my movie years

Chapter 309 "The Great Wall" hits the street

Just finished filming a scene in the morning, and just finished eating the delivered lunch, the wind became a bit strong in the afternoon, and snowflakes began to float in the sky.

"Didn't the weather forecast say there would be no snow?" Liu Hao stood beside Zhang Hao, holding a warm handbag in his hand, watching the snowflakes flying outside the tent.

The sky became more and more gloomy, Zhang Hao looked at it for a while, and then ordered: "Call work!"

"Do you think it's going to snow heavily?"

"Very likely, for safety's sake, let's go back first!" Zhang Hao said.

"OK, I'll inform..." Liu Hao quickly informed the crew to call it a day.

The crew gathered around the stove immediately packed their things, that was called a fast, and quickly packed their things.

Facts proved that Zhang Hao's judgment was correct. Halfway through the film crew's repentance, the snow suddenly increased. Although it would not trap the film crew, it was impossible to shoot in this situation.

After returning to the hotel where we stayed, the crew members can move about freely, but they still need to report to the boss of their own group.

Zhang Hao didn't go out, but stayed in the hotel to deal with some work emails that had been passed on, and then had dinner with Hua Tsai and other leading actors in the evening to discuss work.

This was a fairly normal day in the crew, and Zhang Hao did it with ease, without any problems at all.

The crew of "Inception" was filming hard in Xinjiang, and Guoshi's "The Great Wall" finally met the audience in the much-anticipated way.

In fact, before the national teacher wanted to invite Zhang Hao to check his film and watch the trial screening, but Zhang Hao refused on the grounds of being busy with work.

If you go to the preview, you have to speak well in front of the media.

According to the complicated production model of "The Great Wall", the film has a high probability of being a bad film like the previous life.

It's okay to say a few nice words, but out of responsibility to the fans, Zhang Hao decided not to say such words.

There are many loyal movie fans behind Zhang Hao. If someone listens to his recommendation and finds that the movie is bad, then it will not be beautiful.

That's fine, if you don't watch it, you have no excuse to say good things.

So Zhang Hao just congratulated the release of Guoshi's new film on Weibo, and didn't say that he would recommend the audience to watch it.The reason is simple, I haven't read bad reviews.

After the global success of "The Martian", Guoshi has full confidence in this Sino-US co-production "The Great Wall".

When interviewed by the media, Guoshi even stated that the global box office is expected to be more than [-] million US dollars.

Hearing these words, Zhang Hao felt a little scary. He didn't dare to shout, and he couldn't guarantee that his next movie would sell more than [-] million US dollars worldwide.

Although, Zhang Hao has done this for two consecutive years.

Although the national teacher is full of confidence, and even held a few grand premieres, half of the entertainment industry has come.

Zhang Hao did not come due to work reasons, but Da Mi Mi attended the premiere of "The Great Wall" on his behalf.

After watching it, Da Mi Mi complained badly. Except for the special effects part, the film is useless.The plot is a piece of shit, and it seems inexplicable.

The special effects are perhaps the only place where this film has improved compared to the previous life.

But you must know that the special effects of domestic blockbusters are no longer an eye-catching selling point.

Impacted by Zhang Hao's "Gravity" and "The Martian", domestic movie fans have particularly high requirements for the special effects of domestic movies.

In other words, there used to be five cents special effects, and you can say that other domestic movies are like this.But after Zhang Hao's movie came out, this excuse became difficult to use.

Zhang Hao abruptly raised the threshold. Once the director Lai special effects is a problem in the industry, fans will ask why Zhang Hao can do it but you can't...

The director will also say that Zhang Hao holds the two best special effects studios in China, of course he can, and he invests a lot in movies.

If I had that investment, I promise the special effects will be just as good.

But movie fans don't care about that. In short, Zhang Hao can do it, but your other directors can't, that's trash.

In fact, not only in special effects, but also in subject matter.

In recent years, various youth traffic movies have been produced continuously, earning a lot of box office and disgusting movie fans at the same time.

There are also various psychedelic films that hit the box office at the box office, and then the director stood up and scolded the audience for not being able to understand, and then accused the higher authorities of being too strict, not allowing this to be filmed and that not being allowed to be filmed.

It seems that the bad movie is not his problem, but the audience's problem, and the market's problem.

It was also Zhang Hao who blocked the road.

You blame the audience, but it turns out that a good movie can indeed earn a high box office, even if the audience's appreciation ability is good.

It's even more unreasonable to blame the environment. Why didn't the scissors kill Zhang Hao's movies, but specifically arrested you to kill them?

It's not because you don't know it and make some messy movies.

See if Zhang Hao has nothing to do with him, he will gain both fame and fortune.

A Zhang Hao blocked all excuses.The other directors can't blame Zhang Hao. Are they going to scold Zhang Hao for being too talented, blocking their way to make bad movies and make bad money?

Back to "The Great Wall", compared with the huge premiere, "The Great Wall" has a serious decline in the box office.

It premiered on Friday, December 4829, with a box office of 2.33 million at zero points and [-] million on the first day.

On Saturday of the second day, the box office did not rise but fell. It won 1.7 million box office in a single day, and continued to decline on the third day to get 1.29 million.

The box office of the film was 5.8 million in the first week, which barely met the expectations of the producers.

Previously, the producers and the media predicted that the film could win a box office of 7 million in the first week.

Worse than the box office situation is that the film's reputation has completely collapsed, and the appearance of international superstar Matt Damon can't save the film.

"The Great Wall is just a localized invasion of Hollywood's boring monster-fighting movies, without much original construction.

The origin of the story of "The Great Wall" is in the hands of Hollywood, and Guoshi took over the guide, which is not only the result of Hollywood coveting the mainland market, but also the force of mainland capital's invasion of Hollywood.

Judging from the finished film, the national teacher's takeover not only failed to save the inherent defects of the script, but even the basic bonus points were not even mentioned.

In terms of character creation that the director can exert his strength, he also does nothing.

Visually, the national division is still the same as the impression of the Great Wall and the group gymnastics of the Olympic opening ceremony, which is an aesthetic overdraft without any new investment. "

This is the comment of film and television blogger Zhou Yang, and it is also an analysis recognized by the majority of movie fans.

There are many reasons for this difference. The biggest reason is that Hollywood producers are for the mainland market, while mainland producers are for the overseas market.

The result is a conflict between the two sides, and neither side pleases.

If the domestic box office is not strong, then Guoshi's box office of [-] million US dollars may have to wait until "Man Jianghong".

A week later, "The Great Wall" was released in North America, and only received 8.26 million box office in the mainland after ten days of release. The rest of the hope lies in overseas markets.

You know, Matt Damon doesn't know who the national teacher is, and he won't lower his salary for the film of the national teacher.

So the crew paid Matt Damon $2500 million in real terms.

The box office is not strong, and it may not even earn back the remuneration paid to the crew and actors.

However, Guoshi was still disappointed, because the box office in North America was also not good, and it was not at the same level as "The Martian".

On the first day of the film's launch, it only received $588.4 million, $702.3 million on the second day, and $556.1 million on the third day.

In the three days of the first weekend, it only got 1846.8 million US dollars, which is not even as high as the single-day box office of "The Martian".

With such a poor first-week performance, there is no need to count on the North American box office.

Moreover, the film's reputation in China is poor, and it is not much better abroad.

The "Hollywood Reporter" clearly pointed out the film's problems: "The director of "The Great Wall", Guo Shi, is very capable of making an ancient fantasy action movie into a Hollywood blockbuster.

But the director's signature visual spectacle is dazzling, and his talent for depicting detailed relationships and throbbing passions is trampled by the director's overly serious desire to make an epic blockbuster.

The drowsy performances of Matt Damon and the Chinese-language stars make it hard to tell a story.

Except for the special effects, this movie can be said to have nothing good. "

It's pretty amazing that special effects could one day be the only good thing about a movie.The most important thing is that Guoshi is not the person in charge of leading this project, but a producer from Hollywood,
But in the end, he was the one who took the blame, and the national teacher felt that he was wronged.

However, the national teacher still endured all this silently, and vowed that he would never engage in any Sino-US co-productions in the future.

He finally understood that even though he was so famous, Hollywood didn't like him at all.

People care about Zhang Hao because Zhang Hao's movies are so profitable.His films lost money and what little international fame he had.

However, the national teacher refused to accept the old, he can continue to create and make a comeback.

"The Great Wall" hit the street, and the other one who hurt the most was Matt Damon. Although he received a salary of 2500 million US dollars, the film did not make money.

To make matters worse, he produced Manchester by the Sea, which was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Actor.

You know, originally Matt Damon planned to play in person, but he gave up this opportunity to his friend Ben Affleck's brother, Casey Affleck, for the sake of pay.

And don't think $2500 million is that easy to get, it comes at a price.

If he comes again so many times, and all the commercial blockbusters starring in hit the street, then Matt Damon will be completely transformed into a box office poison, and blockbusters will never be possible for him.

Fortunately, Matt Damon is still sober. After filming a commercial blockbuster, he should go to a literary film to settle down.

It's just that the Oscar for Best Actor is getting farther and farther away from him, which is not so wonderful.

The failure of the National Teacher also poured cold water on domestic directors and film companies who wanted to learn from Zhang Hao and go to the world together. Coupled with the failure of "Shanghai Fortress", the strategy of Chinese-language films going overseas has completely failed.

But it didn't fail completely, after all, there was still Zhang Hao standing firm.

Although "Inception" is still being filmed, the well-known magazine "Variety Show" has listed "Inception" as one of the most anticipated movies in 2017, and it is also the only Chinese-language movie on the list.

These outside disturbances did not disturb Zhang Hao. After the snow mountain scene ended, Zhang Hao took the crew to Tokyo and began to perform outdoor scenes.

In the next time, their footprints will travel to Tokyo, Paris, Morocco and other places.

In next year's summer, the market will witness Zhang Hao's ambitious work, a super blockbuster that will burn your brains enough to make Chinese-language movies full of confidence again.

(End of this chapter)