I'm a movie star on earth

Chapter 365 The past life of "Space Hunter"

It is worth mentioning that Christopher Nolan's new work "Dunkirk", which Li He is more familiar with, also landed in mainland theaters in September, but this theme is not as popular as science fiction and action movies in the mainland. Generally speaking, it has only received more than 1 million box office so far.

The global box office performance of the film is also mediocre. So far, the global box office has only exceeded 4 million US dollars, which is a new low for Nolan's works in recent years.Fortunately, the film investment is not large, only about 1 million U.S. dollars, and there is still a small profit through the box office.Peripherals and copyrights can make a fortune.

After this film, Nolan plans to return to his best time science fiction theme. The name of the new project is "Creed", and it is still in the script planning stage.

All these news were told by a familiar Warner executive to Li Hyuk, the previous cooperation in "La La Land" was very pleasant, so generally, if there are any unconfidential projects in Warner, this executive will also disclose some information to Li Hyuk.

After hearing the news, Li Hyuk's mind became active. Nolan's new movie returned to the sci-fi themes he was good at. In an instant, "Inception", "Interstellar" and other films came out of his mind.The male protagonist dare not think about it, but it is still possible to fight for a supporting role.

Previously, Lee Hyuk played a small role in "Interstellar", and later played an important supporting role in "The Martian", and he has the qualifications to participate in Hollywood's A-level productions.

The executive also promised that he would ask Nolan to let Li Hyuk appear in the film at the right time. Of course, it is not free. This Warner executive is responsible for the overseas film distribution.The films produced by Huahua Film and Television and Da Mi Mi Studio with Li He's name still have a market in Europe and the United States, so Warner Pictures attaches great importance to this business.

For a long time, Warner Pictures has been responsible for the distribution of Chinese films starring Lee Hyuk in North America. This time, Warner wants to win the distribution rights in Europe and Australia.

The biggest reason is that the so-called Chinese version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is entering post-production, and Warner is very optimistic about the prospects of this project.People who don't know the history of Hollywood movies may not understand the influence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the West. Since the creation of this series by Spielberg and George Lucas in the 80s, it has become an enduring adventure movie .

This time, the so-called Chinese version of Raiders of the Lost Ark was released, and it immediately attracted the attention of Warner Pictures. Not only did it contact Industrial Light and Magic for the film, it even sent producers to live directly in the crew to understand the quality of the film.

After the producer went back, he boasted to the executives that this "Exquisite Ancient City" is a pioneer film for the internationalization of Chinese-language films, and Warner should try its best to fight for the distribution rights of this film.

Closer to home, the box office of "A Dog's Mission" exceeded expectations, which put a little pressure on the films in the National Day schedule.But it doesn't matter, "Sewing Machine Band" and "Space Hunter" took the lead in igniting the National Day war on September 29.

"Sewing Machine Band" is Dapeng's latest work. Previously, "Pancake Man" directed by Dapeng had a poor reputation, but it earned a super high box office.This time, Qiao Shan, Nazha, Li Hongqi, Xiao Yueyue and other masters are assembled again, which is highly anticipated by the audience.

But unexpectedly, this "Sewing Machine Band" failed at the word-of-mouth box office. On the first day of its release, "Sewing Machine Band" only earned 3800 million box office, and the score on Douban was only 6.9 points.It is difficult to be satisfied with such a result in the National Day file. You must know that there will be many heavyweight films released tomorrow, and the follow-up depends on the quality of the films.

And "Space Hunting" is not bad, the big black cow directed and acted by himself, Fan Ye and Li Jiahang also starred, and the film also played the slogan of Li He as a cameo, but the fans went to Li He, but found that Li He just didn't make an appearance. For 30 seconds, many fans of Li Hyuk shouted that they were cheated.

When Da Hei Niu and Fan Ye were together, he proposed that he wanted to be a director: "I also want to be a director. Look at how much money Wu Jing made from filming "Wolf Warrior"! For our future, can you help Me?"

Fan Ye boldly replied: "It's on me, let your dreams come true!"

As a result, Da Hei Niu had his debut film "Hunting in the Sky". Fan Ye starred in it with zero pay in order to support his boyfriend, but Feng Dapao couldn't stand it anymore and scolded Da Hei Niu: "It's not just a person who can be a director." , Get out of the entertainment circle!"

If Feng Dapao's words were effective, maybe Da Hei Niu would not have to bear the infamy after the film was released. The producer of "Hunting in the Sky" is Lu Jianmin, the chairman of Spring and Autumn Times. In 2009, Lu Jianmin and Wu Jing met, and the two military fans planned to make a military-themed movie "Wolf Warrior". At that time, military themes were not popular, and audiences did not like to watch movies with the main theme.No one is optimistic about "Wolf Warrior", but its scarcity ignited the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies as soon as it was released.

In the end, this film with an investment of 3000 million won a box office of 5.45 million as a dark horse, and the Spring and Autumn Period received 9182 million yuan.

When Lu Jianmin got the copyright of "Space Hunter", he originally planned to cast Wu Jing as the star, but Wu Jing was busy with the post-production of "Wolf Warrior 2", and it was about the air force. He said to Lu Jianmin: "I am practicing kung fu. Yes, you make me unable to use it in the cabin!"

Lu Jianmin had no choice but to look for other candidates. At this moment, after Fan Ye knew about it, he recommended his boyfriend, Da Hei Niu.With Fan Ye's escort, Lu Jianmin readily agreed.Thus, Da Hei Niu realized his dream of being a director.

Da Hei Niu attaches great importance to his directorial debut. Not only did he use his connections to get the latest air force equipment, but he also used real machines to shoot on location.The stand-in is also a real pilot driving, and the Chinese Air Force will guide the whole process behind the scenes.In order to shoot a helicopter scene, at the strong request of Da Hei Niu, he transferred the latest helicopter directly from Wuhan, thousands of miles away.

The investment in the film was 1.2 million yuan at the beginning, but it was overrun after filming. Later, Da Hei Niu paid more than 2 million yuan out of his own pocket.Because there are many stunt scenes in the film, the production cost is relatively high, and most of the cost is spent on it.

In order to save money, Li Chen swiped a friendship card, and the total remuneration of the actors was less than 2000 million.As for his girlfriend Fan Ye, Da Hei Niu has never raised the issue of remuneration.Because he didn't know how much he could give Fan Bingbing in the end.

Seeing his concerns, Fan Ye took the initiative to say to him: "It's the first time you do this, it's very difficult, I won't ask you for money!" This moved Li Chen greatly, Bing Bing was indeed generous.

When the film was promoted in the early stage, it had enough gimmicks, and even CCTV praised it in advance.The summer file "Wolf Warrior 2" was released in the summer file, breaking the box office record of Chinese movies and reaching 56 billion box office, and it is still attacking 57 billion.

Spring and Autumn Times, one of the producers of "Wolf Warrior 2", is also very optimistic about "Space Hunter", conservatively predicting that the box office will be at least 15 billion.At that time, a film and television company also wanted a piece of the pie, and wanted to get the distribution rights of "Space Hunting" with a guarantee of 10 billion, but was rejected by Lu Jianmin.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jianmin miscalculated. "Space Hunter" only earned 3087 million box office on the first day of its release, which is really unsatisfactory for a film with an investment of more than 2 million.

In the fiercely competitive National Day file, if the box office cannot get a good box office on the first day, then the subsequent box office will be worrying.It seems that even Lee Hyuk's guest appearance is not so useful. After all, the box office lucky star still has to play the main role to be effective.

(End of this chapter)