China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 433 The surprise is coming

People who go to the theater to watch a movie have more or less encountered such a situation and got an inexplicable handwritten ticket.

Obviously I was watching movie A, but the name of movie B was written on the ticket.

My work unit organized a group movie viewing but I didn’t get a movie ticket. Go in and sit wherever you want. Anyway, it won’t delay your movie viewing.

There are many ways to steal box office tickets, which can be roughly divided into handwritten tickets, fake tickets, group tickets, combined ticket prices, changing system data, dual systems, etc.

This is a vicious circle of box office stealing.

You spend money to get movie tickets, and the theater gets the money but no longer pays taxes, and no longer splits the accounts with the film studio.

"Director Li, this time the General Administration is finally going to crack down on box office theft."

In addition to his daily phone greetings, Wang Changtian also talked about the general administration's big move this time.

"At least 50 billion in box office revenue was stolen from us this year"

Wang Changtian was very heartbroken when he talked about this box office theft. This year's box office of 227.69 billion should actually be at least no less than 277 billion. However, all these box offices have disappeared.

This is a lot of money for a Chinese film that cannot make ends meet.

"Mr. Wang, it's only January, maybe I'll be inspired one day."

You must know that only a few major companies in the industry produce the most movies. Even if less than 40% is allocated to the production company, there will be a loss of at least more than 20 billion.

The difficulty of this matter is very low. After all, this is something that is beneficial to all major companies. It can only reduce box office losses, and the money earned is far greater than the money spent.

"Director Li, this is a good idea."

This move can be called the Film Bureau's biggest "heavy attack" to purify the film market in the past decade.

""Jurassic World" is progressing smoothly and has moved from Hawaii to New Orleans for filming."

Wang Changtian has a bright eye. Although this is considered a spontaneous act by the people and is far from strong enough, it is still a good method and can be regarded as auxiliary supervision.

Both the distributor and the producer have to be involved, and Wang Changtian already has a list in mind.

Li Mu smiled and didn't care. He was still waiting for Damien Chazelle's reply.

"Director Li's filming is going pretty smoothly. This year, all the major domestic film directors are gathering, but you are missing, Director Li."

In addition to monetary losses, this phenomenon also undermines the confidence of film practitioners, investors, producers, and distributors in the Chinese film market.

"Mr. Wang, please contact the major production companies. It's not convenient for me. After all, I'm not here."

"By the way, Mr. Wang, I think we can join forces to form a supervision company to keep an eye on the box office in major cities and monitor and supervise the leakage of box office. It may also be effective."

Wang Changtian lamented that a film like Zhang Yimou's has already been finished and in post-production, and Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, Tsui Hark and others are all filming. It's a year where great directors gather together.

Li Mu naturally supports it with both hands. After all, he doesn't steal the box office, and there may be theaters secretly stealing the box office of his movies.

"The new chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, who retired after 37 years at the helm, will take office in July."

Wang Changtian patted his chest and promised firmly.

"Okay, no problem, leave it to Lao Wang."

Li Mu had a sudden idea that he had to rely on both the General Administration and himself.

If it doesn't work, you can only activate alternatives.

Li Mu had already known about this incident from the email reported by Liu Weijuan. It was probably because he was so crazy about stealing and had been repeatedly banned over the years. This time, the General Administration made up his mind and issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of the Film Market and Regulating the Use of the Movie Ticketing System" 》.

"New predictive analysis of the 86th Academy Awards."

"Stallone competes for the title of bad movie with three films and has been nominated for Golden Strawberry 31 times."

News about the progress of Li Mu directing "Jurassic World" will be exposed on major social media from time to time.

At the same time, the current chairman of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob, has confirmed that he will leave after the 67th film festival this year. He has served as chairman since 2001 and led the Cannes Film Festival to create a glorious history. Officially retired.

Li Mu has accepted his invitation many times and participated in the Cannes Film Festival.

At this time, I also sent a text message to congratulate him on his resignation and retirement.

The Oscars topic is undoubtedly the most popular in the American media, and the Oscars will indeed create momentum.

From nominations to predictions and analysis by major media and Oscar candidate luncheons, and there are also several special events, the Oscars will not stop being popular in this month.

It’s all preparation for the day of the awards ceremony.

Domestically, the Hollywood animated blockbuster "Despicable Me 2" leads the schedule.

Since its release, the film has had a strong reputation with "zero negative reviews" and has shown a long-term trend of success at the box office.

Domestic movies are showing some signs of decline. The Minions are still popular in its third week after its release. The film withstood the impact of many new films and earned nearly 6000 million at the box office last weekend.

It has also officially exceeded the 2 million mark a few days ago, becoming the first movie in 2014 to break the 9.5 million mark. Its global box office has also reached 9.51 million US dollars, which is about to surpass the million US dollars box office record of another classic animation "The Lion King" and enter the history of movies. The top two best-selling animations.

A new round of filming for "Jurassic World" is already being prepared.

This abandoned amusement park in New Orleans has been designed by Universal's art team as an unprecedented scene, with a large number of shops and restaurants over 130 meters long, and a dinosaur resort integrating office, entertainment and exhibition functions.

You can even see Starbucks and Katzile toy store on the street. "Lee, we used a lot of Jurassic-style design and meticulous painting on this street. All the doors are carved. Maybe the audience can only see 50% in the movie, but in fact we built 80%."

With Ed Wero as the art director of this project, he and Li Mu introduced the design here one by one.

When the "Jurassic World" project started, Carter was the first to be appointed as the art director, who was also the art director of the first "Jurassic Park".

He led a group of designers to carry out preliminary design work.

But later "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens" invited Carter, so Ed Verreau stepped in and took over Carter's work.

Universal and Li Mu chose him to take over for a reason.

Ed Vello had previously served as a film atmosphere artist for a long time, helping Spielberg draw illustrations for "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "ET", and "Empire of the Sun", and was also the first " One of the art directors of Jurassic Park.

"What a surprise."

Li Mu nodded with satisfaction. He had to say that this was indeed in line with his wishes. Although he had seen the original renderings, it was beyond his expectation that this effect could be created.

Although in some ways, "Jurassic World" is still a sequel, it can be said to be a new challenge at the design level.

Among them, the biggest difficulty is to innovate and expand the concept established by the original series.

But fortunately, Vero's advantage is the drawing and control of concept drawings. It can try different design styles and details in advance, including the parts that are not built on site and need to be expanded by the company later, and they are all drawn in detail.

"Of course, 10% of the budget has been spent."

Carter did not forget to tell Li Mu how much he spent.

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Li Mu also knew that you get what you pay for, otherwise there would be no good products.

"By the way, how is the production of the Jurassic World gate going?"

Li Mu specifically asked about this, because this was what he specifically ordered. In order to be in line with the first film, "Jurassic World" is set on Isla Nublar. At this gate, Li Mu's idea is to let the audience try their best to Relive "Jurassic Park" in 1993.

In the setting, although Isla Nublar has changed a lot since Hammond's dinosaur theme park exploded in chaos, the shadow of that park can still be seen at the gate.

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Carter is very proud, "When we made the new gate, we deliberately took the wood from the original gate and kept the same style as the original gate."

The two came to the gate of Jurassic World.

It is almost exactly the same as the door in "Jurassic Park", except that the former is called JURASSIC PARK and the latter is called JURASSIC WORLD.

The crew took a day off and continued the new phase of filming.

At this time, Berlin, one of the three major international film festivals, once again announced the shortlisted films in the competition after announcing the news of this year's judges.

Two Chinese-language films, "Massage" directed by Lou Ye and "Fireworks in the Day" directed by Diao Yinan, were shortlisted for the main competition.

At this moment, Li Zi came to visit Li Mu's crew with a high profile, because he also brought his new post-90s supermodel girlfriend Toni Garn.

As a "Victoria Secret" angel supermodel, Toni Garn's arrival made many people in the crew take a second look.

"Wow, aren't these the little boy's night vision goggles from Jurassic Park?"

After Leonardo arrived, he immediately saw the props that Li Mu was touching.

"Good memory."

Li Mu glanced at him in surprise. He didn't expect that after 20 years, someone would still see it at a glance.

This is why Li Mu specially ordered the prop master to create a similar night vision goggle based on the one in "Jurassic Park". It is like an Easter egg for the audience to find.

"Oh, because I bought it back then."

Leonardo recalled.

"You must have been close to 20 back then."

"A man's toys are ageless."

Leonardo said without hesitation.

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Leonardo's arrival did not have much impact on the crew, and the work that should be filmed still had to be filmed.

It wasn't until sunset that Leonardo left with his girlfriend.

The media probably haven't had many hot topics recently, so they wrote a few corresponding reports.

"Leonardo and his Victoria's Secret girlfriend Toni Garn visited the set of "Jurassic World."

At this moment, the call Li Mu had been waiting for finally came. Was it a surprise?

Li Mu didn't know the answer, but the voice coming from his hand immediately made him feel happy.

(End of this chapter)