Heads Up Hollywood

"The intention of cooperation has been reached, but the specific details are yet to be negotiated. Our idea is that it is best to move "Oprah's Talk Show", but she is not optimistic about this, which is tantamount to forcibly changing the past ten years. The viewing habits of those loyal viewers. She intends to create a new TV show, which will also be a talk show type, but with a different name. At the same time, the video copyright of the "Oprah Talk Show" in the past 20 years will also be transplanted. Her regular editor, Lisa Espame, will be the creative director of the new channel."

Obviously, David Saslav is full of expectations for this cooperation.

Oprah's influence in the United States is really too great. A joint venture with her to create a new TV channel is even more valuable than a cooperation with the New York Times.

Tang En will not intervene in specific business management, but he has no feelings for Oprah, and it is hard to imagine that a fat black woman is more popular than female stars like Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. people love.

"By the way, I heard that you are cooperating with the Chinese side?"

This is the focus of Tang En's attention.

Friendship and contacts are accumulated bit by bit.

The more cooperation between New Global and the Chinese side, the greater the possibility of winning the Modu real estate project.

Disney is a formidable opponent. The popularity and audience breadth of Disneyland far exceeds that of Universal Studios.

If you want to beat Disney, you have to do your homework.

David Saslav said rather helplessly: "We have made great efforts to enter the Chinese market. It is a pity that China's supervision policy on foreign TV channels is very strict. News Corporation failed to do so back then. Even The Phoenix Satellite TV of the Hong Kong government has only obtained permission to broadcast in three-star hotels and foreign-related communities."

Tang En waved his hand, "I understand the situation over there, the TV station... don't think too much about it, let alone foreigners, even their own people, can't run a TV station. You can start thinking about the content."

David Saslav said with a smile: "In fact, we are indeed making efforts in this area. The content cooperation is bilateral. We can provide selected program content for some local channels, and use the program section to let ordinary Chinese Viewers enjoy our content; on the other hand, we are actively exploring the production of documentary programs about China, and bringing these programs with Chinese characteristics to the global Discovery Network.”

Tang En looked at him with a half-smile, "Promoting Chinese culture to the world? The cooperation in this has taken a lot of advantages, right?"

In order to promote Chinese culture and promote national self-confidence, China invests huge sums of money overseas every year.

Discovery Channel is willing to launch Chinese cultural TV programs to the world in the form of this cooperative documentary. It is conceivable that the Chinese side will definitely pay a large amount of promotion expenses to Discovery Communications.

This is by no means a peer-to-peer transaction.

David Saslav said helplessly: "This is normal market behavior. It is true that the Chinese market is huge, but it is full of pirated copies everywhere, which has caused us to lose too much intellectual property and copyright income. Even national-level TV stations are also blatantly stealing our programs. This way, at least we can make up for some losses."

Tang En was noncommittal and asked, "What kind of cooperation have you carried out now?"

David Saslav said: "Currently, we are cooperating with the Information Office of the Chinese Government Affairs Council to jointly produce a documentary program of "China's Architectural Wonders". Looking forward to it. In the future, the two parties will also produce some documentary programs on the Beijing Olympics.”

Tang En just nodded.

National characteristics such as clothing, language, customs and handicrafts are difficult to have influence in the world. In order to truly produce programs with international influence, it is still necessary to focus on universal themes such as ancient architecture, natural scenery, and strange stories.

At this time, Jeff Zucker said in a nutshell, "In the past, Discovery Communications was a large platform company, focusing on TV stations. Now Discovery Communications is transforming into a large content company, maintaining TV channels. On the basis of vitality, we will produce more high-quality content. Content is king!"

At this time, the originally quiet restaurant suddenly became noisy.

Dozens of people suddenly appeared and poured into the Italian cafeteria of the new Universal Group headquarters. Some were carrying props, some were carrying cameras, and there were many actors wearing costumes from decades ago.

There should be a crew coming over to film the scene.

This is not surprising.

Filming in the United States is very troublesome.

All characters, houses, and owner-owned objects appearing in the movie must be licensed before they can be filmed, otherwise they will be suspected of copyright infringement.

Of course, big movies don't matter, there is enough energy and funds to deal with it.

Movies with small and medium costs can only be dealt with carelessly.

In a way, movies are not sacred at all.

The so-called pursuit of excellence is just a bible for the producers and distributors to fool movie fans.

All films are made to the best of their budgets.

Budget can often greatly limit the quality of a movie.

In fact, it is already very good in the 21st century, and the production budget is already high enough.

Going back a few decades, Hollywood movies... that's really looking for the good in the rough. Including "Citizen Kane", "A Gentleman" and other classic movies, during the shooting process, they can deal with it as much as they can. They never expected to be successful, and the greatest success is a smooth completion.

There may have been a hundred films of this type made at the time, but only a few were successful and became classics.

Even many movies are only shot in half.

What's the meaning?

Only shoot the half that has the actors in the movie. For the remaining half, shots were cut from dozens of other film footage and assembled into composites.

This is a clear money grabbing behavior.

Even now, assembling the lens is still widely adopted by Hollywood.

The most typical is Marvel movies.

Many movie shots are not shot on the spot, but are drawn from many movies of the same type. For example, in the latest "Spider-Man 3", there are 62 shots taken from the shooting materials of "Spider-Man 1", "Spider-Man 2", "Ant-Man 1" and "Ant-Man 2".

Of course, the proportion of assembly is so small that it is far from what it was back then.

It was an industry monopoly back then, and movie fans had no say.

Times have changed for the better.

Movie fans have too many choices, and blatant misappropriation of money to entrap consumers is no longer possible in Hollywood.

However, the budget problem is still the biggest obstacle restricting the excellence of the film.

In order to solve this problem, small and medium-cost films will use all the available resources around them as much as possible to minimize the location expenses.

As a member of Hollywood, New Universal will definitely give us strong support when it comes to the headquarters of New Universal for filming.

Even this film may not be invested and produced by a film company under New Universal.

Without any further delay, Tang En and the others stood up and left.

"Twain?!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind.

Tang En turned around and smiled in surprise, "Reese? Is this your movie?"

It turned out to be his secretary back then, Reese Witherspoon, one of the veterans of Dunn Films.

Her main career now is acting, and she is also a producer at Rose Films.

Reese Witherspoon wore a black old-fashioned jacket with a weird hairstyle and said with a smile: "Which is my movie, I'm just one of the producers, this is a collaboration between Twentieth Century Fox and Rose Films The movie, a musical. The big head is at Fox, and they hold the copyright of the script. By the way, director Mangold is over there, are you going?"

"Forget it, I won't disturb your work." Tang En shook his head, his heart moved, "Are you the heroine?"

Reese Witherspoon pursed her lips and said proudly, "Yes, working with Joaquin Phoenix."

"What's the movie called?"

"Walk with the Song."

Reese Witherspoon lowered her voice, it seems that the name of the movie is still under wraps.

She's one of the producers, so of course she'll know.

This time the film crew came to the New Universal Headquarters to shoot scenes, which is probably also her recommendation.

Tang En took a deep look at her, and said in a low voice: "Act well! Since it's a musical, you have to insist on singing all the songs in the movie by yourself."

"how?"

"We are old friends, and you are also one of the veterans of Tang En Pictures. At the critical moment, I will help you!"

Reese Witherspoon's face suddenly revealed a bit of shock, "You...you mean?"

Tang En nodded heavily, "That's right, Oscar! This movie will be released next year, so the Oscars in 2006... have your chance!"

"Twain, you...don't be joking."

Reese Witherspoon's voice trembled a little.

She is not from a major, her acting skills are not superb, and she has never been nominated for an Oscar.

But from Twain's point of view... it seems that he wants to directly win the Oscar queen?

will this work?

Tang En patted her on the shoulder, calmed her emotions, and said with a smile: "No matter what, you have to work hard and try, right?"

In her previous life, she won the Oscar Queen in one fell swoop with "Walk with the Song".

Reese Witherspoon bit her lip tightly and nodded slightly.

Can not help but be moved.

Tang En smiled, and said casually: "By the way, that leading actor...Joaquin Phoenix, how is he?"

"Very good, he is a genius, he is the most talented actor I have ever worked with, he helped me a lot and taught me a lot." Reese Witherspoon said sincerely.

Tang En nodded, "I have a chance to test his tone and ask him if he would like to play a superhero."

"His pursuit is indeed very high." Reese Witherspoon paused, then smiled sweetly, "But I think he can be dealt with! Marvel movies are opportunities to become famous. Who doesn't want to be a star? "

. Nine Heavens Emperor