As we enter the new millennium, when people's fear of millennium insects gradually dissipates, Fire Lion Pictures, which has been quiet, finally announced its new year's filming plan after the New Year. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After two years of hard work, Fire Lion Pictures, which has an average annual number of movies of only 2, announced the shooting plan of 5 films in one go!

Among them, the much-anticipated "Youth Musical" will be directed by the 33-year-old young female director Anne Fletcher, although many fans are somewhat unskeptical about Sid not being the director, but Anne Fletcher, as a genius dancer who created the dance link of "Youth Musical", still made the audience feel a little relieved.

For Anne Fletcher, she herself was surprised that Sid would hand over such a summer blockbuster to herself, but she, who was already "ambitious" about the man's career as a director, soon agreed to be the director and choreographer of "Youth Musical" after a long conversation with Sid.

As far as Sid is concerned, Anne Fletcher's "historical" role as the founding director of the "Dance Out of My Life" series of musical and dance films not only shows her talent as a commercial director, but also values her excellent balance between business and film.

Because Hollywood's commercial films are easy to form an inherent routine -- that is, bigger, bigger scenes, more scenes, more characters, more lively, and more lively plots.

But Sid doesn't want "Youth Musical" to simply repeat the old path of its predecessors, but to make some progress, at least not to exhaust the value of the film too early, whether it is commercial value or the viewing value of the film.

But for the majority of fans, in addition to the news of the sequel to "Youth Musical" 2, there is another news that makes them dance even more excited-because Sid's famous work, the sequel to "Ghost Shadow 2", has been decided to be launched!

The director approached Todd Williams, a TV and film director, to take on the role, and although Sid was not the director, he himself served as the screenwriter and promised fans that he would be the producer to oversee the quality of the film.

In this season when the horror master Wen Ziren has not yet been born, Sid's "Ghost Shadow" can be said to be the first time that European and American audiences have come into contact with it, neither playing with plasma nor selling disgusting, real horror films!

Add to that the two years since "Ghost Record," and as Sid expected, cheap DV movies have flooded the film market, especially the independent film market. Like the mecca of independent films, the Sundance Film Festival was "miserable" by Sid's "Ghost Record", and a large number of DV films filled the film festival in the past two years.

But most people don't understand the essence and key to the success of "Ghost Record" and DV movies, so almost all DV movies have become synonymous with shoddy production.

And now at the beginning of the new millennium, Fire Lion Pictures has come up with this pioneering work, which not only shows the intention of creating the "Ghost Shadow" series of movies, but also shows the determination of Sid and Fire Lion Pictures.

After the sequel to these two film series, the new film "100% Man" directed by Sid's Bole - Nancy Meyers, the head of the musical film project, has also been announced to be produced and released by Fire Lion.

Although this film only announced its comedy genre, with "Born a Couple" two years ago, Nancy Meyers' talent in romantic comedy was still recognized by the industry.

In order to win more box office appeal, Fire Lion Pictures invited the original protagonist Mel Gibson to play the starring role, and in terms of the heroine, under the strong recommendation of Sid, the current Tom sister-in-law, Nicole Kidman, who has not yet become popular in the actor.

So under the relatively cheap cast team, this "Man 100%" has gathered a stronger lineup than the original version, which made Nancy Meyers more confident to devote herself to filming, and the start time of this film is set for February 23. It can be said that this year is the first movie to start.

In addition to the three films mentioned above, Sid also pranked, throwing a short science fiction novel "This Man from Earth" that he had acquired a few years ago to Justin Linn and asking him to shoot it within a week.

This posthumous book by science fiction writer Jeromy Besbai was not originally a remarkable book, nor was he a big-name science fiction author. But this short and concise sci-fi movie has completed a "earth-shaking" story transformation in just one house and a few characters.

This kind of theme and proposition can't help but remind Justin Lin of Sid's famous work "Ghost Shadow", but when he got the script, he was surprised to find that this is a traditional shooting film with a side head and side tail.

Although the script is traditional in form, the content is full of ingenuity, and this play, written by Jeromy Besbai himself before his death, tells an almost mythical story in a subtle and silent way, making people unconsciously go from believing to being skeptical, to being half-convinced, to beginning to believing, and finally convinced.

After Justin Lin read the script, he couldn't help but be amazed, and without Sid's urging, he couldn't help but start filming immediately.

And the last one is the starting point for Sony Columbia Pictures and Sid to become famous in one fell swoop - the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code".

Whether it is for Sony Pictures or Fire Lion Pictures, this is a long-lost A-level production, so Sony Pictures finally got the request to participate in the production after many negotiations, but on the contrary, Sony not only has to share the production costs equally, but also can only get an equal share of the profits at the box office.

Of course, this is already rare good news for Sony, which has become a habit of losing money.

And Sid has only one requirement for this movie - the director must be Nolan!

In fact, this request made Sony Colombia quite annoyed.

They originally took a fancy to David Fincher, although the box office of "Fight Club" the previous year was dismal, but David Fincher's unique interpretation and texture of thrillers made the executives of Columbia Pictures very liked.

Especially in comparison, Nolan at this time was just a little-known British director, and such a step-by-step director of a much-anticipated A-level production like "The Da Vinci Code" certainly made Sony Columbia very dissatisfied.

But in the end, due to Sid's insistence and David Fincher's own refusal, Sony had to make concessions on the director's matter. Although the director gave in, Sony was even tougher on the actor's matter.

After Sid and Nolan saw the list of starring candidates sent by Sony, they finally understood the reason why Sony has lost so much over the years.

For the male lead role alone, they listed George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Denzel Washington, Will Smith and many other A-list and quasi-A-listed stars.

"These people really think that they can make a blockbuster movie by squeezing out a bunch of stars, right?" Sid said speechlessly.

Originally, Nolan was most interested in North American actor Tom Hanks, but because he was starring in Robert Zemeckis's "Desert Island", he couldn't make the trip.

In the end, after balancing many factors, Nolan still chose Russell Crowe, who just starred in "Gladiator" last year. Although this classic has not yet been released, Russell Crowe's agent still shouted a sky-high A-grade salary of $20 million.

After getting used to Sony's extravagance, the Fire Lion agreed to use Russell Crowe on the premise of only getting paid and not sharing.

As for the heroine, because Sid's original novel clearly stated that she was a French girl, Sony continued to throw out the wealth, the only female star who can represent France at this time - Sophie Marceau!

Fortunately, although Sophie Marceau starred in the Oscar-winning film "Braveheart" a few years ago, this cannot change her role in the North American blockbuster. So her salary is only a "measant" $5 million.

As for the role of Sir Ray Tybin in the novel, Sid personally invited the old British actor Ian McKellen to play it.

Sony, on the other hand, then "not to be outdone" hired Uncle Jean Reynaud to play the role of Bezou Fahi, the chief of the French Central Judicial Police.

It felt that if it continued like this, the cost of "The Da Vinci Code" would surpass that of "Harry Potter", and Sid and Howard Stringer both came forward to restrain both Fire Lion Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

After taking care of the director and several leading actors, because the crew of "The Da Vinci Code" is formed and has to go through both Fire Lion and Sony, Sid expects that even if filming can start this year, it will not be released until next year.

Although the shooting plans of these five films have not been announced on a large scale, as the news of the formation of the crew and audition actors has circulated inside and outside Hollywood, the five bullets of the new millennium of the Fire Lion have been fired in succession, which immediately made many studios jealous.

Although such a number is not as good as that of the seven major studios, each of these five films has a great origin - either adapted from a novel masterpiece or a sequel to a well-known movie, and "no matter how bad it is", it is also a continuation of a director with successful experience.

This allowed Fire Lion Pictures to finally show the locomotive effect that a movie set should have after several years of hibernation, not to mention that the above movies have not included the really much-anticipated "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" project that Sid is personally responsible for!

After five rounds of large-scale auditions, the selection of most of the adult actors for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is nearing completion, but the auditions for the young actors, especially the main ones, are still underway.