As April begins, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" officially begins filming.

Like in his previous life, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was also filmed in the UK, and the actors selected were basically British.

The reason for this is that on the one hand, British actors are relatively cheap, and many of them are professionals, so choosing them can not only ensure quality but also reduce costs. In fact, European actors have always been popular in Hollywood because of their "cheap and good quality".

On the one hand, the story of the "Harry Potter" series takes place in the UK, so choosing British actors is more subtle. After all, although the United States is in line with each other, the pronunciation of British English and American English is very different. Moreover, the temperament, speech, behavior, etc. of British people are also very different from that of Americans.

So, considering it comprehensively, it would be more appropriate to choose a British person.

In addition, there is another point that summer has to be considered, that is, Hollywood is ten thousand times more chaotic than Britain. In Hollywood, almost no child star has a good ending.

Like Macaulay Calkin, Hachino became famous in "Home Imperial" in 2019 and became one of the most famous child stars in Hollywood. Later, he made "Home Imperial 2", "Home Imperial Technique", "Baby Little Lovers", etc., which were also very popular.

But because he was too successful and made too much money, his parents lost control and went crazy about the money. Carlkin's parents believed that their son was a popular star, so they frequently asked the production company for high pay, high benefits, and high treatment, otherwise their son would have to stop filming.

Their approach made Macaulay Calkin's reputation in the industry soon ruined. By 1994, no production company had invited him to film because he could not stand the exploitation of Calkin's parents over and over again.

In addition, Carlkin's parents did not stop. In order to gain more money from their sons, they did not hesitate to divorce and sue each other, causing a lot of controversy, which greatly damaged Carlkin's image. In the end, he was forced to announce his withdrawal from the entertainment industry in 1995.

Although Xia Tian had expected this result before. However, it was a pity for Xia Tian to see that Karkin, a child star full of aura and good acting skills, fell like this.

The fall of Macaulay Culkin is just the most common scene in Hollywood. It is very difficult for an adult star to be self-disciplined in Hollywood. Adults can't resist the temptation or rushing like a tide, let alone those minors.

The Harry Potter series requires at least seven movies, and even if one movie is played in a year and a half, it will take ten years to finish. The European and American entertainment circles are not like the Japanese and Korean entertainment circles, where production companies and agency companies dominate and can strongly intervene in the work and life of artists, so that they can do it completely according to the company's plan.

European and American agency and production companies do not have that much power. Therefore, whether artists can keep themselves clean and strive for progress depends entirely on their will.

During this decade, if a major actor can't stand the seduction or fall and a scandal breaks out, the entire series of movies will collapse.

Imagine that if any actor who plays Harry Potter, Ron, Hermione reveals sucking, promiscuity, misbehavior, etc., it will greatly affect the reputation and box office of the movie.

Thinking back to the beginning, Matthew Perry, the actor who played Chand in "Friends", was addicted to painkillers and entered the drug rehabilitation center twice. If it weren't for saving it in time, I'm afraid that "Friends" would have to say goodbye to everyone in the third season.

Compared to the chaos in Hollywood, the British entertainment industry is undoubtedly much calmer.

On the one hand, the entertainment market in the UK itself is not big, so the capital is not as surging as Hollywood, and the erosion and inducement of artists may be much smaller.

On the one hand, the British are more self-disciplined than the Americans, which also helps actors control their own bathing and not be destroyed by the bathing itself.

Therefore, considering comprehensively, choosing British artists will undoubtedly be more safe.

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"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has a total investment of US$100 million. In the late 1990s, this cost was definitely high.

Xia Tian hopes that this movie can achieve box office success like in previous lives, otherwise, a high cost of $100 million would be a huge loss.

The reason why Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone invested so much is mainly because it requires a lot of stunts to be made.

Such as a series of magic, Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, Flying Broom, Quidditch, Wizard Chess, Invisible Clothes, etc., all require a lot of special stunts to be perfectly presented, and therefore, it naturally requires a large amount of investment.

An investment of 100 million US dollars is not a trivial matter for world production. After all, the investment of "Titanic" is only 200 million US dollars. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is a movie for children. The box office will definitely not be higher than "Titanic". At most, it would be amazing to achieve a box office of 280 million US dollars like "Home Imperial".

But the key is that the cost of "Home Imperial" is less than 20 million US dollars, and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is five times that of its, so the box office pressure is still very large.

It is worth mentioning that the director of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" this time is Chris Columbus, and this guy in his previous life was the director of the "Home Imperial" series.

However, in this life, Xia Tian handed over the "Home Imperial" series to Fatty Wang, so Chris Columbus lost such a masterpiece and seemed a little dim.

However, gold always shines. Chris Columbus finally stood out when selecting directors in the world production and was selected to direct this movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

This is also the highest cost movie he directed since he started filming. Before that, the maximum investment of the movie he directed was only 20 million US dollars.

So when I received this movie that cost more than 100 million US dollars, Chris Columbus also attached great importance to it. Not only did he read the "Harry Potter" series several times, but he also personally participated in the casting and screenwriter, in order to achieve a high box office in the film.

Otherwise, if he ruined such a well-known big IP, he would still want to spend time in Hollywood in the future, but he would just dream in daylight. Summer alone would not spare him.

The start of filming of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has also attracted the attention of Harry Potter fans all over the world. They hope that the movie can show the magical and magical world in the book, and are also worried that it will not be able to make it well to ruin their childhood, so they are both expecting and worried about this movie.
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