Chapter 436

438. Chapter 432: Falling in love, news, and movies

In the morning, Colinda brought back the newspapers from the newspaper box and placed them by the table.

Lanse flipped through them casually.

There were quite a few headlines on the front page of "Today's New Jincheng", one of which caught Lanse's attention—"The Casia Family Has Officially Become a Thing of the Past"

He flipped to the fourth page; the subtitle of the fourth and fifth pages was "The Destruction of the Casia Family", inside which there were quite a few photos, and they were all compared in pairs.

The first one to appear was Rick; one was a photo captured by someone, he was getting into a car.

Immediately beside it, there was a broken face stitched together after processing; of course, it was also blurred to a certain extent, but it could roughly let people see it clearly.

Below introduced Rick's life, the bad things he did, and how he died in the end, and who did it.

Next were the senior cadres of the Casia family; they all had similar appearances, one taken when they were alive, one looking like after they died.

These people who once belonged to the upper-level power of New Jincheng now appeared before the public in this way, which indeed surprised people.

Although many people knew that the Casia family did wrong things and was being besieged by people from other families, they didn't expect that this siege came so fiercely and so ruthlessly.

Without giving them any time to breathe, so many people became corpses.

This report introduced the criminal history of the Casia family; if these contents were not fabricated, then it could only be said that those people in the Bay Area had been collecting criminal evidence of the Five Great Families.

When needed, they would throw it out.

No one has ever truly ruled New Jincheng, in front of the Bay Area.

He put down the newspaper and glanced at Colinda, who was humming a song while eating and reading a magazine, "Are you falling in love with Arthur?"

Colinda admitted it very generously, "That's right, he has a good impression of me, and I also have some good impressions of him; we decided to get along and try."

She looked at Lanse's hesitant look and said actively, "I know his reputation is not very good, he has been with many girls; I don't mind these, I will be his last girlfriend."

Lanse shook his head, "I don't intend to interfere in your relationship, but I want to remind you, you have to be prepared to be heartbroken."

Colinda laughed, "If someone really needs to be heartbroken in this love, I believe it definitely won't be me!"

"Very good, keep your confidence until the last moment; I look forward to seeing it all the time!"

Lanse didn't continue to evaluate; all boys and girls in love will think they are the final choice of the other party, but the facts are often very cruel.

Although Arthur doesn't need to make sacrifices for the family business in terms of marriage, he is surnamed Williams after all.

As one of the most prominent families on this land of New Jincheng, he is destined not to get together with an immigrant.

Lanse looked at the others, "Does none of you want to work hard?"

"Our girl is going to be cheated away!"

Others laughed one after another; Colinda even ran over and hugged Lanse's neck and shook it, "Shut up, you saying these makes me feel ashamed!"

It is indeed a bit shameful; for everyone, everyone is more like brothers and sisters.

If someone can have that kind of feeling for their sister, then this person is absolutely a pervert.

"Let her regret it; don't you always say that tears are also growth?"

Elvin evaluated from the opposite side with a smile; he likes his current life very much, won't be defeated by poverty, has his own career and ideals, and everyone lives happily!

And he feels that even if Colinda is dumped, it doesn't matter; with so many of them, people pursuing her will still line up in long queues waiting for her to choose!

Lanse raised his hands, "Alright, alright, let her cry in the corner!"

Just as he said this, a car horn came from outside, and soon someone came to report that Arthur had come.

"Your little yellow hair has come; go find him."

"Since you decided, you have to love happily; things in the future will be talked about later."

Colinda walked out while tidying her hair, "Listen to you this time!"

Mo Lisi could already walk with a crutch; he sat on the other side, "Should we arrange for people to follow?"

Lanse shook his head, "No one has a brain bad enough to take action against Arthur, and I am very relieved that Colinda is with him."

Whether it is the Bay Area, Laili State, or anyone else, they cannot take action against Arthur.

First of all, Arthur is a "waste"; he doesn't know and doesn't participate in any important family affairs, so he doesn't have any special political value.

Secondly, he is the son pampered by Senator Williams; hurting him will only make Senator Williams enter a state of rage, so he is very safe.

Even if he goes to blackmail Mr. Qiaobafu, or even doesn't care about some gang members, no one dares to hurt him.

Besides this big news in New Jincheng, the rest are some ordinary news.

For example, two nuns got into a fight on the beach with several girls wearing relatively exposed swimsuits, and for example, the Coast Patrol found another batch of smuggled goods.

People like these news, even if they actually have no value, and still occupy people's time.

Life is like this; not everything is useful, there must be some things to kill your limited time.

Lanse then picked up the "International News", almost all of which were some news related to the Tanfei War.

This war affects the hearts of every working person in the world who pays attention to the international situation; those who don't earn much money every month not only love to worry about domestic affairs, but also don't let go of international affairs.

Now if you go to the street corner or park to chat with others, if you can't pull a few international situations, they are too lazy to talk to you!

The report stated that more and more refugees are pouring into all parts of the world, including New Jincheng.

This is mutually verified with some news in "Today's New Jincheng"; New Jincheng has added tens of thousands of refugees this month, and the number will be more and more, which is worth worrying about.

Because winter is coming soon.

In the position behind, Lanse also found another piece of news about the Empire.

The stupid Emperor of the Empire is under the siege of the anti-government righteous men, and the regime is already precarious...

If he didn't know that the uprising army had almost all finished, he would have almost believed this article.

The article mentioned the guy Lanse funded; he has now become the main force against the royal family, which he believes, after all, other uprising armies and anti-government armies are gradually moving toward decay in the absence of materials and supplies.

Only they, and perhaps some other uprising armies, can obtain supplies.

A seed, under the irradiation of the scorching sun and the nourishment of moisture, began to sprout!

Hope it can bring him enough returns!

There was nothing in the company in the morning; Lanse called the director and Jeral to the company, and also Barbara.

Now Barbara has been in a state of unemployment; the last job hurt her too much, and it was relatively chaotic before, her family was afraid she would encounter accidents outside, so she didn't go out to work.

The city has stabilized, and the problem of work naturally moved to the agenda.

When Jeral and the others came in, Barbara was pouring coffee for Lanse; looking at the familiar appearance of the two, Jeral looked at her curiously, "Are you Lanse's girlfriend?"

Lanse shook his head, "This is Patricia's sister, and will also be an actress signed by the company."

Only then did the director dare to formally look at this girl; she is very beautiful, mainly because she has a modern federal girl image that fits the current aesthetics very well, which is simply saying her!

If it is said that non-blonde women wearing cowboy hats, wearing undershirts and suspenders, big rubber shoes, and hearty smiles on their faces represent "federal big girls".

Then those blonde girls who live exquisitely and are full of sunshine and charm are the extreme of people's aesthetics about girls, "federal little girls".

Such an outstanding appearance, filming movies, don't worry about no one watching.

It was the two screenwriters who came with them who didn't dare to look at Barbara very much.

Barbara didn't feel embarrassed because she was favored; she who worked as a front desk in a financial company had seen many men of all kinds, and had long passed the stage of being afraid of others' gazes.

She greeted the two very generously, and even took the initiative to shake hands, then sat back beside Lanse.

Lanse didn't care about her little actions, then talked about some of his ideas, "I have a story in my mind, I want to turn it into a movie, so I need you to come over and refer to it."

Everyone had no opinions; they all knew that Lanse was the major shareholder of the company, and the two screenwriters even took out pens and notebooks directly.

"My idea is like this."

"There is a young man named Jason, he has an unfortunate family, and made a mistake."

"He is cursed and can never return to a normal life."

Jeral interrupted, "Is it the Angel Lake outside?"

Lanse nodded and said, "Yes, it is the Angel Lake here, it is the source of my inspiration."

"Although he redeems his sins through death, death cannot break the curse, but instead makes him fall into eternal pain."

"He became a demon in Angel Lake, and will float up from the bottom of the water to kill people at a specific time period!"

"My God!", Barbara grabbed Lanse's arm, and Lanse looked at her.

She didn't seem to notice that, and said, "Sounds too scary, is this a real thing?"

At this moment, Lanse believed that she must have a place in acting, at least in terms of acting, it is relatively mature.

He shook his head, "This is a story."

"Then our protagonist team, a group of high school students, graduation trip, came to the side of Angel Lake."

"Someone told them the legends about Angel Lake here, there are beautiful legends, there are also horror legends, and some very strange folk legends."

"So they decided to camp by Angel Lake and explore the secrets in Angel Lake."

A screenwriter interrupted, "The mystery of rising water!"

Lanse pointed to him, "Very right, you can collect some similar rumors, process them, and make people unable to tell whether it is true or false."

"I attach great importance to this script; it is not just a movie, it will also become an interesting phenomenon!"

Thinking that if the movie can be popular, many people will come to Angel Lake to explore, Lanse wanted to laugh.

Because there is really a Jason below!

"I'll continue to talk about the plot."

"These young people didn't take these rumors to heart, and when they were picnicking by the lake, they violated the forbidden rules here."

"They used animal blood to activate the demon Jason in the lake, and Jason began to complete his hunt."

"He wants to kill everyone!"

"Of course, the male protagonist finally ran out."

"You supplement the details, it must be connected with some local legends, and Jason is immortal."

"Every time the hunt ends, he will return to the lake again, waiting for the next appearance."

After listening, the director couldn't help but exclaim, "An excellent story, and it sounds a bit thrilling; what type is it?"

"Horror movie!"

"Horror movie?", the director's expression was slightly strange, "Current horror movies are all filmed at the execution ground; at least I haven't heard of this kind of horror movie!"

Filming the execution process and then playing it to people who haven't seen it.

Many people will have some reactions after watching it, fear, scared, or excited; people think horror movies are cult, so the audience is very small.

Those horror movies actually can't be called horror movies, they should be called curiosity movies, and they should be restricted from watching.

From the director's point of view, this is actually a thriller story movie, but Lanse said this is a horror movie, so it is a horror movie!

"Is this our shooting plan for the next stage?", Jeral whistled, "Sounds very interesting, I think people will like it."

The screenwriters also sighed at Lanse's amazing story conception, and all felt that this story would definitely explode!

Lanse also talked about some of his new ideas, "After this movie is filmed, we will watch it once; if it is really good enough, I plan to share money with the theater chain."

The director frowned slightly upon hearing this, because this model is completely not mainstream now.

Although the industry will also count the box office, and the statistical data is basically inaccurate, the box office counted here does not mean that the producer of this movie can profit according to the box office.

The mainstream sales model is still to sell the playback rights directly; good movies cost thousands, one or two thousand, two or three thousand.

A copy of a slightly worse movie costs hundreds.

The value of counting the box office is here; when the box office of a director's previous movie is high enough, his movie will have many cinema owners asking for prices and having purchase intentions.

"Mr. Lanse, your idea is good, but it is very hard for us to do this..."

"The copy of the film is not something with special technical thresholds; some cinemas will copy it themselves and then sell it; we don't know how many cinemas are playing our movie at all, so naturally we can't share money with them from the box office."

In the most popular sound movies from last year to today, there have already been multiple movies with box office exceeding one million; the booming industry has made many people notice the potential here.

But still, no one wants to use the way of sharing the box office to conduct sales; there are too many troubles here.

Lanse shook his head, "This is not something you should worry about; have you forgotten what I do? I have many people, they can handle these things!"

Thinking of Lanse's real "work", the director closed his mouth and didn't speak.

If there are gang members watching the playback with copies, then there should be no problem.

The director also heard from Lanse's words that he has great ambition, which is also a good thing for himself.

After all, the greater Lanse's ambition, the more places he needs!

"Besides, we can't just wait for good scripts, good directors, and good actors to shoot; continue to dig for newcomers, including directors."

"We can make some attempts, invest in some newcomer directors, five thousand, or ten thousand, twenty thousand."

"Even if they shoot a pile of dog shit, there will always be people taking it to circle money!"

At this time, paper media related to movies hasn't really developed, let alone other windows in other directions.

Promoting movies depends entirely on posters at the entrance of the cinema and word of mouth; many moviegoers don't know whether a movie is good or bad, but they will definitely be interested in fresh movies.

There are not many film critics, no special authoritative media, so there will definitely be audiences constantly being cheated into the cinema.

This is an era of carnival for low-budget movies; it is basically very hard to lose money, and the competition is not so intense.

There are no so-called academic schools, nor professional film critics; everything looks exceptionally wild!

Finally, Lanse glanced at Barbara, "Take her to the company too, see if there are any movies suitable for her, not the kind that will hurt her image, let her try."

This director naturally had no objections; being able to find actors with excellent appearance can also add a lot of color to the film.

After some fragmented things were solved, Lanse let them leave first; Jeral stayed behind.

They all live in the city now, so they can go back anytime, anywhere; he hasn't come over for a while, and also heard that Ethan is now a boxer; he is very interested in these things.

"Although there are many friends there, Lanse, that place is not like my home, this is!"

He sat on the other side of Lanse, chatting about things in the company.

It's hard to imagine that seventeen-year-old Jeral is actually the "top male actor" in the company, and he has also shot three movies in these few months.

One is the company's own, and two are invitations from other companies; he is already a little famous.

The outstanding appearance makes him not just handsome, but also very beautiful on the screen.

Both men and women like him very much; Lanse also heard that quite a few people want to make appointments with him privately, both men and women.

"You want to come over anytime, anywhere, can't you come over? Didn't the company assign you a car?"

Lanse asked.

"Assigned, but everyone is watching me, I'm not very good at running around."

He said and changed to a more relaxed topic, "When is Ethan's next match?"

Lanse glanced at the calendar on his watch, "Next Tuesday."