You can't imagine the happiness of the group performance

National Day in 2001.

This year's National Day is quite special, because the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day collide, so the holiday is longer than before.

However, for the journalists reporting on the entertainment industry, especially the media who pay attention to the stars and seas, it is obvious that today cannot be a holiday.

Because something big happened today.

How big is it?
If Jiang Yan were to describe it, it would probably be similar to when the J20 was first exposed.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the official website of Xingchenhai released the video link of the first version of the first trailer of "Kung Fu Panda" as scheduled.

At the same time, link sharing through the QQ search window mode is also ringing all over the country.

So very soon, the first trailer of "Kung Fu Panda" was officially shown to the world in front of the majority of netizens.

After countless netizens clicked in, they entered a video website called "Youtu".

Anyone who is knowledgeable knows that this is a copy of Jiang Yan's "YouTube" in Laomei.

This is indeed the case, but "YouTu" is still in the beta stage, and the first "Kung Fu Panda" trailer is the test target.

Let’s not talk about technology in advance, let’s go back to the trailer itself.

When the reporters clicked on the video according to the instructions, their first reaction was: this video is so clear!
Then came a strong visual impact.

Most of the reporters know a little bit, and they have a certain ability to distinguish animation quality and production difficulty.

But "Kung Fu Panda" this. . .how to say.

All I can say is: This is great!

The 50-second preview, the first scene, is the mountain palace surrounded by clouds and mist.

Three-dimensional imaging brought by digital technology, perfect and gorgeous art style, strong Chinese style.

Based on the opening scene alone, no one can say that "Kung Fu Panda" doesn't care.

However, the picture that appeared next could no longer be summed up by just "intent".

Immediately afterwards, animals performing kung fu appeared in the video.

A monkey with a monkey fist, a red-crowned crane in a hat with a crane fist, a praying mantis, a snake, and a tiger.

Each animal represents a type of boxing.

From the perspective of domestic people, this can be understood without thinking.

The picture continued, and after the appearance of five kung fu characters, "Panda" appeared.

As a result, the panda's appearance style is completely different from others.

Others want to be as handsome as they want, but pandas are stealing food!And it was eating on the beams with a fork!And there's a raccoon down there looking at it dumbfounded?

After being discovered, the panda and the raccoon looked at each other awkwardly for a second, then said weakly, "Don't tell the monkey."

This made all the audience laugh.

Then came the title of "Kung Fu Panda".

The 50-plus-second preview trailer ends here.

But the shock to the audience is far from over.

At this moment, everyone thinks back, the plot, appearance animation, characters, etc., every detail seems to far exceed the domestic standard, and even surpass the Hollywood standard.

How to say that feeling?

That is: watch it again!
And after waiting dozens of times, everyone's mood can be described in one sentence: Is this tm really a domestic animation? !

This feeling was actually easy to understand in 2001.

You must know that when Hollywood's "Toy Story" came out in 95, the biggest opinion of countless domestic industry insiders was only one: it is incomparable, completely incomparable.

At that time, some senior people in the industry said: In terms of technology alone, it will take at least 20 years for our country to catch up!
After all, when everyone thought that animation was just a two-dimensional hand-painted graphic, Lao Mei suddenly came up with a three-dimensional digital animation, and it was so lifelike. This is simply a subversion of three views, which is no less than the Gulf War. The shock of the army.

The huge gap in the film industry makes everyone feel that Laomei's technology is so strong that it can't catch up in a short period of time, so they can only worship the highest-end technology. As for surpassing it, don't even think about it. It is already a bold idea to be able to catch up.

This feeling is the difference between the third-generation aircraft and the fifth-generation aircraft on fighter jets.

Seeing the beautiful F22 flying in the sky, countless military fans drooled and sighed: If you can see our country and build one yourself in your lifetime, then you will die without regret.

As a result, at this time, a domestic company suddenly produced a domestic fifth-generation fighter that is comparable to the world's strongest fighter. Now, countless military fans can still sleep?
The same is true for "Kung Fu Panda", so for a while, movie fans, animation practitioners, people in the film industry, and countless unrelated people all turned their attention to the stars and seas.

Not only that, the emergence of the "YouTu" video website has also attracted the attention of domestic Internet-related people and related technical people.

Then everyone discovered that the technical level of "YouTu" was also on par with Laomei, and Laomei's video online earning seemed to be invented by Jiang Yan first.

So for a while, Jiang Yan and Xingchen Dahai also became the focus of the domestic technology circle.

Countless people cast their attention, and the official website of Xingchenhai almost collapsed.

Compared with the domestic excitement, the foreign people are relatively calm.

After the 50-second preview of "Kung Fu Panda" came out, Lao Mei immediately reported that the situation was similar to Jiang Yan's expectation, that is, more people paid attention to the movie itself than to the technology.

Jiang Yan thinks this is enough, this is a movie after all.

But even so, the number of views on the official website of Xingchen Haihai Overseas and "YouTube" has broken records. After all, no one can refuse a panda.

For the commotion caused by "Kung Fu Panda", Jiang Yan had already planned.

So after the trailer was released, Wu Yong immediately released the news of holding a press conference.

It's just that Wu Yong will only release a small part of the information about "Kung Fu Panda".

The current overall progress of "Kung Fu Panda" is only about 60%, and there is at least half a year before the film is released.

But Jiang Yan is not in a hurry, anyway, the ip has been taken down, so just do it slowly.

As for publicity, Jiang Yan also referred to the model of "Black Myth Wukong", releasing a new trailer every six months to stimulate the Internet once, and then the same goes offline, releasing who and who will join the dubbing team from time to time, that's enough up.

Speaking of dubbing, Liu Qianqian acted like a baby again:

"Jiang Yan, which one should I match? Is there a rabbit?"

Jiang Yan was very helpless, "Kung Fu Panda" has a huge lethality on children and girls, Liu Qianqian will not be immune, so after the trailer came out, she called and asked for dubbing, which was not enough, taking advantage of Jiang Yan's She was in Shanghai at the moment, and she was also in Shanghai, so she skipped the physical class in Shanghai and came to the scene to act like a baby.

In this regard, Jiang Yan can only turn on the big cake mode:

"You learn the lines well first. If you meet the standard, "Kung Fu Panda" will give you a small character to practice your skills. If you can get excellent, next time I will make an animated movie with a bunny as the protagonist, and you will be the protagonist. How about it? "

Jiang Yan was talking about "Zootopia", and although Liu Qianqian didn't know it, she got a big promise, and Dang even jumped up happily.

"Don't jump, we'll be exposed if the sunglasses fall off!"

Jiang Yan hurriedly stopped, and Liu Qianqian obediently continued to be a passerby.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Yan, Liu Qianqian, Jun Zhixian and others arrived at the Star Cinema on Nanjing Road, the magic city.

This year's National Day holiday is longer than usual, which also allows more fans to have time to go to the cinema.

So far, among the top ten domestic box office rankings, "Pearl Harbor", which was released in August, ranks first. It has already achieved a box office of 8 million, becoming the fourth Hollywood blockbuster to exceed 1 million in the mainland.

"Shaolin Soccer", which was released at the same time, ranked second with a box office of 9500 million.

The two blockbuster films were both released in August, and both achieved quite good results, which to a certain extent can greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of movie fans.

The fact is the same. According to the report submitted by Star Cinemas, the number of movie viewers in August and September was about 8% more than last year.

Of course, this data can only be used as a reference, because the Star Cinemas did not open last year, and the data used now is only the old data of the acquired theaters, which may not be correct.

However, Jiang Yan knew that this data should be not bad.

The domestic film market has indeed begun to recover this year. If there is no surprise, the total box office this year will indeed increase by 12-15% compared to last year, and this number will be maintained almost every year in the future.

When the market environment is good, theater competition becomes fierce.

But for Xingchenhai, this is not a problem at all.

Take the cinemas in Shanghai as an example. Although the Star Cinemas has just opened for less than three months, the chain decoration of the Star Cinemas from Laomei, which looks high-end and foreign, has made the Star Cinemas the current The first choice of the citizens of Shanghai.

In addition to these superficial things, the split-hall theater layout, high-end soft sofa seats, and comfortable and fidelity audio-visual experience have also made a group of senior movie fans regard the Star Theater as the first choice for watching movies.

According to the data submitted by the manager of the theater chain, the various business data of the Star Cinemas in Shanghai are much better than expected. If this trend continues, the theaters in Shanghai will pay back about 6 months earlier than the original plan. , That is to say, it will be able to recover its capital and realize profitability in the middle of next year.

Jiang Yan is naturally very satisfied with this, it is worthy of his spending so much money and material resources to send Laomei to practice.

Having said that, today is the first day of the holiday, and at the prime time in the evening, the passenger flow of the theater also ushered in a peak.

Wearing sunglasses, Jiang Yan ostentatiously inspected the firefighting and other equipment accompanied by the theater manager and others.

During this period, no one recognized who he was, except for the barrier of sunglasses, the reminder that he is now close to 200 catties is also the best disguise.

Soon a group of people came to the middle of Hall No. 500 and sat down in a low-key manner. Hall No. [-] of the Star Cinema on Nanjing Road in Shanghai is the largest, and can accommodate about [-] people. This scale will definitely be separated in the future, but in this era Just enough.

When we returned to Hall 1, the theater was already full of people.

In addition to fans, these people also have many reporters.

The reporters came here to participate in the roadshow of "The True Colors of a Man" in Shanghai, which meant that Wu Jing, Ah Feng and the others would appear on stage in a few minutes.

"The True Colors of a Man" had its premiere in Beijing at 7:[-] pm last night. The media's evaluations today were pretty good, and Wu Jing was the one with the highest evaluation.

Wu Jing played the villain for the first time, but turned the villain into the protagonist. This made many film critics feel that Wu Jing's acting skills seemed to be underestimated.

The fans were thinking, this must be Jiang Yan's mischief, after all, the screenwriter of the film is Wu Jing's buddy Jiang Yan.

These are all jokes and do not affect the movie, so A Feng, Guan Xi and the others were not sprayed.

Because in addition to the good plot, Guanxi Afeng and others tried such a fierce fighting scene for the first time as "little fresh meat", and they all performed desperately, and the effect of the show was not stretched at all. Fortunately, they will not be too harsh on them. Even because of such a desperate performance, A Feng and Guan Xi have gained a lot of fans. Regarding this, Jiang Yan is more willing to believe that those are "face fans", and they are all crown fans. Xi's, after all Guanxi is really handsome. . .

"Ouba, how much box office do you think this film will have?"

At this time, Jun Ji-hyun, who was sitting on his left, started asking questions again.

"My goal is no less than 2500 million." Jiang Yan replied calmly.

2500 million is ranked fifth in the top ten box office list in the mainland this year, which is a good result.

"What about our movie?"

Quan Zhixian continued to ask, but the voice was much quieter, and the whispered question was obviously very intimate, and in the intimacy, there was a sense of eagerness similar to cheating.

Jiang Yan knew that this was because Zheng Xuntuo was sitting on the other side of Jun Zhixian.

And the reason why Quan Zhixian was like this was naturally because she had been bewitched.

Jun Ji Hyun was invited by Jiang Yan to shoot the MV on the second day he stayed in Hengdian. Which actress would refuse Jiang Yan's MV?So Jeon Ji Hyun fell—under Zheng Xuntuo's nose—without anyone noticing.

After filming the mv in one day, Jeon Ji-hyun and Jung Hoon-tak went back to China. Now, Jeon Ji-hyun has been suffering in South Korea for two weeks. Before the film starts, he came to China again and reunited with Jiang Yan. The joy in his heart is overwhelming. Can't hold back.

But she also knows that she can't be impulsive, so now she can only interact with Jiang Yan as a curious baby, in order to subtly influence Jiang Yan.

Regarding this, Jiang Yan naturally expressed that he didn't understand anything, and just replied: "Of course I hope that the more the better, don't you, Xiao Zheng?"

Zheng Xuntuo on the other side saw Jiang Yan calling himself suddenly. Although he didn't understand why, he responded in time: "Ah, yes, that's right."

Seeing this, Quan Zhixian bit his lips, looked at Jiang Yan and swore in his heart, "One day, you will be taken down by my old lady..." Then he sat upright and continued watching the movie.

Jun Zhixian stopped, and Liu Qianqian, who was also wearing sunglasses sitting on Jiang Yan's right, started acting like a demon again.

Fortunately, after Jiang Yan slapped away Liu Qianqian's hand poking her fat face for the 20th time, Liu Qianqian finally became honest.

Soon, following the host's introduction, Wu Jing and other main creators appeared amidst applause.

Everything went smoothly in the next link, but when fans asked why the screenwriter Jiang Yan didn't come, Wu Jing looked at the auditorium meaningfully and said: "He just finished gaining weight, and he said that in order not to let everyone's heart hurt. If the image of the male god is broken, he will not come."

These words made Jiang Yan in the auditorium paralyzed on the spot.

Fortunately, the audience before and after did not understand Wu Jing's eyes, and Jiang Yan escaped.

But this is not bad, at least the word "male god" became an official vocabulary the next day.

It's just interesting that Jiang Yan actually lost in the 2001 first Tianya Neiyu male god selection organized by boring netizens. The reason was male gods, not fat people. . .