China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 49 Take the winning route?
After the matter was settled, He Fang had a meal with Director Zhang and the two directors, and then left the rest to Guo Xiaohua.

Guo Xiaohua is very good at program production, and He Fang has seen her strength through the production of "The Voice".

Since someone has this ability, why should they command blindly?Wouldn't it be nice for him to free up time for other things?

Therefore, from September 9nd to September 2th, he discussed with Huying Group for almost a week, and finally finished the relevant cooperation.

Let’s roughly talk about He Fang’s film industrialization roadmap:

The film industrialization plan of Huying Group is divided into three parts: professional talent training, institutional process setting, and infrastructure construction.

The Changsha Tuanhuo Culture is responsible for the training of professional talents, as well as assisting the Huying Group to complete the setting of the industrialization system process, and giving advice on infrastructure construction.

The largest and most costly of these three parts is infrastructure construction. He Fang proposed to build a lake shadow of over 1000 mu on Malan Mountain next to Hunan Radio and Television, Mango TV and Changsha Window of the World. Group film and television city.

Huying Group film and television city includes hospitals, courts, police stations, banks, prisons, airports, docks, shopping malls, landmarks of major cities in the world, a street in cities in various countries, and future sci-fi city scenes, etc. There are also five more than 1000 square meters An indoor studio for shooting and production in the studio, and another 1000-square-meter underwater studio.

This film and television shooting base is different from Hengdian Film and Television City. Hengdian Film and Television City is an ancient building suitable for filming costume dramas.The film and television city of Huying Group is suitable for filming modern dramas and even sci-fi blockbusters.

In the film and television city, there is also a container living area for the crew, an international film special effects post-production building, a pyrotechnic special effects workshop, a prop production workshop, and a rental city with the most complete photographic equipment in the world.

With a total investment of about 70 billion yuan, it took five years to complete and became the largest modern film and television city in Asia and even the world.

Of course, it also includes the institutional process, such as the formulation of the qualification certificates and disciplinary and incentive plans for the employees of Huying Film and Television City, the production analysis and suggestion center, the script green light system, the film and television investment and financing and guarantee center, etc.

It will take at least five years to complete the entire industrialization blueprint, which is a big project.

Just what Huying Group had thought before was: the group built a 46-story Huying Group building, thinking that the lower six floors of this big summer would be used for investment and business, the middle 30 floors would be used for office rental, and the top ten floors would be At the headquarters of Huying Group, there is such a building that at least guarantees stable rent and property income for the next few decades, so that even if the business of Huying Group is poor, the people of Huying Group will not be starved to death. Huying, a company that has been losing money for more than 20 years You can turn a loss into a win.

But now He Fang's big plan has really touched the hearts of the entire Huying Group. If you don't want to do it, it's a lie.With Hefang's industrialization plan, Huying Group only provides platform services, and a small amount involves post-production, props and fireworks production, equipment and venue leasing, as well as some publicity, consulting, investment and financing businesses, and all others are market-oriented operations. This is exactly in line with the marketization of the marketization mentioned by He Fang.

The key is that this Huying Group film and television city also has a tourism function, and it can charge some tickets every year.

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What He Fang has to do now is to jointly organize a short-term film training class with CalArts in the name of Tuanhuo Culture, and the requirements of this class are to cover all majors in the film industry.

It includes 8 majors including production, directing, photography, playwriting, art, clothing, performance, and post-production special effects. The first training class recruits 5 people from each major, a total of 40 people.

The whole training course lasts for eight months, and the theoretical study lasts for six months. After the theoretical study is over, CalArts will send students to a Hollywood crew for two months as an intern. In the end, He Fang will lead 40 people to make a film in Hollywood and ask them to start from scratch. Learn about the process and methods of Hollywood film production at the end.

In terms of expenses, the tuition fee is 5 U.S. dollars, and each person's living expenses subsidy is 2 U.S. dollars for eight months. The total expenditure is 280 million U.S. dollars.Part of the cost of this investment will be reimbursed by Huying Group, and part of the cost will be borne by Tuanhuo Culture.

The Tuanhuo Culture Association will sign a five-year labor contract with the students after returning from their studies. After working in Tuanhuo, the culture will give the students a basic monthly salary of 10, and then they will draw 35000% of each project they receive. %, draw [-] US dollars or five years, then the students will not be restricted by the contract, and can choose to stay in Tuanhuo or leave freely.

It is equivalent to the student spending 35000 US dollars to go to the United States for further study. Huying Group and Changsha Tuanhuo Culture subsidize another 35000 US dollars.

In the past few days, He Fang also contacted Stephen Bill, the dean of the California Institute of the Arts, through his teacher Rob Epstein, and then talked with Bill about the plan.

The point is that He Fang is willing to provide 40 people with a tuition fee of 5 US dollars for eight months, and only needs the school to teach this advanced class production, directing, photography, playwriting, art, clothing, acting, and post-production special effects.

For private colleges, suddenly 40 students and $200 million in revenue in just eight months, they have no reason to say no.

So after the negotiation between He Fang and Cal Academy, Huying Group was relieved, but the next question was the candidate.

The first thing that He Fang thought of was Zhang Qian and Jiao Guoxiong. The two of them must go. As shareholders of the company, they should not experience the real Hollywood knowledge.

For the rest, they adopted the method of recruitment and registration. There are two conditions for registration. One is to graduate from a relevant major, and the other is to have work experience in the industry. Choose one of the two.

Of course, there is also a limited age, higher than 18 years old and lower than 35 years old.

The matter of recruiting personnel is left to Huying Group and Zhang Qian and the others, while He Fang is going to prepare for the new film.

Zhang Qian and Jiao Guoxiong are definitely useless, he has to find someone else.

It’s okay to be a producer. I’m looking for Guan Jianqiang, the production director of the “Far Cry” movie. He’s on the production team. This producer is equivalent to a large production director. It’s almost the same meaning.

It's hard to find a photographer, it depends on where the needs are.

He Fang wanted to make "Single Zoo" (renamed "The Lobster"), firstly because this film can deeply mock the singles who are urged to marry after 2020, and it also mocks the experts and scholars who force young people to marry.

It doesn't matter that no one understands in this era, but he believes that time will allow people to find out in 2023 that He Fang told them what happened as early as 2009.

"Are you really planning to make a literary film? But this is a soft sci-fi comedy."

Huang Ke, who was discussing with He Fang, was a little confused. This young man's thinking was really strange.

"Ha, I mean as much as possible, it doesn't matter if it wins an award or not, but I believe this movie will also have a good box office. I just said to try it, what if it wins an award? Can I sell overseas rights? "He Fang said haha.

The main reason is that this movie won an award in another time and space, but he doesn't know if Cannes will give it an award after being filmed by him, a Chinese?Maybe it won't be given.

Whatever it is, there is nothing wrong with trying.

"Since you have set the tone like this, then this is easy to handle. It is nothing more than finding a cinematographer with the level of a literary film, which is easy to delineate. By the way, who are you looking for as an actor? They are all going to compete for awards." Huang Ke asked.

"Well, I've thought about it. I'd like to try Zhang Ziyi for the heroine. After all, she is well-known internationally and has a high chance of winning the award. As for the heroine, I am myself."

"..." Huang Ke was a little messy, what combination is this?An international star is paired with an actor who has never been in a movie. The key is that the actor is still the director.

"Cough, that little He, I don't understand this combination... Are you sure?" Huang Ke really didn't know what to say, he just cooperated with He Fang in the filming and could not interfere with He Fang's practice.

If He Fang was an employee of the group, Huang Ke would have arranged for it, but now he can only bear it, since it's not a loss of his own money anyway.

"Of course I'm sure. Don't worry, Mr. Huang. I won't try to be brave. If I'm really not suitable, I'll choose another actor. I don't have to make a movie to fulfill my dream of being an actor." He Fang said confidently.

Huang Ke spread his hands, "Well, I will arrange for the person you want to help you as soon as possible. If you are going to participate in the awards, I will also help you find a Chinese audience for the Cannes Film Festival. Call first Relationship. If you need support from the group, just come to me.”

The so-called film reviewers are those who can talk to the organizing committee, and can directly submit films without going through the registration and selection process. This is also the ability of top filmmakers.

The audience does not refer to a certain person, or a fixed person. There are many people who can submit films, but the organizing committee does not necessarily give face to all of them.Therefore, you have to find top-level viewers.

There are many in China, if you can persuade the cultural counselor of the French embassy, ​​that's fine too.

International filmmakers such as Zhang Yimou and Gong Li in China are also allowed.Of course, there are also a group of professional people who specialize in doing this for others.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Huang."

Can He Fang negotiate with Zhang Ziyi?have no idea.

Now he is on the phone with Guo Zhaosheng, "Mr. Guo, I have two good things to ask you now. The first thing is that I will take someone to the United States and Hollywood within this month. Do you want to go together? I will take you to fulfill it." Promise. The second thing is that my second film is about to start shooting, with a total investment of 2000, 500 million for production, and [-] million for publicity, do you want to vote?"

"Go to Hollywood, go, you have to go. We also have to vote for movies, and we can't afford too many, so we voted for the 800 million you got back from the box office this time." Guo Zhaosheng was very excited on the phone.

"Okay then, you go and apply for a visa, and leave for Hollywood in ten or so days."

"Okay, I'll go to the Shanghai Consulate for an urgent request."

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On September 9, He Fang flew to the capital alone.He's going to talk to Zhang Ziyi to see if it works.Of course, he had to meet with Wang Zhonglei first to see if he could get some money from Huayi. If the new film could not be paid or paid less by himself, why should he pay for it?

In addition to this, on the night of the 11th, at the Gongzhengwei Hotel in the Asian Games Village, he invited some people who had not been able to go to Changsha to attend the celebration banquet before, such as Qian Lin, and An Wei, and the actors in the capital: Liu Yan, Xu Dongdong, Zhang Xinyu, Zhu Yilong and others.

On the 11th, He Fang didn't get up until 10:30 in the morning. He was not a time traveler who strictly managed his time and did morning exercises every morning. He was just an ordinary person who likes to sleep with women and sleep late.

You have crossed over, why torture yourself?

At this moment, his phone rang and he saw... Zhang Xinyu?What is she calling for?
(End of this chapter)