Chapter 223: Audition (2-in-1 Chapter!)
In December, "Shocking Demon Thieves" has also been officially established in Optoelectronics, and several location teams went to Aomen and Singapore to find suitable location locations.
Although the Bank of France appeared in the original film, it did not go to France for filming, but was filmed in New Orleans, where the French colonial culture and civilization were located.
Not even Las Vegas.
But now Tang An has to shoot on the spot, because the architectural styles of the mainland, Omen, and Singapore are completely different.
The exterior scenes are in Aomen and Singapore, and the studio is set up in the mainland.
Tang An in Singapore has already contacted Xingyang Pictures through Birner, and the two sides have collaborated on "Painted Skin", so it should be no problem to ask them for a little help.
For Tang An, a big domestic director, Xingyang Pictures also attaches great importance to it, and promises to do its best to cooperate with Tang An's shooting, and they want to introduce more mainland blockbusters in the future.
After the film project was established, the outside world finally knew the title of Tang An's new film.
"Director Tang An's new film has been exposed, the title of the film is "Shocking Demon Thieves"!"
"The new film of the 700 million director Tang An was officially approved in Optoelectronics, which is suspected of telling the story of thieves!"
"Today, according to the news that this reporter learned from the optoelectronics, director Tang An's new film has been officially launched, but the specific theme and cast have not been announced!"
"According to Huayi insiders, Tang An's new film will tell the story of a group of amazing thieves, let's wait and see!"
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There are not many things that can be found from the optoelectronics, just a title, producer, director and classification.
There's only one category tag: Crime!
Combined with the title, it's clear at a glance!
"I thought it was a film, it turned out to be about thieves, but I don't know if it's ancient or modern!"
"Isn't that similar to "Crazy Stone" and "No Thieves in the World", they are all thieves!"
"It shouldn't be that simple, the title of the film is so arrogant, it's shocking, why don't you move!"
"I hope it's the same movie as "Ocean's Eleven" and "Stealing the Day"!"
""Shocking Demon Thieves", how shocking it can be filmed, is it possible that there will be a robbery of the century and the Swiss bank will not be robbed!"
"I originally thought it was a new type, but it was probably a group of people robbing casinos and banks, and I was tired of seeing it!"
"I don't know if it's stealing or robbing yet, but since there are two words for demon thief, it should be a real-time theft with high technology, and it is unlikely to be holding an AK suddenly!"
"Do you think this thief is using magic, or is it a special function?"
"It's also a special function, why don't you say magic and get a fairy out!"
"If you have a spell, you will turn stones into gold, and you will steal a hammer!"
"Magic is too, are the Chinese people flying around in the sky with a broom and a magic wand, why don't you talk about magic!"
Just one title immediately stirred up the entire Chinese New Year film market, stealing the limelight from several movies that were being released.
In December, with the release of two meat-selling films "Lust and Caution" and "Apple", as well as the comedy film "Fate Call Transfer", Hollywood action blockbusters "Die Hard 4" and "Spy Shadow 3" and other films, the domestic film market was lively again.
A new film will be released every two days, and the weight is not small, obviously many of them have been moved from the National Day and summer files.
Zhang Yimou is not here, and there is a bit of a scene of demons dancing wildly.
"Lust and Caution" is almost finished, and it has a box office of 130 million yuan in the mainland.
can still break 100 million in the case of pirated videotapes and online videos, and the title of Oscar Best Director is really not covered.
Of course, there are also many viewers who are disappointed and scolded for the purpose of watching meat, but they have to watch it again on the Internet.
Compared with "Lust and Caution", the same large-scale "Apple" is a bit miserable.
The box office on the first day was just over one million, and the first weekend was 3.2 million, after all, Li Yu is not Li Press, and Fan Binbin is not in a big way.
Fortunately, Fan Binbin didn't go into battle in person, otherwise this box office would not be a big loss, and let others see it in vain!
The classic agent series movie "Spy Shadow 3" was released in mid-November, and it just got 10 million yuan in the first weekend and 9 million in the second week, with a total box office of just over 20 million.
Compared with the equally classic "Mission Impossible", this series can be said to be popular or not, and even made a change of protagonist later!
Anyway, this series is about "who I am", "where I came from", and "where am I going".
"Die Hard 4" is similar, 10 million in 4 days, released for more than half a month, and the total box office is more than 25 million.
It can be said that the appearance of "Die Hard" redefined action movies, and before that, the protagonists of action movies were all muscle heroes, who seemed to be righteous and awe-inspiring, and swept the world invincible.
In each case, it is the terrorists or daring bandits who have planned a seemingly foolproof plan, but the protagonist is always omitted in the execution.
The protagonist is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, with no illustrious origins, no invulnerable iron men, and no hidden special identity.
The protagonist is bleeding, exhausted, and scarred by the bad guys every time, but he always gets back up and continues to fight. In the end, the protagonist is covered in wounds, and even if he can't walk, he can still pull out his pistol and kill his opponent with one shot.
But this time, the fourth part is much more exaggerated, and the protagonist actually killed a latest-type fighter with his bare hands, and it was almost open.
But it's no wonder that Bruce Willis has been 52 years old since he played the first part at the age of 33, and he is also old, and he can't win without a hanging!
On November 30th, the first comedy film was finally released, and the comedy "Love Call Transfer" starring Xu Zheng and Ge Wei must be very interesting, and the results of 12 million in the first weekend of 4 days are also passable.
Although the audience was scolded, claiming that this movie was completely an advertisement for Huaguo Mobile and several major mobile phone companies.
Everywhere are Huaguo Mobile brands, Nokia's mobile phone ringtones, Bird, ZTE, ......
The third story is even funnier, the story of Ge Wei, a farmer who has never seen a mobile phone, who uses his mobile phone to pick up girls and make money.
The specific plot is as follows:
Mobile phones also have a signal in the mountains.
Mobile phones can make calls to telecom landlines.
If you can't charge your mobile phone in the village, you can ride to the mobile business hall in the town to recharge.
Mobile recharge cards are divided into fifty and one hundred.
Mobile phone bills are very expensive, and you can only play for a short time for 50 yuan.
Bird's mobile phone is not afraid of falling.
Good people have good rewards, and stupid people have stupid blessings.
In the mountains, whoever has a mobile phone is awesome!
In a mountain village where there is no electricity (people just have a signal, awesome), if a person's mobile phone runs out of money, he will immediately recharge, and then he will not hesitate to feel sorry for fifty.
To be honest, it's still funny just by looking with your eyes and not delving into it, and not thinking about it.
Looking at the audience who left the screening hall with a smile, Tang An patted Yang Mi next to him, "Let's go, the movie is over, send you back!"
"Brother An, it's only past 10 o'clock, let's go somewhere else to play!" Yang Mi said a little reluctantly.
"It's not early, when you get home at 11 o'clock, you have to rush to Hengdian tomorrow, start filming the day after tomorrow, you have to keep your spirits up, don't go wrong on the first day, and you will be embarrassed!"
"But there was no play for me on the first day!"
"That's not good, it's not good to be listless before you shoot on the first day of shooting!"
"Ahh Then, Brother An, you take me to have supper, and I'll go back after eating!"
"What kind of supper, I have already eaten, and you will be able to eat a bucket of popcorn, and if you eat it again, you will really become a pig." Tang An smiled and slapped her little belly twice.
Yang Mi tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly had an idea, and took Tang An's hand and coquettishly, "Brother An, take me to eat skewers, when we came here just now, there was a tricycle selling skewers under the nearby overpass, and there should be one now." ”
What kind of skewers, isn't it just spicy hot?
The old paper billionaire took his sister paper to the flyover to eat skewers!
Doesn't seem like a bad thing......
said that he would go, helped Yang Mi straighten the knitted hat, put the scarf on the neck, and came to the foot of an overpass near the cinema.
At this point in the evening, there is no need to worry about the chengguan, and there are almost no pedestrians, and as far as the eye can see, there are three tricycles selling different snacks on this road.
didn't need to be greeted by the boss, Yang Mi stepped forward and chose a lot of things.
hairy tripe, sausage, squid, ham sausage, lotus root slices, bean skin, tofu, cabbage, kelp, potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, various meatballs, chicken feet, quail eggs, beef......
Don't look at it, take a few skewers of each, whether you can eat it or not.
Seeing that it was almost over, Tang An hurriedly held her hand, "Okay, okay, it's a waste of can't finish eating!"
"Boss, that's all, please help us hurry up, hurry back to sleep, thank you!"
pulled Yang Mi to find a small table and sit down, took off the scarf and put it on his lap.
"Brother An, look. ”
Yang Mi suddenly tugged at his sleeve and smiled narrowly.
"What's wrong?" Tang An didn't know.
"They laughed when they heard you say rush back to bed. ”
"Just laugh and laugh. Tang An shrugged.
"I was supposed to go back to sleep, don't you want to sleep?"
"What they mean is... It's ......"
"What is it?"
......
After laughing for a while, the boss quickly brought the skewers up.
A large enamel bowl, the soup in it is floating with a red layer of chili oil, which is refreshing to eat in winter.
"Let's eat!"
Tang An said that he took a string of phoenix claws first, and went down in one bite...
Hiss!
This boss is either from western Sichuan or from Shonan!
Yang Mi was even more unbearable, her small mouth was wide open, her tongue was fanning up and down, she kept inhaling heavily, and beads of sweat immediately appeared on her forehead.
"Brother An is so spicy!"
As he spoke, he took another bite of the remaining half of the tofu into his mouth.
Immediately after that, the second string, the third string ......
In a moment, there were seven or eight sticks left on the table.
Eating spicy things is like this, the more you eat, the more you want to eat, the more you eat, the less spicy it is, and the more flavorful it is.
Tang An hurriedly took her hand and ate it again, once it stopped, it would be unbearable.
"Boss!"
Shouted and called the boss, "Boss, can you change the non-spicy soup for us?"
"Yes, you can. ”
The boss saw that Yang Mi's face was spicy and red, and the whole person was hissing there... Shhhh I understood, and without saying a word, I changed a big bowl of soup.
After wiping his hands, he took a roll of toilet paper from under the car and brought it in a box.
"Girl, wipe your sweat, don't catch a cold when the wind is strong at night. ”
Tang An pulled a little toilet paper to help her wipe the sweat off her face, but then beads of sweat continued to appear.
After thinking about it, I went to a nearby convenience store to buy two boxes of yogurt, and Yang Mi felt better after drinking it.
"If you can't eat spicy food, eat less, sweating in winter is easy to catch a cold!"
"But it's comfortable to eat spicy. ”
After eating almost half of it, Tang An packed the rest and sent Yang Mi back.
returned to Xu Yanyun's house again, and bought something downstairs in the community.
I opened the door and went in, and the light in the study was still on.
"Why don't you sleep yet?"
Xu Yanyun looked back and smiled, "It's nothing, there is still something to be done, and we will consolidate all the finances at the end of the year." ”
"Let's eat something, it's not in a hurry for these two days, and it's the same tomorrow. ”
"I'm going to audition tomorrow, so I'll go to bed first, and you can go to bed early!"
After admonishing him, Tang An washed his face and went to sleep.
Hua Yi almost found all the actors on his side, and waited for Tang An to make a decision.
Early the next morning, Tang An came to Huayi and went directly to a temporary conference room for audition.
Zhao Jun of the production department took a few documents and handed them to Tang An, a total of several roles, all of which were carefully selected by Hua Yi.
Originally, there were three to four actors for each role, but Tang An picked one for each after watching it.
Most of these actors in the entertainment industry know each other, and they know whether they are suitable at a glance, so don't bother to audition one by one.
"Call them all in!" Tang An put down the script and ordered Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun, the deputy director of the production department, was also willing to listen to Tang An's command, and made a phone call to let the actors who were still in another conference room come in.
Not long after, the door opened from the outside, and 8 actors entered in turn.
"Director Tang is good!"
"Hello everyone!" Tang An nodded.
Deng Chao, Liu Ye, Tang Yan, Deng Kai, Wu Gang, Yu He Wei, Liao Fan, Yu Nan.
At the beginning, Tang An was a little strange that Hua Yi could find Liu Ye, although he usually plays the No. 3 role in big productions, but it is for Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, which is the norm in the industry. Now to match Deng Chao, it is clear that he has taken the initiative to put down his figure.
After all, the current Deng Dynasty is not as good as him on the big screen, and the two actor trophies of Golden Horse and Golden Rooster are not given for nothing.
After asking carefully, I found out that I haven't received any good films in the past two years, "Heaven's Mouth" is matched by Wu Yanzu and Zhang Zhenzuo, and the "Keep Talking" just received is also matched by Gu Tianle and Zhang Jiahui.
The No. 3 role, if you don't have a box office at the box office, and you can't win the award, it's better to come to Tang An to play the No. 2 role with gold-plated!
As for Yu Nan, she came in by relationship, the girlfriend of the fifth-generation director Wang Quanpress.
But it does meet the requirements, capable, but three or four years older.
Although it is a little different from the original character, it is not a big problem.
Tang An never refuses the favor thing, as long as it meets the requirements, why not sell it if he can sell it!
If you don't use your own people, you have to use outsiders to appear more just and selfless?
Examining them one by one, Tang An stood up.
"There are 8 characters today, and the selection of you is also well thought out, you have no other competitors, as long as you show your best state and meet my requirements, you can get the role!"
Everyone has no objection to Tang An's words, in fact, the news that Tang An doesn't need to audition every time, and he uses it when he orders someone is almost known in the entertainment industry.
Although it's a little strange that he is so familiar with actors, it's not normal for a big director to be different from ordinary people!
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I reviewed the movie a few times today, and I didn't find some time to review it when it was almost time to start filming......
There is one more in the evening.,Today is the fifth watch.,Make up for yesterday.。
The "Tomato-eating Panda" friend rewarded the helmsman, and he will make up for it as soon as possible!
I hope that friends who reward can have the ability to reward again on a fully determined basis, because subscription is the foundation of a book, which is related to the subsequent results.