Chen Feng checked some news about Warner and Paramount online. Warner can be said to be the largest film giant in Hollywood today. Because it is backed by Warner Group and has abundant capital, it ranks first among all film companies in Hollywood. With
In comparison, Paramount feels a bit at the bottom.
It is conceivable that when Chen Feng discloses the news of false accounting, Paramount will bleed even more and will have to be at the bottom again.
In addition, it is worth noting that in recent years, Warner has not only invested in making movies, but they have also invested in making TV series, many of which have achieved good ratings and payment rates.
In the United States, some TV dramas must be paid to watch. Warner Bros. has been producing high-quality TV dramas for viewers to pay in recent years.
Relatively speaking, the quality of these TV series that require viewers to pay is generally relatively good, well-produced, and the quality is much higher than those free TV series that earn advertising fees.
In recent years, Warner's investment in TV series has been relatively successful, and its income is not much worse than its investment in movies.
Last year, they produced two very high-quality TV series, almost on par with "The Big Bang Theory" and "Lost." As a result, in terms of ratings, they could only be crushed by these two TV series produced by Beauty Company.
This naturally lowered the ratings and payment rates of their two dramas.
From this point of view, Beauty Beauty Company has cheated Warner. Therefore, Warner should be the most eager to kill the rising Beauty Beauty. After all, in terms of TV series, Beauty Beauty has seriously threatened their interests.
This must be the most direct reason why Warner and Paramount want to dig a hole for him this time. As the old saying goes, there is no such thing as hate without reason.
As for why Paramount was involved, Chen Feng didn't know. My guess is that they wanted to flatter Warner.
In fact, the internal relationships among these giant film companies include both competition and cooperation, which is very complicated. The specific manifestation is that senior executives of these companies often change jobs between these companies.
Therefore, there must be a certain tacit understanding and even alliance behind these film companies. Otherwise, it is definitely unacceptable for ordinary companies to have senior executives of their own company, including the president, who were previously vice presidents of other competing companies.
Chen Feng searched for information on the Internet and then analyzed the information. He couldn't help but sigh that these Hollywood people really know how to play.
After browsing some news online, I received a call from Li Dazhi.
"Master, I've finished breakfast. Why don't we leave for the crew now. We can't keep them waiting for too long."
Chen Feng looked at the time, it was 10:30 in the morning, and said: "It's already 10:30, and we will have a lunch break when we get there, so we might as well have dinner here before going."
"Ah! Isn't there something wrong with this? Will it make those foreigners think that we are trying to be a big name?"
"You are thinking too much. Not to mention that you have no reputation in Hollywood now, even Li Yixue is a nobody here. More importantly, you don't have many scenes, and you can even cut them all. What qualifications do you have?
Playing a big role? You don't even have it."
Li Dazhi said depressedly: "Master, can't you stop attacking me? It's like I'm just here to play a role."
"I'm telling you not to be too arrogant. Don't think that you are great now that you are a prodigy in China. Everyone values you. In fact, you are just a little bit better than a walk-on here.
No matter how good it is, it will be gone. You have to calm down here."
"Okay, okay. I understand, Master, then come downstairs. I'm the only man downstairs now, and I can't handle it. Besides, junior sister, she seems to dislike me."
Chen Feng heard this and said angrily: "What did you tell her?"
Li Dazhi complained: "I didn't say anything to her, but she disliked me after asking me a few questions."
"What did she ask you?"
"...The first thing she said was to ask me if I could play the piano? I couldn't play this thing, so she said no. Then, she asked me what I was doing now? I said I was a singer and actor. She asked me
Which is the famous song, and which movie is the masterpiece? I said that the famous song is "Oldboy", and I also showed her the music video, and she said she liked this song very much. But after knowing that Master, you are the one who created this song
After composing lyrics and music, it seemed that she disliked me. Finally, I said that the movie had no masterpiece yet, and she disliked me even more. I said, Master, Junior Sister, she is too arrogant. Why did you accept her as your apprentice in the first place?
In other words, how could such an arrogant person like her become your disciple?"
After hearing what he said, Chen Feng could only remain silent for a while. To be honest, if Li Dazhi, a cheap apprentice, hadn't suddenly been issued a task by the system, he really had no plans or intentions to make him a star. It can even be said that he didn't want to
Accept him as your disciple.
One is only two or three years older than the other, and the other, Li Dazhi, has really average qualifications. Even his best musical talent is actually at an amateur level. So, it’s really hard for such a person to promote him as a star.
It's very unnecessary.
But the system must let Chen Feng promote him as a star, or a first-line star, and Chen Feng can only accept it. Otherwise, the punishment for failure is too harsh.
Not to mention that Catherine disliked him as a senior brother, Chen Feng actually disliked him as an apprentice even more.
But Li Dazhi hasn't realized this yet, and Chen Feng really doesn't know what to say about him.
"Hey, Master, are you there? Did you hear what I just said?" Seeing that Chen Feng did not respond, Li Dazhi thought that Chen Feng was not there or the communication was not smooth.
"Okay. I'll go down right away."
Chen Feng hung up the phone and walked downstairs quickly. He saw four women chatting animatedly on the sofa. Li Dazhi sat alone on the single sofa nearby, wiggling his buttocks.
He looked like he had ADHD. The reason was simple. He couldn't get into the conversation between the four women. In fact, they all spoke English and he couldn't understand them at all.
"Master, you are here." Seeing Chen Feng coming, Li Dazhi quickly stood up from the sofa.
Chen Feng gave him an annoyed look. He was such an embarrassing guy. He even disliked his own female apprentice, let alone Betty, a rich woman.
"Okay. Come with me over there and review the lines."
Chen Feng didn't want to chat with a few women here, so he just helped Li Dazhi read his English lines and sharpen his skills before the battle.
"Okay, Master." Li Dazhi felt even more uncomfortable here. When Chen Feng said this, he quickly agreed.
Chen Feng took him to an empty room on the first floor, and then began to dialogue with Li Dazhi.
His memory is very good now. What's more, the script was originally written by him and revised many times by him, so he can remember most of the lines.
Li Dazhi doesn't have many lines. The longest paragraph only has more than 30 words. There are 8 lines in total.
It only takes three or four minutes to check it out.
Li Dazhi's rustic English made Chen Feng feel uncomfortable for a while, but at least he did memorize all 8 English lines and spoke them fairly fluently.
"Okay. Overall, it's pretty good. It's just that the facial expressions are a bit lacking. You have to pay attention to what you say, match your lines, and show your expressions naturally. Don't be too deliberate, just do it naturally. You can try it again.
."
"Okay, Master."
The two met several times in total. After each time, the director and screenwriter Chen Feng would make corresponding corrections and explanations, which really benefited Li Dazhi a lot. This kind of one-on-one teaching, and it was still like Chen Feng.
A big shot in the domestic film industry personally guided him. I can only say that Li Dazhi is really lucky.
This is also one of the main reasons why many people are jealous of him. Seeing someone like Li Dazhi, he has no looks and no talent, but he has become a star just because he was lucky enough to meet him early.
Chen Feng, he even shamelessly accepted Chen Feng as his teacher. The mentality of "I can do it if I can do it" is a true portrayal of many people in China.
For the last time, Li Dazhi finally got a few lines right in one go. Not only did he speak the lines naturally, but his expressions were also quite spot on. Only then did Chen Feng let him go with satisfaction.
When the two came out of the room, only Betty and Li Yixue were sitting on the sofa in the living room. If they were alone, the conversation would seem a bit dull. This was especially true for Li Yixue.
She actually didn't have much in common with a wealthy foreign woman like Betty, but because they both liked music, they had a great conversation with Catherine. As for Zhao Wenxiu, he was a fan of hers, and with her cooperation, the two of course became more
We can talk.
But now that both of them have gone to work in the kitchen, only Betty and her two guests are left, and the conversation can no longer go on. The two of them can only watch TV together in tacit understanding and boredom.
When she saw Chen Feng coming out with Li Dazhi, Li Yixue finally got out of this awkward atmosphere. She quickly stood up and pretended to be dissatisfied and said: "Boss, are you taking Dazhi to open a small stove?
After all, I am also your employee and I work for you, so can’t you treat me equally and open a small stove for me?”
Chen Feng smiled and said: "Didn't I see you chatting happily with them before? That's why I didn't ask you to join me. It's the same now. Come with me. Dazhi, you also follow, standing by.
Study and observe carefully."
When Li Yixue heard this, she was overjoyed and said with a smile on her face: "Boss, you are really good. I really did not misjudge you. Only under the leadership of a wise and powerful boss like you can we, the part-time workers, give full play to our abilities."
Get better."
"Okay, stop flattering me. Come with me."
"okay."
Li Yixue promised to leave with Chen Feng. Betty, who could not understand what they were saying, could only look confused.
Fortunately, Li Yixue still knew how to be polite and told her that she was going to have a dialogue with Chen Feng, so Betty felt a little relieved.
Correcting the lines this time was a bit more troublesome, because Li Yixue had a lot of lines, and Chen Feng might not remember some of the lines in detail. In the end, Li Dazhi had to run upstairs to get the script to complete the dialogue.
Li Yixue's acting skills are obviously much better than Li Dazhi's, and apart from anything else, her spoken English is several levels better. Chen Feng doesn't feel awkward when exchanging lines with her.
Under the personal guidance and explanation of director Chen Feng and the script, Li Yixue also had a deeper understanding of the role she was about to play. It was just the surprise of Eastern and Western cultures and some differences in performance methods that Chen Feng needed
She corrected it, which took some effort.
This continued until almost twelve o'clock at noon, when Zhao Wenxiu came over to call for dinner, and then ended the "private lesson" service.
After everyone finished eating and rested and chatted for a while in the living room while watching TV, Chen Feng asked Li Dazhi and Li Yixue to go back to their rooms to prepare, pack their bags, and preferably take a nap, and leave for the set in an hour.
The two of them quickly agreed to go upstairs. After Chen Feng said something to the three women, he followed them upstairs.
An hour later, Chen Feng took Li Dazhi and Li Yixue by car to the "Juno" set.
The current shooting location of the crew is a town in Barra County, California. The high school life part was shot directly in the middle school of this town. Most of the other scenes were also shot in this town. In this way, all the crew members live in the town.
There is a hotel in this town that has been rented out by the film crew. In rural areas, the cost of renting out an entire hotel is not very high. Not to mention, the budget for "Juno" is very sufficient.
In the original time and space, this movie only cost more than 6 million US dollars, but the budget for the version Chen Feng wants to shoot is directly 20 million US dollars, almost three times more. The reason for this is that Chen Feng is certainly not a waste of money.
I wanted to make this movie more sophisticated, and not make it as documentary-like as the original work.
Even though the original work was shot like a documentary, it received rave reviews and received multiple Oscar nominations that year, as well as countless other film awards. It can be seen that this is a film specially designed to win awards.
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Now that Marcia, the world's number one female director known for her dramas and ethical films, has joined the cast, it will be difficult for this film not to win an award.
In fact, in the entire crew, Marcia, the great director, has the highest salary. Miranda, the heroine, only gets 2 million U.S. dollars, while Marcia, the director, gets 4 million U.S. dollars. This was Marcia's initiative to lower the salary.
As a result of the remuneration, coupled with the fact that the film is a drama-ethical film, the remuneration must be a bit lower than that of a commercial film, otherwise 8 million US dollars may not be enough. The few films Marcia has made before have not only the remuneration, but also the remuneration.
For those who participate in box office dividends, the highest paid one is when the movie has not even started shooting, and the investors have to pay her an advance of 10 million US dollars, plus 15% of the total box office share.
Of course, such high remuneration is rare among all directors in Hollywood, and it is unique among female directors.
But this time she came to film "Juno" and only asked for a salary of 4 million, and she did not participate in the movie's box office share. It can really only be said to be the lowest friendly price.