Chapter 514: A Heart That Beats Forever for Movies
The autumn breeze is cool, and the sky is still blue. Under the enthusiastic attention of the media, "Firefly 2", which has been filmed for many months, was completed in mid-September, and the film entered the post-production stage.
This year's sixth flame film, "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog", landed on the big screen on September 14, and it received a 2% 85% Rotten Tomatoes index, "delicate and warm", "tear-jerking extraordinary", "all families can enjoy it", "even the most hard-hearted audience will shed tears"...... Director Luc Jacques was greatly praised, and Wang Yang and the commercial rhythm that Flame Films paid special attention to received good results, and this touching dog drama won 19.86 million in the first week to become the North American weekly champion.
With a production cost of only 10 million, it seems that it will not be a problem to recover its costs, and its gains in overseas markets, especially in Asia, are in line with expectations, and "Hachiko" will definitely be a complete victory.
For other independent studios, this is a cause for celebration, but for today's Flame films, it's like a regular Monday meeting, and in fact, it didn't get much applause at that meeting, not that the Flame executives weren't happy, they couldn't get excited.
The results ahead are so amazing! Flame Movies continued to play the role of big winners in the summer of 2007, and all four summer movies were big hits!
"Iron Man" finally received 384 million North American box office / 70,200 global box office, and now there are more than 100 North American theaters to pick up leaks, increasing the mantissa number every day; summer movies often come and go like the wind, not to mention Pokémon-directed films, "I Am Legend", which has been released for 11 weeks, has swept the world and received 343 million North American box office / 778 million global box office, it is Wang Yang's second personal high-grossing work, between "Firefly" and "District 9", and this result is the same as the current 268 million/617 million " Transformers", 253 million/860 million "Harporite and the Order of the Phoenix" collided head-on.
"League of Assassins 2", which has been gradually released overseas, has 145 million North American box office/262 million global box office, which is very likely to break the 300 million mark; "Bridesmaids", which has been released in North America, has been showing 194 million North American box office for seven weeks, and it has just begun to land in overseas markets, with 400 million worldwide still an optimistic number, and 350 million is a conservative estimate. In any case, they add to FF's performance this year.
If you count "The Green Hornet", which was finally fixed at 205 million/525 million, the media and the public are amazed, God! This year's five flame films with a total production cost of 580 million have now collected nearly 2.5 billion global box office, maintaining the peak level!
411 million in 1999, 1.065 billion in 2000, 257 million in 2001, 2.188 billion in 2002, 1.208 billion in 2003, 2.471 billion in 2004, 3.715 billion in 2005, 3.994 billion in 2006 and nearly 2.5 billion in 2007......
Flame announced in advance that the total box office of the film will exceed 2 billion worldwide box office for the fourth consecutive year (2004-2007), and more than 1 billion for the sixth consecutive year (2002-2007), without losing a penny every year!
As of "Bridesmaids", the nine-year-old Flame Films has released 42 films and received more than 17.8 billion global box office! A rough average of 424 million per film is a terrifying 424 million, and based on these 42 films, there is one gold mine after another in the post-sales; not counting its sales in the film and television library, peripheral spin-offs...... As well as the entire industry income of Flame Home Entertainment on the TV screen, you must know that dramas such as "Prison Break", "The Big Bang Theory", and "Desperate Housewives" are all popular all over the world.
The trajectory of the flame's development is not understandable to normal people, in fact, madmen can't comprehend the decision, after a snake swallowing elephants, crazy money, not knowing what to do, rampage, miracles...... After the development of the rocket, it has long been the undoubted leader of independent filmmakers and the new giant of the film industry!
Look at its astonishingly healthy financial situation and not even hit the market yet; look at its full film release schedule for the next two years; look at how starry its familiar producers, directors, screenwriters, actors, etc., know that the flame movie is not a super comet, it is a scorching star! It is not a toddler, not a young and ignorant teenager, but a mature and strong man.
And its hard tentacles are stretching longer and longer, with online entertainment, video games, global movie distribution systems, cable networks, music records, ......
So it's no surprise that "The Tale of Hachiko the Loyal Dog" received a cold reception, but Chairman Flame has repeatedly warned himself and other executives to "love your work, love your projector", and don't forget that it is the success of one film after another that has made it crazy about this achievement.
There is such a prominent film entertainment company on the earth, of course, because of the emergence of Wang Yang, Flame Movies is the company of Magical Yang, no one can do it, not without him.
In North America, there are really not a few people who can really find it, from 80-year-old grandmothers to 8-year-old children, they all know that this guy is far ahead of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chen, Jeffrey Yang, and Yao Ming...... Waiting for the iconic Asian Chinese figures, to put it mildly, now whoever calls an Asian man ridiculously is shouting "Hey, Wang Yang", some media have long joked that if Magic Young goes to run for president, he has a great chance of winning, the second president to walk into the White House from Hollywood.
Wonder Young is a phenomenal figure who transcends race and color, culture and geography, he is a national cultural phenomenon, a global cultural phenomenon, and has lasted for more than nine years, destined to go down in history, the most legendary director of the 10s of the 21st century, and the person with the best chance of becoming the greatest director of the 21st century.
All 12 directed films are big hits!
1998 "Agility - Ghost Shadow" ___IMDB-6.6_Rotten Tomatoes Index 75%/95%/75%__North American box office 163 million/overseas box office 160 million/global box office 323 million__Production cost 10,000
1999 "Youth Musical" _____IMDB-6.4_Rotten Tomatoes Index 78%/6%__North American box office 201 million/Overseas box office 210 million/Global box office 411 million__Production cost 8 million
2000 "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" ___IMDB-8.0_Rotten Tomatoes Index 5%/88%__North American box office 203 million/Overseas box office 182 million/Global box office 385 million__Production cost 32 million
2000 "Juno" _______IMDB-8.2_Rotten Tomatoes Index 93%/100%/92%__North American box office 212 million/overseas box office 163 million/global box office 375 million__Production cost 15 million
2002 "District 9" ______IMDB-8.7_Rotten Tomatoes Index 92%/95%/85%__North American box office 330 million/overseas box office 435 million/global box office 765 million__Production cost 100 million
2002 "The Hangover" _______IMDB-8.1_ Rotten Tomatoes Index 79%/80%/95%__North American box office 320 million/Overseas box office 297 million/Global box office 617 million__Production cost 25 million
2003 "MIT-21-TEAM" ___IMDB-8.1_Rotten Tomatoes Index 87%/90%/92%__North American box office 191 million/overseas box office 176 million/global box office 367 million__Production cost 28 million
2003 "The Devil Wears Prada" __IMDB-7.3_Rotten Tomatoes Index 65%/55%/87%__North American box office 235 million/Overseas box office 323 million/Global box office 558 million__Production cost 55 million
2005 "Firefly" ______IMDB-9.3_Rotten Tomatoes Index 96%/9%__North American box office 653 million/Overseas box office 1.167 billion/Global box office 1.820 billion__Production cost 200 million
2005 "500 Days with Shamo" __IMDB-8.5_Rotten Tomatoes Index 92%/95%/92%__North American box office 236 million/Overseas box office 161 million/Global box office 397 million__Production cost 15 million
2006 "The Dead" _______IMDB-8.6_Rotten Tomatoes Index 95%/100%/91%__North American box office 206 million/Overseas box office 264 million/Global box office 470 million__Production cost 70 million
2007 "I Am Legend" _____IMDB-8.7_Rotten Tomatoes Index 96%/97%/93%__North American box office 343 million/Overseas box office 435 million/Global box office 778 million__Production cost 180 million
There are also two Oscars for Best Director and countless other awards...... Whenever fans browse the list of Wang Yang's works, they will sigh, what a magnificent sight, this guy is crazy! At only 27 years old, when others are just beginning to pick up the director's microphone, his 12 movies have collected 7.266 billion global box office, with an average of 605 million each, an astonishing value! What's next?
The whole world is very concerned about his new work plan, and there have been a lot of rumors in the media recently, some insiders revealed that he is preparing a 3D sci-fi film, and it is reported that he has asked screenwriters Mark Prutosevich and Ben Ripley to meet for brainstorming, and some media say that he is likely to work with Natalie Portman again soon, because at this year's Venice International Film Festival, some reporters took photos of him and his daughter chatting with Natalie in a café in Watertown, and some people said......
At this time, Magical Jan finally gave the official statement! Sure enough, Iron Man does not rest!
"WANG YANG UNVEILS A NUMBER OF NEW FUTURE WORK PLANS" - YAHOO ENTERTAINMENT, AOL, FACEBOOK, SINA, NETEASE......
WHEN SHE SAW HER FRIEND REPOSTING THIS NEWS ON FACEBOOK, VEELYN COULDN'T HELP BUT WOW, AND HURRIEDLY OPENED IT TO WATCH AND PREPARE TO EVALUATE AND REPRINT, GREAT! MULTIPLE PLANS? Claire's eyes lit up with a wow, now I have to look forward to it!"Haha, I like it!" Alice saw the 3D sci-fi film, and immediately waved her fist excitedly, she vaguely felt that this would be beyond the existence of "Firefly"!", "Wow, what an interesting plan!", "Guess how much box office they will have?"......
The media world has been shaken, the audience and the fan world have been shaken, and the whole of Hollywood has been shaken! With a number of new plans for Magic Young released, studios and agencies have to make some coping changes, and actors are actively preparing for the next round of casting activities.
According to Wang Yang, he will adapt and direct a script "Substitute Actor" that was purchased many years ago by a flame movie, and the script takes place in the New York theater world, where a Broadway actress discovers the dark side of her psychology through her role.
"The film is still far away, so I have plenty of time to think about it. Natalie Portman, the expected heroine, told the media that it would probably be released in 2010, and now, Natalie said that she would do her best to play "Another Pauline Girl", an adaptation of the best-selling historical drama of the same name, which just started filming in early September, starring Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
Because 2010 is far away, what is currently gathered on "Substitute Actor" is more the expectation of fans and fans, and the film critics are also looking forward to it, it sounds like this will be Wang Yang's first foray into dark literary films, but looking at "The Dead" and "District 9", it is obvious that he will not become the king of comedy.
Natalie watched "Substitute Actor" and listened to his general idea, which was quite interesting, and he even said conclusively, "Act well in this movie, and you will win 99% of the Oscars for Best Actress." She asked, "Why not 100 percent?" and he said, "That 1 percent is for humility." She also said that she was going to invite Keira Knightley to play with her, but Natalie was not optimistic that he would be invited, although he was very handsome.
"Hahaha!" On the set of "Another Pauline Girl", the crew was busy with the set, and there were bursts of chuckles in the actors' rest area on the sidelines, Natalie and Scarlett were both wearing British court costumes, very beautiful and sexy, and then the two talked about Wang Yang, Natalie laughed: "Who knows? tell you that on the day of the audition for "Juno", he looked really stupid, fighting and bleeding, no politeness, like an idiot...... Funny idiots. ”
Because they have the same ethnic culture and similar growth background, the two have a good relationship, Scarlett naturally knows that Natalie loves Wang Yang, who doesn't like it? She continued to ask amusedly, "What do you think will happen if you reject Juno?" ”
"But I think he's going to find you in the next film soon!" Scarlett then quipped, Natalie shook her head and smiled, "District 9, do I play the shrimp man?" Scarlett suddenly sighed: "I haven't worked with Magic Young yet." Although "Iron Man 2" invited her to join, it was not directed by Wang Yang!
"There will be a chance. Natalie replied for Wang Yang, and he would have said so anyway. No matter what, she must play "Substitute Actor", she wants to win the 99% Oscar! And she hopes that the handsome Charlie Film Company can participate in the production and learn more from all aspects, and Wang Yang agreed. And now...... Turning the page of the script, Natalie smiled, "Read the script! Scarlett nodded.
Since it is a number of plans, of course, it is not just a "substitute actor", among which there is a sci-fi film that fans are looking forward to more, "Real-Steel"!
In addition to executive producing the CGI animated film "Robot Adventures" scheduled for release in 2010, Wang Yang also wants to bring Richard Matheson's 1956 short story "Steel" to the big screen!
"Very much looking forward to it, very much looking forward to it. Mathesen, who had just made up for the regret of "I Am a Legend", was overjoyed, and once again made a public appearance in the media to support Wang Yang. In fact, he sold the adaptation rights of "Iron Armor" to DreamWorks very early, and the film was approved in 2003, but it didn't work out until DreamWorks was acquired by Paramount, because the story carrier and the scripts adapted by several screenwriters are quite old-fashioned and very risky.
And the flame film that participated in the Paramount acquisition at that time, bought the project at a high price, after "Iron Man" and "I Am Legend", obviously if it comes again, Paramount will definitely not be willing, especially Wang Yang said that he would rewrite the script himself, who knows if it will be another Oscar nominee?
"Iron Fist" is based on the robot boxing match of the future world, telling an inspirational story full of action, dreams and father-son affection. Originally, DreamWorks produced it in 2011 and released it, although it had a good box office result, it only had a 60%/59%/74% Rotten Tomatoes index, a mediocre work.
Wang Yang really thinks that this theme is very good and has the potential to be the best picture of the Oscar. As for the DreamWorks version of "Iron Fist", he believes that the problem with its script is not that it is old-fashioned, that it does not establish and explain that worldview well, and that it does not use suitable lines to outline dreams and family relationships.
He doesn't know how that team filmed, and under the wrong rendering, it connects the relationship change and mentality change between Charlie's father and son with victory and money, rather than understanding and intimacy, let alone real dreams and meaningless.
Wang Yang already has the idea of adaptation, first of all, in that world, live boxing has not been banned by the government, but the more exciting and thrilling robot boxing has squeezed live boxing to the point that no one watches it and is on the verge of elimination. The protagonist, Charlie, used to be an excellent champion-level boxer, but due to the decline of real boxing due to the emergence of robots, he seems to have lost his dreams and become a decadent man who brews all day long, and even fell out with his wife and divorced, and is very disgusted with robots.
Years later, after the unexpected death of his ex-wife, Charlie reunites with his long-separated youngest son, Max (who still sells custody), but is already estranged. Max shouts, hates and despises his father, and Charlie is impatient, guilty and accommodating to his son.
Max is very fond of robots, and even forces Charlie to go with him to boxing matches, as well as train the later sparring robot "Adam", and must agree, because that is what Charlie "owes him". In order to complete the task of taking care of the child, Charlie reluctantly agreed, but in the process of completing the dream with his son, Charlie not only established a father-son relationship with Max, but also discovered the charm of robot boxing, and found himself again, understanding the true meaning of fighting spirit and dreams.
Even if the body is not good, even if the live boxing match declines, no one watches and pays attention, and there is no flashing light...... The most important thing is that the will to fight cannot be extinguished! This is the real steel, and even the steel is still steel, it is the fighting heart.
In the end, the father and son successfully resolved the custody issue, and with no more estrangement, they took "Adam" to win the championship duel match that attracted the attention of the whole world, and Max's dream came true and became a "peoples-champion" with Adam. Max continues to chase his dreams in robot boxing, while Charlie is back in the ring of live-action boxing, fighting for himself even without an audience.
"It is rumored that Will Smith and his son will star in "Iron Fist" - Yahoo Entertainment, in fact, this is the news released by Wang Yang and Will Smith, and that son is Jaden Smith. Previously, after listening to Wang Yang's idea, Will Smith agreed almost without thinking, and how could Jaden not be happy?
With this news, fans have increased their expectations, and although 2011 is a long time ago, they can't wait to see "Iron Fist" kick "Transformers" in the ass, the film reviews praise, box office hits, and multiple Oscar nominations and awards. Perhaps as far as the Academy Awards are concerned, what performance of "I Am Legend" next year is more worth looking forward to.
Among the many plans is also a disaster movie called "2012", the story of which stems from the Mayan prophecy of "2012 End of the World", Wang Yang revealed that he will be one of the planners of "2012", and the screenwriter and director team have yet to be formed, and Flame Films revealed that "2012" will be released worldwide at the end of 2009.
"MIRACULOUS YANG'S NEW WORK ANNOUNCED, THE 3D SCI-FI FILM "INFINITE WORLD" IS LOCKED IN THE SUMMER OF 09" - YAHOO ENTERTAINMENT, AOL, FACEBOOK, SINA, NETEASE......
Long before the filming of "Firefly", Wang Yang expressed a strong interest in 3D films, over the years on different occasions, different interviews when talking about future plans, he has repeatedly made it clear that he will make a 3D movie when the time comes, and now, he finally wants to get serious! Wang Yang revealed: ""Infinite World" will use the most advanced and best 3D technology and motion expression capture technology to shoot and produce, for it, we have been preparing for many years. ”
Robert Zemeckis immediately expressed his support, and a group of filmmakers who have produced, are making, and plan to make 3D films are all excited and under pressure.
Wang Yang and FF maintain SSS-level secrecy for "Infinite World", and some of the mysteries will be gradually revealed in the future publicity stage. It is now known to the media that "Infinite-orlds" has nothing to do with the 2001 British TV movie series "The-Infinite-orlds-of-.ells" trilogy, nor does it have anything to do with the eponymous name of Herbert George Wells, the "father of modern science fiction," and then ...... It's just certain that it has something to do with sci-fi things in time and space.
According to the revelations, Wang Yang did meet with Mark Prutosevich and Ben Ripley earlier to improve the first draft of his script, and the actual preparation for the film has been going on for more than half a year, and the casting work will start soon, and filming is expected to start in the first quarter of next year.
Mark Prutosevich is the screenwriter of "Brain Cell Invasion" and one of the screenwriters of "I Am Legend", while Ben Ripley is not famous, but the screenwriter of two videotape movies "Xenomorph 3" and "Xenomorph 4", in fact, he has a science fiction script "Source Code" that was bought by Flame Movies this year, which is based on the parallel universe theory as the core, telling the story of a dead soldier who was sent into a parallel world by the special state department with a "brainwave source code" machine to investigate the train explosion and try to prevent the terrorist disaster from happening.
"Brain Cell Invasion" and "Source Code" bring a lot of important texture to "Infinite World", and Wang Yang also took inspiration from the Japanese comics "Killing City" and "Inception Detective", which he thought was a gripping and addictive sci-fi thriller action movie.
The main story is a group of people who enter the world of other people's minds in the form of creating a parallel world to carry out a mission, because the victim's mind is combined, movies, fantasy and many other information, the random parallel world is very magnificent and magnificent, but full of danger. This core provides enough room for 3D effects, gorgeous special effects, and amazing scenes, and the "parallel universe" also provides many opportunities to explore human nature and the mysteries of the universe.
Wang Yang has been interested in this topic for a long time, whether it is before or after being hit by a BB car, as well as the consciousness and memory of the human brain.
Of course, "Infinite World" will not be too complicated, its entertainment must be put in the first place, Wang Yang knows very well that the film must be so that the audience can understand it with a little brain, but he gave a thumbs up and praised "cool, unique, sophisticated, and incredible...... All these balance problems are what he has to solve, and he must do his best and best, because the opponent of "Infinite World" is "Avatar", not "Avanti".
In any case, even with only one title, Young fans are super looking forward to and excited about Pokémon's new work plan! Jenny K said to her friends, "I have a hunch that 'Infinity' will plunge the whole world into madness! More than 'Firefly'!" Theodore F agreed: "My movie is at the top of the list! I really want to take a time machine and see it in 2009!" Fina-E wrote excitedly: "The next movie storm! I must watch it, Amazing Young, GO!GO!GO!" ......
What the media and the public don't know is that in fact, in addition to "Infinite World", "2012", "Substitute Actor", and "Iron Fist", Wang Yang also has a lot of new work plans in the back.
Including the dream "Ranger" for many years, a historical drama film about the history of blood and tears of Chinese workers in the United States, as the national idol of today's Chinese American group, he has the responsibility to speak for Chinese Americans, push the United States to apologize for the former "Chinese Exclusion Act", and justify the contributions of Chinese people, in fact, the reason for making this kind of movie is very simple, he is a Chinese, and kung fu action movies, secret agents, light-hearted comedies, World War II war movies, and many science fiction ideas that he has been thinking about for a long time...... There are almost every genre, and he will turn them into great images on the big screen at the right time, and of course the ideas are constantly increasing, one after the other.
At the age of 27, Wang Yang sometimes feels that he is so old, he seems to have done a lot of things, and sometimes he feels that he is too young and has a lot of time to continue to achieve his life goals.
However, Wang Yang knows one thing best, he has been a director all his life, and he will grow old until he is 80 or 90 years old, and he will shoot until he dies!
Maybe one day, he will no longer be magical, he will no longer be full of energy, he will be so old that he will not be so eloquent, his brain will not move, and there will be no hair left...... However, his heart is always beating for the movie.
(To be continued)