Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 738

The time has come to the fourth week of September, and the National Day is approaching in China. However, at this time, the mainland film market has not yet formed a National Day file.

Because compared with the Lunar New Year and summer holidays, the 7-day National Day movie schedule is relatively short, and the mainland movie market in the first ten years of the century is still in its infancy.

The output and investment of domestic films are far behind when the mainland film market exploded later. There are very few domestic films with blockbuster potential, and even if they are released, they will only choose summer and Lunar New Year.

After all, the schedule is longer, and fans have already formed the habit of watching movies. For the box office, even if it is a little crowded, they will rush to these two schedules. As for the 7-day National Day holiday, it can be said that there are no big movies.

However, the National Day films in the mainland began to gain fame, attracting some blockbuster films to enter the theater since 2008 this year.

Because this year there will be a domestically produced fantasy romance blockbuster "Painted Skin" released.

This magical blockbuster, jointly invested by Moying, Ningying and Haotian, with a joint investment of 1.2 million yuan, starring Xun Gongzi, Fan Yaojing and Chen Kun, officially landed in major theaters in mainland China on September 9.

In this week, only two new films were released in the mainland. The other is the action suspense drama "Keep Calling" starring Gu Tianle, Liu Ye, and Xu Qianyuan, which was released the day before "Painted Skin".

But the final result is that "Painted Skin" won a box office of 3 million yuan in 4200 days on the weekend, topping the weekly box office champion.

The results of the first week made the three capitals overjoyed. After all, before the actual 7-day National Day holiday, they had already won a box office of 4200 million.

And according to the mainland's practice that the box office in the second week of 7 days is higher than that in the first week, the box office of "Painted Skin" in the second week will undoubtedly be higher, and may even double.

At the same time, the first wave of film critics from media film critics has also been freshly released. Generally speaking, more media film critics gave positive comments.

On Douban.com, "Painted Skin" received an average score of 6.9 from critics and 7.5 from fans.

The word-of-mouth is generally good, which also makes the media and the industry look forward to the next week's box office of "Painted Skin".

A week later, which is the real 7-day National Day holiday, "Painted Skin" handed over a box office result that shocked everyone, 1.1 million yuan!

"Painted Skin" not only won the weekly box office championship in the Mainland, but also broke the box office record during the National Day period of Mainland film history!

At the same time, "Painted Skin" also created a new second-week box office record in mainland film history!
Many people predict that the box office of "Painted Skin" will double in the next week, which is considered bold, but the reality is even more astonishing.

This is the first time that the domestic box office has exceeded [-] million during the National Day, let alone a movie with a box office of over [-] million.

This has made "Painted Skin" a popular movie at the moment, and the National Day file has also begun to be called out by the media and critics!
At the same time, major film companies and distribution companies have also begun to study and pay attention to the so-called National Day files!
After all, the box office of a film can exceed [-] million, and the box office potential is already great. You must know that the current mainland is not accustomed to breaking [-] million in later generations.

In the current mainland film market, there are only 5 mainland directors who can really break through [-] million at the box office!
In addition to the four directors, the other one is reserved.

Therefore, if the box office can exceed [-] million, it must be known all over the world once it becomes famous, and there will be a big celebration banquet.

In fact, the industry is also looking forward to the birth of the sixth mainland director with over [-] million yuan, and the most promising one is undoubtedly Lu Chuan.

"Looking for a Gun" (the director's signature is Lu Chuan) made him known as "the second Chen Hao", and "Kekexil" made him famous. He won awards and got soft hands. He is definitely the second among the new generation of directors .

And "Nanjing Nanjing", which he spent a huge amount of money on, will be released next year, and it should not be a big problem if it breaks [-] million yuan.

Hua Yi also couldn't wait for this, looking forward to having another great director in her own right.

Speaking of the National Day file, with the increase in the number of screens in the future, the price of tickets will rise, and major companies will pay more attention to strengthening publicity, the box office should be higher than before.

And this small long vacation in the middle of the summer holiday and the Lunar New Year holiday seems to have a lot to do!

Therefore, with the jewel of "Painted Skin" in the forefront, major film companies will undoubtedly think of the National Day file when arranging films in the future.

And as long as the box office performance during the National Day next year is still strong, then the National Day file will become a schedule second only to the Lunar New Year file and the summer file in the future.

……

As the time entered mid-October, Chen Hao saved a lot of film and time by using the finished film in his mind. The shooting progress of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was much faster than ordinary movies.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Hao was called a quick shooter.

At this point, Chen Hao has finished filming the orangutan detention center, Will's house and all other scenes, leaving only the final climax of the film, the Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge!
Speaking of it, the Golden Gate Bridge is definitely one of the best filming locations for movies, appearing in countless movies.

It's just that Chen Hao, who filmed "National Superman Hancock", "Pacific Rim", "Iron Man" and "2012" were all filmed here.

And this time "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" became the climax of the film.

Caesar wanted to unite all the orangutans to form a force without being oppressed by humans, but he soon discovered that other orangutans had low intelligence and could not communicate and cooperate well.

So he went back to Will's house and stole potion No. 113, which greatly improved the IQ of all the orangutans. After that, he rushed out of the detention center and rescued all the orangutans in the laboratory.

It’s just that such a large-scale orangutan riot immediately attracted the attention of the police. For the safety of human beings, they decided to arrest these orangutans, and even killed them directly when necessary.

Under the leadership of Caesar, the orangutans ran towards the other end of the Golden Gate Bridge, a forest. As long as they entered the forest, the orangutans would undoubtedly be safe.

It's just that the police were aware of Caesar's intentions, so they set up a checkpoint at the other end of the Golden Gate Bridge in advance, waiting for the orangutans to arrive and catch them all!
Thus, the battle of the Golden Gate Bridge is imminent!
"Are you ready?" Chen Hao asked.

"I checked and everything is ready!" Lu Yang ran back and forth.

In order to film this final battle, the crew specially applied to block the Golden Gate Bridge for filming.

Although the Golden Gate Bridge is an important transportation hub, the city government has become accustomed to filming crews because of the high rate of appearances.

Coupled with the presence of 20th Century Fox, the application went through smoothly.

However, in order to avoid too much impact on traffic, the Golden Gate Bridge will become a one-way traffic during filming, and the bridge deck where the crew filmed will be temporarily closed.

In the film, the Golden Gate Bridge was blocked by the police, so countless cars would be blocked on the bridge. For this reason, the crew mobilized a total of 66 vehicles.

Arranged in 3 rows with 22 vehicles in each row.

Most of the cars were empty, but for the sake of reality, Chen Hao arranged for more than a dozen group performers, some went to drive the car, and some poked their heads out to complain.

Some are on the phone, anyway, everything is to highlight the truth.

"Have the group performers explained everything?" Chen Hao asked.

"I've talked to them one by one." Lu Yang replied.

Chen Hao nodded and said, "No. 1 machine, go forward from the passage on the right side of my place, and No. 2 machine comes to me from the opposite side of the left passage, do you hear me?"

"Received on the 1th!"

"Received on the 2th!"

"Okay, let's start!" Chen Hao shouted.

"The 202st scene of the 1nd scene of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

The two cameras move slowly in the same direction, past the blocked vehicles.

"What's going on in front?"

"Has there been a traffic accident?"

"No, don't tell them I'm stuck on the road, make up a smarter reason, and don't hang up the phone yet!"

"Beep beep..."

……

"Okay!" Chen Hao shouted, "The two cameras switch lanes to each other, and then take a picture of the traffic jam from a different angle."

The two cameras heard that they switched positions and directions, and shot again.

"Okay, get ready for the next shot, let Serkis and the others get ready." Chen Hao said.

After 5 minute, shooting continued.

"The 202st scene of the 2nd scene of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Caesar led his orangutan army to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. Caesar led the way in the gap between the vehicles, while the other orangutans climbed directly from the vehicle.

"Bang Dang" sounded.

"Crack? What's the situation?" Chen Hao asked.

"Sorry director, I didn't pay attention, I fell down!" An orangutan raised his hand.

Chen Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and paused, "Are you all right? Can you still shoot?"

"It's okay, you can continue!"

"Then continue, everyone pay attention to your feet, don't fall down again, and also pay attention to maintain the walking posture of the orangutan, don't wear clothes!" Chen Hao shouted.

"The 202st scene of the 2nd scene of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

All the orangutans, led by Caesar, appeared from the farthest end of the camera and ran towards the camera. Some drivers were frightened and ran away from their cars.

"The camera is a close-up of King Kong." Chen Hao said.

I saw King Kong jumping directly from the roof of a car to the roof of the car diagonally ahead. The roof was not deformed at all.

"Ka, King Kong is back!" Chen Hao said.

According to the previous arrangement, King Kong should jump on the car glass, and then crush the glass to show King Kong's tonnage and strength. The car glass and hood have been done a long time ago, and they will shatter as soon as they are crushed.

But the roof was not fixed, and it couldn't collapse with a single press.

For the first time, King Kong obviously didn't control Diao Weiya well and skipped his head.

"The 202st scene of the 2nd scene of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

This time King Kong controlled his figure and directly crushed the glass and hood of the car.

Then the camera came to Caesar. After noticing the situation ahead, Caesar climbed into a car, stretched out his right hand and shouted, "Stop!"

All the orangutans behind him stopped.

Afterwards, Caesar turned his head and gestured to Kuba, meaning that you should walk over the bridge.

Then let the gibbon on the other side lead some people to walk under the bridge.

Seeing this, Kuba and Gibbon immediately jumped out of the car. As for the scene of walking from the top and bottom of the bridge, it will be handed over to the post-production special effects.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao shouted.

……

In the following time, Chen Hao filmed the scene where Will and Nicole came to find Caesar, and the mounted police lined up to drive Caesar to the gunpoint of the opposite police.

There is also helicopter air support, shooting shots of orangutans.

Because Caesar lived with humans since he was a child, his IQ is basically considered human, so he strictly forbids orangutans to kill or even hurt people.

Their only goal is to cross the Golden Gate Bridge and escape into the woods.

When the time came to the end of October, the scene of the Golden Gate Bridge had almost been filmed, leaving only the last scene of King Kong's sacrifice.

"This is the last scene, as long as we finish filming, we will wrap it up." Chen Hao shouted, "Everyone cheer up, try to finish filming as soon as possible, wrap it up!"

"Okay, Director!"

"No problem, Director!"

"It will definitely be finished today!"

……

Seeing that everyone was full of enthusiasm, Chen Hao nodded with a smile, and then saw Lu Yang raised the OK gesture to himself, and said, "Okay, let's start!"

"The 215st scene of the 1nd scene of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Under the arrangement of Caesar, the orangutans came to the police cordon at the other end of the Golden Gate Bridge from the fog-shrouded bridge top and the bottom of the bridge where humans did not notice.

Facing the orangutans who jumped out suddenly, the police were beaten too late. In addition, the orangutans had amazing defense and arm strength. Even though they had hot weapons in their hands, they were still thrown everywhere by the orangutans.

Soon many police officers fled, and the blockade collapsed in an instant.

It's just that before Caesar had time to be happy, a helicopter began to straf the ground violently, more precisely, Caesar was strafed.

Because the boss of the Will Lab knows that Caesar is the leader, as long as he is killed, the other orangutans will be much easier to deal with.

Facing the incoming bullets, Caesar covered his head with his hands. Seeing that Caesar was about to be hit, King Kong suddenly jumped over, blocked Caesar, and pushed Caesar behind a police car.

Immediately, King Kong was shot several times in the body, but after slamming his chest, he immediately stepped on the railing, jumped, and then fell into the cushion.

Here we are actually jumping into a helicopter, but only in post-processing.

At this time, the shooting scene was surrounded by green screens, which was convenient for post-production special effects.

Later, the camera was still on King Kong's back, and King Kong pretended to be in the plane, killing the enemy, but he was actually ravaging a few dummies.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao looked at the monitor, then at Weta Digital, and after seeing him nodding, he looked at Serkis, "Serkis, the last shot is up to you. "

"No problem." Serkis laughed.

The scene is very simple, that is, the helicopter that Will's boss was flying on was hung on the bridge by King Kong, facing Will's boss who begged for mercy.

Because King Kong died in order to save himself, the idea of ​​not harming human beings in his heart no longer exists. Caesar looked at Will's boss who kept asking for help, and directly kicked the helicopter with his feet, causing the helicopter to fall down the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao said happily, the filming was finally over, "I announce that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has finished filming!"

(End of this chapter)