Chapter 695: Oriental Hollywood Project
Zhang Ran's donation of $200 million to Nortel has sparked heated discussions among the media and netizens in China, after all, this donation is $200 million, not yen. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Just before everyone's discussion stopped, Zhang Ran donated twice in a row, donating 500 million yuan each to the Institute of Image and Graphics of Tsinghua University and the Image and Vision Laboratory of Zhejiang University.
Many people think that Zhang Ran is crazy, how long has it been, and he has donated more than 2 billion, which is completely not money!
In fact, Zhang Ran is very sober, he knows what he is doing. The reason why Hollywood is so good is that Hollywood has always adhered to the technocratic entertainment production route, and technology has also provided a continuous impetus for Hollywood products to maintain and attract more audiences.
The most important driving force of the film industry was, has always been, and will continue to be the development of technology!
The development of China's film industry and the industrialization of Chinese films are also inseparable from the support of technology!
Therefore, Zhang Ran believes that it is necessary to cooperate with the imaging labs of top universities in China.
However, what made Zhang Ran cry and laugh was that after he made a donation, thousands of people "heard the news" and sent him private messages on Weibo, asking for donations. There are many reasons, some are losing money in business, some are cheated, some want to borrow money to have children, and the most bizarre reason is that you have a lot of money anyway. The amount of donations requested varied, ranging from tens of thousands of yuan to millions more, and the largest request was 10 million.
Zhang Jingchu was very angry after reading Weibo: "I carefully flipped through these people's Weibo and found that the vast majority of people who asked for help were healthy people, and some were still in college, and there were a lot of eating, drinking, and chasing stars in their Weibo, but they pretended to be pitiful in the private messages for help, which is really hateful!"
Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "You are also idle, find anger to suffer." I can't find anything to do, to experience life, don't forget that we are going to shoot this drama in Shancheng, and we have to speak Shancheng dialect!" he said in Shancheng dialect: "Sister, have you learned Shancheng dialect very well?"
Zhang Jingchu rolled her eyes and said, "You obviously have a Rongcheng accent, not a Shancheng accent, Shancheng dialect is generally shouted, little girl!" She saw Zhang Ran's face full of surprise, and said proudly: "You have forgotten, I filmed "Crazy Stone" in Shancheng!"
Zhang Ran gave a thumbs up: "Little sister, your mountain city is so dark!"
Just when the media and netizens were talking about Zhang Ran's crazy move, a shocking news was quietly passed on by the government departments of many provinces and cities, Zhang Ran will be ready to invest hundreds of billions of yuan to build a film and television industry base, the whole project is the world's largest film and television industry project, and it is also the world's only project with comprehensive functions of film and television location, film and television production, film and television exhibition and film and television tourism, including the world's largest film and television production base, Asia's largest film theme park, grand theater, hotel group, Film schools, R&D centers and other projects are upgraded versions of "Hollywood + Disney", and at the same time, Zhang Ran will use his resources in Hollywood to attract Hollywood crews to settle in. When the entire project is completed, it is expected to bring no less than 20 million tourists per year.
Zhang Ran's plan is called Oriental Hollywood, and the purpose is to create a real Oriental Hollywood!
With an investment of hundreds of billions of yuan, it can bring no less than 20 million tourists after completion, which is a rare opportunity for the local economy, and a great achievement that is difficult to refuse for government officials!
After being convinced that the source was reliable, more than 10 provinces and cities in China were moved by the news, and through various relationship influences, they rushed to contact the peak of the century, hoping to settle down on their own families. The most important task of the provincial offices in Beijing is to attract investment, and the headquarters of the peak of the century is in Beiping, so all the offices in Beijing have also taken active action to make a difference in this matter.
Zhang Ran is a native of Xichuan, and the Xichuan Provincial Government undoubtedly hopes that this film and television industry base will settle in Rongcheng, and the governor personally called Zhang Ran and invited him to visit Rongcheng. The provincial governor personally called to invite, Zhang Ran must have to give face, but he has other things to do recently, and finally set the inspection after the Spring Festival.
This matter is not only Zhang Ran, but even Zhang Jingchu is involved. That night, after Zhang Ran went home, Zhang Jingchu asked a little awkwardly: "Zhang Ran, can your film and television base be placed in southern Fujian?"
Zhang Ran knew that someone should have found her, but there was nothing he couldn't say to Zhang Jingchu, so he told his plan: "That's right, our plan is very big, including a film and television industry base, and about ten theme parks, each of which is also an investment of tens of billions." It is completely feasible to put one of the theme parks in southern Fujian, but the film and television industry base can only be placed in the Yangtze River Delta, our goal is to establish a second film and television center outside of Beiping, with the current conditions, this second center can only appear in the Yangtze River Delta region, and the cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, Lin'an has the best conditions, therefore, Lin'an is our first choice!"
Domestic film and television cities are generally built in small and medium-sized cities, and there are relatively few big cities, so Zhang Jingchu felt strange: "Why are they placed in Lin'an? Aren't film and television bases not located in big cities? This can reduce costs!"
Zhang Ran explained: "We don't want to build a film and television city like Hengdian, and I am not interested in building a second Hengdian, what we want to do is a world-class film and television production base like Hollywood, no matter how high-end and how big the investment is in the world blockbuster, you can find the studio and professional post-production team you need for shooting." To do this, it must be a talent highland. Lin'an has Zhejiang University, China Academy of Art, Zhejiang Chuan, Zhejiang Yin, with a good talent reserve, and the comprehensive conditions are the best!"
Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Zhang Jingchu somewhat understood: "What about the magic capital? Aren't the conditions of the magic capital better? There are more good universities, Fudan University, Jiaotong University, and the theater! Why is Lin'an the best choice?"
Zhang Ran explained: "In terms of talent reserves, the magic capital is indeed better, but the magic capital has several unfavorable conditions, the first is that the labor cost of the magic capital is particularly high, which is more expensive than Beiping. It only costs 300 to hire a lighting assistant in Beiping, while it is 600 in the magic capital, a difference of two times; at the same time, the cost of living in the magic capital is also higher than that in other cities, and filming in the magic capital is more expensive than filming in other cities, which is not cost-effective, and film and television companies are generally reluctant to film in the magic capital; second, our film and television base is with a theme park, and we are ready to build the largest theme park in Asia, and the magic city is negotiating with Disney to build Disneyland, and if we build a similar theme park, there will be the problem of homogeneous competition; third, the land in the magic capital is already tight, and the land we want to take is not hundreds of acres, thousands of acres, but tens of thousands of acresIt is almost impossible to get such a large area of land in the magic capital. Of course, these are not the most important, the most important purpose of our film and television base is to promote the reform of film censorship, loosen the restrictions on Chinese films, and put it in Lin'an is the most likely to achieve this goal!"
Zhang Jingchu felt that her brain was not enough, how could the construction of film and television bases be related to censorship, so many film and television bases were built across the country, and she didn't see censorship relaxed, she was very surprised: "This is impossible, right?"
Zhang Ran's expression was firm, and his tone was unquestionable: "Maybe! This has to start with the film law." The Film Law has been in its infancy for many years, and now the draft has been drafted. Recently, we have been soliciting opinions from all sides, and one of the provisions that we are trying to promote is to delegate the final review of films and the issuance of dragon marks to the provincial film administrative departments. If this law is passed, and the second film and television center can be established, then Chinese film censorship may be greatly relaxed, and the chain tied to Chinese films will be loosened by a large block!"
Zhang Jingchu still couldn't understand: "Even if the censorship power is delegated to the local government, it is also in the management of the General Administration, why is it relaxed?"
Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile and explained: "You are mistaken, the local radio and television system is not under the control of the General Administration, but belongs to the local government departments, as far as Zhijiang Province is concerned, the Zhijiang Provincial Radio and Television System is subordinate to the Zhijiang Provincial Government, not the General Administration, which is particularly critical." The General Administration is a department with no revenue, and no matter how good the income of the film industry is, the General Administration has no revenue on the surface. On the contrary, if the film makes a mistake politically, the board must be hit on the General Administration, so in order to shake the pot, the General Administration will strictly censor and even nitpick. If the local radio and television bureau is directly subordinate to the General Administration, it will definitely follow this tendency of the General Administration, strictly examine it, and avoid taking the blame. But the reality is that local radio and television are not under the control of the General Administration, but under the local government department, in this case, what do you think local radio and television will do?"
Zhang Jingchu thought about it and shouted: "The local government will definitely loosen the censorship in order to develop the local economy and the film and television industry!"
Zhang Ran had a teachable look: "This is what we want, but things are not as optimistic as you imagined." If you want them to take risks, you must come up with enough capital to make them feel excited, and our investment in Oriental Hollywood will exceed 100 billion yuan, and more importantly, we will attract Hollywood crews to film, and a large number of Hollywood stars will come. If this plan succeeds, the entire city may become a world-famous film city, what is this political achievement, and what official would not be tempted?
Lin'an is the capital of Zhijiang Province, and now there are many film and television bases in Zhijiang, such as Hengdian, and the film and television industry in Zhijiang has a certain scale; the film and television industry in Zhijiang Province itself plus our Oriental Hollywood, the scale of the film and television industry in Zhijiang Province may be close to Beiping, or even surpass Beiping. It is difficult to form this kind of scale effect if you put Oriental Hollywood in other provinces. The larger the scale of the film industry, the greater the right to speak, and the greater the possibility of local governments relaxing the censorship scale!
As long as Zhijiang loosens the restrictions, then the censorship in Beiping will inevitably be loosened, otherwise everyone's films will not be set up and censored in Beiping, and all the rivers will come; in this way, there will be a situation in which Beiping and Zhijiang are desperately trying to liberalize the scale; in this case, the censorship scale of Chinese films may be relaxed to the extent of the 80s, and the spring of China's film and television industry will really come!"
In the last life, at the beginning of 2014, the power of film censorship was delegated to the local government, but Zhang Ran was not optimistic about this, because in addition to the Dragon Standard is still in the hands of the General Administration, the most critical point is that the film and television industry in various places is too scattered and has not been able to form economies of scale, and no local government is willing to take risks in this situation.
At that time, Zhang Ran was thinking that if Wanda's Oriental Film was placed in the Yangtze River Delta region, the film and television industry in the Yangtze River Delta region would be able to form a scale effect, and the dead knot of film censorship might be loosened. Therefore, when Zhang Ran conceived the Oriental Hollywood plan, the Yangtze River Delta region and Lin'an became the best choice in his heart!
Zhang Jingchu is also a person in the film industry, so she naturally knows what it means if Zhang Ran's plan can really be realized, in addition to shock, excitement, and some admiration, she looked at the radiant man in front of her, and the light in her eyes kept flashing.
My man is truly amazing, he is a hero!