At this reception led by Emmerich, Gu Kun's most valuable new friend was a gold medal producer with a bit of Disney branding, Jerry Brockheim.

It was a seemingly unkempt fifty-year-old man with short, curly blonde hair and a blonde beard.

But in fact, the short curly hair and curly beard are all carefully designed, showing that this guy is utilitarian, and he is still very ambitious in terms of personal image, and maybe wants to attract more young women.

Gu Kun likes to deal with snobs rather than artists. Because of snobs, as long as you give him benefits and have the opportunity to get rich and famous together, the other party will cooperate with you.

The reason he's showing up at this party today is because he's worked with Emmerich once or twice before. When Emmerich wants to shoot some "vulgar big scenes", some other producers in the circle have to think about it, but Jerry Brockheim basically thinks that there is a "way to make money" in this matter and is not afraid of dirty hands.

After Emmerich introduced the two to each other, Gu Kun took the initiative to show goodwill: "Mr. Brookheim, fortunately, can I call you Jerry? ”

"Why, my friends call me Jerry, in the words of you Orientals, we can do New Year's Friendship. "Jerry Brockheim is very easy-going.

But the ghost knows that he made friends with Gu Kun because Gu Kun is now a top traffic superstar and is hot.

This person's ability to make money has obviously surpassed Emmerich, who is still a lot younger, after all, he has been in the circle for 20 years, and his career is not bad, and he is now 50 years old.

It's just that he is a gold medal producer, so his public popularity is not as high as those big directors, and only insiders know his resource coordination and organizational skills.

People are vain, and over the years, every time Jerry meets celebrities outside the circle on this kind of social occasion at a drinking party, he is used to the other party booing those big directors and not understanding the importance of gold medal producers, so he doesn't care.

But today, seeing Gu Kun, as a "person in the cultural tourism and sports circles", actually respects him as a producer, no less than those famous directors, and he is also slightly proud.

Gu Kun took advantage of the situation and said: "I watched "Brave Island" starring Cage when I first came to Oceania last month, it was very good, congratulations on the box office hit." I just like this kind of simple and rough big scenes, or always want to make a big news. As for those artists, let them die as far as they want. ”

The "Brave Island" mentioned by Gu Kun was just released two months ago, that is, in June, starring Nicolas Cage, and Jerry was the producer. This film is also one of the box office hits this year, although it can't be compared with Emmerich's "Earth Strikes Back", but it is still possible to stay in the top five and strive for the top three.

When Jerry heard Gu Kun's posture, he felt very uplifted: "Then you are really happy." ”

Gu Kun picked up a glass of champagne and touched a glass: "Yes, I don't love movies, I only love the film industry, and the promotion of the film industry, as long as it can help me achieve my goals, let alone Hollywood, I can cooperate with people in the San Fernando Valley." ”

Jerry: "Shet! This doesn't suit who you are! You're the person who breaks the most world records right now! The fastest swimmer on the planet! Is it really good to say that!"

It's a pity that although he is teaching a lesson in his mouth, his expression betrays him, obviously he thinks that Gu Kun is a person with a true temperament.

The San Fernando Valley mentioned by Gu Kun is also in Los Angeles, not far from Hollywood, and is also a film and television production center.

It's a pity that everyone there is looked down upon by Hollywood, and there is even a conventional rule that once a person has worked in the San Fernando Valley once, he will never want to climb to Hollywood for the rest of his life, and the Hollywood people on top will think he is dirty.

Just because the San Fernando Valley is filming Ivy.

After thinking for a while, Jerry took the initiative to extend an olive branch: "Since everyone can talk like this, as long as your conditions allow in the future, I have a suitable book for tropical island framing here, and everyone has the opportunity to cooperate."

Well, I have a book resource at hand for Tom Hanks to play, "Desert Island Aftermath", and I was going to find a South Pacific island country to film. Let's help you match it up, but this kind of film doesn't need to build special studio facilities, so we don't pay for rent. ”

Jerry is also a person who cannot afford to be unprofitable, and it is customary in the industry for large production companies to find small places to shoot, as long as they do not have to pay the construction cost locally, they generally do not pay rent for the land. In this regard, even if Gu Kun is currently famous and the country of Lanfang is enough to make Europeans and Americans curious, no exception can be made.

"No problem, it's all small money. "Gu Kun is very open.

In a few years, many small countries in the world that want to develop tourism will take the initiative to pay a certain amount of set sponsorship without money to attract top international producers.

For example, a country like New Zealand, which has no sense of existence, relied on the help of Peter Jackson, a great director of native descent, to pull the location of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and created the so-called "Middle-earth" impression of New Zealand.

With the deepening of the development of the Internet era, everyone will become more and more aware of the value of the surrounding area, and the conditions offered by the rental market will become more and more humble.

Gu Kun just noticed this trend a few years in advance, and then stuck his position.

In the last few years before the popularization of Internet video, the high-grossing movies made were made with the highest IP change value. Because young people in this era are not so "information explosion" in terms of receiving video messages.

People may have to spend money to buy a few videotapes/DVDs to watch at home and watch them on DVD players, and this is doomed to those who buy back stolen discs will be treasured, reluctant to watch them once and throw them away, and the children of people who bought "Terminator" or "Saving Private Ryan" and "Titanic" will watch these films on the DVD player ten, twenty, or even more.

By the beginning of 2002 on the Oceania side, or after the end of 2003 in Huaxia, there was an era when they could download pirated board resources online for free, and no one would spend so much time watching old movies repeatedly.

The so-called nostalgic mentality of "the 90s and the early 21st century are classics", in fact, how can there be so many classics?

If you watch the Gu Tianle version of the Condor Heroes more than ten or twenty times, and then watch the new film only one or two times, you also think that the ancient version is a classic.

This also explains why Chinese people only think that the 83 version of "Shooting the Condor" is a classic, and no one thinks that the 82 version of "The Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu" are classics - at least in the eyes of most Chinese audiences in later generations, the Condor Dragon is proud, and it is the most classic version between 96~98.

To put it bluntly, many people just don't realize that they actually think that "the last remake before the emergence of Internet video resource download channels is the most classic". Because after the advent of Internet resources, everyone will not cherish them.

With Gu Kun's generational difference cognition, he is naturally willing to use better conditions than other investors and lessors to get stuck in his position.

The cooperation between the two sides will naturally be easier to negotiate and accept.

In the end, Jerry not only agreed to cooperate in the field rental, but even expressed his willingness to consider the future of "Lanfang Culture" in the form of providing set infrastructure and other forms of investment in a certain proportion of the film, to test the water first.

If the shooting is good, everyone has other books to work with.

Gu Kun struck while the iron was hot and looked at Jerry's backlog of books in his hand, and then really found one that interested him very much:

"I'm very interested in this "Pirates of the Caribbean", don't go to the Caribbean to shoot, go to Lanfang, anyway, you just need a tropical island, I can build you a pirate theme park, and you can also license "Lanfang March" to you for free, as a "Pirate March", as a "pirate march", as the theme song of the film. ”

"Indeed, it fits well with the cultural ideology you want to promote. Then after "Survival on a Desert Island" is completed, let's see how it unfolds. I listened to "Lanfang March", and it was indeed very exciting, and it was very kind of style with the sea in mind. Jerry also thought it was a great idea.

Isn't it good, this piece was played and recorded by Gu Kun himself, and cut out of the later "Pirates of the Caribbean".

To be honest, Gu Kun thinks that the series of movies "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not very good, and the plot is really a footwrap, which is completely to bury mines and delay the plot to make a sequel and hurt the plot itself.

However, the box office of this film in later generations is really good, and as long as this cultural image is made, it doesn't really matter what the movie says, there are big scenes, and there are handsome plays, it is enough.

In the final analysis, Gu Kun is serving the popularity of his cultural and tourism career, and he is not really for the film industry of Oceania. Take the benefits away, and the rest is about his.

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At the cocktail party led by Emmerich, Gu Kun also met all kinds of friends, including meeting several celebrities who are not very famous now.

Especially Nicholas Cage and Tom Hanks, who have been working with producer Jerry recently, had a few drinks with Gu Kun and took the initiative to take a photo.

Gu Kun drank for a whole day before returning to the hotel, washed up under the service of Lin Ying and Midlova, and repaired all night.

The next day, Richard Hilton called again and asked him to go to New York to initialize the final pre-survey/design agreement for the Lanfang Hilton collaboration.

The main thing is to determine the price and specifications of the land acquisition first, as for the specific plot, in the future, the people on the Hilton side will have to settle it after the final field survey of the Lan side, and the maximum price will be set first, so as to prevent one of the parties from changing the hexagram.

Of course, Gu Kun would not refuse, he was not drunk yesterday, so he said that he would fly from Atlanta to New York immediately.

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