Liu Ye is the smoothest one after stepping into the showbiz around 00 years, whether it is Lu Yi, who was popular with half the sky back then, or Chen Kun, who starred in many classic TV series, it is actually almost meaningless.

The first film "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" in 98 won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film and the Most Popular Feature Film Award at the Montreal International Film Festival, and he was also nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Just graduated from college in 01, starring in "Lan Yu" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor in one fell swoop, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and finally lost to Zhou Xingchi.

The 23-year-old Golden Horse actor!

In 02, he starred in "Balzac's Little Tailor" and was shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film!

starred in "The Landscape of Love" nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and he was paired with Xiangjiang star Zheng Yijian.

let a Xiangjiang star who is one level higher than himself be matched, which was absolutely rare in the film industry at that time.

and Zhang Ziyi, Li Binbin starred in "Purple Butterfly" was shortlisted for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

"What to Save You My Love" is also a classic TV series of the year.

04 starred in the TV series "Blood Waste", not to mention, a classic of a generation!

In the same year, he starred in the movie "Beauty Grass" and also won the Golden Rooster Award.

After that, he starred in two super blockbusters, "Wuji" and "The City Full of Golden Armor".

Meryl Streep starred in the feature film "Dark Matter" after breaking into Hollywood for the first time last year.

In 7 years, it was almost a smooth road and smooth sailing.

Like the star road of many stars, low-cost literary films win awards, and then focus on the box office.

However, in the next two years, he faced an embarrassing situation and did not have a blockbuster to pick up.

Not only is there no blockbuster, but the protagonist of the medium cost can't be obtained.

Although this time it is for Deng Chao, he is also the second male lead in a big production, and he has a box office guarantee, which is much better than the third role like "Keep Talking"!

In addition to Liu Ye, Yu Nan also won a lot of awards, but those films did not add up to more than 10 million at the domestic box office, and they were not very famous at all.

Moreover, the three films she won the award were all films directed by her boyfriend Wang Quan.

plus a Deng Dynasty who starred in "The Assembly", which can be regarded as the only few "big names".

Several other actors, Tang Yan, Liao Fan, and Wu Gang have cooperated, but they are not very famous.

For this role, including Deng Chao, who has already been decided, they are all very looking forward to and excited.

"Now that you've got your scripts and have a general idea of your role, let's get started!"

"Deng Chao, Liu Ye, Deng Kai, Tang Yan. ”

"The four of you are magicians, you must always remember your identity when performing, magic itself is a kind of performance!"

"In other words, the role you play is also acting in the movie!"

"I asked each of you to learn a little magic before, you don't need to learn it, just make the basic movements, can you do it?" Tang An asked the four of them.

"Yes, Director Tang!" the four of them replied one after another.

Deng Chao is a master of blindfolding, the most basic is card magic, but it is too difficult for him to learn it from a month, some difficult shuffling and cutting actions can not be completed, when the time comes, find a magician stand-in only to shoot the close-up of the hand.

Tang Yan made a cameo appearance as a passerby, and Deng Chao started with a deck of cards.

It's the magic of the square 7 at the beginning.,The technique is still a little stiff.,Not natural enough.,But the expression、The eyes are in place.。

Although it is not as cheap as it was later, it is just right to have this degree in the movie, after all, it is not a variety show, and it is mainly magic to amuse the audience by relying on body language and being funny.

Tang An nodded, and did not comment, and then the other three people all played their own paragraphs.

It can be seen that they have been prepared more or less, and no one has done anything perfunctory.

"Everybody's doing a great job!"

Tang An first affirmed their performance, and then said, "I can barely pass the test in the camera at 2x speed." ”

As soon as these words came out, the smiles that had just appeared on the faces of the four of them instantly froze, and they didn't laugh, and they didn't laugh.

Thief embarrassment!

"Deng Chao, you play cards better than me, it's not bad to be able to do this level in more than a month, Wang Dong has already contacted several magicians, you take some time to practice every day, which can make perfect." ”

"Okay Mr. Tang, I will definitely satisfy you!" Deng Chao nodded and promised.

"Liu Ye, the speed of speech was too flat when you guessed the name and pronounced each letter just now, although you weren't really guessing, but you can't make it look like you're reading the lines, following the changes in the eyes and facial expressions of the person in front of you. ”

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commented one by one, and finally Tang An summarized two sentences.

"There are a few other problems that you all have, every magician is very confident when performing, whether you are sure or not, at least the audience must see that you are in the chest, otherwise you can't see a little confidence in your eyes, how can they believe it!"

In fact, the problems are far more than these, Tang An didn't say too much, and if he said too much, it wouldn't change in a while.

After asking their agent to come over and sign the contract, Tang An left Deng Chao and the four of them behind.

"Do you all have anything else to do in the next month?" Tang An asked.

"The Assembly has to take a few days to promote, and everything else is basically everything. Deng Chao thought about it and replied.

"Mr. Tang, I'll be fine for half a year!" Liu Ye thought to himself that he would postpone other activities when he went back.

"I'm a senior and there's no mandatory attendance at school. Deng Kai then said.

"I ......" Only Tang Yan hesitated a little

"I'll give you a week to promote your movie!" Tang An said.

"In the next month, I will ask a few magicians to tutor you one-on-one, and the four of you will work together to complete at least one drama every week in the future, so as to cultivate your stage sense and tacit understanding. ”

One play a week!

I have to practice magic and rehearse dramas, although the time is a little tight, but Deng Chao was an actor at the National Theater before, Liu Ye has been filming for nearly ten years, and Tang Yan will not have stage fright if he has performed in the Olympic Games.

Although Deng Kai has not yet graduated, he originally planned to go to the Modu Drama Theater with Cheng He, and he also went to intern for a period of time, and there is no problem.

Unexpectedly, Tang An didn't finish speaking, "In addition, I will ask people to arrange a large number of performances for you, all kinds of specifications, mainly singing and dancing, let me go a little, don't be too tight, find the feeling of the stage!"

This is actually prepared for Tang Yan, he still can't let go enough when he performs, the most important thing about that kind of escape magic is to mobilize the audience's emotions and make the audience nervous, so it's half the success.

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Tang An, the remaining supporting roles, didn't just ask, and directly asked Zhao Jun to handle it, and after determining all the actors, the list was announced.

At the same time, the investment cost was also reported to the outside world by a full 150 million.

The production cost of 70 million yuan, the publicity fee is unlimited, and it is normal to quote 150 million.

This list of starring actors once again set off a lot of waves in the Lunar New Year file.

It's really that these actors are too "star-like".

There is no way for the low cost of "Shark Beach", "Horror Cruise" is good and Xu Jinglei, the combination of Li Binbin + Cheng Daoming in "Super Body" is not bad, the two big flowers in "The Wind", and a number of old drama bones are also star-studded.

But now, the investment in "Shocking Demon Thieves" is about to catch up with the sum of the previous four films, and the lineup is becoming more and more shabby.

Although Deng Chao has filmed several TV series, they are only TV series, and the only movie "Assembly Number" has not yet been released.

The other "Horror Cruises" and "Superbody" are small characters.

When Zhang Hanyu starred in the male lead in "Assembly Number", he was questioned, and he also starred in the villain of "Super Body" and the male lead in "The Wind".

Liu Ye has no problem playing the second male lead, but he matched Deng Chao.

Tang Yan is half a newcomer, and he has directly reached the point of being the heroine with a big investment of 200 million, which has caused many unhealthy conjectures.

"Deng Chao plays the leading role? Is it wrong to write the name, Liu Ye is okay, where has Deng Chao made a few movies!"

"I'm a little skeptical about what kind of film this is, this lineup doesn't look like a gang of shocking thieves!"

"I hired these actors at a cost of 150 million, and the crew is too stingy, where is the money spent?"

That's right, the cost of 150 million, these actors are less than 10 million, so where did the money go?

The audience and the media reacted instantly, even if there is water in 150 million, then 100 million should always be there.

Then the problem is, the money is not spent on the actors, and the publicity is not spent so much, there is only one possibility left.

Special effect!

Thinking of the scene in "Super Body", some people immediately speculated that "Shocking Demon Thieves" must have a large number of special effects.

On Saturday, December 8, Huayi announced the details of the film.

No one cared about anything else, everyone was staring at the type column, and there were two more words next to the original word crime.

Magic!

Everyone suddenly shouted, it turned out that the demon thief meant to use magic to steal.

This is really a genre that has never been seen in China!

Although magic is really popular in China, it will not be until Liu Gan performs magic at the Spring Festival Gala in 09, but in the past few years, there have been many magicians performing at the Spring Festival Gala, and the audience is not unfamiliar with this thing.

But how to use magic to steal?

"I really didn't expect it, it turned out to be a magic theme, and I'm curious about how to use magic to steal!"

"The subject matter is very novel, I hope Tang An's shooting is as exciting as the previous movies, I am looking forward to it!"

"Magic is magic, don't do it all with the help of machines, then it's off topic!"

"Wouldn't it be enough to hypnotize all the people in the bank and let them obediently take out the money!"

"It is estimated that it is a sheep's head to sell dog meat, if the magic is really so good, it will be a fart class, just go to learn magic, to put it bluntly, it is all fake, it must be with some high-tech equipment!"

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In the fiercely competitive Lunar New Year file, under the premise that both blockbusters have launched large-scale publicity offensives, "Shocking Demon Thieves" still occupies a part of the entertainment news page.

Four days later, Tang An became one of the biggest stars when he attended the premiere of "Casting a Name", and the reporters around him were second only to Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua, and much more than the host Chen Kexin.

"Director Tang, how did you come up with the idea of making a magic-themed movie?"

"This is actually the idea that suddenly came to me when I watched the Spring Festival Gala over the years, and I thought magic was very interesting, and then I found some well-known magician videos at home and abroad, and after more than half a year of consideration, I decided to shoot a magic-themed movie!"

"Then Director Tang, what kind of magic tricks will you shoot?"

"You can see from the title of the film, the so-called earth-shattering, it will definitely shock the world, I will show a magic trick in the film that the audience has never seen!" Tang An smiled.

"Then why did Mr. Tang choose Deng Chao to play the leading role, is the 150 million cost announced by Huayi true?"

"Of course it's true!"

Tang An nodded, "Deng Chao was an actor at the National Theater before, needless to say, his acting skills are needless to say, and he has a strong sense of stage, which is very suitable for a role like a magician who also performs on stage!"

"Our film will be filmed in many cities abroad, and most of the cost will be used in the production of the film. ”

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After all, it is someone else's home field, and after a few casual interviews, Tang An walked into the infield of the Olympic Sports Center.

The premiere was held at the Olympic Sports Center, which was big enough.

From afar, Yu Dong saw Tang An greet him, "Haha, Director Tang, welcome to the premiere!"

"Hello Yu Dong, look at this formation, it's bigger than "The City is Full of Golden Armor", I will wish the box office a big hit in advance!" Tang An said with a smile.

"Borrow Tang Daojiyan. ”

Yu Dong seems to be in a good mood and is obviously very confident in the film.

He also had to greet the others, and Tang An saw that Han Sanping was also here, so he stepped forward to say hello.

"Han Dong, you're here too!"

"It's Director Tang, your movie has not started filming yet, and the media and the audience have been moved, it's amazing!" Han Sanping said with a smile.

"Han Dong said with a smile, that is, the picture has been fresh in the past two days!" Tang An waved his hand.

"Director Tang's magic-themed movie this time has added a new genre to China, and we have to thank you for it!" said the boss of a medium-sized film and television company next to him.

"Yes, in the past two years, small-budget horror films have sold much better than before, and thank you Director Tang for opening up the market!"

"The two of them are too famous, as long as the film is shot well, there will naturally be audiences to watch it, and it doesn't really have much to do with me!" Tang An said again and again.

After greeting for a while, Han Sanping suddenly asked about the schedule.

"When is Director Tang's movie going to be released, is it still a summer file?"

Facing Han Sanping's smiling gaze, Tang An said naturally, "I still have to see when the movie will be finished, this time I have to go to several countries for filming, plus the training of actors, I don't know if I can catch up with the summer file, and it also depends on what Wang Dong means." ”

Han Sanping smiled and didn't ask anymore, he believed that Tang An and Wang Zhongjun would not come to compete for the summer file as long as they were not confused, and the epic historical war blockbuster with an investment of 600 million, a big director + big star + big investment, is destined to be a big hit, there is no need to lose both.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the premiere officially began, and thousands of movie theaters across the country also let the audience enter at the same time.

"Casting the Name" was not released from 0:00, and it lasted for a total of 6 hours from 6 pm to early morning on the first day.

In just these 6 hours, "Vote for Fame" still got 10 million box office!

Nearly 90 million in the first weekend and 5 days, which is better than the opening results of "The Wind".

Although the results are very good, the audience and media reputation are also super high, and the movie is one of the top costume blockbusters of all time in all aspects.

Even if you look at the next 10 years, it is difficult for a costume movie to surpass it.

Even the consistent weakness of previous costume movies, there is no problem with the plot of "Casting a Name", Li Lianlian's acting skills are perfect, and the performances of Liu Dehua, Jin Chengwu, and Xu Jinglei are also first-class.

Shots, action, art, voiceover, lighting, sets... All of them are the top in the country.

However, the film is too heavy after all, with gray tones, pathetic music, desolate and brutal war scenes, and there is not even any hope for the audience.

Even if Li Lianjie accepted the reward and became the governor of Liangjiang, it was full of calculations and conspiracies.

Such a film, placed in the Lunar New Year file, which needs joy, is destined not to be too successful.

In the second week, with the release of "Assembly", the box office dropped sharply in seven days, and only got 53 million.

And although "The Assembly" only got 15 million for the first day of release, it was 70 million for 4 days on the first weekend, which is a little worse than "Vote for Fame".

However, this is in the case of a blockbuster movie in the same period, and it is quite good to suppress the other party to this decline in the second week.

As of December 30, "Casting a Name" won 173 million box office in 19 days after its release.

"Assembly Number" won 145 million in 11 days after its release, and the difference between the two is less than 3,000.

And on the second day of the release, CCTV spent one minute and nine seconds to report on "The Assembly", and local organs and schools began to charter the venue on a large scale.

Even surpassing "The Wind" and becoming the box office champion of the year this year is just around the corner!

Two main theme movies that broke 100 million yuan, and the media have claimed that the spring of the main theme is coming.

2007 is over, and 2008 is coming.

"Shocking Demon Thieves" has basically completed the preliminary preparations, or it will be possible to start filming in less than a week.

But before that, Tang An has to attend Huayi's annual meeting this year!

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