MTL - After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood-Chapter 155

Kevin raised his hand to signal.

Tsui Hark followed Kevin's movements and sat on the sofa beside him.

Kevin left the desk, came to the sofa opposite Tsui Hark, poured a cup of hot tea for Tsui Hark, and then said:

"Director Tsui Hark wants to develop in Hollywood, right?"

Xu Ke nodded.

After confirming that Tsui Hark's idea was okay, Kevin revealed his Xianxia culture development plan.

"Director Tsui Hark should have heard of Marvel Comics, right?"

"I heard that it is said to be the second largest comic company in the United States by market share?"

Tsui Hark responded.

"Yes, this company is also mine."

Xu Ke nodded.

I know why Kevin wanted to shoot Spider-Man.

It's all his industry. If Spider-Man's box office is a big hit, it can drive an entire industry chain.

It makes more money than a single movie.

"Shushan has been successful so far, which shows that Americans can actually accept such a culture."

"I have an idea to make a Shushan series of comics."

Tsui Hark listened attentively.

"Show the world of Shushan in the form of superhero comics."

Xu Ke was a little stunned.

How to combine fairy and superhero.

Seeing that Tsui Hark was a little confused, Kevin explained:

"My initial assumption is this. The world is divided into two layers. Among them, talented people can enter the inner world, that is, the world of Shushan."

"They can get something called aura, or something, through various actions that make themselves stronger."

"Among them, there are good people and bad people, and they coexist in the city."

Tsui Hark hesitated for a moment, then expressed his understanding.

"Like a game world? Only it's just a handful of players? A real game?"

"right!"

The more Kevin spoke, the clearer his thoughts became.

The important selling point is actually the same as a superhero.

It's just one more world of fighting.

This is a comic book that is very suitable for adaptation, and this large framework can derive a lot of content.

As for the Xianxia universe at the beginning, Kevin's idea is to take it slowly.

You must know that in the second remake of Shushan Chuan in the original history, the reason why the box office failed, a very important point is that it was too advanced. Even mainland people did not understand Xianxia culture at that time, how could they expect the box office it is good.

After careful investigation, Kevin felt that it would take a long process to develop the culture of immortals.

More diverse Xianxia content is needed for the American people to accept these things.

"Seems to work?"

Tsui Hark touched his chin and thought.

He knew that his greatest strength was making this kind of film.

Ordinary foreign directors cannot understand the hidden charm of this culture. Of course, it is a good thing to have more Xianxia content.

"It has to work!"

Kevin said directly.

"Director Tsui Hark, are you willing to sign with Chenxi Film Company?"

As one of the top five in commercial value among Chinese directors in the future, it is definitely a good deal to sign Tsui Hark now.

Tsui Hark didn't hesitate for a second.

"willing."

"Okay, your treatment is equivalent to Mitre. I will definitely not let you suffer when signing Chen Xi."

At present, Kevin's company has signed a director, plus Tsui Hark, a total of five people.

Among them, Mitt and Zach are the ones with high treatment.

As for the Russell brothers, the current treatment is not bad for them, of course, it is far from Mitt and the others.

Facing Kevin's words, Tsui Hark nodded and did not refuse.

Tsui Hark is also an arrogant person.

He felt that he was no worse than any director, and he dared to accept this kind of treatment from Kevin, and he wanted to impress Kevin.

In order to get this treatment right, Xu Ke thought for a while and suddenly said:

"Kevin, I'm going to Marvel for a while to communicate with them about the details of the comics to facilitate later movie adaptations."

"Also, I'm afraid that those comic book authors will not be able to understand the characteristics of this kind of comics and need me to communicate."

"Okay, I'll say hello, you can go."

"The comics will be released in the next two or three months. Specifically, next year's Christmas season. I hope the movie will be released. This time, I will give you an investment of 60 million yuan. You can coordinate the time yourself."

Tsui Hark really couldn't hold back this time.

A smile bloomed on the face.

At the same time, I made up my mind to call my wife later and ask her to come to the United States.

After chatting with Kevin for a while, Tsui Hark left Chen Xi.

When Tsui Hark left, Kevin called Dawson.

"Is there any movement on Warner's side?"

Dawson nodded.

"It is said that Warners is going to imitate the style of Batman's Dark Knight and restart Superman."

"A gold producer is being sought to take over the project."

A triumphant smile appeared on Kevin's face, then disappeared.

"Okay, then the company's business will be handed over to you, and I will start shooting Spider-Man soon."

"If you have something important, call anytime."

"Yes!"

Dawson responded.

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Time passed by in a blink of an eye.

The movie Shushan, with a box office of 230 million US dollars, went offline in North America.

For the production cost of more than 60 million, the North American box office alone has already made a small profit.

What surprised Kevin most was that the surrounding area of ​​Shushan was selling well.

In addition to all kinds of hanging clothes, the sales of Excalibur skateboards are the most exaggerated, with more than 100,000 sold.

Originally there were only two shapes, but after seeing the big sale, they urgently added other flying sword skateboards with different shapes in the movie.

This has resulted in such exaggerated sales.

American skateboarders, if they don't buy a Feijian skateboard, they will be expelled from the skateboard family.

The sales of peripherals as a whole created a small miracle, reaching 18 million US dollars in sales in one month.

Excluding the cost and the booth fee of the theater line, the revenue was 13 million US dollars.

And, this heat can last for a while.

Visually creating sales of 30 million US dollars, it is not a big problem.

Of course, these are all things the company has to deal with and don't need Kevin to worry about.

At the same time, overseas channels, through MGM, have also begun to exert their efforts to allow Shushan to start showing in the world.

Thanks to the huge influence of the United States, as long as movies with high box office are obtained in the North American market, the box office in overseas markets is often not too bad.

Countries such as Britain and France are industrial countries, and they also have troubles with the United States.

Therefore, when it was released, the box office performance was not bad, and they expressed unanimous praise for the scenery shown in the film.

However, the best performers at the box office are still Asian countries.

The impression created by the Confucian cultural circle allows Asians to better understand some of the things expressed in the film.

Chapter 229 Shushan is released on the mainland

The film Shushan, with the double bonus of Chinese culture and American capital, was a big hit at the box office in Singapore, Japan, South Korea and other places as soon as it was released, and it was directly squeezed into the top three box office results of the local film market.

Of course, the most critical continent will naturally not fall.

But the mainland's censorship mechanism is there.

It will take a while for it to be released in mainland China.

Kevin doesn't worry about that either.

With Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimou participating, plus the content is no problem, it can also help the mainland bring huge economic benefits, Kevin really can't figure out the reason for being rejected.

And at this time, the relationship between China and the United States is not bad.

Under the influence of the movie, many Americans have gone to Mount Emei for vacation.

Although the scenery of Mount Emei in winter is not as good as that in summer, it also has a different style.

Generate a lot of income for the local area.

All these things add up, and Kevin just needs to wait with peace of mind.

As for Shushan's box office success in the mainland, Kevin can only say that it definitely won't work.

The tens of millions of dollars is a great achievement.

The mainland market still needs the efforts of more mainland directors to cultivate slowly.

As for Shushan, it is a key step for Kevin to develop the mainland people's aesthetics for Xianxia in advance.

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External affairs, Kevin has arranged properly.

Don't need him to worry.

At this time, he was taking an entire crew to shoot the Spider-Man scene on the MGM set.

In order to make Spider-Man's various flying actions and fights more cool, Kevin directly used more than a dozen of the best martial arts instructors in the company to make suggestions together.

Strive to make the exciting level of the action scenes reach a new high.

Even Mitt and Zach were called by him to be the assistant directors. The purpose is for the follow-up Spider-Man sequel, someone will come to shoot.

He first set the tone for the beginning of the Marvel universe, and then follow-up, Zach and Mitt, have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of shooting other Marvel superheroes.

Like Iron Man and Ghost Rider.

As for him, it can only be said that the clone is lacking, and there are other movies to be made.

Of course, when the most critical moment, he will still shoot.

The Avengers series will be directed and filmed by him throughout.