This is an event held by the University of Southern California Film Academy, to be precise, a name change ceremony.

The University of Southern California Film Academy is the abbreviation. It was originally called the University of Southern California School of Film and Television, but it is now officially renamed the University of Southern California School of Film and Arts.

How could the University of Southern California Film Academy forget to invite many famous alumni to attend such an event?

As the college closest to Hollywood and the film industry in the United States, graduates of the USC Film Academy will basically enter Hollywood to work.

Compared with the related majors of New York University and Columbia University, the USC Film Academy has a more preferred Hollywood commercial film style, aiming to cultivate students who produce industrial fine products.

The Academy of Film Academy won the Academy of Sciences far higher than other schools.

There are many famous alumni.

At the banquet after the name change, in addition to George Lucas, Ronan also saw sound effects masterclass Butt, director of "Beautiful Life", director of "Forrest Gump", director of David Walpe, director of "Chocolate Factory", and so on.

Most are like directors or behind-the-scenes producers like Jessica Felton, and rarely see the stars in front of the scene.

Because the USC Film Academy does not have a performance major.

With the introduction of George Lucas, Ronan successfully entered the core circle of USC Film Academy alumni.

Although I dropped out of school and did not graduate, I was also an alumni.

After Robert Zemekis, chairman of the Alumni Association, issued an invitation, Ronan also agreed to join the Alumni Association of the Alumni School of Film.

He came to participate in this party, firstly because he was already marked with the indelible imprint of the USC Film Academy, and secondly, he used alumni to further expand his network of personal connections.

Many alumni who participated in the event are members of the School of Film Arts and Sciences.

In other words, it is the Oscar judge.

There are circles everywhere in this society, and alumni are the more reliable ones.

And at the banquet, Ronan also met his tutor Johnson when he was in school.

Three years ago, Professor Johnson officially retired and returned to Washington, DC to settle down. Ronan has not seen him for a while.

Although there is no such thing as the four major irons in life here, paying attention to mothers is a universal social value.

This is a special existence that you can scold it a thousand or even ten thousand times in your heart, but you will never allow outsiders to scold it.

In the second half of the banquet, Ronan asked Professor Johnson to accompany him to find the current top managers of the Film Academy and directly claimed that he would donate $8 million to his alma mater.

Professor Johnson retired, his pension was very high, but he was always paying attention to the USC Film Academy.

Ronan knew this very well and specifically met the current administrators of the college under the introduction of Professor Johnson, rather than George Lucas, in order to leave more reputation and marks on Professor Johnson.

This is also a reward. When Ronan was just starting out, Professor Johnson helped him a lot, and Jessica Felton was introduced to Professor Johnson.

Unfortunately, Jessica Felton went to Mexico to inspect the location of "Fast and Furious 3" and had no time to come and participate.

But Ronan can also introduce her to join the alumni association later.

Ronan was completely invested by this eight million US dollar donation. Of course, he would not write a short check and would definitely cash it.

There are too many examples of Hollywood celebrities talking empty talk when doing charity. They claim how much they donate, but they refuse to admit their accounts if they turn around.

Also, many celebrities have their own charitable foundations, and the promised charitable donations claim to be donated to their foundations...

No matter what the purpose of charitable donations are, as long as they are really done, they are better than those who have not done it, and are a hundred times better than those keyboard warriors who mock them for donating money with ulterior motives.

Once, a colleague of Luo Nan donated 100 yuan in a certain incident, but many people were ridiculed as stingy and stingy.

And those people's wallets are always kept tight.

Of course, in order to gain fame, it is another situation that it is openly claimed to donate a large amount of money, but it is not enough to lose money later.

There are many people like Hollywood, and the typical ones are Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey, not only famous iron cocks, but they have done more than once after publicly claiming to donate money.

Ronan will ask the accountant to come and handle the donation tomorrow.

Tonight, he didn't donate the most money. George Lucas donated $20 million in one lump sum, and also donated $10 million on behalf of Spielberg, who was filming in other places.

Spielberg is not an alumnus of the USC Film Academy, but is a famous USC Film Academy supporter.

Perhaps, this is related to his strong support from George Lucas in his early years.

According to Robert Zemekis, George Lucas is also preparing to donate a state-of-the-art teaching building and post-production studio to the USC Film Academy.

During most of the banquet, Ronan stayed with the alumni of the University of Southern California and chatted with him. Because of the boss of the film company and the identity of the gold medal producer, he quickly became one of the focus of the alumni.

In short, Ronan gained a lot after this day's activities.

A few days later, Ronan convened a grand dinner on the grounds of recently joining the USC Film Academy Alumni Association.

A brand new network of personal connections is gradually being established.

Most of them can directly connect with relativistic entertainment.

For example, the sound effects master class Butte accepted the invitation from Relativity Entertainment and was responsible for the sound effects processing of the "Transformers" series in the future.

In addition, the USC Film Academy has a continuous stream of outstanding graduates who can join the shooting and production teams of various crews of Shahai Entertainment.

Ronan was naturally listed as one of the most influential alumni by the USC Film Academy.

Subsequently, the crew of "Transformers" officially signed a contract with Industrial Light and Magic, a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. The special effects production of this commercial masterpiece will be carried out by Industrial Light and Magic.

Relativity Entertainment and Lucasfilm are constantly deepening their cooperation. Not counting small and medium-sized investment projects, but only in large production, Marvel Entertainment has reached a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with Industrial Light and Magic.

Sand Sea Entertainment cooperates with Industrial Light and Magic more, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, "Museum Night" and "Transformers" are all produced by Industrial Light and Magic.

Also, the two sides also reached a cooperation agreement on "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" directed by Zach Schneider.

Shahai Entertainment has long leased the studio of Hughes Aircraft Factory, and has successively withdrawn from Warner Studios. Post-production can be completed in full swing.

However, Zach Schneider and the "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" project were left by Ronan at Warner Studios to shoot.

The first film that entered the film industry was a huge success, and finally dropped from North America for $88.9 million. Zach Schneider was very energetic. After only a month of rest, he returned to Los Angeles from the UK and gathered people to start the crew. He planned to complete the preparations within half a year and filming and production will be completed next year.

Ronan also gave Zach Schneider more power, and even allowed him to serve as the second producer.

The production budget of this video is $60 million, and most of it will be invested in special effects production.

As soon as Zach Schneider was planning to set up the crew, he found Larry Fang, a photographer who has been working with for many years in the shooting of advertisements, so that his intentions and style can be fully implemented in the camera.

When shooting advertisements, Zach Schneider often uses high-speed slow motion, and Larry Fang is very good at shooting in this area.

Then, Zach Schneider suspended other work and first determined the candidates for the actors.

In his words to Ronan, the actor needs at least half a year to prepare.

Because the movie shots should be bodybuilding champions, not white-faced actors, Zach Schneider, after asking the advice of fitness experts, believed that the actors needed at least four months of professional fitness training to achieve the desired muscle effect.

Then, there is fighting training.

This is a movie that rejects any sissy. If you want to play a Spartan in this movie, you need to go through a devilish fitness journey.

Even so, after the crew released the cast's recruitment announcement, the Warner Studios where they are located was immediately surrounded by countless male actors and their agents.

Although the film pay is only $300,000 and there are still devilish fitness training, the candidate actor Leonida soon exceeded 30.

Ronan only participated in one audition for the male lead, and decided to star in the supporting actor Gerald Butler, who had played the male lead in "Tomb Raider 2".

Gerald Butler tried several shots. After Ronan confirmed that he had not recognized the wrong person, he directly told Zach Schneider: "This person is the Spartan lunatic king."

It is also a lunatic agent who will be in trouble wherever he goes.

The White House has fallen, London has fallen, submarines have fallen, and angels have fallen.

Wherever this person goes, the order will collapse.

More than fifty male actors were quickly in place, and Zach Schneider would soon strip them naked, turning them into a pile of walking hormones in a few months.

Of course, the Spartan warriors recorded in historical records did not fight in red trousers.

According to historical records, Spartan warriors were wearing heavy armor to fight, and some of them weighed half of their weight, but the original author Frank Miller believed that drawing such costumes would make the tragic and heroic Spartan warriors look like a turtle legion, so the costumes of the characters changed in the original work. Spartan king Leonida and his subordinates were wearing scarlet battle robes and strong bodies.

The battle robes designed by the crew based on the original work look like swimming trunks made of leather armor.

In ancient Greek works, characters are usually naked. For artistic and commercial reasons, the film will strip away the warriors' clothes without hesitation.

As for real history, it is not important at all, just like the Battle of Hot Spring Pass in the movie.

Besides, history has lost its true appearance from the moment it happened.

The plasma of the 300 strong men in Sparta will arouse the audience's emotions.
Chapter completed!