Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 253 Sino-US Co-production
"Limitless", produced by Lantern Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, was released in the United States and earned 1900 million US dollars in the first three days of its release, ranking first on the North American weekly chart.

This result is not worth mentioning for a large company, but for a small startup company, this result is a life-saving timely rain.

The film earned 1900 million U.S. dollars in the first three days, and is expected to exceed 7000 million U.S. dollars in North America, so the global box office will most likely exceed million U.S. dollars.

You know, the cost of "Limitless" was only 2500 million US dollars, and this is the first film released by Lantern Entertainment. If it can successfully break million, it will be a good start for the company and for Michael Lynn personally!

The current performance of "Limitless" can only be described as good, but it is definitely not a big hit, so unless domestic audiences are fans who have been paying attention to the North American market for a long time, they may not know about this movie yet.

But many companies in the domestic industry have gradually found out.

Li Qiutang has never concealed the fact that she owns a production company in the United States, and has even sought investment from many investors.

Now that "No End" has achieved great success, it is a good time for Li Qiutang to brag.

With a cost of 2500 million US dollars, it is expected to achieve a global box office of over million US dollars, which is a very good rate of return in the film industry.

Many domestic companies have turned their attention to Lantern Entertainment, as they need a ship to go out to sea.

But the ones that always show enthusiasm are large companies with capital and strength such as Huayi and Guangxian.

Even large state-owned studios such as China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group want to get involved.

It’s just one successful movie, is it too early to get on board now?
It is indeed too early for other small and medium-sized companies, but for large companies, the risk is worth taking.

Besides, Li Qiutang, the boss of Lantern Entertainment, still has to stay in the country, so Lantern Entertainment can’t escape.

Guangxian is closest to Qiutian, so Wang Changtian made an appointment with Li Qiutang first.

Wang Changtian and Li Xiaoping invited Li Qiutang to have tea and chat, and their meaning was very clear: they wanted to co-produce a film with Lantern Entertainment.

Sino-US co-productions have existed for a long time. "The Forbidden Kingdom" can be considered a Sino-US co-production in a sense, but the whole process of Sino-US co-production from investment to production to distribution has not yet been achieved.

As a big name in the industry, Wang Changtian saw this piece of meat and wanted to take the first bite.

He didn't know whether Sino-US co-production would be profitable, but he had to try. It was better to find Li Qiutang than to find Warner, Fox, etc., who he was not familiar with.

Wang Changtian didn’t know, but Li Qiutang knew.

Sino-US co-production is indeed a big trend, but successful co-productions are very few and Li Qiutang is not sure that he can do well in this business.

If Li Qiutang had a darker heart, it was not impossible for her to pretend to launch two projects and team up with Michael Lynn to cheat Guangxian out of some money, but it was better to avoid such things.

You can’t do this to the glamorous ones.

Because Li Qiutang has set her sights on Zhang Zhao, the president of Guangxian Pictures!

Li Qiutang has already found out that Zhang Zhao is dissatisfied with the listing of Guangxian Pictures after it was packaged into Guangxian Media, and believes that the packaged listing has affected Zhang Zhao's positioning of Guangxian Pictures and the layout of the industry.

But if Guangxian wants to go public, Guangxian Pictures must be packaged into Guangxian Media. Wang Changtian also knew what Zhang Zhao meant, but when it came to the listing plan, he still chose to go against Zhang Zhao's wishes.

Zhang Zhao has already thought about resigning. Li Qiutang wants to poach him to come to Autumn Pictures. Autumn Pictures does not have such worries. Autumn Pictures is an independent subsidiary of the parent company Haitang International.

You can't do anything bad to Guangxian at this time, otherwise how can you talk about it later.

Li Qiutang also said that Sino-US co-production will be the next hot spot, but he is not sure. "From the market point of view, Sino-US co-production has high topic, big gimmicks, and easy financing, but from my perspective as a director and from a creative perspective, the cultural gap between China and the United States is not so easy to break through. Who will the crew listen to when filming? I am afraid that they will still listen to the US side. They are so strong, why would our team dare to compete with them? The working methods and habits of the crews of China and the United States are also different, and this kind of running-in is the most fatal."

Li Qiutang has worked in an American film crew, and he knows very well that the working habits of Hollywood crews are completely different from those in China!

In Li Qiutang's opinion, the work done by Hollywood crews is too meticulous.

For example, when shooting rain scenes or water scenes, if the actors get wet, in China, the actors can just pat it off themselves. But this is not possible in Hollywood. The crew has a staff member who is specifically responsible for patting off the water droplets on the actors.

The crew has to pay this staff member a salary.

In Li Qiutang's opinion, there are at least a dozen such jobs in Hollywood crews that are completely unnecessary.

To Li Qiutang, this is not called industrialization, this is called making money in various ways!

"Kung Fu Panda is indeed a good example, but it is too special. My Lantern Entertainment is an American company after all, so its projects are definitely mainly English films. My company has only been in business for less than two years, so it may not even be able to get any of the co-productions."

Li Qiutang smiled again and said, "Besides, Mr. Wang, my Autumn Pictures is there. Even if we make a co-production, I will definitely focus on my own company."

That's what makes sense, but Wang Changtian doesn't believe that Li Qiutang doesn't know how to diversify investments and share risks.

But Wang Changtian didn't think Li Qiutang was playing dumb. It seemed that Li Qiutang really couldn't see the future of Sino-US co-production.

Wang Changtian put the cooperation aside for the time being, but still said that he hoped to deepen the cooperation in the future.

Qiudi is not as big as Guangxian, and its distribution ability is weaker than Guangxian, but Guangxian's production ability is not as strong as Qiudi. Guangxian is still mainly engaged in investment and distribution, and its own production results are not very good.

Last year, Guangxian signed Chen Jiashang, hoping to make use of Hong Kong's mature team to supplement its production capabilities.

Speaking of this, Wang Changtian also said it was a pity that Liu Yifei rejected "The Four": "I thought it would be more interesting to watch a movie with a female detective."

This adaptation is very bold, but it is not necessarily impossible to try.

It seems that Wang Changtian still doesn't know about the relationship between Liu Yifei and Li Qiutang. Li Qiutang didn't take the initiative to say it, and just said: "She took a new play, and there is nothing we can do about the conflict in schedule."

When Wang Changtian found out that Liu Yifei had taken on another role in an idol romance film where she would play a beautiful woman, he felt sorry for her and thought that acting in an idol romance film was not as good as playing the role of a goddess detective.

In fact, what Wang Changtian said makes sense. Playing a ruthless woman is indeed more challenging and more attractive to actors.

But Li Qiutang pretended to defend Liu Yifei: "At her age, she is very suitable for this kind of role. It is safer to act in more youth romance movies while she is still young, be pretty, and fall in love with handsome guys."

This is also what Li Qiutang has always told Liu Yifei, don't rush to show your acting skills and break through yourself.

When she was in her twenties, Liu Yifei played the role of a beautiful woman or a young girl in love.

Who can perform better than Liu Yifei on this track? !

Besides, the two youth romance films that Liu Yifei starred in were both excellent. Most people wouldn’t be given the chance to play Li Qiutang.

After finishing the conversation with Guangxian, Li Qiutang received another invitation from Huayi, and Wang Zhongjun also wanted to cooperate with Lantern Entertainment.

But Huayi’s appetite is obviously bigger than Guangxian’s, Huayi is going to invest in Lantern Entertainment!
This private company is different. It is much more generous than others.

(End of this chapter)