Chapter 608 The New Cinematic Universe and 'Sister Over Flowers'
Chapter 608 New Cinematic Universe and "Sisters Over Flowers"
In April, Cao Xuan, who had finally finished filming "Avengers", got off his private plane, stepped on the borders of the capital, and stretched out comfortably.
"I'm back again."
A few people walked out of the airport together. When they saw the driver coming to pick them up, Cao Xuan greeted them: "Lao Zhu, Zhang Chong is going back to rest for a few days, and so are the others. This time everyone has worked hard. The travel expenses will be increased by 10%, and the annual leave will be increased by one week."
"Thank you, boss."
A few people were smiling happily. This time Cao Xuan went abroad for two months to film a movie, and naturally everyone in the team followed him.
Especially considering the security situation abroad, Cao Xuan brought four extra bodyguards and contacted two armed guards from a local security company.
Most of Cao Xuan's group had work visas, and it was difficult to obtain a gun license, so Zhu Jiang was assigned one and another one was hired locally.
The Widow Sisters and others thought that Cao Xuan was making a fuss and emphasized that Hollywood is very safe, but Cao Xuan still felt that it was better to be cautious.
He didn't forget how the lead singer of the Beatles died.
And because he acted in "Save Mr. My Life", maybe because he was too deeply involved in the role, Cao Xuan was more or less psychologically stressed. He was already cautious, but now he is even more defensive, and he is always wary of himself and his family being targeted by bad guys.
Anyway, he is not short of this little money, tens of millions a year, so he should have peace of mind.
Cao Xuan's high salary is not free. Except for Zhu Jiang, a confidant who has a high degree of freedom, the other bodyguards do not just follow Cao Xuan.
After all, any fool can do this job, so bodyguards have a series of professional security requirements. All personnel are retired from relevant units or have been security practitioners for many years. In some cases, they can even match the security level of politicians from various countries.
The work pressure is high, coupled with the unfamiliarity of the place, adapting to the language and living habits, etc., it has been very hard for everyone in the past two months.
Boss Cao sees this in his eyes, and now that the task is completed, he will pay for the holiday.
Zhang Chong took the others and dispersed, but Zhu Jiang followed Cao Xuan to his home. He greeted the security at Cao's Hutong before formally asking for leave.
Zhu Jiang attaches great importance to Cao Xuan's safety. He is also one of the few people who doesn't feel that Cao Xuan is making a fuss. Instead, he manages these security work with great care.
On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand, it is loyalty to Cao Xuan.
He has followed Cao Xuan for more than ten years. From a retired soldier living in a large courtyard, he now has a net worth of tens of millions. Cao Xuan does not care about all the big and small family affairs.
Two years ago, his father was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, which could not be cured at home. Cao Xuan sent people to the Mayo Clinic in the United States, which cost several millions, but Cao Xuan quietly took care of everything.
In the end, no one was left. Cao Xuan's family came to express condolences, and then turned around and tried to find ways to transfer his son to the High School Affiliated to Beijing University.
Everyone knows about this school. The admission rate for Beijing University and Shuimu is 10%, and the first-class admission rate is almost 99%.
This is all because when his father died, the only thing he cared about was that his grandson could get into college so that the old Zhu family would be a decent person.
Cao Xuan has already said that no matter what his children study, they will come to Fanxing to intern and learn some skills. If they are willing to work with Uncle Cao in the future, if they don't want to, just go out and do business on their own. Uncle Cao will help him.
You treat me like a nobleman of the country, and I will repay you like a nobleman of the country!
Zhu Jiang doesn't like to talk, but he is conscientious in his work. He puts Cao Xuan in charge of everything and leaves family matters behind. He does whatever North Korea says and does whatever he is told.
It is no exaggeration to say that if Boss Cao goes astray one day, Zhu Jiang will definitely be the biggest accomplice.
But Boss Cao doesn’t need to go to extremes. If Zhu Jiang is serious and responsible, he will be richly rewarded...
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In the bedroom, Cao Xuan lay on the guardrail of the crib, pinched his fleshy cheeks, and played with his son's vagina, smiling happily.
"This boy is much stronger than his sister was when she was young."
"Maybe it's because I have a body that's prone to obesity, plus I eat, drink, and sleep stupidly every day. Is it possible that it won't last longer?"
Hu Jing complained bitterly next to her. After more than a month of exercise, she had lost a lot of weight, but she still had not returned to her peak condition. She loved and hated Cao Yang, the culprit.
Zeng Li rolled his eyes at her, but couldn't help but nod: "Yang Yang's physique is better. Doctors say he grows faster than babies of the same age."
"Maybe it's because the nutrition during pregnancy was too good..."
Cao Xuan made a stab at it, causing Hu Jing to beat him, but he didn't care and followed the Empress of the West Palace to roll out dumplings.
Although it’s dumplings on the train and noodles on the train, Cao Xuan has eaten a lot of noodles abroad, but he misses the dumplings at home.
Two meat and two vegetarian dishes, beans, pork, beef and green onions, three vegetarian dishes and zucchini vermicelli. Cao Xuan ate the meat dish, while Zeng Li and Hu Jing, who was on a diet, ate the latter two.
"What will you do in the next two months?"
Zeng Li rolled out the dough neatly and asked Cao Xuan about his plan. Cao Xuan was mixing the stuffing without raising his head.
"I don't have any specific work. I will take stock of the situation of several companies, and then keep an eye on the script of "Rescue 3", and then see if there are any good projects. If not, I will work on a new album."
Cao Xuan is still quite free. The only big project left for him is "Now You See Me," which is scheduled to be released in August. He has plenty of time, which allows him to rest and work on other things, and then think about the new movie.
"Taken 3" is scheduled to be filmed in the second half of the year. After filming is completed, the series will officially end.
There are no plans to make a sequel to "Now You See Me" yet, and because of the distance, all aspects have to be coordinated.
So Cao Xuan is also hesitating whether to start a new movie series, such as "The Dog Man" that he has been thinking about for a long time... No, it's the "John Wick" series.
In fact, Cao Xuan wanted to do this series from the beginning, but later felt that this series was a bit too hard-core, so he tried the water with "Hurricane Rescue".
Nowadays, "Taken" has allowed him to accumulate a lot of popularity in the action field. I believe that the Marvel series can take his appeal to a higher level.
Launching the "John Wick" series at this time can maximize the performance of this series and optimize it.
One thing to say, although the "John Wick" series has many die-hard fans, is well-known in the field of action movies, and has an excellent reputation, it is not really a hit at the box office.
The combined global box office of the first three movies is less than 500 million US dollars. This figure may seem high, but compared with other hit action movies, it is not even a little bit worse.
However, the advantage of "John Wick" lies in its outstanding performance on the Internet, TV, DVD and other channels, which is almost three times the box office, allowing Keanu Reeves, the king of bad movies, to usher in his third spring.
Cao Xuan is now popular and has a strong Asian base. He is confident that he can boost the box office of "John Wick" and expand his revenue from other channels.
The short-term goal is to create a $3 billion+ movie series project.
However, considering that the plot of the "John Wick" movie involves the world view, if you have the opportunity, you can completely create a killer universe, take the opportunity to introduce popular characters, start filming TV series and other branch movies, even if you can strive for a fraction of the size of the Marvel universe
, that will also become Fanxing’s highlight project.
No matter what, the movie universe is bound to be an important direction for future movie discovery, and it is impossible for Fanxing not to participate.
"John Wick" is an experiment, focusing on the international market. Domestic stars are also starting to prepare for a long-term film IP project.
Last year, in October 2010, Fanxing officially announced that it had obtained the relevant copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and expected to start the film and television adaptation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" within three years.
In principle, I am leaning toward making movies, but I don’t rule out making web series, or doing both in parallel.
In addition to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Cao Xuan's Guolan also participated in the project operation of "Tomb Robbery Notes". After all, they are two major IPs of tomb robbers. Cao Xuan cannot ignore them, but one family eats them openly and the other secretly eats them.
The reason why we made "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" instead of launching the so-called mythical universe is that Fanxing suffered a loss in the Three Kingdoms series before.
There is no exclusive copyright, and there are too many influences and interferences. One person just wants to share the pie, and if you don’t give it, he will cause trouble for you. Fanxing is not sure enough, and he doesn’t want to make another non-exclusive IP movie.
Fanxing intends to make another original Chinese-language IP movie, which is more of a fantasy fantasy genre, but right now, we don’t have any good clues, and several of the screenwriter’s plans have been scrapped.
Since the birth of his child, Cao Xuan himself has become more and more Buddhist. Other companies have taken over the role of boss, and Fanxing has begun to slowly let go of his power.
The only stubbornness now is that he still maintains his identity as an artist and has no intention of quitting acting. He has even begun to intentionally try literary films.
In fact, Cao Xuan has never meant to refuse to star in literary films, but he just prioritizes business and lacks a suitable script. However, in the past two years, Cao Xuan has become more open to filming literary films.
Especially now that Lao Mouzi is about to join Fanxing. Cao Xuan had talked to Lao Mouzi twice before.
He especially wanted to collaborate with Lao Mouzi on a literary film. Lao Mouzi was also very interested, but now he just needed a good script.
"When will Director Zhang come over?"
"In the past few days, other aspects have been taken care of. I have been waiting for my return and will hold a press conference when I find an opportunity."
For such a heavyweight director to join, Fanxing must give him enough face, and it is also a good publicity opportunity for the company itself. There was a signing ceremony when Mr. Xu and others joined before, but the focus was on Mr. Xu, and everyone else.
Little transparent.
Hu Jing and Zeng Li are still very interested in Lao Mouzi. After all, he is one of the top directors in China.
When they were in school at the National Theater Academy, they often heard stories about him. They were even close to auditioning for "My Father and Mother" back then, so the two of them had feelings for Lao Mouzi to a certain extent.
However, I didn't expect that time has changed and the great director who was aloof at the time has now become his "employee".
This feels really...so good!
Empress Donggong said enthusiastically: "I will direct a new play later, and I have to play a role. Then I will show it to Teacher Chang. The old lady used to teach us Ziyi every time, but now I can show it to her, and I can shoot it too."
Director Zhang’s film.”
Boss Cao didn't want to interfere with the two people's college feelings and just went about his work, but Hu Jing didn't let him go.
"The variety show department is preparing to launch a reality show and wants me to be a guest. Do you want me to accept it?"
"Reality show, "Sisters Over Flowers"?"
Star variety shows have become very popular in recent years. "Run" and "The Voice of China" are more influential than the other, and the latter has even exported to many countries.
"The Voice of China" is considering whether to unite with several other national program groups to hold this international championship.
However, the variety show department does not rest on its laurels, but is proactive and always wants to create new flagship programs.
A new reality show had been launched before, but the results were mediocre, so the variety show department learned from the experience, made serious and practical preparations, and got inspiration from Cao Xuan, and finally prepared to produce the celebrity outdoor travel reality show "Sisters Over Flowers".
The name that may be more familiar to most people in China should be "Flowers and Boys".
Roughly, it's just a few female celebrities of different ages, plus one or two male celebrities traveling abroad together to record their every moment.
The original version was originally produced in South Korea as "Grandpas Over Flowers", and then came out as a derivative version of "Sisters Over Flowers", and Hunan Province and Taiwan imitated it in "Flowers and Boys".
Later, Magic City TV introduced the copyright to create a Chinese version of "Sisters Over Flowers", but its performance and influence were far inferior to "Flowers and Boys".
The Korean program was produced in 2013, and Stars is now the authentic "original version".
In fact, at first Cao Xuan wanted to make a "Grandpas Over Flowers", but after discussing it, he realized that among a bunch of old men, there was no female star that was interesting, so he directly turned it into "Sisters Over Flowers".
If the latter does well, I may have the opportunity to release "Grandpas Over Flowers" again.
Cao Xuan read the plan for the show, which mainly features 4 to 5 female stars, plus two male stars. Considering the ratings, there must be at least two big names or popular A-listers.
Seeing that the program team's plan was quite comprehensive, Cao Xuan didn't interfere. He just suggested that Xu Qing or Ning Jing should be invited to do it, and it would be interesting to watch.
This kind of program is actually about watching the undercurrents between a few female stars. The harder the fight, the more enthusiastic the audience will watch.
While picking my feet in embarrassment, I couldn't help but look down. I didn't forget to discuss it with netizens, relatives and friends, and the popularity naturally took off.
Not all variety shows, but at least 90% have scripts or guidance, and it’s a complete job.
If we really traveled together in harmony, some programs might be effective, but the level of topicality and discussion would be far inferior.
"You can go if you want to, but I have to remind you, this is not a family outing. It's a bunch of artists who don't necessarily agree with each other, traveling and living together, and there will be a lot of trivial things."
"Then forget it."
Hu Jing herself also travels from time to time, and she understands how difficult it is to get along with a "good teammate". The most important thing is that there are cameras watching, so it is inconvenient to get angry or lose your temper.
"Actually, it's okay to play an issue once in a while. Maybe you can still watch the excitement."
Zeng Li shook his head: "They have approached me before, but I rejected them directly. I can't bear to go out and have a crowd of photographers following me. It's too public."
However, although I did not go to the East and West Palaces, I realized that this was a good exposure opportunity, so I still fought for a spot and planned to leave it to my best friends.
Yuan Quan wasn't interested in variety shows, and Mei Ting's schedule was bumped up and he didn't have time. The two discussed it for a while and finally agreed to give this opportunity to Zhang Tong.
This female class president of Class 96 of China National Theater Academy is now the least famous among the Eight Golden Flowers, except for Li Xinyu, who has recently retired from the entertainment industry.
In fact, Zhang Tong's reputation is not bad, especially since Dongxi Ergong often takes care of her. She has had many film appointments over the years, and her roles are not all important supporting roles. She even has two small-budget TV series as the heroine.
In the entertainment industry, he is almost in the upper third tier and lower in the second tier, so he can be considered a big figure.
It's a pity that her group of female classmates are too perverted, one is more popular than the other, so that Zhang Tong, who was originally doing well, suddenly became the last one.
However, there are mistakes. Because of this, Hu Jing and the two will always remember her for any good deeds they do.
There was only one spot left, so Cao Xuan didn't care. He informed the program team directly, and then asked about the current guest candidates for "Sisters Over Flowers".
At present, it has basically taken shape.
The two male celebrity tour guides/accompaniers/porters were the first to decide that Hu Ge, a top-notch person, would personally lead the team, and together with Ma Tianyu, who had not made much progress, they gave the latter a chance.
There were originally 5 female guests, but currently 4 including Zhang Tong have been found.
The golden supporting roles include Zhang Tong, Jia Ling who is responsible for the funny and lively atmosphere, Ning Jing who is cheerful and straightforward, and the top mainland queen Gu Miaomiao.
With Hu Ge and Gu Miaomiao, their popularity and popularity are not bad, and the program team is now looking for a big name to have the final say, to suppress the team and increase the publicity shock.
The original target was Hu Jing, one of the four great actresses who has not been seen for a long time, so the gimmick is still great.
Now that Hu Jing is not here, the program team has begun to contact several other big stars or a group of established celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Shuang Bing is in the rising stage of the film industry and is unwilling to divert attention easily. A certain Zhao was secretly blocked by Fanxing and had no chance. Mr. Zhou did not know much about reality shows and had only mediocre interest.
As for the International Chapter, because of the Triple Gate Incident, its reputation among passers-by has completely collapsed. It has been more active in contact with the program crew and is interested in appearing on variety shows to clear its name.
However, in this way, the show crew was a little concerned that her reputation would affect "Sisters Over Flowers".
Simply because RTHK got the good news, "Sisters Over Flowers" finally gave up its international chapter and invited Maggie Cheung to be the last guest.
This person has a cheerful personality, is quite interesting, and has many years of experience abroad, so he is a very suitable guest.
There are big names, there are big names, there are top celebrities, there are top celebrities, and other guests have their own strengths. The lineup of "Sisters Over Flowers" is truly luxurious.
The show is now in the process of location verification and preparation. If nothing happens, the first stop will be Italy in June to start the recording of "Sisters Over Flowers".
Fanxing Variety Show Department is very confident in this variety show and plans to build it into a benchmark for outdoor celebrity reality shows in China...
