Chapter 240: Two Tigers Fight
The reason for the incident was the failure of Disney's successive live-action films, on the contrary, Warner Bros. has spawned many movies with good box office because of the "White Magic" series.
"Knight's Heart" is a knight who tells the story of the protagonist White Magician who taught special abilities a hundred years ago, and the global box office also has 700 million US dollars.
It was also a short-haired reporter who compared Disney and Warner, and Doug was angry, so he blurted out.
When the rest of the media present heard it, they first wondered if this shorthair was from Warner, and then they didn't expect to dig up such explosive news.
The starring roles are Rhea and Valentina, with an estimated investment of $400 million. Douggen said: "The director is Chu Shun." β
Wow!
It's like putting a stinky and loud serial fart on the scene, and it becomes a mess in an instant.
Of course, there is also a difference, if it is really a serial fart, you should hold your breath, and reporters should not rush to speak, otherwise it will really eat fart.
The world's highest-paid actor announced by Forbes, Rhea was fifth the year before last, first last year, and estimated to be the top three this year.
You must know that Rhea has only shot a commercial blockbuster since "The Matrix", and in such a situation, he can still have such a high income, and the endorsement fee is really high.
In addition, Valentina, who has been entrenched in the release of "Universal's 50 Most Beautiful Faces in the World" for three years, and Valentina, who has the best body in the world for two years, what a fairy lineup.
The director is still Chu Shun, who caused France to bombard the Berlin Film Festival in the front, like a disaster.
"Is the $400 million thing true? If so, it's the most expensive film in the history of world cinema. β
A reporter from the New York Times asked, some people must say that the biggest investment should be in the former Soviet Union, which spent four years investing 560 million US dollars and using 300,000 group performances of the epic blockbuster "War and Peace".
This is not true, "War and Peace" does exist, you can understand it by reading the outline of Soviet film history of Huaxia Film Publishing House, the manpower and cost are not exaggerated, and director Sergei's scheduling of big scenes is still being learned by many directors.
However, "War and Peace" is more than six hours long, and this thing is four movies, of course, I won't say anything considering the price, but the amount of money, 400 million US dollars is indeed the most.
"Valentina and Chu Shun are directed by "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", and Rhea and Chu Shun are directed by "The Matrix", so what kind of movie is the collaboration between the three. β
Ah, the reporter who asks the question is not professional, because it is not a problem at all.
"Is "Titanic" the big ship of a few years? How can such a movie have an investment of 400 million?"
"Will the new film directed by Chu Shun collide with the schedule of the new film directed by Zibo? If the schedule is about the same, who does Mr. Douggen think will win? β
The wording is also very particular, the schedule is about the same, and it is impossible for a commercial film with a real investment of 150 million yuan to be released at the same time.
The so-called schedule is about the same, which probably refers to the difference of one month before and after.
The scene was drowned out by questions, the sound of car horns on the street outside was drowned out, and the only thing that could drown out the industrial noise was the sound of the species that made it, and humans were always fathers.
Reporters began to move in the direction of Doggern, making the hot weather even hotter.
"First of all, I have absolute confidence in Director Chu Shun. Douggen said: "No matter who the opponent is, Director Chu Shun has not failed since his debut, and the investment and starring are certain things, and Director Chu Shun's preliminary preparations have been completed." β
"Okay, without leaking too much news, our Disney live-action film industry is not as weak as you think. In the end, Douggen left the press circle with these words, got in the car and left.
"Sure enough, I heard a lot of news from Dougon first, and I was unexpected. β
"He was also involved in the previous Disney tax evasion case, many high-level officials have been investigated, if he was not the nephew of old Sean, it is estimated that he would have been fired a long time ago. β
"Don't be sensible, Mr. Douggen is a good man, and every time there is no news, he will come out to save us. β
"Not to mention, Mars hit the earth, "Titanic" and "White Magic 3" are too grumpy. β
The reporters were in groups, and the people they knew said hello to them, and then they dispersed and sent the news back to the newspaper.
On the other side, after Douggen's vehicle drove a kilometer or two, a man wearing a peaked cap stopped, took a sum of money from the driver, and left, the whole set of movements was very skillful.
If you look closely, this man in the cap is the short-haired reporter who spoke very impulsively just now, and it is not wrong that this person is not Warner's, but hired by Doggen.
When interviewing reporters, first of all, you must arrange for reporters to ask questions they want to answer, such as when the post-production of the new album is completed, and you need to ask questions such as "when will the new album be released to everyone".
In fact, the effect of this kind of "internal reporter" is not as good as imagined, because other media may not report it, they are more interested in celebrity scandals and private lives, and they are anxious to eat melons and what the masses are anxious about.
For example, Fan Haomen gave an example, "stabbing reporters" can ask: "There are many red carpets that don't invite you at all, and you don't have masterpieces, so you run every time, is it just to rub the red carpet." β
It sounds very harsh, but carefully speaking, this is a good opportunity to explain, and coming to the entertainment industry's "Tucao Conference" is also a "thorn" routine, first black, and then give you a chance to whitewash.
As for Douggen's loud voice in the eyes of reporters, he can't hide secrets, he is definitely a successful character, for example, this time, it seems that he was provoked by the reporter's words to break the "Titanic", but the truth is arranged by him, he just wants to link the Titanic and the White Magic 3 together.
Dougon asked Disney to analyze the market and made a number of analysis reports, which are basically the same, the White Magic 3 is predicted to be able to collect 1.8 billion to 2.2 billion worldwide, while the Titanic is predicted to be 1 billion to 1.5 billion box office.
Linking the two movies together is one of Disney's early publicity and distribution methods for the movie, not to mention that there is no confidence in Chu Shun, a love movie of 1 billion to 1.5 billion US dollars is a very confident performance of Chu Shun.
The person who can sit in the top position, he may be a fool, a pervert, an LSP, a LYP, but he can't be a stupid, Douggen has a habit of running naked at night, but he is not a brainless person - it seems that something terrible has been exposed.
Journalists are quite efficient, especially on Twitter, where the news is spreading almost 20 minutes later.
Netizens in the United States have expressed their excitement.
"Zibo and Chu Shun, who are you supporting?" Twitter users can also initiate voting.
"The world film industry has been lonely for too long, and this kind of big event hasn't happened for a long time. β
"Director Chu Shun is a rare director who has a high level of both business and art, but "White Magic" was in my childhood, so I support director Zibo. β
"The world's largest investment, and not to shoot science fiction to spend money on special effects, "Titanic" filming more than 100 years ago, why did you invest so much? β
Wait, not only the onlookers want to know what happened to "Titanic", but even the president of Warner Thanov is extremely curious.
As the only female CEO in the history of Warner, Sanov's ability does not need to be evaluated, but he was also confused by the news suddenly revealed by Doggen, what happened?
"Why wasn't there any news of Titanic before?" asked McGinn, the head of the information company's analytics department.
"There was a little rumor in front that Chu Shun had bought a piece of land in Sicily to build a shooting base. McGinn said: "But then there was no news, and I thought it was just fake news from the Internet." β
Don't think that the analysis department of a big movie company only analyzes its own movies, in fact, most of the time they need to pay attention to the company.
"Our analysis department saw the news, and I asked a reporter friend from the "Roman Times" to investigate, and Chu Shun seemed to be going to build a real Titanic. McGinn was a little uncertain in his tone.
"What do you mean?" thought Sanov, who couldn't build a ship, that wasn't something that could be done for $400 million.
"Build all the inside of the Titanic Ferry. McGinn explains: "This includes the dΓ©cor and the furniture. β
"......" Sanov was choked, he had never seen such a wasteful director in Hollywood for so many years.
Sanov silently inquired about the information of the ferry that year, the length of the ship is 269.06 meters, the width of the ship is 28.19 meters, if it is built according to what McGinn just described, the cost of this shooting base will be at least about 120 million US dollars.
How dare a director spend $120 million to build a place to shoot interiors, Sanov thinks the artist is crazy.
She took a deep breath and said: "No wonder Chu Shun was able to be recognized by three European film festivals, he is similar to many artists, he has extreme paranoia. β
On the artistic level, it is true that only paranoia can create a work of art, but from the perspective of commodities, Sanov's behavior is a loser's behavior.
"You go and talk to Zib and ask him not to care about "Titanic", the genre is different. Sanov didn't care too much about it, because she couldn't think of how the theme of more than a hundred years ago could defeat Warner's White Magic IP, even if the director was Chu Shun, who had never failed.
Sanov believes that Chu Shun will be able to recover the cost and will not Waterloo, but it can surpass "White Magic Guide 3", and it is useless for Jesus to come, she said.
The reason why McGinn was asked to talk about it was because Zeb was still grumpy at 33 this year, and Sarnov didn't want to delay the shooting because of the news.
When filming "White Magic Guide 2" before, he beat the producer because the producer taught him to do things.
The result was - Zibo did not win, was beaten to the hospital, and the crew was suspended for three weeks.
Then the producer was replaced by another one because of the injury to the director, you must know that Hollywood has changed from the "studio center" to the "director center", and finally the current "producer center", the producer's status in the crew is very high, and the situation of changing the producer is very rare.
McGinn went to do it immediately, he came directly to the Brooke Bridge, the crew of "White Magic 3" was filmed there, Zibo's filming habit is to shoot the location of the scene first, the Brooke Bridge is a disaster movie, or a monster movie, or a bridge that aliens attack the earth and must be destroyed, which is a landmark building in New York.
After waiting for about half an hour, Zib had time, during which time McGinn heard his shouting like an angry lion.
Speaking of lions, Zibo actually looks a little similar, he appreciates the level of a little strange, and thinks the beard is particularly handsome, so he grows it for a long time from the chin to the cheeks, like a broom.
"Mr. McGinn must not tell me that the company is going to ask me to change the script again. The first thing he said was polite.
When filming the first part of "White Magic Guide", at that time, Zibo was only a director who made a small achievement in a commercial film, so he couldn't resist the company, but in the second part, there was no more, you can make money, you are the father of the film company, but the cautious Zibo still remembers.
"Director Zib definitely deserves our trust. McGinn said: "I just came here to tell Director Zibo not to be distracted by some reports outside......
Before he could say the next series of words, he was interrupted by Zibo: "Are you talking about the Huaxia director's new movie schedule similar to mine?"
"I filmed 'The Matrix', so I think commercial films are so good to shoot?" Zibo waved his hand, motioning for McGinn to go back and not disturb him filming.
Uh-McGinn knew that Zib was disgusted with literary directors.
In Zibo's commercial films, he was scolded by all kinds of people, saying that the plot story was old-fashioned and monotonous, which was still good, and there were many people who said that Zibo couldn't film at all, so that Zibo scolded people on Twitter for three days, and the account was officially banned twice because it was too intense.
McGinn thinks that Chu Shun can't be described as a literary director at all, and the movies he has filmed are also purely commercial films "Fatal ID", and The Matrix has entered the top 20 box office in world history, which is definitely not something that a simple literary director can summarize.
He wanted to say a few words of warning, but when McGinn tried to speak, Zib walked away.
"It's good to be confident, as long as the plan is not chaotic, according to Zibo's directing ability, "White Magic Guide 3" will win. McGinn left.
Seriously, the bearded Zibo is not simply dismissive of Chu Shun, on the contrary, his internal emotions are more complicated.
When he first knew that Chu Shun was "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", he thought that this young man was as talented as him, and he wanted to find time to get to know him, and he could also combine them into a director group to dominate commercial films and literary films.
Don't ask why Zibo is so secondary, it is precisely because of him that he can write the script of the White Magician.
turned out to be unrecognized, he was scolded by many directors because of the box office hit, the key is that these people still compare him with Chu Shun, and the result is always that he basically loses.
This is very unscientific, Zibo's wave is to use the white magic guide to penetrate the big ship head-on, and let people know that commercial films also have a lot of technical content.
Many reporters also wanted to interview Zibo, about two cruel words or something, but all of them were stopped by Zibo from the crew.
"It's not a dog, and you have to smack twice before you fight. This is Zib's opinion, and he prefers to rush straight to the neck and kill him in one bite.
But - isn't this still a dog?
When it's dark, when it's dark in New York, there is a sense of seclusion, and for some reason, the blacks and groups of whites who come and go on the streets always feel dangerous.
So from the dangerous New York, to Sicily, by the beach in CefalΓΉ, the sea breeze at night will always give people inspiration, and the inspiration given to Chu Shun is that it is a little cold, and the next time you go out, you have to put on a thin coat.
Looking at the bright lights in the distance, the migrant workers who were still building did not work overtime at night, but Chu Shun invited three shifts to work back and forth.
Chu Shun really doesn't have the kung fu to shoot a movie for four or five years, so it is inevitable to spend more money to improve efficiency.
"My current assets, even if they are mixed up and waiting to die, are completely fine. Chu Shun pondered, he now has two companies, Sea Butterfly and XF Digital, and other small toys are bits and pieces, and when the Titanic is released, there will also be a huge theme park and shooting base.
"Set a big goal and shoot until I'm 40, and now I'm 28, and then I can shoot for 12 years. Chu Shun thought about it, if he couldn't achieve the small goals he had set for himself before, he could add five years.
Chu Shun's own goal is not small, first to win the grand slam of the three major European film festivals, and then to become the chairman of the three major jury.
There is also the establishment of a film festival in his own name, and the sweep of the Oscars, and then there are others who set up awards in his name.
In every theme, there must be Chu Shun's movie as the ceiling.
"I'm going to ask why I've set so many small goals for myself. "Chu Shun is a bit Alexander.
Chu Shun wanted to slap himself, but he was afraid of pain, so he thought about it and forgot it.
"The big ship doesn't know if it can replicate the posture of the earth sweeping and sweeping Oscar. Chu Shun thought, "If you can, the small goal will be completed." β
In the next movie, we will consider the Berlin Golden Bear Award, Chu Shun will think clearly, and the problem is not big.
After a month, the foundation of CefalΓΉ was completed, and the construction team was China Construction Company, how could the country of infrastructure madness invite someone else.
"Guy told me that he was going to have a subway in front of his house, but five years later, there has been no movement. "Chu Shun insults the law every day, and in addition to efficiency, on the other hand, it is also a field where fertilizer and water do not flow to outsiders.
Chu Shun also finished the movie storyboard in more than a month, but after completing the storyboard, Chu Shun suddenly thought of something.
"If I remember correctly, in the history of the sinking of the Titanic, the United States and Britain slandered Chinese laborers in order to shake off the blame, I don't know if it's true. β
Chu Shun had heard similar rumors on the Internet, and there happened to be an expert, and he found Professor Zhou Huzhi, the expert consultant did not stay in Sicily for a long time, because the professor still had to teach in the school, but the consultation was okay most of the time, Chu Shun made a phone call to Professor Zhou Huzhi and explained the ins and outs of the inquiry.
"It's not that simple. Professor Zhou Huzhi replied after a moment of silence.