(Now two chapters in one, 5000+ words)

The number of movie screens and attendance gradually decreases with the time of screening, and the further back on, the rate of this decrease is a change in the surname of the jump, which is elusive, so few people will deduce the final fate of the film based on the previous box office results. This is the natural law of the market, and it is normal.

All films are also shrinking at the box office, with releases gradually saturated, with a number of films already off the production line last week, such as "Shocking," a foreign film that was originally released at the same time as "The Gift of Room Seven," which was forced to go offline after four weeks of release, and its screen was divided by other films.

This sixth week in the box office champion is Lu Lijun's "Thunder Rolling", this film has swept all kinds of films at the speed of Feixun since its release on May 20, and has been the weekly box office champion since its release, it is only in the fourth week of its release, the attendance rate is still as high as about 85%, and the number of screens is basically occupied by it, although the number of screens has risen in four weeks since it was released and now it has begun to decline, but it can still maintain the level at the beginning of the release, and the number of screens is still 1508, topped the throne with a box office of 238 million, far behind "The Gift of Room No. 7", but not much higher than the box office of "The Gift of Room No. 7" in the same period, which also had a box office of 235 million in the fourth week of release.

The media speculated that if "The Gift of Room No. 7" had not been in the case of Lin Feihong's gathering of people to take drugs, maybe its box office in the fourth week would be even higher than that of "Thunder and Thunder".

In second place is Xu Ke's "It's Not Easy to Live", with a box office of 198 million, and the gap with "Thunder and Thunder" is still relatively large. Zhang Yimu, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and other big directors' films are basically ranked in the top five, it can be said that the top five positions at the weekly box office are occupied by several domestic blockbusters, and it seems that it is difficult for foreign films to squeeze in.

The prospects for several Hollywood blockbusters released at about the same time as "Thunder and Thunder" are not very promising, although they are ahead of "The Gift of Room Seven", but that is their fourth or third week of release, and "The Gift of Room Seven" has been released for six weeks.

"The Gift of Room No. 7" now only has a box office of more than 50 million, and it is not far from going offline.

Feng Qingyang sat in front of the computer and looked at the "Gift of Room No. 7" overseas review materials" in a daze.

The success of "The Gift of Room No. 7" in China does not affect Feng Qingyang's plan, and it is planned that it is time to move "The Gift of Room No. 7" to be released overseas.

Since the end of the release of "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" in early April, the overseas market has been vacant for more than two months, and it can't be delayed any longer, and the audience's interest will gradually decrease after a long time, and the audience who likes Lin Feihong's movies can't wait too long, and the reputation that has been built up with great difficulty cannot be defeated in time.

The success of "The Gift of Room No. 7" in China is largely related to Lin Feihong's hacking incident, but people abroad basically don't know about this matter, after all, foreign media will not report this kind of news, and it is difficult to report these domestic news, so "The Gift of Room No. 7" is released overseas or the original packaging is not polluted.

"The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" has been submitted to various film awards around the world for review, whether it can pass or not is not something that Feng Qingyang can decide, all he can do is to make these preparations and seize the opportunity without regrets. Now the remaining overseas project is to bring "The Gift of Room No. 7" to the screen as soon as possible.

A lot of things have not been done, the most important thing is the publicity work, this publicity can not be like the last time to promote "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" directly in front of the cinema can be a poster, because the last time in "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" was released not long after the release of "Farewell My Concubine", there was no long gap in the middle, the audience still kept a sense of freshness for Lin Feihong's movie, and people's enthusiasm for "Farewell My Concubine" has not completely subsided, so you can put a poster, because "Farewell My Concubine" The release effect has laid a good foundation, and indirectly make a live advertisement.

This time it can't be like this, the two-month gap is not long, it is not short, two months is enough to make people forget one thing, especially in today's era of film flooding, movies are easier to forget, even if they are classic. Because the audience's quest is never-ending, they don't stop at a certain point, there are other movies along the way, they will find another fresh way to entertain.

But what kind of publicity should be done to have an effect, this is the most headache for Feng Qingyang, not that he can't think of any tricks, as early as when he promoted "Farewell My Concubine", the company has already come up with a reasonable publicity plan, but now Feng Qingyang does not plan to use the "Farewell My Concubine" program, he wants to make a better and better publicity program, he wants to package "The Gift of Room No. 7" well, no matter how bad things are, as long as the overall effect of packaging is completely different, this is the packaging effect, Now that there is a two-month gap in overseas markets, this is even more necessary.

How to do this is not within the scope of Feng Qingyang's consideration, just leave it directly to the people below to do it, and the Propaganda Department is full of talents, and it will definitely be able to do a good job.

Write the propaganda requirements and send them to the Propaganda Department, after doing these things Qingyang still can't stop, the filming location of "Paradise Cinema" explained by Lin Feihong has not yet been settled, and now there are only a few days left, and I have to urge the person in charge to do more.

Toot, toot, toot!

Just about to make a call, the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang, and when he saw the name displayed on the screen, Feng Qingyang's heart couldn't help but pinch it, could it be that Lin Feihong came to urge himself again? Didn't you say a week's commitment two days ago?

I answered the phone with apprehension in my heart.

"Qingyang, there is a change in plans."

"What plans have changed?" Feng Qingyang immediately came to his senses, and all his attention was focused on Lin Feihong's words.

"The filming location of "Cinema Paradiso" will be put aside first, and I will not shoot it first, and now I am going to make another movie, and now the script has not been written, and it will be passed to you in a week, and then you can get the film review agency for review, this information will be kept confidential first, don't announce the information of "Cinema Paradiso" to the outside world first, and then make an announcement when the new movie starts shooting."

After hanging up the phone, Feng Qingyang felt light, the filming location of "Cinema Paradiso" has always been the tricky thing that bothered him, and now he can finally relax.

Once people have passion, they will be motivated.

Lin Feihong has become very busy now, writing the plot, setting up the sub-shots, and arranging the scenes, so that it took five busy days to complete the main plot, and pass the script to Feng Qingyang as a material to submit for review, as for the details of the sub-shots, it is just a reminder when shooting by himself, there is no need to hand it in.

Sending the script to the crew to circulate, first familiarizing them with the script so that it will save a lot of valuable time when shooting, Lin Feihong held the script and the more messy storyboard description in his hand, and he was not secretly happy because he finished writing the script.

The script is finished, and the actor has a suitable candidate, but the task before filming has not been completed, and there are still some major supporting actors who have no choice, although "The Shawshank Redemption" does not have a heroine, but the highlight is the supporting actor, so the choice of supporting actor is also very important.

"I'm worried about the new movie again, how about putting it aside and going to exercise together?" When he was thinking about how to choose a supporting actor, Leslie Cheung came to exercise with him, and he hadn't been itching to work out with him for a while.

"It's just in time, I'm struggling with how to choose the remaining supporting actors, come and check for me and give some advice." Lin Feihong pulled Leslie Cheung with one hand and asked him to re-read the script.

Lin Feihong sat on the table, stared at the serious Leslie Cheung and asked, "Who do you think is more suitable for the No. 1 supporting actor Red?"

In the play, the No. 1 supporting actor Rhett is the boss in prison, a boss who has served the longest sentence and is relatively docile, such a boss role cannot be seen in other prison-themed movies, the boss in them is very yellow and violent, this kind of boss is not worth recommending, even if the follow-up impact is not good, the biggest impact will be ** underage boys and girls commit crimes, so the role of Rhett is still good as it is.

Leslie Cheung put down the script and said to Lin Feihong: "Red is a meek boss, so the selection of actors must also have the demeanor of the boss, among the several actors in the crew, I think there is only Ah Long who has the temperament of the boss and is relatively docile, Xu Zhen and Wang Baoqiang are also docile, and their surnames are not too extreme, but they do not have the temperament of being the boss." Therefore, the most suitable candidate for Rhett is Aaron. ”

Lin Feihong nodded approvingly and said, "According to your analysis, Aaron is indeed very suitable to play Red, and the two are more consistent in terms of surname and appearance. If the actor is determined according to the character's surname, I think Li Lianjie is very suitable to play Haley, what do you think? ”

Leslie Cheung was silent for a while, nodded slowly, and said: "Hailey is the right-hand man of the prison warden, vicious and ruthless, so if you want to play this kind of role, you must first look ruthless enough, and you can act ruthlessly, if Li Lianjie shows a ruthless appearance, it should be easier for Li Lianjie to show a ruthless appearance."

"Now there is only one important role left, the warden, this character loves money, is selfish, and black-hearted, this is a negative role, how about letting Wang Baoqiang play this role?" The last supporting actor is chosen, and the rest of the extras are relatively easy to determine.

Leslie Cheung shook his head and said: "It's not good, Wang Baoqiang looks simple, and his image in the eyes of the audience is also kind, let him play the role of a black belly The effect should not be very good, I think Xu Zhen is more suitable, he looks like an official, he is the material for being an official, and his acting skills are also good, let him play this negative role, the effect must be better."

Leslie Cheung's words made Lin Feihong's heart feel relieved, Leslie Cheung's analysis is very reasonable, Xu Zhen is obviously much more suitable for playing the prison warden than Wang Baoqiang, so he will not be entangled, so it will be decided.

"According to the latest news on the official website of Qihong Film and Television, Lin Feihong will change the filming plan, and the original filming of "Paradise Cinema" will be postponed and ready to shoot "The Shawshank Redemption", it is said that the reason for changing the plan is that the filming location of "Paradise Cinema" cannot be found"

On the day after Feng Qingyang got the news from Lin Feihong and issued an announcement, the media reported the news, and Lin Feihong once again became the forefront of entertainment. As soon as the news came out, the world was in an uproar, and while people were speculating about the new movie, they were also surprised by the speed of Lin Feihong's creation, and he created a new theme in less than two weeks.

Some media speculated that Lin Feihong's move was mostly to make a good movie as soon as possible to make up for the results of "The Gift of Room No. 7", and many reporters wanted to get some information about the content of the new movie from the official website of Qihong Film and Television, but they were all refused.

Time is a murderous knife, even if you are brilliant in your life, you will inevitably die, even if it is a movie, no matter how brilliant it is, there will be an end to the day.

"The Gift of Room No. 7" ended his life in the cinema on June 31 because the number of people in the last show was less than 100, since the reform, the cinema has a rule, the number of people is less than 100 to go offline, the cinema does not make this money, because in the new sharing system there is a provision that the cinema can only be divided into 45% at most, that is to say, as long as a movie reaches five weeks, the cinema's score has reached the top, and the amount of money earned by the cinema in the remaining weeks is not high, So movie theaters usually don't let a movie run for more than too long. Now "The Gift of Room No. 7" will be released for a total of 8 weeks in two days, and if it continues, the cinema will make less money, rather than this, the cinema should use the screen for the movie that has just been released, because the profit is the greatest when the movie is popular.

was released for 8 weeks, with a total box office of 1.325 billion, relatively speaking, it exceeded the mainland box office of "Farewell My Concubine", but Lin Feihong didn't think it was a glorious thing, this is not comparable to "Farewell My Concubine", the times have changed, the system has been reformed, and the film environment in which the two films are located is very different, and I can't find a place that can be compared.

Compared with the same movie, the box office of "The Gift of Room No. 7" is low, and the box office of "Thunder and Thunder" reached 1.198 billion in the sixth week of its release, and it is quite easy to surpass "The Gift of Room No. 7" with this trend, and now Lu Lijun should be snickering.

Lin Feihong didn't have much thought to spend on the box office of "The Gift of Room No. 7", what he valued was not the box office of a movie, a movie has been completed, and the fun of being a director has decreased, the real fun of a director lies in the process of shooting, of course, it is also one of the pleasures of directors to win awards and be praised by the audience.

"The Shawshank Redemption" has been filming for three days, and it has just been at the stage where Andy was hacked and sentenced in court, and now Andy is going to prison, and the first person to appear on the scene is not Andy, it is Red, so the filming location will be transferred to the prison, no need to rent it anymore, and directly use the prison site where "The Gift of Room Seven" was filmed.

Red is a veteran prisoner, who has been in prison for more than 20 years, has been denied parole many times, and is older, so Aaron, who is still relatively young, cannot go directly to the court and has to have plastic surgery.

To turn a young face into an old face, you need a special effects makeup artist, Lin Feihong's crew is an experienced special effects makeup artist, like photographer Lin Hui, he has been following Lin Feihong since the crew was established, and he is still a relatively idle one along the way, because Lin Feihong rarely needs special effects makeup to shoot movies, and this time it is a big move.

Ah Long sat there with his eyes closed and let his skillful hands play around on his face, he had to close his eyes, and no one could guarantee that the powder would not spill into his eyes during the wave of his hand, although ** repeatedly promised that it would not hurt Ah Long's eyes.

The idle photographer Lin Hui sat in front of the screen chatting with other crew members, Andy Lau was still practicing the gambling skills taught by Lin Feihong, he was very interested in gambling, once he didn't have his role, he practiced gambling skills hard, and studied whether there was a better cool posture to suppress the actions designed by Lin Feihong, but after practicing hard for a few days, he still stayed on the content taught by Lin Feihong.

Li Lianjie did not stay idle, he practiced hard in front of the mirror, and the baton in his hand was smashed everywhere, so that Ah Xing, who wanted to get close to him, hid far away, the most pitiful thing was the mirror, and if he was not careful, Li Lianjie's baton would make him crushed. Li Lianjie's expression was even more ruthless, and he grinned, as if the mirror owed him a million.

Seeing Li Lianjie's angry appearance with his teeth and claws, the extras who played the scene for less than two minutes Ah Fat felt empty in his heart, because his appearance was to beat Li Lianjie who played the ruthless and vicious Hailey, Ah Fat looked at the fat and felt a creepy feeling, if Li Lianjie's stick was hammered on his body, would he still be alive, alas, it is really hard to make money, but he has to suffer so much for a hundred yuan.

Ah Long's makeup is finally completed, **'s craftsmanship is really clever, a young man in his early thirties has become a middle-aged man in his forties and nearly fifty years old and over half a hundred before he gets to tea, Ah Long is not in a hurry to enter the mirror, he seems to like the new look very much, looks left and right in front of the mirror, and talks to himself after reading it.

"That's what I'm like when I'm old? It looks good, but there are a little more wrinkles, and if you eat and drink well, will you look a little younger now? ”

"Aaron, don't look at it, you will be like this in the future, there will be more opportunities to see it, hurry up and prepare to start shooting immediately!" Lin Feihong, who was chatting with Lin Hui and others, was a little anxious when he saw Ah Long looking left and right in front of the mirror, and shooting in his heart was the first priority.

Ah Long finally turned around, and after a satisfied last look at the ** masterpiece, he quickly ran towards Lin Feihong.

The prisoner transport vehicle that stopped not far from the prison is already in place, and now it is time to film the scene of Andy being imprisoned. In the barred bars on both sides of the prison, many prisoners are already in place, and these prisoners are hired extras, ranging from 50 to 100 a day per person.

Ah Long, who plays Rhett, stands directly on the side of the corridor on the second floor, Ah Xing plays his partner, and three partners are played by extras, here the process of Rhett being told that he cannot be parole in the office, only uses Rhett to explain his situation in the form of a confession, Lin Feihong feels that this less than two minute scene in the original book is just to explain a Rhett's situation, so there is no need to spend film, it is better to use these films in the scene where Andy is in prison. (To be continued.) )