China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

There are two main filming locations for "Wonderful Night 2", 70% of which are in Hengdian and 30% of which are in Xingchen Studio.

So in fact, the movie started shooting in Beijing a week ago, but the opening ceremony has not been held.

This time, taking advantage of the huge popularity of "Kung Fu Panda", Hengdian scenes can also be used.

It just so happens that we can have a start-up ceremony in Hengdian.

Going to Hengdian from the capital, in addition to Lu Ping'an, Hu Qingquan and Han Sanpin, there were also leaders from the Film Bureau and the Ministry of Culture.

Everyone is in a good mood. Apparently "Kung Fu Panda" has become a hit overseas and they have made profits beyond expectations.

At present, Panda's global box office is close to US$500 million. After it is released in North America, there is almost no suspense that the global box office will exceed US$600 million, and it is expected to exceed US$700 million.

Although "Kung Fu Panda" is still a co-production on the surface, everyone in the industry actually knows that this is a serious domestic film.

A domestic film achieving a record-breaking box office is already an epic achievement in domestic film history.

Among them, performance is actually not the most important thing.

The most important thing is the huge stimulus that "Kung Fu Panda" has brought to the domestic animation industry.

Animated movies are movies too.

Everyone naturally knows how big the production value of this piece is and is eager to see it.

It's just that before this, the market in this area has not been well opened by domestic companies.

The most promising one is "Lotus Lantern".

However, it is hampered by various factors such as technology, cost, market size, and competitive environment.

The appearance of "Lotus Lantern" actually marked the end of an era.

But things are different now. "Kung Fu Panda" has become a huge hit, and Ping An has shared many technologies. This has had a huge stimulating effect on the market.

Of course, excitement is excitement, and it’s hard to say whether other excellent works will appear on the market in the future.

But for people like Han Sanpin, the current excitement is actually enough.

With such "political achievements", in Han Sanpin's previous words: "Even if I retire tomorrow, I will still be famous in the history of the film!"

The leader probably thinks so too.

But Han Sanpin also knew it.

"Kung Fu Panda" is just the beginning for Lu Pingan.

Lu Pingan will not stop there, and Han Sanpin does not want to see "Kung Fu Panda" be the swan song.

The higher-ups also hope that Lu Pingan can produce better works that are popular all over the world.

But behind the works, the higher-ups actually pay more attention to the industrialization of the film.

On this point, they were still right.

The popularity of a single movie doesn't mean anything. A strong system is truly strong.

Then I learned that "Wonderful Night 2" was about to start filming, and the shooting mode used was a modular industrial mode, so the superior directly said that I wanted to come and take a look.

You must know that the "Wonderful Night" series is actually an IP that achieved global popularity earlier than "Kung Fu Panda".

So this time the boss also has high hopes for "Wonderful Night 2".

This made Lu Ping'an feel helpless.

He actually didn't want "Wonderful Night 2" to be taken so seriously.

"Wonderful Night 2" is not "Kung Fu Panda". One is a global animation film, and the other is a local cultural film. They should not be compared together.

When "Wonderful Night 2" fails to perform overseas, he will have to lose his life.

Therefore, he remained humble along the way and explained various things such as the difficulties of film production, obstacles to going overseas, and cultural barriers.

He even said the same thing at the opening ceremony.

""Wonderful Night 2" is currently the most difficult movie to produce among all Xingchen projects. Yes, it is more difficult than "1937". What is the difficulty? You will know in the future."

"Can it achieve the same overseas results as "Kung Fu Panda"? I think it is very difficult. It would be great if it can surpass the overseas results of the first film. You must know that there are cultural barriers. Kung Fu and Panda are familiar to the whole world. , but take Li Bai, who is most familiar to our Chinese people, as an example, how many foreigners know about it?"

"Of course, this is also the meaning of this movie. This time "Wonderful Night 2" will continue the style of "Wonderful Night 1". Humor and comedy are the keynotes, and the splendid history is the embellishment. If foreign movie fans like to watch it in the future, And I can know from it, oh, it turns out that there is a famous poet in China named Li Bai, and it turns out that China’s historical and cultural elements are so interesting. I think that being able to do this is considered a huge success.”

"What are the expectations for the domestic box office? First of all, I think the movie must be recognized by everyone, and the second is the box office. As for the box office expectations, it will still be the same. It will not make a loss, and it will allow me to continue to make the next film."

Lu Ping'an spoke to reporters full of desire for survival.

I don’t know if it’s useful, but it’s definitely right to stack the buff first.

Then the official opening ceremony.

Because there were leaders around, even if there was no high-profile identification, it was definitely not possible to offer incense and cut pigs, so they switched to ribbon-cutting.

Lu Ping'an, Ning Hao, the protagonist Uncle Fan Weige, and the leaders stood in a row, and with a click, "Wonderful Night 2" was officially launched.

The first shot was very simple. Fan Chenggong and his son, dressed in security uniforms, stood in front of the city gate building.

The night scene was shot in the day. In the camera, the father and son are looking at the gate, their faces full of worry and anticipation for the next adventure.

As the gate slowly opened, the golden light shining through the gap in the city gate became wider and wider, and the expressions of the two people became more and more exaggerated.

Then the pupils of the two people were seen wide open, as if they had seen a fairyland. However, just when they were about to shout out, their expressions suddenly fell and they became speechless.

And people who know the script know that the reason why the two of them are like this is because there is still a door behind the door.

"Click!"

Ning Hao shouted the order.

Everyone applauded.

Today's mission is finally over.

Everyone stopped work for the time being and started the boot-up banquet.

At the opening banquet, Lu Ping'an specially chatted with all the guest actors and toasted.

There are 21 actors including Lan Tianye, Chen Daomin, Zhang Beiguang, Fan Xiaopang, Chen Kun and Tang Yan who was taken care of by Sister Hua.

It stands to reason that guest actors don’t actually need to come during the boot time.

But this time it's not just here, it's all in place.

This is mainly related to the way Lu Ping An is handled.

This time for "Wonderful Night 2", because Lu Ping'an would be far away from Beijing and unable to direct on-site, the crew changed to modular shooting. In this way, after a certain module was filmed, Lu Ping'an would feel that Ning Hao If the processing is not good, you can retake it several times to optimize the efficiency.

Reshooting is easy to say, but it involves the whole body. Moreover, the cameos in "Wonderful Night 2" are not like other movies. It only needs to give you a main shot. Many of them just flash by, and many of the cameos are in different scenes. There is not only one module, but as many as six modules.

If it had to be reshot several times, it would certainly not be justified to waste so much money on guest actors, and some of them wouldn't even be able to show their faces in the end.

Although Lu Ping'an has a high status and a great reputation.

But you can’t play tricks on people like this, right?

There is a lot of confusion in the circle, but this is actually how it comes about.

Therefore, in order to ensure the quality and shield the trouble, it is not a big problem to spend a little money. The money and goods will be paid, and there will be no hassle.

So this time all the guest roles were given the actor's market price.

For example, Chen Daomin was paid 600,000 yuan for less than one minute of appearance, Lan Tianye was paid 150,000 yuan, and Zhang Beiguang was paid 150,000 yuan. The rest of the prices were not very high. The total guest role salary was nearly 2.4 million yuan.

It's all a small amount of money, and it's completely stress-free for the overflowing budget of the current project.

In this way, these people are not guest stars, but real cast and crew members. However, the overall performance time is most likely not as long as the real starring actors, which takes several months. It may be completed in one day.

So everyone had the same attitude at the beginning.

I declined several times, saying that this is just a guest appearance, just a guest appearance, why do I need to pay so much?

But Lu Pingan said directly: "Even if you only appear as a cameo for a few seconds, you are still an important character in the movie. Just like a history book, a few strokes are their magnificent life, so you are not here to make a cameo, but a piece of history." The target is living history, so of course I can’t let you be a prostitute in vain.”

In a word, hidden dangers are solved directly.

At the same time, it also improved the quality of the movie, allowed Lan Tianye, Chen Daomin and others to refresh their perception of Lu Ping'an, and completely made the guest actors pay more attention to their roles.

Well, it’s definitely not because “Wonderful Night 2” has received so much attention that even the Ministry of Culture pays attention to it, it has been a popular IP at an international level since its beginning, and it was paid for the film.

Everyone is willing to perform well for one purpose, and that is to make friends with the best film directors in the country.

So when Lu Ping'an raised his glass and said: "This is my brother's first time operating a blockbuster film. It may be a bit troublesome at first. Please take care of me."

Everyone said: "No problem, Director Ning, please give us a hard time" (End of Chapter)