China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 279
Brother Chen Kai, a director who has always attracted much attention in the industry, has made a new film.

"Search" will start filming in October. Gao Yuanyuan and Zhao Youting will join the male and female lead roles. The other four main actors in the film will also sign on to join the cast.

Brother Chen Kai is much more low-key this time. He decided to develop in a low-key manner and quietly amaze everyone. The subject he chose happens to be a hot topic today, cyber violence.

"I didn't expect Director Chen to be so low-key this time. The press release was issued by the media itself."

Liu Yifei also found it a bit unbelievable. This is the same Chen Kai who was in "The Promise" and "Mei Lanfang" back then. If you didn't watch carefully, you wouldn't know that Chen Kai has started a new work.

Li Mu estimated that Brother Chen Kai wanted to keep a low profile and regain some blood this time.

This kind of subject is easy to win awards and box office. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"It seems that there are several interviews with you. Which one do you plan to go to?"

Li Mu asked, in the past two weeks, because "Those Years" has caused a wave of nostalgia for youth in China, many interview programs want to find Liu Yifei for an exclusive interview.

As one of the few female directors with high box office numbers, they are as rare as giant pandas.

"'Dialogue'? Or 'Lu Yu has an appointment'? Anyway, I can just choose one. I'm not good at eloquence, and I'm afraid they will fail me."

"??? You don't hesitate to speak. Don't worry, they won't be confused by your questions. I'm really worried that they will be confused by your questioning."

Li Mu joked that he didn't believe that a person with bad interview skills could still be asked questions.

"By the way, don't choose 'Southern People Weekly'." Li Mu suddenly remembered and ordered.

"Don't worry, I'm not stupid. Even Director Han was punished by them. How can I still send him to your door?"

These days, Han Sanpingke was disgusted by Southern People Weekly, which gave him a special feature.

Title: Sanping hegemony, China Film monopolizes the Chinese film market.

Putting aside the content, the title alone made Han Sanping feel unhappy, not to mention that it also mentioned Zhang Weiping's words criticizing him many times.

Li Mu couldn't help but laugh when he saw the title. What a jerk!

"Overheard 2" was released on the 18th, and its total box office in nine days exceeded 9 million. This is already a very good result for a Hong Kong film, but it is far behind "Those Years".

Moreover, in Hong Kong itself, "Overheard 2" was beaten by "Those Years". Taking the first day alone, "Those Years" had 950 million on its first day, while "Overheard 2" only had 620 million.

Hong Kong media feel they don’t have much face when they report on it.

The police and gangster movies that Xiangjiang is so proud of can't even compete with inland youth movies, so what else is there to say.

Moreover, "Those Years" has begun to be released in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea.
The box office was great.

Mengying, post-production base.

The CG production of "Passengers" has been more than half completed, and both Guo Fan and Li Mu took a look at this screen saver-like picture.

"Are you satisfied?"

Li Mu crossed his legs and felt that the most beautiful part of the movie was really amazing.

"I really didn't expect it to be able to achieve this level. This spaceship is so cool. Director Li, do you think we can really build such a spaceship in the future?"

Guo Fan still firmly remembers what Li Mu said to him, that science fiction films are actually documentaries of the future.

"Should be able to."

"Director Li, I want to take a trip to Venice with the trailer to promote the movie."

Guo Fan can't wait for this movie to appear in everyone's eyes.

Li Mu smiled and said, "Then you should go there. Venice is quite lively this year."

Even the media couldn't help but report it.

"Four films were shortlisted in Venice, and Chinese films became powerful overnight!"

"By the way, "Passengers" can already be completed in November, right?"

Guo Fan nodded: "If everything goes well, it may be possible in early November. Tiancai now has more people and equipment, and the speed is much faster."

"I was planning to change the special effects to a bigger place some time ago."

Li Mu scanned around and found that there were more and more people now, and the country was paying more and more attention to the special effects business. In the past, Mengying had to support it, but now it can support itself and is starting to make a profit.

"What schedule are you planning to book? How about going to the Lunar New Year stall to have some fun?"

"it's not good!"

As soon as Guo Fan heard these words, he didn't mean to refuse.

But it's normal. The Lunar New Year festival has always been a gathering place for big directors. It's completely normal for Guo Fan to want to go in and have fun. Who doesn't have some ambitions?

"It seems that you are very confident in the quality of the movie. Then choose a date during the Lunar New Year period, and Mengying will join in the fun."

Guo Fan said with a smile: "Hey, Director Li, I've made my choice, or we'll set the date for December 12st and kick off the most exciting part of the December Lunar New Year holiday."

Zhang Yi's "Thirteen Hairpins" and Tsui Hark's "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" were both released in the middle of the month. At the beginning of the month, several blockbusters were too close to each other, causing too much competition.

"It seems that you have planned this for a long time, but this is a good idea, so you have to communicate with the publicity department, and the plan must be implemented now."

It's already the end of August, and we need to lay the groundwork to warm up to the climax. Three months in advance, it's almost time.

"okay."

Before Guo Fan finished speaking, Wu Ershan's voice came.

"Director Li, Director Guo!"

As soon as Wu Ershan came in, he saw the two chatting here and joined in.

"Painted Skin 2" returned from filming last week, and Wu Ershan is also following the post-production work.

"How about it? The shooting went well."

"With the experience of the first part, the second part will not be difficult."

A few people chatted for a while. Li Mu took another look at the production progress of "Gravity" and returned to the office.

Liu Weijuan was coming to the door.

"Mr. Li, "Step by Step" is going to be released on Mango Channel. There will be a media conference the day after tomorrow. Mr. Cai Yinong and Mr. Cai would like to invite you to go."

"The day after tomorrow." Li Mu knocked on the table, "Forget it, you go there for me or find someone to go."

After the release of the Hollywood 3D animated film "The Smurfs" in mainland China, this summer season has entered its final stage, and the imported blockbusters have taken a temporary break.At this time, nearly 10 imported "approved films" from different countries, such as "Season of the Witch", "Source Code", "Uncle", and "Norwegian Wood", were released one after another, and gathered together from the end of August to the end of September to interact with domestic audiences. The meeting formed a rare craze for "film approval" in the film market.

Then an excellent science fiction film "Source Code" took in 4300 million yuan and won the box office championship in the mainland last week. It attracted the attention of the industry and made many film critics and fans express their dissatisfaction with the current situation of domestic science fiction.

"Why is it that only Mengying can make Chinese science fiction movies, while other companies are always absent?"

Jinling Daily and many other local daily newspapers have commented on this phenomenon.

When analyzing whether Chinese science fiction movies are not good enough, many people will think of the lack of funds and technology.

Because when it comes to science fiction movies, many people will think of high-investment movies such as "Avatar", "The Matrix" and "Star Wars", but not all excellent science fiction movies are the product of technology and money.

For example, the investment of US$3200 million in "Source Code" is equivalent to the investment level of a domestic blockbuster, while the investment in science fiction films such as "Moon", "This Man is from Earth", and "Detonator" is only a few million or even hundreds of thousands. Dollar.

In contrast, there are currently many domestic films with investments exceeding [-] million.

In recent years, China's film industry has developed rapidly, and excellent science fiction novels have continued to appear. However, except for Mengying, there has not been a single excellent science fiction film. What is the reason?
The famous science fiction novelist Han Song shook his head one after another during an interview:

"Making science fiction movies requires filmmakers to have good scientific literacy, a deep understanding of science fiction, an artistic phenomenon that has emerged in the modern and industrialized era, and at the same time a good level of film art. Such people may be really good in China. The only one left is director Li Mu of Mengying Media, and director Guo Fan has to wait for "Passengers" before he can comment."

Even the space agency came out to criticize.

Domestic space technology has now entered the forefront of the world. However, except for the movies produced by Mengying Media, the rest of the industry feels even more outdated than the actual technology.
This really gave other film companies in the industry a hard slap in the face.

"Can we shoot?"

Wang Zhongjun glanced at the Huayi people and Feng Xiaogang in front of him, and he really couldn't see anyone suitable to take the photo.

Feng Xiaogang shook his head: "Actually, not only me, but also Zhang Yimou and Brother Chen Kai can't take the photo."

They are art majors, and their previous industrialization was not strong. It is difficult for them to cultivate scientific literacy. If they are allowed to make science fiction movies, they can only make magic and fantasy movies like "Ancient and Modern War between Qin Terracotta Warriors".

Wang Changtian also saw the comments on the Internet, and comforted himself in the spirit of Ah Q: "It's definitely not about the light, we invested in "Gravity"."

"Fortunately, Mengying Media has produced several science fiction films, otherwise I would be embarrassed and disgraced this time."

In this crusade, domestic state-owned leaders like Han San Ping will definitely receive a burst of criticism.

Fortunately, although China Film Group didn't make it, it wasn't right. It made a bad movie like "Future Cop".

But Mengying made the science fiction film, which can barely be regarded as Han Sanping's contribution.

"Science fiction films definitely need new directors. China Film should find more new directors and they should be able to come out in the future."

"So you chose Guo Fan. You have really good vision. However, China Film Academy cannot train directors like Meng Ying. There are many people in line in front of you. You can't just push him away if you want."

Han Sanping was also helpless. Many directors were focused on China Film's small budget, and each one had its own background. They really looked at one thing at the expense of another.

"Domestic filmmakers are a little shy about science fiction films. In your two space films, the space base created was opened to other film companies for filming. They did not dare to make science fiction films. Instead, they were keen to find ready-made and remakes among the old papers. , joking, easy to create, and commercially guaranteed.”

Han Sanping originally thought that after "The Martian", some film companies would want to make some science fiction films. After all, there are already ready-made role models and shooting bases. They don't have to pay the fee to build them themselves, which has saved a lot of costs.

However, for more than half a year, there was not even a science fiction script, let alone filming.

Li Mu thought about it for a moment. Both "The Martian" and "Gravity" are co-productions, not entirely independent domestic productions. Although they are heavy-industrial space films, they involve few actors and not many big scenes. They are more about space vision. special effects.

The same is true for Guo Fan's "Passengers".

It is now almost 2012. The domestic box office has been growing rapidly in recent years, and it should be able to afford the production costs of large-scale science fiction films.

It was time to make a large-scale domestic science fiction film, and Li Mu made up his mind.

"Try another science fiction movie."

Han Sanjing thought he hadn't heard clearly, so he repeated again: "What? Another science fiction movie?"

"Yes, Director Han, you heard me right, I plan to make another science fiction film."

"Space science fiction?"

Han Sanping immediately thought of this genre. When three consecutive films are space science fiction, people's inertial thinking is like this.

"Let's meet and chat. I plan to work with multiple companies on this one."

2019 is the first year of science fiction in China. It is too late. Li Mu plans to advance this process in advance. If there is anyone in the industry who has the strength and ability to shoot science fiction blockbusters, it is indeed Li Mu’s Mengying.

“Aren’t you planning to engage in Sino-US co-production?”

Han Sanping quickly grasped the core point of Li Mu's words.

"No, this time we will do it ourselves, and this time we will cause big problems."

"Okay, let's do something big."

Han Sanping smiled heartily. Although inviting more companies to participate would take away China Film's share, in order to expand the domestic market and promote the process of film industrialization, this is nothing.

Li Mu and Han Sanping have already called for people and are ready to meet and talk in detail.

After Liu Yifei's "Those Years" exceeded 3 million, it has been moving a bit slowly. At this time, it has reached 3.3 million. It is expected that it will exceed 3.4 million before the painting is finished. It is already quite good.

This youth film is now posted everywhere on the Internet, and there are no shocking special effects. Many people just watch pirated copies and end it.

Film festivals come around, and this is how the Venice Film Festival begins.

Guo Fan took a few minutes of footage and prepared to take Huang Xiaoming and Zhou Xun with him to Venice.

Li Mu also took a look at the trailer, and some special effects scenes were also included. It is estimated that there will be many people asking.

Li Mu then looked at Zhou Xun who was standing aside: "Cloud Atlas hasn't been started yet?"

"The film crew gave me a deadline of October, so it doesn't matter. Anyway, I only have a small role. When can Director Li take me to a big role in Hollywood?"

"You've made a good calculation, you should have a chance, and Hollywood is not as good as you think."

Zhou Xun directly put his hand on Liu Yifei's shoulder: "Forget it, I don't rely on you anymore. I believe Yifei can lead me into Hollywood."

Li Mu laughed and said: "Relying on youth movies to rush in? Ask her if she has confidence?"

"Who are you looking down on? Let me learn about literary films, take a circuitous route, win an award first, and then break into Hollywood." Liu Yifei said confidently.

These words made everyone laugh.

"It sounds a bit unreliable. I'd better trust Director Li."

Zhou Xun betrayed the camp without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)