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Chapter 868 Project Establishment and Location Selection
"To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' participation in the Korean War, the film "Changjin Lake" jointly produced by the State Film Administration, Didu Mengying Media Co., Ltd., Bona Bona Film Group Co., Ltd. and August 2019st Film Studio will hold a project launch conference at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution on October 10, 25. It is reported that the film is scheduled to start shooting in winter."

"The official Weibo account of "Better Days" announced the film's "return", with the strongest temporary release date in history, set to be released on October 10th."

In the past two days, the industry has been flooded with the project launch conference of "The Battle at Lake Changjin" and the temporary release date of "Better Days".

The former has publicity tasks and three major directors in charge, so it is naturally a traffic hotspot.

The latter was due to the twists and turns of the release date being withdrawn, and was finally announced temporarily three days before the release.

As a cinema movie, the release date was announced only three days in advance, which caught people off guard.

All major cinema chains were stunned for a moment, then quickly adjusted their release dates.

However, it is obvious that the film's release date was decided after careful consideration, and it was not set in a hurry just after it passed the review.

After the National Day holiday, the competitive pressure in the film market suddenly decreased.

After experiencing a several-fold increase in box office revenue during the National Day holiday, the film market has begun to cool down again.

At present, although the three new films "Maleficent 2", "One Piece: Stampede" and "Gemini Man" are backed by famous IPs and famous directors, their performances are lukewarm, and their box office and popularity have been on a downward trend.

As a movie about bullying that is a hotly debated topic, it naturally attracted a lot of attention at this time.

But at this time Liu Yifei was muttering in Li Mu's ear, scolding Chen Sicheng.

Li Mu rubbed his forehead and said, "You know this too?"

"Well, I got it from clues, and then asked Yaya, and she didn't hide it." Liu Yifei immediately sat down and told Li Mu about her Sherlock Holmes-like detective ability.

"After all, it's just because there was a rumor. I thought you found out while chatting with her."

After hearing this, Li Mu was speechless.

"Why don't they just announce their divorce? It doesn't seem like a big deal. They've even agreed to divorce, and all they need is a divorce certificate."

"I guess it has something to do with the bet between Chen Sicheng and Wanda. He can't cause negative news at a critical moment."

Li Mu knows a little about these gambling in the industry. "The amount of money bet between Chen Sicheng and Wanda in "Detective Chinatown 3" is not small. Even Mengying Media did not participate in the investment this time."

Although Mengying invested in "Detective Chinatown 1" and "Detective Chinatown 2", the copyright is not Mengying's after all. Wanda and Chen Sicheng had a bet against each other for the third part, so Mengying naturally had no way to get involved.

However, Wanda and Chen Sicheng probably did not expect that there would be an epic change in the upcoming Spring Festival period, which directly led to the news being announced more than a year later.

Liu Yifei pouted, not knowing what she was thinking for a moment. Li Mu guessed that she was still standing up for Tong Liya. After all, it was Tong Liya who made the sacrifice.

On the morning of the 25th, Liu Yifei was buttoning Li Mu's shirt. She pulled it to smooth out the wrinkles, and then brought out a slightly serious coat.

Li Mu felt that he was being manipulated at the moment and had no way to resist.

"Perfect!" Liu Yifei finally walked around Li Mu from front to back, looked him up, and couldn't help but exclaimed in admiration.

Liu Yifei raised her swan-like neck and blinked, "How about the set I picked for you?"

"Perfect!"

"Don't use the words I just said." Liu Yifei pouted and said dissatisfiedly.

"Pretty." Li Mu was about to add the word "perfect" but when he saw Liu Yifei's puffy cheeks, he changed his mind temporarily and said, "Wow!"

"What kind of adjective is this?" Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, then waved her hand, "That's fine!"

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On the extension of Chang'an Avenue, on the south bank of the beautiful Yuyuantan Lake, the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution stands here.

There stands a magnificent and majestic building. This is the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, which is famous both at home and abroad. It is also the venue for today’s "Changjin Lake" project launch conference.

Outside the stadium, red flags fluttered in the October autumn breeze.

Compared to the liveliness of other press conferences, the press conference for "Changjin Lake" was a bit duller, but the number of media attendees was no less, and it even seemed a bit crowded.

Photographers were armed with all kinds of cameras, and reporters were doing a good job, but the front row seats were given to official media, such as Xinhua News Agency, Six Princesses, Liberation Army Daily, etc.
Sitting in the first row were more than 40 leaders, including the deputy director of the State Film Administration of the Central Propaganda Department, the director of the Imperial City Film Bureau, the director of the August st Film Studio, leaders of the Propaganda Departments of the Imperial City, Liaoning and Hebei, and the director of the People's Revolutionary Military Museum.

The arrival of these people all indicate the importance of this movie.

It is no wonder that many media outlets did not make as much noise as they did at other press conferences in the past.

Today's project launch conference was full of process, from the speeches of the leaders of the Film Bureau, to the chief producer Li Mu and the general producer Huang Jianxin, followed by the three major directors and the leading actor Wu Jing
"The Battle of Changjin Lake fully demonstrated the revolutionary heroism of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers who were brave, tenacious and selfless. It is of great significance to write this history and show this battle through film."

"Director Li, it's our turn." After the Film Bureau leader finished speaking, the host came on stage and Huang Jianxin subconsciously touched Li Mu.

"Oh, I almost forgot."

Li Mu smiled, stood up, and Huang Jianxin followed him.

"Every creator of the film is fully aware of the significance of the film, and they were in awe from preparation to filming, striving to use images to show the world the patriotic spirit of the Chinese People's Volunteers who fought selflessly for the dignity of the motherland and the nation.

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. We hope that the movie "Changjin Lake" can become a masterpiece dedicated to the general audience, and also use the movie to pay tribute to the "most lovely people." "For each process, no one gave a long speech, and just touched on the key points.

When it was the director's turn, Brother Chen Kai was very passionate and spoke with great enthusiasm.

"I used to be a soldier myself. Every time I mention the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, my blood boils. The strength of the 9th Corps and even the entire Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and their contributions, can be described in six words: 'shocking the world, weeping ghosts and gods.'

So I hope to work with the other two directors to make a film that can show the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's "shocking and heart-wrenching" deeds 70 years ago."

The media below were frantically filming the scene of three directors, Li Mu, Zhang Yi and Chen Kaige, on the same stage. After all, this might be the only collaboration in recent decades.

If there is such cooperation in the future, I am afraid we will have to wait until the next time when the time, place and people are right, and we don’t know when that will happen.

"The film "Changjin Lake" was recently approved to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's overseas combat against the United States and aid Korea. Li Mu, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige jointly directed it."

"Li Guoqi, deputy director of the National Film Administration, said that he would make "Changjin Lake" a good film and dedicate it next year to the most lovely people who fought and sacrificed their lives to defend their country."

"Director Chen Kai expressed his hope to work with directors Li Mu and Zhang Yi to make a 'shocking and heart-wrenching' film."

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On that day, all kinds of reports were basically given to the project launch conference of "Changjin Lake". The popularity was at its peak and it directly became a hot search. The audience's expectations were also high.

Just one project has resulted in such a scene, which has shocked the industry.

After all, if this is released in the future, it will probably be an even bigger event.

After the project was launched, preparations for "Changjin Lake" became more intensive, and an unusually large number of people were mobilized.

At this time, Li Mu, Zhang Yi, Chen Kaige and the members of the director team were gathered together and began to discuss the attractions.

The director team arranged has already scouted the location once and is providing feedback.

Li Mu and Zhang Yi certainly didn't have the time to go on a location scout. After all, the rest of the directing work alone was enough to keep the three of them busy.

"According to the script and my idea, the scenery part will go from the warm sunshine in the south of the Yangtze River to the vast Great Wall and then to the ice and snow."

As a master of aesthetics, Brother Chen Kai naturally has a say in framing, and everyone recognizes his skills in this area.

"For the part about returning home from the army to visit family, I personally think that it would be more appropriate to use fishing boats and distant mountains under the traditional oriental aesthetics of the lake and mountains."

Brother Chen Kai pointed to a picture he had taken and said slowly.

"Director Chen, do you mean to put aside the background setting of Huzhou and choose Tiantai County in Taizhou, Zhejiang?"

Li Mu and Zhang Yi also carefully looked at the pictures taken by the location scouts.

"Put down the video." Huang Jianxin signaled to the staff at this time.

Then a video of Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang was slowly broadcast.

As a large number of fishing boats appeared in the video, all docked on the shore, the idyllic scene of distant mountains, clear waters and white pagodas came into view, and the person filming stood up to introduce them.

“Hello Director Li, Director Zhang, and Director Chen. This scene was shot at Hanshan Lake in Tiantai. It was originally an important reservoir in Tiantai, formerly known as the “Lishimen Reservoir”. It was named Hanshan Lake because Hanshan, a Tang Dynasty poet monk, once lived in seclusion here for a long time.

This is actually a secret place for Zhejiang citizens to spend their holidays.”

"Not bad!"

After reading it, Li Mu nodded silently and then looked at Zhang Yi.

"I think this place is okay too. It's more suitable than the original background location." Zhang Yi also nodded, obviously approving of Chen Kai's change in scene selection.

There are many filming locations for "Changjin Lake". It took a whole morning just to go through all the filming locations before the assembly. Of course, these filming locations are not absolute. If we feel there is a more suitable one during filming, we can change it at any time.

In the afternoon, the first to start was the gathering of the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army in Shandong in October 1950.

However, the various filming locations given were not chosen in Shandong, because there was actually no suitable place for filming, and it was far from the scene of that year.

The place where Li Mu, Zhang Yi and Chen Kaige stayed was Zhejiang.

But this time it was Meishan Town, Changxing County, HZ City, ZJ Province. Because the current Meishan Station does not handle passenger business, it mainly transports bulk cement, sleepers, refractory materials and other materials. Therefore, there is no electrified railway equipment such as contact lines in the station, which is very consistent with the environmental style at that time.

Almost as soon as the pictures and videos came out, the three of them decided to do it here.

"Who owns this place?" Li Mu turned his head to look at the location scout and asked.

"Director Li, this station belongs to the Jiaxing Train Depot of the Shanghai Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. It is a fourth-class station on the Changniu Line and was built in 1960.

If we shoot, we need the Shanghai Bureau Group to organize and coordinate.”

"Okay, leave this task to me."

Upon hearing this, Huang Jianxin agreed directly and then handed it over to his supervisor to handle.

(End of this chapter)