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Chapter 47 Screening and Filming

Cheng Yu'an flew to the United States for a few days before the filming officially started.Take care of the little things.

Wen Ziren's "Ghost Cries and Gods Howling" has finished filming and is in post-production.

"Love Actually" is also coming to an end.

To Cheng Yu'an's surprise, Bob still found Richard Curtis as the director.

The leading screenwriter in the UK and even in Hollywood.

Representative works "Mr. Bean", "Notting Hill" and "BJ's Single Diary".

Curtis has written a lot of good scripts, and as a screenwriter, he has almost reached the top of the industry.

He wanted to transform into a director, and it happened that a big film company (big pictures) approached him with a script.

Curtis researched the company, which was just established, made a horror film and sold it to 20th Century Fox.

Ordinarily, such a small company would not be able to invite Curtis, but Curtis liked the script of "Love Actually" brought by Bob very much.

He has a unique understanding of romance films, and is also good at romance films. He really couldn't let go of "Love Actually". After more than a month of back and forth, the two parties finally negotiated various conditions.

Curtis just picked up Love Actually.

Boss Cheng came to the crew for a visit, and Bob introduced Cheng Yu'an to Curtis:
"Richard, let me introduce you. This is the boss of the company and the screenwriter of "Love Actually", Cheng Yu'an."

Curtis is 50 years old, with a small mouth and a pair of blue eyes, which looks very young.

Curtis shook hands with Cheng Yu'an and praised, "Cheng, this script is really well written."

"Thank you," Cheng Yu'an said, "I also like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill". They are very good works."

The two chatted about the crew again. The crew of "True Love Actually" was running well, and Cheng Yu'an didn't need to worry about anything. After watching it for a while, he went back to the company.

Bob returned to the company and reported to him: "We have handed over "Howl" to Lionsgate for distribution. They are very good at making horror films. "Love Actually" has already negotiated with Universal last month, and it will be released in November. Released first in the US and UK."

"Okay, how long will it take for "Love Actually" to finish?" Cheng Yu'an is very satisfied with these arrangements. Although he has been away from the United States for a long time, he has been communicating with Bob by phone and email, and everything is still under his control.

"It will take another week at most to wrap up."

"Time is a bit tight, can we finish the post-production in two months?" Cheng Yu'an was a little worried.

"It should be fine, the post team is ready to work anytime."

Hollywood film shooting is accurate to every link, almost like an assembly line.Once the process is determined, the progress will generally not be delayed.

After staying in the United States for a few more days and settling some corporate and personal investment matters, Cheng Yu'an set off to return to China.

The time has come to the end of August, and the box office of "Sniper Phone Booth" has reached 8 million, with a daily increase of only tens of thousands.

In addition, "Terminator 3" is also officially released, and "Sniper Phone Booth" can't run anymore.

For this achievement, Long-distance Media, including the major investors, are extremely satisfied.

However, the cost of 300 million yuan, including the publicity and distribution cost 500 million yuan, the overseas copyright sold 4800 million yuan, the Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asian box office received nearly 5000 million yuan, and the mainland box office can reach 4000 million yuan. It can be said that it is broken [-] million.

There is a good thing that the media has settled an account for Remote, and they don't know where they got the data.He opened his mouth and said that Long-distance Media made at least 4000 million profit from "Sniper Phone Booth".

Regardless of whether the data is true or not, Cheng Lingfeng did not make any response, allowing the outside world to speculate.

Also taking advantage of this trend, "Sniper Phone Booth" ushered in another wave of movie viewing.

As of September 9, the domestic box office of "Sniper Phone Booth" successfully exceeded 3 million, and finally it was released at the box office of 4000 million yuan.

Long-distance has become a sweet potato, and Cheng Yu'an has become a golden lump.

But after the reporters flocked to the remote media, they were told: "Mr. Cheng is talking about new projects in Bay Island, and Director Cheng led the crew to start filming "Butterfly Effect."

""Lian Lian Notebook" will be released at the end of this month, hitting the National Day file, and the two presidents will be back at that time, please support me from the media. Thank you everyone."

The scene of "The Butterfly Effect" is relatively simple, with most of the community scenes and a small amount of school scenes.

Huang Ke and the others wanted to borrow the campus of Jiaotong University when they were looking at the scenery, but Jiaotong University didn't like them.

In the end, the Shanghai Academy of Drama offered an olive branch and invited the crew to film with them.

He didn't take a penny, and took the initiative to undertake security work.

The condition is that their teachers and students will be used for the group performance of the school play, and Cheng Yu'an will give a lecture at the Shanghai Academy of Drama.

Cheng Yu'an accepted, which made a group of staff from the Beijing Film Academy annoyed and amused.

"Do we count as an enemy?" Qin Ranqiu asked very seriously.

"Fuck you. Are you filming? It's not shabby to take advantage of others." Cheng Yu'an also replied rudely.

"Okay, all departments are ready, let's try for a while. Ruoyun, Qianqian, Jiahang, Xiaolong, you are all ready."

The first scene is that four little devils light a detonator to blow up the mailbox in front of someone's house.

Of course it won't explode, the actress is holding the baby, and the detonator is fake.

By the way, the actress holding the baby is one of the honey stuffed by the coal boss.

"Lighting OK."

"Recording OK."

"Camera OK."

"Okay, all departments are ready, Action!" Cheng Yuan turned on the phone.

"Brother, it's up to you." Li Jiahang handed the detonator to Shi Xiaolong.

"Go to hell, I won't do it, you can find someone else." Shi Xiaolong had an honest and bitter look on his face.

"I want you to go. If you let someone else do it, you will definitely sue."

"Not this time, you see the lead wire is so short, it will blow me up." Shi Xiaolong still refused.

"I have a solution." Zhang Ruoyun took out the cigarette case from his pocket, lit one for himself, and then inserted the cigarette into the fuse of the detonator.

"Well, it will take at least 2 minutes for it to explode."

"I thank your whole family." Shi Xiaolong read the lines.

Cheng Yu'an made a modification here. In order to pass the review smoothly, he did not let the three children smoke, but only let Zhang Ruoyun's character take out a cigarette here.

Added other plots to show that the four little ghosts are bad boys.

"Crack!" Cheng Yu'an called to stop, "That's right, that's it. Sissy, come here."

Liu Yifei left and walked to the outside, and Liu's mother was waiting for her outside.

The mother and daughter came to Cheng Yu'an, and Cheng Yu'an said: "You don't have any lines in this scene, but you have to learn to find the lines by yourself, you can't stand still and listen to the other three people read their lines, you know?"

This is Liu Yifei's first film, and the film crew is still very unfamiliar to her, and the shooting requirements are higher than those of TV dramas.

The little girl understood and nodded: "I see, Director Cheng."

"Okay, pay attention to all departments, we will actually shoot. 1 2 3 Action!"

(End of this chapter)