China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 381 No Man’s Land Released

In the first quarter of this year, various Hollywood blockbusters failed to gain the upper hand in their battle with Chinese films.

At present, the Chinese film market has surpassed Japan and become the second largest in the world. This also requires Hollywood film producers to sharpen their heads and delve deeper into the Chinese film market and adopt new strategies.

Playing with Chinese elements, inviting Chinese actors to join, or filming directly in China are the magic weapons for Hollywood blockbusters to attract the attention of Chinese audiences in recent years.

This time "Transformers 4" has adopted a new strategy, which is to start to embed more advanced Chinese elements in the co-production film.

The film crew also swore that it was definitely not a soy sauce role.

Many actors are eager to try it, and this is definitely a great opportunity.

"So you didn't get involved, Director Han, in "Transformers 4"?"

At the premiere of "No Man's Land", Li Mu and Han Sanping chatted that Paramount had attracted many domestic investors this time for the sake of the domestic market.

As for Ning Hao, Huang Bo, Xu Zhuo, and Yu Nan on the stage, they were still happily interacting with the media. The questions still focused on why "No Man's Land" was banned and how the actors were selected. Why are you so discerning?

"Pangu voted, China Film will not get involved."

Han Sanping was all smiles, mainly because "BJ Meets Seattle" was so impressive that it actually exceeded 5 million.

A small investment has reaped big returns. Recently, whether listening to reports or reporting to superiors, I feel comfortable.

"By the way, your "The Tuner" will be ready for Cannes, right?"

Han Sanping remembered that in the past few days, the second batch of Cannes shortlists had been released.

After missing out on Cannes for two years, Jia Zhangke has been shortlisted for the main competition with "Destined" this time. However, some people in the industry know that Li Mu's "The Tuner" seems to be preparing to go to Cannes, but I don't know if it can be screened in Cannes. Before the deadline.

"It should be in time. It can be done in a few days. The Cannes organizing committee has reserved a special place."

"This is your treatment."

Han's three comments were a little envious, but it's normal to think about it. Cannes still respects the film master very much.

"By the way, do you have time in the next few days to introduce me to you personally?" Han Sanping thought for a while and then said.

"Huh? Who is it? I have to use you, Director Han, to introduce me."

Li Mu asked with a smile, having a guess in his mind.

"Your junior sister, bring Yifei and come to my place for a meal."

Liu Yifei, who was chatting with Xing Aina, seemed to hear her name. She turned around and looked over. Seeing that there was no follow-up, she quickly resumed chatting with Xing Aina.

"Come on, you know my taste."

Li Mu smiled.

“Your sister-in-law’s cooking skills are pretty good.”

"Speaking of which, over the years, the whole movie, Long March, was enough to make two trips before the movie came to the big screen."

Ning Hao joked to himself, and the audience gave him warm applause.

As the lights inside the theater dimmed,

"No Man's Land" finally meets the audience after several years.

The film begins with a scene of desolation, a unique landscape belonging to the Northwest.

That kind of heat seems to be covering you even through the screen.

In fact, the entire film is basically this brutal and violent style.

It exactly corresponds to the title of the film - No Man's Land.

Li Mu has watched this movie several times, but he already felt that Director Ning's filming was very exciting. The environment of the filming directly brought the audience into the movie.

Different from the previous "Crazy" series, this time it is no longer a comedy, but a western road movie with a lot of black humor mixed in.

The whole film is permeated with wildness and blood, showing the good, evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature.

No man's land, as the name suggests, is unsupervised and people can do whatever they want in it.

The no man's land here is not so much a place without people as it is a place without humanity.

"The ban is not completely unreasonable." Han Sanping said helplessly as he looked at the improved movie.

"Hehe, Director Ning said this out of emotion."

"Hai Shai felt this. At least you have to respect the review above. Darkness and reaction are all taken. No wonder Zhao Baohua never gave it. If it weren't for your face, and Tong Ju came forward in the end, the movie would have been stuck for another year. Half a year is very possible."

After Han San commented, he glanced at Ning Hao.

Burning RMB, illegally possessing firearms and ammunition, abducting and selling women, shooting policemen, poaching rare national animals

Every item here is forbidden, and "No Man's Land" has taken it all.

"This is actually reality, and we can't escape it." Li Mu said with emotion, "It's a pity that the original version didn't end like this. Although Yu Nan was rescued, it ended, leaving a trace of It seems like an open ending, which is the blank space unique to the movie."

"Director Li is right. It's a pity that the ending of the movie was ruined."

Ning Hao was not particularly satisfied with this version, in which the prostitute played by Yu Nan was finally rescued, came to the metropolis, and later became a dance teacher at a children's dance academy.

Han Sanjing disagreed: "I think it's pretty good, at least there's a lot of sunshine."

"A prostitute who comes from an extremely backward and desolate area has no skills. Even if she goes to a big city, it will be difficult for her to get a good job and a good life. This is what I want to express. This is the reality. "

Ning Hao was still arguing, "This is the actual situation. Nowadays, in order to pass the censorship, the films produced are all beautiful illusions."

"I agree with Director Ning on this. Reality is more meaningful."

"It's better to have hope. You guys have too much negative energy." Han Sanping shook his head.

Liu Yifei watched the three people's argument with great interest.

On April 4, "No Man's Land" was officially released.

After the premiere at midnight, the Douban score was as high as 9.5 points, and the Mtime.com score was close to 9 points. It is a rare high reputation among domestic films, and it is also known as the "divine score".

The Weibo index of "No Man's Land" also soared to fifth place on the Weibo hot search list.

Many netizens even said: ""No Man's Land" is Ning Hao's best movie."

"How much did the major theater chains give for arranging the film?"

Ning Hao came to Li Mu anxiously early in the morning.

After learning that the reputation was so good, I felt a little elated.

"After taking a look, I saw it was about 32%, which beats all the movies in the same period."

"Steady, this wave."

Ning Hao felt proud. This was probably his best-grossing movie so far, and it was also his best-received movie.

"Let's see, but for now, a billion-dollar club is out of the question."

"One billion, just think about it, I don't have the confidence."

Ning Hao hurriedly shook his head. If this movie was worth one billion, it would be a miracle. He would be satisfied if he could make four to five billion.

On Sunday, the first-day box office was finally released. The nationwide first-day box office was approximately 2800 million (including zero-point screenings).

Looking at this situation today, it will hit 6000 million.

The total production cost of the film that year was only 1600 million yuan. According to the current situation, the cost can be recovered and profitable today.

"I'm so envious." Wang Changtian looked at the box office data of "No Man's Land" and felt envious in his heart. This 1600 million movie made its money back in two days, and the rest was all profits.

"It seems that Mengying Media has not lost money on its small budget, and it seems that the movie "Youth" I invested in also has great promise."

Thinking of "To Youth" scheduled for summer vacation, Wang Changtian immediately became excited.

At this time, Li Muzheng and Liu Yifei went to Han Sanping's house as guests.

"Senior brother, senior sister."

Han Jianu still greeted politely.

"I heard from Teacher Tian that you don't seem to like being a director, and would rather be a screenwriter."

Li Mu smiled lightly, remembering some interesting things Tian Zhuangzhuang told him before.

Director Han Jia, who studied under Hou Keming, did not study for a few days, but spent the whole day running to other colleges.

Speaking of this, Han Sanping also looked at Han Jianu angrily, and Hou Keming even complained to him.

Han Jia Nu was not embarrassed at all.

"My dad is a director, but he doesn't necessarily require me to be a director. Senior brother, how about you direct the scripts I write from now on? I'm pretty good at screenwriting."

Han Jianu said boldly.

"Come on, you haven't written a script yet."

Han Sanping complained.

"If I don't write it now, it means I have no inspiration. It doesn't mean I won't have inspiration in the future."

Han Jia'v retorted, but she looked at Li Mu expectantly. If Li Mu could direct this, that would be really awesome.

"Haha, it's not impossible, let's see how your book is."

Li Mu smiled lightly and did not refuse.

Han Sanping, on the other hand, glanced at Li Mu in surprise. Did this mean he was really optimistic about his daughter's ability as a screenwriter?

"By the way, "Iron Man 3" will be released on May Day."

Han Sanping seemed to have remembered and changed the topic to talk about business.

"Oh, it's the "Iron Man 3" that has a special domestic version, right?"

Li Mu joked with a smile that "Iron Man" has already been screened in some countries, and the international version of "Iron Man 3" is not what the film crew originally promoted.

After watching the test screening, the reporter discovered that Fan Binbin, who had been flying around in the previous press release, not only did not appear, he was not even in the cast and crew list, and only appeared in the final "Special Thank You" list.

Dr. Wu, played by Wang Xueqi, only appeared for a few seconds, and his lines only had two words "Hello" and disappeared.

The most obvious "Chinese element" in the film is the TCL Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Not only were important plots filmed there, but the TCL Chinese Theater was eventually bombed beyond recognition.

This incident was spread, not only the industry, but also netizens were very happy for a long time.

So much so that DMG specially created a special version for China, emphasizing that the domestic version will have more Chinese elements.

Han Sanping was also a little embarrassed when Li Mu mentioned this.

"You can see clearly that these two people were not even able to make a splash. They were almost cheated out of the quota for a Sino-US co-production."

(End of this chapter)