Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 215 Resources
"Prime Minister Cao's happiness is indeed wonderful!"

In the luxurious European-style decorated bedroom, Wayne looked at Catherine sleeping soundly on the messy big bed, and couldn't help but sigh and shook his head.

At this moment, Hannah, wearing only a piece of underwear and barefoot, walked in with a thick stack of documents.

"Hey, the Hua Branch has sent us another script. I really don't understand. Do you have to review these in person?"

After hearing this, Wayne took over the script and explained with a smile: "Although most Hollywood centers on directors or producers as the center of the crew, in my opinion, movies are the same as TV series, a good story is their soul. "

After hearing this, Hannah shrugged and did not continue to complain. She lifted the quilt and got in.

Wayne also opened the script and read the contents of the script while enjoying Hannah's service.

Although his main focus is still on Hollywood, he has not relaxed on China's Lighthouse Entertainment.

In terms of TV dramas, in addition to investing in it, we directly replaced all the female characters in the "Wind and Cloud" crew with our own actors, and also replaced "Bu Jingyun", "Qin Shuang" and "Duan Lang" with Nicholas Tse and Du Chun respectively. In addition to Weibo and Zhou Wei, "The Invincible County Magistrate", which was originally going to star Su Youpeng and Wang Yan, had good word-of-mouth ratings and ratings.

Of course, the leading actor this time is obviously not Su Youpeng.

After thinking about it for a while, Wayne directly changed the male lead to Zha Zhahui, but he did not change the female lead Wang Yan.

As for movies, four scripts have been finalized, two police dramas and two costume comedies.

Among them are "Xin Zha Junior Sister" and "Hedong Lion's Roar", which both received good ratings and box office.

Of course, there is nothing to say about "The Roar of the East". The male lead must be Gu Zai, and the female lead, Zhang Baizhi, does not need to be changed either. Just replace the second female lead played by Fan Bingbing with Li Bingbing.

On the other hand, in "Xin Zha Junior Sister", the original male and female protagonists, Daniel Wu and Yang Qianhua, are not from Lighthouse Entertainment, so at least one of them must be replaced.

In the end, Wayne chose to replace the heroine Yang Qianhua, and chose Tang Wei, who had already completed the filming of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", to play the heroine of this movie.

In addition, Beacon Entertainment also used Wang Jing and Huo Wenxi's personal connections to successfully obtain half of the investment share of "Infernal Affairs".

Of course, there must be nothing actionable among the male characters in this movie, so he just replaced Liu Jianming’s girlfriend, a female psychotherapist, and Chen Yongren’s ex-girlfriend. These three female characters were replaced by Gao Yuanyuan and Gao Yuanyuan respectively. Li Bingbing and Zhang Baizhi.

Although in terms of drama, these three characters may not even be as good as several supporting actors.

But after all, this is a large-scale production starring Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Eric Tsang, with an investment of tens of millions, and the leading actress, second female lead, and third female lead are still very good.

Generally speaking, the development of Lighthouse Entertainment is relatively smooth.

The only point of dissatisfaction is that the filming progress of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is relatively slow.

It has been almost four months since the filming started at the end of August until now in early December, and only a little more than half of the filming has been completed.

Although he knew that the shooting speed of large-scale domestic costume martial arts dramas of this period was indeed so slow, he still couldn't help but want to complain.

This would have to be done in Hong Kong or Hollywood. The same number of shots could be shot in one and a half months, and the quality won't be any worse.

This is the efficiency of the film industry.

"If the script doesn't work, I'll send it back and rewrite it."

Wayne quickly read the script, then threw it aside and started fighting with Hannah. "How about helping domestic entertainment to speed up its transformation into the film industry?" Afterwards, Wayne lit a cigar, looked at the silver-clad scenery outside the large floor-to-ceiling window, and began to think.

There are advantages and disadvantages to the industrialization of film. The advantages are basically that it is more efficient and the level of sophistication will be greatly improved.

The disadvantage is that homogeneity will be more serious.

Of course, purely from the perspective of investment income, this will definitely bring a lot of profits. If he remembered correctly, Hengdian integrated all film and television shooting bases, star hotels, and film and television shooting and tourism reception this year. More than 20 companies related to services have established Hengdian Group ZJ Film and Television Tourism Co., Ltd.

But after thinking about it, Wayne gave up the idea.

After all, he doesn't know what will happen to domestic entertainment in the future after the film and television industry is industrialized. With his current strength, he may not be able to have the same influence on domestic entertainment as Hollywood.

The situation in China is also different from that in America.

"The film and television base that was built earlier should be almost completed, right?"

After checking the time, Wayne called Li Ying directly and asked about the construction progress of the film and television base.

"Yes, boss, because of the Christmas holiday, our company's film and television base is expected to be completed on January 1 next year."

"What about Wayne Tower and my private estate?"

"Boss, your private estate is scheduled to be completed on February 2th next year. The Wayne Tower is a little slower and will probably not be completed until mid-April."

Wayne nodded, then asked about other projects, and then hung up the phone.

Among them, companies such as Nvidia and Google have seen their development progress improve to varying degrees as he invested capital and pointed out the general direction of research.

There is also Netflix. After becoming the largest shareholder, Wayne also guided Netflix, which was still involved in the video rental business, in the direction of a video website.

In addition, Blizzard, which he is very optimistic about, has initially reached an acquisition intention with Vivendi after several months of trial and negotiation.

Although the purchase price of [-] million US dollars may not be the lowest point, it is already very satisfactory to him.

Of course, what he values ​​most is the acquisition of military security companies.

After investing nearly 200 million in capital, it has now completed the acquisition and integration of eight small military security companies, forming a private armed force with more than [-] personnel, all of whom are retired elites.

At the same time, he also took a stake in the famous and notorious Blackwater, becoming the second largest shareholder after a retired general of the Ministry of Defense.

Now even if he was asked to go to that hellish place in Paris to film, he still didn't plan to go.

Wouldn’t it be nice to change the location a little and change it to Great Britain, and also be able to visit little Hermione’s class?
As for the beauties in France, after picking the most beautiful roses including Sophie Marceau, he could no longer look down on the others.

Jingle bells.

The phone rang at this moment.

Wayne walked over and picked up the phone. It was Anne Hathaway.

(End of this chapter)