Chapter 867: The New Work of the Great Poet Chen! Audition? Harvest! Acquisition? Sit Back and Reap the Benefits?

Time quickly came to late January.

Looking around, the entire mainland cinema market has been dominated by imported Hollywood blockbusters, and there is not a single domestic movie that can stand out.

Especially with the withdrawal of "Lao Pao Er" and "Bad Angel", other domestic films have even started to wail!

You know, more than 20 days have passed since New Year's Day. Except for a domestic animated film "Bear Bear: Return of the Bear", no other domestic film has a box office of over 100 million.

This shows how badly domestic films have been treated.

However, although there are currently no high-quality domestic blockbusters on the theater side, there are still many blockbusters ready to go on the film and television producers side.

Let’s not mention the films released during the Spring Festival. Let’s just talk about the blockbusters currently being filmed and produced. They are all recognized as “top masterpieces” in the industry!

"Operation Red Sea", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: Kunlun Temple", "Detective Chinatown 2", "The Great Wall", "I'm Not Pan Jinlian", "Zhu Xian", "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom"...

There are already many experts in the industry analyzing and predicting the box office performance of these movies.

Looking around, there are many top-notch blockbusters with huge box office potential!

However, what many people never expected was that at this critical moment, Brother Chen Kai, who had been silent for half a year because of "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain", suddenly appeared.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, several pieces of news about Poet Chen suddenly hit the hot search, attracting countless people to watch.

"According to the latest announcement on the official website of the Film Bureau, Chen Kaige personally participated in the screenplay. It took 6 years to adapt the novel "Shamon Kukai: The Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty" by the Japanese writer Yumezhen Tapir, and it was officially reviewed today."

"It is reported that the new script is titled "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and is not "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" or "The Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty" as reported online."

"In order for the filming of this film to start smoothly, Brother Chen Kai has been preparing for many years and has spent huge sums of money to build a "Tangcheng Film and Television Base" covering an area of ​​more than 550 acres since 2011.

The entire base is composed of major building courtyards such as the Tang Palace, Mingde Gate, Qinglong Temple, Arc de Triomphe, Thousand Steps Corridor, Gaolishi Residence, East Market, and West Market. It is designed according to the layout of the garden, paying attention to the overall and local positional relationships. , mainly to highlight the effect of changing scenery as you move..."

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As soon as the news that Brother Chen Kai's new script had passed the review came out, Chen Fei paid attention to it immediately.

The reason is very simple, mainly because there is a very popular guy like Huang Xiaoming in the crew!

The film bureau had just issued a notice saying that the script had been reviewed, so the leader immediately called Brother Chen Kai to ask if there was any role suitable for him.

However, he seemed to have hit a soft nail, and there was no clear answer for him.

This can be judged from the fact that Huang Xiaoming's face didn't look very good after hanging up the phone.

Others avoided talking, but Zhou Xun didn't care about that and asked directly: "What? Was it rejected by Brother Chen Kai?"

"That's not the case." Huang Xiaoming shook his head and said, "Director Chen Kaige said that there is no rush to select actors now. Casting may be done through 'auditions' later."

Auditions?

Zhou Xun was slightly startled, "Like "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossom"?"

Huang Xiaoming was a little unsure and said: "It should be about the same."

Chen Fei was debugging the equipment and said jokingly: "Haha, it seems that our Director Chen is about to start playing with the 'traffic'."

Hearing this, the rest of the people on the set suddenly became silent.

Everyone in the industry knows that Chen Fei doesn't have much affection for 'traffic stars'. This can be seen from the tit-for-tat confrontation between him and Alibaba Pictures.

Because of this, naturally no one would touch this bad luck, or even take the initiative to continue this topic.

Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was a little tense, Huang Xiaoming quickly changed the topic: "I've been watching the news recently, and it seems that our country's technological development is getting more and more intense!

Since last year's "rocket recovery technology" was successfully developed, this year it is the "Sky Eye" telescope, the "Long March 5", and the "Tiangong 2" and "Tianzhou 1", all of which are about to reach the sky. Okay, this technological innovation is too fast, right? "

Zhou Xun didn't know much about this topic, so he chose to keep silent.

However, Zhang Yi echoed with great interest: "Not only that, I heard that besides rockets, other artificial intelligence, chips, satellites and other technologies have begun to explode."

"Tsk tsk, in the future you won't directly develop into filming in outer space, right?"

"Don't tell me yet, it's really possible!"

The two of them were chatting, and they didn't realize that Chen Fei's face had turned up.

Artificial intelligence, rockets, chips, satellites...

That is to say, he cannot reveal it to the outside world, otherwise, Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Yi will definitely be scared to death on the spot!

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As February gets closer and closer, "Mermaid", "Journey to the West: Monkey King Three Fights the Bone Demon", "Kung Fu Panda 4", "Ip Man 4", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Sword of the Dark" and many more Several Spring Festival commercial blockbusters have launched a "publicity war" before their release.

Looking around, the Internet is a bustling place!

Various film studios are like you singing and me appearing, and they are bound to show their abilities and strength in the upcoming Spring Festival.

This morning, several pieces of news reprinted from Hollywood successfully attracted Chen Fei's attention.

"The 88th Academy Awards officially announced the nomination list today, including "The Big Short" and "Bridge of Spies"

"Brooklyn", "Mad Max 4: Fury Road" and many other high-quality Hollywood blockbusters were nominated..."

"Unfortunately, there are still no domestic films in this year's Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and Chinese-language films have once again failed to make the list."

"It is reported that the comedy, science fiction, and action movie "Deadpool" co-produced by Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox Pictures has not been introduced to domestic theaters because it contains a large number of bloody and violent scenes, and can only be released in Hong Kong , Bay Bay and other places."

Although these pieces of news did not trigger discussions among mainland film and television circles and netizens, and they did not hit the Weibo hot search list, they made Chen Fei deep in thought.

According to the news he learned, Twentieth Century Fox bought too many copyrights from Marvel in the decades since its founding!

In addition to the current "Deadpool", it also includes a series of copyrights that should belong to Marvel, such as "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", and "Daredevil".

And as Marvel is developing better and better, Chen Fei now really wants to return all the copyrights of the Marvel series of movies.

After all, even "Spider-Man" has successfully returned home, so naturally the rights to other movies should not continue to be exposed.

As a result, 20th Century Fox became his target.

What makes him feel "lucky" is that Fox's development has not been very good in recent years. Last year, it did not produce or release any movies, and it has been resting on its past losses.

Moreover, according to Natasha’s investigation, 20th Century Fox is now even burdened with debts of up to 13.8 billion US dollars!

Under such heavy pressure, 20th Century Fox, which has been founded 81 years ago, has already entered a state of "end of despair".

Perhaps because of seeing the popularity of Marvel, 20th Century Fox wanted to save itself, so it teamed up with Marvel to produce the movie "Deadpool".

But facing that huge debt, how can a "Deadpool" save it?

Therefore, no matter how hard they try now, they are just holding on.

And this made Chen Fei have huge ambitions in his heart!

If 20th Century Fox can be acquired, not only can it regain the adaptation rights of the Marvel series of movies, but it can also obtain the film rights of many of the world's top masterpieces such as "The Simpsons", "Avatar", and "Titanic" .

Although this "ambition" needs to cost nearly 100 billion US dollars to realize, Chen Fei feels that it is well worth it!

You know, the current market value of Walton Pictures is almost catching up with Disney. The gap between the two sides is very small, and the latter is about to be surpassed.

Under such circumstances, if it can successfully win over 20th Century Fox, Walton Pictures will definitely be able to achieve a class leap and become the No. 1 Hollywood film and television company in one fell swoop!

This achievement has unparalleled appeal and temptation for both Chen Fei and Natasha!

Therefore, the acquisition plan has been officially launched.

Chen Fei is very much looking forward to the day when the acquisition is successful. At that time, the top eight and six companies in Hollywood will have to be reshuffled!

As a result, Walton Pictures will successfully win the No. 1 spot and blind the eyes of countless film and television industry practitioners around the world as well as top consortiums and tycoons in the investment circle!

However, just as he was boldly imagining a beautiful vision for the future, Wanda's Big Boss suddenly took action.

At 13:00 sharp in the capital, an announcement from Wanda shook up the entire film and television industry!

"After several months of negotiations, the group officially acquired 100% of the shares of Hollywood's top film production company "Legendary Pictures" yesterday for no more than US$3.5 billion (approximately RMB 23 billion) in cash.

From now on, Wanda Pictures will officially enter Hollywood, participate in global film production and distribution business, and compete in the global film box office market..."

As soon as this announcement came out, regardless of the Lunar New Year, Spring Festival, or Hollywood, everything was suppressed, and there was no hope of making a splash.

The domestic media just went crazy!

In particular, the entertainment media quickly joined in, looking for opportunities to gain popularity for fear of being left behind.

"It is understood that since Wanda spent US$3.1 billion to acquire 100% of the shares of AMC Cinemas in May 2012, it has already become the world's largest cinema chain owner.

Although Wanda cannot compete with Pan-Asia Cinemas in terms of quantity and quality of domestic cinemas, it has already taken the lead in global cinemas!

Now, after the successful acquisition of Legendary Pictures, its business scope has completed global coverage. From production to distribution to theaters, it has completed the layout of the entire industry chain. "

"Legendary Pictures was founded in 2000, 16 years ago. It is an American independent film production company and a well-known Hollywood film company. Its business mainly includes movies, television, digital media and animation, etc."

"After Wanda acquires Legendary Pictures, it will occupy the film and television rights to many movies such as "The Hangover", "Man of Steel" and "Jurassic Park"."

"It is reported that Legendary Pictures has an investment share in the Sino-foreign co-production blockbuster "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Jing Tian, ​​Liu Dehua and others."

As various news reports continue to appear in turn, the mainland film industry is a sensation!

After reading these related news, not to mention the actors and celebrities, even the bosses of major film and television production companies were stunned for a while, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.

We all really didn’t expect that Wanda would be so “generous” and would invest in a Hollywood movie company!

Wang Changtian called Chen Fei immediately.

As soon as he spoke, he asked curiously: "There seems to be a big gap between this Legendary Pictures and the Walton Pictures you control, right?"

Chen Fei smiled and explained: "There are currently six recognized giants in Hollywood, namely Disney, Sony Columbia, Paramount, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner.

Then closely followed are independent production companies such as Lionsgate and Legendary Pictures, and they all adopt a low-budget and platter production model.

As for Walton Pictures, although we are also an independent production company, we have been ranked No. 1 in the revenue list of Hollywood film companies for four consecutive years.

Especially after Marvel-related superhero movies began to explode, Walton Pictures' income has surpassed that of all other Hollywood film and television production companies. "

"What a guy! Are you so awesome?" Wang Changtian rarely cursed.

He really doesn't understand these things. Although Guangguang has been involved in the film and television industry for several years, he has always been involved in the domestic circle and has never even directed a major investment movie.

Under such circumstances, how could he be so ambitious and pay attention to any Hollywood film company?

"It's not bad." Chen Fei pretended to be 13 very modestly: "Currently, Walton Pictures is still in the early stages of development and has not yet fully exploded."

Wang Changtian: "..."

Lao Wang had previously thought that after Wanda's operation came out, Guang Guang would have to "kneel down and lick" with a face full of shame.

But looking at it now, it's enough to just lick Chen Fei. Although Wanda's side seems to be quite loud, it's actually just like that.

Of course, Wang Changtian can think this way purely because he has a better relationship with Chen Fei.

But Huayi on the other side is more "tragic".

At this time, in Wang Zhongjun’s office.

The two Wang brothers looked at each other after reading the news and felt that Huayi's originally smooth road ahead was suddenly overgrown with thorns and weeds.

They had just planned to secretly dig Ye Ning over, and they were already secretly preparing for a fight with Wanda.

But never expected that Wanda Pictures would turn around and acquire a Hollywood production company, and its status in the industry would skyrocket instantly!

You know, Wanda, which carries Legendary Pictures, now has the ability to compete with Huayi.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

"What should I do? What can I do? The soldiers will stop it, and the water will cover it with the earth."

Wang Zhongjun's face was full of sorrow, and his heart always felt blocked.

He didn't know why, but since Huayi's stock price fell from more than 90 billion to more than 40 billion in the second half of last year, he had a vague feeling of an ominous premonition.

After so long, this premonition has not subsided, but has become stronger and stronger!

During this period of time, he has been hypnotizing himself, "Huayi is the number one capital in the private film and television industry, and it is also highly praised and supported by the superiors. There will definitely be no problems."

But what makes him feel strange is that this kind of hypnosis doesn't seem to have much effect, and the ominous premonition is getting stronger and stronger!

He vaguely felt that something was not right, but he couldn't find it.

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At the same time, after ending the call with Wang Changtian, Chen Fei immediately called Huo Qigang.

"Lao Huo, please make arrangements and find some people to keep an eye on Wanda's overseas theaters. If there is any movement, remember to notify me immediately."

"Wanda?" Huo Qigang was a little puzzled: "Why are you targeting their theater chains? Our Pan-Asian theater chain occupies a large share abroad!"

"Don't ask any more questions. You will know when the time comes. Now just do as I say."

Chen Fei deliberately made a riddle, ignored Huo Qigang's doubts, and hung up the phone directly.

If he remembers correctly, Wanda's AMC theater chain will face huge losses in the next few years due to the impact of streaming media and certain force majeure factors!

In addition, Wanda’s business is too large. When it wants to withdraw funds in the future, it will definitely give priority to divestment of these non-core foreign businesses.

By then, Pan-Asia Cinemas may be able to smoothly take over part of it at a low price.

After all, in comparison, "cooking" by yourself is far less enjoyable than sitting back and enjoying the results!

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The time soon came to the 26th, and the last Hollywood imported movie before the Spring Festival, "Rat Boy 4: Cuteness on the Road", was released.

However, at a time when many domestic films are in tension, this film does not show the strength of imported Hollywood blockbusters.

The box office result of 7.26 million on the first day really relieved many investors.

However, even so, the remaining domestic films have not been able to turn around.

Movies such as "The Annunciation of the Evil", "Aria of Steel", "Diary of Youth", "The Forbidden City", "Gone Girl" and other movies, none of them can break the 100 million box office.

Even the film "The Evaporating Pacific" starring Zhang Yuqi and Brandon Routh was criticized by netizens on the day it was released!

You know, when promoting this movie, they vowed that it could compete with "Pacific Rim".

But I never expected that after the movie was released, there was a huge amount of money. Although the special effects were not worth 50 cents, the overall price was not more than 1 yuan.

For a time, the slogan "Domestic science fiction movies are dead" once again appeared online, triggering a lot of heated discussions and discussions!

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