"George has taken care of."

After closing the car door casually, Wayne stood beside the car while buttoning the suit top, looking up at the restaurant in front of him.

This is a typical Chinese restaurant. Unlike other Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, this restaurant looks like it does not take a high-end route from the outside, but it clearly tells the passersby that the signature here is duck.

In fact, even Wayne himself would not have imagined that there would be such a very traditional roast duck restaurant hidden in San Gabriel World Square in Los Angeles.

In fact, after so many years of coming, Wayne has long been used to Western food. Although he still doesn't eat Chinese food often, in general, Western food is still the main focus in life.

"Hollywood director Wayne Greenberg is a complete oriental fan and especially likes Chinese food." As soon as he entered the door, George Lucas gave Wayne a warm hug. While leading the way, he kept greetings and teasing.

"How is it? It's good here."

“The environment is very good.”

Wayne smiled and shook his head, observed the environment in the restaurant, and followed the father of Star Wars into the private room. "As for what he ate, he would have to know after eating."

In fact, the two of them were all aware that neither of them cared about what to eat tonight or where to eat.

George Lucas' attitude was to hope that there would be a suitable place to have a good talk with Wayne. Coincidentally, Wayne's thoughts were also like this.

However, this roast duck restaurant hidden in the corner of Los Angeles gave Wayne enough surprises. After they sat down for a while, a chef in white chef's clothes pushed a car into the private room, and under the incredible gaze of the two, he quickly turned the duck into one hundred and eight pieces.

After asking if he needed help explaining, the chef happily took away a postcard with the signature of the Father of Star Wars and the King of Darkness in Hollywood.

"Have you eaten this duck before?"

After just a brief taste, George Lucas stopped the movements in his hand and looked at Wayne curiously. The other party skillfully applied sauce on a pancake, then put the scallion, cucumber strips and duck meat in it, handed it to the female assistant beside him, and then skillfully rolled a roll for himself again.

"uh-huh."

Wayne shrugged, not answering the topic, nor touching the food on the table. Instead, he picked up the prepared tissue and carefully wiped his hands and mouth.

He knew that the hot dishes on the table and the well-sliced ​​roast duck were actually not in line with the taste of North Americans, including George Lucas.

So what do ordinary Americans usually eat? In fact, it is expressed in many American dramas in life. The main meal is roasted in fire, and the fast food is fried. Usually, they are called pizza and burgers or made simple sandwiches at home. The more complicated ones are just fried eggs.

As we all know, on this land of North America, people of all ages are in love with parties and parties for ten minutes.

But even at the party, I just roast a chicken, you mix a vegetable salad. Then no matter how the chicken is roasted or how the salad is mixed, they start to praise each other crazy. So North Americans may really not care about this aspect of eating, and the most important thing is to fill their stomachs.

If you have the heart, you can find that among the most fat people in North America, basically more than 95% are poor.

This is caused by the food you eat, but these poor people generally become fat people, and they are actually forced out. The ordinary green leafy vegetables in North American supermarkets are about two times, and if they are bean sprouts, they are about four times.

But if you go to see chicken legs, many times when discounted, it may cost about 0.8 yuan. For example, large rows and pork, most often only cost about 2 yuan. From this, you can find that the price of green leafy vegetables is actually much more expensive than meat.

More common high-sugar, high-carb foods, such as chocolate donuts, ice cream, etc., are particularly cheap. So the poor generally have no choice and they do not have the conditions to arrange a healthy diet.

In contrast to these poor people, if you are above the elite, then more people will naturally eat vegetables, nuts, and not eat high sugar and high carb foods. This is also the reason why many rich people have better body protection.

The reason is very simple. People above the elite class have enough ability and self-discipline to care about their dietary health and living habits.

For example, George Lucas in front of him, it is obvious that he is not interested in the high-calorie food on the table. Even when facing Wayne, he did not pretend to show his interest.

One thing that must be mentioned is that Chinese food is actually not cheap in North America, at least not at all for the poor.

This is also a bit embarrassing thing about Chinese food. Even after being improved according to local eating habits, North Americans generally believe that it is okay to try such a diet occasionally, but if you eat such things for a long time, even if you put the taste aside, they think it is unhealthy.

Fortunately, the restaurant George Lucas chose today is not modified, at least roast duck is not, which is the most friendly thing for a soul who has eaten countless times in his previous life.

"Tell me, George, what do you want to talk about today."

Throwing down the tissue in his hand, Wayne signaled Nina to continue eating, ignoring the conversation between them, and turned to look at the father of Star Wars beside him. "Hey, man, don't tell me that I'm just asking me to come here for dinner. I can tell that you are not used to the taste of these foods."

Without looking for traces, he glanced at Nina who was eating with her head down. George Lucas showed a hearty smile on his face, stared at Wayne's eyes, shrugged and said:

"I'm just saying it, I know you're busy with the post-production of "Wonder Woman" during this time. This time I'm going to talk to you about Twentieth Century Fox and the schedule for the release of "Star Wars"."

When he heard the word "Star Wars", Wayne's eyes shrank suddenly, and even Nina, who lowered her head to eat, paused her movements. Obviously, after waiting for so long, they had been waiting for news about Star Wars.

If there is any movie in this era that can pose a threat to the already popular DC series and even directly defeat the DC series, then there is no doubt that it is the world's number one IP "Star Wars".

Then he pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Wayne spread his arms on the back of the chair. His expression remained unchanged. He asked casually, "George, you don't want to tell me that Fox is going to put your Star Wars into May when the summer season begins."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slowly shook his head and rejected the issue. It is almost February now. If "Star Wars" is released in May, then there should be publicity and silence. But we know that so far, there is not much news about "Star Wars" circulating in the outside world.

But the thing he was most worried about was that Twentieth Century Fox, temporarily learning Universal Pictures and Paramount from the previous two years. After all, the reality is here. This year's summer season can be said to be more crowded as it goes. Who knows if that old guy Townsend Rossman will suddenly get thrust?

Thinking of this, his eyes instantly locked in George Lucas beside him. No matter what Twentieth Century Fox wanted to do, he had to nod the father of Star Wars.

"Yes, I rejected the release plan of Twentieth Century Fox."

George Lucas reached out to touch his beard, and without hesitation, he sold Townsend Rossman. Without saying much, he believed that his friend's intelligence was, and even if he only relied on his brain, he could figure out what was going on.

"George, tell me what you think."

When Wayne's eyes slowly narrowed when he heard the other party's words. He didn't care what Fox wanted to do. Instead, he thought of the first thing that the father of Star Wars had asked him to come out, he must have had some special thoughts.

"I don't know if you noticed, Wayne."

George Lucas didn't keep it a secret, and didn't even care about the female assistant around him. He said directly: "In the past few years, various sequel series of Warner Bros. and large productions with medium investment and above have basically run through the entire summer season, which also made Warner Bros. the largest film company with the most impressive revenue in the past few years."

Speaking of this, he deliberately paused for a few seconds before continuing: "But what about this year? The videos that Warner Bros. invested separately, and the films that were produced jointly with your studio, were surpassed by Disney in total! So, what Fox distribution department and I mean is to first understand what you think about Disney, and whether or not..."

As George Lucas slowly spoke, Wayne also thought of many related things. Yes, Warner Bros. not only has a large number of films produced in recent years, but the success rate is also extremely high. But Warner Bros. himself also has difficulties that he has to mention.

That is to give the DC series the golden period where the summer season begins. They have more videos than other companies, all of which are crowded into the next few months.

Just a brief recollection will reveal that this year's Disney seems to have ushered in a big explosion, from animated feature films, comedy, suspense and thriller, to magnificent war films, all kinds of films seem to be coming together, and in terms of total number, they have vaguely surpassed Warner Bros.

The most important point is that Disney does not have Warner Bros.'s concerns, and does not take the initiative to stay away from Wayne's projects like other film companies.

Although I didn't face it head-on, I calculated it carefully, since "Pearl Harbor" in late May, the films produced and released by Disney have been spread throughout the summer season, especially from late May to July, where Disney's key projects are simply crowded.

"Pearl Harbor in late May, Tarzan of the Apes in mid-June, G-type Detective in mid-July, and "The Running Bride" co-produced with Paramount at the end of July..."

Seeing Wayne fall into thinking, George Lucas stopped his voice. As the person who knows his boss best, Nina guessed what he needed at the first time and immediately lowered her voice, just like a computer, recalling memorizing some of the more famous projects that Disney has planned this year.

"The boss, there are actually projects such as Toy Story 2 and "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" that are destined to be bad. However, Disney has not announced the specific release dates of these two projects so far."

The assistant lady didn't care about the father of Star Wars, who was smiling, and made a very rational analysis of the men around her. "But with Disney's current screening density, these two key works are likely to appear at the end of the summer season, and may even appear alone in the Christmas season."

"Toy Story 2", the market prospects of this film needless to say, after all, the previous work was too successful. It not only gained the outstanding numbers in the theater market, but also made Disney's peripherals sell crazy. It even made Pixar's stock price soar, allowing Joe Gangmaster to return to the fruit company!

The following movie "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural" is not simple. Just look at the name Jerry Brookheimer written on the producer column, which means to a certain extent that the market prospects of this movie will not be much worse.

"Tell me, George, what do you need me to do?"

It took about five minutes before Wayne extinguished the cigarette in his hand and looked at the father of Star Wars beside him and asked.

George Lucas remembered Townsend Rossman's idea and expressed his purpose happily. "Persuad Warner Bros. senior executives, at least, should persuade Bruce Rossenblum, the head of the distribution department, to sit down and have a good chat with Fox executives."

"I don't understand, George."

Wayne frowned when he heard his words. The two had a good personal relationship, so he simply asked directly: "According to the tacit understanding between the Six Majors of Hollywood, there is no need to sit down and talk about such things, right?"

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than that the two companies have joined forces to some extent and targeted Disney in terms of public opinion, publicity, etc. It is not difficult to guess at all.

When two of the six giants join forces, they can actually do more than that. What’s more important is to gather the power of the two companies and put pressure on theater companies together to reduce the scale of the project, release time, screening density after release, and the amount of filming after release.

But all of this requires two major premises. The first is the two companies that have joined forces, and their respective projects must be of good quality. Otherwise, even in the face of huge pressure and threats, pure commercial companies such as theater companies will not leave money and make money.

Second, although such things happen in Hollywood anytime and anywhere, when doing these things, people usually rely on tacit understanding when working together.

The reason is very simple. If the Warner Bros. executives today sit with the 20th Century Fox executives, the time will not last more than one night, and those who deserve to get the news will get the news.

Hollywood has never had airtight walls, let alone big old men like them, with countless eyes staring at them every day.

"I can only tell you that Fox and I have great ambitions."

The Father of Star Wars did not hide at all and said without hesitation: "Do you think your "Wonder Woman" and my "Star Wars" should not forcefully occupy more market share?"

Speaking of this, George Lucas's face was full of confidence. "But Wayne, you should know that Fox is very inconsistent with Warner Bros. Because of the collaboration with you on "X-Men", he is very inconsistent with Warner Bros. No one is deaf. Many of Warner Bros. shareholders' thoughts are still the ones who have snatched away the money they originally wanted to make a lot of money!"

Nodding silently, Wayne said, "Okay, I will call Bruce Rosenblum in my turn."

This is something that is good for both sides, and there is no doubt about this. It can be heard from the subtext that the release date of "Star Wars" will never exceed mid-July.

Moreover, the meaning of watching the Father of Star Wars is not to target a certain Disney film, but to completely squeeze all Disney projects to death during the release of "Wonder Woman" and "Star Wars"!

George Lucas and Wayne were both very clear that the meaning of the conversation between them was actually more of a test. If possible, it would be best to promote cooperation between the two parties. As for how to discuss and arrange the latter two film companies, it is not what they need to consider.

"Before the Oscars, Star Wars will hold several internal previews. If you have time, you can come and have a look." After the talks, the father of Star Wars sent a special invitation.

"You know, George."
Chapter completed!