Chris is a person who is very good at interpersonal relationships. When he comes to Zhou Yan's studio on a rare occasion, he smiles and says hello to everyone he sees. He also gets to know Liu Hang, the manager of the studio.
When he learned that Liu Hang was the head of the studio, Chris was very enthusiastic and chatted with Liu Hang for a long time.
After dinner, Chris, accompanied by Liu Hang, visited both studios. Zhou Yan did not accompany him, but returned to his office.
Zhou Yan just told Chris that he was going to the United States because he had promised Bregman to attend the celebration party for "The Sixth Sense".
As I said before, as long as "The Sixth Sense" reaches the North American box office, Zhou Yan will go to the United States to attend their celebration banquet. Now he has exceeded the task.
The celebration party will be next month, and Zhou Yan will go there to meet James Cameron.
Although Zhou Yan took over the soundtrack of "Titanic", he has not yet received the script of the movie. James Cameron does not want to show Zhou Yan the entire script now.
James Cameron is not targeting Zhou Yan. In fact, most of the actors who participated in "Titanic" did not receive the entire script.
From this point, we can see the characteristics of James Cameron as a director. He does not seem to require actors to have much freedom.
From an actor's perspective, if you want to make a good movie, of course you hope to get the entire script as early as possible, and then study it in advance to understand your role and storyline thoroughly.
The setting of the character is holistic. If you don't know all the stories, then there may be something missing when shaping the character.
But some directors are always willing to give actors only part of the script, or even not the script, only a story outline and character settings.
Before shooting a certain scene, give the actors the lines and let them get familiar with them before acting.
In this case, it is difficult for the actors to express their own performance. They can only follow the director's instructions and act however the director asks.
This has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the director can control everything. All he needs are tool people. As long as these tool people can complete the tasks assigned by him well, the director makes the actors laugh during filming. The actors just laugh, the director makes the actors cry, and the actors cry.
The actors don't even need to know why they cry or laugh.
In this way, what the director envisioned can be well accomplished.
The disadvantage is that the quality of a movie depends entirely on the director's level. If the director cannot do a good job, no matter how good the actor is, there will be no outstanding performance.
Usually only directors who are extremely confident and pursue control will do this.
Compared to James Cameron, Zhou Yan is a hands-off type, and he is willing to let the actors have their own performance.
Even Zhou Yan can accept actors modifying the script. As long as the proposal is good, he can accept it.
When filming "Spring in the Cowherd Class" before, Li Xuejian often gave some suggestions, some of which were adopted by Zhou Yan.
Of course, in Zhou Yan's movies, even if the actors have their own performance, it must be within Zhou Yan's framework.
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After Chris returned from Zhou Yan's studio, it was almost time to go to work in the United States. He waited for a while and then called the headquarters to send "Confinement" Island” was reported to CEO Terry Semel.
Although Warner's office in China is not large, Chris will report directly to Terry Semel on any important matters.
Chris has a good relationship with Terry Semel. A few years ago, Chris joined Warner and followed Terry Semel.
Furthermore, Warner also attached great importance to matters in China during this period, so Terry Semel would always ask questions about matters in China, especially those related to Zhou Yan.
The remake rights of "The Sixth Sense" were not obtained before, and the company already had some bad voices. No one expected that the box office of "The Sixth Sense" would be so good. Many people think that if At that time, they were able to act decisively and increase their leverage to seize the rights to remake "The Sixth Sense" from Columbia. The box office profits belonged to their company.
The profit of this movie is equivalent to ten ordinary movies. Even if the Warner family has a big business, they can't help but take it seriously.
On the phone, Chris praised "Shutter Island" extremely highly, hoping to get the headquarters to take it seriously.
His praise also worked. Terry Semel gave him an order, "Since we contacted Y first this time, we must not let Columbia snatch the script away. You We must do everything we can to stabilize Y. Didn't Y say he was coming to the United States? You will come with him when the time comes."
"Okay, I understand. I will keep an eye on this matter. "
"Well, you also need to find out clearly who Y wants to direct this movie. If the script is as good as you said, then it is worth hiring the director he wants. "
"I will try my best to inquire, but...if he wants a director like Spielberg, we may not be able to satisfy him."
Spielberg has broken away from the category of ordinary directors. Even if they are Warner, they can't just pull Spielberg over.
“Don’t make things so difficult. Maybe the director he wants is not difficult to find. And even Spielberg can be impressed by a good script. In short, we must first understand his Demand. Of course, you can also ask his opinion to see if he is willing to direct it himself.”
Although Chris agreed, he clearly knew that he would not be willing to direct it himself. It is almost impossible for Zhou Yan to go to the United States to make a movie. It will take too long and Zhou Yan will not agree.
During dinner today, he also tentatively mentioned this topic, but the leading actor's attitude was very firm.
Zhou Yan probably has no plans to go to Hollywood to make a movie in the short term.
Being able to write original scripts for Hollywood is already a big step forward for Zhou Yan.
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Early in the morning on May 25th, Zhou Yan got two pieces of good news, both related to "Spring of the Cowherd Class".
One is that the Neon ration revenue of "Cowherder's Spring" exceeded 1.3 billion Neon coins. Although this result is not as good as Zhou Yan's first two movies, it is definitely not bad. This once proved Zhou Yan’s box office appeal in Neon.
The other is that the movie was a big hit at the box office in France. The number of moviegoers in the first three days reached 260,000. This result has already surpassed Olivier's remake of "The Flying Piano Boy" at the time.
At that time, the final score of "The Flying Piano Boy" in France was more than 2.2 million viewers. If "Springtime of the Cowherd Class" performs stably this time, it should eventually exceed two million viewers. With millions of moviegoers watching, let’s see if it can surpass “The Flying Piano Boy”.
If the number of moviegoers exceeds two million, then "Springtime of the Cowherd" is likely to complete a record, that is, becoming the first Chinese-language film to break into the top ten of the French film box office rankings .
Normally, if the number of movie viewers exceeds two million, it is very likely to be ranked in the top ten.
If Neon is the country in Asia that has the most favorable impression of Zhou Yan besides China, then France should be the country in Europe that has the most favorable impression of Zhou Yan.
In Europe, several of Zhou Yan's music albums are also the best-selling, and because of the remake of "The Flying Piano Boy", many French movie fans also know that Zhou Yan is a director.
Although "Springtime of the Cowherd" is a Chinese-language film, it is very in line with the tastes of French movie fans. In addition, the film won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, which is why it achieved such good results.
Compared with the movie box office, "Springtime of the Cowherd" has a better reputation among the audience. France TV 2 made a survey report. They randomly interviewed 187 people at the entrance of the cinema. Audiences who had watched the movie were asked to rate the movie from one to five, and the final score was a super high score of 4.9.
This is also the highest score ever received by Radio 2 since it launched this activity.
In the past six years, Channel 2 has conducted interviews for more than 300 movies. Except for "Spring of the Cowherd Class", only one movie received a high score of 4.9, and that was the year before last "The Killer Isn't Too Cold" is released.
It can be seen that French audiences really like this movie very much.
You know, this is a Chinese movie.
Of course, high ratings do not necessarily mean high box office. Although "The Killer Is Not Too Cold" received very high ratings back then, it only ranked second on the box office list, far behind the comedy film "The Killer" "Urban Outsiders", the number of moviegoers was even only half of the latter.
Usually, the movies that can get high box office in France are comedies.
The top four in last year's list were all comedy movies. Although the reviews of these four movies were average, movie fans were willing to spend money to go to the cinema and have a laugh.
To be honest, the box office of "Spring of the Cowherd Class" has completely exceeded Zhou Yan's expectations. He had previously thought that he would be completely satisfied if the movie could get a box office of 80 to 90 million yuan worldwide.
But now this goal has been exceeded.
Anyway, Zhou Yan was in a very good mood after hearing these two pieces of good news early in the morning.
Zhou Yan hummed a little tune and went to change the tea leaves. As soon as he went back and sat down, the phone on his desk rang again. He answered the phone with a smile, "Hello."
Liu Lin's gloomy voice came from the other end of the phone, "Zhou Yan, does Liang Maochun's matter have anything to do with you?"
"Liang Maochun?" Zhou Yan was confused by Liu Lin's question, "He What's wrong? "
Hearing Zhou Yan's reaction, Liu Lin was stunned for a moment, because he felt that Zhou Yan's reaction did not seem to be fake, and it seemed that this matter had nothing to do with Zhou Yan.
After pondering for a moment, Liu Lin spoke again, "Liang Maochun was reported."
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, "What was he reported for?"
Although I don't know what Liang Maochun was reported to, but from Liu Lin's voice, it should be no small matter.
Liu Lin took a deep breath, "Liang Maochun was reported to have accepted bribes and engaged in sexual relations between men and women."
Hearing Liu Lin's words, Zhou Yan was even more surprised, "Accepting bribes , messing around with men and women?”
Liang Maochun’s image has always been very good. Students rated him as highly respected and amiable, and they have never heard of any rumors about his life style. .
Furthermore, Liang Maochun is just an ordinary professor and has no real power in his department. He doesn't even have as many opportunities to accept bribes as Zhou Yan.
Of course, no one dared to bribe Zhou Yan. After all, everyone in the school knew that Zhou Yan was extremely rich. People were afraid that Zhou Yan would not look down on a small bribe. As for a big bribe, who could afford it?
"Who are you having sex with? Is it from our school? A teacher or a student?" Zhou Yan asked.
"It's a student from another school."
Hearing that it was from another school, Zhou Yan was slightly relieved. In this way, the situation would not be too serious.
There is a big difference whether the person you are having a relationship with is from your own school or another school.
But at the same time, he was curious about how Liang Maochun got involved with students from other schools.
"Has this matter been determined?"
"It is still under investigation, but what is written in the report materials is basically true."
"Since it is still under investigation, Senior brother, how can you be sure it's true?" Zhou Yan asked doubtfully.
"Because after the incident came out, Liang Maochun took the initiative to call me and surrender. He admitted everything in the report materials." Liu Lin sighed and continued, "Liang Maochun has been responsible for the school many times. For his master's degree admissions work, the people who bribed him were all students who took the admissions examination. They hoped that Liang Maochun could help them pass the examination. One of them was a girl who took the master's degree examination last year. Liang Maochun paid a bribe of 5,000 yuan and took the initiative to have an improper relationship with Liang Maochun. However, the girl did not get admitted to our school as she wished and went to another school.”
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Since this girl was given money and slept with her, but in the end she didn't enter our school, she didn't go to Liang Maochun to trouble her?"
"Why didn't she ask Liang Maochun? Chun returned the 5,000 yuan to her and paid an additional 5,000 yuan for mental damages, but Liang Maochun only paid back the 5,000 yuan he received and did not pay any additional compensation. "
Zhou Yandian. Head, I guess that girl wouldn't dare to make a big deal out of it. After all, after this matter is revealed, it will have a big impact on girls.
“Who reported it?” Zhou Yan asked.
“I don’t know.”
"Anonymous?"
"No, but I can't contact you. Actually... Well, since it has nothing to do with you, it's okay. Now that this incident has happened in the school, I am also very worried, Liang Maochun He is somewhat famous in the academic world. This matter has a big impact. Reporters have blocked the entrance of our school. You should pay attention these two days, maybe this matter will happen to you."
Zhou Yan understood Liu Lin. After all, Liang Maochun just wrote an article and scolded him some time ago, and it didn't take long for something to happen. It's hard not to think that he was involved in this matter.
But Zhou Yan said that he was very unjust because he really didn't know about it. He originally wanted to let Liang Maochun go and deal with him later.
I never thought that before he had time to deal with Liang Maochun, someone would already help clean up, and the noise would be so big.
The knife was so cruel that it hit Liang Maochun's vital part at once.
In fact, when Liu Lin said that he could not reach him, Zhou Yan had a suspicion in his heart that it was probably done by someone he knew.
The first thing he thought of just now was their Zhou family, but he felt that their style of doing things was different.
That’s not to say that the Zhou family wouldn’t use this method, but if it was done by the Zhou family, they would most likely discuss it with him in advance.
No matter whether they are old or young, the Zhou family has a relatively stable style of doing things.
The key point is that Zhou Yan works at Yangyin. Even if Zhou Hong and the others want to deal with Liang Maochun, they will definitely have concerns.
Then Zhou Yan thought of Huo Siqi. This guy was the most likely. Not only did he have this ability, but it was also in line with his style of doing things.
Although he had doubts in his heart, Zhou Yan did not call Huo Siqi for confirmation. No matter who did it, as long as he didn't take the initiative to tell him, he would just pretend he didn't know.
As for Liang Maochun, I can only say that he was unlucky.
I really underestimated Liang Maochun before, and he actually dared to accept bribes and mess around with men and women.
However, this matter did have an impact on Yang Yin.
It’s okay to mess around with men and women. After all, they are not engaging in students from their own school. Instead, they are accepting bribes to interfere with the school’s enrollment. This will have a huge impact.
Although Liang Maochun received the money and did not help others to complete the matter, once suspicion arises, it may be infinitely amplified.
What will the outside world think of Yangyin? Do they think that many students in their school got into the school by accepting bribes?
Especially those students who have not been admitted to Yangyin University must have the idea in their hearts that someone has spent money to occupy the places that should belong to them.
What the school needs to do now is to quickly investigate the matter and make it public to minimize the impact as soon as possible.
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The spread of gossip news exceeded Zhou Yan's imagination. Even in this era of underdeveloped Internet, Liang Maochun's matter broke up in the studio that day.
When Zhou Yan went to eat at noon, he heard several students talking about this matter.
“Professor Liang usually looks sanctimonious, but I never thought he could do such a thing.”
"Knowing people but not their hearts."
"Things are uncertain now, so let's talk less."
"Nothing is certain. I heard that Liang Maochun has surrendered."
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A few students were chatting enthusiastically when they suddenly saw Zhou Yan coming over and stopped immediately. They all knew that Zhou Yan didn't like students spreading gossip.
Zhou Yan glanced at them and said nothing.
It's just that he was quite surprised. He didn't expect that the students were so well-informed and could even know details such as Liang Maochun's surrender.
He only found out about this after hearing Liu Lin talk about it in the morning.
Now it seems that Liang Maochun can no longer survive. The school will definitely not be able to accommodate him, and it will be difficult for him to move forward in the academic world in the future.
Although the academic world may not be very clean, no one wants to be covered in shit.
Regarding Liang Maochun being reported this time, there are many rumors in the school. Some people think that Liang Maochun simply got his comeuppance. Others think that Liang Maochun was reported just after he scolded Zhou Yan. It is too coincidental. Maybe It’s related to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan doesn't care about such rumors, and he is very likely not unjust. (End of this chapter)