Chapter 235: The Real Next Zhou Zhangguo
Chapter 235 True - Returning Home Next Week
The audition for "Taken" lasted until four in the afternoon.
After the audition, when Wang Hao walked out of Columbia's production park, he saw Liu Yifei still standing not far from the park's gate, as if she was waiting for someone.
Next to her, another beautiful woman who was a little older but still had charm, noticed Wang Hao first and patted Liu Yifei on the shoulder.
Only then did Liu Yifei notice Wang Hao and hurriedly brought the woman to greet him.
"Wang...Director Wang!"
After standing in front of Wang Hao, Liu Yifei seemed to realize that her behavior was a bit rash, and her voice even lowered a few notches when she greeted him.
On the contrary, Wang Hao looked at the "Fairy Sister" with bright eyes and white teeth in front of him with a kind smile.
"Hahaha, don't be so reserved, Yifei. You can call me Wang Hao or Brother Hao. Shu Chang calls me that, too.
I think the last time we met was when you accompanied Shu Chang to the premiere of "Fatal Call". In the blink of an eye, it has been more than a year. I didn't expect that we would meet here.
By the way, who is this auntie?"
"This is my mother." Liu Yifei introduced quickly.
Seeing Wang Hao looking at her, Mother Liu spoke to Wang Hao in a very familiar manner:
"Hello, Director Wang. I'm Xixi's mother, Liu Xiaoli. Thank you for taking care of Xixi during this audition.
It was only after Xixi came out that I heard her mention you.
I didn’t expect that Director Wang, at such a young age, could already direct a Hollywood blockbuster. You are truly a young and promising person!”
To be honest, this was the first time Wang Hao met Mother Liu in his life.
However, he had heard of this person's name for a long time in his previous life, and many entertainment online articles had emphasized that this person was not easy to mess with.
However, after meeting her, Wang Hao found that Mother Liu was not as difficult to get along with as the rumors said.
On the contrary, Wang Hao felt that this person's temperament was more generous and decent than her daughter's, and he was more friendly and amiable, with a noble demeanor.
Wang Hao didn’t know whether this was because the rumors from the outside world were false or because his identity as a director was unique.
Anyway, since the other person's attitude was so friendly, it was naturally impossible for him to be impolite.
“Aunt Liu, you’re too serious. I’m just here to direct a movie.
Besides, we are all Chinese, so when we are away from home, we should help each other if we can.
What's more, Yifei herself is not bad either. We have all seen her performance just now, so I think it shouldn't be a problem for her to get the role."
"Really? Thank you so much, Director Wang!"
When Mother Liu heard what Wang Hao said, the smile on her face became even brighter, and she immediately expressed her willingness to treat Wang Hao to lunch.
As for Liu Yifei, the expression on her face was dull, and it seemed that she didn't care much about this role.
Obviously, it was her mother's idea that Liu Yifei wanted to develop in Hollywood and become an international star, and she just listened to her mother. It's no wonder that Liu Yifei stood up Huayi and signed with William Morris Studios in Hollywood.
Wang Hao would not comment too much on the career path that Liu's mother arranged for Liu Yifei.
Moreover, he was actually not that familiar with Liu Yifei and her mother, so after exchanging a few pleasantries and reminding Liu Yifei of some things to pay attention to when filming the movie, he found an excuse to say goodbye to the two of them.
In the following days, Wang Hao was still busy with the early preparations for "Taken", and at the same time he was able to enjoy Dadario's special services at night.
Although this kind of life makes people reluctant to leave, they still have to fulfill the promise made to Mr. Han San to "return home next week."
During the preparations for "Taken", most of the main tasks have been finalized under Wang Hao's approval.
As for the remaining part, Wang Hao handed it over to Zhuang Wenqiang, who had been involved in it before, and told him that after the work here was completed, he would lead the Hollywood behind-the-scenes staff of "Taken" to China to shoot the relevant indoor scenes in the studio there.
After explaining these things, Wang Hao’s purpose of coming to Hollywood was roughly achieved.
So on the Thursday of the second week after Wang Hao and Liu Yifei met, he boarded a plane from Los Angeles back to Beijing with his subordinates who came to Hollywood for further studies.
Just like when he came here, Wang Hao landed quietly this time, and no news media blocked him at the airport.
After returning to Beijing, Wang Hao did not rush to contact the bosses of the film and television companies who were looking for him. Instead, he went back to the company first to find out how the company had developed during his absence.
Regarding this, the company's subordinates quickly summarized the company's recent situation in front of him one by one.
The first is the box office and revenue of the movie "Source Code" in mainland China.
From the release of the movie on October 10st to November 1th, "Source Code" was released for a total of 11 days, and its box office performance in mainland China successfully exceeded 16 million, reaching an impressive result of 47 million, ranking first in the Chinese mainland box office rankings.
According to this result, Wang Hao and his team earned approximately 6000 million yuan from this movie.
After all, this movie was mainly invested by their Galaxy Pictures. Although other companies such as Huayi, Huaying, Emperor Entertainment Group, and Movistar also invested, the four companies only accounted for 40% of the market share.
Of course, the box office share of more than 6000 million will not be credited to Galaxy Pictures’ account in the short term.
According to their company's financial director Ma Ke, it may take another three or four months for this part of the box office revenue to be received.
Compared with the box office sharing of other movies, this time is actually very fast. This is the preferential treatment that Galaxy Pictures can enjoy because of the good relationship between their distribution company Huaying Group.
However, even without these profit shares, Galaxy Pictures is not short of money in its account today.
After all, the box office share of the movie "Wushuang" had already been fully paid by Huaying.
In addition, two TV series produced by Galaxy Pictures, "I Am a Special Forces Soldier" and "Descendants of the Dragon", were also very popular on TV platforms.
Especially "Descendants of the Dragon", which was the annual ratings champion in 07, and this TV series was exclusively invested by their Galaxy Pictures.
The 21-episode TV series was sold to CCTV at a price of 50 per episode, and the profit from this alone was 1000 million.
In addition, this is only the first round of broadcasting rights, and there are other major local satellite TV stations and millions of audio and video copyrights to come.
Moreover, through Wang Hao's connections, this TV series was bundled with "Source Code" and sold to South Korea, Japan and North America.
Although the price of overseas copyright of TV series is not high, when the profits are added up, the movie "Descendants of the Dragon" has made a lot of money for Galaxy Pictures, estimated to be 30 to 40 million.
(End of this chapter)