What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 145

Two months ago, the comedy "Mermaid" directed by Zhou Xingxing, starring Chao Ge, Zhang Yuqi, and Master Luo was released, and the box office exceeded 33.9 billion yuan, breaking the box office record for Chinese movies.

Mainland films have finally entered the era of billions in box office, which has greatly encouraged capital from all walks of life.

In the second half of the year, the love movie "Passing Through Your World" starring Chao Ge, Bai Baihe, Yang Yang, and Yue Yunpeng will be released. At present, some public opinion believes that it is possible to break the 10 billion record of "Heavenly Love Letter".

This film just started shooting, and the prediction came out. I don't know what the basis is. It's completely based on people not watching the work, so for a while, Brother Chao was hailed as the most popular mainland actor at the box office.

I'm afraid this is optimistic. "Passing Through Your World" is indeed good at the box office, surpassing "A Love Letter", but there is still a long way to go from "A Love Letter from Heaven".

However, it is not wrong to say that Brother Chao is the mainland actor with the most box office appeal in 2016.

Yang Shu doesn't participate in any awards activities, and doesn't give away his works like Hundred Flowers, Golden Rooster and Golden Horse. He doesn't use this to attract investors, nor does he rely on it to boost his status.

If he really participates in the competition, his box office appeal as an actor is probably still far behind that of Brother Chao and others, and he has to continue to work hard.

Brother Chao didn’t come alone, he brought a few staff members with him, and as soon as he entered the door, he said, “Your “Love Letter from Heaven” broke 10 billion, which raised the threshold of domestic romance films by a large margin.”

He is a very self-disciplined person. During the filming of "Passing Through Your World" during this period, he exercised and dieted to lose weight because of the needs of the role. He lost 15 catties in only 10 days. Now he only weighs more than 130 catties, and he looks a bit weak.

Later, when he filmed Zhang Yimou's "Shadow", he lost more than 120 kilograms. At that time, he couldn't lose weight. He asked Director Zhang to ask Christian Bale how he lost weight when he filmed "The Mechanic". Help him to ask.

Director Zhang collaborated with Christian Bale in 2011's "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling". This man can gain weight and lose weight freely, which is also a miracle in the world of cinema.

Today Brother Chao looks very slender in a black casual suit, with a snow-white shirt, no tie, and no laughing and laughing at all.

He didn't come empty-handed, he brought a pine bonsai, let four assistants carry it, and asked Yang Shu as he walked towards Feihong Xuan: "Do you think it looks good?"

The bonsai is very large, one and a half meters high. The pot of white marble, the Podocarpus pine is green and simple, and the hanging roots are like a big tree with exposed claws. It should be very valuable.

"nice."

"It's what I fancy."

It sounds like if it doesn't look good, it might be because the assistant has taken a fancy to it.

The bonsai was placed at the door of Feihongxuan, and the two went in to talk.

After a while, he will rush to the set. In two days, he will have to go to Daocheng Shanggao to continue filming, and he will not go around in circles: "I'm here to take advantage of it. I heard that your new film is in preparation?"

"Warrior" has not been released to the public yet, Yang Shu was a little surprised: "Who did you hear that from?"

So far, Jin Dong and Yu Hewei have been invited for the new project. It’s just a few days ago, and it hasn’t been announced to the public. In addition, Yang Shu and Wang Xinjun talked about the subject matter on Christmas last year, but they didn’t say they planned to start filming at that time.

"I don't need to listen to it. I have heard more than one time from the masters in the circle that you are everywhere in the team of blasting and pyrotechnics, and you are going to make a big move. I wonder what you want to blow up when you shoot a romance film? "

Yang Shu suddenly realized that although he didn't announce it, the news of recruiting has already been circulated in the circle.

In the entertainment industry, not only actors form circles because of college classmates and cooperative relationships, but also some special skills, and they form their own system of mentoring.

For example, the technique of Diaoweiya was not taught in schools before, it was learned from inside the circle. In the early days, no one in the mainland knew this. If necessary, Hong Kong was invited to do it. Later, I gradually learned it.

The same is true for pyrotechnics and blasting, which is fundamentally different from the ones used by the army. Although some art schools offer some technical courses, if you really want to learn it, you have to learn it from your master in practice.

This is especially the case in martial arts. From top to bottom, the lineage is very clear. For example, the top Li Lianjie, Donnie Yen, and Wu Jing are brothers from the same martial arts school and the same master, and the action actors who work with them are not relatives. Therefore, the seniority order is clear.

Li Lianjie said that when he made "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate", the young Wu Xing was already his disciple and grandson five or six generations later.

This is especially true of martial arts in Hong Kong. The reason why more than a hundred films about Huang Feihong were made in the 70s and [-]s is because the dragon and tiger martial arts masters in Hong Kong are basically Huang Feihong's disciples and grandchildren, and they have to look good for their ancestors.

As for the praise of Ip Man, of course it is because Bruce Lee is his apprentice, and Jackie Chan was a martial artist who followed Bruce Lee back then, belonging to the Wing Chun line.

Yang Shu thought he was recruiting soldiers secretly, but in fact he was secretly recruiting, and each line of business communicated with each other.

"I'm going to make a war movie."

"Why don't you continue making romance films?"

"A change of taste."

"Then plan to resist Japan or liberate?"

"From anti-Japanese war to anti-Americanism."

"Good guy, it must be a big production. You can tell it's a big production from the amount of people you're looking for."

Brother Chao's meaning is very straightforward: "Don't forget the orange image when you start a new project. Whether you are an old driver or a new driver, please bring us along."

Three years ago, Brother Chao cooperated with Guangguang Media to establish Orange Image Media Co., Ltd. and served as the chairman.

The movies he has made in the past three years are all produced by Orange Image and released by Guangguang Media. It can be regarded as a one-stop production and theater chain. Like Chen Sicheng and Xu Shanzheng, they are the first echelon with the best development after actors change careers as directors.

Since I became the chairman, I have to worry about the company's operation, so I personally took action today.

As for investing in a new work without even asking about the plot, is it too much?

Of course not, this is a routine operation in the circle, and the investments in these years have been people, not works.

Before the work is sold, no one knows whether it will be successful or not, and they are all betting on whether they have spotted the right talent.

Capital penetration has long been the norm. For example, there are [-] investors, [-] producers, and [-] distributors in "Fu Er Love Letter". They earn money together and bear risks together. The team that invests is the former director of the main creators. success.

Brother Chao just started filming "Passing Through Your World", and there are eight producers including Orange Image and Light Media. As for how many investors there are, God knows.

The same is true for "Wolf Warrior 2", which is being prepared to start filming. Because "Wolf Warrior 1" has a box office of more than 3 million, there are many people who are willing to invest in the sequel, and Brother Chao's Orange Image invested.

In order to take care of all aspects of the relationship, Wu Jing had no choice but to continuously increase the production cost, but at the same time, he had to ensure that he had a considerable proportion, so he had to keep raising money to invest in it.

In the end, the production cost was increased to 2 million yuan, and the film was finished and still reluctantly accepting investment. With so much capital participating in the escort, it would be difficult for the box office to fail.

This kind of operation is not an invention of the mainland film and television industry. It is actually a Hollywood model, which can make full use of and optimize capital. It has been effective for many years, and it has only been introduced into China in the past few years.

Uncle Wu and Brother Chao are both earning hundreds of millions a year, and they are also not short of money. They don’t eat alone when they start filming new films. What they respect is the ecology of the industry.

Back then, Sister Qin voted for Wang Qianyuan and his unprofitable "The Piano of Steel" because she had a lot of money. Of course, Yang Shu could vote with her eyes closed.

"Heavenly Love Letter" Yang Shu ate alone, just because it was his debut work, and it has not attracted attention, and now it is not what it used to be.

However, he lacked relevant experience and hadn't slowed down to join this capital game. As a result, Brother Chao came to the door first.

Yang Shu first briefly introduced the plot outline of "Warrior", the investment scale starting from 5000 million yuan, the currently confirmed cast and so on.

Then the ugly words came to the fore: "This is a war movie. The 90th anniversary of the founding of the army next year is a big year for war movies. Investment should be prudent."

Brother Chao listened carefully and asked some questions very seriously. Although he was also very interested in this story, he could see that he was mainly interested in investing in Yangshu.

Finally he said: "I am optimistic about you, and I am also optimistic about this story."

Yang Shu responded quickly and unambiguously: "Well, let's vote for each other. I vote for "Passing Through Your World", and you vote for "Warrior". Eat meat and drink soup together."

Brother Chao was probably already prepared, and he agreed very readily: "Okay, I'll discuss it with other producers when I get back, let me give up some shares, and we'll talk about the details later."

Therefore, the cooperation intention was determined first, and each other was an investor, and did not get involved in the production.

Since Brother Chao came to the door by himself, Yang Shu certainly couldn’t let him go like this: “Brother Chao voted for “Warrior”, shouldn’t his own business play a role in it?”

Brother Chao laughed and pointed to himself: "Do you think I look like a guerrilla?"

"Not like."

Yang Shu looked at him very seriously: "I will assign you a role as a regular army. The national army that came from the uprising in the Battle of Jinan will be reorganized into our East China 35th Army. Let's fight across the Yangtze River together."

(End of this chapter)