August is spent in a series of preparations. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 At the same time, the popularity of "Youth Musical" has finally expanded further to overseas markets with its overseas release.

In the North American market, in two months of hot screening, the film has collected more than 200 million US dollars at the box office, and at the North American box office alone, "Singing and Dancing Youth" has achieved more than 7 times the yield.

After dealing with the North American side, Sid finally left for the United Kingdom in early September, after the end of the summer vacation.

At the same time, preparations for Harry Potter have finally moved from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, with Fire Lion Pictures holding a press conference in London. Fleet Street, large and small, packed the conference room. When Sid appeared at the press conference, the flash immediately crackled.

Sid was wearing a set of tailor-made British vertical striped white suits, stepping on a pair of formal Oxford shoes, and his gestures had a gentlemanly demeanor, which immediately made the British media present shine. In the UK, filming a film based on a British novel, Sid naturally knew what to do to please the British.

"Mr. Leon, are you wearing a custom suit by Henry Poole Herry-Poole?" a Guardian reporter asked aloud with his hand raised.

Sid smiled and raised an eyebrow, "Good eyes!" and he smiled, "By the way, tailor street suits aren't my favorite place in the UK." ”

Immediately, some media rushed to ask: "Then what do you like best?"

Sid blinked his sly eyes: "I've heard that the ladies in England are very amiable, especially the young ladies of the hot girl group. ”

The reporters in the room burst into laughter.

"Sid, why did you choose a fairy tale novel for your first A-list blockbuster?" another BBC reporter asked.

"Fantasy fiction is my favorite genre, and Mr. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has always been my favourite in the UK, the birthplace of fantasy fiction. Sid put away his smile and began to say solemnly: "If I were to choose a movie, as my first big film, then of course I would choose a fantasy story. ”

"Of course, Harry Potter has its own unique brilliance, and I believe that this is an outstanding novel that touches people's hearts, so I am willing to share this story with my friends around the world in the form of a movie. ”

Sid's words made the reporters applaud gently, although in the public range, Tolkien is not as famous as Shakespeare, but for the identity of the originator of fantasy, the British not only care, but also quite proud.

So Sid's words can be said to have hit their GDian, and the British reporters present can be said to be quite hilarious.

Although Sid attended the press conference with key leaders such as Henry and J.K. Rowling, the focus of the meeting was almost entirely focused on Sid. After all, as a large-scale movie based on group dramas, is there any big-name star joining, and the biggest star has become Sid as a director.

After the press conference, the news that the film version of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" officially started in the UK immediately made headlines in the entertainment pages of major newspapers and news.

Barry Meyer, the CEO of Time Warner's film division in the United States, grabbed the latest "Times" and looked at the headline of the entertainment section on it, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Officially Launched in the UK" and muttered, "It's finally begun." ”

At the same time, because of the British media, the large-scale audition for "Harry Potter" across the UK has finally officially begun.

One of the most notable is undoubtedly the audition of the remaining two of the novel's three protagonists, Hermione and Ron. For these two roles alone, more than 5,000 school-age children across the UK have signed up for auditions.

During audition days, auditioning children and their parents who rushed to London from all over the UK left nearly five blocks around the audition site clogged up. Fire Lion Pictures, which is short of manpower, also urgently applied for police support from Scotland Yard of the London Police Department to maintain the continuity.

On this day, a little freckled girl with long flaxen hair from Oxfordshire walked into the audition building. In another audition, a little Irish boy with red hair and blue eyes also walked into the audition square.

The unprecedented excitement not only caused a wave of "Harry Potter" craze in Britain and Europe, but even the North American media across the Atlantic couldn't help but report this grand occasion.

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"Well, you're asking why the British are so enthusiastic about us?" Sid smiled and looked at Justin Lin across from him.

As the assistant director of this film, Kobayashi saw the somewhat fanatical enthusiasm of the British people on the audition field, which really made him puzzled, "Yes, Boss." Not only those children's actors, but also other adult roles, all the famous British actors actually came to audition, and those are the old bones of Shakespeare's plays. ”

Sid took a sip of Ceylon black tea with a smile before he said to Justin Lin: "I remember that the current British Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected two years ago (97), do you know how the British criticized the election of the Labour Party at that time?"

Justin Lin shook his head.

"The British say it was a victory of rebellion and liberation of that. Sid laughed: "For the British, they have lived under the Thatcher-like paternalistic government for too long, and they have been repressed for too long. So they want a more modern, freer life, but not a modern one dominated by the French and Germans. ”

"So when we came here with the vision of creating British legends, the British didn't just see us as a film crew, they saw us as the gateway to creating a new British modernity. ”

"Wow, I didn't expect to hear such incisive words as soon as I got here. Sid and Justin Lin's conversation was abruptly interrupted by an unfamiliar man's voice, and when they looked up, they saw a tall and fat Englishman with short dark brown hair walking into the dining room where Sid and the others were.

"It's not a gentleman's habit to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, Mr. Fowler. Sid said to the Englishman in a mocking tone.

"My fault, I apologize. The Englishman apologized very shamefully.

Sid smiled slightly, then stood up and stretched out his right hand and said, "Introduce yourself, I'm Sid Leonhardt." ”

"Oh, I'm Simon Fowler, and I don't think there's anyone in England who doesn't know you now. Simon Fowler said with a smile.

For Simon Fowler, later generations are not familiar with him, although "American Idol", as the king of American reality show, became popular with the almost eponymous poisonous judge Simon Cowell, but behind the scenes, as a producer, the person who really created this popular elective reality show around the world is Simon Fowler.

Although he is indeed not as good as Max Martin when it comes to real music production, Simon Fowler has a keen sense of star temperament and is very good at pop idol packaging.

If you talk about Simon Fowler's most famous masterpiece, of course, you have to count the fact that he single-handedly pushed the "hot girl group" to the peak of the world's number one pop group. And after the spice girl parted ways with Fowler, it didn't take long for it to be hastily disbanded, which can also show Fowler's influence to some extent.

Not only that, but it was he who introduced Victoria to Beckham, and the "old moon" also became the couple's agent naturally. So Victoria, who originally played a supporting role in the hot girls group and whose singing and dancing skills were not the protagonists, and Beckham, a football player from the grassroots and a rough brother's temperament, became later British fashion icons.

"I wonder what Mr. Leon asked me to meet?" asked Simon Fowler straight to the point after the two sides had settled down.

"Are you always so impatient? Simon. Sid asked, smiling.

Simon Fowler spread his hands and smiled silently.

"Okay. Sid put down his teacup, "I heard you've been working on an interesting idea lately—to select an idol singer from among ordinary people?"

Sid's words immediately made Simon Fowler's face change dramatically, "You, where did you hear that!? I've never ...... this idea to anyone else."

Sid laughed as he said, "I naturally have my channel, Simon. The question is not how do I know the idea, but whether the idea is really valuable. ”

Simon Fowler's face changed, and after thinking for a few minutes, he nodded, "And what do you think of this idea?"

"It's fun, at least, it's worth trying. Sid's words made Simon Fowler's face soften slightly, and then he also remembered that Sid also had a well-known TV station in the United States, Fire Lion TV.

Although the average British person does not know about the situation on American TV programs because of the regionality of TV program ratings, Simon Fowler, as an ambitious pseudo-musician and real TV person, has long been concerned about the North American market on the other side of the ocean.

For Sid, who single-handedly dominated the miracle rise of Fire Lion TV, he has an intuition about the other party's invitation, which will make his fate a turning point.

"So, you're trying to buy me for the show?" Simon Fowler said as he walked up the pole trying to bargain.

"Do you have a show? Simon. Sid smiled and asked, "As far as I know, you only have some ideas." And the idea thing, even if there is a similarity, is not a strange thing. Didn't Edison and Bell invent the telephone at the same time? ”