Chapter 951 The "Black Hand" In the Investment Dinner!

"Ice Age 5: Collision Course, a comedy/animation/adventure Hollywood imported film co-produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox, was officially taken off screen today, with a box office of 446 million RMB."

"Jason Bourne, an action/thriller/suspense film co-produced by Universal Pictures and Perfect World and starring Matt Damon, was officially taken off screen today due to exhaustion of its box office potential, with a total box office of 431 million RMB."

"Star Trek Beyond, an action/adventure/sci-fi film co-produced by Paramount Pictures and Alibaba Pictures, officially broke through today 400 million box office!"

"The River Map" was released for 5 days, and the total box office closed at 3.26 million... The situation of art films getting high box office has appeared again."

"At 12 o'clock yesterday morning, the comedy love movie "A Chinese Odyssey Part 3" directed by Liu Zhenwei and starring Han Geng, Tang Yan, Wu Jing and others was officially launched. On the first day of screening, the theater line was as high as 30.2%. "

"The drama and love movie "July and Ansheng" directed by Zeng Guoxiang, the son of the famous Hong Kong filmmaker Zeng Zhiwei, and co-starred by Zhou Dongyu and Ma Siyou was officially launched today, with a first-day screening of 17.4%. "

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On the morning of the 14th, the domestic entertainment industry was still very lively.

With the release of "A Chinese Odyssey Part 3" and "July and Ansheng", the popularity of the September film market suddenly ushered in a new surge.

Chen Fei did not pay too much attention to the current situation of the film market. He just looked away after understanding the trend.

Because in his impression, the Chinese-language movies currently being screened have not caused much trouble.

Especially the "A Chinese Odyssey Part Three", as far as I can remember, this movie has received a lot of criticism after its release.

"Huh? The results of the new four young actresses are out."

In the car, Liu Yifei's mumbling voice immediately attracted Chen Fei's attention.

Because he was driving, Chen Fei did not take out his phone, but asked casually: "What are the results? Who were elected?"

Liu Yifei replied: "The first place is Zheng Shuang, followed by Zhou Dongyu, Yang Zi, Guan Xiaotong, and the box office of Ma Siyu is only 30,000 votes behind Guan Xiaotong..."

Hearing the names of these four people, Chen Fei curled his lips and instantly lost interest in paying attention.

Those who really have acting skills are being suppressed behind, while those who are hyped up by traffic, popularity, and marketing have actually achieved the lead.

It has to be said that the gold content of the selection of these four young actresses is getting lower and lower.

At this point, it seems that it doesn't matter whether the actors have acting skills or not. Everything is about money and capital, and all kinds of monsters can emerge.

It is estimated that in a few years, the situation where traffic stars belittle the acting skills of the best actor and actress will also appear...

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More than half an hour later, the Rolls-Royce arrived at the door of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Pushing the door and getting out of the car, Chen Fei casually handed the car keys and tips to the waiter who greeted him, and led Liu Yifei into the hotel together.

Tonight, "Avengers 3" will hold a "investment dinner" here, and many Hollywood stars and many wealthy capitals have been invited.

Chen Fei had seen the invitees tonight from Natasha before.

What Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hermes, Gucci, Givenchy, Chanel, Vacheron Constantin, Richard Miller, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Samsung...

Almost all the brands that Chen Fei can name came to the dinner tonight.

According to Kevin Feige, he wants to get at least $150 million in brand sponsorship in the next investment promotion phase.

As for the use of this part of the money, it will all be invested in the production cost and publicity of the film!

You know, the current total production budget of "Avengers 3" is as high as $300 million, which is also considered a top production in the entire Hollywood market.

Entering the venue, the first thing Chen Fei saw was Kevin Feige, who flew from New York to Los Angeles.

There are many brand leaders around him. If you look closely, you can find that these people's expressions and demeanor are full of flattery and flattery.

You know, the "Avengers 3" project is currently recognized as a top resource in Hollywood. Based on the great success of the first and second parts, there are too many people who are optimistic about the third part!

If brands can settle in this movie, the publicity effect will definitely not be bad!

Therefore, the current situation has evolved into brands begging producers to accept them, rather than producers taking the trouble to attract investment.

"Fei, Crystal, you are here."

Natasha walked out of the crowd and came straight to Chen Fei and Liu Yifei, greeting them cordially.

"Yeah." Chen Fei nodded slightly, and then asked back: "How is it? Is the investment promotion going smoothly?"

"Very smoothly, we have reached a preliminary cooperation intention with several brands, and we can start the next negotiation after the dinner is over..."

"Okay, everything goes well."

After chatting about investment promotion for a few words, Natasha suddenly changed the subject and said in a deep voice: "Fei, there is some bad news, I think I need to inform you in advance."

"What?" Chen Fei looked at her curiously.

"The result of the candidate who will move into the White House next year is about to come out. Affected by the 'email gate' in July, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be the one from the 'elephant party'..."

Hearing this, Chen Fei probably understood why Natasha said that this was not good news.

After all, as we all know, Hollywood has always been considered to be close to the donkey party, and once the one from the elephant party comes to power, the film and television industry, as the forefront of the trend, will inevitably suffer twists and turns.

In particular, companies like Walton Pictures that are not completely American will definitely be targeted, and even suppressed and calculated.

However, just when Natasha was worried, Chen Fei smiled and comforted her: "Don't worry about this, Walton Pictures will not be targeted."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because I have already prepared for it."

Chen Fei couldn't say anything extra, after all, there were so many people and eyes on this occasion, and it was not suitable to discuss this matter.

He just needed to let Natasha know clearly that Walton Pictures would not have any problems, and it was very likely to move to a higher level.

On the surface, Walton Pictures is the cornerstone that Chen Fei relies on, but in fact, behind the scenes, Longxiang Capital is the capital that allows him to sit on the Diaoyutai and watch the changing situation with a smile!

The Elephant Party does not like Hollywood, but before that, Chen Fei had already used Longxiang Capital to stand on the side of the Elephant Party.

He believed that it would be impossible for the new White House owner to kill the donkey after it has done its job. If this situation really happened, he had a lot of ways to protect himself.

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When Chen Fei arrived, the dinner had just started not long ago, so there were still people coming over one after another.

What surprised him was that Musk actually came to join in the fun!

"Fei, you seem to have not been to my place for a long time?"

As soon as he entered the venue, Musk walked straight towards Chen Fei.

"Because my development focus in recent years has been in China, I have never had the opportunity to visit you, but I am still paying attention to the development of SpaceX and Tesla..."

While chatting with him, Chen Fei glanced at Amber Heard standing next to him.

This woman's recent divorce lawsuit with Depp has developed to the point of global hot discussion. The two sides have been going back and forth, and all kinds of black materials are flying all over the sky. It's so exciting!

What surprised many people was that even though Depp hired a team of lawyers with sky-high prices, he still couldn't win the divorce lawsuit in a short time.

This also made many people very curious. How powerful is the power behind Amber Heard to support and help her?

Now the truth is out.

The appearance of Elon Musk undoubtedly insured Amber's victory.

"Fei, let me introduce you to my current girlfriend, Amber Heard."

"Well, I've heard of you for a long time!"

Fai Chen did not accept Amber's hug, but shook hands with her.

He was actually quite curious about the current situation of the divorce lawsuit between this woman and Depp.

But after all, her current boyfriend was standing next to her, so it was not appropriate to ask this question at the moment. He could only hide for the time being and wait for media reports...

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Afterwards, many people with huge wealth and influence in the United States came to the venue one after another, as well as many Hollywood stars.

Some people came for "Avengers 3", some came for Chen Fei, a top Hollywood director and capital, and some came for the purpose of "expanding social circles".

For example, Lamar Wheeler came to the dinner with the purpose of "socializing".

At the same time, his boss Michelle Bryan also came with him.

As soon as the two entered the dinner, their eyes began to flash with greedy and fiery eyes!

Lamar Wheeler said impatiently: "Boss, there are so many big shots here. If we can recruit them all and develop them into our customers, wouldn't we make a fortune?"

"You make a lot of sense."

Michelle Bryan nodded slightly, looked around the venue, and looked for the target tonight.

Her favorite is still Hollywood customers. These people accumulate wealth very quickly, so they are also very generous in spending money, and the report can bring her a huge commission.

Soon, her eyes fell on Chen Fei who was talking to Musk in the center of the venue.

At the Venice International Film Festival, a $57.5 million engagement diamond ring came out of nowhere, which not only shocked the country, but also shocked the world!

As the first madam in Hollywood and even the United States, Michelle Bryan naturally cast a concerned look.

In order to propose to a woman, he was willing to spend $57.5 million to buy a diamond ring. Such generous customers are too rare!

At this time, after noticing the gaze of his boss, Lamar Wheeler couldn't wait to ask: "Boss, how can we develop him into our client?"

The two came here tonight for Chen Fei, so they did some homework in advance.

After thinking for a while, Michelle Bryan said: "This guy has many friends in Hollywood. We can look for suitable candidates from his network. As long as we can bring him to our gold-selling cave, I can make the decision and give him a 10% commission!”

Hearing this, Lamar Weller's eyes suddenly lit up!

10% commission... Doesn't this mean that as long as Chen Fei spends 1 million US dollars with them, the introducer can get 100,000 US dollars? !

Just by being an introducer, you can have such income. This money comes so fast!

But unfortunately, he was not familiar with Chen Fei and could not be the introducer, otherwise he would not give up this opportunity.

"His network?"

Lamar Wheeler murmured, and his eyes swept over Musk, who was communicating with Chen Fei, as well as Leonardo, Matt Damon, and Matthew McConaughey.

Unfortunately, these people are not their customers yet, so they cannot act as middlemen at all.

"Jim Carrey is a good candidate, but I don't seem to have heard that he has interacted with Chen Fei. Tom Hanks, Quentin Tarantino, Orlando Bloom, Chris Tucker, Bruce Willis...none of these people seem to be suitable candidates..."

After counting everything in detail, Lamar Wheeler found out somewhat helplessly that he could not think of any suitable person who could serve as a middleman.

"Boss, why don't we go directly to Diddy and ask him to invite Chen Fei to the party first? Then we can take this opportunity to recruit him as our client?"

Michelle frowned when he heard this, and was a little reluctant: "If you go through Diddy, that guy will definitely shave off a layer of skin first, and our income will most likely be reduced a lot."

"What should I do? I really can't think of anyone who can convince him."

Michelle Bryan was lost in thought, his eyes constantly circling the scene, hoping to find a suitable candidate.

Suddenly, the "Avengers actors" chatting on the other side of the venue came into her sight.

Looking at Robert Downey Jr., who was surrounded by stars, her heart moved: "Downey is also our client now, right?"

"Yes." Lamar nodded and added: "But he is only our junior customer now. He only comes to buy some flour on weekdays."

Michelle Bryan raised the corner of her mouth and smiled: "Go and talk to him. If he can help develop Chen Fei as our client during the filming of "Avengers 3", then I can make the decision. Let him go to that dreamy island for three days and three nights!”

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements right away." Lamar Wheeler nodded in agreement and asked again: "Where's Diddy?"

Michelle thought about it for a moment, nodded and said: "Say hello to him too. If he has a way, I can share some of the benefits with him."

"Okay, Boss!"

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On the third day after the investment dinner, when Chen Fei was checking some of the finished results of "Ready Player One", Natasha suddenly found him.

"Fei, the investment promotion work for "Avengers 3" has been completed."

"Oh? So fast?"

Chen Fei curiously took the list handed over by Natasha.

Looking down, the names of more than a dozen brands instantly came into view.

Samsung, Uniqlo, Metersbonwe, Fans-Made, Vans, Coca-Cola, L'Oreal, Chow Tai Fook, Unilever, Porsche, Quaker Oats, Hot Topic, Japan's Otsuka Furniture, Quicken Loans, Infiniti...

And below these brands, there is also a very eye-catching amount.

$180 million! ! !

"Good guy?! The amount of investment has almost caught up with our production costs!"

"That's right." Natasha smiled brightly: "Kevin Feige told me that he will use 150 million US dollars as promotion funds to make this film the most heavily promoted film in the history of Hollywood movies!"

Chen Fei did not refuse this proposal: "Please tell him for me and let him boldly go ahead and do it. I promise him that this movie will never lose money."

"I think so too." Natasha was very confident: "Marvel movies have far surpassed DC. The quality and stories of our movies are recognized as good. I believe "Avengers 3" will definitely create a new one." North American box office miracle!”

"Haha, I hope it goes as you wish."

In the next two days, Chen Fei followed up on some of the post-finishing work for "Ready Player One".

At the same time, he did not forget to pay attention to the box office performance of the movies currently being released in China.

Not surprisingly, both "Westward Journey 3" and "July and Ansheng" ushered in a new round of box office disaster.

Especially the former, although with the help of the "Westward Journey" gimmick, it successfully took in a box office of 251 million within 5 days of release, it was followed by a lot of abuse and complaints!

Looking around, comments such as "bad movie", "selling out feelings", "frivolous rice", "embarrassing cancer" and other comments are constantly being made, so that the reputation of this movie dropped to 10% on the sixth day of its release. 5 points or less.

The latest day's new box office results are - 9.03 million!

In 6 days, the box office dropped from more than 80 million to less than 10 million, which undoubtedly once again proved that Liu Zhenwei's remake challenge failed again.

This also made the "A Chinese Odyssey: Love You For Ten Thousand Years" which is in preparation controversial.

On the other hand, the word-of-mouth score of "July and Ansheng" has been maintained above 8.5 points, but the box office performance is not particularly good.

After 6 days of release, the total box office of the movie is only 72.34 million, which makes many netizens begin to doubt whether the word-of-mouth score of this movie was brushed up by the water army?

And the most important thing is that the story of this movie can be said to have mixed reviews.

From the surface, there are too many dazzling youth pain literary elements in the story... For example, friends who seem too close, bloody love triangles, extreme situations, etc., which can be said to be impossible to exist in reality.

But the beautiful background, scenery and soundtrack that resonates with many adolescent girls still attracted a lot of support and pursuit.

Overall, these two movies did not meet the expectations of the theater market.

Many people have already set their sights on the upcoming National Day.

"Jade Dynasty", "Passing by Your World", "Ghost Blowing Light 3: Kunlun Temple"

I don’t know which of these three blockbusters will successfully take the No. 1 box office during the National Day holiday?

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