(Thank you Brother SW for your reward again, thank you Brother Donghuang for your reward, thank you very much!)

On December 25, this newspaper reported that the low-budget film "Get in the Car, Let's Go" starring young director Wu Xiang, directed by Guan Hu, Gao Hu, Huang Bo, and Sun Yifei ended its first week of release, and the box office in Yanjing alone reached 790,000, and the producers and distributors were very satisfied. The film depicts the story of two peasants who came out of the mountains to the capital, struggled, lived, and fell in love, reflecting some of the current social problems......"

That's right, generally speaking, "Get in the Car, Let's Go" achieved a box office of 790,000 in three days after its release in Beijing, although this box office result cannot be said to be particularly outstanding, but it is also worthy of Wu Xiang's investment.

This is just one place in Beijing, of course, the box office in a place in Beijing is very important now, but it is acceptable to have this result in 3 days, after all, the investment is not large, there are no big names, and there is competition from many films.

Anyway, no matter what others think, Wu Xiang is very satisfied, according to his original idea, such a movie is not a very festive movie, and it is difficult to do anything in the Chinese New Year. The reason why it is on the Lunar New Year file is completely because the progress of this film is just catching up, or it will have to be released next year, which is not good, because Wu Xiang needs living money, and his big productions are overrun.

It's a lot of meat, and it's a little bit to earn a little.

Wu Xiang is also busy with this film, and he will not go to any publicity after that, even the premiere. For no other reason, he had to start the post-production of "The Great Emperor of the Han Dynasty".

can't be busy with anything else, otherwise with his first big production, I don't know when Lu Dao will be able to meet fans. The first step in post-production, Wu Xiang is to cut the film.

But this film is not so easy to cut, Wu Xiang himself feels that he can't do this alone, he has to find a helper, and the first thing that comes to mind is Teacher Zhou Xinxia Zhou.

It's not that Wu Xiang doesn't have confidence, but this time the film is different, and it's completely different from what he shot before.

It's all 35mm film, but the workload is completely different. Whether it is "The Great Flood" or "The First Close Contact", Wu Xiang's spending on film is nothing more than 200,000 yuan. This is very, very economical, a box of 35mm film, can only shoot for four minutes, the price is 1500 RMB, that is to say, the previous two films, Wu Xiang's savings have reached an outrageous level, his film yield is far higher than the excellent film yield 1 to 8. It's not that Wu Xiang is powerful, but he has a foundation in both films, he is a copycat of others, and he uses a lot of other means, and it is also an urban film, and there are no stunt shots.

But this time, the money spent on film by "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty" alone has exceeded 2 million!

That's right, it's such a number, but don't be shocked, the 2 million film money is just the normal cost of investing in a movie, and it's not a big production, if it's a big production, many of them are more than 3 million, 4 million...... The success rate of big productions is lower than 1 to 15, so this film money is too normal.

But in a big production, people don't care about the film money at all, not to mention anything else, Wu Xiang's "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty", if you really want to calculate it, the food expenses, even the lunch box money, are more than this number, this is still Wu Xiang's troops invited to come over to participate in the performance, saving a lot of money.

How can you say that movies burn money, but this is the first time Wu Xiang has burned money. But the film has so much money, that is to say, the things shot are more than ten times that of the previous films, so the workload of editing is not as simple as ten times, this is a geometric exponential increase.

This is also for what, Wu Xiang has never done post-production before, because he really needs a long time to concentrate on this thing, and it is easy to make mistakes if he is distracted.

In the future, with the progress of technology and the development of digital high-definition cameras, the work of editing is much simpler, and it can even be cut immediately after shooting, which reduces the cost and becomes more efficient. Of course, the new technique also has its flaws, that is, the resolution is poor, and the digital technique is not very cheap in this year, and the iron rooster Wu Xiang will naturally not choose it.

"Teacher Zhou, I'm here to trouble you again. "It's still easy to find Teacher Zhou, and Wu Xiang naturally has to bring some gifts.

Northeasterners, get used to it, besides, he seems simple, doesn't he?

"Your ambition this time is not small, it was too easy to cut the film for you before, but this time it can be regarded as a difficult one. "Mr. Zhou, this is really good, not afraid of trouble, or rather, the more troublesome and challenging, the better!

Sometimes, falling in love with a job is like this, they don't feel that the job is tiring, but they find it fun and excited.

"Teacher, this film is very important this time, I have brought this script, you can watch it first. I don't mean anything else, but don't worry about it. ”

An editor must have a deep understanding of the script, but Wu Xiang is still emphasizing it now, Mr. Zhou is a national first-class editor, which is indeed a bit too much.

But Teacher Zhou didn't think so much, she still knew a little about her student, this kid said this, there must be his own reasons, so Teacher Zhou smiled and said: "Or you kid just work with me, you watch from the side, if something is not satisfactory, you remind me, we can discuss with each other." ”

"Then how can I be, I'm ......" Wu Xiang was embarrassed, people are everyone in this area, and he really can't compare to others' professionalism. But in fact, Wu Xiang still means this, he really doesn't want to let go of the editing of this movie.

"Teacher, I know that you are going to make such a big movie for the first time, it is inevitable that you will not be at ease, normal. "Teacher Zhou is really empathetic, which makes Wu Xiang moved.

When a movie shoots this place, it is equivalent to an embryo, and the editor is like a midwife, and Wu Xiang, the director, is like the father of the child.

Having said that, this is already not bad, Wu Xiangneng can participate in the editing work, of course, he is a director and an investor, everything is what he says. But not every director in this world has this right, such as Hollywood, in that very mature film manufacturing assembly line with an extremely clear division of labor, not many directors can cut their own films, they don't have this right.

Wu Xiang is so nervous and cares so much, not because he is neurotic, but because he clearly remembers that there will be a blockbuster movie in the future, it is because the editing is not cut well, which causes the entire film to be a mess at the box office.

This film is called "Heavenly Dynasty", and it is also a historical blockbuster, not to mention the huge investment in this film, it is also very well made, magnificent, majestic, and many famous movie stars joined, Liam Neeson, Orlando Brom, Eva Green, Edward Chatton, these are all well-known names. But it's a pity that the box office of this film was extremely dismal when it was released, to the point that no one watched it at all.

The reason is that when it was released, that version was not cut by the director of this film, Ridley Scott, himself, and he did not have the right to edit it. In order to schedule more films and increase the number of screenings, the distributor compressed the plot, which led to the failure of the plot of the whole movie, so it was a tragedy.

The big director almost committed suicide in anger, and it wasn't until the later director's cut version came out that the film was praised.

What a vivid example of this, Wu Xiang didn't want to make himself a second Ridley Scott anyway.

So, Wu Xiang plunged into this editing work again, almost ignoring what was going on outside the window, and only wanted to cut the film.

Wu Xiang doesn't want to care about the outside world, but other people still have to live.

On December 31st, several promising films were released on this day at the same time, and the most eye-catching one was naturally "Happy Times". This movie has already done all the processes before, just waiting for the release, and this is the first time director Zhang Yimou has come to the New Year's file, he has not been involved in this schedule before, and his movie is playing well no matter what schedule.

Of course, "Happy Times" is menacing, but the other films are not bad, these are all very gimmicky, let's just say "Defense and Counterattack", there are big names from Hong Kong, can you not go and see it?

There is also "Examination Family", there is Teacher Song Dandan, which also seems to be good.

It can be predicted that this year's Chinese New Year stalls will be extremely fierce. And the most important thing is that the market share left for domestic films is not very large, in the competition with Hollywood and Hong Kong films, domestic films are often absolutely passive, and now this is the case, most of the market is controlled by outsiders......