"Lionsgate & Flame promoted the production of "Ghost Record 3", and Wonder Boy returned to the horror apartment after 6 years. ”

In 1998, Wang Yang, who was only 18 years old, produced "Ghost Record" with 10,000 US dollars, and through a new type of network viral marketing, Lionsgate released a global box office of 323 million, and Wonder Boy shocked the world; "Youth Musical" creates another madness at the end of the world.

In recent years, there have been rumors in the market that Lionsgate is going to produce "Ghost Record 3", and after delay, as Magic Yang's fame and achievements are getting higher and higher, this rotten ship also has a three-pound nail signboard that is becoming more and more valuable, and finally, according to Yahoo Entertainment's report, "Ghost Record" is back!

The news was unanimously confirmed by Lionsgate Films, Flame Films and Wang Yang's agency team, and Lionsgate President Jon Philtimmel was extremely excited: "It's hard to express how I feel right now, and we're just so happy that he gave us a chance to make up for our mistakes! ”

Michael Parsenneck, Lionsgate's production manager, who was also invited by Wonder Young to be the executive producer of "Ghost Record 3", also said to the Los Angeles Times very happily: "It's like getting pie in the sky! Wonder Young's return will definitely make Ghost Record Glowing again, I know he had a great idea for it early on, the story should have been out there a few years ago, and we made a decision that was so rash that it nearly ruined the set, but thankfully it can be unpaid now. ”

"Yes, Jan will be involved in the production of Ghost Record 3. Ms. Bees-Beale, Wang's long-time press spokesperson, told the media: "He is still very grateful for Lionsgate's appreciation back then, and he has been able to hear the voices of 'Come Back to Horror' fans all these years, and he doesn't want to see 'Ghost Record' mess up again, it has a special meaning to him, so he decided to clean up the house himself." ”

Asked by the media whether the release in April next year will be too rushed, both Lionsgate and Beyers-Beale said: "The time is not tight, "Ghost 3" can be said to have been brewing for many years, and we are very confident in it." ”

Although he is not a director, but a screenwriter and producer, Wang Yang's return to the helm of "Ghost Shadow 3" has shaken many horror movie fans, participants and victims of the "Ghost Shadow Mania" a few years ago, and other fans, making their memories ripple in the sea.

"Welcome back to the horror movies!Looking forward to another horror feast!" Netizen Guillermo was looking forward to this, CharlyS7 said: "This news is amazing! I was only 13 years old in '98, I was scared half to death, and now I'm 19 years old!Welcome back to Amazing Jan!" Evelyn said in amazement, "Young is going to make the paranormal again?Ooohoo It's not good, is there still a need to shoot "Ghost Shadows"......?" Some fans are looking forward to it and questioning it, and the media agree with the latter's opinion, it is really not a wise move to pick up "Ghost 3" again after so many years, the question is "why"? Lionsgate wants to produce it is not surprising, for the sake of business and to make money; so why did Wang Yang devote himself to this streamlined industrial studio? Is it just because of nostalgia and extraordinary significance? The media are inclined to his behavior of wanting to make money and starting to fry cold rice, which seems to prove once again that he has lost all his spirit.

"The New York Observer" questioned this: "The "Ghost Record" series is not profoundly moving, and it has great flaws from the perspective of commercial horror films, which inevitably makes people wonder, what is Wang Yang thinking?"

In fact, this is not the first time that Fantastic Young has served as a screenwriter, executive producer or producer of a work that he does not direct himself, after "Song and Dance 2", "Song and Dance 3", "Sweetheart", "Ice Age", "Furious Speed" have different figures, and next year there will be "Kung Fu Panda", "Brokeback Mountain", "League of Assassins", and now there is another "Ghost Record 3". Different responsibilities have different treatment for filmmakers, media, and fans, for example, the success or failure of "Brokeback Mountain" is an investment vision, and the creative aspect has little to do with him, while "Sweetheart" and "Furious Speed" are directly responsible.

Steven Spielberg was also crazy when he was young, in 1985 he was an Executive-Producer of "Fascinating", "Three Steps", "Back to the Future", and "The Seven Treasures", directed and executive produced "The Purple", and the first season of the NBC TV series "Amazing Story", which was written, produced and directed by two episodes; Memoirs of a Geisha, executive producer of "The Legend of Zorro", director of "War of the Worlds", director and executive producer of "Munich Massacre".

He would not be blamed for whether "Three-Step Dance" and "Fascinating" were messed up or not, but whatever fruit received from "Jurassic Park 3" produced in 2001 would definitely go into Spielberg's pocket.

"Ghost Record" touched the nerves of the media public, different from "Youth Musical" and "Hangover", this is Wonder Yang's first famous work! Now that he has taken over "Ghost Shadow 3", he has to do something different, right? Otherwise, why would he come back? However, Wang Yang's idea is very simple, it is exactly what Bedees-Beale said, and the goal is to make "Ghost 3" a horror film loved by the audience.

If you want to participate in the awards season this year, attend press conferences, award ceremonies, do all kinds of publicity work, etc., Wang Yang doesn't have so much time, but if he doesn't participate this year, he also understands the particularity of "Ghost Record", so he didn't just plan under the name like "Brokeback Mountain", but asked for more producer permissions and took over more production affairs. Lionsgate was of course greeted with a warm applause, and Jon Philtimmel and others dreamed of him taking the director's microphone away.

"Ghost 3" does not need to do a post-production soundtrack, the scene is a big room, there are no props and sets to be customized, and even the role of costume design can be omitted, because it is more realistic to dress according to the daily life of ordinary people. So as long as the script is in place, one month is enough time to easily prepare for various tasks, one month to finish filming easily, and two months is too much for post-editing and production, and there is no problem in setting the schedule for April next year, you must know that the production cycle of the first six episodes of the Lionsgate version of "Saw Horror" is an average of 9 weeks.

At the beginning, I watched countless horror films of the past and the future in one breath for "Ghost Shadow Record", Wang Yang did have a lot of scary ideas, because he was affected by the length of the film, character stories and other parties, and did not use them all; Recently, he has been crazy to scary and trick people, and a lot of new ideas have come up, the script of "Ghost Shadow 3" is not difficult to deliver, after all, the pseudo-selfie mode does not need how complicated the story and lines, the key is to create a psychological atmosphere such as tricking the mystery and pretending to be a ghost, and the details of creating a psychological atmosphere, a sense of substitution, empathy, and substitution...... Tease the audience's horror nerves, let them scare themselves, and throw another punch at the right time to KO.

Since it is natural to have a connection between the series and the series, the biggest failure of "Ghost Record 2" is not to move the scene to the office, but to make up new story characters who have no connection with the previous work, which causes most fans to have no interest. "Ghost Shadow" has only two characters, the male protagonist who died in the end, the heroine who disappeared by evil spirits, it seems that it is not good to move on, so it is good to go back along the timeline, this is a consistent business idea, and if you can't make a sequel, make a prequel.

Why does the heroine get into trouble? Why is she so interested in these paranormal phenomena? Has there been any story before?Has there ever been a dead person? This is the heroine's experience when she was a child, with a family of parents, children.

For the choice of the protagonist "Childhood Rachel McAdams", Wang Yang is ready to invite Chloe Moretz to play, she can use her frightened talent to the fullest; Horror films are Lionsgate and Flames, and there's no need to worry about assembling a crew, executive producer Michael Parsennecke will do the work;

Wang Yang promised to hand over the script to the crew in mid-December, and it was determined that the director's "Ghost Shadow 3" would be prepared for another month, and the filming would start in mid-January next year, and all the work would be completed by early April, and the copy would be released as scheduled.

The biggest change brought about by taking over "Ghost 3" is that Wang Yang does not have so much free time to "stock up videos" for the time being, and this confidential task is continued by Jessica, who declined "Ghost 3" and other film appointments waiting to have a baby, and more people have become victims. This is not the reason why Wang Yang intends to reorganize the video blog network Shoyourself in the IT industry market, this is the news released by the new company itself, and the new video blog sharing network YouTube will be launched soon.

It is reported that Wang Yang and three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Joyd Karim together to form this new network, did not take the strategy of upgrading the Shoyourself network, YouTube continues the concept of video sharing network, but the way users upload images is more convenient and fast, and will also launch a new "zero audit filtering" and other latest system settings, the server is guaranteed to be smooth, is bound to let each user happily build a new home for the network, a new home for video sharing.

This move caught giants such as Yahoo and Google off guard, but the repercussions caused by this industry news were not as good as "Magic Yang returns to the helm of "Ghost Record 3", which has not attracted anyone's attention at all, and the video blog sharing network is not the first time it has been launched, can you turn Shoyourself into YouTube? It's too naïve, Magic Yang is the magic Yang of Hollywood, not the magic of Silicon Valley.

One of the originators of online video, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who has always been deeply dismissive of video sharing, derided anyone who felt that "video-sharing" was an idiot, this time he said on his personal blog site: "Wang Yang must be crazy, there is no doubt about it, he should have known best that this is a loss-making business." There are only two kinds of videos on the video-sharing network, one is user-made video, are you really willing to spend your advertising budget on the video of an old aunt watching her little nephew dance?"

"Somebody makes something really great, and what is the result, 60,000 viewers?" Mark Cuban scoffed, concluding that Shoyourself has a limited audience, especially for user-generated videos, and he cautioned advertisers: "Don't spend too much money on so-called viral marketing on Shoyourself, or YouTube, or other video-sharing networks, in fact, 99% of the budget for viral marketing It's all waste, it's hard to plan, it's hard to get noticed, and if it's so difficult, what's the point of viral marketing? Don't be fooled by one or two special successes. ”

Mark Cuban strongly recommends advertising on high-quality TV programs, believing that a TV commercial can withstand any viral marketing, and he added: "The second type of video is infringing video, and YouTube's zero-moderation and filtering mechanism means that they will use it to attract users, and unauthorized video images will be allowed to circulate, but they will soon be in trouble, and YouTube will disappear in countless copyright lawsuits." Isn't this an idiot what?"

YouTube's website, which will be launched soon, explains that zero-moderation filtering is for the convenience of users, and that it is just a matter of passing first and then reviewing, just like a court that convicts a person before they feel that person is guilty.

In contrast, Wang Yang's reply on Blogger's personal blog was much simpler and stronger: "Mark Cuban, I don't want to say anything else, what if someone makes something really great and attracts 600,000 viewers, 6 million viewers?" As of Thanksgiving Day 2006, if YouTube has released a video with more than 10 million views in a month, you kiss the donkey's butt and take a video and upload it to YouTube. If you think 10 million is too little, we can discuss reducing the time or increasing the number of clicks. ”

"When someone on the Mavericks decided not to go all out to keep Steve Nash, I knew things were going to go bad. Finally, when it comes to the NBA, Wang Yang gave Mark Cuban another friendly reminder: "Then I recently heard that that person was going to kick Don Nelson away, and I knew that person was incorrigible, originally Steve Nash + Dirk Nowitzki + Michael Finley + Don Nelson, who could win the championship in a few years, is he ready to mess up? He ruined the Mavericks and ruined everyone's hard work for many years." Cuban, do you know who it is? You should fire him. ”

NBA circles are well known that Miraculous Young is a die-hard fan of the Golden State Warriors, and the most admired 88-94 Warriors veteran coach "Mad Scientist" Don Nelson; Don Nelson began to form his own championship team after coming to the Mavericks to coach in 97, and took a fancy to potential newcomers such as Chinese player Wang Zhizhi, and later Steve Nash + Dirk Nowitzki + Michael Finley as the core lineup of the "troika". However, Mark Cuban quickly ran out of patience after buying the Mavericks, first "letting go" Steve Nash this summer, who returned to the original Suns team in the NBA in disappointment, and Cuban then broke out with the dissatisfied Don Nelson, and now it is rumored that the old Nelson will resign at any time. Wang Yang pointed out that the person the Mavericks most need to fire is naturally Mark Cuban himself.

The war of words escalated suddenly, and the public who watched the lively media knew that it was fun, and the ass of the donkey was uploaded to YouTube? Although the do-gooders and a large number of fans of the magic movie went to the Mark Cuban blog and other places to mock and provoke, "coward", "yes!", "put forward conditions", but Cuban did not respond to this for the time being.

The time also entered late November, the pace of Thanksgiving is gradually approaching, the sales of turkey and other food ingredients have risen sharply, and the newly released action blockbuster "National Treasure" won the November 19-21 weekend with a box office of 35.14 million. TV series such as "Prison Break" and "The Big Bang Theory" will soon enter the TV winter break, and the promotion of "Mr. Hughes 2" and "Crash" to be released by Flame Movies is in full swing; "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade Elementary School Student?" has come to the production stage of selecting a host and building a photography stage; Wang Yang's main job every day is to edit "Firefly" and find time to tinker with the script of "Ghost Record 3" at night.

Life is happy and busy every day, but when the calendar turns to November 25th, all work is put aside, Thanksgiving is coming, and it is also the 6th anniversary of Wang Yang and Jessica's relationship, 1998-2004.

"I was a little nervous. Hearing Wang Yang's words, there was a burst of warm laughter from everyone in the dining room, and then Jessica said crisply: "Come on!"

Los Angeles is already a bright and prosperous night, only to see the spacious and bright dining room full of Thanksgiving atmosphere, the long wooden dining table is full of delicious food and red wine, Wang's father and mother, Jessica, Joshua and Alba are all sitting at the table, Danny is standing next to Wang Yang, since this year he has been officially promoted to the "head of the family", not only sitting above the head of the family, but also he will cut the turkey from then on.

"Wow. Wang Yang held a slicing knife in his right hand and a fork in his left hand, ready to start cutting and sawing into the belly of the turkey, his parents-in-law, his wife and brother-in-law, and the wife sitting next to him all looked at him with a smile, quietly giving encouragement, Wang Yang felt an unprecedented happiness, couldn't help laughing, cut it down with his hand, and began to distribute the task of turkey meat to his family: "This turkey is really big, it must be enough to eat." He winked at Jessica, who smiled and stomped him lightly.

Seeing that he had completed this glorious moment, everyone laughed and said, "If you can't finish eating, you can eat a few more pieces." Father Wang shouted, "Son, no, no, no, don't give me the chicken butt part." Wang Yang said, "Who said it was given to you? The chicken butt is Danny's." Joshua said, "Young, give me that drumstick, I'm sure I'll be able to eat it all." Wang Yang said, "Do you want a chicken butt?" Danny said he could give it to you. Cathy said, "I'll eat a few pieces of belly meat, and these Chinese food tonight is too delicious." Wang's mother expressed her gratitude, and Wang Yang said, "Okay, where is Mark?" and Mark Alba said, "I can still eat a lot." ”…… There was already a lot of turkey meat on the plate, and Jessica picked up a piece and chewed it, smiling and watching them talk, it was so nice!

(To be continued)