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Chapter 992 It's Not That I Haven't Seen It Before
The full-fledged July file has just begun. On July 7, the two films "Taoist Down the Mountain" and "Embroidered Spring Knife" will be released on the same day.

Before the first day's box office results came out, all parties kept their eyes wide open, looking forward to who would have the last laugh between the young director of Xiahua Film and Television and the director Chen Da of Xinli Films.

In terms of the cast of the two films, "Embroidered Spring Knife" has Sisi, Deng Chao, Wang Qianyuan, Dou Xiao, etc., and the total box office results have exceeded 200 billion. "The global box office is beyond the reach of some people for a lifetime.

In addition, "Embroidered Spring Knife" is the theme of the Ming Dynasty and Jinyiwei, which has been popular in the past two years. Although it is not a popular IP adaptation, the film critics who participated in the premiere are all confident in their hearts, and they are quite satisfied with this movie.

As for "Taoist Down the Mountain", the latest masterpiece of director Chen Da, starring Wang Baobao, plus a group of Hong Kong and Taiwan superstars, has never lacked attention and enthusiasm, at least the performance in the early stage of the release should not be too bad.

In the early stage, "Taoist Descending the Mountain" will definitely win some, but director Chen Da's films in recent years, except for "Mei Lanfang" which has received good reviews, are mostly anticlimactic.

Therefore, many people are also very optimistic about "Embroidered Spring Knife" coming from behind.

While Zhou Xia was paying attention to this matter, Xia Hua Film and Television's various projects in the second half of the year and the progress of the first half of the year were also reported to him.

In the first half of 2015, there were 11 films completed by Xia Hua and projects that were still being filmed.

Among them, "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "BJ Meets Seattle 2", "Operation Mekong", "Master of Hypnotism", "July and Ansheng", "Pancake Man", "Predecessor 2" are still being filmed Among them are "Love Saint", "Three Lives III", "A Thousand Bone Flowers", and "Flying Tiger on the Railway".

In the second half of the year, filming of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 1", "Chinatown 2", "Painted Skin 3", "New Detective 2", "Donkey Gets Water", and "The Iron Fist of Shame" are confirmed to start filming in the second half of the year.

Seeing the following two works of Happy Twist, Zhou Xia is very satisfied. Happy Twist is a subsidiary of Xia Hua. These two films are mainly invested and released by Xia Hua, and Happy Twist is produced.

I still remember that when he was filming "Charlotte Annoyance" and "Chinatown", he invited Yan Fei and Da Mo as assistant directors. These two had previously directed "Old Boy" and now they are starting to direct their own films. No more problems.

These two films are works that have been polished countless times in the Twist Theater. They have a certain mass base and are more guaranteed to be made into film and television dramas.

In addition, the two directors of "Donkey Gets Water" are also very good in playing Zhou Shen and Liu Lu. I hope they will become famous with this movie and direct better works in the future.

Now these works are almost ready to be prepared, and I don't know if the actors have been selected, and who has been selected.

Thinking of this situation, Zhou Xia told her assistant Xiaobai to find out the situation.

In addition to Xia Hua Film and Television's project report, the basic situation of the domestic film market in the first half of the year was also placed in front of his desk.

As of the end of June, the national box office had just exceeded 350 billion. Seeing this figure, Zhou Xia was a little surprised.

I remember that in the original time and space, this data was not reached until the beginning of October, and now it is a full three months earlier.

It seems that there is not much time, but in fact the entire summer vacation has just started. The box office of these three months has accumulated and accumulated, and this year it should be 150 billion. In addition to the box office of the Lunar New Year, the box office for the whole year this year will steadily exceed 500 million. billion, and may eventually reach 600 billion or even higher.

600 billion was only broken through in 2018 in that time and space.

Speaking of last year's domestic box office, it was due to the incredible data of Zhou Xia's "New Detective" and the first two films of "Legend of Sword", plus "Journey to the West Conquering the Devil", two "Little Times", "Star You" and other Xiahua Film and Television Blockbuster movies, as well as a series of Hollywood blockbusters such as "Transformers 4", "The Expendables 3", and "Pacific Rim", the box office is only 6 million yuan away from breaking through 500 billion yuan.

It is generally believed in the industry that last year was a big year, and this year may not be higher than last year. Unexpectedly, the year-on-year growth in the first half of the year was 34%.

In particular, the lower part of Zhou Xia's "Sword of Immortal Sword" continued to recreate its glory. The box office surpassed that of the upper part, reaching 68 billion, and one-fifth of the task was completed.

In addition, there are many commercial blockbusters in the Spring Festival, such as "Monster Hunt", "Beautiful Heart", "Lion from Heaven", "Havoc in Heaven", "The Future Will Be Unexpected", including several animated films "Qin Shi" The box office of "Bright Moon" and "The Return of the Great Sage" is gratifying, and several Hollywood movies such as "Fast and Furious 7", "Avengers 2", and "The Price of Love" have achieved such high box office revenue.

As for the most important summer holidays in July and August, I believe the domestic box office market will have even more gratifying results.

Zhou Xia had just finished reading the report, and Xiaobai over there had already learned about the casting of several films.

"Boss, this is the movie cast list that has been confirmed. Is there any movie list that has been confirmed?"

Xiaobai was very capable in handling affairs, and directly put a document on Zhou Xia's desk.

"Okay, go get busy."

Zhou Xia nodded in satisfaction, picked up the report and was about to read it, but remembered an important thing.

Today I am going to add some action scenes for the post-production of "Zhu Xian".

Since the filming of this movie was completed in December last year, Lao Mouzi has been busy with the post-production work. Zhou Xia didn't take care of it. He just knew that it took half a year. Now the special effects are only one-third finished, and it will take nearly a year. years to complete.

After all, this movie is the movie with the largest investment in the history of Xiahua Film and Television. Xiahua Film and Television hopes to lay a solid foundation for the success of the subsequent series of movies. Moreover, the original work has many fans in China, and everyone has high expectations. Naturally, there is no room for it. half vague.

Zhou Xia looked at the time and it was already 01:30 in the afternoon, so he didn't dare to delay any longer. He went straight out of the office and took the elevator downstairs to the special effects department of Xiahua Film and Television.

Lao Mouzi was already waiting in the special effects room after lunch.

Speaking of which, the reason why the post-production special effects of this film is so slow is that Xiahua Film and Television's special effects department took on most of the work, and only the most difficult parts were handed over to Industrial Light and Magic.

According to the director's request, Zhou Xia put on a 3D motion capture device and spent an hour making up the required action scenes. Seeing Lao Mouzi continue to work overtime, he left the company early after a few words of persuasion were useless.

Lao Mouzi's persistence and dedication, he doesn't need to worry about this aspect. After working with him for an afternoon, Zhou Xia wants to see the latest progress and the effect of the completed part.

After all, it was the first time for Lao Mouzi to make this kind of blockbuster with special effects, and he was not good at technology, so Zhou Xia confirmed the situation today.

Seeing that the completed part of the effect was more detailed and realistic than many special effects in Immortal Sword, Zhou Xia was relieved and left the company by car.

When I got home, I went directly upstairs, where Xiaohu was feeding the baby in the nursery, reading a script with a script in his hand.

The two children will be [-] days in half a month, and they are getting more beautiful and cute every day.

Little Xia Tian is more like Zhou Xia, and Little June is more like Little Fox. It is said that girls are more like fathers and boys are more like mothers. Although Zhou Xia doesn't understand the reason, it is true in their family.

"Come back?"

Seeing Zhou Xia coming in, Xiaohu asked a question, subconsciously covering her chest.

"It's not like I haven't seen it before, what about it?" Zhou Xia said angrily.

(End of this chapter)