Generally speaking, everyone will encounter various difficulties in this life.
The higher you stand and the more attention you draw, the greater the difficulties you encounter.
In a sense, this is the norm.
"Sorry, I thought about it for a long time and finally chose Mr. Zhou..."
"This is an irrational decision that is almost devastating to you. Have you forgotten the lessons of the past?"
"I still remember, but I decided to refuse."
"..."
November 23rd.
Linda, the head of the Fox Film Department, looked at Zheng Jun in surprise.
Zheng Jun didn't dare to look at him. Ever since he walked into the office in the morning, Zheng Jun had always lowered his head or looked away, never making eye contact with her.
A charming smile appeared on Linda's face. After seeing Zheng Jun's firm words, she finally felt a flash of regret, but she didn't say anything. In the end, she just nodded: "If you are willing to come over, our Fox door will be open for you at any time."
…”
"Thanks."
After Zheng Jun said these two words, he turned and left the office.
Along the way, he felt countless surprised glances and a series of whispers. He quickened his pace and walked forward even faster.
In fact, his mind has always been undecided. He is afraid that if he stops for a moment, he will regret it and change his mind.
On the one hand, there is a splendid life, on the other hand, there is extremely tenacious persistence and something essential in my heart. These two have been lingering in my chest. Even when I walked out of the door, a trace of regret flashed in my mind...
But he finally took a breath.
Relief flashed across his face, and then he called Zhou Yang and said this half-jokingly: "Mr. Zhou, we may have to live a hard life next..."
When he heard the laughter coming from the other end of the phone, Zheng Jun also started to laugh.
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Most of the actors that "Spider-Man" finally recruited have left during this period.
Some famous people were poached, and some less famous people couldn't stand the difficult action scenes of "Spider-Man". In fact, except for Cruise and Trent, the rest of the people were more or less arranged.
You can still persist in practicing some basic skills at first, but as you continue to practice, you will run out of practice.
Most of the seats in the entire crew were vacant...
certainly……
These are not the worst. The worst thing is that Li Qiang and the staff previously found a college in the United States to prepare as the filming location for "Spider-Man". All conditions were negotiated and the equipment was equipped with all aspects.
After that, the other party suddenly regretted it. In the end, Li Qiang had no choice but to return to the crew and choose a school again according to Zhou Yang's request.
The tax department of the United States will also come here every three days to check the taxes of "Spider-Man". In addition to the taxes of "Spider-Man", they will also check some tax situations of "Saw". They will calculate in detail down to a few dollars.
Good Zhou Yang himself is very meticulous about taxation. After the group checked for a long time, they finally found nothing, so they had to give up with regret.
Bad news came one after another, and the newly established crew of "Spider-Man" began to fall apart. In the end, all the hard work of several months came to nothing.
"damn it……"
"Now they are checking "American Gangster History". Although there is no problem with "American Gangster History", during the inspection period, the movie cannot be released normally..."
"This is going to force us out of Los Angeles!"
"..."
On the afternoon of November 23rd.
Xu Mei's face became even more haggard.
He opened the door and told Zhou Yang about the company's current situation.
He was subject to tax inspections every three days, and faced inspections on his movies. What was speechless was that the movies were basically inspected in which Zhou Yang participated. As for the movies distributed by SKY, such as "Men in Black"
, for example, movies such as "Jaws" have no problems at all.
It is clear that it is aimed at Zhou Yang.
After Zhou Yang listened to Xu Mei's words, even though he had always been very optimistic, his mood became a little gloomy.
Just now, Christian and Zhou Yang also made a phone call. Christian, who had always been quite forthright, began to hesitate a bit, and it took him a long time to say a complete sentence.
Probably the Hollywood film union, including the eight major film companies, are all targeting Zhou Yang. Although Christian mediates through his own channels, he has little effect. Instead, he got an even more helpless news, unless Zhou Yang leaves Los Angeles.
, leave Hollywood, otherwise such similar suppression will only become more severe.
After Zhou Yang recalled Christian's words, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he finally closed his eyes.
It seems that "Spider-Man" will no longer be filmed in Los Angeles and will have to return to China.
But filming a superhero movie like "Spider-Man" in China...
Are the Chinese people just amusing themselves by taking pictures here and there?
When Zhou Yang was filming "Spider-Man", he had the idea of bringing some Chinese culture to the public awareness of Laos and the United States, at least to correct some people's perceptions.
Otherwise, in the future, old American movies will be all about squinting and vilifying the Chinese people. Isn’t this disgusting and insulting?
"There was another call over there, and someone came over to check on the crew again..."
Xu Mei's phone rang. After answering the phone, Xu Mei left the office very irritably.
The office became silent again.
Thousands of thoughts flashed through Zhou Yang's mind, including plans to film "Spider-Man" after returning to China. As time went by, Zhou Yang's mood gradually calmed down.
I also remembered his phone number.
The call was from An Xiao...
An Xiao first asked Zhou Yang's current situation with concern and asked Zhou Yang to have a good rest and not stay up late. Then he implicitly said that if he really couldn't stand it in Hollywood, he could go back to China.
Of course, if you really want to make "Spider-Man", then do it. It's just that when "Spider-Man" is released in the United States, it will be exported to the United States through China's export film channels.
Over the years, the relationship between Chinese officials and Lao America has been relatively close. It is not a honeymoon period, but at least the two sides are extremely harmonious. There is no problem at all in exporting movies to each other in this way.
Zhou Yang did not reject An Xiao's proposal, and after chatting about some topics, Zhou Yang hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone...
Zhou Yang stayed in the office and thought about what he should do next.
Should I take the entire crew of "Spider-Man" back to China to film and then release it for export after filming is completed, or should I continue to stay in the United States and release it for export after filming is completed?
After thinking about it, Zhou Yang looked at the book "Road to Hollywood" next to his office.
The book "The Road to Hollywood" tells the story of the birth of Hollywood...
When he turned to the first page, Zhou Yang saw some extremely long-standing stories...
The laws of each state in the United States are different. At that time, the "patent troll" Edson registered a "movie patent. As long as he was a producer or filmmaker who made a movie, he would send thugs to collect taxes, and the filmmakers were forced to
They had no choice but to leave their hometown and choose a place where no thugs could find. In the early 1990s, Los Angeles was actually a wild land. Later, the first batch of filmmakers were forced to evade the so-called "movie patent tax".
"After coming to this place to shoot movies, more and more filmmakers came one after another, and gradually the city of Los Angeles became the film capital of the world...
After reading this story, Zhou Yang felt that a fire appeared in his heart, and this fire could not be extinguished for a long time.
He heard a noise coming from outside the house.
He stood up.
When he walked out, Zhou Yang saw the tax department personnel coming in, and then they interrogated Zhou Yang's company again, while Xu Mei kept dealing with these personnel.
After struggling for a long time, the tax collector finally had to leave empty-handed...
Outside the office, a group of actors from "Spider-Man" were gathered around. They were looking around, curious and a little worried.
After closing the door, Xu Mei sat opposite Zhou Yang in frustration, tired and angry.
She has never encountered anything like this before in her career.
Now things have reached a point where they can't be resolved, and to some extent, they have to leave Los Angeles to be a little cleaner.
"President Zhou, let's go. If we stay here for one day, we will lose one day. Congressman Sergey has a lot of energy in Los Angeles, and there is nothing Christian can do about it..."
"Sister Xu Mei..."
"Mr. Zhou, what's wrong?"
"Go and check which states in the United States have slightly lower taxes..."
"ah?"
"Don't ask, just check it for me first."
"Oh well."
Xu Mei was a little confused, but still nodded.
After about a few minutes, Xu Mei brought information about some states in the United States and handed it to Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang nodded after looking at it for a while, and then called Christian.
"Mr. Christian, can you contact the governors of these states in the United States? If it is convenient, can you recommend them?"
"Mr. Zhou Yang, what do you want to do?"
"I want to make movies, or rather, I want to move there and make movies..."
"Ah? This..."
"I have many movies, and as long as they can be made, I don't think they are necessarily worse than these Hollywood movies... I just watched "The Road to Hollywood" and I was thinking, since Hollywood can create something from scratch, should I?
Can……"
"..."
On the other end of the phone, Christian seemed to be so shocked by Zhou Yang's shocking words that he didn't respond for a long time.
A few minutes later, he exclaimed.
"Mr. Zhou Yang, you are crazy. You don't think you can compete with Hollywood, do you? Unless every next movie you make can be as crazy as "Jaws", otherwise...it is impossible to make movies elsewhere.
No problem, but you should give up these crazy ideas..."