Every September and October is the season when movies are released, and around this year's Golden Week, the Chinese film market is even more prosperous, with a total box office of more than 700 million in a single day on the 11th.

But behind the boom, there is also a phenomenon of uneven film quality.

And the question raised by the first netizen was: "What do you think of the movies released during Golden Week?"

"Me?"

Li Zhifan smiled, "Of course I look at it with my eyes! Although today is an album press conference, mainly talking about music, after all, I am also a multi-faceted and cross-border artist, and I also have a little dabbling in movies, so I can talk about some digressions." ”

The reporters below are all laughing, can you still be regarded as a little dabbling?

Wouldn't the others even have a fur?

"I won't do anything to evaluate, after all, today is not a movie show!" Li Zhifan said concisely, "It is said that money is hard to make and is hard to eat, but in the Celestial Empire, I only agree with the first half of the sentence, and in the Celestial Empire film circle, I don't even agree with the first half of the sentence!"

Today's movies are really good to make money.

Movies with bad word-of-mouth can break 100 million in a single day, although it will inevitably fall sharply in the future, but it is already profitable.

"There are really too many bad movies released around Golden Week this year!"

A reporter below took the opportunity to say, "Then Director Li, do you have any plans to make a movie recently?"

"Yes!" Li Zhifan directly broke the shocking news, "It's already in casting, and when the casting work is over, the makeup photos and posters will be officially announced, today is just a preview, don't worry, the shooting speed of this movie may be slower." ”

The responses of netizens on the barrage were surprisingly unanimous:

"Slow down, don't be too fast!"

"Shoot slowly and strive to make more box office!

"In the past, your movies were shooting too fast, and I finally heard you say that you want to shoot slowly, so I'm looking forward to it!"

"Although I really want to see it right away, it's better to slow down, slow down and work hard!"

"What is the theme of this movie? Is it starring yourself? Shoot slowly, pay attention to safety, and don't get hurt during the shooting!"

Li Zhifan is not an action star, but he was injured no less than those when filming "Wolf Warrior", or even more than those action stars filming.

From a professional point of view, his dedication is for the film industry, but from the perspective of fans, he is using his own health to overdraw, so everyone naturally hopes that he will shoot slowly.

After answering this question about the movie, Li Zhifan's staff specially picked out some questions about music.

Compared with movies, there are more things to talk about in music, a song can be disassembled and crumpled for various interpretations, just Li Zhifan's own "fabricated" "creative journey" can be told for more than ten minutes.

At the end of the live broadcast, Li Zhifan ended with a new song rap version of "Say Scatter and Disperse".

There are a total of three versions of this song recorded in the album, one version is a pure singing version, the second version is a male and female duet with Zhao Xuexin, and a short rap version is added, and the third part is Huang Xu Aifujieni's version, rap-based, only the chorus adds a few melodic singing.

Li Zhifan also wants to do the fourth version of this song, that is, to invite a few rappers to record the rap part together, and then find a female singer for the short singing part of the chorus.

The last singing of the live broadcast was the third version, but it was only sung for more than a minute, which was equivalent to an audition.

The end of the press conference was just ten o'clock, and Li Zhifan's new album was launched on major music websites across the country, a digital album costs 20 yuan, and the company and the major platforms are divided into three or seven, and Li Zhifan himself accounts for fifty percent of the seventy, on the largest music platform, as soon as it goes on sale at ten o'clock, the album sold 30,000 copies, and the platform got the certification of double gold records.

The certification method of the platform is relatively special, 25,000 records can get double gold certification, while three gold records cost 37,500 chapters, and Li Zhifan is just more than 2,000 pieces short.

But time doesn't count, and by the time the first five minutes arrived, the album had sold 50,000 copies and had successfully won the platinum certification.

A large part of this data is due to the huge number of purchases by fans, some people buy 1,000 copies at a time, and some supporters and other clubs buy albums together, so the visual effect of the one-time surge in data is also particularly amazing.

According to the platform's certification method, sales of more than 5 million yuan will be certified as diamond records, at 20 yuan a piece, it is 250,000 digital albums, and 10 million yuan (500,000 copies) is a double diamond record, and sales of 20 million yuan (1 million copies) will be certified as a palace gold diamond record.

These data are laid out on the bright side, stimulating the purchasing power of fans.

But according to the feedback from the music platform, the local tyrant Bao Yuan actually only accounts for 0.8%, and the individual who only buys one is the main consumer, and there are many passers-by among these people, just because they saw Li Zhifan's album online, they bought one to listen to.

The advent of digital music once left many singers without food and even forced to change careers.

Nowadays, the charging model of digital music has accounted for most of the revenue, and digital records do not need physical costs, they only need to share with the platform, which includes channel fees, maintenance and operation costs, etc., and finally to the pocket, far more than the money from selling the entity, so there are many musicians who have completely abandoned the entity and sold the digital version.

In this case, in order to stimulate the sales of the digital version, the respective means are used again.

For example, if an individual buys more than 100 tickets, he can get various gifts, and if he buys more than 1,000 tickets, he can get another gift.

There are also collective buying support clubs, who get authorization from record labels to make their own celebrity commemorative gifts to distribute to members, and then keep them running by collecting membership fees and gift fees, one of which includes buying digital albums in large quantities on the platform.

Passers-by can also join various organizations and guilds on the platform to add strength to them, and after reaching a certain number of people and purchase amounts, there will be lottery draws within the guild and so on.

Although it will become a complete fan game in the end, whether it is a music company, a music platform, or the entire entertainment industry, it is all business!

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At the end of October, "Infernal Affairs" finally officially started filming.

The preparation period was busy, Li Zhifan personally contacted no less than 200 mainland actors, and their respective investors and sponsors were in frequent contact, and Timeline also invested in a listed company in Xiangjiang, the company's latest financing project is "Infernal Affairs".

Hong kong.

It is necessary to worship God when filming here, and it is an old tradition to share roast pork or something, no matter who comes to film, you have to follow the local customs, because there are multiple associations in Xiangjiang that are cross-controlled, and many actors involved in filming hold important positions in these associations, so they naturally pay more attention to these things.

The actor who plays Liu Jianming is called Chen Guanjun, a powerful actor of the young generation of Xiangjiang, originally planned to find a mainland actor to cooperate with this role, but considering the elements of Xiangjiang movies, and Li Zhifan himself is a mainlander, so the two male protagonists finally decided to adopt the mode of joint production between the two places, and use the co-production mode to shoot a film with a pure Hong Kong flavor, hoping to bring a special feeling.

Compared with the older generation of Xiangjiang actors in the movie, Chen Guanjun and Li Zhifan are both late-born juniors, but as soon as they put on makeup, they immediately matured like young people around 35 years old.

In particular, Li Zhifan's deliberately long beard is diametrically opposed to his previous image, but under this diametrically opposite, a special freshness was born.

Coupled with his leather jacket and fragmented bangs, the image of the gangster is instantly three-dimensional and distinct, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a policeman, but the hesitant temperament revealed in his eyes is incompatible with the general underworld, and at first glance he is a person with a big story behind him, from the perspective of an actor, this is called a drama.

For the role of Han Chen, Li Zhifan was left to Zeng Yuanjiang.

When he received Li Zhifan's invitation to film, he couldn't keep his mouth shut excitedly, but he didn't expect that he had just recommended himself to Li Zhifan, and he received the invitation so quickly, and he also felt that he was finally going to get rid of the bad movie label, so he was very serious about this drama.

However, on the day of the audition, Zeng Yuanjiang wore a flower suit, the suit pants were still half-pushed, the inside was also a white shirt, with blue sunglasses and an off-white top hat, a gold necklace and a Thai Buddhist card around his neck, and a pair of off-white leather shoes under his feet, no socks.

Of course, Li Zhifan didn't use such an image, so he immediately found a stylist and helped Zeng Yuanjiang redesign his body according to his own design - his hair was dyed white, a black windbreaker with a black shirt inside, black trousers were straight, and he was wearing black leather shoes, looking like the police commissioner.

In addition, there are other styles of design, but they are all suits, shirts, and leather shoes, and Li Zhifan also kept a flower shirt for Zeng Yuanjiang, but it is not exaggerated, but very casual.

In addition to the Buddha card on the neck, the other beads and beads are narrow, and the Buddha card will not be exposed to the outside.

It can be said that the image design of all actors not only extracts the image of the original version, but also combines the characteristics of the current Xiangjiang, especially actors like Zeng Yuanjiang, who have acted in a lot of comedies, and try their best to get rid of the exaggerated and nonsensical style from them, even if the humor is the kind of adult humor.

Probably only Chen Yongren played by Li Zhifan has the simplest image design, with only a suit-style leather jacket and a black and white shirt, in order to represent the infernal hell.

On the first day of filming, the crew attracted many Hong Kong media to visit the class.

The working mode of Li Zhifan's group is systematic and very strict, and it is divided into three shifts for filming in three shifts a day.

In the first week, Li Zhifan only slept for less than ten hours in total, and he was seriously lacking sleep.

At the beginning of the second week, three classes became two classes, and it was determined that he had sleep every day, and it was his first week of Xiuxian-style stay up late, and the whole person's image suddenly became tired and much darker, but it just fit the role of Chen Yongren.

At the same time as filming in Xiangjiang, far away in the capital, the sales of the film were launched at the same time.

Needless to say, what Li Zhifan wants to do this time is to make this movie be released simultaneously in many countries and regions around the world.

With the foundation laid by "Wolf Warrior", coupled with the acquisition and cultivation of many Chinese tycoons in Hollywood, the voice of Chinese films overseas is getting higher and higher, and the voice of Li Zhifan's films is even more favored by distributors from all over the world.

Especially in countries such as South America and Europe, as soon as I heard that Li Zhifan's movie was filming, I took the initiative to contact him, hoping that it could be released locally as soon as possible.

This brings us to another issue – language.

In the past, when Chinese films were released abroad, they had to find English dubbing, or dubbing the language of that country to meet the needs of the local country.

But this time Li Zhifan decided to break the tradition and insisted on using Chinese to release it globally, but the subtitles were in other languages.

In addition to German, French, and Spanish, Portuguese is also very important, because not only Portugal, but also Brazil, which is an important part of the publication, and the country's official language is Portuguese.

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Cast.

The mobility of actors is great every day.

is not as closed as mainland films, many actors only have a few scenes in this movie, and they withdraw after filming in one day.

There are also some actors who are on-call, their families live nearby, sometimes they come over with a vegetable basket, change their clothes after filming, and immediately carry the vegetable basket to the vegetable market, as if they are ordinary office workers.

"The actors of Xiangjiang are used to this kind of law of life and work!"

Talking about this on the set, Liao Feng said with a smile, "I am occasionally like this when I am filming, after filming today's scene, I go to the supermarket to buy groceries alone, just like a salaryman commuting to work, and even I take the subway home, although everyone often recognizes me in the subway, but they will never guess that I just came out of the set, and they all thought that I was specifically going to buy groceries." ”

"It's actually a good model!"

Li Zhifan said, "Xiangjiang is a small place and has small benefits, just like a film and television base in the mainland, not because we allow them to come and go freely, but because they can come at any time without delaying time." ”

"Yes, when I go to the mainland to film, it will be closed for two or three months, which is the same as a business trip. ”

Liao Feng said, looked at his watch, and exclaimed, "I won't talk to you, my wife made soup at home, I have to go back to drink it, and I'll come back later." ”

"Okay!"

Li Zhifan couldn't cry or laugh, this Liao Feng is a typical example.

Of course, there are also many Xiangjiang actors stationed in the crew, especially the leading actors, who eat, drink and sleep with mainland actors, regardless of each other, and live in harmony.

The actor who plays Huang Zhicheng is named Zhang Liang, an actor from the mainland, he is the most alternative of all mainland actors, as soon as he finished his filming part, he immediately left in a hurry, and when he was needed, he appeared in front of him as soon as the phone was connected, and he didn't know what he was doing alone.