China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 279 New work "Alien Zone"

"Hey, 110? The food in my store was robbed. This man ran faster than a dog."

The big screen screen freezes on the slovenly, incompetent and roaring Huang Bo, and the film ends.

In the small screening room of the Beijing Film Studio, Jiang Liu nodded and said: "The plot of the movie is highly complete, and the interesting points and laughs are smoothly combined. The box office reputation will not be bad after it is released."

As soon as Jiang Liu said this, the producer of "Crazy Stone" Xing Aina and the director Ning Hao were immediately elated.

After "Orangutan" won multiple weekly box office championships in dozens of countries around the world, Jiang Liu is a god-like existence in the hearts of Chinese film and television practitioners.

Many people inside and outside the industry will criticize Jiang Liu's films for their low artistic content.

But no one will question Jiang Liu's vision in commercial entertainment films and his keen insight into the global film market.

Jiang Liu praised "Crazy Stone" so loudly that the movie's box office was not far behind.

After taking the reassurance, Ning Hao looked refreshed and looked at the screen that lit up again.

The plot of "Pirates 2" is much weaker than that of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".

The three-act movie of more than 100 minutes was played quickly.

Pirates and officers and soldiers chased and fought in the rapids and curves, staged many ridiculous scenes, and the filming was extremely exciting.

Now Jiang Liu is worth more than Tsui Hark.

Seeing the bandit leader played by Sha Yi using the Fountain of Youth to resurrect Ruyue, leading his younger brother to steal the pirate ship and disappearing on the sea level, Jiang Liu clapped his hands in time.

His personal fame is higher than the starring actors in the film combined.

After that, the male and female pirates gathered together to seize the official ship and go to sea. While the male and female protagonists and the bandit brother were arguing over the map of the Fountain of Youth, they accidentally broke into the indigenous island.

The four producers of China Film, Yixin, CJ Entertainment and Shanghai Film Group passed by in a flash.

Jiang Liu and Xu Hark turned around and saw Han Sanping coming in a hurry. They nodded and said, "Hey, Mr. Han is here. Sit in front."

The watermelon cutting and bone cage fighting scenes in this plot were adapted by Jiang Liu from "Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 4".

Disney will probably go crazy after watching "Pirates 2". Jiang Liu will go to North America in the future and will need to seriously strengthen his security forces.

The opening scene shows the disguised female pirate Ruyue and her gang rushing into the execution ground to save the bandit played by Sha Yi and the seasick boy played by Fan Ming.

Immediately following are two lines of subtitles: "Producer Jiang Liu" and "Screenwriter Jiang Liu".

With his name in the movie, "Pirates 2" will sell relatively easily whether in China, South Korea, or even the North American market.

By the time Han Sanping and Hou Xiaobao changed places, the movie had already started.

In the audience, Jiang Liu accepted the producer status of "Pirates 2" with peace of mind.

Tsui Hark is a veteran director who has been famous for a long time, and his storytelling ability goes without saying. Coupled with Jiang Liu's rigorous script, the story line of "Pirates 2" is very clear.

Later, Tsui Hark corrected the chaos, and the current version is almost the same as "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".

The plot on the indigenous island is also extremely interesting.

"here we go?"

In order to make the urban prisoner-robbing scene at the beginning of the script grand and interesting, Tsui Hark used pieces of wood to build a circular building similar to a torrent bend in Hengdian Riverside Scene during the Qingming Festival.

But still worth a look.

"Pirates" has a high box office and high reputation. With the quality of the movie "Pirates 2", there is no problem for the mainland box office to exceed million.

South Korea's box office is strong, so it should be able to recoup its costs based on its box office.

If it can land in North America, it will be profitable.

Jiang Liu looked at Han Sanping: "Mr. Han, how is "The Promise"?"

They are all acquaintances and partners who have collaborated many times. Mr. Han did not hide it and sarcastically said to someone: "Director Chen's artistic attainments are too high. I can't quite understand him."

Jiang Liushe followed the stick: "The competition for the Lunar New Year movies in 06 is fierce, and "Pirates 2" and "The Promise" must focus on something."

Mr. Han said with a headache: ""The Promise" is on the 15th, and "Pirates 2" is on the 16th. Do you really have to compete in the ring?"

Jiang Liu said reluctantly: "I really wanted to postpone it for a week, but unfortunately there will be Emperor's "The Great Sage" and Zhang Yimou's "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" on the 22nd."

"'Ride Alone' A Thousand Miles' is okay. Yi Xin also invested some money in "The Great Sage of Love", but we can't let Yi Xin beat himself up. "The Promise" should not have been set on the 15th at that time." Hua Xia Lunar New Year Festival Competition is getting fiercer.

Before and after the New Year's Day holiday, there are five blockbusters by famous directors: "The Promise", "If You Love", "Pirates 2", "A Thousand Miles Alone" and "The Great Sage".

Around the Spring Festival, there are also big-budget movies such as "Fearless" and Hollywood's "King Kong".

Jiang Liu doesn't shy away from market competition, but he is afraid that Mr. Han will be unfair and insists on releasing "Pirates 2" in "The Promise".

After all, China Film spent a lot of money on "The Promise."

As for the mainland film market, is there really any unfair competition?

Needless to say.

Jiang Liu himself, and several of his works since he became famous, have always been vested interests in unfair competition in the mainland film market.

"Orangutan" was released on the summer vacation schedule in August, occupying almost all the films scheduled for the same period.

In the same schedule, whether it was a Hollywood blockbuster or a low-budget movie from the two places, they all gave way to "Apes".

The reason for this is that theaters across the country are optimistic about the box office of "Orangutan".

The deeper reason is that the multiple investors behind "Apes" are too powerful.

Movies in the same period as "Apes" are like dragons and tigers. When the popularity of "Apes" subsides and rakes in 2.4 million yuan at the box office, Fang Lun will appear in other movies.

"The Promise" in the 2006 Lunar New Year release is just like "The Orangutan" a few months ago.

Jiang Liu knew the secret, so he asked Mr. Han to give him a clear explanation.

"None of us should get involved. Let's look at the box office potential of the two movies and let the national theaters look at the data to arrange the films."

"That's best." Jiang Liu nodded happily.

Mr. Han's mood also improved: "Is it true that I don't want to vote for "Red Cliff" anymore?"

"Forget it, John Woo has a lot of troubles. He has to find Lin Chiling to play Xiao Qiao. The script has been revised over and over again and there are always a lot of logic errors. He is too lazy to get involved in this project."

"What if you don't want to film? If you become the director, I will organize the scene for you."

Mr. Han persuaded Jiang Liu to take over "Red Cliff" as usual. After thinking about it, he said with a smile on his face:
"It's understandable that you don't like "Red Cliff". After all, you went to Hollywood. The investment volume of "Red Cliff" is nothing compared to Hollywood blockbusters."

Jiang Liu's mouth twitched: "A movie with a budget of 30 to 40 million US dollars is already a medium-sized movie in Hollywood."

"I briefly calculated the production costs for my new script, and the budget was only 30 to 40 million."

After reminding Han Sanping, Jiang Liu stood up straight away.

There is no shortage of generous people and official institutions in China, and the behavior of throwing money is often described as politeness and hospitality.

While he was staying at home these days, he saw a piece of news that a ghost man had lost a bicycle. The local authorities were so generous that they wanted to mobilize the manpower of the whole city and the whole province to search for it.

Seeing this made him panic.

I don't care, and I don't bother to express my opinion.

Mr. Han stood up and said, "I've finished reading the script of "Alien Zone". I'm afraid it won't be easy to pass the review. The subject matter is a bit gloomy."

"It depends on the attitude of the bureau. If you let me film it, I will stay in China and make it into a Chinese-language film. If you don't let me film it, I will go abroad to film it." Jiang Liu said quite calmly.

He will not only appear calm about whether the script passes review.

At the same time, we are also prepared to negotiate with domestic theaters on the box office share ratio.

Yixin has made some progress in the North American market.

Domestic theater chains even boycotted his movies.

He also had a way out.

After "Apes" brought huge profits to domestic theaters, the "Alien Zone" script adapted from "District 9" was a straight hook thrown by Jiang Liu.

Domestic theater chains have agreed to increase the box office share ratio of producers, and we will continue to cooperate in friendly ways.

Otherwise, from now on, the road will be open to the sky, and everyone will go to one side.

(End of this chapter)