After Xia Tian took the script, he started to read it carefully.

He found that in the past two years, the world's production has really collected a lot of good scripts.

For example, "The Disguised Strange Wizard", "Ah Dai and Agua", "Speed ​​of Life and Death", etc.

"The Disguised Strange" is one of the representative works of the well-known American comedian Jim Carrey. It tells the story of an ordinary bank clerk who accidentally got the mask of the evil god Loki, and thus transformed into a superhero who is both good and evil, "The Disguised Strange" and defeated the black stick in the city and hugged the beauty.

"The Disguised Strange" is adapted from the comic work of the same name by Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse Comics is the third largest comic company in the United States after Marvel and DC. In addition to the disguised Stranges, its superheroes also include Spartan 300 Warriors, Buffy the Ghost Catcher, Time and Space Special Police, and the most well-known Hellboy.

In addition, it also has the rights to adapt comics to popular movies such as Star Wars, Robocop, Alien, and Predator.

Xia Tian knew that Jim Carrey's "The Disguised" achieved a very good box office after its release, and also made Cameron Diaz famous, making her a new generation of American sweethearts.

And Xia Tian also knew that after the birth of this "The Disguised Strange Man", Hong Kong followed the trend and filmed a "The Variety Star Lord". Starring Zhou Xingchi, imitating "The Disguised Strange Man" with exaggerated and funny imitation of "The Disguised Strange Man", while the dancing part imitates "Vulgarity". It can be said that it is the perfect embodiment of Hong Kong filmmakers' "taken-takingism".

For movies like this, it is natural to invest in summer.

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"Ah Dai and Agua" is also one of Jim Carrey's representative works.

The 1990s was also the peak of his acting career, during which he launched a large number of classic works with high box office and high reputation.

This movie tells the story of two bad friends, Ah Kui and Agua. You can tell that they are not very smart when they look at the name. They accidentally picked up the money box left by a beautiful woman, but unexpectedly they were involved in a kidnapping and extortion storm...

This is a very nonsensical movie, full of vulgar plots such as shit, urine, and farts. The main highlight is how Ah Dai and Agua rely on their "wisdom" and stupid luck to escape waves of gangsters' pursuit.

Although the two protagonists are a bit stupid and the villain's IQ is not very high, the whole movie looks stupid, but it can really make people laugh.

The so-called "a smile cannot be bought with a thousand gold". When this movie was released that year, it won the sixth place in the annual box office rankings of that year.

Therefore, twenty years later, when Jim Carrey's acting career was at a low point, she specially picked up this IP and fired it up for a cold meal.

For comedy films like this that are not high but have a huge return, they are naturally willing to invest in summer.

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"Life and Death" is one of the representative works of handsome Keanu Reeves. He has one-eighth Chinese blood, so he looks pretty and old-fashioned than other white men.

Ordinary white men, no matter how handsome they are when they are young, will appear old when they are over thirty years old. Their skin is loose, their pores are enlarged, and their wrinkles are increasing...

However, when a Chinese man was thirty, he was at the time when he was full of energy, the most mature, the most handsome, and the most charming. So there is another saying called "Thirty-one flowers of men".

Keanu Reeves quickly emerged when he was in Hollywood with his handsome appearance. In 1992, he participated in "Four Hundred Years of Bloodsucking Zombies" directed by Francis Coppola.

He still did not lose the upper hand in the role of Gary Oldman, who played Dracula and Anthony Hopkins, who played Van Helsing, and his position in Hollywood was consolidated.

"Life and Death" is the first commercial blockbuster starring him. It tells the story of a special police officer dismantling bombs on a bus and fighting wits and courage with the "bombkeeper".

This is a commercial blockbuster with a tense pace, suspense and fascinating, and it is full of entertainment, so it achieved a very good box office in that year.

It is worth mentioning that the future Oscar winner, Sandra Bullock, the most box office-friendly actress in the United States, played the heroine, but she didn't have many scenes.

For this movie, Xia Tian naturally needs to invest in it. However, he considers starring Cheng Long or Li Lianjie.

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In addition to the above three scripts, Xia Tian also chose many scripts such as "Living in the same room", "The Dwarf", "The Red Letter Forbidden Love", and "The Stupid Thieves Three".

"Those are enough for shooting this year." Xia Tian smiled.

"Thank you for your advice," Brookheimer said with a smile.

In summer, I chose eleven movies. Based on the average profit of each movie of 50 million US dollars, these movies can make 550 million US dollars. The company's revenue this year is guaranteed, which is really great.

"Okay, let me tell you first, I want to invite Zhou Xingchi to act in the movie "Disguise". "Xia Tian said immediately, "The heroine is starring Jennifer Aniston."

"Who is Zhou Xingchi?!" Brookheimer asked in confusion.

Although in recent years, due to summer, many Hong Kong filmmakers have been able to enter Hollywood to develop, such as Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Wang Xian, Lin Qingxia, etc., and have also achieved good results.

However, they are not completely accepted by the European and American markets, and they are not popular. As for Zhou Xingchi, although his movies have been released in the United States and the videotapes are also placed in the videotape rental store, he himself has not gained fame in the United States, and only Chinese people are more popular with him.

This is mainly due to cultural barriers. Many of the jokes in Zhou Xingchi's movies are understood by people in the Chinese-speaking circle or even the Cantonese circle.

For example, in "Domestic Lingling Qi", A Qi insists on calling Da Vinci "Vinci" because the word "Xi" means "what women's words" in Cantonese. "Vinci" means "Wenxi", which is a relatively vulgar yellow joke. However, it is difficult for people in the Cantonese circle to understand the connotation of this sentence.

In "A Chinese Odyssey", Zhu Bajie hummed "Blow a wave, blow a wave", in fact, in Cantonese, "wave" not only refers to "ball", but also refers to "**". Like Ye Zimei, he is called "Boba". Therefore, Zhu Bajie hums not a nursery rhyme, but a song with a lot of affection.

Even Chinese people may not understand all this kind of joke, and it will be even more difficult to let foreigners understand it. Therefore, except that Zhou Xingchi's movies are more popular in the Chinese community, they basically have no box office in other places, and even the video tapes are not popular.
Chapter completed!