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Chapter 679 Marsala Welcomes You
"Dying to Survive" started filming yesterday, and director Li Mu said the film has a chance to be released to the public in 2017"

"It is reported that Director Li Mu and some members of the crew of "Dying to Survive" have gone to India for filming, and Director Wen Muye will direct the domestic scenes."

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The start of filming of "Dying to Survive" has touched the hearts of many movie fans.

However, when some netizens learned that Li Mu was going to India with his crew, they had complicated expressions.

"Director Li, I hope you pay attention to food safety in India!"

"So dedicated that he even went to India in person. Just thinking about it makes me feel horrible!"

"Welcome to Marsala, clean and hygienic!"

"What the hell is hygiene, get lost."

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But at this time, Li Mu was also joking with the crew members.

"Everyone should pay attention to hygiene when eating snacks, so as not to go to the hospital for an IV the next day."

"Hahaha, I don't dare to eat Indian snacks. I'd better eat three meals a day on the set. Director Li, do you have Chinese food? Otherwise, we may spend a week shooting a movie and two weeks lying in the hospital."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Everyone was still chatting and laughing. This trip to India was not a difficult mission, and it was basically Xu Zheng's personal performance show.

After Li Mu arrived in India, he rested on the first day and was not in a hurry to shoot.

In China, the industry couldn't help but worry about the bottom line of Microfilm Era.

Because at present, the box office of "The Ferryman" directed by Wong Kar-wai is nearly 8000 million on the first day, which is indeed not low. It has taken away a lot of screenings belonging to "Railroad Tigers", resulting in "Railroad Tigers" only having more than 5000 million on the first day, falling into the lower level.

And this kind of minimum guarantee agreement is generally the same.

Weiying Times has a 10 billion guaranteed box office for the movie "Railroad Tigers". If the total box office of the movie is less than RMB 10 billion, Weiying will have to pay Yaolai RMB 3 million in box office guarantee.

Lin Ning was now completely anxious, and was promoting "Railroad Tigers" on Weibo and WeChat Moments.

"We think that Railroad Tigers relies on word of mouth and will follow the same trend as The Taking of Tiger Mountain, with a box office explosion on New Year's Day."

"Director Li, have you seen Lin Ning's circle of friends?"

Ever since Li Mu told him about it, Wang Changtian has paid special attention to Microfilm Era.

The time difference between India and China is only more than two hours. At this time, Li Mu had just got up to prepare for today's shooting.

Today we are going to shoot a clip that is unique to Indian culture, which is the scene where Cheng Yong walks out of an Indian pharmacy and sees two statues of gods being carried away in a cloud of white smoke.

The two statues are Lord Shiva and Goddess Kali. The former represents destruction and rebirth in Hinduism, while the latter is the incarnation of Shiva's wife in mythology. After defeating the devil, she fell into a rage, causing earthquakes and chaos.

In order to save all living beings, Shiva was willing to lie at the feet of Goddess Kali and let her trample on him to vent her hatred.
This is also a very special moment in the film, which means double redemption.

“See, we can take action early next year.”

Li Mu smiled. Judging from the current performance of "Iron Flying Tiger", it doesn't have much potential even if it relies on word of mouth.

This year, Weying Times has been extremely high-profile in its scramble for film projects, co-producing and co-distributing 18 films alone, making it the champion in the number of O2O film distribution.

However, the market share has not increased significantly, and the gap with Tao Piaopiao is getting bigger and bigger. As far as the current situation is concerned, Tencent will probably mention this issue in this year's summary meeting.

While Li Mu was still filming in India, the first of the three major international film festivals next year, Berlin, finally announced its first batch of shortlisted films.

The new work of the famous Finnish director Kaurismäki and the new work of the Golden Bear Award-winning director Netzer have been shortlisted for the main competition unit, while the special screening unit includes films such as "Queen of Spain" starring Penelope Cruz. However, no Chinese-language films have been shortlisted this year.

The 67th Berlin Film Festival will open on February 2017, 2, with Dutch director Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury.

At this time, a rumor came out: It was said that Li Mu was originally the chairman of the jury of this year's Berlin Film Festival, but he refused because he wanted to shoot "Dying to Survive".
Once the news spread, it spread uncontrollably inside and outside the industry.

"real or fake?"

"It's normal, really. It's normal for Li Mu to be the chairman of the jury. With all the honors and awards he has won, who in the country can compare to him?"

"If it were me, I would definitely put the filming aside and be the chairman of the jury first. After all, the movie can be shot anytime!"

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While netizens are still discussing whether it is true or not, industry insiders have already confirmed it through some information.

“You’re so tough!”

"We are confident. Even if we push it this time, it will happen sooner or later!"

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Many people in the industry are secretly envious. After all, these three positions are not chosen casually. Without a certain reputation and honor, it would not be their turn at all. Otherwise, there would not be only four people in the country. Brother Chen Kai has not been able to achieve this achievement.

"You have to shoot it well. Director Li gave up his position as chairman of the Berlin Film Festival for this movie."

Ning Hao and Wen Muye stared at the monitor together and smiled faintly.

"Brother, you wouldn't spread this, would you?"

Wen Muye asked casually.

"Me? I don't have the time!" Ning Hao said confidently, but then he thought about it and added, "But I seem to have mentioned it to other people, so it's hard to say whether they spread it." "Then it's you." Wen Muye muttered secretly.

"It's a non-stop, rod-style shooting method. The actors' performances cannot be interrupted. The camera moves in different ways following the actors' performances. Do you understand?"

Li Mu was directing on the set.

The focus of this movie is on filming people, so the RED DSMC2 HELIUM 8K S35 camera was used, paired with a Zeiss UP lens for dual-camera shooting, and the aspect ratio was set to 1.89:1, which is more suitable for portraying people.

The highlight is coming soon.

"For the protagonist Cheng Yong, he is at a turning point." Li Mu was still explaining the plot to Xu Zheng, and then called the photography crew.

“This long shot starts with the clerk handing the medicine to Cheng Yong. You need the camera to follow Cheng Yong out the door and then into the smoggy city.

I needed a desaturated image effect to contrast with the rest of the film, creating an effect that felt both real and unreal.”

"understand!"

"Okay Director Li!"

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After knowing Li Mu's intention, everyone said there was no problem.

"Okay, then get ready!"

Li Mu nodded. These people had followed him for a long time, so there was basically no need to say too much.

While the film and television industry was focusing on The Ferryman and Railroad Tigers, a netizen suddenly broke the news that I Am Not Madame Bovary was still full in the theaters near the company a month after its release, and that "each show was only half an hour long.

Afterwards, Wang Sicong, who had been silent for a long time, liked the Weibo post, apparently still very unhappy about being used to gain popularity some time ago and the subsequent counterattack.

As soon as the post was published, it still attracted heated discussions among netizens, especially after Wang Sicong liked it, many people who called themselves "Sicong Likes Tourist Group" came to occupy the post, and many netizens left comments:

"Haven't you reached 500 million yet?"

"It's really hard to get 500 million. I guess no other theaters will cooperate. I saw that many theaters have taken the movie off the shelves, but this theater is still showing it."

"Tsk tsk tsk, Director Feng, this is not very honest!"

Netizens showed no mercy and mocked him.

However, Feng Xiaogang now knows that he is in the wrong and ignores it.

"Mr. Li, our cinema chain has withdrawn the film I Am Not Madame Bovary. Director Guo's film Arrival will be released the day after tomorrow. Currently, the average film schedule of major cinema chains is 28%."

When Liu Weijuan has something to do, she will call Li Mu to report at ten o'clock in the morning, because it is seven thirty in India, which is also the time for the crew to prepare in the morning.

"A big director like Feng Xiaogang is so shameless and still keeps posting!"

"That's right, this is destroying the industry"

"Stop talking. There's a 500 million bet. Who cares about the industry?"

Whenever Li Mu walked through the crew, he could hear the crew members' contempt for this kind of behavior.

After all, the impact is indeed too bad, and it has only bad effects on the industry.

"Alright, alright, everyone hurry up and have breakfast. Today we are going to shoot at a generic drug factory. It's dirty and messy there, so everyone should finish shooting early."

Li Mu also specifically reminded that for the sake of authenticity, the location they found should be really dirty and messy, with piles of garbage everywhere and a foul stench.

But in reality, you can buy cheap life-saving drugs in this land. It has to be said that sometimes things always have two sides. Although he violated international patent licenses, he saved many lives.

But this path is full of legal and moral risks.

When Xu Zheng heard what Li Mu said, the breakfast he was holding suddenly lost its flavor. After all, he had already seen how messy and dirty India was, and now Li Mu specifically mentioned it, one could imagine how bad this place was.

"Brother Xu, why don't you eat?"

Seeing that Xu Zheng seemed to be out of sorts, the crew kindly asked.

Of course, some people probably guessed the reason, "Brother Xu, are you afraid of vomiting later?"

“Hahaha, I have good intentions too!”

"Then you should eat less and try to get through it all at once so that everyone can save some trouble!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

The premiere of "Arrival" arrived as scheduled and was officially held at Dream Cinemas on December 12th.

Liu Yifei attended the premiere on behalf of Li Mu, and also invited Shu Chang to join in.

"Hey, I really don't know how Li Mu can stand you. You take so long to change clothes."

Shu Chang's right foot was still shaking at the door of the cloakroom, and he looked like he was getting impatient.

"Hehe, you just don't understand!"

Liu Yifei, wearing a gray-brown coat, flashed past Shu Chang.

"Let's go, let's go see a movie, oh no, let's go to the premiere"

(End of this chapter)