Chapter 376 Female Assistant and Female Apprentice (Please subscribe to support!)
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Whether it is Xiang Chun or Qi Yutong, to Xu Kai, they are insignificant and insignificant little people, especially after they accepted 5 million from Qi Qiaoqiao and left Hengdian, they are even less worth mentioning, even though their love is quite legendary.
In the more than seven years since Xu Kai was released from prison, he seems to have been busy all the time and has never had a moment of leisure.
Although, Xu Kai didn't feel tired either physically or mentally.
But Xu Kai still felt that he needed to take a break for a while. After all, there was no end to making money, and he had now become the richest man in the world and had no shortage of money at all.
Therefore, after returning to Hengdian, Xu Kai planned to take a good rest for a while, spend time with his woman and his many children, to prevent them from being like Xu Mai, who was not close to Xu Kai at all.
Moreover, although Xu Kai looks like he is in his twenties on the surface, the reality is that Xu Kai is almost thirty-eight and is almost forty years old.
If it weren't for the excessive extravagance, the Marvel Universe would still need Xu Kai. Xu Kai also has several movies he wants to make. Xu Kai is ready to retire and enjoy life to the fullest with his woman and children.
In fact, Xu Kai has recently been preparing to buy a private yacht or even a private island.
However--
Xu Kai wanted to rest, but those who still relied on Xu Kai to make money did not want Xu Kai to rest.
Three years ago, after Xu Kai shifted the focus of his film development to Hollywood, the domestic movie box office market was almost dominated by Hollywood movies (or to be more precise, Xu Kai's Hollywood movies).
For Xu Kai, he can make money no matter what. Moreover, because he can make money better in North America, Europe, and other countries and regions in the world, he actually makes more money.
But for domestic film producers, this is a disaster - a disaster that they cannot change at all.
You know, even for "Shang-Chi" and "Shang-Chi 2", two Hollywood movies with mainly Chinese actors and mainly shot in China, if they want to enter the domestic movie box office market, they have to go through the channel of imported films.
In this way, it will naturally be monopolized by state-owned distribution companies, and even if these private film producers are envious, they will not be able to get anything.
Let me put it this way, in the past three or four years, China Central Film Group has made a lot of money and lived a very comfortable life by distributing movies related to Xu Kai (those starring or starring Xu Kai, those produced by Xu Kai, and those invested by Xu Kai).
Looking at those private film producers who used to make huge profits following Xu Kai, they are now living a very tight life - it can be said that their living space is almost squeezed out by China Film Group, their stock prices are all plummeting, and some film companies have simply gone bankrupt.
It was precisely because these private film producers were having such a hard time at the time that Brothers Films, Aina Films, and Light Media took the lead in joining forces with a number of film producers including Jiuzhou and Sihai to buy the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" at a sky-high price of 5 billion, preparing to use it to save the market.
But what Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong and others never expected was that "Detective Chinatown 3", which was estimated to have a box office of 7 billion yuan, only earned a box office of more than 3 billion yuan in the end.
This is because of "Detective Chinatown" and "Detective Chinatown 2" as well as the huge popularity accumulated by Xu Kai.
Here's the specific details.
Two years ago, "Detective Chinatown 3" became the Spring Festival holiday box office champion with a box office of nearly 3.6 billion yuan, and on the second day of its release, the box office exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, breaking the first-day box office record for a single film in the Chinese market, the single-day box office record for domestic films, and the pre-sale box office record in film history. Its box office on the opening weekend was as high as 397 million yuan, becoming the world's number one at the time.
In addition, the box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" reached 660 million yuan on the day of its release, and the rating at that time was 6.8 points.
However, as the box office continued to rise and broke various box office records one after another, the reputation of "Detective Chinatown 3" was getting lower and lower.
To be honest and objective, if we look at it purely from the perspective of humor and plot, several domestic comedy directors who have studied Xu Kai's style thoroughly have combined their strengths to create "Detective Chinatown 3", which is actually not that different from the previous two films.
Let’s talk about the overall viewing experience first. The funny effect is actually quite good, the overall production is also very delicate, a lot of the explanations are also well done, the shooting technique is very sophisticated, and it is basically on the same level as the first two films. It can be said to be a decent film.
However, putting aside the logic of being funny and celebrating the New Year, from the perspective of a mystery film or a detective film, the problems of "Detective Chinatown 3" are also obvious.
To put it simply, the overall design of "Detective Chinatown 3" is to be funny for the sake of being funny. Many places are not natural enough, the actors' performances are too exaggerated, the details of the case are too rough, and in the end, because they want too much, all kinds of information are directly presented to the audience. This creates a certain degree of pleasure in solving the case, but too much background and clues are explained very hastily and roughly, resulting in a situation that looks good on the surface, but in fact there are many unreasonable places.
Under such circumstances, the audience will feel quite uncomfortable watching the film, and the final result of a collapse in reputation is to be expected.
It can be said that "Detective Chinatown 3" was messed up by those who wanted to make money too much and were too greedy. It does not mean that the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown" is really not worth 5 billion.
If Detective Chinatown 3 hadn't been botched by these people, they could have lived happily on the Detective Chinatown series in recent years. How could they have such a difficult transition ?
Fortunately——
Capital has the power of capital.
A group of film producers first took advantage of the audience's great expectations for "Detective Chinatown 3" and raised the ticket prices of "Detective Chinatown 3" to an incredible level, and then used the huge resources at their disposal to monopolize the screening rate.
High ticket prices mean high box office potential.
The huge screening rate is a guarantee of high box office.
——In fact, you can’t watch movies whenever you want or not whenever you want. Scheduling is the most important thing. Cinemas know exactly how many screenings a movie has. During the Spring Festival, your family happily went to the movies, but found that most of the screenings were for one movie. The other movies you wanted to watch were either scheduled in the early morning or at midnight, or there were too few screenings, only two or three a day. What should you do? You can only watch what everyone else is watching, but what everyone else is watching is not necessarily what everyone wants to see. It is very likely that it is just what the capital wants you to see.
As a film that a number of capital giants have tried hard to promote, with such a high market share and concerted action, it is hard for "Detective Chinatown 3" not to be popular.
What's more, "Detective Chinatown 3" not only has the popularity accumulated by Xu Kai's previous "Detective Chinatown" and "Detective Chinatown 2", but also a number of film producers have spent a whole year promoting it. A number of film producers have been suppressing their efforts for a year and have been waiting for this time to make a move. Under such circumstances, both publicity and promotion and theater layout have reached unprecedented heights.
This means that even though "Detective Chinatown 3" failed, it still achieved a very impressive box office.
But the problem is that the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown" alone is as high as 5 billion. Coupled with the huge investment, big cast and big publicity, the box office of only more than 3 billion is simply a drop in the bucket.
The key point is that "Detective Chinatown 3" ruined the reputation of the "Detective Chinatown" series, and the subsequent "Detective Chinatown 4", "Detective Chinatown 5" and "Detective Chinatown Universe" are all gone.
A number of film producers are almost losing all their money.
First there was "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands", and then there was "Detective Chinatown", both of which proved to the world that without Xu Kai, no matter how big the IP is, it will be useless and will eventually lose money.
A number of film producers have therefore come to realize that everything is fake, all fake, and only by following Mr. Qing closely and working with him to make a movie is real.
Therefore, as soon as Xu Kai returned to China, these bigwigs in the film industry, such as Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong, and the heads of Jiuzhou and Sihai, first rushed to help Xu Kai send Li Yonghong away. After Xu Kai returned to Hengdian, they often visited Xu Kai's house, gave him all kinds of local specialties, and hung around in front of Xu Kai every day.
You said, it's okay for others to just hang around in front of Xu Kaiyan, but Yu Dongdong actually shamelessly followed suit and joined in the fun.
Moreover, on one occasion, Yu Dongdong met Jin Yuanyuan, who was holding Xu Kai's daughter and holding Xu Kai's son's hand.
At that time, the scene was so embarrassing! Wang Jun and others who had almost guessed the whole story couldn't bear to watch it.
But I have to say, Yu Dongdong is really a character. He actually took the initiative to greet Jin Yuanyuan like an old friend and said, "Long time no see." Then he looked at Xu Kai's son and daughter and said, "You have such a good pair of children."
I don’t know if it was Xu Kai’s illusion, but when Yu Dongdong said this, there seemed to be no other negative emotions in his tone, only envy and jealousy that he tried hard to conceal.
If this is true, Xu Kai can actually understand it.
After all, Jin Yuanyuan had been with Yu Dongdong for several years without any movement in her belly, but when she was with Xu Kai, she gave birth to a son and a daughter. It was obvious who had the problem.
Furthermore, Yu Dongdong is almost fifty years old, and he doesn't even have anyone who can inherit his family property, which is really sad.
Jin Yuanyuan, who has always been very sensible, did not show off her happiness to Yu Dongdong, nor did she even say anything to Yu Dongdong. She just nodded at Yu Dongdong and then took the child to the backyard.
Xu Kai thought that after such an embarrassing incident, Yu Dongdong would never come to his house again.
Unexpectedly, within two days, Yu Dongdong came to see him again with Wang Jun and others, as if the previous embarrassing incident had never happened.
Later, Xu Kai found out that Aina had had a very difficult life in the past two years.
——Not only did none of the movies made by Aina in the past two years make money, but it also lost a lot of money by investing in "Detective Chinatown 3", so that Aina's stock price has dropped to a bargain price of more than ten yuan.
Therefore, if Aina fails to deliver results that satisfy all parties this year, Yu Dongdong might even go bankrupt.
This is not difficult to understand. Xu Kai clearly cheated on Yu Dongdong, but Yu Dongdong always came together with other film producers to lick Xu Kai's boots.
Yu Dongdong was willing to sacrifice his old face and come to Xu Kai from time to time. Xu Kai didn't want Yu Dongdong to be an eyesore in front of him every day and affect his mood.
The key point is that Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong and their group would come to Xu Kai's home to visit him from time to time, and would always call and send messages to Xu Kai, which made him very annoyed and he couldn't take a peaceful vacation at all.
After thinking about it, Xu Kai asked Si Peizhi to call Shen Hehe.
More than three years have passed, and Si Peizhi, the young girl back then, has changed a lot now.
With clear eyes, pure face and noble temperament, Si Peizhi's typical oriental beauty is like a classical beauty walking out of an oil painting, elegant and sexy.
Si Peizhi is just the right amount of gorgeous, and has an incomparable beauty. With her tall figure and oval face, she would definitely look very elegant in ancient costumes, and her every move would have a touch of classical charm.
Let me describe it this way, Si Peizhi is beautiful and pure, with an unworldly and fairy-like temperament. Her eyes are very pure and she has the temperament of an angel.
In fact, everyone noticed Si Peizhi, the fairy who was inseparable from Xu Kai.
Many people even thought that if Peggy Si were invited to the big screen, her face alone would definitely earn a lot of ratings.
But none of these shrewd people said this abruptly.
Why? Of course, it was because Xu Kai had more resources than anyone else, so it would be too easy for him to make Si Peizhi a star.
In this case, Si Peizhi did not become a star, which means that either Si Peizhi did not want to be a star, or Xu Kai did not want Si Peizhi to be a star, or both.
Also, Si Peizhi seemed to be just Xu Kai's personal assistant, but who couldn't see that Si Peizhi was definitely Xu Kai's concubine? In this case, who dared to interfere in Si Peizhi's life? Did she still want to stay in the film and television industry?
actually--
These people really guessed wrong.
In the past few years, Xu Kai has not been idle in the United States. He has played with a large number of European and American women. Most of the Hollywood actresses who have worked with Xu Kai ended up sleeping with Xu Kai. Fortunately, most European and American women prefer so-called freedom. Therefore, seeing that Xu Kai has so many women, they all parted ways with Xu Kai amicably. In the end, except for Anne Hepburn, only Sophie March and Nicole Johnson, two European and American women, returned to China with Xu Kai.
Besides, Xu Kaiben already had so many women.
So, even though several years had passed, Xu Kai had almost no idle nights, and therefore he had never accepted Si Peizhi.
As for Si Peizhi, when she first got together with Xu Kai, she was always eager to throw herself into Xu Kai's arms.
But after being intercepted by Yang Xinchun, Sophie March and others, Si Peizhi finally came to her senses: "There are countless women who can sleep with him, but I am the only woman who can stay by his side and take care of him every day. Besides, with his lustful and nagging personality, he will eat me sooner or later. Why should I worry?"
Si Peizhi was not in a hurry, and Xu Kai, who had never lacked women, was even less anxious - anyway, Si Peizhi was a duck in his mouth, Xu Kai could eat her anytime he wanted, so there was no need to be anxious at all.
Just like this, everyone thought that Xu Kai had actually slept with Si Peizhi a long time ago, but the fact was that until now, Xu Kai had hardly touched Si Peizhi.
Not only did others not believe this kind of thing, even Xu Kai himself found it a little unbelievable.
but--
Xu Kai has been thinking lately that he must find a time to eat the increasingly delicious Si Peizhi, so as to avoid any more trouble.
Shen Hehe, who went abroad with Xu Kai for three or four years to train, has changed a lot now.
Her temperament and appearance are quite special. She is well-read and has the manners of a great general. She has a hidden edge that is ready to strike. She can see her own path.
In terms of image, she, who has been studying ballet since childhood, not only has a sincere and elegant appearance, but also has a restrained and enterprising gentle demeanor, perfectly demonstrating the fashion style of an urban woman.
Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong and others were all confused when they saw Xu Kai brought a pretty girl over.
Xu Kai gently put his arm around Shen Hehe's shoulders and said to Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong and others, "This is my apprentice Shen Hehe. She has been following me to make movies in the past few years. She has participated in all the movies I have directed, from assistant director to executive director. She is very hardworking, talented, and thoughtful. I am indeed planning to take a break recently. If you are really short of movies, why not give her a chance? What do you think?"
When Wang Jun, Yu Dongdong and the others first heard what Xu Kai said, they were all stunned. Some of them were even secretly angry. They thought, "Can't we find anyone to make a movie? People who want to use our resources to make a movie can line up from your house to Kyoto. The reason we come to you so eagerly is that we hope you can help us make money, but you don't come out and bring a little girl to make trouble. What's the matter?"
However, Yu Dongdong quickly rolled his eyes and agreed with a smile: "Okay, Qingyun, since you asked, we must give you face and give your apprentice the best resources to help her complete her maiden work."
With Yu Dongdong's reminder, old foxes like Wang Jun also reacted. They also promised to give Shen Hehe the best resources and to escort Shen Hehe's first female work.
Some people couldn't understand why they had to lose money to help a little girl. After coming out, they quickly asked the people around them: "No, although the little girl has served Yu Qingyun for several years, who knows how much she has learned from Yu Qingyun. The key is that she doesn't have Yu Qingyun's reputation of making money without losing money. Why should we bet so much on her?"
The person next to him smiled slightly: "As we all know, Yu Qingyun is a person who values friendship the most and never lets his friends suffer. So, think about it, if we do our best to help his apprentice, but we don't make any money and maybe even lose some money, then can Yu Qingyun not personally come out to help us make a movie and make back the money with interest?"
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(End of this chapter)
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