Beverly Hills is located in the west of Los Angeles, at the foot of Beverly Hills. It is the most famous city in Los Angeles.

At this time, the Murdoch and his wife were having a cocktail party in their mansion in Beverly Hills.

The men who attended the scene looked polite and gentlemanly; the ladies wore all kinds of evening outfits and were elegant in their manners. These men and women either whispered in a low voice or were circling around to show their extraordinary social skills. This kind of cocktail party is a good opportunity to make friends and accumulate connections. In the eyes of upper-class people, connections are an invisible wealth.

The hostess Wendi Deng kept introducing various guests to Zhang Ran, filmmakers Luo Yan, Hugh Jackman and his wife, as well as executives from major Hollywood film companies.

Zhang Ran once heard that Wendi Deng would introduce you to friends who might be helpful to you at a party. Now it seems that this is true. He is really a social expert. Think about it, Jingchu is a completely home girl, who stays at home all day, either reading books, watching movies, watching gossip on the Internet, playing games. The difference is too big. However, if Zhang Jingchu is a social expert like Wendi Deng, Zhang Ran probably wouldn't have had sex with her.

After saying hello, Zhang Ran found a quieter corner to talk about cooperation with Fox's vice president Zachary Eller.

A few days ago, Zhang Ran had already talked with the president of Fox. Everyone had already discussed the general framework of cooperation. Zhang Ran invested 1 billion US dollars in five years to invest in Fox's forty movies. However, the specific content of the cooperation has not been decided yet. For example, which movie Zhang Ran invests in and how to divide the share, we need to talk to Vice President Zachary Eller in detail.

Zhang Ran and Zachary Elle were chatting enthusiastically when a voice suddenly came from beside him: "So you are here!"

Zhang Ran turned his head and saw that it was Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of "Vogue". He raised his glass and tasted a glass of Chinese American wine: "Hello, Ms. Wintour, long time no see!"

Wentour said coldly: "I'm not good at all, it's even worse if I see you!"

Zhang Ran was stunned. I'll call you this old lady, and smiled and said, "Am I that annoying? If so, I apologize to you!"

Wentour said unscrupulously: "There is a recent movie "The Queen of Prida". Do you know this movie?"

Zhang Ran knew that the author of "The Queen of Prada" had served as Wintour's assistant, and the Queen of Prada refers to Wintour. When "The Queen of Prada" was about to be made into a movie, Wintour expressed tactfully to Meryl Streep that we have become a gangster; then she warned well-known people in the fashion industry not to participate in the filming of this movie.

However, Zhang Ran also knew that when people thought that Wintour would be angry and cursed, she came in a noble manner in a dress of Prada, and then held a banquet in the editorial department, announcing that she would start writing an autobiography.

Zhang Ran was a little confused. Wentourti’s movie was doing, and said: “It seems that it will premiere next week. At the beginning, I wanted to buy the copyright of this novel, but when I wanted to buy it, the copyright had already fallen into Fox’s hands!”

Wentour stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds and suddenly smiled: "You actually want to buy the copyright of this novel. Didn't you find that the rustic and arrogant Chinese in the novel is you?"

Zhang Ran had never read novels, only movies, and there were no Chinese people in the movies, and he was a little surprised: "I have never read novels, and I don't know the content of the novel. I don't know the author of the novel, so how could the novel be related to me?"

Wentour smiled even more: "No, you have seen the author of the novel. Don't you know who the author of the novel is?"

"The Queen of Plida" is not a classic work. How could Zhang Ran know who the author is? He shook his head and said, "I don't know!"

Wentour said: "You have no impression of it?"

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned. Did he not have any impression? It means I had seen this woman. Lauren Weisberg? He suddenly remembered that when he first went to "Vogue", he had a conflict with a woman named Lauren, and immediately reacted: "Was it possible that when I came to "Vogue", the old woman named Lauren who insulted me was Lauren Weisberg?"

Wentour smiled and said, "You are very smart. After Lauren was fired, he wrote "The Queen of Pulida". He slandered me in the book. Of course, you, the culprit who caused her to be fired, was the rustic and arrogant Chinese!"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "A Chinese who is both rustic and arrogant? Well! Actually, this Miss Weisberg is really rustic and arrogant. After hearing what you said, I really have to come and read this novel." Then he looked at Zachary Eller and said: "Don't you know that there is this character in the movie? If so, I'll just watch the movie directly. I don't know what the actor's image is?"

Zachary Elle smiled and said, "No, the screenwriter will definitely delete it if he doesn't have much significance for the development of the plot. If we knew that it was you, we would definitely keep it."

Zhang Ran shrugged: "That's a pity!" Then he looked at Wentour and said: "Ms. Wentour, you came here to talk to me about these things, right?"

Wentour said seriously: "Of course not, I have something to talk to you." Then he looked at Zachary Elle without saying anything.

Zachary Eller knew that Wintour thought he was in the way, so he quickly said to Zhang Ran: "I won't disturb you when talking about cooperation tomorrow morning!"

Zhang Ran nodded: "Okay!" After Zachary Elle walked away, he asked, "Ms. Wintour, I wonder what's wrong with you looking for me?"

Wintour stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds before saying, "My daughter Catherine will attend this year's Paris Clion dance and needs a designer to help her design the dress."

Zhang Ran knew that the Paris Clion Ball was the most famous adult dance party in the world, and was held at the Paris Clion Hotel every November. Its predecessor was the adult dance party of famous families and was originally held only within the British palace. In 1990, French socialist Ophelia Lerua repackaged this traditional and grand dance party, no longer limited to the British royal family, and opened the door to famous girls around the world, but the selection rules became increasingly strict. The socialites invited to participate in the dance were not only from famous families, smart, highly educated, but also beautiful and slim. Paris Hilton was rejected here, and even when Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump was 16 years old, her mother wanted her to attend the dance.

In 2003, Wan Baobao became the first Chinese in history to attend the Klion Yuanyuan dance. She successfully entered the British social circle and was immediately praised by Westerners as the most Chinese princess-like woman. After that, Chelsea, the granddaughter of Xiangjiang tycoon Zhou Xinian, the granddaughter of gambling king Ho Hongshen Ho, and Lin Jianyue's daughter Ruby Lin all participated in the dance.

The famous girls who attended the Clion dance were all wearing various high-end customizations. When they heard that Wintour was asking a designer to help her daughter design the dress, Zhang Ran was a little surprised: "You don't want me to design the dress for your daughter, do you?"

Wintour nodded slightly: "Yes."

Zhang Ran was stunned: "I am a director, not a designer! McQueen, Galliano, Tom Ford, Gaultier, any one you want is better than me. As long as you say it, designers around the world will cry and shout to help you design. How could they find me to design?"

Wentour smiled and said, "Actually it's not that I want to find you, it's that Catherine wants you to design her. She is your fan. If you can design her dress, she will definitely be very happy and will be the perfect gift for her!"

Zhang Ran was a little speechless: "I will start filming movies at the end of July and I will be busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Where can I have time to design? And my level is limited. Aren't you afraid that I will mess up your daughter's coming-of-age gift?"

Wentour said lightly: "No, I believe in your artistic level!"

Zhang Ran wanted to refuse, but could not refuse. He owed Wintour a favor. He owned 40% of the shares of the brand Wang Daren. Recently, this brand became popular in the United States, and it was entirely up to Wentour. Moreover, Zhang Ran still needs her help in the future, so he could only bite the bullet and said, "I can promise you, but I won't come to design your daughter. After the design, your daughter will try it on in China by herself!"

Wintour smiled and said, "Yes!"

The next morning, Zhang Ran met with Zachary Elle and continued to discuss cooperation. Zachary Elle did not talk nonsense and directly took out a list of scripts prepared for Zhang Ran for him to choose.

Zhang Ran slowly looked at the script list and the introduction to the content below, and his face quickly became ugly.

Hollywood has a special word for foreign investment. It translates into Chinese to be stupid money, which means that people are stupid and have a lot of money. From Japanese capital in the 1980s to German capital in the previous years, and even recently Wall Street capital, in Hollywood, all of them are stupid money.

What is Hollywood's attitude towards foreign investment? It is to take out bad scripts that you don't want to make for investments, and you can make sure you make money. If the movie breaks out unexpectedly, the Hollywood machine kicks you away and enjoys this IP exclusively. For example, "Fast and Furious", Universal was not optimistic about this drama at first, and the Germans wanted to invest in Universal's movies, so Universal asked the Germans to invest in this drama. Unexpectedly, the box office exploded, Universal quickly developed a sequel, and naturally there was no German in the sequel.

In 2010, Orange Sky Jiahe purchased shares of Legend Pictures for HK$194 million, and owned a board seat, becoming the first Chinese company to invest in a Hollywood film company. Orange Sky Jiahe thought that a board seat could enter content production, but the other party did not allow them to intervene at all. The disappointed Orange Sky Jiahe quickly sold its shares in Legend Pictures.

Later, many Chinese companies cooperated with Hollywood, Huayi, Bona, Wanda, and even Radio and Television Media were all clamoring to cooperate with Hollywood, what would happen to them and what would happen to Chinese movies. However, in Hollywood's eyes, they were all stupid money.

Stanley Rosen, a professor in the Department of Film at the University of Southern California, once said to the media about the cooperation between China and the United States: "The current attitude of Hollywood, Chinese people invest in making movies, they are very happy, thinking that this is a pie from the sky and it is stupid money; if Chinese people propose to make movies with Americans, they have to think about it."

Zhang Ran thought he would be an exception. He lived in the United States for several years and learned movies again. He understood the American market and had a rapidly growing Chinese market as a backstage. Moreover, Murdoch also wanted to use his own strength to enter China, but he did not expect Fox to give him a bad IP. In their opinion, Zhang Ran’s money is the same as money from Japan, the Middle East, and Europe, and is also stupid money!

Zhang Ran was a little angry, feeling that the other party was insulting his IQ, and said coldly: "Mr. Eller, do you think I am an idiot? I hope to invest in "Avatar", "X-Men", "Die Hard", not these trash. If you just fool me with such a trash script, then we don't need to continue talking!"
Chapter completed!