Lin Mu finally opened the list of candidates for Hermione and Granger, although in the Harry and Potter novels, Hermione and Granger have always been Harry Potter's best friends and not girlfriends. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but this does not affect her place as the heroine in the film. From this list of materials. Lin Mu clearly saw Luc Besson's selfishness, because almost all the candidates in this list were French girls.

The British press questioned the list, but Luc Besson found a good reason for his approach, declaring that it was an act of total fidelity to the original. Because in the novel, Hermione and Granger are indeed a girl from France. Take out the original book as a shield. The media is also not good to say anything about Luc Besson's approach.

Lin Mu didn't have too clear opinions on the candidates for Hermione and Granger, because in his opinion, several candidates were very suitable, the only fly in the ointment was the few pounds that Luc Besson was looking for, the girls were too beautiful Many Hermione and Granger in the novel are a top student, but their appearance is just mediocre. At this point, Lu Zhibesson is obviously not very faithful to the original, but no one will grasp this point. Compared with novels, the performance of movies is more direct, and the faces that appear in the movie, unless it is the kind of deliberate harlequin, the actress is of course the more beautiful the better. In movies, pleasing to the eye is the key.

Although it was an audition, Lin Mu's attitude as a producer could still play a great role in the finalization of the film's starring list, so he specially selected Cliff - Radcliff and Rupert - Grintt were unanimously approved by the judges.

The final media vote also confirmed Lin Mu's judgment, and soon after Rowling received a photo of Cliff, she later publicly stated in the media: "See his picture." I feel like I'm reunited with my long-lost son! Apparently Cliff and Radcliffe also got the approval of this magical mother.

Hermione Granger ended up being played by a French girl named Katie Knighttle, which catty. The girl was born in France and later moved to England with her parents, and it may be her French origin that made director Luc Besson very fond of her.

The other characters in the film are all first-class performing artists in the British entertainment industry, and the producers also invited James Horner and Will Jenin, who had created "Braveheart", to produce the theme song of the film.

Paramount finally announced that the film has a budget cost of $100 million, and industry insiders predict that the total box office of the film will reach at least $300 million to $1 billion like "Star Wars", which is already a very conservative estimate.

At the same time that the audition of the actors of the film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" caused a stir and most of the entertainment media paid attention, the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" ended the final filming in Canada, and Michael Yibei quietly returned home with the crew, and the film with an investment of 800 million US dollars and a year and eight months finally entered the final stage.

The film is shot in sections, with special effects compositing while shooting. The last scene on location in Canada is not the finale of the film, but the part where the actor Mir returns to the elves. And the finale of the film, the scene where the dragons and elves join hands to resist the dark coalition army, was filmed as early as the year before the ox, and a lot of time was spent in post-production. After finishing the final clip. The film, co-financed by Paramount and DreamWorks, is expected to arrive in North American theaters in the summer.

By the time the Hollywood press's attention shifted from the UK back home, the film had completed all post-production and the producers announced a finalized release date. This movie, which is eagerly awaited by Warcraft players around the world, has become a new focus of Hollywood media attention. The movie has received a lot of attention among fans, and one of the reasons for this is because it is a Hollywood blockbuster adapted from a game. Not to mention how powerful Blizzard's expansion pack for the Warcraft game is to gamers around the world, but with this theme adapted from the game, it is enough to attract the attention of many people.

In the course of nearly 100 years of development, the influence of Hollywood films has been expanding, especially in recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have been exported to various countries around the world, becoming an important window for American values to influence the world. During this period, the theme of Hollywood movies continued to expand to different fields. At first, the subject matter of the film was limited to some literary works, and it only showed some real life. However, the increasing maturity of film technology has given wings to people's imagination, and Hollywood has developed from a few film companies to a film industry, and under this foundation and background, some surreal works began to appear, which is the early film special effects.

The advent of computer special effects technology has provided infinite possibilities for the development of modern films, and films have begun to expand into some previously unreachable areas, and the first source of film material is the comic industry that emerged after the war.

From Batman to Hulk, the heroes with superpowers in the comics have become the subject of popular performances in movies. The trend of comic book adaptations began to become popular in Hollywood 2 years later, but this trend is not obvious. People are still looking at movies of this genre with a cautious attitude, even if DreamWorks shoots "The Incredible Hulk", which is very tentative. Except for Siu Yat-shi, everyone else has great doubts about whether the film will be successful.

Even after the release of "Hulk", which achieved good results, people's doubts about this type of film have not been completely eliminated. At this juncture, Lin Mu made a more daring attempt, he put a computer game on the screen, and spent a lot of money to create this movie. Lin Mu's previous success made people also full of curiosity about this movie.

In the eyes of others, this is a risky endeavor. But Lin Mu himself knows that this is just the beginning, and a large number of movies adapted from games will emerge in the future. This trend of film selection will slowly emerge in the next ten years, and Lin Mu should cultivate a group of inertial audiences for films of this kind from now on.

In this era when comic books and movies are in the ascendant. The idea of the forest is undoubtedly difficult to understand. However, in Lin Mu's view, the reason why comic movies became popular in Hollywood after entering the century is because the mainstream consumer groups of the film market at that time were the generation that grew up reading comic books, and some classic comics left a profound influence on the memories of this generation. Movies adapted from comics can attract them to the cinema and relive those classic memories and touches.

It's a special way of nostalgia for this generation, but things are constantly changing, at least the advent of computer games has changed the landscape. The current generation grew up with comic books, but younger than this generation or their children, comic books have begun to slowly fade out of their growth trajectory and have been replaced by computer games. This trend is already very evident in the United States, where the new generation of teenagers, especially the boys, no longer have comic posters in their rooms and stacks of comics in their bookcases, but instead of a computer with a variety of games.

Hollywood movies that follow in the footsteps of pop culture will one day have the theme of computer games, and Lin Mu just pushed movies of this genre in front of the audience in advance.

Of course, in addition to the novel theme of the film, the oriental charm of the Chinese local filming and the joint performance of the two Chinese kung fu superstars is also a highlight of the film. The buildings inhabited by the dragons in the film integrate the stylistic characteristics of classical architecture in the Chinese historical period. It can be called a concentrated display of ancient Chinese architecture, and the vibrant bamboo sea background injects natural and flexible colors into the ancient oriental culture.

After consulting with Michael Yibei, Lin Mu decided to place the premiere of the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" in Hong Kong, and the new film press conference was held in New York. At this time, Michael Yibei was no longer the "rookie" director who was ridiculed by the Hollywood media, and the success of "Yong Xiao Death Island" laid him a place in the Hollywood director circle in one fell swoop. and directed the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon", which made him one of Hollywood's first-class directors. At the press conference of the new film, Lin Mu clearly felt this change, because the tone of the media reporter when asking questions about Michael Bay and related questions were a lot more polite.

"Mr. Michael, you were the first director in Hollywood to try to make a film adaptation of a game. I wonder what you think of this type of film? "The topic of this film is the topic that the media is most interested in, so at the beginning of the press conference, a reporter mentioned this issue.

"It's a whole new field, and making this film, like when I was directing for the first time, everything was completely new and I had to learn from scratch. During this period, I was fortunate to receive many mentors from Sheng, and this film was a work that I completed together. I firmly believe that this genre of film will become an indispensable part of Hollywood's mainstream film genre! ”

"Can you tell us a little bit about the characteristics of this type of film?" Another reporter asked.

"Completely independent world view, surreal fantasy and a large number of special effects technology, the plot is as compact and coherent and exciting as a game, and the appearance of a large number of game characters will make many viewers who have played the game of the same name feel more familiar, of course, audiences who are not familiar with this game can also appreciate the unique charm of some game elements and movie performance!"

In addition to the questions from the media at the scene, in addition to the director Michael Yibei, the handsome Brad Pitt has also become the favored object of reporters' questions. And the media's interest in him even extended to his collaboration with the heroine Li Jiaxin.

"Your partner, Miss Lee, is a beauty pageant winner in Hong Kong, and you have worked with many Hollywood actresses before, what do you think are the differences between Eastern and Western cultures in terms of women's aesthetics?"

"First of all, I would like to admit that Miss Li is very beautiful, and her English is very standard, which provides a strong guarantee for our cooperation in the film and in private communication. I learned from each other in the performance and we became very good friends in life. Western women are charming and sexy, and Eastern women are dignified and elegant, in fact, it is difficult to judge which is better or worse. Brad Pete replied tactfully.

The same question is just changed from the evaluation of women to the evaluation of men, and in the face of reporters' questions, Li Jiaxin's answer is much simpler than Brad Pitt. "A man with a charming face and an elegant gentlemanly demeanor like Mr. Brad will surely be the Prince Charming in the minds of many girls."

At the press conference on the same day, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie also appeared in the lens of the American media together, and made their own jokes at the press conference. Whether it is the Chinese-language media showing great concern for the first time on the screen of these two kung fu superstars, the Hollywood media has also shown a strong interest in the two Chinese kung fu spokespersons with very different styles to appear together in the same movie.

"Actually, I had this idea for a long time. But there have been no ripe conditions and opportunities. Nethao Sheng supervised the production of this movie, he found the two of us at the same time, and then there was such a suitable role and script at the tip, and the cooperation came naturally! Li Lianjie explained the cooperation between him and Cheng Long in front of the media.

"Actually, a lot of people have been comparing me to him before, and many people think that this film puts us together. Just to let us distinguish a superior, some of you must have such an idea, but this is not the real meaning of this film. We played each other in the film, but in the end, we didn't win or lose. This may disappoint many people who are skeptical of comparisons. In the end of the film, we are partners who fight side by side, and then together we defeat a strong enemy, and I think that's the kind of thinking that this film wants to convey to people! Cheng Long explained some of his views on the cooperation between the two in more depth.

At a time when computer games have grown up with them and have not yet become a small consumer group in the film market, the final success of the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" is not due to the novel game-based adaptation idea. Instead, the unique Dongyi magic style and compact and coherent plot, coupled with the gorgeous and dazzling special effects production and the cross-peak duel between the two kung fu stars, the film achieved a blowout box office on the first day of release, and set a new record for the North American weekly box office champion with a box office score of $80,000 in the first week of its release.