my movie years

Chapter 379 New things bring new problems
In fact, Zhang Hao himself has always wanted to shoot a few things but failed to do so. This happened in his previous life.

One tells the story of scientists who have returned to China. There is already a movie called "Born Out of the Sky" starring Li Xuejian and Li Xuejian.

The other one is the biopic of Grandpa Yuan.

In my previous life, I was not qualified to take pictures.

But now Zhang Hao has this identity and status, and is qualified to make movies with this type of theme.Today's children lack education in this area, and Zhang Hao feels it is necessary to teach them.

Don't follow some idol traffic every day, so that you say those stupid remarks.

At the end of the small meeting, Zhang Hao judged that the acquisition would be completed in July next year.

I remember that in the previous life, Disney also completed the acquisition of 21st Century Fox at this time, shocking the world.

By the way, another film project that I have to mention is James Cameron's "Avatar: Water Path", which was also originally a collaboration with Fox.

Fox is still struggling to survive, and it has something to do with James Cameron.

So far, this film, including the subsequent series of films, has burned [-] billion US dollars, becoming one of the triggers for Fox's collapse.

James Cameron himself has no objection to the acquisition. He only hopes that the new partner will continue to invest money, and he will increase investment.

There are a total of seven "Avatar" series planned, and the second one is currently in production.

The wealthy Disney met James Cameron's request, and this series was successfully acquired by Disney.

As a matter of courtesy, Disney should have no problem with Zhang Hao snatching away the "X-Men" series, right?
Not only does Disney have that, it has pretty big opinions.They didn't know where they heard the news. Someone was about to successfully obtain the copyright to "X-Men". They immediately became anxious and quickly increased their investment.

But the top executives of 21st Century Fox replied: "We have nothing to say about this now. You have to go to Rupert Murdoch."

The female president of Disney hurriedly visited Rupert Murdoch’s mansion, but was turned down.

The reason is simple. The female president of Disney is a sexual minority, while Rupert Murdoch is a traditional white old man.

Besides, Zhang Hao wants to make a biopic of him.

The fact that a world-class A-list director made a biopic on him shows that he has become a legend. Currently, Zuckerberg is the only one who has this kind of treatment.

Neither Bill Gates nor Buffett has this kind of treatment. How can Rupert Murdoch be so good?
At his age, the pursuit of wealth is no longer important, but the pursuit of fame is real.

The female president of Disney was so angry that after returning home, she hired a private detective to find out who dared to pull out the tiger's teeth.

But after searching around, I couldn't find any reliable news.

The most reliable thing to do is to take action from the enemy Warner Pictures.

Warner Pictures President Doug Walt laughed out loud. He showed up uninvited at the celebration party for "Avengers 3"'s North American box office of breaking $6 million, which made the female president of Disney very angry.

The female president asked him face to face if he did the "X-Men" incident, and Doug Walter denied it.It was true that he didn't do it, but he knew who it was.

After Zhang Hao's meeting, he immediately contacted Warner Pictures.

Just as Warner cannot do without Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao cannot do without Warner. As long as Zhang Hao is concerned about the North American market, he cannot do without Warner Pictures to protect him.

Charles Rowan was right, Zhang Hao was indeed seeking cooperation.

This year, a new company will be launched in Hollywood.Zhang Hao will serve as chairman, and a senior executive from Penguin Pictures will jump ship to become CEO and run the company.

The company has nothing to do with domestic capital on the surface, but the top management is almost all Tianmi and Penguin teams, and Bona will also send directors here.

Because China Film Group is a state-owned company, it only invested money through offshore capital and did not actually participate in management.

The purpose of this is to run the company with as little resistance as possible.

At present, the company's most valuable assets are, in addition to some of 21st Century Fox's distributor resources, a portion of its film library, including "Alien" and the upcoming "X-Men".

It is conceivable that after the establishment of this company, because of its background, it will definitely become a thorn in the side of other Hollywood companies.

At this time, you need to find allies.

Foreigners are not monolithic, each has its own interests.What's more, this new company doesn't touch the bottom line, which is moving.

In exchange for "X-Men", Zhang Hao shook hands with Warner again, and Warner would also symbolically hold shares in the company.

Warner Pictures will participate in the investment and distribution of future films produced by this company.

In this way, the new company successfully became a partner of Warner Pictures.

Of course, one Warner Pictures cannot resist the power of all Hollywood.But as mentioned before, Hollywood is not monolithic, and everyone has his own agenda.

Disney has expanded so fast in the past decade, to the point where other Hollywood companies are trembling.

At this time, who cares about the problems of a second-tier film company with a Chinese director as chairman? Let’s unite and resist Disney first!
So Disney discovered that it had been so comfortable in the past that now everyone was hostile, and all companies were hostile to Disney.

The female president of Disney announced at a high-level meeting that this is an unprecedented crisis and challenge faced by Disney, uniting everyone.

As a casualty, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will step down next year and will be responsible for series and streaming projects.

The fight for the president of Marvel Studios is also a bloody one.Finally, by virtue of being right, a fat black aunt, uh, was an uncle before, underwent sex reassignment surgery and became an aunt.

In short, this transgender aunt will take over as the president of Marvel Studios next year, and she (he) will be fully responsible for the fourth phase of the Marvel Universe after "Avengers [-]".

Good guy, this BUFF is fully charged, and the aura is invincible.

Kevin Feige calmly accepted the arrangement for himself at the meeting without saying a word of objection.

He didn't dare to say it. If he did, a hat would be slapped on his face.

As an old Chinese saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood.Kevin Feige thought that when he takes control of Disney, he must clean up all these ghosts and monsters.

Now, let Disney experience the chaos!

Without chaos, how could he highlight his savior image?
Zhang Hao was not aware of the changes within Disney. He came to North America from China to attend the celebration party for "The Dark Knight Rises" to exceed US$[-] million in North America.

At the celebration banquet, he became the focus of the audience. All Warner Pictures executives looked at him with eager eyes.

It can be said that if Zhang Hao has a new Hollywood movie project at this time, Warner Pictures will not hesitate to invest in it.

In order to get himself involved, Doug Walter didn't even mind playing the funny clown himself to dance for Zhang Hao.

This is Vanity Fair, this is Hollywood, success can cover up all problems.

No matter what race, color, nationality, it is not as important as the green knife music.

After a brief speech, Zhang Hao and Doug Walter chatted in a small conference room nearby and continued to communicate the various details previously agreed upon.

Afterward, Doug Walter asked: "What are your plans after The Dark Knight Rises?"

Zhang Hao didn't hide it either: "There will be a small-budget comedy film and a gift film to be produced later."

Doug Walter also knew about the tribute film and was not interested in it, but he was interested in the comedy film.

"Warner will be solely responsible for overseas distribution," Doug Walter promised.

Zhang Hao nodded to express his gratitude, and the two drank a drink.

Doug Walter continued to ask: "By the way, do you have a plan for "Alien"?"

Zhang Hao has also considered this aspect and has nothing to hide from his partners. He said bluntly: "At the beginning, I wanted to bring this classic science fiction movie series back to China.

But later it was discovered that the soil was not suitable, so I planned to wait for the new company to be established and use it as a project for the new company. "

"Will you direct the film yourself?"

"Of course..." Zhang Hao nodded.

Doug Walter smiled. This was the second good news he had heard tonight.If you put it in Hollywood, you have to cooperate with Warner Pictures.

After the big guys talked about the general matter, the details were left to the people below to communicate. Both parties were very satisfied with the conversation.

Afterwards, Zhang Hao attended the listing ceremony of the new film company.

The name of the new film company is Firefly. Zhang Hao chose the name himself, which means that he hopes that the small light of Firefly can illuminate the North American market for him and his team.

Doug Walter also attended the new company's listing ceremony, as did Universal Pictures' senior vice president, Sony Columbia's Little Life executives, and Paramount executives.

Four of the six major film companies came at once, which was enough.

It’s not hard to understand. With “The Dark Knight Rises” hitting $20 billion at the box office, everyone wants to make friends with this hot director.

Although Disney didn't come, he still sent a flower basket while cursing.

After that, Zhang Hao and physicist Kip Thorne met in his office at Caltech. Kip Thorne had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year.

He serves as the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and is one of the world's leaders today in the field of astrophysics under general relativity.

Kip Thorne was very enthusiastic and gave Zhang Hao a kiss: "Zhang, welcome. I watched the movie. It was very exciting."

"Really?" Zhang Hao asked, "Which movie is your favorite?"

"'Inception,' Chapter." Kip Thorne motioned to the assistant to make coffee: "Not everyone can drink Caltech's coffee."

"I'm honored," Zhang Hao tasted it, it was indeed good.

He also took out his own gift: "This is tea from China, Mingqian Longjing."

"Thank you, this will help me think." Kip Thorne accepted it happily.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, they formally sat down and started chatting.

Zhang Hao came here for no other reason than to ask Kip Thorne for help with a movie.

(End of this chapter)