Super Zoo

Eat, drink and have fun. Among the four joyful things in life, eating must be the first.

Ever since Hong Feifei joined the zoo, Su Ming's reception work has been completely relaxed, and he has begun his career as a "lazy government". When guests come, he, the boss, does not go shopping with them to watch the scenery, but directly leaves Tingfeng Pavilion and lets Hong Feifei Put on a table of food and wine.

Fortunately, Hong Feifei is good at sex and art. Eating the food she cooks is not only a feast for the taste, but also a visual enjoyment. There are eight major cuisines plus a Hong family's private kitchen. They are good at everything. People from all walks of life who come to Tingfeng Pavilion not only don't feel slighted, but all praise it.

Uncle Cage is no exception. On the day she arrived, Hong Feifei unscrupulously showed off her special skills and prepared a table of eighteen dishes for Uncle Cage, all with pufferfish as the main ingredient. After the pufferfish feast, Uncle Cage was completely fascinated by Chinese cuisine.

Su Ming followed suit and was able to make eighteen dishes with different colors, flavors, and aromas from the tiny pufferfish. For diners, this opportunity was rare. He almost swallowed it with his own tongue. .

But he was very dissatisfied with this and protested: Why don't he usually get this treatment? Hong Feifei said with disdain that because you are not a big star...

Su Ming was speechless.

I don’t know how many private goods and unique skills Hong Feifei has hidden. Tingfengge Restaurant is like an amazing magnet. Cage came to Yangchuan City for three or four days and did not leave the zoo at all.

Every day is a one-on-one and full of expectation. I get up before dawn in the morning to have a breakfast of snacks with local flavors. I then go back to sleep in my cage. I sleep until noon, brush my teeth and wash my face, and go straight to Tingfeng Pavilion to enjoy a delicious meal with Chinese characteristics. After dinner, I spent the afternoon in Tingfeng Pavilion drinking tea, eating snacks and listening to the parrots talking. In the evening I had some snacks, then went to the back mountain to go shopping in Taoyuan. I came back at ninety o'clock, just in time for midnight snack.

Under Feifei Hong's cooking skills, Uncle Cage has long forgotten God's teachings and has no taboos at all. Especially when it comes to barbecue, he can fly in the sky, swim in the water, and crawl on the ground. Once his temperament improves, he will go fishing in Shuijun Lake with his own fishing rod. Once, Su Ming even saw him walking out of the back mountain in disgrace. Carrying a bag of scorpions dug out from somewhere... It is said that these things are fried in oil and crispy... Su Ming ate a lot of them together, and they tasted like chicken drumsticks...

Cage came to China without any publicity, and he dressed up in disguise every day at the zoo. He wore big black sunglasses most of the time, and lived a peaceful life for a few days.

However, there is no airtight wall in the world. Although Cage had food, accommodation and transportation in the zoo, his whereabouts were still discovered by the media. That afternoon, the uncle was wearing round-framed black sunglasses and a Tang suit, looking like a blind fortune teller at the Temple of Heaven. He was sitting in the Tingfeng attic drinking tea. Suddenly, a large group of reporters rushed up and stole the news with lightning speed. Suzuki set up his long spear and short cannon...

The scene was so calm that even Cage was startled and thought he was filming a movie.

The interview lasted almost ten minutes before the zoo's security guards finally arrived and 'escorted' Cage from the scene, leaving behind a large group of reporters who still had unfinished business.

This unexpected commotion reminded Su Ming that Cage was a big shot after all. He didn't bring bodyguards, so he couldn't ignore him. If something happened at the zoo, he would be the one who would be embarrassed.

The Luhr bodyguard team had just come out, and it came in handy. Cage was assigned four "security consultants" who were trained according to the requirements of world-class standards.

Seeing these energetic and professional security consultants, Su Ming suddenly thought of Lyudmila who was far away in Ukraine.

I don’t know how many bad guys this female bear has killed that offended her!

Wish you peace.

The news soon carried the news that Nicolas Cage had mysteriously appeared in Yangchuan City.

Just as Su Ming expected, although Cage has received a lot of bad movies in the past few years, and has not even had a decent work in recent years, and seems to have faded away from the big screen, his popularity in China is still very high.

Especially among those in their thirties and forties, they have a huge fan base. This is a consumer group with great economic potential.

Many media have speculated that this international superstar suddenly appeared at the zoo. Does he have any new filming plans?

Although it has been silent for a long time, the series of classic images he has starred in will not be erased. A truly outstanding actor will be remembered in time.

The headquarters of Taoyuan Pictures is also in Yangchuan City. Is there any connection between the two?

A reporter also contacted Su Ming and asked him whether Taoyuan Pictures plans to cooperate with Cage to release a new film.

Since Zootopia, the industry and the market have been quite curious about this blockbuster film and television company that can use real animals to make films, and have been looking forward to Taoyuan Pictures' new actions.

In fact, from the perspective of a movie fan, Su Ming himself hopes that Cage will make a new film. Some actors rely on hard work, and some rely on talent. Cage obviously has both. The only thing missing is luck.

Strictly speaking, it's not that he lacks good luck, but that he is too unlucky. As long as he has less bad luck, he can easily turn around again.

From the perspective of the company's leader, Su Ming could not act impulsively just because of his personal preferences. Taoyuan Film and Television's first film earned the money it needed to survive. What needs to be done now is to use this money to cultivate internal strength as soon as possible, lay a solid foundation, and focus on cultivating internal talents and improving its own structure. Therefore, it has been silent to the outside world.

When chatting with Su Ming, Cage himself also intentionally or unintentionally turned the topic to filming several times. He came to China from afar, of course, not just for food, drink and fun, but also hoped to find new opportunities.

Su Ming considered that it is not suitable to invest in movies again at present.

The inspection team has not yet returned from their studies. If they act rashly, the talent pool will not keep up. In addition, he does not care about the money for small productions, and he does not have enough money for large productions. Su Ming cannot accept the way of spending 100 million or 200 million at a time to support his son like Long Wu.

In this regard, Cage has made a good relationship. As long as he stays in the circle in the future, there will always be a time for cooperation.

Su Ming replied to the reporter that Taoyuan Pictures' main focus recently was to cooperate with Huaxia Star to do a good job in the promotion and distribution of the new film.

With this casual mention, the media remembered that Huaxia Star's new film, Legend of the Gods, which is known as the first domestic fantasy film, is about to be released, and a large part of the "roles" are also real animals from the zoo.

It is another movie starring real animals, although this time the animals are not the protagonists... The protagonists are a large group of humans dressed up as various birds, beasts and monsters.

So, the angle of the report shifted slightly, following Taoyuan Pictures, and turned to Huaxia Star's new film.

Legend of the Gods.

As early as half a week ago, after Su Ming gave his opinion, Long Wu urgently convened an internal meeting of Huaxia Star to study whether to re-promote it according to Taoyuan Films' opinions.

At the meeting, a few people agreed. Taoyuan Film and Television's analysis is indeed foresighted. Theoretically, re-promotion can indeed make Legend of the Gods play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses;

But most people are neutral about this. After all, re-promotion consumes too much manpower and material resources and is too risky.

Except for a few senior people with particularly long qualifications and close personal relationships with the Xiang family, most people are reluctant to express their opinions even if they agree in their hearts.

This kind of meeting for expressing opinions has always been large in the middle and small at both ends, with the most neutral people and few people in favor and against.

Strictly speaking, only one person strongly opposed it.

It just so happens that this person is very important to Long Wu and has a very high status within Huaxiaxing Company.

Long Wu's wife.

Although Mrs. Xiang may be too strong and aggressive in character, this strong woman has indeed made an indelible contribution to Huaxiaxing's current scale after decades of ups and downs.

Strong women are inevitably overconfident, not only for the company, but also for their own precious son.

Taoyuan's suggestions pointed out two points more directly. First, Xiang Zuo's acting skills are weak, and he should follow the route of idol stars and promote a positive and sunny image. Second, as a magical blockbuster, even without the gimmick of "The Legend of Conferred Gods", it is only at the passing line.

These two points made the strong Xiang Tai unhappy.

Mrs. Xiang was full of confidence in the Legend of Conferred Gods and her son before. Now it is like pouring a bucket of cold water on her head. It's strange that she can be happy.

Although she opposed it, she did not target Su Ming himself. Su Ming was helping out of friendship, and she could at least distinguish this. Instead, she talked about the matter and believed that Taoyuan Film and Television had a short time of establishment and lacked industry experience. These suggestions were just talk on paper and did not need to be taken too seriously.

It is not unreasonable for Mrs. Xiang to dare to go her own way.

The actual investment of this film is about 150 million yuan. According to previous estimates, as long as the box office can reach 400 million yuan, the cost can be recovered.

According to experience, even if it is a truly bad movie, with so many first-line celebrities and special effects, plus the influence of Huaxia Star, it is not a big problem to collect 400 to 500 million yuan nationwide.

This is a relatively safe approach. I dare not say that it will definitely make a lot of money, but at least it will not lose money.

On the contrary, according to Taoyuan's suggestion, it will cost tens of millions to re-promote it, and the total box office must be increased to about 700 million accordingly to recover the cost and make money.

And once it is re-promoted, it is tantamount to admitting that Huaxia Star deceived the audience before, which is tantamount to slapping itself in the face. The so-called re-promotion is no different from an apology. It may even affect the trust of mainland audiences in Huaxia Star.

Several factors are superimposed, and the strong boss lady is stubborn in the meeting, and finally decided to promote and release it as planned.