Chapter 417: Digging People
Zhang Miao, who wants to negotiate business, is not an idle person. At the same time, he spent 16 years at Columbia Pictures, and later served as senior director of film marketing and distribution in China for a long time.
Later, he jumped to Yanjing Culture and served as the general manager of the film division and became the producer of "Wolf Warrior 2".
During the filming of the film, he and Wu Jing went to the United States to find special effects, went to New Zealand to do mixing, and also ran roadshows in 40 cities together, and spent most of their working time on this project.
An unknown interesting fact about "Wolf Warrior 2" is that the executives of Dadi Cinema revealed that after watching the unprocessed sound and sound effects version of "Wolf Warrior 2", many theater scheduling managers sweated for "Wolf Warrior 2", and felt that the 800 million guarantee of "Yanjing Culture" was a bit "hanging".
In the released version, Zhang Miao recommended the sound post-production company Park Road for Wu Jing, because they won the Oscar.
"Wolf Warrior 2" in another time and space won 5.6 billion against the sky box office, and on the surface, Wu Jing fought for his life. But behind the scenes, the merits and contributions of Zhang Miao, Song Ge and others are also indelible.
Because of the appearance of Lu Lin, it is difficult for the "Yanjing culture" in this world to rise, and Zhang Miao has not yet changed jobs, and it is quite interesting to negotiate with Song Ge on behalf of "Columbia Pictures".
Song Ge dealt with Zhang Miao, briefly explained the situation to Lu Lin, and said that he wanted to talk to that person.
Lu Lin said: "That Director Zhang, how is your ability?"
Song Ge was stunned, "said with a smile, this person joined Columbia Pictures in 2001 and is currently the senior director of film marketing and distribution in China. "Spider-Man", "Terminator 3 & 4", "Kung Fu", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", "2012", "Resident Evil", "007" and other series of blockbusters have participated in the introduction, promotion and publicity. ”
Speaking of this, he paused before he smiled: "Back then, you came to Wanda Pictures to talk about the cooperation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", but you dug me here. Isn't this going to be a repeat move?"
All the executives at the meeting laughed when they heard this, and Lu Lin said: "Yes, the company will make big moves in the next few years, and talents are rare!
Everyone was surprised and delighted when they heard it, the company's performance has skyrocketed in the past two years, and there is no assessment pressure. Lu Lin pondered about recruiting, thinking that he was not planning to change people, but he wanted to expand the scale of the company, and the tide here was naturally rising!
After saying the beautiful words, the meeting dispersed, but Song Ge and Lu Lin stayed in the conference room and did not leave, the former said: "You suddenly mentioned Zhang Miao, but what new ideas do you have?"
Lu Lin said with a smile: ""Wolf Warrior 2", now the company's film resources are basically for my blockbusters. You are the boss in charge of the overall situation, Gao Hongze is also in charge of a lot of things, and you have to help find a good producer for "Wolf Warrior 2"!"
The reason why I say this is to dispel Song Ge's doubts, and secondly, there is indeed a shortage of talents. If it weren't for Song Ge's skillful skills, Lu Lin's long time would have been open, and the management of Longlin Pictures would have been a lot more chaotic.
"Well, really find a suitable partner for Wu Jing, he mentioned to me twice before that there was a shortage of manpower, and what he said was quite vague!" Song Ge smiled bitterly.
Unlike the common domestic multi-headed capital producing a film, the investors are all kinds of rip-offs, Longlin Pictures' special effects blockbusters are basically three or four producers, and the main investment and control are in the hands of Longlin Pictures, and the co-producers only have the right to share the account.
Although many productions are easy to cause disputes and many differences, they do have advantages in terms of talents, and there is a relative lack of talents on Longlin's side.
This shortcoming is not particularly obvious in the preparation and filming of the film led by Lu Lin, and "Wolf Warrior" was not revealed with the help of Song Ge that time.
Only in the preparation of "Wolf Warrior 2" this time, Wu Jing suddenly discovered that he was in a groove, why are there so many bad things every day!
After the idea of recruiting Zhang Miao was decided, Song Ge was still a little worried, after all, the other party did a good job in Colombia, and he was afraid that he would not easily change jobs.
But Lu Lin knew that this person joined the "Yanjing Culture" in 2016 in another time and space, and it was definitely not a temporary idea, and he must have had the idea of finding another way out a long time ago.
"Let's talk about it, if the talk is done, Longlin Pictures will have one more general. Even if it doesn't work, we won't suffer anything!"
Song Ge smiled, "Although I don't suffer any losses, I don't feel at ease with my partners." Send someone to talk to you about cooperation, and if you can't even pay out for the project!"
When Lu Lin heard this, he laughed!
He did not participate in the specific negotiations. A few days later, Song Ge replied, saying that Zhang Miao had already had the intention of leaving, and had agreed to join Longlin Pictures as the company's vice president, the producer of "Wolf Warrior 2", and asked the Colombian company to send another representative for "Kung Fu 2".
When the people at Columbia Pictures headquarters received the news, they were stunned for the first time. For a while, I'm afraid I won't be able to cooperate with Longlin Pictures, and "Kung Fu 2" will come to an end.
Among them, Wu Jing is the happiest, but it takes time for Zhang Miao to leave his job, and it will take a while to come over to help him.
Time passed day by day, and "The Battle of the Deer" broke 3 billion with great difficulty, although the key was postponed again, but there was not much room for box office growth.
There is a very interesting phenomenon here that Lu Lin's movies, in addition to the 1.6 billion of "The Alliance of Gods", even the very early "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun" easily exceeded 2 billion, and caused a frenzy of movie-watching.
It is important to note that there were almost no strong competitors in the same schedule in those two years, and the audience at that time was very persistent and fanatical about 3D special effects blockbusters.
But in 2015, the competition for schedules is becoming more and more fierce, not to mention that the audience will watch "The Battle of the Deer", and "The Return of the Great Sage" will not be born, and the shocking people will feel on the verge of tears and urine collapse.
At the end of the day, it's just getting used to it!
And many viewers gradually became dissatisfied with Lu Lin's "lack of progress", criticizing him for only showing off special effects for five years, and there was no obvious progress in the content and theme of the story.
The reputation of "The Battle of the Deer" is significantly lower than that of films such as "Nuwa Mending the Sky" and "Three-Body Problem", which is the reason.
If the follow-up works can't be significantly improved, I'm afraid that they will follow in the footsteps of Zhang Yimu, Chen Kaige and others, and they will not often be scolded by netizens.
Jing Xiang has a sense of crisis about this, maybe girls are inherently insecure. She thinks it's because Lu Lin makes too many films too fast. He was advised to take a break and think about the way forward.
"Really, let's take a break and go for a walk!" the young lady smiled sweetly.
Lu Lin smiled, "Where are you going!"
"You can go anywhere, the ends of the earth, in short, I'll accompany you!"