmed the film "Planet of the Apes" with an investment of 5.8 million U.S. dollars, and finally achieved a box office revenue of 32.6 million U.S. dollars in North America!

Immediately afterwards, 20th Century Fox drifted away again, investing 25 million U.S. dollars to film the musical "I Love Matchmaker", and ended up losing more than 10 million U.S. dollars!

Since then, Twentieth Century Fox has once again embarked on the road of losing money. Coupled with the competition between Zanuck and Richard, the father and son, the current Twentieth Century Fox is heavily in debt. In 70 years, Zanuck He even wanted to fire his son, but was kicked out by 20th Century Fox again.

The current president of 20th Century Fox is Alan Hirschfeld.

Facing the company's current predicament, Allen urgently needs fresh blood to revive Twentieth Century Fox, at least to save Twentieth Century Fox's current predicament.

When people are in trouble, they will always think of various ways to help them get out of the predicament in front of them.

Hirschfeld is no exception.

What makes him different from other film company bosses is that after discovering Li Xiaolong's "Enter the Dragon", it did not abandon Li Xiaolong because of the existence of Warner Bros.

Instead, they sent people from the company to investigate Li Xiaolong and Li Xiaolong's situation in Xiangjiang, especially the black and white image that appeared in the most unknown of the four major producers of the movie "Enter the Dragon".

In Allen's office at this time.

Twentieth Century Fox's Rozier, who investigated the black and white images, has not returned, and Allen is in conversation with current 20th Century Fox production director Alan Ladd Jr.

And looking at Allen's expression, it's obviously not very good.

"What's going on with George, did you just let him do those miscellaneous things after taking the company's money?"

Ladd said seriously: "Mr. Hirschfeld, please believe me, George's "Star Wars" will definitely be an epoch-making movie, and I am very optimistic about this movie!"

Allen snorted coldly: "I believe in you, but Hollywood doesn't believe in sci-fi movies, and the vampires on Wall Street don't believe in sci-fi movies either!"

The Hollywood sci-fi movies that became popular around two thousand years ago were not recognized by the audience at this time. Although there was the success of "Planet of the Apes", according to the current level of technology, the pictures of sci-fi movies are indeed not enough to watch. The company has also produced some follow-up sci-fi films, all of which are dark and sandy!

In addition, with the success of "The Godfather" in Hollywood during this period, Hollywood film companies paid more attention to movies similar to "The Godfather", as well as campus movies.

Anyway, sci-fi movies are not popular in this day and age.

Just last year, Alan Ladd Jr., who had just served as the production director of 20th Century Fox, took over a sci-fi project in the hands of Universal Pictures.

The name of this sci-fi film is "Star Wars"!

The director's name is George Lucas!

Just like when the movie "Cleopatra" started, George Lucas proposed to 20th Century Fox that the movie needed a production budget of 3 million US dollars!

But not long after the two parties signed the contract, George Lucas increased the production cost to 8 million US dollars!

This is not over yet. After Twentieth Century Fox prepaid part of the production cost, George Lucas did not start filming "Star Wars". Instead, he founded a company called Industrial Light and Magic on the grounds that the current technology is not up to standard. special effects company.

Until now, 20th Century Fox has not even seen a single "Star Wars" movie.

It can be seen with the naked eye that the final production cost of this movie will definitely increase.

If Alan Ladd Jr. was not very optimistic about this project, it is estimated that Fox would have stopped this project long ago!

After all, Fox's financial situation is not good now. It is on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to repay bank loans. Many banks, including Chase Bank, are pressing on it step by step.

Alan Ladd Jr. hurriedly said: "Mr. Hirschfield, we should believe in George's ability. After all, he has successfully directed "A Scenery of North America" ​​before, and this movie was the champion of the North American box office last year!"

Before filming "Star Wars", George Lucas also directed a movie "North American Landscape" produced by Universal Pictures for his livelihood.

However, before the movie was released, Universal executives were not optimistic about the movie, so before the movie was released, George Lucas' application for "Star Wars" was rejected.

This project fell into the hands of Alan Ladd Jr. at that time. Alan Ladd Jr. was very optimistic about this project. In addition, after the release of the movie "North American Scenery", it was directly crushed and won last year's North American box office list. First.

This made Fox finally agree with the George Lucas "Star Wars" project.

If George Lucas could start filming honestly after getting the funds, this situation would not be the case now.

It's a pity that George Lucas is not a normal person after all, but a genius. Under normal circumstances, the ideas of geniuses are always difficult for ordinary people to understand.

So now the "Star Wars" project has become a headache for Fox.

"You better be able to make this movie truly an epoch-making work in your mouth, otherwise, both of you and I will have to pack up and go home!"

Allen spoke angrily.

Now this project is not only Fox's heart disease, but also a psoriasis that cannot be shaken off. Other film companies have seen that this is a project that burns money and does not seem to be very successful, even if Fox wants to package it and sell it. , are not necessarily successful.

Just when Alan Ladd was helpless, someone knocked on Alan Hirschfeld's office, and a white male in his thirties walked in.

Seeing this, Alan Ladd got up and said goodbye, and was going to have a good chat with George Lucas. I believe in George Lucas, but I should also let others believe in him. His movie is really Can't wait any longer!

"Rozier, how is the investigation going?"

Rozier said: "It has been found out that Black and White Image is a very powerful film company in Xiangjiang, second only to Shaw Brothers, and the boss behind this company is even a super rich man with a net worth of over hundreds of millions of dollars."

Alan Hirschfeld was taken aback after hearing this. He didn't care even if Black and White Image was Xiangjiang's second largest film company. Although Fox is facing difficulties now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

But a billionaire, he can't help but care.

Rozier continued: "According to our investigation, the reason why the other party was able to participate in Li Xiaolong's movie is because the other party and Li Xiaolong are very good friends.

In addition, we also found out that Warner Bros. was very dissatisfied with Chu Huan's black-and-white images participating in the investment of Li Xiaolong's next film.

Now Warner Bros. is putting pressure on Li Xiaolong through Golden Harvest, the parent company of Li Xiaolong's Concorde Pictures, but because Li Xiaolong personally signed a Hollywood film investment contract with Chu Huan, this matter has not yet been concluded.

Finally, we also found out that Chu Huan has a good relationship with Ms. Kelly, the president of Vertex Pictures, which was established in Hollywood last year. "

"Apex Pictures? Kelly?" Alan Hirschfeld was taken aback for a moment. As the president of 20th Century Fox, it was naturally impossible for Alan Hirschfeld to pay attention to Apex Pictures and Kelly.

Rozier laughed and said, "That's right, the director's transfer that happened in Hollywood last year was the deal between Vertex Pictures and Universal Pictures!"

Allen Hirschfeld was stunned, and smiled indifferently: "It turned out to be about Steven!"

Rozier nodded and said, "That's right!"

Alan Hirschfeld said to Rozier: "You immediately help me contact Kelly from Vertex Pictures and say that I have something to discuss with the other party!"

Rozier nodded and said, "Okay!"

Xiangjiang!

I have to admire the reporters from Xiangjiang. The black and white images of Chu Huan were unable to participate in the investment of Li Xiaolong's next Hollywood movie. The reporters from Xiangjiang found out after only two days.

It has been said a long time ago that in Xiangjiang, reporters like to report news about two kinds of people, rich people and entertainment stars.

This incident happened to include these two kinds of people, so naturally it immediately became the most lively news in Xiangjiang.

In Xiangjiang, who is the most famous entertainer?

Li Xiaolong, who has successfully entered Hollywood!

In Xiangjiang, who is the most discussed businessman?

Chu Huan, who created miracles one after another and was called a man like a god!

Before this, the whole of Xiangjiang knew that although the black and white image and Jiahe had been fighting to the death, the relationship between Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong was very good.

Now that the news broke out, it can be said that it immediately stirred the nerves of Hong Kong media.

"In the face of money interests, brothers turn against each other!" - "Oriental Daily"!

As the number one gossip newspaper in Xiangjiang, "Oriental Daily" will naturally not let go of this news.

Before, Chu Huan made the "Oriental Daily" feel ashamed, even ceding land and paying compensation, but this does not mean that "Oriental Daily" is about to admit defeat to Chu Huan.

The report still needs to be reported. As for the big and small horses, they showed an indifferent attitude towards this matter.

"Once upon a time, Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were known as the most amazing pair of friends in Xiangjiang. They debuted in Xiangjiang almost at the same time. The difference is that Chu Huan is in the business world, while Li Xiaolong is in the film industry.

In three years, Chu Huan became one of the top richest people in Xiangjiang, and Li Xiaolong became the most well-known actor in Xiangjiang. He even entered Hollywood and became an international superstar.

But such a pair of good friends turned against each other in the face of interests.

According to the information obtained by this newspaper, due to the huge sales of Li Xiaolong's films in North America, Li Xiaolong's golden signboard has also been fully launched in Hollywood. Countless people are looking forward to his next Hollywood movie. Behind it also means that there are intricate interests.

The movie "Enter the Dragon" is jointly invested by Warner Bros. Pictures in Hollywood, Golden Harvest Films in Xiangjiang, Concord Pictures, and Black and White Video.

As for Li Xiaolong's next Hollywood movie, the name of the black and white image will disappear among the investors.

We believe that this is definitely not the voluntary withdrawal of black and white images, because everyone knows that Li Xiaolong's next film is definitely likely to continue to sell well.

Obviously, the black-and-white image itself will not voluntarily give up the benefits this time, so there is only one possibility. The black-and-white image was jointly kicked out by Warner Bros. Pictures, Golden Harvest Films, and Concord Films.

So where will the relationship between the friends Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong go with the breakdown of this cooperation? "

Just relying on a rumor, "Oriental Daily" wrote a report of hundreds of words eloquently.

Immediately, the major newspapers in Xiangjiang also reported this incident as the most lively news in Xiangjiang recently.

Some newspapers said: Chu Huan was greedy and wanted to occupy a larger share of the investment in Li Xiaolong's next film, but he was knocked out by Warner Bros. Pictures, Golden Harvest Films, and Xiehe Films.

Some newspapers said: Li Xiaolong is ungrateful. It was because of the support of Chu Huan's movie theaters that he was able to break Xiangjiang's box office records one after another. Kick it away!

The two discussions were raging, and even caused some fights between the fans of Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong.

That's right, Chu Huan also has his own fans.

Although he is not from the entertainment industry, Chu Huan's legendary life experience has made many young people in Xiangjiang regard Chu Huan as their idol in life.

They all hope that one day they can become a person like Chu Huan, marry Bai Fumei, and reach the pinnacle of life!

A football field in Lantian.

Two gangs are confronting each other.

"Well, for a greedy person like Chu Huan, you bastards still worship him, damn you, if you don't say that Chu Huan is a bastard today, you'll beat your ass!"

"Fart, Li Xiaolong is obviously ungrateful. Besides, even if Li Xiaolong's movie is a big hit in Hollywood, so what? Can it be compared with Huan Shao's net worth? Huan Shao is going to make people poke the back for that little money? "

The two groups of people quarreled with each other like this, and it quickly rose from a quarrel to a gang fight!

This kind of situation often happens in various districts of Xiangjiang.

The scene of Tan and Zhang fighting for hegemony in the later generations was staged in advance at this time, but the two male protagonists changed from Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guoyi to Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong!

Such scenes were naturally published by various newspapers.

Soon this matter changed from a group discussion between two people to a big discussion in Xiangjiang.

Jiahu Building!

Chu Huan looked at the newspaper in his hand and felt that this matter was a bit magical. Isn't this a typical emperor who is not in a hurry and eunuchs are in a hurry?

As for whether to invest in Li Xiaolong's next film, Chu Huan has not yet reached a conclusion, but Black and White Video has been negotiating with Warner Bros.

It turns out that things are going well now, the matter has not yet been settled, and those people outside started fighting first.

"Boss, there are a lot of reporters outside now, and they all want to ask you for an exclusive interview because of this matter!"

Xu Yi stood opposite Chu Huan, preaching helplessly.

Now a lot of things in the company, especially the toy factory, make people feel busy, and finally such a news comes out.

"Don't bother with them, just let them wait!"

Chu Huan naturally didn't have time to deal with those reporters.

Xu Yi can only express his understanding.

At this time, the phone in Chu Huan's office rang, and Chu Huan indicated that Xu Yi could go out.

After Xu Yi went out, Chu Huan answered the phone, it was Li Xiaolong calling.

Obviously, there are so many reporters on Chu Huan's side, and Li Xiaolong's side must also be indispensable.

"A Huan, should we jointly hold a press conference on this matter?"

In this matter, Chu Huan was not affected too much. After all, Chu Huan is not from the entertainment circle, and he doesn't need any works to make these people pay.

But Li Xiaolong is different. If the title of ungrateful is really worn on his head, it will be very detrimental to his development in Xiangjiang.

Chu Huan said with a smile: "Brother Long, do you think we can clarify this matter by holding a joint press conference?"

Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "It can always achieve a certain effect!"

To be honest, Chu Huan didn't hold much hope for this kind of clarification press conference.

Again, people are always willing to believe what they want to believe.

Even if Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong held a press conference, many people would interpret it as a show.

Chu Huan said: "Well, do you have anything to do tonight?"

Li Xiaolong said: "No, what's the matter?"

Chu Huan laughed and said, "Let's have a meal together!"

Li Xiaolong raised his voice immediately, "No problem!"

Since Chu Huan didn't care about the statement, there was a better way. The most direct way to break the news of the two's disagreement was to let people know about the private gathering of their friends.

After all, clarification on the surface will give people the feeling of putting on a show, but private gatherings will not!

Chu Huan naturally wanted to keep such news to his own people.

So Chu Huan called Gu Chengxi's office.

"True News" also has reporters downstairs in Jiahu Building, but Gu Chengxi must not have to interview this kind of thing in person.

Soon Gu Chengxi understood what Chu Huan meant, and said with a smile: "No problem, I will arrange this right away!"

Chu Huan nodded, agreed to go to the apartment to find Gu Chengxi after having dinner with Li Xiaolong, and hung up the phone!

That night, Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong appeared at Yung Kee together.

In the private room!

Li Xiaolong said with some shame: "A Huan, I'm really sorry, I can't help you with this matter!"

Up to now, Li Xiaolong still feels ashamed that he can't help Chu Huan in this matter!

Chu Huan smiled indifferently and said, "There's nothing to apologize for. You're not to blame for the incident. It's Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers who are doing it!"

Li Xiaolong thought of what Zou Wenhuai said to him before, and said helplessly: "Actually, Mr. Zou's side!"

In the end, Li Xiaolong didn't know what to say about Zou Wenhuai.

Chu Huan smiled, "You don't have to worry about investing in your new movie. Leave this matter to Black and White Video and talk to Warner Brothers!"

The movie starring Li Xiaolong, at the same time he will also be the director and screenwriter of this movie, but this is the way it is, even if he has multiple roles, he still has nothing to say about this matter!

"A Huan, I've decided. After the contract with Warner is over, you and I will set up our own film company in Hollywood, right?"

Li Xiaolong suddenly and firmly said: "Only the two of us!"

Uh, this sounds a bit ambiguous, but Chu Huan understood what Li Xiaolong meant, and said with a smile, "Okay!"

After the dinner was over, the photo of the two of them talking and laughing with each other shoulder to shoulder appeared on "True Pao" the next day!

"Mountains, rivers, sun and moon will last forever, brotherhood will never change!"--"True News"!

On this day, "True Daily" was sold like crazy again.

Chu Huan naturally also saw this report, "It seems that this matter should be suppressed!"

Xu Yi stood aside and nodded, and said: "Look at tomorrow's newspaper, and you will know if there will be any fans of your boss and Li Xiaolong's fans."

After hearing this, Chu Huan laughed, and said, "You're one of those people who just watch the fun!"

Xu Yi chuckled.

"Okay, let Fatty Fang worry about the rest, we still have to focus on the next thing about the Anti-Dou Toy City." Chu Huan said to Xu Yi.

Xu Yidao: "People from the secretary team and the operation team are following up on this matter!"

"Um!"

The phone in Chu Huan's office rang again. After Xu Yi answered the phone, he handed the phone to Chu Huan: "It's a foreign lady who says she's the boss of Hollywood's Apex Pictures. I want to discuss something with you!"

Also, the next chapter is at eight in the morning~