Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 267: Public Opinion Shift
2005/ 6/ 10

New Line Cinema, based in Santa Barbara, California, held a surprise press conference.

“Today, we would like to officially inform all media friends that New Line Cinema will cooperate with China’s Xingchen Entertainment Film and Television Company to jointly develop the “A Quiet Place” series of films.

The film director is the famous director Steve Chang, who has previously made masterpieces such as "The Darkness" and "The Shallows". He is the youngest master of horror films in the world. New Line firmly believes that this collaboration between the two parties, "A Quiet Place", will also become a milestone in the history of horror films..."

The press conference was not long and the scene was not large; it was just an announcement to the public.

New Line is not a big company and is considered second-tier in Hollywood, so this press conference did not cause any waves.

Isn't it just cooperating with a Chinese company?
Except in certain horror movie fan circles.

Although those who love horror movies are a minority, their loyalty is very high.

"Darkness" has a large number of fans in North America, and it just so happens that "Darkness 2" is about to land in North America, so it is a time full of expectations.

Suddenly I heard that the director of "The Darkness" was going to tinker with another series of horror films, and I immediately got excited.

Both "The Darkness" and "The Shallows" are very much to their liking, and they are immediately full of expectations for "A Quiet Place" mentioned by Guangguang.

……

Inside Guangguang, a group of senior executives are holding a meeting.

The topic of discussion was the future cooperation with Xingchen Entertainment, or in other words, the cooperation with Zhang Chen.

Those attending the meeting were the most powerful people in New Line, the only exception being Pete.

As the liaison between Zhang Chen and him, he had the opportunity to attend such a meeting.

“We don’t know yet how effective “A Quiet Place” will be. I suggest that we wait until the film is released before deciding on further cooperation with each other…” an old man said in a deep voice.

But another person immediately expressed his objection: "If that time comes, it will probably be too late. There are so many film companies that want to cooperate with Zhang. What advantages will New Line have by then?"

"It's still a bit risky to make a decision right now..."

Several big men were arguing, and one of them saw Pete and suddenly asked, "Everyone, why don't we listen to the opinions of professionals? Pete, tell me what you think?"

Noticing that all eyes were on him, Pete took a deep breath.

"Hello, Boss. That woman Diane is Zhang Chen's agent in North America. I found out that in addition to the "A Quiet Place" she gave us, she recently registered another script called "Rampage."

After hearing what Pete said, several bigwigs present suddenly became interested.

Pitt continued: "When I was communicating with Zhang Chen recently about cooperation, he mentioned that in addition to the "A Quiet Place" series, he has a bigger plan, which he calls the "Monster Universe". In his words, it is not a series of films, but can be made into many series, a bit like Marvel's superhero universe..."

The concept of the universe has appeared in comics a long time ago. Marvel often has superheroes from several universes competing against each other in comics, so when Pitt brought up the universe, everyone present understood.

“I personally think that with Zhang Chen’s appeal in the field of monster movies, his Monster Universe will definitely be good, and we should be the only ones who know this news now.

Dear masters, if we don’t enter now, we may not have tickets when we want to enter later.”

Pete finished speaking and looked at the big guys.

The big boss who had asked for his opinion earlier also stood up and said, “I think Pete is right, we need this ticket.

Look at Columbia, they got all the copyrights of "The Darkness" outside of China because they have a branch in China, and then look at how much money they made from this movie.

In fact, we were the first Hollywood company to cooperate with Zhang, and the money should have belonged to us. "

After this sentence was said, all the bigwigs present were speechless.

Everyone was thinking silently.

Sure enough, to convince these old guys, you still have to use benefits. No matter how many words you say, they are not as effective as a single word of praise.

……

Domestic
The country is not sensitive or timely about news from Hollywood.

The news was reported back to the country the next day.

This news did not cause any ripples in Hollywood.

But it caused a huge wave in the country.

[New Line Cinema announced that it will cooperate with Star Entertainment on the new film "A Quiet Place"]

[The first Sino-US co-production is about to be born]

[New Line Studios and Star Entertainment become partners, the new movie "A Quiet Place" is a Sino-US co-production]

【Domestic horror films rush overseas】

For a time, the media were reporting on this incident extensively, and this news almost occupied the headlines of major entertainment sections.

In the office of Xingchen Entertainment, there were more than a dozen newspapers on Dong Jianqiang's desk, and this news was almost always in a prominent position on each newspaper.

Dong Jianqiang smiled widely as he flipped through the pages.

Of course there was deliberate guidance on their part, but the majority of the time it was just the media following suit.

This was an era when foreign monks could chant sutras.

Hollywood still holds a very high status in the minds of Chinese people.

Unlike later generations, Hollywood movies were disliked in various ways, and mermaids were actually black. Even as a foreigner I feel worried for you, do you know how to make movies?

Because of this piece of news, the voices that had originally been pessimistic about Xingchen Entertainment disappeared collectively, and the wind direction suddenly changed.

The various media outlets that had been doing their utmost to discredit Zhang Chen a few days ago suddenly changed their stance and began to seriously introduce the past of Star Entertainment and recount its past successes. It seemed that overnight, Star Entertainment had become the leader of private film and television companies.

"Tsk tsk tsk~"

Chen Xi made a strange noise while reading the newspaper. "The change of stance is so quick. I have to admire him. He really has no shame at all."

"Don't you know what kind of morals the media has? This is all normal operation. They don't have moral integrity at all."

"Why do I feel that what was previously suppression has now turned into flattery?"

"Haha, the imperialists' selflessness will never die~"

The group of people were laughing happily in the office. Xingchen Entertainment had been suffering from media controversy for a while, but today they were finally able to feel proud.

Jingle bell bell~
The front desk's phone has not stopped ringing since this morning. A large number of media outlets want to interview Zhang Chen. Even if Zhang Chen is not there, Dong Jianqiang will do.

"Sorry, we are not accepting interviews for the time being. We will hold a press conference to make a formal response later. Please pay attention to relevant reports."

The lady at the front desk would answer the phone mechanically every time. After more than a dozen times, she had lost all hope.

As various media outlets reported the incident extensively, the CEOs of other film and television companies were all feeling jealous.

We are still working hard to make box office money, but others have already started to earn foreign exchange.

(End of this chapter)