Chapter 213: Official Shooting (2/5)
In Vancouver, Zhang Junsheng, Wang Bo and Xiao Li Zi stayed in a café to discuss the next shoot.
There is no big scene in "Untouchable", if it weren't for Xiao Lizi joining, there wouldn't be any rumors at all!
The production cost of the whole drama is only 40 million US dollars, of which Xiao Lizi's salary is as high as 12 million US dollars, which is already a very friendly price...
The actor's salary accounts for 70%, and Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet are all supporting roles!
Fei Wen plays Yvonne, who is Xiao Lizi's housekeeper;
Scarlett Johansson is the lesbian Margaery, Xiao Lizi's exclusive agent, helping him take care of his career...
It's all a big name, Scarlett is because Zhang Junsheng just told this story, she likes it very much, and took the initiative to ask to join, symbolically receiving $1 million, as for Feiwen, it was Xiao Lizi who invited her to join, and the salary is very small, less than $4 million...
It is expected to be completed in 20 days...
Because Xiao Lizi still has to promote "Inception", it is best to end the filming before July 10th.
Right now... It's a pre-event meeting...
"It's a true story, you've all seen it!"
""Second Breath", the autobiography of Philip's archetypal character, I like this story very much, there is no so-called empathy in this world, I can't understand the pain of you paralyzed in bed, you can't understand the difficulty of making a living, then simply don't understand, don't sympathize!
Xiao Lizi shrugged: "... You're the director, it's up to you!"
“… Brother Bo, talk about your ideas!"
"Should I be black?
"White and black families, and then bullying Asians together?"
Zhang Junsheng spread his hands: "What I hate the most is this kind of movie, do you think I will still make it if it is such a setting?"
Xiao Lizi nodded: "Hollywood is indeed a little unfair to Asians..."
"I can understand this, after all, it's Hollywood in the United States, white supremacy... Forget it, let's talk about something else, do you know which company Luc Besson often works with?"
Xiao Lizi thought for a moment, then replied, "Universal... What do you want to do?"
"It's nothing, just ask!"
“… I heard that Luc Besson cheated you for a sum of money?"
Zhang Junsheng was a little surprised: "You also know?"
"Hollywood has spread all over..."
glanced at Wang Bo, and the latter complained: "Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles!"
"Hollywood is paying attention to me?"
“… Summit Entertainment has been rising very fast recently, and most importantly, Facebook is planning to go public, and your worth is likely to increase by $15 billion!"
“… Not so much, I sold a part of it, and then continued to develop it and burned it after reading!"
At the beginning, Zhang Junsheng's shares on Facebook reached 15%, and after three rounds of dilution, less than 8% of the shares remained, and he was still the second person shareholder, Mark Zuckerberg didn't want to help people work, so he 'persuaded' him to give up 3% of his shares and convert them to $1.7 billion...
Zhang Junsheng directly took this money to invest in Netflix and became the second largest shareholder of Netflix, it's really not that he doesn't want to join Netflix, this thing is too complicated, maybe there will be Americans to intervene!
Anyway, the market value of Netflix in the future is very scary, and when the time comes, sell this part of the shares!
These are all private transactions, and they can only be made public when Facebook and Netflix announce their share structure...
After two years of development, it has 40 million registered users and has begun to burn money...
Zhang Junsheng's plan is to change hands before the listing, and although Google is currently interested, the price is a bit low.
Let's put it this way, Zhang Junsheng's most eye-catching thing in the world is his investment talent, and then, this young talent was actually put on the side by the French, and many Americans stood up for Zhang Junsheng...
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Universal Pictures and Yuehua have always maintained cooperation.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" began, and now the "Yellow Springs" series, followed by the "Netherworld", "Nine Shadows", and "Naihe" trilogy...
are all medium investments, no more than 60 million US dollars, but the box office income is not bad, basically maintaining the box office performance of more than 100 million in North America and 200 million US dollars in the world, and occasionally breaking out, the box office can still break 300 million...
Of course, Pinnacle can develop itself, but in order for Pinnacle to become a top club, it must have more than two MPAA allies...
Universal and Disney have always maintained cooperation with Dingfeng...
The "Kung Fu Panda" series still chose Disney as the publisher;
Fox, Sony Columbia, and Paramount have nothing to do with Summit Entertainment, but they don't have anything to do with each other, but they can't afford to vote against it!
As for Warner Bros., "Inception" Warner Bros. and Summit Entertainment jointly publish!
After all, Nolan is an individual shareholder of Warner...
Luc Besson has a bad reputation in Hollywood, and the North American response to "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" is not so good, the North American box office is 19 million US dollars, and the global box office is about 43 million US dollars, which is not the kind of global box office that many people say...
After "The Fifth Element", the North American box office was $68 million... Almost didn't pay for itself...
By the way, he, like many French directors, did not join Hollywood.
Therefore, convincing Universal to give up working with Europa Pictures is not a big problem!
Of course, an opportunity is needed, such as the "Memorandum of Understanding on Chinese and American Films" or something...
Zhang Junsheng talked to Tang Ningyu on the phone, and then continued to sleep...
Tomorrow, "Untouchable" will officially start filming!
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Wang Bo received the script of "Untouchable" in February this year, and he didn't want to act it at first, for a very simple reason - all English dialogue, he was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to resist...
Later, when the actor was Xiao Lizi, there were not many opportunities to cooperate with Xiao Lizi, and he liked the characters in the play very much, so he simply signed up for an English training class and prepared for three months.
And he has acted in several commercial films, and Wang Bo also wants to challenge himself.
"Untouchable" is a feature film!
It's not that commercial films are rejected, it's just that, as an actor, you have to leave something unique for the audience.
"Untouchable" was turned on, Vancouver, the weather was very well coordinated, suitable for filming.
Wang Bo looked at Xiao Lizi, who was communicating with Zhang Junsheng, and it was hard to imagine that a coffee like Xiao Lizi still needed to communicate with the director...
“… You are the first male lead, and we can tell the audience through your communication with Wang Bo that there is no need to shoot a special film..."
Xiao Lizi was silent for a moment: "Okay, do as you say!"
"I want you to forget that you're a normal person when you're shooting..."
Bo Ge has been silent, from the night he got the script and started reading it, to standing on the set today, these days and nights can be said to be in addition to some things that must be dealt with, he is thinking about the role of the protagonist in this script.