557. Chapter 557 Scene 557 Childlike Kindness
In this kind of big discussion across the Americas, American entertainment and film newspaper media will naturally not ignore this matter. The Chicago Sun Entertainment Edition reports on the title "Disaster Films Caused the Doomsday Boom":
"Do you remember the panic wave across the United States caused by "The Comet Hit Hit will Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit" in 1986? Do you remember the big discussion in 2004 that "The Day Afternoon" triggered the "The Northern Hemisphere is about to enter the ice age"?
Yes, this is the magic of film and television. Whenever a classic disaster film appears, the environment that is too real can't help but make people believe it and regard virtual stories as something that is about to happen. What is unexpected this time is that this panic wave across the United States is not a super disaster film, but is triggered by a doomsday zombie-themed TV series like "The Walking Dead". No matter from any perspective, the audience who have watched "The Walking Dead" far exceeds "The Comet Crashed the Earth" and "The Day Afternoon". From free wireless TV, paid cable TV, and the Internet, the audience who watch the series has exceeded 300 million, so it is not surprising to trigger such an imaginative event..."
"Daily Entertainment" said even more quips: "Li Xiaole, a Chinese director who was previously known as the representative of Oriental elegant art, was denounced by the Western religious community as the demonic incarnation of the "Son of Satan". Many people have begun to plan for the TV series he filmed. Before the arrival of 12, what should the last six years be spent? If you have a crush on a girl, confess your love quickly. Even if he refuses you, you are not afraid of being hurt, because the end of the world is about to come..." The picture of its report is a photo of Li Xiaole walking on the street with expressionless face. Finally, it wrote:
"The critic seems to have completely miscalculated the potential of this Chinese director. If he focused on B-level films, he might become the second Quentin Tarantino. It is unknown whether 12 is the end of the world, but by 12 years ago, how much success will Li Xiaole achieve in Hollywood? Can he surpass his predecessor Wu Yusen and Ang Lee? This is worth looking forward to..."
At 2 a.m. that night, Lei Ting, wearing a T-shirt, got up to go to the bathroom and saw the lights in the living room on. When she walked over, she found Li Xiaole sitting alone on the sofa, holding her cheek with her hands, frowned and thinking about something.
"Are you not sleeping yet?" Lei Ting walked over and looked at him curiously.
"Well..." Li Xiaole heard her voice and turned around and looked at it, saying oh, "I'm just thinking about something."
"What's the matter? Because you have caused several Brazilian idiots to be homeless?" Lei Ting narrowed her eyes and came over to sit next to him.
Li Xiaole shook his head and turned to look at her: "I'm not worried about those idiots. They took it upon themselves. I'm just thinking about how to promote my next movie."
"Your next movie? Do you have a plan?" Lei Ting looked at him curiously. Now Pirate Station is on the right track. Although Mina is not enough to control the entire company, as long as it is implemented according to the shooting plan formulated by Li Xiaole, the Pirate Station's future will only get better and better, and it only needs to develop naturally.
But what is really worrying is that in terms of the movie, Li Xiaole has offended all the things that should be offended and should not be offended this time. Not to mention Sony, even the remaining four major players such as Fox have dropped to freezing point. Although no one dares to challenge Li Xiaole on the surface during this period, they have secretly adopted a cold treatment policy towards Li Xiaole, while Warner is not concerned about his own affairs, and he is willing to hold on high and not interfere.
The result is that when Li Xiaole makes another movie, all the theaters controlled by the six major companies will not have any contact with him anymore.
"Well, I plan to make a superhero movie." Li Xiaole said calmly. Now it's time for him to take out his ace. The cooperation with Marvel has begun to officially start. He has been waiting for a long time. The superhero series, the foundation of their Black Pearl United Company in the future, is also the most fundamental wealth to compete with the six majors.
Marvel's Spider-Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four have become famous in the film industry, but the copyrights of other superheroes are in his hands. Of course, Li Xiaole does not intend to shoot them all by himself. After the company has formed a certain scale, he will directly set up a project for professional producers and directors to produce this series of films.
What he has to do now is to make a good start to this series, which is the most important thing. This time it is Black Pearl United States. It does not rely on other companies at all. It is truly independent of filming and releasing a movie in North America, and it cannot be missed.
"You want to make a superhero movie?" Lei Ting opened her mouth slightly, looking at Li Xiaole incredible and said, "This really doesn't look like your style."
"What kind of style am I?" Li Xiaole turned his head curiously and asked back.
"Don't you know? Insidious, cruel, cunning, cold, pretending to be cool, pretending to be innocent..." Lei Ting kept scolding her, making Li Xiaole unable to listen, and waved her hand in embarrassment, interrupting her:
"Enough~ Enough~ Is it as unbearable as you described...?"
"Absolutely." Lei Ting nodded naturally.
Li Xiaole touched his nose and thought to himself that when he was doing those conspiracies behind his back, they were all executed by Lei Ting. He was really not very decent, so he could only sigh:
"What should I do? It seems that I have to regain my image. I am a superhero movie that wants to make money. I have to pretend to be upright and kind..." So I turned sideways and looked at Lei Ting with a eager look and asked:
"Sister Tingting, the funds we recovered from "The Walking Dead" and "The Vampire Diary" should have been almost tens of millions of dollars? How much is left after you have settled the current funds for the 4th floor theater chain?"
"It is expected that more than 80 million US dollars will be recycled, which is enough for us to pay off our debts and buy hard advertisements to establish a relationship with those theaters, but I will need at least two months to do this." Lei Ting frowned and said, "Why, what do you have to use money?"
"I was wondering, should I do some positive image promotion for my superhero movies?" Li Xiaole shook the bangs on his forehead with his hand and said, "For example, donate something?"
"Well..." Lei Ting thought about it, and the request was very legitimate. She immediately understood Li Xiaole's intention and nodded and praised: "This is a good way. Use the name of donations to attract other media to interview, and then reveal your next new work, which can gain a good reputation and promote it. It is really good..."
"Then we have the best reputation for charity. What is the charity project that is most beneficial to us? Sister Tingting, what do you think?" Li Xiaole blinked and looked at Lei Ting as if asking for help.
"This is simple." Lei Ting quickly called the information in her mind and said: "There are several aspects of charity. One is to set up a foundation to help people with diseases and disabilities. This is more pleasing and can get a good reputation. But if you want to promote superhero movies, then I suggest you can set up a foundation to help stray cats or Tibetan antelope animals. This will be recognized by women and children, which is more pleasing... Finally, donating to school construction, which I think is meaningless, and it is better to donate to China's Hope Primary School."
"Well, all are good..." Li Xiaole nodded thoughtfully and said, "I think the meaning of superheroes is to save ordinary people. Since we are saved, can we save some groups that are negatively affected by our performance...?"
"This idea is good. Didn't the stupid guys in that small town in Brazil ruin their families because of the doomsday theory? We can set up a foundation to help them..." Lei Ting said halfway, suddenly felt something was wrong, and turned around and stared at Li Xiaole with his evil eyes:
"Wait, you have already thought about it, and you deliberately mean to ask me to say this, right? If you can't sleep at night, you feel guilty because of such a foolish encounter?"
"I haven't thought so... From beginning to end, it's all your idea of Sister Tingting..." Li Xiaole showed an innocent look and spread her hands out and said, "Did I say anything..."
After saying that, Li Xiaole stood up, turned to look at Lei Ting and said:
"Do you think that despicable villains like me who are sinister, cruel, cunning, cold, and love to pretend to be cool, and often pretend to be innocent will not sleep in the middle of the night because of the stupid things that Brazilian idiots buried themselves because of making a too real doomsday movie? How could this be...!? Okay~ Sister Tingting, stop fantasizing, you can deal with this matter tomorrow, I'll go to bed..."
Just as Lei Ting was speechless, something sounded halfway through Li Xiaole, and turned around and emphasized: "Sister Tingting, let's donate 15 million. I think it should be enough. Don't donate too much. If you donate too much, you will be anxious. If you have too much money, you will build an orphanage... I heard that there are many orphans in Rio..."
Lei Ting looked at Li Xiaole's careless look with her eyes blankly and waved her back to her, but she felt inexplicably in her heart. Although this guy has a hard mouth and acts insidiously in his daily life, he can even be said to have any means to achieve his goals, but in his heart, he has a kind of innocent and kindness like a child... Such a man is really touching...
Chapter completed!