On March 13, the 11th Empire Awards ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in London, England, "Firefly" won three awards: Best Film, Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Film, and Best Director;

On March 25, the 27th Young Artist Awards were announced in Los Angeles, and Chloe Moretz made a big splash, winning Best Film Actress for 10 or Under for "500 Days with Shamo", and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for "Ghost Record 3".

In addition to confirming that she will star in FF's "Marley and Me" and "Firefly 2" next year, she also took on Lionsgate's remake of the western "Duel Yuma Town" , playing the daughter of the protagonist Dan Evans, originally in the 1957 version Evans had two sons, and now for the sake of this super popular child star for the market, the screenwriter changed the youngest son to the youngest daughter, the film is scheduled to shoot in the fourth season of this year, and Little Koloe has dubbed Disney cartoons, as well as starred in a few episodes of "Desperate Housewives", etc., what a busy man.

In fact, she could have been busier, but Wang Yang, who was overflowing with fatherly love, warned her and her family not to work all day at a young age, don't waste your childhood and studies because of this, and don't be complacent!

For dear Uncle Jan, little Kolo is naturally obedient, her brother's parents and other family members also follow the advice, of course, they love little Kolo more, and will make appropriate and reasonable work arrangements, and the current film contract is a supporting role with little work, but it has become little Colo's playtime, she loves acting.

Although Moretz is a big ghost, she is still a 9-year-old girl after all, and she is very much looking forward to the upcoming global release of "Ice Age 3" on March 31...... This time, in order to find a companion, a group of cute animals have broken into the realm of dinosaurs, what new friends will they meet, and what dangers will they encounter?

In 02, the global box office of "Ice Age" was 476 million, and in 04, the global box office of "Ice Age 2" was 730 million, and now after two years, "Ice Age 3" is hilarious!

Although the speed of the sequel to Flame & Blue Sky has always been questioned, the high quality of the film often makes the media give a thumbs up in praise, "IA3" is the first new film released by Flame Films this year, with a production cost of 100 million US dollars, an increase of 25 million compared with the previous work, as the final work of the first trilogy, Flame naturally has high hopes for it, and the publicity budget is as high as 35 million at the blockbuster level, which means that the box office insurance line of "IA3" is above 300 million global box office.

300 million? It's too little, isn't it! This is indeed the idea of Flame & Blue Sky, no matter how you predict it, "IA3" seems to be able to receive 500 million, and the young big boss's expectation is to hit 900 million or even 1 billion global box office!

As the saying goes, "how bold people are, how high the box office is", focusing on the flame of 900 million has set the style for "IA3" to be released simultaneously around the world, Australia, China, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, ...... The distribution in France, Brazil, and Singapore is in charge of the Flame Branch, which will land on tens of thousands of ordinary screens around the world, and will also appear in IMAX giant screens, 3D screens and other screening halls.

Previously, B's new film "V Venddetta" successfully won the first week championship from March 17 to 23 with 36.84 million, and its three indicators on Rotten Tomatoes were 73%/63% and 88% respectively. There is no suspense, Natalie Portman's performance has been unanimously praised by both worlds, people finally saw her bald killer CULT look, saw the crazy Evey, "shine", "fantastic", "unique", "great", "amazing" and other praise words are endless, because of the magic of Yang Yang and ran to watch Natalie fans are not disappointed, NICE!

However, its box office power failed to last, not only gave the weekly championship of March 24-30 to "The Insider", but also the box office trend fell sharply by -55.3% to only 16.46 million, and it was naturally hopeless to break 100 million, as some media reports and comments quipped, Natalie Portman left the magic young and lost the magic power.

It's April, a new week begins, and "500 Days with Shamo", which has been released for 14 weeks, has been drawn offline, and the screening week of the movie is getting shorter and shorter, especially for the film of Wang Yang, the "Rush to the Market".

This most successful **-type romance film in recent years finally received 236 million North American box office, which ranked 4th in Wang Yang's personal directing list, and 2nd in romantic comedies (1978-present), only 5 million short of the top 241 million "My Grand Greek Wedding", but if you talk about the global box office, "500 Days" is the first, plus the 161 million overseas box office that set off a small fresh whirlwind, its global box office is as high as 397 million! And its production cost is only 15 million.

It's just a legal money grab! Achieved such an impressive result, Flame Movie as always sealed a reward red envelope of different amounts to the crew, generosity is one of the reasons why the "best boss" Wang Yang is so popular, and it is also one of the reasons why everyone is willing to follow him to "shoot at the same time", obviously tired and half dead but full of fighting spirit, many times things are like this, others follow you desperately, and earn a lot of money without a little reward? Personal charm is not MAX.

"Drink wine in a big bowl, eat meat in a big piece, and divide the silver in a big scale, and the old ghost Wu will follow your grandfather. "Grandpa Wang has taught Wang Yang like this since he was a child, and Wang Yang is also going to teach Keke like this.

But Natalie Portman didn't, Wang Yang only refused to give her a red envelope, threatening to insult their brotherhood! Natalie solemnly protested, and even deliberately mentioned this matter to her, what little Chloe has candy, Zachary has candy, don't you know that she is saving money to start her handsome Charlie Film Company? It's really hateful! After some careful consideration, Wang Yang still didn't, he said: "The time has come to test our friendship!" Natalie only said one sentence: "FUCK-YOU!"

397 million makes "500 Days" steadily surpass 368 million "My Grand Greek Wedding", becoming the world's highest-grossing romantic comedy in recent years, and since then there is no magic Yang who doesn't know how to make romance films.

Also painted offline is "Munich", which was also screened for 14 weeks, this film has 1,498 theaters at its widest, and only received 47.4 million North America/130 million global box office, compared to its 70 million production cost, it can be said that Universal has lost a fortune;

This week, "Brokeback Mountain" collected more than 158,000 box office in 180 theaters, and its total in North America has reached 86.21 million, ranking third among gay and lesbian (1980-present) films.

However, with the current global box office of 182 million, it is enough to make the soldiers of Flame Movies very happy, plus the final 206 million global box office "Chainsaw 3", last year's seven movies won 100%!

As more than 200 theaters took advantage of the Oscar effect at the beginning of the month to re-screen "Firefly", the Oscar-winning picture re-release came to an end again in three weeks, and sold more than 2 million tickets, with the North American box office rising to 653 million and the global box office 1.82 billion.

"Firefly 2" seems to be very far away, Wang Yang and Joss Whedon have not yet decided on the script, and the TV drama version of "Firefly" will start filming on Monday, it is not surprising that it is going so smoothly, first, the funding of Flame Home Entertainment is unambiguous, and secondly, Whedon already has a thick script for the series, and only needs to transplant the story content to another spaceship, and the world of Cowboy Interstellar will still be shown, which is not difficult for the father of "Vampire Hunter Buffy" and "Angel".

The TV drama version of "Firefly" will land on the NBC channel this fall, needless to say, how heartbroken and sad the FOX channel that shot "Firefly" in the first place, anyway, NBC is arrogant! The third season of "Prison Break", which lost the magic of Young, performed mediocre, and the ratings gradually declined, and the fourth season doesn't know if it can keep the 20 million audience level, NBC needs a new king; not to mention that there are not too many good dramas, "Firefly" will appear on Thursday night from 9:00 to 10:00 to fight against CBS's ace " CSI: Crime Scene Investigation!

You must know that "CSI" has long been in the top three with 2500+ million viewers this season, and "Firefly" is to clean it up, and it's time to change the screen pattern at 9 o'clock on Thursday night!

The TV drama version of "Firefly", which is scheduled to have 24 episodes in the first season, is fully independently invested by Flame Home Entertainment, but don't think that its production cost is very low, on the contrary, the average budget is 5 million per episode, 15 million for the first episode, and exactly 130 million for 24 episodes!

HBO, which spent $125 million to produce "Band of Brothers", doesn't seem to be much higher, but "Band of Brothers" is a pay channel miniseries, while "Firefly" is a broadcast channel TV series, the two are completely different, and on the latter's side, "Firefly" suddenly took the title of "Lost" as the "highest-budget series". In addition to the high-level compilation and director team, so much money is mainly spent on special effects and exterior locations, and the early publicity has been claimed to have a "movie effect".

In terms of casting, founder Joss Whedon used some members of the "Whedon Gang", such as Nathan Fillion, who will play the male protagonist "Captain Fry", a funny guy who is a bitter rival with Captain Marr, and Whedon named the male lead "Fry" to pay tribute to Wang Yang.

These tidbits have been interesting to fans who have always been more concerned about what role does Magic Young do?

In this regard, Joss Whedon told GEEK fans on the forum: "Young was not involved in the specific execution work, but he provided a lot of details of that world, constructive comments and very important points, especially he told us some direction of the writing team about the rhythm, which is really significant, it determines how much main story content, how much unit story content, how many interstellar rodeo entertainment, culture and other details of life, how many urban customs, and how many special effects you can see in each episode." Jan's involvement makes our story more intense and humorous. ”

Publicity said that Wang Yang is the producer of the TV drama version of "Firefly", in fact, he is one of the planners and producers, but it is enough, ultra-high cost budget, Magic Young, Whedon, Firefly...... The sum of these elements is equal to great expectations! Fans and audiences really want to travel through time and space to watch this drama first.

Still, it shook the hearts of the audience before production began, and NBC still didn't dare to book the whole season, and so did other channels that wanted to compete, which was too risky! NBC only dared to buy 12 episodes of the second half of the season first, and if the ratings didn't meet the ideal by then...... Then after the winter break, it doesn't have to return.

At the same time, the Flame Group made another big move, through the merger of capital injection, Wang Yang's private game development company "Tinder-Entertainment" officially joined the Flame Group.

Since its establishment in 2002, this company has not made any big moves, and is doing some relaxed and exquisite casual games, such as the "Squirrel Collecting Fruits" and "Squirrel Jumping" of the "Ice Age" series, etc., and the income maintains the company's expenses, not to mention the magic results, and even the opportunity to be in the news is almost non-existent, so that the media and the public have gradually forgotten that Magic Yang has such a "toy", only the magazine will definitely mention Wang Yang when it is on the list of "Hollywood's most unprofessional people", and then IT websites, Game companies, ball critics, popular bloggers, catering ...... In fact, Wang Yang's enthusiasm for games has not diminished at all, playing games and making games, he is a GEEK who can indulge in video games. Tinder has been on a "mystery mission" for several years, and he and Chris Taylor and others initially conceived the idea of buying the "unlimited" rights to Bioare's game engine to develop large-scale RPG games, but things didn't go very well, and eventually broke up.

Wang Yang has never been a person who likes mother-in-law and mother-in-law and is bound by others, so he ordered to develop a game engine by himself!

The reason why many game companies are dying is that they don't have their own game engines, just like Blue Sky Studios and graphics engines, Tinder wants to have a big development, and it can't lag behind others in terms of technology. Funds continue to invest, talent continues to recruit, especially after the closure of the Black Island Studio, Tinder has incorporated several Black Island veterans, after 4 years of research and development, Tinder finally came up with the first generation of "Tinder Engine"!

Although it is not as good as EPIC's Unreal Engine, Crytek's CryENGINE series engine, etc., but the Tinder engine is not a rag, Chris Taylor and others confidently said "compared with the Bigorld engine and the HERO engine", with this thing, Tinder can finally make a large-scale RPG game, and the time has come to merge into the Flame Group, so with this movement, and the first Tinder RPG game "Firefly: Cowboy Bebop" Production is officially underway, and it will be released in the summer of '08!

Of course, Tinder now has some achievements in the field of casual games and web games, and it will not give up this market, you must know that the busy young boss usually plays the most not large games, but those relaxed casual games that do not take much time each time.

"Oh-"

An exclamation sounded in the spacious living room, and Chow Yun-fat dodged the whistling bullets in the hospital corridor on the big TV screen, only to see him save a baby from a nurse, holding a gun in one hand and holding the baby in the other hand Squatting in the corner with the bandits to continue the fierce shootout, bang! bang!

"Wow!" Wang Yang, who was fascinated by the sofa, exclaimed again and again, and Keke, who was sitting in his arms, also opened his round mouth in surprise, and looked at the TV screen with big eyes blinking, not knowing what he saw.

This is a police and bandit shootout action movie, John Woo's "Hot Hand Detective" (1992), which is his last Hong Kong film before he went to Hollywood, tells the story of Chow Yun-fat playing a jealous and hateful hot hand detective, Tony Leung is an undercover police officer who is infiltrated into an arms smuggling syndicate, the two have a subtle sympathy in the process of handling the case, and finally cooperate together to deal with the criminal syndicate. This can also be regarded as the archetypal origin of "Chen Yongren".

In recent days, Wang Yang has sometimes reviewed these classic or non-classic Hong Kong undercover films, police and gangster films, these movies that have been fused by "Infernal Affairs": "Marginal Man", "Dragon and Tiger", "Dark War", ...... Looking for inspiration in this way, I didn't expect Keke to like to watch it too, and I watched it together every time.

"Hey, I didn't mean to. On the TV screen, Chow Yun-fat stepped on the broken glass door, and the broken glass hurt the gangster's face, and he apologized while wiping away the blood splashed from the gangster's chin.

"Haha!" Wang Yang suddenly laughed, and Keke immediately laughed "babbling", waving his two small fists back and forth. Jessica, who was sitting on the other end of the sofa, looked at these and couldn't help but shake her head, how could it seem that the whole family liked violence very much...... Her gaze returned to the screen, and at the same time asked, "Honey, should we take Keke to see "Ice Age 3"?" Wang Yang was still laughing, nodded and replied, "Okay!"

On March 31, "Ice Age 3" was released.

(To be continued)