How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 273 Nolan's Hollywood Debut
After chatting for a while, Zhang Nan was already recognized by people around.

There are the clever crew members who have already started reporting inside.

After a while, a group of people came out.

The leader is Cheng Jinfei, whom Manager Liu, the person in charge of the film and television city, just mentioned. Behind him are the debut version of Liu Yifei and Liu Mu, as well as the director of "The Family of Gold Fans".

He was so enthusiastic, and he was filming in a film and television city, so he was considered a client. Zhang Nan walked away, so he chatted with a few people for a while.

"Director Zhang, I heard that Beiying and Zhongxi have learned the model of going to the theater, and launched a joint training program with your Longbow Film and Television this year. Is this true or not?"

After some politeness, Cheng Jinfei found a suitable time and spoke to Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan smiled when he heard the words, and looked at Cheng Jinfei with some surprise, feeling that the news was quite well-informed.

Because of this matter, he had just negotiated with Beiying and Zhongxi a few days ago.

After all, in terms of the domestic release of "Spider-Man" and the fight against piracy, both Beijing Film and Chinese Opera have promised to spend a lot of effort to rectify what the previous show did to "My Sassy Girl".

Under such circumstances, Zhang Nan couldn't favor one another, so he could only make a similar promise, giving Beijing Film and China Opera a place respectively.

So Zhang Nan nodded and said, "There is such a thing."

"Director Zhang, my goddaughter is studying in Beijing Film Academy. Do you think there is a chance...?" Cheng Jinfei said directly, hitting the snake with a stick.

And as soon as his words came out, Mother Liu and Concubine Liu Yi who were behind him were a little excited when they heard it.

Zhang Nan smiled slightly when he heard the words, and said, "Since he is a student of Beijing Film Academy, he has a chance."

That's what I said, but in fact Zhang Nan has already given Concubine Liu Yi a pass.

There are three reasons.

First, from the perspective of the development of the original time and space, Concubine Liu Yifei is born with good conditions, but her plasticity is really too low - her acting skills have not developed for more than ten years.

Tianhu started like that, but in the end he actually mixed up to act in online dramas.

Second, Zhang Nan's joint training program is to sign artists for himself and make money for himself, and Liu Yifei already has her own Red Star House brokerage company at this time.

Thirdly, Mother Liu's contract spirit is a bit too low, which is reflected in Yuanshikong's "Kung Fu King". She got the film contract of the heroine on the condition of joining Chinese descent, but she refused to accept it after filming.

Zhang Nan didn't want to see an artist he had spent some resources to cultivate, and ran away with all the benefits before the contract expired.

Although Zhang Nan didn't like that little resource, but he was disgusting anyway.

After a little perfunctory words from Cheng Jinfei and his group, Zhang Nan left with Manager Liu, the person in charge of the film and television city, and continued to look at the place that was built for the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Looking at Zhang Nanyuan's back, Mother Liu asked Cheng Jinfei excitedly: "Jinfei, what did Director Zhang mean just now, does Concubine Yi have a good chance of winning the joint training program of Beijing Film Academy?"

Cheng Jinfei's face froze. After hanging out with Shang Hai for so long, he still had a little bit of ability to read people's words.

Regarding Zhang Nan's words, emotions and attitude just now, he knew that if his goddaughter wanted to win that spot, it was probably a dead end.

If it were someone else, he might still pester her, or say a few more words. After all, he is also number one in the Mainland.

But in front of Zhang Nan, he really didn't dare to say anything superfluous, even the words raised by his goddaughter at the beginning, he said them with his heart hanging.

Without him.

He was too aware of the gap between himself and Zhang Nan.

Not to mention that Zhang Nan's Longbow series includes companies in the film and television industry, movie theaters, special effects, finance... and so on.

Just talking about Zhang Nan's status as a world-class director and international superstar, he is not comparable to him.

The fixed salary of 1.2 million U.S. dollars for a film is basically equal to his entire net worth up to now.

But Mother Liu asked a question, and as a good friend, he had no choice but to answer.

"I guess it's a bit difficult."

When Mother Liu asked this question, she also sensed the meaning in Zhang Nan's words. Hearing Cheng Jinfei's answer in the same way, she panicked, "Or, let's do the same thing as [Golden Fanshijia] and [Tianlong Babu]. Spend some money?"

Spend some money?
Cheng Jinfei almost laughed when he heard these three words, but when he thought of Concubine Liu Yifei's biological father, he suppressed his emotions and explained: "The fixed salary for a movie is 1.2 million US dollars. With 30 billion US dollars in funds, how much do you think it will cost to get it done?"

When Mother Liu heard these numbers, she was a little silly, and she also knew that her request just now seemed a bit outrageous.
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end of may.

When Zhang Nan returned to North America again, [Spider-Man] was still raking in money in the North American movie market.

It’s just that Warner’s [Insomnia], which was released at the same time, was already sold out.

The reason why Zhang Nan paid attention to this film.

On the one hand, it is because the translated name of this [Insomnia] is called [White Night Chasing the Murder], which makes Zhang Nan quite familiar.

On the other hand, it is because the director of this movie is-Christopher Nolan, the future top director.

But at this time, Nolan is just in the state of breaking into Hollywood.

And the opportunity for him to break into Hollywood is because of his previous filming of "Memory Fragments", which performed quite well and gained a lot of attention. Coupled with his British nationality, Warner gave him a chance.

The US$4600 million investment in "White Night Chasing the Murder" is not too big, but it is not bad for a new director.

So Nolan's start in Hollywood can be said to be very good.

But it is a pity that maybe it was too lucky in the previous experience, which led to the bumpy road to the release of "White Night Chasing the Murder".

First, it was released on the same day as Columbia's "Spider-Man", and they competed on the same stage. They were bruised and swollen, and before they could breathe a sigh of relief, George Lucas' "Star Wars Episode 2" was released in mid-May. .

Zhang Nan recalled for a moment that during the summer vacation of 2002, there were only these two movies with top combat power, and they were all met by the fledgling Nolan.

But I have to say that Nolan will be able to stand out in the future when the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominates the world, and his ability to withstand pressure is quite good.

Even with successive encounters with [Spider-Man] and [Star Wars Episode 2], the release time of [White Night Chase] is only one month.

But "White Night Chasing the Murder" still won 6735 million U.S. dollars in North America, and a total box office of 1.13 million U.S. dollars worldwide. It finally made my debut in Hollywood. Try it for your next chance.

Of course, Warner also has people who understand.

Although the overall box office performance of "White Night" is mediocre, this is the result of the pinch of "Spider-Man" and "Star Wars Episode 2".

Being able to pay back the money is already a performance of the director's considerable skill. If it were someone else, it might be difficult to even pay back the money.

And Warner watched Columbia's comic adaptation movie "Spider-Man", and the box office was so hot that his hands were itchy.

So I learned the same thing and found out the IP of [Batman], and threw it to Nolan, and just said, give me the same box office as [Spiderman].

Nolan also readily accepted.

(End of this chapter)