"Are you Reba?" Zhou Yutong looked at the exotic beauty in front of him.
"Yes, I have seen your performance in "A Little Thing About First Love". It was so beautiful." Reba spoke with a tone full of envy.
After hearing too many compliments, Zhou Yutong got used to it and didn't feel anything at all: "Thank you, I also remember that you appeared in Director Zhang's "The Magic"."
Reba was surprised: "Does this guy remember it too?"
"Of course, I am a loyal fan of Director Zhang. I have carefully watched every detail of his movies." When Zhou Yutong said this, there was a sense of pride in his tone.
Summer vacation is about to begin, although Zhou Yutong has become quite popular after starring in "A Little Thing About First Love", similar to Zhou Dongyu who starred in "Hawthorn Tree Love".
But because of his age, there are no good projects for Zhou Yutong.
So although Zhou Yutong became famous overnight, he could only play a supporting role in other projects. In the entertainment industry, there are far more stars than resources, and there are many people who fight openly and covertly for resources.
It can be said that many celebrities with good relationships have broken up because of the competition for resources.
Currently, according to the company's plan, Zhou Yutong still has to complete his study tasks. At the same time, the company will also arrange some resources, including roles in variety shows, TV series and movies, etc.
Zhou Yutong heard that the boss, Zhang Hao, personally ordered this. This made Zhou Yutong feel a little proud, indicating that Zhang Hao valued her very much.
Although Reba is a newcomer, she is not an idiot. Of course, she knows that joining Tianmi Company will only be considered a number three actress at best.
The first is that you don’t have to think about it. It’s always a big power, and you will become the boss’s wife directly. The second is probably the little girl in front of you.
It is necessary to build a good relationship, so a warm smile appeared on Reba's face: "Let's go have a drink together later?"
"Okay!" Zhou Yutong was about to agree, but then he remembered something and shook his head and refused: "No, I have to make an announcement in the afternoon, maybe next time!"
"Yutong, it's time for us to leave." The manager outside the door shouted.
"Okay sister, I'll be right away." Zhou Yutong responded, turned back to Reba and said, "Next time, I'll treat you to a drink."
"Okay, go ahead and wish you good luck in your work." Reba said with a smile.
Looking at Zhou Yutong's leaving back, a trace of envy flashed in Reba's eyes. Zhou Yutong was younger than her, but he became famous so quickly.
This strengthened Reba's mind. Thinking of Zhang Hao, whom she had met in Shanghai, her ambition to climb up was ignited.
In the entertainment industry, ambition is not a derogatory term, but a complimentary term. It's just that some people are blinded by ambition, lose themselves, do some irreversible things, and can never look back.
And some people use their ambition to continue to grow and become one of the most active figures in the entertainment industry.
Two actresses from Tianmi Film and Television Production Company had a collision, and Da Mi Mi also sat and chatted with her friend Liu Shishi at a party event.
The host on the stage was still teasing the big power: "Look at us, power, we are really lucky. Power, I am a fan of director Zhang Hao. Can you get an autograph for me?"
Facing the camera, Da Mi Mi certainly smiled and agreed.
When the host went to tease others, Liu Shishi asked Da Mi Mi: "Did Director Zhang really go to Hollywood to direct a movie?"
"Of course it's true, he has signed a director's contract." Da Mi Mi replied.
Liu Shishi became more curious and continued to ask: "What project? Can you tell me?"
Seeing Da Mi Mi looking at her suspiciously, Liu Shishi raised her hand and promised: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else."
"I don't doubt that you will tell others, I think you want to go to Hollywood!" Da Mi Mi smiled.
"Don't be ridiculous. We really need Chinese actresses. You must be Director Zhang's first choice." Liu Shishi hugged her powerful arms and looked even more intimate.
Generally speaking, if you want to maintain a relationship with a director, just go to the director directly.
However, although Zhang Hao is a young director, he is very old-fashioned. He is not keen on social activities, does not participate in party programs, and does not attend business activities. People who want to establish friendship with him have little chance to contact him.
I am a director, so it is normal to do this. Other directors are basically like this.
But this is a bit strange when it comes to Zhang Hao.
Because of Zhang Hao's outstanding appearance, he has a lot of fans, no less than those of a second- and third-tier star, not to mention a much larger fan base.
He claims to be a movie fan, but he is actually a fan.
So much so that Zhang Hao has a nickname online, called Idol Director, and because he is quite capable, he is called Idol Director.
This is the first time I have seen a director have so many fans.
But this is not what everyone is concerned about. What everyone is concerned about is: When will I have the opportunity to star in Zhang Hao's film project?
Of course Liu Shishi also wants to have such an opportunity. In the field of TV dramas, Liu Shishi has hit her own bottleneck, and of course she is thinking about developing into the big screen.
However, Liu Shishi's advantage is that she has a good relationship with Da Mi Mi and can contact Zhang Hao in a roundabout way.
Therefore, Liu Shishi is even more keen to maintain a good relationship with Da Mi Mi.
Da Mi Mi is not stupid, but is very smart. The people who have been friends with her recently are not only Liu Shishi, but also other actors and actresses, and even the bosses of various film and television production companies.
Of course, the protagonist is not himself, but Zhang Hao.
Da Mi Mi was very clever in taking advantage of the conveniences brought by Zhang Hao and obtained a lot of resources. However, she was not overly greedy, but had a limit to prevent trouble for Zhang Hao.
Besides, Da Mi Mi is an A-list actress herself, so she can feel at ease in getting these resources.
There was a turmoil in China because Zhang Hao went to Hollywood to pursue his career. This is normal. According to the subsequent development trend, people were not so enthusiastic about Hollywood.
But in the context of 2012, if a star reaches a top level in China, he will consider trying Hollywood.
Even if it doesn't succeed, it will export to domestic sales and give itself the title of an international superstar.
Looking back later, there is no star with the name of an international superstar anymore, because this method does not work and is no longer popular.
Zhang Hao is actually not keen, but he needs experience in producing large projects, and the team needs experience.
Zhang Hao's two main goals when helming a Hollywood movie are to train his team and to increase his international reputation.
Even though he has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, these things are of no use in the field of commercial films.
But if he hangs on to the title of "Batman" movie, the Chinese-language movies he directs in the future can be a new Batman director in the world, and will surely attract audiences in other regions besides China.
In the Internet age, directors are no longer as unknown as before.
A director with strong appeal is definitely as good as a movie superstar, and sometimes even has stronger appeal than a movie superstar.
What is appeal? It’s box office and money!
If you don't make movies to make money, it's better to go home and farm. This is a famous saying of a certain director, although that director's films have never made any money.
After signing the director's contract with Warner Pictures, Zhang Hao officially took over the preparatory work for the film.
At the beginning, Zhang Hao was really in a hurry when faced with the complicated preparatory work, because he had never been in contact with a crew of this size, let alone participated in it.
But fortunately, producer Charles Rowan helped Zhang Hao. Compared with other powerful Hollywood producers, this outstanding producer has a gentler personality.
For many things, Zhang Hao proposed various plans, Charles Rowan considered the feasibility, and then selected the most appropriate plan to implement.
It was also because of the presence of Charles Rowan that Zhang Hao was able to smoothly let the crew follow the plan he envisioned.
Otherwise, the producer and other members of the Hollywood crew would be able to make Zhang Hao a puppet director.
From this point of view, Zhang Hao would also like to thank Warner Pictures for sending him such a good producer. Although Zhang Hao is a newcomer in Hollywood and a Chinese, Charles Rowan has no prejudice.
On the contrary, Charles Rowan taught Zhang Hao how to prepare a large-scale science fiction film project and how to arrange the work of a crew of more than a thousand people to make it run smoothly.
"Zhang, the first batch of 50 million US dollars in production funds from Warner Pictures has been transferred to a third-party insurance account." Charles Rowan and Zhang Hao were discussing work.
The third-party insurance system is a compensation mechanism. The film company pays the production expenses to the third-party insurance company, and the insurance company's financial audit calculates every expenditure of the crew.
The most important purpose, the third-party insurance system is to ensure that the film is completed on schedule.
Although this system is somewhat troublesome, without a third-party insurance system, Warner Pictures is not confident that Zhang Hao can successfully complete the film production.
If Zhang Hao failed to finish half of his work, Warner Pictures would be dumbfounded.
"That's good," Zhang Hao nodded, and then said: "Charles, I would like to ask Lamborghini to help me design a Batmobile. Please contact me."
"What do you want?"
"That's it," Zhang Hao handed Charles Rowan a sketch: "According to this design, I need a total of eight vehicles, two of which are actually driveable."
Charles Rowan took a look and was immediately attracted by the Batmobile in the sketch: "If this could really be designed, it would definitely be a beast."
"The Batmobile I am designing is a combination of dexterity and beast, a sports car and a Hummer." Zhang Hao said.
"Okay, I'll contact the Lamborghini manufacturer right away." Charles Rowan contacted him immediately.
At this time, Guo Fan came in to report: "Director, the domestic team has arrived. I arranged for them to go to the hotel to rest first."
"Very good, let them rest and start fully immersing themselves in work. Remember to read more, learn more and ask more questions." Zhang Hao instructed.
"Don't worry, director, we have already discussed it. Everyone brings paper and pen to sort out what they have learned." Guo Fan said.
"Very good. These are valuable experiences. I can promote them to other Chinese film crews when I return to China in the future." Zhang Hao was very satisfied with what Guo Fan had arranged.
Promote the experience learned by Zhang Hao's team in Hollywood to other crews, which is what San Ye requested.
However, Zhang Hao felt that even if he was selfless and willing to teach others, they might not be willing to learn, and in turn, they would wonder if Zhang Hao was showing off.
Everyone is showing off in the same way, but Zhang Hao pretends to be working hard to make progress, and pretends to be a good person so that we can learn what he has learned. Isn't this showing off?
Whoever learns is a dog...
As an insider, Zhang Hao understands the thoughts of those rotten fish and shrimps very well, because he was also one of them in his previous life.
In his previous life, Guo Fan compiled his experience in filming the "Wandering Earth" series into a book. Under the organization of China Film, other filmmakers were arranged to learn from Guo Fan's hard-earned experience.
And most people, like Zhang Hao, didn't bother to study at all. Many people were still slandering Guo Fan in their hearts, discussing and arranging Guo Fan in private, saying that he was pretending to be a great sage.
Even if it's even more extreme, it's not impossible.
Precisely because of his understanding, Zhang Hao was unwilling to do these thankless tasks even though it was the third master who arranged the tasks. Once the things were sorted out, he would just hand them over to the third master and that would be it. Others would like to learn or not.
It's best not to learn at all, so that in the entire Chinese film industry, only Zhang Hao and his team have experience in producing large-scale film projects.
This experience is called: Chinese film industrialization process.
In the next few days, Zhang Hao's team, who were caught up in jet lag, officially joined the crew of "Time to War" and began their student journey.
Originally, many people thought that this was just a mission arranged by the superiors. What is there to learn about making movies? I have been working for so many years and still don’t know how to make movies?
But a group of people discovered that they really couldn't make movies.
The crew of "The War Begins" is different from the crews they have worked with in China in the past. The entire crew emphasizes scale, programming, large-scale and professionalism.
For example, take the real-scene construction as an example. Domestic real-scene construction is very simple. A few props masters can complete the task and create a set of real-life scenes required by the director.
But the crew of "Come on" was different. The crew specially set up the Batcave at Fox Studios, which was originally a studio converted from an aircraft workshop.
The scale of the entire scene is so huge that it is difficult to tell the real scene from the real scene. If it were not for being in a studio, the set-up crew would have thought they were really in a cave.
After witnessing the professional performance of the Hollywood staff in "It's War", everyone in Zhang Hao's team immediately lost their original pride and started studying seriously.
Even after working hard every day, everyone went back to rest, and many people gathered together to discuss their learning experiences.
Zhang Hao was very satisfied after seeing it. What he was afraid of was that people brought him here, but his heart was not brought here. He treated it with the mentality of completing the work, but refused to learn anything.
This is natural. With a director like Zhang Hao who has cutting-edge concepts, his team members are not conservative people. They all have some new ideas and are more capable of accepting new things.
Moreover, after being gilded in Hollywood, his return to China will undoubtedly be smoother.
Even if he no longer works in Zhang Hao's team, he will still be a sought-after talent wherever he goes.
What is most important in the 21st century? Uncle Ge said, it is talents.
Unlike these team members who started studying seriously with great enthusiasm, Zhang Hao was extremely distressed at this time.
It's not easy to save the Batman franchise, even though it's been more than a decade since the terrible experience brought by Joe Schumacher's "Batman and Robin."
But in these more than ten years, countless new superheroes have emerged, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, and even Captain America.
There is one figure behind these famous superheroes, and that is Marvel.
Now that Marvel's huge figure hangs over DC, Batman naturally can't escape.
Despite the survey initiated by Warner Pictures, Batman is still one of the most popular superheroes in the United States.
However, according to survey reports, among young people under the age of 25, Batman is no longer mainstream. Instead, Iron Man and Captain America have become the most popular superhero.
Most people who like Batman have experienced the glorious era of Batman movies, and the main audience of superhero movies is always young people.
To create a successful movie series requires a lot of hard work by many people. But to ruin a movie series, all it takes is one bad movie.
Coupled with the long time, it is enough for people to forget the brilliant Bruce Wayne.
Therefore, Zhang Hao's most important task in directing "Batman" is to clean up the mess left by Joe Schumacher and let North American audiences regain their memory of Batman.
This is not easy, but Zhang Hao must do it.
When convening a meeting with the cast and crew of "Come on," Zhang Hao made it clear: "Essentially, the new Batman movie still belongs to the category of superhero science fiction movies.
But I want to give it a more realistic style, and the script, characters, props and scene design, and action scenes must all conform to this style."
The film is of a dark style. Needless to say, the crew members working in Hollywood know this better than him.
In fact, many Hollywood crew members are dissatisfied with the fact that there is a Chinese director sitting on top, but he can talk and guide the work of professionals like them.
In their opinion, apart from a few outstanding action actors on Hong Kong Island, there is no way to make movies in that barbaric land of China.
But Zhang Hao is already the director, and they can't change it. Although they have personal opinions about Zhang Hao, we are all professionals and will not put our personal biases into our work.
Prejudice is prejudice, but if you deliberately fail to cooperate and mess up the work because of this, it violates the signed work contract, and it will not be a good reputation if it spreads to other Hollywood crews, and you will not be able to get any jobs in the future.
And there is also a Charles Rowan. If the Chinese director really fails, Charles Rowan will stand up and seek justice.
Compared with the different expressions of the Hollywood crew, the team Zhang Hao brought from China were much more serious. When Zhang Hao spoke, they basically listened carefully and took notes.
This is the reason why Zhang Hao has not yet established his prestige in Hollywood. If he were a first-class Hollywood director at this time, those Hollywood staff would not despise him at all.
However, for Zhang Hao, Hollywood is equivalent to his leveling place, a dungeon used to gain experience. The focus of his career will always be Chinese-language movies.
The Hollywood staff in front of him are all experience packages of his team members, elite monsters, and they can grow and upgrade once they are cleared.