Chapter 140 Escape and Original Literature Contest

Liu Zhou is certainly interested in making his way into Hollywood.

Hollywood is the center of the world's film industry, and most directors and actors hope to make a name for themselves in Hollywood.

At that time, Hong Kong was known as the Hollywood of the East, but even during the heyday of Hong Kong films, there were still many Hong Kong filmmakers who wanted to enter Hollywood.

Cheng Long followed in the footsteps of Bruce Lee and started working in Hollywood in the early 1980s, but it was not until the 1995 movie "Rumble in the Bronx" that he gained some fame in Hollywood.

Later, as the Hong Kong film industry fell into a slump, a large number of people began to enter Hollywood.

But only a few of them have really made it, including actors like Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and directors like Wu Baige and Yu Rentai.

It goes without saying that everyone is familiar with Wu Baige, while Yuen Woo-ping became famous in Hollywood through horror films.

But after Hollywood learned Yuen Woo-ping's technical style, he was quickly abandoned.

As for the much-hyped Chow Yun-fat, as Wang Jing said in an interview, he is not a big name in Hollywood at all.

What is even more criticized is that in "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", he even played a role that was somewhat insulting to China. Compared with Zou Zhaolong, the difference is really obvious.

As for the mainland, it goes without saying that this is the time when everyone admires the West, especially the United States, the most.

When a mainland actor plays a small role in Hollywood, it can make the Chinese people excited and a lot of press releases are issued.

It is precisely because of this kind of flattery from mainland actors and audiences that Hollywood would make a special version of a movie for the mainland.

The situation did not improve until our national strength grew and our culture became more confident.

Although Liu Zhou didn't know why Lionsgate thought of inviting him to Hollywood to make a movie, it didn't matter to him. Even if he failed in Hollywood, it would not affect his base in the mainland.

So Liu Zhou also planned to take this opportunity to go to Hollywood to try his luck, maybe he could gild his reputation.

Why does Li An have such a high status in the Chinese entertainment industry?

Isn’t it because he holds two Oscars for Best Director?

He is the only Chinese director who has completely established himself in Hollywood.

Liu Zhou does not expect to win an Oscar, which requires a lot of time, energy and money to achieve.

As long as Liu Zhou's movies in Hollywood have high box office like Wu Baige and can make investors money, he can also gain a foothold in Hollywood.

"Mr. Anthony, I am very interested in going to Hollywood, but I need to wait until I have completely dealt with the matter of the project "The Sword of Embroidery"."

"No problem, you can contact me directly when you are done."

After discussing this matter, Anthony Edwards and the people from Lionsgate returned to the United States.

Liu Zhou looked at the extra seven million dollars in his account and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.

Within two days, Liu Zhou received another piece of good news.

Emperor Entertainment Group and the Nanyang film producers have reached an agreement on the copyright deal for "Blade of the Immortal".

Nanyang belongs to the Greater China cultural circle and is very fond of martial arts movies. So although these regions are not large, the total sales amounted to about US$2.5 million.

Now all that’s left is the distribution of one copy.

This time, Liu Zhou didn't even need to take the initiative to look for companies, as several companies came to him.

"Hero" grossed more than 4 billion yen in the first quarter of 2011, ranking tenth on the first quarter box office rankings last year.

Faced with such huge profits, these one-book publishing companies will certainly not hold back.

However, it is better to do business with someone familiar, so Liu Zhou finally chose to cooperate with Takeshi Kitano's T-Mark company.

Liu Zhou had a pleasant experience cooperating with them before, and the stratification they gave was not low, reaching 30%.

After signing this last distribution contract, Liu Zhou felt completely relieved.

The project of "Xiu Chun Dao" has been completely implemented, and now we just have to wait for the final distribution of the money.

Afterwards, Cheng Long came to Beijing together, and after some discussions, they reached an investment agreement on the project "New Police Story".

Cheng Long did not contribute any money, but used his own film salary as investment, accounting for 40% of the share.

Emperor Entertainment Group, China Film Group and Zhou Shan Studio each invested 10 million yuan and each holds 20% of the shares.

Since Liu Zhou does not have that much money in his current account, his 10 million investment will be temporarily advanced by Emperor Entertainment Group, and will be repaid after he receives his share of the profits from "The Blade of Eternal Youth".

It seems that Cheng Long has suffered a loss, but everyone knows that the "New Police Story" project is their gesture of goodwill and a way of repaying Liu Zhou.

If there is subsequent cooperation, there won’t be so many personal relationships to talk about.

The preparations for "New Police Story" are almost complete. In addition to Cheng Long, the other two main roles have been chosen by Xie Tingfeng and Wu Yanzu.

There are not many female characters in this movie, so Liu Zhou doesn't speak.

After signing the contract, Jackie Chan rushed back to Hong Kong to prepare for filming.

Liu Zhou found himself completely idle.

Liu Zhou, who had nothing to do, came to the drama troupe for some unknown reason, but after a round he didn't see Zhang Tong.

Liu Zhou found Qin Hao and asked her, only to find out that Zeng Jia had taken her out to perform at commercial events to make money.

"I don't know what's wrong with Zhang Tong recently. She hasn't even rehearsed her plays and has been asking Zeng Jia to find her commercial performances every day. I even asked her about this and she's not really short of money right now."

"She knows how to make progress, unlike you who stays here every day. If you don't make more money now, you won't be able to support your wife in the future." "I don't think that far ahead. It's too early to get married."

"So you're planning on acting in a play soon? I probably won't be starting any new projects soon."

"Not really. Actually, I received a script recently and I quite like it, but it's an underground movie."

"From the sixth generation director?"

"Yes, it's Wang Xiaoshuai's, and the movie is called "Qinghong"."

"So do you want to act?"

"I want to go."

"Go if you want to. As for the subsequent impact, I will help you mediate."

"Thank you, Lao Liu!"

"You're welcome. This is just a piece of cake for me now."

Qin Hao didn't say anything more, and there was no need to say more about the relationship between the two.

After separating from Qin Hao, Liu Zhou also left the company and returned home.

When Liu Zhou had some free time, he began to conceive the script for a movie he was going to shoot in Hollywood, and he would occasionally visit the company.

But every time he couldn't see Zhang Tong, Liu Zhou realized that she was avoiding him.

Liu Zhou had no choice but to deal with this.

But this is also good news for Liu Zhou, which means that Zhang Tong does not want to leave at the moment, but just doesn’t know how to face it so he chooses to escape.

Perhaps because of a man's possessiveness, Liu Zhou even felt a little happy about this.

On March 2nd, the first original literature competition, which Zhoushan Literature had been preparing for several months, was officially held.

In order to increase its influence, Liu Zhou will serve as the chief judge of this competition, and he will select the first prize works.

This original literature competition only has one project, which is the selection of short stories. The review of medium and long stories is too troublesome.

There are first, second and third prizes in total. The first prize is for only one work, while the second and third prizes are for five and ten works respectively.

The first prize is as high as 50,000 yuan, and the second and third prizes are 20,000 and 10,000 yuan respectively.

In addition, the winning works can be published on the homepage of Under the Banyan Tree and will also be issued in Under the Banyan Tree magazine. If they are popular, they will be published in a collection.

The first prize works will even be recommended to major film and television companies and have a great chance of being adapted into TV series.

It can be said that Zhou Shan Literature invested a huge amount of money in this original literature competition.

The prize money alone amounted to 500,000, not to mention the subsequent publicity resources.

But it was all worth it. The various measures Liu Zhou took after integrating the three websites into Zhoushan Literature greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of employees.

Especially the employees under the banyan tree, seeing that the company has become visibly better than before, they are more motivated to work, and even the employees who had left before want to come back to work.

There were many new initiatives at Rongshuxia during this period, but most employees chose to work overtime on their own initiative. After several months of hard work, they finally got those things done.

The page of Under the Banyan Tree’s website is now simpler, and there is also a magazine with the same name. Although its sales are not very high because it was just released in January, they are increasing with each issue.

In addition, under Qu He's leadership, Rongshuxia also took the initiative to strengthen its relationship with some publishing houses.

This original literature competition is the last project of Under the Banyan Tree, and most of our energy is focused on it at the moment.

What's more, even the big boss came to the competition personally.

With much publicity, the original literature competition organized by Under the Banyan Tree has a great influence.

Especially on the Internet, it has spread among the author groups.

Not only the authors, but also some readers who saw the news and some who thought they had literary talents or had literary dreams also picked up their pens.

Anyway, the threshold for this competition is relatively low and submission is relatively convenient. The Rongshuxia website has set up a special submission channel for the competition.

During this period, the number of visitors to the Rongshuxia website increased significantly, and the server almost crashed.

In the end, Liu Zhou invested some more money and rented a new server.

The competition will last for two months, and submissions will close on April 20th. The winning works will be announced on May 1st.

At that time, Under the Banyan Tree will personally invite the winning authors to come to Beijing to receive their awards, and all meals, accommodation and round-trip tickets will be covered.

Although Liu Zhou is listed as the chief judge, he is actually just a figurehead. The specific selection work is still the responsibility of the editorial team.

This is because it is the first session, and they need to borrow Liu Zhou's fame for publicity, but he doesn't have the time to do this.

Time slowly came to the end of March, and Zeng Li finally returned from the filming of "Seven Swords".

The filming of this drama took nearly half a year, with stops and starts. If it weren't for Xu Ke's reputation, the actors might have ignored him long ago.

However, when he saw Zeng Li again this time, Liu Zhou suddenly felt a little guilty.

So after she came back, he was extremely gentle to her and stayed with her at home for more than half a month.

The two of them called him and asked him to share the money, and only then did Liu Zhou leave Zeng Li's sweet home.

(End of this chapter)