"Hello, Mr. Williams." Although Raymond Zou wanted to show an appearance of being neither humble nor overbearing, there was inevitably a touch of eagerness in his expression: "Mr. Williams, I have read your "Dark Warfare" ", to be honest, the style of this movie is very similar to some of our Hong Kong movies, just when "Dark War" was released in Hong Kong, we were made by Golden Harvest, and the box office was very good."
"Actually, I have always liked Hong Kong movies very much," Eric said with a smile, "For example, Bruce Lee's several movies, such as "Fist of Fury", "Big Brother Tangshan", "Way of the Dragon", "Enter the Dragon", And that half of "Game of Death", what a pity." Finally, Eric shook his head regretfully.
When Raymond Zou heard Eric say this suddenly, he also showed a look of reminiscence on his face. He shook his head and sighed: "It's really a pity. Hey, it has been more than ten years. I still remember the first The first time I worked with Bruce."
After finishing speaking, Raymond Zou suddenly raised his head again, looked at Eric, and said curiously: "I remember Mr. Williams, you are only 19 years old this year. You should have been only three years old when Bruce passed away."
"Good movies never go out of style. I only saw the videos of several Bruce movies when I grew up. Speaking of which, when I was filming in Seattle last time, 〖℉, I also made a special trip to Mr. Bruce Lee Even though it has been more than ten years, fans from all over the world still often go there to lay flowers."
Raymond Zou was stunned for a moment, and the faint shame on his face flashed away. If it wasn't for Bruce Lee, maybe he wouldn't have achieved what he is today. but. Except when Bruce Lee was buried. He has not been to Seattle a few times: "I will also go to Seattle to pay homage when I finish my business."
Eric nodded noncommittally, and then looked at Robert Shea, who had been silent all this time. He still didn't know Robert's intention of introducing him to him.
Robert pulled Eric aside and said in a low voice: "It's like this. Last year I participated in a film invested by Hong Kong Golden Harvest called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". You should have heard of it. Fox originally agreed to this film. It was released, but after seeing the finished film, Fox went back on it."
Eric heard the words "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and quickly remembered the movie. Although he was not familiar with the movie's previous life in the United States, he knew a piece of history about Hong Kong movies. It is said that Mr. Zou, the head of Golden Harvest, has always wanted to enter Hollywood. After going through a few small troubles, Golden Harvest bought the right to adapt "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and planned to play a big one. Golden Harvest invested 80 million Hong Kong dollars in this movie, and finally made a billion dollars in North America. According to the exchange rate. One billion Hong Kong dollars is equivalent to almost 130 million U.S. dollars. It is impossible for a foreign company to take more than 100 million U.S. dollars from Hollywood. Then this amount of money must be only the North American box office won by "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", but the North American box office of more than 100 million is enough to squeeze into the current top ten box office list.
And it sounds interesting that Fox gave up on such a movie that was enough to squeeze into the box office list. However, in my memory, Fox has always liked to do this kind of thing. In his previous life, Fox gave up the North American distribution of "Titanic" and sold it to Paramount at a low price of 60 million US dollars. Finally, "Titanic" got it in North America. The total box office of more than 600 million. Although it has been through such a time, Fox did not learn the lesson. Ten years later, it will continue to "make persistent efforts". The next step is Kashen's "Avatar". Fox was worried about investment risks, so it introduced other investors. Finally, "Avatar" box office It exploded, and Fox lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of this wrong decision.
Shaking his head and throwing out these messy thoughts, Eric asked, "Robert, what do you think?"
Robert Shea said: "That's right, Eric, the film has a total investment of 13 million U.S. dollars, which is not a small amount. New Line also participated in the investment of 3 million U.S. dollars. Now that Fox refuses to release it, we can only do it ourselves." Come and do it. You have such a good vision in movies, so I discussed with Raymond Zou, and I want you to help watch the finished film and give you an idea."
"Did you bring the copy?" Eric asked.
Robert Shea was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, I just brought Mr. Zou to meet you tonight. Let me mention this incident by the way. We can go to the company to see it tomorrow."
Eric also realized that he was impatient. Although there was a small projection hall in the mansion, even if Robert brought the copy, he would not be able to leave the two hundred guests in the hall alone. It would be too impolite.
"Okay then, go to the company tomorrow morning and let's take a look together."
"Well, that's it," Robert said, pointing not far away: "I saw an old friend, go over and say hello."
"Whatever you want, have fun," Eric said with a smile, watching Robert leave, Eric found that Mr. Zou did not leave with Robert.
"Mr. Zou, is there anything else you can do?"
"No, that, Mr. Williams, you just said that you like Hong Kong movies very much, so what do you think of Hong Kong movies?" Mr. Zou randomly picked up a topic.
Eric led the other party to the buffet table and took some food. The two came to the sofa near the floor-to-ceiling windows. Seeing Eric coming, a man and a woman who were tired of sitting on the sofa offered their seats.
The two sat down together, and Eric said: "Mr. Zou, I think the development of Hong Kong movies has completely lost its rationality now, giving people a feeling of being crazy for the last time before it is shattered."
Originally, Mr. Zou just wanted to chat with Eric about some excellent Hong Kong movies. It was a good idea, and it would be great if they could facilitate cooperation. Unexpectedly, I heard Eric talk about the current situation of Hong Kong movies. With a wry smile, Mr. Zou also said helplessly: "Everyone is crazy about making money, who would think so much. Mr. Williams, you, an outsider, can see it clearly. In this case, Mr. Williams, what do you think? Is there any solution?"
What can Eric do, he just said it casually based on the impression of his previous life. Even if there is, it is useless now. At least twenty years later, the mainland will completely open up its own film market. But at that time, it is estimated that the concept of Hong Kong movies almost did not exist.
Because of various restrictions, the future of Hong Kong movies is almost doomed, Eric said: "Although I also like many movies in Hong Kong, but for the current situation, I have nothing to do."
Raymond sighed, looked at Eric, and asked tentatively: "So, Mr. Williams, do you think there is any possibility for us to cooperate?" (To be continued...)