No matter where they are, they can always cause a sensation in the local area.
Hollywood is no exception.
Chu Huan first made it known that he was going to acquire 30% of the investment share in "Dragon Warrior", which instantly attracted the collective reaction of the eight major Hollywood actors. Just when everyone was guessing who would get this good hand, the news came out immediately.
Chu Huan's black and white images teamed up with Hollywood's Vertex Pictures to win the big package "Star Wars" from 20th Century Fox!
There are even rumors that these two companies spent a full US$1 million to get projects that no one was optimistic about!
In addition, Chu Huan also sold 30% of the investment share of "Dragon Warrior" to 20th Century Fox for the same price of 1 million US dollars!
Even the Los Angeles Times, the largest newspaper in California, where Los Angeles is located, reported the news!
"This is a greedy and stupid deal!"
The "Los Angeles Times" gave the final word to this transaction. In their view, Chu Huan sold his investment share in "Dragon Warrior" and only received a measly 500,000 yuan, and spent another 100,000 yuan on 20th Century Fox.
Wan bought the rights to "Star Wars", which was a stupid decision.
The reason why it is said to be 500,000 is because they all believe that Chu Huan's black and white images and Apex Pictures are two different entities.
Since it cost $1 million to buy the rights to "Star Wars" and the two companies accounted for the same investment ratio, the money spent was naturally the same.
Isn’t half of a million equal to 500,000?
"Look, the Los Angeles Times said that you are a movie company boss with no vision, and you actually gave up "Dragon Warrior", which had a high probability of making money, for a "Star Wars" that no one was optimistic about!"
Kelly held the newspaper in her hand and preached to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan said nonchalantly: "Typical reporting style of a North American newspaper!"
Kelly asked curiously: "What is the typical reporting style of North American newspapers?"
Chu Huan explained: "Some people are only willing to believe what they want to believe, and North American newspapers are only willing to report what they think is correct!"
Then Chu Huan continued disdainfully: "I don't believe that the Los Angeles Times doesn't know about the matter between me and Warner Bros., but they just don't report it, because if such a report comes out, it will appear that they are North American businessmen.
Without the spirit of contract, it would be better to focus on the two movies "Dragon Warrior" and "Star Wars"."
Kelly left Chu Huan speechless. After all, she was also from North America.
"By the way, we spent a lot of money to buy "Star Wars" from 20th Century Fox this time. Do you really think this movie can be successful in Hollywood?"
Kelly, who didn't know how to answer Chu Huan's question, decisively changed the topic.
Chu Huan came to Los Angeles this time with 30 million US dollars.
At that time, Apex Pictures itself still had a balance of US$2.5 million.
Among them, he sold 30% of the investment share in "Dragon Warrior" and made US$1 million.
This $1 million can then be offset by the $1 million spent on purchasing the "Star Wars" project from 20th Century Fox.
What remains is that Spielberg's "Jaws" requires an additional investment of US$6 million, bringing the total investment cost of "Jaws" to US$9 million.
Although it only cost US$1 million to purchase "Star Wars" from Twentieth Century Fox, it also had to pay the US$3.5 million that Twentieth Century Fox had already invested in "Star Wars" in the past.
Chu Huan also invested US$3 million in George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, accounting for 60% of the shares, but Chu Huan did not participate in management.
The last step was to increase investment in the "Star Wars" project. According to George Lucas's estimation, the entire movie would require an additional investment of US$8.5 million. In the end, Chu Huan and Kelly decided to invest US$4 million first and wait until the filming of the movie started.
Then dive in again!
George Lucas doesn't have a problem with that either!
In addition, Chu Huan spent another 10 million US dollars to buy 20% of the proceeds from "Star Wars" from George Lucas.
So after deducting the money spent, Chu Huan's 30 million US dollars was left with 5 million US dollars!
"Forget it, keep this money in Apex Pictures."
Chu Huan made an estimate and then said helplessly.
Kelly naturally has no objection to this.
Just as the two were discussing these matters, Li Xiaolong came to the hotel again, but this time Kelly did not hide in the bedroom.
Seeing that Kelly was also in Chu Huan's guest room, Li Xiaolong was a little surprised. Then he calmed down and said to Chu Huan with a smile: "It's almost time."
The two agreed last night to watch an NBA game together tonight.
Kelly raised an international gesture to Li Xiaolong in her heart, then stood up and said: "Huan, don't forget Alan Hirschfeld's banquet tomorrow night!"
After saying that, he left Chu Huan's room directly.
Finally getting rid of the burden of "Star Wars" and buying the investment share of "Dragon Warrior" from Chu Huan, Alan Hirschfeld was naturally very happy, so he decided to hold a dinner party tomorrow night, specially
Invite Chu Huan and Kelly to participate.
In fact, not only Chu Huan and Kelly received the invitation, but also Li Xiaolong.
"What's wrong with Miss Kelly? Why does it feel like she's not very happy?"
Li Xiaolong looked at Kelly leaving and asked curiously.
It's not that she's unhappy, she just simply doesn't want to face you... Chu Huan said calmly: "Maybe relatives are here!"
Li Xiaolong suddenly realized and said: "So that's it. I should have reminded Miss Kelly to drink more hot water just now!"
Chu Huan: "..."
After a brief chat, the two set off together to the home court of the Los Angeles Lakers. At this time, the Lakers' home court was not the later-famous Staples Center, but the Forum Arena.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Forum Arena is located on West Manchester Avenue, across 90th Street, and to the south is the Hollywood Park Racetrack and Casino.
The entire Forum looks like a white sundae...
There are four major professional sports leagues in North America, namely the American Football League, the North American Professional Baseball League, the North American Professional Basketball League, and the National Hockey League.
For domestic audiences, the most popular one is the NBA. However, in North America, the NBA only ranks third among the four major professional leagues, behind the NFL and MLB.
after.
The NFL's Super Bowl is the most grand event for Americans. At the same time, the Super Bowl is also known as the "North American Spring Festival Gala".
So many friends will see that whenever the Super Bowl is held, countless Hollywood stars will go to watch it. At the same time, the singers who can sing at the Super Bowl are also the most popular singers in North America that year. However, this tradition has not always been
Yes, before the 1990s, there were actually very few celebrities participating in the halftime show of the Super Bowl. Most of them were performances by performing arts organizations, which lacked attention. However, with the development of the Super Bowl, the halftime show began to focus more on inviting popular singers.
's appearance.
Michael Jackson performed at the 1993 Super Bowl halftime show, causing a huge sensation.
Later, the Super Bowl halftime show also became a stage for many production companies to release trailers for their new films, and many blockbusters will release trailers for their new films here.
In the future, Apex Pictures will definitely have a lot of movie trailers for the Super Bowl!
As the home court of the Lakers, the attendance rate at the Forum Stadium is not very high at this time. Firstly, the performance of the Lakers this year is indeed not very good. At the end of last season, the ancient beast Wilt Chamberlain retired. This season, the logo man Jerry Weiss
Te was injured and played in and out. If there are no accidents, Jerry West will retire after the season.
He even went to court with Jack Cook, the owner of the Lakers at this time, over contract issues.
Yes, the Buss family had not purchased the Lakers at this time. The owner of the Lakers at this time was Jack Cook, who bought it from a businessman named Schock in 1965 for $5 million.
By the way, Buss bought the Lakers for $67 million in 1979!
I don’t know if Jenny Buss is an adult now... After walking into the Lakers’ home court, Chu Huan silently thought, Aunt Jenny is a treasure, whoever uses her will decide!
There is another reason for the low attendance rate. As mentioned just now, the NBA's influence in North America at this time was not high. The NBA's influence in North America was really established because of the Black and White Double Evil period.
The combination of black and white allowed the NBA to expand its influence in North America, and the old gangster Michael Jordan made the NBA known to the world.
Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were sitting in the front row. At this time, players from the Lakers and their rival Bucks were warming up. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wearing iconic glasses and a Bucks uniform, walked over.
"Bruce, when will our movie be released in North America? I can't wait!"
At this time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's honest and honest look was completely different from his image of killing everyone on the court.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used the NBA offseason to participate in Li Xiaolong's "Game of Death" and has been waiting for the movie to be released.
In the NBA, there is a fine tradition of players filming movies. Now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and later Jordan, O'Neal, and James have all participated in the filming of movies and even starred in them.
Kobe was even more exaggerated and even made a short film and won an Oscar.
In addition, in order to promote itself, the NBA also invested in the filming of two basketball-themed movies, which told the story of a black boy who accidentally obtained a pair of Jordan sneakers and then went on to kill everyone in the NBA.
In these two movies, many NBA players participated!
Li Xiaolong smiled and said: "Soon, it will be released in North America in May this year!"
Hearing what Li Xiaolong said, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar immediately became happy.
"Haha, I can't wait to see me in the movie!"
Chu Huan didn't understand what to expect from him who was beaten up by Li Xiaolong in the movie.
Li Xiaolong then introduced Chu Huan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Hearing that Chu Huan was Li Xiaolong's good friend, Jabbar immediately asked excitedly: "Huan, are you also a martial arts master?"
Chu Huan smiled and shook his head: "I'm not, like you, I'm just very interested in kung fu!"
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar laughed and said, "Then you are definitely no match for me!"
Looking at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's height of more than two meters and his dark and strong body, Chu Huan said: "You have no chance to get close to me!"
With Qin Peng and others around, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar could easily deal with it, and there was no way he could fight against Chu Huan.
But these words fell in the ears of Jabbar, but he thought that Chu Huan, like many Chinese people, was habitually modest!
The three of them didn't chat for a few words before Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returned to the court and continued to warm up.
Soon the game officially started. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was killing everyone in the court, and the Lakers were unable to fight back with all kinds of hooks.
The game is not very exciting, but the visual of the collision of muscles can give people a feeling of blood spurting. This is much better than the NBA before Chu Huan was reborn... Well, Chu Huan also felt that at that time
Stop watching.
Chu Huan didn't know if Jack Cook was at the scene or if he recruited Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers after seeing his power in this game.
Just when Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were watching the game happily, a voice suddenly came from beside them.
"Bruce!"
When he heard someone saying hello, Li Xiaolong turned his head and saw a fat white man sitting behind him.
Li Xiaolong was in a daze and thought of the other party's identity.
"Jackson!"
The two sat there and hugged each other.
Then Li Xiaolong immediately introduced Chu Huan: "Ah Huan, this is Jackson from the Hollywood independent production company Flash Films. He is my good friend in Hollywood!"
"Jackson, this is Chu Huan, the boss of Xiangjiang Black and White Video, and he is also my good brother!"
When Jackson heard that the person sitting next to Li Xiaolong was Chu Huan, who was very famous in Hollywood during this period, he immediately showed a playful expression.
"So you are Chu Huan, you don't look like such a stupid person!"
After hearing the other party's unscrupulous words, Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong's expressions suddenly changed.
Jackson laughed indifferently and said, "You're just kidding, you're kidding!"
Since the other party can be so unscrupulous, Chu Huan will naturally not spoil him: "From the sound of his voice, you shouldn't be a fat man!"
In North America, calling a person fat is the same as saying in China that a little girl who loves beauty is ugly and dark.
It is a sentence that extremely hurts the fragile hearts of the people of North America.
Sure enough, after Chu Huan finished speaking, the smile on Jackson's face suddenly disappeared, and his originally white skin became even whiter now.
His chest was rising and falling violently.
"You are so rude. I just made a North American joke for you. How can you insult someone?"
Jackson suppressed the anger in his heart and told Chu Huan dissatisfiedly.
Chu Huan spread his hands and said with a smile: "Then you are too heartless. I just made a Chinese-style joke with you. How could I insult you?"
"Huh!" Jackson snorted coldly: "Am I wrong? You are not stupid to sell Bruce's investment share in "Dragon Warrior" to 20th Century Fox in exchange for a "Star Wars" that is destined to lose a lot of money.
What is it?"
Chu Huan was too lazy to argue with such a person, and just said calmly: "You are indeed a fat man, and I was not wrong!"
"I..." Jackson looked at Chu Huan angrily, "When "Star Wars" is released in the future, the money lost will make you unable to laugh!"
Chu Huan's eyes had returned to the arena at this time, and he said calmly: "Even if "Star Wars" is released, you are still a fat man!"
Having said this, Chu Huan turned around and glanced at Jackson contemptuously, and added: "And he's also an ugly fat man!"
Jackson was immediately furious. He wanted to get up and argue with Chu Huan, but Qin Peng, who noticed the situation here, pushed him directly onto the chair. Jackson wanted to struggle, but he couldn't break free from Qin Peng's wrist!
In the end, the game was not over yet, and Jackson left dejectedly.
"It seems that the whole of Hollywood is not very optimistic about your decision!"
Li Xiaolong sat next to Chu Huan and preached with a smile.
"Brother Long, it seems that your taste in making friends will improve in the future." Chu Huan knew that Li Xiaolong was really joking with him.
Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "It's just like a woman. That woman won't meet a few scumbags in her life. How can a man not meet a few scumbag friends in his life? Fortunately, the friendship with this friend is not too deep!"
Chu Huan joked: "Just now you were saying that the other person was your good friend!"
Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "Then how should I introduce him? Could it be that this is a fat man I know?"
Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong looked at each other and smiled, but did not take this matter to heart.
However, when the game was over and Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were driving back together, Qin Peng, who was driving, suddenly spoke to Chu Huan.
"Master Huan, there is a car behind us that has been following us since we came out of the stadium!"
Chu Huan's face changed slightly. This was not the first time he came to North America. In fact, Chu Huan's view of North America in this era...can't be said to be North America in this era. In fact, North America in any period is like that.
, always with a kind of vigilance in mind, just for the proliferation of guns.
This makes Chu Huan feel no sense of security in this country.
At this time, he was suddenly targeted by someone. Without knowing the identity of the other person, Chu Huan did not intend to entangle with the other person, but said: "Get rid of that car!"
Qin Peng nodded and accelerated the car.
However, Qin Peng was obviously not familiar with this place. He did not get away from the car behind him in a short period of time. Instead, the car behind him speeded up when he saw the car Chu Huan was riding in and speeded up.
Depending on the situation, it would be impossible for Qin Peng to get rid of the opponent in a short time.
"Young Master Huan, there is no problem in leaving the car behind to Song Lusheng and the others. It doesn't matter how many people are sitting in that car and whether they have weapons or not!"
Qin Peng spoke calmly at this time.
Chu Huan nodded. Chu Huan would never express random opinions on such professional matters. Since Qin Peng said there was no problem, then there must be no problem!
Qin Peng then took out his walkie-talkie and informed Song Lusheng and others who were driving behind him of the decision.
Song Lusheng's excited voice immediately came over the intercom: "Don't worry, it's a small problem!"
Immediately afterwards, Chu Huan heard the harsh sound of a car collision behind him.
Li Xiaolong's expression also changed slightly at this time. Although Li Xiaolong has played heroes several times in movies, this is the first time he has seen such a situation in reality.
"Don't worry, with Song Lusheng and the others here, there will be no problem!"
Chu Huan spoke calmly.
Li Xiaolong could only nod.
Soon, Qin Peng said that he could no longer see the car behind them that had been following them.
At this time, the car of Song Lusheng and others also followed.
Apparently the problem is solved.
"Brother Long, I'm afraid you have to be more careful if you stay in North America in the future!" Chu Huan said to Li Xiaolong while sitting in the car.
Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "If it weren't for making money, I really don't understand why so many people like to come here!"
Chu Huan laughed after hearing this. Not only did Li Xiaolong not understand, but Chu Huan also didn’t understand!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "By the way, Ah Huan, I think it's better to go to the police station to talk about what happened just now, otherwise it will be more troublesome in the future!"
Li Xiaolong reminded Chu Huandao.
Chu Huan also thought the same thing. After all, this is not his home court. Although it is okay to make a big fuss, it is not necessary. At the cash machine, it is okay to be more tolerant.
After sending Li Xiaolong home, Chu Huan called Kelly and asked her to find a lawyer to handle the matter.
The next morning!
Kelly called Chu Huan and said that the matter had been dealt with, and it had been dealt with without Song Lusheng and others going to the police station.
During this period, it was not only the police in Hong Kong who were dishonest, but the police in North America were also dishonest.
At the same time, the police who arrived at the scene yesterday found guns and DP in the car, so there was no problem.
Chu Huan also found out the identity of the other party from Kelly's mouth. It was Jackson, the boss of Flash Film Industry, whom he met at the arena last night.
Independent producers don’t have much money!
Chu Huan told Song Lusheng and others about the outcome of the matter. Song Lusheng and others smiled and said that they just bumped into each other at the right time yesterday and did not take any action!
Chu Huan chuckled.
Chu Huan didn't leave the hotel all day today, not because he was worried about Jackson's revenge, but after experiencing this incident, Chu Huan had no good impression of this country.
In the evening, Chu Huan and Kelly attended Alan Hirschfield's dinner in their best clothes.
As the president of 20th Century Fox, his dinner party was naturally attended by Hollywood celebrities.
When Chu Huan and Kelly entered the venue, they saw Li Xiaolong surrounded by a group of people. Zou Wenhuai, standing next to Li Xiaolong, had a red face. At this time, he was acting as a social butterfly.
Chu Huan took a look and didn't recognize those people. Kelly was by Chu Huan's side and reminded Chu Huan that these people were Hollywood actors.
Since you haven't heard of the name, it means it's not very famous.
However, in other circles, Chu Huan still saw a somewhat familiar figure.
Sean Connery!
Sean Connery was already famous in the 1950s, and later made a name for himself in Hollywood by playing 007 in the first 007 movie "Dr. No."
However, Chu Huan has not seen this movie, and his impression of Sean Connery is only limited to two movies. One is with Nicholas Zhao Si... No, it should be co-starring Nicolas Cage.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark", and the other one is "Raiders of the Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford.
Thinking of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", Chu Huan thought that this series is also a blockbuster movie series in North America. In the future, Jiaku Consulting Company can pay attention to this project.
However, I seem to remember that this movie also has some relationship with Spielberg and George Lucas. Now one of these two people is a contracted director of Vertex Pictures, and the other is a cooperative company of Vertex Pictures.
Thinking about it, there is a high possibility that this series will fall on Apex Pictures.
"What are you thinking about?" At this time, Kelly touched Chu Huan lightly and asked softly.
"Nothing!" Chu Huan replied with a smile.
The two people stepped into the ballroom and immediately attracted the attention of many people. If Li Xiaolong attracted the attention of Hollywood actors, then Chu Huan and Kelly attracted the attention of other Hollywood studio executives.
Although in the end Chu Huan sold his investment share in "Dragon Warrior" to 20th Century Fox, leaving other film studios to pounce.
But Chu Huan unexpectedly bought 20th Century Fox's package "Star Wars", which immediately aroused the interest of many film studios.
In the eyes of these people, Chu Huan and Kelly are the real victims!
That company didn't have one or two movies with it, so now that the enemy had appeared, they naturally came forward to talk, hoping to get Chu Huan or Apex Pictures to accept it.
This is not the first time that a Hollywood film company has done this, and it certainly won't be the last time. In another time and space, Zou Wenhuai used Cheng Long's reputation to revitalize Jiahe and immediately launched another attack on Hollywood.
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However, although he launched Cheng Long that time, he wanted to participate more in Hollywood production, so he came to Hollywood with a check in hand.
Although I have invested in many movies, except for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the others are all inferior investments.
To put it simply, Hollywood film studios, with Zou Wenhuai’s money, experimented with a number of projects that they could not determine!
"I feel like they are taking advantage of us!"
After just dealing with a group of people, Kelly said helplessly to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan smiled nonchalantly and said, "Who is the one who was taken advantage of? We still have to wait until the movie is released to find out!"
Kelly said helplessly: "I have already talked with George. According to his current progress, it will take at least two or three years to release "Star Wars"!"
Chu Huan laughed and said: "You can set your goal on the project "Jaws". As long as Apex Pictures' first movie is successful, no one will look down on Apex Pictures anymore."
Kelly looked at Chu Huan and asked, "What about you?"
Chu Huan smiled easily, "I'm not in Hollywood, so I don't care what they think!"
Kelly smiled.
At this time, after finally dealing with those second- and third-tier actors in Hollywood, Li Xiaolong came to Chu Huan.
"Ah Huan, why don't you stay a few more days? Why go back tomorrow?"
Chu Huan has decided to return to Xiangjiang tomorrow.
The matter here has been resolved, but the matter at the Toy City in Xiangjiang has not yet been resolved!
"I still think it's more comfortable to go back to Xiangjiang!" Chu Huan said with a smile.
Li Xiaolong pulled Chu Huan aside and whispered: "After we go back, can we let Ding Bi join the black and white video?"