Filming in Disney studios continues, and the filming of "Fast and Furious 4" is mainly divided into three parts, one is the ongoing studio interior shooting, the second is the shooting in downtown Los Angeles, and the third is to shoot some drag racing scenes in the southern California border with Mexico.

To be exact, all the filming of this film will take place in California, because "Fast and Furious 4" received a film tax rebate from the California government, which will roughly receive a tax rebate of $8.6 million.

One of the main conditions for getting the subsidy is that the crew must stay in California to shoot and create jobs in California.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's governor was in trouble, but he rolled out a series of economic stimulus policies that looked good.

Bella Anderson also investigated a lot about James Win and his development in Hollywood, and Matthew took the time to take a closer look at it outside of filming.

James Wing, who is three years older than him and born in 1977, is a Chinese-born Malaysian who went to Australia to study film as a young man, as he said, and perhaps it is this kind of film practitioner who has received Eastern and Western education and culture that will think of integrating oriental characteristics into Western works.

Even Matthew has to admit that the influence of Western culture in this world is greater, and often the East can accept Western cultural products, but it is difficult for the West to accept pure Eastern culture.

There are many directors from the East in Hollywood, but inevitably all of their works are Westernized, such as Ang Lee.

Matthew heard Helen Herman say that in order to ensure that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can be accepted by Westerners, when writing the script, the screenwriter is required to write the script in English and then translate it into Chinese, and Ang Lee has publicly stated on many occasions that this film is "Sense and Sensibility" in the garb of martial arts.

Perhaps in the eyes of people like Matthew, who are used to watching pure martial arts films, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is really not good, but the box office and Oscar gains in North America undoubtedly prove that Ang Lee, a film that takes Western-style ideas as the core and then integrates Eastern culture, does have a lot of selling points.

According to Bella Anderson's information compiled from various sources, James Wing has expressed more than once the idea of appropriately introducing oriental elements to traditional American horror films.

However, unlike Ang Lee, he dabbles in a variety of film genres, and for the time being, he just wants to stay in the realm of horror thrillers, which is also his interest.

As a result of Matthew's solemn advice, Bella Anderson has collected very detailed information.

For example, James Win's evaluation of his dark horse Virgo "Saw Horror" once said that this is a "psychological thriller", which is different from the prominent blood, disgusting and curious films that follow, and he himself only participated in the production of several later works.

James Wynne has repeatedly stressed that his ambition is to make something that truly unsettles the heart, rather than simply scaring the audience, and he has repeatedly mentioned the inspiration he received from The Shining and The Exorcist, and the influence of these two films can be seen in his subsequent works.

There is also "Dead Silence" mentioned by James Win, the investment of 20 million US dollars can be said to be a high-cost horror film, James Wen and his partners have said that they are constrained by the producer, the script and the overall style are not perfect, and if you shoot horror films later, you should try to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, and may return to small-budget independent horror movies.

In addition, James Wing has told the people around him that he is not going to make plasma-type films after the chainsaw, but is going to discuss possession and exorcism, and the protagonists are not so-called "ghosts", but "evil spirits", which are more complex themes linked to religion, history and dreams.

In terms of filming techniques, he abhors the American model of horror fast food.

For example, the teenage protagonist runs into the deep mountains and old forests, commits stupid death, and has to dig out a book in the ruins to recruit monsters without listening to advice, or a group of young people who have to travel to the deep mountains and forests or deserts where people are inaccessible and can't even be covered by mobile phone signals, and then encounter perverted murderers......

Through the information collected by Bella Anderson, Matthew has a relatively clear understanding of James Wing, a young director who seems to have a lot of ideas in the field of horror films.

As we all know, horror films are the easiest film genre in the North American film market to be small and broad, and many small film companies and film studios are actually mainly producing B-grade horror films.

And a director will play a bigger role in a small production.

Is James Wing a great horror film director in the future, and will he create a miracle like "Chainsaw"?

That's where Matthew really cares.

Also, when he saw the Chinese name James Wen Wen Ziren, he always had a vague sense of familiarity, but he couldn't remember where he had seen and heard of it.

Judging by his experience in recent years, the people in Hollywood who can make him feel this way are either super strange people who used to be the Wachowski brothers turned sisters, or they were once famous figures.

According to the information collected by Bella Anderson, James Wing has no peculiar hobbies other than wanting to be scary with movies.

Then the possibility that he is super weird should be very small.

Subsequently, Matthew specifically checked the North American box office of several films directly related to James Win, "Saw 2" is $56 million, "Saw 2" is more than $87 million, "Saw 3" is more than $80 million, "Saw 4" is more than $63 million, and "Saw 5" is being filmed......

While none of them have grossed more than $100 million in North America, for a low-budget plasma film, such box office results are almost to the ceiling.

After all, the number of viewers who like this super heavy taste is limited, and this is an objective situation, and it will not change because of James Win.

The $20 million investment in "Dead Silence" is a bit ordinary, with a North American box office of only $16.8 million, but fortunately, the videotapes and discs are not bad.

The film is said to have been assigned a producer to James Wing by the top of Universal Pictures, severely restricting his directing powers.

After reading this, Matthew gradually formed a clear concept that if he has the opportunity to cooperate with James Wing in the future, he must control the cost, make small-budget horror movies, and then give James Wing the right director......

To what extent James Win can go, he also doesn't know very well.

However, a director like this, who started from a small budget, and has "Saw Horror" as the support, as long as the subsequent films can explode again, they will definitely get the attention and favor of many production companies.

This kind of thing must be done early.

Besides, a small investment of a few million dollars is nothing to Matthew, and even if he loses it all, he can easily afford it, but James Wing's "Saw Horror" style is a small and big one, and it is easy to double the profits.

These are just assumptions, and we will have to wait for James Wing to finish his documentary, and to some extent, Matthew is also ready to gamble on James Win's future within the scope of what he can afford.

The film industry has always been an industry with relatively high risks and profits, and the profit margin of the traditional manufacturing industry can be 10% high, and the investment in a film, if successful, often has a profit of more than 10%.

Matthew thought of what James Wing had told him again, that this very thoughtful horror film director might be able to create a horror universe.

In the following days, he found time to go to the set of "Saw 5" with James Wing to see how the plasma film was filmed.

It's clear that James Wing seems to be interested in befriending him as well.

It's not difficult to understand this kind of thing, James Wing has a good relationship with Justin Lin, and should know the status of his investment in films, just like he first did with David Ellison, as a director, it is actually important to have a financial support.

At the end of the day, Hollywood is a business world, and money often means a lot of things.

Matthew is also fantasizing about making a low-budget horror film that can reach more than ten times the production cost at the box office......

This is not easy, everything only exists and is imagined, and how to develop in the future requires him to adjust in time.

In early April, after a lengthy screening, "I Am Legend" officially bid farewell to North American theaters, leaving behind a North American box office figure of $363.2 million, and the overseas box office also exceeded the $450 million mark in one fell swoop, and the global box office combined reached more than $815 million.

Although the film is still being released in some overseas countries and regions, it is basically a small market with a limited population, and Warner Bros. expects "I Am Legend" to drop around $820 million at the global box office.

By any measure, this is an extremely successful commercial work, and the nature of the one-man show proves to the world that Matthew has a strong box office appeal.

Warner Bros., for its part, has been in contact with Helen Herman to negotiate the lead actor in Christopher Nolan's new film, although he has not yet received a more detailed script, but Matthew still asked Helen to talk to Warner Bros. first, and he has basically determined that this project is "Inception" that he has seen.

There is no news from Paramount Pictures and Stephen Sommers yet, and the new script has not yet been completed, and according to Helen Herman, Hasbro has some concerns about overturning the script and starting over, and has offered some different opinions in the writing of the new script.

It's hard to say how the project will develop next.

Beginning in mid-April, the Fast & Furious 4 crew left Disney studios and moved to the streets of Los Angeles.