Movie tycoon

Chapter 675 Filming of "New World" Starts

It is said that Chen Xiaotang, who is far away in Hong Kong, appointed the black buddy Afro Jim as the person in charge of the acquisition of Hollywood Fox.

And Jim lived up to his trust, and he simply took this matter as the most important thing in his life.

Having said that, Jim is very grateful to Chen Xiaotang for giving him this opportunity to "show off his power" or "raise his eyebrows".In the past, as the boss of many small Hollywood film companies, Afro Jim kept his head down. In addition, he was black, and his black skin hindered him everywhere in the mainstream of Hollywood. Many white American colleagues looked down on him and laughed at him. To ridicule him, thinking that his life is like this at most.

But now, Brother Jim is up!
With a huge amount of dollars in his pocket, he actually wants to buy an established Hollywood company...Fox!

This news is absolutely explosive. The little guy suddenly becomes a giant, the little white rabbit suddenly becomes a big bad wolf, and the black brother suddenly becomes the super boss who bought Fox... The changes are even more exciting than the Hollywood movie that is currently being shown.

But Fox is not so easy to acquire. First of all, the Australian media tycoon Murkdo is also thinking about it.It is said that the two are currently negotiating acquisition matters.If it develops according to the original historical track, it won't be long before the media tycoon Murdoch will take Fox into his pocket and turn it into a film subsidiary of his own News Corporation.Under the operation of News Corporation, 20th Century Fox has just come back to life, not only restored its former glory, but also entered a period of stable development for more than 20 years.But now, due to the intervention of the hidden enemy of Moying Entertainment, everything has changed.

Afro Jim, under the banner of "Hollywood colleagues", began to contact Fox.

Compared with Murk, who is an "outsider", the black man Afro Jim is much more friendly. After all, everyone is his own. After all, everyone is living in Hollywood. After all, the fat does not flow to outsiders...

What's more, according to Chen Xiaotang's instructions, the price tag of 20 billion US dollars offered by Afro Jim is enough to make Fox's decision-makers excited.

And Jim's reason for paying such a huge sum of money is: Our own film company cannot be ruined by Australians!
What a man, what a noble sentiment!

Because of this sentence, Fox executives were impressed with this sudden acquirer in an instant.

Black friends are still cute!
Of course, green banknotes are cuter!

Then everything seems to be easy to handle. After all, doing business is like a blind date, and the first impression is very important.

Afro Jim gave the decision-makers of Fox Films a good impression. The media tycoon Murkdo was not to be outdone, and began to inquire about the details of Jim, especially wanting to know the purchase price they offered.

The American business system is better. In order to avoid vicious competition, one of the business mechanisms is that the buyer’s price must not be disclosed to the other party before the acquisition cooperation is completed, because this is a very typical commercial crime.

Therefore, it is conceivable that Murkdo did not find out anything in the end, and at this time Jim, the personal representative of Chen Xiaotang, had already begun to formally contact the Fox company. The next thing to do was to negotiate and sign the contract, of course. , and pay with one hand and deliver with the other...

But the problem is that the total funds raised by Chen Xiaotang are only one billion US dollars, of which Moying Entertainment contributed 20 million, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, New Art City and Debao four companies contributed [-] million US dollars, but they promised Fox [-] million. [-] million US dollars, what about another billion? !
Afro Jim is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but Chen Xiaotang is in Hong Kong, and the old god is there. He calls overseas and tells Afro Jim, "Now, the game really begins!"

Chen Xiaotang's so-called "game" is very simple: Specter, Fox, Bank, play the time difference between these three.

Specter signed a contract purchase contract with Fox, and Specter signed a mortgage contract with Lehman Bank of America, which can be held at the same place. Of course, both Fox and Lehman did not know about it, and it was all thanks to Specter drawing Tai Chi in the middle.

The process is that Moying Entertainment signed an acquisition contract with Fox first, and then paid a signing fee of one billion US dollars. After the signing was completed, they took away the contract for 5 minutes under the pretext of "need to verify the legal effect of the contract".

And within 5 minutes, Specter took the contract, signed a mortgage agreement with Lehman Bank of America, used the contract as collateral, and borrowed a billion dollars, directly took it and handed it over to Fox Corporation.

In this way, with the time difference of 5 minutes, Moying Entertainment can use half of the money in its hands to acquire full rights to Fox, an established Hollywood company.

To put it bluntly, this is a very common business speculation technique, which can be described as a "empty glove white wolf"; to put it bluntly, it is the result of the combination of wisdom and thoughtfulness, courage and practical actions.

Chen Xiaotang told Afro Jim his strategy, which seemed super simple but was fraught with dangers in practice, and then said, "It's all up to you!" Then he became the hands-off shopkeeper.

In Chen Xiaotang's opinion, Afro Jim is also a person who has acted. As for the "commercial drama" he directed, whether he can perform well or not depends on himself, and he can't help much.

As the saying goes: the success or failure of things, three points depend on hard work, seven points are destined!

Looking back, while waiting for the good news from Hollywood, Chen Xiaotang began to plan the filming plan for the second half of the year.

In the past few years, Moying Entertainment has developed very fast. In the words of the outside world, this company is like taking a rocket to the sky. It flew away with a whiz, and it probably landed on the moon...

But Chen Xiaotang knows that the reason why this company can achieve today's success is not because of himself as a big star boss, but because of the hard work of all the staff, such as artists who are integrated with the company, Li Lianjie, Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi, Zhou Huimin, etc. People, all the films they shot were hits, and their names almost became the guarantee of the box office.There are also Fatty Wang Jing, Li Lichi, Liu Zhenwei, Wang Jiawei, etc. who are directors. They all have different genres of filming. Some take the comedy route, some are good at underworld themes, and some are used to love scenes... In short, each has its own way. Wonderful.

Of course, there are also some unknown behind-the-scenes heroes, such as photographer Du Kefeng, action director Liu Xingbo, and gold medal scissors hand Liang Puwen. These people are also the mainstay of the company. It can be said that without their efforts, the company would not be where it is today.

Chen Xiaotang is a star, a boss, and a person who values ​​love and righteousness. Because of love and righteousness, he will disregard "nepotism", and under the title of pampering someone, he will praise Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei and others. Who will let them You are your best friend.

With the help of these buddies, Moying Entertainment has produced many excellent movies, such as "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier", "Infernal Affairs", and the recently released "Dark War".

If the classic signboard of Shaw Brothers in the past was "Products produced by Shaw Brothers, it must be a good product", then this slogan now belongs to Moying Entertainment.

"Produced by Moying, absolutely high-quality products", this has become the unwritten recognition of the whole Hong Kong and even Asia.

High-quality goods, better than good products, go one step further!
Now that Chen Xiaotang has returned from Hollywood, the big deal of acquiring Fox has been put aside for now.

Don't be in a hurry, you won't be able to eat hot tofu if you are in a hurry, it will take a long time, this is Chen Xiaotang's own comforting words.

In fact, Chen Xiaotang's heart was really smoky, and he hoped that Shao Daheng and others would give him a solid answer, but unfortunately, there was no.

During this period of time, Chen Xiaotang had finished writing the script of "League of Assassins", and Moying Entertainment was also preparing to start filming a new film, in order to keep himself in a "busy" working state, so that he could forget about Fox for a while. , Chen Xiaotang immersed himself in writing a new script called "New World".

"New World" was originally a Korean movie, and this movie is called "the Korean version of "Infernal Affairs".

The content of the story is very interesting. The head of a certain Korean club was killed in a car accident. This incident caused a lot of shock in both black and white.In order to prevent the society from further penetrating into the legal field and continuing to grow, the police promptly proposed the "New World Plan", which aimed to interfere in the election of the society's successor boss.As for the title of president, Ding Qing, who was born as the No. [-] overseas Chinese under the club, and Li Zhongjiu, the executive director of No. [-], launched a series of open and secret battles.In the current crisis, the police ordered Li Zicheng, who had been undercover for ten years, to influence the election results.Zicheng got acquainted with Ding Qing six years ago, and gained the respect and trust of the other party.Zicheng, who had long been tired of the underworld life, had no choice but to accept the order, but undoubtedly plunged himself into a very dangerous black whirlpool.
At first glance, this drama seems to be somewhat similar to the comprehensive version of the Hong Kong movies "Underworld" and "Infernal Affairs". They are all contending for power, and the police have placed undercover agents, but the ultimate highlight of this drama is that the undercover is against the sky Not only did he overwhelm the opponents of the society, but he also directly killed the policeman who remotely controlled himself, and then sat on the throne of the big boss in a grand manner, becoming the ultimate BOSS!

Let me ask, has such an ending ever happened? !
The original undercover policeman directly became a mafia boss. In the end, he sat down proudly, and everyone bowed to express their allegiance. The whole scene was quite like "The Godfather"...

Chen Xiaotang likes this drama very much, because the route of this drama is different.

The final counterattack is simply eye-catching. Now that Chen Xiaotang's Moying Entertainment has filmed "Infernal Affairs", why not also film this counterattack version of "New World"? !
Chen Xiaotang did it when he thought of it. Considering that Du Qifeng is the only one who shoots this kind of subject in Hong Kong, he is the best, so Chen Xiaotang contacted his half-brother.

Du Qifeng is now proud of being in TVB. With the cultivation of his mentor Wang Tianlin and the attention of his sixth aunt Fang Yihua, Du Qifeng has more and more voice in the entire wireless company. No one dares to invite this strong director who was born as a postman.

However, Du Qifeng was vaguely dissatisfied when the spring breeze was triumphant, because he was an aspiring young man, so he inevitably had great ambitions, and the wireless company's territory was too small for him to flex his muscles. The small screen was tied down, and he needed to make movies to untangle himself.

But is the movie so good?He vaguely remembers the failure he suffered when he was filming his first film "Clear Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold".This kind of failure was so unforgettable that Du Qifeng began to try his best to find his own movie style. Then he found that he was not that kind of material to make martial arts movies. Although his martial arts TV series were so excellent and eye-catching, they were used on TV. The moves won't work in movies.

The reason is that TV martial arts gives you plenty of time to create characters. A series can range from 10 episodes to as many as [-] or [-] episodes, which is enough for you to toss; There is a sense of urgency in completing the story at hand.Du Qifeng found that he was not very good at reducing martial arts stories. In contrast, Cheng Xiaodong, who is also from Wireless, is an expert in this area.

So where is your advantage? !
Du Qifeng asked himself.

Finally came to the answer, what I am interested in is what I am best at, so in the next few days, Du Qifeng devoted himself to filming urban themes such as "Urban Special Police", "The World of Love", and "The Seven Year Itch". new movie.

In particular, Du Qifeng has quietly started to have his own creative concept in terms of police and gangster films, and this concept was inspired by the movie "Infernal Affairs".

It turns out that movies can be made like this!

In Du Qifeng's view, "Infernal Affairs" has become a new benchmark for police films, and he is unknowingly moving towards this banner...
While he was struggling, Chen Xiaotang found him.

In the apartment room, socks, newspapers, and instant noodle packaging were casually thrown on the sofa.

Beer bottles, cans, and ashtrays are placed on the table for "exhibition".

The floor was messy, and various movie posters were pasted on the walls, even special posters of small Japanese movie actresses, plump~butt~****, with a unique taste.

This is the home of the great director Du Qifeng. Who would have thought that the superficially gentle and handsome Director Du is so boring and sloppy in secret.

However, our director Du's explanation is that we are too busy with work and have no time to clean up. As for those posters, they can provide me with inspiration...

At this moment, Chen Xiaotang was drinking tea leisurely, and Du Qifeng next to him took a puff of cigarette, concentrating on, or "hungry and thirsty", flipping through the script of "New World".

Time passed slowly.

Half an hour later, Du Qifeng let out a sigh of relief, took the script and didn't talk to Chen Xiaotang, but was alone in a daze.

Chen Xiaotang didn't bother him, he still drank tea, but the tea was already cold.

"Huh!" Du Qifeng let out another breath, and then came back to his senses, glanced at Chen Xiaotang, and asked in disbelief, "You wrote this script?"

Chen Xiaotang nodded.

"Okay, that's really great!" Du Qifeng jumped up, "It can be said that it's the first time I've seen such a wonderful script!"

Next, Du Qifeng talked about the characteristics of the script, such as ingenuity, surprise, unconstrained style, and magical writing... He praised Chen Xiaotang as if he possessed Li Bai and Du Fu, and almost felt a little embarrassed.

After finally waiting for Du Qifeng to finish spitting, Chen Xiaotang smiled and said, "Since it's such a good script, Brother Feng, would you like to direct this drama?"

Du Qifeng fell silent.

You know, it can be said that Chen Xiaotang and Du Qifeng "taught from the same family", and they were both cultivated by the great director Wang Tianlin.In contrast, Du Qifeng started early and is a real senior brother, while Chen Xiaotang started late and can only be regarded as half of Wang Tianlin's apprentice.Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Du Qifeng, who has been trained by a famous teacher, will definitely surpass Chen Xiaotang by N times.But the fact is that Chen Xiaotang ran a dark horse and went straight out of the gate to run fast. In less than five years, he has become a world-class superstar. As for Du Qifeng, he is still nesting in the wireless and tinkering with the small screen, and only occasionally gets addicted to the big screen. .

Such a huge gap, how did you let a guy like Du Qifeng with strong self-esteem bear it? !

That's why Du Qifeng "avoided suspicion" and avoided Chen Xiaotang. When many people tried to make connections and go through the back door, he even sneered, so we won't participate!

But now, my half-baked junior brother came to the door and threw out such a delicious script bait, just waiting for this old fish to take the bait, what do you think he will do? !
If he accepts Chen Xiaotang's proposal, then he will be acquiescing to this "favor"; if he refuses, it's such a good script... After passing this village, there will be no such shop.

It's really a headache.

Du Qifeng grabbed the teacup and took a sip, while Chen Xiaotang hurriedly said, "That's my leftover tea."

Du Qifeng was taken aback, "I'm sorry, I can't spit it out..."

Chen Xiaotang laughed dumbfounded, "Then what about this drama, will you accept it or not?"

Du Qifeng thought about it calmly, "Who is the leading role?"

Chen Xiaotang: "Undecided for the time being... If you are the director, would you recommend a few..."

Du Qifeng suddenly laughed and said, "If you act, I'll take it!"

Chen Xiaotang never thought that the leading role of "New World" would fall on him.

At the beginning, he considered Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei, and it was most suitable for them to play the role. After all, they had starred in "Infernal Affairs", and it would definitely be interesting for them to play the Korean version of "New World".But Du Qifeng put forward a condition that he could be the director, but Chen Xiaotang himself had to be the leading actor.

But now Chen Xiaotang is busy with the acquisition of Fox, so where does he have the time and mood to film? !

But Du Qifeng...Chen Xiaotang really wanted to win this guy under his command and let him be called the person of Moying Entertainment. You must know that there are not many people who can be called "Hong Kong film masters" in the future, and Lao Du is definitely one of them.

After thinking briefly, Chen Xiaotang gave the answer, "Okay, let's cooperate!"

No one expected that the big star Chen Xiaotang would beat Hong Kong movies again.

After he came back, everyone believed that he was going to develop in Hollywood for a long time, and it would be very difficult to see his purely Hong Kong films in the future.However, Moying Entertainment suddenly announced that the filming of the gang movie "New World" directed by director Du Qifeng and starring Chen Xiaotang will start soon.

This news is undoubtedly a shock, directly blowing many fans who like Chen Xiaotang into ecstasy.

is back!
Tang Zai returns to Hong Kong movies!

We can see his wonderful performance again!

Haha, sorry to see you, our Chen Tianwang "returned to the rivers and lakes"!
(End of this chapter)