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Chapter 628 People are stupid and have a lot of money! (Second more please subscribe!)
Premiere ceremonies exist all over the world, and the scale of super blockbusters can be similar to some ordinary film festivals, which is completely a super big show.

Hollywood is particularly good at this aspect. Like the previously released "Iron Man 3", compare it with the red carpet of the domestic A-category film festival, the Shanghai Film Festival.

From the organizational process to the care of movie fans to streamline and lighting design, including how to serve photographers, video websites, and TV station reporters, there is still a big gap.

It is said that at the premiere of "Iron Man 3", many loyal fans arrived more than ten hours in advance.

Today, the Chinese Grand Theater on Hollywood Boulevard also ushered in a grand premiere ceremony, where the overseas premiere of "Interstellar" was held.

Although the scale of the premiere was as large as that of "Iron Man 3" held at the Dolby Theater next door where the Oscars ceremony was held, it also attracted nearly a hundred reporters.

There are well-known newspapers in the United States, as well as the hosts of major TV stations. There are already fans waiting outside.

Luxury cars passed by the door, and famous Hollywood movie stars stepped onto the red carpet, greeted with screams from fans.

There were also many yellow-skinned and black-haired Chinese in the crowd, anxiously waiting for the Lord's arrival.

"Why hasn't Tang An come yet? With so many celebrities walking the red carpet, this premiere has become a stage show for these celebrities."

"Wait, if there weren't so many celebrities, I don't know if these Americans would come."

"It's rare for our Huaguo director to hold such a large-scale premiere. Zhang Yimou didn't have such a big show before."

"No, I went to the premieres of "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers". It's far worse than this."

"Zhang Yimou's reputation in the United States is really not as good as Tang An's. In the past few years, Zhang Yimou's films have not been released on a large scale in the United States. Tang An's films and DVDs are selling well, and "Terror Cruise" is still there. It's on the DVD rental charts in North America."

In the past 10 years, excluding "Interstellar", Tang An has already released six films in North America, each of which performed well, and DVD, TV, and Internet broadcasts are also at the forefront of Chinese-language films.

Tang An also has a certain reputation in North America. Although he is not very famous, he can still hold such a large-scale premiere.

Stars walked on the red carpet one by one, including many first-line movie stars, and Fox did his best.

It was almost time, and Tang An came late.

Tang An smiled slightly and waved to both sides. He would walk slowly when passing by the local Chinese, and felt a little kind when he heard their Cantonese and Hokkien dialects that he didn't understand.

Walking through the red carpet, there are two areas for sponsors. God knows there are still people willing to sponsor this premiere.

The dedicated photojournalist area and the dedicated TV reporter interview area are all divided into categories.

Taking photos, interviewing media reporters, and interviewing TV reporters are all in different areas.

There are also some Hollywood stars who took a group photo in twos and threes, both first- and second-tier.

The general process is similar. The senior executives of the major Hollywood companies got to know each other a little bit, and some celebrities greeted them with courtesy.

The audience enters the arena, and the movie officially begins.

It has been screened on a large scale in North America before, and the response is not bad.

The premiere hall was full, and Tang An also sat down and waited quietly for the audience's reaction.

The long foreshadowing at the beginning did not make the audience impatient. Cultures may not communicate with each other, but emotions are shared by everyone.

However, the real IMAX movies shot with IMAX film and the IMAX film screen also feasted the audience's eyes. This is something they have never seen in Hollywood, the center of the global film industry, except for some documentaries.

Thousand-foot huge waves, frozen stars as if the whole world is frozen, and five-dimensional space all satisfy the audience's eyes.

In the last scene of crossing the black hole, the spacecraft disintegrated in the black hole, and fragments continued to scatter, and the air rubbed with fire, which caused the audience to exclaim.

There are quite a few people yelling in the cinema, and the most classic one is "Room", which was released in North America ten years ago.

This movie is known as the worst movie in history. The love triangle soap plot that could have been finished in 10 minutes was abruptly stretched to the length of a movie.

In the first half hour of the film, the hero and heroine will have sex if they don't agree with each other, and it must be accompanied by old song and dance hall songs to enhance the atmosphere.

The director of this movie didn't understand anything. Others rented equipment for filming, so he simply bought all the equipment.

He also didn't know whether to shoot on film or digital before making a movie, so he decided to shoot both on film and digital.

So why the composition of "Room" that the audience sees is a little off. It's not that the photographer didn't choose a good composition, but that two types of cameras need to be placed in the same camera position in one scene.
If you look carefully, you can see that the screen of "Room" shakes suddenly from time to time, it is not intentional by the photographer, but because the set was so funny during the shooting, the photographer couldn't help laughing while shooting, and the director didn't shout Stop it, it's over.

What's even more unbelievable is that with the same budget, he could find a roof with a good view to shoot the rooftop scene, but the director chose to set up a green screen in the studio to shoot the rooftop scene, which is called Hollywood blockbusters.

In fact, the weirdest thing is not these, but the extremely embarrassing sex scenes in the film.

Generally speaking, when filming a bed scene, the scene must be cleared. For example, in the domestically released version of "Lust, Caution", only the actors, director, and photographer were left on the set.

But the director of "Room" asked everyone to stay on the scene and asked the cameraman to shoot close-ups of his assy line. The reason he gave was that this is the biggest selling point of the film.

It is such a god-level bad movie, but it is very popular. When it was released, the audience in the entire screening hall laughed non-stop from the beginning to the end, and laughed without any scruples. Everyone laughed, not at all. don't hide.

When the movie showed that the actor put a gun into his mouth, the audience yelled "shoot" in unison.

This movie is still being released in North America, but the number of screenings is small, and basically every time it is shown is full.

Audiences who go to the movies will bring some props from the movie, such as spoons, apples and footballs, etc., and throw them on the stage while watching the movie.

The movie watching scene was so lively, it was like a group of "psychopaths" watching the "psychopaths" in the movie.

Of course, there is only one "Room" with such a crazy scene, which has become the culture among some fans in North America.

When most movies are shown, the scene will be a little noisy when they see exciting scenes. On the one hand, this also mobilizes the audience's emotions and makes the audience involuntarily substituted into the movie.

The effect of "Interstellar" is undoubtedly good. Family affection, love, and friendship can overcome cultural differences.

Zhang Yi with gray temples, Wang Chuan who has become taciturn and grumpy, old Murphy lying on the hospital bed, Yang Mi who is building a home for mankind on a new planet, even the whites and blacks at the scene are very understanding that kind of emotion.

"Clap clap clap clap"

After the movie was shown, the audience was not stingy with their applause, which was accompanied by some cheers and discussions.

Not only Chinese, but also local Americans, Hollywood stars in the front row and executives of major companies.

Elizabeth, the vice president of Columbia who had worked with Tang An before, was also in the front row. She didn't get the distribution rights, but was snatched away by Fox. million net profit.

Later, when I learned that the film was two and a half hours long, my original disappointment was instantly dispelled.

Two and a half hours, a 150-minute film, this is a film length that violates commercial film specifications.

Hollywood commercial films have a strict duration and rhythm control, just like the products on the factory assembly line, each process is fixed.

What to talk about in the first 2 minutes, what role it plays, what to explain in the first 10 minutes, what to do in the middle 10 10 minutes, and how to finish in the last [-] [-] minutes are completely fixed formats.

A 150-minute movie is not just as simple as making each stage a little longer.

And there are natural disadvantages in the number of games.

Although Elizabeth didn't think viciously that if "Interstellar" hit the market this time, Fox would not even be able to recover the cost of the announcement, but she didn't want the movie to sell well from the bottom of her heart.

After the movie screening was over, Tang An went on stage to communicate with the audience again.

It's just a little strange when interacting with the local Chinese. They speak the obscure Hokkien and Cantonese, which Tang An can barely understand, but he speaks Mandarin, making it look like a chicken talking to a duck.

Next came another banquet.

Regarding the investment in "Deadpool", Zhang Yi took the time to talk to Bert before. Although he is the vice president in charge of publishing, he still knows the company's future projects very well.

Burt found Tang An, congratulated him first, and then asked with a smile, "Mr. Tang, do you want to invest in the movie "Deadpool"?"

Tang An nodded, "I've watched "Wolverine" and I'm interested in this special superhero. I just heard that your company is planning to shoot. If you need funds, I'm willing to invest a part of it."

Burt readily agreed and conveyed it to the company for him, surprisingly smoothly.

Hollywood distributors like outside investors the most, firstly, they can make money, and secondly, they can reduce their own risks.

Compared with production profits, distribution revenue is the bulk.

A major investment in a film finds other investors and contributes a small part by itself. Even if the film hits the market, it will not lose money if it has distribution income.

If they make money, they won't feel sorry for those production profits, because there is too much room for maneuvering, and no matter what, the distributors earn more than the producers.

As long as people are found to invest, many stranded projects can be launched immediately, and they will earn a publishing fee no matter how risky they are.

Elizabeth from Columbia, a director from Warner Bros., and a producer from Paramount suddenly had the same idea in their hearts.

People have a lot of money!

A third-rate superhero, an actor who has failed two big productions in a row, dare to vote for such a project.

A producer who happened to have a project in hand asked tentatively, "Does Mr. Tang intend to invest in Hollywood?"

"Of course, Hollywood is the most developed film industry base in the world. I hope this time I won't leave empty-handed and can talk about several projects."

"Mr. Tang, I happen to have a very good project. The script is absolutely creative and meets the aesthetics of Eastern audiences. I plan to ask Nicolas Cage to star in it."

"No problem, I have time to talk about it in detail tomorrow."

"Mr. Tang, I still lack an Asian actress for this sci-fi blockbuster project"

How the hell did he treat Tang An like a boy of good fortune, boasting of projects that lack funds, top-notch creativity, filming by top-tier directors, joining superstars, and even Uncle Cage, who has passed away in China, moved out.

Surrounded by a bunch of producers, he managed to escape and let Zhang Yi deal with them.

Soon, the stars at the scene heard that Ryan, the leading actor of "Underworld Police Department", was also at the banquet. After rushing to a big production, he urgently needed another project to turn himself around, but the producers on the scene, Big company executives ignored him.

An actor who fails twice in a row has no value.

"Hey, Ryan, did you hear that, the director of Huaguo is going to invest in "Deadpool", you have a chance to stand up."

A friend came over to tell him the news.

However, Ryan, who had drunk too much, shook his head.

"He's just a director, where did he get the money to invest?"

"I heard that he seems to be very rich. This movie is all invested and shot by himself."

Ryan said disapprovingly, "This is 5000 million dollars, dollars! Which idiot would invest 5000 million dollars in a movie starring me now!"

The script of "Deadpool" had already been finished at the beginning of the year, and it was originally planned to wait until the release of "Underworld Police" to take advantage of the momentum of the movie to announce the approval of the project.

As a result, the 1.3 million investment has only taken more than 3000 million at the box office. When I went to Fox again, the project had been suspended and the investor could not be found.

No one is going to throw $5000 million for an actor who has failed two big-budget films in a row.

Not everyone is Robert Downey Jr., who can return to the top after falling!

Ryan didn't try to get close to the future father of Party A. Although other stars heard that Tang An was planning to invest heavily in Hollywood movies, not many people came forward.

After all, Tang An is a native of China, and he is still so young, he doesn't look rich at first glance.

The executives of major companies probably know Tang An's net worth, but no ordinary star cares about the assets of a Huaguo film director, and Tang An is not filming in Hollywood, so it is impossible to do anything.

After the banquet, we went back to our hotel room.

It's not too early, and there is no need to read film reviews and reports. The previous dozens of screenings have received good responses. Let's see the audience's reactions after the large-scale release tomorrow.

"Hurry up and go to bed. After more than ten hours of flying, I attended the premiere again without jet lag."

After taking a shower, I fell asleep.

Yang Mi was particularly energetic, pestering Tang An and asking, "Brother An, do you really want to invest in Hollywood movies?"

"If there is a suitable one, we can invest in it, make it into a co-production, and distribute it in China." Tang An said with his eyes closed.

Holding Tang An's arm, Yang Mi asked with a smile, "Then can you arrange a heroine for me, the heroine of a Hollywood blockbuster?"

"Don't even think about it, other investors will not agree."

"The supporting actress is also fine. I want to play with Leonardo, as well as Tom Cruise and George Clooney, or Uncle Depp and Robert Downey Jr."

Yang Mi instantly turned into a fan girl of a Hollywood superstar, and began to look forward to acting with her idol.

"Go to sleep, you will have everything when you fall asleep, not to mention acting, they will do anything for you."

Tang An was a little sleepy, so he threw the quilt over Yang Mi's body and turned off the light.

After playing around under the quilt for a while, I soon couldn't resist the fatigue and jet lag of the long-distance flight, calmed down, and fell asleep.

The next day, I didn't have any plans, so I went to Fox TV to appear on a program, and they didn't need to promote it.

North America is obviously not like China. It is much easier to do roadshows all over the country every day.

After resting in the hotel for a day, to overcome the jet lag, the box office on the first day was released early on Saturday morning.

The sci-fi suspense blockbuster "Elysium" directed by the director of "The Ninth District" relied on the fame of the director and the strong appeal of the two stars of Matt Damon and Jodie Fosse. The North American box office champion of the day.

"Interstellar" ranked second with 830 million on the first day, surpassing the R-rated comedy "Counterfeit Family" starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, and Emma Roberts. 750 million box office on the first day.

830 million on the first day, 2700 theaters opened, and when the film length was as high as 150 minutes, the attendance rate and single-house box office were at the forefront of the same period!

There is no doubt that "Interstellar" was a success in North America!
(End of this chapter)