She has other MVs to shoot, and after Song Ya completed her task, she took the time to go to Los Angeles to plan the task of A+ Film Studio next year.

First of all, it is natural to dance out the sequel of my life, which is basically scheduled to start filming in the second half of next year, and will be released on Valentine's Day in early 96.

But something went wrong with the investors, and some changes occurred among the four investors, Amperin Entertainment and Geffen Films.

This has to start with Katzenberg, who got the support of his old friends Spielberg and David Geffen after leaving Disney, and started a DreamWorks SKG from scratch, DreamWorks Studios, which plans to have Katzenberg in charge of the specific management and animated films that he is good at, Spielberg is in charge of live-action films, and David Geffen is in charge of the soundtrack department.

SKG is the initials of the names of the three people, and a total of more than 30 million dollars have been scraped together, and the studio start-up is a small fight for them.

"The question now is, how to arrange the investment for the sequel of my life." Global President Simberg asked, as he saw that Katzenberg had also come to the preparatory meeting, "APLUS? ”

"I'm okay with that, it's none of my business anyway." Song Ya spread his hands, Spielberg did not come, he signaled to Catherine and Katzenberg and David Geffen, these Jews did not leak any news about the new film company beforehand, and it was clear that they still did not want to take themselves to play.

"We agreed with each other that the new company would not compete with the original business, so we ...... This time, we at Amperin Entertainment and Geffen Pictures participated in the investment and production. Catherine said.

"Leave me alone, I'm just here to take a look." Katzenberg raised his hand and smiled, he was a little embarrassed now, not long ago he was the No. 2 person of the giant Disney, and now he is only the president of a new film company with more than 30 million capital, and he has not carried out a single project at the moment.

"Don't be depressed, I guess I'll be just as idle as you will be soon."

Simberg's mood is not high, the trade dispute between the United States and the book is in full swing, the book company is withdrawing a large number of capital from the United States, and the company's parent company Panasonic itself is not doing well, it may succeed Paramount, change the owner next year, he as the president, may not be able to keep the position at that time, "But the work still has to continue." He said.

Since it has been decided that it will be a campus movie in grades 8 to 10, then the starring role must still be a newcomer, and the production cost of the sequel to Dance My Life is not much higher, compared with the 12 million in the first part, it has increased to 14 million, Geffen Pictures and Universal have invested 2 million each, Amperin Entertainment has 4 million, and A+ Film Studio has 6 million. Ambling Entertainment is still responsible for the film's production, William Morris provides some packaging services, and A+ Records is responsible for the soundtrack.

Without the guidance of the apocalypse, Song Ya no longer insisted on the investment ratio, after all, there are many precedents for Hollywood sequel swoops, and he did not save songs for the soundtrack, which is not known to the partners who are full of expectations for his music production ability, so he is very Buddhist now.

The money for the second part will be spent mainly on grander and more sophisticated group dance scenes, to make up for the shortcomings of the first part, which is not considered to be large and exciting enough, and in other aspects, because it is starring two white people from the same school, the first part of the issue of wealth gap and race is also erased.

"Have you read the first version of the script?"

Universal picked an old script from the script library, which was a middle school version of the 80s cabaret movie Lightning Dance, which was never filmed, and now it is taken out and changed at will, adding some successful elements of the first part, and then adapting the background and character conversations of the movie to the times.

"We need to keep changing." Catherine was not very satisfied.

“APLUS？” Sinberg asked Songya.

"Uh...... Let's change it first. ”

In the first version of the script, the character of the male protagonist in the second part is a white boy, and the villain has become the standard villain template of the high school in the United States who bullied him, the quarterback of the football team, the male protagonist regained his confidence in the dance, and also met the female protagonist in the dance and talked about a love affair with a comedic twist, and in the end it must be the same group dance happy ending as the first part.

The skeleton of a typical high school campus youth film, but with more elements of street dance and modern dance.

Song Ya's intuition is average, but this kind of film is a major category of Hollywood's small and broad, and the target audience group loves it very much, as long as the shooting level is high, it should not lose money.

"OK, let's start the preliminary preparations."

First of all, it is necessary to engage in custom film rights, Song Ya won the chief producer for Yeremov, Catherine herself served as a co-producer, and the executive producer was served by people from Universal.

Then there's the director, after all, it's best to have a director involved in changing the script or something, but Larry Sr. is no longer what it used to be, he has just taken a contract for an art film from Twentieth Century Fox, and he has begun to work artistic ideals and film awards.

"How about Zack Schneider, the assistant director of the first part?" Song Ya spoke for herself.

"I don't really want to use newcomers, and the production cost of our campus film is already very sufficient." Schinberg said.

"He gained a lot of experience in the first part." Song Ya said.

"It's a bit young, but it's okay, so let's put it in the observation target." Catherine played a round, "It's too early to leave the shooting, no hurry." ”

Leaving Universal Studios, Song Ya went to the headquarters of Hollywood Studios again.

Linton, the president of his family, thought that Song Ya wanted to make a movie satirizing Mira's father, so he refused to release the original adaptation rights of the cat-and-mouse game.

He guessed Song Ya's intention wrong, but the goal was achieved, and Song Ya, who had the apocalypse, was indeed determined to obtain the adaptation right, and if he couldn't buy it several times, he could only compromise and cooperate.

"Next year, in addition to filming a sequel to my life, we at A+ Film Studio only plan to invest in one more movie, which is this cat-and-mouse game."

Song Ya also knew that it was unrealistic to get the original cast and that it was too risky, so he lowered his expectations, first signed a letter of intent with Hollywood Pictures with a half-half investment and a budget of about 20 million dollars, and then paid a deposit of 250,000 dollars, and got all the historical scripts of the cat-and-mouse game from their copyright library.

"Hollywood Pictures is not Amperin Entertainment, and an investment of tens of millions can be regarded as a big gamble for us." When Linton sent someone out, he held Song Ya's hand tightly, "I hope you can bring me good luck." ”

"Don't worry, I haven't missed a beat in Hollywood." Song Ya boasted jokingly.

Linton laughed again.

"Katzenberg left Disney, and now Linton has good relationships with his new bosses, and he's been very effective in overhauling Hollywood Studios......"

Yeremov asked with some concern: "But Linton and Katzenberg still have a bad relationship, although Katzenberg has failed and left, and we ......"

"Don't worry, since those guys don't take me to play, then they have nothing to say if I expand my Hollywood network for myself."

Song Ya reassured him, "You can't hang yourself on a tree around the world, and it's unpredictable what the actual situation will be after the change of their parent company next year." ”

There is no shortage of buyers for Hollywood's movie giants, and I heard that many powerful tycoons and large companies have begun to contact Panasonic, and it will definitely be another shocking deal of billions of dollars.

"Yes."

The two returned to the small rented office of A+ Film Studios in Hollywood, and Yeremov added a few clerks, and it is still a largely empty film company.

The bodyguards put a few dusty cardboard boxes on their desks, and inside were the scripts for the cat-and-mouse game, which changed hands several times since a film company got the adaptation rights from the legendary crook Abagnell in the early eighties, and all the companies that owned him put some effort into it, and found no less than twenty screenwriters to adapt it, so there are many versions.

Song Ya and Yeremov took out the neatly marked file bags, found the most recent edition, opened them and skimmed through them cursoryly.

"Where's the second male?"

He soon discovered the biggest problem, compared with the original movie in his head, the role of the anti-fraud detective played by Tom Hanks almost never appeared, and the overall script was still according to Abagnell's self-boasting, telling a self-congratulatory story of how a liar was capable, although the subsequent result was still a legal open, but the concept was much worse than the original movie in the future.

"Hmmm......"

Song Ya took the file bag and looked at it, there was the logo of Hollywood Studios and the warning seal of not circulating it privately, and there was the name of the screenwriter and the date of the sealing, the date of sealing was at the beginning of 94, it seems that they did not completely give up on this project, no wonder Linton refused to let go.

He turned out the first version of the script, which was from another unknown small film company, and he saw the name of the famous talk show host Johnny Carson in the screenwriter column, and he also participated in his tonight show, although he was already Jay Leno substitute host at that time.

Johnny Carson bought the rights to the adaptation when Abagnell was on his own show, and then ......

Johnny Carson sold the adaptation rights to Columbia Pictures, and then Columbia Pictures sold it to a producer, and after the producer's death, the heir to the estate sold the adaptation rights to Disney, and Disney's script department judged that the production cost required for the film to be made was not high, and then transferred it internally to Hollywood Pictures, which was responsible for low-budget films.

But all the scripts are far from the 'finished film'.

"Looks like you're going to help me find the gunman again, Yeremov." After studying until late at night, Song Ya rubbed his somewhat sore eyes and said.