China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 328 Inexperience

"Hey, Mr. Yu's face is glowing red!"

After Li Mu sat down, he joked, "Remember to take Mr. Wang and me with you when filming Hollywood blockbusters in the future."

It is no secret in the industry that Boehner has received strategic investment from News Corporation.

News Corporation will purchase a 19.9% ​​stake in Bona Film Group from Bona Film Chairman and CEO Yu Dong.

In the past two days, many media comments have been serious.

“Bona Media will go overseas to shoot Hollywood blockbusters, and News Corporation’s strategic investment will help accelerate the implementation of its global expansion strategy.”

"You are joking, Director Li, you are not allowed to protect us in Hollywood."

Yu Dongsan smiled and said that he could still pretend to be cool in front of Wang Changtian, but he couldn't pretend in front of Li Mu.

Wang Changtian felt secretly happy, damn, I have been listening to Fatty Yu bragging just now, and finally someone even more awesome has appeared.

"By the way, Director Li, Bona is going to make another 3D masterpiece, so we should leave it to Tiancai for post-production."

Yu Dong suddenly changed the subject and started talking about business.

"Oh? Who will guide?"

"Who else can direct 3D masterpieces in China besides Director Li?"

Yu Dong smiled and said that the 3D version of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" last year gave him a lot of confidence, and he planned to do it again this time.

"Director Xu."

Li Mu took a guess and knew who it was. After all, there were not many people who could make Bona invest big money.

"This time, we have teamed up with China Film, Bayi Film Studio, Wanda and others to make a main theme of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"."

Yu Dong smiled and said, "If Mengying Media is interested, let's play together."

When Li Mu heard that there were so many people participating, and they were not small companies, and with Bona taking the lead, he was afraid that the share would not be large, but he still nodded: "Put some money in."

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" can be regarded as the beginning of commercial attempts for theme blockbusters.

A pretty good film.

Brother Chen Kai and Chen Hong also specially attended the premiere.

The two of them greeted Li Mu, Yu Dong and others and sat on the edge of the front row.

At this time, Wu Ershan had already led the team onto the stage and was interviewed by reporters.

The reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily asked a rather embarrassing question, and he is indeed a master of troublemaking.

"In previous films such as "The Legend of White Snake" and "Painted Wall" which have the same selling point, it is said that the special effects investment is greater than that of "Painted Skin 2". Does this mean that "Painted Skin 2" has insufficient special effects funds?"

This problem would be fine if it were normal, mainly because the Light King Changtian from "Painting Wall" is also here now.

Wang Changtian was scolding his mother in his heart. This damn media doesn't care about anything. The numbers invested in special effects, whether it's "The Legend of White Snake" or "Painting on the Wall", are actually just bullshit.

Only "Painted Skin 2" is the real deal.

But how could Wu Ershan say this?

"Director Li."

Wang Changtian smiled awkwardly.

"I understand, it's propaganda, but your propaganda is too outrageous."

Li Mu said speechlessly, "Hey, you guys can just exaggerate a little. What's the point of boasting about Haikou?"

Yu Dong snickered silently on the sidelines. Not only him, but also some theater operators were snickering. Everyone knew the unspoken rules in the industry.

Zhou Xun and others were also looking at Wu Ershan, and how the director responded was the key.

To put it bluntly, it somewhat lifted the fig leaf within the circle.

"Money is never enough to make a movie. Ancient costume, war, and magic are the basic elements of "Painted Skin II", and these elements are exactly the ones that consume the most money.

Even if Mengying Media has Tiancai, a powerful special effects company, creating a flat and beautiful fantasy movie does require "careful" and "iron cock".

What I did was the standard steps a film director should take when creating a genre film: market positioning, script planning, concept design, shot design, three-dimensional dynamic demonstration, special effects technology testing, art design, model production, actor rehearsal etc.

The special effects of "Painted Skin 2" are definitely the best in China, comparable to those in Hollywood."

Wu Ershan answered this question head-on and put an end to waste. These are the basic skills of a director. With the special effects of Tiancai as the background, he is naturally full of confidence.

Everyone applauded, and it must be said that this answer was quite witty.

However, the audience is not easy to fool. Some people still know a lot and whisper in the audience.

After some interviews, the curtain was lifted on this oriental fantasy blockbuster.

There have been quite a few Chinese-language movies focusing on magical action in recent years.

The successful ones include Tsui Hark's "Detective Dee: The Great Empire", while the less successful ones include "The Painted Wall" by Chen Jiashang and "The Legend of White Snake" by Cheng Xiaodong.

These Chinese fantasy movies all use limited funds to pursue real feelings, and "Painted Skin 2" takes a "freehand" approach.

The story of Painted Skin 2 is a bit complicated to tell clearly.

If we don’t delve into the connotation and causes and consequences, it’s probably that a ruined princess used the power of the fox demon to put on the charming appearance of the fox demon and successfully went to bed with the male protagonist.

Then on the one hand, the male protagonist likes the skin of the demon fox, but on the other hand, he deeply loves the princess, so he falls into a tangle.

The princess and the demon fox are almost in this tangled state.

The whole movie is quite boring just by looking at the story, but if you want to deeply appreciate the collision of various concepts about love and life, it might be interesting.

However, the film does create a mood. In the dark cave palace of Sirius Kingdom, a group of birds descending from the sky besiege the wizard. This is the climax of the scene.

The film does not show the details of the birds, but uses the combination of light and shadow to present the artistic conception of Chinese freehand culture.

Of course, it also showed off some plots that are easy to sell, such as Zhou Xun and Zuo Xiaoqing taking off their clothes and changing their skins in the water.

The process is both strong and soft, sexy and scary.

"Director Li, you really understand this commercial film Mengying."

Yu Dong and Wang Changtian lamented that everyone could understand the story, and it wasn't too profound, but it was just more attractive than their movies.

The audience also talked about the rather bloody plot and applauded one after another.

"Compared to the first part of "Painted Skin", it feels a bit worse, but the special effects are really good and the plot is a little bit bloody."

"It's fairly qualified. Zhou Xun's performance as a demon is really good." The audience was discussing privately.

"I really like this kind of plot, all kinds of entanglements, it's great."

A girl made her own remarks, but the man next to her did not speak.

My girlfriend has always liked watching all kinds of bloody Korean dramas, so it’s not unreasonable to like this movie, but the picture is really beautiful.

"The director's visuals are good, but the plot is a bit..."

Brother Chen Kai commented.

"It's pretty passable. Female audiences should like it."

Li Mu probably also knows the shortcomings of this plot, but the movies that women like to watch now will most likely not be bad at the box office. After all, they don't go to the movies alone.

“Are you available for the premiere of Searching?”

Li Mu nodded: "I should be able to be there."

After the premiere of "Painted Skin 2", Li Mu rushed to Jinling before the first day's box office.

Liu Yifei is in high spirits today.

Not only the actors saw it, but the staff also felt it.

The smile never stopped.

"Director Liu feels very happy today."

"Maybe something happy happened."

"I guess Director Li must be here."

The people below guessed.

In the afternoon, the field manager suddenly whispered: "Director Li is here to visit the class."

Liu Yifei, who was sitting on the director's chair, had a smile on her lips, but she didn't show it. Instead, she urged: "Okay, get ready for the next scene."

When Li Mu came to the scene, he was surrounded by students, a thick wall of hundreds of students, more than 20 crew vehicles, numerous filming equipment, and a "warning cordon" was set up in the area centered on the southern lecture hall.

"Wow, Director Li is here." Many students turned around and saw Li Mu and kept shouting.

"Shh!"

Li Mu made a gesture to indicate not to be too loud.

The students were very excited.

"Director Li, can you sign your name for us?"

Someone kept shouting.

Li Mu looked at the number of people and saw that it was not too large, so he simply agreed.

"Everyone, keep your voices down, there's still filming going on inside."

Li Mu took the handed book and signed his name one by one.

Inside, Liu Yifei felt something was wrong. Where was the person? Why hadn't they come in for so long?

"Ka, it's over! Let's take a rest."

Liu Yifei commanded, preparing to go see what happened to Li Mu.

"Director Li is still outside signing autographs for fans."

A steward whispered.

At this time, Li Mucai hurriedly came in from the cordon and breathed a sigh of relief.

Good guy, I thought this was just the number of people, but who knew that these students would come in batches after batches, in an endless stream.

His hands were so tired from signing in.

"Director Li!"

Everyone greeted him one after another.

Li Mu nodded, "Where are you resting? You brought food, you guys, you're welcome."

"okay."

Everyone rushed to eat.

"I didn't expect so many people to sign." Li Mu smiled bitterly.

"puff"

Liu Yifei's face was full of smiles, as if caught in the spring breeze.

"You don't have enough experience."

"That's right, I don't have as many fans as you."

Li Mu nodded. In terms of signing experience, he was definitely not as good as Liu Yifei.

"You look very impressive."

Li Mu took a look. He was wearing casual sportswear and a duckbill hat, looking like a director.

"At least it looks bluffing."

Liu Yifei said proudly, "You will watch from the side later."

The two chatted for a while, and then the crew continued to turn on the camera.

I am still filming scenes on campus.

Li Mu's presence here has really put pressure on many actors. Zhou Yiwei, Yang Zishan, and Luo Jin are doing better, but Tong Liya, Zhang Xiaofei, Zhao Liying and others are inexplicably under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, after NGing it several times in a row, I gradually got used to it.

Li Mu spent the entire afternoon on the set, occasionally watching Liu Yifei directing the show and taking a look at the current situation of "Painted Skin 2".

The reviews are indeed worse than the first film, but according to the current data reported by theaters, it is quite satisfactory, and the film schedule has been given 35%.

(End of this chapter)