my movie years

Chapter 165

"You are Reba?" Zhou Yutong looked at the exotic beauty in front of him.

"I am, I have watched "A Little Thing of First Love" in which you starred, it is so beautiful." Reba spoke in a tone full of envy.

Hearing too many compliments, Zhou Yutong got used to it and felt nothing: "Thank you, I also remember that you appeared in Director Zhang's "Fatal Magic."

Reba was startled: "Do you remember this too?"

"Of course, I am a loyal fan of Director Zhang, and I have carefully watched every detail of his movies." Zhou Yutong said this, with a sense of pride in his tone.

It's going to be summer vacation, although after starring in "A Little Thing of First Love", Zhou Yutong has become a big hit, similar to Zhou Dongyu who starred in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".

But because of his age, there are no good projects for Zhou Yutong.

So even though Zhou Yutong became famous overnight, he can only play a supporting role in other projects.In the entertainment circle, there are far more stars than resources, and there are not a few people who fight openly and secretly for resources.

It can be said that many celebrities who have a good relationship are breaking up because of the robbing of resources.

At present, according to the company's plan, Zhou Yutong still has to complete the learning tasks, and the company will also arrange some resources, including variety shows, roles in TV dramas and movies, etc.

Zhou Yutong heard that the boss Zhang Hao personally ordered her, which made Zhou Yutong feel a little proud, which showed that Zhang Hao attached great importance to her.

Although Reba is a newcomer, he is not an idiot. Of course he knows that if he joins Tianmi Company, he can only be regarded as the number three actress at most.

First, don't think about it, it will always be a big power, she will directly become the proprietress, and second, I am afraid that she will be the little girl in front of her.

It is necessary to have a good relationship, so a warm smile appeared on Reba's face: "Go for a drink together later?"

"Okay!" Zhou Yutong was about to agree, but then remembered something, shook his head and refused: "No, I have to make an announcement in the afternoon, next time!"

"Yutong, we should go." The manager shouted outside the door.

"Okay sister, I'll be right there." Zhou Yutong responded, then turned to Reba and said, "Next time, I'll treat you to a drink."

"Okay, you can go, I wish you success in your work." Reba smiled.

Looking at the back of Zhou Yutong who left, Reba's eyes flashed with envy.Zhou Yutong was younger than her, but she became famous so quickly.

This strengthened Reba's mind, thinking of Zhang Hao who she met in Shanghai, she ignited her ambition to climb up.

In the entertainment industry, ambition is not a derogatory term, but a commendatory term.It's just that some people are blinded by ambition, lose themselves, do some irreversible things, and can't look back.

And some people use their ambitions to let themselves continue to grow and become one of the most active figures in the entertainment industry.

The two Huadans in Tianmi Film and Television Production Company completed a collision, and Da Mimi also sat and chatted with his friend Liu Shishi at a party event.

The host on the stage was still teasing Mi Mi: "Look at Mi Mi, we are really lucky. Mi Mi, I am a fan of director Zhang Hao, can you get me an autograph?"

Facing the camera, Da Mi Mi certainly smiled and agreed.

Waiting for the host to tease others, Liu Shishi asked Da Mimi: "Did Zhang really go to Hollywood to direct movies?"

"Of course it is true, he has already signed the director's contract." Da Mimi replied.

Liu Shishi became even more curious, and continued to ask: "What project? Can you tell me?"

Seeing Da Mimi looked at her suspiciously, Liu Shishi raised his hand to promise: "Don't worry, I won't tell others."

"I don't doubt that you will tell others, I think you want to go to Hollywood!" Da Mimi laughed.

"Don't be kidding, I really need Chinese actresses, you must be Director Zhang's first choice." Liu Shishi hugged Da Mi Mi's arm, appearing more intimate.

Generally speaking, if you want to maintain friendship with a director, just go to the director directly.

But Zhang Hao is a young director, but he is very old-fashioned. He is not keen on social activities, does not participate in evening shows, and does not attend commercial activities, so that those who want to make friends with him have little chance to contact him.

He is a director in the first place, so it's normal to do this. Other directors are basically like this.

But this is a bit strange for Zhang Hao.

Because of Zhang Hao's outstanding appearance, he has a lot of fans, no less than a second- and third-tier star, let alone a larger fan base.

Claiming to be a movie fan, but actually a fan.

So much so that Zhang Hao has a nickname on the Internet, called the director of the idol group, and because he is quite capable, he is called the director of the idol group.

This is the first time that a director has so many fans.

But this is not what everyone cares about. What everyone cares about is: When will I have the opportunity to act in Zhang Hao's film project?

Of course, Liu Shishi also wants to have such an opportunity. In the field of TV dramas, Liu Shishi has already touched his own bottleneck, so of course he has to think about developing on the big screen.

However, Liu Shishi's advantage is that she has a good relationship with Da Mi Mi, and she can contact Zhang Hao in a roundabout way.

Therefore, Liu Shishi is more keen on maintaining a good relationship with Da Mi Mi.

Da Mi Mi is not an idiot, but very smart. It is not only Liu Shishi who has been friends with her recently, but also other actors and actresses, and even the bosses of various film and television production companies.

Of course, the protagonist is not himself, but Zhang Hao.

Da Mimi cleverly used the convenience brought by Zhang Hao to win a lot of resources, but she was not overly greedy, but had a limit to prevent Zhang Hao from causing trouble.

Besides, Da Mimi herself is a first-line actress, and she can feel at ease when she gets these resources.

It is normal that there will be turmoil in China because Zhang Hao went to Hollywood to develop.According to the later development trend, everyone was not so enthusiastic about Hollywood later.

But in the background of the era in 2012, if a star reaches the top level in China, he will consider going to Hollywood to test the waters.

Even if it is unsuccessful, it will be exported to domestic sales, giving itself the title of an international superstar.

Looking back later, there is no star who has the name of an international superstar anymore, because this trick doesn't work, and it's not popular anymore.

Zhang Hao is actually not keen, but he needs experience in making big projects, and the team needs experience.

In charge of Hollywood movies, Zhang Hao has two main goals, one is to train the team, and the other is to enhance international reputation.

Even though he won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, these things are useless in the field of commercial films.

But if he bears the name of a "Batman" movie, the Chinese-language movies he directs will be able to play new Batman directorial works in the world in the future, and it will surely attract audiences in other regions besides China.

In the Internet age, directors are no longer as unknown as before.

A director with a strong appeal is definitely no less than a movie superstar, and sometimes even has a stronger appeal than a movie superstar.

What is the appeal, it is the box office, it is money!
Making movies is not for making money, it is better to go home and farm. This is a famous saying of a certain director, although the director's films have never made any money.

After signing the director contract with Warner Pictures, Zhang Hao officially took over the preparatory work of the film.

In the beginning, Zhang Hao was really in a hurry in the face of the complicated preparatory work, because he had never been in contact with, let alone participated in, a crew of this scale.

But fortunately, the producer Charles Rowan helped Zhang Hao. Compared with other powerful Hollywood producers, this excellent producer has a milder personality.

For many things, Zhang Hao put forward various plans, Charles Rowan considered the feasibility, and then selected the most suitable plan to implement.

It was also because of the presence of Charles Rowan that Zhang Hao was able to let the crew follow the plan he had envisioned.

Otherwise, the producer and the rest of the Hollywood crew would be enough to lift Zhang Hao up and become a puppet director.

From this point of view, Zhang Hao would also like to thank Warner Pictures for sending him such a good producer.Although Zhang Hao is a newcomer in Hollywood and a Chinese, Charles Rowan has no prejudice.

On the contrary, Charles Rowan taught Zhang Hao how to prepare a large-scale sci-fi film project and how to arrange a crew of more than a thousand people to make it run smoothly.

"Zhang, Warner Pictures' first batch of US$5000 million in production funds has been paid to a third-party insurance account." Charles Rowan and Zhang Hao were discussing work.

The third-party insurance system is a compensation mechanism. The film company pays the production cost to the third-party insurance company, and the financial audit of the insurance company calculates every expenditure of the crew.

The most important purpose, the third-party insurance system is to ensure that the film is completed on schedule.

Although this system is somewhat troublesome, without a third-party insurance system, Warner Pictures is not assured that Zhang Hao can successfully complete the film production.

If half of Zhang Hao's work is unfinished, wouldn't Warner Pictures be dumbfounded.

"That's good," Zhang Hao nodded, and continued: "Charles, I want to ask Lamborghini to help me design a Batmobile, please contact me."

"What do you want?"

"That's it," Zhang Hao handed Charles Rowan a sketch: "According to this design, I need a total of eight vehicles, two of which are actually driveable."

Charles Rowan took a look, and was immediately attracted by the Batmobile in the sketch: "If this can really be designed, it will definitely be a beast."

"The Batmobile I'm designing is a combination of dexterity and beast, a combination of a sports car and a Hummer." Zhang Hao said.

"Okay, I'll contact the Lamborghini manufacturer immediately." Charles Rowan immediately contacted.

At this time, Guo Fan came in to report: "Director, the domestic team has already arrived, I arranged for them to go to the hotel to rest first."

"Very good, let them rest well, and start to fully devote themselves to work. Remember to read more, learn more and ask more questions." Zhang Hao instructed.

"Don't worry, Director, we have already discussed it. Everyone brought paper and pens to sort out what they have learned." Guo Fan said.

"Very good, these are valuable experiences, and they can be promoted to other Chinese-language film crews when I return to China." Zhang Hao is very satisfied with Guo Fan's arrangement.

It is Sanye's request to promote the experience Zhang Hao's team has learned in Hollywood to other crews.

But Zhang Hao felt that even if he was selfless and willing to teach others, those people might not be willing to learn, and in turn would doubt whether Zhang Hao was showing off.

Everyone is doing badly, but Zhang Hao pretends to be working hard and pretends to be a good person to let us learn what he has learned. Isn't this showing off?
Whoever learns who is a dog...

As an insider, Zhang Hao understands the thoughts of those rotten fish and rotten shrimps too well, because he was also a member of stinky fish and rotten shrimps in his previous life.

In his previous life, Guo Fan compiled his experience in filming the "Wandering Earth" series into a book. Under the organization of China Film Group, other filmmakers were arranged to learn from Guo Fan's hard-earned experience.

And most of them, like Zhang Hao, didn't study hard at all.Many people are still slandering Guo Fan in their hearts, discussing and arranging Guo Fan in private, saying that he is pretending to be a great saint.

Even more exaggerated words are not without it.

It is precisely because of understanding that although the third master arranges the tasks, Zhang Hao is not willing to do these thankless things.After sorting out the things, hand it over to the third master and it's over. Others like to learn or not.

It’s best not to imitate them. Only Zhang Hao and his team have experience in producing large-scale film projects in the entire Chinese-language film industry.

This experience is called: Chinese film industrialization process.

In the next few days, Zhang Hao's team, who suffered from jet lag, officially joined the crew of "Time to War" and started their student journey.

At first, many people thought that this was just a mission arranged by the superiors. What is there to learn about filming? I have been working for so many years and still don’t know how to shoot?

But a group of people discovered that they really don't know how to make movies.

The crew of "Time to War" is different from the crews they have stayed in China in the past. The whole thing is to highlight a scale, program, large-scale, and specialization.

For example, let’s take live-set construction as an example. Domestic live-set construction is quite simple, and a few scene prop masters can complete the task and make a set of live-set scenes required by the director.

But the crew of "Time to War" is different. The crew specially set up the scene in the Fox studio, which was originally a studio converted from an aircraft workshop, and built a bat cave.

The scale of the whole scene is so huge, and the real scene built by it even makes people unable to tell the truth from the fake. If it is not in the studio, the set crew would think that they are really in a cave.

After seeing the professional performance of the Hollywood staff in "Time to War", everyone in Zhang Hao's team immediately extinguished their original pride and started to study seriously.

Even after working hard every day, everyone went back to rest, and many people gathered together to discuss their learning experience.

Zhang Hao was very satisfied after seeing it. What he was afraid of was that people brought him here, but his heart did not. He treated it with the mentality of completing the work, but refused to learn anything.

This is also of course, following a director like Zhang Hao who has cutting-edge concepts, his team members are not conservative people, they all have some new ideas, and they are more capable of accepting new things.

Moreover, after being gilded in Hollywood, the development of returning to China will undoubtedly be smoother.

Even if he doesn't work in Zhang Hao's team in the future, he will be a sought-after talent wherever he goes.

What is most important in the 21st century?Uncle Ge said that he is a talent.

Unlike these team members who began to study seriously with great enthusiasm, Zhang Hao was extremely distressed at this time.

It is not easy to save the Batman series. Although the bad experience brought by Joe Schumacher's "Batman and Robin" has passed for more than ten years.

But in the past ten years, countless new superheroes have risen, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, and even Captain America.

There is a figure behind these famous superheroes, and that is Marvel.

Now that Marvel's huge figure hangs over DC, Batman naturally can't escape.

Batman is still one of the most popular superheroes in the United States, despite the survey launched by Warner Bros.

However, according to the survey report, among young people under the age of 25, Batman is no longer the mainstream, but Iron Man Captain America has become the most popular superhero.

Most people who like Batman have experienced the glorious era of Batman movies, and the main audience of superhero movies will always be young people.

It takes a lot of hard work from many people to cast a successful film series.But it only takes one bad movie to ruin a franchise.

Coupled with the long time, it is enough for people to forget the brilliant master Bruce Wayne.

Therefore, Zhang Hao's most important task in directing "Batman" is to clean up the mess left by Joe Schumacher and let North American audiences regain their memories of Batman.

It's not easy, but Zhang Hao has to do it.

When convening a meeting with the crew members of "Beginning of War", Zhang Hao made it clear: "In essence, the new Batman movie still belongs to the category of superhero sci-fi movies.

But I want to give it a more realistic style. The script, character design, props and scene design, and action scenes must conform to this style. "

The film is in a dark style, so he doesn't need to say much about it, these crew members working in Hollywood understand it better than him.

In fact, many Hollywood crew members are somewhat dissatisfied with the fact that there is a Chinese director sitting on it, but he can talk and guide them professionally.

From their point of view, apart from a few outstanding action actors on Hong Kong Island, in that barren land of China, there is no way to make movies.

But Zhang Hao is already the director, and they can't change it.Although there are personal opinions on Zhang Hao, everyone is a professional and will not put personal prejudice in the work.

Prejudice is prejudice, but if you deliberately fail to cooperate and mess up the work because of this, it violates the signed work contract, and it will not be a good reputation to spread to other Hollywood crews, and you will not be able to get any jobs in the future.

And there is another Charles Rowan, if this Chinese director is really not good, Charles Rowan will stand up and uphold justice.

Compared with the different looks of the Hollywood crew, the team brought by Zhang Hao from China is much more serious. When Zhang Hao speaks, he basically listens carefully and takes notes.

This is why Zhang Hao has not yet established his prestige in Hollywood. If he is a first-class director in Hollywood at this time, those Hollywood staff will not despise him at all.

However, for Zhang Hao, Hollywood is equivalent to a place for him to level up, a copy of his experience, and his career will always focus on Chinese-language movies.

The Hollywood staff in front of him are all the experience packs of his team members, elite monsters, and they can grow and upgrade after getting through.

(End of this chapter)