King of Special Effects

A new week begins!

It is located at the western restaurant on the second floor of the five-star Regent Hotel in Beijing.

Yi Yang brought Tan Xincheng with him this time. He is going to meet Director Cameron here today.

Along with her is Gillian, she is Yi Yang's assistant, she can handle some things.

"Hi Mr. Yi, Mr. Cameron is already waiting for you in the restaurant, please follow me!"

The three of them took the elevator upstairs with the waitress of the hotel. As a five-star hotel, this restaurant is very large, and the entire floor is a place to eat, but it is divided into two parts, and the other is a Chinese restaurant.

Director Cameron and another beautiful woman with a European and American face in a black suit were discussing something at the dining table. When he saw Yi Yang coming, he stood up hurriedly and walked towards Yi Yang.

Smiling (English): "Nice to meet you, Director Yi Yang!"

Yi Yang shook hands with him, and also replied in English: "Me too, I am your fan. I have watched "Titanic" and "Avatar" countless times."

Director Cameron is a senior. When he was filming the film, Yi Yang was just playing with the village children.

A senior showed such humility in front of his juniors, which made Yi Yang feel very useful, unlike some directors in China, who thought they became gods after filming two anti-Japanese dramas, and they had to spit on everyone they saw. "

Yi Yang and Cameron sat down opposite each other, and Tan Xincheng sat on the other side. He came here today purely for company. With his bum English, he couldn't understand what the two of them said. , and what we talked about today is something that Yi Yang, the boss of the company, can only decide, and since then, he has nothing to do.

A-Jiao was sitting next to Yi Yang, she was also dressed very formally today, a white shirt and a small black suit, the same black tube skirt underneath, and a pair of high heels on her feet.

"Sir, I like to go straight to the point!" Yi Yang said while taking over the English version of the first draft of the "Three-Body" script from Gillian: "Because of time, there may be some The translation is not very good, and the script has not been finalized, but the later changes will not be very big."

Cameron took it, flipped through it casually, needless to say the content, Yi Yang's script basically restored the original.

In this script, the outline alone has five pages, and the English version has more than ten pages.

It took him nearly twenty minutes to finish reading the outline, closed the script, and asked Yi Yang: "Yang, do you have a plan to shoot the entire "Three-Body Problem"?"

Yi Yang nodded: "Yes!"

"cost?"

Yi Yang hesitated for a moment, and said, "About, 150 million US dollars!"

"150 million?" Cameron waved his hands in disbelief: "This is crazy, impossible!"

"Yes, this is our estimated cost. It is twice the cost of my previous film. Of course, if the post-production is not enough, we will continue to add more. We will not deliberately cut costs and make the film rough."

Cameron seems to be a little disappointed with this estimated cost. You must know that the cost of his filming "Avatar" more than ten years ago was as high as more than 200 million US dollars.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for, even in the eyes of foreigners.

Cameron's first feeling was that the cost budget was too small, and the film produced must not be very good.

But he has also seen the achievements of China's sci-fi films over the past few years, starting with "The Wandering Earth" directed by Guo Fan, and then "Warrior of Tomorrow" and "Under Space" directed by Yi Yang. There is also "Wandering Earth 2", which beat DC's "League of Justice 2".

These films are substantial witnesses to the rise of Chinese science fiction films.

Cameron had to think about it in many ways. He wanted to be involved in the film production of "The Three-Body Problem", a book he had dreamed of for a long time.

We chatted for nearly two hours and got to know each other better.

Chatting from work to life, from movies to cosmic topics, chatting endlessly.

Finally, Director Cameron put forward his own idea: "Yang, why don't we make a deal!"

Yi Yang came to the capital today to cooperate with director Cameron, and the transaction is also a kind of cooperation, which is what Yi Yang wants to hear.

"Oh? What kind of transaction!"

"I want Liangyi Media to act as the agent of "Avatar" in the mainland market. If you agree, the project leader of '20th CFFC' (Twentieth Century Fox Film Company) will come to talk to you after a while and carry out relevant copyright transfer. , Liangyi Media is responsible for the promotion and release of "A Fafa" in the mainland market."

These words made Yi Yang hesitate.

If a foreign film wants to be shown in China, there are nothing more than two ways.

One is that films are imported by domestic film companies and then released and released in the mainland market.

But there is only one film company that has the right to import movies in China, and that is the most powerful and powerful film company in the mainland - China Film Group!

Another way is that foreign film distribution companies distribute in the mainland market, and the person in charge of the distribution company in each place will carry out the copyright connection, and then release them in major theaters in a cooperative manner, and pay various taxes and fund projects according to law. wait.

For this reason, many foreign film companies will choose to find a mainland company as an agent and pay the corresponding agency fee in order to better promote their films in the mainland.

Yi Yang has no shortage of this agency fee now, and if he takes over the agency, he will be responsible for all the post-promotion of the film in the mainland market.

Then, anyone who knows Liangyi Media knows that publicity is not the company's strong point.

This is a bit of a forceful meaning.

Seeing Yi Yang hesitate to speak, director Cameron continued: "In exchange, we can also be responsible for the agency of "Three-Body Problem" in the North American market in the future."

This is what Yi Yang was waiting for. It’s no fun acting for "Avatar" by himself, and he had to let '20th CFFC' act as an agent for "Three-Body Problem".

"Sir, I don't know if you are representing yourself now, or representing '20th CFFC'?"

Cameron was stunned, and apologized: "Sorry, I forgot to introduce you. The lady who came with me is officially the person in charge of the distribution of '20th CFFC' in China. Her name is Lisa."

Yi Yang shook hands with Lisa: "Ms. Lisa, I want to know if you are also in charge of Xianggang and Taiwan Island?"

Lisa nodded: "Of course, I am the general manager of the Chinese market!"

"OK, I'm very interested in this way of cooperation, I think we can cooperate very happily." Yi Yang happily shook hands with her again, if she said a wrong word about the question just now, Yi Yang would immediately slap her ass and leave people.

Lisa also smiled, and said in broken Chinese: "Of course, if Director Yi is interested, he can personally or send someone to visit our company in the United States!"

Yi Yang was taken aback: "You can speak Chinese?"

"As the person in charge of the Chinese market, how can I do things if I can't speak Chinese? I just learned an idiom recently: Do as the Romans do!"

Forehead!

Yi Yang gave a thumbs up: "Very well said!"