Chapter 399: H-Sky Studio
Filming a movie in Hollywood is not a difficult task, the script, the crew, the actors....... as long as you shout on Sunset Boulevard or Hollywood Boulevard, there are absolutely countless screenwriters, actors, and various staff members who will come up and surround you - there are also countless "good drifters" waiting for opportunities at any time and anywhere - and if your film investment cost is less than $3 million, you don't need to go through any union. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, whether the filming can be completed and whether it can be released smoothly after filming is another question.
Hollywood is just too big to accommodate filmmakers from all over the world. Hollywood is too small, so small that there are so few places and locations that can be squeezed in and stand firmly. Everyone wants to have a place in Hollywood, but it's hard, it's too hard!
Some people have succeeded in becoming famous here, and some people continue to drift here.
Famous places are naturally beneficial, and because they are profitable, Wall Street's big conglomerates intervene in the film industry and inject abundant funds into it, which is also an important reason for Hollywood's rapid development into the center of the global film industry.
Whether it is the former eight major film companies or the later Seven Sisters or even the current six major studios, they all have the shadow of the big Wall Street conglomerates, and even later slowly have the shadow of capital in other parts of the world, the most famous is the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and then the acquisition of MGM's Sony.
And in addition to these famous studios, Hollywood also has a very large number of independent production companies and various studios, and the number is absolutely terrifying. -- In addition to producing the most mainstream commercial films, these film companies also produce literary films and even cyan films to meet the needs of a wide variety of audiences.
Not long ago, a number of studios were eliminated in this film industry center, and a number of new film studios were built, and H-Sky Studios was one of them, with very low registered capital, very simple working environment, and no show. But less than a week later, the studio caught a lot of attention.
Legendary Pictures and Lucasfilm have announced that they will both acquire 10% of H-Sky Studios at a high price of $10 million!
In other words, this humble studio has inexplicably become a studio with a market value of $100 million.
This was followed by a number of companies, but not film and television companies, which also joined the ranks of acquisitions, and made mutual acquisitions with Legendary Pictures and Lucasfilm, and so on, acquiring a total of only 30% of the shares of H-Sky Studios, but the total price became 200 million US dollars, in other words, the market value of this H-Sky studio reached nearly 700 million US dollars in a while!
And in this way, naturally some people know that this inconspicuous studio is related to Huaxia Sky Culture and HOU Hou Muyun, and they also understand that this is between Sky Culture and Legendary Pictures and Lucasfilm, which has increased the market value and gained popularity.
Of course, the market value of this brush is only in terms of valuation, and it does not mean that it is worth so much money, whether it will be recognized or even someone will be willing to pay the corresponding funds to buy the relative shares - whether to sell or not to say - that is a matter of the willing person taking the bait.
But in any case, this wave of operations that are very common in Hollywood is quite successful.
And after this wave of operations came out, it naturally led to a lot of topics about "Future War".
Sky Culture, Legendary Pictures, and Lucasfilm, these three come together, which undoubtedly indicates that the filming of "Future War" is about to start.
In fact, when Hou Muyun and others went to LA, the film "Future War" had already begun to be established, and it had been filed with the relevant trade unions, after all, the investment in this film would 100% exceed the threshold of 3 million US dollars, and it was necessary to negotiate with the directors, screenwriters, actors and other unions in advance.
Unlike Huaxia, any Hollywood movie with an investment scale of more than 3 million US dollars, whether it is casting or whatever, must first pass the relevant trade unions, otherwise it will be difficult to move ....... an inch, which is not much more than a certain domestic bureau.
Of course, with Legendary and Lucasfilm at the forefront, none of this is a problem.
The script of "Future War" is naturally written by Hou Muyun, and the director is also served by him, and the script and director are handled by one person, which is a very common thing in Hollywood.
However, the investment scale of "Future War" has not yet been determined, and the crew has naturally not yet been established, and it has even just entered the preliminary preparations.
Hou Muyun brought a group of people to LA this time, mainly because they wanted to join H-Sky Studio directly, and complete the next related cooperation with Legend and Lucasfilm with the people who were originally sent by Sky Culture to create the studio, which is not only about film, but also about finance.
As for Li Xue and Kong Sheng, who were forcibly brought, they really came to interview actors.
Hollywood movies basically have casting directors, and their responsibilities are quite important, mainly responsible for the recruitment and interview of most of the actors in the crew. Of course, the selection of the main actors must still go through Hou Muyun's decision.
And the so-called interview actors they came this time were actually to meet with several proposed main actors, and when they met, they were not the only ones, but there were also two other people from the film industry.
After Hou Muyun and others got off the plane, they went to H-Sky Studio, located near the Huaxia Theater in Hollywood, although there are two "capital injections" from the studio, but the current office location is still not large, basically looking at the scale of maintaining a normal office of 30 people.
After Hou Muyun watched it, he left the people who would join the company, and took Li Xue and Kong Sheng to the Beverly Hills Hotel, where they first met the two senior executives of Legendary Pictures and Lucasfilm, as well as the casting directors who had been decided, as well as Mr. Short and Tight.
After the greetings, especially Hou Muyun and the selected director Affleck had an exchange, relatively speaking, the aura is quite compatible, and after a few words, the two can feel that each other agrees on some concepts of casting or can negotiate happily.
Not long after, Dwayne Johnson arrived.
He is the earliest actor proposed by Hou Muyun, and in terms of image alone, it is extremely in line with the "tank" in the original book, and whether it is North America, China or even the world, Dwayne Johnson has a very strong box office appeal.
Of course, it's also expensive, after all, it's the most profitable person among the world's stars!
The boulder is even taller than Hou Muyun imagined, and when I watched it through the movie, I felt that it was okay, but when I really got to it, it was quite shocking.
Rock-solid muscles, a big man of nearly 2 meters, a big bald head, with a big beard, when he walked in, he was full of tigers, and when he came to the front, he showed a bright smile, his teeth were very white, and his expression was very exaggerated, which formed a considerable contrast with his appearance: "HOU, is it you who asked me? If it's a fight, I'll admit defeat and leave now, if it's something else, I can chat with you all day! If it's the role of 'tank', it can be two days!"