Faced with Angelina's favor, Zhou Shaoming was a little embarrassed, if it weren't for the original time and space, Milla Jovovich's performance was too profound, he might have chosen this smash hit female star.

But now that the words have been spoken, how to wait for Mira to make a statement, Zhou Shaoming can only call Angelina very apologetically first, telling her that this movie is still in the preparation period, and he has several candidates for the heroine in his heart, including her, of course, but the specific friendship will not be decided until he thinks about it in a few days.

Favor is favored, waiting is waiting, negotiation is negotiation, Angelina still takes her worth very seriously, and euphemistically said that if she starred, the salary would not be less than 15 million US dollars.

After all, this "Resident Evil" is a pure commercial film, and it will not impress Meryl as easily as "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", so that the most popular actress will star at a reduced price.

The cost of filming is no longer a problem, for Lionsgate, as long as Zhou Shaoming wants to make a movie, he must keep up, this popular and popular director in the United States, it is impossible for him to shoot his first movie, and he is extremely difficult to ask for investment from others.

What's more, the market prospect of this movie is very huge, and everyone knows that there are countless companies and brands outside waving checkbooks, willing to pay millions of dollars, only in Zhou Shaoming's movie, his own products appear, Zhou Shaoming is not short of money at all.

Zhou Shaoming was still waiting, he was waiting for Mira to give him an answer, and if she was determined not to accept those conditions, it would not be too late to go to Angelina again.

Hey, I didn't expect that this Hollywood actress who is so popular in half the sky has become her spare tire, which feels really ......

However, for a day, two days, Mira did not contact Zhou Shaoming-

While waiting, Zhou Shaoming continued to think deeply about what the new version of "Resident Evil" should pay attention to.

Different from the previous time when he thought about the theme and content of the film, this time Zhou Shaoming focused the problem on specific shooting.

The success of SAW made him comfortable with thriller horror films, although "Biochemical" is a science fiction theme, but it is not difficult for Zhou Shaoming, who is known as the "father of chainsaws".

Makeup, shooting special effects, visual effects, actors, and publicity methods were heavily written down in the notebook, and Zhou Shaoming fell into deep thought.

At present, the most important position of an actor is to get the heroine, she is the soul that makes this movie unique, and the other actors are only supporting roles, just let Lionsgate's Jon arrange other roles in this movie, Zhou Shaoming thought, and wrote down the actor information in the original version of "Biochemistry" in his mind on paper one by one.

The ill-known supporting characters in the original version performed well, and it is enough to bring them in and give them special physical training, and if one of them is filming other scenes, then just find a few people with good acting skills to replace them.

The supporting roles of "Resident Evil" are not like other movies, and the success of the portrayal is only the icing on the cake for the improvement of the entire movie, rather than a send-off. Zhou Shaoming thought for a while, and then wrote five words in the column of actors: not urgent, important.

If Mira refuses to agree to enter the dream, then she can only find other actors, or directly use new actors, even if she is unknown, Zhou Shaoming is confident that she will become a real "surname baby in the zombie group".

Zhou Shaoming revisited the next item: makeup.

This is the most important part, isn't the success of the "Resident Evil" movie series brought about by those terrifying zombies with a strong camera impact on the screen?

That indescribable sense of horror is the elixir that makes the box office explode!

I had to bring the bloody and howling zombies to life in front of the camera, and they were the cornerstone of the success of the whole film, and they were crucial.

It can be imagined that if a zombie movie is made up of people who can't be frightened, can't be stunned by dry mouth, and want to soar to the box office results will only be a pool of heaven and night, rootless duckweed. Zhou Shaoming lit a cigar, took a deep breath, and then wrote the words urgent and important in the makeup column of his notebook.

Let's look at the shooting special effects, which must be done during the shooting stage, not just like the visual effects can be done in the computer after the shoot is done leaving the studio.

For example, in our Chinese martial arts film, "Hanging Weiya", hanging people on a tightrope to create flying or floating effects is a special effect for shooting.

When action and war movies require a large number of special effects, they need a special effects coordinator on standby. If a common explosion is part of a special effect, a pyrotechnician must perform the task.

Hollywood's specialization in the film industry is already very high, and every small branch has people who have spent their lives understanding and research, and it is not uncommon to encounter the fact that both fathers and sons are engaged in the same type of work.

In this part, Zhou Shaoming wrote a five-character comment that was not urgent and important, and he didn't have to worry much about this part, there would be a professional person to take charge of it and achieve the result he wanted.

Visuals?

Hah, that's a top priority!

Most film special effects are computer-generated, often referred to as visual effects, and are designed to distinguish them from special effects on set. Sometimes a visual effects supervisor supervises the visual effects editor to create all the computerized visual effects required for the film.

In recent years, new ways to create more exciting special effects have emerged, such as the invention of special effects that can capture the action of a real person and be fed into a computer to create a computer-animated character in the last few years. This is called a new profession called motion capture (MotionCaptureArtist).

Faced with the four words of visual effects, Zhou Shaoming didn't think about it, and directly wrote an urgent and important four-word comment. As a high-end person who has crossed over from more than ten years later, he naturally knows that a box office blockbuster in the future world is all a movie with amazing visual effects, thousands of computer special effects, and countless money and computer effects, sweeping the world, and lifting "Titanic" from the world's first box office for more than ten years, with a global box office of 2.7 billion US dollars, "Avatar", which is such a dazzling and dizzying film with dazzling visual effects, creating a 3D era in visual effects, and extremely excellent movies.

The first part of "Resident Evil", although it can be better than "Avatar" in terms of the depth of the script and the performance of the actors, but in the face of more than ten years of industry production gap, it can not be completed just by waving a check.

Therefore, although Zhou Shaoming has the heart to compete with Cameron, he still knows that his current self and current computer technology do not have this strength, so he still slowly accumulates experience and waits for the accumulation!

However, "Resident Evil" must be made into the most brilliant and sensational blockbuster in terms of visual effects in 2000!

Zhou Shaoming thought hard for a long time, and smeared heavily on the visual effects a few times, reminding himself that he must keep it in mind.

Putting this top priority aside, Zhou Shaoming saw the column of propaganda methods.

No matter what type of movie, publicity is the most important part of the film. The famous saying "the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys" has long been popular in this world, and if you want the audience who has long been dizzy and disgusted in the face of advertising, you must take a unique path in publicity and not take the usual path.

And the cost of publicity is not something that can be done with millions of dollars, and sometimes it is not much worse than the money spent on the filming itself, just like the "Avatar" mentioned above, the shooting cost is 223 million US dollars, and the publicity cost is as high as 150 million US dollars!

Although Zhou Shaoming is now a billionaire, as long as he can achieve the publicity effect, the less money he spends, the better.

Whether it is "Chainsaw" or "Spring of the Cattle", all of them are epoch-making propaganda methods in the history of film promotion, and this time, in the face of an audience that is a little disgusted by endless advertisements on the Internet, on TV, on buses, newspapers, and even in toilets all day long, how can they make them household names, and spend as little money as possible, and not arouse their disgust?

Zhou Shaoming took a few puffs of cigar, and at this time, the stimulation of tobacco made his eyes light up quickly, and the propaganda method was marked with the words urgent and important.

Who says publicity has to wait until the movie is made? This time, Zhou Shaoming decided to start super-intensity and super-large-scale publicity before the movie was even written in the script, but this still needs a lot of help from Lionsgate.

After sorting it out, Zhou Shaoming arranged all the small items into one, two, three, first of all, the easy-to-complete publicity method, followed by visual effects, then makeup and special effects, and finally actors.

OK, you're done, just follow this schedule and complete it step by step! Zhou Shaoming, who was excited, quickly pinched off his cigar, took the planner and ran out in a hurry-

Lionsgate, Jon's new secretary, Vivian, was holding a make-up mirror and constantly tracing her slender eyebrows, then put down her eyebrow pencil, took out a red lip gloss to apply bright colors to her delicate lips, and then applied some foundation, looked left and right, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Vivian, dressed up so beautifully, are you still waiting for that great director?" A dark-haired girl with a coffee cup popped up, looking at Vivien, who was wearing heavy makeup, and said quips.

(To be continued)