China Entertainment’s rescue plan is hard to come by

Chapter 612 North America Progress and DiCaprio’s Pool Party [-in-]

In early July, Sun Yi came to North America again. First, he went to North American Star Company and listened to John's plan for the North American promotion of "Pacific Rim" and the specific progress of connecting with theaters.

When he heard John say that the movie could reach a minimum of 2000 screens in the first week of filming, Sun Yi expressed satisfaction.

This number of screens has increased by more than 30% compared to when "Shelter" was released. It can barely match the level of Hollywood's A-level production. The rest depends on the specific quality of the movie and whether North American movie fans will buy it.

In the previous life, the film and television production contract signed between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. expired. The two companies were at loggerheads over the interests of the parties in the renewal terms. Both felt that they had contributed more and should get the lion's share, and neither of them was willing to give in. , and even broke his face directly, so that no one paid attention to this "posthumous child" at all.

The film's publicity was not adequate and its promotion was poor. As a result, the film failed at the box office in North America and around the world, and its high reputation and ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes were in vain.

Of course, the movie also has some flaws in terms of character creation and plot structure. It is not particularly rigorous. After catching up with the 3D movie trend pioneered by Truck Driver at that time, a number of film and television companies followed the trend and produced it. When they were released together, the entire market trend It was close to saturation and could not digest these so-called 3D masterpieces, and finally ended up like this.

These various reasons resulted in the film's cost of US$2 million, and the final global box office was less than US$5 million. Counting the sales revenue from various copyrights and other derivatives, it was able to break even.

Such a large investment has been in operation for more than a year. In the end, if no cents are earned, it is a loss of money.

However, none of these factors existed for Sun Yi.

It's only July 10, and the awesome "Avatar" has only been released for just half a year. Movie fans still remember the visual effects of the 7D movie, and they are all secretly looking forward to it.

On the other hand, although various film and television companies are following the trend of producing 3D movies, the fastest ones have just been completed. They are doing post-production, publicity and distribution, and re-arranging the schedule. Somehow, it will not be released until around Christmas. .

Sun Yi was at least 3 months ahead of schedule. The so-called stupid bird flies first refers to this time difference.

As for the characters and plot of the film, Sun Yi also started to adapt it.

The movie follows the story background of the first "Shelter" and is inherently logically complete in terms of character creation and story integrity. Moreover, he also redesigned the narrative structure of the entire film to make the film less straightforward and improve all aspects in a positive way.

Coupled with the film's upcoming large-scale promotion in North America, he believes that this film will definitely achieve results that are different from its predecessors.

There was something wrong with the company. After Sun Yi arranged for the staff to contact John, he took Liu Yifei to the set of "The Disappearing Guest".

After all, the director's name of this film still belongs to him.

In the eyes of outsiders, director Sun Yi is a bit irresponsible. How could he say that all the filming of the movie was left to the assistant director? The filming started for two months. Except for the crew's appearance during preparations, the rest of the time was just like the name of the movie. Disappeared.

This movie could have been renamed "The Lost Director".

At the entrance of the studio, the security personnel looked at the nameplate Sun Yi brought from the company and compared it with the list of crew members. They were a little dumbfounded, as if they were watching the resurrection of the dead.

The disappeared director came to life again, no, he appeared?

Liu Yifei was seen covering her mouth and snickering.

"Brother, seriously, you threw the entire crew to Director Xin? Aren't you afraid that he will ruin the filming?"

Liu Yifei felt that Sun Yi was a little too reassured about Xin Yukun. It wasn't that she had any personal opinion against Xin Yukun, but that the movie was her boyfriend's name after all, and she was afraid of losing her reputation.

Who can not be afraid? Even if he knows the level of Xin Yukun's future generations, he is still a newbie at the moment, and Sun Yi dare not say that he is completely relieved.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

Don't expect him to run to North America whenever he has something to do, but this is not his focus at all, it is purely a transition.

Chinese-language films are his base, but at this time, the mainland market has not yet fully developed, and his film industry has gone too far, so it must be supplemented by the North American market.

If something hadn't happened suddenly on Hong Kong Island last time, he wouldn't have had to go back in a hurry.

"Yu Kun is still good at it. All he lacks is experience. Besides, I'm here to check my homework, right? Housekeeper."

Sun Yi replied with joy.

When Liu Yifei heard the words "housekeeper", she immediately raised her eyebrows, stood on tiptoes, stared at Sun Yi and asked, "What did you call me?" If you don't give me a satisfactory explanation, today I will have bloodshed with Sun Yi. step posture.

Sun Yi laughed repeatedly and quickly changed his words, "Wife, old lady~"

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Sun Yi, then turned her head with satisfaction and took his arm again.

The news of the appearance of the real director had been spread to the crew by the security guard at the door, and James Wan came out to greet him.

"Ziren, you are here today." "Hello, Director Wen."

"Boss, Crystal!"

After a brief greeting, James Wan led the way, and several people talked while walking.

"Ziren, how's your movie going? I haven't delayed you much here." Sun Yi asked a little embarrassedly.

Obviously he misunderstood. He felt that because he told James Wan to take more care of this place, James Wan had no time to deal with his movie.

Wen Ziren was a little surprised when he heard Sun Yi's question. He couldn't understand why his movie was delayed. Later, he thought of the name "the missing director" among the crew, and he understood. He smiled on the surface, and then said to Sun Yi replied:

"No, my film has been finished. I will start post-production in a few days. I only came here in the past few days, but I found that there is nothing that can be done."

Wen Ziren shrugged his shoulders, as if I didn't contribute much.

Sun Yi was shocked at how quickly Wen Ziren filmed the movie, and was also curious about how Xin Yukun's talent was really that great? Did Wen Ziren even marvel at it?
Arriving at the set, it was the setting of a hotel suite.

According to the script, this suite is the place where everything the male protagonist has done is explained, and it is considered the biggest climax of the film.

Compared with two months ago, Xin Yukun's appearance has completely changed, without any trace of his fledgling appearance.

He had a baseball bat on his head, an unshaven beard, and a fisherman's vest with a notepad, a walkie-talkie, a headset, a data cable, and a lot of other bits and pieces plugged into it.

Directors often use them. To be honest, Sun Yi was very curious at first about why directors like to wear vests.

This thing doesn't look good either. What's there to wear?

But after I became a director, I realized that this thing is a bit ugly, but it is really convenient. It has multiple pockets and can hold anything.

In addition, when the director is directing a play on the set, he often needs to make gestures to the crew or actors, and a loose vest is very convenient.

Sun Yi also wore a vest on the set, but Liu Yifei specially selected it for her. She bought many pieces at once so that Sun Yi could rotate them.

I have to say that although the fairy sister is a little obsessed with her personal dressing aesthetic, Sun Yi is still very unique. The vest she chose is more functional and has a slimming effect, making it a little handsome when worn.

Liu Yifei's current cell phone screen saver is a sideways photo of Sun Yi on the set, wearing a vest, holding an intercom, and with clear eyes. In her words, her brother is the most handsome when he is working hard!

Sun Yi was very curious at the time. In Xiao Nizi's mind, he was most handsome when he was working hard. So what was he like when he was working hard?

The answer was not given, but instead he received a fistful of punches.

It's quite unfair.

It’s a normal question, why should I hit someone~
"Chris, I want you to show your emotions in three parts of this scene. In the first part, when you first met Attorney Goodman, even though it was introduced by a friend, you have to be wary. You have feelings for her. reserved."

"And when she shows her ability and analyzes your flaws on the spot, you will be surprised, and then proud, feeling that you have finally found the right person."

"At the end of the day, you're shocked to find out she's pretending, and then you're terrified of the legal consequences you're going to face."

Xin Yukun was telling Captain America a story using fluent metaphors. From the serious look in Captain America's eyes and the nods of understanding from time to time, we can see that Xin Yukun did a good job during Sun Yi's absence, and the leading actors all expressed their approval for him.

Sun Yi also nodded secretly, it seemed that he had indeed chosen the right person.

After telling Captain America about the scene, Xin Yukun also noticed Sun Yi and ran over to say hello.

Sun Yi waved his hand to stop him, pointed at the monitor, and asked him to continue his work.

Xin Yukun was stunned for a moment. When he saw Sun Yi coming, he wanted to give up the director's position in front of the monitor. Unexpectedly, Sun Yi didn't care at all. Instead, he walked behind him and just hugged his shoulders and watched. got up.

After making eye contact, and seeing Sun Yi nodding firmly, Xin Yukun sat down obediently, picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted "action".

After two months of running in, the crew has cooperated very well and did not panic because of Sun Yi's appearance. It ran in an orderly manner and the leading actor began to get into the mood.

Sun Yi looked at the picture on the monitor, then looked at several camera positions in the venue, including the actors' on-site movements, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

Not bad, very good. Even if he arranged it, it would probably be like this.

Just watching this for a while, Sun Yi had already discovered that Xin Yukun's unique lens language or shooting habits had taken shape.

He likes to play front and back, usually over the shoulder.

That is, when two people are having a conversation, a group of cameras looks over the person's shoulder to give a close-up.

At the same time, the use of the dark side also hints at the character's mood at the moment.

For example, in this scene, the close-up of Captain America's face was heavily glazed at first, covering most of his face, but as the truth was revealed bit by bit, Captain America's face gradually fell into darkness.

Filmed in this way, the decryption style of this kind of suspense movie will be very strong.

Now, Sun Yi understood why Wen Ziren said that he was not of much help.

You know, Xin Yukun is not without any experience. During the filming of "Bad Pacific", he hung out with Sun Yi for more than two months. At that time, Sun Yi didn't have any secrets. He knew and knew everything. He gave everything he could, and Xin Yukun was good at summarizing, and his talent was very high, so he had such rapid growth.

"Click."

Something went wrong at the scene, and I don’t know why. The American team was a little out of shape today, and the performance was always a little worse.

However, Sun Yi didn't think much about it.

After all, actors are human beings too, and they all have their ups and downs, so just take your time.

As everyone knows, the US team is in poor condition today entirely because of him.

Captain America still remembers Sun Yi's incomprehensible eyes when he was auditioning. He always stared at his butt.

To be honest, he was mentally prepared to successfully get this role.

Unexpectedly, after the filming officially started, Sun Yi never appeared again except for the first few days. Today, he suddenly appeared again. He thought Sun Yi had remembered this matter again.

If Sun Yi knew what Captain America was thinking now, he would have to fight with him. When he auditioned, he was just curious about Captain America's sexy buttocks and took a second look.

Who said it would be used?

Besides, my wife’s is not bad at all!
Are you looking at the curvature of the lines, the curvature of the lines, or the overall shape, including the texture of the skin, and the white eyes you get from patting it, which one is better than you?

Ahem, I said too much.

Anyway, Sun Yi didn't know, otherwise he would definitely be killed.

After spending the afternoon on the set, watching the American team stumbling and stumbling, Sun Yi finally finished the scene. After the set was done, Sun Yi paid for a big meal for all the staff at his own expense. After confirming Xin Yukun's work at the dinner table, Then he returned to his and Liu Yifei's small villa in Los Angeles.

Strictly speaking, it is Liu Yifei's small villa in Los Angeles. It was kept after she quit her citizenship, so that the two of them could have a familiar place to stay when they were in the United States.

Looking at the American-style small villa that was completely different from the flat-floor residence in the capital, Sun Yi felt a little itchy.

It seems that living in a villa is quite good.

"Sissi, tell me, should we buy another villa?"

"Okay, okay, I'll take care of the garden and lawn, and then I can take over Candy, my little black and white little ones."

Liu Yifei was filled with joy, but Sun Yi was a little speechless.

I'm talking about our two-person world, not your Sun Yi and the dog.
That night, Sun Yi received a call from Xiao Lizi. The two are now considered friends and have kept each other's contact information for a long time.

Leonardo had been waiting for Sun Yi to come to North America for a long time. When he learned that Sun Yi was now in Los Angeles, he invited him to his home to do whatever he wanted. He also said that he would hold a unique and big party for him.

Sun Yi kept declining, but in fact he felt itchy in his heart. It was finally his turn to criticize the legendary wine pond and meat forest, the corrupt world of capitalism.

In the end, he couldn't resist Leonardo's warm invitation, so Sun Yi reluctantly agreed.

Just as he was enjoying the wonderful life tomorrow night, Liu Yifei floated behind him like a ghost.

"Whose phone number?"

"Oh, why do you look like a spy? You are silent in the aisles."

"Whose phone number?"

"Uh, Leon's."

Sun Yi felt guilty.

Liu Yifei half-squinted her eyes and asked word by word:

"What does he want from you?"

"Ah, didn't he hear that I came to Los Angeles? He insisted on doing his best to be a landlord and invited me to dinner no matter what. I also thought that he took good care of you on the set of "Inception", so I agreed."

"Just eating?"

"We were eating with a group of friends, probably a buffet."

Sun Yi looked at Xiao Nizi's unkind eyes and quickly changed his tune.

At this time, how could Liu Yifei, who had lived in the United States for many years, still not know what it meant.

A buffet is just a party.

Thinking of Leonardo's reputation again, my heart suddenly shuddered.

"I also need to go."

"This, this, I don't have any objection. The main thing is that Leon said that the dining place is by the swimming pool, so, so..."

"You! Then I'll go too!"

(End of this chapter)