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Chapter 681 "Infernal Affairs" starts filming!
Every year, September and October are the seasons when movies are released together. Around this year's Golden Week, the Chinese film market is even more prosperous. The total box office in a single day on November 7st exceeded [-] million.

But behind the prosperity is also the phenomenon of uneven film quality.

And the question raised by the first netizen was: "What do you think of Zhifan, the few movies released during Golden Week?"

"I?"

Li Zhifan smiled, "Of course I look with my eyes! Although today is the album release conference, I mainly talk about music, but after all, I am also a multi-dwelling cross-border artist, and I have also dabbled in movies, so I can talk a little bit off topic."

The reporters below all laughed, so you can still be considered a little dabbled?
Don't other people even have fur?
"I won't do the evaluation, after all, today is not a show about movies!" Li Zhifan said succinctly, "It is said that money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat, but in China, I only agree with the first half. I don't even agree with the first half of the sentence!"

Today's movies are really good at making money.

Movies with a bad reputation can exceed [-] million in a single day. Although it is inevitable that there will be a sharp drop in the future, it is already profitable.

"There are really too many bad movies released around this year's Golden Week!"

The next reporter took the opportunity to say, "Then, Director Li, do you plan to make a movie recently?"

"Yes!" Li Zhifan directly broke the shocking news, "The casting is already underway. When the casting work is over and the makeup photos and posters are released, I will officially notify everyone. Today is just a preview. Don't worry, everyone. The film may have been shot at a slower pace."

The responses from the netizens on the bullet screen were unexpectedly unanimous:

"Slow down, don't go too fast!"

"Take it slowly and try to earn more box office! Overtake Wolf Warriors!"

"In the past, your movie shooting speed was too fast. I finally heard you say that you want to shoot slowly. I'm looking forward to it!"

"Although I really want to see it right away, it's better to take it slow, slow work yields meticulous work!"

"What is the subject of this movie? Is it starring me? Take it slowly and be careful, and don't get hurt during the filming!"

Li Zhifan was not born as an action star, but the injuries he suffered during the filming of "Wolf Warrior" were no less than those action stars suffered when filming a movie, or even more.

From a professional point of view, his dedication is for the film industry, but from the point of view of fans, he is overdrafting his own health, so everyone naturally hopes that he will shoot slower.

After answering the question about the movie, Li Zhifan's staff specially picked some questions about music.

Compared with movies, there are more things to talk about about music. A song can be disassembled and crushed for various interpretations. Just the "creative mental journey" "fabricated" by Li Zhifan himself can tell a lot. few minutes.

At the end of the live broadcast, Li Zhifan ended with a rap version of the new song "Say It's Parting".

There are a total of three versions of this song recorded in the album, one version is a pure singing version, the second version is a male and female duet singing with Zhao Xuexin, and a small rap version is added, and the third part is Huang Xu Ai Fujie Ni's version is mainly rap, only a few lines of melody are added to the chorus.

Li Zhifan also wants to make a fourth version of this song, which is to invite several rappers to record the rap part together, and then find a female singer for the short singing part of the chorus.

The final singing of the live broadcast was the third version, but it only sang for more than a minute, which is equivalent to an audition.

The press conference ended at exactly ten o'clock, and Li Zhifan's new album was launched on all major music websites across the country. A digital album costs 20 yuan, and the company and major platforms are divided into [-]-[-]%, and Li Zhifan himself takes [-]% of the [-]%. Cheng, on the largest music platform, the album sold [-] copies as soon as it went online at [-] o'clock, and it was certified as a double gold record on the platform.

The certification method of this platform is quite special. 25000 records can get double gold certification, while three gold records need 37500 chapters. Li Zhifan is just short of more than 2000 records.

But time does not measure everything. When the first 5 minutes came, the album sold 50000 million copies and successfully won the platinum record certification.

Among these data, a large reason is the massive purchases of fans. Some people buy a thousand copies at a time, and some fan clubs gather to buy albums, so the visual effect of the one-time surge in data is also particularly amazing.

According to the certification method of the platform, if the sales exceed 500 million yuan, it will be certified as a diamond record. Calculated at 20 yuan per piece, it is 25 digital albums, and 1000 million yuan (50 copies) is a double diamond record. 2000 million yuan (100 million copies) will be certified as a hall of gold diamond record.

These data are on the bright side, stimulating the purchasing power of fans.

However, according to the feedback from music platforms, local tyrants only account for 0.8% of the total, and those who only buy one copy are the main consumers. Among these people, there are many passers-by, just because they saw the release of Li Zhifan’s album, they bought a copy. Zhang came to listen.

The emergence of digital music once left many singers without food, and were even forced to change careers.

Nowadays, the charging model of digital music has accounted for most of the income, and digital records do not require physical costs, they only need to be shared with the platform. It’s the money to sell the entity, so many musicians have completely given up the entity and sold the digital version.

In this case, in order to stimulate the sales of the digital version, their respective methods are used again.

For example, if you buy more than [-] copies, you can get various gifts, and if you buy more than [-] copies, you can get another kind of gift.

There are also fan clubs purchased collectively. They will get authorization from the record company to make uniform star commemorative gifts for members, and then maintain the operation of the fan club by collecting membership fees and gift fees. One of the expenses is included in the Buy digital albums in bulk on the platform.

Passers-by can also join various organizations and guilds on the platform to contribute to them. After reaching a certain number of people and purchase quota, there will be lucky draws within the guild and so on.

Although it will become a complete fan game in the end, whether it is a music company, a music platform, or the entire entertainment industry, it is all business!
……

At the end of October, "Infernal Affairs" finally officially started filming.

The preparation period was busy. Li Zhifan alone had personal contact with no less than [-] mainland actors, and their respective investors and sponsors had frequent contacts. Timeline also invested in a listed company in Xiangjiang. The company's latest financing project is " Infernal Affairs".

Hong Kong.

It is an old tradition to share the roasted pork here. No matter who comes to the filming, you have to do as the Romans do, because Xiangjiang has multiple associations that cross-control, and many of the actors involved in the filming work in these associations. Important positions, naturally pay more attention to these things.

The actor who plays Liu Jianming is Chen Guanjun, a powerful actor of the young generation of Xiangjiang. Originally, he planned to find a mainland actor to cooperate with this role, but considering the elements of Xiangjiang movies, and Li Zhifan himself is from the mainland, so the two male protagonists ended up The board decided to adopt the model of co-production between the two places, and use the model of co-production to shoot a movie with a pure Hong Kong taste, hoping to bring a special feeling.

Compared with the other Hong Kong actors of the older generation who played tricks in the movie, Chen Guanjun and Li Zhifan were both late-born, but once they put on makeup, they immediately matured like young people around 35 years old.

In particular, Li Zhifan deliberately grew a long beard, which is completely opposite to his previous image, but under this complete opposite, a special sense of novelty was born.

Coupled with his leather jacket and fragmentary bangs, the image of the gangster is instantly three-dimensional and vivid. He doesn't look like a policeman at all, but the hesitant temperament revealed in his eyes is incompatible with the general underworld. The person who tells the story, from the perspective of an actor, this is called having a play.

Li Zhifan left the role of Han Chen to Zeng Yuanjiang.

When he received Li Zhifan's filming invitation, he was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He didn't expect that he had just introduced himself to Li Zhifan and received the invitation so quickly, and he also felt that he was finally going to get rid of the bad movie label, so he was very interested in this movie. serious.

However, on the day of the audition, Zeng Yuanjiang wore a floral suit with half-push trousers and a white shirt inside. He wore blue sunglasses and a beige top hat. He wore a gold necklace and Thai amulet around his neck. A pair of off-white leather shoes without socks, at first glance, it looks like he is playing the image of the black boss in a comedy.

Of course, Li Zhifan would not use such an image, so he immediately found a stylist and helped Zeng Yuanjiang redesign according to his own design—his hair was dyed white, he was wearing a black trench coat with a black shirt inside, black trousers and straight black trousers. Wearing black leather shoes, he looks like the police chief.

In addition, there are other styles of design, but they are all suits, shirts, and leather shoes. Li Zhifan also reserved a floral shirt for Zeng Yuanjiang, but it is not exaggerated, but very casual.

Except for the amulet on the neck, the other bead strings are narrow, and the amulet will not be exposed brightly.

It can be said that the image design of all the actors not only extracts the original image, but also combines the characteristics of Xiangjiang nowadays, especially actors like Zeng Yuanjiang who have played too many comedies, trying their best to get rid of their exaggerated and nonsensical styles , even the humor is kind of grown-up witty.

Probably only Chen Yongren, played by Li Zhifan, has the simplest image design. There is only a suit-style leather jacket for the jacket, and only black and white shirts, which represent the endless hell.

On the first day of filming, the crew attracted many Hong Kong media to visit the set.

The working mode of Li Zhifan's group is systematic and very strict, divided into three shifts and three shifts a day for filming.

In the first week, Li Zhifan only slept less than ten hours in total, which was a severe lack of sleep.

From the second week onwards, the three shifts became two shifts, and he was sure that he could sleep every day, but it was his staying up late in the first week of cultivating immortality, and his whole image suddenly became tired and dimmed a lot. But it just fits the role of Chen Yongren.

At the same time as Xiangjiang was filming, the timeline far away in the capital was simultaneously launching a movie sales operation.

It goes without saying that it will be released in the mainland, what Li Zhifan wants to do this time is to have the movie released simultaneously in many countries and regions around the world.

With the foundation laid by "Wolf Warrior", coupled with the acquisition and cultivation of many rich Chinese in Hollywood, the voice of Chinese films overseas is getting higher and higher, and the voice of Li Zhifan's films is even more favored by distributors from various countries.

Especially in countries such as South America and Europe, when they heard that Li Zhifan's movie was starting to be filmed, they took the initiative to contact them, hoping that it would be released locally as soon as possible.

Another issue is involved here - language.

In the past, when Chinese movies were released abroad, they must find English dubbing, or match the language of the country to meet the needs of the local country.

But this time, Li Zhifan decided to break the tradition and insist on using Chinese to release the film around the world, but the subtitles use other languages.

Needless to say, English is the common language of European and American countries. In addition to German, French, and Spanish, Portuguese is also very important, because not only Portugal is a small country, but most importantly, Brazil is an important stop for publicity. The official language of the country is Portuguese.

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Crew.

The turnover of actors is great every day.

It's not as closed as making movies in the mainland. Many actors only have a few scenes in this movie, and then withdraw after one day of shooting.

There are also some actors who are on-call, live nearby, and sometimes come here with a vegetable basket. After filming, they change their clothes and immediately carry the vegetable basket to the vegetable market, as if they are ordinary office workers. Same.

"The actors in Xiangjiang are already used to this routine of life and work!"

Talking about this on the set, Liao Feng said with a smile, "It happens sometimes when I'm filming. After filming today's scene, I went to the supermarket to buy groceries alone, just like a salaried worker commuting to get off work. I even took the subway back home." Home, although everyone often recognizes me in the subway, they will never guess that I just came out of the set, and they all think that I went shopping for groceries."

"This is actually a good model!"

Li Zhifan said, "Xiangjiang is a small place, which has its advantages. It's like a film and television base in the mainland. It's not because we allow them to come and go freely, but because they can come here at any time without wasting time."

"Yes, to go to the mainland to film, once closed, it will last for two or three months, just like a business trip."

Liao Feng said, looked at his watch, and yelled, "I won't talk to you anymore, my wife made soup at home, I have to go back and drink it, and come back later."

"All right!"

Li Zhifan couldn't laugh or cry, this Liao Feng is a typical example.

Of course, there are also many Hong Kong actors stationed in the crew, especially the leading actors, who eat, drink and sleep with the mainland actors, regardless of each other, and live in harmony.

The actor who plays Huang Zhicheng is called Zhang Liang, an actor from the mainland. He is the most unusual of all mainland actors. As soon as he finished his filming part, he left in a hurry. When he was needed, he called As soon as he was connected, he appeared in front of him, and he didn't know what he was doing alone.

(End of this chapter)