Rebirth: I'm filming extra scenes on the set

Chapter 258: Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate, released.

It took one and a half months.

"Galaxy Tutorial" has officially wrapped up filming.

Looking at the footage that has not been completely edited, Chen Cheng still has high expectations for this film.

He was very impressed by the scene where the young boy Ma Fei saved himself during the rainstorm.

And he used some sci-fi techniques in the finale, which I was very satisfied with.

He believed it too.

Any of these scenes will make the whole audience burst into tears.

Another may be a deep shock.

There were still some trivial matters left, which Chen Cheng handed over to Wu Jingyuan.

It is worth mentioning that.

Previously, the "Love Apartment 2" shot by Zhang Lu was sold at a good price.

The first round of Love Apartment was broadcast directly on TV.

Not just going straight to the stars.

Three satellite TV stations simultaneously purchased the first broadcast rights.

Although this premiere was sold to three companies, the price of each company dropped a lot.

But the total amount of the three companies combined is much greater than that of selling to just one company individually.

Some of them follow the model of the previous "New Three Kingdoms".

Simultaneously.

Love Apartment 2 also created 6000 million in profits for Chen Cheng.

But Chen Cheng is not a stingy person.

Although he made 6000 million.

But Chen Cheng took out 1000 million as a reward to Zhang Lu and the filmmakers behind the scenes.

As for the actors, Chen Cheng only gave each of them a big red envelope.

It’s not that Chen Cheng is harsh on actors.

Actors, for example, earn more in front of the camera than those working behind the scenes.

In addition, the remuneration was signed during the filming, so it would be great to be given a big red envelope later.

But the people behind the scenes.

Many people are paid a salary, although the salary seems decent.

But compared to the income of those actors, it is too little.

Chen Cheng wanted to build up his own team behind the scenes.

Yes.

Chen Cheng was also very generous to everyone.

……

"I Am a Special Forces Soldier", invested by Chen Cheng, was also released in the first half of the month.

The price is average.

The cost is 2000 million.

"I Am a Special Forces Soldier" only sold 2500 million, which means it only made 500 million.

Chen Cheng distributed all the 500 million to the crew.

Chen Cheng didn't intend to make money from this play.

It’s pretty good to be able to make back the investment.

His purpose is to open up the market.

have to say.

Chen Cheng’s idea is still acceptable.

Although Wu Jing was not doing very well in Hong Kong.

Some of the films he starred in didn't do very well at the box office.

But when Wu Jing started filming a TV series, the ratings were just right.

The ratings for I Am a Special Forces Soldier were just average on the first day, with a viewership of only 0.6 points.

The next day, the ratings for I Am a Special Forces Soldier reached 0.8 points.

It broke 1 point on the third day.

A week later.

The ratings of I Am a Special Forces Soldier have reached 1.5 points.

According to this trend.

All episodes of I Am a Special Forces Soldier have come to an end, and breaking 3 points is not a difficult task.

This also made Chen Cheng see Wu Jing's potential.

……

Hollywood.

The filming of Inception is halfway done.

Chen Cheng would go there to take a look whenever he had time.

Occasionally.

Chen Cheng would also visit other film crews and the eight major Hollywood film production companies.

Coincidentally.

In Hollywood, Chen Cheng met an old acquaintance, Li An.

Li An was extremely shocked when he saw Chen Cheng appear.

He didn't expect that.

This young talent, whom he is very optimistic about, is growing at a rate as fast as a rocket.

To know.

When Chen Cheng was filming "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" in Taiwan, Li An encouraged him to try his luck in Hollywood.

result.

Not only did Chen Cheng come, but he also became one of the three giants of "Inception" produced by Hollywood Warner Bros.

Just from the scale of production.

All the films Li An had shot before were not as good as "Inception".

"Chen Cheng, I never thought you would actually come to Hollywood."

"Haha, Director Li, didn't you tell me that you wanted to try your luck in Hollywood? So here I am."

"Hahaha, hahaha..."

Li Min was stimulated by Chen Cheng's youthful temperament and said excitedly: "You know, some people spend decades to break into Hollywood. They are still lucky. Some people can never enter the door of Hollywood in their entire lives."

"I don't think the door to Hollywood is that high. If domestic films really rise in the future, it doesn't matter whether we enter Hollywood or not."

“Are you confident about the domestic market?”

"Yes."

The two chatted.

Chen Cheng asked, "Director Li, which new film are you preparing now?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, and I haven't come across a good book yet."

"I do have a notebook."

"Oh, what book?"

"A story about a boy who drifted in the ocean for more than a hundred days."

"It looks interesting, can you show it to me?"

"Sorry, I haven't finished writing it yet."

"I'm waiting for you."

"Okay."

……

The same period of time.

The film "Under the Hawthorn Tree" by national film director Zhang Yimou is now on the shelves.

The box office wasn't very good.

On the first day of box office, Under the Hawthorn Tree only grossed 2000 million.

Although this seems ok.

But as a big shot like Zhang Yimou.

The first day of revenue of 2000 million was actually a flop.

The box office continued to decline in the following days.

Released for one week.

The box office was only 5000 million.

Professionals predict that the final box office of "The Love under the Hawthorn Tree" may only be around 1 million yuan.

Fortunately, Zhang Yi is not interested in this.

With a box office of around 1 million, it can be considered as a recovery of the cost.

What Zhang Yi wanted more was to win the prize.

……

In 2010, the domestic film market rose rapidly.

Although many Hong Kong films have not achieved much success.

But any discerning person can see that the total box office of the entire market has been constantly rising.

In the past, if a movie grossed over 100 million yuan, it might be a earth-shattering event.

But so far this year, several films have grossed over 100 million yuan.

Zhen Zaidan even entered the 2 million box office club with Ip Man 2.

Jet Li starred in "The Expendables" in Hollywood.

Although he is not the male No. 1.

But not long ago, the box office broke 2 million.

Even more sensational was Feng Xiaogang's If You Are the One 2.

As one of the top three directors in China.

Recently.

Feng Xiaogang gradually lost some media attention.

There is no other reason.

This was a period of time when Chen Cheng suppressed Feng Xiaogang's brilliance.

If You Are the One 1, which originally performed well, was sniped by Chen Cheng's film.

But Feng Xiaogang is a person who refuses to admit defeat.

He brought the original crew to start filming If You Are the One 2.

The box office can be said to be quite explosive.

A week's time.

"If You Are the One 2" broke the 2 million RMB box office.

Averaged out to daily box office, it’s at least 3000 million.

The highest was on that day, when the box office reached 4700 million.

Such explosive box office finally made Feng Xiaogang proud.

He became arrogant again in the media: "Some people say that Feng's humor is outdated. I want to ask, who said that?"

No one dared to respond to this.

If Feng Xiaogang's movies had failed at the box office before, everyone would have said this.

But now everyone knows that If You Are the One 2 is likely to break Chen Cheng's previous record of 5 million. No one would offend Feng Xiaogang at his peak.

Chen Cheng naturally wouldn't do that either.

Chen Cheng wouldn't do that because he doesn't dare to compete with him.

The main reason is that the mainland market has just emerged, so it is enough to suppress the box office of Hollywood movies.

There is no need to go against your own people.

Feng Xiaogang's ability to achieve such high box office results is also good for the mainland film market.

Chen Cheng didn't think of anything else.

Chen Cheng handed the film over to Paramount as the global agent.

The conditions are naturally different from before.

One is that the divisions are different.

Another one is.

Chen Cheng did not hand over the distribution of the film in mainland China to Paramount.

otherwise.

It's just like "Buried", which was exported and then sold domestically, which is a bit embarrassing.

The negotiations went smoothly.

Based on the achievements Chen Cheng had made before with “Buried Alive”.

There is also cooperation with Warner Bros.

Paramount agreed to a series of conditions proposed by Chen Cheng.

……

There wasn't much publicity for the global release of Source Code.

The same is true for the mainland release.

mainly.

The investment was not much.

Plus.

Chen Cheng predicted that the box office of "Source Code" in mainland China would not be very good.

Chen Cheng just let him take his course.

Whatever box office revenue we can get, that’s what it can get.

This approach is actually more pure.

Users don’t need to look at which star, which director, or which big production…

All you have to do is see whether people like it and the user's reputation.

but.

With such a natural flow, no miracles really happened on the mainland.

However, the global box office is increasing rapidly, little by little.

The male lead is still Zhang Songwen.

He is also a Chinese American.

When he woke up, he found himself in a truck.

The display screen in the truck was connected to him by a beautiful woman.

The beauty told him that she hoped he would complete a task.

That is to find the bomb and the murderer on the train.

But a pity.

8 minutes was too short. The male protagonist didn’t get many clues and the train exploded.

But the actor did not die, he returned to the train again.

The male protagonist doubted whether this was true.

even.

He doesn't care about this train.

result.

Just like that, 8 minutes were wasted.

The train still exploded.

And he returned to the train.

twice in a row.

The male protagonist knew that this was not a dream.

Simultaneously.

He also learned about it from one of the female characters.

It turned out that he was implementing a project called "Source Code".

The so-called source code can be rebuilt and deleted at any time.

The original male protagonist in the source code was the officer named Sean, who is actually dead.

Yes.

Sean died in the explosion on this train.

To figure out how the train exploded, they launched a source code project.

The source code project is to integrate the male protagonist's consciousness into Sean.

But because the plan was not complete, they only kept 8 minutes of Sean's consciousness.

and so.

Even though the male protagonist is bombed again and again, he can always return to his original state.

But despite coming back again and again.

All his time was only 8 minutes.

The protagonist's task is to find the cause of the explosion and the murderer within these 8 minutes.

A very interesting setting.

As soon as such a setting came out, word of mouth exploded.

"I thought it was a low-budget production, but I didn't expect it to be so exciting..."

"Yes, although the scenes look simple, the level of science fiction creation is no less than that of other science fiction blockbusters."

Compared with domestic.

Foreign movie fans are obviously more interested in this film.

Many foreign movie fans have also watched a lot of science fiction works.

There are so many classic science fiction works in Hollywood.

But this "Source Code", although the production cost is very low and the scenes are very simple, it does not affect its wonderfulness at all.

finally.

Through a series of methods, the male protagonist successfully found the murderer and prevented the explosion.

But the ending of the film is not just about preventing this explosion.

After the male protagonist prevented the explosion.

He suddenly realized.

It turns out that this world, which could only exist for 8 minutes, has begun to be reborn.

Yes.

A parallel world was born.

The male protagonist started a new life in this parallel world.

The play ends here.

This also makes the audience's eyes light up.

The source code setting at the beginning is eye-catching.

The ending of the story makes people yearn for a parallel world.

Many people walked out of the cinema.

It's all on my mind.

whether.

On this Earth of theirs, there is another world that is almost the same as theirs.

……

Chen Cheng's guess was quite accurate.

On the mainland, the box office of "Source Code" was not high, only tens of millions.

Although many domestic movie fans think this is a masterpiece.

But the box office was too little.

Even if you say it is a masterpiece, it will not be recognized by everyone.

As for the reason.

That is, although "Source Code" is very good, there are many parts that are indeed too brain-burning for mainland audiences.

If you like it, you naturally like it.

Don't like it.

You may not be able to understand it at first.

But it’s different abroad.

North America, which has a mature market, as well as Europe, Japan, Korea... and other places.

The source code performs well in these markets.

Although it did not become a huge hit, its box office has been steadily increasing.

of course.

His rise was the same as Buried Alive.

No mountains, no dew.

But the daily increase in box office is real and gives people a sense of accomplishment.

"$5000 million."

This is the global box office data for "Source Code" after one week of release.

Such a box office did not attract much attention.

After all, there are so many countries in the world, and the total amount is only 5000 million US dollars.

If we break it down, the box office in each country is actually not that much.

This made Chen Cheng feel like he was making a fortune in silence.

This feeling is very satisfying.

Because we earn dollars from box office revenue every day, it makes me very satisfied just thinking about it.

……

"If You Are the One 2" closed at the box office, reaching 4.9 million yuan.

Many people in the media expressed regret that Chen Cheng's record was not broken.

Feng Xiaogang also posted an exclamatory emoji on his personal Weibo.

And @ Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng didn't know what Feng Xiaogang meant.

Is it regret?
I thought about it.

Chen Cheng replied: "Director Feng, it's okay, I'll help you solve it."

Take out the phone.

Chen Cheng called Xu Ke and said, "Director Xu, I think our Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate can be released now."

(End of this chapter)