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Chapter 457

After the film festival, Liu Yifei returned to China to promote "BJ Meets Seattle", and Cheng Yuan flew to New York to check the filming progress of "Chinese Partner".

"Chinese Partner" is the third part of the long-distance "My Youth" series (the first two are "A Little Thing of First Love" and "Those Years"), and it is also the only film in the entire series about youth entrepreneurship.

"Chinese Partner" took one and a half months to complete the domestic scenes, but New York only gave it two weeks, and the time was very tight.

"You old fritters didn't bully our director, did you?" Cheng Yu'an teased the three leading actors as soon as he arrived on the set.

"How dare we bully him." Huang Xiaoming turned his eyes away from the script, "Teacher Tian hangs around here every day, so it's fine if he doesn't bully us."

Tian Zhuang was invited to be the producer of this play, and Wen Muye was his graduate student.

"You mean you dare to bully Teacher Tian if he's not hanging around here?" Cheng Yu'an laughed.

Deng Chao took the words without any hesitation: "That's right! I prepared so many pranks but it didn't come in handy."

Sure enough, men would rather play with men if it wasn't for the sake of inheriting the family.

A group of old men in the production team spoke coldly.

"How are you, are you still used to it?" Cheng Yu'an asked Wen Muye.

"I'm not used to it at first, but I'll get used to it later." Wen Muye has made several short films before, and "Chinese Partner" is his first feature film.

The configuration given to him by the company is also considered luxurious, Huang Xiaoming + Deng Chao + Pan Yueming, there is no better lineup than this in the Mesozoic Era.

Seeing the three of them talking to each other in English, Cheng Yuan frowned after listening to it, and said:

"What accent do you speak?"

Cheng Yu'an himself has no problem with foreign language accents, as long as the other party can understand and communicate with each other.

What he worries about is that after the movie is released, the audience will use the accents of the three protagonists to talk about things.

"After half a year of hard training, it's what I said." Wen Muye said.

You mean dubbing?
Who do you look down on!
The original sound is used for filming, even if the dubbing is done later, the actors must do it themselves.

With a voice actor?Huang Xiaoming can't afford to lose this person.

"That's it." The accent is not a big problem, "You guys continue to shoot."

The crew is now in a forest on the outskirts of New York.

"Start." Wen Muye turned on the phone.

The scene where the white man with hanging silk took advantage of Su Mei was being filmed.

Three Americans invite Su Mei to go out to play in the countryside. One of them is a couple swimming in the lake, and another man with hanging silk is sitting with Su Mei.

The white male Diaosi slowly extended his hand to Su Mei's shoulder. Su Mei lowered her head and did not refuse.

The white man slowly moved his head closer, and the two kissed together.

Then the two fell to the ground.

"Crack!" Wen Muye yelled to stop, "Okay, this scene is over."

Cheng Yu'an watched it quietly from the side, and then took a deep look at Wen Muye: "You are really ruthless."

Hearing the director yell "click", Du Juan, who played Su Mei, squatted on the ground and cried!
"Why did you do this to Su Mei and Cheng Dongqing?" Du Juan couldn't accept this scene very much.

"If you break up, break up properly, why did you film this part!" Du Juan couldn't stop crying once she cried.

Wen Muye had no choice but to go forward to comfort him.

Huang Xiaoming watched from the side and felt that the scene was too cruel. Cheng Yuan said:
"This scene reminds me of "Wulin Biography", in which Yang Huilan finally found a local rich man, Johnny Joon, to be her rightful husband.

"In the script of the God of Wealth, Du Zijun was originally a handsome guy, but Shang actually chose an ugly guy to play, and the tension in the drama came out immediately!
"It's the same here. With this scene, the character of Su Mei will be more three-dimensional, and the audience will not forget it because of the small number of scenes. Moreover, this character will be more ironic, and Cheng Dongqing will make the audience feel more sympathetic."

Everyone knows the dramatic effect, but the real shooting is another matter.

The original space-time scene was deleted by the General Administration, and I don't know if it can be kept now.

After staying in New York for a day, Cheng Yuan returned to Los Angeles.

A major studio has already secured Universal's rights to the "Jurassic" series, which will be rebooted next year.

Universal invested a symbolic $1000 million and left the movie alone.

Cheng Lingfeng directly scolded Jeff Hill: "I don't have the courage to make movies, I just know how to rest on my laurels."

A big movie company got lucky this year, and the $5000 million "Teddy Bear" went viral in the summer!
This year's North American summer season, every corner is occupied by blockbuster special effects, and there is no room for R-rated comedy.

The release of "Teddy Bear" bridged the gap, taking in $3239 million in its opening week in 2020 theaters, the highest opening-day opening since 2009's "The Hangover" ($1670 million) The original R-rated film (not the sequel film).

In the first week, it scored 5410 million US dollars at the box office and became the champion.

"The Hangover" set the record for the best box office opening of an R-rated comedy with a first-week score of $4498 million, which was broken by "Teddy Bear".

Yahoo! viewers gave it four and a half stars and a 69% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The media commented on "Teddy Bear" like this:
"Although the teddy bear is the protagonist of the film, this is by no means a movie suitable for the whole family to watch. The film is full of foul language at the beginning, race, dirty jokes, self-deprecating, and political satire are everywhere, completely subverting the cuteness of the teddy bear. Image. In short, this is a film that completely subverts your childhood dreams, and if you can swallow heavy tastes, this film is a good choice."

Up to now, the global box office of "Teddy Bear" has exceeded 5 million US dollars, becoming the biggest dark horse in this year's summer.

Once Cheng Lingfeng has money, she can't let it go, but she only works at low and medium costs. Wen Ziren's "The Conjuring" and "Latent 2" will cost 500 million yuan.

Richard Curtis's new film "The Time Traveler" is also funded by the company.

It is worth mentioning that in order to streamline the company, Cheng Lingfeng has suspended the development of the TV drama market.

That is to say, no new episodes will be developed, and the acquired drama script companies will participate in the form of investment instead of production.

At the beginning, I chose to do a TV series because I saw that the market for TV series came in faster than movies.

Cheng Yu'an started with "Edge of Crisis" in 08. This TV series has been going on for 4 years and 5 seasons. Fox finally stopped renewing the subscription, declaring the end of this series.

The company is now only keeping four series: "The Good Wife," "The Walking Dead," "Annoying Cop" and "Broken Girls."

Cheng Yu'an agreed to suspend the development of the TV series.

Although TV dramas come in faster than movies, major TV stations in the United States are more conservative than movie companies.

Cheng Yu'an was afraid that if he continued to do this, he would get burned.

It's better to adopt a contraction policy. Anyway, the several dramas in hand bring the company more than 3 million US dollars in revenue every year-it is indeed more profitable than making movies!

(End of this chapter)