The murderer's tactics in "Crime Under the Sun" involve some gambling. If he had taken the person who went there with him to provide him with an alibi and looked at the body more carefully, then their plan would not have succeeded.
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Of course, if that happens, there may be one more victim.
The murderer's bet on the headless case in the TV series Zhang Zhong watched before was even greater. The murderer's bet was that people would not be able to stay rational in the face of a sudden murder, and if someone stayed calm and recognized her, her
The plan will also fall short.
As soon as the name of the new book came out, some people were naturally happy and some were disappointed. The science fiction party took another step ahead.
In fact, fans of detective novels don’t have to be too disappointed, because this year there will be two movies adapted from detective novels, one is "Murder on the Orient Express" and the other is "The Devotion of Suspect X".
"Murder on the Orient Express" is another cooperation project signed after "The Shining" was negotiated with Wenner Entertainment. As the first film in the Poirot series, Zhang Zhong did not choose to leave it to his own company to shoot.
Instead, we chose Wenner Entertainment, which we have cooperated with several times.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" has been released for more than a month now, and the box office performance is very good. So far, everyone's cooperation has been pretty good.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" has been released domestically, but it is still being released abroad, so the final box office has not yet been released. However, the final box office predictions for this movie from several major movie websites are all in the global total.
The box office is about 1.3 billion US dollars, which should be about the same.
Zhang Zhong also made a lot of money in this wave. If the final box office is fixed at 1.3 billion US dollars, then Zhang Zhong's company can probably make a profit of 100 million US dollars. This is pure profit, minus Zhang Zhong's previous investment.
money.
Of course, this is not as much money as the previous movie "The Last Starfish" made for Zhang Zhong. Both the box office share and the final total box office of "The Last Starfish" were higher than this movie. Zhang Zhong's company started from "The Last Starfish"
The movie "The Last Starfish" earned more than $200 million in net profit.
Sharing the box office share of the two movies, Zhang Zhong earned a total profit of more than 2 billion Chinese dollars.
When other people make movies, they have to attract investment from everywhere, but Zhang Zhong's entertainment company wants to make movies, and many companies who know the news actively want to invest money in it.
However, the most indispensable thing for a cash flow king like Zhang Zhong is cash, and he doesn’t have many projects that require money, so making movies does not require investment at all, and the company can easily handle it on its own.
With the cash Zhang Zhong currently has, there is no problem even if he makes dozens of big-budget movies at the same time.
Someone has made statistics, and with Zhang Zhong's sales volume, the royalties he earns in one day can be used to make a medium-budget film.
"Murder on the Orient Express" and "The Shining" are both movies with relatively short production cycles, and the shooting difficulty of both movies was not too high.
The former is mostly shot in a train carriage, with only a dozen characters. The latter is even simpler, with most of the plot being completed by a family of three in the Yuanwang Hotel.
If it is shot by a fast shooter, it can be completed in a month, and it will take a few months to finish it later.
"The Shining" will probably be released in the summer, while "Murder on the Orient Express" will be released during the National Day holiday.
"The Devotion of Suspect X" produced by Zhang Zhong's company will be later than these two movies and should be scheduled for the end of the year.
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"Zhang Zhong, congratulations on winning the Goncourt Literature Prize. When I heard the news, I was very happy for you."
In the CCTV building, Zhang Zhong and Yang Fan met as guests of the program in the exclusive lounge of "The Interview". The first thing Yang Fan said was to congratulate Zhang Zhong for winning the Goncourt Literature Prize.
"Thanks."
Zhang Zhong shook hands with Yang Fan. He felt that Yang Fan's complexion had not changed much after he had not seen him for several years.
For someone as old as Yang Fan, usually you can clearly feel the changes after not seeing him for a while. Yang Fan's current complexion means that he must have lived a good life in the past few years.
Yang Fan looked at Zhang Zhong and was very emotional. When he and Zhang Zhong met for the first time a few years ago, Zhang Zhong was actually a newcomer in the literary world.
In just a few years, he has become an iconic figure in Chinese literary circles.
If it was because of his age that Zhang Zhong was allowed to share the stage with himself and He Kelan, then if there were another exchange meeting like that now, Zhang Zhong would be fully qualified to take the stage with his own qualifications.
The program they will record today just illustrates this point. The program team invited themselves and Zhang Zhong together, which shows that in their eyes, Zhang Zhong can now fully represent the Chinese literary world.
"Compared to "Lord of the Flies", I prefer "Cry of the Wild". People are so contradictory. A person like me who has a stable life is still dreaming of having a magnificent life like Abu in the book at this age.
.Perhaps this is how people are, not satisfied." Yang Fan leaned on his chair and talked about Zhang Zhong's two recent works with a smile.
"You are so humble." Zhang Zhong smiled.
He really felt that Yang Fan was being humble. Although Yang Fan's life could not be said to be chaotic, it was definitely magnificent.
Legends do not necessarily need to be created one by one. Those thrilling and exciting experimental processes are invisible to ordinary people.
While the two were chatting, Geng Peng and Yang Wen walked in.
Yang Wen stepped on high heels, but she walked carefully for fear of making any noise and disturbing them both.
"Academician Yang, Teacher Zhang, I kept you waiting for a long time." Geng Peng said with a smile.
Yang Fan waved his hand, "What are you waiting for? Didn't you just leave for two minutes? I just said a few words to Zhang Zhong."
Geng Peng and Yang Wen looked at each other. The former smiled and took two folders and handed them to Zhang Zhong and Yang Fan respectively, "These are the questions we have planned to ask later. Take a look. If you have any objections, you can raise them."
come out."
The two of them took the folder and flipped through it at will.
The questions they got were the same, and the questions that Yang Wen asked both parties at once were included. Some of these questions were asked to them separately, and some were asked to both of them at the same time.
Yang Fan was very fast, and he closed the folder in two or three minutes. He seemed to have no objection to the question, and just said with a smile, "I have roughly read the question, and I don't have any questions. But I want to ask,
Can we answer whatever we want later? There are no restrictions. I rarely appear on similar programs. If so, you have to tell me in advance."
Hearing what Yang Fan said, Geng Peng secretly squeezed his sweat and said with a smile, "No, no, you can say whatever you want, speak freely."