Accompanied by Song Chaohui, Kaluru set foot on the land of China for the first time.
The first thing Kalulu did when he came to the capital was to register with the special service group. China's management of foreign monks was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. He planned to follow Gao Xingyu in China for a long time in the future, so he decided to go to the special service group as soon as possible.
The face is familiar.
While waiting for Gao Xingyu's return, Karuru and Song Chaohui participated in several activities in the film and television industry, and consciously spread their situation in the industry.
Kalulu has the dual identity of an international film and television investor and director, and is looking for suitable film and television projects. He also has a large amount of funds in his hands, so he has attracted the attention of many people in the industry. The most concerned one among them is the film Friendship Brothers
Company.
Friendship Brothers Film Company has just repurchased part of the shares from its partners and has become the absolute controller of the company. At this time, they urgently need to make a big move to prove their ability to develop the company better after taking over.<
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Last year, a co-production film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" caused a sensation in the domestic film market.
This movie, with an investment of up to 15 million US dollars and a gathering of big-name stars, is based on traditional Chinese martial arts stories, but it uses narrative techniques and shooting ideas that Western audiences are more accustomed to.
Therefore, although the film only received 15 million yuan at the box office in the increasingly sluggish domestic market, which can be said to be a disastrous failure, it has grossed 205 million US dollars at the global box office and won the Oscar at the beginning of this year.
Best Foreign Language Film Award, it can be said to be both fame and fortune.
The boss of Friendship Brothers Film Company was so jealous that he also prepared a new film project "The Funeral of a Big Shot" (tentative name), and planned to adopt a co-production method and strive for global distribution.
The partner Friendship Brothers Film Company hopes to cooperate with is Columbia. Columbia is one of the six major Hollywood film companies. It is also one of the co-producers of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and is responsible for the distribution of the film in North America and other countries.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was a global hit, with a box office of US$128 million in the North American market alone, and Colombia was indispensable.
Friendship Brothers Film Company has great ambitions. Not only does it want to obtain more box office profits, but it also wants to take this opportunity to achieve overseas box office splitting.
However, Colombia showed little interest in the co-production plan proposed by Friendship Brothers Film Company.
At present, the Chinese film market is in a very sluggish state. Last year, in 2000, the total box office in the mainland was only 860 million, which has been less than one billion for two consecutive years. It is not as good as Japan, which has a population base much lower than that of China.
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Therefore, Colombia only regards the mainland market as a potential stock and hopes to take advantage of it.
The co-production plan proposed by Friendship Brothers Film Company is not very attractive to Colombia.
Although Friendship Brothers Film Company has made a lot of headlines in the mainland with its New Year films in recent years, this urban light comedy-style film is extremely regional. Not to mention being sold overseas, even the number of viewers south of the Yangtze River is
There is a very obvious decline compared with the north.
The movie they proposed to co-produce this time is still in the same style, but in order to enter the overseas market, foreign characters have been added to the script.
However, professionals within Colombia studied the script and judged that it would be difficult for such a film to succeed in the European and American film markets.
If it's just that, it doesn't really matter. For a film with a total investment of only three million US dollars, Colombia only needs to bear a small part of it, and it comes in the form of paying the salaries of several foreign actors. This little money is very important to the family's business.
Colombia would not care.
However, the proposal of Friendship Brothers Film Company to share the box office revenue of overseas movies was not accepted by Colombia.
The business models of the six major Hollywood giants are not exactly the same, but the key reason why they are called the Big Six is that they control the film distribution network in North America.
Hollywood does not mind cooperating with film and television companies and investors from various countries. It is also very common for them to split box office accounts after agency distribution, but such cooperation partners do not include Friendship Brothers Film Company for the time being.
Friendship Brothers Film Company was established less than three years ago. Although they became famous thanks to a few New Year films, their films mainly target domestic audiences and there is no precedent for successful overseas distribution.
Therefore, in the eyes of Colombia, there is no problem in participating in the co-production, although this project is a bit tasteless. But in terms of overseas distribution, Colombia hopes to buy it out, and Friendship Brothers Film Company does not yet have the strength to split the revenue from overseas box office.
Now, the two sides are still in back-and-forth negotiations. Friendship Brothers Film Company realizes that its demands are somewhat radical, but external publicity has been made. At this time, it is difficult to get off the ground, and it hopes to find another way to solve this problem.
After Karulu and Song Chaohui learned about this situation, they discussed it and decided to intervene in this project as a third party.
It doesn't matter whether the project is profitable or not. What Karulu and Song Chaohui care about is this opportunity. They are targeting the role of the foreign director in the script.
If Kalulu wants to continue practicing, the most important thing is to gain popularity. Although the previous New Year films of Friendship Brothers Film Company were only released domestically, they were very popular among northern audiences.
If Kalulu can play the role of the foreign director in the new film, it will be of great help to him to expand domestically and increase his popularity.
This is what Karuru and Song Chaohui are busy with these days.
The two of them have magic. Although they will not cast it directly on ordinary people, which is something only evil cultivators do, they can cast spells on themselves, thereby affecting the other's perception and gaining the other's trust.
Especially Kalulu, not only is he higher in cultivation, but as a god cultivator, he is better at soul and sensory techniques than Song Chaohui.
So the two divided the work and worked together, and it took only a few days to successfully join the project. Kalulu also successfully became one of the leading actors in the film, playing the foreign director who had a stroke.
At this time, after they saw Gao Xingyu, they told him the first project that Kalulu International Film and Television Company was preparing to operate. At this time, Gao Xingyu was not only a shareholder of the company, but also had become a vague figure in their small circle.
Backbone.
Gao Xingyu is quite interested in these things in the secular world. Kalulu came to seek refuge with him. This is the first step for Kaluru to break away from Shinto and change the way of cultivation. Due to emotions and reasons, Gao Xingyu will pay more attention to it.
However, Gao Xingyu's plan to follow up on this project failed. Li Gang and Lao Haiou were impatient with waiting. They hoped that Gao Xingyu could follow them to report to the Chinese Guardian Alliance first, and then do what he wanted to do.
Gao Xingyu also knew that the registration matter could not be postponed any longer. So, after he settled in Yuanyuan, he set off with Li Gang and the others.
This chapter has been completed!