"Director!"

"Hello host. Shen Mengxi greeted him very warmly.

Shen Mengxi also likes "China Film Report" - a show that can say good things no matter what the situation!

Even "Three Lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" can boast of flowers...

In fact, this kind of reportage program basically has no ratings after it became popular in the self-media, especially Weibo - if you really care about the project, you will go to the official Weibo group to watch some special tidbits.

"Director, can you tell us about the progress of "The Great Wall"?"

"The actual shooting part is almost over, and we are fully entering the post-production time..."

"And how long is that?"

"16 months, we were expecting 16 months of post-production + special effects time. ”

Yao Miao looked at Shen Mengxi, and suddenly asked, "Director, why did you make "The Great Wall"?"

Why shoot?

After a pause, Shen Mengxi spoke: "I met Cameron in Los Angeles at the end of last year, guess what he said first?"

"What is it?"

"How can we turn "Avatar 2" into a Sino-US co-production?

"How do you answer?"

"I said it couldn't be!"

"Why?"

"He clearly came to make money, and the share of imported films is different from that of co-productions..."

After a pause, Shen Mengxi continued: "China's market is expanding too fast, it is estimated that by the end of this year, the box office market will be ranked second in the world, what is the point of having a market alone? Most of our productions still do not meet the requirements of the audience, they are excited to spend money into the theater, but when they come out, they open their mouths and scold." If this continues, we may have a market of 35 billion yuan or even 40 billion yuan, but this does not mean that all this money belongs to Chinese films! The European market is also very large, but their market belongs to American films. Are we going to repeat the path they have taken?"

"It is necessary to complete the upgrading of the film industry through industrialization, standardization, and genre..."

"So we did 'Walking with God' and 'The Great Wall', both of which are heavy industry films. ”

"What is heavy industry?"

"Hollywood mainstream commercial films, high-concept, high-tech, high-investment top commercial blockbusters, mainly science fiction, magic and action films, these genres are more suitable for global distribution, such as "Avatar" is a typical heavy industry movie!"

Shen Mengxi didn't talk much about it...

It is a consensus in the industry to fight against Hollywood, but for many audiences, it doesn't matter, they just watch movies!

So, there's no need to describe Hollywood as brutal...

Bore the audience!

You don't see Cameron proposing that "Avatar 2" be made into a Sino-US co-production, and a bunch of netizens wrote, 'It's really worthy of being a card god, Lao Tzu is here to make money!', 'Card God is really awesome, this is the strategy of a top commercial film director!'

Isn't it, as for kneeling like this?

You know what, no one else has a chance to kneel if they want to, hurry up, don't stand...

......

The filming of "The Great Wall" is over, and Shen Mengxi can finally leave temporarily!

The special effects director is Lindy DeQuartrow, the previous special effects director of Digital Domain, who participated in "Titanic", and later resigned to join Industrial Light & Magic, creating "The Chronicles of Narnia", "X-Men Wolverine"...

Participated in the special effects planning of "The Great Wall" throughout the process.

With him here, Shen Mengxi only needs to watch the report regularly.

is still the same sentence, Shen Mengxi himself can only be regarded as half-aware of special effects - of course, he knows that special effects are very important, so he spends a lot of money every year to support the special effects team...

Most of the post-production of Bren House was handed over to the Dream Creek special effects team, which on the one hand saved costs and on the other hand, trained the team.

Best of both worlds.

However, "The Great Wall" has entered the later stage and does not accept other orders...

......

Back in Beijing, he first slept well.

And then, still preoccupied...

It's also normal, for a project as big as "The Great Wall", he really can't wait to pay attention to it every second...

simply asked Lao Zhao for tickets to Zhang Deyun Club, and prepared to listen to cross talk.

"I really can't imagine that you actually listen to cross talk?"

“... Entertainment..."

He was too lazy to go fishing, he had too many thoughts in his head, and he couldn't sort out fishing ...

Just go and listen to cross talk, at least a few hours will be all Lao Guo's jokes!

"Good news, "Bridesmaids" has exploded at the box office!"

Shen Mengxi got into the car and replied casually: "I know this... Paul Feig is a great director!"

Indeed, "Bald Detective 3" debuted...

Insert a sentence, in the 70s of the last century, nonsensical spoof movies rose, and the representative works were "Unprecedented Flying in the Sky", "Bald Detective", etc., and in the 90s, this kind of movie underwent a special effects evolution, and there were works such as "Fighting Condor" and "Strange Heroes in Disguise", without exception, such movies have received high box office and high returns.

After entering the new century, this kind of movie seems to be gone, only the "Scream" and "Hangover" series...

Paul Feig has a good hand at playing and peeing fart!

Of course, when it comes to seriousness, people are also awesome - he directed the first season of "Mad Men".

He still lacks a soulmate of his own, but "Bridesmaids" has been found, it is Melissa McCarthy, and then they will cooperate in "Female Spy", "Spicy Hand Police Flower", "Super Expendables"...

Of course, "Ghostbusters" suffered a huge loss...

"Bridesmaids", which won $168 million in North America and $112 million at the overseas box office, but Bren House only accounted for one-third of the revenue, and the film was produced by Judd Apatow...

Hollywood's two major comedy teams, Judd Apatow, the Apatou Party led by Judd Apatou, and the Rotten Boys Gang with Ben Stiller as the center.

They are expensive.

Lao Zhao continued: "Lu Xiaoran of Mingxi thinks that "Bridesmaids" can be made into a Chinese version..."

“... Let Liu Yifei, Yang Xiaomi, and Tang Yan team up to play?"

"No, he meant to make a work that reflects the love of girlfriends..."

"Whatever he wants," the protagonist of the previous book is...

This is my plane!

Shen Mengxi yawned: "Is there anything else?"

""Help" was a big hit at the box office!"

"Help?"

"Yes. Lao Zhao continued: "The North American box office is 168 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is close to 50 million..."

Shen Mengxi thought thoughtfully: "It seems that the so-called political incorrectness of black people does not make the market not buy it!"

“... Right. ”

Lao Zhao also knew that during the release of "Help", there was a protest from the black team...

Protest against what?

They thought "Help" was a film that made white viewers feel good about themselves because it severely weakened the racial conflicts of the time...

Resolutely resist it!

However, this $20 million movie has now sold 168 million...

It shows that the mainstream audience in North America enthusiastically accepted it!

This is embarrassing, in the middle of political correctness and the market, it is estimated that most investors will choose the market...

"These two films brought in close to $30 million..."

"What's only $3,000?"

“... It's a net return, and we're only half of it..."