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"There will be a place for you among the most beautiful people in the world."

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Sister Xue is busy imagining the future, but she does not forget the important purpose of coming to the United States.

In Los Angeles in January, although there are still two months before the Oscar ceremony, the film recommendation meeting before this is in full swing.

Preview parties, banquets for business negotiations, and liaison meetings between film companies and movie stars are also the most numerous during this time period.

Qin Guan, who came to Los Angeles, couldn't help but be attracted by the weather here, the temperature in Los Angeles in winter was also warm, and the people's tension caused by some tense anti-Iraq declarations was also relieved by the good weather.

The temperature of 9-19 degrees makes people feel like a spring breeze in Los Angeles.

Director Zhang Yi is really doing it himself for this year's Oscars, he and Zhang Weining entered Hollywood as soon as New Year's Day passed.

This place, which has developed into a mecca of the global film industry in just a few decades, is naturally stunning.

On the edge of Hollywood Town, there is a huge film and television base, which is also the office space of many large and small film and television companies.

Like a huge Hollywood family of satellite cities, large and small, it took all the work to make Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States, a success.

The location of this year's Oscars has been decided, and the Kodak Theater (now renamed the Hollywood Highland Center), which was built specifically for the Oscars, has changed the choice of the Chinese Opera House and the Dolby Theater to become the permanent venue for the Hollywood Awards ceremony in the future.

Now there are still a few days before the selection of the Oscars, and it is not too late for Qin Guan to come as a relevant person, but compared to the promoters of those films, they have already done several film exhibitions and small movie viewing parties.

Qin Guan didn't go to Hollywood Studios, the tourists' favorite for the first time, to hang out, but met with Director Zhang and Producer Zhang, who were still at the promotion meeting.

As the national promotion of this film, the strategy at that time in 03 was actually the process of constantly telling people about the film and concept.

Film critics and distribution companies in Los Angeles are actually very unfamiliar with Chinese films.

Everyone's interest in the hero film is because of Jet Li's participation and the big hit of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2002.

The first job of Qin Guan and the two Zhang Ye after meeting was to go to the last promotion meeting before the awards ceremony together, hoping to find a strong film distribution company for this film.

Otherwise, if this film can't be sold, the investment before the awards ceremony will be considered a waste.

What Qin Guan is wearing now is naturally Armani's haute couture, and this caring and shrewd brand has done its homework to the fullest.

For Qin Guan's trip to Los Angeles, they prepared three spare sets of ordinary dresses to cope with the various banquets that followed in Hollywood.

Qin Guan followed behind Director Zhang, a middle-aged man who is rarely one of the directors in China who wear Western-style dresses that are not so rustic.

The scale of the promotion meeting is not large, and the invited companies are several companies with purchase intentions, and a group of people meet again, and the price is finalized today.

"Come, Qin Guan will introduce to you, this is the person in charge of the purchase of Miramax's company, Sam..."

"Sam This is one of the actors who play the hero, Qin Guan, he is now studying in the United States, if you have any opportunities in the future, please bring me more."

Zhang Weining and Sam seem to be very familiar with each other, and they talk casually.

Qin Guan looked at Sam and smiled: "Hello, I'm Qin Guan, I was fortunate to have just taken over a movie from your company, thank you for the opportunity given to me..."

The old man opposite, who was no more than 60 years old, had the unique shrewdness of an American filmmaker, and when he lightly held Qin Guan's outstretched hand, he heard his words.

"What movie did you participate in?"

In fact, Miramax Film Company has invested and bought a lot of movies in a year, and the shoddy production at a small cost is also a means to attract money and cast a net.

"Confessions of a dangerous thought."

"Yo? It turns out that art is a film in the film department, and the young man has a future. ”

Regardless of how commercial Hollywood studios are, they actually have a deep respect for the directors and actors who devote themselves to art films.

Director Zhang on the side was also taken aback, what? Qin Guan, who can only play supporting roles in commercial films in China, has only been in the United States for half a year to make the protagonist of literary films?

The world is changing so fast, director Zhang Yi looked Qin Guan up and down, no matter how you look at this actor, he is all delicate and graceful.

Can you still make a literary film with this look?

Director Zhang completely ignored the aesthetic ideas of foreign films and literary films.

Now that there is a relationship, it is the publisher with the greatest intention, and the group really talked about the atmosphere harmoniously, and the mysterious contract of several people was passed on to each other through the lawyer after the end of this meeting.

The North American distribution rights were undoubtedly won by Miramax, and the high price of $25 million is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most expensive Chinese film.

Sam didn't forget to joke with everyone when discussing the details later, or change the name to Zhang Yi's hero.

It can be seen how optimistic everyone is about this film. Qin Guan, who had already met with Zhang Weining and director Zhang Yimou, returned to New York the next day.

And his housekeeper, Sister Xue, stayed in Los Angeles, the base camp that has cultivated countless filmmakers.

She was like a fish in water, and in the process of working with Erzhang, she got the qualifications to participate in various banquets of all sizes by the way.

The warmth of Southern California has nothing to do with Qin Guan now, and he has started his exams non-stop when he returns to New York in the past few days.

Not to mention that applying for the exam in a city with the highest prices in the United States is a natural disadvantage, and as the city where Wall Street is located, the competition here is particularly fierce.

Take the registration fee as an example, the CPA registration fee in New York State is $220, while the western inland is only $25, and the cost of the exam is $650, plus the cost of academic certificates, it costs Qin Guan 1,000 yuan just for the exam.

It's discrimination, it's naked, and who told you that New Yorkers must be rich?

Qin Guan, who pinched his nose and endured it, couldn't bear it when he took the exam.

Because the CPA certificate has a high gold content, the time of the exam is very free. (To be continued.) )