Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 377 Selling for a Good Price (34)

Oh, Liu Yifei also had a role in "The Four Great Constables," she played Wuqing...

It can perceive the thoughts of others, move objects with its mind, and freeze time and space.

His superpowers are off the charts; he's practically a combination of Professor X and Magneto!
She's even better than Jean Grey, who's on par with Omega!
Mutants can be categorized into Epsilon, Delta, Beta, Alpha, and the most powerful Omega class…

To briefly summarize the plot of "The Four Great Constables":

It begins with the theft of a coin mold, then inexplicably shifts into the conflict between the Six Doors and the Divine Marquis's Mansion, and then unfolds a "Infernal Affairs" drama of cold-blooded infiltration of the Divine Marquis's Mansion.

Then they kept piling on filler content, with ruthless and cold-blooded characters devoid of any emotional exchange, the love triangle involving Ji Yaohua being inexplicable, and the female constables taking baths one after another...

Yes, all kinds of baths!
Near the end, the director brought the plot back to the investigation, but it was just a pretense of looking for clues, and in the end, it ended with a chaotic fight with the main villain, An Shigeng.

Uh, Liu Yifei wasn't shown taking a bath...

Perhaps... Wuqing is paralyzed and has difficulty taking a bath?

When promoting their products, Guangming also seized the opportunity to vigorously promote bathing culture!
The first part only showed Jiang Yiyan taking a bath, the second part simply added Liu Yan as well...

Of course, the actors have their own explanation: "These female constables are very strong and glamorous on the outside, but when they completely shed their armor, they are also very gentle girls in the bathroom. They also discuss love and yearn for ordinary life in the bathroom, so I think these scenes fill in some of the contrast between them!"

Stop kidding, all those steamy scenes are just to attract viewers (LSP)...

After all, the majority of viewers of martial arts films are male. Oh, I'm talking about true martial arts films, not the one starring Xiao Zhan called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Sage".

Shen Yan exchanged a few casual pleasantries with Li Xiaoping…

I also greeted Liu Yifei.

"The movie was good, keep it up!"

Are you going to eat now?

Shen Yan nodded: "Yeah, I'm starving..."

Li Xiaoping asked, "Is Brother Yan currently preparing for a new movie?"

"No... I've been mostly resting lately... I didn't rest much in the first half of the year..."

"Aren't you going to direct the film yourself?"

"Oh, the preliminary preparations have already begun... filming is expected to start around the 10th of next month..."

"Will it make it into this year's Lunar New Year film season?"

"I'll pass on the Lunar New Year release; there are too many movies there. I'm going to go for the Spring Festival release instead!"

Shen Yan originally planned to use "American Dreams in China" to counter "Lost in Thailand" and prevent it from grossing over 1 billion yuan...

Never mind, there's also "CZ12" in this year's Lunar New Year film season.

Let's release it during the Spring Festival!

Beat up Stephen Chow...

Even if we can't beat them, we're still confident we can get over 6 million at the box office.

"Deng Chao, Huang Xiaoming, and Tong Dawei were cast as the male lead?"

"Correct!"

Li Xiaoping: "Where's the female lead? Nini?"

Shen Yan roughly knew what she was going to say, so he preemptively said, "This is a story about starting a business, it's a male-dominated drama, and the female characters don't have much room to develop..."

Li Xiaoping was about to say something more when Ji Xiang interjected, "President Li, let's go eat first..."

……

At the restaurant, Shen Yan and Ji Xiang casually ordered a few dishes.

Ji Xiang suddenly said, "The lighting is in a rather awkward position right now..."

"How to say?"

"The actual controller of Enlight Media before was Zhang Zhao... The so-called Enlight Media model and Enlight Media speed were actually created by Zhang Zhao!"

This is true. Enlight Pictures was founded in 06, with Zhang Zhao as president. In the four years leading up to 2010, Enlight Pictures produced and distributed more than 20 commercial films, maintaining a 100% growth rate for four consecutive years, creating the "Enlight Speed" that has attracted attention in the Chinese film industry!
In those years, the filmmakers that Enlight Media collaborated with were mostly from Hong Kong... There was no other way; in the very early stages, mainland commercial films relied on Hong Kong filmmakers.

However, Enlight Media is a relatively new company, and the projects it can collaborate with are not top-tier filmmakers or projects.

Therefore, Tsui Hark's "Missing," Johnnie To's "Butterfly," and Benny Chan's "City Under Siege" are all among the worst works of their respective careers...

Somewhat similar to Fox – Fox's business model is to take over films that other companies are unwilling to produce…

Sometimes you get incredibly lucky; Star Wars, Titanic, and even the X-Men series…

The same goes for lighting; it was incredibly lucky to have caught the tail end of films like "Lost in Thailand" and "Ne Zha"...

The difference is that Wang Changtian is very risk-aware.

He won't invest recklessly.

The film market wasn't doing well during those years, so he kept a low profile and made mostly low- to mid-budget films—films released during major holidays to make a quick buck and leave…

Back to the topic of light, Zhang Zhao has now left!
“Zhang Zhao has a good relationship with Sil-Metropole, and has collaborated with Universe Films and Emperor Motion Pictures…” At this point, Ji Xiang shrugged: “The film industry is, well, a society based on personal connections…”

Shen Yan waved his hand: "It's alright, this is a good opportunity to focus on promoting new talent... Besides, mainland audiences are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Hong Kong film industry's approach!"

"You think it's all because of you... you can flatter everyone and get it right every time!" Ji Xiang suddenly remembered something: "Oh right, Enlight Media also wants to invest in our studio..."

What's the asking price?

"450 million to buy 30% of the shares, or add 4.5% of Enlight Media's shares and 200 million in cash to exchange for 30% of the shares!"

Upon hearing the price, Shen Yan frowned: "Is Old Wang really that stingy?"

"It's a bit stingy... but this is the highest price they can offer..."

"I heard Yang Siwei say the other day that Le Vision Pictures offered 500 million yuan!"

"Jia Yueting is very sincere... but we don't lack money..."

Shen Yan nodded: "If we're going to affiliate with someone, we need to find the biggest capital to partner with!"

"Wanda?"

"Wanda... Wang Jianlin acquired AMC... They're clearly eyeing Hollywood, how could they have time to pay attention to the mainland market?"

Oh, Wanda announced on May 21st of this year that it had signed a merger agreement with AMC Theatres, the world's second-largest cinema chain, to acquire 100% of the company's equity, with a total transaction value of $31 billion.

It completely shocked the entertainment industry!

Previously, Yang Lan's husband, Wu Zheng, had shocked the industry by offering $2.6 million to acquire Summit Entertainment…

Wanda directly increased this number by more than tenfold.

Numerous media outlets created special web pages around the deal, proclaiming "Wanda is fierce" and "What will it take to shock the world?"

"Then what do you think?"

"No rush, build high walls, store up plenty of grain, and delay declaring yourself king... Even if you can't become king, you can at least be granted a marquisate!"

Shen Yan didn't directly state his goal, and instead lowered his head to start eating...

Anyway, we can't do without BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent)...

In two years, when "The Martian" is released, Spark Studio's valuation will be at least over 10 billion. If we sell it then, we can definitely get a good price!

Ji Xiang took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and said, "Actually, what President Li meant was to introduce you to Liu Yifei!"

"...I know her, who doesn't know Liu Yifei!"

"Help her get a movie or something..."

"No interest," Shen Yan shook his head. "They didn't even mention a time, just gave me one..."

"Oh, you've learned to smoke?"

"Do I even need to learn this? I just don't smoke much..."

(End of this chapter)