Chapter 68: Making Quick Money? (9/10)

There has been a big trend in Hollywood in recent years, called the rise of women's rights!

The specific performance is probably that a bunch of big heroine movies were born...

Of course, the reason why it is intensifying is because there are profits to be made!

"The Hunger Games", "Divergents" including "Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Wonder Woman", which were released this year, all hit the box office!

There are many chicken thieves in these big studios, don't you want to respect women's rights?

It's okay, then remake the previous men's drama!

"The Hangover" was changed to "Bridesmaids";

"Ocean's Eleven" was changed to "Eleven Beautiful Girls"...

This "Predatory City" was born in this context!

Based on Philip Reeve's steampunk fantasy of the same name, with an investment of up to $180 million...

Predatory City wanted to be set in the Victorian Moving Castle version of Mad Max 4: Fury Road!

The big heroine, the heroine fights from beginning to end, probably because of the needs of her body, and arranges a vase male lead...

That's right, Shen Ming's role is the vase hero!

The main role is probably for the heroine to kiss, warm the bed and the like...

Of course, that's not what Peter Jackson said, but that's what it means.

$20 million looking for a vase?

Wouldn't it be too expensive?

……

In the room, Shen Ming was making tea.

Probably influenced by Huang Bo, he actually started drinking tea recently...

Mobile phone WeChat group.

"I left the cinema crying!"

"It's so depressing!"

"I think so too!"

"The director was born in Johannesburg, he had experienced apartheid as a child and was very unhappy. The film is based on the director's previous sci-fi short film, "Aliens in Johannesburg"..."

"The North American reputation is awesome, with an IMDb rating of 8.4!"

"There should be an Oscar nomination..."

"Shen Ming, speak!"

“… It's just a movie, don't think about it so much!"

WeChat group, at first there were only Shen Ming, Peng Peng and Milk Xiao, and later joined Wang Yanlin, and then Milk Xiao pulled Wu Xuanyi and Zhou Jieqiong...

On the contrary, Shen Ming has never pulled people!

"Why are you answering now?"

"Bogo pulled me and talked about a bunch of nonsense before coming back. ”

After a while, Peng Peng spoke: "When will you return to our crew, Director Guo will talk to you every day!"

“… What do you call your crew? "The Wandering Earth" is also my crew. ”

replied very unhappily, and then wrote: "It is estimated that it will take a week, Brother Bo is a bit perfectionist, especially annoying, pestering us not to let go, and making us lose weight!"

It's true, Huang Bo is indeed his debut, and he has high requirements for his works, Shen Ming is okay, he is not fat, what is the hard work, he was forced to lose weight...

From the perspective of the work, after being on a desert island for more than 100 days, there must be changes in the body, and losing weight is a must!

Feng Xiaogang is not ruthless enough, "1942", famine, the actor actually has a big belly...

"Come back as soon as you're done filming, the publicity of "Operation Red Sea" is about to begin!"

"Okay. ”

After sending a word, the rest of the time is a private chat with his girlfriend.

……

There is indeed a lot of discussion about Region IX in North America...

On the one hand, it evokes memories of black people: racial segregation, and on the other hand, many people complain about why the main character is Asian...

The fiercest one is Jada Smith, who thinks that in response to segregation, black actors should be used in the leading roles, such as Will Smith!

And then a bunch of people followed up and thought it was racism!

Anything that really pedals a horse can have something to do with racism...

However, it did not affect the reputation of "District 9" and the box office, which closed at $62 million in the first weekend, a decline of about 30% on weekdays, and as of November 17, the cumulative box office was $93 million;

On the 18th, "Justice League" was launched...

"District 9" has a high IMDb rating of 8.4 points...

Of course, the IMDb score is not the truth, the reason why the score is so high is because "District 9" is divided according to genre and belongs to cult movies, and cult fans occupy a large proportion of IMDb, for example, they put "Fight Club" to 8.8 points, you must know that "Forrest Gump" only has 8.6 points...

Rotten Tomatoes 94% fresh!

Both the public and film critics are praising it!

The Chicago Sun-Times ran a glaring headline: "The Ninth District, it puts Hollywood to shame!"

"The whole movie is full of suspense and surprises, and once you get into the main story, it's exciting all the way, you can't guess what's going to happen in the next second, you forget to guess because you're completely immersed in the movie. This is thanks to the post-production special effects and live-action shooting of the slums of Soweto, as well as Shen Mingming's talent-like interpretation, the real and ordinary faces of all the actors, except that there are no beauties, it is a 100% qualified commercial sci-fi blockbuster, and it does not waste a penny of the 40 million dollars. ”

Lao Mei also likes to use some exaggerated techniques...

It's the same in the media all over the world!

You look at Hong Kong media: "Xiong Dailin Slaughtered the City for 33 Hours", "Lin Yun Stopped Menopause for Four Months to Meet Xingye", "Zero Wave Pork Ribs Yang Tianbao"...

Did "District 9" put Hollywood to shame?

No one knows, but Shen Ming's price has indeed increased!

……

Shen Ming told Milk Xiao what he was worried about.

It's the invitation sent by "Predatory City"...

"What do you think of yourself?"

“… I don't know, I don't want to act, but the salary is very high, so it's so entangled!"

The salary of 20 million US dollars is already Cheng Long's highest record that year!

It means that Shen Ming is a symbol of the box office in the eyes of Hollywood studios...

Remuneration represents status!

20 million US dollars, an absolute superstar, Li Lianjie was only 15 million US dollars when he was the youngest...

After a while, Nan Xiao said: "Are you short of $20 million?"

“… Missing, very lacking!"

"Then do you like this show?"

“… Maybe it can explode, but it's not very likely... It's steampunk and Victorian, and it doesn't feel like there's anything to do!"

Steampunk, which belongs to the niche, Victorian, is also a niche...

With two niche themes added together, it's hard to imagine how this story can be told so attractively!

"Who's the director?"

Christian Revos, visual effects designer at Peter Jackson. ”

“… Visual effects designer: Can you be a director?"

"Be careful, James Cameron used to be a VFX designer!"

Milk Xiao probably pondered for a long time, and then returned: "... If you want to make money, go for it!"

"I'm worried that if I make this money, I won't have the opportunity to make money, Hollywood is very superstitious, and once an actor messes up a big production, it's hard to turn over!"

“… Then don't take it!"

"20 million US dollars, 140 million yuan..."

“…”

It's back to the beginning...

That's the trouble between art and money, right?

Hey, I suffered from the difficulty of choosing at this age...

Fortunately, Yang Xin called and solved the problem.

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