Chapter 743: The situation of a single family, Nazha’s progress
"Zhou, many people don't understand art. This most romantic love film is viewed with colored glasses just because it contains a trace of eroticism"
Bob deeply agreed with Zhou Yutang's statement and regarded him as a confidant.
There was a bit of regret in his expression: "Including Sam."
——For the producer, this series of projects is like a chicken that lays golden eggs, which must be firmly grasped no matter what.
But for the feather-loving director Sam Taylor-Johnson, for the sake of her reputation in the industry and career development planning, she still declined the invitation for a sequel to the movie.
Even adding money doesn't work.
She didn't agree, but it didn't matter. Hollywood is so big, there are always candidates to take over.
Before Zhou Yutang's overseas trip, Natalie and Zou Zhongyan had already identified suitable candidates in advance.
Director James Frey was nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award in the 1980s.
Later, several movies were released one after another, and they all entered the American drama circle. In recent years, he has directed 12 episodes of the Netflix series "House of Cards", and also participated in some episodes of "Hannibal", "Pine Town" and other dramas. Several directing jobs.
There is no problem with his ability, but he is mainly open-minded.
Black and red are also red.
Including several starring actors in the previous film, they all have a similar attitude. As long as the money is in place, everyone can dedicate themselves to art.
"The production cost of the sequel will be about 20% higher than the previous one."
"That makes sense."
Zhou Yutang thought for a while and made a decision quickly.
Until its release, probably no one thought that "Fifty Shades of Grey" would be a box office hit.
Therefore, the starring role in the previous film was not expensive, and now his mouth is full of oil. Actors who devote themselves to art should also take a sip of the broth.
This time, the sequels "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed" will be filmed in a back-to-back manner.
Bob is experienced and with him as the chief producer, Zhou Yutang is relieved.
In fact, many things have been decided before this meeting, but now they need to be signed and sealed by the BOSS for confirmation.
When the project was launched, everyone was in a good mood.
Zhou Yutang is the manipulator behind the scenes, while Old Bob uses his connections to pave the way, accounting for the second largest share.
Everyone carries sacks of dollars together.
Interests make the cooperation between the two more stable and reliable.
After the serious talk, we started chatting.
After taking the Cuban cigar from Bob, Zhou Yutang sank into the sofa chair and placed his legs casually under the coffee table, resting on the leather footstool.
Speaking of "Captain America 3" director Joe Russo, he took Captain America, the Winter Soldier and others to heaven and began to promote the movie.
Zhou Yutang smiled.
Nowadays, Hollywood attaches great importance to the Tianchao ticket warehouse.
The topic then turned to "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Old Bob laughed and revealed a lot of Warner's inside story.
The cost of bvs is about 260 million, plus 150 million for publicity, the total cost is 410 million US dollars.
In the end, the box office in mainland China was only 618 million, the box office in North America was only 330 million, and the global box office was 870 million US dollars.
Hollywood movie projects, as well as other miscellaneous subsequent income.
I definitely made some money, but not a lot.
——Looking back at Marvel, which is making a lot of money next door, Warner, who has high hopes for this project, is almost at a loss.
Since the project failed, someone must be responsible.
"Zhou, you don't know, we have had several quarrels in internal meetings and almost started fighting."
"Later, internal adjustments were made, and now it has been tentatively agreed that Geoff Johns and Jon Berg will jointly head a new department dedicated to DC movies"
Old Bob seriously suggested: "Zhou, from the perspective of a friend, I think you should consider taking over Warner's DC Universe superhero blockbuster. Now is the best opportunity"
With his connections and information channels, it is not difficult to know Warner's plans.
The director who succeeded Nolan seems to be unable to carry the entire DC universe, so he cannot put all his eggs in this basket.
Finding another way out is the right way.
There are many capable directors in Hollywood, but there are not many directors with Zhou Yutang's ability.
Not to mention that he dominates the Chinese entertainment industry with one hand, even in Hollywood, he also controls the wind and rain.
No matter what project he handles, he never fails.
There is no more suitable candidate than Zhou Yutang.
Warner not only paid three visits to Jiangdong, but even sent senior executives from the film and television department to fly directly to China to negotiate terms, fill the pie, and promise huge profits.
Zhou Yutang dusted off the cigarette ashes and said calmly: "People from Warner, come over tomorrow."
"Wow."
After being stunned for a moment, Bob immediately stood up, his old eyes shining brightly, and he grinned: "Man, congratulations, you are the next Nolan. No, no, you will be better than Nolan." A fucking director.”
After Zhou Yutang said this, Old Bob also understood, and he finally relaxed.
In fact, this operation is just like a goddess fishing for a licking dog.
Pulling it to the extreme range will almost make the licking dog pay the maximum cost.
However, superhero movie projects are obviously ranked second to "Joker" in Zhou Yutang's heart.
Zhou Yutang spat out a mouthful of white mist: "I still have projects to do. Joaquin has reserved a schedule and started preparing for "Joker". Even if we negotiate tomorrow, we will have to wait until next year."
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Bob shrugged noncommittally.
Bob sometimes felt helpless towards his amazingly talented partner.
His taste is very special.
Be it women or film and television projects.
There were quite a few blond and blue-eyed beauties who threw themselves into their arms, but Zhou Yutang didn't even bother to take a look. Instead, he fell in love with an ordinary girl like Gulinazha.
Although in terms of appearance, Naza is very convincing, but with such a thin figure, Old Bob feels that it is a bit uninteresting.
The selection of film and television projects also has its own unique features.
For example, the current version of the superhero movie "Answer" is not as ranked in his heart as "Joker", a low-key literary film.
From copyright to casting, which lasted for several years, Zhou Yutang invested a lot of effort.
Bob didn't understand it very well, but geniuses can always enjoy many privileges.
Especially Bob, the genius who has led New Line to greatness again, and Bob, who has matured with age, raised his hands and feet to support it.
""Beijing Meets Seattle: Love Letter" grossed 120 million at the box office on its first day, a dark horse at the box office continuing to write the legend of Northern Ireland!"
"The movie "Master Xuanzang" starring Huang Xiaoming, Xu Zheng and others only reported a box office of 4.856 million on the first day, with no hope of recouping the money!"
"The movie "Dream Partner" starring Yao Chen, Wen Yongshan, Hao Lei, Aaron Kwok and others grossed 17.29 million at the box office on its first day!"
"The thriller "The Phantom of the Devil," starring Ruby Lin and Simon Yam, grossed 14.7 million at the box office on its first day."
The box office results of several domestic films released on May Day have been released, and with them comes the first wave of feedback from viewers.
Since the premiere in Beijing, Teacher Fan has gone to the Magic City with the creative team such as Xue Xiaolu and Pan Yueming. Subsequently, Hangzhou, Jinling and other stations have already scheduled first-tier cities in advance for roadshow promotion. Zhou Yutang is abroad and also received the first-day box office data forwarded by Teacher Fan happily.
He was pleased with the result.
Again, it all depends on the opponent's foil.
What many in the industry had looked forward to before, but the result was shocking was "Master Xuanzang" with an investment of over 100 million, which raised a white flag at the beginning.
Huang Xiaoming and Xu Guangtou actually had no box office appeal and were reduced to cannon fodder.
This year's May 1st broadcast, "Beijing Meets Seattle: Love Letter" is the dominant one.
"Beijing Meets Seattle 2" is definitely not a classic, and has more or less problems, but at least the film quality and reputation are better than those of its competitors in the same period.
That's enough.
The entire "Beijing Meets Seattle" series will undoubtedly be the masterpiece of Mr. Fan's acting career.
It is also Pan Yueming's turnaround after a hiatus, which is beneficial to the promotion of his next project "White Night".
It is also a solid achievement for Xue Xiaolu to become the number one female director in China.
"Have you noticed that all the directors who have worked with Zhou Yutang seem to have taken off."
Such a hot post suddenly appeared on the Internet, and the industry noticed that Teacher Xue Xiaolu, who usually taught in a low-key school, had a terrible record of cooperation with Zhou Yutang.
He has collaborated with Zhou Yutang on the "Thirty-three Days of Love", "Introduction to Architecture", and "Beijing Meets Seattle" series, all of which are hits
The most frightening thing is that Mr. Xue specializes in romance films. The investment cost of each film is not large, but the box office revenue can be at least twenty times more!
Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements. This sentence is very suitable for Teacher Xue.
Many directors in the industry are envious of their separation, including Xu Cainv, the princess of the Beijing circle and one of the four major beauties.
Xu Cainv is also angry.
As one of the top four actresses, she has a clear career plan.
From the beginning, she transformed from an actor to a director, and she has always coveted the position of the first female director in the industry.
However, in terms of business performance, it is a few blocks behind Xue Xiaolu.
In today's film and television industry, everything is about money.
How did Xue Xiaolu do it?
Zhou Yutang gave two projects, "Thirty-three Days of Love" and "Introduction to Architecture". Haofeng helped her rise to the top with her strength.
Then came the "Beijing Meets Seattle" series written and directed by Xue Xiaolu, which truly rose to prominence.
Xu Jinglei's mind is not ordinary. She thinks that if she gets the Jiangdong film and television project, she may not do worse than Xue Xiaolu!
Suddenly, I received a message of goodwill from Xu Cainv. Although there was no mention of cooperation, Zhou Yutang, who is a master of the city, could vaguely guess what she was thinking, but he just dealt with it hastily.
With a beauty like Nazha in front of him, how could Governor Zhou care about the talented woman Xu?
"Brother, do you think I look good in this outfit?"
She was wearing a dark brown suit skirt, wrapped around Naza's slim body, with a white shirt underneath.
In addition to being dignified and generous, it is even more bright and beautiful.
Coupled with the fact that she was holding her hands behind her back and swaying her body in a deliberately coquettish manner, she could completely empty the human blood tank.
In this movie, Nazha plays the role of a Chinese female scientist, and this is one of her several looks in the movie.
Zhou Yutang, who was originally sent into the Sage Time by Teacher Fan's ultimate move, suddenly felt that the cooldown time was almost up and whispered a few words in Naza's ear.
Nazha stretched out her hand coquettishly, pretending to hit him.
Everyone else in the crew just pretended they didn't see the flirting and just went about their own business.
——Everyone knows what’s going on with the woman the big boss wants to favor.
"Hey Zhou, Mud Howl."
Guo Da Statham is also an old man, and he came up to say hello speaking Chinese that emphasizes the weirdness.
"You speak Chinese well."
Zhou Yutang smiled and shook hands with Guo Da Statham.
In my impression, Guo Da Statham has always been a cool tough guy, but in reality, he is quite easy to get along with.
At least I didn't put on any airs when filming a scene opposite Nazha, but it helped her a lot.
When the big boss comes to visit the cast, coffee, milk tea and the like are naturally indispensable. Ni Ni has prepared them in advance, and now takes Xiao Chen to arrange and distribute them with the crew.
After comforting Naza for a while, Zhou Yutang began to inspect the crew.
The script of this movie was revised several times.
The first is to merge many characters from the original work, and then change a little of the story line.
For example, the country in the original story is Neon, but since it is a Sino-US co-production, the place where the story takes place is naturally changed to China.
After completing the current filming in New Zealand, the crew will transfer to Sanya, China.
Many scenic spots in Sanya, including Tianya Haijiao and Dadonghai, will appear in the movie.
"Mr. Zhou, in order to make this shark more realistic, we have added more gills. Look here."
Kong Sheng’s daughter was also on the set. She excitedly took Zhou Yutang to check the work results and explained with gestures: “Here, wounds and scratches are also added to the shark’s skin. In terms of dynamic design, it is based on various A behavioral model developed based on the biomechanical principles of species of shark"
It can be seen that she has learned a lot from working with the world's top special effects team.
Zhou Yutang gave a few words of encouragement, then turned to exchange various details with director Joe Deterduba.
Except for the huge mouth that can fit four or five people into it, and the huge shark head model that can almost look real.
In order to truly restore the underwater scene, the crew prepared two large water tanks about 56 meters long and 40 meters wide, with a maximum depth of 3 meters.
Barry Osborne, the producer of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Great Gatsby" proudly stated that it would take a full six days to fill the water tank.
Chen Xi's report clearly stated that the crew spent a lot of money on this facility.
In order to ensure the comfort and safety of the actors, the water in the water tank is basically overheated. Just heating the water temperature costs more than 5,000 US dollars a day.
Money is a trivial matter.
An investment of 150 million is enough to burn it.
It's mainly the actors who suffer.
Zhou Yutang had a deep understanding after attending the event in person.
Because many scenes were shot underwater, it was very troublesome to schedule lighting and move cameras.
Moreover, communication between the director and the actors is also a problem.
Every time a scene is finished, the actors always surface, listen to the director pass on the specific requirements, and then continue shooting in the water.
Repeat this until passed.
Today’s schedule is for underwater filming.
Even a tough guy like Guo Da Statham couldn't stand it, but Naza gritted her teeth and held on.
As hard-hearted as Zhou Yutang, looking at Naza in the camera like a mermaid swimming through the water, I couldn't help but feel a little pity in my heart.
Nazha doesn't rely entirely on her looks, she only acts coquettishly and invites favors.
Her professional abilities have also improved a lot.
ps: If you have a cold, dizziness, and sore throat, please take care of yourself.
(End of chapter)