Yang Can cried with pain and "touched" her chest. She couldn't guess what she was thinking, but she was very happy in her heart. It was so easy for me to be a "traitor" husband with a little white face. This is really not a small gain, with a chuckle on her face. But I really like her angry expression. Is it an illusion? I feel that Xue Qiyuan like this is more real.
Seeing Xue Maocai rolled down the car window and stared at them, Yang Can immediately took the opportunity to lower her head to her ear, and whispered: "I said my dear, my future father-in-law and mother-in-law are watching. Let me give you a face. Anyway, I will help you too. Acting."
Xue Qiyuan was so close to his lips that he almost touched the sensitive and tender earlobe with his own earlobe. Feeling his heat, his breathing was itchy, and he wanted to struggle but didn't have the strength.
Seeing her *** and crystal clear cheeks, the whiteness and redness. Haoto's lips were dead, and she resisted desperately. The whole body was trembling slightly, thinking that this eldest lady was really sensitive, and she reacted so much just by blowing her breath, which was the opposite of her seemingly strong and independent.
At the moment when Xue Maocai finally couldn't stand it and closed the window, Xue Qiyuan's soft body was shocked, as if a touch of electric current spread from her earlobe to her whole body in an instant, itching and trembling. But afterwards, the whole body was numb again. Very comfortable.
After those feelings, Xue Qiyuan's dizzy head suddenly felt a rush of sweat. In a heart, is ashamed and angry. Jiao body trembled endlessly. This guy actually "licked" his earlobe with his tongue. My God, how could he do such a thing
"See you, dear neighbor." Yang Can smiled and ran away before Xue Qiyuan reacted, listening to Xue Qiyuan's distant "Asshole, rascal, rascal..." nouns, and couldn't help it. A smile appeared, and it seemed that his American life was far more exciting than he had imagined.
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The situation facing the top is indeed a bit difficult. Yang Can only came to Hollywood to make a movie. He has two main problems at the moment. The first is that the popularity of his actors in North America is almost zero, and the second is funding. What he has to do now is to make "I Have a Date with Zombies" launched to the market and lay the foundation.
Yang Can first went to meet the new company and Yiyi round. The top US branch has begun to take shape in the past two weeks, but the rented office space is very good. It happens to be located in abc, hbo, and Paramount’s headquarters. The heartland.
The 53-story Sunlight Building, the top rented a third of the twelfth floor, can be said to be quite a handicraft, looking at the sunny California scenery, when Yang Can entered the building, the American security guard at the door also looked at his After obtaining the documents for a long time, I finally made a phone call to contact the top American staff before confirming Yang Can's identity. The unassuming Yang Can in the United States is also hard to believe that he is a high-level executive of a large company.
Yang Can looked at the tired Yiyi, went up and patted her on the shoulder, smiled and comforted: "It's hard work." The two looked at each other without saying a word.
Yi Yien said, but didn't say anything in front of other people, and directly introduced her to the more than a dozen newly recruited American employees, Yang Can, the executive manager of the head office.
Everyone gathered, Yang Can had a rare humor, saying in an American way:
"Well, I am Yang Can and one of your bosses. I know I am an outsider to the United States, but I will use clichés to make up for my lack of experience~"
The American-style jokes caused the American employees to laugh, and the atmosphere seemed very relaxed. Yang Can patted and said, "Okay, there is only one rule. I said, you do it. If you have any questions, please mention it to me at any time. The door is always open like anyone." The simple and clear speech won everyone's applause.
Seeing that these American employees were dealt with by Yang Can in a few words, Zhu Huaicheng also gave a thumbs up next to him, Xu Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of admiration, but Mai Weijian was just laughing, thinking that the boss is acting. Yes, adapting to the American style so quickly.
The five Yang Can entered the bright manager's office, and Yiyi closed the door with a serious expression on his face.
"What's wrong? Things are not going well?" Yang Can asked leisurely, putting his legs on the desk.
Yiyi nodded: "Well, Mark has helped me catch up with Jerry Metz, the producer of abc, but I showed him the samples and scripts, but he never responded to us. I contacted him and didn't answer the phone. , And there are some problems with the recruitment of actors."
The first thing Yang Can expected. Business is business. Americans don’t care about favors. It is indeed difficult to sell Chinese TV series to abc. But the second thing surprised him a bit. According to the original plan, he thought To take root in the United States, you must recruit enough people, and actors are necessary.
Yi Yang Can's current strength does not intend to depend on others. He has to hold the production rights in his hands to give full play to his advantages, but the distribution rights can be through other channels.
Los Angeles is crowded with so many dream-loving actors, why can't we recruit actors
After asking more carefully, I realized that it’s not that the candidates are not recruited, but that the applicants are very bad, even some domestic actors are not as good as some of the domestic actors. There are more actors in Los Angeles, more performing companies, and even hundreds of companies. New companies like the top ones simply cannot attract outstanding talents.
Yiyi is worried and Yang Can is also predictable. The company is now set up and the staff is up. I am afraid that the daily cost is about tens of thousands of dollars. Now that there is no business situation, it will lose one day's money every day. This kind of establishment The initial difficult period is the most difficult. After a few months, they might go bankrupt.
Things still have to come one by one. At present, the most important thing is to call out the reputation of his company and actors. Yang Can picked up the phone and called the public relations team provided by Tianmu to arrange them with Jerry May. Meet.
The people on the canopy are obviously quite supernatural. That afternoon, they arranged for Yang Can to meet with the famous TV producer who had produced "Grey the Intern".
Yang Can took advantage of the time to apply for a body card in the gym at noon. In the afternoon, he took Ma Yiyi, American secretary Green, and translator Xu Xiaoxiao to the abc entertainment production department building.
"Yes, Patrick Dempsey..."
When entering the elevator, Xu Xiaoxiao saw the male protagonist of "Grey Intern" in the elevator and whispered excitedly.
Patrick Dempsey was obviously a little surprised to see Ma Yiyi, this mature and charming man is different from the playboy on TV, but he is very cautious, just smiling dry.
Yang Can noticed the actor's thoughts, and secretly nodded Yiyi, who was in professional attire next to him: "He seems to like you very much. I bet he will pretend to drop something in front of you before the elevator opens, attracting your attention. ."
Yiyi's delicate face looked at Yang Can with contempt: "I sometimes think you are really boring. This is the United States. You thought it was the little boys in Nanda? He wouldn't like me." Xu Xiaoxiao was also listening with a look of disbelief.
The elevator door opened with a "ding", and when the handsome and tall Patrick Dempsey walked out, the pen in his arms suddenly fell off and was falling in front of Yiyi. He smiled and said to Yiyi: "Sorry. "Bend down and pick up a pen.
Yiyi and Xu Xiaoxiao were both stunned. Could it be that Yang Can was really wrong. Seeing the American actor looking at what he wanted to say, Ma Yiyi suddenly pulled Yang Can's arm and said suddenly, "I'm sorry. ,I am married."
This ever-changing girl seemed to play cards in an unreasonable way, making Patrick Dempsey look embarrassed. She smiled awkwardly and walked out of the elevator. The elevator door was closed. Everyone laughed, secretary. Green said a fair word next to him:
"Boss, you are really attractive. If I meet you on the street, I will definitely strike up a conversation with you, especially when Yang is standing next to you."
This joke was obviously a little bit despondent to Yang Can, and Ma Yiyi glared at him, but Yang Can didn’t care. Americans feel good about themselves. In terms of narcissism, only Italy is Italy. The guy and the French guy also crushed them.
After several people knocked on the door of the office, the secretary took them to the outside of the agreed room.
"Mr. Jerry is still meeting some guests, please wait a moment."
Because Yang Can was a temporary visit, Jerry also had some plans to come. Yang Can knew that the other party was not perfunctory, but was sitting patiently on the bench outside the office. He noticed that there were not just them, but several. A filmmaker from a production company is waiting.
Sitting next to him, there are Canadians and British people who are all here to promote their own TV series, such as the American Broadcasting Corporation, a giant company with more than 20 TV stations and one Baidu radio station, which just produces TV series by itself. It is simply not enough to support my own broadcast volume, but also to buy some foreign TV series.
As we all know, the cost of buying TV series in the United States is one of the best in the world. The copyright fee for the first broadcast of ordinary series in North America is between 200,000 and 300,000 US dollars, and those such as "Lost" and "The Big Bang Theory" The copyright fee for popular dramas starts at 500,000.
It is also because of the high returns that all TV producers know that the North American market is the battlefield for the world's top dramas. Most European TV people and even producers in Canada and Asia regard it as their dream to develop in the United States.
Yang Can, smoking a cigarette, curiously expanded his consciousness energy to spy on the situation in Jerry's office. There were three people with an energy of 300 or so, as if watching a TV series on the computer screen.
His current control of energy is no longer what it used to be. This distance can already be measured to a specific amount. Well, it seems that this TV series is not bad, the energy fluctuates between 288-311.
However, this is probably not in the eyes of abc. It is different from the top level of 300 energy in the mainland. The energy of American dramas that are usually popular in the United States is between 350-420, such as the first season of "Prison Break" and "The Big Bang Theory" All are more than 400.
Sure enough, after a while, I saw a brown-haired man walking out dejectedly with a briefcase.
"That's from the Canadian Echo Company." Green has been in Los Angeles for a long time and has some eyesight. He introduced to Yang Can in a low voice that the Canadian Echo Company is one of the most famous television production companies in North America. Xinbao Company of Baosteel.
Is Ma Yiyi a little nervous, and less confident.
"Top-notch Mr. Yang? Please come in." A tall middle-aged man with glasses smiled and came out to personally pick Yang Can in.
Sitting on the sofa, Yang Can and the two white men on the opposite side introduced each other. The man with glasses is William, the reviewer of the abc advertising and marketing department. The man with a big belly and thin hair and a crooked nose is the famous abc producer Jerry. Mace.
"Mr. Yang, let's start."
Usually William is responsible for the review process. This time it was because someone asked Jerry to let these Chinese people provide additional opportunities.
The abc company has strict review procedures for foreign films. The investment, actors, and even the quality of the series are extremely high. Although the total investment of "I Have a Date with Zombies" is not low and barely meets the standard, it has three Ten episodes, the investment for each episode was less than 100,000 US dollars, which made the advertising department and the production department look good.
Ma Yiyi looked at these two sneer attitudes, and felt a little helpless. In fact, before meeting today, she also visited many TV stations, not only the three major TV stations, the other two cbs (CBS), nbc (National Broadcasting Corporation), even Fox, Turner Television Network and other TV stations have already run through.
The results are almost the same. When others heard that the TV series is a completely "made inchina" cast, the reviewers shook their heads, thinking that "there is no need to continue talking."
Ma Yiyi is also a little depressed these days. No matter how hard she tries to sell, she says that this is the top production in China and it is definitely of international standards. Please take a look first. Others smile and say "no".
The reasons for their refusal are actually the same. In the United States, there have been successful productions in Europe such as "Detective Sherlock Holmes" and "Everyone Hates Chris" where all black actors have achieved good results. Successful episodes of faces.
This makes them feel that this move by the top company is a joke, and it is impossible to be accepted by the audience.
It's like promoting Chinese players in the Major League Basketball two decades ago. When Yao Ming was selected as the No. 1 pick, all the boos and suspicions were overwhelming. Some people even insisted that basketball is black. Sports with white people, so it's not surprising that they dismissed "I Have a Date with Zombies".
Ma Yiyi felt that it was the same this time, the only difference was that they were given a chance to judge on the spot.
Jerry glanced at Yang Can curiously: "Mr. Yang, are you the producer of this show? Mike Days is the director?"
"Yes it is."
Jerry couldn't help frowning in a bit of astonishment. He looked at Yang Can and sighed secretly. He thought he was just a puppet producer who could subdue the unruly man Mike Days.
"When I was as old as Mr. Yang, I was still peeking at girls in the school library~" William also smiled in surprise.
In fact, Yang Can doesn't look so ***, but Asians look the same to them, as long as there are no wrinkles, they look like students.
Yang Can frowned and took out the hard drive and handed it over: "Let's stop wasting time and just try the episode."
Jerry and William looked at each other. It seems that this aggressive Chinese can't beat a few haha to pass. It takes at least one episode to watch the episode for 40 minutes, and he feels a little helpless.
But it was also entrusted by others. There was no alternative. Jerry could only connect the received mobile hard disk to the computer, put the screen on the desktop, and let Yang Can's "Operation" start to play the first episode, the United States and the Mainland. The film is slightly different. Only the first episode is watched. The pace of American dramas is quite fast. If the first episode fails to catch people's attention, the audience will not buy it.
Yang Can clicked on the player, and the high-definition picture began to play. It was still the majestic Ma Xiaoling, still the majestic picture of the dragon and the zombies.
William and Jerry, who were originally lazy and unable to lift their energy, immediately sat up a little straight, huh? Not bad, the special effects alone are relatively real, not the shoddy fabrications usually found in Chinese TV dramas.
You know that special effects are the most speechless link in Chinese TV dramas. It is often said that China's top productions look like gadgets produced in the 1980s, which surprised the two of them.
Both Yiyi and Green seemed a little nervous, and Xu Xiaoxiao saw it for the first time, and immediately the picture was firmly attracted.
With the unfolding of the plot, the smooth cuts, the exquisite pictures, the impactful dialogue with English subtitles, and the appropriate music, William and Jerry did not understand what they meant at first. In the back, the more I watched, the more fascinated I became, watching and thinking, slowly indulging in the plot.
When he came back to his senses, forty minutes had passed quietly, and both of them were a little surprised. Ma Yiyi also felt that this matter was a bit tricky. Couldn't these two old beauties' reactions be moved
"The jiangshi (zombie) inside is the vampire (vampire)?" Jerry looked back and asked Yang Can in surprise.
"Well, that's it. The so-called vampires in the West are zombies after five generations. The more famous Cain and Dracula are zombies in our world view." Yang Can thought for a while and gave a reasonable answer. explanation of.
The two professionals, Jerry and William, looked at each other and felt surprised in each other’s eyes. The young Chinese replied that both the content and the tone of the answer revealed a “superior posture”, as if from his point of view. "East" was originally higher than "West".
The two picked up the script again and flipped through it roughly. Although Ma Yiyi had given them the information before, they didn't read it.
"From an artistic point of view...this is a very high-quality work. I especially like the worldview inside. It is very creative." Jerry's attitude at this time was completely different from before, and his tone of voice was much more sincere.
William also agreed with him: "Chinese TV dramas have reached world-class in all respects, which I would never believe before today." There are very few people in the American Academy of Film and Television or professionals in this industry. When I get in touch with Chinese TV, I still watch some movies.
Yang Can listened to them, but did not feel the slightest joy.