China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 234 Sun Honglei: I’m angry but my arm is broken! Han Sanpin: I still like the big ones!

Guan Ling's idea did not come out of the blue.

Guan Ling had this idea as early as when "The Wolverine" was released.

When Marvel went bankrupt, it sold the rights to the X-Men to Fox, and Fox and Guan Ling also had a good partnership.

What's more, there is Wendi Deng in 20th Century Film Company.

Guan Ling believes that if he can come up with the X-Men script, it will not be difficult to cooperate with 20th Century to develop new film projects.

After all, Guan Ling is now a symbol of making money in Hollywood.

After all, the Scarlet Witch has not yet appeared in the movie, so changing the setting will have little impact on the entire movie.

Chinese Americans!

The character setting of this person is not difficult. It makes sense if the father and daughter are changed to the adopted father and daughter, and they become Chinese. He first appeared in a series of X-Men projects, and finally started a movie about Scarlet Witch. Not a difficult task.

Today's 20th Century Fox indeed has no reason to look down on Guan Ling.

Liu Yifei's face looked really haggard, and she would pick up a coffee cup from time to time and take a slow drink.

……

But Guan Ling would not tell Fan Bingbing immediately about this matter.

Guan Ling was not in a hurry either.

Simply speaking, her English proficiency is very high, she is also very smart, and it is not difficult for the Dream Builder to perform for her. After six days of overtime work, her work was completely completed.

Under Guan Ling's instruction, Liu Yifei invited everyone to a cocktail party to express her apology.

Liu Yifei drank a little more than two drinks. Although she got off the show, she still felt a little scared.

After a good night of relaxation and a holiday for everyone, the next day, everyone is about to embark on the journey to Canada.

At least for the Los Angeles scenes, filming ended much earlier than I thought.

"Are you going to join us in Europe?"

For 20th Century Fox, Guan Ling now belongs to the kind of great director that is hard to find.

"My mother said that she is a little worried. She will go to Europe with me this time, so that she can accompany me when I fly back and forth." Liu Yifei said.

Guan Ling looked at the drunken Liu Yifei and stroked her hair at the temples. Liu Yifei's face was different from that of Liu Yan and Fan Bingbing.

After all, mediation is needed with Fox.

Liu Yifei's face turned red into a small apple, she was so shy that Guan Ling took over the topic.

Nolan's words were full of playfulness, and everyone laughed.

Her face was already flushed, and Guan Ling poured some hot water for her.

Guan Ling was wary.

I heard people say before that Guan is a quick shooter, but now it seems that it is indeed the case.

"The Wolverine," which it spent a lot of time filming, has a global box office of more than 300 million U.S. dollars, which is slightly behind "Taken."

"Nolan, you have to know that the reason why I am fast is because I have pictures in my mind. No one can do this. Moreover, I have arranged for people to do special effects for the parts that have been completed. Real shots and Special effects description, we can do it at the same time.”

At night, Liu Yifei nestled in Guan Ling's arms.

According to my previous thoughts, the special effects might take longer in the first half of the filming, but now it seems that Guan solved a lot of problems for me.

"Don't worry too much about Crystal," Nolan said, "Our movie was able to be shot so quickly this time without Guan's help.

This period of time is just right for Fan Bingbing to work hard. She has done well in fitness recently and can do forty or fifty squats.

In the following time, Guan Ling once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to the filming of "Inception".

Guan Ling did not expect that when he was a child, he used Chinese Pinyin to learn English, and that foreigners learning Chinese could also read and write in English.

She had to come.

"Yes, what? If my mother were here now, would you still be afraid?" Liu Yifei laughed out loud.

But everyone's attitude towards her was very gentle. After having enough wine and food, everyone dispersed and went back to rest.

"What did Hua Xia say when he praised people?" Nolan shook his head in admiration, "I heard someone say before, new bee, new bee! Right?"

Fan Bingbing has had many movie roles recently, and the preparation for this role will always take time.

It is impossible for everyone to fly to other countries and finally return to Los Angeles to accompany Liu Yifei to complete the filming.

Crystal, you know Guan best, is he a fast shooter? "

But the cost is a full $100 million.

One day in early July, Liu Yifei finally finished shooting there for half a month and returned to Los Angeles to reshoot related scenes.

Everyone was laughed at by Nolan.

However, Li Yu's movie was about to start filming, and she could not continue to work out with Guan Ling, so she quickly left the filming scene.

This can take a little more time, as there are still several years before the copyright dispute between Marvel and Fox in 2014, and it will still be a long time before Fox is acquired by Disney.

The scenes in Los Angeles will be completed in about a week. If we can't catch up, it will delay the progress of the filming.

Liu Yifei has an awe-inspiring fairy spirit, which is different from the little meat buns that Zhao Ling had when she was a child.

Liu Yifei now has a touch of oriental elegance and intellectuality.

Fan Bingbing, on the other hand, is charming and elegant.

Liu Yan is a complete beauty.

"As you said, I'm not afraid even if your mother is here. Now that your mother is in the house, I'm not afraid either."

Guan Ling's mouth was still stiff, and he leaned back tactically, "...Who am I?"

Liu Yifei laughed so hard.

After a brief taste, the two of them hugged each other and chatted.

After a long flight on the plane, Liu Yifei felt a little sore, so she had to rely on the missionaries to teach.

It is difficult to bear the ravages of violence.

"I heard from my mother that "Insidious" is too brutal. It has achieved an average ratings of 9.87% on seven TV stations."

Liu Yifei was amazed.

If March belongs to "Spring Knife," April belongs to "Painted Skin," and May belongs to "Ip Man," then the box office of "Shoplifters" in June obviously failed to lead the movie rankings.

But "Latent" is definitely the biggest surprise on TV in June.

Guan Ling picked up the phone and saw many calls from Sun Honglei.

"Sun Honglei has been thanking me for a month, and I'm about to block this guy's phone number now."

"You can't find him even if you are popular in China, but you still call me every day to say thank you." Liu Yifei glanced at the call record, "Hey, why haven't you called me in more than a week?"

Guan Ling is so busy filming movies recently that he really doesn't care.

Liu Yifei searched the news for a while and found that Sun Honglei had not even been interviewed in the past half month.

This is obviously not normal.

But when Liu Yifei mentioned Sun Honglei, Guan Ling suddenly had some ideas.

Previously, I wanted to hire You Benchang to shoot a movie in which he starred. The role of a middle-aged male, Sun Honglei, was just right.

I made a call and was answered in seconds.

"Director Guan, what are your instructions?"

As soon as Guan Ling answered the phone, he could feel Sun Honglei's winking expression over there.

""Latent" is so popular recently, why haven't you participated in any interviews?"

If others asked Sun Honglei, maybe Sun Honglei would just ignore it.

But Guan Ling asked, Sun Honglei didn't dare not say it.

Not a moment later.

Guan Ling almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

……

Sun Honglei is quite miserable.

This guy was originally filming "Three Guns" with Xiao Shenyang on Zhang Yimou's crew. It happened that "Latent" became a hit. Everyone in the crew was very happy for Sun Honglei.

To celebrate, Sun Honglei, Xiao Shenyang, Zhang Yimou's daughter and others went out to eat, drink and sing karaoke.

Originally, the two of them had some disputes over their scenes in the movie.

This time I drink, I get drunk.

All of a sudden my mind felt dizzy.

It happened that a fan came to ask for an autograph from Xiao Shenyang, but they didn't really recognize Sun Honglei.

After a back and forth, the two had a quarrel.

The two Northeasterners are really both tigers and tigers.

"What are you looking at?"

"Look at you!"

Xiao Shenyang shouted angrily. Sun Honglei slapped his forehead.

An unprecedented battle because of Sun Honglei's mistake, everyone suddenly woke up!

This palm directly shattered the vase and even fractured Sun Honglei himself.

"I said, Director Guan, please stop laughing. My arm is in a plaster. How can I go out for interviews?"

"Then don't go out. It will hurt your muscles and bones for a hundred days."

Guan Ling suddenly remembered a rumor in his previous life, saying that Sun Honglei was looking for trouble, and Xiao Shenyang did it directly. In the end, Zhao Benshan asked Sun Honglei to kneel down and apologize, and then the matter was settled. Maybe this was the reason?

"Oh. Director Guan, I thanked you before, but you didn't answer all those calls. Now, are you calling me? Are you looking for something to do with me?"

Sun Honglei was also quite helpless.

"But before you speak, let me tell you something, Director Guan. I really didn't expect that Director Guan, an internationally renowned film director, could just make a hit and your TV series would directly overwhelm countless TV series of the same type. Creating a new trend in TV dramas, everyone now asks me for your contact information, Director Guan. I really don’t dare to give it to you, because if you give it to me, you won’t be taking my role!”

"Okay, stop it."

Guan Ling immediately shut down Sun Honglei's flattering behavior and said: "Originally there was a character who wanted to talk to you, but let's talk about it later."

"Don't bother me." Sun Honglei said, "To guide you, I can play the role of a swordsman or a frying pan. Not to mention a broken leg, I can play it even if my leg is broken."

"I won't let you play the role of a cripple."

Guan Ling chatted casually for a few words, but didn't talk about the character, and hung up the phone.

Sun Honglei's home.

Sun Honglei looked at his real girlfriend Xiao Wang, who was much younger than him, with a bright light in his eyes.

"Director Guan called me and said he had a role to discuss. But in the end we stopped talking. What do you mean by this?"

My little girlfriend is just twenty-four years old.

Hearing this, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Director Guan, Guan Ling?"

"Uh!" Sun Honglei blinked and nodded eagerly, a little confused.

I thought hard for a long time, but couldn't find the solution.

That night, Guan Ling and Liu Yifei laughed for a long time because of a piece of gossip.

Sun Honglei tossed and turned at home and was confused for several days.

……

July.

The summer season has officially begun. Transformers has been released for half a month, and the mainland box office has reached 2.3 million.

While this box office data amazed the industry, it also gave all film production companies a shot in the arm.

Many people suddenly realized that with the increase in theaters and the number of screens, it seems that it is not that difficult to reach 200 million in the movie box office now.

Many directors began to feel throbbing in their hearts again.

The box office of "Shoplifters" has been in theaters for 1.77 days, and it is currently at million. The box office development has been slow at this point.

As a 3D movie released simultaneously around the world, "Ice Age 3" took in a box office of 1700 million yuan on its first day.

But that's nowhere near the level of this movie.

Because even in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, this movie is a hard-to-get ticket.

It's just that the current domestic 3D movie projection equipment is not perfect enough, so the box office seems to be very low.

In fact, in North America, the film's three-day box office has reached 2 million US dollars in its first weekend. Even with "Transformers ", it is still capable of fighting.

In fact, 3D movies are nothing new.

However, because its production cost is about 15% higher than that of two-dimensional films, and post-production is also more time-consuming, it was initially just a trick used by some movies to show off their skills.

In recent years, as Hollywood producers have been increasingly hit by piracy, more and more film producers regard 3D films as a winning weapon against piracy.

Disney has stated that it will remake classic animated films such as the "Cars" series and "Beauty and the Beast" into 3D versions.

In addition to traditional cartoons, horror films, science fiction films, etc. have also jumped on the 3D express. Many people even want to use this effect as a trump card for movie battles.

Since 3D movies have special requirements for projection equipment, major theaters, whether they have already tasted the benefits of "Ice Age 3" or those who missed this opportunity because of slow shooting, are currently seizing the opportunity to add or Introduce relevant equipment in order to catch the next few "shuttle buses".

Dadi Cinemas called Guan Ling. They had been working on the construction of digital cinemas.

There are a lot of 3D theaters in the country, but this time it still gave General Manager Yan Yu a big mental shock.

"Director Guan, do you think we need to increase the number of digital projectors we introduce?"

"My advice is yes."

Guan Ling is now also a shareholder of Dadi Cinemas. He naturally supports this.

Because Guan Ling knows very well that in half a year, "Avatar" will bring its sensation to the world.

Guan Ling also intends to make "Inception" into 3D. Due to the shortened shooting time and reduced cost, the final effect can be better.

Of course, Han Sanpin is also paying close attention to the domestic film market.

Especially news about the summer season.

When he saw the box office performance of "Transformers 2" in China, Han Sanpin couldn't help but shout that it was awesome.

When he saw "Ice Age 3" continuing to take the domestic box office by storm, Han Sanpin's thoughts started to move again.

The domestic film market is in full swing, but there is a lack of blockbusters like these two movies. Han Sanpin feels really envious and uncomfortable at the same time.

The Palme d'Or had just enjoyed themselves before, but now, he was immediately jealous again.

But Han Sanpin's envy is far from over.

On July 7, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released nationwide. The film's first-day box office gross was 15 million.

Does this seem like a lot?
not much?

But the theater knows best that the main consumers of this movie are students who buy half-price tickets. Therefore, the actual number of moviegoers even exceeds the "Transformers 2" that became a hit last month. And this movie just hit 4.2 yesterday The box office dropped by million.

In North America, "Haha 6" was released in 3003 theaters on the first day, earning a box office of US$2220 million. This result is not only much higher than the US$2 million opening result of "Transformers 1600" on the same day, but also a breakthrough "The Dark Knight" previously set a box office record of 1800 million US dollars, and "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" followed with a debut of 1700 million US dollars.

Many viewers said after watching the movie that they were very impressed by the special effects scenes in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Each scene was exquisite and shocking, especially the scene at the beginning when the Millennium Bridge in London was twisted. There's something to behold. It is reported that the 15-minute IMAX-3D screen in the film also shows this scene.

Han Sanpin finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Comparing these Hollywood blockbusters, during this period, except for "Shoplifters", which relied on Guan Ling, it took less than 200 million at the box office.

Among other movies, only Zhang Yishan's "Searching for Jackie Chan" has become a dark horse.

CCTV5 also specially organized a grand premiere for this movie. As it combines youth inspiration, sunshine, kung fu, suspense, comedy and other elements, this movie is not afraid of powerful enemies such as "Transformers 2". The film's box office exceeded 1200 million in ten days, setting a new record for the highest box office of a domestic children's film.

But as soon as Harbin 6 was released, it fell off a cliff.

This movie has merits. After all, Cheng Long is not the starring role, and it is considered a success at the box office. It mainly drives the vigorous development of domestic children's-themed movies and realizes the exploration of children's film genres.

Worthy of recognition.

But Han Sanpin was still not happy.

On this day, Han Sanpin thought about it for a long time.

I have a lot of things to say in my stomach, and I don’t know who to talk to.

In the end, I chose Guan Ling.

The phone was dialed to Guan Ling.

"Director Guan, I've been thinking about it over and over recently. I'm not afraid of Director Guan's jokes. I really just like big ones!"

"The gap in the level of the film industry is so difficult!"

"Looking at these Hollywood blockbusters, I am really envious. When will we, the Chinese movie industry, be able to ride on the head of Hollywood movies like this?"

Han Sanpin's tone was rather vulgar.

But he didn't care at all.

"Look, as soon as these movies were released, domestic movies were so scared that they were afraid to be released throughout July. "The Overheard" was scheduled for the end of July, "Up" was scheduled for the beginning of August, and then "Silver Empire" ”, “Perfect”, “Roboman”, and “Invisible Killer” are all heading to mid-to-late August.

I really don’t dare to fight.

If you can't beat "Transformers", that's it. We can't even beat a Hollywood cartoon. I feel bad. "

Guan Ling felt uncomfortable listening to Han Sanpin's words.

But everything Han Sanpin said is true. If you want to make Hollywood movies now, you really have to do it at a Hollywood level.

I really can’t beat the domestic ones.

The only one that can be played this year is "The Founding of the People's Republic of China".

Talking about "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", Han Sanpin had something to say again.

"By the way, Director Guan, when are you going to return to China? I still keep my role as a reporter. If you don't give me a cameo, my movie will lose 20 million in box office!"

The two chatted for a long time.

Guan Ling's inner thoughts gradually became clear.

Anyway, we will be cooperating with Lionsgate Films to shoot fifty new movies. In fact, many low-cost, high-grossing movies around the world are now worthy of preparation and operation!

(End of this chapter)