It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 536: The little expert in starting a film festival - "International Chapter", fighting his way out!
What is it like to watch a purely domestic 3D animation movie in the IMAX giant screen auditorium?
The guests who came to participate in "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" today all felt a bit strange inexplicably.

Once upon a time, the term "animation movie" has always been synonymous with Hollywood. As for domestic animation movies, it is not within the scope of consideration of major domestic production companies.

Today, Feiyue Film and Television is the first to create the first 3D domestic animation based on Journey to the West.

Although the pre-sale box office has successfully exceeded 100 million, it is still unknown whether the subsequent box office trend can continue the successful route.

Perhaps after today's premiere, we will be able to predict something.

The story of the film mainly tells the story of the young Tang monk Jiang Liuer who accidentally broke into the Five Elements Mountains, rescued the Monkey King, the Monkey King, who had been sealed in the Five Elements Mountains for 500 years, and then embarked on an adventure together to regain their original aspiration and complete self-salvation. story.

However, compared with the well-known Monkey King in the original Journey to the West, with vast supernatural powers and unparalleled power, the Sun Wukong that the audience saw in "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" is different.

At this moment, Monkey King, the Monkey King, can no longer fly in the clouds. He is even handcuffed with magic power on his wrists. He has become an ordinary monkey without any divine power.

At the beginning of the story, the overall atmosphere reflects a tragic sense of powerlessness and depression.

Monkey King, the Monkey King, is just like a mortal. He has gone through vicissitudes of life and persecution. He has been oppressed and bullied by the demon king, and has no fighting spirit at all...

What is surprising is that at the end of the scene, when Sun Wukong was mourning Jiang Liuer's death, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.

In the theater, many people's eyes lit up, and the regrets in their hearts were completely made up for at this moment.

The imported films in June are mainly animated films, which is not good news for "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King".

Chen Fei nodded slightly: "There is indeed a sequel plan, but whether it will be launched depends on the box office performance of the first part."

The previous depression was completely released at this moment, and bursts of cheers instantly erupted in the theater.

However, just before he left, he suddenly received a call from Liu Dehua.

In an instant, there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and the stones around Brother Monkey were also shattered. At this moment, all the seals given by the handcuffs were broken by him!

At this time, Chen Fei noticed that the guests in the theater subconsciously straightened their backs at this moment, and their eyes seemed to widen a bit.

And with a violent wave of his right hand, the cape burning like flames flew freely behind him, highlighting his extraordinary prowess!
Facing the bloody mouth coming from below, he looked calm, stretched his fingers to his ears, and slowly pulled out the golden hoop that shone with dazzling golden light.

After the premiere of "The Return of the Great Sage", the publicity and distribution efforts were once again raised to a higher level.

The Monkey King returns and kills the Demon King instantly with one move!

It’s not that easy to fight your way out of the swarm of imported Hollywood blockbusters!
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Next, he had to fly to Hollywood to complete the work he had accumulated for a long time.

This ending is definitely a great success!

The special effects and storyline design complement each other, which not only highlights the theme of the story, but also releases all the previous depression.

The demon king Chaos transformed back into his original form, intending to drive Jiang Liuer and Sun Wukong to an end!
After a fight, Sun Wukong mistakenly believed that Jiang Liuer was killed by the demon king Chaos...

At the same time, the media who attended the movie premiere also began to spontaneously help promote it, including those fans who were very lucky to participate in the premiere, and began to help promote it on major websites.

If this scene is designed well and can satisfy the audience, then the box office and reputation will not be too bad!
At this moment, in the picture presented by the 3D glasses, the fiery red armor belonging to Monkey King Monkey King was shrouded in pieces.

"Great Sage?!"

Wang Changtian, who was sitting on Chen Fei's right side, subconsciously turned his head and asked curiously: "Is this... a sequel?"

The depressing foreshadowing in the early stage can make the audience unconsciously involved in it. When the final and unbridled scene comes, it is like walking into an air-conditioned room in the dog days of summer, so transparent! Comfortable!

If the results are good, there will naturally be a sequel.

Chen Fei turned his head and looked back again, and it was obvious that most of the guests had smiles on their faces, and they were obviously very satisfied with the design that ended the climax.

The appearance of this Easter egg at the end of the film is really surprising.

While these scenes make people feel depressed, they also give rise to a sense of expectation for the "return of the great sage".

This is a very common "depression first and then promotion" in movie stories.

Jiang Liuer's death directly triggered the Sun family's hidden talent of "bald head to worship the sky" engraved in their DNA.

"boom!"

"Clap clap clap!"

This is the final highlight moment of the film. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the biggest selling point of the entire story.

After being suppressed in the early stage, they really wanted to see the scene of the Monkey King, the Monkey King, fighting against the God and Demon King!

It is worth mentioning that Yang Yu and Li Yang invested a lot of energy in the climax of the scene where Sun Wukong transforms into the Monkey King.

But if the results are not good, the sequel will naturally cease to exist.

Judging from the reactions of these guests in the theater, this movie is undoubtedly very successful. The next step will be to see the public response after its release.

At this moment, grief and anger began to burn in Brother Monkey's heart!

As the movie ended, everyone took off their 3D glasses and applauded.

For a time, the pre-sale box office results soared again!
After the premiere, Chen Fei will no longer participate in the film's subsequent promotion.

The 85-minute duration soon came to the end, and the climax that everyone had been waiting for finally arrived!

Time continues backwards minute by minute.

Furious, he raised the golden cudgel inserted into the sky high and aimed it at the demon king in front of him and slammed it down!

As the world-destroying golden light illuminated the entire screen, Demon King Chaos was directly smashed into pieces by the golden hoop at this moment!

"Brother Hua, congratulations on your daughter's fortune."

"Haha, thank you, Director Chen."

On the other end of the phone, Liu De laughed very happily, as if he had forgotten all the depression during the filming of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains".

The two exchanged pleasantries first.

Just when Chen Fei thought that Liu Dehua was also asking for a role from him, the other party said: "Director Chen, do you have any ideas to participate in this year's Golden Horse Awards?"

Golden horse?

Chen Fei was stunned for a moment, and the various tricks of last year's Golden Horse appeared in his mind unconsciously.

Insult, division, all kinds of insinuations...

What's there to get from this broken prize?

He had no interest in the Golden Horse at all, and simply said bluntly: "Brother, you may not know very well, but I haven't participated in the awards of the Chinese Film Festival for a long time..."

Hearing this, Liu Dehua on the other end of the phone couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Oh, there's no comparison. You are a world-renowned director."

Chen Fei smiled and didn't say much.

His message has been conveyed, he will not participate in the Golden Horse.

In other words, the person talking to him on the other side was Liu Dehua. If it was the call from the organizer of the Golden Horse Awards, he would have hung up by now.

Liu Dehua seemed to still want to fight for it, and added: "To be honest with Director Chen, I am the chairman of the Golden Horse Awards jury this year. If you are willing to participate, the probability of winning is still very high."

Hearing this, Chen Fei suddenly realized!

No wonder Andy Lau personally called to act as a lobbyist. It turned out that he had become the chairman of the jury.

"I can assure you that situations similar to previous years will never happen at this Golden Horse Awards. I am the chairman of the jury, Director Li Yin will be responsible for coordination and planning, and the host will be Huang Bolai..."

Liu Dehua said a lot and promised a lot, but Chen Fei still didn't give him a definite answer.

He believed in these people, but he did not believe in the organizers of the Golden Horse Awards.

Perhaps to put it more generally, he does not trust the organizers of any Chinese film festival at all!
There are so many tricks these people do behind the scenes, it’s almost impossible to guard against them!
Not only is the Golden Horse Awards a mess, but the Academy Awards are also in a mess. Even the entire Hong Kong Entertainment and Bay Entertainment are in a mess.

Chen Fei often sees news about "One Man's Martial Arts" on the Internet these days.

During the period when filming started in Hong Kong, an endless stream of black material about this movie was released online almost every day. Various revelations about violently driving away fans, insulting and beating reporters, and the lack of quality of mainland actors are flooding the Hong Kong media and major film and television information websites.

On the other hand, the crew of "Special Identity" starring Donnie Yen received a completely different treatment.

Looking around, the reports are full of positive reviews.

What about the professional and tacit understanding of the Hong Kong crew, the actors’ acting skills, the director’s good filming, and their friendly attitude towards fans and reporters...

The Hong Kong media has played this trick very vividly.

You don't need to guess, there must be promoters behind the scenes, and their purpose is to destroy "One Man's Martial Arts".

In this regard, Chen Fei's response was also very straightforward.

Since you want to play the "malicious smear" game, you have to pay the corresponding price!

On the 28th, the day Chen Fei left for Hollywood, Yinghuang sued more than a dozen local Hong Kong media in court, accusing them of malicious smearing and spreading rumors and slander.

The evidence is very sufficient. As for the money to hire a lawyer to litigate, neither Feiyue Film nor Yinghuang is short of money.

There is no doubt that these Hong Kong media will be in trouble.

As for the man behind the scenes, Chen Fei still has new strategies waiting for him.

He is going to play a game of "boil the frog in warm water" and try to kill him with one strike!

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On the plane to Los Angeles, Liu Yifei was holding a newspaper in her hand and looking at the content very attentively.

When she saw that Brother Chen Kai's movie "Search" sold for more than 1000 million US dollars in copyright fees, she subconsciously looked at Chen Fei sitting opposite and asked curiously:

"Why didn't you take the movie "Your Name" to the film festival to sell the rights?"

Chen Fei raised his eyes and glanced at her, shaking his head slightly: "That's not necessary, it's better to keep the copyright in your own hands.

If you want to take it abroad for remakes in the future, you can use it at any time, saving you trouble. "

Marvel is the most typical negative example.

After its Spider-Man copyright was sold, it directly became a masterpiece of another company. Now it is impossible to recycle it even if it wants to.

At this point, DC Comics does a better job. The copyrights of its comic characters such as Batman and Superman are firmly in its own hands, and you can use them at any time if you want to film them.

"Oh, I see!"

Liu Yifei nodded knowingly and continued to focus on the newspaper.

At the same time, reports about the Cannes Film Festival also appeared on the laptop in front of Chen Fei.

The headline interface is once again firmly occupied by the "carpet star model".

On the red carpet at the closing ceremony of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Fan wore a Yunlangcai-style embroidered dress, which was engraved with patterns such as a drunken concubine, Diao Chan worshiping the moon, Xi Shi's veil and Zhaojun leaving the fortress.

As for the makeup style, it imitates the maids in the Tang Dynasty who wore long hair.

It has to be said that this person has taken the Chinese red carpet style to the extreme.

However, the battle between female stars does not end after walking on the red carpet.

As soon as the red carpet of the closing ceremony ended, a large number of netizens and some media in China criticized Fan Bingbing.

"How do you have the nerve to walk the Cannes red carpet with a hairstyle like that of an island geisha? You are simply embarrassing the Chinese people!"

Interestingly, certain actors appear under these comments.

The purpose is very obvious, just to step on Fan Bingbing and take the opportunity to improve his rank.

Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that they were facing Yang Tianzhen, who claimed to have command of 800,000 navy troops!
And the behavior of making comments without any culture is really a bit of a trap for yourself...

When she saw that the public opinion on the Internet was very unfavorable to Fan Bingbing, Yang Tianzhen reacted immediately.

She used her studio account to directly @several history experts on Weibo and said: "Teachers, please explain Fan Bingbing's hairstyle and headdress to fans and netizens."

Not surprisingly, those who ridiculed Fan Bingbing’s hairstyle and headwear online were slapped in the face.

The maid's hair with her temples hanging down is a hairstyle from the Tang Dynasty. It is not a geisha hairstyle from an island country. It is something from our ancestors, but it was just learned from those who grew up.

Fan Ye is not the kind of character who can swallow her anger. She immediately went on Weibo to attack those who had ridiculed her:
"Some people are really interesting. If you are uneducated, you shouldn't come out to set the pace and make people laugh for no reason.

If you really don’t know how to style hair and dresses, you can come to my studio for advice. There is no need to make these unskilled remarks.

Some people are both plain and ugly. This is actually natural. Even if they try to flatter others, they will not show their sense of superiority. Instead, they will make others dislike them...

If you have the ability, just stand in the sun and face it! "

As soon as this statement appeared, it immediately triggered a heated discussion on the Internet.

Not to mention anything else, just the adjective "flat and ugly" is enough to make netizens target it.

Not surprisingly, the target of Fan Bingbing's satire was definitely the little expert in opening film festivals - "International Chapter"!
At this moment, the fans of the two families left the stage and started shouting and quarreling wildly. The Weibo comment area was filled with excitement!
After finishing a "melon", Chen Fei clicked the refresh interface in the upper right corner of the webpage again, and then saw the latest uploaded hot news.

"Huang Xiaoming issued an open letter to reflect on the reality of the box office failure of "Piff" and claimed: Although it failed at the box office, I have no regrets and I will never give up the pursuit of my movie dream!"

"Director Wang Xiaoshuai was dissatisfied with the low film scheduling rate of his "Me 11" and angrily criticized the theater chain for giving all the film scheduling to their 'Hollywood Godfather'."

"Director Jiang Wen was besieged by reporters at the airport for an hour and said that there are no casting plans for "One Step Away" in the short term."

"Ms. Chen Hong, the producer of "Search", officially announced that the film has sold US$1380 million in Cannes. The film has not yet been released, but it has already made double the profit."

"The pre-sale box office of "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" has been rising steadily and has exceeded 1.3 million yuan."

Chen Fei's eyes focused on the movie "I 11" for a few seconds.

Wang Xiaoshuai is being unreasonable this time.

His film "I 11" has actually been rescheduled once.

But this time it was re-released, a full week later, and the box office was only around 300 million.

Under such circumstances, the theaters would definitely not give him prime time slots, and once placed the movie in the worst screenings, such as midnight screenings.

The quality of the movie was not good, and the number of screenings was also poor, resulting in a direct loss of money at the box office!
Because this movie was funded by Wang Xiaoshuai himself, the box office losses naturally meant that the investment was wasted. It's no wonder that he would publicly scold it.

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After landing in Los Angeles, Chen Fei and Liu Yifei returned to their villa in Beverly Hills to catch up on jet lag.

Liu's mother still didn't come with her this time, and she had left her daughter free.

After catching up on the jet lag, the time came to the 29th, and the two went to the Kodak Theater non-stop to prepare for the premiere of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire".

The film will be released in North America on June 6st.

In view of the excellent results of the first part, the number of theaters in theaters is as high as 4163 this time!
If the theater is fully booked, the first-day box office could reach as high as $1.5 million.
However, it is obviously impossible to achieve full attendance, because the current pre-sale box office of the movie is only 6500 million. According to predictions, the first-day box office should be around 8000 million US dollars.

Chen Fei's requirements are not high, as long as the box office performance of the second part is not too different from the first one.

Before the rebirth, due to unreasonable plot, special effects, and fighting scene design, the total global box office of the second part was only 4.5 million US dollars.

But this time, he has tried his best to perfect all the flaws.

He has repeatedly streamlined the early plot foreshadowing, completely unified the emotional line of the heroine, and greatly increased the thrilling aspects of the game... Especially the duel scenes between the champions are designed with ups and downs, and are full of exciting and cool action scenes!
After major revisions, the script has conformed to the style of Hollywood's "Superhero Fun Movie", and the due tension and rhythm have been fully demonstrated.

Chen Fei believes that this second sequel will not disappoint him!
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