Fortunately, Hollywood is not far from Los Angeles, only a dozen miles, and it will arrive soon, Zhang Wulang booked the nearest HVDD hot spring hotel to the Avenue of Stars for Huo Dongjun and his group, and booked a total of four rooms, two qucu-level rooms and two ordinary rooms.

Zhang Le and Luo Ailing, Xi Rong and Chen Baolian, as ladies, were sent into two qucu-level rooms by Huo Dongjun, the so-called qucu-level, in Huo Dongjun's opinion, is the level of high-end business rooms, as for Chen Musheng and Luo Weilun living together, as well as the two ordinary rooms that he lives alone, they are no different from the standard rooms of hotels in Hong Kong, and the only advantage is that they are very close to the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Universal Studios.

Let Zhang Le and Luo Ailing take the two girls to see the hotel's indoor hot springs, Huo Dongjun went directly to the hotel's built-in bar with Zhang Wulang, he can ⊥ Xi Rong and Chen Baolian to the United States for the Spring Festival, but he himself is preparing to make a movie, and he will make a movie in Hollywood, so he naturally wants Zhang Wulang to help him give some advice

After ordering two glasses of whiskey with pure water, and sitting at the farthest place from the black singer's performance area, Huo Dongjun said to Zhang Wulang:

"My situation in Hong Kong, Fifth Brother, you should already know about it, I have some money now, so I want to come to Hollywood to see if I can get some ghost money. ”

Zhang Wulang raised his wine glass and touched Huo Dongjun before saying: "Yuan Kui told me, Ah Er also talked to me about you, you actually wanted to open a casino on the high seas to make money, the future is terrifying, Ah Kun must be very happy if he sees your current scenery." ”

After sighing twice, Zhang Wulang continued: "It's actually very difficult to make money in Hollywood, the Hollywood film industry can be said to be the most regular industry, more weird than the financial market, you can never guess which movie disappoints the audience, which movie is small and big, one step to the sky, you come to Hollywood to make a movie, I didn't want to splash you with cold water, but I don't want you to get carried away, so Zhong wants to say, if you want to make a movie here, you have to be prepared to take out the money to burn, here is different from Hong Kong, Hong Kong makes a movie, 10 million Hong Kong dollars is enough to shock the film industry, but here, an investment of 10 million US dollars can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized investment, how much money are you going to shoot it?"

Huo Dongjun shrugged: "Small cost, 10 million US dollars should have it, right? But no matter how much you have to consider, I am making movies, not gambling on my net worth." ”

"I sense your sincerity towards the film. Zhang Wulang smiled and teased: "At least you didn't tell me, let me help you bring a few ghost guys back to Hong Kong to start work, and invest one or two million US dollars to make tens of millions of box office." ”

"Beware of the far-reaching movie hearing your words and coming to the door. Huo Dongjun knew that Zhang Wulang was ridiculing Wu Siyuan.

Zhang Wulang said: "Since you have money, you are a funder, register a company, prepare a lawyer, and the most important thing is to find a really capable producer." ”

"Me?" Huo Dongjun pointed to his nose with his finger.

"You?" Zhang Wulang shook his head: "Ah Jun, this is the United States, not Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, you have money, if you want to be a director, you can be a director, if you want to be a producer, you can be a producer, you can be a producer, and it's OK to be an actor, but it's different here, the simplest problem, film preparation must have a pre-core team, producer, director, executive producer, first assistant director, production accountant, production director, production coordinator, second assistant director, and the positions I am talking about are ranked, that is, The caucus is in the same order as I said, you said you want to be a producer, okay, can you name the core prep team members of your show now?"

Huo Dongjun shook his head, he didn't think that Zhang Wulang's words were disdain for himself, on the contrary, the other party's tone was very serious, Zhang Wulang was using his experience in Hollywood to teach him the most basic film production procedures.

"In Hong Kong, you are the funder, you are a director, and then the director will help you build a crew, but here it is different, even the director of photography, the casting director, the location producer, the transition coordinator and even the post-production zuò and the crew security management personnel are not selected, you know how important this core group is, in Hong Kong, the crew is the director's talk, in Hollywood, a film is the producer's talk, from the film's script writing, pre-preparation, shooting, to the post-editing production, distribution and screening, The person who made the system was the only one who could participate in all six phases of work, that is, he was in charge of all six phases. Zhang Wulang said to Huo Dongjun.

"You mean, I register a company, be responsible for giving investments, and then look for a person who makes a company, and then leave everything to him?" Huo Dongjun asked

Zhang Wulang nodded: "That's it, you, as a funder, after the producer signs the contract, you can't dictate the work of film preparation, the only thing you can do is to call the producer every day to learn about the preparation of the film, the shooting situation, etc., without the producer's permission, you can't even go to the set, unless it is stated in the contract." ”

Huo Dongjun sighed, even if Hollywood is mechanized, Huo Dongjun didn't expect such an exaggeration, the funder is really a funder here, and he is only responsible for paying money?

What's the difference between that and going to the mainland to co-produce a TV series with CCTV? And the conditions are so exaggerated that the mainland has never said that they are not allowed to enter the set, and even access to the filming site is restricted here?

"This is the professionalism that Hollywood emphasizes, investors may not be clear about the film industry, so there must be a producer to be responsible for the film, after funding, what you can do is to pray that the crew will complete the work on time, if you don't believe in the producer's ability, you can buy insurance, Hollywood in addition to actors and film companies, is more insurance salesmen and insurance companies, a film can have many insurance options, such as production package insurance, cast and crew insurance, key personnel insurance, additional expenses insurance, Even if you want, you can buy political crisis insurance and weather insurance for the movie. Zhang Wulang smiled at Huo Dongjun and said: "There are more types of vegetables than the vegetable market." ”

"What do you mean?" Huo Dongjun asked as he looked at Zhang Wulang.

"It means that these insurance producers will help you buy all of them, which must be bought to ensure that there is a problem with the movie and minimize your losses. Zhang Wulang said to Huo Dongjun.

"Isn't that also telling me that these insurance money, which is very likely to be unusable, is actually not a small number?"

"Based on your investment of 10 million dollars, it may cost more than 1 million dollars after the purchase of these insurances?" Zhang Wulang said, "Do you still think that Yankees' money is easy to make now?"