The sky in Kyoto is drizzling, and when you go out, you can feel the cold wind blowing in your face, but the inside of the house is warm like spring, but at the moment in a certain villa in Kyoto, the atmosphere still seems a little oppressive.

"Come, drink a cup of ginseng tea to warm your stomach." Chen Hong came to Chen Kaige, who was frowning and looking at the weekly box office situation in his hand with ginseng tea.

"Hmm." Chen Kaige took the ginseng tea and put it on the table, did not drink it immediately, and his frowning brows did not stretch with it.

"In fact, our box office is already very good, you don't have too much pressure, at least there should be no problem in recovering the investment." Chen Hong glanced at the watch in Chen Kai's singer, and his eyes stopped at the numbers in the top two columns of the watch.

"I'm not worried about the box office, but about the comments, and now there is a lot of scolding on the Internet!" Chen Kaige sighed, his expression gloomy.

Chen Hong gently patted Chen Kaige's shoulder: "Kaige, don't think so much, many things are not something you can control at all, just take special effects, don't we want to do special effects well?" It is said that the special effects of the big production with an investment of 40 million US dollars are so bad, and they are not as good as "Red Cliff", but do they know that "Red Cliff" has smashed 10 million US dollars in special effects alone? Fans think that we are investing $40 million, but in fact our real investment is only $15 million, how can we compare with others. The reason why we are facing so much criticism now is precisely because everyone else is using the standard of $40 million to look at the film that we spent $15 million, and naturally there will be a huge psychological gap. ”

In fact, she is full of grievances, others think that the director and producer of blockbusters are so beautiful, but only she knows how difficult she and Chen Kaige have been in the past two years, with the name of the highest investment in the Chinese film industry at that time, she and Chen Kaige opened "Wu Ji" in the spotlight, looking for actors, film crew, soundtrack, martial arts director, art director, building scenes, special effects company She and Chen Kaige are very nerve-wracking in order to save money, how difficult it is to finally shoot "Wu Ji", of course she knows that the special effects in the United States are good, but I found an American special effects company, took "Wu Ji" and asked, if others said that if they wanted to do it, it would cost at least 800-10 million US dollars, and their total investment was only how much, and the cost of actors and crew alone accounted for a huge part, and spending so much money on special effects, the film did not need to be filmed, and in the end I could only find a Hong Kong special effects company, which was completely helpless without money.

Many people say that the investment in "Wuji" is higher than that of "Red Cliff", but it is far inferior to "Red Cliff", but is this their fault? Only laymen will look at it this way, insiders, as long as they compare the two movies, from the cast, special effects, costumes and props, martial arts instruction, to the scene layout, you can immediately see the huge difference between the two investments. But what can she do, dismantle the propaganda effect of film companies and investors, and make the real investment amount public, and no one will find Chen Kaige to make movies in the future, she and Chen Kaige can only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, carrying the name of investing 340 million bad movies, people are too helpless in this life.

"It's just that I'm too competitive, otherwise it wouldn't be like this, how good it would be to make my movies honestly." Chen Kaige's eyes were full of self-blame, just because he watched Zhang Yi's "Hero" achieve amazing results, and he didn't want to lag behind, he started the commercial film "Wuji" with envy and pride, and now it seems that he thinks too much and too beautiful, thinking that he can shoot well and can integrate art and commerce, but obviously this is not something that every director can do, and the final shot is a mess.

"How do you know if you can do it if you don't try, it doesn't matter if you fail once, take your time, the future is still long? You'll definitely have a chance to prove yourself later. Chen Hong looked at Chen Kaige with relief.

"yes, it's still long?" Chen Kaige looked at the rain curtain outside through the window, a little confused and determined, if he could, he wanted to make the movie he wanted to make.

"Okay, that's it." Lin Yuquan hung up Ding Value's phone, sat in the study, and happily looked at the drizzle outside the window.

For "Red Cliff", last week's shape shì as a whole is facing a difficult challenge, North America and the global market meet "King Kong", and the domestic and Hong Kong and Taiwan meet "Wuji", both of which are menacing, but fortunately, "Red Cliff" defended its position with good results.

After a week of fighting, in the mainland weekly box office list from December 12th to December 18th, "Wu Ji" is of course in the first place, following the first day of 22.15 million yuan, the next Friday to Sunday, still firmly occupy the top position of the single-day box office list, and finally achieved a box office of 74.52 million yuan in the first four days.

"Red Cliff" is in the case of a decrease in film scheduling and facing the impact of "Wuji", compared with last week's box office drop of 50.3, and another 43.27 million, so that the box office has accumulated 224.92 million yuan in three weeks, which is only one step away from the mainland box office record of 250 million yuan set by Zhang Yi's "Hero", if nothing else, it should not be a problem to break the record, but it is hopeless to surpass the mainland film box office record of 360 million set by "Titanic".

And on the weekend box office charts in North America from December 16th to December 18th, the shocking "King Kong" also did not have any unexpected airborne championships, but for a film with an investment of 200 million US dollars, and it was still produced by Peter. Jackson, a blockbuster directed by a world-renowned director, "King Kong" was slightly mediocre at the box office, not very satisfactory, only worthy of receiving $50 million at the weekend box office, plus the results of the 14th and 15th, the debut swept $66 million in five days, which is $1 million less than the box office of "The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe" that landed last week.

The second place is "The Legend of Narnia: Lion, Witch, Magic Wardrobe", this week this magic movie still maintains a strong ability to attract money, with a weekend box office of $31.18 million, and the current two-week cumulative box office of $112.5 million, which is expected to eventually break the 200 million mark.

Under the impact of the two, the box office of "Red Cliff" this week fell by 41% compared with last week, but it still surpassed "The Stone Family", which was just released on Friday, and was in third place. Counting the first two weeks, "Red Cliff" has now reached $138.1 million at the North American box office.

Overall, the box office performance of "Red Cliff" this week can be described as exceptionally good, and what is even more surprising is the shape of the theater release in the following weeks, although there will be "New Money Grabbing Couples", "Children and Daughters 2", "Gossip" and other films will be released next, but it is not a strong movie, and the genre of "Red Cliff" is completely different, it should not have much impact on the box office of "Red Cliff", plus the release schedule of winter files is usually relatively long, If the decline is controlled within a small range during the release period, and in the long run, a protracted battle will be fought, and the box office of "Red Cliff" will have a large room to rise in the future. The situation in China is also relatively similar, and next, although "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", "The Great Sage of Love", and "If Love" are released, it will not have a fatal impact on "Red Cliff", and the box office is still guaranteed.

In this way, the box office thing can finally be completely relieved.

"It's time to launch a new movie." Lin Yuquan sighed in his heart, withdrew his gaze from the window, and fell on the desk, where there were two scripts, one that had been completed, which was the new film he was about to shoot, and the other was the script that he had considered and gave up when he was about to finish.

For this new film, Lin Yuquan can be said to be painstaking, he initially considered whether to directly copy the stories in the memories of cultivators, or integrate them into the memories of cultivators according to the existing story framework, and then thought that this was the first time to really show the memories of cultivators, so he chose the latter, and locked the theme of the film as fairies and ghosts, through guò This film understands people, especially Westerners' acceptance of this type of film.

When it comes to fairies and ghosts, I am afraid that the history of no country can be filled with so many stories and characters of gods and ghosts like China, such as Pangu, Queen Mother of the West, Jade Emperor, City God, God of Wealth, Taishang Laojun, Tongtian Sect Master, Guanyin, Buddha Rulai, Seven Fairies, River God, Thunder God, Gonggong Flood, Zodiac, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Houyi Shooting the Sun, Female Snail Making People, Jingwei Reclamation, Snake Demon, Fox Demon, Cat Demon can be described as countless.

Moreover, these stories and characters have long been deeply rooted in the minds and bones of every descendant of Yan and Huang, even children can say a bunch of them lightly, not to mention that film and television dramas based on these fairy and ghost stories have long become an indispensable part of domestic film and television dramas and are well received by people.

The first problem facing Lin Yuquan is how to choose among so many fairy and ghost stories and characters? It was hard enough, and it took him a long time to decide.

In the end, he didn't choose a familiar story like "The Legend of the New White Lady" or "Journey to the West", because the 86 version of "Journey to the West" and Zhao Yazi's version of "The Legend of the New White Lady" are too classic, although the special effects are not worth mentioning in his eyes now, he may be able to get a huge box office with excellent special effects, but he will never be able to shoot a story that surpasses the original version, which he has already deeply experienced in the process of filming "Red Cliff", and he has no actors who surpass them.

He also did not choose Pangu, Queen Mother of the West, Jade Emperor, City God, God of Wealth, Taishang Laojun, Eight Immortals Across the Sea, Houyi Shooting the Sun and other mythological characters and mythological stories, such characters have long formed a fixed image in people's hearts, and such an image lacks the distinctive personality of the protagonist of modern movies, if it is not changed, it is difficult to get good results, as for changing, reshaping, not to mention whether the audience accepts it or not, anyway, he himself can't accept it, can you imagine a Jade Emperor with a hippie smile and an indecent face? The sense of disobedience is too strong.

Lin Yuquan is not picky, from his own point of view, he hopes that he can have more creative space, and no longer be subject to too many restrictions like the previous filming of "Huo Yuanjia" and "Red Cliff", and then on this basis, he can realize that the stories and characters he shoots can fully show the scenes in the memory of the cultivator, and meet his personal preferences, this is not capricious, because only if he likes the director, can he invest the greatest enthusiasm in creation, he doesn't want to shoot things he doesn't like, and I believe that no director likes it, but many directors do not have such capital, and he does. R1152