On this day, a new romantic love movie was released in the United States. It was called "The Shining Red Rose". The male and female protagonists in the movie were both popular artists in Europe and the United States.

This movie is a light comedy-style love film invested by Li Nanxing, and it is very appropriate to release it on Valentine's Day.

This is also a film project that Zhang Siheng found and continued to invest in.

After a period of research on the American film and television industry, Zhang Siheng has gained a certain understanding of the situation in this industry.

Many well-known directors in the film industry are preparing to shoot film projects. Basically, as long as these directors reveal their idea of ​​starting a project, the well-known large film and television companies in the industry will come to them with investment funds to propose cooperation. These directors don’t have to worry about investment at all. Of course, they will only look for those larger film and television companies to cooperate with.

After all, large film and television companies not only have rich experience in handling large-scale film projects, but also have more experience in dealing with troubles encountered during the filming process.

Because these capitals often deal with the government, there is no trouble in the United States that these big capitals cannot handle!

Therefore, the first choice of cooperation partners for these well-known directors are of course these big film companies!

Therefore, those good projects are basically divided up by these large film and television companies in the initial planning stage.

Those small film and television companies could not participate at all, because when they learned about this project, those good projects had already raised funds, and they did not even have the qualifications to participate, let alone individual investors like Li Nanxing.

Especially in this era when information flow is not well developed, it is really difficult to obtain first-hand information!

There's nothing we can do about it!

So Zhang Siheng thought that he should not be obsessed with those big projects for the time being. Since he had just entered this industry, he should first look for suitable small and medium-sized projects!

Zhang Siheng decided to make connections in related industries first!

After all, no matter how much paper material you study, it is not as useful as the industry insider information inadvertently revealed by senior people within the industry.

This is the information he really needs to know!

During the entire Christmas holiday, Zhang Siheng took the $3,000 in entertainment money given to him in advance by Li Nanxing and went directly to Hollywood to make friends with filmmakers from various professions.

It’s no wonder that Zhang Siheng is quite good at dealing with people. In addition, because he is generous, he has gotten to know many people in the industry.

Zhang Siheng learned about this film project through a well-known film producer whom he had contacted several times.

The film crew had already started filming, but the film's investor suddenly withdrew his investment midway, which put the film project at risk of being stopped right after it began.

The venue, costumes, and equipment have all been rented, and the actors and other staff are in place. Can you just withdraw your investment?

Isn't this a deadly trap?

The film producer and director are almost going crazy!

This film project was originally a romantic film with low box office expectations. The theme was the cliché love story between Cinderella and a rich young man. It was a blessing to be able to find an investor to invest. Who would have thought that this investor would withdraw the investment halfway.

Okay!

Once this news gets out, who knows what rumors will be spread about the crew!

The producer couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If the director hadn't insisted on making a romance film and had chosen a more popular subject, it would have been much easier to find investors.

It’s not like nowadays, when investors hear that it’s a love story movie, they shake their heads like tops and are not willing to invest in a romance movie at all.

It is because the box office of romance movies is getting worse year by year. There are no romance movies with good box office in recent years. I heard that several of them even lost money, so now no one is willing to invest in such movies that will lose money.

American romance films were once a shining example, but that was in the 1950s, the golden age of romance films. Famous films like "Gone with the Wind," "Roman Holiday," "The Ice Age," "The Breakers," "Sleepless in Seattle," and "Auction Girls" are still talked about by audiences today. In "Roman Holiday," Audrey Hepburn played Princess Marie. However, new romance films simply couldn't generate significant box office revenue.

Actually, there is a reason for this.

The biggest reason is mainly due to the emergence of the "Star Wars" series of films in the early 1970s.

This imaginative Star Wars universe film series directly made science fiction movies popular all over the world, and since then, movies on science fiction, adventure and other related themes have become the most anticipated movie genres by all moviegoers!

However, slightly bland romance films are not so popular.

This also led to the fact that adventure-themed movies were the most popular with audiences in this era, while many people in the industry were not optimistic about and unwilling to invest in romance movies.

The producer of this project used a lot of connections to find an investor who was willing to invest in a romance film. However, he didn't expect that the other party, who had agreed at the beginning, would choose to withdraw his investment just when filming started.

This caught the entire project team off guard!

The producers almost gave up after encountering setbacks one after another.

At this time, when Zhang Siheng brought Li Nanxing, a big money sponsor, and proposed to invest in their film project, the producer and director were so happy that they almost cried.

It doesn’t matter whether the other person is too young or not. Many rich kids like to spend money on parties. Maybe now he has met a rich second generation who likes movies and is willing to invest in movies!

When Li Nanxing heard Zhang Siheng talking about the film project that was about to start shooting, he ran over without caring whether the film would flop or not.

Anyway, just invest in a movie first and get into the industry first!

But after Li Nanxing read the movie script that the director handed over to him, he suddenly fell silent.

With such a clichéd storyline and no twists or turns at all, are you sure the audience won’t fall asleep halfway through?

Could it be that audiences in the 1970s were more tolerant?

Li Nanxing couldn't say what was wrong with this script. After all, she had no interest in watching movies and TV series from the 1990s, let alone those from the 1970s.

However, Li Nanxing still pulled out a new script he had prepared in advance and proposed a new deal: "I'll pay you $100,000, and you can make two movies with this crew. First, shoot the script I brought you, and after that, you can shoot your original script! How about it? Do you agree?"

Regardless of whether the other party's script is good or not, can't she just come up with a new script that she likes?