Since 1980, there have not been many racing movies released in North American theaters, including "Furious Speed", there are only 18 films, the lowest box office is the 89 version of "Get Away", which only received 3,686 US dollars in 4 theaters for a week, the leader is "Fast and Furious" that debuted in the summer vacation of 01, 144 million in North America and 207 million worldwide, and the second is "Fast and Furious 2" in 03, with 127 million in North America and 236 million worldwide.

In recent years, other racing films have failed in North America, the German film "Hurricane" introduced by the alliance company in 03 was only 56,000 US dollars in 86 theaters for a week, and in 2001, two months before "Fast and Furious", Stallone's "Life and Death Speed" starring Stallone only had 32.72 million in North America and 54.74 million worldwide, which made several independent companies such as Franchise-Pictures, which paid 94 million production costs, suffer a heavy blow.

In other words, only "Fast and Furious" is a successful work on the market at present, and in the face of the cost of the second part as high as 76 million, how to start the third part? But now, Flame Movies didn't give it time to think about it, and brutally attacked the market position of the Fast and Furious franchise, and it seemed to have succeeded, winning the weekly box office in the first week of opening! and knocking Harry Potter 3 to the ground the following week.

The crown studded with dazzling gems belongs to "Furious Speed", which has a crazy volume of 60.41 million in 3,025 theaters, which is only slightly lower than the 64.9 million at the opening of "Furious 2" and higher than the 57.81 million in "Furious 1"! Yahoo Entertainment's top charts commented: "The appearance of 'Furious Speed' made the racing scenes of other films seem like a little fight, and with the help of Wonder Young, Justin Lin brought out the most energy that a commercial debut could exert, and it was simply cool! It is bound to be the strongest contender for the top three box office in the coming weeks." ”

Another Chinese champion director was born, 33-year-old Lin Yibin! His high academic background, solid basic skills control, crazy action scene design and directorial aura, and most importantly, outstanding commercial ability, allowed him to break the bamboo ceiling of Hollywood studios with this championship. Factors such as age, appearance, personality and other factors determine that he cannot be related to "idols" and "stars", but he has already advanced to the list of directors under 40 years old, and has been sought by a number of filmmakers and producers for the microphone of the new film.

How far can it stand? Naturally, it depends on the follow-up results of "Furious Speed". And Huo Ran changed his title not only director Lin Yibin, not only screenwriter Chris Morgan, but also "chicken ribs" Dwayne Johnson, "box office poison" Eliza Dushku, and two newcomers Chris Evans and Ilin Green.

Some people are happy and some are worried, not the second "Harry Potter 3" with 49.83 million, not the third "Shrek 2" with 34.66 million, maybe the fourth "Star Legends 2" with only 33.08 million, or the sixth with 30.25 million "Copy Wife", not the fifth "Garfield" with 31.01 million.

On the sunny day, on the rooftop balcony of the Malibu Beach Villa, I saw the latest North American box office list from June 11 to 17 on the laptop screen, and the 54th "New York Moment" collected 66,000 US dollars in 58 theaters, with a cumulative total box office of 8.54 million, a failure in failure. Compared with the achievements of the Olson sisters in TV screens, music albums, children's books, etc., this is even more shabby.

Ashley Olsen complained once again upset: "I said that there is a problem with the script and a problem with the director, this is what you said OK! ”

"Didn't you say you wouldn't watch it?" Mary Kate Olsen, who was also basking in the sun next to her, was very surprised, looked at her sister, who was born only 2 minutes earlier than herself, and innocently took a sip of cold juice: "Why didn't you argue at the time?" Ashley Olsen continued to complain: "What evil Asian, how can such a mentally retarded mistake be made!" Mary Kate Olsen pouted disapprerovingly: "The problem is not there, we underestimate the screen movie...... Ha, why didn't you invite Magic Young to write a script for us and become a director?"

According to the publisher Warner Bros. Breakout Data Survey, the scary thing is that 83% of the audience of "The New York Moment" are girls under the age of 11, what does this mean? On the one hand, they are big stars, on the other hand, they have no "box office appeal", only some children's fans who do not have much power to spend on movies.

There will be no more producers and distributors who praise them as popular stars, stars but not movie stars, and there is no tailor-made contract for twin protagonists, unless they invest in themselves, but how many times can Double Star Entertainment afford "The New York Moment"?

Listening to her sister's sarcasm and thinking of this, Ashley Olsen was in no mood to fight back, thinking that Double Star Entertainment didn't want to, but the biggest card they could invite was almost Dunny Gordon. There was no hope before, and there will be no hope in the future. She sighed: "I'm fed up with acting, I don't play anymore, it's not interesting." "83% of girls are under the age of 11, and this data also makes her clearly aware that the future of Double Star Entertainment is not on the screen, but in the children's business.

Mary Kate Olsen smacked her lips indifferently: "Then don't play." She casually asked, "Who is the champion?" Ashley glanced at the screen: "Who else, Wang Yang." ”

"Oh, Asians. Mary-Kate Olsen scolded in a low voice, damn it! It was that idiot Wang Yang again, what kind of thing is he, what is the noise...... If it weren't for him, "The New York Moment" would be so miserable? Double Star Entertainment would be forced to apologize? Remembering that she had a little bit of a good impression of him before, Mary-Kate felt very disgusted, and suddenly remembered something, and she suddenly became interested: "Isn't there a new film at 21 o'clock, how about it?"

"Lucky Player" received 10.24 million box office in 3,051 theaters, ranking 8th and the bottom of 5 new films. It is worth noting that it had a good box office of 5.61 million on the first day of opening, and a total of 4.62 million in the next six days. Yahoo Entertainment's review said: "Who would spend money to torture themselves in the face of its embarrassing reviews? If you compare it to "21," it would be a provocation." ”

"Oh what a shit......" Mary Kate Olsen immediately scolded in disappointment after hearing Ashley Olsen's faint reading, she couldn't even make the slightest trouble, the slightest threat! Who the hell can clean up that idiot? She thought as she said, "The good news is that we can laugh at Drew Barrymore, that nasty bitch." "Who's going to clean it up? He wasn't the director of the new film this week, was he? Mary Kate laughed: "What ...... "Firefly" is definitely over! ”

A-Chinamans-Chance is a racist term that means "no chance." But Ashley Olsen won't care, she knows that since Wang Yang satirized them, Mary Kate has been very unconvinced and hateful, and "Firefly" is an opportunity for the Chinese Yankees? maybe. Ashley said: "You'd better not get into this habit of talking, we also want to be imaged, don't ruin our clothing brand." Mary-Kate pointed to her cheek and smiled: "It's a Chinaxican smile, vomit ......"

Chinaxican, which means Chinese-Mexican of mixed race, is an unfriendly slang way of addressing Wang Yang and Jessica Alba, which naturally mocks Wang Yang and Jessica Alba's marriage. Ashley Olsen shook her head and smiled, "It's because of your childish behavior." Mary-Kate was dismissive: "Don't talk like you don't have a share." ”

"Ahh

Damn! What a-on! Drew Barrymore crossed his waist and gritted his teeth for a while, then suddenly rushed over and picked up the phone microphone and pressed the agent's number, and then squirted loudly: "I'm going to star in "Firefly"! You asked me! NO! No chance?! Oh my! Why did I hire you to be my agent? Calm down!?You gave me a bunch of!A bunch of!!Better than "MIT-21-TEAM" and trendy...... Oh yes, Mother**er!I don't care so much about you, I'm going to-acting-Magic Young's movie!!"

"Troy" has just exceeded 100 million at the North American box office in 5 weeks after its release, and ranked 10th in 2003 theaters with 3.06 million this week...... It took 9 months to shoot! During this period of time, Brad Pitt's mood was very bad and irritable, and now early in the morning, because he heard the news that the box office broke 100 million, and learned that "Furious Speed" won the championship, Jennifer Aniston smiled and said: "It seems to be produced by Wang Yang, right? That young man is really amazing." Brad Pitt was furious.

"Of course!! Magical Yang is the most powerful!" Brad Pitt couldn't bear it anymore and finally broke out, shouting and overturning the sofa: "Damn, you come to sarcastically mock me at this time!" Maybe he regretted it, anyway, don't mention anything to him about "Firefly" or Wang Yang now, he was very depressed and annoyed when he heard it, and Flame Movies took the copyright of the adaptation of "Infernal Affairs" in his hands, why did everything and everyone go against him!

Looking at her husband, who was furious and destroying the living room and gasping for breath in excitement, Jennifer Aniston was stunned, what happened? In addition to being aggrieved, she was also a little angry: "What kind of nerves do you have? I stinged your self-esteem?

"Whatever you want...... Disgusting!" Blatter Pitt walked to the bathroom sullenly, this is not some pride, does he need to be jealous of anyone? It's just annoying, I'm really fed up with this dull and boring life, and everything is not going to be satisfactory, but fortunately, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" will start in August soon, and I don't have to face that guy all day. The distributor, 20th Century Fox, scheduled "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to be released in June 2005, against both "Batman" and "Firefly", and Pong slammed the bathroom door shut, Brad Pitt exhaled, "Firefly" ...... In Alberta, Canada, the southern plains are alive with green grass swaying in the breeze, bison running and cowboys galloping under clear blue skies. However, the crew of "Firefly" has finished filming in the plains, and now it has moved to the Kananasky Valley, where there is not only a Brokeback Mountain, but also a "Valley of Tranquility". It is a verdant and quiet valley, not too dense with woods covering the slopes, and below the slope on the right is a large blue river.

Although this is the site of the Valley of Tranquility, the final battle of Captain Marr and others, the Battle of Quiet Valley, this valley is not 100% real on the final big screen. Because these scenes have to be processed by CGI in the later stage, together with some other scenes such as plains, mountains and rivers, etc., some are even processed on a full green screen, so as to create the most ideal "Tranquility Valley" effect in Wang Yang's mind.

He needed the hillside valley, especially the image of the mountain standing on the top of the mountain looking at the sky, but it couldn't give him the supernatural effect of mountains surrounding the plains and forests, rivers running through them, an effect of combining the west and the east.

At this time, the crew is busy with today's shooting task, "Battle of Quiet Valley" is one of the scenes where "Firefly" uses IMAX film, so recently the crew ushered in a behemoth, one of only three "M**-9802" IMAX cameras in the world, different from the lighter and more common MKII-L cameras, the more expensive M** with a total insurance value of 500,000 US dollars- The 9802 can hold 1,000 feet of IMAX film, twice as long as the MKII-L, and can shoot three minutes of 24 frames per second at a time.

Not to mention that 65mm IMAX film costs four times as much as regular 35mm film, and if NG happens, you have to change the film disc in addition to burning money, just saying that the MKII-L camera weighs 46 pounds (20.8 kg) and the M**-9802 weighs 132 pounds (60 kg), that's just its own weight.

Now it's very difficult to even move the camera every time, and in the past two days, when the crew shot some downward shots, they couldn't pull this big guy at all, and almost broke it.

Why not use an MKII-L camera that can shoot 1.5 minutes at a time? Because the fact that the M**-9802 can't shoot a full three-minute film at a time, you need to leave a surplus for post-processing, so in reality, you change the film disc almost every minute. Both Wang Yang and Vary-Pfister feel like they are back in their childhood, reliving that time when they played Super8, and the Super 8 camera is no slower than this to change film.

"Be careful!

On the vast hillside, Vary-First directed the camera crew to transport the M**-9802 camera up the hillside, and the camera truck loaded with it slowly went up, not daring to be reluctant and sloppy at all, for fear of going backwards or even overturning. If these devices were alive, the whole crew would be waiting for this little princess. Wang Yang, who was on the hill over there, looked around with the viewfinder, and used IMAX film to strive for every time and every time he was satisfied, knowing that a minute of film would take a week of post-processing before it was finished.

There are no blue gloves in this scene, and the crew of the Tranquility only has "Zoe" Gina Torres, but the leading actors who came to the set today are very uniform, Robert Downey Jr. in the actor's rest area is looking at the script with a smile on his face, and he is in a very good mood; every day there is no scene and no scene, Jessica sits by the valley river, because she didn't read the script today without a scene, she listened to the sound of flowing water, and at the same time built a baby room on the picture book in her hand with relish, this ethereal world gave her endless inspiration.

"Hmm......" Jessica shook her pencil, wouldn't it be better if the wall at the door was painted with a blue sky and white clouds?

"Sweetheart, see if I'm handsome?" After finishing the preparation of the filming crew, Wang Yang went to the crew car for a walk, changed into the cowboy-style uniform of an independent soldier, and then went through the makeup team to deal with it, and then came here to show off. His role is Captain Marl's old "Tornado", which means whirlwind, or "Toto". Whirlwind later responded to Captain Marr's old call to assemble and participated in the attack on the Covenant satellites and the launch of the "Marauder Planet" truth signal.

And today we are going to film the end of the Battle of Tranquility Valley, the defeat and surrender of the independents. Of course, there are shots of him, and it is also the reason why Heath Ledger, Michael Pitt, Alan Page and other leading actors gathered on the set to see how the director NG himself and IMAX film.

"Handsome!" Jessica looked up, her heart suddenly pounded, and she bit the tip of her pen: "Wow......" Wang Yang pulled his collar and straightened his chest, feeling very good about himself, and said with a smile: "Every boy has a dream of being a soldier!" Jessica's eyes widened: "I have it too! I wanted to be in the Air Force when I was a child." ”

"Really? That must be the most beautiful pilot. Wang Yang pulled a chair and sat down, looked around casually, and saw that no one was paying attention, so he took a deep breath: "I'm so nervous! I'm really scared of NG, what should I ......do?"

(To be continued)