Chapter 254: The Male Protagonist
Searchlight Company, the full name of Fox Searchlight Pictures, is one of the two major film companies under Fox Enterprises, the other is the famous Twentieth Century Fox. Compared with Twentieth Century Fox www.biquge.info Fox Searchlight Pictures favors the production and distribution of small-budget films. So there is a saying that Twentieth Century Fox focuses on the box office, and Fox Searchlight Pictures focuses on awards. But no one expected that Fox Searchlight Pictures would release a big satellite without paying attention.
A foreign film has been the weekly box office champion in the United States for three consecutive weeks. Even among the many films produced by Twentieth Century Fox, there are only a few that have such box office performances. While the owner of the searchlight company triumphantly finally overtook Twentieth Century Fox, he also became curious about the director who made two such films. And through Marles, he also knew that the director who made the film was also the screenwriter and investor of the film. Such a person is rare even if you look at the whole of Hollywood.
"Gu, this is my boss Moss Duncan, boss, this is Director Gu Wenwu." Mars introduced the two.
It was a typical Western-style restaurant, and Moss Duncan, the owner of the Searchlight Company, invited Gu Wenwu to dinner. Cheng Daoming didn't come, according to him, someone else invited you to dinner, and I went to join in the fun.
Mars is a China expert, who can act as a translator for Gu Wenwu and Moss, so assistant Liu Xuan did not follow.
"Gu, I've heard Mars say that you're very young, and when I see you today, I just want to say, wow, you're younger than I imagined, and I'm still working as a little assistant when I'm your age." Moss Duncan is a thin, middle-aged white man who seems to have lost his head because of his age. Although thin, the pair of bright eyes in the sunken eye sockets can see the master's shrewdness and ability.
"Mr. Moss is polite, compared to you, my achievements are still far from enough." Gu Wenwu said.
"Haha, I've long heard that Oriental people have always been very modest, and when I see it today, if I live up to my reputation." Moss laughed.
After some politeness, Moss got straight to the point.
"Gu, have you ever thought about cooperating with Searchlight Pictures?"
"Cooperation, haven't we been working together?" Gu Wenwu pretended to be puzzled.
"No, no, no, I'm talking about a deep level of cooperation, the King of Detectives series has great potential, if our two companies can work together on the third part, it will definitely bring this series to a new peak, what do you think?" Moss.
"What does Mr. Moss mean by making the third part of "The Great Detective" a Sino-Mik co-production?" Gu Wenwu said.
"That's what it means." Moss.
"That's a good idea." Gu Wenwu's eyes lit up. If you want to make Fu Mo a recognized detective all over the world, it doesn't seem good to be confined to one place all the time, as Moss said, the Sino-Mi co-production brought Fu Mo to the United States to solve the case, and if he still has the opportunity to cooperate with other countries, he will get Fu Mo to that country to solve the case. If you think about it this way, it seems completely feasible.
"I find Mr. Moss's proposal interesting, but I need a little time to think about it." Although he was a little tempted, Gu Wenwu would definitely not give an answer immediately. You can't turn the relationship upside down.
"That's natural, don't worry, as long as our cooperation is decided, the actor of the United States, as long as he has a schedule, there is no problem with which one you want." Moss. Naturally, he had the confidence to say this.
"Haha, I'm much more relieved to have you say this." All of a sudden, the guests and hosts were happy.
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On the way back, Gu Wenwu looked at Mars with a smile on his face, although he only played the role of a translator today, he also benefited a lot.
"Mars, do you still know about Willy Morris?" Gu Wenwu asked suddenly.
"Gu, you're talking about WMA." Mars was stunned for a while before he realized which company Gu Wenwu was talking about.
"Yes, it's it." Gu Wenwu nodded.
"Of course, you know, the WMA's headquarters are also in Los Angeles, but it's over Beverly Hills." Mars Road.
"Can you send someone to take me there tomorrow?" Gu Wenwu said.
"That's no problem, it's just that I'm free tomorrow, so I'll take you there." Although he didn't know what Gu Wenwu was doing there, Mars still volunteered.
"Then I'm bothering you." Seeing that he was so active, Gu Wenwu did not refuse.
Mars still couldn't hold back after all, and asked the question in his heart when he was about to arrive at the hotel: "Gu, do you want to join them when you go to the WMA, I remember that there are many celebrities in the Great Xia Kingdom who are signed in the WMA." ”
"Of course not, I went there just to find a male lead for my new movie." Gu Wenwu said.
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Early the next morning, Mars came to pick up Gu Wenwu. After a brief preparation, Gu Wenwu took Liu Xuan to the car bound for the headquarters of the WMA brokerage company. Next door to Beverly Hills is Hollywood. So it took less than two hours for the group to arrive at the WMA headquarters.
"Hello, how can I help you?" The front desk lady asked in a sweet voice.
"Hello, I would like to ask if Mr. Zhou Yunfa is in the company now?" Gu Wenwu said. He spoke in Chinese, and Liu Xuan on the side hurriedly translated.
"Leap Week?" The front desk lady was obviously a little confused when she heard the name.
"It's ChowYunFat, a Xia country actor." Gu Wenwu said.
Just listening to the name Zhou Runfa, the front desk lady really couldn't remember who it was, but Gu Wenwu said that it was Xia Guo actor and his English name, and she immediately remembered it. After all, WMA's Xia Guo actors are rare.
"So you're looking for Chow, and unfortunately, he's not in the company right now." The front desk lady said.
"Do you know his address?" Gu Wenwu asked again.
"Unfortunately, I don't know." In her eyes, Zhou Yunfa is just a third- or fourth-tier actor, how can she have time to remember this.
"This lady, the computer in front of you should be able to find information about Chow, please help us check it." At this time, Mars stepped forward to speak.
The front desk pursed his lips and said impatiently: "Okay, please wait a minute!" ”
There are so many artists in the company, it is also very troublesome to check the specific information of a certain person, plus Gu Wenwu They came to find Zhou Runfa, in the eyes of this front desk lady, Zhou Runfa is a small actor, so the person who came to him is not a big person, so he is so lazy. But since it was pointed out, she naturally couldn't pretend not to know.
"That's Chow's message, take it." The front desk lady said. She directly printed out the message sent by Zhou Yan.
Gu Wenwu took the paper and left without saying anything. Liu Xuan and Mars hurriedly followed.
"It's rude not to even say thank you." The front desk lady secretly scolded herself.
Walking out of the WMA, Liu Xuan glanced at his watch, and it was not early.
"Mr. Gu, shall we go to Mr. Zhou Yanfa now?" Liu Xuan said.
"Don't worry, let's go again in the afternoon, it's not too early, let's find a place to eat first, Mars, I have to trouble you." Gu Wenwu said.
"Gu, you don't have to be polite to me!" Mars Road.
Before leaving, Gu Wenwu turned around and glanced at the signboard of the WMA company, and sure enough, foreign countries are not so easy to mix.