Chapter 99: Work! Job! (3)
Shen Zhenghui wants to revise the script, and the script is tentatively titled "Fenglin High School", so as to make the stick's "Volcano High School" a follow-up film.
This kind of funny kung fu movies all need an exaggerated theme, the stick's "Volcano High School" is written about a book of martial arts secrets hidden in the school that can dominate the world, the setting of "Wind Forest High School" will naturally not be so simple, Shen Zhenghui combined "Heaven and the World" and "The King of Fighters" to set up that the person who took away the supreme rule of Fenglin High School can obtain the inheritance of a certain martial artist, so Fenglin High School has attracted the attention of martial artists all over the world (limited to Japan), and they have sent their students and children to Fenglin High School, I hope to be able to obtain the inheritance of this martial artist, but in fact, Fenglin High School is a place of Gu refining, because enough martial artists have entered this high school, so the combat level of the martial artists has improved because of the battles between each other, the so-called inheritance of the martial artists is just an excuse, in fact, the progress of the martial artists comes from self-breakthrough in the battle.
This setting doesn't seem to be plump enough, Shen Zhenghui absorbed the storyline of Han Tang's "Wind Boys", and modified it to the school's principal can spread rumors and attract martial artists into the school, his ultimate goal is to find out the legendary family heirs with the soul of martial arts, use the latest scientific and technological power to absorb the power of various martial artists, and become the overlord of the martial arts world.
Anyway, as a popcorn movie, it is enough for the story to be complete and interesting, and it doesn't need much logic, and the whole film still relies on stunts and handsome men and beauties to support it. Shen Zhenghui wants to play the detective who infiltrates the school as an undercover agent to find the daughter of a missing martial artist, and Tomoaki Aonuma plays the female transfer student who happens to transfer to the school with him, which is basically the stalk of "Wind Boys". In short, when the story was written, Lu Yang reviewed it and felt that he had no opinion, and he had read all the outrageous scripts, and there was basically no problem with this script. The key to this film lies in the martial arts instruction and post-production, as long as the story is passable.
Shen Zhenghui began the difficult preparatory work, before Miyamoto helped him choose people, prepare the crew, contact the filming venue, etc., but now that Miyamoto is gone, he has to do everything himself. Fukuda Mitsumi sent several secretaries to assist him, but when Shen Zhenghui had to make a decision, Shen Zhenghui's egg hurt when he was annoyed by the small work report, but fortunately, he still remembered his determination and kept gritting his teeth and persevering.
Lu Yang's work in Hong Kong is very smooth, Yuan Jiaban has been famous since he participated in the production of "Hacker Empire" released in 1999, and he has been making appointments in Hollywood, and several master martial arts instructors are too busy to separate. Fortunately, what Shen Zhenghui asked for was not the boss of the Yuan family's class, Lu Yang brought Yuan Xiangren, the second person in the Yuan family's class, to Japan, Yuan Xiangren brought several apprentices, and first trained the actors arranged by Shen Zhenghui, Shen Zhenghui was ready to sign a martial arts instructor, and he also chose from these apprentices.
According to Shen Zhenghui's idea, the actors who appear in this film, the women try to use the people of the Queens office, and the men try to use newcomers as much as possible, and he does not have full confidence in this film, what he wants is to use beauties and handsome guys to brush the box office, and at the same time pave the way for "The King of Fighters". As a result, Genesys heard the news that Shen Zhenghui was preparing to make a film with an investment of 500 million yen, and took the initiative to come to the door to promote his actors.
Kasuga and Jennis can be regarded as a happy cooperation, the cooperation of consecutive movies and TV series, although Nakaju Masahiro in "The Cruel History of Peking High School" has not risen more because of this film, but his salary has a benchmark because of this; "Sister's Boyfriend" Namashita Tomohisa's table xiàn can also be regarded as remarkable, because of this, Genesys decided to let him debut in advance, fame and the like, the benefits in his hands are real, so when Genesys heard that the film with a cost of 500 million began to be made, he naturally came to the door.
"Did you tell them that this was an action movie? Need a long time to prepare and train? Shen Zhenghui asked Mitsumi Fukuda, this is the difficulty of action movies, for the crew who have not accumulated, if they shoot without reserves, it is very likely that they will be injured and affect the shooting, so there is a long preparation time before the official shooting. In the future, Jet Lee had a long training time before filming kung fu movies.
Naturally, there is no problem with the actresses under the Queens office, this can be regarded as the weight loss benefits given to them by the company, and those who dare not participate will go back and take a closer look at the contract to know what to do, Genesys actors, Shen Zhenghui really can't use them like livestock.
"Of course I said it, but Janis is very enthusiastic about this, and even uses us as a free training base, longing for more people in the crew!" Mitsumi Fukuda replied.
Japanese! Shen Zhenghui thought like this, "Okay," he said, "let them bring the actors' information and I will sift through it." ”
"Let me tell you in advance, although we have a good time working with Genesys, it is better to keep a few important roles." "We can't give them the impression that we can only work with them. ”
"Of course." For such a thing, Shen Zhenghui is already familiar with it.
"By the way, the box office numbers of "Tokyo Fortress" and "Puhai Fortress" in some areas have come out, you can take a look, anyway, after watching this number of jù, Murahama Shoji has decided that all the power of GONZO will be used for the production of movie animation, "Full Metal Frenzy 1" can only be handed over to you and Liu Xin to make zuò, otherwise, it will be at least 2004 for GONZO to make it himself, this is still "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" It is expected that Shoji Hama, a village of Fujie, will have to come back to produce the results of the zuòTV anime. ”
"You must not say that in front of him."
"Of course, this guy is thinking about being the second in Jilib now, and I won't pour cold water on him, but as far as I'm concerned, whether his film is profitable or losing, it's good news for me."
"Okay, thank you, that's good news for me." Shen Zhenghui put down the phone, took out his notebook and carefully checked his work in the plan, seeing that the work was going on normally, he breathed a sigh of relief, the next step is for the actor to train, Lu Yang is already on the way, it is best to complete the training and start up before the New Year, the film can be released in the first half of 2000, of course, this is the ideal result.
Immediately afterwards, Shen Zhenghui boarded the Japanese version of IMDB that he invested in, called the Home of Pictures, as soon as he got on this website, Shen Zhenghui thought of Facebook and Renren.com, thinking that if the Home of Pictures and social networking sites similar to Renren were united, then whether it was for the promotion of the website or the promotion of the film, it was a good effect, but at the moment I don't know whether the technical conditions of such a website have been realized, Shen Zhenghui feels that blogs, **, ** and other ideas are printed with money, But if the time is not right and the promotion is not effective, they cannot all be turned into money.
Removing these natural associations from his mind, Shen Zhenghui boarded the House of Pictures and began to check the box office figures of the two films, "Tokyo Fortress" and "Puhai Fortress".
At present, "Tokyo Fortress" has been released for a month, and the box office has exceeded 5 billion yen, and according to this trend, it can be released for at least another month. "Puhai Fortress" has been in theaters for two weeks, and the box office has exceeded 2 billion yen, which is also a good number, and it is estimated that the box office can be 3 billion yen a month. In addition, he saw on the website that the two films have been scheduled to be released in the United States and Europe, and the release time is sooner or later, and the box office number has not yet come out.
Shen Zhenghui boarded IMDB again, the Yankees are complaining about "Tokyo Fortress", Japanese animation has cultivated a large group of moviegoers in the United States, plus this special theme, the box office is actually not bad, it was released in the United States for 2 weeks, and the box office has accumulated 17 million US dollars, which is converted into 2 billion yen, and the release time of "Puhai Fortress" has been postponed by the distributor, and the scheduled release time seems to be next week.
Shen Zhenghui appeared on China's time network again, which is also one of the series of websites he invested in Yuhang, which shows that "Puhai Fortress" was released in China for a month, thanks to the collective viewing and spontaneous promotion of fans because of the film's word-of-mouth, the cumulative box office reached 87 million yuan, if there is no special reason, if it continues to be released, it may be possible to break the 100 million box office mark, it has become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and it can even hit the record of the highest-grossing domestic film in history.
In any case, this 87 million film has shocked the Chinese film and television industry, because in 1999, it had trampled the 42 million and 30 million box office of Director Feng's "See You or Leave" and Director Zhang's "No One is Missing". Of course, there are some unexpected factors in this, PLA organized a collective viewing of the film director zhì schools in some areas, whether it is primary school, middle school also organized a collective viewing of the movie, the director zhì box office in 2 weeks is still on the rise, of course, when everyone begins to discuss the box office of the film in the future, this film is also controversial, one is that it is not clear whether it is a domestic film or a Japanese film in the real sense, and the other is that its box office does not have a quasi, some people say that the box office involves false reporting, some people say that its box office was stolen, All in all, it's a muddled account. However, the box office of 87 million for reference still silenced the entire film industry.
Shen Zhenghui mentally calculated the box office, regardless of Japan, "Tokyo Fortress" has brought 2.5 billion yen to Murahama Shoji at present, if you calculate the box office in Europe and the United States, plus videotapes, VCD, DVD and other peripherals, conservatively estimated, the cumulative income in the future will be more than 10 billion yen, no wonder Fukuda Mitsumi said that Murahama Shoji has no intention of making zuòTV animation, so he wants to use movies to cheat money.
Shen Zhenghui was thinking about things, the phone rang again, and Liu Xin called, "GONZO has decided, and all the TV animations will be handed over to us to make zuò." She was a little puffy on the other end of the phone.
"That's a good thing." Shen Zhenghui replied, "It's good to accumulate it well." ”
"It's 'Full Metal Mania,'" Ms. Liu said, "and I don't like the background. ”
"Okay, the overseer won't write your name, let Zhou Hua and Ma Zhen be traitors."
"Don't think! Be sure to write my name. Liu Xin said menacingly.
"Okay, what's the matter?" Shen Zhenghui asked.
"Murahama Shoji said that TV animation should not be named by a Chinese company, it must be produced in Japan, and he said that if we don't want to use the name GONZO, we can set up a separate company in Japan and cooperate with GONZO as a company."
"Puhai Fortress" Murahama Shoji is red-eyed, after paying a certain amount of cooperation fees, "Urahai Fortress" hung the name of the Chinese company zuò and magnificently turned around from China and returned to Japan, Murahama Shoji couldn't help but feel distressed when he looked at the box office, so he was resolutely unwilling to give up this piece of meat in TV animation.
"You discuss it with Fukuda, I agree to do this, you can make up your mind." Shen Zhenghui felt that he didn't have the energy to focus on this.
"In addition, if we set up a company, Murahama hopes to be able to recruit more artists." Liu Xin hesitated and said.
"He's going to expand his staff?"
"Well, I heard that he is already planning the topic after "Snow Wind"."
"He doesn't wait for the snow wind results to come out." After a deep groan, Shen Zhenghui said, "It's okay, try to recruit people, anyway, we have hoarded a lot of themes for TV animation." ”
"yes, I see." Liu Xin's tone on the phone was quite hesitant, "I heard that you are going to make a movie again?" ”
"Yes! This time it's a kung fu movie. ”
"Aren't you going to focus on anime in the future?"
"How so? I would like to make an anime into a live-action movie in the future! ”
"Oh." Liu Xin hung up the phone, Shen Zhenghui shook his head, and felt that the person on the other end of the phone seemed to be abnormal. He shook his head and refocused on his kung fu film.