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Chapter 246 Two Movies, Quentin
3 month 25 number.

Jiang Yan landed in Los Angeles.

Accompanied by Li Xiuxiu, four bodyguards and Warner Zhou Jianhui.

The headquarters of Warner Bros. is in New York, but Jiang Yan still chose to land 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, and movies.

Warner Chow and Warner Henry understand this.

Because Jiang Yan's English EP album will be released in two days.

So they don't care if Jiang Yan spares two days to do his own business, or use it to catch jet lag or something.

But when it's released and the publicity plan starts, Jiang Yan's music schedule can't be controlled by him.

The schedule is very full, and there are radio stations and advertisements.

And it's still floating, the exact number depends on the response of the album.

But for this question, Warner Henry has full confidence. After all, the quality of the song is there, coupled with Warner's resources, I'm sorry to God if it doesn't explode.

Henry said, let him be prepared, the next trip will exhaust you, so enjoy these two free days.

Leisure, for Jiang Yan, these two days are not for leisure.

He still has a lot to do.

. . . . . .

This time he came here, he wanted to finish the two movies.

These two films 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, as long as he pays for it when the time comes.

So this time what he wants to do is his own movie.

The first one is "The Man From Earth".

"The Man From Earth" was very popular on the original space-time network.

The production cost of tens of thousands of dollars and the box office of more than [-] million are very exaggerated.

But in fact, the filming of this film is very professional. The lighting and photography are film-level. Therefore, according to the old American economy in 05 and 06, the production fee of 20 US dollars is definitely not enough, and it is [-] million.

Besides the income, the box office performance of 3.5 million U.S. dollars is actually fake. It was released in 07, and it was not in the top [-] box office charts at all.

But why do you say it makes money?

The answer is the disc market.

Laomei's disc market is huge.

In 07, due to the impact of the Internet, the market has 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 99, when Internet video had not yet emerged, the disc trading and leasing market was even larger than that of theaters.

Many films that lose money in theaters rely on the disc market to recover their blood. For example, "The Shawshank Redemption" almost lost money when it was released, but a good film is a good film after all, and the follow-up discs are almost profitable.

"The Man From Earth" went to the disc market.

The income of 3.5 million is too exaggerated, and the timeline is stretched. There are still tens of millions or even more than [-] million US dollars.

Of course, the cost of this film is only about 20 yuan, so even if the income is only a few million dollars, it is a huge profit.

And the reason why Jiang Yan took a fancy to it was not limited to this.

The quality is high, and the original time and space will make a lot of money. If you don't go to theaters, you won't waste Warner's cooperation opportunities. This is the first point.

Can earn progress, low cost, fast shooting, this is the second.

The bottom line is that Emerson got caught himself.

So what a pity to let go.

. . . . . .

Emerson, the son of the author of The Man From Earth.

Gilm Bixby, the screenwriter's masterpiece is "The Twilight Zone".

Another masterpiece is "The Man From Earth", but he was already bedridden when he wrote this story, so he asked his son Emerson to record it in oral form.

After Gilm died in 98, Emerson began looking for someone who could turn the script into a film.

Then at the right time, he "ran into" Gu Hanqing sent by Jiang Yan, so last year, the two sides had the first round of negotiations.

The first round of negotiations was not very smooth, because Emerson wanted to find a big director to shoot, and Gu Hanqing was not even an old beauty, let alone a big director, so Emerson naturally refused.

But when Gu Hanqing threw out the signboard of Warner Bros., Emerson was shaken.

So he put forward an advanced requirement: the script cannot be changed.

Jiang Yan directly agreed, but it was a bit difficult to deal with the previous request for a big director.

The book was handed over to Warner's contracted director, who, like Yuan Shikong, either dismissed it or asked to change the script.

After all, "The Man From Earth" is too simple.

And looking for other less famous directors, Emerson didn't approve.

Jiang Yan tried to name a few directors in Xiangjiang who had won international awards, but they didn't recognize them, they only recognized Hollywood.

So it froze again.

However, this did not bother Jiang Yan.

So when he met Emerson this afternoon, he said directly:

"Do you know Quentin Tarantino?"

Emerson replied immediately: "Of course, Pulp Fiction, wow, the movie is great, what, would he like to direct?"

As soon as he said this, Jiang Yan knew that this guy was not picky.

In other words, this guy may not know much 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 was disappointed, he said again, "But he is my friend, and he still owes me a favor. I will take care of him."

"Are you sure?" Emerson doubted.

"I'm not sure, you'll know when I bring him in a few days?" Jiang Yan said calmly.

"Wow, that's really great!" Emerson stood up and shook hands with Jiang Yan, which was considered a consensus.

After the meeting, Li Xiuxiu asked doubtfully after leaving the coffee shop, "Who do you really know?"

"I don't know." Jiang Yan shook his head directly.

"Then you still say that?"

"Don't you know each other once you meet?" Jiang Yan smiled.

"But it's useless to meet him, he will 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 you know each other after meeting?"

Li Xiuxiu directly "..."

Jiang Yan smiled slightly and stopped explaining.

That night, he met the unkempt Quentin in a villa in a wealthy area in Los Angeles.

"Hey, Jiang, Nihao, Thunder Monkey, oh, what language should I speak?"

"Wow, Quentin, it seems that Jiang Wen didn't lie to me, you really are a China hand!"

Jiang Yan didn't have the slightest restraint of a Chinese person, and responded very generously, which looked very American.

This made Quentin feel that this guy seemed a little different.

So he asked, "Are you Chinese?"

"No, I am a native of China."

"Wow, you are different from the Huaxia people. You can speak English very well, and your personality is... Well, you are very similar to Jiang Wen."

"We are all the same kind of people, and we don't have to pay that much attention." Jiang Yan didn't blush and his heart didn't beat.

"That's great, come in and talk, friend!"

The two of them knew each other, so they entered the room and began to talk in detail.

(End of this chapter)