How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 234

Hollywood, Lee Junction.

"Why don't you give Director Zhang a call. I heard that Luc Besson has an unusual relationship with Director Zhang. They are both from the mainland. He even helps Wu Baige and Chenglong, so he should help you too." Li Lianlian's agent People, persuaded Li Lianlian.

Li Lian on the other side fell silent when he heard the words.

Since entering Hollywood through [Lethal Weapon 4], although the box office failure of [Lethal Weapon 4] made his situation worrying.

But fortunately, he passed a "Grand Master" (a fictional project) with a box office of more than 8000 million US dollars, and the DVD sales of the movie are very good, so he can barely gain a foothold in Hollywood.

Before that, he took a fancy to a project called [Universal Pursuit Order], but he just started to inquire about the news, and was told that the project had already fallen into the hands of Zhang Nan's Wu Jin, and Zhang Nan personally sent it to the producer. Ramon talked.

Now he has taken a fancy to another film project called "Kiss of the Dragon", and the producer is still the well-known director Luc Besson.

"If there are no other factors, Zhang Nan should help me, but you also know that there is another artist under his banner, Zhou Jie, who has no film appointments recently, and Zhang Nan and I just had a premiere before. Sitting together and chatting a few more words..."

Li Lianlian didn't speak clearly, but the meaning was obvious.

The agent also nodded slowly when he heard the words, but in the end he hesitated for a moment, and continued to say: "Give it a try! You have been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and you should know that many opportunities are created by spelling out, and others will not take it." The food is delivered to your mouth.

Anyway, there is nothing to lose if you fail, maybe this call for help can deepen your impression with Director Zhang, maybe if you are lucky that day, you will be able to send an invitation for a film appointment. "

Li Lianlian nodded when he heard the words, and then dialed Zhang Nan's phone number.

That's why Zhang Nan made this phone call with Li Lianlian when Zhang Yimou was talking with Zhang Weiping.
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The screen and time shifted to the side where Zhang Weiping, Zhang Yimou, and Zhao Benshan were meeting.

After understanding Li Lianlian's intentions over the phone.

Zhang Nan recalled the situation of "Dragon's Kiss" in Li Lianjie's mouth.

This is a project to support French domestic directors under the influence of French film and television giants after Luc Besson successfully landed in Hollywood and became the leading French director.

This point can be clearly seen from the fact that the director Chris Nahan is French, Luc Besson acts as the producer, and the production is co-produced by [-]th Century Fox and the French film and television giants.

It's a pity that this Chris Nahan was not cultivated.

It's not that this [Dragon's Kiss] failed.

On the contrary, the film project [Dragon's Kiss] is quite good.

With a production fee of 2500 million U.S. dollars, it won a box office of 3684.5 million U.S. dollars in North America and a box office of 6443.7 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

The box office results alone let the movie pay back and make a small profit.

More importantly, the disc income of "Dragon's Kiss" is terrifying, reaching as much as 1.1 million US dollars.

In addition to making Twentieth Century Fox and the French film and television giants a fortune, it also made Li Lianhe completely famous in Hollywood.

It's just that in the career of this French director named Chris Nahan, there is only such a well-known film work.

Therefore, this movie project with average box office, and its surroundings all depended on Li Lianlian's personal style. Zhang Nan knew about it, but he didn't intend to help Wu Jin and Zhou Jie cut it off.

Now that Li Lianlian is calling and wants to help him get a film contract from Luc Besson himself, Zhang Nan is naturally happy to push the boat along.

"It's no problem. Based on my relationship with Lao Lu, it's just a casual mention."

Zhang Nan agreed generously, and Li Lian, who was still a little apprehensive and hopeless on the phone, was pleasantly surprised.

"Thank you so much, Director Zhang." Li Lianlian wanted to say more words of thanks, but because of excitement, he just said this dryly for a while.

Seeing this, Zhang Nan waved his hands indifferently in front of Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou, and then said to Li Lianlian on the phone, "It would be too far-fetched to say thank you, but..."

It's not good for Zhang Nan to directly recommend [Hero] to Li Lianlian, so he didn't finish his sentence.

After all, "Hero", with a production cost of tens of thousands of dollars, is indeed a big production in the mainland, but it is not even considered a medium-sized production in Hollywood, and it cannot be considered top-notch in a small-scale production.

Pushing [Hero] directly to Li Lianlian is a bit overwhelming, and it means to repay the favor just now.

So Zhang Nan paused, changed his mind, and continued: "I don't know...Brother Lianhe, you are grateful for Brother Chenglong's dual-drive development model with one foot in Hollywood and the other in the Mainland." Not interested?"

When calling Li Lianlian "Brother Lianlian", Zhang Nan was a bit slow. After all, with Zhang Nan's current status, it really has been a long time since he called Lianlian brother.

Because few people can or dare to let Zhang Nan call his brother.

Even Han Sanpin and Zhu Guang, the two bigwigs in the mainland film and television industry, after meeting Zhang Nan, dared not call Zhang Nan Xiao Zhang brother, but at the same time asked Zhang Nan to call their job titles: President Han and Director Zhu up.

There was only one Chenglong, nicknamed Big Brother, and Zhang Nan also called Shunzui, so he kept calling Chenglong Big Brother.

But Li Lian here, firstly, has no job, secondly, he is older and more experienced than Zhang Nan, and thirdly, he is a brother of Chenglong.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Nan finally called Qi Qi to contact him.

After all, it's not respectful to call someone by their first name.

Besides, he helped Wu Jin cut off the resources of [Fatal Romeo] and [Universal Pursuit] from others, and made a lot of money by the way, calling Brother Lian, Zhang Nan thought it was acceptable.

After hearing Zhang Nan's title of Lian Lian's elder brother, Li Lian Lian, who had gained face, felt at ease in his heart.

Li Lianlian also became more interested in Chenglong's dual-drive development model in Zhang Nan's words, and thought about it for a while.

After landing in Hollywood at the beginning, Li Lianlian looked down upon the Asian film and television industry.

But after several years of tempering, Li Lianhe suddenly discovered that Chenglong's model is really stable.

If you fail once, you can return to Asia to accumulate strength and hit Hollywood again.

So for a while, Li Lianlian didn't do well in Hollywood, and he thought about returning to Asia for development.

But in the end, it was rejected by self-esteem and reality.

After all, he can accept such things as returning to his hometown in good clothes, but returning to his hometown in desperation is somewhat unacceptable.

Moreover, he left Asia in a hurry. In the past few years in Hollywood, his relationship with Asia has weakened a lot, and it is not easy to return.

Now that Zhang Nan raised such a topic so suddenly, Li Lianlian thought for a while and replied with interest: "Of course I am very interested, but I have never had any chance."

After hearing Li Lianlian's words, Zhang Nan took advantage of the opportunity to speak out about the [Hero] project.

Moreover, Zhang Nan also knew that relying on "Hero" alone would not attract Li Lianlian, so he would vigorously release "Hero" in the global film market, and the target was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Lian Lian on the other side of the phone, since he was very interested, he was so itchy to talk about it, it was agreed that when he finishes talking about the [Dragon Kiss] project, he will return to the mainland immediately to negotiate the [Hero] project .

"OK..., good..., um..."

Facing Li Lianlian on the other side of the phone, he kept repeating the onomatopoeia commonly used by mainlanders before hanging up the phone. Zhang Nan reluctantly hung up the phone at last, then turned his head and said to Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou:
"The situation is like this, what do you two mean?"

Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping were there the whole time, so after seeing Zhang Nan's question, they looked at each other.

Zhang Yimou thought for a moment, then nodded slowly.

(End of this chapter)