Hong Kong Entertainment's Life Simulator Main Volume Chapter 369: I'm just a sophomore and this is it? Is it still possible to graduate as a senior? July 15, Monday.

Hong Kong's Haowan entertainment circle, which had been dormant for two months, has really begun to come back to life. Countless citizens took to the streets early in the morning and were flooded with entertainment-related information.

Kowloon Daily: "Andy Lau returns to Europe and the United States, and the blockbuster action movie grossed US$86 million, a total of HK$670 million at the box office!"

New Territories Chinese News: "Do you still remember that in January, Huayuan Phase 6 privately smashed the load-bearing wall on the third floor with the intention of murdering hundreds or thousands of people? See you on July 19th."

Oriental Daily: "Following the success of Shangmei Film Studio, a new blockbuster is coming!"

Today's horse racing newspaper: "In four days, the box office in North America was US$17 million, and in Europe it was US$11 million. It even beat the mark in the first weekend! Let me show off the power of Eastern mythology!"

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Citizen A casually grabbed a newspaper from the newsstand, took a look at it, and exclaimed, "The big movie based on a certain sand sculpture has been filmed? Is it even released? It has a box office of HK$670 million in Europe and the United States. Damn it, it's such a blast.

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Another citizen was surprised and said, "That doesn't matter. Brother Hua is a global action star, the king of Asian music circles, and Nicole is a pretty girl. It's less than 100 million US dollars in Europe and the United States. It's nothing. What I'm curious about is, on the first weekend

Why is it only $17 million?”

"The total gross revenue in Europe and the United States was only 28 million U.S. dollars. You must know that when it was released in 1987, the opening weekend in North America was 31 million U.S. dollars."

"That was four years ago!"

Citizen A looked at him speechlessly, "How can it be the same? Pandas are national treasures, and many foreigners like them. Kung Fu plus pandas, and Cheng Long, Bruce Willis and others are dubbing them, so the momentum is certainly different."

"Now this is pure Chinese mythology. How many foreigners know about Chang'e?"

"I've seen it in the cinema before, it was so beautifully shot!"

The citizens who were trolled were shocked, "Is it good to watch? It has already been released?"

It is currently on its tenth day of release in Haowan, Hong Kong, on July 5th, which is actually nearly a week earlier than the July 11th release date in North America.

In the previous ten days, there was no publicity and distribution, and all the efforts were devoted to reporting on issues such as flood relief and post-disaster reconstruction, attracting public attention and discussion.

Nowadays, the vigorous promotion and distribution is really a way to earn foreign exchange for the Shanghai Film Studio. In many cases, no matter how much money you donate directly, it is really better to help the mainland animated films straighten out the promotion and promotion, and let them make money on their own.

It makes my friends even happier.

From the 5th to yesterday, ten days equaled the first weekend plus the following week. Even without much publicity, Hong Kong Island still took in a box office of 12 million Hong Kong dollars, saving 11 million Hong Kong dollars.

Europe and the United States had to frantically publicize it to get a box office of 28 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 218 million Hong Kong dollars.

This is what makes Shanghai Film Studio and its leaders who have vigorously supported animated films since 1987 the happiest thing.

It is said that since the three major universities of Beijing Film Academy, China National Theater, and Shanghai Theater Academy began to expand their enrollment in 1987, the first batch of freshmen students, a thousand students from the three major universities combined, have officially graduated this summer!

Regular graduate No. 1,000, just about to enter the society?? The two-year production cycle in the mainland, the four-day opening weekend in Europe and the United States took in 218 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. Is there anything more surprising and gratifying news than this??

Not to mention that mainland theaters can also sell box office tickets in RMB, which is not a small amount of money.

If we can grasp this pulse, it will not be unbelievable that with the potential of the mainland, we can compete with Disney in animation.

Rebuilding after the 1991 East China Flood requires too much money, and the Shanghai Film Studio, which can make a lot of money, will naturally become a big contributor.

About the same time.

In a hotel suite in Kowloon, there was a fierce quarrel, discussion, and all kinds of throwing things and swearing.

There was so much movement in the suite that the people waiting in the corridor outside could hear it... His face was expressionless, he had long been used to all this.

It wasn't until Akai, who won a string of awards at the Cannes Film Festival this year, angrily opened the door and walked out, then closed the door tightly. Director Chen cursed a few words, "insulting to gentlemen" and "unbecoming of a human being", and stomped on the wall a few times.

go.

Director Chen walked away.

Liu Xiaoqing grabbed a few newspapers and walked into the private room, "I mean, Xiao Jiang, what about you? How many times have you argued with Director Chen over a script?"

When the floods first hit on May 22, Director Chen was very unhappy because Jiang Wen had saved the script from the screenwriter himself, and wanted to have a good chat with Jiang Wen and the screenwriting team, and talk more.

To further artistic creation.

Nearly two months have passed. The script, with more than 40% of the details originally planned, is basically finished.

Jiang Wen has already started spending money to build the Qin Palace. Anyway, it was Zheng Jiachun and Cheng Long's Hundred Years Pictures who funded it. For the rest, whether it was chatting with Mei Zhi about the production of clothing, war equipment, funerals, etc. in the late Warring States period.

wait.

Everything has opened up.

Fighting with war horses and cold weapons, arrangements were made to recruit soldiers...

Just yesterday, Jiang Wen said that since the script is complete, can we recruit the main actors? Has the group started? If the actors don't understand, they have to learn riding skills again?

Director Chen was furious and quarreled with Jiang Wen again. The quarrel lasted until today and has become a daily routine for the two of them.

Lao Chen is also very angry. It has been almost two months since one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. He completely disagrees with the idea of ​​forcing the tone of all the scripts to be reset. Jiang Wen has been so stubborn that he doesn't care about his opinions at all.

He is even more domineering than the seniors on the crew who control him!

He has expressed this movie more than once. If this continues, he will stop filming. He will stop filming. Then Jiang Wen began to calm down and persuaded him, if you don't make it, I will be the director to reshoot it, or invite Zhang Yimou to film it...

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Are you sure you can produce a version that will completely surpass ours in terms of reputation and box office? Can you guarantee it? You won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and he and Lao Zhang won the Berlin Golden Bear more than once.

Lao Zhang also won the Oscar for Best Director.

If you are not sure that you can produce a script that surpasses ours, then you have conceived and thought about Jing Ke's assassination of Qin so many times before, and just give up on it? Are you willing to do so?

Anyway, Jiang Wen is really not bad at tormenting people.

Director Chen was almost tortured to death.

Liu Xiaoqing, including Zheng Jiachun, who heard that they were quite controversial and quarreled fiercely, and who would come out to dissuade them at first, are now... at peace.

Just a casual word of advice, I don’t expect these two stubborn donkeys to calm down at all.

Jiang Wen didn't care. He grabbed a few newspapers and read them. He was silent for a while and then said with emotion, "We are really going to speed up production. Shangmei Film Studio. The animated film earned 218 million Hong Kong dollars in Europe and the United States in its first weekend.

box office."

"If disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction rely entirely on animated films, how can we live-action actors and directors have the nerve to enjoy all kinds of big-star treatment?"

Liu Xiaoqing cleverly said, "Yes, yes, it's time to speed up."

In such a special time period as 1991, when the floods were so horrific, many people from all walks of life would contribute, but when it comes to the film and television industry...

It would be really embarrassing if their huge group of real-life celebrities is not as good as an animated movie in terms of making money.

Compared with these famous superstars, what are the daily luxuries of food and accommodation? What about the behind-the-scenes production staff at Shanghai Film Studio? What level of accommodation and food do those behind the scenes enjoy?

If the gap is too big, no matter what anyone says, a proud and talented person like Jiang Wen will not be able to pass the psychological test.

Especially since he is just a director and actor, even Andy Lau has started to bring four newcomers and four apprentices from the second season of The Voice back to the mainland for tour, and all the concert proceeds will be donated??

He really felt that Old Chen was too speechless.

They spent nearly three months working on the script, but why did it not work here or there? They had to find someone else to put pressure on Lao Chen.

"I called Director Zhang and asked him if he was interested..."

In fact, in the original trajectory, Akai first came up with the idea of ​​Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin in 1992, and fooled the screenwriter into spending five years writing the script. In 1999, he produced the finished film and planned to release it. He also wanted to make A Mou with this theme.

, and then created it out of frustration.

What is the hero about? A group of Zhao assassins assassinate the King of Qin.

Jiang Wen has also worked with Director Zhang, and they have been bickering and fighting with each other for quite a while. Of course, they know that Director Zhang is really interested in certain things.

Just when Jiang Wen was looking for Big Brother, Liu Xiaoqing said helplessly, "Actually, there's no point in being anxious. The Qin Palace has just started to be built, and it's still too early to wait for it to be completed."

Jiang Wen was also a little speechless. After all, in this era, whether it was the Xianyang Palace of the Qin Dynasty or the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty, the ten-year period of archeology, excavation and protection of the ruins had just been completed. During the research, it was really necessary to rebuild Xianyang, the city of the Qin Dynasty.

Only in the palace can we have a place to take pictures.

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In the ATV office, Zhao Donghuai smiled and said to Jiaxin, "You tell the movie studio to let the channel broadcast it in prime time. Although it is far less well-known by movie fans around the world than pandas and lions, it can only be promoted to the production team of American Film Studio.

brand."

"But as long as more people watch Kung Fu Panda, more people will be curious about Chang'e's production standards and go to the cinema to watch it."

Li Jiaxin nodded and said curiously, "I really didn't expect that the story shot by Shangmei Factory would develop like this. At first, I thought Chang'e secretly took the elixir in order to seek immortality, and she betrayed her husband Hou Yi."

Zhao Donghuai was dumbfounded, "There are many versions of the story about Chang'e flying to the moon. What you said is also one of the widely circulated stories. But if you really follow this development, it will be over. What else do you expect at the box office? It will probably be criticized by others.

Cursed to death."

In myths and legends, why did Chang'e fly to the moon? How did she fly to the moon?

There are really many related versions, and the development of the story chosen by Shangmei Factory is that ten days passed in the sky, the earth was baked into scorched earth, Hou Yi shot the sun in order to survive the ethnic group, after shooting the sun, Chang'e was afraid of Emperor Jun's revenge, and suggested Hou Yi to go to the Queen Mother of the West.

Ask for the elixir of death.

When Hou Yi asked for the elixir, he wanted to choose an auspicious day to enjoy it with Chang'e. However, after he left the elixir and went out, Hou Yi's disciple Pang Meng took the opportunity to threaten Chang'e to steal the elixir. In order to keep the elixir, Chang'e had to swallow it herself. down, and then fly into the Moon Palace.

After Hou Yi returned, although he killed Pang Meng, he could only grieve and be heartbroken when facing his beloved wife who had entered the moon palace. He could not go to the moon palace himself.

Then Chang'e entrusted her with a dream, saying that every August 15th, Hou Yi could make moon cakes and worship the moon in the yard, and then Chang'e could return to the human world for a day and reunite with Hou Yi.
To be continued...