Chapter 53: Oh Puppet
This review article written by the chief editor of "Hong Kong Film Fortnightly", and such a high-level comment, immediately aroused the curiosity of audiences who were originally not interested in this mainland literary film. Moreover, don't neglect Leslie Cheung's recommendation, "brother" is rarely a judge at the film festival, and his huge fan group naturally has to sell a few faces.
Even a group of filmmakers went to see the movie one after another. In later generations, Chen Kexin had no plan to watch the movie, but after reading Chen Bosheng's film review, he also went to watch it, and after coming out, he met the media and took the initiative to recommend: "This is a good movie, which can calm the impetuous heart, it should not be buried." ”
Thanks to the excellent reputation, the attendance rate of those theaters on Broadway has a trend of bucking the trend. On the first day, the attendance rate was less than 30%, and only 50,000 box office receipts were made, but on the second day, the attendance rate had risen to 51%, and three days later, the attendance rate suddenly soared to 75%. Those who have seen it have said that it is good, and it has received rave reviews for a while. Since then, there has been no drop of 50% on weekdays.
You must know that "Titanic" has been intensively bombed for half a year since it was screened in Hong Kong last year, and although the momentum is still very strong, it is already exhausted. The theater has already shown "Titanic" and vomited, and it is not easy to see a Hollywood movie even breaking records in Hong Kong, which is about to break 100 million. At present, there is an urgent need for fresh blood to inject new impetus into the theater. At this time, other theaters couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to line up a few screens to show this literary film. Although there are still very few theaters, the attendance rate has always been low, and there is a trend of long-term screenings like "Titanic".
In a week, it won 2.75 million box office in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong media went crazy, is this still a mainland literary film?
The highest-grossing literary film in Hong Kong is "Autumn Fairy Tale", which is still the golden age of Hong Kong films. But this "Grand Central Station", except for a few international awards, really has nothing worth paying attention to.
Many people take a wait-and-see attitude, believing that this is an accidental phenomenon.
But the next week, the scale of the movie was expanded to 45 theaters, and there was even a time when the daily box office exceeded 1.5 million, and the total box office also staggered towards the 10 million box office club.
The Hong Kong Film Market in March is definitely the off-season. But in such an off-season, "Central Station" appeared, moisturizing things silently and capturing the hearts of many audiences. In Chenlong's "Who Am I", Stephen Chow and Andy Lau's new films are scheduled for the summer vacation and the end of the year, and the huge special effects blockbuster "Fengyun - Dominating the World" is still brewing in the spring file, and it is unexpectedly a dark horse. It is about to break through 10 million yuan at the box office in Hong Kong, not to mention that it will sell hundreds of millions of yuan overseas. Looking back at the Hong Kong box office situation in 97, it seems that 98 years are even worse, as long as the box office exceeds 10 million, it is a proper top 10 position in the annual box office list.
Top 10? Annual?
Like a thunderclap on the ground, the stagnant Hong Kong film industry was shaken, film companies and entertainment media paid attention to it, and film critics and fans were also shaken.
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Not only Hong Kong, but also Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places have seen a trend of opening low and going high at first.
The release in Southeast Asia is good, the same praise continues, and the news is transmitted back to China, and the mountains and seas naturally have to make more use of it. The continuous reporting of these news also made the Chinese people excited, "How can excellent domestic movies be praised." ”
And the trend of slow heating in China seems to be longer, and in the second week, the audience seems to have just eased up. The attendance rate was a few points higher, winning 19.5 million at the box office, and the domestic box office has accumulated to 30.3 million yuan.
This is a box office that no one expected before, and after getting the data happily, I was also stunned for a long time: "Memory, vaguely, seemingly, seemingly, as if...... The domestic box office exploded in 98, isn't it just because "Titanic" stimulated the audience? ”
Unthinkable.
If you continue to follow this trend, it will be released for two months, and it will break 50 million.
But just thinking about it, after all, it was not able to keep, and the pirated discs were going to be out of stock. These pirates also have talents, and they openly advertise them as "one of the 40 best movies in the world", even if they collect it.
However, the million-dollar jackpot of the anti-piracy alliance set up by Mountains and Seas is not vegetarian, and it really hangs out a moth.
The reason is this, the moth is disgusted that the original partner offered too low, temporarily released his pigeons, and took advantage of other pirates. This guy was angry, so he took the initiative to report it when he was impulsive. The little sister who answered the report hotline didn't pay much attention at first, because the other party didn't match the preface and afterword, obviously drunk and bragged, and the dialect was too heavy, so she didn't hear it clearly several times. But the other party didn't hang up the phone, but the more she talked, the more energetic she became, but the more she listened, the more wrong she became, her heart fluttered, and she immediately felt that there was a big fish, so she reported to the supervisor.
After analyzing the mountains and seas, the recording materials were handed over to the local police, and the stolen goods were seized when the moth was traded in person.
What is quite embarrassing is that this person is still from Beijing Film Studio's own family, a decent old employee.
After the incident, I was happy instead, "Oh even, okay, wonderful, applause." ”
"Boss, is that still reporting?" Bai Xiaoya was also angry.
Coincidentally, a call from Beijing Film Studio came.
Yu Dong called, "Brother, I'm sorry about this." The factory has discussed it, and you can deal with it as you want, but I want to remind you that the matter is completely someone else's private behavior, and the factory's position is very firm. "The situation is very clear, the public security organs have been dispatched, and it is impossible to hide it, but you can't involve the inside of the factory.
"Then what else to say", happily gritted his teeth: "Report, report to death." ”
Joined forces with several media outlets and began to report on it in a big way. It's really hard to prevent thieves day and night, and it's actually on the side of the distribution company, this joke is not funny at all.
This is quite a big problem, because there are a lot of people who pay attention. really responded to the original metaphor of happiness, "Towering trees all start to collapse from the root of the moth." ”
This is by no means an isolated case, and there is a lot of discussion in society. The topic of cinema reform was once again put on the agenda.
The mountains and seas did a great job, and they really gave up suing the whistleblower and awarded 100,000 yuan.
This kind of digging down the line is simply putting shackles on the heads of the moths. Although the time when this moth was dug up a little later, as long as the film of the mountains and seas is shown in the future, I believe that it should also be a bit of a deterrent to pirates.
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In the Mountain and Sea Company, Josel had been here for several days.
He is getting acquainted with the "Po Intelligent Assisted Animation Production Software", and he is very respectful of it: "Kai, you are really a genius." I can't imagine how much potential this software has and how much it can save on production costs. ”
The production of 3D animation, according to the actual production process, the production of a complete film and television 3D animation can be divided into three parts: pre-production, animation clip production, and post-synthesis. Pre-production refers to the planning and design of cartoons before using computer production, mainly including: literary script creation, storyboard script creation, modeling design, scene design, etc.
Animation clip production. According to the preliminary design, the animation clip is produced in the computer through the relevant production software, and the production process is modeling, material, lighting, animation, camera control, rendering, etc., which is the production feature of 3D animation.
Modeling is the animator according to the early modeling design, through the 3D modeling software to draw the character model in the computer. This is one of the most demanding tasks in 3D animation, requiring the characters to appear and the objects that appear in the scene to be modeled. The soul of modeling is creativity, the core is conception, and the source is artistic literacy.
The software commonly used is 3D**ax, AutoCAD, Maya, etc.
But this seemingly simple fool software written together with Happy and Po is perfectly compatible with the advantages of these software. Modeling is simplified and the movements are more user-friendly. Sometimes, Josel genuinely suspects that there is an artificial intelligence that is helping him compose the picture.
"Thank you." Happy smile: "I am very honored to be praised by my former teachers. ”
(Ask for a recommendation ticket.) )