"Thai Embarrassment" was born out of nowhere, and suddenly won such a big success and honor, there are generally two ideas, one is self-respecting, so that the wealth is bold and empty.

The other is trembling, calculating while being modest, worrying about whether his next work will have such results.

But these two Xu Zheng are not, he unexpectedly embarked on the road of "supporting new directors" behind the scenes.

Undoubtedly, in terms of realm and vision, it is too much higher than its peers.

In the Chinese film industry, there was still a master-apprentice inheritance in Hong Kong films in the early years, but this was actually limited to a small circle.

In the mainland film industry, almost even "inheritance" can't be seen - people control their own circles, and they don't give newcomers a chance to stand out at all!

At this time, a star with extremely high commercial value can stand up and give the new director financial and even human support, no matter what, it is an admirable thing, he does not distinguish between sects and genres, as long as it is possible for you to change the scene of Chinese films before they are old and declining, I think it is difficult for anyone to do this.

Of course, you say that he wants to break the monopoly of the Beijing circle, or rather, he wants to become a master...

Whatever you want.

Anyway, what people have practiced from the beginning is to cooperate with new directors!

In addition to Chen Zhengdao and Yang Qing, whom we all know, he has also cooperated with director Chen Yu!

Director Chen Bait's first play "The Third Man", starring the bald Xu!

For new directors, if Xu Zheng joins his own work, in a sense, it is equivalent to one step to the sky - deciding the life and death of a movie!

The key is that this person's vision is so accurate that it is frightening, and looking at the works he supervised, none of them have a reputation below the passing line...

Compared with some things supervised by famous directors, it is simply speechless.

Chen Kexin, who claims to never make bad movies, has supervised "Blood Drops" and "Wonder Heroes"...

The works supervised by Xu Laowei include "Qimen Dunjia", "The Sword of the Third Young Master", and "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch: Bright Moon Heaven"

The old-timers really don't care about their feathers at all!

Also, although the main publicity, if the audience doesn't buy it, they will say that they are not the director anyway, and it will not affect their reputation...

That's why some people say, 'It's a blessing that Chinese movies have Xu Zheng.'" ’

Except for the occasional trip to the club to drive a car, it's still the kind that drives in a group, and it's really not black in other aspects...

……

"I know that when you were a producer before, you were worried about the lack of ability of new directors, so you would give some help during the filming process."

“… I'm all on business..."

"I understand."

It's all for the sake of play...

"However, I hope to have my own decision in the filming of the crew in the future..."

"Of course, you're the director!"

Xu Zheng said very politely.

"If you have any ideas, you can talk to me privately or in between shoots, about the performance... Just use your standards as the standard! ”

That is, 'you watch the acting'...

"You're so relieved of me?"

"Of course, Mr. Xu doesn't want to smash his own signboard by himself!"

……

In late March, the film market finally heated up, but unfortunately, only imported blockbusters were popular!

"Beauty and the Beast", "Wolverine 3: Mortal War", "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", and of course, "Jing Tian Hollywood Cinematic Universe Part II" "King Kong: Skull Island".

These films have made one billion yuan at the box office in the mainland.

For today's mainland market, if the box office of imported blockbusters fails to break one billion, even if no one cares...

In other words, "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" was won by Lion Mouse Pictures, one of the investors, in the form of a batch of films, and the buyout price was 40 million yuan...

Batch films can enjoy 43% of the share of domestic films!

The total box office is one billion, this has doubled!

Lion Mouse Pictures obtained the Chinese distribution rights by bidding with Germany's Constantine Films, but in terms of box office sharing, China Film must take a part, and the remaining part of Germany's Constantine Film takes the lion's share, and Lion Mouse Pictures only gets a small part of the "publicity and distribution cost", but this "publicity and distribution cost" fluctuates according to the box office, and the specific proportion should be 20%.

Here Lion Mouse Pictures is not simply buying out the Chinese distribution rights of the film, to put it bluntly, it is an agent distribution, very similar to the operation of account-sharing films, and it does not account for the number of account-sharing places, this model is a good thing for everyone, and other domestic companies should also learn - it is very sure, it can be counted as a batch of films, but it is definitely not a share of accounts - if it is a share of accounts, the title will have Sony's LOGO, or Sony will intervene in the publicity.

No one could have imagined that such a small-budget movie as "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" could explode with such a big energy in the mainland - it was released in North America for a month, with a box office of 26.55 million US dollars...

However, on the first day of release in the mainland, the box office was 208 million yuan, which directly overturned the North American box office!

In fact, this film is like playing a game and doing a time-limited mission, the heroine Alice kills all the way, passes one level and then comes to the next level, and the audience can't breathe and think. In addition, you have to brush off a teammate in each level to show that the mission is difficult.

Either way, the audience knows that Alice will be able to survive and save the world.

And no matter how many times the villain has the opportunity to kill Alice, he has to put himself in it.

The horror effect mostly comes from the cheap routines of the starter, or even the thriller soundtrack, and the sudden increase in volume.

Nothing but stimulation.

Such a vulgar routine has long been extremely tired of North American audiences.

The unchanged plot arrangement, the empty sequel feelings, and the mechanical action scenes are all slots.

However, for domestic audiences, although many imported popcorn movies have not performed well in recent years, and Hollywood-style blockbusters have long been weak, "Resident Evil" is a little different, it is the earliest zombie type movie that Chinese audiences have come into contact with, and it is the zombie film enlightenment for Chinese audiences.

It is too vulgar to say that feelings are too vulgar, but you can't avoid this word.

Just watch Warcraft.

This film also firmly grasps this point, and the promotional focus, posters, and trailers all reveal the sentimentality of "ending".

is about to "end", and the audience has become extraordinarily tolerant, as if everything can be blamed for the past.

Another major advantage of the "Resident Evil" series is that, unlike the foreign film market, where there is no shortage of new films of various genres, there are no "ghosts" in China, and in the domestic thriller environment, "Resident Evil" really fills the audience's demand for thrillers.

Therefore, it is not surprising that "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" has become popular in China, not that the audience is stupid and has a lot of money, but it just happens to integrate feelings, fans, needs, and timing.

Now that "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" has exploded at the domestic box office in China, what is more worrying is whether "Resident Evil", which has been said to be over, will be restarted again?

With the urine of the old beauty, maybe it's really possible!

……

"Today's filming of the scene of the pharmaceutical company's door, have all the group performers been there?"

“… It's here, but the director, you're so sudden, we can't guarantee the quality of the group performance! ”

"It's okay, if you don't pass the test, I'll remove you!"

The next day of shooting, the creators suddenly found that Bai Xiaofei's mood seemed to be much better.

It seems that the contradiction between him and Xu Zheng is almost resolved!

However, Xu Zheng did not show up...

Xiaobai temporarily adjusted the filming plan, moved the roles of more extras to the front, and started filming for three full days, and did not shoot the scenes of several main actors.

On the fourth day, the opportunity to appear as the main actor finally came.

Xu Zheng appeared on the set again!