Entertainment 2000: Supporting female stars will bring you a hundredfold return

Chapter 151 News Review Achievements!

Chinese Directors Make History Again

"Tang Wen conquers North America with R-rated films!"

"Ten days, $1.5 million, Tang Wen rewrites the rules of the game in Hollywood!"

"..."

In the living room of the hotel suite, Scarlett read it word for word, trembling with excitement.

Tang Wen was not in the room.

Scarlett's audience is her mother and sister.

"Okay, Scarlett. We know Don is amazing. But you've been reading all morning," Vanessa said with a smile.

Scarlett put down the newspaper: "That's because there are too many reports! And this is only the movie part."

"What else?"

"Novel, Tang's new book National Treasure. Many famous critics are reviewing it."

Picking up a newspaper from the table, Vanessa also began to read:
“…History textbooks have become treasure maps, using the Declaration of Independence as a clue to the treasure, so that young people can fall in love with history…”

“The design of the puzzle is comparable to an escape room textbook”

"The coffins of the American founding fathers are about to break open"

“It’s incredible that this is an American novel written by an Asian!”

When it comes to literary quality, "National Treasure" is not at all.

But it is cleverly conceived, interesting and full of curiosity.

Makes you want to read it all in one go.

As for the reviews in the newspapers, they were all written by critics hired by the bookseller Random House.

All good words.

After the release of National Treasure.

Someone recognized that this was the book that director Tang Wen took by mistake during the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project.

But the book hadn't been published yet.

This little "funny thing" added some topics of conversation to "National Treasure".

The crew, Scarlett and others continued to fly to other cities in North America for promotion.

Tang Wen stayed in Los Angeles to begin adapting the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and to carry out early preparations with the crew.

Cooperation projects.

It’s much more troublesome than shooting on your own.

Every time Tang Wen makes an important decision, he always talks to Iger, who is also a producer.

Tell me the general idea.

Fortunately, the future head of Disney is not difficult to get along with.

Iger said bluntly: "Tang, I don't understand creation. If you are determined that your ideas are correct, you can decide many things without discussing them with me."

"Thanks for the support!"

With his words, Tang Wen returned to his previous efficiency.

The mature images of the entire movie are all in his mind.

The work is progressing rapidly.

There are some things that Tang Wen has to do himself.

【Sketch (Beginner)】

Thanks to a few art classes in his first year of high school, he managed to master sketching skills.

Experience disappears like flowing water, [Sketch (Beginner → Master)]

With 90 points of mental power, he easily digested the sketching knowledge.

Tang Wen picked up a pencil and casually sketched the image of Captain Jack on the snow-white drawing paper.

A worn-out cocked hat.

Messy long hair with long braids.

Messy, unkempt beard.

Thick black eyeliner.

A worn but fringed pirate jacket with a bottle of rum hanging from the belt.

Good at: inciting people, swordsmanship...

More than ten minutes passed and the pencil was changed several times.

The image of Captain Jack comes to life on the paper.

"That's great, Tang. Are you studying fine arts?"

Tang Wen smiled, handed the drawing paper to Egg, and continued to draw the other two protagonists.

A young and handsome blacksmith with a well-proportioned figure and a delicate face.

The image of the little blacksmith is not difficult to design.

He started out as a low-level blacksmith who wanted to be accepted by the upper class, but eventually became a pirate because of his own destiny.

The last one is the heroine - Elizabeth.

A blonde, blue-eyed noble lady.

Her image is more complicated.

Tang Wen first drew a white corseted dress, an exquisite hat, lace, embroidery and complicated petticoat, which was a typical outfit for an English aristocratic girl in the 18th century.

In the movie, Elizabeth fell into the sea because her corset was too tight and she couldn't breathe.

Because of this, the cursed gold coin around her neck was once again stained by sea water and was sensed by the pirates.

This opens up the storyline.

Next is a light blue long dress.

The color of the sea.

It represents that this rich young lady is about to step into the sea of freedom.

Next came the red banquet dress, foreshadowing the fierce bloody conflict to come.

He was then captured by pirates and dressed in a linen shirt and dark trousers worn by the lower class.

This represents her complete freedom from bondage.

Finally, her aristocratic shirt, mixed with pirate costumes, means that the transformation is completely complete.

Become a female pirate without being defined!
She got the freedom she wanted.

In the office, besides Tang Wen, there were also Egg and Robert.

After listening to Tang Wen's story, the two of them couldn't help but applaud.

"Wonderful!"

"Tang, you are truly an artist. People outside say you can only shoot plasma films. They underestimate you!"

Tang Wen put down his paintbrush and started painting the props again.

The Black Pearl in the movie will be remembered by every audience.

It will become a movie derivative product in the future, and one can be sold for hundreds of dollars.

There are also pirate belts, rings, pet monkeys, Aztec gold coins, and more.

Tang Wen has to draw this series of props himself.

Not for anything else, just to make sure the copyright comes from my own hands.

In the future, you will be able to get an additional share of the derivative profits.

You know, even 20 years later, the sales of "Pirates of the Caribbean" peripheral products still make hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Today's Disney has already teamed up with domestic factories early on.

Wait until the domestic production scale reaches a higher level.

The production costs can be further lowered, and the profit margin will increase!
After completing this series, Tang Wen feels that his future pension will be increased by at least $100 million a year.

"Tang, you draw so fast!" Egg exclaimed.

It has to be said that the efficiency of this young Chinese director is the highest he has ever seen in his many years of career.

“Haha, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time!”

"I see."

Tang Wen: I can’t say that I copied your Disney ideas, right?

Then you guys won't explode.

It took a day to finalize the details and copyright of these props.

Tang Wen picked up the "Martin D2" guitar worth 5 US dollars given by Scarlett.

Come to the most influential music station in Los Angeles
KIIS-FM (102.7)
The main songs here are popular songs.

It is a key platform for singles to top the billboard charts.

After leaving the shop, he changed into an electric guitar that he had bought himself, which was also quite expensive.

Come to KROQ-FM radio station.

In fact, Scarlett had originally planned to give him two guitars, one for singing pop songs and the other for singing rock songs.

But when I thought about the fact that I was not the heroine in the MVs of Tang Wen’s next two songs.

She got jealous and just gave him a pop guitar.

KROQ-FM radio station, which mainly broadcasts rock and alternative music, has helped Linkin Park to top the charts.

It holds a certain place in the hearts of West Coast rock fans.

The host introduced the mysterious guest.

Tang Wen greeted people through the microphone with a smile. This was his first time chatting into a microphone without seeing the person.

"Hello everyone, I'm Tang Wen! You can call me Tang."

The magnetic and charming voice was transmitted through thousands of car radios.

"O! My God!"

"Holly sh*t"

"Tang! They actually invited Tang!"

"..."

A person who has never appeared before and is extremely famous makes his first appearance.

It's bound to cause cheers!
The host continued, "That's right! It's Tang! Why don't you guess what song he sings? Tang, do you think everyone can guess it right?"

"Hmm," Tang Wen pretended to be silent, then said, "I think at least one-third of the people can guess it right."

"Haha, you are such a humorous guy."

After chatting about creation for a while, Tang Wen sang "Natural"

Then, we continued to the next show and sang "Baby"

Thanks to the massive resources provided by Warner Music Group.

For several days, he wandered between radio, television and online music channels.

Singing non-stop. Singing three songs over and over again.

I almost vomited from singing this.

For the first time, he regretted releasing an EP with only three songs.

A proper album of ten songs should be released.

A few days later, Tang Wen's efforts paid off.

Sales exceeded 100 million copies.

Platinum record, or platinum EP achievement achieved.

Only then did Tang Wen breathe a sigh of relief and no longer focus on promoting the English album.

Mr. Ren, president of Shanghai Film Group, and Mr. Han, president of China Film Group, had already urged him to return to China.

The 6th Shanghai International Film Festival is about to open.

How could we do without this heavyweight guest?
Tang Wen was fully armed, wearing a hat, mask and sunglasses.

Under the escort of bodyguards, he boarded the plane back home.

"Hello, Director Tang. I'll get you some slippers."

A flight attendant took off her mask and squatted down to serve Tang Wen.

"Thank you," Tang Wen took the sparkling water handed to him by another flight attendant.

The crew members asked Tang Wen's opinion and took turns to come forward to take photos and ask for autographs.

Some people took novels, and some took English albums.

Tang Wen accepted all their requests, satisfied them, and lay down his chair to sleep.

The time he landed in the Magic City.

It’s Wednesday in Magic City.

And in Los Angeles, it’s Tuesday.

Every Tuesday, Billboard will release a new ranking list.

The plane landed, but the news leaked out somehow.

The passage was completely blocked by the huge crowds of reporters.

Tang Wen had so many bodyguards that they couldn't squeeze out.

"Who? Which big star?"

"I heard she's a singer?"

"Singer? Xie Tingfeng?"

"Of course not. I heard that Xie Tingfeng was arrested."

Because of the influence of the "taking the blame case".

In April, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption arrested Xie Tingfeng.

Of course it couldn't be him.

"..."

The Internet was not well developed at that time.

Mobile phone cameras are even more blurry and cannot take high-definition pictures.

Celebrities are still rare creatures, and when they see a celebrity in front of them, people who are not in a hurry are willing to come and see the fun.

As a result, more and more people gathered.

"Tang Wen!"

"It's Tang Wen!"

Someone in the crowd shouted.

wow——

"Tang Wen?!"

Hearing Tang Wen's name.

The crowd began to rush forward!

The situation is about to get out of control.

Tang Wen was a little dumbfounded, and turned around to ask the people around him: "Am I that popular?"

The result was heard by the reporter on the other side.

They answered loudly: "Hong! You are great!"

Other reporters nodded.

The crowd still moved forward, apparently wanting to see the true face of this singer and international director.

Seeing Tang Wen's puzzled expression, the reporter shouted, "Haven't you checked the latest Billboard rankings yet?"

"My song is on the charts?" Tang Wen realized belatedly.

"Up!"

“Both songs are on.”

"What's your ranking?"

He felt a little strange that a reporter was asking him about the ranking of his songs.

"Director Tang, this way please. We have opened a special passage for you."

A fat man who looked like a leader squeezed in with difficulty.

He sent Tang Wen out of the airport, and suddenly rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "Hey, Director Tang, I'm also your fan."

Tang Wen: ...Just sign it, what else is there to say.

Got in the car.

Summer, who had been waiting here for a long time, took out some recent newspapers and magazines:
"Just take a look at the domestic news. You are being praised to bits."

Movies:

"Ten Days, 1.2 Billion Box Office, Director Tang Sweeps Hollywood"

The article focused on the box office and converted 1.5 million US dollars into RMB.

12 is followed by a string of zeros.

Anyone who sees this will be tempted to count how many zeros there are.

This is to praise Tang Wen based on the box office results.

Chinese Director Subverts Hollywood

The article focuses on the story structure of "The Butterfly Effect" and praises Tang Wen from a professional perspective.

……

Then there was the news after the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project was approved.

The production cost is 1.5 million US dollars.

"Hero" is said to have a production cost of 3000 million US dollars, which makes it a unique blockbuster in China.

Compared with Tang Wen, he was defeated instantly.

What's more, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is endorsed by the famous Disney company.

It is said that it will be turned into a pirate theme park in the future.

From the domestic perspective, this is supporting Tang Wen!
Taking advantage of this favorable situation, the domestic media almost hyped Tang Wen up as the number one director in mainland China.

He didn't dare to challenge this title.

But there is no doubt that he is the number one director of the younger generation.

Tang Wen flipped through the newspaper casually and put it aside.

What the media wrote is not an exaggeration.

But he thought of another problem.

The huge success of "The Butterfly Effect" has caused a backlash from other forces in Hollywood.

This needs to be taken seriously and we need to think carefully about how to solve it.

The news of Tang Wen's return spread throughout the country even earlier than the time he left the airport.

Recently, he has been out of the country.

But it can be said that the whole country is filled with his legends.

Now people are back.

The previous news has become hot again.

Stacked together, they appear in the public eye.

On that day, Shanghai News spent three minutes introducing Tang Wen’s recent achievements overseas.

1. The novel "Five People You Meet in Heaven" topped the New York Times bestseller list in the new week!
2. The novel "Pirates of the Caribbean" was approved and cooperated with Disney.

3. The new book "National Treasure" was released and received rave reviews.

4. The movie "The Butterfly Effect" broke the record.

In the new week, the box office was cut in half to more than 3500 million US dollars, and the North American box office was close to 2 million.

Overseas, Tang Wen did not cause any trouble, and the total box office in various countries added up to nearly 8000 million US dollars.

The total global box office exceeded 2.5 million US dollars.

5. English EP, two of the three singles debuted on the Billboard Hot .

The news introduced in detail the difficulty of making the list.

Community cards have been around for decades.

Although funds are accepted, overall, it is fair.

If you want to make the list, you have to rely on data.

Among them, physical sales account for 15% to 20% of the weight...

After the complicated explanation.