"And your movie "Saw" is even more amazing. I watched it three times, and it was so satisfying." William said excitedly again, "When will you make a sequel? Have you considered when to put it on the agenda?"

"I haven't considered it for the time being." Xia Tian waved his hand.

"That's a pity." William said in disappointment when he heard this. "I think Jigsaw is a very interesting person. I think he shouldn't stop educating people about the meaning of life, so there will definitely be many good stories in the future. I hope you can shoot a sequel soon, so that we have good movies to watch again."

"Thank you." Xia Tian said lightly when he heard this, neither saying that he would agree to make a sequel nor expressing his rejection.

The reason for this is that whether the movie is filmed or not is actually a very important trade secret. Whether to shoot, when to shoot, what story to shoot, when to release news to the public... These are all carefully calculated.

He was not sure about William's background. If he casually told him the news of the sequel to be filmed, he would probably sell the news again, which would cause some trouble to summer.

"By the way, Mr. Xia, I also like the songs you wrote very much. Especially last year's theme song "Take My Breath", it was so beautiful." William said happily again, and improvised one of them, "take-my-breath-away..." His voice was pretty good, at least not out of tune.

Xia Tian nodded with a smile. Unexpectedly, this William is really a fan of his own. He is both kung fu, movies, and music, and he is very funny.

"Thank you." He thanked.

"You're welcome. By the way, Mr. Xia, can you help me sign this CD?" William took out a CD from the CD player of the business car.

When Xia Tian took it, it was an album released by Michael Jackson two years ago - "Dangerous". This album contains three of his songs - "Dangerous", "black&white", and "you-are-not-alone".

As soon as the album was released, it immediately landed on the Billboard rankings and won the sales charts for six weeks. So far, the album has sold more than ten million copies, which is another classic by Michael Jackson after "Thriller".

Summer, who created three champion singles at one hand, also became famous and became the leading music creator in the United States today. The advance payment for a song is $500,000, which is a first-class treatment in the American music circle.

Xia Tian immediately signed his name on his CD.

"Thank you very much!" William immediately took the CD carefully as if he had obtained a treasure and put it directly into the CD box. "I dare not listen to this album again. It must be very memorable to collect it."

When Xia Tian heard him say this, she couldn't help but smile.

...

With William, a living treasure, everyone will naturally not be lonely along the way.

While talking and laughing, everyone soon arrived at Warner headquarters.

Warner is headquartered in Burbank, which is also the headquarters of Disney and the location of media branches such as NBC, PBS, and Viacom, because it is also known as the "world media capital".

Under William's leadership, Xia Tian and his group came to Warner's distribution department and met Lee White, the manager of the distribution department.

"Mr. Xia, I'm very happy to see you." Li White said enthusiastically when he saw Xia Tian.

Xia Tian is now a celebrity in the United States. He is not only a well-known anti-terrorism hero, but also a director with a box office of over 100 million US dollars. He is also a Hong Kong film tycoon and has two his own theater chains. Therefore, for such a person, of course, he must be treated attentively.

"I'm very happy to see you, too." Xia Tian said with a smile.

"Mr. Xia, I have watched your new work "The Love of Man and Ghost" and it is very good. It doesn't look like a Hong Kong-produced movie at all." Lee White praised with a smile.

"What does Mr. White mean? Can't we in Hong Kong produce good movies?" Xia Tian frowned when he heard this.

"No, don't get me wrong. I mean, Hong Kong exports to the United States are all kung fu movies, Bruce Lee, Cheng Long, etc. But this "The Love of Man and Ghost" is a romantic movie, which really surprised me." Li White quickly explained.

"So that's it." Xia Tian smiled slightly and nodded.

Hong Kong movies that were exported to the United States before were indeed Kung Fu movies. For example, Bruce Lee was famous for his time as "The Dragon and the Tiger Fight" and became the most famous Chinese movie star in the United States. His kung Fu movies were too successful, thus establishing the Americans' impression of Hong Kong movies. It seems that there is no other type of movie in Hong Kong besides kung Fu movies.

"Mr. Xia, your story of "The Love of Man and Ghost" is very good and the production is also very good. I think it will definitely achieve good box office results." Li White said again.

"Thank you Mr. White, then I'll ask you to be a wise man." Xia Tian smiled. Unexpectedly, this Li White was quite keen and tactful.

"Well, Mr. Xia, there is something I want to discuss with you." Li White said with the opportunity when he saw Xia Tian was in a good mood.

"Mr. White, please speak." Xia Tian was stunned and nodded.

"That's right. Our company wants to buy the remake of "The Love of Man and Ghost" and your last year's "Saw". I wonder if you are interested?" Lee White said immediately.

Xia Tian was stunned and waved his hand, "Mr. White, it's too early to talk about this now. I want to cooperate with your company a few more times and accumulate enough trust with each other before talking about this."

...

Hollywood has always had the habit of restraining scripts, such as books on book sales rankings, reputations from various countries, movies with a huge box office, biographies of celebrities, revealing popular events, etc., which are all the targets they are searching for.

Like the Hong Kong movie "Infernal Affairs" in her previous life, Hollywood bought the remake rights and filmed "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs"; the well-known online novel "Ghost Blows Out the Light" in the mainland was also bought the film and television adaptation rights by Hollywood; the film and television adaptation rights of the well-known science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" were also collected by Hollywood.

The reason why they actively search for scripts is because they know the importance of scripts. scripts, scripts, and the foundation of a play. In the United States, screenwriters have considerable power and can even determine the life and death of a character.

In "Friends", Joey angered the screenwriter because he said something he shouldn't say in an interview, and ended up being written to death by the screenwriter.

"Saw" in the summer only invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it earned over 100 million US dollars in box office. It is a typical example of using small to make a big deal, and making a big deal. The reason why such good results are not only because of the actors and the directors are good at directing, but the most important thing is that the script is well written.

Hollywood, which has always been profit-seeking, will naturally not let go of such a good story. Buy the script first, wait a few years to remake it, and invite Hollywood actors to act. Even if the box office is less than 100 million US dollars, it is good to make tens of millions of dollars.

Although the drama "The Love of Man and Ghost" has not yet been officially released, it has been held three previews before, inviting enthusiastic audiences, film critics, etc. to watch. The praise rate reaches more than 60%, and of the remaining 40%, nearly 30% of the movie was given the CPC because the movie was not starred by Hollywood actors.

This shows that this movie is also very popular, so Warner Bros. wanted to buy the remake rights of these two scripts, and prepare to be released to make money after the remake in the future.

But they are smart and Xia Tian is not stupid either.

It was precisely because he knew that these two movies would become popular that he invested in the film. It was because of this that he would not easily sell these two chickens that could lay golden eggs.

Unless Warner Bros. can be more sincere, such as promising to help Tianxia Pictures release how many movies it will be, being more friendly to Tianxia Pictures in terms of share sharing, helping Tianxia Pictures actors enter Hollywood, etc. Otherwise, he will not give up the profit of over 100 million US dollars that is within his reach.

...

Seeing Xia Tian waved her hand and refused, Li White said that she would continue to observe and make a judgment on the future cooperation situation. She couldn't help but smile, knowing that Xia Tian is not a simple person. It seems not that easy to deal with him.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xia, our company is very sincere in cooperating with you." Li White immediately smiled.

"That's good, I hope so too." Xia Tian said with a smile.

"This time we have arranged for "The Love of Man and Ghost" to be released in 1,000 cinemas at the same time. Look at this, this is the distribution map." Li White took out a picture and said.

It was a map of the United States, with red dots on it, and all the movie theaters marked were released. Judging from this picture, the release scale of "The Love of Man and Ghost" is really quite large, from the West Coast to the East Coast, from Los Angeles to New York... Almost all major American cities have screenings.

"If the box office response is good, we will continue to expand the screening scale." Li White smiled again, "Mr. Xia, are we very sincere?"

Liang Jiahui and Liu Dehua were surprised when they heard this. They didn’t expect that the release scale was so large. How many box offices would be achieved in one thousand theaters? At least 30 to 40 million US dollars are certain.

In this way, they are really amazing and will become the most box office-friendly artists in Hong Kong in one fell swoop and firmly occupy the throne of first-line stars.

"A thousand theaters are really worthy of being the United States." Liu Dehua said excitedly.

Liang Jiahui was also very surprised. One thousand theaters are dozens of times that of Hong Kong, and this is just the initial release scale.

"No wonder filmmakers all over the world yearn for Hollywood, because this is the largest market in the world." He couldn't help thinking.

"Mr. White, I am bluntly speaking, a thousand theaters are not enough to reflect your company's sincerity." Xia Tian smiled slightly, "It's almost the same as expanding the scale three times."

Although a thousand theaters sound quite intimidating, they are actually not quite large. In a city in Hong Kong, there are nearly a hundred cinemas of all sizes.

The total number of cinemas in the United States exceeds 40,000. Now Warner has only arranged for "The Love of Man and Ghost" to be released in 1,000 theaters, which is equivalent to arranging two theaters to screen movies in the summer.

This is not considered sincerity at all, it is just ordinary treatment. If you really want to be sincere, at least three thousand cinemas will start and the final release scale exceeds 10,000, which is almost the same.

When Li White heard this, he quickly explained.

They had three previous previews, and although they had good reactions, they still had some concerns in their hearts. Because Xia Tian was not a well-known American director after all, and his movie was played by Hong Kong people. Everyone had doubts about whether he could win a high box office again. Therefore, there is no harm in being cautious.

"But I can understand your concerns. After all, we have only cooperated twice this time, and you don't know me well enough. When we cooperate more times in the future, you will be able to understand my value." He just spoke, but before he could speak, he waved his hand again.

When Li White heard him say this, he smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your understanding, and we also hope to cooperate with you."

"Okay, one word is certain." Xia Tian smiled.

...

Li White immediately explained the promotion plan to Xia Tian. In addition to traveling to several major cities for roadshows, he also had to participate in the recording of multiple radio and TV programs. It is expected that the entire publicity cycle will last for two weeks. If the box office response is good, the publicity period needs to be appropriately extended.

When summer saw the dense schedule, I knew that the next two weeks would be hard work and hard. But it was worth sacrificing to make money.

After all, as the saying goes, diligence can make money. If you sit in the house, you will have money falling from the sky, which is a dream in the daytime.

"Mr. Xia, do you have any objections to our arrangement?" Li White asked Xia Tian after introducing it.

"No, it's great, just like that." Xia Tian nodded, "Although the arrangements are very close, it will inevitably be very hard for us. However, we are already mentally prepared to fight a tough battle this time."

"That's good." Li White nodded with a smile when he heard this.

Originally, he was worried that Xia Tian would be a big shot and asked to delete some publicity activities or ask for more and better treatment, but Xia Tian accepted it all, which made him feel relieved.

"Hong Kong filmmakers are really dedicated," he thought silently.

In comparison, Hollywood big-name stars are much harder to serve. If you want them to participate in the promotion, you must say yes in advance and pay extra. If you ask them to do it once, the cost will be at least 100,000 US dollars. This is one of the reasons why Hollywood movies often have promotional fees and production fees.

"Mr. Xia, American filmmakers are really formal in their work. Look at the promotional arrangements, they are organized and meticulous, and they are even accurate to the hour. It is really worth learning from our Hong Kong filmmakers." Liang Jiahui said in surprise after reading the Warner Bros.'s promotional plan.
Chapter completed!