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At this time, the Murdoch couples were having a drinking party in their Beverly Hills mansion.

The gentlemen in the suits and leather shoes were polite and gentlemanly, and the ladies dressed in a variety of evening clothes were elegant, and these men and women were either whispering or going around, showing their extraordinary social skills. This kind of drinking party is a good opportunity to meet friends and accumulate connections, which are intangible wealth in the eyes of people in high society.

The hostess Deng Wendi constantly introduced guests from all walks of life to Zhang Ran, filmmakers Luo Yan, Hugh Jackman and his wife, and executives of major Hollywood film companies.

Zhang Ran once heard that Wendi Deng would introduce you to friends who might be helpful to you at the party, and now it seems that this is really the case, he is really a master of communication. Thinking about her family, Jingchu is completely a homebody, staying at home all day, either reading books or watching movies, or watching gossip and playing games on the Internet, the difference is too big. However, if Zhang Jingchu was a social expert like Deng Wendi, it is estimated that Zhang Ran would not be good with her.

After saying hello, Zhang Ran and Zachary Eller, the vice president of Fox, found a quieter corner to talk about cooperation.

A few days ago, Zhang Ran had already talked with the president of Fox, and everyone had already talked about the general framework of the cooperation, and Zhang Ran would invest one billion dollars in forty films of Fox in five years. However, the specific content of the cooperation has not yet been decided, such as which film Zhang Ran will invest in and how to divide it, which needs to be discussed with Vice President Zachary Eller.

Zhang Ran and Zachary Eller were chatting hotly when a voice suddenly came from beside them: "So you're here!"

Zhang Ran turned his head to see that it was Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, who raised his glass and took a sip of the wine: "Hello Ms. Wintour, long time no see!"

Wintour said coldly: "I'm not good at all, and it's even worse to see you!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, this old woman, I recruited you, and smiled: "Am I so annoying? If so, I apologize to you!"

Wintour said nonchalantly: "There is a recent movie "The Queen Wears Pulida", do you know this movie?"

Zhang Ran knew that the author of "The Queen Wears Plida" once served as Wintour's assistant, and the Queen Wears Plida refers to Wintour. When "The Queen Wears Prada" was about to be made into a movie, Wintour tactfully told Meryl Streep that we were a bond, and then she warned the biggest names in the fashion industry not to participate in the film.

However, Zhang Ran also knew that when the movie premiered, when people thought that Wintour would be annoyed and angry, she came in a Prada in a grand manner, and then held a banquet in the editorial office, announcing that she would start writing an autobiography.

Zhang Ran was a little puzzled by what Wintourti was doing in this movie, and responded: "It seems that it will premiere next week." I wanted to buy the rights to the novel, but by the time I did, the rights were already in Fox's hands!"

Wintour stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds, and suddenly smiled: "You actually want to buy the copyright of this novel, haven't you found that the rustic and arrogant Chinese in the novel is you?"

Zhang Ran has not read the novel, only watched the movie, and there are no Chinese in the movie, and he is a little surprised: "I haven't read the novel, I don't know the content of the novel." I don't know the author of the novel, so how can the novel have anything to do with me?"

Wintour smiled even more: "No, you have seen the author of the novel, don't you know who the author of the novel is?"

"The Queen Wears Pulida" is not a famous book, how could Zhang Ran know who the author is, shook his head and said: "I don't know!"

Wintour said, "It's Lauren Weisberg, don't you have an impression?"

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, didn't he have any impression? It means that I have seen this woman. He suddenly remembered that when he first went to Vogue, he had a conflict with a woman named Lauren, and immediately reacted: "Could it be that when I went to Vogue, the old woman named Lauren who insulted me was Lauren Weisberg?"

Wintour smiled and said: "You are very smart, Lauren wrote "The Queen Wears Pulida" after being expelled, and slandered me extremely much in the book, of course, you, the culprit who caused her to be expelled, are not spared, that earthy and arrogant Chinese!"

Zhang Ran was dumbfounded when he heard this: "The earthy and arrogant Chinese? Okay! In fact, this Miss Weisberg is really earthy and arrogant, listening to you say this, I really have to find this novel." Then he looked at Zachary Eller and said, "I don't know if there is this character in the movie? If so, I just watch the movie directly, I don't know what the actor's image is?"

Zachary Eller laughed: "No, the screenwriter definitely deleted it because it didn't mean much to the development of the plot, if we knew it was you, we would definitely keep it." ”

Zhang Ran shrugged his shoulders: "That's a pity!" Then he looked at Wintour and said, "Ms. Wintour, you won't come here to talk to me about this, right?"

Wintour said with a serious expression: "Of course not, I have something serious to talk to you about." Then he looked at Zachary Eller and didn't speak.

Zachary Eller knew that Wintour thought he was in the way, so he hurriedly said to Zhang Ran: "I will talk about cooperation tomorrow morning, and I won't bother!"

Zhang Ran nodded: "Okay!" After Zachary Eller walked away, he asked, "Ms. Wintour, I don't know what you are looking for me?"

Wintour stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds before saying, "My daughter Catherine will be attending this year's Clion Ball in Paris, and she needs a designer to help her design a dress." ”

Zhang Ran knows that the Paris Clion Ball is the most famous coming-of-age ball in the world, which is held every November at the Paris Clion Hotel. It was formerly known as the Ball of Passage of the Daughters of Famous Families, which was originally held only within the British court. In 1990, French social maestro Ophelia Lerouard repackaged this traditional and grand ball, no longer limited to the British royal family, and opened its doors to famous girls from all over the world, but the selection rules became more and more stringent. Celebrities who can be invited to the ball must not only be from famous families, smart, and highly educated, but also beautiful and slender in appearance. Paris Hilton has eaten behind closed doors here, and even when Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump was 16 years old, her mom's attempt to bring her to the prom was equally unsuccessful.

In 2003, Wan Bao became the first Chinese in history to attend the Cleon Yuanyuan Ball. She successfully stepped into the social circle of Shanghai and Britain, and was immediately praised by Westerners as the most Chinese princess-like woman. Since then, Chelsea, the granddaughter of Xiangjiang tycoon Zhou Xinian, Ho Ka-ching, the granddaughter of gambling king Stanley Ho, and Lin Jianyue's daughter Lin Xin'er have all participated in this ball.

The famous girls who participated in the Cleon ball wore all kinds of haute couture, and Zhang Ran was a little surprised when she heard that Wintour was going to find a designer to help her daughter design a dress: "You don't want me to help your daughter design a dress, do you?"

Wintour nodded slightly: "Yes." ”

Zhang Ran was dumbfounded: "I'm a director, not a designer!" McQueen, Galliano, Tom Ford, Gaultier, any one is better than me, as long as you say it, designers around the world will cry and shout to help you design, how can you ask me to design?"

Wintour smiled, "Actually, it's not that I'm looking for you, it's Catherine who wants you to help her design." She's a fan of yours and if you can help her design a dress, she'll be happy and it would be the perfect gift for her!"

Zhang Ran was a little speechless: "I'm going to start making movies at the end of July, and I'm going to be busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, where do I have time to do design, and my level is limited, aren't you afraid that I will mess up your daughter's coming-of-age ceremony?"

Wintour said lightly: "No, I believe in your artistic level!"

Zhang Ran wanted to refuse, but couldn't refuse, he owed Wintour a favor, he owned 40% of the shares of Wang Daren's brand, recently this brand has become popular in the United States, it all depends on Wintour's support, and Zhang Ran still needs her help in the future, so he can only stubbornly say: "I can promise you, but I will not come to your daughter to do the design, after the design, your daughter will come to China to try it on!"

Wintour smiled, "Yes!"

The next morning, Zhang Ran met with Zachary Eller to continue their discussions. Zachary Eller didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out a list of scripts prepared for Zhang Ran for him to choose.

Zhang Ran slowly looked at the list of scripts, and looked at the content introduction below, and his face quickly became ugly.

Hollywood has a special word for foreign investment, dumbmoney, which is translated into Chinese as silly money, that is, people have more silly money. From the 80s, to the German funds in previous years, and even the recent Wall Street funds, all of them are stupid money in the eyes of Hollywood.

What is Hollywood's attitude towards foreign investment? It is to take out the bad scripts that you don't want to shoot for you to invest, and make sure that you make your own money. If the movie unexpectedly explodes, the Hollywood machine will kick you away and enjoy the IP exclusively. For example, in "Fast and Furious", Universal was initially not optimistic about this drama, and the Germans wanted to invest in Universal's films, so Universal asked the Germans to invest in this drama. Unexpectedly, the box office exploded, and Universal quickly developed a sequel, and the sequel naturally had nothing to do with the Germans.

In 2010, Orange Sky Golden Harvest bought a stake in Legendary Pictures for HK$194 million, owning a board seat, becoming the first Chinese company to take a stake in a Hollywood film company. Orange Sky Golden Harvest thought that they could enter content production with a board seat, but the other party did not let them interfere at all, and the disappointed Orange Sky Golden Harvest quickly sold its stake in Legendary Pictures.

Later, many Chinese companies cooperated with Hollywood, Huayi, Bona, Wanda, and even TV and radio media, all of them were clamoring for how they would cooperate with Hollywood and how they would do to Chinese films, but in the eyes of Hollywood, they were all stupid money.

Stanley Rosen, a professor of film at the University of Southern California, once told the media about Sino-US film cooperation: "Hollywood's current attitude, Chinese investment in letting them make movies, they are very happy, feel that this is pie in the sky, stupid money; if Chinese propose to make movies with Americans, they have to think about it." ”

Zhang Ran thought that he would be an exception, he had lived in the United States for several years, studied movies, understood the American market by himself, and the rapidly growing Chinese market as a backstage, and Murdoch also wanted to use his own strength to enter China, but he didn't expect Fox to give him all bad IP. In their opinion, Zhang Ran's money is the same as the money in Japan, the Middle East, and Europe, and it is also stupid money!

Zhang Ran was a little angry, feeling that the other party was insulting his IQ, and said coldly: "Mr. Eller, do you think I'm an idiot? I want to invest in "Avatar", "X-Men", and "Die Hard", not this garbage. If you're fooling me with this kind of rubbish script, then there's no need for us to talk about it anymore!" )