Jack Cheng had not originally planned to use Quinn Bai's script, but now that it has been handed to him, he still wanted to take a look.

More than half an hour passed after this reading, and Bai Quinn had been waiting silently beside him.

Finally, Jack Cheng took off his glasses and said: "It's a good story. There are really many illegal Chinese immigrants in the United States. They live a very hard life and are oppressed by the police, evil bosses, gangs, etc. The group portraits in your story are so vivid.

Very good, everyone is very real and has humanity, good and evil..."

Hearing this, Bai Quinn was overjoyed, knowing that this movie must be to Jack Cheng's liking, after all, he was originally starring in it!

"but……"

But what comes after is the point!

Jack Cheng tried his best to put on a friendly smile and said: "But... I probably won't be filming this kind of film in the short term. This story is too... Let's put it this way, the audience of this story is Chinese, the Chinese people, and the entire

Chinese-speaking area, and my development direction in recent years..."

Jack Cheng pointed to the Los Angeles street scene outside the hotel window, "My goal is here. I need to make more international films, not only for myself, but also for us Chinese to have a globally famous filmmaker.

Through the art of film, we can spread our culture."

At this point, Bai Quinn also understood that he had been wishful thinking before.

From Jack Cheng's point of view, when he comes to the United States to develop, he must make movies that cater to the American market. It is uneconomical to spend a lot of money to make a movie that can only be broadcast in Hong Kong Island and Chinese-speaking areas.

However, Jack Cheng immediately expressed that maybe in the future, after he has made a name for himself in Hollywood, he can bring the team from Hong Kong to Los Angeles to shoot this movie.

He also comforted Bai Quinn that it was just a matter of waiting a few years. If he couldn't wait, the two parties could still cooperate on other projects.

Bai Quinn, who had already switched his thinking mode, immediately understood Jack Cheng's hint and asked quickly: "Brother Cheng, the project you are talking about is..."

At this point, Jack Cheng also made it clear his true intention of meeting Bai Quinn today, "Isn't "The Red Zone" a very good box office in the United States, so New Line Cinema and I are willing to work together again.

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But this time they want to be the leader of the project. The main actors, producers, directors, screenwriters and other positions are all their people. I only have myself and my martial arts instruction team.

But I don't like this plan. Americans can't produce the essence of kung fu movies.

Until yesterday, I watched your movie. Although the style is different from my kung fu movies, it is very interesting and gave me a lot of inspiration. If I were to choose an American actor to work with, I would choose you."

"I am also willing to cooperate with you!" Bai Quinn said immediately.

Bai Quinn, who has worked at Blockbuster, knows that despite the language barrier, Jack Cheng really has a large number of American fans.

Because of Said's special preference, the Blockbuster on 122nd Street has the most complete library of Jack's films. Many of Jack's die-hard fans traveled across most of New York to come to the 122nd Street Blockbuster to rent Jack's videos.

Movies made with him will definitely be successful.

After receiving Bai Quinn's statement, Jack Cheng was very happy and said with a smile: "So we are on the same front?"

Bai Quinn nodded, "Yeah! Same front!"

"Well, next time I negotiate with New Line Cinema's Michael DeLuca, we will go together, and I told them that if they want me to star, yes, no problem, but I want to star with my little brother Bai Kui

Because we acted together!”

Bai Quinn was so moved, "Thank you, Brother Cheng, for your support!"

Jack Cheng continued: "Not only do I want to star with you, I also want to use more Hong Kong Island actors and Hong Kong Island filmmakers. I want Sanmao to be the director and Jing Sheng to be the screenwriter. New Line Cinema only needs to be responsible for coordinating the work.

Just shoot it in the United States and distribute it in the United States!”

The two parties had a good talk first. Although the prospect of cooperation also involves the attitude of the third party New Line Cinema, Jack Cheng and Bai Quinn have finalized their cooperation intentions and decided to move forward and retreat together.

After sending Bai Quinn away, Jack Cheng returned to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel, overlooking the noisy Los Angeles. A corner of the "HOLLYWOOD" white billboard in the distance showed up, and that was where he would conquer.

Jack Cheng knows that he will be popular in the United States, as evidenced by the fact that "Red Zone", a foreign language film, ranked among the top three at the box office during the fiercely competitive Oscar month, with a box office of 30 million.

However, his cooperation with the American film industry was not pleasant this time, and not much of the North American box office revenue went into the pockets of their creative team.

Therefore, in the new round of cooperation, Jack is planning to tie New Line Cinema to his chariot, let them pay for it, and everyone will jointly produce it, and everyone will share the profits equally.

However, the condition proposed by New Line Cinema is that they only need Jack Cheng and his martial arts team, and Hollywood will be responsible for the rest.

It was difficult for both parties to talk. Jack Cheng even wanted to terminate the negotiations, take a step back, and continue to use the "Red Zone" model, with Hong Kong capital, Hong Kong people, American filming, and American companies distributing to North American theaters.

The appearance of Bai Quinn allowed Jack Cheng to find a way to break the deadlock, making a roundabout way and attacking from both sides.

Since the target is the American market, there must be American actors among the main actors. In Jack Cheng's view, Americans without Kung Fu background are not qualified for Kung Fu movies. Sanmao does have an American actor Richard Norton who he often collaborates with.

But this person does not have much box office appeal in the United States.

But Bai Quinn is different. From his first movie "Bonnie and Frank", we can see that this young man will definitely become famous and become an action star.

New Line Cinema will also be willing to cooperate with the rising star Quin Bai. In this case, with Quinn Bai's support, he will gain an advantage in negotiations with New Line Cinema, allowing them to accept American capital, Hong Kong people, and Americans.

A cooperative model of framing and joint distribution.

In fact, Jack Cheng participated in the "Westward Expansion Plan" of Golden Harvest boss Zou Wenhuai in the 1980s. At that time, Golden Harvest offered 60 million US dollars, six movies, and Hollywood movie stars to give Jack Cheng a supporting role.

The first movie "The Trench" invited Robert Gross, who had worked for Bruce Lee on "Enter the Dragon" and "Game of Death", and Oscar winner Jose Ferrer.

However, the box office of "The Killer" was 8 million, and Hong Kong filmmakers were sent back to Hong Kong Island.

This time, will Jack Cheng's second attack succeed?

When Bai Quinn returned home, Sarah was still working on the set. She was about to turn on the computer and go online when suddenly she received a call on her cell phone.

It looked like the number was a public phone, and when I picked up the call, Furio's voice came: "Watching TV, TBS (Turner Television Network)." Then he hung up.

Bai Quinn turned on the TV, and Los Angeles' 24-hour news station TBS was broadcasting an on-location news. It turned out that Martin Lawrence's house in West Hollywood had been shot by unknown assailants from a car not long ago. Fortunately, no casualties were caused.

According to eyewitnesses, when the attacker drove past Martin Lawrence's house for the first time, a hooded black young man got out of the car and danced a B step. He thought it was a prank by a passing black child, but he did not expect that the car was in the car.

After turning back at the intersection, two Uzis were stretched out from the car, and they fired all the magazines at Martin's house before driving away.

Witnesses also temporarily played the role of detectives, believing that neighbor Martin Lawrence must have provoked Gang B, otherwise they would not have ventured to West Hollywood, which is close to the Gang C area, just to pour two rounds of bullets.

Maybe he is from Gang C! Eyewitnesses are sure of it.

The words "Gang B" and "Gang C" are just self-deception by the TV station. Who doesn't know that these two words refer to the Blood Gang and the Crips Gang.

This was probably Chris's handiwork, pouring dirty water on Martin, who has always distanced himself from street gangs, implying that he was involved in street disputes, which would make ordinary Americans who have no good impression of black gangs dislike him.

It can be done by spending a few small sums of money to hire gangsters who are somewhat related to the gang, then throw the car away and cut off contact. Even if the police find those gangsters, it will still be an unsolved case.

But it dealt another heavy blow to the box office of "A Line Between Love and Hate".
Chapter completed!