Chapter 445: Over 10 million box office in five days(2/2)
"Oh," Ronald thought for a while, but let it go. If the manufacturer insists on piracy, the pirated video tapes may be on the market together with the genuine ones, or only lag behind for a short period of time, which will eat up the genuine ones in large numbers.
sales, it is too late to regret.
"Actually, their production capacity is good, the quality is very consistent, and they are cheap." Manager Liu also brought a large number of video tapes they produced. I think the colors are very accurate. If they are not pirated, it is very suitable to give them to them.
Cannold asked his assistant to bring in a box of video tapes from the outside. They all had Chinese characters on the covers. The one on the top starred Ronald's acquaintance Jackie Chan, and its name was very strange.
Up to X.
"Put it here and let me take a look." Ronald knew that the other party was also attracted by such a cheap cost. If the sales were very good or the video tape market in Europe was opened, the American market would have been eaten up by then.
So few that I don’t care about more piracy in Asia.
The last ones to come in were Ronald's most trusted agents, Richard and Niceta.
Niceta has already found a public relations company and booked a party time for Ronald. Richard took a bunch of information on important people and wanted to go through it with Ronald.
The working hours passed quickly. After Ronald and the two agents finished discussing, it was almost evening.
"Ahem..." Ronald yawned loudly and stretched, "It's been quite tough these past few days. Traveling between the east and west coasts, the marketing road show is really tiring."
"Perhaps, you should consider renting a private plane. It will save time than civil aviation, and you can also rest on the plane."
Niceta closed the notebook and made a suggestion.
"Don't mention it, I'm in a cash crisis right now. I've been spending, spending, spending this year. If I don't get the money back, I won't be able to afford to fly first class."
"Uh..." Richard hesitated.
"What?" Ronald saw his little move.
"When you were short of money, didn't you work in advertising production? The shooting could be completed in a day or two. Now your reputation is still rising, and the prices offered by manufacturers are increasing."
"Someone asked me to shoot an advertisement?" Ronald laughed, "That's a good thing. Which company is it?"
"Procter & Gamble..."
"Pass," Ronald interrupted immediately. During the filming of Dirty Dancing, P&G withdrew the product placement for the Cleary Acne Cream because of the abortion plot, leaving Ronald very passive. This time it was obvious
The other party intended to extend an olive branch, but Ronald was not interested in reconciling with them.
In the worst case, just save some money, or borrow some more, or go back to New York to enjoy his aunt's meal, hehe. Ronald no longer wants to embarrass himself.
"Okay, let me see what I can do. I'll let the word out that you are willing to accept the advertisement and see what the results are."
"Very good, Ronald rubbed his eyes. He always has a lot of work to do, but that's it for today."
Taking a few boxes of video tapes sent by Xiangjiang Company, Ronald picked out a few Jackie Chan movies and went back to watch them for entertainment.
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"Spartan
What kind of movie is this? The name doesn't reveal much about the content.
Ronald put the videotape into the machine, and after a burst of blue and pink anti-piracy credits passed, the movie officially started.
"This anti-piracy technology is pretty good, it's better than last time I saw it." Ronald felt that those who deal with piracy are probably also top-notch in anti-piracy.
The opening scene shows Jackie Chan and one of his brothers getting up. Because the stairs were blocked by a fight between Italians, the two decided to take a shortcut.
Jackie Chan rolled over from the balcony and jumped down. There was an awning in the fruit shop below. He did the splits on the awning, bounced it, and then rolled down and stood on the ground.
"Oh, Shxt", Ronald stood up, how was this shot taken?
He quickly grabbed the remote control and rewinded the tape.
"Hey, there seems to be no editing point." Ronald muttered, "Is this really dancing?"
He pressed the play button.
"ah……"
The fruit shop owner put away the awning, followed by another actor, named Yuen Biao, who jumped down from the second floor and sat down on the ground.
"Isn't this also a real shot?" Ronald exclaimed.
This dangerous move of somersaulting from the second floor to sitting on the ground may lead to injury or even disability.
"He's willing to dance? No, how can anyone be so stupid? There must be some special method." Ronald finished watching the movie. It was filled with many such action scenes, and the action was very beautiful.
But what impressed him most was the scene in the opening scene where he fell from the second floor, was caught by the awning, bounced up, and flipped to the first floor.
Encountering this kind of technical problem, Ronald's director addiction was aroused again, and he wanted to know how this was filmed.
After thinking for a long time, Ronald looked at his watch. It happened to be morning there and decided to make a call.
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"Brother Long, there is a ghost guy looking for you. He speaks English. He said he is calling from Los Angeles."
"Ghost? Who's calling me?" Jackie Chan had already gotten up early and finished exercising. After taking a shower, she was preparing to eat.
"Hello? This Jackie Chan", Jackie asked word by word in his slightly accented English.
"Ronald, this is Ronald..."
"Sister Jiao, come and listen to me. This ghost guy talks so fast that I can't understand him."
"Hello", the beautiful woman called Jiaojie came over to answer the phone and was about to ask in English.
Ronald switched to Mandarin here, "I am a friend of Brother Long, my name is Ronald, Ronald Lee. If you say Ronaldinho is looking for him, he will know."
"Oh, Ronaldinho." Jackie Chan picked up the phone, "How are you in Los Angeles? When will the new movie be released in Hong Kong? We are having a good time together."
"I'm here to ask you a question about film shooting..." Ronald said on the phone.
"Don't take it seriously, let's learn from each other." Jackie Chan was very happy. She made an exaggerated face at Jiao Jie and whispered to her: "This ghost guy Xiao Luo said that he wants to ask me about a movie. He was the ambition of last year.
The director of Ling Yun, the one you watched."
"I just watched your 1984 movie "Food Truck". How was the scene where you jumped from the second floor and got bounced by the awning taken?"
"How to shoot? Just shoot directly." Jackie Chan stopped to play tricks with Sister Jiao and answered Ronald on the phone. He felt it was a bit strange. This action was quite difficult. He did it five or six times before he found the feeling.
, I took the smoothest one.
But what do you think is the difficulty of this shot? That’s not true at all. Just put the camera there and shoot it. It’s not as difficult as the fencing shot behind.
"Shoot it directly? Did you really jump down and take one shot to the end?"
"Every one of them is really dancing. All the scenes in my movie are real." Brother Long started to show off to Sister Jiao again.
"Then the actor at the back, Yuen Biao, did he really jump off the second line and fall to the ground?"
"Of course, we have other martial arts, you can jump from higher floors."
"Okay, I'm convinced." Ronald chatted with him for a while and hung up the phone, "These are really a group of people who don't want their lives."
"Ghost Ronaldinho convinced me..." Jackie Chan danced happily and somersaulted in front of Sister Jiao.
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"Ronald, I received a reply early this morning. Coca-Cola wants to work with you. Just like the commercial you shot for Pepsi last year, you also shot a Diet Coke commercial for Coca-Cola, which they will use for their main TV commercials.
Their bid is very good, a little higher than Pepsi.
In addition, if you are willing to shoot a 60-second commercial, they can also follow the cooperation method with Pepsi and insert an advertisement in front of the 'Dirty Dancing' video, and they are also willing to subsidize you $6 per video tape."
Early the next morning, agent Richard called Ronald to tell him the good news.
Chapter completed!