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The filming of "The Sound of the Wind" continued, and Wan Xiaohu was completely calm when working, but at night, he would talk to Li Bingbing about the drama if he had nothing to do, to have a little romance, and not to progress too fast.

During this period of isolation shooting, Wan Xiaohu did not forget to understand the outside world.

Although affected by the epidemic, the country is now in a state of panic, and the entertainment industry has also been greatly affected, but what should be done is still going on.

At the beginning of March, the first half of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" with 3 episodes was completed. Because of the banner of Wan Xiaohu, it was purchased by CCTV Seventh Channel (Children. Military. Agriculture Channel) and will be released on March 140. No. two episodes are broadcast every day.The name of Abao Animation Studio appeared on the screen for the first time.

In April, "Palace" produced by Tangren will premiere on Shonan Satellite TV, and in June, "Full House" produced by Tangren will premiere on Southern Yunnan Satellite TV.At the same time, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" has entered the casting stage. The male lead is Hu Ge, who was signed by the Tang Dynasty early on, and the female lead is Wan Xiaohu's junior sister, Liu Yifei, a freshman from Nortel's 4 class.

Another thing is that "Bright Sword" has purchased the film and television adaptation rights, and is writing the script, and it is expected to start filming next year.

Cheng Er's Virgo "Savage Senior Sister", which has already been filmed, was originally scheduled to be released in April, but due to the epidemic, the schedule was directly postponed to August.And "Infernal Affairs 4" is expected to be released in the summer.Also because of the serious riots in Hong Kong, the remaining scenes have not been filmed so far, and it is expected to be released in November.

In fact, December is the Lunar New Year file. With the influence of "Infernal Affairs", it is the best choice for "Infernal Affairs 12" to be released in summer or Lunar New Year.The original schedule for the summer vacation was disrupted by the police.They could only squeeze back, but a problem arose. Wan Xiaohu's "The Wind" was scheduled for the New Year's Eve before the filming.

With Wan Xiaohu's appeal and the uncapped investment of 5000 million yuan in "The Wind", "Infernal Affairs 2" has little chance of winning. Naturally, it cannot squeeze out the schedule of "The Wind". It is also scheduled for December, and "Infernal Affairs 12" is even more difficult to squeeze into December, so it can only be moved forward one month.In theaters in November.

This is the situation in China, with Su Ya at the helm, it is currently well organized.

Internationally, this year is also a year for dandelions to emerge.

The movie "Night Watchman", which invested in Russia, has been produced and started filming the sequel "Night Watchman". The company promotes the release of the film together.For this film, Liu Xiaoyang, director of the distribution department, has not returned to China for more than half a year.

This will be the first shot for Dandelion to enter the international market.

Time is of course.It's April.

The filming of "The Sound of the Wind" at the Haijin City Cadres Club was all over, and it officially moved into Prince Qing's Mansion, which had been converted into the headquarters of the Japanese and puppet government.But this part of the play.Wan Xiaohu was handed over to the director team for joint filming, and he had already gone through multiple security checks and flew to the United States.It was the first time to come to Hollywood, which is famous all over the world.

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At Los Angeles International Airport, Wan Xiaohu walked out of the lobby with several Dandelion executives, translators, assistants and other entourage.From a distance, I saw a few Caucasian foreigners, each holding a sign with the words "Wan Xiaohu" written on it, which was particularly conspicuous.

Wan Xiaohu led the people over immediately.

From a long distance, foreigners seem to recognize it.One of them, a foreigner in a suit and leather shoes, waved his hand and greeted him.

"Dear Boss Ger." The Caucasian foreigner laughed and wanted to give Wan Xiaohu a bear hug, "It's finally time for you. I heard that there is a very dangerous epidemic in the country. I am relieved to see that you are safe and sound." Ger It means tiger, and this is Wan Xiaohu's famous name, a single word, simple and recognizable, cool and domineering.

Wan Xiaohu was not used to foreigners being so enthusiastic, so he frowned and accepted the bear hug: "James, are you okay too?"

This white foreigner is James Derek, the general manager of Tiger Ruiya International Investment Company.As an offshore company, Tiger Ruiya doesn't even have a regular office, it's just a shell, used to hide assets for Su Ya and Wan Xiaohu, and invest overseas.

James Derek is a senior manager specializing in financial services, helping to manage the company's economic business.And the short foreigner next to him is Andrew Brown, the general manager of Sasha Entertainment Company. He is also a professional manager. He is currently in charge of Sasha Entertainment's old business and Wan Xiaohu's assignment.

After the meeting, we soon arrived at Sasha Entertainment by car. In a small building by the sea in Santa Monica, Lionsgate was not far to the left, and Summit Entertainment was not far to the right.Santa Monica is a satellite city of Los Angeles, with charming scenery, only a few minutes' drive from Hollywood.

As the radiation area of ​​Hollywood, it is full of large and small companies related to the entertainment industry, and Sasha Entertainment is its lowest-level company.The small building has four floors, and Sasha Entertainment only has four offices on the third floor, and one of them is full of various DVDs, posters and other sundries.

Of course, Wan Xiaohu doesn't care about the scale. What he cares about is the license of Sasha Entertainment, which can legally operate film and television related industries in the United States.

"Andrew, have you completed the adaptation rights of the novel I asked you to buy, as well as the registration of some scripts?" After joining the company, Wan Xiaohu didn't have many places worth investigating, so he turned directly to the topic.

"Although there was a little trouble, it was basically completed, but it cost more money than the original. The film and television adaptation rights of the novel "Shutter Island" were bought by Paramount Company long ago, and adapted into a script. But they didn't intend to start filming, so they sold the script to us and charged a copyright fee of 50 US dollars..." Andrew Brown began to report one by one.

As a well-known director, Wan Xiaohu has watched a lot of movies on his previous track, especially Hollywood movies, and basically caught all of them.Although there are some high-grossing movies with pale content, the memory is already blurred, but it does not prevent him from remembering the name, or whether it is adapted from a novel.

Therefore, the task he gave to Andrew Brown was to buy all the novels and film adaptation rights that Wan Xiaohu remembered that were later adapted into movies and achieved good box office results.He has 3000 million US dollars in capital, and only spent 100 million to buy this company, and the rest is reserved for buying and selling copyrights.

Wan Xiaohu didn't dare to reveal his identity as a reborn person, so he always searched for novels on the Internet first, and if they came out, he would send someone to buy them quickly.

Adapted and successful novels, such as "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings", have either been made into movies, or many have not yet been published. At present, only three have been collected by Wan Xiaohu, and one is just now As mentioned, "Shutter Island", which was adapted into a script by Paramount, is the novel "1408 Phantom of the Dead" by horror master Stephen King, and "The Da Vinci Code" which was just released this year.

"Shutter Island" and "1408 Phantom of the Dead" both bought the copyright for 50 US dollars, while "The Da Vinci Code" was much more expensive.

What is left is a few rough versions of scripts that Wan Xiaohu took the time to write, and they are all registered first. The United States is a country that attaches great importance to copyright protection. Once your script is registered, it will be reviewed by a special organization to confirm that it is an original script. rather than copying the script.

In other words, once Wan Xiaohu registered the scripts, the original authors who wrote these scripts would be judged as plagiarized when they registered again!

Of course, Wan Xiaohu is not very worried that other people's scripts are too similar to his scripts, which will attract the attention of interested people.Hollywood scripts are edited once, twice, three times, or even several times before they finally start shooting. There will be a big gap between the original script and the final movie script.

The script written by Wan Xiaohu is very rough, but there are more than 20 pages of a script, and it is impossible to write all of them in a short time. Currently, I have only written five, and I have another five in the plan. I have not had time to write it. I will wait for "The Wind" to finish filming. After that, create again.

But this time, Wan Xiaohu had two other plans besides checking his script plan.

One is to invest in the first film of Sasha Entertainment.

This movie is the script written by Wan Xiaohu in a hurry. It is known as the longest-running and most classic horror movie series, "Chain Saw".

The original "Saw" is a horror movie directed by James Wynne, written and starred by Ray Whannell, starring Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, etc. It tells a bloody horror movie that happened in the toilet. story.The filming took only 5 days, and the filming took only 18 days. None of the actors had a rehearsal.

Then it created the most classic horror movie, which is a mess.

Wan Xiaohu did a lot of research at that time, so he knew very well about "Chain Saw". This story is about Ray Warner, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, who often had headaches and wondered if he had a tumor. "Chain Saw".

At that time, Ray Whannell's good buddy, movie enthusiast, James Wen, who was born in Malaysia and grew up in Australia, had nothing to do after graduating from school, so the two were tinkering to make a film.

So I raised money to shoot a 9-minute short film, let’s call it "The Prequel of the Saw", and sent it to Lionsgate Films, which does not take the usual path and specializes in releasing heavy-duty horror movies. After watching the short film, Lionsgate Films immediately decided to invest. $120 million for "Saw."

Sasha Entertainment doesn't have any business right now, so they can't just sit and eat, so this simple, low-budget horror drama has become the first choice.

"Andrew, look for a director who is good at making horror films, and try to shoot "Saw" as soon as possible."

"Ok."

0209【It’s better to hang the southeast branch yourself】

After arranging the task of "Chain Saw", Wan Xiaohu started to worry about the second thing.

Find talent.

Dandelion can't afford to spend more money, and the future income will increase, which is enough to support the pace of expansion.Wan Xiaohu came to the United States this time to find professional special effects personnel from Hollywood to set up a special effects company.It is already 2003, and the development of special effects technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. If you don't keep up with this trend, you will fall behind.

Find a group of CG animation special effects talents, and then set up a special effects company in Hollywood to serve the special effects industry in China.Then look for a group of animation talents to make up for the shortcomings of Abao Animation Studio.At the same time, it is also necessary to find a group of software talents who study network video.

I remember that 2004 was the year of the rise of online video, and online video will be a new way of film release and distribution in the future. Wan Xiaohu has already had an idea.

As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts around, and a lot of dollars were poured down. In just one week, James Derek completed all the formalities, and three new companies were affiliated with Tiger Ruiya International Investment Company.Dragon Hero Digital Matte Company, Abao Animation North American Research Center, uTube Company.

Shenlong Huijing and Po Research are located in Hollywood, California, and uTube is located in San Francisco Bay, California.

The reason why the companies are all set up in the United States is entirely because the current domestic mainland is not very attractive to talents. Whether it is special effects talents or animation talents, they are unwilling to work in China.And California is a place where talent gathers, and Hollywood has the most elite group of film talents.Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay has a large number of high-tech elites.

Shenlong Huijing and Abao Research are both shells, slowly recruiting talents.Develop slowly, don't rush.

Wan Xiaohu mainly made two requirements for the development of youTube company. The first is to research online streaming video, allowing users to download, watch and share videos or short clips.There will be two versions, one is to focus on youtube videos from Europe and America, and the other is to focus on domestic Youku videos.

The second requirement is to study the voice of voice chat software. Now the domestic instant messaging software QQ has a very strong development momentum.It has already exceeded [-] million users, and MSN dominates in the United States, but these software are all one-on-one chat software, which is very backward.Even if Wan Xiaohu doesn't want to work too hard, he still can't give up the future benefits of instant messaging.