Chapter 185: Immortal Friendship (4/5)
At the end of the first performance, half an hour was left for Wen Ziren and Lu Xiaoran to promote "The Great Wall"...
Of course, if there is no explosion, it may only be five minutes before it is finally presented on the screen.
Lu Xiaoran spoke first: "In fact, the reason why I made "The Great Wall" is, in a sense, because of my guilt towards Wen Ziren. ”
"He was invited to direct Fast and Furious 7 at the end of the year in 13 years, but at that time, the "Conjuring" cinematic universe was just starting, and he needed to participate in the script writing of "Annabelle" and "Nun"..."
"Orange's branch in the United States, orange manufacturing, annual box office revenue, the "Conjuring" series accounts for more than 20% of the stable, and he is very famous in the horror film circle in North America, the reason why we can insist on horror film production, can dig out a lot of horror filmmakers, those people are admired by him, only joined, for example, the director of "Screen Breathe", Fed Alvarez, the director of "After the Lights Out" David F. Sandberg, the director of "Project Human Eradication" James DeMonarke..."
"The company is just on the right track and needs him to be in town, so he turned down the invitation to direct "Fast and Furious 7"..."
"We all know that "Furious 7" has earned $1.5 billion at the global box office..."
"I feel sorry for him all the time, because he always wanted to direct big productions, and I went to the United States last year, and we talked all night, and then we came up with the idea for The Great Wall!"
"At the beginning, we didn't want to make a co-production, I just wanted to invest 100 million US dollars to make him happy, and there was no script, and it wasn't even a monster fight at first! Later, I learned that Legendary Pictures had always planned to shoot "The Great Wall", and the original owner of Legendary Pictures, Thomas Tarr, was a fan of monster movies, and he flew over the Great Wall one day, and thought that the Great Wall was so beautiful, and if people fought monsters on it, it should be very dazzling, and then there was the first draft of Legendary Pictures' "The Great Wall"..."
"Then we found Wanda, who was also interested in The Wall... I would like to thank Wanda for the whole project preparation, shooting, including post-production, without interfering with any of our creations!"
"After Wanda joined, we increased the cost to $150 million, which is considered a Hollywood A-level production..."
"Today's feedback from the global market proves that this project has been successful!"
Last year, I met with all the six major Hollywood companies, and they all had ambitious plans, all of which were big projects similar to The Great Wall. They used local resources, local directors, and local actors to develop Hollywood blockbusters with Chinese themes, but everyone stood still, only Disney announced "Mulan" first, and everyone else was watching the market performance of "The Great Wall". ”
"Once 'The Great Wall' is successful, there will be more A-level projects to find Chinese filmmakers! Warner started the production of 'Megalodon,' which is also a $140 million production!"
"There will be more diverse Chinese cultural information in various types of films, still from shallow to deep, or by boating on water, but this aspect will be expanded! And let me tell you one thing, "The Great Wall" has 2 million foreign tourists every year, and the higher the overseas success of the film "The Great Wall", the more people will be attracted to visit the Great Wall!"
"Of course, I still have to thank Wen Ziren, he is also exhausted!"
Zhang Guoli asked Wen Ziren next to him: "Is this the case?"
“... It's not what he said, when he met me, it was when I was the most depressed, I had just experienced the failure of "Dead Silence" and "Death Verdict", both of which failed commercially, and no one asked me to make a film at that time!"
"Especially the failure of Death Verdict, 20th Century Fox was so disappointed that it even stopped three projects with me. ”
"Then Lu Xiaoran found me and gave me a sum of money to make "Latent"..."
Zhang Guoli interjected at the right time: "The investment in "Latent" is $1.6 million, and the global box office is $97 million..."
"After "Latent", I want to open up another film series, which is "The Conjuring", according to our setting, I will shoot the first part, and then other directors will make other series on the basis of "The Conjuring", different protagonists, different horror stories, but they all happen in the story of "The Conjuring". ”
"The Conjuring series has five installments so far, and the global box office... $1.4 billion!"
"Lu's help to me is not simply to give money, he will put forward his own opinions... Also, what he just said about the oranges that many people joined because of me is actually wrong, everyone is coming for him, "Gravity" is so cool!"
The movie "The Great Wall" is indeed a big production that I have always longed for. ”
"My directorial dream has a very important part, to create a Hollywood super A-level production, the first day our company was established, he said that in the next three years, the cost of each film should not exceed 50 million US dollars, and the cost of horror films should not exceed 25 million US dollars... So, I always thought I didn't have a chance..."
"Last March, he approached me, we talked all night, and then decided to shoot 'The Great Wall'!"
"A $150 million investment... I am grateful to a director who has only made horror films!"
Zhang Guoli: "This is called 'the grace of knowledge' in China!"
Lu Xiaoran hurriedly waved his hand: "... No, I've really watched Death Verdict and know how good he is at camera scheduling..."
The grace of knowing the encounter is too serious!
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Asian Americans in Hollywood are united!
Why did Wen Ziren receive the invitation to "Fast and Furious 7"?
Lin Yibin's recommendation!
Why did Wen Ziren direct "Chainsaw"?
Huang Yiyu's recommendation!
Asian-American directors will still support each other in Hollywood...
After the box office fiasco of Huang Yiyu's "Dragon Ball", he is now under the umbrella of Orange, serving as the producer and screenwriter of the American drama "Stranger Things" to "Copy"...
Gathering strength.
Including Zhu Haowei was invited to direct the "Crazy Rich Money" trilogy...
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There's not much to say about the recording of the show, it's all a regular routine...
Comment on one or two times, and praise it when you meet a good seedling...
By the way, in this year's "I Am an Actor", there are a lot of actors who have signed up!
Because it's on fire!
It's a platform for actors.
At the same time, the directors and teachers invited by the program team for the actors are all very famous or very influential professionals in the industry.
To a certain extent, professionals can actually reflect the credibility of the show, and it is more credible from the perspective of the contestants.
And these professionals, if they perform well, may even become partners of the actors in the future.
In other words, if the actors perform well, they may be able to directly become one of the roles in the mentor's new play.
Last year's Zhou Yiwei, Lin Xiaosu, Lan Yingying, Xin Zhilei, and Shu Zhan all successfully joined the orange department and received a lot of cakes!
What is the entertainment industry? It's not a place where you get rewarded for what you pay, it's not a place where you can become popular if you work hard!
You need a chance!
So, Huang Shengyi chose the first stop of his comeback in "I Am an Actor Season 2", but unfortunately...
In vain, it is estimated that it will be on the hot search!
However, the first thing to be on the hot search was 'Lu Xiaoran and Wen Ziren's fairy friendship'...
The screenshot is a JPG of 'Invest $100 million, let him be cool'...