Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 593 - Only people who make money from national disasters are here
Mr. Tim Walker put down his camera and said helplessly to Del Toro and Josh Brolin, "Please both of you smile evilly with Chen instead of laughing meanly!"

One of the world's most prestigious big screen monthly magazines: Sight & Sound, is taking group and individual photos of the three leading male actors of Sicario II.

This series of pictures, named Chiaroscuro, will be the cover of Sight & Sound magazine in September.

Since the filming progress has exceeded expectations, director Villeneuve is very cooperative with the media in arranging a series of publicity reports for "Sicario II".

The political situation in Mexico is becoming increasingly turbulent.

The conflicts and contradictions between the Mexican general public and the government, police system and defense agencies are becoming increasingly acute.

There has been a clear increase in the frequency of sit-ins, sieges, demonstrations and protests in cities and provinces across Mexico.

Although the criminal groups in Mexico have not yet come forward to openly participate in anti-government actions, according to rumors, these guys are very active behind the scenes.

The Commissioner General of the Mexican Federal Police has spoken out on social media many times recently, repeatedly emphasizing that Mexico's overall social security situation can still be described as basically stable.

However, as the government's credibility crisis intensified and corruption cases surged, other problems emerged.

Many European and American experts unanimously predict that it is only a matter of time before Mexico starts to boil over.

The more chaotic the situation in Mexico becomes, the more attention "Sicario 2" receives.

Everyone wants to see how Villeneuve and Taylor Sheridan view and examine the Mexican government, which is on the verge of complete bankruptcy.

In addition, European and American audiences also have great expectations for Chen Yu's first participation in a realistic film and television work.

European and American producers and distributors have been secretly analyzing and estimating the box office and reputation of "Sicario II" through the shooting footage that has been released.

Currently, the popularity and traffic of "Sicario 2" is gradually comparable to Marvel Studios' superhero films, and it has become the most searched phrase by European and American audiences in recent times.

Euromonitor International predicts that the global box office revenue of Sicario 2 in 2019 will be between US$713 million and US$727 million.
Germany's GfK gave a figure of US$704 million with a fluctuation of 2.3 per thousand;

The most optimistic company at this stage is France's Ipsos, which calculates that there is a 90 percent chance that "Sicario 2" will break through the positive baseline of US$730 million.

In fact, director Villeneuve didn't think that much.

He could even accept that "Sicario 2" merely broke even, after all, the content of this work is gloomy and depressing without any cheerful scenes throughout.

Director Villeneuve and Sheridan originally planned to get Lionsgate to invest around $75 million to produce a niche classic that alluded to the Mexican drug war.

It's like "Platoon" and "Apocalypse Now", I like it so much that I want to watch it eight times a day.

Those who don't have any feelings about this type of subject matter can just sit back and wait until the movie is over before cursing.

The Church of San Felipe de Neri looks very peaceful under the morning light.

But Mr. Tim Walker, the exclusive photographer of Sight & Sound magazine, broke this peaceful and comfortable feeling with his impatient tone.

At this moment, the look in his eyes when he looked at Chen Yu was already full of fatigue, exhaustion, and anger.
"Can you and Isabella stand closer? And wrap your left arm around Isabella's slender waist. I can guarantee that Isabella won't want to sue you for sexual harassment."

The Chen Yu who just took a photo with Del Toro and Josh Brolin is completely different from the Chen Yu now.

The former was confident and calm, while the latter looked awkward and stiff, like a novice thief.

Isabella yawned continuously, but she continued to tease Chen Yu for fun, "There are not many opportunities for young girls to hug you, so please cherish them."

Mr. Tim Walker took the hot cocoa handed to him by his assistant and turned around to give Isabella a stern eye dart.

"If you don't know how to take advantage of girls in front of the camera, you should go to a psychologist for help." Isabella's advice was the same as Meng Ziyi's. Chen Yu stubbornly argued that good works don't need all that kissing and flirting.

The reason why intimate and hot scenes are included is that the director and screenwriter deliberately wrote them in order to save some costs.

The cost of the male and female protagonists kissing sweetly for five minutes is 100% lower than the cost of the male protagonist chasing a car, doing parkour and jumping off a building.

"Three thousand dollars can only make a small explosion point, but if the male and female protagonists are asked to shoot a sex scene, these two people can be busy from sunrise to sunset."

"The various shooting materials accumulated are enough to make the editor jump up and down and curse." Chen Yu pointed at Mr. Setaridis, who was rarely seen.

The 33-year-old old man who has his days and nights reversed is the editor of "Sicario 2".

This is the second time Chen Yu has collaborated with Setaridis. Prior to this, he was also in charge of the editing team of Knives Out I.

"Don't listen to Chen's nonsense. In Knives Out I, he and Jodie Comer had no intimate or kissing scenes at all. The only large-scale scene was when Jodie took a bath."

Setaridis ruthlessly exposed Chen Yu's true colors.

Isabella put on an expression as if she had known this would happen, and glanced at Chen Yu with a sarcastic look in her eyes.

Previously, she watched a video of Chen Yu participating in a variety show on YouTube, and Di Lieba once complained that even if she and Chen Yu played a couple, it was a job that tested her endurance.

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"It's something worth celebrating that you don't have to do any intimate scenes with Chen in Sicario II."

After disgusting Chen Yu, Setaridis staggered towards the parking lot.

He was going back to the studio to handle the task assigned to him by director Villeneuve.

Sicario II was shot almost simultaneously with the rough cut, so Setaridis had work to do every day.

He never took a vacation and often worked overtime, which earned him the title of the mysterious man in the "Sicario 2" crew.

Director Villeneuve is actively working to make "Sicario 2" the first film at the opening ceremony of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Chen Yu handed the hot dog wrapper to Del Toro as usual.

"The Berlin International Film Festival will be held in late February next year. Doesn't that mean that Sicario 2 will first participate in the festival and then be released in theaters?"

Isabella raised her eyebrows and looked at Chen Yu and Del Toro.

Chen Yu nodded and said that the cost structure of "Sicario II" is very reasonable.

This gave director Villeneuve plenty of money to spend on special effects and post-production, and he initially focused on shooting gun battles and action scenes in order to save a lot of production time.

To be honest, this was a shooting plan and method that was forced upon us.

After all, the biggest publicity gimmick of "Sicario 2" is: the unstable political situation in Mexico at this stage.

But who can guarantee that Mexico will still be in a state of boiling water and breaking silver bottles in January of the following year?
If it can be said that the general public in Mexico has reached a certain degree of reconciliation with the ruling class.

Then the popularity of "Sicario 2" will evaporate by 20% in an instant.

To say something cold and cruel:

The dire political situation in Mexico resulted in a 40 percent reduction in publicity and marketing costs for Sicario II.

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