Chapter Twenty-Three: Chainsaw Starts
March 28, 2002, Jewell Records, 18th Floor Auditorium.
After Huang Fanglin's efforts and the generous salary attracted, Lin Han's crew for filming "Chainsaw" was finally formed.
As for why this press conference was held? Lin Han had full consideration, that is, to promote "Saw Horror" in advance.
Different from the self-styled film market in the previous life, the China in this world is more open and inclusive, and the films are clearly divided into three levels: A-level, B-level, and R-level.
Although "Chainsaw" can be clearly classified as R-rated in Lin Han's heart, Huaxia is still a huge film consumer market.
According to the latest figures released by the Huaxia Film Bureau, in the past year, that is, in 2001, the total box office of the Huaxia film market reached 10 billion yuan, more than double the 5 billion yuan in 2000!!
Film professionals even predict that in another five years, that is, around 2006, the scale of the film market in China will catch up with the scale of the North American film market, or even surpass!
As a reborn, Lin Han is more aware of the future direction of the Chinese film market, surpassing North America and becoming the world's largest box office, which is a sure thing.
Therefore, Lin Han will not give up the huge market of Huaxia, and in addition to Huaxia, the three regions of the Central and Southern Federation, Zhuguo, and Japan are also within the scope of the Chinese-speaking cultural circle, seizing the Chinese market, and in the other three markets, a good movie will not be too bad.
The scale of the four major film markets in Asia is nearly 20 billion yuan, and Lin Han has a certain reputation in China, and he will not miss the opportunity to take advantage of it.
At half past seven in the evening, the launch conference of "Chainsaw" was officially held.
When Lin Han walked out with Huang Fanglin and other behind-the-scenes personnel, he almost thought that he was in the wrong place, what was the situation?
The reason why Lin Han was so surprised was because there were too many media and reporters coming, and they were sitting in front of the auditorium. That's too much of a fucking exaggeration, isn't it?!!
Originally, Lin Han's meaning was to hold a press conference for dozens of people, because the leading actors who shot the short films before were all in the United States, so he and Huang Fanglin, the two directors and assistant directors, plus some cameramen, attended the press conference.
Although he was surprised in his heart, Lin Han remained silent on the surface and led a group of people to sit down on the stage.
"Thank you, thank you for coming to the media! To be honest, I really didn't expect so many friends to come to cheer on me, I almost scared my little heart just now, and I'm still pounding and puffing! Lin Han is a person who played very well on the spot, and the first sentence he said when he picked up the microphone made the media reporters below laugh.
After seeing that the reporters were all laughing and the atmosphere became very harmonious, Lin Han continued: "Okay, everyone knows who I am, right? That's right, I'm Lin Han, the famous super popular youth fiction writer, the forest of two logs, the vastness of the vast sea, oh no, slip of the tongue, it's Han! I sweat! ”
"Hahaha!" At this moment, the reporters couldn't hold back their laughter and looked at the sunny and lively teenager on the stage.
For this teenager, in fact, media reporters are very curious, because there is too much news to dig into this teenager.
For example, how did Lin Han create five best-selling youth novels in succession in the past half a year, does Lin Han really have such a demonic genius creative power? This is completely inconsistent with ordinary people's understanding, because according to Lin Han's age, Lin Han has no experience in writing such a youth novel at all.
Of course, the reporters also knew that Lin Han went to the Huaxia Chinese Network to conduct a live broadcast to verify that his novel was true and original, and no one would continue to mention this topic, they would just be curious.
In addition to Lin Han's identity as a writer, Lin Han's other identity, a singer, also has a lot of news to be explored, such as how Yang Junrong dug up Lin Han, and Lin Han's lyrics and compositions are marked with his own name on his music works, is Lin Han really so talented?
I heard that Lin Han and Jay Chou have a good personal relationship, could these songs be written by King Zhou for him?
As if seeing through the little Jiujiu in the hearts of the media reporters in the audience, Lin Han said with a smile: "I know that you have a lot of questions to ask me, but today, we are mainly talking about my first directorial debut "Chainsaw"! ”
When the reporters heard this, their heads suddenly pulled, and they looked quite regretful.
Who knows, Lin Han on the stage changed his words and said: "However, "Chainsaw" has not officially started filming yet, and there is nothing to say, just mention this matter in the report after everyone goes back, and you can ask other questions casually, haha!" ”
Looking at Lin Han's sly blink, the reporters were angry in their hearts, okay, you are Lin Han, your feelings are all playing with us?
However, although there was a little suspicion of being played, the reporters were not angry, after all, in their opinion, no matter how much Lin Han achieved or something, it was good, but after all, he was only a 14-year-old child, and everyone would not worry too much about a child.
I have to say that Lin Han's age did give Lin Han the best cover, for example, the feelings of all the reporters in the audience were controlled by Lin Han but they didn't know it.
After playing enough, Lin Han finally began to answer questions honestly, such as the investment amount of "Chainsaw".
""Saw Horror", this is a very wonderful movie, everyone will be amazed when it is released, but the most important idea of this movie, whether it looks good or not has little to do with how much investment it is, our budget is 1 million US dollars, that is, 5 million yuan!" Lin Han replied seriously on the stage.
As soon as Lin Han's voice fell, a reporter asked: "So, Director Lin, what is your box office expectation for the movie?" ”
Lin Han stretched out his finger and pointed at the reporter and said: "You asked this question well, it is exactly what I need, for the expectation of the movie box office, my expectation is to kill all domestic horror films in seconds!! ”
As soon as this remark came out, the reporters in the audience were immediately shocked, in their opinion, Lin Han's first work to test the water is a small-cost system, relying on his super popularity to call fans in, and the box office is only satisfied with one or two million at most, but I didn't expect Lin Han to say that he would kill all domestic horror films in seconds, which is simply too domineering!
And Lin Han knows that he is not arrogant, because now the highest box office of domestic horror films in China is only 50 million yuan!
And what kind of horror movie is "Chainsaw" that he is about to film? It's a classic in horror films, a work destined to sweep the box office, and he said it modestly.
In his mind, the real opponent of "Chainsaw" is actually "The Grim Reaper", the first part of "The Grim Reaper" was introduced to Huaxia in 2001 and set a super high box office record of 50 million US dollars, that is, 250 million yuan.
In Lin Han's heart, the depth of "Chainsaw" is much higher than that of "Death is Coming", so he will try his best to make "Chainsaw" a horror classic movie that surpasses the "Death is Coming" series!
Next, the reporters' questions were all sorted, and Lin Han did not refuse to come, anyway, he was eloquent, and if he didn't want to answer, he would talk around, and the reporters were happy to listen to him, anyway, the news material was enough.
In the end, Lin Han's kick-off press conference lasted for two hours, but no one was bored, after the meeting, the reporters all got a lot of red envelopes, so the manuscript in their hearts was finalized, and as soon as the next day's report came out, all of them were positive reports.
Regarding the news that Lin Han really crossed over to become a film director, fans on the Internet talked about it, but Lin Han couldn't hear it, because he had already gone to the United States with the crew of "Chainsaw".
On March 31, after a short period of preparation, "Saw Horror" began an intense and rhythmic filming.