My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1035 "Seven Sins" is on the show, Shura is on the battlefield!

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In the play "Tang Detective", Director Wu referred to the style of the famous GTA series in later generations.It can also be regarded as a tribute to the famous Hollywood gangster action movie "Scarface" in the 80s.

So, this is indeed an American film that takes place in Chinatown, not the kind of family carnival that takes place abroad.

This is naturally to cater to the closed nature of the North American market.

It is not for nothing that few foreign language films have achieved good box office in the North American market.

"Detective Chinatown" has an investment budget of more than 800 million US dollars at this stage, which may not be a big deal in the mainstream Hollywood market, and the investment scale of a small production.But in independent production, it is definitely a rare medium investment scale.

Relying on Harvey Weinstein's years of hard work in Hollywood, he quickly invited the production team.

First of all, with a salary of 58000 US dollars per week, a well-known photography team in Hollywood was invited: director of photography Robert Richardson and his mechanical team leader Chris Centrella, lighting engineer Ian Kincaid, and There is camera assistant Greg Tavener.

The 12-person photography team led by this core team is not unknown in Hollywood. In 1987 and 1989 respectively with "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July" won two Oscar nominations for photography.

Robert Richardson is also famous in later generations, the most famous of course is because he is the queen photographer of Quentin Wang.

Wu Xiaozu also recruited Bao Xi, an old man who has worked with him for many years, at a friendly price.

On the one hand, it is easy to use, and on the other hand, it allows it to learn from Hollywood experience and technology.

58000 US dollars was also a huge salary expenditure in Hollywood in 1990, which was basically in line with the salary level of the quasi-first-line team. If the film is calculated according to the standard 7-week period, the expenses of the camera team alone will reach 406000 US dollars.

This is pure salary expenditure, excluding meal expenses, equipment rental expenses, transportation expenses, accommodation expenses and corresponding vacation subsidies.

8 million US dollars as an investment in a film project is really unbearable.

Because it is Wu Xiaozu's first Hollywood film, and it is also a new attempt of Touchstone Films. Although Harvey wanted to save money, Wu Xiaozu insisted on insurance for the completion of the film.This part of the money needs to be paid out separately-indie films rarely have completion insurance.

With such a completion insurance, Wu Xiaozu can also fool around with investment and tell stories.At least it is a good publicity for Touchstone Films.

After the advent of the PPT era, you have to have professional PPT materials to fool you, isn't it...

For the art direction and modeling design of the film, Harvey also followed Wu Xiaozu's style requirements and found a man named David Wesker, who is also an experienced professional in Hollywood.

Action guidance is naturally a family class, which is a team that Wu Xiaozu and Harvey both agree with.It is also the core team involved in the creation of "Detective Chinatown".

As for the choice of costume design, set, makeup, assistant director, stuntman, coordinating crew and other staff, Wu Xiaozu didn't have any special requirements, all of which were determined by the producer Harvey.

This time, he chose Lin Chaocheng and Jiang Digui as assistant directors.Both of them are talents with unique talents for action movies.In later generations, the former became the director of large-scale Chinese-language commercial action films, while the latter was the pioneer and leader of Korean commercial action films.

Since he intends to develop Asia-Pacific film strategies and plans, then Wu Xiaozu is not waiting for me to support fresh filmmakers, so as to avoid the shortage of talents.

Even if the personnel are kept improving, the entire crew has reached 67 people, and this is not including the actors and third-party staff.

The cost of personnel and the management of the crew are enough for Harvey, a producer, to have a headache.

Don't think that Harvey is the big yin demon of the later generations. These days, he is more likely to find films overseas, and there are not many opportunities to personally produce them, and most of them are just a name.

"Sex, Lies and Videotape" itself is also a project led by Wu Xiaozu.Even Harvey knew that Wu Xiaozu's personal participation in the editing of this film accounted for a large proportion of the award-winning film.Because when the scene was filmed, in his opinion, it was really a mess.

Of course, the young Soderbergh didn't think so.

Back then, at the age of 26, he became famous in one fell swoop, and won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for his debut.

Let alone a young man?

Therefore, he also kicked Harvey and Wu Xiaozu away, and invested in other producers and independent production companies.He thought he deserved it... and started a new film project, Kafka.

"Steven, the son of a bitch, is an ungrateful son of a bitch!"

Sitting on the sofa in the office of Touchstone Films in Burbank, Los Angeles, Harvey looked at the news about Soderbergh in the newspaper, panting heavily, and cursed viciously, "Son of a bitch! He is a perfidy The sinister villain. He is now worthless without our help."

"Everyone has the right to choose. Besides, if you think so, why are you still angry?"

Wu Xiaozu smiled nonchalantly, his fingers lightly slid over the smooth black silk on Secretary Aniston's legs, and then lightly patted his buttocks, "Go and pick out a dress for me, Vivian."

"What good do I have, Boss?" Aniston gently rubbed his fingers in circles on the other's thigh, approaching danger.

"I think that Hermes bag you're new to can complement you?" Wu Xiaozu clasped his hands.

"certainly--"

Aniston smiled lightly, leaned over and hooked her tongue lightly at Wu Xiaozu's earlobe, "At the same time, thank you boss for arranging the role for me, I like it very much. I will take good care of this lady, Boss! I will always be there for you Serve... cluck cluck..."

Without waiting for Wu Xiaozu's reaction, he immediately withdrew his hand, with mockery in his eyes, he turned and left with his hips twisted.

Isn't it the secretary's daily life to tease the boss?

As for Zhou Yunu...Aniston has no feelings, does she see Wu Xiaozu as her boyfriend?

Next to him, Harvey stared lewdly and longingly at Aniston walking out of the office, and then reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

'What a delicious piece of sweetheart. '

If this LSP hadn't been worried about Wu Xiaozu, it would have launched an offensive long ago.

"You don't like Steven's new movie??"

Harvey restrained himself. Although he was an LSP, he was extremely measured. This is why he was able to survive in the Hollywood independent production industry for decades.

"I'm not too optimistic about his biographies, especially those like Kafka." Wu Xiaozu shook his head, "It's not flattering, and it's hard to show the level it should be."

Harvey was angry because he felt that a talented director was missing, but Wu Xiaozu was very grateful.

Soderbergh is about to usher in a period of low tide for nearly ten years. It was not until "Strategic Master" in 1998 that he took a breath, and then he had to wait until "Never Compromise" and "Drug Network" in 2000 to truly come back to the peak. "Eleven Arhats".

A paranoid who has been leveling for a long time.

For this No. [-] "tool man" in North America who he dug himself, Wu Xiaozu had already arranged his path clearly.

How can I appreciate the profoundness of Teacher Wu if I don't touch the wall for a few years... Bah, plan ahead!
He didn't just care about raising fish in the pond. In front of Director Wu was the sea of ​​stars and stars, and what he had to do was to be the admiral of the navy.

Both East Asia and North America bloom.

"Okay, I take your favor and take it as your comfort."

Harvey shrugged his shoulders and pulled the chair over with his belly shy, "The recent publicity of "Seven Sins" is always aimed at Asian people. I invited some friends from the circle to join me at the premiere in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles tonight, and I also introduced it to you know."

Don't look at Wu Xiaozu's success in North America and not being recognized by the mainstream market, but in the independent production and literary film circles, John Wu's is also considered a minor celebrity.

"I also invited Cage here, he said he would bring friends." Wu Xiaozu was also mentally prepared for the deserted premiere of "Seven Sins".

If he really wanted a scene, he might as well have premiered it in Asia.Whether it is in Korea or Japan, it will definitely be very popular.

"Gao Cang-san, Cui Sang and Tony should be here soon, right? They are very important in front of Asian fans. Especially Gao Cang-san, now he is developing very smoothly among Asians in Hollywood. The Ridley Scott film "Black Rain" is loved by many audiences.

You know, Ridley is now able to make money with Paramount, Shirley Lansing and Stanley Jaffe are the guys who are famous in Hollywood for their money. "Harvey sarcastically attacked the top executives of Hollywood's Big Eight.

Wu Xiaozu ignored him.

When you say others are shit, please wipe your ass clean first.

"It seems that Japanese actors are very popular in Hollywood." Xiaozu Wu joked.

"Of course, because Sony and Universal are both invested by Japan." Harvey said with a smile: "Other companies also like to find them for financing. A group of greedy people from Japan, I think the United States will probably be bought by Japan..."

How much money is a fool?
From this, we can also see Hollywood's attitude towards the foreign market, investors and filmmakers.

Don't look at Harvey's sarcasm towards Japanese filmmakers now, it's because Wu Xiaozu is sitting in front of him.Who knows if he would mock himself unscrupulously in another occasion?

Lu Xiaobu, a famous humanist, once said: If your friends are playing Story Solitaire, they must participate in it and never walk away alone.Otherwise, you never know what a disgusting role they will cast you.

……

Beverly Hills Rodeo Drive.

It may not be as familiar as Sunset Boulevard, but Rodeo Drive is a famous high-end commercial street in Los Angeles. There are many luxury stores on both sides of the street, and the rare and colorful windows are dizzying.

There may be stars everywhere.

The three members of the Three Sisters tour group are holding their cameras and shopping around Beverly Hills to eat food, and because they are all rich, they don't have to fight like a celebrity group, and they are very happy to go shopping.

"Look this way—"

Wang Xianxian, the boss of Jiquan, held a Canon camera in his hand, looking very professional to take pictures of Li Bitch who was leaning on the railing and posing.

Wang Xiaofeng held a box of snacks and fed them to her with a plastic fork.

In order to surprise Wu Xiaozu, although Wang Zuzhen arrived in Los Angeles, he did not tell him.

"Come, come, you two go over, I'll shoot..." Wang Xiaofeng urged.

Amaranthus Wang and Jiaxin Li hug each other and talk to each other (づ￣3￣)づ╭～(°‵′).

Sure enough, it was indeed the two mouths used by the same man.

Together, they are beautiful, sweet, and similar. . . . .

On the other side, Aniston drove Zhou Yunv to buy an evening dress, and walked into a specialty store that produced high-end luxury dresses in Beverly Hills.

The real big stars are all high-end, but the premiere of "Seven Sins" obviously doesn't need to be so exaggerated.

Immediately afterwards, a car also stopped at the door of the shop. Wang Punk got out of the car with a lollipop in his mouth, with a dark face, followed by his assistant Xiao Suibu.

"what??"

Holding up the camera, Wang Xiaofeng suddenly looked across the street suspiciously.

"Let me take a picture of you two... What's wrong with you?" Li Bitch looked at Wang Xiaofeng who was stupefied, and couldn't help pushing.

"Oh, it's nothing..." Wang Xiaofeng thought he had misread it.How can there be such a coincidence that a small Los Angeles can meet an acquaintance?

(End of this chapter)