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Chapter 1056 The new movie starts

"Hehe, you are the director and you have the final say." Yu Fei would not be fooled, she said sarcastically.

Although she is not familiar with Erdi and has a normal relationship, she can't continue talking like this.

In case Zhou Xia re-said this to Er Di at that time, then she had offended someone unintentionally.

Zhou Xia is a person who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and hopes that they will quarrel with each other, and then ignore each other, so that he can divide and conquer.

"Well, I still think she's a bit too young. I hope she won't disappoint me this time."

Zhou Xiayan said insincerely that she wanted to hear Yu Fei's real thoughts on his movie casting, and see if she was very dissatisfied.

"Hehe, don't come here, and don't say such things to me. Didn't all the heroines in the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series decide on Erdi? Didn't you choose her because she was young?"

Yu Fei retorted with some dissatisfaction, thinking of this incident, she was indeed angry.

In fact, she and Shirley Yang's roles are also very suitable, her age is also suitable, and her image and temperament, including English, are very suitable, and the role of the Chinese-American policewoman in Zhou Xia's "Chinatown 2" is also similar , but because these two characters are of mixed race, they were excluded.

But in fact, this kind of thing can be adjusted completely. After all, it is a character in the book and the script. Even if she plays the leading role with a little modification, there will be no problem.

Some mixed races are not obvious. This is completely understandable, and if it doesn’t work, you can also modify the role and change the setting of the mixed race.

As long as Zhou Xia is willing to let her play the leading role, all of these can be manipulated, but obviously someone is too fraternal and expects to be like Lao Mouzi to Gong Li, for years, so the movie uses Gong Li as the heroine, which is completely extravagant .

"Okay, okay, life is so long, if there is a suitable role for you in the future, I will definitely let you play the leading role. Isn't "Zhu Xian" the same, you are the actor of Lu Xueqi, the real heroine."

Zhou Xia heard the sourness in Yu Fei's words, kissed her on the forehead, and comforted her with a smile.

"But isn't Director Zhang the first one to direct this movie?" Yu Fei finally felt better thinking about this incident, and asked with some doubts.

"No, director Zhang will direct another one later, and I will do it if I have enough time."

"Really, that's good, I thought you were going to train the company's new director again." Yu Fei finally felt relieved.

"Trust my vision. The director I choose is fine. Besides, everyone has never been famous. It doesn't mean that they have no talent."

Zhou Xia comforted with some helplessness.

Xiahua Film and Television has enough great directors, but they still can't meet the requirements of the company's artists, so they need to train more directors.

"Okay, listen to you."

Yu Fei had no choice but to stop talking about this matter, but soon remembered another matter, and hurriedly asked, "Yi Yi, has your latest literary film been completed, and the Venice Film Festival is left to participate in this year, right?"

Now Zhou Xia already has a lot of commercial electrical business, in comparison, she is more looking forward to his literary movies.

"How can it be so fast, it's only been three months since the filming, and there are at least three or four months before the production can be completed."

Zhou Xia said with a smile, how can a movie be completed so quickly.

"Don't you have so many people helping you? I'm really looking forward to your new movie. "I'm Not the God of Medicine" sounds ironic, isn't it very deep?" Yu Fei pestered.

"You'll know when the time comes. Well, it's past twelve o'clock. I'm so hungry. Let's eat."

As soon as Zhou Xia finished speaking, she was hungry, when Yu Fei's stomach growled. The two smiled at each other, got up quickly to take a shower, and then ate to replenish energy.

After staying with Yufei for a whole day, Zhou Xia returned to China by special plane the next day.

When he got off the plane and returned to the company, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon on August 8.

Not long after midnight on the 18th in North America, the box office statistics for the two days of the 17th and 18th of this week were also available.

"Descendants of Yanhuang" earned US$820 million and US$750 million respectively, and the cumulative box office in North America reached US$6400 million.

At the same time, "Fantastic Four 2015" continued to crash, and only earned a total of 340 million dollars in two days. This was due to the release of the new film and a large number of fans.

In contrast, "Mission: Impossible 5", which was released in the third week, remained strong, earning $620 million in two days.

Although it was only the box office of the first two working days of this week, the box office performance in North America still surprised many professional film critics.

Although it is only the end of the summer, but the box office is so weak that it is possible for a foreign film to win the two-week box office champion, which is indeed a big irony for Hollywood.

It's always been their movies that go to other markets to do this kind of thing, but now it's the other way around.

But it's strange to say that the schedules of Zhou Xia's movies are very average every time. Except for "New Detective", which is a true North American golden schedule, the other few movies can only be regarded as summer prime schedules, which are not good dates.

But every time he was able to rule the roost in that schedule, almost all the movies in the same schedule were very disappointing. They couldn't pose a threat to Zhou Xia's movies, so his movie set a box office record. This is really a bit strange. I don't admire Zhou Xia's team's vicious vision in choosing schedules.

Zhou Xia didn't know that some companies and film critics in North America viewed his schedule selection in this way.

But in order to achieve box office success in North America, the most influential film market in the world, they have really worked hard, and they are very cautious in the selection of competing films of the same period and schedules.

If this is not the case, if it really confronts those super blockbusters head-on, it will definitely lose a lot. Even if the quality of the movie is good, it is estimated that the box office will lose one-third or even two-thirds.

Although the schedule in North America seems to be a bit weak this year, Zhou Xia is still very satisfied with "Descendants of Yanhuang" achieving such results on weekdays.

It won 1500 million box office in the first two days, and in the next five days, it is no problem to exceed 7000 million US dollars in box office this week. If this is the case, the North American market will have a guaranteed box office of [-] million US dollars.

If there is no threat to the follow-up films, the box office will continue to rise, and the transition will be a full month in mid-September. If the screening is postponed, it will definitely continue to reap good box office.

After all, this time they signed a step-by-step account split with the theater. The follow-up box office is high, and their share of the account is also high. They have this motivation to postpone the screening, instead of releasing it after one month of release as before.

The release of "Descendants of Yanhuang" in North America was basically the same. Zhou Xia didn't have to worry about it. He returned to the company without wasting time and took care of everything.

A large number of scenes in this drama were filmed in Chinatown in New York, the United States, accounting for about 90% of the scenes, so he will go to the United States to film again soon.

(End of this chapter)