After spending the night with Milla Jovovich, Paul Anderson felt so comfortable that his whole life was complete. After another hard sex in the morning, Paul Anderson drove his car

, go to Su Qiao Films.

Su Qiao Pictures is located on the middle floor of an office building owned by the Su family. Although there are only about 10 or 20 people working there, it occupies one floor of the office building, covering more than 3,000 square meters. It is very impressive.

Now that the Su family's business has reached a bottleneck, they are in urgent need of finding new directions for breakthroughs, and Lu Yiming's advice to them is the entertainment industry.

It happened that the previous tenant's lease expired and he did not plan to renew it, so Su Zhenge made a plan and decided to use this building as the headquarters of the film company.

After crossing the main entrance, Paul Anderson still felt a little uneasy. He really needed this opportunity to prove himself.

Therefore, he kept encouraging himself in his heart to stay calm: "I must perform well this time and I must not make any mistakes."

However, when he walked into the company, a look of astonishment still appeared on his face.

The boss of such a big company is actually an Asian?

And he’s still such a young Asian!

Could it be a wealthy immigrant family?

Lu Yiming didn't feel strange about Paul Anderson's expression. It seemed that people here had this expression on his face since they knew he was an Asian man.

It seems that in the eyes of these people, yellow people should be at the bottom of society, and white people are the noblest existence. Even the black uncle who only makes trouble seems to be more politically correct than yellow Asians.

After all, yellow people are really easy to bully, and only slaves can be so submissive.

Lu Yiming sat on the stool without moving his buttocks, and said hello in English from a distance: "Hello, Paul, I am Lu Yiming from Su Qiao Pictures. I have heard your name a long time ago."

Paul Anderson tried to ask: "So, are you? An Islander?"

Lu Yiming smiled slightly and shook his head: "No, I am a native of Xia with pure blood."

After learning that Lu Yiming was from the Xia Kingdom, he was even more surprised. After all, in Hollywood, the Asian faces who invest in movies are mainly from the island nation. Xia people are so rare, even rarer than dinosaurs.

But Paul Anderson was just surprised and had no other messy ideas. He didn't bother to care whether the boss was a Xia national or an alien. Anyway, he just wanted to invest in him to make a movie.

After Paul Anderson took his seat, Lu Yiming directly threw out a notebook and handed it into his hand: "Please read the script first and see if you can film this story."

Paul Anderson read the "Resident Evil" script in his hand almost at a glance. Like the original movie, Lu Yiming also modified the plot of the game and deleted the male protagonist's role, but in the first part

Added Ada Wong's plot.

The changes to the original version of the movie were not significant and did not affect the main plot. Therefore, Paul Anderson was greatly impressed after watching it. He originally came from a literary background and before becoming a director, he was already a well-known screenwriter in the country. Appreciation

The ability is still there.

And after experiencing the failure of "Black Hole Surface", he has successfully polished off all the edges and corners in his body, no longer pursuing those so-called philosophical speculations, but completely embracing Hollywood's "Model Calling", believing that commercial films should be

Commercial operation pays attention to factors such as scene and technology, but it must "plot first" and adopt a typical commercial narrative strategy.

These are the lessons he learned through blood and tears from his past painful experiences, and the plot of the original "Resident Evil" was modified by him himself, so he is very pleased with Lu Yiming's script no matter how he reads it.

After chatting for a while, Lu Yiming confirmed that Paul Anderson was the director he was looking for. As a popcorn movie, "Resident Evil" should not deal with too profound ideas and provide the audience with a visual experience.

Just a feast.

Sure enough, Paul Anderson is still the same Paul Anderson.

Lu Yiming was quite satisfied with this guy, so he said: "Very good, just follow your idea. When will you start working when you are free?"

When he learned that he had been selected and could continue to make movies, Paul Anderson was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Any time! Right away."

Lu Yiming was still very satisfied with Paul Anderson's attitude. He said: "As for the selection of the protagonist, I will not interfere, but for several important supporting roles, I hope you can accept my arrangement."

Since we want to make money from the American people, we naturally have to take care of the local people's preferences. For example, Lu Yiming will not do things like find an oriental face to play the heroine. After all, commercial films need box office.

But it doesn't matter if we find a few Asian faces to play some minor supporting roles. It won't affect the main plot anyway. Lu Yiming likes the role of Ada Wong very much and hopes to have as many Asian faces appear in the movie as possible.

Of course Paul Anderson has no problem with this request from his boss, and he also has the one person he most wants to arrange to play the heroine - Milla Jovovich.

What could be more wonderful than dragging your lover over to play the heroine and strengthening your relationship every day?

Immediately, Paul Anderson said: "I hope Milla Jovovich will play the heroine."

After Lu Yiming heard this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Several years in advance, who is the heroine or Mira?

Then, he suddenly remembered that it seemed that after filming "Resident Evil", Paul married Milla Jovovich?

This is really...

It can only be said that foreigners are good at playing. They make movies to make their wives famous.

Of course Lu Yiming has the right to refuse, but when he thinks that the role of Mira and the "Resident Evil" series complement each other, and Paul Anderson has to work hard, he must give him a little sweetness.

When Paul Anderson saw Lu Yiming not speaking for a long time, he thought he was going to refuse. Just when he was worried about what to do, Lu Yiming spoke.

"You can arrange for her to come for an interview. If it's suitable, I will consider it."

"Thank you, boss."

Paul Anderson left ecstatically. On the way back, he couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone and told Milla Jovovich the good news.

After fixing the director and the heroine, Lu Yiming thought of another person - Liu Tianwang.

He immediately made a phone call.

"King Liu Tian, ​​long time no see."

Liu Tianwang was surprised when he suddenly received a call from Lu Yiming. He was even more surprised when he learned that Lu Yiming was now in Hollywood.

"Why did you end up in Hollywood?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "I originally came to Seattle to participate in a competition, but I saw a good opportunity. Are you free recently? Do you want to come to Hollywood to develop? I invested in a movie here, and I am the protagonist.

I can’t give it to you, but there’s nothing wrong with the supporting role.”

Minghua Entertainment Company has been established for some time, but it has not found any suitable job. Now Liu Tianwang heard that Lu Yiming said that he would take him to Hollywood for development, and he couldn't sit still.

"Think about it, even in my dreams! Don't tell me if I am free now, I will be free even if the sky falls!"

Liu Tianwang had just finished his call with Lu Yiming, and he was still excited. His manager Zhang Guozhong came to him with Li Cansen.

This Li Cansen, in 1997, participated in "Made in Hong Kong" directed by director Chen Guo, played the role of Tu Mid-Autumn Festival and won the Best Newcomer Award at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards. In the same year, he successfully signed a contract with Liu Tianwang's company

, officially debuted.

In 1998, he continued to participate in the feature film "There were a lot of fireworks last year" directed by Hong Kong director Chen Guo. By playing the role of Wu Jiaxuan, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards. He successfully made his mark and attracted attention in the industry.

, a newcomer who is not good at looks but only has the ability to act.

"Ah Sen."

"Brother."

Everyone greeted each other, and Zhang Guozhong joked: "I see you are very happy. What's the happy event?"

We are all our own people, so Liu Tianwang didn’t hide it. He laughed and said, “Pack your things and book some tickets to Seattle, America. Asen, you can go too.”

Zhang Guozhong said in confusion: "Why are you going to Seattle? For vacation? There are a lot of things going on in the company right now."

Liu Tianwang smiled and said: "Who told you that we are going on vacation? We are going to Hollywood!"

Zhang Guozhong is even more fascinated by the lake: "Hollywood is not in Seattle either."

Liu Tianwang said: "I just received a call from Lu Yiming..."

Only then did Zhang Guozhong learn from Liu Tianwang that the legendary big boss of Minghua Entertainment, who never saw the beginning or end of the dragon, had set up a new film company in the United States, and it was specializing in the North American box office!

Zhang Guozhong was shocked and showed an expression of disbelief.

Although Xiangjiang is known as the Hollywood of the East, after all, it is a small place and the gap with Hollywood is still very obvious. The gap in box office alone is not on the same level.

Take "Titanic" released at the end of 1997 as an example. The box office in Hong Kong was 115 million. This is already a record-breaking result. You must know that the highest box office of local movies in Hong Kong is just over 60 million.

That's all.

But what is the box office of the same movie "Titanic" in North America?

Six hundred and fifty-nine million! Dollars!

This is a size difference of more than fifty times, which means that the total amount of resources that the two parties can invest in film shooting are completely different, and the economic base determines the superstructure.

The decline of Hong Kong movies is actually inevitable.

Outsiders can't see this, but as insiders in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, everyone actually knows it well, otherwise Hong Kong movie stars in the 1980s and 1990s wouldn't have cut off their heads to enter the good industry.

Come to dock.

The most successful among them is Jack Cheng. His "Red Zone" cost more than 100 million, but the results are also gratifying. The box office in North America alone reached 32 million U.S. dollars. Counting Xiangjiang and

The box office of Baodao made a net profit of more than 100 million.

The success of "Red Zone" is a milestone for Jack, Golden Harvest Films, and the entire Chinese film industry.

Beginning in the 1980s, after more than ten years, and after three attempts, Jack Cheng finally successfully entered the mainstream Hollywood film market with this film, which made him envious of many of his peers.

Now, King Liu is also going to Hollywood to develop his career, and Leslie Cheung's excitement is beyond words.

Zhang Guozhong always dreamed that Liu Tianwang could make a breakthrough and join Hollywood to earn US dollars like Jackie Chan. Now that he heard that Lu Yiming actually opened a film company in the United States, he was immediately elated.

"We are considered collaborators with Mr. Lu. Now that he is calling you over, he will definitely create a movie tailor-made for you. You will star in the leading role and become an instant hit."
To be continued...