Chapter 217: The Curtain Opens in September (Subscription Requested)
"Soon, the first trailer for Painted Skin is out. [”
It was late at night, and the vast expanse of the land was pitch black except for the occasional glimmer of light.
At this time, in the men's dormitory of a university in Kyoto, an urgent cry suddenly sounded.
Because school had just started, although it was already 12 o'clock in the evening, there was no power outage in the dormitory.
"Oh, it's finally here."
"yes, I can't wait."
"Quick, open it and take a look."
After the cheers, the three of them immediately rushed to the person who had made the initial call, although everyone had a computer, but it was obviously more exciting for everyone to watch together at this time.
The man didn't talk nonsense, and then clicked on the video with his hands and feet, and played it in full screen.
In the video, the logo of the Dawning Film Company first appeared, followed by a valley like a fairyland on the computer screen, and at the moment when the valley appeared, the eyes of the four people were firmly attracted, only to see that in the valley, the secluded green grass rippled with vibrant greenery, in the forest, on the grass, you can see all kinds of flowers everywhere, some have seen, and there are no more seen, there are white, red, purple, the colors are gorgeous and colorful, it is really beautiful, and there are clouds and mist in the middle, and there is a little more fairy air out of thin air, Such a beautiful view, just a glance, is refreshing.
"It's beautiful." One of them couldn't help but sigh with emotion, but was immediately glared at by the other and hurriedly stopped.
The wind blew gently, and the crystal dew on a green leaf gently slid down. It shines in the air. The camera zooms in. A beautiful figure was faintly reflected in the dewdrops. At this time, the camera suddenly switched, and the owner of the figure appeared on the screen, which was a spotless fox with snow-white fur and nine swaying tails on its tail.
This is the legendary nine-tailed demon fox, the four of them were shocked, and their hearts invariably sounded the name, and they knew the information of "Painted Skin" in advance, of course, they knew that one of the protagonists in the film was the demon fox played by Zhou Xun. And this should be the demon fox.
Although I have long known the amazing special effects of "Painted Skin" of up to 16 million US dollars, at the moment when the nine-tailed demon fox appeared, the four of them were involuntarily suppressed, this special effect is too realistic, and similar scenes seen in previous film and television dramas, the nine-tailed demon fox is no longer just a simple figure, but so lifelike, and even the hair on the body can be seen clearly.
And compared with the realistic image, what is even more amazing is what kind of nine-tailed demon fox this is. Words seem to be indescribable its thrilling look, it is like a gentle and noble lady. Walking slowly from the beautiful valley with extremely elegant steps, this picture is so beautiful, and the beauty is breathtaking.
The four of them blushed and seemed to be a little out of breath, but their eyes were reluctant to leave the screen for a moment.
At this time, the camera came to a close-up, and the eyes of the nine-tailed demon fox appeared on the screen, and then, an incomparably clear and pure look suddenly fell into the eyes of the four people, just a look, which suddenly made the hearts of the four people agitated, and suddenly, there was a hint of laughter in that eye, it was about to transform, and the natural thought flashed, and the four of them immediately became excited, and their attention was unprecedentedly concentrated, for fear of missing every minute and second of the transformation of the nine-tailed demon fox.
"On September 28th, "Painted Skin" was shockingly released, I am waiting for you in the theater, so stay tuned for the second wave of trailers in 3 days."
With the appearance of bright words, a rather imposing word appeared in the ears of the four people.
"Your sister, don't you need to be so appetizing."
"I knew it would definitely be like this, if we let us see the demon fox transformation in advance, it would be okay."
"Hey, sad urging, early break, break at a critical time."
A wail and angry scolding sounded in the dormitory, of course, scolding and scolding, wailing and wailing, the four of them also knew that this was actually the marketing and publicity method of the film company, if everything was shown to everyone, who would go to the cinema! Generally speaking, a trailer is a deliberate cut of the best parts of a film to create a memorable impression and achieve an appealing effect.
Obviously, although it is only a short paragraph, the trailer for "Painted Skin" has already achieved the desired effect.
"Sure enough, a blockbuster is a blockbuster, this special effect is simply amazing, better than last year's "Red Cliff"." One of them praised.
"Of course, the special effects cost of "Red Cliff" is $10 million, do you think the extra $6 million spent is for nothing?" The other pouted.
"Hey, it's also a blockbuster, the visual effects are far worse, before "Wuji" was also claimed to have an investment of 350 million, not to mention compared with "Painted Skin", even if it is far from "Red Cliff". The third person said.
"Yes, there is also the trailer of "Night Banquet" released some time ago, the effect, tsk, I thought it was okay at the time, but now, don't talk about it, this time Feng Xiaogang is sad." The fourth person said hehehe.
"What is the sadness, other Chinese-language films, such as "The Battle of Red Cliffs" and "The City Full of Golden Armor", which will be released at the end of the year, who can compare with "Painted Skin", in fact, for Feng Xiaogang, as long as "Night Banquet" is good at the box office, people are more angry than people."
"That's right, it is estimated that there is no suspense about the annual box office champion."
"Hey, for sure, anyway, just rush this trailer, I'll go to the cinema to support "Painted Skin", and the blockbuster still has to be watched in the cinema to be good enough!"
"Me too, what I'm looking forward to the most is the nine-tailed demon fox transforming into an adult and painting skin."
"I'm a little different, I'm looking forward to the great spell confrontations inside."
"Let's look at it again, this time we'll turn off the lights."
"Okay."
At this time, all over the country, in North America, and in many parts of the world, countless people were excited because of the trailer of "Painted Skin".
The time was 12 o'clock in the morning Kyoto time, and the event, the trailer of "Painted Skin" was uploaded to Dawn.com, Youtobe, and major video websites around the world.
Time entered September, and as the special training of actors attended by everyone came to an end, the entire Shuguang Film Company was in full swing.
Liu Meng's "Ice is Sleeping Water" was launched in mid-August. Xu Jinglei, who has revised the script, is in full swing filming her third directorial work "Dreams into Reality". "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is almost ready. Filming will start in Hengdian on September 8th, after Gao Xixi finished filming "New Shanghai Beach", he was preparing for the new drama "Sweet Honey" written by Wang Wanping in the first half of the year, and the cast almost followed the team of "Happiness Like Flowers", Liu Ye, Jiang Yan, Wang Luodan, Luo Jin.
After finishing the filming of "Soldier Assault", Kang Honglei was busy doing the later stage of the TV series, Qiu Qingyi found Chen Jiashang as the director of "Painted Wall" and began to prepare for the filming of the film, and Ning Hao did the later stage of "Love Call Transfer" in July. After more than a month of preparation, the filming of "Crazy Racing", which was conceived last year, will start in mid-September, and the male lead is Huang Bo, which is also the first film and television drama in which he sings the leading role after joining the Yuquan family.
And the promotion of "Painted Skin" is also in full swing.
Of course, the promotion of "Painted Skin" cannot only have a trailer, in a very artistic studio arranged inside CCTV TV, the audience is full of video audiences, and on the stage of the studio stands a man in a suit and a friendly smile, and there may be no one who is familiar with CCTV supporters who does not know him, he is Zhu Jun. The host of the Spring Festival Gala for nine consecutive years, and here is the broadcast site of "Art Life" planned and hosted by him.
1. End the actor's special training. Lin Yuquan devoted himself to the promotion of "Red Cliff", although he himself actually doesn't like it very much, but as the director and the biggest gold signboard of the film, he is duty-bound, not to mention who doesn't want his works to be better at the box office.
The trailer is only one of them, and more of it is that he and the main creators of the crew shuttle through various TV programs, media magazine interviews, and press conferences, and "Art Life" is also a program that he will participate in early on.
"Okay, dear audience friends, hello everyone, welcome to the studio of "Art Life", this guest who is a guest of "Art Life" today, he has many identities, he is a director who has made several movies, has set an amazing box office record, and is also a very good actor, has won many awards as the best actor, and he is also an outstanding martial arts instructor, film and television screenwriter, costume designer, and even the helm of many companies, so how does he balance these roles, Among these roles, which role does he like the most, come, let us applaud and invite, the famous young director Lin Yuquan. Zhu Jun said with a smile.
The scene immediately burst into warm applause, and many people stretched their necks, waiting for Lin Yuquan to appear.
"Director Lin, it's your turn to play." The staff said.
Lin Yuquan nodded, and then walked onto the stage amid the applause of the audience.
"Hello, Director Lin, it's a pleasure for you to be a guest of our "Art Life". Zhu Jun shook hands with Lin Yuquan warmly, in fact, the two had already chatted quite well backstage.
"Hello, Zhu Jun, in fact, I am very happy to be a guest of "Art Life", because this proves that I am still a successful director, I used to think that when I can be on "Art Life", then I should retire, but I didn't expect this day to come too early, now, I don't want to retire!"
The audience burst into laughter.
"It turns out that in your opinion, Director Lin, our "Art Life" is a program that is only on the stage when the guests are about to retire, I think director Feng Xiaogang and director Zhang Yi will definitely not agree with this statement." Zhu spread his hands and smiled.
"Haha." The audience laughed even more.
"Really? Then I don't have to worry about it. Lin Yuquan shrugged and smiled.
Lin Yuquan's demeanor and language made the audience really can't help laughing, Zhu Jun also laughed, and after smiling, he said: "Okay, I thought Director Lin was joking, but it turned out to be true, come, please take a seat." ”
"Just before you didn't appear, I introduced your identity, you see, you are the director who made "Huo Yuanjia" and "Red Cliff" to create a box office record film, an actor who has won the best actor, and the manager of several large-scale companies, in addition to many identities such as martial arts instructors and screenwriters, I want to ask, among so many identity roles, which identity do you like the most?" After sitting down, Zhu Jun immediately asked.
"Director." Lin Yuquan said without thinking.
"Director?" Zhu Jun asked uncertainly again.
"Yes, director. I'm a director first and foremost. followed by actors and screenwriters. It's something else. Lin Yuquan said.
"Really."
"Is there anything fake that can't be done?" Lin Yuquan smiled.
"Hehe, why do you like the director the most, and not other identities?" Zhu Jun then asked.
"How to say, I am a director in order to shoot the story in my heart, and then share with you many elements such as wonderful, shocking, and moving in the story, and the reason why I will be an actor, a screenwriter, and a boss is actually to better complete this idea, so the director is the core. Other identities exist because of this. Lin Yunquan smiled.
"Okay, I kind of get it." Zhu Jun smiled: "Director Lin, we all know that you just shot a movie this year, "Painted Skin" adapted from the story of the same name in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", this movie will be released on the 28th at the end of the month, and the two waves of trailers of "Painted Skin" have caused great repercussions in the past few days, let's take a look at one of them. ”
As Zhu Junhua's words fell, the lights dimmed at the scene, and the first wave of trailer videos appeared on the big screen behind the two, although many people at the scene had watched it several times. But I still can't help but immerse myself in it again.
"Oh, that's amazing. After the trailer came out, many people were amazed by this realistic nine-tailed demon fox, Director Lin, can you tell us how the CG special effects of this nine-tailed demon fox are made? After Zhu Jun admired, he asked.
"No problem, I believe everyone can see it, the special effects of this nine-tailed demon fox are extremely realistic, but I'm afraid no one will think of what kind of hard work has been put into making this nine-tailed demon fox. First of all, the special effects team watched hundreds of hours of fox videos, and in order to understand the real fox, they first had to capture the real expressions and action effects from the real fox, and then, the special effects team had to take a picture of a real fox as a reference and conduct research, and then the special effects artists started with the skeleton used to control the basic movements of the fox, and then added muscles, skin, and hair, Hundreds of special effects personnel worked together, and it took five months to shape the nine-tailed demon fox that everyone saw. Here, I would like to sincerely thank all the special effects artists who have worked hard for the special effects of "Painted Skin", you have worked hard. Lin Yuquan said with emotion.
Of course, such realistic and amazing special effects are inseparable from the appearance of the nine-tailed demon fox and a series of facial expressions provided by him, otherwise although there will still be a nine-tailed demon fox, there is no momentum of the real nine-tailed demon fox.
The audience, including Zhu Jun, was shocked at how difficult it was to form such special effects.
"Behind any success is inseparable from sweat and dedication, after learning about the special effects system, I believe everyone has a deep understanding of this." Zhu Jun sighed.
Next, under the guidance of Zhu Jun, the two further chatted about the story in front of and behind the scenes of "Painted Skin", and half an hour later, Lin Yuquan's guest on "Art Life" came to an end.
"Director Lin, the recording has worked hard." After finishing the recording, Zhu Jun said with a smile.
"No, speaking of hard work, your host is much harder than me, do you have time in the evening, I invite everyone in the column group to dinner." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.
"How can this work, if you want to please, please also ask our column group." Zhu Jun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.
"What's not going to work, speaking of which, it's also troublesome for you this time, originally it needed to be scheduled for broadcast after recording, but because of the publicity of "Painted Skin", you need to work overtime to edit and disrupt the schedule, which brings so much inconvenience to everyone, if I don't express it, I'm afraid that our Shuguang Film Company will not be able to promote "Art Life" in the future." Lin Yuquan said.
"Hehe, since Director Lin wants to have a treat, then okay, but let's say it first, even if you have a treat, our "Art Life" will not open the door casually." With a smile in his eyes, Zhu Jun did not continue to postpone.
"Understood." Lin Yuquan smiled.
After the recording of "Art Life" ended, Lin Yuquan and the crew of "Painted Skin" became more and more busy in publicity, and the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as overseas trips, were extremely busy.
""Painted Skin" was screened in Chengdu, and the extreme special effects shocked the audience."
"The crew of "Painted Skin" came to Hong Kong in a whirlwind, and 10,000 people picked up the airport, and the momentum was huge."
"Lin Yuquan is popular in South Korea, and thousands of Korean fans call him by his Chinese name."
""Painted Skin" was screened in Los Angeles, and many Hollywood stars helped the red carpet."
With the promotion of the itinerary, "Painted Skin" has set off an amazing momentum around the world, and the eyes of countless fans have attracted it, and they are itching to wait, and the time is getting closer and closer to the premiere on September 28.
The September that countless people are looking forward to kicked off with the "Tokyo Trial" released on September 1, maybe this is not a blockbuster with outstanding visual effects, but the excitement of the film has not been able to live up to everyone's expectations, the box office results in the first week of release are remarkable, and the box office has won a total of 3.8 million in three days over the weekend, ranking first in the box office list of domestic films this week, which is really a good result for a small and medium-cost movie. What's even more gratifying is that even in the next week, facing the impact of the sci-fi blockbuster "X-Men 3", the box office of the film did not fall but rose, winning 6.15 million box office, continuing to top the box office list of domestic films.
The top of the total weekly box office list in the past two weeks was won by "Garfield 2: Two Cats" and "X-Men 3".
However, Hollywood blockbusters have not been able to continue to come out, because on September 14th, Feng Xiaogang came with "Night Banquet", as a Chinese blockbuster that has attracted much attention, "Night Banquet" has invested 578 film copies, 180 digital screens of unprecedented luxury screening scale, this scale in China 2600 effective screens accounted for more than 61%, plus the film is a hot topic of media, audience, and market attention, so once released "Night Banquet" Undoubtedly, it topped the weekly box office list from September 11th to September 17th, and broke the domestic box office record in September in recent years with a proud box office result of 57 million in the first four days, and became the box office champion of the opening weekend of new films so far this year.
What is domineering, this is called domineering, under the pressure of "Night Banquet", "X-Men 3", which was only released last Friday, only won a total of 6 million box office in a week, and the rest of the Hollywood blockbusters are even more miserable, "Cars", "Garfield 2: Two Cats", "Caller", the box office of Hollywood blockbusters that have been killed all over the world has plummeted, among which the highest-grossing "Cars" has only 500,000 box office.
Driven by "Night Banquet", the theater audience returned to the million mark, with a total of 1.864 million people, an increase of 107%, and the weekly box office jumped to 60 million, an increase of about 153% over last week.
This is the power of Chinese blockbusters, no matter how you Hollywood movies, I swept myself and saved the city alone.
In the following week, "Night Banquet" continued its sweeping journey, and the box office curve of this week rose all the way, winning another 51 million in a single week, and winning the weekly box office list champion from September 18th to September 24th, and the cumulative box office of 108 million in two weeks also exceeded the previous 105 million and 102 million of "The Da Vinci Code" and "King Kong".
By this time, the "Night Banquet" that came out of nowhere had swept away the grievances of the previous summer Chinese movies with domineering results, and cut all Hollywood blockbusters down in an uproar.
In the face of such an opponent, the box office of Hollywood blockbusters this week naturally fell further, and the brave Wolverine "X-Men 3" received a pitiful box office of 2.1 million, while the highest box office of the rest of Hollywood blockbusters was only 300,000.
It's really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.
But it's not too late, because next week's September 28th, two other Chinese blockbusters "Painted Skin" and "Baby Project" will debut.
What will a "Night Banquet" that has crushed Hollywood blockbusters to the fullest, and the other two Chinese blockbusters that are not at all inferior or even surpassing, will turn the situation into place?
Especially the most anticipated "Painted Skin", last year's Chinese New Year's "Red Cliff" broke the box office record of Chinese films in the mainland, this time, how far can this work, which is also from Lin Yuquan, go?
Countless people are looking forward to it. (To be continued......)
ps: 2-in-1 chapter, last night's cardin, so the first chapter is to make up for yesterday, and today's second update will be written slowly after dinner.