Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In the afternoon of the next day, Wu Yusen arrived at the headquarters of Yinhe Film Production Company on time.Although Wu Yusen has been in Hollywood for a year or two, he actually doesn't know much about the distribution and strength of major film companies.According to Wu Yusen's guess, Galaxy Films is probably similar to those workshop-style production companies in Hong Kong that rely on small productions and low costs. They rent a few offices to count as a company.But when Wu Yusen arrived according to the address on his business card, he found that Galaxy Movies owned a building.

Although this building nominally belongs to Dongfeng TV Production Company, even the welcome lady on the first floor did not shy away from saying that the boss of both companies is Jed Sherman.Compared with Yinhe Movies, which are considered newborns, Dongfeng TV can be regarded as a well-known TV production company in the world.Especially in Asia, Asia TV, which has been suppressed by TVB in Hong Kong recently, relied on outsourcing several "Korean dramas" produced by South Korea's Samsung Dongfeng TV Production Company.Although TVB wanted to imitate these TV series, it was a pity that TVB had just started filming, and TVB received a letter from a lawyer in the United States, reminding them that they were suspected of infringing on the copyright of Dongfeng TV Production Company.Unwilling to admit defeat, Shao Daheng was forced to swallow this breath, and then he also started negotiating with Samsung Dongfeng.

But at this point, everyone also knows that Samsung Dongfeng Ganqing in South Korea is an Asian subsidiary of Dongfeng in the United States?Then, when I learned about Dongfeng Productions, I suddenly discovered that they already had two sitcoms that were popular in North America and even the entire Western world.Even "The Oprah Show" recently aired on TVB Jade Channel is also someone else's program, so Wu Yusen actually knows Dongfeng a little bit.But even if Yinhe has little relationship with Dongfeng, just because they can rent an office in the office building opposite the NBC production center in Burbank, they know that they are definitely not ordinary companies.Coupled with Jade's achievements in directing and screenwriting, Wu Yusen has already regarded Galaxy Films as a big company like New Art City in his heart.

In addition to the welcome area on the first floor of the newly completed Dongfeng Building, the second to fifth floors are all commercial areas, with both shopping venues and various leisure venues.The reason why Jade created a four-story commercial area is to earn money from NBC on the opposite side. Since you are the largest production center in the United States, there must be a lot of staff and artists, right?There are always a few people who don't want to eat the same meal, right?Then come to the Dongfeng Building opposite!There are food, massages, beauty salons, takeaway boutique shopping and so on.

The sixth to eighth floors are the studios of Dongfeng Company, and the ninth floor and above are the administrative office areas of various companies.Jade's office is located on the top floor of Dongfeng Building, where the view is the best.Although there are many office areas on the top floor, the office buildings of Jiafei and Lansing are not on this floor.Jed also talked with them about the future development of the company. He still hopes that Jiafei and Lansing can serve as general managers in the front-line company, instead of going to the upper-level company to be the CEO or president in charge of strategy.As compensation, Jade will reserve shares in the future company for Jafei and Lansing.

Jia Fei didn't care about this arrangement, because he also thought he was more suitable to be on the front line.Lansing complained slightly at first, but after listening to Jed's expectations for the future, she found that she was simply not capable of meeting Jed's requirements for the president and CEO, so she also agreed to Jed's arrangement.

Under the leadership of Secretary Jed, Wu Yusen came to Jed's office.Jed's office is quite large, and his own living room is not small.The waiting room adopts Victorian decoration style, low-key luxury.On the right hand side of the waiting room is the door leading to Secretary Jed's office. According to Secretary Jed's introduction, Jed currently has about three secretaries serving him full-time. In addition, there are a paralegal assistant and an assistant accountant waiting in the secretary's office at any time. demolition.

Wu Yusen didn't wait long in the waiting room when he found that the door of Jed's office had been opened. After exchanging pleasantries with a female supervisor, Jed sent the female supervisor away, and then called Wu Yusen to his office.At this time, Wu Yusen saw for the first time what Jed's office looked like.The three walls are all made of glass, and the charming sunshine of Los Angeles shines in through the glass.The furniture in the office is either tempered glass or space metal. The post-modern decoration materials combined with the extremely reviewing style allow Wu Yusen to have a preliminary judgment on Jade's character.People who like this simple style must be straightforward people, while the obsession with postmodern style means that he is very rational.

"The one just now is the general manager of Dongfeng TV Production Company, Ms. Shirley Lansing." Jade laughed, "We just received the contract from Hong Kong TVB, and we will produce three to four TV series for TVB in the next two years .At first I thought that my cooperation with you would be my first cooperation with Hong Kong, but I didn’t expect them to take the lead.”

"Don't dare to compare with Shao Daheng." Although Wu Yusen has the temper of a great director, he is just a junior in front of Shao Daheng. "I heard that Asia Television bought several of your TV series and caused a wave of ratings in Hong Kong. I think Mr. Shao has also seen your company's potential and production level. This kind of cooperation is naturally a matter of course."

Jed looked at Wu Yusen. Although Wu Yusen had the pride of such a great director, he still knew how to restrain his temper.Jed admires such people very much. People cannot live without their own pride, but at the same time, you can't affect your professional work because of your pride. At this time, John Woo can still grasp the balance between the two. "I have a script here. I really can't find a suitable director here. I hope Mr. Wu can help me shoot this movie. How about it?"

Said that Jade handed a script to Wu Yusen.Since it was the first invitation, Jed naturally gave him a literary script, so that John Woo could have a direct and clear understanding of the story.And Woo Yusen also took over the script, and the title reads "Game of the Brave".Wu Yusen thought to himself, could it be another action-adventure movie?My heart felt a little sad, could it be that I couldn't get rid of the title of action director in my life?But when Woo Yusen turned the first page of the script, he found that he seemed to be wrong.As the story of the script progressed, Wu Yusen felt that he was being teased.

"Mr. Sherman, you want me to make a family adventure movie for you?" John Woo closed the script.He must first admit that the script is extremely good, and even he is willing to pay to go to the cinema to watch this movie.But this movie is really not suitable for me, right? "The script is very interesting, and I think a lot of directors will like it, but not me."

"Why? Mr. Wu, why don't you like it? 'Not suitable' is not a reasonable reason, I need a reason to convince me." Jed looked at Wu Yusen and said, "You can say 'I don't have the ability to direct', Or 'I hate this story'...those are valid reasons. 'Not suitable' is not an appropriate reason in Hollywood! Does Mr. Wu think that those people in Hollywood and Burbank Street will pick a script? You just have to Give them a script, even the dirtiest adult movie, and I can find a bunch of guys in the directors union and the screen actors union, why would you say no?"

Wu Yusen didn't know how to answer Jed's words.In fact, the excellence of this script is not for Wu Yusen to pick and choose, but whether the production company is willing to choose Wu Yusen to direct.Wu Yusen suddenly came up with another answer in his heart. Maybe it's not that I'm not suitable for this movie, but that I don't have the ability to direct such a movie, but... once a person denies himself from the bottom of his heart, his eyes will suddenly lose their luster.At this time, Wu Yusen was very depressed in front of Jed. For the first time, he realized that he was not the omnipotent director, and he couldn't even finish the simplest children's movie.

Since Jed wanted to win John Woo, he would not let John Woo really lose confidence in front of him. He hurriedly said: "Mr. Wu, do you know why there is only a directors union in Hollywood, but not a directors association? Hollywood has a directors union, screenwriters union, The Producers Union and the Actors Union have the Association of Photographers and the Association of Sound Engineers, which means that the whole of Hollywood has accepted that our work is not a technical work, so it can be replaced. How a director can gain a foothold in Hollywood is not just about shooting one Two films of your own are enough. As a director, you have to make all the films, at least make sure that any film you make can be released, and the second is to bring box office to the company, otherwise you will fail. Of course, One way is to act as a producer yourself and start a production company. But at this point, do you think you still dare not make money?"

Wu Yusen was a little speechless. Although he did not agree with Jed's words, he really had no way to refute Jed's words.To put it bluntly, a film director is actually an employee of a production company, and the first requirement of being a company employee is to be able to make money for the company.If the director can't bring profits to the company, which company would want such a director?Wu Yusen suddenly understood why Universal always wanted him to continue making action movies, because he was only good at such movies, and only such movies could guarantee box office and company profits.For example, the script Jed gave himself seems to be a fantasy adventure movie suitable for families, but there are still various action scenes.In the final analysis, either you admit Hollywood's position to you, or you give up Hollywood.

"Okay, Mr. Sherman, I am willing to accept this script." Wu Yusen decided to challenge his ability.It is true that I am an action film director, but this action film can be put on various coats. "However, I want to know how to design the scene of the movie? If it is to build the scene, our cost is too high. But if the budget is too low, the unreal scene determines that the film will fail from the beginning. "

"We don't need to build too many scenes, it's enough to make the close-ups and details real." The most important reason why Jed dared to shoot this movie at this time is that Industrial Light and Magic has completely absorbed and transformed Particle effects technology.Now Industrial Light & Magic can use green screen technology to build a purely virtual real world, and as long as the prop masters do a certain amount of cooperation in the close-up, the final result will definitely be fake. "I'll take you to meet our special effects artists and prop artists. Their abilities are beyond your imagination. With their help, Mr. Wu, I'm very optimistic about the future of this movie!"

The author has something to say: 1. Wu Yusen is the closest to the style of European and American commercial films among Chinese directors in my mind.After all, both Quentin who filmed "Kill Bill" and the Wachowski brothers who filmed "The Matrix" borrowed his style. I think Wu Yusen's final failure in Hollywood was because he was a little unclear about his own position.After all, just like everyone thinks that Ang Lee is a great director, both the film industry and the general public think that art movies are real movies, and commercial movies are nothing.But my point of view is that art films are naturally worthy of respect, but commercial films are not so bad.Without the activity of commercial films, which would bring profits to film companies, where would the investment in art films come from?My idea is to turn John Woo into a purely commercial action film director, and I think this suits him.Of course, it is also necessary to have a relationship with the Hong Kong film industry through John Woo.After all, director Ang Lee is from Taiwan. If the Taiwanese film industry...do you expect the protagonist to make a Qiong Yao film?Maybe I won't be the producer of director Ang Lee in the future, but the distributor or something is still possible.After all, the description of Chinese culture in director Ang Lee's works is very good. 2. Don't attack Hong Kong people or Taiwanese people. There are good people and bad people in every city.As far as I know, the vast majority of Hong Kong people and Taiwanese people are easy to get along with (of course, I have also encountered some extreme).A family will always have different views of one kind or another. It would be too boring to quarrel every day because of a little difference in views.Finally, I suggest that the remarks on the Internet are for reference only.Because regardless of the East or the West, the comments on the Internet are always extreme and not comprehensive enough.Do you really want to know how Hong Kong people and Taiwanese people are?Just go to Hong Kong or Taiwan to take a look. For a few thousand yuan, you can also appreciate the different styles of different cities.