"Alright, this matter is settled, and I have one more thing to announce." Li Xiaole saw that this letter had won the respect of everyone present, including Jiang Wen and Huang Jianxing, and then announced that everyone's attention had returned to him again, and then said slowly:

"This shooting task is heavy, and the crew will set up two crews, A and B, Group A is in charge of me, and Group B is in charge of Mr. Jiang, and is jointly guided."

"AB system?" Huang Jianxing listened to his heart tightened, the so-called AB system is usually a production method that will only be adopted by large-budget films, due to the need to save space and time costs, the entire large crew will be divided into two small crews, taking turns in two shifts, staggering the actors' roles and shooting without stopping, this method will improve the shooting efficiency with the highest efficiency, but it will also bring great hidden dangers.

This is the problem of the style of the two sets of crews, can the styles of the two different directors be the same? Others are okay, Jiang Wen...... I'm afraid that no one can keep up with his sense of narrative rhythm beyond ordinary people.

"That's not good, I think it's better to use one set." Jiang Wen frowned and objected, after all, no matter how much he wanted to control the initiative, he couldn't be the director of Group A who had the right to edit and modify, and the director of Group B who only listened to the instructions of the chief director, he didn't want to do this kind of work.

"Teacher Jiang, you listen to me first." Li Xiaole knocked on the table lightly and reminded everyone to continue listening: "This time, groups A and B are not divided into priorities, and the directors of both groups have the right to modify the other group, if you are not satisfied with what the other party shoots, you can reshoot it at any time......"

As soon as Li Xiaole's voice fell, there was immediately a commotion in the conference room, and everyone began to whisper, everyone now completely understands that this Li Crazy has no intention of ceding power from beginning to end, but is ready to have a gentleman's contest with Jiang Wen and win with real shooting quality.

Everyone couldn't help admiring Li Xiaole's courage, but they felt that the prospect of this matter was unpredictable, although Li Xiaole only used this trick to dissolve all the advantages that Jiang Wen had established before, but at the same time, he put himself in the most dangerous situation, Jiang Wen, the director of Group B, has a veto? Wouldn't the scenes he was not satisfied with be changed, will this movie become Jiang Wen's or Li Xiaole's work?

"Interesting, very interesting." The corners of Jiang Wen's mouth rose to reveal an intriguing smile, and he took the initiative to get up and shake Li Xiaole's hand, this is his heart is really moved by Li Xiaole's mind, he realized that Li Xiaole does not care about the dominance of the movie, but all his thoughts are on how to make film works, this is a gentleman's competition, talent competition, and there is only one winner - the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".

"Now let me announce the distribution of the two crews." After Li Xiaole and Jiang Wen shook hands, they smiled and assigned the crew members: "Taimiao Studio and the screenwriter team belong to Group B, and there are seven bandits, and the actors also belong to Group B for pre-role training, Huang Shilang and Ma Bond are related to Group A and I will train the roles, and Jiang Lao's group will be assigned to this group, and the common scenes will be filmed by Group A." Mr. Jiang, Mr. Huang, what do you think of this ratio? ”

"Listen to Director Li." Huang Jianxing looked at Li Xiaole, who was bent on going his own way, and could only sigh deeply, turned his head and looked at the imposing Jiang Wen and shook his head again and again, it seems that this movie is going to belong to Jiang Wen again.

"Then let's do this now, Mr. Jiang, you take people to various places to see the scenery, I will gather the actors, and the seven bandits will be handed over to you to prepare, and I will be responsible for the other actors."

"Understood."

"Okay, everyone from now on, let's take their places, tighten the strings for me~ end the meeting"

Li Xiaole announced the end of the meeting loudly, and everyone responded with a full of energy, "Okay!" All of them set off, and an unprecedented and strange movie in the mainland began to officially enter the right track.

As June passed, the weather gradually became hotter, and while July came, the hot summer season of mainland films also kicked off, and Warner Bros. and director Wolfgang Peterson spent 1 in the third week of release. The $7.5 billion epic movie "Troy: Trojan Slaughter", although Brad Pitt and two handsome Hollywood guys helped, still did not win the title of weekly box office leader.

It won 6.72 million in 876 theaters and 1,127 screens in China, and the total box office in the mainland rose to 32.98 million, which is expected to break the 50 million mark when the next painting is made, and in front of him is DreamWorks' animated masterpiece "Shrek 2", which cost $45 million in animated films just won nearly 300 million box office in the North American market, creating a new box office record for global animated films, and won 6.82 million in a single week when it landed in the mainland film industry.

It is worth mentioning that this animated film has a praise rate of 78% on Tianya.com, second only to the 79% praise rate of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb".

However, the real king of the summer file is not a Hollywood movie, but two mainland productions, China Film Second Studio Ning Hao's director "Crazy Racing" was released under the sign of the original version of "Crazy Stone", although in terms of word-of-mouth, everyone will know that this so-called "crazy series" is not as enjoyable as Li Xiaole's "Crazy Stone", but Taiwanese comedian Rong Xiang, the new actor combination of Nine Fears and Huang Bo Combination, is extremely funny, and won a single-week record of 27.36 million yuan in one go, shocking the film industry.

Li Crazy's assistant directors are so good~? Are you kidding~!

Ning Hao, who has only directed "Happy Like Flowers", suddenly came up with such a Li Crazy work, which made everyone feel inexplicably surprised, and everyone predicted that his box office would pass the 50 million mark, and the media naturally praised him as "Li Crazy Second" and was classified into the category of "Seventh Generation Director".

Zhang Yimou's second part of the costume three-step series "Ambush on All Sides", with "Hero" swept the box office last year, this beautiful martial arts blockbuster easily got a box office of 32.39 million within 5 days, ranking first among the others.

Director Zhang Yimou's carefully created martial arts masterpiece "Ambush on All Sides", known as the first martial arts movie with aiqing as the main theme, has created a new type of innovative film, on the day of its release on July 16, it was released nationwide, and on the opening day, 927 theaters, 1342 screens screened the film.

The actual effect did not meet expectations, perhaps because Zhang Yimou's artistic atmosphere was too strong, or perhaps because he thought that the appreciation level of mainland audiences had improved a lot, so it directly led to the embarrassing situation of falling into a lonely self-appreciation.

According to the evaluation and guidance of many important media before, "Ambush on All Sides" should be a very touching film, you must bring tissues to watch "Ambush on All Sides", producer Zhang Weiping also patted his chest and said: "If you don't cry when you watch "Ambush on All Sides", come to me. In fact, during the viewing of "Ambush on All Sides", the most common thing in the theater was not sobbing but laughter.

In the New Century Cinema where the premiere was held in Guangzhou, the audience was still relatively serious at first, but after the scene where Liu Dehua and Kaneshiro Wu Shulin were connected, because Takeshi Kaneshiro injured his leg to save his little sister, Liu Dehua comforted: "Brother, are you okay?" Is the injury serious? Liu Dehua's blunt literary design in front of him suddenly changed to extremely popular life-like language, which made people feel that time and space were intertwined, and many viewers became daxiao.

And when Zhang Ziyi was ordered by the eldest sister to execute Jin Chengwu and dragged him to the execution ground, the geographical scene of the picture changed several times, they walked and walked, and finally came to the grass, an audience member complained: "I've walked half the world, why haven't you walked yet?" The scene burst into laughter.

Maybe there are many problems with the film itself, or maybe the appreciation ability of mainland audiences is far from Zhang Yimou's expectations, so the box office popularity of "Ambush on All Sides" is far inferior to the previous "Hero".

After all, the previous "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb" won 300 million box office and broke the record of "Hero", the new picture was originally ambitious, and I wanted to prove my status as the king of mainland films in an environment of piracy and purge, but I didn't expect that it would be a big problem whether the box office could exceed 200 million this time, let alone break hands with "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb".

"Making big-budget movies will be the mainstream in the future." "We're going to keep shooting this genre."

In an exclusive interview with CCTV's 8 sets of "Film Report", Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, and Li Xiaole, the three major directors, all published their new works and made a special program of "Director Face-to-Face" to talk about their respective views and expectations on the prospects of mainland films.

Zhang Yimou, the creator of the blockbuster era, has not surpassed himself, should mainland films return to the path of small-budget art films? Although the box office is not low, "Ambush on All Sides" spent 2 on investment alone. 500 million yuan, even if you get 200 million at the box office in the mainland, you can't get back half of the investment.

If it weren't for Zhang Yimou's international influence and 200 million overseas copyright sales as a guarantee, then this new picture would likely face a situation of losing all his money.

"This time there is a problem with the book, the key is that the mainland audience can't understand it, the story that can't be understood, and no matter how exquisite the picture is, the audience can't get into it. , which I didn't expect. Zhang Yimou said into the camera:

"However, I think that our mainstream films in the mainland still have to take the route of refinement, and they can't just spin around at a small cost, if it's just to make money, shooting genre films in one go, just consuming the originally established market, just like the road taken by Hong Kong films in the past."

"Yes, in fact, I am also preparing a costume film, after all, only this kind of theme can enter the international market, and I have to learn from Director Zhang in this regard." Feng Xiaogang hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile, when the reporter heard this, he took the opportunity to throw the topic to Li Xiaole and asked: "Director Li, do you plan to make costume films?" Or will you target overseas markets with the comedy genre you are good at? ”

The topic shifted to Li Xiaole, and everyone was curious, did Li Crazy have the idea of making costume films and entering overseas?