Director’s Legend

"Haha, it doesn't matter whether I think too little or too much. The important thing is that Dream Chasing Entertainment Group is a very good candidate for cooperation. I have a thousand ways to block your plan to acquire shares of Lions Gate, but I It’s just that the spokesperson objected twice, because I know that the object I want to cooperate with is Dream Chaser, not a small Lionsgate. Those shares are gifts from me to you, showing my sincerity.”

Carl said calmly.

Shao Shuaijun was speechless for a while. Are the shares I bought with money a gift from you? How can these capitalists talk without back pain? Sometimes Shao Shuaijun is really too lazy to talk to this kind of person, so he immediately rolled his eyes: "After going around for a long time, how do we cooperate?"

Carl's expression was as usual: "It's very simple, I will sell the shares I hold in Lions Gate to you, and you Dream Chasing Entertainment Group will join hands with me to arrange a situation and use financial leverage to invite Sony into the urn!"

Blinking and blinking, Shao Shuaijun spread his hands: "I'm sorry, I don't know what financial leverage is or what, we never break the law in normal operation, and I have never participated in the company's operation from the beginning, and the company's decisions are made by the management. It's useless to find me when you're making a decision."

"I know it's useless to find you." Carl agreed with Shao Shuaijun's self-evaluation, "I will meet with the executives of Dream Chasing Entertainment in person, and I just hope to agree with you, because I know that this company can rise. It has something to do with your always superior vision. As long as you don't object, I will persuade them."

Shao Shuaijun remained silent.

Carl seems to know what Shao Shuaijun is worried about: "My nickname is indeed not good. Corporate predators, but you should know about my hedge fund. The funds I have are huge. Many shareholders are willing to trust me and give me the money to operate , I also bring them billions of dollars in profits every year. I never cheat my partners, this is my business belief!"

The tone seemed sincere.

Shao Shuaijun was a little moved.

In fact, Shao Shuaijun was moved when Karl said that he wanted to team up with Sony. Let's say in Hollywood, a film company that doesn't like Summit Entertainment. Too much. And Summit Entertainment. In other words, the companies that Shao Shuaijun hates the most are Sony, the parent company of Columbus Films, and 20th Century Fox Films.

Ever since Summit Entertainment acquired Marvel Comics, the Marvel Cinematic Universe project has been Summit Entertainment's most important project. The distribution rights of Iron Man and Avengers were resolved amicably with Paramount. Negotiations with New Line for Blade were going well. And Lions Gate also successfully resolved the copyrights of The Punisher, Humanoid, and Kick-Ass. Only Sony would not let go of Spider-Man and Soul Chariot, and Fox would not return the X-Men.

If it weren't for Fox's business problems, even the negotiation of the Fantastic Four would not be willing to start.

In fact, in order to get back the copyright. Shao Shuaijun is willing to pay a huge price, and the complete camp of Marvel superheroes will earn back the loss. The problem is that these film companies don't want to see Summit Entertainment grow bigger, and they don't even want to start negotiations. In this regard, Shao Shuaijun has nothing to do. This is not a matter of two children fighting for candy, or grabbing it if they don't come.

Now that he heard that Karl was going to play Sony, Shao Shuaijun unconsciously became interested.

Turning his eyes, Shao Shuaijun suppressed what he wanted to say, and said instead: "Mr. Carl, I think I should go back and think carefully before I give you an answer."

Carl shook his wine glass and signaled for a toast: "Naturally, I wish you good news."

After leaving the restaurant, Shao Shuaijun got into the car and asked the driver to go to the airport.

He was very uncomfortable during this meal, feeling that his every move was under Karl's control. These old foxes were really scary.

If he made his own decision, he might have to count the money for him if he was sold.

This kind of thing has to go back to discuss with his wife. Li Xiuxiu is able to support Dream Chasing Entertainment Group, so she is naturally a superhuman figure.

That night, Shao Shuaijun flew to Santa Monica on a special plane, and handed over the script of "The Avengers" to Luis Leinard. After Mitchell, Louis is another old partner of Shao Shuaijun in Hollywood. He has cooperated in many films, and Louis is the producer and casting director.

This time, Lewis will not only serve as the producer and casting director of "The Avengers", but also as the executive assistant director of the film. The cooperation with Shao Shuaijun has allowed Louis to accumulate a lot of experience in the field of directing. He already has a plan to write a good book and direct himself in the next two years.

Shao Shuaijun gave a lot of support for this, and as long as Louis wrote a good script, he would let Louis direct the movie.

"Louis, you prepare first. Actors who should be signed, like Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jack Gyllenhaal, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, sign now Otherwise, after "Thor" and "Captain America" ​​are released, the actor's value will increase again."

"Okay." When Shao Shuaijun finished his explanation and was about to leave, Louis remembered something again and asked, "Shao, "The Avengers" will be filmed next year. In this blank schedule, do you have a filming plan? If not, I I may be busy preparing for "The Warren Files", and when you come to me again, I may not have time."

"The Warren Files" is a book that Mitchell bought in 2009. At that time, a screenwriter named Tony DeRosa Grund came to Summit Entertainment to deliver the script. He voted for three companies in total, New Line Studios, Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment.

New Line was not interested, Lionsgate did not offer a high price, and Mitchell was not prepared to offer a high price at the time. After showing the book to Shao Shuaijun, Shao Shuaijun liked the story very much, so he bought the book for a high price. Because the 2010 film period expired, the script was put on hold for the time being, and it was not put on the agenda again until this year.

The director has been confirmed, and Chinese director Wen Ziren was invited to direct. Wen Ziren grew up in Australia. His representative work is the world-renowned "saw".

Hearing what Louis said, Shao Shuaijun looked up and thought for a while, he was a little undecided, and after a while he said: "Save the schedule for me, I really have a plan, and I didn't plan to put it on the agenda now. But you are right, Before "The Avengers", I had a large period of blank time, even if it was for my wife and children, there was still room. In this way, the "Night Watchman" I directed before was the first imax live-action movie, but it failed at the box office. I I did a lot of homework to revise, and finally decided on a plan. "Night Watchman" does not need to be overthrown and re-shot, just need to shoot some additional shots, re-edit the original copy, and it will be a complete new movie. I will try it as soon as possible. I will hand over the supplementary script to you, and you will help me gather the crew again."

"Night Watchman" is Shao Shuaijun's thorn in his heart. In recent years, he has been going smoothly, but he has always been worried about "Night Watchman", which can be said to be his debut work. Almost as soon as he had free time, he began to analyze the success and failure of "Night Watchman" and began to revise it. Just the notes on this movie filled several notebooks.

If you count a large number of shot albums, it is absolutely amazing.

Counting his two lifetimes, he was a very simple person, living a low-key to boring life, and his time was taken up by movies. Perhaps it is this kind of love for movies that allows him to maintain his great enthusiasm for movies, constantly modify and perfect the shots, and make the original movies more perfect.

But making these movies that should have been popular can't hide that he hasn't had a movie that is completely his own to succeed. Therefore, for "The Night Watchman", Shao Shuaijun has never let go of it for a day. Today, with Louis' reminder, he finally decided to make "The Night Watchman" a second time, and once again hit the original.

The time was already October 1, 2010, and the era he knew was about to enter an unknown journey. It's time to start a new journey. In this journey, he wants to build a superhero empire and a movie dream journey of his own!

"Let "Night Watchman" regain confidence!"

The night sky made Shao Shuaijun extraordinarily awake, lying on the sofa, tossing and turning without any sleepiness.

The time difference between the eastern and western hemispheres is nearly ten hours.

After returning to China, Shao Shuaijun was about to have a good sleep, when Li Xiuxiu puffed out his stomach and told him the news. Today, the 47th Golden Horse Awards announced the nomination list. "Old Boy" directed by Shao Shuaijun won Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Huang Bo), Best Supporting Actor (Xu Zhen), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Lu Le), Most Seven nominations for Best Editing.

This is the first contact with the Golden Horse Awards since the "Night Duty Man" scolding battle. The Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee can't wait to announce that Shao Shuaijun has confirmed his attendance at the Golden Horse Awards.

"Seven nominations, does this count as comforting me?" Shao Shuaijun yawned.

Li Xiuxiu is now visibly plump, with a maternal glow on her face: "Can I comfort you, if you don't speak these few years, Sister Mei won't allow films under Chasing Dream Golden Harvest to participate in the Golden Horse Awards, and the Golden Horse Awards will be coming soon It has become a decoration, and it is becoming more and more niche. After finally resolving it with you, if you don’t give enough sweetness, what should you do if you turn your face again.”

"As for it, I never held any grudges, nor did I ask them not to participate."

"You **** oss still uses talking, you mix Chinese movies, a few people don't look at your face and act."

"My wife, don't say that. Make it look like I'm a dictator. I'm a nice guy." Shao Shuaijun knelt down and touched Li Xiuxiu's stomach. "Son, do you think dad is a nice guy?"

After getting bored with Li Xiuxiu for a while, Shao Shuaijun took a shower and fell asleep. He went to the United States for the past two days and didn't have time to deal with jet lag, so he was very sleepy. The next day, Shao Shuaijun, who was refreshed, told Li Xiuxiu about Carl Icahn's plan, and Li Xiuxiu immediately called the company's executives to the villa for a meeting.

Of course, the meeting was already two days away.

And from October 1st to 3rd, "Warm Corpse" won the box office championship this weekend with 24.56 million US dollars, which far exceeded the company's expected 15 million US dollars opening result. A good start! (to be continued..)