My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1392 The Chinese Director Bravely Enters the Deadly Island

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San Lodo, ​​JAGGER & JONES used grocery store.

"How much is this pen holder?"

Army green air force style thick cotton jacket, safari pants and Timberland rhubarb boots.

He wore simple black half-rim glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a layer of stubble appeared on his face.

"7.5 dollars."

The Caucasian clerk was playing with the Nintendo Famicom, took a quick glance, and quickly operated the handle in his hand. On the screen, it was [Double Dragon] that was clearing the level.

Wu Xiaozu took out his wallet.

He took out a $20 knife from it and handed it over.

"Please open a ticket. . . Oh, I've got a fifty-cent piece here."

The white clerk held the $20 knife and looked at the 50 cents he handed over, with a surprised expression of WTF.

“1、2、3、4、5……”

After nearly 10 minutes of delay in the store, Wu Xiaozu reluctantly left with the banknotes counted out one by one by the clerk.

Happy education, this kind of plot is very natural. . .But it's not worth ridiculing. Some of our parents in later generations have also begun to advocate happy education!

After the country's double reduction, they have a new understanding of the boat for granted.

"Thank you Big Mac."

Passing the Golden Arch, Wu Xiaozu bought a hamburger again to satisfy his hunger, and walked towards the 'Lions Gate Films (Lion's Gate) film company' two streets away with a paper bag in his mouth.

Gold Digger Films is mainly responsible for the distribution and excavation of East Asian films in North America.

In order to distinguish his own brand value, Zhang Jiazhen suggested that Wu Xiaozu re-establish a new film production company, mainly to be in charge of film works produced in North America.

That's right.

After the big breasted brother occupied the name of "DreamWorks Films", the name of the famous Lionsgate Films was also registered by Wu Xiaozu Xida Puben.

"Hi John."

In the rest area of ​​the company, sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, Jerry Bruckheimer snuffed out his cigarette butt with a smile, stood up and greeted him proactively, and John Boudreau beside him also stood up hastily.

"You guys eat this?"

He pointed to the 'm' golden arch in Wu Xiaozu's hand, and joked with a smile, "The handicrafts on the wall in your office and the cigars and red wine in the cigar room next to it cost hundreds of dollars... It seems that you Really captures the essence of the San Lotus."

Isn't the essence of Saint-Ladoux fake breasts and oranges...and the alarm bells that don't stop every night?

Wu Xiaozu shrugged.

He didn't care too much about making do.

During this time, his focus was all on the North American market.

In order to get himself into the state as soon as possible, Wu Xiaozu entered the process and started working without coming up.

As a film creator, if you don't understand the preferences of your market audience, it will undoubtedly be a failure.

Sometimes I often hear such a sentence, 'When the creator becomes rich, then his creation can no longer listen to the market. '

Although this sentence is a bit hypocritical, there is some truth to it.

Sometimes, creation is actually a process of mutual contact between the self and the audience-this can easily lead to a situation where generations of gods come and go.

Once upon a time, the fifth generation of directors was the best group in China.

This is true both in terms of artistry and box office.

Why?

Because they know the audience, they just come out of the crowd.

Later, Xiao Gang Pao was a well-deserved No. [-] in the mainland market for a period of time... The combination of him and Wang Yan can be said to be overwhelming.But when you watch it later, they don't even know when they were abandoned by the audience...

Wu Xiaozu is also facing this situation now.

This leads to a topic of whether the "director" should be tall or down-to-earth.

Wu Xiaozu's answer is neither.

The best way is probably to stay away.It's definitely not good to be superior, but sometimes, it's not good to be too down-to-earth...

During this time, he often went to and from various studios and studios in Hollywood.

Even in the later generations, "Wolf Warrior" and "The Wandering Earth" are still considered "handicraft films", while many Hollywood films are more industrial films.

Although he tested the waters in three plays.

"Seven Sins", "Chinatown" and "Pulp Fiction", but the three films are not industrialized films in the true sense.

Yes,
The box office and word-of-mouth are very good, which admits...

But in terms of production methods, we still need to learn from others.

At this time, he needs more ways and angles to understand this model.

It is undoubtedly a good way to sink.

Starting from October, this one and a half months, on the one hand, Wu Xiaozu is urging the impact of the three parties in "No Man's Land" in the awards season; Aunt Lin, mother and son.

It belongs to the rain and dew.

Oh, I took the time to accidentally insert Liu Chengqian a few times, and I bought several boxes of Adu baby sanitizers on the dancer's shopping receipt, but it was not enough.

On the other hand, Wu Xiaozu is still communicating about the new play.

It is roughly considered to have entered the process.

The project has basically been finalized.

The cooperative project is called "Bravely Entering the Deadly Island".

A very typical purely commercial action movie!

Proper industrialized large-scale production film.

"Have a cup of coffee—to warm you up."

John Boudreau, in suit and tie, smiled and handed over a cup of hot coffee.

"Thank you."

Wu Xiaozu smiled slightly and looked at the CAA manager who was still down and down when they first met, but now he is full of energy.

Some time ago, Wu Xiaozu signed in CAA in a low-key way.

When the water rises the bed rises...the boat rises.

This frustrated agent won Wu Xiaozu's favor with his hard work, professionalism and hard-working attitude.

With the successful signing of John Wu, an emerging golden sign, to CAA, he won an opportunity.

This time, CAA also naturally got involved in the "Bravely Entering the Deadly Island" project.

Wu Xiaozu has no objection to the involvement of CAA.

In other words, he very much hopes that there will be a middleman like CAA between him and Jerry Bruckheimer.

Such a large project will bring huge benefits to CAA... especially those who are good at bundling projects, there is a huge room for maneuverability.

Many people may not understand.

Under Wu Xiaozu's current throne and the power of capital, why does he want more people to participate.

This doesn't seem to be in line with the protagonist's treatment.

At least CAA's 'pointing fingers' isn't a very annoying behavior?

Compared with those people, the only thing Wu Xiaozu can be proud of is that he has a very clear understanding of himself and has self-knowledge.

At this stage, isn't it the best way to get involved in making connections and sharing the benefits equally?
The story of the Rabbit family's traditional method of crossing the river by touching the eagle sauce tells us that when we don't understand the objective facts, we might as well rub it hard with a strong thigh...

Luke it.

lick, lick, lick...

Not only can you buy it, but you can also copy it out...cross it out, and create a king!For this point, the rabbit riding Wudaiji will like it crazily.

"I will take the initiative to ask everyone to discuss this project before Christmas. Both Columbia and Bowei Films are very interested in this project." Jerry said as he walked.

The production cost of "Into the Deadly Island" is estimated to be between US$5000 million and US$6000 million.

In this day and age, it is undoubtedly a category A production project.Risk sharing is a common approach used by big Hollywood companies.

The standard of Hollywood Class A movies is not fixed, but cost is definitely the most important reference category.

In later generations, only $1 million or more will be called Class A productions.

The standard threshold for Class A in this era is not so high, but basically the standard for Class A is tens of millions more. The production cost of "Into the Deadly Island" is not particularly huge in Category A, but it basically maintains the industry standard.

Now I am more concerned about Wu Xiaozu's treatment and the actor's salary and share.

Three consecutive films were box office hits.

Wu Xiaozu is qualified to ask any company for film remuneration + box office share.

The box office performance is the strength of the waist.

Don't talk about how sharp your movie is, the results speak for themselves, and the winners are eligible to list the conditions.

In the previous life, several years later, Bangbei produced this movie with a production cost of more than 4000 million.

But how does a crow match a phoenix?Naturally, Beckham couldn't be compared with John Wu.

So in this life, the film project is directly striving for a production cost of 5000 million US dollars.

Harvey Weinstein has stopped competing since learning about production costs.

Hundreds or even tens of millions of dollars were thrown in, but he couldn't talk about it... Naturally, he didn't want to do it.

Don't forget, this is just the production cost.

According to the normal rhythm, for this level of film works, the publicity and release investment will basically be 1500 million or even 2000 million US dollars. Such an investment is definitely not a wonderful attempt for Harvey Weinstein.

Even knowing that the movie has the potential to succeed.

What if?
Once upon a time, Akai made up his mind to invest in big productions after watching Mouzi filming "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" and made a lot of money. Sure enough... Ten or 15 years later, "The Promise" is still unpopular understand.

It's not uncommon for small and medium-sized costs to be gods, and big productions to mess up.

It even abounds.

Instead of betting on Wu Xiaozu's success in transformation, it is better to buy some other Hong Kong Island movies at a cheap price to open blind boxes.

Anyway, he felt that he was more experienced with this stuff.

"The filming of this film may start next year, during which time I still have scenes to do." Wu Xiaozu said.

The film appointments of good directors are basically lined up in units of years.

Wu Xiaozu has a main theme movie to be produced, as well as "Chinatown 2" as the producer and supervisor.

At the same time, "God of Gamblers 3: Casino Royale" will also be established, and as the chief producer and project initiator, he will also pay attention to this project.

In addition, there are actually several other projects in his hands, but the time is really not scheduled.

"There is enough time, I will follow up the preliminary project preparation." Jerry didn't care about Wu Xiaozu's rhetoric.

The producer-centered working method puts the overall project in the hands of the producer, and the director does not need to do too much preparatory work other than film creation.

Wu Xiaozu may have at most a nominal producer position in this drama, and there will be huge restrictions on rights.

After all, several parties need to be considered.

This still depends on the conditions given by Wu Xiaozu on the premise of continuous box office sales...

In other people's territory, it is not acceptable for Long Aotian to speak like 'my rules are the rules'.

It is normal to do as the Romans do.

Can't you make a lot of fun while insisting on emphasizing your own existence and scolding the American people for being a big bad?

You can't discriminate against people!
When Americans come to China to make money, they have to go to the countryside and shout "Nice China"~~~
Love or not patriotism is not just a matter of shouting.

　Another day of overtime today.

　　Also, those who scold me...Brother, I have been writing this book for a long time, and it is already written for book lovers who are willing to read it. If you don't even read the original version, don't talk about rubbish.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)