Chapter 142: Towards a blockbuster
Under the unanimous persuasion of Wu Ming and Zhou Xingxing, Liang Chaowei finally stopped insisting and agreed to Wu Ming's invitation.
After convincing Liang Chaowei, Wu Ming sat down and said solemnly: "Xingzai, Weizai, although I will do my best to support you, you can't relax just yet, you must work hard."
I'll say hello to DreamWorks, and after the New Year, the two of you will go to the DreamWorks Artist Training Class to report. Learn the theory and acting skills for a year, and then I will arrange it for you. ”
"Understood!" Zhou Xingxing said with a smile on his face.
"Got it!" Liang Chaowei said in a muffled voice.
Immediately, Wu Ming looked at Gu Tianle again and said, "Gu Zai, you should know what I brought you over, right?!"
Gu Tianle nodded excitedly and said happily: "I know, Brother Ming." Didn't you say you wanted me to be a big star before, and now you want me to be an actor like Brother Xing and Viagra!"
A few years ago, Wu Ming didn't want Gu Tianle to change the path of the future because of his reborn little butterfly. So he deliberately instilled some ideas into Gu Tianle, and now Gu Tianle's ambition is to become a world-class film and television superstar in the future.
Wu Ming nodded to confirm Gu Tianle's conjecture and replied, "Yes, I just want you to be an actor like Xingzi and Wei Zai."
Of course, you're still young, so you don't have to be a full-time actor like them, you just need to go to DreamWorks' artist training class to learn how to act. When the time comes, I'll ask DreamWorks to give you some small supporting roles. ”
Gu Tianle happily replied: "Great, when the time comes, you can be worshiped by everyone like Sister Yazhi!"
Because Gu Tianle has seen Zhao Yazhi popular with countless fans, he is very envious of this, and has always thought that when he becomes a big star in the future, he can raise his eyebrows at school and enjoy the support and praise of his classmates.
Zhou Xingxing couldn't help but show envy when he heard that Gu Tianle could have a small supporting role so soon. However, thinking that he was now qualified to go to the training class, he smiled confidently.
Then Wu Ming carefully explained some matters to be paid attention to with the three of them, and then the four of them returned to the bedroom to continue playing games.
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The next day.
DreamWorks, Wu Ming is carefully explaining some things to Shi Nansheng.
"Manager Shi, I think there are still a few students in our DreamWorks Artist Training Course, so in the next period of time, you have to publicize it more, and the more people who sign up, the better. After all, in the future, our DreamWorks TV series and movies will develop into blockbuster models, but we need many, many actors. Wu Ming sat on the sofa and said with a smile.
Although the plot of Xiangjiang's TV dramas has always been very exciting, it took many years for mainland TV dramas to catch up. But there is one thing that has always been inferior to mainland TV dramas, that is, Hong Kong dramas have always revealed a small family spirit, and they are not as majestic as later mainland TV dramas.
Therefore, Xiangjiang has always been good at filming family dramas, martial arts, police and bandits, life, comedy and other dramas, but not good at filming historical dramas and military dramas.
Because of the slamming of doors to save money, when Xiangjiang was filming a TV series, there were only dozens of people in a crew, and about 100 people in a group performance. Even some war scenes, because they are reluctant to spend money, there are only a few people fighting there.
After the new century, TVB was so slamming that it was unwilling to reshoot even a few seconds of war scenes, and actually took a clip from an old TV series from ten or twenty years ago and edited it into a new TV series to fool the audience.
And after watching a lot of Hong Kong dramas, you will find that over and over again, there are always so many protagonists and supporting roles in those TV series. At first, it was fresh, but after watching it for a long time, it will feel a little crooked.
Later, although mainland TV dramas had such and such problems, they were still very willing to spend money in this regard. A small crew has dozens of people, and an average crew has more than 100 people. When there are many times, there are thousands of people in the group performance. Some big scenes, in order to look real, even tens of thousands of people. It can be said that it kills Hong Kong dramas in seconds.
At the same time, because Xiangjiang is just a small place, Hong Kong dramas also have a shortcoming. That is, the set is very fake, obviously Suzhou and Beijing, so that the Hong Kong drama becomes the difference between walking from the east side of a street to the west and from the west side of a street to the east side, which is really sorry for the audience.
And audiences who are familiar with Hong Kong dramas can find that the background of Hong Kong dramas has not changed much, that is, they are active in those houses and rooms.
Similarly, Xiangjiang's movies naturally have such shortcomings.
After Wu Ming established DreamWorks, he naturally didn't want the TV series and movies produced by DreamWorks to be the same as before. He hopes that in the future, the TV series and movies filmed by DreamWorks can take the exquisite plot of Xiangjiang and the majestic scenes of the mainland, and then merge the two into one and embark on a new path.
After Shi Nansheng understood Wu Ming's thoughts, he hesitated: "Will this cost too much money, after all, the salary of our DreamWorks is much higher than that of Wireless and other film companies, and if we really expand our artists so much, the profit will be reduced a lot." ”
Wu Ming shook his head when he heard this, and said disapprehantly: "It's just that a lot of profits have been reduced, and it's not that there are no profits." And this time I will go back to my hometown in the mainland, and I will sell your stock of dramas to TV stations in the mainland. Although the mainland is not rich and can't afford much money, there are so many TV stations, which is always a big profit supplement.
And you don't always keep your eyes on this one-third of an acre of land in Xiangjiang, but broaden your horizons. It won't be long before I'm going to spend a lot of money buying a movie theater chain in North America. It's impossible to take some childish movies and show them over there!"
"Really?" Shi Nansheng's eyes widened and he said in surprise, "Boss, do you really want to buy a theater chain in North America?"
Wu Ming nodded firmly and replied, "Yes, not this year, just next year." Anyway, within two years, I will definitely buy a movie theater chain in North America. At that time, the films produced by our company will be able to enter North America. ”
Shi Nansheng said excitedly: "Then I will start to publicize it in the past two days, and strive to recruit at least twice as many students this year as last year." ”
"You don't want to relax the assessment just because you want to recruit more people. Wu Ming instructed.
Shi Nansheng smiled: "Of course I won't do that!"
Wu Ming then instructed: "In addition, I think that the current artist training class only has half a year of study time for each period, which is still too little. In the future, our company's artists will not only shoot TV dramas, but also films. Half a year of study is a little insufficient, so let's change it to one year!"
Shi Nansheng nodded this time and did not object again. After hearing that her boss was going to buy a North American theater chain, her ambition suddenly became much bigger, and she wanted to break DreamWorks into the North American market.