Chapter 297 No one is optimistic about this project (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

  Chu Huan has her own traffic halo!

   No matter where others are, they can always cause a local sensation.

   Hollywood is no exception.

  Chu Huan first announced that he wanted to sell 30% of the investment share in "Dragon Warrior", which immediately attracted a collective reaction from the top eight in Hollywood. Just when everyone was guessing who would get this good hand, news spread immediately.

  Chu Huan's black-and-white images joined hands with Hollywood's Vertex Pictures to win the big burden "Star Wars" in the hands of 20th Century Fox!

   There is even more gossip that these two companies have spent a total of 1 million US dollars in order to get a project that no one is optimistic about!

   In addition, Chu Huan also sold 30% of the investment share in "Dragon Warrior" to 20th Century Fox for the same price of 1 million!

   Even the Los Angeles Times, the largest newspaper in California, where Los Angeles is located, reported the news!

   "This is a stupid deal that is as greedy as a snake!"

The "Los Angeles Times" determined the nature of this transaction. In their view, Chu Huan sold his investment share in "Dragon Warrior" and only got a mere half a million yuan, and spent another 100 yuan in the hands of 20th Century Fox. Wan bought the rights to "Star Wars", which was a stupid decision at all.

  The reason why it is said to be 500,000 is because they all think that Chu Huan's black and white images and Vertex Pictures are two different individuals.

  Since buying the ownership of "Star Wars" cost 1 million US dollars, and the two companies occupy the same proportion of investment, the money spent is naturally the same.

   Isn’t half of 1 million equal to 500,000?

   "Look, the "Los Angeles Times" said that you are the owner of a film company with no vision, and you actually gave up "Dragon Warrior", which has a high probability of making money, for a "Star Wars" that everyone is not optimistic about!"

  Kelly held the newspaper in her hand and preached to Chu Huan.

  Chu Huan's indifferent sermon: "Typical North American newspaper reporting style!"

  Kelly asked curiously: "What is the reporting style of a typical North American newspaper?"

  Chu Huan explained: "Some people are only willing to believe what they want to believe, while newspapers in North America are only willing to report what they think is correct!"

Then Chu Huan continued to speak disdainfully: "I don't believe that the "Los Angeles Times" will not know about the matter between me and Warner Bros., but they just don't report it, because once the report comes out, it will appear that they are businessmen in North America. Without the spirit of the contract, it would be better to focus on the two films "Dragon Warrior" and "Star Wars."

  Kelly made Chu Huan speechless, after all, she was also from North America.

   "By the way, we spent a lot of money to buy "Star Wars" in the hands of 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 subject.

  Chu Huan came to Los Angeles this time with 30 million US dollars.

  At the time, Vertex itself had a balance of $2.5 million.

   Among them, he sold 30% of the investment share in "Dragon Warrior" and made a profit of 1 million US dollars.

   Then the 1 million can offset the 1 million US dollars that 20th Century Fox bought the "Star Wars" project.

  The rest is that Spielberg's "Jaws" needs an additional investment of 6 million US dollars, and the total investment cost of "Jaws" has come to 9 million US dollars.

  Although the previous purchase of "Star Wars" in the hands of Twentieth Century Fox only cost $1 million, but at the same time, Twentieth Century Fox had to pay the $3.5 million that Twentieth Century Fox had already invested in "Star Wars".

  Chu Huan also invested US$3 million in George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, accounting for 60% of the shares, but Chu Huan did not participate in the management.

Finally, there is an additional investment in the "Star Wars" project. According to George Lucas' prediction, the entire film needs an additional investment of 8.5 million US dollars. In the end, Chu Huan and Kelly decided to invest 4 million US dollars first, and wait for the film to start. Then put in again!

  George Lucas has nothing to say about that either!

  In addition, Chu Huan spent another 10 million US dollars to buy 20% of the profits from "Star Wars" in the hands of George Lucas.

  So after deducting the money spent, Chu Huan's 30 million US dollars was left with 5 million US dollars!

   "Forget the money and stay at Vertex Pictures."

  Chu Huan made some calculations and then preached helplessly.

   Kelly naturally has no objection to this.

   While 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 calmed down, and said to Chu Huan with a smile, "It's almost time."

  The two agreed last night to watch the NBA game together tonight.

  Kelly made an international gesture to Li Xiaolong in her heart, then stood up and said, "Huan, don't forget the banquet with Ellen Hirschfield tomorrow night!"

   After finishing speaking, he left Chu Huan's room directly.

Finally got rid of the burden of "Star Wars" and bought the investment share of "Dragon Warrior" from Chu Huan. Naturally, Alan Hirschfeld was very happy, so he decided to hold a dinner party tomorrow night. Invite Chu Huan and Kelly to participate.

  In fact, not only Chu Huan and Kai Li received the invitation, even Li Xiaolong also received the invitation.

   "What's wrong with Miss Kelly? Why doesn't it feel like she's not very happy?"

   Li Xiaolong looked at Kelly who was leaving, and asked curiously.

  She is not unhappy, but simply does not want to face Qi Chuhuan calmly said: "Maybe it's relatives!"

   Li Xiaolong suddenly realized, and said: "So that's the case, I should have reminded Miss Kelly to drink more hot water just now!"

  Chu Huan: "."

   After a brief chat, the two set off to the home court of the Los Angeles Lakers. At this time, the home court of the Lakers was not the famous Staples Center, but the Forum Stadium.

  The Forum Stadium is located on West Manchester Avenue, across 90th Street, and to its south is the Hollywood Park Racetrack and Casino.

   The entire Forum Stadium 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 is the NBA, but in North America, the NBA can only rank third among the four major professional leagues, after the NFL and MLB. after.

  NFL’s Super Bowl is the biggest event for Americans, and 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 the scene, and the singers who can sing on the Super Bowl are also the hottest singers in North America that year, but this tradition has not always been Yes, before the 1990s, there were very few celebrities participating in the Super Bowl halftime show. 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 pay more and more attention to inviting popular singers. 's appearance.

  Michael Jackson, who performed on the Super Bowl halftime show in 1993, caused a huge sensation.

   Later, the Super Bowl halftime show became a stage for many production companies to release their new movie trailers, and many blockbuster movies will release their new movie trailers here.

  In the future, Apex Pictures will definitely have a lot of movie trailers landing in the Super Bowl!

Forum Stadium is the Lakers' home court, and the attendance rate is not very high at this time. One is because the performance of the Lakers this year is really not very good. At the end of last season, the ancient behemoth Chamberlain retired. This season, the logo man Jerry Weiss If there is no accident, Jerry West will retire after the end of the season.

   Even went to court with Lakers owner Jack Cook over contract issues.

  That’s right, the Bass family hadn’t bought the Lakers at this time. The owner of the Lakers at this time was Jack Cook, who bought it for $5 million in 1965 from a businessman named Shaw.

  By the way, Old Buss bought the Lakers for $67 million in 1979!

   Didn't know that Jenny Buss hadn't walked into the Lakers' arena as an adult, Chu Huan silently thought, Aunt Jenny is a treasure, whoever uses it will agree!

  There is another reason for the low attendance rate. As I said just now, the influence of the NBA in North America at this time is not high. The real influence of the NBA in North America is because of the black and white double evil period.

  Black and white Shuangsha allowed the NBA to expand its influence in North America, and the old hooligan Michael Jordan let the world know about the NBA.

  Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were sitting in the first row. At this time, the Lakers and their opponent, the Bucks, were warming up. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wearing the iconic glasses and the Bucks uniform, walked over.

   "Bruce, when our movie will be released in North America, I can't wait!"

  At this time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's simple and honest appearance is quite different from his image of killing all directions on the court.

  Jabbar used the NBA offseason to participate in Li Xiaolong's "Game of Death", and now he has been waiting for this movie to be released.

  In the NBA, players have a fine tradition of shooting movies. Now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, later Jordan, O'Neal, James, have all participated in the shooting of movies, and even starred in them.

   And Kobe was even more exaggerated, and even made a short film, which won an Oscar statuette.

  In addition, in order to promote itself, the NBA also invested in the shooting of two basketball-themed movies, telling the story of a black kid who accidentally got a pair of Jordan's sneakers, and then made a big splash in the NBA.

  In these two movies, there are many NBA players participating!

  Li Xiaolong said with a smile: "It will be released in North America in May this year!"

   Hearing what Li Xiaolong said, Kareem 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.

   Then Li Xiaolong introduced Chu Huan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

  Hearing that Chu Huan is Li Xiaolong's good friend, Kareem immediately asked excitedly: "Huan, are you also a martial arts master?"

  Chu Huan shook his head with a smile and said, "I'm not, just like you, I'm just very interested in kung fu!"

   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar laughed and said, "Then you are definitely not my opponent!"

  Looking at Jabbar's height of more than two meters and his black and strong body, Chu Huan said: "You have no chance to get close to me!"

  With Qin Peng and others present, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took care of things easily, and he had no way to fight Chu Huan.

   It's just that these words fell into Jabbar's ears, but he thought that Chu Huan, like many Chinese people, was habitually modest!

  The three didn't chat a few words, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returned to the court to continue warming up.

   Soon the game officially started. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar killed all sides on the court, and the current Lakers were powerless to fight back with all kinds of hooks.

   The game is not very exciting, but the vision of muscle collision can give people a feeling of blood spurting, which is much better than Chu Huan's NBA before his rebirth. Well, Chu Huan didn't watch it at that time.

  Chu Huan didn't know if Jack Cook was on the scene, and if he saw the power of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in this game, he recruited Kareem Abdul-Jabbar into the Lakers.

   Just as Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were enjoying the game, a voice suddenly came from beside them.

   "Bruce!"

  Hearing someone greet him, Li Xiaolong turned his head and saw a fat white man sitting behind him.

   Li Xiaolong was in a trance, thinking of the identity of the other party.

   "Jackson!"

  The two sat there and had a hug.

  Afterwards, Li Xiaolong immediately introduced to Chu Huan: "A Huan, this is Jackson from Flash Film Industry, an independent Hollywood production company, and he is my good friend in Hollywood!"

   "Jackson, this is Chu Huan, the boss of Xiangjiang Black and White Image, and he is also my good brother!"

  Jackson immediately showed a playful expression when he heard that the person sitting next to Li Xiaolong was actually Chu Huan, who was very famous in Hollywood during this period.

   "So you are Chu Huan, you don't look like such a stupid person!"

  Hearing the other party's unscrupulous words, the expressions of Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong suddenly changed.

  Jackson laughed indifferently, and said, "I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding!"

  Since the other party can be so unscrupulous, Chu Huan will naturally not spoil him: "You shouldn't be a fat man by listening to the voice!"

   Calling a person fat in North America is the same as calling a girl who loves beauty ugly and dark in China.

  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 disappeared immediately, and his skin, which was already fair, became even whiter now.

   His chest was heaving violently.

   "You are too rude, I just made a North American joke for you, how can you insult people?"

  Jackson suppressed the anger in his heart, and preached to Chu Huan in dissatisfaction.

  Chu Huan spread his hands, and said with a smile: "Then you are too heartless. I just made a Huaguo-style joke with you just now. How can I insult you!"

"Hmph!" Jackson snorted coldly: "Am I wrong? You are not stupid to sell the investment share of Bruce's "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 didn't bother arguing with this kind of person, so he just said calmly: "You are indeed a fat man, and I'm not wrong!"

  "I" Jackson looked at Chu Huan angrily, "When "Star Wars" is released in the future, the money you lose will make you laugh!"

  Chu Huan had already turned his gaze back to the arena, and said calmly: "Even if "Star Wars" is released, you are still a fat man!"

   Having said that, Chu Huan turned to look at Jackson contemptuously, and added: "And he's an ugly fat man!"

  Jackson immediately exploded with anger. He wanted to get up to argue with Chu Huan, but Qin Peng, who noticed the situation here, pushed him directly on the chair. Jackson wanted to struggle, but he couldn't break free from Qin Peng's wrist!

  Finally, the game was not over yet, and Jackson left in dismay.

   "It seems that the whole of Hollywood is not very optimistic about your decision this time!"

   Li Xiaolong sat next to Chu Huan, speaking with a smile.

   "Brother Long, it seems that your vision for 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 doesn't meet a few scumbags in her life. How can a man not meet a few bad friends in his life? Fortunately, this friend's friendship is not too deep!"

  Chu Huan joked: "Just now you were still saying that the other party is your good friend!"

  Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "Then how should I introduce it? Could it be that this is a fat man I know?"

  Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong looked at each other and smiled, but they didn't take this matter to heart.

   It's just that when the game was over and Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong drove back together, Qin Peng who was driving suddenly preached to Chu Huan.

   "Young Master Huan, there is a car behind us that has been following us since we came out of the gymnasium!"

Chu Huan's complexion changed slightly. It was not the first time he came to North America. In fact, Chu Huan always cherished the same thing about North America in this era. This kind of vigilance is only the proliferation of guns.

  Let Chu Huan have no sense of security in this country.

   At this time, someone was suddenly being targeted. Without knowing the identity of the other party, Chu Huan did not intend to tangle with the other party, but said: "Get rid of that car!"

  Qin Peng nodded and accelerated the car.

  However, Qin Peng is obviously still not familiar with this place. He didn't get rid of the car behind him in a short time.

  Depending on the situation, it is impossible for Qin Peng to get rid of the opponent in a short time.

   "Young Master Huan, it's okay to hand over the car behind to Song Lusheng and the others, no matter how many people are sitting in that car, whether they have weapons or not!"

  Qin Peng preached calmly at this time.

  Chu Huan nodded. Chu Huan would never express his opinion on such a professional matter. Since Qin Peng said there is no problem, there must be no problem!

   Then Qin Peng took out the walkie-talkie and told Song Lusheng and others who were driving behind the decision.

   Immediately, Song Lusheng's excited voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Don't worry, it's a small problem!"

   Immediately afterwards, Chu Huan heard the harsh sound of a car colliding behind him.

  Li Xiaolong's face also changed slightly at this time. Although Li Xiaolong has acted as a hero 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 around, there will be no problem!"

  Chu Huan preached calmly.

  Li Xiaolong could only nod his head.

   Soon, Qin Peng said that he could no longer see the car that had been following them.

  The car of Song Lusheng and others also followed at this time.

   Obviously solved the problem.

   "Brother Long, I'm afraid you should be more careful when you stay in North America!" Chu Huan said to Li Xiaolong while sitting in the car.

  Li Xiaolong said helplessly: "If it's not for making money, I really don't understand why so many people like to come here!"

  Chu Huan laughed after listening, not only Li Xiaolong didn't understand, but Chu Huan didn't understand either!

   "By the way, A Huan, I think it's better to go to the police station to talk about the matter just now, otherwise the follow-up will be more troublesome!"

  Li Xiaolong reminded Chu Huandao.

  Chu Huan also thought the same thing in his heart. After all, this is not his home field. Although it is okay to make a big fuss, it is not necessary. Is there a cash machine? It is not a problem 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 morning of the next day!

  Kelly called Chu Huan, saying that the matter had been dealt with, and it was already handled without Song Lusheng and others going to the police station.

   During this period, not only the Xiangjiang police were dishonest, but also the North American police.

  At the same time, the police who arrived at the scene yesterday also found the gun and DP in the car, so naturally there is no problem.

   And the other party's identity, Chu Huan, also found out from Kaili. It was Jackson, the owner of the flash movie industry that he met in the arena last night.

   Independent filmmakers don't have a lot of money!

  Chu Huan told Song Lusheng and the others about the results of the matter, and Song Lusheng and the others smiled and said that they just bumped into each other yesterday at the right time, and didn't make a move!

  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 didn't have a good impression of this country.

  In the evening, Chu Huan and Kelly attended Ellen Hirschfeld's dinner party in costumes.

  As the president of 20th Century Fox, his dinner party is naturally full of Hollywood celebrities.

  Chu Huan and Kelly stepped into the venue and saw Li Xiaolong surrounded by a group of people. Standing beside Li Xiaolong, Zou Wenhuai had a red face. At this time, he played the role of a courtesan.

  Chu Huan took a look and didn't know those people. It was Kaili who reminded Chu Huan beside Chu Huan that these people were all Hollywood actors.

  Since I have never heard of the name, it is not very famous.

   But in other circles, Chu Huan still saw a somewhat familiar figure.

   Sean Connery!

   Sean Connery was already famous in the 1950s, and later became famous in Hollywood by playing 007 in the first 007 movie "Dr. 007 Connaught"!

However, Chu Huan has never seen this movie. His impression of Sean Connery only stays in two movies, one is with Nicholas Zhao Si. No, it should be "Into the Deadly Island" co-starred by Nicolas Cage ", and another one is "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" starring Harrison Ford.

  Thinking of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", Chu Huan thought that this series is also the best-selling movie series in North America, and in the future, Jiaku Consulting Company can pay attention to this project.

   But it seems 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.

   I think there is a high possibility that this series will fall on the head of Vertex Pictures.

   "What are you thinking?" At this moment, Kelly touched Chu Huan lightly and asked softly.

   "Nothing!" Chu Huan replied with a smile.

  The two of them entered the ballroom and immediately attracted the attention of many people. If Li Xiaolong attracted the attention of those 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 in vain.

  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 really being taken advantage of!

  That company doesn’t have one or two films. Now that the big boss has appeared, it is natural to go up to talk immediately, hoping to get Chu Huan or Vertex Pictures to accept it.

This is not the first time a Hollywood film company has done this, and naturally it cannot be the last time. In another time and space, after Zou Wenhuai used Cheng Long's prestige to rejuvenate Golden Harvest, he immediately launched another attack on Hollywood. .

   But that time, although he launched Cheng Long, he wanted to participate in Hollywood productions more, so he came to Hollywood waving a check.

  Although they have invested in a lot of movies, except for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the others are all low-income investments.

   To put it simply, Hollywood film studios, with Zou Wenhuai's banknotes, experimented with a batch of projects that they couldn't determine!

   "I feel like they're taking us for granted!"

  After dealing with a group of people, Kelly helplessly preached to Chu Huan.

  Chu Huan smiled indifferently and said, "Who is the one who has been taken advantage of, we will not know until the movie is released!"

  Kelly said helplessly: "I have already talked to George. According to his current progress, it will take at least two or three years before "Star Wars" is released!"

  Chu Huan laughed, and said: "You can focus on the "Jaws" project. As long as the first film of Vertex Pictures is successful, no one will look down on Vertex Pictures again."

  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's side.

   "A 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 of the Anti-Dou Toy City in Xiangjiang has not been resolved yet!

   "I still feel more comfortable going back to Xiangjiang!" Chu Huan laughed.

  Li Xiaolong dragged Chu Huan aside and said softly, "When we go back, can Ding Pei join the black and white video?"

   Also, the next chapter is at eight in the morning~~

  

  

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