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Text 0053 [Time waits for no one]

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    In the 1980s and 1990s, China's market economy was booming, and the country was advocating material construction and economic construction. It was during this golden age of rapid development that the tide broke out.  Countless people have resigned from their positions in state-owned enterprises and government agencies and resolutely embarked on the journey of starting their own businesses.  In 1985, at the age of 25, Wang Zhongjun resigned from the Materials Publishing House of the State Administration of Materials and devoted himself to the advertising business.  At that time when the entertainment industry was just starting, Wang Zhongjun felt that his vision and knowledge could not keep up with the pace of economic construction, so he re-invested in learning and flew across the ocean to study in the United States for five years.  After receiving a master's degree in mass media from the State University of New York, Wang Zhongjun finally felt that he had the foundation to start a business. In 1994, 34-year-old Wang Zhongjun took the US$100,000 he earned from a work-study program in the United States and boarded a plane back to China to meet his little one.  With his ten-year-old brother Wang Zhonglei, they founded Huayi Brothers Advertising Company.  During this period, China was full of gold, but it was only available to those who were prepared.  Relying on the advertising knowledge learned in the United States, Huayi Brothers received a standardization project for more than 15,000 Bank of China outlets across the country. After completion, it quickly received orders from many state-owned enterprises at that time, and its advertising business grew and became one of the top ten advertising companies in China.  .  In 1998, Wang Zhongjun ran into a former colleague who was working in the television industry and told him that television was a very profitable business.  After the advertising industry hit a bottleneck, Wang Zhongjun was moved and invested in his first TV series "Psychological Clinic" with 100% profit!  From then on, he got out of hand and entered the Chinese film industry.  "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", "The Japanese Are Coming", "My 1919", "A Sigh" and "Endless" were all filmed and invested by the two brothers.  Unlike Yu Dong, who has just started to work alone, the Wang Zhongjun brothers are quite famous in the industry and are known as the "ace army" in the literary and art world.  Now Wang Zhongjun has begun to dabble in a wider range of businesses, including artist management, record marketing, and the layout of a large media group.  The investment in the movie is basically left to his younger brother Wang Zhonglei.  Perhaps Wang Zhonglei is a little dim under the light of his brother Wang Zhongjun, but he is not an ordinary person. He graduated from the China Youth University of Political Science and Technology. He is talented and has a good way of making movies.  Wan Xiaohu had met with Wang Zhonglei earlier, had tea, and discussed the distribution rights of "Waiting Alone".  Although it didn't work out, we still had a good impression of each other.  Wang Zhonglei¡¯s secretary made tea, closed the door and went out.  "Brother, drink tea." "Brother Lei, you can drink too." After being polite for a while, we got to the point.  "Brother Lei, this is the script "The Butterfly Effect" that I recently created. I am looking for investment. If Huayi Brothers is interested, I hope you can invest." Handing the script over, Wan Xiaohu held the tea cup and slowly  Enjoy tea.  Wang Zhonglei looked at it carefully, turning it to the front from time to time to compare the front and back.  Half an hour later, Wang Zhonglei closed the script, closed his eyes, and seemed to be thinking.  After a while, Wang Zhonglei said: "Brother, if you come to shoot, how much investment do you think is needed?" Wan Xiaohu has already calculated these contents: "I have two plans. The first one is a simple production without inviting stars.  , without pursuing the picture, the movie can be made with an investment of about 4 million. The second option is to hire stars and do special effects. The cost of the star is about 8 million, and the movie can be made. ¡± Wang Zhonglei.  After summing up, I asked: "Do you think "The Butterfly Effect" was shot in two ways, which will affect the quality of the movie?" "To be honest, it will not have much impact on the mainland market. Nowadays, domestic movies have no idea what they are.  The special effects and pictures are not as good as the box office. As for the presence of stars, the impact may be greater, but "Butterfly Effect" relies on the plot, but the stars are second. " "But what?" Wan Xiaohu said with a smile.  "I personally hope to film it normally, because I still have a little extravagant hope. "The Butterfly Effect" is theoretically a science fiction movie and is not very popular in the mainland. However, internationally, especially in the United States, science fiction movies are very popular.  Not one or two. If you have the opportunity to sell the movie, you will probably make a lot of money." Wang Zhonglei shook his head and laughed: "It is too difficult to sell it overseas, but people always have to set ambitious goals for themselves.  No." Wan Xiaohu also laughed. There were too few examples of domestic films going abroad. Although they often won awards at the three major film festivals, it was a pity that they did not make any money.  But Wan Xiaohu knows a secret, that is, the Sino-US joint venture film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Li Eucalyptus has been released in France and will be released in the United States soon. Then it will win the best foreign language film at next year's Oscars and will be released in the United States.  Created a sales miracle for Chinese-language films and gained abox office of more than 100 million US dollars.  What¡¯s more, it has greatly started the craze for Chinese-language movies, causing more American film producers to come to China in search of good movies.  Although this craze will not last for a few years due to the lack of follow-up, it is not difficult for "Butterfly Effect" to catch this train.  Wan Xiaohu thinks that his eloquence is not good enough to talk the dead into life, let alone tell others that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is going to be popular. Whether he can invest more depends on the courage of the other party.  ¡°There are not many private companies that have the courage to invest in movies these days, and major studios like to go it alone and get the big picture, which does not meet Wan Xiaohu¡¯s conditions for cooperation. His biggest hope is to cooperate with Huayi Brothers.  Wang Zhonglei bit it and said, "Why don't you create a comedy movie script? Comedies are very popular now, and your "Waiting Alone" has been selling very well recently." If we don't film it now, "The Butterfly Effect" will soon be sold by others  made a bid.  Wan Xiaohu wanted to tell the truth. "The Butterfly Effect" was an investment project in 2002. He couldn't bear to waste such a good work, so he could only forcefully launch it.  However, this kind of secret can only be kept in the bottom of my heart: "Comedies and martial arts films are indeed the mainstream during this period. However, the audience's taste is not fixed. As long as it is a good movie, they will all like it. Brother Lei, what do you think of "  Isn¡¯t the book "Butterfly Effect" very good? "Wang Zhonglei nodded: "If it were not very attractive, I would not say so much about a domestic science fiction movie.  "I know. In the past, it was because there were no good scripts for domestic science fiction and the directors didn't understand science. Now that we have good scripts, why can't we make good movies? I have this confidence. Now let's see if you have it, Brother Lei."  This is so courageous. " "Don't provoke me, I have to think about it carefully. Whether it is 8 million or 4 million, it is not a small amount. Our investment in Feng Xiaogang's "Endless" is only 5 million, you have to give it.  I will wait for a while." "Of course." Wan Xiaohu put the script away, "I still hope Brother Lei can give me an answer as soon as possible. I plan to start filming soon and finish it by the end of the year." "It's so urgent.  Time waits for no one." Pointing to his head, Wan Xiaohu said in a joking tone, "I have too many movies in my mind. They are all popping up. I should film them as soon as possible and be quiet."
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