The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 561 The audience in Huaguo has no power to resist this kind of movie (two in one)

As the opening film of the Metropolis Film Festival, "Skyhawk Warrior" is also the de facto premiere on the day of the opening screening.

The double buff blessing not only allowed almost all the stars to attend the opening red carpet, but also gathered a large number of movie fans and animation fans, which attracted a huge flow of people to the fantasy science fiction screening unit after the Shanghai Film Festival.

After all, this is a movie that has been long-awaited by Tianying fans since the project was announced in 18, and it has been almost two years now.

It is also Huaguo's first comic book blockbuster. Although there have been live-action movies adapted from anime ip before, they are all small and medium-sized investment movies. It is of the same magnitude as "Skyhawk Warrior", and even directly competes with fans. There is no comparison between the big productions of Hollywood comics.

DreamWorks has always been at the forefront of the trend in the creation of film and television dramas. For this huge breakthrough, the media and animation fans have also created an atmosphere that has attracted much attention in advance.

Moreover, the animation of "Skyhawk Warrior" also has a lot of influence overseas, especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia, so this is definitely the most watched commercial film in this summer.

Arranging a five-day small-scale screening of "Skyhawk Warrior" at this film festival, coupled with the establishment of the fantasy science fiction screening unit, will immediately increase the flow of the film festival.

The various screening activities of this year's film festival are still concentrated in the five large-scale theaters that have been cooperating with each other.

The organizing committee even expects that the film festival will be extended by two days compared to last year, and the average attendance rate of the film festival of more than 70 films that will last for [-] days is expected to exceed [-]%.

It can be said that Chen Jingxing has a clear conscience as the chairman of the jury for the past two years. After all, the film festival cannot be significantly improved by relying on a few famous international directors.

In fact, for the same type of film festivals, with the three major European film festivals, other film festivals can basically be regarded as the leftovers of the three major film festivals, and there is no room for improvement.

Even San Sebastian and Locarno, which are second only to the top three in China, are nothing more than that, let alone the subsequent Tokyo and Shanghai Film Festivals.

According to Chen Jingxing's original idea, it is better to throw away the airs of the so-called competition-type comprehensive film festival and learn from the Toronto Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, without messing up awards and competitions, and directly turning it into a grand film screening event. Film and television, IP trading platform.

Maybe it has more commercial value and influence.

It's just that his idea is destined to be impossible to realize. After all, who would dare to give up the title of International Category A Film Festival?Although the so-called Class A, Class B, and Class C are just classifications of film festival types, they do not represent influence.

"Chen Dong has been the chairman for the past two years, and the reputation of our Shanghai Film Festival has also grown. I told Li Ju before that Chen Dong should continue to be the chairman for another two years. Isn't Li An on the opposite side? The Golden Horse Awards have been hosted for three years, and next year it will be four years."

The movie hadn't started yet, but a pre-roll advertisement was added to the opening credits. Chen Jingxing sat in his seat and watched the preview of "Li Yannian" in the pre-roll commercial, and listened to the compliments from Jingying boss Fu Sheng beside him.

"Boss Fu, you're being polite. Just because everyone says I'm a fake public servant, bringing the smell of copper to the art hall, and even turning the Shanghai Film Festival into the DreamWorks Film Festival, I'm afraid I will be scolded to death if I continue for another year. .”

Fu Sheng felt sorry for Chen Jingxing, and said sincerely: "This is all slander by ignorant netizens and some unscrupulous media. In the past two years, the influence of Shanghai Film Festival, especially overseas, has been getting more and more attention.

My wife is in South Korea these days, and she called me yesterday to tell me that the Korean media also reported the opening news of this year’s film festival, and even said that many young Koreans came from across the country and wanted to participate in the opening film screening. Director Chen’s The contribution is there for all to see. "

"Hehe..." Chen Jingxing also had to admire the thick skin of the director of Jingying.

Who is leading the criticism of him and DreamWorks?Who made it happen?

Now who in the industry doesn't know that last year "The Wandering Earth" took away the opening screening of "Eight Hundred Apocalypse", which made Jingying very jealous?

Moreover, the chairman of the jury for next year's Shanghai Film Festival has already been decided, and it will be Guan Hu.

Fu Sheng's words were obviously a compliment, but secretly they seemed to be a demonstration.

"I'm just a late student. I'm satisfied if I can pass the baton to Director Guan safely. I think Director Feng has also brought the main creator of the crew here? There are too many people, and I haven't had time to chat with him. What kind of movie is it?" ?”

The smile froze on Fu Sheng's face: "It's not a movie, it's not that Xiaogang wants to change his mind and make a web drama."

"Oh, that's terrible. The last time Director Feng made a TV series was more than 20 years ago, right? This is a good sign. Domestic TV series are becoming more and more high-quality."

Since Feng Xiaogang was exposed to the yin-yang contract, he has caused a lot of trouble. Although he has not been further drawn into the water, he has kept a low profile for a while.

Although more and more film directors have started to make TV dramas in recent years, there is no major director of Feng Xiaogang's level.

Of course, this is also to make money for Jingying. After all, he failed to bet against Jingying, so he must not be idle.

"Except for DreamWorks, the current online dramas are really rough, and the artistic level is not high enough. We, Jingying, are also preparing to learn from DreamWorks and create high-quality online dramas with a movie quality. Film artists' descending to earth" also benefit the audience.

It's just an urban drama, and it can't be compared with Chen Dong's big hand. Chen Dong is the one who dares to be the first in the world. The [-] million space sci-fi giant production, let alone the netizens and the media, who doesn't admire the courage in the industry. "

What Fu Sheng was talking about was "Death on Mars", the first domestic space sci-fi drama officially announced by DreamWorks a few days ago.

This news is also quite shocking. Space sci-fi dramas have always been the patent of the other side of the ocean. After all, this type of drama has extremely high requirements for the production level and investment of the film industry.

Of course, now in 2020, Huaguo's film industry is now initially equipped with production capabilities, not to mention DreamWorks, which has Asia's number one special effects studio, and creativity is DreamWorks' strength.

But the huge investment remains the biggest obstacle.

It’s not that there are dramas with an investment of hundreds of millions in China. Putting water aside, these huge investments can be diluted by more episodes. In fact, the average cost of a single episode is not high, and more episodes can sell more. s price.

Moreover, such dramas are usually ancient puppets, and the audience is quite large.

However, the audience for sci-fi dramas is much smaller. Even the phenomenon-level "The Walking Dead", "Suspect Tracker" and "The Beginning" at the beginning of this year still have a gap in the number of broadcasts compared with the popular ancient puppet. It can be said that most of the production costs are recovered by Netflix.

If you want to shoot a space sci-fi drama, it is necessary to add water to increase the number of episodes, but this will reduce the cost of a single episode, and it will not be able to achieve a good visual effect level. When the time comes, it will be scolded for five cents for special effects, it is better not to shoot.

The domestic space sci-fi drama officially announced by DreamWorks has confirmed a total of ten episodes, with an investment of 5000 million yuan, which means that the cost of a single episode will reach [-] million yuan.

Generally speaking, it is impossible to recover the cost of such a single-episode drama.

Of course, there are many US dramas with a single episode costing over tens of millions of dollars, but they can be broadcast on cable TV stations. Cable TV stations like HBO have more than 3000 to [-] million subscribers a year. , A month is two to three billion US dollars in subscription revenue.

Coupled with other relatively mature copyright developments, it is not difficult to cover costs or even make a fortune.

If it is a spin-off of "Star Trek", "Star Wars", or a spin-off of a comic book movie, it is a part of the construction of the movie universe. It is worthwhile for the loss of the TV series to bring about the profit of the entire IP development.

In China, even if this kind of space sci-fi drama can be released to the stars and sold to TV stations, the result can only be hit the street.

It is impossible for a TV station to pay a high price to buy it.

There is a huge difference between domestic TV audiences and Internet audiences. The main reason why DreamWorks has been taking the route of online dramas since the TV series "Signal" is actually because of this. DreamWorks dramas do not match TV audiences at all.

"Signal" can be sold to Mango TV at a high price, and it is mainly for Sun Li and Deng Chao.

Without Sun Li and Deng Chao, the TV station is crazy to spend hundreds of millions to buy a 20-episode sci-fi suspense drama?

Even if "Death on Mars" has Zhao Liying, who is recognized as a relatively strong ratings among the 85 flowers, and the first-line superstar Luo Chen, it is impossible for a TV station to spend more than 2000 million yuan to buy a space science fiction drama with only ten episodes .

Chen Jingxing wasn't worried about Fu Sheng's joke-like tone at all: "The production cost pressure is indeed not small, but fortunately Netflix has already promised to spend 800 million US dollars on purchases, which can be considered to share a large part of it, and can recover the cost That’s fine, we don’t expect to be able to open up more fields for domestic dramas as much as we make, and it’s worth crossing the river by feeling the stones.”

This time it was Fu Sheng's hehe, and the sourness in He Xi's tone was hard to hide.

The partnership between DreamWorks and Netflix is ​​indeed something that other domestic companies are very envious of. Who made DreamWorks start its overseas strategy early on? It has an international brand support, plus the phenomenon-level influence created by "The Walking Dead" Power, and I don’t blame Netflix for buying it.

The budget of "Dead on Mars" originally had two versions, one was 3 million for reducing special effects shots, and the other was [-] million for restoring most scenes of the story—because the big screen was not considered, and IMAX shots were not used, and the other was [-] million. It's not shooting with [-]D cameras. With the help of the virtual production technology of our own film and television base that has already been built, the cost can indeed be greatly reduced.

The final budget was set at [-] million because the communication between Chen Jingxing and Netflix was relatively smooth. Netflix, which has shifted its focus to the development of the Asian market in the past few years, is willing to spend money. Talented people produce works for Asia.

On the other hand, other countries in East Asia, especially South Korea, are not as good as Huaguo in terms of exporting non-idol dramas and TV dramas. To be precise, it is DreamWorks.

Based on previous successful experience, Netflix will pay more attention to DreamWorks.

The purchase of 5000 million US dollars is really a drop in the bucket for Netflix. The self-produced dramas that Netflix has approved in the past two years have an average of [-] million US dollars per episode, which can be said to be a waste of money.

After all, this is the time when Netflix is ​​at its peak, with a market value of over 2000 billion U.S. dollars.

After Fu Sheng finished hehe, he turned the topic to movies: "I heard that DreamWorks is going to put "Li Yannian" on the summer schedule?"

"Oh? What does Boss Fu think?"

"Chen Dong, don't blame me for being presumptuous. I think why "Li Yannian" is not released until the end of the year? The summer vacation is such a good time, it is still suitable for more heavyweight movies.

I know that the special effects production of your "[-]" is not so fast, Mr. Chen, but the first part should be in time, otherwise you will miss the summer file, the National Day file, and the Spring Festival file next year. It was too late. "

Chen Jingxing raised his eyebrows, the good fellow came to demonstrate.

He has always aimed at the National Day file for the first part of "[-]", but the competition for the National Day file is too fierce, and it is still uncertain. In the end, it depends on the meaning of the National Film and Film Bureau.

Fu Sheng suggested that he remove the lower-weight "Li Yannian" from the summer file. Naturally, it was not because he was afraid of this movie. I am afraid that he might not even take this gift film that is more biographical to his heart.

Let him put "[-]" instead of "Li Yannian" in the summer file, which means that "[-]" has nothing to do with the National Day file, and next year's Spring Festival file will be too bad. It's been a long time, or it can only be selected in non-popular schedules.

It was rare for Fu Sheng not to maintain his own city, and there was a bit of feigned surprise in his expression: "Did Qin Wuye not tell Director Chen? The film bureau has decided to let the director's "King Kong River" be released on the National Day file. Director Li is right "King Kong River" is very promising, and I am also very satisfied with the script of "Assault on the White Tigers."

Chen Jingxing's heart skipped a beat. It seems that it's right for people to go out for tea. Qin Zhonghe's retirement will indeed have an impact. If Mr. Qin knows that "King Kong River" is scheduled for National Day, he will definitely tell him.

The National Day file has already confirmed the gift film "My Youth and Me" co-produced by Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Chen Sicheng and other directors. If "King Kong River" is also scheduled for the National Day file, there must be no room for other blockbuster gift films.

There may be room for other small and medium-budget films or other themes.

But it will certainly not be able to tolerate large-scale military blockbusters with the same North Korean war theme.

This means that "[-]" will definitely miss the National Day file.

""Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment"?"

Fu Sheng chuckled and said: "The sequel to "King Kong River" was originally assigned the task of the Battle of Jincheng. When Director Guan was filming "King Kong River", I asked Liang Hui to write the script of "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment". The film and the above are very satisfied after reading it, let us start filming immediately, and it is best to catch up with the release during the Spring Festival next year, alas, the time is tight."

"King Kong River" describes the last battle of the Korean War, the beginning of the Battle of Jincheng, the defense of the King Kong River Bridge, and the surprise attack on the White Tiger Regiment is undoubtedly the climax of the Battle of Jincheng.

以第68军第203师第609团第2营和第607团侦察班组成的穿插支队，通过3千米的炮火封锁区，向南朝军纵深疾进。

In the process of annihilating most of the Southern Dynasty Army, a reconnaissance squad disguised as Southern Dynasty soldiers escorting US military advisers, cleverly passed through multiple sentry posts, broke through the obstruction of the Southern Dynasty Army reinforcements, and quickly inserted into the Southern Dynasty Army White Tiger Regiment headquarters.

Then, while he was in a meeting, he suddenly opened fire, killed the head of the White Tiger Regiment, seized the flag of the White Tiger Regiment, destroyed the command system of the regiment, and caused the Southern Dynasty troops deployed around to lose their command. The soldiers discarded their weapons and ammunition and fled in all directions.

It can be said to be a miracle in the history of war since World War II.

In the bizarre and unbelievable beheading operation, the 13-member team wiped out 223 enemies without any casualties.

The stories of "Operation Red Sea" and "Spike II" are much more real in front of him.

Jingying took over the task of the Battle of Jincheng, and it is not surprising that after the filming of "King Kong River", the highlight of the Battle of Jincheng - the surprise attack on the White Tiger Regiment, was filmed.

In fact, Chen Jingxing also thought about making a surprise attack on the White Tigers at the time. This story is so legendary, full of dramatic elements such as spy wars, lurking, and surprise attacks. Moreover, this is a real event, and the audience will believe it if it is filmed.

But considering that this story already has pearls and jades in front, there are not only adapted Peking Opera works but also film works.

Chen Jingxing, who strived for novelty, gave up filming this story and changed to "[-]".

So Jingying relied on the script of the surprise attack on the White Tigers, which satisfied the leaders of the film bureau, so that "King Kong River" was able to be set as a National Day file?
Chen Jingxing had a lot of thoughts in his heart but he didn't show any emotion. Although he was a little disappointed, in fact he was not so obsessed with the National Day file. Could it be that he couldn't get a good box office result if it wasn't a popular date?
Only Fu Sheng was eager to use this to win back a round in front of DreamWorks, so he both demonstrated and frightened.

"Then congratulations to Mr. Fu and director Guan. Last year's "Apocalypse of the Eight Hundreds" I thought Director Guan did a good job. "King Kong River" will definitely not be inferior to "The Eight Hundreds."

"Where there is, military-themed movies are really difficult to make, and it's hard to make them. However, DreamWorks is a pioneer on this road, and there are still many things we need to learn from Jingying."

Fu Sheng is indeed very proud. DreamWorks is known as the icebreaker of Chinese commercial films. It not only pioneered science fiction films, space films, and animation films, but also is a master of military action films, with brilliant achievements.

However, since last year's "Eight Hundred Revelations", Jingying has also started to catch up. It is his wisest decision to let Guan Hu make a military-themed movie. DreamWorks has Guo Fan, and Jingying also has Guan Hu.

Moreover, through the competition of gift films, Jingying has a tendency to catch up from behind.

On the contrary, after the trilogy of military operations, DreamWorks has fallen into a decline in this subject matter, not to mention "Li Yannian", a mid-to-low-cost biographical film of a character - a military film with a cost of 1.5 million is not in Fu Sheng's eyes at all. inside.

Even if "[-]" directed by Chen Jingxing himself is divided into two parts, as far as he knows, the cost, lineup and scenes are not big. It seems that there are only two male protagonists, Zhang Ruoyun and Bai Yu. ", "King Kong River" is not a movie of the same scale than it seems.

The combined cost of the two "7" films is only [-] million yuan, which is the budget for "King Kong River" alone.

Fu Sheng, who was secretly happy, had a smile on his lips until the movie officially started.

In the magnificent music, the super mecha with a height of more than 80 meters carried a huge impact on the big screen, causing the audience to cry out in surprise.

The effect of the mecha in the animation on the big IMAX screen in the live-action movie is really beyond his imagination.

Out of fear and research of the live-action version of "Skyhawk Warrior" filmed by DreamWorks, he bit the bullet and watched a few episodes of the original animation.

This kind of two-dimensional animation is naturally unpopular to him, and there is nothing shocking about it.

But at this moment, the complex mechanical device made a loud "唭唭咔咚", and the smell of engine oil came through the screen.

There is also the lingering atmosphere of excitement that is quickly lifted in the theater, and there are even whistles.

It made Fu Sheng unprepared to realize the effect of this kind of performance when the huge mecha in the two-dimensional world is really moved into a three-dimensional movie.

There is no need for any plot, just the mechs appearing on the big screen, and the atmosphere in the theater becomes hotter visible to the naked eye.

Fu Sheng's self-satisfied and complacent emotions have been swept away.

So what if the gift film and military blockbuster won DreamWorks?
In the field of science fiction films and commercial films in Huaguo, DreamWorks will always be the most shining pearl.

All this is an example.

Even if Fu Sheng, who is close to his sixtieth year, is not interested in such movies, as someone who has been in the film and television industry for decades, he will not fail to understand what kind of movies can be sold well, and whether the audience is attracted by it at the moment. Get the adrenaline pumping and don't know what the audience likes.

There is no doubt that even if the movie in front of him only lasted for a few minutes without even unfolding the plot, he can also be 12 percent sure that the audience in Huaguo has no power to resist this kind of movie.

(End of this chapter)