Matthew McConaughey, male, 42 years old, officially debuted in 1993, and has won the National Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Columbus Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, the New York Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the Austin Film Critics Association Special Honor Award......

Although he is not from a professional class, his acting skills have been praised by many people.

Before the audition began, Chen Fei watched his three film works this year, "Lincoln's Lawyer", "Bernie" and "Killer Joe".

In it, he played different roles such as a rogue defense lawyer, a district attorney, and a neurotic killer, all of which had wonderful performances.

The audition ended easily, "Interstellar" is only a commercial film after all, and it doesn't need particularly advanced acting skills.

But in the end, Chen Fei made a request.

"Your acting skills are completely satisfying for the role of 'Cooper', and in addition to Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Steven Spielberg have also praised your superb performance, and you have not disappointed me and them."

“Thank you！”

Matthew thanked him sincerely, obviously not expecting so many people to say good things about him.

"But!" Chen Fei's expression suddenly became a little serious: "I checked your information, in the previous 18 years, none of the movies you played in the supporting roles or protagonists were successful sales.

So, it also means that your commercial appeal is actually not very high, and if I choose you to play the role of 'Cooper', I have to take a lot of risk. ”

When it comes to commercial appeal, in the whole of North America, and even in the world, no one will be higher than Xiao Lizi!

This is also the reason why Chen Fei contacted Xiao Lizi as soon as possible.

It's a pity that that guy is bent on winning the Oscar and has stopped accepting commercial films.

"That's right, it's my flaw."

Matthew's face was slightly gloomy, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart.

However, he was also looking forward to it, since Chen Fei said this, he must have wanted to make some kind of request.

Sure enough, in the next second, he heard the follow-up request for wanting to play the role of 'Cooper':

"Since the commercial appeal is poor, then we have to work publicity, I provide you with roles and high salaries, so you have to give back accordingly.

My requirement is that you can't take on any other scenes between the filming and the release of the film, and you won't wait until the movie is released before this rule is lifted.

During this period, you have to fully cooperate with the various promotional activities of the crew, and strive to keep the popularity of the movie at the highest point. ”

Hearing this, Matthew was not too surprised.

For a commercial film with an investment of up to $160 million, the pressure to return on investment will inevitably be great, so it must work hard in terms of publicity.

The conditions put forward by Chen Fei are very reasonable.

Since you enjoy a high salary, you naturally have to work accordingly.

Matthew was silent for a moment, then asked, "Can I know when this movie will be released?" Because some of the work was negotiated in advance, I had to be responsible for them. ”

"The filming period is three months, and the post-production period will take about half a year, and the release time will not exceed the end of next year, which will be written into the contract."

Chen Fei has always played fast gunman operations, and the movies he directed and shot rarely fail to be released for several years.

After hearing this time cycle, Matthew responded without hesitation: "Okay, I'll take it!" ”

It's only been a year, and he can afford it completely.

And this is Chen Fei's commercial film script, and it is directed by him himself.

Has the Chinese director in front of him failed?

Matthew McConaughey briefly recalled, and then quickly came up with a "no" answer.

He didn't think he would be so unlucky, just happened to encounter a once-in-a-year failure.

His box office appeal is indeed not high, but on the other hand, the director in front of him is different!

Some people in the industry even say that as long as it is a movie made by him, it can also receive 300 million box office worldwide.

It's ...... Terrifying!

The moment he got the script, when he saw that this was another space sci-fi movie, a trace of worry in Matthew McConaughey's heart had disappeared without a trace.

"Gravity" grossed $786 million worldwide, which has confirmed Chen Fei's solid foundation in the field of space-themed science fiction films.

And now he has come up with a space-themed sci-fi film, which is to continue the glory of the former.

The difficulty of the road to success has plummeted!

"In the next half month, your task is to familiarize yourself with the script, and the crew will also make final adjustments, and we will officially start filming in January......"

After a few brief words, Chen Fei sent Matthew McConaughey away.

He still has a lot of work to deal with in the near future, and "Interstellar" will not be able to start in the short term.

The publicity work of "The Avengers", the review of the negative materials after the completion of "The Hunger Games 2: Spark of the Plain", the review of the negatives of "Game of Thrones Season 3", and the review of the negatives of "Spartacus Season 2......

As a producer and screenwriter, these are responsibilities that he can't avoid.

……

Wanda's efficiency is very high, and in less than half a month, the matter of Shu Zhan and her "vampire father" has been resolved.

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, there won't be any trouble, this family has left the capital and gone back to their hometown, and my people have been staring at them."

"Okay."

In the words of a certain bigwig: we are enthusiastic when friends come, and spears and artillery are given when enemies come!

To deal with this biting "vicious dog", don't be too polite.

If you are afraid of them at one time, there will be a lot less trouble in the future.

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Even if you come to Hollywood, some premiere events are still unavoidable.

The two crews of "Sherlock Holmes 2: Shadow Game" and "Mission Impossible 4, Ghost Protocol" respectively handed Chen Fei invitations to the premiere.

The former is co-produced and distributed by Westshow Pictures and Warner Bros., and stars Robert Downey Jr.

The latter is an action-adventure film produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and starring Tom Cruise.

Brother Tom is still very good, although there are some gods chattering on weekdays, and he has joined a sect, but when it comes to the level of professionalism, he can be ranked in the whole Hollywood.

Chen Fei and he have met at several party activities, and the two sides have also had some exchanges, and they get along relatively well.

Brother Tom has said more than once that he likes all kinds of action scenes and some stunt performance skills, and he very much hopes to cooperate with Chen Fei once, but unfortunately he can't always find a suitable opportunity.

Even though he is almost 50 years old, he is still very hardworking, and even has the nickname of the Hollywood version of Jackie chen!

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At the same time, when the major film companies on the Hollywood side are engaged in fierce confrontation in the film market, China is also not reckless.

"Cold War 2" successfully completed a one-month release period on the 15th, with a box office of 708 million yuan, successfully breaking through the 700 million mark.

This also means that the fifth work of Feiyue Film and Television with a box office of more than 700 million was born.

Some media have listed several domestic films that have broken 700 million box office.

"Gravity", "Heart Flower Road", "Painted Skin 2", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", "Cold War 2".

As far as the eye can see, all of them are works produced by Feiyue Film and Television!

And the box office of the first two parts broke the 1 billion level, which is simply amazing!

As expected, "The Great Earthquake" was pulled out and whipped another wave of corpses.

The figure of 690 million is really embarrassing, not only has it been repeatedly mentioned by the outside world, but even Feng Xiaogang himself has looked at it.

He has mentioned the re-release of the movie several times, but unfortunately he was killed by the above.

was originally a film work that received special preferential treatment, but if there was a second release, it would be a little too ugly.

is different from the excellent results of "Cold War 2", "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet", which was praised by the media as a "good start for the Chinese New Year", has just exceeded 100 million at the box office after a full half a month of release at this time.

Netizens collectively ridiculed, and the whispering in the circle never stopped.

Even Lu Chuan, who had been silent for a long time because of the "slander Liu Ye" incident, jumped out at this time to join in the fun.

He openly spoke on his personal Weibo, saying:

"As a historical blockbuster, it must be slow to work, and "The King's Feast" took 13 months from preparation to shooting, and it will take a year to carefully polish the post-production, and strive to satisfy fans, hoping that next year's Chinese New Year will bring a real "feast" to the audience! ”

As soon as this article came out, it was immediately put on the hot search list on Weibo by netizens.

Outsiders are watching the excitement, but insiders are showing disdain at this time.

The various grievances and entanglements between "The Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" and "The King's Feast" have already spread throughout the circle, and who doesn't know that Lu Chuan was actually kicked out of the crew by the former, so he turned to filming the latter.

And now his words are obviously falling into the ground.

This also confirms from the side that his heart and eyes are not ordinarily small!

Jiang Wen's evaluation was very sharp: "Try not to deal with this kind of person, because you never know when he will stab you in the back." ”

Liu Ye is the best example!

It's just that although many insiders are silently mocking him behind his back, the article he wrote has been supported by many fans and audiences.

"The King's Feast" has rarely attracted a wave of popularity.

And the crew of "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet" will naturally not stop there.

Li Rengang personally posted a Weibo and dissed Lu Chuan fiercely: "Please Director Lu clean up his mess before evaluating others."

"Hoh Xili", "Nanjing! Nanking! Do you need me to help Director Lu recall the various bad events in the past?

Also, I heard that when Director Lu was pulling investment, he seemed to arrange for his girlfriend to appear? I'm curious, how exactly is this done? Can you bother Lu to explain? ”

As soon as this wave of responses appeared, it once again set off heated discussions among netizens.

Chen Fei pursed his lips after seeing it, and muttered to himself: "These two people are really not good at stepping on horses, dog eats dog, a mouthful of hair!" ”

Just when netizens were discussing each other because of Lu Chuan and Li Rengang's mutual spraying incident, Sina suddenly reposted the specific news of Chen Fei's new movie on the domestic website.

Movie Title: Interstellar

Producers: Volton Pictures, Lucasfilm.

Producer: Chen Fei

Director/screenwriter: Chen Fei

Actor: Matthew McConaughey

Actress: Liu Yifei (Crystal)

The rest of the main actors: Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Chen Long......

Investment expectancy: $160 million.

When every big director in the industry announces a new film plan, it always attracts the keen attention of the entire film and television industry and the entertainment industry.

As the No.1 in the domestic film industry, Chen Fei's new film will be infinitely high!

"The Avengers" is currently in theaters, and the global box office is rapidly approaching $1 billion, which has confirmed his "undefeated myth" in the field of commercial films.

Although the film has not officially landed in the mainland, the promotional clips and release news of the film have been spread in the mainland, and it is not too much to say that "the whole people are looking forward to it".

And at such a point in time, his new film plan was suddenly announced, and the sensation caused by it can be said to be resounding all over the world!

At the bottom of Weibo, the number of comments instantly exceeded 10,000.

"? A $160 million commercial blockbuster? Director Chen is awesome! I stepped on a horse again and had a good movie to watch. ”

"That "The Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" really disgusted me, and I urgently need a good movie to wash my eyes."

"I just want to ask, when will "The Avengers" be released in the mainland? I'm almost thankful for the flowers I've been waiting for. ”

"Interstellar? Looks like another space-themed movie? Expect! Highly anticipated! ”

Netizens talked a lot, but the eyes of everyone in the circle were attracted by the starring lineup.

In the crew of "Da Wudang", Yang Mi has already realized at this moment.

"No wonder Liu Yifei didn't play the role of 'Shirley Yang', it turned out to be for this Hollywood blockbuster, with an investment of $160 million......"

She silently calculated, this money is enough to make more than a dozen "Da Wudang"!

"She should be regarded as officially stepping into the ranks of international actresses."

Zeng Jia's words made Yang Mi envious for a while.

When she took over the filming of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III", she was quite confident and felt that she was quite close to Liu Yifei.

But when she really entered the film industry, she realized that she was completely thinking too much.

The gap between her and Liu Yifei seems to be separated by a galaxy in the middle!

After being silent for a long time, she adjusted her mood, and then turned her head to look at Zeng Jia: ""Da Wudang" is about to finish filming, and "The Four Famous Catches 2" has also entered the final stage, does the new drama have eyebrows?" ”

"Yes, I've gotten a lot of audition invitations lately, you can take a look."

As he spoke, Zeng Jia opened his backpack, took out a stack of scripts from it and handed it over.

Yang Mi took it and checked them one by one.

There are scripts for the heroines of TV dramas, as well as movie scripts.

She selectively ignored the TV scripts.

If there is a movie, who will act in a TV series?

Suddenly, her eyes were fixed on one of the scripts.

"Love Seattle?"

Her expression was slightly stunned, and her gaze was fixed on the producer and director column below.

Director/screenwriter: Xue Xiaolu.

Production Company: China Film, Feiyue Film and Television, Movie Channel......

She immediately became interested and asked curiously, "What's going on with this script?" ”

Zeng Jia glanced at it, his memory rummaged in his mind, and replied: "This is the main project of China Film, and it has not been announced to the public for the time being, but it has been sent internally, and there will be an internal audition in a few days." ”

Hearing this, Yang Mi couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many benefits to joining a large brokerage company, and the resources are simply countless!" ”

"Indeed." Zeng Jia echoed: "I heard that the company is selecting a group of new people within the company, preparing to let them go to Hollywood and participate in the filming of "Interstellar". ”

Yang Mi couldn't help but ask, "Can you show your face?" ”

"Yes, each person will probably have one or two lines."

"Then I'm ......"

Yang Mi just wanted to ask her if she had a chance, but when she thought that Liu Yifei was the heroine of this movie, she immediately extinguished this idea.

After reading the content of the script of "Love in Seattle", she instructed: "That's it, you submit my information, and we will try our best to win the role of 'Wen Jiajia'." ”

"Okay."

Zeng Jia nodded heavily and walked away quickly.

……

Time came to the 16th in a blink of an eye, and Chen Fei deliberately took the time to log in to the film and television information network, wanting to check the premiere of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor".

But what he didn't expect was that at this time, the front page and headline interface of the film and television information network turned out to be all news about Zhao Yanzi.

"The graduation drama of Zhao Yanzi, a master's student of Nortel's 06-level directing department, was officially announced, and "To the Youth We Will Eventually Lose" was successfully established......"

Youth films?

Chen Fei was slightly stunned, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

After several years, he thought that Zhao Yanzi had prepared a pair of "Wang Bang", but he didn't expect it to be a "little three".

The theme of youth films may attract many audiences, but it is at the bottom of the chain of contempt in the director's circle.

Skipping class, fighting, falling in love, breaking up, going abroad, going to bed, having an abortion, a car accident, a terminal illness, amnesia, misunderstanding, separation, chance encounter, reconciliation or goodbye......

In addition to the above routines, there is no other youth film available.

Zhao Yanzi is really ashamed of her teacher's face!

Chen Fei roughly flipped through the news, and after making sure that this woman did not rub his popularity, he didn't pay much attention to it.

It's just a youth pain film, and it can't pose the slightest threat to itself.

The only thing that surprised him was that the investors of this film actually gathered several powerful companies such as China Film, Guangguang, China Television, and Television and Radio.

I thought that the teacher who should have been Zhao Yanzi contributed again.

Speaking of which, the number of female directors and screenwriters in China seems to be increasing in recent years.

Jiang Wenli, Zhang Yijia, Xu Jinglei, Xu Zhaohua, Li Shaohong, Yang Jie, Bao Jingjing, Xue Xiaolu...... Now there is another Zhao Yanzi.

It's a pity that it's too difficult for female directors to make a commercial film that is a hit.

In addition to those popular movies in this year's Chinese New Year file, there is also a "Huge Deal" directed by female director Ma Liwen.

This is a film invested by LeTV, costing up to 10 million!

It's just that the box office on the first day was only a pitiful 420,000......

Chen Fei doesn't have much memory of this movie, and the only thing that impresses him is the scene of "windbreaker lighting a cigarette".

A commercial film with so many private goods in it, how easy is it to succeed?

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