That night, Miramax and Bowei announced on their respective official websites to terminate their contracts with "Time and Space Warriors". Movie exchanges are quite common, and this incident has not attracted much attention.

However, the next day, Harvey Weinstein claimed in an interview that Zhang Ran was talented, but he had no experience in making big productions and lost control of the movie. The whole movie was filmed very badly, which was a huge disaster!

Nina Jacobson also said in an interview: "After watching the clip of "Time Warrior", I thought of Chen Kaige's "Kill Me Gently" and Wu Yusen's "Wind Whisperer". Zhang Ran's movie is worse than these two! Although Zhang Ran learned the movies in UCL, he and Chen Kaige have a common problem, deep-rooted Chinese thinking, and they stuffed too much Chinese things into the movie. For American audiences, everyone is not interested in China! This movie is destined to fail, so we would rather bear a loss of $10 million than release, otherwise our losses will be greater!"

The two of them were too harsh in accusing that few filmmakers blamed the director like this. This matter immediately attracted the attention of the media, and major newspapers reprinted it one after another.

In 2001, Chen Kaige entered Hollywood and filmed the thriller "Kill Me Gently" for MGM. However, the movie was so terrible that MGM didn't even have the courage to release it. She just posted a DVD and lost all her money in investment of 25 million yuan.

After the release of the war film "The Whisperer" created by John Woo for MGM in 2002, the media received a buzz of bad reviews. The 112 million investment only achieved a box office of 40 million in North America, directly pushing MGM to the brink of bankruptcy.

The failure of the two directors is precisely because they lack a deep understanding of the cultural background of the story and the psychology of the characters. They use Chinese thinking to tell a Western story, but the film was filmed inappropriately.

In fact, Harvey and the others knew that Zhang Ran's "Breaking Drummer" had a good box office in East Asia. As long as Zhang Ran sent an invitation to East Asia film producers, these people would definitely be present. Now Harvey and the others put the hat of not understanding Western culture on Zhang Ran's head, and then took the movies of Chen and Wu as an example. The film merchants might be suspicious. Even if they couldn't get scared, they would try their best to suppress the price on Zhang Ran.

As for Zhang Ran going to find a Hollywood film company, he is not that stupid! Hollywood film company knows the whole story, and will never buy films at this time. They will definitely wait for the insurance company to take over the project before contacting the insurance company and get the copyright at a low price.

A day later, people from banks and insurance companies came together. Both of them were standard Wall Street financial men, in their thirties, neat suits, leather shoes, belts, and any item was worth tens of thousands.

Zhang Ran invited them into the conference room and greeted: "Please sit down quickly. Dandan and make tea!"

Wang Luodan brought tea, put it heavily in front of the people from the bank and insurance companies, turned his head aside, and didn't even look at them. For Zhang Ran's students, those who bully Teacher Zhang were all bad people, so they would not give them a good face.

After a few greetings, Zhang Ran picked up the teacup, took a sip, and asked as if nothing had happened: "What's wrong? Do you know what's wrong with you?"

The bank representative said bluntly: "Mr. Zhang, I regret to inform you that since the pre-sale contract you mortgaged is invalid, we will withdraw all funds. You are the defaulting party and we will collect interest as agreed, totaling 32 million!"

Zhang Ran spread his hands and said, "It turns out that you came here for this. Let me tell you a few words first. Bowei is right to tear up the contract, but I have contacted other issuing companies. I will hold a movie watching meeting the day after tomorrow, and I will get the issuing contract again. We will pay the interest on your contract before, and then we will sign a loan contract again. What do you think?"

The bank representative was stunned and shook his head and said, "It has always been cautious to give you a loan to a new director like you. If there is such a big problem this time, you have been on the blacklist. We will not provide you with loans anymore, we must recover the funds!"

The insurance company also said: "We will also increase risk warning. If you need a guarantee for the film after shooting a new film in the future, we will carefully consider it. Even if you provide insurance for you, we will also increase the premium!"

Zhang Ran realized that this was the key point of the matter, and that was why Harvey and the others dared to do this.

This time, Zhang Ran had problems with his cooperation with the bank and was blacklisted. Even if he had a pre-sale contract, the bank would not provide him with a loan. In this way, even if Zhang Ran received a pre-sale contract of 30 million from East Asia and the film merchant paid a pre-sale of 6 million, the funds would still face a gap.

If the movie's funding gap is 20 million, even if Zhang Ran gets the pre-sale contract from East Asia, he will be unable to make a loan from the bank. However, now there is only a gap of 7 million, and Zhang Ran is sure to solve it.

Zhang Ran said calmly: "Yes, but please give me some time. I am raising funds, and now there is only a funding gap of 7 million. I will resolve it soon. Please give me some time!"

The representatives of the bank and insurance companies looked at each other and found it incredible. How did they do it in just two days? They said in unison: "Are you kidding?"

Zhang Ran dared not take the blame and explained: "The movie has a reserve of 12 million yuan, which you know, that is to say, the actual gap is only 20 million. I have 7.5 million yuan myself. In addition, I persuaded Reeves to pay the remaining 30% of the movie pay and wait for the advertiser to pay the subsequent funds. This is 4.5 million yuan. In addition, all Chinese members of the crew have delayed their pay and salary. This is 1 million yuan. Now the gap is only 7 million yuan, and I will solve it as soon as possible. Please give me some time!"

The insurance company people breathed a sigh of relief. It was best for them to take money and leave after filming the movie safely. They were unwilling to fill in the movie or take over the movie, otherwise they would have to take a lot of risks.

The bank representative pondered for a moment and looked up and said, "I'll give you five days. No matter what the result is, we will withdraw funds in five days!"

Zhang Ran thought about it in his mind. The movie meeting will be held the day after tomorrow. The contract is ready, and it is completely time. He nodded immediately: "Okay, it's only five days!"

On this day, the news that "Time and Space Warrior" was brutally returned, and the news that it might die in the middle was sent back to China, and the domestic media was in an uproar.

In early June, several newspapers led by the "New Crystal News" were sentenced to apologize to Zhang Ran and compensate for reputation losses of 50,000 yuan.

Several newspapers held a grudge against Zhang Ran, but now they have caught a chance. Not only did they report this on the front page, but they also published articles, sneeringly mocking: "Zhang Ran has been lost by the limelight some time ago. After filming two good low-cost movies, they learned to make blockbusters. It's too inflated. Now I've learned a lesson. Young people should consider their own weight."

"Zhang Ran's level is limited. It's okay to fool domestic audiences, but is North American audience easy to fool? "The Breaking Drummer" achieved a box office of 100 million in China, while North America has only 80,000 box office, which is very telling. Now it's completely revealed! The quality is poor and the product was returned!"

Some people must like public figures. Some people hate them, and Zhang Ran is no exception. Those who dislike Zhang Ran must have missed this opportunity and they all started to squirt online: "Sb Zhang Ran, I deserve it if I missed this time!"

"After shooting two trash movies, I thought I could make Hollywood blockbusters, I don't know how high the sky is! "

"Hahaha, investors must have a loss now and jumped off the building!"

"I'm so laughing. I've made two small-budget movies and wanted to make Hollywood blockbusters. Do you think you're Ang Lee?"

Many netizens who became Zhang Ran’s fans because of "The Breaking Drummer" quarreled with Kuroko online while shook their heads and sighed. Let’s just shoot domestic movies well. Why do you want to enter Hollywood? Is Hollywood easy to make? Tsui Hark and Chen Kai failed, and even the glorious John Woo took the lead. Why bother?

On this day, Zhang Ran received a lot of calls, including Ning Hao and other colleagues, Huang Lei and others. Even his apprentice Liu Yifei called and said that he wanted to ask his adoptive father to help Zhang Ran borrow money.

Zhang Ran's phone number has never been interrupted. He just answered a call. The second call would be called immediately. Now, just after hanging up Chen Zhenghong's phone number, Li Junwei's phone number came over again.

Last time filming "The Breaking Drummer", Zhang Ran encountered a problem with funds. He borrowed it from Li Junwei. Now that he heard that Zhang Ran had a problem with funds, Li Junwei called and asked what was going on: "Zhang Ran, I heard that there was a problem with funds for your movie?"

Zhang Ran laughed and said, "I encountered some trouble and was plotted against me."

Li Junwei said: "Why don't I feel the depression of being plotted against you in your words, but instead I feel like the evil plan succeeds?"

Zhang Ran laughed: "If I win this fight, I will get 10 million for free. If I lose, the big head of the movie will be taken away by them, and I can only take the small head! I am more confident in this matter. When the movie will end the day after tomorrow, the overall situation will be decided!"

Li Junwei said: "I also said that if you have difficulty in capital turnover, I will help you solve it. It seems that it is a big deal!"

Zhang Ran originally planned to borrow money from Li Junwei. After one and a half years of development, creative advertising covers more than 20,000 office buildings across the country. The revenue of creative advertising in the first six months of this year exceeded 100 million. Now Li Junwei is rich. Zhang Ran was not polite and said directly: "If you have extra money in your hands, it's best to borrow some. What's going on in the filming of a movie may happen. If you have more money, you'll be prepared for it, so you won't have any capital turnover when you get there!"

Li Junwei said proudly: "How much do you need?"

Zhang Ran said: "It's up to you as much as you can borrow!

Li Junwei said: "I will lend you 10 million. If it is not enough, I will find a way!"

Zhang Ran said gratefully: "Brother Li, thank you!"

Li Junwei laughed and said, "Why are you polite to me? Besides, when the movie is released in China, you will definitely be advertising in our company. You are also my God of Wealth!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "The copyright in China is in the hands of Zhongying, but I believe they will definitely place building advertisements."

Li Junwei said: "I'm right, there is business only when there is a movie. If the movie is not there, the business will not be there either."

Just as he hung up Li Junwei's phone, the phone ringing rang again. Looking at the caller ID above, Zhang Ran, who was about to turn off the phone, couldn't help but smile and answered the phone.

"Jingchu, I'm fine, don't worry about me!"

"You, you never tell me anything." Zhang Jingchu sighed with a sigh, "I transferred all the money to your account, a total of 1.25 million!"

Zhang Ran was stunned. No wonder Zhang Jingchu called now. It turned out that he had transferred the money. He was a little moved, but he teased: "Before the person has passed the door, he will send the dowry first! It's over, it's impossible not to marry now!"

Zhang Jingchu giggled and said, "Yes, you admit your bad luck!"

Zhang Ran laughed twice and said seriously: "It's not a big deal. Even if the copyright of the movie was really taken away by Harvey and the others, I still have 15 million investments in the movie, so I can still participate in the sharing, just the share is less."

The stone in Zhang Jingchu's heart fell to the ground and said softly: "No matter what, I will support you."

Zhang Ran raised his head and chest with a firm look, and his voice was strong: "I know, you can watch your scene with peace of mind, and then wait for the news of my victory!" (To be continued.)

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