Chapter 86: A Little Thing (1/5)
When an actor chooses a script, it depends on the coffee position!
The more top-notch the actors, the more scripts to choose from...
Like Huang Bo, basically the director will contact him if he has an intention.
And all of them are top directors!
Lu Xiaoran, Ning Hao like this!
For other actors, when the script is transferred to the actor, it has already been screened through a round, which requires the agent to have a certain ability to review the script, of course, the bigger actor or company will also allocate a special staff to read the script.
will help straighten out the logic of the script, analyze the characters...
Again, it's good to have a play...
Some actors just go with the flow - they eat anyway;
There are some of them, they will try to find the logical line of their characters, so that the characters are not bad...
is typical of Zhu Yilong, with so many bad scenes, he can still maintain the level he deserves, such an actor deserves to become popular!
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There was also a movie in August, "Terminator: Genisys"...
The North American box office was $89 million.
This is the first work of the 'Terminator' IP reboot.
The Terminator IP stems from a nightmare by Cameron, when a 26-year-old Canadian truck driver came to Hollywood to try to become a director, and he got a chance to make a very low horror film, but he was fired after five days.
Oh, that horror movie is Piranha 2...
After being expelled, Cameron's life also fell to the deepest bottom, lying groggy in his temporary caravan.
After becoming famous, he recalled: "I had a high fever and was on the verge of collapse, and then I had a dream that a metal man came out of the raging fire, his skin had been burned off, revealing his true face, but it smiled at me, and its dark red eyes were fixed on me. ”
Then, Cameron is ready to do the big ticket, and he wants to shoot the nightmare...
Cameron was less than 30 years old, non-professional, and the director was fired after 5 days.
You say that such a person shoots nightmares and can create miracles, do you dare to believe it?
There are really people who believe that they threw out $6 million to create a dream for Cameron.
In March 1984, the film officially started filming.
The filming time is mostly completed at night, and the crew is too poor to save costs.
Well, this is a movie shot with no lights and street lights.
After filming, there was no money, and Cameron and they continued to shoot out of their own pockets.
Cameron is quite satisfied with this work, the lighting effect of the street lamps makes the film create a dark atmosphere, everything looks cold, exuding a sense of depression that wants to escape quickly.
When he gave the first cut to the publisher, the other party's evaluation was that it was miserable.
The distributor is not optimistic, and when "Terminator" was released, it was positioned as a late-night B-grade film.
The critics' complaints did not hide the light of the film, because the audience liked to watch it.
"The Terminator" finally ushered in the highlight moment of its Jedi rebirth, earning 38 million at the box office, and finally entered the top 20 of the US box office list that year.
Then, "Terminator 2" sold $520 million worldwide...
But none of this can change the fact that "Terminator: Genisys", that is, "Terminator 5", is a bad movie...
Let's put it this way, similar to "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Alien", and "Terminator", these are actually high-concept movies, and the concept of "Terminator" is that robots kill people through time and space!
This type of movie, the first one is very attractive.
One of the important reasons is that you've never seen it.
Then the second part increases, which means that both sides become stronger, but the opponent's side becomes more invincible.
Otherwise, it's "Jurassic Park 2" - no different from the first one...
It will be difficult to make a third such movie, because the second part has been added to the point of being invincible, what about the third part?
The usual practice is to continue to tell a similar story, and then use the fame to release it and make money...
After the trilogy, pause!
The problem is that in recent years, Hollywood has not dared to engage in original movies, and has begun to play the idea of original IP, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Predator", "X-Men", especially last year's "Mad Max 4", which won global acclaim!
So, it's understandable that Paramount spent a lot of money on Terminator: Genisys...
The box office fiasco is understandable...
What I can't understand is that in "Terminator: Dark Fate", Fuji Xun wants to invest in Mao?
Do you see the market prospects?
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Lu Xiaoran likes the feeling of staying in the crew.
You don't have to worry about the outside world, you just need to deal with the movie itself...
The crew is relatively closed, one shoot is three months, and in these three months, Lu Xiaoran is the boss, saying nothing!
So, something very strange happened in the market, and he didn't even know it!
Lay's Pictures wanted to engage in advanced on-demand, but was boycotted by the theater chain...
During this time, after the madness of the summer file, the market returned to normal in September, and the latest releases in addition to "Gorgeous Office Workers", "Beautiful Mistake", and "Assassin Nie Yinniang" are left with "The Disappeared Murderer" promoted by Lay's - the original version of "The Bullet of the Hour"...
"Beautiful Mistake" is a very boring film, although there is A Mou + Huang Bo, the box office is not very high, 32% of the scheduled films, seven days after release, the box office has exceeded 200 million...
"Gorgeous Office Workers" is a bad movie, needless to say...
"Assassin Nie Yinniang" is too high-end, setting a record for the highest exit in a Chinese film - on par with "The King's Feast"!
Most people buy tickets just to post the ticket stub, and then upload it to the circle of friends, adding a sentence 'every frame is a wallpaper' to show that they have style...
Big brother, "Hero", "Ambush on All Sides", "Night Banquet", "Wuji" every frame is also a wallpaper...
Okay, receive!
(You can't complain anyway!)
In other words, the number of films that "The Disappeared Murderer" can get is not low, at least more than 20%!
Then Zhang Zhao announced: Screening in advance, that is, on Lay's TV, you can watch "The Disappeared Murderer" ahead of the theater...
Not only that, the "Nine-Story Demon Tower" invested by Lay's also wants to be on demand in advance on Lay's TV...
Why?
There's not much to do with Lay's!
"Little Times" was robbed, and the only thing they could count on was the directors of the Hong Kong faction, but the mainland box office of Hong Kong films was very difficult to exceed 300 million...
The eight major cinema chains jointly issued a statement: "This kind of disregard for market rules and screening on other broadcast platforms ahead of cinemas has seriously undermined the rules of the film industry and harmed the interests of cinemas and theaters." We will resolutely resist it!"
Jia Yueting has no money!
If he's really rich, it doesn't matter if you resist it or not...
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Lu Xiaoran was talking to Zhong Lifang on the phone, and his opinion on this matter was very simple: "So the time is not ripe, the most important thing is that BAT seems to want to intervene in the theater chain, and does not want to be a spoiler!"
"They want to get involved in theaters?"
"Fuji Xun, Ahri, have always wanted to take a stake in Orange Cinemas, don't you know?"
Zhong Lifang rolled her eyes: "I thought this was the layout of their 'Great Entertainment' plan..."
Ahri, Fuji Xun, and Du Niang have all put forward a big entertainment plan, covering all channels...
All sorts of bragging, storytelling...
Zhong Lifang completely took their words as a joke...
Big entertainment?
Let's start with a work that is well received and acclaimed!
Lu Xiaoran has already begun to prepare more than 20 high-IQ crime-themed films such as "The Invisible Guest", "Knives Out", "The Tuner", "Internet Lost", "Death Without Proof", "Mirage", "Disappearing Night", "Perfect Stranger", "The Night the Comet Comed", "Swamp", "Heart Labyrinth" and so on.
What these movies have in common is that they don't need too many special effects and don't have a lot of investment...
The movie viewing effect of the cinema video is almost the same...
Preparing to put watermelon video on the shelves at one time at the end of next year...
Now it's time to think about it...