Chapter 294: Cannons are erected, boom boom boom (one shift)

As the time entered December, "My Sassy Girlfriend" has been in theaters in South Korea for eight weeks, achieving an impressive result of 5.86 million people, and also setting a box office record for a comedy in South Korea. Jun Ji-hyun won the Best Actress Award at the South Korean Daejong Awards, and also gave Chen Tiandu the title of Korean actor and the best adapted screenplay, which can be regarded as setting a precedent for Chinese films in South Korea.

It's a pity that the Korean side is very sorry that the winners are all led by An Zhenna, because Chen Tiandu is currently preparing for the last blockbuster of the year in North America - "The Matrix 2 Reloaded"!

In August, the post-production work of "The Matrix 2" was basically complete, with a 130-minute theatrical production, plus the opening and ending songs, and a total of 138 minutes of credits. From beginning to end, the 138-minute video unfolds in an ethereal mystical world, just like the bones of the past.

For the second part, Chen Tiandu asked for the soundtrack to be titled "she-is-my-sin", a song that became famous in 2000 by the famous Finnish music scene Nightwish. Chen Tiandu will often see the top ten imposing background music selections on the Internet in the future, and this song has always been among them, but so far this song is not very famous.

Nightwish's songs are mostly heavy metal music, and as soon as the song enters, it seems to herald the outbreak of a big war imminently, urging you to hurry into the battlefield, and all kinds of exciting images are waiting for you. The real popularity of "She-Is-My-Sin" was in the era when online videos were relatively developed, and many people became the music of many videos or highlights because of their shocking singing.

is now bought by Chen Tiandu to make the soundtrack of "The Matrix 2". Predictable. will become the most colorful part of the film.

Background music that acts as momentum is very important for any type of film. The blockbuster is the most powerful, and a good momentum concert makes the film solemn and vast, and Hans Zimmer, who served as the soundtrack of the trilogy, has to admit that this song is more suitable than the song he wrote in the first part. But he is a master of fame, and it is also embarrassing to be denied the song by the director in the movie he took over, and he is actually a little dissatisfied in his heart, so in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Chen Tiandu invited him again, but after hesitating, he politely declined thinking that he wanted to rest for a while.

Working with Chen Tiandu, he felt that he was actually the passive one, although there were many inspirations, but that feeling was accepted, not from his head, and this feeling was not very good.

Immediately, he announced to the outside world that he was no longer dubbing Chen Tiandu's new film "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Even Hans Timo, who once praised the Oscar podium for being very happy to cooperate with Christmas Chen, left Chen Tiandu, which seems to confirm Chen Tiandu's bad luck. This naturally made the Hollywood media exaggerate for a while, and they would never give up if they did not make Chen Tiandu into a "betrayal and arrogant" character.

on this. Chen Tiandu expressed regret, but he didn't think much about it. He didn't feel like he needed a strong soundtrack.

His requirements for the soundtrack are serious, using music to set off the psychology of the characters, creating different scene atmospheres, step by step, and the ultimate goal is the final climax.

The world-renowned "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" followed closely behind, winning a three-day box office of $93.5 million in the opening weekend, surpassing the 1997 "The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2" box office record of $72.1 million in three days of release, ranking second in film history, second only to this summer's "Extreme Action" "Fast and Thrilling" box office of $123.5 million in the opening weekend.

But this achievement was enough to make Warner Bros. ecstatic, and the whole North America and even the Western world set off a magical wave.

Warner Bros. reportedly cost about $125 million to make Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and spent another $40 million on marketing in North America.

The huge group of novel fans has driven the benefits of the movie, and the success of the movie has also made the author of the novel the new rich man in Britain in one fell swoop, and the novel has begun to go out of Europe and the United States, paving the way for distribution around the world. The most terrifying thing is that this will be a best-selling series, and every movie in the future will have such a huge fan base to support, how much leverage it will be leveraged, I'm afraid Warner Fang can't even think about it.

This is also the reason why Hollywood is keen to shoot series of movies, and when it comes to creating series movies, Chen Tiandu is fortunate to be selected in the latest selection of "Premiere" magazine's "director/producer who can create the most series of films" and the ranking is not low.

The influence of a series of movies is powerful and far-reaching, and it is often not possible to crown the name of a director or producer or starring in a series of movies, and what can be named is mostly a symbol of honor, which also means that you have an extraordinary influence in Hollywood.

At the top of the list is Lucas, the father of "Star Wars", who doesn't need to make other movies, and only one "Star Wars" series is enough to secure the crown. Spielberg is second, he has created classic series such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park", in addition to "Mission Impossible" Liangtang, "First Blood" Stallone, "Terminator" Cameron, "Die Hard" Bruce Willis, "Rocky" Stallone. There are also the longest film series, "007", "Friday the 13th" and "Star Trek", but these are not named to one person, but the result of the cooperation of many people.

Since Chen Tiandu's debut, except for the first "Sixth Sense", every other film has been launched with the goal of a series of movies. "The Matrix", "Infernal Affairs", and "Fast and Thrilling" are all the beginnings of the series, even the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean". Although the sequel has not been launched, but with the opening of such a powerful first work, can the sequel be bad?

And now, with another Harry Potter series on the line, Warner Bros. is already planning to start filming a sequel to the film immediately on the Monday of Premiere Week, hoping that Harry Potter will be a huge "cake" like Star Wars and the James Bond series.

The second week coincided with Thanksgiving. Harry Potter continues to laugh all the way to Greengault Bank. It was where the sorcerers kept their cash.

Juggling generally continued to top the crown with a three-day weekend of $58.6 million. The five-day Thanksgiving holiday earned $83.5 million, bringing its total box office revenue to $188.1 million in just 10 days of release.

The film achieved all-time best results during the 3 and 5 days of the "Thanksgiving" holiday, mercilessly leaving behind the total box office results of the premiere of "Toy Story 2" two years ago.

In the same period, "Monsters, Inc." was released for four weeks and also achieved an impressive record of $192 million. It will reach $200 million next weekend, becoming the sixth film to surpass that mark this year. In addition to "Harry Potter", the other films are "Fast and Furious", "Shrek", "The Mummy Returns" and "Rush Hour 2".

According to the U.S. box office authority, the previous record was set in 1999, when four films broke $200 million at the box office. And this record will not stop there, everyone knows that next week will be the day of the much-anticipated "The Matrix 2 Reloaded", and no one will underestimate the sequel to the first ZĂ o $650 million movie worldwide.

And "The Matrix 2" has long been set up, and when the time comes, it will blast at Hollywood.

Chen Tiandu couldn't wait to hear the deafening roar.

When I think of that scene, boom boom boom!

- The picture is not too pretty!

In the screening room of Matrix Los Angeles, the curtains around him were opened, and the room was pitch black, only the faint fluorescence on a high-definition screen in front of him hit Chen Tiandu's face. He sat there alone, sitting quietly. Watch The Matrix 2 over and over again.

"I've watched it three times, is the boss still inside? I'm going to go in and remind him. Niu Yingying stood hesitantly outside the screening room, and she asked Peck. Peck shrugged and didn't pay attention to himself, "I don't think it's a good idea, he's most annoyed with being interrupted at work." ”

"But it's not like work, isn't the movie finalized?" Niu Yingying said worriedly.

All the pressure of the whole company is on Chen Tiandu, who can understand his feelings at the moment, Peck said: "It's a pity that the church-Kong is still in Japan...... Maybe you should go find Kate and ask her to bring the boss back. "Hey, that's a good idea." She immediately picked up the phone and dialed it.

When Kate heard this, she dared to hesitate and quickly killed her.

Chen Tiandu sat there quietly in the screening room, whether the movie can become a blockbuster series is related to publicity:

The pre-release publicity work has also been in full swing, and this time the matrix movie has no viral marketing plan, only Internet bombardment: there are also magazine and newspaper covers and interviews, outdoor poster advertisements, theatrical screen trailers, TV master second promotional videos, and so on.

The 2-and-a-half-minute theatrical trailer was released, which made many fans look forward to it.

Whether it is the subversive road chase scene or the classic scene of hundreds of Smith and Neo fighting, or the dashing shot of Neo rolling up a funnel-shaped cloud bucket from the air again and again and swooping down, it has made countless fans feel commotion.

On the official website of "The Matrix 2" and Chen Tiandu's blog, more and more fans have asked questions, and in his blog, the avatar is a black guy with a smiling face and a neat white tooth Hawke left a message: "The trailer is very exciting, but the content is too little!" It's a cool audio-visual feast to hell with the unlucky ones who pulled the war into the movies. ”

"The scene is even bigger than the first one, and I want to know how the hundreds of scenes of Smith and Neo were filmed, no wonder Hugo Weaving said that he has a doppelganger."

There are calm people who are still playing the role of analysts, "The situation is not optimistic, and the media seems to want to put "The Matrix 2" as one of the inducers of terrorist attacks, advocating the refusal to explode blockbusters. Recently, there has been a lot of trouble, and Christmas Chen has obviously been affected, and I am afraid that many people will choose not to go. (To be continued......)