It is the summer vacation, and the mainland film market is in full swing.

Needless to say, "Transformers 2", which was released at the end of June, has already topped the box office champion in mainland film history, and is heading towards the 400 million mark.

Last year, "Red Cliff" and "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" just raised the box office ceiling of Chinese films to the level of 300 million, which is not too much different from "Titanic", at least it is already at a level, but now it has been opened up again.

And "Stubborn Radish", which was originally highly anticipated and triggered a small-scale farce, was also released in mid-July, but it only got more than 9 million box office in the first weekend and four days.

By the end of July, nearly three weeks, the total box office was only 21 million.

The production cost of 5 million and the box office of 21 million in more than half a month are enough to be regarded as a success.

However, Yu Dong originally wanted to brand the movie as the producer of Li Qian, and the box office should at least be the same as "Nightclub".

"Nightclub" was painted with a box office of 60 million.

And Huang Bo has just starred in "Moon" and "Crazy Racing" one after another, and he is much stronger than Xu Zhengke in terms of box office appeal.

But now it seems that not to mention 60 million, even this half is impossible, and it is 25 million in the sky.

The word-of-mouth is very poor, a typical domestic copycat comedy.

And was beaten in all directions by two Hollywood blockbusters "Ice Age 3" and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in the same period, the former broke 100 million at the box office in three weeks after its release, and the latter 130 million in 11 days.

Throughout the summer months of July, the mainland market was completely dominated by Hollywood movies.

That is, at the end of July, the two Xiangjiang movies "Ouchi Secret Agent Zero Zero Dog" and "Eavesdropping" are surprising.

"Ouchi Secret Detective Greyhound" was 35 million in the first 5 days of the first week, but this film still rubbed the fame of Zhou Xingchi's "Ouchi Secret Detective Zero Hair", and the reputation was very average.

What's funny is that in March and April, I don't know why there was a sudden push of Xiangjiang filmmakers bombarding Zhou Xingchi in the media, including Xiang Tai, former Academy Award Chairman Wen Jun, and Wang Jing, the director of "Ouchi Secret Agent Zero Zero Dog", who criticized Zhou Xingchi in an interview at the time.

While scolding others, he made a movie that was one word different from the name of other people's movies.

There's no one else.

Another dark horse, the police film "Eavesdropping" starring Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, and Wu Yanzu has a box office of 58 million in 11 days, which can be said to be a big hit for a Xiangjiang movie without the participation of superstars.

This is a movie that is somewhat different from the previous Xiangjiang police movies, with no drag racing and no martial arts action.

Seeing that there are signs of big sales, some media say that Hong Kong films are about to usher in a revival.

I don't know if there will be a revival or not, but after the new generation of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry was wiped out, Gu Tianle's two movies were sold at the same time, and with the already popular Donnie Yen, the Mesozoic of Xiangjiang has a sense of momentum.

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Even if Li Qian is filming, he will pay attention to the situation in the film industry every once in a while.

"Ordinary domestic movies really don't have much competition against Hollywood blockbusters. ”

The summer file has entered the late stage, but domestic movies can be described as a complete failure, and they don't need "Transformers 2" to come out, just "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Ice Age 3" are two movies, which are completely better than other domestic movies.

"Now it seems that any Hollywood blockbuster can easily sell tens of millions of box office. ”

Xu Zheng was also emotional, the year before last, "Crazy Stone" sold 30 million box office, which attracted the attention of the entire film industry, and at that time I thought it was already a very remarkable number.

But looking at it now, many Hollywood blockbusters that are also non-series and not well-known have casually sold for more than 30 million, which is a figure that most domestic movies can't match.

Li Qian shook his head, "Our country has only been marketized for less than ten years, there are few directors who can make commercial films, and many films of the older generation of directors will not cater to the audience, which is also a helpless thing, take your time, our market is our mainland filmmakers after all." ”

"I don't know how much box office "People in Embarrassment" will be able to win by then. ”

Xu Zheng's movie hasn't started filming yet, and he began to worry about the box office.

"After the comedy is made, you don't have to worry about having no audience, so you set a small goal first and get a box office of 50 million. ”

"Is 50 million still a small goal, but what about a big goal?"

Li Qian smiled, "One hundred million, you have to pursue a little bit to be a man." ”

“...”

My obedient, Xu Zheng lost his body, his mouth was 100 million, and the small goals were 50 million.

50 million, Xu Zheng is still looking forward to it, after all, it is the first time to be a director, of course, there will inevitably be various expectations.

If it had failed once, it would have been much more realistic.

But even if he thought about it, Xu Zheng never thought about the possibility of breaking 100 million.

Is this the world of a big director, casually opening his mouth is hundreds of millions.

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Time enters August, and "Perfect World" is still being filmed in an orderly manner.

In the past half a month, it has basically been the scene of Zhang Hanyu and Wu Lei.

It is not only the fugitive life of two people, but also the education of Zhang Hanyu in the image of his father, who has no father since he was a child, cowardly, hesitant, and conformist, but at the same time longs to seek some excitement and yearning for the unknown world.

He plays the role of a father all the time and teaches him many principles of life.

When driving on the road, he said that the front of the car is the future, the back of the car is the past, and when we stop the car, it is the present, and we should enjoy life and enjoy the present.

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately stopped the car and asked Wu Lei what he wanted to do now, no matter what it was, he would help him achieve it.

Snacking without restrictions, playing games all night long, having fun in the playground, playing soccer with other kids you don't know, smashing someone's window and scattering them.

Breaking the shackles taught Wu Lei a lot of things that he couldn't learn from his mother, including bravery, independence, breaking the rules, and sexual enlightenment education that only his father can do.

Although some things, such as playing games all night, are not right, but life is not like this, many things are good to be happy.

How boring it would be to play a game once in a while, eat a snack and keep a strict control over the time and quantity.

Playing games is a real game, eating snacks is also really eating, and the playground is also a real game, the crew directly chartered the venue, even kicking and breaking other people's glass, it is also a real kick, let Wu Lei and a few children kick there blindly, play freely, how to be happy.

After being murdered twice by Li Qian at the beginning, Wu Lei was very happy during this time, and the emotions he showed were naturally perfect for the role.

The best performance is acting in your true colors, and there is nothing better than acting in your true colors.

In mid-August, the film has been filming for a month, and more than half of the progress is over, and Wu Gang and Deng Chao have also joined the group.

has been filming the scenes of Zhang Hanyu and Wu Lei playing while fleeing, and it is time for their opponents to go online.

After putting on makeup and changing into police uniforms, this is the first scene they have entered the group, and Li Qian will talk about it himself.

"Teacher Wu Gang, Brother Chao, the script and your respective characters have also been understood, our scene is on the way to chase and escape, you discuss the hero's past, and it can be regarded as giving the audience a side understanding of the hero's past. ”

After discussing for a while, Wu Gang made a suggestion, "Director Li, if his past comes out of my mouth, the effect will be better, after all, I am also a character similar to his father in the movie." ”

Li Qian said, "Actually, I also thought about it, but there are two people in the police who want to save the hero, and the other is a female psychologist who dictates the deeds of the hero, compared to the role of Mr. Wu Gang, she has no contact with the hero, so you can express why she also wants to save the hero by telling the hero's past, after all, they have never known each other in their lives, and with such a thing as she dictated, coupled with the unique sensibility of women, it is more convincing." ”

"After all, our movie, these are all embellishments, the most important thing is the role of Zhang Hanyu and Wu Lei, there is no extra shot for the other person, and as an observer, Mr. Wu Gang, you are also the other protagonist of the story she dictated, because you sent the male protagonist when you were a child to the juvenile detention center, and his situation at that time was whether to enter or not, as she told the past, you will feel guilty next to you. ”

The director is the soul of a movie, Li Qian gave a good explanation, and Wu Gang did not insist on his own ideas anymore.

"Then Brother Chao, your role is much simpler, an iron-faced and selfless criminal police captain, just Sima face in the whole process, after all, if you can be the captain of the criminal police in a city, you must have seen countless big and important cases, and you have seen all kinds of "extenuating" criminals, a heart has long been as solid as iron, and in your eyes there is only the law. Li Qian briefly told Deng Chao again, which he had talked about before the start-up.

"Understand, it's easy. Deng Chao replied confidently.

They are all old actors, and there is nothing superfluous to say.

Prepare for a while, and then the shooting will begin.

Deng Chao saw Wu Lei sitting on the side reciting lines, so he walked over and patted him on the head.

Wu Lei turned his head and looked at Deng Chao with some blankness.

"Your name is Wu Lei, right?"

"Hmm. ”

"Hello, my name is Deng Chao, and we can be regarded as peers. ”

After saying hello and chatting for a few words, Deng Chao walked away, and he still had to film.

Wu Lei, who was still a little dazed, was left behind, not knowing what Deng Chao wanted to do.

It's not a peer, Deng Chao played Zhang Hanyu's son, and Wu Lei almost played Zhang Hanyu's son.

When Li Qian asked him to make a cameo, he said that this was a film about a pair of fathers and sons, and he thought that he was going to play Zhang Hanyu's son again.

But he was disappointed, it was not Zhang Hanyu's son, nor was it the protagonist, it was just a cameo with less than five minutes of appearance.

Although he doesn't want to play other people's sons, especially the sons of his peers, he is barely acceptable for the sake of art, but Li Qian didn't give him a chance.

Filming began immediately afterward.

Although he has just joined the group, the roles are simple, the roles are not complicated, and some of them are actors who have been filming for many years, which is very smooth.

When the female psychologist talked about the male protagonist who was sent to the juvenile detention center for stealing when he was a child, the criminal police captain played by Deng Chao immediately said that he learned badly in it, and Wu Gang just showed a trace of guilt and heartache.

Originally, he didn't have to be sent to the juvenile detention center, but he couldn't bear to let the actor learn badly in society, so he insisted on sending him to the juvenile detention center for reform, and he felt that half of the changes in the actor were caused by him.

In juvenile detention centers and prisons, not everyone can be reformed for the better.

It's full of criminals, and if you stay with a group of criminals, you can become a criminal.

The typical one is the football kingdom, and their biggest gang was born in prison.

A few decades ago, when the left-wing movement in their country was in full swing, a large number of guerrillas were arrested and imprisoned, and as a result, the criminals and guerrillas in the prison learned the ability to organize and mobilize.

Slowly developed to the number one gang in the football kingdom today, they control more people than the government, after all, there are many poor people.

Of course, in our country, the majority of those who come out of prison no longer commit crimes, but there are also many who come out to continue to commit crimes.

The male protagonist is such a one, his father left them when he was a child, his mother died when he was 12 years old, he has no relatives, and he is mixed with society, and most of them have only one way to become a gangster.

But it can't be a heinous criminal, otherwise the audience won't have a good impression of this character.

Except for the murder of a wanted criminal who broke into his house and tried to hurt his mother, the rest is theft.

Otherwise, a vicious murderer, no matter how he shoots later, the audience will not agree with this role.

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All the actors have joined the group, and the daily scenes are more diverse, although it is troublesome, but it is not so boring.

On August 20, Li Qian received a call from Song Ge that his past six films were about to start landing in the North American market.

"The Moon" and "Jaws: Revenge" will be released in theaters, and "Life and Death Frequency", "Sniper Phone Booth", "127 Hours", and "Jaws" will be directly broadcast on TV on demand, DVD, and online platforms.

"Moon" is because of the high domestic box office, 250 million, Colombian dead horse as a live horse doctor, go to the theater to see.

"Jaws: Revenge" is the most expensive copyright fee, and this mature monster commercial film is very marketable.

The video quality of "Jaws" is of the largest specifications on the Internet, and the theater line is too reluctant, but if the sales of DVD, TV, and online channels are good, the theater of "Jaws: Revenge" can also drive the box office.