Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Wearing the hat of "the most special-looking crew in the United States", the crew of "The True Colors of a Lawyer" has finally been formed.All fixed and recurring role actors have received a very terrible contract. Before the official shooting, all roles need to undergo three months of training, and at least two actors, A and B, are arranged for each role.

This contract is very common in the drama world, but it is extremely rare in the TV drama world.You must know that TV drama actors play a short, fast-paced fast-food drama, and dramas require long-term training and may not be able to appear in the drama, but they can start the drama every day and earn income every day.The most important thing is that even the B-corner or the replacement C-corner has the opportunity to get starring opportunities in some unimportant matinee performances.But Jed told them clearly here that if the training fails, the only way is to terminate the contract.

Of course, during the training period, Jed paid all the board and lodging expenses of everyone and paid a certain bargaining chip, and if the role performance is officially obtained, then everyone's salary will increase by at least 30% to 50%.Under such lures, the brokers gritted their teeth and signed the contracts.

In fact, what makes Jed a little tangled is that there is no special actor training institution in the United States, and most actors rely on self-taught.Although some art schools in the United States have acting departments, they train theater actors, not film and television actors.Although they are both actors, the performance requirements of the two are indeed very different.

To put it simply, since theatrical actors perform on a small stage, the expressions and body movements of the actors must be exaggerated, otherwise the audience will not feel the inner changes of the characters.However, because film and television actors are assisted by the camera, their performance must be more life-like, otherwise it will make the audience feel artificial.For example, why is Ma Jingtao's performance so criticized?He performed film and television dramas with the standards of dramatic performances, which is why he made the audience feel that it was too exaggerated, and thus got the teasing title of "Roaring Horse".

In addition to the poor acting skills of the actors, another reason is that the general quality of American actors is not high.This may be a common problem among actors all over the world. Those who work in the entertainment industry don't have a good education.But now if these actors who have only graduated from high school (or even dropped out of school) are to play lawyers who are known as the highly educated family in the United States, then many things have to be corrected.

Several actors playing lawyers, paralegals, judges and prosecutors had to watch various real courtroom footage to imitate how real legal practitioners would perform.Jed even invited a teacher from a crash course in law to train them every day to familiarize them with those convoluted legal terms.You must know that David Kelly has always been named after the lines of a long monologue. If you don’t get familiar with these technical terms as soon as possible, you may have to repeat it several times just because the lines are boring when it comes to the official shooting.

The actor training was naturally handed over to the casting director, while Jed and David were troubled by finding a new shooting base.Originally, the relationship between Jed and NBC was actually very good, but as Jed later cooperated more with Fox TV and ABC, the internal complaints of NBC against Dongfeng TV increased.More importantly, NBC parent company NBCUniversal is also increasingly dissatisfied with its former partners because it has been sniped by Galaxy Movies in terms of movies.

Originally, it was extremely convenient to rent a studio because the NBC Burbank production center was opposite Dongfeng TV.But now the NBC Burbank Production Center is no longer willing to rent a studio to Jed. Except for the still-cooperating "Friends" and "Will and Grace", the production team of Dongfeng TV had to withdraw from NBC. Burbank Production Center.

"For the sake of the so-called face, don't you even earn money?" Lansing couldn't help but sneered.

NBC's Burbank production center has actually been underutilized due to NBC's increasing focus on sports and financial news programming.In recent years, one-third of the income of NBC Burbank production center comes from the rent of the studio rented by Dongfeng TV. Now the lease is terminated just because Dongfeng TV cooperates with other TV stations.This will not only lose fixed income in the next few years, but also pay Dongfeng TV a liquidated damages for early termination of the contract.

"Who made Vivendi so rich?" Jed also mocked.

The controlling shareholder of NBC Universal is France's Vivendi, a French state-owned company that controls France's nuclear power and water conservancy businesses.After de Gaulle revived France, France has been wandering between capitalism and socialism, and established a rather strange national economic system.

There are many state-owned enterprises in France. Although their state-owned enterprises are not exactly the same as Chinese state-owned enterprises, they have many problems in common.For example, the French eat too much and be lazy, to a large extent, it is caused by the high welfare and low elimination rate of French state-owned enterprises, and there is no way to correct it when the accumulation is hard to return.Because whichever political party dares to do something to these slackers, the next congressional election will definitely be over.

But it is obvious that the country's economy is in trouble because of the laziness of its own people, but the French have pushed all the crimes to the immigrants.Like some urban residents in later generations of China, all mistakes are caused by outsiders.

It would be hard for Jed to not have NBC's studio, after all, Disney's production center is also nearby.Since ABC was acquired by Disney, the production centers of the two companies were moved together.Although ABC and Disney have many programs in production, plus some subsidiaries of Disney, the studio of Disney Production Center is also quite tense.

Fortunately, the old production center of ABC has not been completely demolished, and some studios can still be used.Although a bit old, but fortunately well-equipped.Jed didn't bother to care about it, so he rented the place for three years.After all, it will take at least two years for my new studio to be completed, so let's talk about getting a fixed studio first.

Although there are not many usable studios left in the old production center of ABC, it is better than no studio.The remaining studio was also temporarily converted by Jed into the office of the creative studio and a resting place for the crew.While actors rarely need to work overtime on filming, the crew is not so relaxed.Especially when there are big hot spots recently, if you don't reflect them in fashion dramas, wouldn't it be substandard?But if you want to express it, how to intersperse hot spots is the skill of the screenwriter and director.

In fact, "Variety Show" ridiculed that the cast members of "The True Colors of a Lawyer" are too weird and a bit generalized, because in fact, except for the four leading actors (strictly speaking, three leading actors) who are a bit too ordinary, the rest of the fixed supporting roles are still very beautiful.Whether it is the paralegal or the reception staff of the law firm, or the district attorney's office who appears as a villain, there are all kinds of beauties, not only the traditional blond American sweet girl, but also the brunette and black-eyed Latino beauty, and more A few sexy and hot black pearls embellish it...

Jed is not a fool, of course he knows what boosts the ratings.The main audience for this kind of lawyer drama is male audiences, how can you let men endure it without putting a few vases on it?

Therefore, Jade said to the casting director at the time: "As for supporting roles, how to choose as beautiful as possible, the most important thing is to meet the complex tastes of American men."

Of course, although these supporting roles were recruited as vases, the recent training has not been subtle at all.After all, Jed and David are going to shoot a milestone work in the history of American TV dramas. Even if it is a vase, it has to be a Victorian vase-it has a lot of background!So for their acting class, no one dares to relax.

In fact, when Jade was busy training actors, a certain deputy director of CCTV also came to the door.According to Comrade Han Shanping's feedback, the relevant domestic departments quickly concluded that this new American media capitalist is actually relatively friendly to China, and he is happy to see the two sides of the Taiwan Strait move towards a relatively stable state.More importantly, their TV network has already completed the layout in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, and Miami, and basically has the power of a national-level TV network, but they have not yet launched. Currently, they mainly broadcast Cantonese programs on TV Asia.

And what makes CCTV anxious is that it is said that the Chinese TV company on the other side has almost reached an agreement with them, and the main frequency programs of the Chinese TV company will also be broadcast on this TV network in the future.So after thinking twice, he sent a deputy director of China Central Television who was in charge of the international channel, hoping to reach an agreement with Jed as soon as possible.Of course, some conditions may be negotiable, as long as they do not violate existing laws and regulations.

Hearing that the deputy director of CCTV visited, Jed knew that his hint to Han Shanping had worked.In fact, he doesn't mind giving up one channel to broadcast CCTV international channels. Anyway, the TV network he acquired and established has eight wireless broadcasting channels. At present, except ATV has already taken one, in the future, only CCTV and China TV will take one each.Then counting the history channel in his hand, Jade plans to expand the history channel into two wireless channels and three cable channels in the future, so Jade has at least left three wireless channels for himself, and the resources are still very abundant.But Jed doesn't want to spend resources in vain, he has to get something from CCTV.It is impossible to cooperate with CCTV as a channel, because it does not comply with the policy at all.However, it is still possible to cooperate with programs and sell program resources to each other. Although Jade does not like the fashion dramas and variety shows produced by CCTV, he still values ​​the historical blockbusters and some documentaries produced by CCTV.Besides, although it is difficult to cooperate with CCTV in terms of wireless channels and satellite channels, there are still opportunities in the field of digital TV in the future.

After learning the meeting time from the Los Angeles consulate, Jed hurried back from the shooting base to Dongfeng Building to prepare for the next meeting.There is no way for American Dongfeng TV and CCTV to cooperate directly, but ATV can.At this moment, ATV must be given priority over TVB to land in the mainland, so as not to be suppressed by TVB in Hong Kong.In addition to letting Lansing and Mark Pedewitz accompany him in the negotiations, Jade also recruited Lin Jianyue from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, and planned to meet the deputy director of CCTV together.At the same time, the consulate is also introducing some of Jade's background, especially his proficiency in Chinese and his stance on the Asian market, which makes the comrades on CCTV quite confident.After learning that this new-generation Hollywood tycoon already has his own TV stations in Hong Kong and South Korea, everyone's interest in cooperation has grown.