Chapter 230: Confrontation in the Quiet Room

Chapter 230: Confrontation in the Quiet Room

Chapter 230: Confrontation in the Quiet Room
In the reception room with a strong Japanese atmosphere, Katsumi Ihara, who had just met Wang Hao, and his old acquaintance Howard Bruno were sitting cross-legged on the tatami.

When they saw Wang Hao and Miyamoto Keita walk in, they did not stand up, but just raised the teacups in their hands and shook them in a toast.

Wang Hao didn't care about their rudeness. He smiled and nodded, then sat down in front of them and watched Keita Miyamoto fiddling with his tea set.

After a whole set of tedious and complicated procedures were completed, when a cup of tea with a delicate fragrance was placed in front of Wang Hao, Miyamoto Keita began to speak.

Of course, big shots like these always like to be mysterious when they talk, so at the beginning, Keita Miyamoto didn't say anything serious, but just talked about elegant things like tea art.

Wang Hao certainly didn't understand this, so he could only smile and sip his tea while listening to them talking.

Seeing that Wang Hao had no intention of participating in it and acted complacently, Miyamoto Keita knew that this little trick would not work, so he suddenly changed the subject.

"By the way, Wang Sang, we at Sony Pictures have confirmed that your new movie will be officially released in North American theaters early next month."

Wang Hao smiled gently, knowing that the other party was about to get down to business, so he nodded.

“That’s great, Miyamoto-kun, thank you for your help in the development of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].

By the way, regarding the prequel TV series of this movie, I wonder if Sony Group’s TV stations in North America are interested in it?”

As a large entertainment group, Sony Pictures naturally has its own controlled TV stations in North America, and it also has corresponding TV drama business on weekdays, but this business is not very outstanding.

Miyamoto Keita took a sip of tea, pondered for a moment, and then said:

"Wang Sang, to be honest, quite a few people inside Sony Pictures are not optimistic about your new movie and TV series.

We are not targeting you on purpose. It's just that your new movie and TV series are all starred by Chinese people, and there are not many audiences for such works in North America.

However, due to the relationship between us, Sony Pictures is still willing to give it a try, but the price may have to be lowered a bit.”

Ever since "The Wandering Earth" was released in Hollywood, Galaxy Pictures has become familiar with the release of movies in North America.

So this time, Wang Hao’s new movie "Source Code" naturally has plans to be released in North America.

And not only "Source Code", but even the movie's prequel TV series "Descendants of the Dragon" were packaged together with the movie and handed over to Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures, for distribution and broadcasting.

This can be regarded as another attempt by the Galaxy Cinematic Universe to extend its tentacles overseas.

But now it seems that Hollywood is not very interested in Wang Hao's purely domestic film.

This is quite normal. As Keita Miyamoto said, all the actors and actresses in Source Code and Descendants of the Dragon are Chinese. Such pure foreign film and television works have a very small audience in the xenophobic environment of North America.

Even though it belongs to the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] and has the foundation laid by "The Greatest Show on Earth", it is afraid that it will not have much effect just relying on the fans of "The Greatest Show on Earth".

However, Wang Hao had no reaction to Miyamoto Keita's suppression. He just smiled and said:

"Mr. Miyamoto, after all, we are both senior executives of our respective companies. We should let our subordinates handle such trivial matters of bargaining, and we will just control the general direction." Upon hearing this, Miyamoto Keita looked at Wang Hao deeply, and then covered up his embarrassment with laughter.

"Hahaha, Mr. Wang is absolutely right. A director like you really doesn't need to worry about such a small matter. Then let's talk about 'Taken'."

Wang Hao nodded without comment, thinking that these Japanese people were trouble. Even though they had been in Hollywood for so many years, they had not learned the straightforwardness of the white people, and they still spoke in a roundabout way. No wonder those film and television companies in Hollywood didn't like the Japanese.

It's a pity that the guest should follow the host's wishes. Wang Hao came from afar and was a guest, so he couldn't say much. He could only follow the other party's topic and talk about the early preparations for "Taken".

Regarding this movie, the main investors are Columbia Pictures and Wang Hao's Galaxy Film and Television.

In addition, because it is also a Sino-US co-production like "Wushuang", China Film Group also invested a little bit.

The investment ratio of the three companies is almost 4:4:2. As for the total production amount, the original version of "Taken" was 2500 million US dollars.

However, because Wang Hao strongly requested to use the production team of Galaxy Pictures and most of the interior scenes were shot in China, the total production cost was controlled at around 1800 million US dollars.

Columbia Pictures initially disagreed with the idea of ​​using the Galaxy Pictures' behind-the-scenes team.

However, after hearing the offer from Galaxy Pictures, Columbia Pictures could only say "that's great".

There is no way. They are both behind-the-scenes staff working on a movie. The salary in North America is 5000, and the salary in China is also 5000. However, the unit in North America is US dollars, while the unit in China is RMB. There is a difference in exchange rates between the two.

Don't think that big American companies won't take advantage of this, otherwise why would those American companies move their production lines to China, and why would so many film companies move their shooting locations from Hollywood and Los Angeles to places like New Zealand, Vancouver, and London.

It's all because of interests.

What's more, the production location is in China, so those annoying unions won't be able to cause trouble for the crew.

You have to know that in Hollywood, the most troublesome things for film companies and crews are the various unions and strange organizations.

For example, the most famous screenwriters' strike was caused by the Hollywood Writers Guild to fight for the rights of screenwriters. It happens in Hollywood almost every once in a while.

Every time the Writers Guild instigates this, the major film crews that are currently shooting movies will have to shut down for a while, and those hard-earned dollars will be wasted.

In addition, animal protection organizations and child protection organizations also cause headaches for crews that use animals and child actors.

It is said that when "The Shawshank Redemption" was being filmed, because of the maggots that were fed to the crows, an animal protection organization came to the crew and demanded that the crew abide by the spirit of humanitarianism and that the crows must be fed with insects that died of natural causes, otherwise the movie would be in big trouble.

Such a magical thing has caused Hollywood film and television companies a lot of headaches about these guys.

Only in China can this problem be completely solved.

(End of this chapter)