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"Hello, Mr. Jia!" Jon Landao looked at the young man in front of him for several times, and couldn't help but wonder, is this young man really as director Chen said, and is capable of taking over 135 million investment shares?

At the same time, Director Chen, who was following behind, also looked at Boss Jia nervously. He only hoped that when Boss Jia refused, he could give himself some face and find a suitable reason to not make himself too ugly, nor to let his coquettishness blow up.

"Hello, Mr. Landao!" Boss Jia also shook hands with Jon Landao. This big boss, Boss Jia, knew him. He was a producer of Titanic in history. Unexpectedly, Director Chen actually met him, and he did something good.

"This is the situation!" Jon Landau introduced the situation in "Titanic".

In fact, the movie Titanic is not the movie that 20th Century Fox wants to make. In fact, 20th Century Fox never considered making a shipwreck movie.

This movie is the movie that James Cameron, the former truck driver, offered to shoot.

James Cameron was once a truck driver. Later, after watching the Star Wars movies in the cinema, he found that the truck driver was a profession with no prospects at all (it was really a pity that he discovered it at this time), and making movies is the greatest.

So James Cameron declared himself a film director without receiving any professional film education.

Not to mention, after a long struggle in Hollywood, James Cameron actually became a director.

First, filming "Pizza 2" gained a certain reputation and capital

In 1984, he raised a sum of funds and wrote and directed a movie called Terminator.

Everyone must be familiar with this movie. It made Governor Schwarzenegger famous and also won a global box office of 68 million at a cost of $6.5 million.

Later, Cameron wrote and directed the movie "Alien 2", which is also a movie that everyone is familiar with. It won a box office of 120 million yuan worldwide and 7 Oscar nominations.

Then there is "Terminator 2", a sequel that truly pushes the Terminator series into a brilliant sequel, winning 200 million yuan in North America and 500 million yuan in total box office worldwide.

Anyway, this director's achievements are simply a monster in Hollywood. Each movie is higher than the other, and each movie can achieve amazing achievements. When such a director once again proposes to write and direct himself to shoot a new movie, naturally no film company will refuse.

At the beginning, after Cameron released the news of his new movie, all six major Hollywood film companies turned into dog licking and wanted to invest in the filming of Cameron's new movie.

But when Cameron took out the script for the new movie, all the six major film companies retreated again.

The reason is very simple. The investment in movies is too large and the subject matter is too niche.

What Cameron brought out was naturally the script of the Titanic, but at this time the whole script was still very rough, with only a simple outline.

When the six major film companies finished reading the script and found that Cameron was planning to shoot a disaster movie about a historical shipwreck, they all retreated.

This movie is really niche, and American audiences have never had the habit of watching such movies. And the only shipwreck movie in history also caused the investment company to lose money at that time. Millions of dollars in investment only earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in box office, and it was a mess.

More importantly, the film company cannot see any selling points of a shipwreck movie.

There is neither the horror of the alien series nor the fierce fighting in the Terminator series. More importantly, reading this movie script, it focuses on love. Most of the time this shipwreck movie actually describes love.

What's even more terrible is that the hero died in the end.

To be honest, in 1993, you put together such a shipwreck + love + abuse factor, made a movie, and even invested $135 million in one go, so that fools would believe that this movie could become popular.

Anyway, if such a story is posted at Qidian, it will definitely be scolded by countless Shennongs for being extremely poisonous, and then I will give up the trick.

Because viewers who like to watch love movies and disaster movies are not on the same channel at all, this kind of movie has no excitement.

It may be fine to be a literary film, but it is impossible to become a commercial blockbuster that can afford a $135 million investment.

In fact, the idea of ​​the six major Hollywood film companies is not wrong. Later, China also invested in filming two episodes of the film, called Taiping Rin, and invited the well-known Chinese director John Woo, and a series of international first-tier movie stars such as Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro, with an investment of up to US$40 million.

Anyway, a series of settings, plots, and casting are all against the Titanic.

As a result, the two movies combined together, and the global box office was less than 300 million... bracketed... RMB, and it was a huge loss.

In fact, the quality of this movie is quite good. Although there are shortcomings of slow plot and insufficient special effects, overall, the quality is to instantly kill 90% of domestic movies.

But the box office was a crushing defeat, and the audience was uninterested, perfectly meeting the expectations of all Hollywood film companies for the Titanic in 1993.

So, don’t blame these Hollywood film companies for being low-key and having no vision. It can only be said that Cameron is too awesome and the US dollar is really good. The most important thing is that the node of the birth of the movie is in the era of full explosion of computer special effects, allowing the audience to see unprecedented special effects scenes in the movie. This is the most important thing.

But only Boss Jia knows about these things, and the six major Hollywood film companies don’t know about them!

So the 135 million box office script of Catalanic instantly dismissed five of the six major film companies, and only 20th Century Fox was still hesitating.

Because the 20th Century Fox's CEO happens to be a CEO that likes to invest in special effects blockbusters, he also has a special liking for special effects blockbusters, so he hesitated.

Cameron took the opportunity to post it and painted countless bright futures to 20th Century Fox, such as being able to make a lot of money, and in the end he fooled 20th Century Fox, and the two parties signed an investment and shooting contract.

But the problem is that the contract has been signed, and 20th Century Fox regrets it. This is an investment of $135 million. You should know that at that time, the books of 20th Century Fox were only $80 million.

Of course, if 20th Century Fox made up his mind to invest in shooting even if he had to borrow money from a bank, it would be easy to take out $135 million.

But the board of directors of 20th Century Fox insisted on opposing it. After reading the script of the film, the members of the board also felt that the movie was definitely a loss of money. American audiences would not be interested in such a movie with special effects + love + shipwreck + dead male protagonist. They would never approve Fox to invest by borrowing money.

This made 20th Century Fox very painful. In history, they delayed for a year until Cameron's movie "The True Lies" was filmed, but they did not receive the reserved funds.

In the end, Jon Landau ran to find the boss behind the 20th Century Fox, the president of News Group, and the son-in-law of the Chinese people, Mr. Murdoch, who is familiar with the Chinese people, for some earnest communication. Finally, Murdoch nodded in agreement, approved the investment plan, and asked 20th Century Fox to borrow a loan, which was enough to make up for the 135 million US dollars and began shooting the Titanic.

This is when the Titanic was just launched. Jon Landau was not forced to find Murdoch. Now he is just looking for partners who are willing to invest in and jointly invest in the filming of this movie.

In this way, the risks are not borne by 20th Century Fox alone.

But at this time, the name of the Titanic had spread throughout the Hollywood investment circle. After all the five major film companies refused, and the board of directors of 20th Century Fox also refused, naturally none of these investors were optimistic about the future of the Titanic. Jon Landau searched all Hollywood and Wall Street investors, but none of them were willing to invest.

Just when he was a little desperate, he accidentally met Director Chen at a commercial party and heard him brag about his story of "Farewell My Concubine".

Especially in that period, he rushed into the investor's office alone and spent 5 hours per trip to convince the investor who had no vision to invest in his own "Farewell My Concubine" and finally achieved success.

Moreover, this investor is very rich, with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars or so.

Then Boss Jia was targeted by Jon Landao.