"Brother Hao, I have read the script of "Nightclub", although there are many problems, but the overall creativity of the story is good, and it should be able to make a hilarious work after modification and improvement, Tsing Yi thinks you are suitable to take over, I also think that it is the best choice for you to direct The script written by Yang Qing did not dig into human nature, in fact, the humanity of the character of He Sanshui in "Nightclub" can be well excavated It is not easy to shoot a story in a single small scene, from "Sniper Phone Booth" and "Island Horror" When you wait for the movie, you can see that its requirements for the rhythm of the plot are quite high, but I believe that you should have no problem with the budget, Brother Hao, you can do it yourself, anyway, the film is at a loss, and you can't get a profit share. ”

Let Ning Hao take over "Nightclub", in Lin Yuquan's opinion, it is indeed a good choice, "Crazy Stone", "Love Call Transfer", "Crazy Racing", three blockbuster movies in a row have fully demonstrated Ning Hao's ability to grasp the word "comedy", Ning Hao's own outstanding talent, plus "Nightclub" is a good idea, the combination of the two will definitely bring interesting results, at least he himself is looking forward to what Ning Hao will finally shoot "Nightclub", Will it become a classic shot in only one scene.

Yifei, who appeared in the crew on the first day, caused a lot of repercussions in the crew and became a hot topic during everyone's breaks, but as time passed, when Yifei appeared frequently and the topic of conversation lost its freshness, the crew returned to its previous state, and the filming of "Heartbeat" has always been carried out step by step.

In the blink of an eye, it was Friday of the week, and this time Lin Yuquan did not choose to return to Los Angeles. There is a Fei by his side. It's the same whether you go back to Los Angeles or not. Although the villa in Beverly Hills is more comfortable to live in, considering the special training that Yifei is currently undertaking, he is still too lazy to toss back and forth.

Of course, since it was the weekend, it was impossible not to relax, and after instructing Yifei to practice the whip technique and secret weapon technique for a day on Saturday, Lin Yuquan drove to a large theater in Sault Saint Mary in the evening.

"Oh. Fortunately, there is "Iron Man", so you don't have to go to other theaters. Looking at the huge poster at the entrance of the theater, Lin Yuquan said to Liu Yifei beside him with a smile.

"Well, the reputation on the website for its premiere last night is very good, it should be good!" Liu Yifei said with a smile.

Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, "Iron Man" received an absolutely overwhelming reputation in the critics after its premiere last night, "an eye-catching, convincing, real superhero fantasy film", "the smartest superhero movie in a long time", "I haven't seen such a frenzy for many years." At the same time, it's such a cute and fun superhero", "Downey gives that great, fanatical energy to the characters. He shines brightly even in the most light-hearted moments of the film", "There is no better place to do it than Robert Jr. Downey is more correct, more convincing, and more brilliant casting" The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Daily News, The Washington Post, Entertainment Online, and Movie Review have rarely had a commercial film receive such high ratings.

"It's really exciting, let's go, let's go and see this blockbuster that opens the curtain of this year's summer file."

Compared with the previous two years, the official opening of this year's summer file is slightly earlier two or three days, following the 02 "Spider-Man 1", 03 "X-Men 2", 04 "Van Helsing", 05 "Heavenly Dynasty", 06 "Mission Impossible 3", 07 "Spider-Man 3", this year's opening work is an investment of 140 million US dollars, in 4105 theaters on a large scale of the blockbuster blockbuster "Iron Man".

This first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is based on the popular comic of the same name from Marvel Comics. Directed by Jon. Favreau was a second-rate actor with little accomplishment in acting, but gradually transformed into a director, and later became famous with "Christmas Elf" released in '03, a $33 million mid-budget comedy shot by New Line Films, which eventually grossed $220 million worldwide. And the starring role of the film is including Robert Jr. Downey and Gwyneth. Paltrow, including well-known actors, in any way, there is no controversy about this film as the opening film of this year's summer file.

In addition to "Iron Man", several high-profile new films were released this week, with 2,837 theaters theaterd. "The Bridesmaid" starring Dempsey, released in 1,103 theaters, "Rambo's Son", which was concocted by a teenager who was looking forward to "First Blood" and decided to imitate a selfie, and "Red Belt", an action drama film about a jiu-jitsu master, was released in 320 theaters.

If you add the previously released and unreleased films such as "Surrogate Mother", "Forget the Negative Girl", "Nimes Island", "Murder Night", "King of Kung Fu", "Decisive 21 Points", "Fatal Corner 2", "88 Minutes" and other films, this summer file still seems quite lively.

Although Lin Yuquan is not too picky about movies, since it is the beginning of the summer season, there is a blockbuster production like "Iron Man", he naturally chose to watch "Iron Man" with Yifei without hesitation, speaking of which, how many fans and audiences choose to enter the theater, not to see the excitement of blockbusters on the big screen.

"Virginia, I don't need you anymore." On the big screen, Obadai in a behemoth-like gray steel suit. Stan points the right hand of the Iron Man, armed with a terrifying weapon, at Virginia. Potts, said in a hideous low voice, seeing Virginia. Potts, the sexy and charming female assistant, was about to die, and there were bursts of unbearable exclamations in the theater.

And at this critical juncture, with the sound of "hey" from high in the sky, Tony, who was wearing a new red and gold steel suit. Stark turned into a streamer of light and slammed into Obadi, who had no time to react. Stan, in an instant, the behemoth gray steel man is knocked out, crashing through two buildings, and finally falling onto the bustling street, which suddenly becomes chaotic.

"It's really good." Lin Yuquan let out an exclamation again, although the visual effects of "Iron Man" are due to funding, of course, it is more likely to be due to the relationship between the director. It's not too prominent. At least it's a far cry from last year's "Transformers" where the main character was an Autobot. But overall it is really of high quality, especially little Lot. Donnie's performance is absolutely awesome enough to put a bohemian, talented playboy Tony. Stark played it just right, and as the Film Review commented, there is no better place to play it than Robert Jr. Downey was more correct, more convincing, and more sparkling casting.

"Oh. It's so exciting, Brother Yuquan, what do you think? As soon as he came out of the theater, Liu Yifei immediately said with a smile.

"It's not bad, but it would be perfect if the special effects and some of the plots could be better." Lin Yuquan said with a smile that in his eyes, although it is not as exaggerated as the media commented, "Iron Man" is a commercial masterpiece, and there are really not many films that can compare with it in recent years.

"I think so, too, there are too few VFX. Especially in the fighting part, there is a feeling that it is not too enjoyable. Brother Yuquan, guess how much the movie grossed in its opening weekend? Liu Yifei turned his head to look at Lin Yuquan.

"100 million, even if it's not 100 million, it's definitely not much worse?" Lin Yuquan smiled confidently, looking at the box office of movie premieres in the summer in recent years, he made a guess quite easily, the super large opening scale of 4105 theaters, the well-known comic book superheroes in the United States, the good reputation of media fans, plus Paramount's generous publicity, combined with this kind of factors, if the box office of "Iron Man" in the opening weekend does not get close to 100 million or so, it is definitely a failure, at least in his opinion.

In the first week of May, "Iron Man", which invested $140 million, made a big hit and earned $100 million in three days over the weekend, and far exceeded the box office schedule of the outside world, and it topped the North American weekend box office charts from May 2 to May 4, 2008.

Why is there such a statement, because before that, given that it is the first part of the series, it lacks big-name directors and box office superstars with full box office appeal, plus the superhero "Iron Man" is not as popular as Spider-Man, Superman, X-Men, Batman, and the outside world's box office expectations for "Iron Man" are generally based on the original box office table of "Fantastic Four", speculating that its opening weekend box office was 60 million to 75 million US dollars, Of that amount, $75 million is already a box office figure in a rather optimistic scenario.

However, when the real box office of "Iron Man" came out, many people were immediately dumbfounded, and too many people realized that they far underestimated the strong box office potential brought by the people-friendly background of "Iron Man" that integrated the American characteristics of "manufacturing" into it.

The $100 million North American weekend box office of the premiere made "Iron Man" the second largest "non-sequel movie" in film history after "Spider-Man 1". And even if you count all the movies, this unexpected good result has helped "Iron Man" become the top 10 of the highest North American premiere weekend of all time, just in tenth place, ranking "Spider-Man" 1 and 3, "Shrek" 2 and 3, "Pirates of the Caribbean" 2 and 3, "Star Wars Prequel 3", "X-Men 3", "Harry. Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and nine other films.

Not only that, but overseas, "Iron Man" also has a good box office schedule, although overseas popularity is far less than "Spider-Man".

", "Superman", "Batman", but in 53 countries and regions outside the United States, "Iron Man" still earned $96.8 million at the box office.

As a result, "Iron Man" attracted as much as $201 million worldwide in its first weekend, which undoubtedly detonated this year's summer file.

The box office trend of "The King of Kung Fu" also did not surprise Lin Yuquan, due to unsatisfactory word-of-mouth, this week, the irreversible box office decline of "The King of Kung Fu" Yan zhòng, in the North American weekend box office list from May 2 to May 4, "The King of Kung Fu" was only worthy of 3.57 million US dollars, ranking 6th in the box office list, compared with last week's box office decline of 59%.

And this is the second consecutive week of ultra-high decline in "The King of Kung Fu", in the last week, "The King of Kung Fu" finally received 8.73 million US dollars, only ranked fifth in the weekly box office list, with a box office decline of 58&, a movie with an investment of 70 million US dollars, three weeks have only accumulated 40.66 million US dollars, I have to say, it was a great failure. According to the current box office trend, the film is destined to be difficult to break through the North American box office of 50 million.

The same is true in China, due to the gimmick of Li Lianjie and Cheng Long's first screen showdown. Last week. "The King of Kung Fu" was released. The spring schedule that immediately detonated was not particularly noisy, and the box office of 85.3 million yuan was swept in 4 days, such a box office success not only set a box office record for the opening week in April of the previous year, but also second only to "Transformers" last year's 98 million and "Red Cliff" 95.31 million the year before last.

However, dragged down by word of mouth, "The King of Kung Fu" only received 46.8 million this week, a drop of 45%. That's bad enough for a star-studded blockbuster that only came out last Thursday.

And if the box office results of "Iron Man" are appreciated, and the box office of "The King of Kung Fu" is regrettable, then the box office results of "Fatal Bend 2" make Lin Yuquan quite satisfied.

This week, "Fatal Bend 2" collected another $950,000, which may not be a big deal, and it didn't even enter the top 10 of the charts, but you know, this is the fifth week of "Fatal Bend 2" has been released. Coupled with the previous four weeks, the cumulative box office of "Fatal Bend 2" has reached $44.27 million. Breaking $50 million at the North American box office is already a sure thing.

For a horror film with an investment of only $15 million, could it be more demanding?

Of course, North America is just the beginning, "Fatal Bend 2" has won $8.2 million at the box office in two weeks since it landed overseas last week, and as the film lands in more countries and regions, how the subsequent box office performance will be related to the profitability of "Fatal Bend 2".

As for the biggest impact of this week's box office results, it is natural that "Iron Man" successfully ignited people's enthusiasm for the summer file, making countless people's eyes firmly locked in this summer.

In the summer of the same period last year, when "Spider-Man 3" kicked off the summer season with a record opening weekend box office result of $148 million, "Shrek 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World" appeared one after another, resulting in an unprecedented box office battle of the third episode of the three super-grossing sequels at the same time.

So this year, in the next three weeks, "Speed Racer", "The Legend of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4", three major productions with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, will attack one after another, and what kind of sparks will they rub with "Iron Man 2"? Countless people are waiting to see

The sound of the mobile phone vibrating came from his trouser pocket, but Lin Yuquan turned a deaf ear, his eyes were firmly fixed on the monitor screen, and a voice came out of his mouth that could be heard by everyone on the set: "Okay, very good, Karan, your brows should be wrinkled a little more, you have a headache, that's it, you did a great job, everyone rest for a while." ”

After shouting excitedly, Lin Yuquan got up and took out his mobile phone by the way, when he saw the missed call from Feng Bigang displayed on the mobile phone screen, he was slightly puzzled, and then walked to the side and dialed the phone: "Hey, Director Feng, it's rare for you to call me, is there something wrong?" ”

"Well, the Golden Horse Awards have announced their jury president this year." Feng Bigang didn't joke this time, and said directly.

"Who?" Lin Yuquan immediately asked.

"Wu Yusen." Feng Bigang said concisely.

"Wu Yusen." Lin Yuquan did not hide his surprise between his words, he really didn't expect it, to be exact, he didn't think about who the chairman of the jury of this year's Golden Horse Awards was, but in his opinion, it shouldn't be Wu Yusen, he asked suspiciously: "Why isn't it Li Yu?" ”

"How do I know?" Feng Bigang said angrily: "When I saw this news report just now, it was quite incredible, but I have a guess, but I don't know, right?" ”

"Oh, what speculation?" Lin Yuquan asked with interest.

"Unless it's on Li Yan's side."

"Hey." Looking at the newspaper report in front of him about the Golden Horse Awards announcing the chairman of the jury of this year's Golden Horse Awards, Jiao Xiongping couldn't help but sigh, why is Li Yu not available? For Wu Yusen to be the chairman of the jury of this year's Golden Horse Awards, she is not satisfied, such dissatisfaction is not for Wu Yusen himself, if it is in previous years, she welcomes Wu Yusen as the chairman of the jury of the Golden Horse Awards, it is really a special situation this year, the Film Directors Association Commendation Conference is obviously not good, people are Lin Yuquan and Chen Kaige, two top directors in the mainland, as the chairman of the final preliminary jury, and they are looking for outsiders for the Golden Horse Awards, well, Wu Yusen is the son-in-law of Baodao.

From the bottom of her heart, she naturally hopes that Li Yu will be the chairman of the jury of this year's Golden Horse Awards, Li Yu is the world's most influential treasure island film, and he will serve as the chairman of the jury of the Golden Horse Awards, which can show the momentum of the Golden Horse Awards in response to the sudden rise of the commendation conference.

It's a pity that Li Yu is really not available, and the other party is now busy preparing for his new film "Making Woodstock", which will start shooting around September, and he can't find time to organize the work of this year's Golden Horse Awards.

In addition to Li Yu, although there are many directors in Baodao, such as Hou Xiaoxian, Cai Mingliang, Li Xing, Zhu Yanping, Niu Chengze and others, these directors are not to mention on a global scale, even if they are only in the Chinese area, they are far from having the same personal influence as Lin Yuquan and Chen Kaige. As soon as Lin Yuquan and Chen Kaige were announced as the chairmen of the preliminary evaluation jury of the commendation conference, they immediately caused a huge sensation in the Chinese area.

In desperation, the Golden Horse Awards found Wu Yusen, who had been an international director, just let Wu Yusen, the son-in-law of Baodao, fight against Lin Yuquan and Chen Kaige. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you for the monthly ticket of the eight-year Shenkeng and the tips from Fei Chang's two friends, Man, and Don't Be So Arrogant.