The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 170 Master Jigsaw and "Prison Break"

Since returning to China, Wang Wei has resumed his reclusive state.

First, it was to avoid the paparazzi who followed all the time.

Secondly, after being a shopkeeper for a long time, there are still a lot of work to be done within the company.

The first is to integrate and complete the acquisition of the North American subsidiary-Lion King Films.

"I thought it was Lionsgate." Wang Wei once said with emotion.

However, despite the imitation of the name, Lion King Films is still far inferior to the previous Lionsgate Films—because it failed to invest in film and television projects several times in a row, it was unable to make ends meet and had to sell itself.

"However, its qualifications are not bad. It has the ability to produce movies and TV dramas. The most surprising thing is that it also has a certain ability to distribute movies." Wang Chuanqi, who completed the merger and returned to China, introduced.

It was the last reason that made Lao Wang decisively buy this small film company in New York.

They all know the importance of distribution ability to a film company.

Although Lion King Pictures can only distribute some low-cost films in North America, and its marketing ability is far inferior to that of big companies; if the same film is released by it, the box office results will inevitably be much worse than those released by big companies.

However, Dunhuang is based on experience - without the exploitation of big companies, and publishing by itself, even if the results are not good, the money you get in the end is still more than if you hand it over to a big company for distribution.

Therefore, Lao Wang cut the mess quickly and spent about 6000 million US dollars to fully acquire Lion King Films. Dunhuang has a foothold in North America.

——In general, this can be regarded as a cost-effective acquisition.

Of course, the completion of the acquisition does not mean the completion of the integration.

If you really want to integrate the North American subsidiary with Dunhuang, some work still needs to be done.

For example, new projects that must be successful.

This is also the first battle to show the vision and strength of the new owner.

When Lao Wang returned to China, he also brought back more than a dozen film and television production plans prepared by Lion King Films. After watching it, Wang Wei could only sigh with emotion—no wonder this company is going to be reduced to prostitution, and the film library he likes None of the items.

Well, it's not too surprising, any studio is short of high-quality projects.

It's just that Wang Wei has to rely on Wang Wei to "turn a stone into gold".

——This is also one of Lao Wang's main goals today.

Fortunately, Wang Wei never disappoints when it comes to script reserves, and immediately gave him a script.

Lao Wang glanced at the name of the script——

The English title is simply "SAW", and the literal translation is saw!
There is also a Chinese title "Chain Saw"!
"Looking at the name is very in line with the style that Lion King Films is good at."

Pharaoh thought silently.

Previously, Lion King Films focused on suspense crime themes, and this kind of theme is similar to sci-fi themes. It has very high requirements for scripts. It is because of the lack of good scripts that its boss can't continue.

And Wang Wei's script is naturally called a good script.

Lao Wang raised his eyebrows more and more, and the final ending made him slap his thigh, "Wonderful!"

——Of course, "Chain Saw" was one of the most lucrative film series of Lionsgate in the previous life!

The series revolves around a world-class genius mechanical designer, a senior middle-aged and elderly perverted killer--Master Jigsaw;

Its relatively meticulous setting of suspense points, as well as the surprise and ingenuity of the layout of the level life and death game, the visual stimulation of restricted violence, and most importantly, the various reversals at the end, make this series often exchange tens of millions of dollars for over [-] million box office , can be listed as one of the most cost-effective series of IPs in film history.

At any rate, after so many years of working in the industry, Pharaoh can certainly see the appearance of a dark horse, and even more so, the potential of serialization.

This is not the same as Lionsgate - the Lionsgate of the other world did not think so much when making the first part, it was entirely because of the popularity of the first part that Lionsgate saw the business opportunity, and then perfected it step by step and enrich the series.

Wang Wei has predecessors as reference. In the first part, he gave a certain profile description of Mr. Jigsaw, which can be clearly seen as a pavement for the sequel.

"This movie is definitely in line with Laomei's heavy taste." Lao Wang was once again amazed by Wang Wei's "script customization ability".

He was about to talk about how to shoot this movie, but Wang Wei took out another script——

""prison Break"!?"

"This thickness...should be the script of a TV series, right?"

"Correct."

"You move really fast."

Comrade Wang muttered, flipping through the new script handed over by Wang Wei, and soon, his eyebrows raised higher and higher, and finally he covered his chest excitedly, "No, it's too exciting!"

For him to have this kind of reaction, the script of "Prison Break" is naturally quite good.

"Prison Break" tells the story of his younger brother Michael who took the initiative to go to prison in order to save his brother Lincoln who was framed and imprisoned, and finally took his brother to escape from prison successfully.

In that world, it was the "first love of American drama" of many Chinese.

It wasn't the first American drama Wang Wei watched, but it also opened Wang Wei's eyes—it turns out that TV dramas can also speed up the pace so fast!

Not to mention the thrilling suspense and reversal at the end of almost every episode, which made the audience in front of the TV hate it but couldn't stop it...

Comrade Lao Wang was glad that he didn't have a heart attack, and said happily: "Judging from the wonderfulness of the script, this "Prison Break" will definitely become the main series of the next stage of Lion King Films!"

"Having said that, there won't be only one season of this story, right?" he continued.

Wang Wei shook his head: "I expect to finish filming the story in two seasons, but you also know the model of American dramas. How many seasons can be filmed depends on whether there is a TV station renewal..."

"I don't think there is any need to worry about this problem at all."

Lao Wang smiled and said,
"Based on my judgment of this script, as long as the people of Lion King Films perform at a normal level and make no major mistakes, it will be no problem to get the renewal successfully." Lao Wang paused and asked, "The problem is, are you still planning to Shall we continue to extend the story?"

"This is..."

Wang Wei knew that the other party was right.

The mode of American TV series is very special all over the world. The filming operation mode of one episode per week and one season per season leads to the fact that the crew does not know how long the story can be filmed.

Of course, as long as the ratings reach the pass line, under normal circumstances, they will continue to shoot, so unfinished endings have become a common problem in American dramas, and very few of them can remain strong until the end of the drama.

The "Prison Break" of the other world is a typical example-the first season is called a masterpiece, the second season has a slight drop in standard but still watchable, and the third season has fallen sharply...

Although Wang Wei thinks it's a dog's tail, but from the perspective of making money, it doesn't seem to be a problem.

——After all, he is not a die-hard fan of the original "Prison Break", and he has no psychological burden on using it to make money.

Of course, this is under the premise that the TV station "gives too much", otherwise he would still prefer to let this classic series end at the peak moment-at least it is the opening series of the North American subsidiary!

"However, those are the preparatory plans for the future, let's talk about the first season first." Wang Wei spread his hands.

Pharaoh agrees.

"It's just that your previous work just brought a large number of criminals to prison in North America, and now you have released a new "Prison Break". Why do I think it's your bad taste?" Old Wang asked suspiciously.

"Slander, definitely slander, am I such a person?"

Well, Lao Wang shrugged his shoulders, completely sure that it was this guy's bad taste.

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(End of this chapter)