Fooling Huayu for Thirty Years

Chapter 662 Thirty Million Tickets! If you want to poach Feng Xiaogang, invest in the TV series "The Message" first!

"Breaking 100 million! 'The Message' is aiming for 200 million!"

"Continuing its explosive popularity, 'The Message' has become a benchmark for domestic spy dramas!"

"Exploring the details of the success of 'The Message'!"

"The two leading actresses' acting skills were truly breathtaking!"

Zhou Xun and Li Bingbing will compete for the Golden Horse Award!

The success of "The Message" can be said to have been achieved almost without any obstacles.

Ma Xun's early planning was excellent, and spy dramas are already a popular genre right now.

Not only movies, but also many TV series are being launched one after another.

It's not really fair to say that the market is overheated.

In fact, this has always been the case in the film industry. Just like in Hong Kong in the past, whenever a genre of film became popular, they would continuously produce films of that genre at a high intensity.

It's important to understand that Hong Kong's genre films aren't broad categories, but rather very specific subcategories. For example, when Stephen Chow became famous, what truly made him a star was actually that knock-off of Fatty Wong's "God of Gamblers," or even something that was directly linked to that film.

In reality, Stephen Chow's work falls into a niche genre, which is gambling films with added superpowers. In fact, this superpower even continues the style and elements of his previous film, "New Fist of Fury".

There were gambling films long before Stephen Chow, and even Fatty Wong's "God of Gamblers" wasn't exactly a new genre.

But after this movie became a hit, it was truly amazing!

Simply put, ever since this movie became a hit, investors won't even look at gambling movies if you don't include the element of superpowers!

Anyway, this type of film, with gambling and superpowers, was made so many times that everyone was almost sick of seeing it, and that's when they stopped making films like that.

Then came the "Young and Dangerous" series. Once a movie became popular, all sorts of "Young and Dangerous" movies followed suit.

In fact, there were many gangster films like this before, only the details changed, and Hong Kong filmmakers seized on these details and filmed them to death.

They really won't stop until they've squeezed every last drop out of this type of food, until there's absolutely nothing left to extract.

In fact, the same is true of Hollywood in the United States. If a movie is good, then many similar movies will be made.

However, the intellectual property protection laws in the United States are more comprehensive, and they protect IP better. But even so, there is still a company that specializes in making those knock-off blockbuster movies.

For example, if there's "Pacific Rim," then I'll make "Atlantic Rim"!
The filming was terrible, but there was nothing we could do about it.

Interestingly, there have been some negative examples in the United States, such as the film "Cutthroat Island".

Many companies were optimistic about this movie at the time. Moreover, the director and the female lead were actually a couple. The director was very good at persuading people and attracted a lot of investment.

As a result, after its release... it lost a fortune!
Losing money is one thing, but what's even more impressive is that the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean," which was originally slated for release, was postponed for many years after seeing how badly it was losing money.

Therefore, once a subject becomes popular, many companies will follow suit and continue to produce films based on that subject.

This is a common practice in the global film and television industry.

Let's not criticize each other; we're all the same.

It's simply a matter of capital pursuing profit and wanting to make money.

This kind of trending topic is actually a very stable way to make money.

Many investors like to invest in it.

In this sense, Ma Xun made "The Message" a huge hit.

It also facilitated the creation of many films and television dramas with similar themes later on!
Is this a great thing?
I wouldn't say it's perfect, but it certainly has its good points.

Ma Xun was well aware that if a subject is filmed too often, some mediocre works will inevitably emerge.

However, even excellent works need many bad ones to form a foundation.

Simply put, the more films you make, the more likely you are to produce a few masterpieces.

And that should be the good side.

These are all things that will happen in the future; we should focus on the present.

"The Message" is absolutely a hit right now, but after this hit, a very simple and straightforward project emerged.

TV series version!

A successful movie will definitely be adapted into a TV series.

So, how should this TV series version be filmed?

Or perhaps, we don't necessarily have to use light to take the picture.

That's right, we could sell this TV series version in exchange for funding.

In short, we can take photos or exchange them for money.

The key question is how this will be implemented.

Ma Xun had just heard from Chen Guofu that Jia Yueting wanted to get involved in the "1942" project. So, considering the current TV series version of "The Message"...

Hehe, I still have a lot of room to maneuver.

……

When you're happy.

"Boss, I have already achieved some results."

"Results? What results?"

Jia Yueting is currently busy with matters related to listing. The IPO door has been opened, and many companies have already successfully gone public.

As agreed, Xingmei will be launching its product around October.

Qin Hong was naturally very happy about this, and he told Jia Yueting about many benefits.

This naturally includes transferring many domestic assets to the United States.

Everything was done according to the previous agreement, so logically Jia Yueting should be happy.

In reality, Jia Yueting felt very bad.

Because he could easily sense that he, Boss Jia, was now under their control... cough cough, not exactly under their control, but at least he had to listen to them on some things.

This...this...nobody likes this feeling, right? But right now, Jia Yueting doesn't have any good solutions. In short, he'll wait until things are more or less settled before making any other plans.

At this critical juncture, what progress has Zhang Zhao made?
"Boss, didn't you say before that you wanted to recruit Mr. Feng Xiaogang again?"

"Ah?" Jia Yueting was delighted to hear this, because... Jia Yueting had always felt that his current situation was due to being controlled by someone like Qin Hong, and that it was all the fault of that bastard Ma Xun!
Jia Yueting, who already deeply hated Ma Xun, naturally hated him even more. Jia Yueting was absolutely certain that Ma Xun was her lifelong enemy!
Eliminate the opponent! Seize every opportunity!
If we can poach Feng Xiaogang now, it will be a huge blow to Ma Xun!
As for the claim that Jia Yueting didn't respect Feng Xiaogang before, that was before.

You, Feng Xiaogang, haven't produced a movie like "The Message" before.

Now, the movie "The Message" is receiving rave reviews and is also a box office hit.

If you, Feng Xiaogang, are so capable, then I, Jia Yueting, will recruit you. No problem.

It must be said that this accountant Jia is very good at finding excuses for himself.

Then, let's listen carefully to what Zhang Zhao has to say.

Zhang Zhao was naturally eloquent. He first talked about his thought process, that is, although he felt it was very difficult to recruit Feng Xiaogang, he did not really give up, but expressed a lot of goodwill through some channels.

That's very well said... Actually, Zhang Zhao was just afraid that Jia Yueting would find fault with him. After all, Jia Yueting had said he wanted to recruit Feng Xiaogang. Although Zhang Zhao stopped him, what if Feng Xiaogang could make an even better movie later?

Needless to say, Jia Yueting will definitely curse Zhang Zhao to death at that time.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao's prediction was a prediction of Jia Yueting's prediction.

Then, Zhang Zhao mentioned that key point.

"The film '1942' has been brewing in Mr. Feng's mind for more than fifteen years. He really wanted to make this film. Now I have reached an agreement with Mr. Chen Guofu, as long as we can show enough sincerity."

So, what will Mr. Feng Xiaogang do...?

That's enough. Jia Yueting will understand.

However, Jia Yueting frowned.

"Didn't you say before that this movie had some problems?"

"There are indeed problems, but given the current success of 'The Message,' as long as Director Feng maintains his performance, there shouldn't be any major issues."

She really knows how to talk.

Zhang Zhao is quite the smooth talker; Jia Yueting listened and began to believe his words made sense.

But I still have to ask.

"So, this is the next movie you'll be filming?"

"No, Director Feng is currently filming that earthquake disaster movie."

"Oh, I see. Well then..."

"Boss, if that disaster movie becomes a hit again, then we'll be under a lot more pressure..."

Yes! Zhang Zhao is right.

If Feng Xiaogang becomes another hit, it will be even more difficult for them to recruit him. At that time, the amount of capital willing to invest in Feng Xiaogang's new film will be countless!

Jia Yueting made a decisive decision: "We should do our best to fight for it!"

Zhang Zhao smiled and nodded, but just as he was about to say something, his phone rang.

What was going on? He couldn't ignore the call, because it was from Chen Guofu.

Jia Yueting didn't say anything, he just told Zhang Zhao to take care of it right there, without saying a word.

Zhang Zhao obeyed the order, but then came some news that really troubled them!

"Brother Zhang, now that 'The Message' has become a hit, the TV series version is something to look forward to. And about this matter... let me be frank."

Ma Xun, the boss, offered a condition.

That is, if you can invest more than 3000 million in the TV series "The Message", then you will be allowed to invest more in "1942".

However, Mr. Ma meant that the 3000 million was just a stepping stone; the future profits from the TV series "The Message" would have nothing to do with them.

what? !

Isn’t this bullying?
Do you have to buy tickets before you can invest in a movie?

Jia Yueting was so angry that he was about to burst out.

However, Zhang Zhao still managed to suppress his boss's anger.

After exchanging a few words, I hung up the phone.

"Boss, thirty million is actually a good deal for a ticket."

Zhang Zhao is really... but he does have some truth to it.

However, Jia Yueting's anger was hard to quell.

"Damn it! That Ma Xun! He's gone too far!"

In any case, Jia Yueting is unlikely to agree to this condition in the short term.

However, Ma Xun had already guessed that he had other methods up his sleeve.

……

"I heard you've made a friend recently?"

"Who? Who are you talking about?"

"Do you think I'm trying to fool you?"

"You tell me who it is first."

"Is Gan Wei right?"

"Ah...how did you know?"

Qin Lan never expected that after not seeing Ma Xun for many days, the first thing she saw him about was that he was talking about another woman.

Based on her understanding of Ma Xun, Qin Lan said, "She's a married woman! Don't do anything rash!"

"This..." Ma Xun said seriously after hearing this, "This is a serious matter! What are you thinking!"

Yes, I'm not Cao Mengde!
(End of this chapter)