How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 39
After Will Smith visited the set, the filming of the entire [Fifth Element] crew was calm but smooth.

Taking advantage of the two free days in the middle, Zhang Nan also found an opportunity to go to the crew of "Jurassic Park 2", and accepted the invitation that Spielberg had promised to be a guest star.

Although the box office of [Jurassic Park 2] is not as strong as that of [Jurassic Park 1], only 6.18 million US dollars, but it is quite good in this era, half of which is 3.09 million box office appeal.

During the cameo appearance, Spielberg was persistent and urged Zhang Nan to cooperate with the DreamWorks he founded.

He also drew a big picture for Zhang Nan: to establish a film and television company that can make movies according to the director's discretion, and is no longer restricted by the eight major Hollywood groups.

For other directors, this pie may be extremely attractive.

But for Zhang Nan, who knew that DreamWorks ended in failure, there was no temptation.

However, although Zhang Nan didn't want to agree, he didn't refuse immediately. He just delayed making a decision, showing an ambiguous attitude.

There is no way, although DreamWorks will fail in the end, but DreamWorks is still very fierce at this time.

As one of the three founders of DreamWorks, Spielberg is only 50 years old this year. It is a time when a director is full of energy. In the future, there will be more and more excellent works. Zhang Nan still wants to continue to grab the box office. It would be too hurt to directly refuse. Feelings gone.

Fortunately, Zhang Nan's weight in Spielberg's eyes is still not light.

Seeing that Zhang Nan's attitude was hesitant, Spielberg didn't pursue and fight hard, but just asked Zhang Nan to think carefully, think carefully, and give him an answer after he has figured it out.
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In the waiting room of the airport, Zhang Nan looked at Luc Besson beside him, his mind was full of black lines.

[The Fifth Element] With the help of his assistant director, the shooting progressed very smoothly, so it was more than a month ahead of schedule, and the filming was completed in early September.

And Wu Baige's [Face Changing] will start up in October, and everything has been scheduled, so it's not easy to advance, which creates a gap.

Originally, Zhang Nan planned to take advantage of this time to take a good rest.

After all, counting from last year, he has been busy for almost a year.

But for Disney, it may be that he has collaborated twice with Columbia on [Men in Black] and [The Fifth Element].

Another guest star in 2th Century Fox's "Titanic", another guest star in Universal's "Jurassic Park [-]", and Wu Baige's "Face Changing", which is going to cooperate with Paramount, I feel a little unbalanced.

In other words, Disney was afraid that Zhang Nan would be drawn over by these companies.

As the producer of Zhang Nan's first film, Disney, who has a keen eye for stars, is a little embarrassed-how can he hang out in Hollywood even if he can't win over his family.

Disney assigned the task of handing Zhang Nan over to Vice President Robert Watt.

Robert Watt was not familiar with Zhang Nan, so he had to talk to his brother-in-law, Old Luke.

The attitude is the same as that of the village head in the [Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow] skit, urging Aunt Baiyun to release [Confinement 2].

It's just that it's not: don't tell your wife to leave somewhere, the toilet in the village is almost out of paper.

But:

Old Luke, how did you become an agent? You and Zhang Nanke are both members of our Disney. The dubbing department's manager and voice actors' establishment, the company can still keep it for you, and the social security has not stopped.

Why do you always ask Zhang Nan to take on outside plays? We Disney doesn’t have any plays to take on... Well, our head office really likes to make paper people, and there are no live-action movie projects, but you can’t think about it Is there a way?
Old Luke had no choice but to tell Zhang Nan about the situation.

Zhang Nan had no choice but to hold back his smile, so as to help Disney release the next two animated films: [101 Real Dog] and [The Hunchback of Notre Dame] as dubbing to dispel Disney's dissatisfaction.

These two films can be regarded as the last few classics of the era of Disney's hand-painted animation films.

Although the style of painting is a bit old-fashioned in Zhang Nan's opinion, the box office of these two films is not low due to the viewing conditions of the family carnival and Disney's accumulated reputation over the years.

The former [101 Real Dogs] earned 2.15 million US dollars worldwide, and the latter [The Hunchback of Notre Dame] had a higher box office than the former, earning 3.25 million US dollars worldwide.

Both films landed in the top ten of the annual box office list in 1996.

Zhang Nan is really happy about the box office appeal of 2.9 million U.S. dollars in vain.

So even for Disney, let him take advantage of the gap between [Fifth Element] and [Face Changing] to quickly start the preliminary preparations for [Beijing Wuguan 2], so that Zhang Nan has less time to rest, Zhang Nan He also accepted it frankly.

Since it is preparing for [Jingcheng Wuguan 2], it is natural to go back to China to prepare.

As a result, Zhang Nan met Luc Besson who was also going back to France, and this scene appeared.

The old guy enthusiastically insisted on taking a plane with Zhang Nan, and the two had just cooperated, and they had to do publicity together before the film was released in the future, so Zhang Nan had no choice but to use Luc Besson and choose a plane to go to China via France. route aircraft.

As a result, during the transfer, Luc Besson kept holding his hand and was about to delay the plane.

"Director, don't send it off. If you send it off again, you will be in Huaguo Magic City. I have to take you back." Zhang Nan saw that the boarding time was coming soon, but Luc Besson still pestered him and couldn't help it. reminded.

After hearing this, Luc Besson looked at the time and found that it was indeed a long time since he and Zhang Nan got off the plane in France.

And under his persuasion, Zhang Nan didn't have the idea of ​​staying in France for a while to visit Paris, so he reluctantly asked for the last time: "Zhang, you really don't want to visit Paris, the beauty of France They are very enthusiastic, you are such a great guy who knows kung fu, they absolutely love it."

Depend on!
Temptation cannot be changed by force.

Luc Besson, you understand human nature, no wonder you can make a name for yourself in art films.

The key point is - Luc Besson's status in France is basically the same as Zhang Guoshi's status in China.

So at this time, Luc Besson must know Sophie Marceau, a famous French actress, then...

Zhang Nan nodded almost under the influence of his lower body. After all, Sophie Marceau is known as the French rose, and now Sophie Marceau is just 30 years old, which is exactly the age she is familiar with.

"No, no, my schedule is quite tight." Zhang Nan waved his hand quickly.

Finally—Luc Besson failed to invite, and left with some regrets.

Zhang Nan... also left with regret.
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Magic City Airport.

The plane landed steadily on the runway.

Although Zhang Nan returned to China with the work of preparing the crew.

But Zhang Nan, who hasn't been reunited with his parents for a while, still plans to get off the plane in Shanghai—his parents are both running small businesses in Shanghai.

As a result, Zhang Nan didn't expect that when he got off the plane and walked to the gate of the airport, he saw a bunch of reporters carrying 'long guns and short cannons'.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm from Shanghai Daily. Are you returning to China this time to prepare for a new film? When you landed in Shanghai, do you plan to shoot a new film in Shanghai? Will you audition actors this time like last time? "

"Mr. Zhang, I'm from the Entertainment Daily. [Jingcheng Wuguan] has sold well at the global box office. How do you feel?"

"Mr. Zhang, I am..."

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