Chapter 233: Ghost Director?(1/5)
"Two months of training and fifteen days of shooting?"
Shen Mengxi was a little confused, Liu Yifei said that she was finished and wanted to return to China...
No, is Hollywood so casual?
"Wolverine" will be completed in 15 days?
"I don't have a lot of roles... And Nan Nan is going to have a wedding..."
"Then you come back, I'm the fat best man, are you a bridesmaid?"
"Well, there are also Zhou Yang and Jiang Yiyan..."
Damn, it's Zhou Yang again, fortunately he's okay with Jiang Da Architect...
Quickly changed the subject: "Warner Bros. didn't contact you?"
"Is Inception already in contact and emailed, did you recommend it?"
"Well, "Inception" has a big brain, with Nolan's skills, maybe it can go down in the history of film and film, you should study the role of the dream builder carefully, the film involves a lot of psychology and architectural knowledge, read more books... If you don't understand, you can ask a teacher!"
Liu Yifei replied very seriously: "Well, I know, I read Nolan's resume, he is the director of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night"..."
"Chasing the Murderer in the White Night?"
Lao Pan also crossed?
It doesn't make sense, I saw him marry Dong Bailian a few days ago...
"Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank!"
“... Oh... That movie wasn't a great one, and if you want to know Nolan's style, you can check out "Memory Fragments" and "Deadly Magic"..."
"Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" - "Insomnia", the first film between Nolan and Warner Bros., Warner Bros. is very optimistic about Nolan, and directly allocated him 46 million US dollars, invited Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and made this mainstream crime movie, this movie is not particularly good, Nolan is a little constrained for the first time to control such a large investment, the global box office is 67.35 million US dollars, and the local North American 46.01 million...
It's not a big hit, maybe the follow-up DVD sold well, and with the attitude of giving it a try, I handed over "Batman" to him...
But "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" is Nolan's first work to be recognized in the mainstream film industry!
The previous "Following" and "Memory Fragments" can only be regarded as independent films.
Generally speaking, when talking about this, it means that the topic is about to end, Shen Mengxi is about to hang up the phone, and Lao Liu suddenly said: "I'm lying in bed now... No clothes!"
"Ahem... I'm in a meeting!"
"Ahh
Hurry up and hang up...
It's hard to imagine that such words would come out of her mouth, you know, even when Shen Mengxi was charging with a gun, she was not happy to let her shout Baba...
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Back to the release of Racing...
China Film Zhen Nima genius creativity!
"Red Cliff Down", released on January 7, occupied the box office for two weeks, and then "Crazy Racing" was released on the 23rd...
"January 23rd, it's really not a good schedule, on Chinese New Year's Eve on the 25th, the first weekend is busy returning to my hometown, who goes to the movies?"
Shen Mengxi nodded: "The most important thing is three days, and the pirated version has been released!"
"Or, let's negotiate with China Film and release it on the first day of the Lunar New Year?"
"You two go to negotiate, I've been avoiding Han Dong recently!"
Zhao Jinsong glanced at Song Hang, who looked confused, and explained: "What about "Moving Labyrinth"?"
China Film wants to follow "Moving Maze 2", how is it possible?
David and Nancy tore up with Fox's gang for half a month before they got 18% of the follow-up investment and 20% of the copyright account...
The one in the back is Shen Mengxi's personal account.
Zhongying wants to follow suit?
Shen Mengxi can't do anything...
Unless China Film only has a share in the mainland...
Song Hang nodded: "Then I'll call Ning Hao to go with me... However, what you just said about recording the daily box office in Tianya and Time.com, I think it is feasible to mobilize fans to participate..."
"Contact a few more variety shows and let Huang Bo run a lap... Alas, "Racing" doesn't even have a player to serve as a promoter..."
Ning Hao's movie is really, a large number of powerful ugly stars, just look at the cast of "Crazy Racing": Huang Bo, Rong Xiang, Jiukong, Xu Zheng, Wang Shuangbao...
The only idol temperament is actually Xu Zheng!
"China Film doesn't pay attention to publicity at all, and it depends on us, so we will arrange a few media screenings, mainly focusing on print advertising, broadcasting, and the Internet!"
"In addition, let Ning Hao take a few more interviews, and you can properly ridicule "Red Cliff Down"..."
"That's all?"
"That's all... My brain is a little up, so I'll go back and rest first..."
Song Hang and Zhao Jinsong were about to leave, but the latter just got up and sat down and asked, "Is Mingxi's project going to be merged into our company?"
"No, separate management, they are doing very well, in the future, Mingxi's positioning is a small and medium-sized investment film, and Tang Ren's positioning is a TV series..."
Shen Mengxi had already planned it...
Separate management, non-interference, is a subsidiary of Mengxi...
The fat man transferred Mingxi's equity to him, and only received 26 million - it was a fair gift, after all, he rented the two-story office building for five years, and there were some projects that had not been paid...
Of course, Fat Man still retains 20% of the shares, and Huayi also accounts for 20%...
Huayi's 6 million shares, the fat man kept it himself, Shen Mengxi was embarrassed to mention it...
Shen Mengxi didn't want to change Mingxi much, it's good to maintain this style!
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Actually, it's a hassle for a debut to be too successful!
Success is of course a good thing to celebrate, but the problem is that success inevitably comes with greater pressure.
With "Crazy Stone", the market and the audience have higher expectations for Ning Hao, and failure to meet the audience's expectations is a failure.
"Crazy Stone" has created a box office miracle for China's small-budget domestic comedy films.
With a small and broad, many film critics lamented the birth of a 'ghost director'!
So, Racing is stressful!
Once there is a slight difference, I will immediately deduct the name of Jiang Lang's talent for you...
In fact, "Crazy Racing" is well done, with a multi-line narrative, which is more complex and cumbersome than "Crazy Stone", and the plot is more entertaining and enjoyable...
But many film critics think that Ning Hao is self-repetitive and refuses to leave his comfort zone...
Of course, Ning Hao himself also answered: I have never thought of a breakthrough, why should I compete with myself? I am very interested in genre films, genre films have their own genre norms, and to say that breakthroughs are also quantitative, not qualitative. Enhancing a genre to the extreme is what I think is the biggest selling point of 'racing'.
Then, I filmed "No Man's Land"...
Some people say something completely different from what they think!
Tavern.
Ning Hao said a little excitedly about the idea of "No Man's Land"...
Shen Mengxi knew this history very well, and said directly: "Two problems, first, this movie should not and cannot be shot in XJ, or even in China, there should be no legal vacuum in China;
“... Does a movie have to have good people?"
"That's right, and evil can't prevail over good, if you're making a movie in China, you have to know how to circumvent censorship... Of course, if you insist on shooting like this, I don't have any opinion, it's a big deal to be banned for a few years..."
"Or, you invite Andy Lau... Andy Lau is not enough, just shoot like this, and he will definitely be banned!"