China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 226 How great it would be to throw the sixth-generation domestic directors here!
Obviously, Alima, who is very good at fooling investors, was eventually fooled by He Fang, because He Fang met his several demands: film and television industry, no competitors, internationalization, and cultural discourse power.

These few appeals are too fatal for Alima, each appeal is what he really wants to do, so He Fang firmly grasped his pain points, and then reached a cooperation agreement with him.

On April 4, He Fang, on behalf of Changsha Tuanhuo Culture, reached an agreement with Ali to establish Maoyan Film and Television Network Technology Co., Ltd.

In the first three years, Maoyan devoted itself to the construction of the global ticketing and film review website system. Three years later, online film and television sub-stations in English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic were launched, allowing each sub-station to launch online large-scale movie production and distribution, as well as online theater movie Maoyan network distribution.

Of course, the premise of all this must comply with the laws and regulations of each region and country.

According to He Fang's plan, the Maoyan Internet company's founding capital is about one billion, which is to develop ticketing and movie review functions, and the total investment in manufacturing ticket vending machines and laying out the number of [-] movie theaters.

After reaching this goal, Maoyan can proceed with round A, round B, and round C... and then go public on a bigger and stronger basis.

Changsha Tuanhuo Culture, represented by He Fang, invested 1 million yuan, owns 10% non-dilutable equity, and has one-vote veto power and the right to make suggestions on major website decisions.

The establishment of this company is quiet, and only a few people know about it, because both parties understand that this thing is something that the technical threshold is not high, but it can be played as long as you spend money.

Therefore, we must quietly build up the market, or even quietly occupy the market, and let opponents and certain countries not find out, so as to succeed.

This website can’t be done in a high-profile way, you can’t call us all over the world to build a website that sells global movie tickets into e-commerce, and then control the global distribution of film and television networks...

When you shout out about this thing, before you start to make it, the industries and policies of other countries will restrict your entry.

Only when you have done all this quietly, and when they react, you have firmly controlled it.

This is called: enter the village quietly, don't shoot anyone!

After finishing the discussion and cooperation with Alima, He Fang flew from Shanghai to New York on the evening of the 24th, and then transferred from New York to Detroit.

And Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo had already arrived in Detroit from Beijing one day earlier, where were they waiting there?

After more than [-] hours of ups and downs, when he arrived in Detroit, he had the illusion of time travel. He thought he had time traveled to the world of "Red Alert", a strong pre-industrial style in which the world's superpowers confronted the frontier.

I thought this was the war zone in "Red Alert", it's really magical.

"Hey, He, how is it? Do these match what you imagined?" Du Chunsheng asked He Fang, pointing to the scenery outside the car window when the car drove into downtown Detroit.

"Of course, it fits too well." He Fang nodded.

When they arrived at the destination hotel, a crowd was waiting for them.

"Director He, here we come." Wu Jing stepped forward to hug He Fang.

"Huh? Where's Director Zhang?" He Fang was very surprised.

"Oh, he went to see the scenery." Du Chunsheng said.

"That's fine, I'll put the things down and have a look, anyway, I can't beat the jet lag now."

As he said that, he checked in with Du Chunsheng's assistance, then put his luggage into the room, and finally went out, led by Du Chunsheng and others to the filming location.

Zhang Yimou is holding the director's script, looking at the dilapidated streets and making gestures.At this moment, he saw He Fang coming.

"Director He, you're not slow. I feel like I'm jet-lagged, and you're here." Zhang Yimou shook hands with He Fang.

"It's only a dozen or so hours away, so you feel as if your front foot landed and my back foot arrived. Director Zhang, do you think this place will have a style in terms of color?" He Fang pointed around.

"Of course, I've been looking at it all morning, and I feel like I'm back in the 80s and [-]s. The domestic style can only be found in some factories in the mountains in the northwest or southwest."

Zhang Yimou said.

"There are still lands like this in China? There are many pieces of this kind?" He Fang was still a little surprised.

"Of course, there are many. It seems that you and our country don't know enough about it. Almost every province has them, but there are more in the northwest and northeast, as well as in Sichuan. There are some old heavy industry units, secret units, just In some remote valleys, stretches of red brick factory buildings are now deserted."

"Oh, really? Next time I go back, I'll take a look. You have experience in this kind of filming, so teach me more." He Fang said.

"You let me shoot some literary films in this kind of scenery. I can use light, shadow and color to reflect the sense of time and thickness. But if you want to shoot your kind of cool, sporty, great scheduling and better I am far inferior to you for a long shot that takes one shot to the end." Zhang Yimou shook his head.

"Director Zhang, stop praising me..."

As mentioned earlier, this movie is to show people a vision of another world in the United States, which is a chaotic and irregular underground world.

Therefore, this kind of building with a strong sense of age will have a strong style, and they also deliberately selected some scenic spots where you can see the modern high-rise buildings in Detroit, in order to show the strong contrast between the two worlds.

One civilization, one backward and decadent.

People in the 'Red Brick Special Zone' want to go out, but the civilization that is close at hand is far away. They can't get out of this 'Red Brick Special Zone' at all. They can only die here after being exploited by the evil forces.

Zhang Yimou is actually good at this kind of filming, not to mention Zhang Yimou, among them, the sixth generation directors in China are better at it. How to create a strong contrast between the two worlds and an atmosphere of despair, they are the best at filming, and they often do this in China. award.

Thinking of this, He Fang suddenly said to Zhang Yimou: "Director Zhang, I think this place can become a paradise for the sixth director in China."

Zhang Yimou was stunned for a moment, "How to say?"

He Fang suddenly became interested, then took out his cigarette and lit it: "Look, there are prostitutes, homeless men, gangsters, drugs, gun battles, exploitation by capitalists, child labor, child marriage, and ethnic conflicts. , there are factional struggles, there are luxury and money, and there are struggles at the bottom... There are too many elements that directors of literary films want to express."

"These are all good materials for literary films. How many classic films does it take for a director of literary films?"

"It's a pity that the creation of domestic literary film directors is too limited, and they don't open their horizons. Isn't it said that art has no borders? Why can't you just come here to create? You have to stay in China to shoot content that can't do this or that. How aggrieved and how restrictive they are."

"Director Zhang, do you think this is the case? No wonder the directors of literary and artistic films in China can't grow up, they just haven't come out. But if they come out to see more dark things in this world, their achievements will be even higher."

He Fang was so excited when he said that Zhang Mo beside him burst out laughing first.

Zhang Yimou also smiled awkwardly, He Fang's words were indeed too ironic, and they touched the hearts of domestic literary film directors too much.

"Ah, Director Zhang, I don't mean anything else, I'm not talking about you." He Fang said apologetically.

Zhang Yimou waved his hand and didn't care. He has achieved such an achievement at this age, so he still cares about this?

"What you said gave me some ideas. Maybe I can take a walk on this road. I have been making Chinese movies all my life. Maybe it would be good to change the angle."

"???" He Fang was stunned, this... Was Zhang Yimou misled by He Fang?

"Ah? This is not to say that this direction is not good, but that this direction is a bit difficult." He Fang said.

"What does it matter if it's difficult? As long as you can make an interesting story." Zhang Yimou waved his hand indifferently.

He Fang thought about it and didn't object.

"Then you can start from the perspective of the Chinese. The Chinese are all over the world, which means that your film stories can go to any country and region in the world. It can be literary and commercial." He Fang did not stop Zhang Yimou.

In fact, what Zhang Yimou is best at is making in-depth movies. You can ask him to make some commercial movies, and he can handle it, but I don’t know if it’s not what he wants to make.

"Well, there are few such good scripts." Zhang Yimou shook his head.

"At least you can write it yourself, if you can't write it alone, you can ask a team to write it. The key is that you can do it when you have a concept, even if you don't know what you want to shoot."

"Well, you can think about it later." Zhang Yimou said with a relaxed smile, happy that he had found a new path.

……

In the next few days, after He Fang had completed all the scenes here, he arranged for the next stage of work, that is, from May 5, all crew members will be on set, and then start to read the script.

So on April 4, he flew to Los Angeles, because he wanted to meet with Zhang Qian and first confirmed the cooperation with Warner, and then he had to go to Fox to communicate with the main creators on some issues of "X-Men".

When he arrived in Los Angeles, he saw Zhang Qian, whom he hadn't seen for several months, and felt that he was weak and his eyes were even smaller.

"Zhang Qian, you won't get into anything you shouldn't get into in the United States during this time, right? Why are you acting like this?" He Fang asked with concern.

"Cough, you don't know how many parties I've attended and how many wild horses I've faced...Brother, I'm...so sick of playing, I have to go back to China after I finish this." Zhang Qian coded With a mournful face, it feels like how wronged she has been.

"No, you don't have to play." He Fang was very puzzled.

"When it comes to that, I can't control it anymore. Oh, you... Forget it, hurry up, get this thing over, I want to go back to China."

"Pfft, haha..."

……

There is no big problem with the cooperation with Warner, because Zhang Qian has already been publicized, not to mention that Fang is still the hottest and most promising young director.

In addition, the script of "Edge of Tomorrow" produced by He Fang is indeed in line with Warner's thoughts, so this cooperation is definitely necessary, but the conditions proposed by Zhang Qian have caused the two parties to argue for a long time, otherwise an agreement would have been reached long ago , signed the contract.

So what agreement did Warner finally reach with He Fangyou Changsha Tuanhuo?I can sign this time.

In fact, it is very simple, that is, Changsha Tuanhuo and Warner jointly develop five joint venture films every year. This is actually Changsha Tuanhuo helping Warner to introduce five films in disguise.

Of course, for co-productions, at least the positive policy must be in line, otherwise this is a fake co-production, and Changsha Tuanhuo can't justify it in China.

And Warner wants to provide Changsha Tuanhuo with a guarantee for the global announcement and release of ten movies. How to implement this guarantee?This is conditional, that is, the corresponding publicity treatment is consistent with that of Hollywood movies.

For example, after Tuanhuo Culture invests 1000 million US dollars in publicity and releases and proposes key areas for publicity and distribution, it must be implemented in place. For example, to what extent can 1000 million US dollars be achieved in North America, and to what extent can it be achieved in other regions? Compared with what they can do for the same American film with the same cost of publicity and distribution.

In fact, this is not difficult for Warner, because they will also accept others to make money. What is the difference between this culture of accepting group fire and accepting others?
What's more, there are still five joint venture films that can take advantage of it, why not take it?
As for the anti-foreign Chinese movies in the United States?They are not worried at all, because they do not believe that Chinese films can really grow up.

Then Korean movies are released to the U.S. every day, and island country movies are also released, and European movies are also released in the U.S., so have they been successful?

Dozens of animated films from the island nation are released in the United States every year, so what?

Hundreds of European literary films are screened in the United States every year, so what?

South Korea releases at least fifteen films a year in the United States, but so what?
So Warner is not worried at all, they think Chinese movies will be the same as Korean, island country and European movies.

On the contrary, "Edge of Tomorrow" Warner didn't want to take a big advantage, they just took 60% of the investment, and then had the right to follow-up cooperative development.

The duration of this treaty cooperation is 6 years, that is, until 2018.

On the second day, He Fang went to Warner to meet with their president, Barry Meyer, the 76-year-old man in charge.

"Hi, hello, Ho. Welcome to Warner." Although Barry Meyer is over 70, he is still strong.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Meyer."

"Ha, let's go, let's talk inside..."

(End of this chapter)