Chapter 911: Allies

"You want to remake *Love is Not Blind*?"

What surprised Lu Yan He was that the subsequent impact of the global box office hit of *The Notebook* was the rise of a remake craze for *Love is Not Blind* in countries around the world.

Everyone seemed to be pondering the remake of *The Notebook*, and found that this movie was not so easy to remake, involving war background and having a long timeline. Turning their heads, they saw *Love is Not Blind*, which was also written by Lu Yan He, also a romance movie, but a romance urban light comedy that was more suitable for remaking.

Especially the theme of the movie, which is eaten all over the world.

Since the remake rights were granted in South Korea, Japan, Thailand, France, and other places, Solon actually found Lu Yan He and wanted to buy the remake rights of *Love is Not Blind*.

*Love is Not Blind* has sold over $13 million at the box office in the United States.

Several companies had come to talk to Linghe before, wanting to buy the remake of *Love is Not Blind*, but Wan Qingqing proposed that she wanted to shoot the American version of *Love is Not Blind* herself later, so Linghe didn't grant the American remake rights of this movie.

This time, Solon found Lu Yan He directly.

After Lu Yan He understood the situation, he explained the situation directly to Solon; they wanted to do it themselves.

Solon immediately expressed that after Linghe shot this movie itself, it would also do global distribution, and Linghe hadn't established global distribution channels, so they Solon could do it.

Lu Yan He was surprised.

A movie hadn't even started filming yet, and Solon was willing to take over the distribution, which to some extent was like a reservation.

For such a movie, it is actually very rare.

Lu Yan He was considering Solon's proposal.

Indeed, Linghe currently hasn't established its own global distribution channels. Their advantage lies in that they have established their own global distributor channels, but in fact, they still have to transfer hands—

This means they need to talk one by one, which is actually very laborious.

Many times, a movie of Linghe can certainly be authorized by them to film merchants in various places, but in order to get it done at once and save a lot of trouble, they often divide the global market into several large areas, which can save a lot of communication and negotiation costs.

For example, *Home Alone*, by the later sequels, the distribution of the entire European and American regions was handled by Green Valley, and they didn't go to find distributors one by one in North America, France, Germany, Italy, etc.

Solon directly wanted to take the global distribution of *Love is Not Blind*. To put it bluntly, the movie copyright is still in Linghe's hands, and Solon only earns the distribution commission. Of course, as long as *Love is Not Blind* can sell at the box office, Solon won't lose money anyway. The production cost is borne by Linghe (unless the distributor is also the producer or the distributor grabs the distribution with a high-price guarantee).

But judging from the positions of Linghe and Solon, Solon must want to pay a high price to grab the distribution rights in advance. Solon also has to bear the risk with them, while Linghe, because it sold global distribution in advance, has reduced a lot of risks in production—

In fact, because there is Solon's global distribution as a guarantee, this urban romance movie can get higher sponsorship and placement fees in brand sponsorship and placement. If this part is operated properly, because the production cost of this type of movie is often not high, it might have already broken even and made a profit before filming even started.

Counting it all up, Linghe is taking advantage.

"Solon has tasted the sweetness after the box office hit of *The Notebook*, and started planning things after the cooperation framework of your three movies." Darren Wilson laughed, "You know, there are quite a few people in Hollywood now laughing at D19, clearly they were the first to cooperate with you, but in the end, they let Green Valley and Parameter establish a more long-term cooperative relationship with you."

Lu Yan He said: "My cooperation with D19 hasn't stopped either, there is cooperation later."

"That's true, they took two English remakes of Linghe's movies, which also sparked a lot of topics in Hollywood—especially since both remakes still used the original leads." Darren Wilson said, "Everyone said that in order to re-establish a cooperative relationship with you, their bottom line was broken."

In Hollywood, remakes are not uncommon, but remakes still using the original leads is indeed rare.

Generally, the original director or screenwriter participates in the remake cooperation as a consultant or producer.

Lu Yan He: "Is it so unacceptable to use the original leads in a remake?"

"Of course." Darren Wilson nodded, "Although there are quite a few faces with Asians as leads in Hollywood movies now, this is ultimately a place that first faces the North American market. What everyone is most interested in and most willing to watch is the story of characters who look like themselves, or who they are familiar with."

Lu Yan He nodded; he understood this point.

"Of course, the market is always changing. Not to mention twenty years ago, even ten years ago, Hollywood basically didn't have movies with Asians as absolute leads, but now quite a few have appeared. You also know that there are more and more Asians in the United States. As more and more movies with Asian leads achieve success, the concepts of major film companies will gradually change."

Everything looks at money.

Although Lu Yan He understands the ideas of these Hollywood companies, how should he put it?

Everyone has their own things they want to achieve and goals they want to realize.

China's market doesn't want to be earned money by people from other countries, but everyone understands that market circulation can bring development, and it also needs to open up to the outside world. There are still so many overseas companies coming to China to make money.

You Hollywood want to do global business, and I can bring you business and benefits, so you have to satisfy some of my requirements. You can't have both, right?

Doing business is a matter of mutual consent.

So, I don't care what you think.

I didn't make you do business at a loss. If using the protagonists of the original film made you lose money, then such things wouldn't continue later. If you didn't lose money, you should talk less.

D19 has cooperation with him, Parameter has cooperation with him, Green Valley has cooperation with him, and Solon also has cooperation with him.

In such a big Hollywood, there are only so many first-tier film companies.

He almost cooperated with half of them.

If you have the ability, kick him out and unite the whole industry to boycott him.

The problem is, who is willing to give up that money?

Lu Yan He increasingly realizes that eggs cannot be put in one basket, and increasingly realizes that the more common interests there are, the more allies there are to defend and maintain you.

Therefore, he will inevitably push his friends to open up the international market together and make his allies more and more numerous.

This principle is universal everywhere.

"I will help Meng Li, by letting her character join the spin-off movie to push her to get a more core position in the second season." Lu Yan He called Zhou Ping'an, "However, you have to help Cheng Hai get an important role in the second season."

Zhou Ping'an was stunned, "Cheng Hai?"

Under Zhou Ping'an, there is Ma Zhiyuan who has been taken a fancy to by Zhang Yuezhen, Lang Xia who is about to come under his banner, and Cheng Hai who has been following him.

Lu Yan He said: "Whether it's Ma Zhiyuan or Lang Xia, at least when I make *Seventeen Layers*, I don't want to see them appear. You want to push Meng Li, so push Cheng Hai along the way, and this matter has nothing to do with me. Don't expect to push me in front of Chen Pinhe, you hide beautifully, and don't think you can hide, how could Zhang Yuezhen let you stay out of it."

Zhou Ping'an: "... You want to dig Cheng Hai away from me too?"

"Don't measure a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart." Lu Yan He said, "I just don't want the fat water to flow into the fields of outsiders. If I really wanted to dig Cheng Hai, I would have dug him when he participated in *The Birth of an Actor*. I wouldn't wait until this time. I have been friends with him for a long time, and I can push him if I can."

What wasn't said was that because of his relationship with Cheng Hai and their friendship over the past many years—even if Cheng Hai was Zhou Ping'an's artist, he had never harmed him, and had never asked him for any resources based on their old friendship.

Zhou Ping'an would even let Li Zhibai and Yan Liang come to ask him for scripts. Lu Yan He didn't believe Zhou Ping'an hadn't said such things to Cheng Hai, but Cheng Hai had never done it.

Cheng Hai was still the captain he was back then, with a gentle personality, taking care of everyone, and never bothering him.

Even after becoming popular again by relying on *The Birth of an Actor*, the first thing he did was to take on a *Jump Up* theater project that had just started, returning the favor.

If a bridge is really needed to connect the two versions of *Seventeen Layers*, for Lu Yan He, if Meng Li is the gunner who goes to the front to empty Chen Pinhe, Cheng Hai is the "secret crossing of Chencang" that Lu Yan He is truly willing to open the door for.

Manipulated?

Lu Yan He thought—at that moment, he inexplicably felt that he was very much like the male lead of a revenge novel—Zhou Ping'an, I, Lu Yan He, am no longer what I used to be.

Then, Lu Yan He curled his toes in embarrassment.

On how to self-direct and self-act a big drama can also be embarrassing to oneself. ===== CHAPTER 912 =====