Chapter 852, Lunch for two!(1/2)
March 1, Beijing.
The movie launch ceremony was held grandly.
This may be the first time that a Hollywood movie was held in China.
The purpose of this press conference is to change the current situation of Chinese filmmakers in the world film industry.
Before this, there was probably only one Hollywood movie that held a press conference outside the United States, named Wilson, who had filmed the Agents series of movies, and all eight movies held press conferences in London.
As a world fantasy masterpiece, Chinese people use it to shoot it, which itself has a lot of controversy.
Li Zhifan has now pushed the controversy to a higher level, and even wants to completely get rid of the definition of "Hollywood movies" and push the production and concept of Chinese films internationally.
All along, Chinese films have contributed only to the box office in the history of world films.
The outside world's evaluation of the rise of China's film industry is only saying that "box office has become the second largest market."
However, in terms of film production and content, it is still very weak, and the gap is still big compared to the world's film powerhouses.
The Chinese translation of the movie follows this name.
The literal translation is.
In terms of Chinese artistic conception, it is more elegant and beautiful, and it also conforms to the aesthetic standards of Chinese naming.
It is the name of the original Chinese version of the book, but "rings" means "Lord's Rings". The overall translation is not complete enough, and the word "the-lord" has not been translated.
The focus of the original English title is on the word "the-lord", which means "king", "...lord", and not just "rings" - the meaning of the Lord of the Rings is so thin.
When this Chinese name is published, it will naturally cause some complaints from fans of the original work. Of course, they are fans of the original work. After all, foreigners do not use Chinese, and their original book title is not called the Lord of the Ring.
"This name... is not cool and domineering at all!"
"How nice it sounds? Why do you change it?"
"I was very low all of a sudden. Although it follows the literal translation of the original text, it sounds nice to call it!"
"It's just unpleasant, it's like a shoddy web game noun, it's very nice to hear!"
"It seems that the copyright of these two words is from the Chinese version of the book publisher, which is not easy to operate!"
"Can't you spend money to buy it? Didn't Oriental Entertainment buy all the copyrights of the book?"
"It sounds ugly, I'm not used to it anyway, it's uncomfortable!"
"I thought it was two movies in today's report!"
"Oh my goodness! lo!"
“…”
Of course, most viewers still support it unconditionally. As long as they can be shot, no matter what the Chinese version is called, it will be good.
Western Hemisphere.
Hollywood, USA.
The movie launch ceremony also touched countless people's hearts.
Especially Hollywood production staff, because the launch ceremony only announced the start of filming, not officially started.
After the filming is announced, financing will begin. During the financing period, we will find actors, teams, and every staff member of the crew.
Although Chinese consortiums can fully collect funds for film production, if they want to fully release them in every country in the world, they must let all consortiums around the world taste a little sweetness so that they will help build and work hard during subsequent releases.
Therefore, for this financing, Li Zhifan planned to recruit eight companies in the United States alone, and issue companies were given priority.
...
20th Century Film Company.
"Oh! Li Zhifan wants to shoot? Haha, I don't think he can shoot well!"
"The story system is too complicated, and John Ronald Ryle Tokin is a great linguist. Li Zhifan will definitely not be able to deal with the Elf Language alone. Can he know the small Nordic language?"
"Actually, it doesn't need to be able to do it. It can be compiled by the crew. Moreover, there are so many ethnic minority languages in China, just use one of them!"
"That's right! I'm fooling the audience anyway! But if you have this mentality, the movie will definitely not be well produced!"
"We also went to fight for the copyright back then, but the British didn't sell it, it hurts so much!"
"So, we must never let a film production company from the East squeeze into our camp!"
“…”
These big guys were having morning meetings and talking in a general way, but they couldn't come up with any perfect sanctions plan.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
At this time, the knock on the door sounded, and before anyone could open the door, the door of the conference room opened.
A man was holding a sandwich in his hand and a piece of white paper in his other hand. He ran in excitedly and shouted, "Wow, Wade, do you know what I received?"
"What? Why are you so rude?"
Wade looked at the man with dissatisfaction. He was Wade's secretary, but he had an unusual relationship in private.
"Dear, I'm crazy, I can't believe it!"
The secretary shook the blank paper in his hand excitedly, "Oriental Entertainment called, and it was Li Zhifan who called it himself to invite us to invest in the movie! Wow, it was so surprising!"
"What?"
"What?"
“wtf?”
"How is that possible?"
The group of people in the conference room were all shocked, and Wade even swears: "Wtf? What did you say? Say it again?"
"Ok, I mean, Li Zhifan invited us to invest in the movie he is going to shoot!"
The secretary finished word by word.
However, the conference room was silent, and everyone stared at each other, feeling annoyed by what they had just said.
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Fox movie.
The same information came at the same time.
The company's senior executives met immediately.
At the same time, their ceo also asked the secretary to bring a few bottles of champagne over.
"cheers!"
Fox Movie's ceo Jinderson raised his goblet excitedly, "Celebrating for us to be able to cooperate with Mr. Li Zhifan and Oriental Entertainment this time!"
"yeah!"
“nice!”
“Beautiful!”
“incredible!”
“unbelievable!”
“Wonderful!”
“marvelous!”
“splendid!”
Everyone was venting happily, as if they had obtained the shooting rights.
"Although we only have the right to invest, I will conduct further negotiations with Oriental Entertainment and strive to share some of the issuance rights for us!" Jinderson shook his wine glass, full of confidence.
...
At the same time, ten companies in Hollywood received invitations from Li Zhifan.
Because there will always be rejection, such as Brotherhood Film and Television, they will directly refuse.
So the ten companies are the alternatives for relaxation. At present, the other nine companies have no specific responses. If all nine companies are willing, Li Zhifan will consider which of them to give up.
In other countries, many leaders in the investment industry have received calls from Li Zhifan.
Japan's Imperial Film, Russia's Mork Film, France's Wright's No. 1 movie, etc., have almost made calls all over the world.
Just as it was attracting financing in a large amount, Oriental Entertainment finally submitted a listing application to the Xiangjiang Stock Exchange at the same time.
This also means that Oriental Entertainment will not take the US Nasdaq or domestic A-shares, but choose Hong Kong stocks.
Xiangjiang has always been a financial city in Asia. Even though its ranking has declined in recent years, it is still stable. Moreover, many mainland companies have chosen to list in Xiangjiang. One is to support the Asian stock market, and the other is to target the free market in Xiangjiang.
Li Zhifan did not interfere at all in terms of listing, and he didn't have to attend the meeting on the listing preparations. Anyway, he just had to sign an autograph in the end, and then passed the economic review and waited for money to go public.
As the largest individual shareholder of Oriental Entertainment, once the company goes public, he is very likely to become a billionaire, and it will be fine to make money while lying down.
Of course, the stock market is risky, but for the dealer, especially Oriental Group, which has rich experience in the stock market, this is not a problem at all.
To be continued...