Accompanying us were Li Xiuxiu, four bodyguards and Warner Zhou Jianhui.
Warner Bros. is headquartered in New York, but Jiang Yan still chose to settle in Los Angeles.
Because Los Angeles has Hollywood.
After all, music is not the most important thing. For Jiang Yan, the most important thing is still movies, movies, movies.
Warner Zhou Jianhui and Warner Henry expressed their understanding of this.
Because Jiang Yan’s English EP album will be released in two days.
So they wouldn't care if Jiang Yan took two days to do his own things, or use it to catch up on jet lag or something like that.
However, once it is released and the publicity plan begins, Jiang Yan's music schedule will no longer be up to him.
The schedule is very full, including radio and advertising.
And it’s still floating. The exact number of arrangements will depend on the response to the album.
However, regarding this issue, Warner Henry has full confidence. After all, the quality of the songs is there, and coupled with Warner's resources, it would be a shame to God.
Henry said, let him be prepared. The next trip will make you exhausted, so enjoy these two leisure days.
Leisure, for Jiang Yan, these two days are not for leisure.
He still has a lot to do.
...
When he comes this time, he wants to finish two movies.
These two movies do not include the American version of "Infernal Affairs."
The American version of Infernal Affairs is already on track, so he doesn't have to worry about it. He can just pay for it when the time comes.
So what he wants to do this time is his own movie.
The first one is "This Man is from Earth".
"This Man Is From Earth" was a big hit on the original space network.
The production cost is tens of thousands of dollars, and the box office is more than 300 million, which is very exaggerated.
But in fact, the filming of this film was very professional, and the lighting and photography were all movie-level. So according to the old American economy in 2005 and 2006, the production fee of 10,000 US dollars was definitely not enough. It would have cost 100,000 or 200,000 US dollars.
Let’s talk about revenue, the box office result of 350 million US dollars is actually fake. It was released in 2007, and it was not even in the top 100 box office charts.
But why is it profitable?
The answer is the disc market.
The disc market in the United States is huge.
In 2007, due to the impact of the Internet, the market had shrunk a lot, but because copyright supervision is much stricter than that of China, the market in this area is still very large.
So not to mention that in 1999, when Internet video had not yet taken off, the disc sales and rental market was even larger than that of theater chains.
Many movies that lost money in theaters relied on the disc market to make money, such as "The Shawshank Redemption". This movie was a huge loss when it was released, but a good movie is a good movie after all, and subsequent discs have made huge profits.
"This Man Came from Earth" entered the disc market.
The revenue of 350 million is too exaggerated. The timeline is stretched, tens of millions or even over 100 million US dollars are still possible.
Of course, the cost of this film is only about 200,000, so even if it only earns a few million dollars, it is still a huge profit.
And the reason why Jiang Yan likes it doesn't stop there.
The quality is high, and the original time and space will make huge profits. If it does not go to theaters, it will not waste Warner's cooperation opportunities. This is the first point.
It can make progress, the cost is low, and the shooting is fast. This is the second one.
The most important thing is that Emerson was caught by himself.
So it's a pity to let him go.
...
Emerson is the son of the author of "The Man from Earth."
Gilm Bixby, the screenwriter whose masterpiece is "The Twilight Zone."
Another masterpiece is "The Man from the Earth", but he was bedridden when he wrote this story, so he asked his son Emerson to record it orally.
After Gilm passed away in 1998, Emerson began looking for someone to turn the script into a movie.
Then at the right time, I "accidentally met" Gu Hanqing, who was sent by Jiang Yan, and last year, the two sides had the first round of negotiations.
The first round of negotiations didn't go very well because Emerson wanted to find a big director to film, but Gu Hanqing, let alone a big director, wasn't even an old beauty, so Emerson naturally refused.
But when Gu Hanqing threw out the Warner Bros. sign, Emerson was shaken.
So he put forward a requirement for advancement: the script cannot be changed.
Jiang Yan agreed directly, but it was a bit difficult to deal with the previous request of a big director.
The script was handed to Warner's contracted directors, and just like the original time and space, they either dismissed it or asked to change the script.
After all, "This Man Is From Earth" is too simple.
As for finding other less famous directors, Emerson wouldn't approve of it.
Jiang Yan tried to name several directors in Hong Kong who had won international awards, but they didn't recognize them, only Hollywood.
So he froze again.
But this is not a problem for Jiang Yan.
So when he met Emerson that afternoon, he said directly:
"Quentin Tarantino, do you know?"
Emerson immediately responded: "Of course, Pulp Fiction, wow, it's a great movie, what, would he be willing to direct it?"
As soon as he said this, Jiang Yan knew that this guy was not picky about food.
In other words, this guy may not know much about the industry at all. As for whether he is a famous director, he only looks at the box office, not the style.
So Jiang Yan was relieved.
"I haven't told him yet." Jiang Yan shook his head, but before Emerson could be disappointed, he added, "But he is my friend, and he still owes me a favor. I will take care of him."
"Are you sure?" Emerson asked doubtfully.
"I'm not sure, won't you know when I bring him in a few days?" Jiang Yan said calmly.
"Wow, that's great!" Emerson stood up and shook hands with Jiang Yan, which was considered a consensus.
After finishing the meeting and leaving the coffee shop, Li Xiuxiu asked doubtfully: "Who do you really know?"
"I don't know." Jiang Yan shook his head directly.
"Then you still say that?"
"Don't we know each other once we meet?" Jiang Yan said with a smile.
"But it's useless to meet him. Will he be the director?"
"Didn't I say that he owes me a favor?"
"...Didn't you say that you two don't know each other?"
"Don't we know each other once we meet?"
Li Xiuxiu directly said "..."
Jiang Yan smiled slightly and stopped explaining.
That night, he met the unkempt Quentin in a villa in a wealthy area of Los Angeles.
"Hi, Jiang, Nihao, Leihou, oh, what kind of language should I speak?"
"Wow, Quentin, it seems Jiang Wen didn't lie to me. You really are a China expert!"
Jiang Yan didn't have any Chinese reservations and responded very generously, which looked very American.
This made Quentin feel that there was something different about this guy.
So he asked: "Are you Chinese?"
"No, I am a native of China."
"Wow, you are different from the Chinese. You speak English very well, and your personality is...well, you are very similar to Jiang Wen."
"We are all the same kind of people, we don't have to pay too much attention to it." Jiang Yan's face was not red and his heart was not beating.
"Great, come in and talk, friend!"
The two of them were considered acquainted, so they entered the room and started chatting in detail.