Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 61 This is too young!
Seeing the person coming, Joe stood up very consciously.

"I'll talk to the actor about the role and then contact his agent."

After saying that, Joe waved to Antonio, indicating that Antonio should follow him out.

Antonio didn't react at first.

But I saw that the other two had left the room.

Only then did he react, stood up quickly and followed him out.

"Could you introduce this crew to me?"

Andrew felt that he had already secured the role, but he had flown in from London and had no other channels of information, so he had no idea what positions these people held.

Antonio immediately extended his hand to him: "Antonio, second assistant director."

Andrew shook hands with Antonio and couldn't help but praise him, "You are so young. When I was your age, I couldn't even perform on the stage."

In Hollywood crews, the first assistant director is relatively important. They will help the director control the filming of the film content.

The second assistant director's status is much lower.

The main work content is to collect the shooting content and submit it in summary.

This is similar to the work Antonio did in the sound engineer crew before.

But even so, for a young man in his early twenties, this position is no less than a step to heaven.

After all, the path of a director is much more difficult than that of an actor.

In a crew,
There can be dozens or even hundreds of actors,

But there are only a few positions that can train directors.

'The Asian man inside should be the first assistant director.'

Andrew secretly made a judgment in his heart. In the interview just now, Gu Bei was obviously the dominant person, and his status was naturally higher than Antonio.

"Joe Crick, producer, is your agent here yet?"

"Mr. Creek, he's still in California."

When Andrew heard Joe's position, he immediately became nervous again.

Producer in Hollywood,
It is the undisputed highest position of power.

In particular, without the prefixes of line (execution) and co (combination),

There is only one person called "Producer", who is the pinnacle of power in the entire crew!

"Then I'll call him. You'd better make up your mind as soon as possible. Our production schedule is very tight." Joe didn't blame the young man in front of him. He asked for his phone number and left.

Andrew calmed down again.

but……

Just now in the room, it was clearly Gu Bei who was the leader!

"Is he the director?"

Andrew reacted with some disbelief.

This is too young!
"Yes, Bruce is our director." Antonio nodded.

"He's too young. I'm not questioning him, but... my agent told me that the director has won an award at a film festival?"

Andrew couldn't accept it for a while.

What was he doing when he was twenty years old?
He had just graduated and was running back and forth between various drama theaters just to get a chance to perform on stage.

And the young man in it has already won a film festival award and become a formal director!

"Yes, the Short Film Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, just a few days ago."

Antonio hugged Andrew enthusiastically like a missionary and said, "Come on, I'll take you to see the short film.

After reading this, you will definitely realize, like me, that Bruce is a genius!"

At this time, in the room.

Gu Bei had just packed up Andrew's audition tape.

He looked at Liu Yifei who was circling around him.

I couldn't help but laugh and said, "I feel like if I hold on for a few more minutes, you'll say what you want to say." "No! You have to ask me!"

Liu Yifei shook her head firmly, very insistent.

Gu Bei glanced behind her, and her body immediately leaned a little to prevent him from seeing what was hidden in her hand.

"So, may I ask, Producer Zhou, what good stuff did you bring?"

Gu Bei already had some guesses in his heart.

But he still cooperated with Liu Yifei's behavior.

"Why do you think it will be a good thing?" Liu Yifei was puzzled, and felt that her surprise was reduced by three points.

"You look so happy, it's obviously good news. Plus, you're hiding something on your back, so it must be something real..."

"Good good!"

Liu Yifei quickly interrupted Gu Bei.

If Gu Bei continued talking, he would probably guess what it was.

"Cough cough!"

She coughed twice.

He put on a stern face and lowered his voice deliberately.

"Boom!"

She took out something she had hidden for a long time from behind her.

It was a stack of legal documents. Don't worry about the rest. The words "Rose Pictures" at the top were particularly eye-catching.

"From today on, you are under my jurisdiction. Call me boss and I'll tell you what's going on!"

Liu Yifei raised her little face and glanced at Gu Bei with a narrow look in her eyes. There was a hint of ease and complacency between her eyebrows, as if she really wanted to see Gu Bei being humiliated.

Little girl, you want to turn the tables and become the master!

Gu Bei raised his eyebrows:

"Okay, boss lady!"

Liu Yifei was stunned when she heard this.

The boss lady usually represents that there is another boss.

After a while, Gu Bei saw that the girl's face was red from her neck to her ears.

Her eyes were full of shyness and panic. When she found out that she was caught by Gu Bei, she turned to anger and raised her little foot to kick Gu Bei's calf hard.

"What boss lady?"

"Any questions? Men are called boss, and women are called boss lady!"

Gu Bei took a breath. This girl seemed to have become a little stronger, but he had never seen her exercising!

"I...you...forget it, don't scream anymore!"

Liu Yifei racked her brain for a while, but still couldn't find any reasonable logic, so she simply banned the name.

Gu Bei didn't care: "That's right, we are all new youth who grew up under the red flag, so don't get involved in American capitalism."

After a pause, he added: "Besides, aren't we partners?"

Although at Sundance, she said she wanted to invest in Whiplash.

But Gu Bei dared to accept the money for the short film.
He really didn't dare to accept such a huge sum of money as 200 million US dollars.

So he referred to the cooperation method between Netflix and production companies in later generations and drafted a guaranteed production agreement.

Liu Yifei's Rose Films was the production company, which invested $350 million to shoot Whiplash.
After the filming is completed, Gu Bei will purchase all the copyrights of Whiplash for US$400 million.

Another function of this protocol is
It is to move funds out of North America to avoid capital departure tax.

Gu Bei can use his own royalties to pay for the copyright acquisition. If this money is transferred back to China directly, a large capital departure tax will be charged.

The money from selling Whiplash's copyright can be transferred back to the country more easily through more flexible trading methods.

(End of this chapter)