How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 2 Old Luke: Brother-in-law, it's me, pay money
"Although I am from the dubbing department, but the manager, when I was at USC, I took professional courses in photography, screenwriting, and acting. I also have a deep understanding of directing. When you direct, I will Can I also be your assistant director and help you?" Zhang Nan said enthusiastically.

What Zhang Nan said was really not to lie to old Luke. After he knew about his golden finger, he audited all subjects related to filmmaking when he was a student in Southern California.

These subjects are not to say that they are professional, but at least they are getting started.

Old Luke was surprised that Zhang Nan had also studied photography, screenwriting, acting and directing. He felt more and more that his old eyes were not dimmed, but had turned into wise eyes. Then he said modestly: "Forget about directing. I also realized in [-] that I might not be the material to be a director, this time I plan to be a producer."

Unlike the Asian director-centered system, Hollywood at this time has changed from a director-centered system to a producer-centered system.

But it doesn't mean that anyone who becomes a producer can suppress the director in the crew.

To become a qualified producer, the prerequisite is that you have a successful directorial work.

Otherwise, the producer cannot handle the director in the crew.

Obviously, after Old Luke became a producer in this situation, he would definitely be an unqualified producer who would be dismissed by the director.

However, Zhang Nan didn't care about Old Luke being excluded. His eyes lit up when he heard that Old Luke was not a director, and he had another position to compete for.

But now is obviously not a good time to mention this, Zhang Nan asked: "Then, are you sure who we want to direct this play?"

Old Luke relied on the score rarely, and waved his hand, "It's not urgent, no one can hire anyone without money, I'll see how much investment I can get, and then hire people according to the investment."

Zhang Nan very much agrees with Old Luke's remarks, after all, if you don't have money, everything will go away.

And old Luke's actions were also very agile, he picked up the phone immediately after speaking.

When all the numbers were dialed out, they found that Zhang Nan was still there, so they motioned for Zhang Nan to go out.

After all, his methods of investment are simple and crude, and the process is a bit embarrassing and private, and it is not convenient for others to know.

"Zhang, you go and get the script done first. After I get in touch with the investment, let's discuss the preparation of the crew together." Old Luke signaled Zhang Nan to go out and get busy.

Zhang Nan originally wanted to hear how much investment he could get, but after Old Luke ordered him to do so, he had no choice but to go out, but his pace slowed down a bit.

Just as Zhang Nan exited the room and slowly closed the door, Old Luke's investment call was also connected.

Zhang Nan was still thinking, putting his ear on the door to eavesdrop, is it not good to be seen, but when Zhang Nan hesitated, the voice of the call inside came out directly.

Old Luke's ears are not very good, so he turned up the volume of his phone very loudly. Zhang Nan can hear through the door more clearly than Old Luke himself with the microphone.

"Brother-in-law, it's me, Luke."

"Luke, what's the matter?"

"I want to make a movie."

"Aha—bang."

Luke's brother-in-law over the phone obviously overreacted to some kind of stimulus and was hit, and then the old Luke's brother-in-law shouted from the phone as if he had been touched by a wound: "Why do you want to make a movie again? ".

"I like movies, and I must make a good movie."

"You thought you were George Lucas, or Steve Spielberg, how many years have you been filming, have you ever been successful? If you don't have talent, let's stop wasting time and energy, okay, Luke .”

"Although I am not George Lucas and Steve Spielberg, I am your brother-in-law, you have to help me!"

"Didn't I help you? The establishment and investment of which movie of yours was not done by me under pressure."

"You still have to help me."

"I'll help you again, am I the vice president of Disney?" Luke's brother-in-law was a little annoyed.

"If the company knows that you have withdrawn the deductions, it will make false accounts." Old Luke's methods began to be simple and rough.

"How dare you threaten me?"

Old Luke's brother-in-law never expected that his brother-in-law would do such a trick to him, and his anxious pronunciation was sharp.

"If only my sister knew that you spent a night in a hotel with a model last week."

Old Luke began to reveal his brother-in-law's personal privacy, and the effect was good, and Old Luke's brother-in-law immediately persuaded him.

"How can I help you?"

"I want to borrow the company's camera equipment."

"no problem."

"I also want an investment of $500 million."

"Are you crazy?"

"You even Bob's (Disney president)'s concubine—"

"Stop talking, you hand over the project letter right away."

"Brother-in-law, you believe me, my idea this time is very good. Do you know Chenglong? I plan to imitate Chenglong's style and make a movie similar to [Red Fan District]. I have found the actors, too. Chinese people know kung fu, and this movie will definitely be a success."

"Better so."

Old Luke's brother-in-law on the phone said in an emotionless tone, "After the project is written, don't send it to the process department like before, but bring it to me directly."

Hearing that the process had changed, Old Luke said with some concern: "Brother-in-law, you won't take advantage of me to send the project over and kill people to silence you!"

On the other side of the phone, Old Luke's brother-in-law was gripping the phone creakingly, obviously having such an impulse in his heart.

"Idiot, you were blacklisted by the process department after you screwed up your project last time." Old Luke's brother-in-law explained.

After listening to his brother-in-law's explanation, Old Luke breathed a sigh of relief: "Then...or half the commission?"

"Beep beep beep beep." The phone was hung up, obviously this is a question that does not need to be answered.

Zhang Nan, who was outside the door, was shocked after hearing the old Lukela's investment method, and left quietly.

Sure enough, no matter what age, brother-in-law is a terrifying existence.
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Time passed quickly, and November 1995 passed in a blink of an eye, and December 11 was coming to an end.

[Toy Story] has also been released for more than a month.

With the title of the first 3D animated film, coupled with the excellent quality jointly created by Pixar and Disney, [Toy Story] has been a big hit in North America and even the global film market in the past month, and has accumulated 3.5 million US dollars. box office.

Disney is making a lot of money. After all, the investment of the entire "Toy Story" is only 2600 million US dollars. After including other expenses such as publicity, the total investment is more than 3000 million, and it will come to an end.

In addition to the box office of [Toy Story], the peripheral income of [Toy Story] is not inferior at all, and even far exceeds the box office.

This is the characteristic of animated movies, and it is also the fundamental reason why Disney is so different from other Hollywood eights that it is stuck in animated movies.

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