When Ning Huan devoted himself to the filming of this movie with great interest, he probably never imagined that he would be ignored by some people for a few years, scolded by some people, and regarded as a dog of the mainland regime by some people, but he himself had to bear loneliness, but for the traverser, this is also an opportunity for growth. He'll be patient enough to wait for his comeback.

Shen Zhenghui sometimes feels that there seems to be a problem with his growth and he has not suffered enough setbacks, so sometimes he seems to be unstable enough. Of course, compared to some people, he has suffered setbacks, but if he looks back on it now, he will feel that he is naïve in the face of setbacks. For example, when his head was pointed at gunpoint, and when he was threatened by Li Rui to bankrupt him, Shen Zhenghui felt that his reaction was not clever no matter how he said it. Of course, if he hadn't reacted like that, his life would not have been the way it is now.

But for Shen Zhenghui now, it is not a question of whether there is a setback, but whether he has the opportunity to bear this setback. Like director Zhang, whose fame has greatly diminished the intensity of his frustrations, he has been generally commercially successful since his pursuit of blockbusters, although he has suffered very low artistic reviews. Shen Zhenghui is also facing this situation, his cumulative box office is close to Spielberg, so even if he makes a bad movie, it is estimated that there is no problem in recovering the cost, but the audience will still have expectations for his next movie, which is the power of more than 8 billion box office. Therefore, his failure in the film will not make everyone judge that he is completely inadequate, and he is the same as Spielberg in this regard, but he is thirty years younger than Spielberg! And Director Zhang may have to wait until the post-80s and later generations completely occupy the market, and probably be able to lose the myth of his box office and the godhead of the movie, and for directors of this level. It was only an attack on his private life that dealt a blow.

But Shen Zhenghui is obviously unwilling and unable to let others dig his roots, this is the distress he was with Wang Anping, especially when Wang Anping began to gradually reveal her motherhood. Although Shen Zhenghui understands Wang Anping very well, after all, she is in her thirties and almost forty years old, and if she doesn't give birth soon, she will be an advanced maternal age. The risk of having a baby increases dramatically. However, when he thought of her family, Shen Zhenghui felt that there was darkness in front of him, this family was all born with guns, and it was estimated that his brother-in-law Wang Anran looked a little cowardly, but Shen Zhenghui didn't dare to guarantee that Wang Anran would not come to him with a gun to settle accounts when he knew about these things. This is probably one of the reasons why Shen Zhenghui is hiding in Japan, but for various reasons, he can't stay in Japan longer.

China Film Group and CCTV soon held a press conference to announce the sale of the Pandora format of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" through the channel of Xinhua Bookstore across the country. And further announced that the Pandora of the four famous novels and classic TV series is also planned, and the first release of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series includes the first three episodes: "Taoyuan Righteousness", "Ten Standing Servants in Chaos" and "Dong Zhuoba Jingshi", the Pandora format has added some plots and scenes of the TV series, so that the events of each episode have been extended to 100 minutes, and for the Pandora format of the TV series released this time, some hidden plots have been added to choose to watch. And the price of three episodes is only 298 yuan, which is simply too conscientious price. Considering that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has a total of 84 episodes. According to this price, it takes 8344 yuan to buy a complete set. The two groups said that in the future, they will release at least one episode per week to release the movie, and the audience can choose to buy it in the physical store of Xinhua Bookstore, but also order it online, and Xinhua Bookstore will cooperate with Taobao, JD.com, Dangdang and other online shopping giants to book and sell online.

Shen Zhenghui, as one of the leaders of the transformation format, attended the event as an art consultant, and then in the question session. A reporter asked if the doubling of the content of each episode was made by Shen Zhenghui, and Shen Zhenghui said that because of the war scenes and multi-threaded narrative, coupled with the freedom of the audience to watch under the Pandora format, a lot of content had to be added in order to enrich the content. But these contents are basically from the original work of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is also in line with the original movie style.

So someone asked such a question: Director Shen, since the scenes made by the computer can be consistent with the scenes that are actually filmed, and there are no flaws, does it mean that future movies can be made directly by the computer, and there is no need for people to shoot at all?

This is a level question, although Shen Zhenghui wants to answer that he is like this, in the virtual world, there is no need for actors and cameras, and it is completely feasible for a supercomputer to write, direct and act according to the script, but at this time it seems that it is not suitable to say that the entertainment industry feels too much pressure.

"That's what Final Fantasy thought at the beginning," Mr. Shen said, "and in terms of cost, it's cheaper to make a live-action movie." Of course, there are also zuò that are completely computer-made, and cartoons are like that. ”

"But isn't a lot of the content in the Pandora format you are making now the same as the real person? Doesn't this mean that live-action movies can also be directly composited and produced using computers? ”

"This also requires materials." Shen Zhenghui replied, "This kind of modeling system, the energy and cost consumed, I think it is better to shoot real people directly." ”

"But computers are getting more and more powerful, and maybe the cost will be reduced to less than a live-action movie in the future." The journalist was unrelenting.

"I admit that there may come a time in the future." Shen Zhenghui said seriously, "At that time, the number of programmers must have exceeded the total number of programmers and showbiz workers now, and programmers must also be proficient in acting." He ran out of patience and knocked on the table, "Let's focus on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". ”

"So, do you think the release of the Pandora format of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will be able to recoup the cost?" Another reporter asked, "This price seems to be lower than many movies!" ”

"For more than 80 episodes of movie dramas, the cost of making zuò is really high, but for computer-based zuò, the cost of each episode is definitely lower than that of film-made zuò, because many scenes and characters can be called repeatedly." Shen Zhenghui replied simply.

"So, will the cost be recovered?" The reporter continued, "If the cost is recovered, how many copies will be sold?" ”

"It's a trade secret." The general manager of China Film Company next to him immediately replied. "However, according to our estimates, the sales are very optimistic, and the people of the whole country should be very interested in the cultural treasure of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and it is not a problem to recover the cost."

The leaders of CCTV on the side also agreed, and said on the spot that the first three episodes had 1 million copies each. Optimistic about sales.

The sales of each episode are 100 million, and 84 episodes are 8.4 billion, you are really optimistic! The reporter felt that there was a lot to write about.

The leader of the press conference also said that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just a path-finding work, according to the plan, the four famous novels are all in the plan, and there are many excellent TV series as candidates, if the masses of people need it, CCTV will continue to promote the next step of the Pandora TV series plan.

So Shen Zhenghui also took the opportunity to advertise. said that ATV will release the Pandora format of the first part of "I Have a Date with Zombies", which was initially released in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, and the distribution in the mainland is being applied for and approved. In addition, the richest man in Puhai was imprisoned, and her reputation plummeted. So the film "I Have a Date with a Zombie" is particularly meaningful.

The reporters at the scene raised their hands to ask questions for the news, which completely invigorated the press conference. Extended the press conference, which was supposed to end, by another hour or two. The leaders of China Film and CCTV, who participated in the press conference, were depressed.

After the press conference, the news was reported on TV and online news that day, as well as in major newspapers the next day. Of course, the focus of their report is obviously not that CCTV and China Film Group are confident that they have hoarded a million copies of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but focus on the Pandora of the TV series. Many analysts agree that this is a landmark move for Pandora's further development. If the Pandora format can also gain a foothold in the TV drama market, it may gradually replace computers and televisions as an important tool for everyone to watch movies. Of course, the only obstacle to its development was that Pandora-format movies and TV series were too expensive, and Pandora could not set up a Pandora-format television station. By the way. TV stations and reports will mention the Pandora format of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the plan of Pandora of future TV dramas, even so, conscientious media also question that our country has not mastered the core technology, so wouldn't it be a complete handover of this industry to foreign monopoly groups? Although China Film Group and CCTV announced that they had established a joint venture with Kasuga to be fully responsible for the Pandora of TV dramas. But in the question of core technology, the media feels that they are standing firm, and Pandora is indeed a technological monopoly in the film Pandora format, which is beyond doubt.

But obviously, what the media didn't expect was that this would not affect the big sales of copies of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", just like Apple's IOS system is also a monopoly, but this does not affect Apple's big sales. When it comes to monopoly, for the Chinese, it is all tears, but they are at least better than the people in Africa and the Middle East. The sales problem of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which the media did not pay attention to, soon formed a trend that they had to pay attention to, and one million copies were sold out in a short period of time, which is still the result of a large number of third- and fourth-tier cities not distributing goods, and the copies that were originally placed on online platforms such as Taobao and Jingdong were robbed faster, and people who saw the sales number jù China Film Group and CCTV were going crazy, after more than a year, the number of Pandora helmets in the mainland has exceeded 10 million units, but no one expected it, A million copies, in just one week, there was no splash at all, and all of them were digested.

The TV station immediately conducted a follow-up interview, and was a little surprised to find that although not all people who have Pandora's helmet are interested in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", for example, many post-90s generations are not interested in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the middle-aged or elderly people in their family are very interested in trying to watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Pandora format. This is completely dependent on the sales of Pandora-format movie copies of a large number of old movies that have cultivated the middle-aged and elderly market, so the Pandora helmet is by no means the equipment of young people, and many middle-aged and elderly people cannot resist its charm.

After getting this result, CCTV was even more confident, and they were eager to start the follow-up plan for the four famous novels, and "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Water Margin" were included in the list. Considering that "Dream of Red Mansions" may attract more aunts and grandmothers, CCTV has set the priority of "Dream of Red Mansions" higher, and even thinks that the 1987 and 2009 versions can be launched at the same time.

This decision made Shen Zhenghui a little disgusted, he rejected CCTV's plan to launch quickly on the grounds of limited production capacity, and secretly decided to make the production progress of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a little slower. His attitude naturally aroused CCTV's dissatisfaction, and CCTV even felt that Shen Zhenghui wanted to seize the opportunity to launch a Pandora version of ATV's "I Have a Date with a Zombie" after seeing the huge market for TV dramas, deliberately squeezing out the production capacity allocated to other TV dramas. CCTV immediately inquired about the possibility of bypassing Shen Zhenghui and cooperating directly with Kasuga, or cooperating with Columbia, or even directly cooperating with Pandora. But without exception, all suffered a huge setback, Kasuga said that their business volume has also slowed down, in addition to several Japanese movies and TV dramas are hurrying to Pandora formatting, Korean TV dramas are also entrusting Kasuga to Pandora formatting, and they are really powerless.

Colombia welcomed the TV drama business, but their price list and schedule made CCTV feel that it was better to go back and wait for Shen Zhenghui's capacity expansion, and Pandora even said that they had no spare capacity at all, and the business of the six major film companies was subcontracted out by them.

After coming back in a circle, CCTV had to be a little shy to urge and hope that Shen Zhenghui would expand its production capacity, expand its department in Pingjing, and recruit more people at the same time.

This is simply impossible, so CCTV and China Film can only lament that their contract is too conservative, but seeing that the sales of the entire TV series can really reach more than 8.4 billion yuan in a year - it turns out that this is a great underestimate, so CCTV and China Film began to make a big leap forward in the production of copies, fortunately, with subtitles, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan can consume most of their production capacity, so they are optimistic that this sales can almost increase tenfold. In fact, the facts are almost the same as this optimistic estimate, in the production of copies, Shen Zhenghui is non-stop, so that the manufacturers of storage equipment are a little unable to keep up with this rhythm.

So, at this time when CCTV and China Film Group were triumphant at the same time, Shen Zhenghui was fortunate to be summoned by the leaders again. (To be continued......)