my movie years

Chapter 397 The past year

The New Year's bell rang, amidst the blessings of a happy New Year.

Looking back on the entire year of 2018, people will be surprised to find that it was an incredible year for the entire Chinese film industry.

Let’s first look at the box office. In 2018, the total box office of the Chinese film market reached 697 billion, which was a full 97.89 billion higher than last year.

There are six movies this year, all of which have exceeded 30 billion in box office. The winner this year is Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth" with a box office of 38.26 billion.

Zhang Hao himself has contributed to two movies with a box office of more than 30 billion, namely "The Dark Knight Rises" with 33.57 billion and "Daydreamer" with 30.05 billion.

There are as many as nine movies with a box office of more than 20 billion.There are even [-] movies with a box office of more than [-] billion.

It can be said that the Chinese film market exploded in 2018.

Both the total box office and the number of moviegoers set new historical records.

In contrast, the total box office in North America in 2018 reached US$124 billion, and the Chinese film market was US$99.57 billion converted into US dollars.

Although there is a gap with the North American market, the gap is not big anymore.

Film practitioners all over the world were stunned by the huge market explosion.Hollywood, in particular, is even more greedy for the lucrative Chinese film market.

But the most surprising thing for Chinese-speaking filmmakers is that in 2018, domestic films contributed a little over 60.00% of the box office, surpassing the share of Hollywood films in the Chinese market.

Among the films with a box office of over 30 billion, only one, "The Dark Knight Rises", is a Hollywood film, and it was made by Zhang Hao with a Chinese team.

This dazzling report card stimulates every capital to invest even more crazily in the film market.

New movie theaters are constantly being built, new technologies are constantly being developed, new movies are constantly being shot, and new ways of making money are constantly being innovated.

A large market of nearly 700 billion is enough for all capital to go crazy.

Among all the film companies, Tianmi Film and Television Production Company has undoubtedly become the biggest winner.

This year, the company has produced and released films such as "The Wandering Earth", "Detective Chinatown 2", "I'm Not a Medicine God", and "Daydreamer".

Although they are all invested together with partners, in terms of the market, Tianmi Film and Television Production Company alone has contributed nearly 200 billion in box office.

This is an achievement that even Disney, which is at its peak, would have to admire.

Personally, Zhang Hao has contributed more than 60 billion in box office.But everyone is used to Zhang Hao's perversion. If one day Zhang Hao's new movie hits the streets, it will be big news.

Another major event is probably the complete collapse of the Wild Ass Award, which is no longer as authoritative as it once was.

And this incident triggered another incident. Just after New Year's Day, the film award sponsored by the China Film Association was officially named the Golden Dragon Award.

Also announced were the award's logo and the Golden Dragon Award trophy made by a famous craftsman.

At the same time, the Golden Dragon Award announced that it will not adopt the common jury system in the past, but will instead be judged by professionals.

This selection model is similar to the Oscars, and is selected by industry practitioners, directors, actors, producers, etc.

Then a Golden Dragon Award Standing Committee will be formed, similar to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Oscars.

The committee rotates every other cycle. Its main function is to screen the films submitted for nomination and then send the selection list to the huge judges, collect the list, count the votes, and end the selection.

After this set of procedures, the entire award selection process becomes a bit cumbersome.

However, when the number of judges expands from a dozen to hundreds or even thousands, it becomes much more difficult to operate in secret.However, no selection system is perfect. No matter how perfect the rules are, smart people will always find loopholes to exploit.

Perhaps in order to make things happen, the first Golden Dragon Awards set the date at the beginning of 2020, and also announced the range of films released for the first selection. All films from 2018 to December 2019 can participate.

This means that the competition for the first Golden Dragon Award is quite fierce. After all, if there is such a big movement for this award, a big move must be made.

Filmmakers jointly participate in the selection, which also adds professionalism and authority to this award.

This news at the beginning of the new year is quite shocking.The news is being hyped up every day on the Internet, and even ordinary movie fans are looking forward to the first selection of this award.

The film industry is in a commotion due to several major events, and Zhang Hao is not idle here either. While filming "The Fault in Our Stars", he is also busy preparing for "Interstellar".

One of the studios in the Qingdao Film and Television Base, from the props and scenery, to the splendor of the craftsmanship, and engineers from the Moon Palace Special Effects Studio began to transform the studio.

Over the next few months, they will be working on this studio to present spectacular scenes of space.

Zhang Hao's request for them was to truly restore the space scene.In order to look more rigorous, from time to time a Ph.D. in physics would come over to provide guidance, and he would be considered one of the expert groups for the film.

In addition, the prop model engineers also had to build a real spacecraft interior. Zhang Hao and the engineers held several meetings and determined several plans.

Given the background of the entire story, the interior of the spacecraft looks a bit messy, like a spacecraft built from patchwork parts.

A real spacecraft, plus several landers, were built at 1:1 and 1:4 scales respectively. The 1:4 scale spacecraft was used for explosion shooting.

In addition, Zhang Hao also gave the spacecraft an interesting name, called Yugong.

Now that it has become a Chinese-language film, the spaceships in the film must also have a Chinese flavor.Traveling across the galaxy to find habitable planets is an impossible task.

Similarly, moving a big mountain is also something that humans cannot do. The two have different approaches but the same purpose.

Zhang Hao also held several meetings with the leading actors and roughly revealed the story of the film.But basically, except for Hua Tsai and Da Mi Mi, everyone only got their own share of the script.

Wu Jing said in an interview: "He didn't let me watch it, and he refused even if I begged him. The whole story is highly confidential, and I only have my share of the script."

Da Mi Mi also revealed a little about the situation: "I play a physicist, Hua Ge is an astronaut, and we plan to complete a mission.

I listened to Professor Kip Thorne teach us about astrophysics every day. I couldn't understand it at all and it gave me a headache. "

By the way, in recent times, many highly educated celebrities in the entertainment industry have been exposed as pretending to be highly educated, and then were ridiculed by netizens.

But when Da Mi Mi said she didn't understand physics, netizens didn't laugh at her for being uneducated.

Originally, if you are uneducated because you don’t understand advanced physics, then 90.00% of the people on the earth are illiterate.

There is a little bit of content revealed, but not much, which arouses the curiosity of movie fans even more.

What kind of film is Zhang Hao planning to make, and he actually wants a Nobel Prize-winning physicist as a consultant?
But it's a pity that people have no way of knowing all this before the movie comes out.

And Zhang Hao, who was in charge of all this, shot "The Fault in Our Stars" with one hand. He was also busy preparing for "Interstellar", highlighting a leisurely stroll.

Since we are filming "Interstellar", how can we forget the soundtrack that impressed Zhang Hao the most!

Therefore, Hans Zimmer, who almost became Zhang Hao's official scorer, made a special trip to the capital, chatted with Zhang Hao many times, and prepared to start the creation of the soundtrack.

The work on the soundtrack had already begun before the filming of the movie even started, which can be said to be far ahead of the curve.

(End of this chapter)