But when JK Rowling was faced with real money, she was willing to give up her own interests and asked the "Harry Potter" series of movies to be filmed in the UK, using all British actors. This kind of long-term development of the country's industry is truly precious and worthy of respect for www.biquge.info kind of exchange of one's own interests.

After 2000, the originally unknown Britain's soft power has been rising, whether it is film and television or music, it has produced amazing growth. Finally, in 2012, it overtook the United States and became the world's No. 1.

It's hard to say that such an astonishing result would have been without the development of the industry driven by Harry Potter.

So J.K. Rowling's love for the work and the UK is her Achilles heel.

As the saying goes, ability determines height, and character determines fate.

Sid has developed a complete plan for JK Rowling's character, and step by step, she will have to accept the Fire Lion as the creator of "Harry Potter".

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Sid was meeting with a few British actors on an appointment at a studio on the outskirts of London. With Ian's connections and connections, contacting British actors and studios is at least a little less confusing.

And Sid also took the opportunity to inspect the British set, and I have to say that the level of British entertainment industry and soft power at this time is low, not for nothing.

Outdated equipment, dilapidated studios, slightly outdated shooting techniques and concepts. Not to mention the special effects factories like Industrial Light & Magic and Light Storm, the British people's understanding of movie special effects is still at the level of subtitles and light effects.

Seeing such a current situation in the British film industry, Sid couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of JK Rowling, and her mind was by no means so simple.

At this time on the eve of the great development of film special effects, the filming of "Harry Potter" was used to make the British film and television industry keep up with the world-class pace. Otherwise, wait until the film and television special effects industry develops to the post-3D and iMax era.

If the others try to catch up, it will be too late. Because the gap in that era is not something that can be made up with money at all.

"Sid, this is Mr. Alan Rickman. Old man Ian introduced with an amiable smile.

Sid looked at this handsome British guy with a somewhat gloomy temperament and shook hands with him warmly. As one of the representatives of the British academic school, his acting skills are superb, of course, because of his gloomy temperament, he is always inseparable from the villain.

From the terrorist boss in "Die Hard" to the evil judge in "Sweeney Todd", although he himself hates the villain character, he always plays the classic villain role again and again.

So who else is the greatest double agent in Harry Potter, Professor Snape?

"This is Mr. Robbie Coltrane. David stepped aside to make room for the gigantic giant.

Sid greeted him with a smile while looking at his burly and huge figure, which was not as good as the two old actors with superb acting skills in front of him. The burly "Hagrid" has no other choice in terms of size than Robbie Coltrane.

Looking at the gathered British actors, Sid was full of ambition, and he made a sitting gesture and said, "Then gentlemen, let's talk about the next film." ”

When Edward arrived at Fire Lion Pictures, he was excited and confused, he was the most authoritative and professional reporter in the film section of the American entertainment industry in the weekly "Variety" weekly.

At the beginning of the small-scale release of "Ghost Shadow", he noticed this dark horse that can be called a horror at the box office of a single museum. And now Fire Lion Pictures has become the hottest representative of Hollywood's emerging film company because of "Ghost Shadow".

This also made their every move extremely attract media attention, but in addition to the regular actor promotion, Fire Lion Pictures was a little unusual. But today they took the initiative to gather reporters and hold a press conference, which can't help but make people wonder the reason behind their move.

But guessing is useless, and you can only know by finding out.

Edward was one of the first reporters to arrive at the press conference, and shortly after he sat down, Hollywood Reporter reporter Roy arrived. As soon as he saw Edward, his face sank: "It's you first, Edward." Why are you always faster than everyone else?"

Edward raised his head and smiled, "That's why our Variety is No. 1, and you can only be the second, Roy." ”

"Cut!" Roy snorted in displeasure, then sat down as well.

After the two sat down and silently finished making preparations, some reporters came in twos and threes, and it can be seen from here that it is not for nothing that "Variety" Weekly can become the top professional media in the industry.

After making preparations, Roy, who was also bored while waiting, started talking to Edward.

"Did you watch last week's box office charts?" Roy asked.

"Of course. Edward said without looking up.

"The box office of "Heaven and Earth Collision" is really a blockbuster, and now DreamWorks and Paramount are going to make a lot of money. Roy said with an exaggerated expression.

Edward sneered lightly and looked up, "Don't try to frame me, Roy. The 50 million box office in the first week of "Heaven and Earth Collision" was all smashed out with publicity, and it fell directly to 28 million last week. According to the current posture, if you want to return to the North American box office, you have to pray for God's blessing. ”

If there is any theme in the summer of 1998, it is undoubtedly "Mars collides with the Earth". Paramount and Disney coincidentally chose the same theme.

Paramount and DreamWorks collaborated on "The Collision of Earth," directed by Mimi Ryder and starring Morgan Freeman, while Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney, produced "The Apocalypse," directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis. As a result, these two films have put on a-for-tat posture from the beginning of the project.

And the production cost of "Heaven and Earth Collision" is as high as 75 million US dollars, and at least 30 million US dollars in pre-publicity expenses, so that its rigid cost is at least more than 100 million US dollars. Although it is less than the exaggerated production cost of 140 million yuan directed by Michael Bay's "Peerless Tribulation", the rapid deterioration of the reputation of "Heaven and Earth" since the second week has halved its box office, which is equivalent to announcing death for a blockbuster film that wants to hit the summer file.

"So, this time the CAA is going to be miserable?" Roy suddenly lowered his voice and asked with a wicked smile.

For the uninitiated, "Heaven and Earth Collision" and "Peerless Tribulation" represent DreamWorks & Paramount & Disney & litmus test, the commercial war between the two film companies.

But for true insiders, standing behind these two films are not two traditional film companies. It's the behemoth CAA (Innovative Artist Agency) in Hollywood's agency industry, which plays against the traditional studios represented by Disney.

Because "Heaven and Earth Crash" is a complete CAA packaged product. For those who like it, CAA's packaging solutions can help you save energy and improve efficiency. But for those who hate it, CAA's package plan is simply synonymous with "demonic."

In the traditional brokerage circle, the job of an agent is to serve people in all aspects of the entertainment industry chain, from screenwriters to directors, from actors to producers, to help them connect with jobs and find opportunities. But Michael Ovitz, the founder of CAA, invented the package that disrupted the broker industry and changed the landscape of Hollywood.

The so-called packaging plan is that CAA holds a good film project, and then uses this project to attract first-class screenwriters, directors, actors and other personnel, and then uses the project to attract investment from film companies. In the end, he led the release and promotion of a movie, and because CAA is the source of everything, its benefit sharing and discourse power have been unprecedentedly strengthened.

It can be said that CAA, as a rising star agency, has successfully grown from being an agent to a movie agent.

However, the unprecedented strength of CAA has correspondingly squeezed the interests and power that originally belonged to the film company, which made the film company that came from the era of big studios how to stand it, and more importantly, how can its cake allow others to move?

So since the birth of CAA's packaging program, the war between film companies and CAA has not stopped. In the 80s, there was an anecdote that the boss of CAA went straight to the office of the executive of the film company and scolded him.

The war between these two forces has been fought for more than a decade, throughout the eighties and nineties, until it reaches its peak now. CAA's "Heaven and Earth Collision" VS Disney's "Peerless Tribulation" is like a short sword in the hands of two gladiators.

Hollywood insiders know that if "Heaven and Earth Collide" wins this time, then all film companies will usher in the 21st century in the shadow of CAA, which is simply the worst future. But if "The Peerless Tribulation" can win, then the good days of CAA, the uncrowned king of Hollywood, will be gone forever.

Because the cornerstone of CAA's packaging program is quality film projects! If it is now proven that the film projects that CAA forces everyone to make are not profitable, then their myth of invincibility will be shattered!

"Heaven and Earth Collision" was placed in May, a month in advance of the regular summer file, while "Peerless Tribulation" was placed in July. Judging from the schedule, the two want to compete with each other, but they don't want to lose both. So distance yourself from each other to get the most out of each other.

But now that "Heaven and Earth Collide" has not yet faced off with its opponents, it has thrown itself into chaos, and in just two weeks, the box office has almost halved, and the poor quality and poor reputation of the film have cast a dark future over CAA's ambitions.