Chapter 66: The Prototype of Chinese Film IP
Warner invited me and Han Sanping to attend the Premiere of batman Begins on June 6th in Los Angeles.
Han Sanping politely declined, but I accepted, which surprised Han Sanping.
Hollywood was already the top priority of my trip.
Chinese director Wen Ziren had already made a name for himself with saw.
My previously prepared plans for lurking and the conjuring could also be put into action.
Li Chen gave up on Dead Silence, leaving it to Lionsgate.
After all, that movie made Wen Ziren silent for four years.
With a budget of 20 million US dollars, the global box office total was only 22.21 million US dollars.
Li Chen didn't want to ruin his reputation.
The terrifying money-making ability of low-budget horror films could bring him a considerable cash flow.
This would provide support for his upcoming plans.
As for the few stocks, he planned to hold them long-term and not cash out in the short term.
This trip to Hollywood, first, sow a seed.
It also marked the first step for him to enter the Hollywood industry chain in the future, helping Chinese films go global.
After the celebration banquet, a sea breeze blew.
Han Sanping and Li Chen sat opposite each other.
“Do you have something to do in Hollywood?” Han Sanping frowned.
He didn't believe this kid was just going to attend the batman Premiere.
“Sort of, I'm going to see Hollywood,” Li Chen said with a smile, brushing him off.
Han Sanping nodded: “That's good. In terms of film industrialization, they are indeed leaders.”
“So, when do you plan to release shoplifters?”
Li Chen thought for a moment: “Strike while the iron is hot, Han Dong.”
“It will be released during the summer vacation, and I will rush back to China as soon as possible.”
“There's no need to put a lot of effort into ground promotion; the Golden Palm is the best publicity.”
“Just hold a Premiere.”
Han Sanping had no objection; he also thought the same.
Wang Xiaoshuai's shanghai dreams received nothing this time, but it did make a lot of money.
Li Chen remembered that shanghai dreams originally won a jury prize, similar to an encouragement award.
But perhaps because a Chinese film had already won the highest Golden Palm.
The jury gave that consolation prize to someone else.
Yang Shoucheng called, and he sounded as if he had won the Golden Palm himself.
He was even happier than Li Chen.
“Congratulations, Director Li, haha.”
“Yang Dong, your laughter, why does it sound a bit schadenfreude?” Li Chen also laughed.
Yang Shoucheng stumbled, not expecting the other party to be so sensitive, sensing it over the phone.
Hearing Li Chen expose him, Yang Shoucheng wasn't embarrassed and said directly: “Director Li has very keen intuition.”
“That film, Election, received nothing, and China Star's big talk became a joke.”
“What 'comparable to infernal affairs, surpassing new world'.”
“Absolutely ridiculous.”
“Director Li had foresight; he said from the beginning that the script was the key.”
Li Chen didn't want to delve into the grievances between Emperor Entertainment Group and China Star.
He changed the subject and said: “Yang Dong, you didn't call just to congratulate me, did you?”
“Indeed, Director Li, the film festival is over. Shouldn't we discuss our next collaboration?”
“Okay. How about this, Yang Dong, I still have some unfinished business these two days.”
“I'll have Yang Siwei bring the script over first, and once I'm done here, we'll meet in Hong Kong to discuss it.”
“Good, no problem. Then I'll prepare to welcome you in Hong Kong, haha.”
After hanging up the phone, Yang Shoucheng was in a joyful mood.
The opponent's Election had extensive publicity but ended up running in Cannes for nothing.
And his partner was crowned in Cannes, which made him even happier than being rejuvenated.
“Mani, bring some wine, drink with me.”
Yang Shoucheng glanced at Huo Wenxi, his spirits high.
Huo Wenxi was wearing a white business suit, with a knee-length skirt that exquisitely wrapped her lower body curves.
Pouring a glass of red wine for Yang Shoucheng, Huo Wenxi smiled and said: “Boss, Director Li is coming to Hong Kong.”
Yang Shoucheng smiled and said: “Hmm, arrange it well. You personally go to pick him up.”
Yang Siwei heard that her boss was also going to Hollywood, and she wanted to go with him.
Li Chen smiled and said: “I'm going to Hollywood to attend a Premiere. What would you go for?”
“Honestly, lead the team back to China. You have your mission.”
Saying that, Li Chen placed the prepared script for father's love is like a mountain on the table.
The original title of this script was Manslaughter, but Li Chen felt that changing it to father's love is like a mountain would be more eye-catching.
It would also be easier to pass censorship if introduced to the mainland in the future.
Given the current situation in the mainland, this script would definitely not pass censorship.
After all, the ending did not conform to the specific circumstances in China at the time.
Even with Han Sanping, it would be impossible.
But it was indeed a good script.
Especially the brilliant touch at the end.
The burial site of the body turned out to be the newly built police station.
It was truly unexpected.
And the film's portrayal of the choice between father's love and law was more likely to generate discussion.
If made well, this could also become an IP.
Including painted skin, this should be considered the second domestic IP prototype for his company.
Even if the script for Manslaughter 2 was a bit far-fetched, he could modify it.
Scripts were his strong suit; hadn't he modified painted skin?
Hearing that her boss wanted her to take Tangtang to Hong Kong to wait for him, Yang Siwei immediately had no objections.
Returning to her room, Yang Siwei still felt a bit emotional; her boss never wanted to be idle for a moment.
One father's love is like a mountain hadn't even started, and another ip man was already in preparation.
Her boss sent her to Hong Kong to have Emperor Entertainment Group's people help contact ip man's descendants in Hong Kong.
To learn more about ip man's life experiences and obtain the consent of ip man's descendants.
He didn't want to be like Jet Li, who was sued by Huo family descendants after filming fearless.
Hiring ip man's descendants as the martial arts director for ip man was also to eliminate this hidden danger.
Experience from later generations made Li Chen understand.
In the eyes of foreigners, China's martial arts action films are always the most popular among all Chinese film genres.
Representative works of martial arts are crouching tiger, hidden dragon and Hero.
Representative figures of action films are Big Brother Long and Jet Li.
And suspense crime, as long as the script is well written, is basically universally appealing.
ip man and father's love is like a mountain, plus painted skin.
One action, one suspense crime, one magical martial arts.
These were the three legs of Rongchen Film and Television's overseas ventures.
In his previous life, the top three box office hits in China were Wolf Warrior 2, Hi, Mom, and the battle at lake changjin.
Although the mainland box office went crazy.
Foreign countries still didn't buy it.
Wolf Warrior 2 had a global box office of 870 million US dollars, but only 2.72 million US dollars in North America.
The total overseas box office of the battle at lake changjin was only 20 million RMB.
Hi, Mom was a dismal 6.73 million.
Instead, some animated films rose unexpectedly.
Li Chen's idea was to gradually promote Chinese films by creating these Chinese IP prototypes.
Of course, Miss Liu was also part of the plan.
Perhaps, in the future, she could become another Yang Ziqiong.
After the interview with Time Magazine, Li Chen's trip to Cannes basically came to an end.
On the 24th, Li Chen and the Warner people flew to Los Angeles together.
Yang Siwei and Han Sanping returned to China.
Upon arriving in Los Angeles, the Warner people arranged for him to stay at the Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel.
Li Chen, through connections, found a professional manager named Tim in the local area.
Early thirties, impeccably dressed in a suit, with a neatly combed, not-so-dense blond hair.